/vr/ - Retro Games

Opinions on retroachievements? Trying to discuss achievements or trophies on /v/ tends to cause a lot of autism and seething for some reason, I'm curious about what /vr/ thinks of the concept.
I think it's a neat feature, but the overall community seems a bit spergy. Retro achievements lean a lot more towards skill than modern achievements, but that also comes with the caveat that some require you to do perfect no hit runs, or even overly complicated speed runner tactics that are way too specific for most people to pull off (look at SM64's RA page for a good example). This problem is exacerbated more if you play with hardcore settings (seems like the intended way according to most users on the site) meaning no save states or rewinding allowed.

I probably never would have bothered with it if it wasn't already seamlessly integrated into retroarch. The other alternative was to use their specific, in house built RA emulators before retroarch integration happened.

so is this only usable trough retroarch or what?

Was it kino?

What do you think of retroachievements?
Cringe concept for zoomers?
Or clever way to spend your endless boomer time?

I actual like it.
It's like an little extra and a Challange to all those old games. Even better userfriendly since it is working with everything in retroarch.

The "normal" RetroArch has Retroachievements support, but this might not be looked at very favorably by other business partners of Valve.

So is the RetroArch coming to Steam the real deal with Retroachievements support, or is it a kind of censored version?

What's your latest RetroAchievements(TM) achievement?

*bing* *bing* WAHOO! (achievement unlocked: jump 10 times)

Let's give this shit a try. Do you use RA? Let's talk about it. I'm working on DKC3 right now. Didn't even know this game had two separate hard modes.

>What the fuck is this?
A website that creates achievements for retro games. You download the emulator, play the game, get the boops.

>Don't save states ruin this?
You can turn on hardcore mode, which disables them. You get double points for that.

>Why would I care?
Hey, anything that encourages people to play older games, and to fully explore the,. Plus, it's fucking heartwarming to see the unending scroll of people playing retro on the front page.

>ACHIEVEMENTS SUCK!
Fuck back off to your salt mines, grandpa. This shit ain't hurting nobody.

They make a achievements system for retro consoles like SNES, Genesis and Gameboy
What you think?
http://retroachievements.org