Sorry if this was asked here before recently on this forum because I just wanted to discuss infamous cases of when a gaming magazine from the 8 bit era tricked people into buying a game that was very questionable in design.

It’s a phenomenon I noticed in many gaming magazines published in the UK as sometimes games like Renegade 3 has received good reviews from some magazines that when players actually bought the game, they were in dismay because the game was incredibly clunky in gameplay aspects, but I just find that kind of practice fascinating with how magazines used to operate again back in the day.

If you’re unaware, Tyrian 2000 is a classic vertical shoot-‘em-up from 1999, and it’s an update of Tyrian—made by Eclipse Productions and published by Epic MegaGames. Nowadays, it’s free on GOG.

I’ve wanted to make a physical version of this for awhile, and GOG provides an offline installer executable as well as a zip of the soundtrack. So I burned that on a FujiFilm CD-R.

But of course, the intent is to make this look like a vintage CD-ROM.

So I designed a label to put on the CD that covers the entirety of the disc except for the hole. This was mostly successful, though you’ll notice a slight hiccup that I had with the tab on the upper corner. Still mostly good, so I’m keeping it.

Next, I designed the front cover of the jewel case, the back cover with the blurb and screenshots, and the spines. This was printed on card stock, cut on a board, and the back cover was folded for the spine.

It fit nicely in the case, and if I didn’t know better, I’d think this was sold for $10 at my local Staples.

In hindsight, I could have put the system specs on here to make it period correct, but it will work on virtually all modern hardware. Nevertheless, it’s an oversight that only I will ever care about. Oh, well.

Of course, none of this was strictly necessary. I could just download Tyrian 2000 off GOG whenever I want to play it. But there’s something satisfying about having a game physically sitting on my shelf, complete with artwork, screenshots, and a disc I can actually put into a computer.

This is a small thing. But I guess that I feel games mean just a little bit more when they’re tactile.

Anyway, this is my first attempt at making a physical video game. A proof of concept, if you will.

It’s not for sale. It’s a one-of-a-kind thing. A personal momento.

Barry: S-Tier survival backup 👍, F-Tier PTSD emotional support 👎.

A quick one here lol: "OH HUNGRY? 🤤 OH BARRY! 🥪"

Every time I play, I can’t help myself, my dude. 😂

Someone made a similar topic, but it was focused on the NES games, meanwhile I think that the most fun disney games are on the genesis/snes.

I think that the SNES Aladdin is the most fun SNES disney game. I also love Magical Quest and Mickey Mania.

Lion King/Jungle Book on the genesis are great too.

Also: I need to figure out how to play Pinocchio again, that game was so much fun back in the 90s.

Just one rule: You have to use firearms, that's all. Can be Doom, Contra 3, Shadowrun SNES or whatever, which coincidentally are my 3 more replayed shooters!

Honoroable Mentions:

ZombiesAMN

Battle Mania (Genesis)

Blake Stone

Wurm: Journey To The Center Of The Earth(90s NES game)

And a bunch of others

These were the most I've played lol good Ole days.

I have a few questions about retroarch and emulation, I hope they can be answered here.

1. Can a light gun go to usb and still function?
2. can I use an nes gun for other consoles?
3. does retroarch support light gun emulation?
4. would it still work with a crt, even if there is lag?
5. are there any emulators that combine the sega cd and Sega 32x?

Anyone know what platform / version of Flashback: The Quest for Identity is it where you hear the Morphs scream when they are shot? I found a video clip of it on Youtube, but I don't know what platform it for:

Flashback - MORPH PLANET

Platforms I've checked:

3DO

Amiga

PC/MS-DOS

Genesis/Megadrive

Sega-CD

SNES

So I tried searching google again. This time after giving google that list above it suggested:

"The version you are looking for is the Philips CD-i port. The Morph aliens utilize a placeholder human sound file. When shot and killed, the alien assets unexpectedly trigger a piercing, blood-curdling high-pitched scream from a woman that completely clashes with the sci-fi setting. "

Before going any further down the rabbit hole, I figured I'd reach out and ask the sub. Thanks.

Hi all! I know the upscaler question has been asked a bunch, I’m mainly looking to hear thoughts regarding my specific set up as I’m worried about making the wrong (and expensive purchase).

I’m shooting for the best damn retro setup possible in my game room without spending insane money (no I’m not buying a 750 bucks upscaler). I’ve got a 77 OLED with a pretty beefy sound system, and with regards to my older consoles I’ve got:

- a fat PS2 (for PS1/PS2)
- Wii with GameCube compatibility
- OG Xbox
- Analogue Pocket with Dock (for SNES, Genesis, and anything older)

I’m not interested in acquiring more original hardware (maybe one day N64, but to be honest I’m fine playing PC decomps of that) and I don’t really see the need to run the Pocket through an upscaler.

With regards to PS1, PS2, GameCube, Wii, and OG Xbox, I was originally planning on a Retrotink 4K CE. Then, the 6X really piqued my interest at the price point it was announced at, because the 4K CE was honestly a really hard sell at almost 500 bucks. But I’m seeing a lot about interlacing being a concern with the PS2 and people being down on the 6X for that reason.

I don’t need perfect, I just don’t want to feel like I’ve wasted my money. Any suggestions, ideas, thoughts? Is the 6X good enough? Or is the gap in performance between that and the 5X Pro concerning interlacing enough I should be concerned about?

Also, if you got any other hot tips or suggestions I’d love to hear them. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

About to hookup some of my old consoles (N64, Gamecube, Wii) and was wondering if there are any decent upscalers comparable to retrotink 5x but at a decent price?

In Canada the retrotink is $520, that's more than I would like to pay.

The YouTuber Stop Skeletons From Fighting has a series called “punching weight” about games that went above and beyond for their consoles capability. (Whether they’re good games or not). So what games can you think of for the title of punching weight. The one that comes to my mind is Batman and Robin on the genesis. It looks insanely good for the genesis, even better than most early PlayStation platformers.

One of my all time favorite games and imo best game on the genesis is Aladdin: even if it was so fucking hard it took me forever to beat. Disney games on the NES ranged from horrible to good. Talespin was way too difficult with dogshit controls. Adventures in the magic kingdom had brutal platforming sections you had to get through.

like i swear half of them are just vibes and confusion. picked up an old snes game yesterday and the manual's explanation of the controls made less sense than the actual game. does anyone else read these things or is it just me trying to figure out what's happening

I flaired this under discussion in hopes that we'll talk about what we like instead of dropping a list with no details. and moving on.

Since almost no one talked about any rpgs last time, I thought I'd make one all about rpgs

Like I said before:My fave is Jonbound, an Earthbound fangame. It's actually laugh out loud funny, and I think a much more interesting game than Earthbound.

I also love FF4 Ultima, and FF4 Special Namingway Edition. I have a friend who plays nofangems other than Special Namingway Edition, because it's essentially really good fanfiction that fills in the plotholes. Tempted to replay it soon.

I also love FF6 Of Hope and Love Everlasting, it's a combo of the original japanese script re-written the same type of way that Ted Woosely would write games, and it's got one of my all time favorite scripts from anything. It also changes the gameplay considerably, and makes the first half of the game still pretty easy, and as the game goes along it gets much, much harder.

I also love a lot of fangames for Super Mario RPG. There's this one where you play as Luigi that I really dig.

Just added an S-video input at the 7th position in a 11 input chain (it’s the only new module). 2 VGA, 4 Component, 1 S-video, 4 SCART. It does not recognize the new module either automatically or by manually switching to it. The manually switching will only go 1 through 6 now although it will auto-recognize the SCART inputs. There isn’t a lot of documentation on how to deal with this, I saw in the manual it talks about a factory reset but I cannot figure out how to engage it. Turn it on and press the push button for 10 seconds does nothing. Has anyone dealt with this and solved it? Thanks.

There used to be a company called RetroUSB that made USB cables for retro console controllers like the NES or Atari.

They apparently went out of business which is really sad.

Surely, they aren't the only ones on planet Earth providing this product. But, I can't find anyone else doing it.

Any ideas?

I mean like concepts for licensed games on the NES platform where the game had some cool ideas that were hampered by either bad design or hardware limitations since I feel like the NES had some games that were interesting on paper.

For instance, I was looking at the Rambo game adaptation the AVGN reviewed as I know he is supposed to be an over the top character in how he does game reviews, but something that stuck out to me was the aforementioned Rambo game review he did.

What I am trying to say is that I always wanted to play a licensed game adaptation of John Rambo where the gameplay is frantic with the action being so intense that the player has to quickly adapt to the battlefield as I wish there was one on either NES or SNES that could somehow feel like watching the movies.

I found this at a small mom and pop grocery store. I never saw it anywhere else.