/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10387796
link it

>>10387796
Found it awhile back when he was at about late 88 and have watched all the entire series, enjoyed it and even found a few things I had never heard of that were cool. One thing I really like about the series is near the end he'll talk about a game's reputation in Japan, be it a beloved classic over there that we never saw to random fourm comments if he can't find much else. The side episodes were pretty neat too, there was a few peripherals he covered that I had never seen. My only critique I guess is a few episodes where he spends a bit too much time on "how things were different", with some games like Tom Sawyer it's impossible dance around but some instances feel random. Great series overall though, it's really neat to have one of these series that's finally completed. I used to love watching Chrontendo but updates were so few and far between that it felt hard to say how long it would continue.

>>10387796
>no Micro Mages

Protip: watch his videos at 1.25x speed.

>>10387928
I overall appreciated his commitment to doing this, but I abjectly disagree with his choice to not include FDS titles chronologically in this series, since it's a really important and pivotal aspect of the Famicom's development in '86 and '87, especially to contextualize how important battery back-ups and expansion chips in later games were.

>>10387928
Agreed on everything. Other than Tom Sawyer he does seem to spend an unnecessary amount of time lamenting "problematic" aspects of certain games (we get it). Like any time stereotypes are used. Still a great series and he seems like a decent enough guy overall.

>>10387981
Any examples of said cringe videos?
>>10387975
I agree, since FDS games are indeed Famicom games. But I get why he excluded them, the project was already daunting enough, so setting a goal of cart only made it a hair more approachable.

>>10387846
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1sb8k4ZPagagqXy965qb50LMbUS4hKXP

>>10387846
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7l60SzY7KA&t=9s&ab_channel=RndStranger

The amount of subscribers and amount of views the vids get seem criminally low for such high quality content but at the same time I'm kinda glad his project has managed to remain obscure. It really feels like it's a niche part of the internet that's only been touched by people who actually care about it.

>>10387996
>McJapanese NES games
>niche

>>10387996
Reminded me of some guy trying to play every PS2 game that's existed. That guy however is awfully boring.

>check DQ4 video
>DQ4 was the last DQ game by Chunsoft
>Alena can use some magic
Shit videos, mate.

>>10387998
Niche part of the internet, not niche content. Learn to read.

>low t npc that can't talk about videogames without being a virtue signalling lib
Why is it always these types of subhumans that make this content? It makes it unwatchable.

Have watched few vids every day. Currently in the beginning of 1991.

Firstly props for him releasing one video per day for almost three days with no monetary incentive and few viewers. Not many mortals could to the same. But as previously state ignoring the disk system games is a negative point because they are part of the famicom narrative.

Of course when you play a game for a hour and spend another hour looking for information on the net about the game you cant really do much deep research about the topic but most of these games dont really require more.

>play
>doesn't actually beat them

well at least there is some video to go along this website now

https://w.atwiki.jp/famicomall/

With that said, isn't 1041 games the number of *cartridge* games, excluding FDS? A quick scan through this videos and I don't see FDS games either. This tendency to consider the FDS a different platform when there is so much overlap between the two is stupid.

Anyway still nice. There are a tons of games I wish I could play like the 2 sequels to the Gundam RPGs (only the first has been translated) or the Ultraman RPGs. I really liked the first Gundam RPG; and at this point I have very little hope they will be translated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6424OV0MUHE

There is another guy that has been doing the same thing for more than a decade and he released a new video today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUz_3w0E4oc
He's still only in mid 1990, who knows if he'll ever manage to finish it

>>10387996
if you look at it for the purposes of archived knowledge its perfect the way it is. if in 30 years someone needs ridiculously specific information like remembering if a single NES game even existed due to there being zero footage theres this project.

as the years go by the amount of people who have ever even seen a NES in real life before dwindles and so having a compendium of information and footage is invaluable regardless of "views" or subs the man himself gets from it

>>10388002
There's a guy who wants to play every PS1 game in alphabetical order, but he exceedes such an autistic zoomer energy that I find it unwatchable as a 1996 autist.

>>10388152
Anyone who follows alphabetical anything isn't an autist, they're just a massively punishing boring person. Put any form of media into alphabetical order and you'll just be in for a headache of inconsistency.

>>10388159
No, I mean that he goes on long tangents imagining what goes on in a background texture. Some zoomer obsession with 'liminal spaces' or whatever, I don't get it.
Also, the word I wanted to use was 'invoke', not 'exceed'.

>>10387796
There's a Japanese YT account that cataloged every Famicom release (including FDS) years ago. The original uploads were from Niconico, but he's re-edited and uploaded them to get around YT copyright triggers, no commentary, just the facts, I used this channel 15 years ago to find new Famicom games to try out.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzqo1TtISOSRWPeuwFHHpWoGEUU-r6zz2&si=HyLbi59abDTcL0rZ

>>10388152
I only know of Blue Bidya Game, is there someone else doing PS1 game reviews in alphabetical order?

>>10388198
No, I meant him. No offense to him, but his content is not my cup of tea.

>>10388159
>Put any form of media into alphabetical order and you'll just be in for a headache of inconsistency.
It doesn't make sense not to do it chronologically, since trends in games and technological progress are extremely context-sensitive (big RPG comes out and is a huge success, so the market has two-dozen more RPG's come out the next year, etc)

What do we think of him?

>>10388231
the only sega saturn youtuber I tolerante. He is great

>>10388208
>chronologically
This is another term which is poison unto itself. You want to play things in the order of release, which is the production order. Chronology is something made-up by people obsessed with editing fanwikis.

>>10388181
I appreciate the Japs weren't part of a big content grift.

>>10388246
> the order of release, which is the production order.

There are many cases for which the release date was months or even years after production on NES and Famicom

>>10388231
Panda is /ourguy/

The Mexican Runner just played the NES library in RNG mode with viewers picking games in a raffle but he only did licensed North American releases plus 39 bonus PAL games, no Famicom stuff.

>>10387796
Batista Harpu was doing a beat all SNES games challenge in release order, the latest game he did was Vegas Stakes, released April '93.

>>10388416
He should do bonus and cherry pick translated Famicom games and other Famicom games that are playable without a translation

But I guess with this kind of completionist mindset it's either all or nothing so it's not gonna happen

>>10388446
>>10388416
actually beating all the games is a bigger challenge than just a capsule review like Famidaily

>>10388047
There's nothing niche about it. If this was 25 years ago you'd correct, and yer naught.

>>10388065
by mid-1990 the rate of new Famicom releases was starting to slow as developers shifted to SNES and it was increasingly Western licensed shovelware and casual kiddy games

>>10388072
his work is an invaluable historical reference that will be shared for decades to come. chrontendo is equally as important. hard understate how important the fc/nes was to pop culture and the perspective of game software.
>>10387996
thats just the reality. only ultra hobbyists and historians care about this kind of thing. it it will be referenced, but i never expect this kind of rote work to hold the eye of many. just look at the board. not too much interest in games behind the typical muddle. its kind of how the those old webpages used to be. driven entirely by hardcore enthusiasts and cared about by few, but very gratefully.

>>10388540
You mean early 90s

I thank Chrontendo for not making any remarks about problematic content in Tom Sawyer. We appreciate that.

>>10388152
fucking impossible, there's a couple thousand and probably 40% of them are in moonrunes

>>10388640
more like 4000 if you include the promo discs. even if youre completely fluent in multiple langauge, it would be impossible to play all of he overly indulgent adv, rpg and strategy games on the machine. even just the na library alone is a massive undertaking for completion. perhaps a two decade endeavor.

>>10388231
Love Panda, really appreciate how far he goes in the pursuit of information, the Virtua Cop video in particular was loaded with cool insight thanks to tracking down the whole dev team for an interview. Unfortunately his stuff is SO thorough now I think he'll probably be on his deathbed before he gets anywhere close to the end of the library.

>>10388640
Also do you really want to play Mary Kate & Ashley: Magical Mystery Mall or NCAA '97?

The US PS1 library is exactly 1,300 games. That's almost but not quite the entire Famicom/NES library (1,380 games). There's probably 2,000 or so Japanese games and a fair number of PAL exclusives as well.

>>10388758
its not an exaggeration to say that the load times in certain games will add up to such an amount that you could beat 200-300 famicom games in that time span alone. ps1 is just a different undertaking entirely.

>>10388758
so much horrific shovelware you'd have to torture yourself with

>>10388065
Chrontendo has been taking this long because he's also done series on Sega and PCE games.

>>10388416
>The Mexican Runner just played the NES library in RNG mode with viewers picking games in a raffle

he also had a rule that you can only pick RPGs every five games due to their length. in addition as viewers picked them a lot of the best NES games got drawn early in the run leaving shovelware for much of the second half. like he did LOZ, SMB, Battletoads, etc early on.

>>10388794
He hasn't made a new Chronsega or ChronTurbo video in many years

>>10388806
>best
>battletoads
nope.

>>10388806
I think the longest playthrough was Might & Magic which was like 10 videos.

>>10388825
Thank you.

>>10388446
Not too bad because SNES games are relatively easier in general and most of them are proper games you can beat. The FC/NES has a lot of primitive Atari-style arcade games with no actual ending and they're far more brutal. The SNES starts out of the gate with F-Zero, SMW, Actraiser, etc. while the first two years of Famicom is Atari-tier shit and the "real" games don't start until 1986.

>>10388640
ha ha enjoy your Alexi Lalas International Soccer or Bob the Builder - Can We Fix It, sucker

>>10387928
Game on the left looks like Mappy but he's playing on a Mark III.

>>10388640
From what I understand the total PS1 library for all regions is 4,221 games.

>>10388935
oh dear. imagine playing 4,221 games including some of the most base shovelware ever conceived.

>>10387796
last game was Adventure Island IV

>>10388175
Pretty sure the word you actually wanted is "exudes"

>>10388806
>chance to have fun making a skilled gamer try to clear obscure titles
>viewers immediately jump to titles which tons of gamers have cleared, and which the voters themselves should have at least played

>>10388918
Mark III kid is actually playing Dragon Wang on TV to the right. The console connected to the leftmost TV is outside the picture.

>>10387796
Sounds like a complete and idiotic waste of time, why would anyone bother doing such an autistic task other then to say you did something like that? I am guess anyone who does it falls 2 categories, a boring autist that creates boring detailed oriented content which is harmless, or he is a midwit westerner retard, who gives his prog garbage opinions and actively goes off topic all the time which will happen consistently because the entire thing is an ego boost and an attempt to control narratives, which is what Jeremy Parish falls under, harmful content since the person who produces them is a bad person and so will anyone who injects it on videos about video game. He does something similar with GB videos, they are pretentious and annoying and I got suckered into watching his video because I was searching for some obscure GB game and came across it.

The consistent thing is that he and anyone who enjoys such content will be a weak loser.

Now I'm gonna read the thread and see if my initial impressions are right (again).

>>10389432
Thank for your enlighting the world that you are in fact a superior being, yet again (apparently)! I hope you do this on every 4chan board which subject you dislike so you can truly show the world!

Remember, do not entertain "ironic" shitposters or actual retards.

>>10389432
>who gives his prog garbage opinions
YouTubers are now actively discussing progressive rock? Awesome. Pic related samples Pong sound effects in 1975 by the way.

>>10389426
you could tell TMR really didn't like strategy and RPG titles much

>>10389432
I appreciate what he made and I respect his dedication. It's nice to have a single English language, ad-free video source which covers the entire cartridge library of the Famicom. Sure, he might not go super in depth on everything, but especially for the more esoteric titles, you'll get a better feel for the game from skimming one of his videos than you might from firing up the ROM, plus it makes for decent bedtime viewing.

>noooo
>why would anyone create such a thing
>i was searching for le obscure game

>>10388446
how does that work anyway? some games have regional differences (not so much on SNES but NES games often have major changes from the Japanese original). so which one would you pick to play?

>>10389507
I tell you this, I would never pick US FF2 over SFC FF4 with an English patch. What the fuck drugs were Square on, anyway?

Neat; I'll have to to check this out. I really wish someone could do this for the Game Boy. I don't care how many "boring" games are on it; there are some interesting games mixed in with the filler that most people don't talk about.

>>10389497
You'll always get a better feel from playing for 5 minutes than from a video. And let's be honest every NES game has a let's play and most even have speedruns

>>10388152
>>10388002
you'd never manage. way too many games.

>>10389586
Batista Harpu's SNES challenge sounds pretty tough because the library is big (the biggest of any cartridge-based console in fact) and full of very tedious, slow RPGs and strategy titles. But PS1 is a whole 'nother level.

http://snesrankings.com/homepage.html
the na snes library has been done for awhile by one guy. its those sfc strategy rpgs and adv that will be a huge timesink if you want a complete set.

I do agree with the sentiment that he does focus a bit too much about "le problematic" stuff in a few episodes, but in general the videos are a pretty good English-language resource for Famicom games, considering that he includes stuff outside of just gameplay footage and commentary. In the final video he mentioned going after the FDS library soon, which has a lot of stuff that is also virtually untouched outside of random niconico videos.

>>10389624
>In the final video he mentioned going after the FDS library soon, which has a lot of stuff that is also virtually untouched outside of random niconico videos.
Of course Chrontendo covered those and as he's now up to mid-1990 should be just about finished as nearly all FDS games had been released by then and only a tiny number of shovelware titles like Ishido: The Way of the Stones remained.

>>10389616
>its those sfc strategy rpgs and adv that will be a huge timesink if you want a complete set.

especially as only a relatively small number have been translated

>>10389595
i guess he's just brute forcing untranslated games (ie. click on menus enough and you'll get a rough idea of what's going on) at least that's the impression i got from the playthrough of Hokuto no Ken 5.

>>10389561
>I really wish someone could do this for the Game Boy.
That's what Jeremy Parish's Gameboy World/Works series was supposed to be, but he clearly got bored or lost interest in it.

>>10389616
I wish TMR had done #4 in his NES playthrough. what a waste of time that was.

>>10389657
He makes videos like he has ADHD.
>Oh man.. I don't want to have to slog through all these boring Game Boy games...
>I know. I'll take a break to make series on the NES
>And the Virtual Boy in its entirety.
>And the SG-1000, since it kinda predates the NES
>And the Genesis
>And the SNES launch releases
>And the fucking Epoch Cassettevision
>But if I have to play another card game on GB, I'll scream!

>>10389616
the SNES library being a bit slower paced than the NES/FC library is good if you're like me and have always had meh reflexes so you find games like 1943 or Star Force too intimidating but also bad because it takes forever to get through them.

>>10389686
He was criticized early on for being too Nintendo-centrist in his views on game history, so I guess he overcompensated and decided that he had to understand every console game ever to get a proper overview.
But he is still can't be bothered to care about computer games for some reason.

>>10389762
I'd be fine with it if it weren't so scattershot. Also, I'm sure his excuse with computer games is either not wanting to pay for the original models to play them on or insisting that computer games don't have as interesting a narrative as consoles games do.

>>10388231
Based, but what's with the dislikes and disabled comments on this video? https://youtu.be/f7gxfCqxWnI?si=irQHu1mi6H-AlZ9H

>>10389808
Someone informed him that the word "gypsy" is outdated nomenclature for Romani people. For some reason Panda decided to take down the whole video, re-edit it to omit that word, and reupload it with a disclaimer in the description that the old video had a serious problem which had been properly addressed. Most people felt that the whole thing was silly.
Meanwhile, Scott the Fucking Woz had a similar gaffe in one of his videos, so he made a pinned comment, stating that he was uninformed about possible connotations of the word, he meant no harm by using it and he was going to avoid it in the future. That felt like a more mature response.

>>10388758
Dragon Warrior VII is 100 hours or more if you beat God. Side content like the immigrant town doesn't need to be finished, but a major "post-game" boss should be required. You could spend the better part of a decade on just PS1 RPGs.
>>10389432
>waste of time, why would anyone
This is a comma splice.
>other then to say
You mean "than".
>I am guess anyone who does it
Did you mean to say "I am guessing"?
>he is a midwit westerner retard
Who's the retard here? Learn proper English or kill yourself.

>inb4 someone does a video of PS1 MLB games and decides that "Cleveland Indians" is problematic

>>10390040
Zoomers are really the most sensitive fucking generation, I have to work with them now and they're "triggered" by every fucking thing under the sun.

>>10388446
I believe the next game he'll be doing is The Lost Vikings. Pretty sure anyway.

Watch Atari Archive. Chronological reviews of Atari 2600 games, currently at March of 1982, containing a lot of info from dev interviews, old newspaper and magazine articles and other archive materials. Author also goes in depth about other second gen platforms like RCA Studio II, Fairchild Channel F or Bally Professional Arcade. Occasionally a spin-off chronological review of Intellivision games appears.

>>10390054
April '93 had 16 Japanese releases and 13 North American ones. Many of the latter were games that had gotten released in Japan some time before so he already did them. American Gladiators was not released in Japan and he did play that. Going by release dates he might be doing Dual Orb next. Did he play Action Pachio? I don't remember.

>>10390075
there were only 471 Atari 2600 games and 75% of those came out in 1982-83

could never figure out what Chrontendo's beef with NES Batman was

>>10390151
He has really weird takes sometimes, he became irrationally angry at Code Name: Viper, which is just a middling Rolling Thunder clone. Methinks he has a touch of the 'tism.

>>10390151
>>10390375
He also has a weird pathological hate of Formation Z.

>watching modern youtubers talk about old games
Unless they have some insight knowledge into development, I'd rather go straight to the source and watch old tv shows. There's a huge archive of Japanese video game shows dating from about 1990 to about 2004 on this channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws9TX-Sdiso
There's over 700 episodes of various gaming shows there

how the fuck are people beating championship loderunner?

>>10390449
https://w.atwiki.jp/famicomall/pages/358.html

you tell me

I still agree that doing a complete SNES run would be easier than doing a complete FC/NES run even though the former's library is bigger by 400 games.

That's pretty cool. I always wanted to do something like this for a small library, like the PC-FX.

>>10390560
why would it be easier? there's 400 more games and a mountain of grueling RPGs and strategy titles.

>>10390573
>SNES library doesn't have as much arcade stuff, not as reliant on you having god level reflexes
>most of the games can actually be beaten and there aren't so many that just loop with no ending
>the first two years of FC were Colecovision level of primitive shit that is not fun to play
>specific FC games like Bar Code World are not playable as they depend on un-emulatable peripherals

>>10390591
probably although after watching playthrough of Flying Hero on SNES i did find myself appreciating the simplistic purity of NES shmups. they don't have as much of that tech demo "wow, look at these kewl Mode 7 effects we can do isn't that neat? XD" feel.

>>10390606
I just can't get into Famicom RPGs though, they're too primitive and I don't feel they become good until SNES.

I phased out of Famidaily after he claimed 8 Eyes denies Armenian genocide. Chrontendo is cool though, even though he seems sooo very tired in recent years. Parish is a try-hard.

>>10390439
>Lady Stalker 9,980円
Were Super Famicom games really that expensive? That's like a hundred bucks. For Lady Stalker no less.

>>10390615
Even as an RPG addict I struggle to enjoy them.
And I don't even have to deal with the real bullshit like forty character passwords or the game deleting my save data if you shut it off wrong.
I'm sure I'll play one someday that will change my mind but I have no idea which it will be.

Congrats to RndStranger for whining his way through over 1041 games. I especially liked how he managed to make the video about Power Pad game Manhattan Police actually focus on 2020 riots and alleged police brutality, and not the game itself. He even called it the worst game on the platform because of it. What kind of archivist project does shit like that, unless it's completely self-indulgent?

>>10390685
That was pretty cringey indeed. Still, I can appreciate the effort he put into the project and can forgive his occasional off-topic whining.

>>10390662
>Were Super Famicom games really that expensive? That's like a hundred bucks. For Lady Stalker no less.
it was 32 megabits and had a battery save

>>10390757
Battery saves were considerably more common on SNES games than on Mega Drive ones, or NES. Almost half the total library has a battery save feature and save game RAM could range from 2k up to 64k.

>>10387991
>>10387992
I didn't even know about this, this is pretty awesome. Wish I had known sooner.

>>10390685
That game is garbage so might as well have some fun out of it

>>10387796
Fuck this stupid e-celeb retard I clicked like 2 of his videos and he called Battletoads and Crisis Force bad
SuperMega ended recently and I didn't see a thread about it here
https://youtu.be/DQRCTHtbUT8

>>10390662
Yes the were. ¥9000 was like the average price. Dq and FF were like ¥12000 new

>>10390950
I found his Guardic Gaiden video weird, even if it praised the game
>"everyone everywhere calls this game a hidden gem"
>"so can you REALLY say it's a hidden gem?"
Yes, you fucking mouth breathing retard.

>>10390375
>>10390151
did he get filtered. Code Name Viper is very challenging, and is the kind of game which requires such fast reactions that even an OUNCE of input lag (or slow reaction) will render the game nothing but trial&error memorisation or downright impossible at times

>>10387796
I liked Famidaily overall but as many others in the thread have noted he did get weirdly political at times. I get that it's hard to avoid for a game like Tom Sawyer but he did get irrationally angry at some stuff like games that play even remotely similar to LIFE just because he really hates how the game says you need money and children to be happy

>>10390439
what's that Earthbound clone? An unreleased game?

>>10390573
>why would it be easier?

Have you tried beating *just* 1943 and Adventure Island? Or even just Kung Fu Heroes and Motocross Champions? You have a password after every course on the last one... sounds easy right? right?

With that said there are some grueling long games on the system(s) as well like Might&Magic or Cosmic Wars

>>10390671
If you don't feel the soul pouring from every console pore when playing Dragon Quest 2 or Final Fantasy 2 or whichever or are you favourites in the series, then I don't think you'll ever be able enjoy other Famicom RPGs. Perhaps something different like Megami Tensei II or Sweet Home and Namco's Dream Master.

>>10391416
God that's so weak.

>>10390659
>>10390685
This is so wild, what does any of this have to do with games?

>>10391416
>triggered by a board game

Maybe the game is racist because there are no person with yellow or light brown skin on the cover therefore the game thinks such people can not have a successful life. For that matter the only church on the cover looks christian and the house on the bottom right looks like an american plantation house, oh boy why were boomers like this?!

>>10388251
What's that stopping?

>>10391449
Nothing. Release order is the still the most logical order for a project like this. Just pointing out that release order does not always equal production order even if it's the lesser evil compared to going with alphabetical order or whatever.

>>10391416
>>10391438
I'm not joking, here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoVEfu0NQ_U&t=168s

>>10391454

This is now the first of this dude's videos I've watched after having only just learned of his existence from this thread. I agree that he's being silly here but he doesn't sound "irrationally angry" to me. The idea that life is about more than making money is fine; it isn't too far out in the weeds of insane SJWism or whatever. The real problem I see in this video is that it's incoherent: He starts off criticizing the game for being excessively random and uncontrollable, and then suddenly claims that "the big problem" with it is actually the bad ideology of life that it promotes, and not the lack of player agency that he's been criticizing the whole time up to that point. This is stupid and a waste of the listener's time. But the video is short and his goofy digression is ten thousand times better than the normal kind of forced humor (skits, fake anger about bad old games, etc.) that fame-hungry YouTube game critics sometimes stoop to. I found this video inoffensive and mildly informative, though it could certainly have been better.

So if this is the worst this guy does then I guess he's fine, and anons are just going out of their way to find political correctnesses to wallow in and become needlessly outraged over, as usual. But maybe he's worse than this sometimes?

>>10389793
At least he is planning to tackle the Atari XEGS cartridge library (wut?), which is like the Greatest Hits of Atari 8-bit computer games.

>>10391519
That's the thing, I don't think anybody in this thread can be described as "needlessly outraged", where are you seeing this? Most of the takes on his videos I'm seeing are largely the same as yours, i.e. they waste too much time with soapboxing. Just because something is critiqued doesn't mean there's an anon behind the screen losing their shit over it.

>>10391454
>if you don't find love in your 20s you die alone
lol it's funny cause it's true. Also, the dude does not sound angry at all, just measured reasoning for things he dislikes, in a mild way.

>>10387796

>>10390662
Prices were going up due to the increasing cost of the large ROMs used. It's not that they cost anything more to manufacture but it was scale of economics as nothing except video game cartridges used ROMs of that size.

>>10388060
>one video per day for almost three days
How does he do it, bros?

>>10391423
>>10388416
TMR beat Adventure Island in only an hour and nine minutes. I think he cleared 8-3 in two or three attempts. He made it look easy. I agree 1943 is tough though you'd probably use a turbo controller for that anyway.

>>10392053
>TMR beat Adventure Island in only an hour and nine minutes on youtube, but it took him years beforehand to git gud
ftfy
you all know it's true.

>>10392053
Also a lot of those brvtal NES games like AI aren't actually that hard, or weren't until people started having issues with emulator and HDTV lag. It wasn't an issue back in the day on hardware with a CRT TV.

>>10389586
Here's the guy I mentioned: https://youtube.com/channel/UCbHuK5nK7rTdioqyiJ9Ns2w

I'm assuming he's either very rich or on some sort of New Zealand disability welfare because the entire channel feels completely pointless.

>>10390591
>specific FC games like Bar Code World are not playable as they depend on un-emulatable peripherals

There are some multi-disk FDS titles like Shin Onigashima and as far as I know no emulators actually support disk swapping, they only let you mount one disk image which is auto flipped for Side A/B.

bump

>>10392093
Disk swapping is actually a trivial feature that is already supported in emulators. It's just the way it is implemented is contrary to how roms are distributed.
No-Intro lists FDS disk dumps as files of 65 or 130 KB in size, representing one sided and two sided disks respectfully. Multi disk games are listed as separate dumps. What emulators actually expect you to do is to merge several disks into the same file, resulting in an .fds file n*65KB in size. Emulators automatically split rom files into 65KB sectors, and if the number of sectors is above 2, emulator knows that the game has several disks and assigns the third side as Disk 2 Side A. You can easily use the FDS button to cycle through sides: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B...
If you are interested in playing Square's Deep Dungeon games, I actually recommend to merge Deep Dungeon 1 and Deep Dungeon 2 into the same file. Each game will be isolated to its disk in emulator and you can skip to Disk 2 Side A on boot to load the second game. You can now also transfer your character from the first game into the sequel by starting the second game and switching to Disk 1 Side A when the game prompts you to insert disk with the previous game.

>>10392213
>If you are interested in playing Square's Deep Dungeon games, I actually recommend to merge Deep Dungeon 1 and Deep Dungeon 2 into the same file. Each game will be isolated to its disk in emulator and you can skip to Disk 2 Side A on boot to load the second game. You can now also transfer your character from the first game into the sequel by starting the second game and switching to Disk 1 Side A when the game prompts you to insert disk with the previous game.

Shit neat, thanks for the info. I was wondering if it was possible.

How does this affect balancing though? Does 2 except players to have done that or is it playable from scratch?

>>10392049
Make it all months in advance so you have a bank of content to publish.

>>10388065
too bad all the games covered in this video are utter crap

>>10389616
Is there a website for this but for famicom? So fucking tired of every list being a YouTube video or playlist, how do people sit and just watch this shit for hours on end, reading lists has always been more enjoyable for me

>>10390476
see
>>10388063

>>10392065
>games like AI aren't actually that hard
You know how I can tell you've never beaten Adventure Island?

>>10390449
>>10390476
The guy on that page mentions a walkthrough, which he probably used. I have a feeling many on that site used guides, or perhaps already played the game before, when I see some of their completion times. But at the same time, I think guide use isn't shunned upon as much in Japan as it is here

>>10392053
>>10392058
If he cleared it in 70 mins, imo there is no way he didn't already know the game. Or perhaps played the sequels first...

>>10392640
Just don’t bother, this board acts better than Reddit but they lie just as bad on here for fake internet credit if not worse at points. Somehow everyone on here has beaten every game, 1CCd everything, was their local fighting game champ at every game, owned every LAN tournament, etc.

Wait you want proof? Not my job faggot you’re just mad

>>10392662
>Wait you want proof? Not my job faggot you’re just mad
haha true.

>>10392645
>If he cleared it in 70 mins, imo there is no way he didn't already know the game. Or perhaps played the sequels first...

There's no doubt in my mind at all that they payed the original a ton before they videod their "first time" playing and gosh golly beating it.
Those youtubers are scum. Not all, just those ones.

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>>10392865
I've been watching his videos and it's clear that he made them all in one marathon session because his voice is exactly as raspy in all of them. Pretty smart as other anons surmised.

>>10390046
>Zoomers are really the most sensitive fucking generation
And who taught them that?

>>10392872
Unrestricted access to the Internet during childhood. Younger generations had experienced radically different flow of information during upbringing than their ancestors.

>>10392871
Yeah I couldn't imagine working on one video each day for almost three years without something fucking up the streak at least once

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total NES/FC library is 1,380 games

>>10392871
>made them all in one marathon session
I doubt this, it would take far too long. I think he did, however, say that he'd sometimes make a batch of them at once to have a buffer.

>>10392078
>the channel trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0sXOxGCoQ4
How is anyone meant to be interested in this?

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>>10392058
>>10392645
>>10392672
There's a publicly available spreadsheet that tells whether or not it was his first time playing the game (among other stats), and you could very easily come to that conclusion yourself by watching the playthrough, it's obvious he's played the game before.

Any other good obscure channels you guys like?

>>10396603
>>10388416
He did 35 PAL games. Thirteen of them were Famicom games never localized in North America. These were Road Fighter, Banana Prince, Championship Rally, Crackout, Devil World, F-1 Sensation, Hammerin' Harry, Les Chevaliers de Zodiaque, Mr. Gimmick, New Ghostbusters II, Over Horizon, Parodius, and Ufouria.

>>10396603
i find it odd that he didn't consider 1943 that difficult when that game has a reputation of being one of the most punishing in the library (he gave Star Force a 10 for difficulty however)

>>10396934
star force is most definitely a 10.

>>10396603
>Battletoads
>Difficulty: 2
Wow. I guess he does have a lot of practice with it though.

Arkanoid was rated a 10 and deservedly so. That game is freaking evil.

>>10396623
Seconding this

>>10396623
I liked GameDave, though I don't think he's very active nowadays.

>>10387796
Occasional SJW-isms aside, I really enjoyed Famidaily. It's not often we see anyone tackling these kind of projects who actually knows Japanese, I appreciate that a lot
Props to him actually finishing, a lot of chronological projects like these eventually come to a dead stop even if they only cover U.S. releases

>nigtendo ripping of VIC20 stylez

>>10387975
>but I abjectly disagree with his choice to not include FDS titles chronologically in this series
Why don't you make a youtube playlist of all videos in historically chronological order? Never heard of this guy, but if you do this I promise I will watch.

>>10396623
Displaced Gamers, check out his MSX video.

Also Classic Game Room is back and his videos are comfier than they've ever been, lots of focus on Atari, which suits Mark's style.

>>10397721
Japanese uploader / creator already went through and cataloged every Famicom and FDS game by release:
>>10388181

I don't know if other people realized it but this also seems to be the guy responsible for most of the early Game Center CX translations, every iconic Arino subtitle was likely his work.

>>10396623
https://m.youtube.com/@f_t_b2238

Found this guy awhile back who focuses on retro Japanese PC games. I don't consider myself particularly fond of Japanese PC stuff but a lot of the stuff he covers is usually so niche and hopelessly obscure in the west that it's just a really fascinating watch in general. Narration is detailed but not long winded, editting is good, and he sounds exactly like what you would expect from the kind of guy making videos about obscure Japanese PC games.

>>10397948
Reminds me a little bit of Basement Brothers who focuses on retro Japanese PC's, primarily the PC88
https://youtu.be/l9WwEBpiKeA?si=oKbZwwSDHdLnFxPS

>>10396070
lmao what the fuck
dude sounds bored out of his mind
have some enthusiasm

>>10389686
Parish is incredibly knowledgeable and properly able to articulate why a game is important or interesting in the context of video game history. He has this sort of smug Gen X nerd attitude i find appealing which is fine I guess when talking about Donkey Kong but he has a dogshit basic bitch prog worldview that he shoehorns in everything.
I do wish he would focus more on one system. I really don’t care about prehistoric Sega stuff or his Metroidvania series.

>>10398501
Meant to say “unappealing”. I’m a Chrontendo guy anyway!

>>10398035
Nice watch, I enjoyed it

>>10398501
I wonder if Jeremy's SG-1000 book still contains a bizarre forced reference to the Castle Doctrine in his H.E.R.O. review.

>>10398501
i would care about parish if he just 100% devoted himself to one subject. no stipulations. he undermines his own perspective by shifting around so often.

>>10398792
Yeah, it's the low level signaling stuff like that or the out of place jabs at capitalism (bro you cover VIDEO GAMES) that drive me crazy.

>>10399075
Not that Anon but I keep seeing this shit with a lot of retro tech youtubers. I don’t get how you can say "fuck capitalism" and have a channel entirely focused on your passion for consumer products. This is so fucking bizarre

>>10399104
I consider myself third position due to my inability to see eye to eye on social issues with most leftists, but I also don’t believe enjoying retro tech and hating the course capitalism in the western world has taken are mutually exclusive. In fact, you could look at the diversity of technology decades ago compared to the homogenization and monopolistic activities today and come to that conclusion quite naturally.

>>10399114
This is pretty much how I feel, but yeah the little snide comments Parish and company make in their content feel unnecessary and serve no real purpose other than showing their audience they're the "good guys".

>>10396946
As someone who's beaten Battletoads several times, its a whole lot easier once you've played it first.

>>10396623
GST Channel. They do mixtapes/retrospectives of retro game music composers, among other similarly themed videos.

>>10397790
Seconding this recommendation, he's like a charismatic Retro Game Mechanics Explained. But I guess that comes with not going as in depth as RGME does.

>>10398501
Agree with this take. I only really find myself caring about his NES/Famicom videos, but that's what I came to his channel for. I did sit through his Virtual Boy series and some of his other stuff though.

>>10399129
I agree it’s completely pointless in these types of videos, but it’s expected in the terminally online world now. Before you record this video about an obscure bootleg of a neo geo game could you please look into the camera without blinking and list off every group you support, thanks.>>10399129

>>10399223
I'll also second GST. He makes some of the best edited videos I've seen on all of Youtube and really knows his stuff musically. He also posted a borderline-viral video the other day where he muses about graphics that got a ton of views.

A Youtuber thread and it hasn't been deleted? Jannies must be asleep...

>>10390659
Yeah, the Chrontendo guy is older, has had some health problems and lots of family/personal issues in the past few years. He produces a video what...every 2-3 months now? I still donate to his Patreon because I've probably binged his entire channel 3 or 4 times.

>>10398501
I've followed Jeremy Parish's work since I discovered his website in the 90s and the smug thing is sort of his calling card. It does get annoying when he acts that way talking about politics and social issues and whatnot.

If you like chrongaming stuff, I kind of enjoy Now In The 90s, hosted by that Projared guy. I've never watched his stuff and was always under the impression he was sort of obnoxious (didn't he get in hot water for banging female fans of his a few years back?) but the show is pretty good, covering the weekly releases from 30 years ago including current values of the games, what magazines said about them the other day and anything else interesting about them. The vids are sort of hastily made, meaning you'll see lots of small errors and the dates are approximate at best but I find it to be a decent watch and it's consistent.

>>10399348
>Yeah, the Chrontendo guy is older, has had some health problems and lots of family/personal issues in the past few years.
he's, what? his late 30s to 40? (since he was a kid in NES days) it's inexcusable to sound like he's dying of emphysema. he isn't 70.

>>10396946
Battletoads was the second game he did in NESMania and cleared it in only 33 minutes. He did have issues with emulator lag (see earlier point that a lot of "hard" NES games were actually not that hard back in the day on hardware+CRT)

>>10399948
Healthiest Nintendo retro YouTuber

>>10400009
Physically? Nah
Mentally? Yes

>>10399948
He might be 70 by the time he ever gets done with the NES library.

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>>10392898
Who didn't restrict Internet access? Retard

>>10392898
Parentcel here. Your number one duty as a parent in 2023 is to keep your kids off the internet as long as possible. I know preschoolers who were given a tablet when they were two years old and unrestricted access to Youtube Kids and they're freaks.

>>10401847
Honestly based, glad to know there are others out there not just handing their kids off with tablets and phones.

Never heard of it. Doesn't Chrontendo do the same?

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>>10388231
Love his channel, but because of how long the gap between his uploads are, I'll never see his review of Sonic R.

>>10387981
Oh so he’s an absolute homosexual. Thanks. I don’t have to watch now

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>>10390950
>HuuURRrr We'Re StEpPing AwaY tO fOcUs on OuR mEnTaL HEALTH
Soiboy faggots. Imagine living in the literal best period of time in all of recorded history and having to "take a break" from your hobby to "focus on your mental health". So sick of these low-value people.

>>10402120
Yeah but he finished in two years what Chrontendo hasn't finished in a decade.

>>10403781
>Dedicated autism can move mountains

>>10402612
this is what i needed to know too lol

>>10391454
This is so outrageously faggy.

>>10391454
Damn he must have had a bad day and got personally offended by the game's stereotypical concepts of Japanese life or something I hope all his reviews aren't like this

>>10403870
They're generally informative reviews occasionally punctuated by him waggling his finger in your face. He's just your typical super online lefty "everything looks like a nail" type.

>>10403781
God forbid having a life outside youtube.

>>10403935
I don't watch Famidaily so I can't comment about the quality of his videos but Dr. Sparkle does put a lot of effort and research into his videos and also takes time to do arcade and PC game rounds ups in Chrontendo videos when applicable. I'm kind of a stickler for factual accuracy in these videos but he rarely gets stuff wrong best I can tell. He also seems to be spending more time on each individual game as of late, even many of the bad ones.

>>10403887
It's really sad when they drink the kool-aid in college instead of just pretending to. If it's just an over-exaggerated stereotypical Japanese life on the fucking Famicom, he shouldn't get his panties in a twist

>>10404237
I just can't stand performative horseshit from either side of the aisle. He's not really perturbed some 40something year old Japanese game puts emphasis on tradition and money. It's masturbation.

>>10404426
True it's one of those things he's been conditioned to care about but he doesn't really although he might be upset because he hasn't filled any of those traditional life goals and the game is rubbing it in his face

>>10404426
It's actually more surprising that he commented on it negatively at all, because the general response from those types seems to be "well that's just their culture who am I to judge."

>>10404457
Nah there's still a ton of performative outrage against cultural differences if they don't align with the "correct" worldview but it is pretty selectively applied depending on the culture

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>>10401847
Yeah, I got married this past week, we were talking kids afterwards and we both agree we’re limiting internet access as much as possible and for as long as possible. Thinking of getting my kid something like a C64 maxi to promote computer literacy in a sandboxed type environment. It’s a few years away but I want to foster a love for computing in my kids, not a love for the internet.

>>10403986
>I'm kind of a stickler for factual accuracy in these videos but he rarely gets stuff wrong best I can tell.
I remember that he started Chronsega with Mark III games under a false presumption that SG-1000 came out in 1981. For some reason it was a common mistake in 2000s.

>>10405887
congrats, anon

>>10401847
i mean, you might have your 9 year old daughter fingering herself on webcam otherwise so it's up to you

>>10404646
>A ton
It varies to certain degrees.

>>10406685
You mean like the rest of the post says?

>>10405887
>I'm going to force my quite the retro gamer faggotry on my kids
Sounds like you're an insufferable cunt that they're gonna hate anyway, so might as well get some likes and upvotes out of it.

>>10407278
Limiting internet and gaming access for kids is a superb idea. Might make it so the kids don't end up drooling retards with burnt out dopamine receptors.

>>10408019
Yes, sane for adults

>>10408028
>Yes, sane for adults
True, but if you say that people get strangely upset. Hell, I had someone threaten to call CPS on me for child abuse, because I got mad when they gave my five year old daughter a phone running tik tok and I lit into them.

>>10408019
If only your parents were limiting you internet access and you'd never watched those youtubes about the maxi

>>10408019
Regardless of the content that they are consuming, this is key right here. I am completely...and I mean COMPLETELY addicted to screens, and I know my kids are probably doomed to the same fate...but the longer I can put that off, the better.

>>10407278
Cry about it you broccoli hair zoomer, throwing a pissy fit because someone else might not have access to TikTok lmao

>>10408091
>Hell, I had someone threaten to call CPS on me for child abuse, because I got mad when they gave my five year old daughter a phone running tik tok and I lit into them.
Grim

>>10392872
Boomers. All subsequent generations are victims of boomer grip on cultural and political power.

>>10389586
Not only are there too many, there literally isn’t a list of every single ps1 game nobody besides actually knows for sure how many there were

There’s all sorts of odd not even game stuff like collections of ringtones, or bonus discs to Japanese indie albums with music videos on the disc

>>10408761
Are you projecting or are you actually one day older than a zoomer? Clearly not old enough to into reading comprehension. So effectively a zoomer. Both you and the faggot you’re simping for would have really benefited from your parents limiting your reddit access.

>>10408474
>If only your parents were limiting you internet access and you'd never watched those youtubes about the maxi
Anyone able to translate this for me? I make a point not to watch youtube content and also avoid social media. My family restricted game time and we did not even have personal internet until I was 20.
>>10408750
>Regardless of the content that they are consuming, this is key right here. I am completely...and I mean COMPLETELY addicted to screens, and I know my kids are probably doomed to the same fate...but the longer I can put that off, the better.
That's the best you can do. It's good to be able to admit you have a problem, after all. Wishing you luck with it, Anon.
>>10408812
>Grim
Very. Worst part is that they did call the cops so now it's a mark on my record even though the cops basically laughed at the old hags rambling bullshit. Modern humanity is a terrifying thing. She escalated from "He's depriving his children of internet!" to "HE'S PROBABLY A WHITE CISHET MALE AND SEXUALLY ABUSING HIS KIDS AND BLOCKING THEM FROM THE INTERNET SO HE DOES NOT REPORT THEM"! Literally she was yelling that exact stuff, and making such a scene she ended up arrested for filing a false complaint and threatening an officer.

>>10387796
Owari da...

>>10387796
>one chance at life
>no way to possibly consoom all 100,000 or whatever vidja games

>>10404426
>be FamiDaily
>be liyerally the first person in the world to seethe about the life goals presented in some broken Japanese shovelware game
Based

>>10409667
>Anyone able to translate this for me?
I had a look but could only find zoomer to english translators, not the other way around.

Going through his videos so far, not watching everything just going through what peaks my interest so far the most interesting title I have come across is pic related

Basically Fire Emblem except that the fights are action based, and lo and behold, it even has a translation. I have no idea how I missed this, it looks super fun

Getting opinions for RPGs that interest me but haven't been translated is also nice although he clearly doesn't seem to enjoy Famicom RPGs as much as I do

I also learnt that Hammering Harry 2 supposedly sucks, I still have to go through the series

>>10387796
I never had the Famicom back in the day, Im watching a guy go through all the saturn games.

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>>10410650
Not a big deal when you realize that literally 99% of all video games are trash

Parish must be must be sneeding knowing some other dude is capturing all of the cassettevision stuff before him

One thing that becomes obvious when watching a few of this guy's videos is that he often doesn't have his own opinions about the game, because he doesn't spend nearly enough time playing the games and spends as much time if not more looking up what people say about the game in magazines and on the internet. So I guess it's sorta interesting to get the Japanese "consensus" on certain games; but then again we have no idea if he just read 2 forum posts and makes a "consensus" out of that.

In the Super Mario Bros USA episode it's interesting that he claims it's Nintend of Japan and Miyamoto in particular which insisted in bringing Doki Doki Panic as SMB2 to the west rather than the JPN SMB2. But of course he doesn't cite his source but I suppose he got that from a magazine interview or something?

In the west the narrative is that it was Nintendo of America which didn't want it "because it was too hard". It's pretty interesting if US interviews contradict JPN ones, but of course both could be complimentory and people just extrapolate on what they read; or it could be a case of each side trying to take credit for the action (or each side genuinely believing the idea was theirs). Just pointing that out for all the people out there who get their "facts" from interviews, especially when that's from a single interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0hFbjlDUJc

So collectors are like speedrunners heh, they really hate themselves

>>10414720
Jeremy made his Cassette Vision videos a year ago, they've just been paywalled behind his patreon this whole time.

>>10415191
While I have respect for the dedication, you have to wonder how much "tainted" perspective your getting from modern slant and discussion. What kind of consensus can you draw when the only ones making posts about a game like Chaos World (late Taito RPG) today would be ultra enthusiast players. I'm more interested in understanding reception within the Famicom boom; not so much outside it.

>>10415742
> What kind of consensus can you draw when the only ones making posts about a game like Chaos World (late Taito RPG) today would be ultra enthusiast players.

Well I liked it but the AI controller characters in battle reeaaallly bring the experience down. Not everyone could DQ4-level of AI battles when it took DQ4 2 years to get there. Once you give in to the fact that yep, your controlled party is going to be playing like retards no matter what order you give them, it's an okay game.
But I don't know what the video says, I'll check it out

>>10415742
Slight correction: RPG published and developed by Natsume.

>>10391437
Twitter brainrot/Trump Derangement Syndrome

>>10389882
The whole world still can say "gypsies", it's not even a insult.
This retard has no spine and the fact that he disabled criticizm proved it.

>>10389657
Someone else took over the project.
https://www.youtube.com/@PortablePowerPodcast
He is up to August of 1991.

>>10416010
Did he really pass it on? I was under the impression he'd always come back to it. He tends to cover a particular system for several months then switch to something else for a while. Though his last GB video was 2 years ago so maybe you're right.

>>10410834
Haha it's funny to think he probably has been the first in the world for a lot of things like that, like complaining about 8 Eyes stance on the Armenian genocide

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