/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10367912
neat

>>10367912
holy shit thanks anon

I don't visit them anymore, a lot of them are derelicts and full of viruses injected from random evildoers on the internet.

>>10367912
most of the retro sites I have huge nostalgia for were homestead sites so they're all gone and dead without archive or a way to search for them.

https://vgmrips.net
https://project2612.org/
http://snesmusic.org/v2/
https://vgm.hcs64.com/
https://www.zophar.net/
https://downloads.khinsider.com/

http://www.thecoverproject.net/
https://www.oldgamemags.com/forum/index.php
https://www.crazykong.com/manuals/
https://www.gamesdatabase.org/

https://segaretro.org/Main_Page
http://system16.com/
https://shmups.system11.org/
https://forums.bannister.org/

>>10367912
Lemon Amiga/c64

>>10368057
It's amazing to me that Zophar is still up to date and still useful

>>10367912
Should note all the Nintendo game showcase websites GB and after are still up
>GB/GBC: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/dmg/index.html
>SFC: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/shvc/index.html
>GBA: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/index.html
>GC: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/index.html

>>10368805
Oh yeah and have this fansite as a bonus contribution to the thread: http://gomorning.com/velvetroom/persona.html

>>10367912
https://www.oocities.org/itsamemario2000/
https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/archives/cool/97-10-12/pokemon.html
https://starwolf64.tripod.com/
https://www.angelfire.com/biz3/chewspokemonsplat/

I hate looking at the old internet. It's too painful remembering what was taken from us.

>>10368903
I think more sites today should forcefully download a do the mario midi every time you enter them

>>10368807
>Persona
>velvetroon
Checks out.

The very first message board I ever posted on, an old boardhost one disappeared earlier this year. It was part of the "NES Scene" the first wave of post-market NES collectors and enthusiasts. For the past several years it averaged maybe one post every two months but I'd check it frequently out of habit. It was a huge part of my youth and it's just...gone, along with the dozens of personal sites the sceners had. I really miss the old internet. Feels bad man.

>>10367912
Basically the vast majority of the old Japanese websites are still online.

https://www.captainfalcon.com/

>>10368956
>tfw remember Conker's Crib
I think it's still up but the guy gave up a decade ago and it hurts.

>>10369036
That's such a great tradition

https://www.lemmykoopa.com/lkmain.html

>>10373723
>half the pages don't work anymore
>last i checked, forums redirected to a sketchy korean website
>only semblance of activity were people posting comments on the most recent Roy's Sports Hall, which doesn't even seem to work anymore
Funnily enough, I was just thinking about this site earlier. One of Lemmy's game ideas for a SM64-esque game with the Koopalings came to mind and I was thinking about how something like that would actually be possible now given how much SM64 romhacking has improved in the last 5 years.
>scribbles, funnies, and interviews give me an access denied
At least fun fiction still works.
https://www.lemmykoopa.com/lk2/lk2.html

A bunch of neat reads about FF job challenges.
https://www.sullla.com/FF/finalfantasy.html

>>10373851
So this is the power of autism

>>10373859
>A nigger dragged his three dead baby mamas into the past to fight Chaos—click here to find out what happened next!

>>10367912
Original Metal Slug 5 site fromm 2003:

https://game.snk-corp.co.jp/official/ms5/english/ms5_top.html

>>10373959
Also, old official Neo Geo site layout from early 2000s, although it seems to have last been updated around 2009:

https://game.snk-corp.co.jp/official/online/index.php

>>10367912
jp sites are so kino you can still browse them on retro hardware

I like when these websites have desktop wallpapers to download, I’ve been trying to collect them lately

>>10373849
iirc, the webmaster moved on and did a podcast or something

mmhp.net was my favorite, if we can include sprite comics as vidya related then I'd also add Kid Radd (https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd/))

https://www.wdell.com/videogames/sm64/Default.aspx
https://davidwonn.kontek.net/

RIP Dancing Kirby emails

https://themushroomkingdom.net/ is essential /vr/ old web

>>10377730
>Still updated to this day
There is no reaction image or text I could post to express my emotion right now

>>10376334
of course

http://i-mockery.com/
http://www.i-mockery.com/romhacks/
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/abobos-big-adventure//

Tangently /vr/ related as the webmaster/main content creator of i-Mockery, Roger Barr, is a close friend and collaborator of Tom Fulp and was part of the group that made Abobo's Big Adventure. You know, the big Flash game love letter to NES games like Double Dragon (obviously), Zelda, and others. There's some other /vr/ content on there as well such as shitty NES ROM hack reviews.

Coming back here is always a massive punch in the gut when you realize that the site still exists, you can log in if you had an old account but the forums are gone, and there's been no content for the last five years outside of Roger's random thoughts about his life and his wife's suicide, and how he never got to truly mourn her by going back to places they visited as a couple so he could spread her ashes because he's a sick boy and Covid would kill him.

>>10378975
damn dude, feel bad for the guy. Used to love the romhack reviews.

>>10369036
Yes, and the japanese still develops for Desktop first, and separate websites for desktop and mobile.

Westroon design is mobile first or mobile only with 10MB of HTML5, CSS, DRM and 20 lbs of pussy and ass for every 1 kilobyte of text.

https://www.angelfire.com/rebellion/conkerscrib/

>>10368057
I don't know if I'd call Sega Retro an actual "retro" website. It has a relatively modern layout and it's still often updated and also has the best box art scans for games released on Sega systems

>>10369036
>nips keep they old sites online for several decades
>but they throw away the source code and original assets of a game a year after release

>>10380582
Anon..

>>10367912
this is too much fucking soul