/vr/ - Retro Games

So I found out 86box actually lets you use a Pentium II clocked at 100MHz, which was never a thing (the lowest-clocked PII was 233 MHz). This is still pretty neat, however, because my laptop is kind of a potato these days and struggles to run a processor clocked any higher than that. After days of fucking about, I managed to install Windows 98 on it, together with a Voodoo 3 and an AWE32, and even managed to get the DOS drivers for the AWE32 working so I have fully functioning sound in DOS mode. Windows itself works well, with a teensy bit of slowdown at times (emulation-wise, that is). On DOS, 486-era games like Doom appear to work very well with this combo, as do a lot of older fare, though I'm sure speed-sensitive games are gonna throw a fit. Next I'm thinking of trying some Glide stuff and see how well that goes.

>You can fire behind you without looking
it's so goddamn cool.

>>10277748
Seeing his video made me want to retry Arcanum. I played it for an hour but didn't really like it much but maybe I just didn't give it enough time.

What's the best patches for it? I imagine it's like the original Fallout where you gotta download a few things to make it perfect. I found the Multiverse Edition online but it seems to randomly install a Russian keyboard on your computer if you download and install it.

>>10277954
Pretty based.

>>9888982
It's okay to admit you're new, everyone has to start somewhere

>giant skeleton robot
>you fucking decapitate it and it blows up when you defeat it
I love this shit, this is video games.

>>9575175
If the character is literally anything other than a stylized, SF-esque version of the board mascot then we chose incorrectly

>>9488713
Oh, nice. Looks like we might have a definitive version after all.

I'll take this decisive moment to note that nobody has actually refuted the idea of collecting what you like and emulating everything else. Apparently it's not good enough unless you're emulating everything, for reasons that have nothing to do with financial insecurity mmhm yup totally

>>8928723
I think it's a combination of the sick as fuck intro, tight controls, cool music, and the fact you're just a cool dude with shades beating the shit out evil robots and aliens with your fists.

>>8538438
Looks fantastic, Anon

>>8391221

Won't have to, my rent's the same regardless of how much electricity I use.

>>8045706

>>7693091
>Symphony of the Night is a lot better, which is still not nearly as good as earlier Castlevanias. Aria is far from essential, and I'd rather play Circle of the Moon if I had to play a GBA CV
I could not disagree more. I think Aria is on par with SotN and I don't like the earlier Castlevania games at all. I didn't have a NES as a kid and therefore didn't grow up with them. When I played them in the early 2000s they were clunky, unforgiving and frankly, not fun. If you played SotN, then Circle of the Moon and the other GBA games, you simply cannot go back to the earlier installments, except maybe Super Castlevania IV.

>>6907824
It's this guy, yeah.

we already have one, newfriends

>>6547756
Agreed.
I filed a request for a new board dedicated to 5th and 6th gen a week ago. Every anon who is both into retro vidya and 5-6th gen should do the same.
https://www.4chan.org/feedback

>>5639851

>>5115170
Of course we will! Where do you think we are?

>tfw you love the popular mainstream titles and aren't deterred by jaded shitposting

>>4553440
That's actually really cool. Very nice anon.

>>4463994
Well, I just discovered this game.
Downloading it roght now from GOG.
Thanks anon!