/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1038625

Second boss gave me hell for years until I learned to slow down and not try to rush him. He's cake, and you'll get him as soon as you learn how he works.

>>1038625

I had batman returns. Fuck that game.
Consider yourself lucky.

>>1038627
I kept trying to play the final stage of the second boss from a distance. I eventually was told I was way off and the popular solution was just insane.

>>1040485

What is the proper solution?

I always shoot his first couple of targets with the gun and punch the last part to death. Gets me by. Granted, it's not a fast method of doing it, but it gets the job done.

I can't believe I found this game in the bargain bin. This could have been one of sony's top IPs if they had actually put a little faith in it.

>>1038625
Yeah there were a lot of great licensed games back in the day. Batman Returns on the SNES is great, too. And the Disney-Capcom games on the NES (especially Darkwing Duck). Pic related is a surprisingly high-quality gem.

Cool Spot is a pretty fun game too, once you get used to the abysmal draw distance.

>>1040515
My friends and I love this game. Surprised you found it in a bargain bin, I think it goes for >$50. Also, I'm pretty sure it's banned in a few places because of racial stereotypes.

>>1040551
>Also, I'm pretty sure it's banned in a few places

A quick googling says that you're wrong.

>>1040548
Darkwing Duck is great. Good soundtrack, too.
It's basically a Mega Man game in disguise.

>>1040548
Well butter my bisuits this is quite surprisingly a decent game. It has good music, nice parallax scrolling, a store to purchase items and that tree that slams the ground and makes the earth shake, aww yeah.

>>1040548
Has anyone else ever noticed that Ronald's face when standing still in game looks a lot like Dead Hands' from the Bottom of the Well?

This, and some Michael Jordan game for SNES.

>>1040829
Gonna try this. Hopefully it's better than Too cool to Fool.

>>1040889
lolfuckno, especially the genesis version

>>1040829
Not that bad. I like the blues music and how he eats Cheeto's™ brand corn snacks to revive himself.

>>1038625
That last part isn't too bad if you can conserve your life for the end of that boss. Patience is needed for the first part until you learn the pattern (two bullets up, two bullets down) and the second part is easy with the rocket pistol. The third part works best IMO if you get as close to it as possible without actually touching it and punching it to death. The bullets seem to spawn past you that way and the boss is free after that. I think you might get shot once as you run in to close the distance.

>>1040548
My friend forced me to emulate this game in college. He said "I know what it looks like but it's really fucking good!" I assumed it was a case of nostalgia goggles but I humored him and gave it a shot anyway.

I played through the whole game with him giving me tips over my shoulder. The game did not disappoint. I was amazed at just how good it was. Keep an eye out for this game at thrift stores and the like. It's going to be expensive someday if it isn't already.

>>1038625

This game disappointed me, honestly. The gameplay is fun, the graphics are good, and the music is awesome.

The only problem is that it doesn't feel like Batman. You have a few backgrounds lifted from the movie, but all of the enemies are original characters and Batman doesn't even look like Batman.

I know that the 8-bit graphics wouldn't have allowed for him to be black, but didn't the programmers know that you're supposed to substitute blue in those situations? When has Batman ever been purple? It doesn't look like him and it doesn't feel like I'm playing as him. It feels like I'm playing an unrelated (but admittedly awesome) game which just happens to have the Batman name thrown on it.

>>1040931
>24 bucks loose.

Well bend me over and fuck me sideways, I can't hardly believe that something like this could be so expensive loose, not to mention like 40-80 bucks with canse and manual.

>>1040896
Just tested both of them simultaniously and not only are the animations more fluid on the Genesis version but they are a lot faster and don't skip frames.

About the only thing the SNES has going for it with this game is the music.

>>1040958
Also he doesn't eat the Cheeto's™ brand corn snacks when he gets hit, he just goes back to the beginning of the level which is terribly annoying.

Now this is awesome.

>>1040943
Not the OP but whatever you're getting at is dead wrong.
All the bosses with the exception of the robotic stages are characters from the comic books, as well as at least four of the basic enemies (granted there are multiples of them).

The programmers DID substitute blue in Batman's color scheme. Batman's suit is blue and his mask, cape, glove other shits are purple, both of those being the darkest palette colors besides black, and allowing for the most accents to give him detail.

Even then, most of the cutscenes of Batman have him in black because there's more freedom for use of color.

But you're right in that its not true-to-movie, and I think that's awesome, too. It didn't tie itself to the plot of the movie, it was original, unpredictable, and fun. No other Batman game could do that until the Arkham games.

>>1040994

The first boss and the guy from the cave are actually in the comics? What are their names?

And I still think that Batman's costume should have been deep blue like it is in the cutscene where he's leaping into the Batmobile.

The fodder villains are the ones who should have worn purple - like the goons from the movie.

It's pretty tough in the beginning but it evens out toward the middle of the game. Fuck the driving level.

FUCK YES I'M SHOOTING 7UP OUT OF MY PALMS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

>>1040943
>I know that the 8-bit graphics wouldn't have allowed for him to be black,
Yes it would have.The problem is you wouldn't want a black batman on that black backdrop. If you were going to have a black batman all of the scenery would need to colored more brightly so he stands out clearly so the player isn't having a bitch of a time seeing him.
But they sure as fuck could have made the backdrops similar purplish hues and have batman black. Though if they're sharing palette with the enemy and hud that's problematic. They'd have to change the palette around. Also it's not that it's 8-bit graphics, it's that it's NES PPU could only hold 6 bit color and the palette is split up into 4 -16 color palletes which have limits on applying to backgrounds and sprites. So it's not like you get get access to all 64 colors wherever you want either. The whole thing's kind of a mess.

8-bit unconstrained graphics would have been amazing for a NES. Also color bitness is less effected with higher resolution. Since you can effectively take a 3-bit color palette and produce level shading based on group patterns.

>>1041053

That's what I was talking about. Batman Returns on the Super Nintendo has a black suit and several black backgrounds, but it's able to make him stand out from it. The NES could not have easily accomplished this feat without a noticeable white outline.

There was never a Jackie Chan movie where he drop kicks a Tiger and that makes me sad.

>>1038628
I hope you mean Batman Forever.

>>1040943
dude. Batman being purple isn't what makes it not feel like a Batman game. It's the fact that Sunsoft cannot last five minutes without putting cyber mecha troopers and crazy lasers and shit into a game.

Like for this they were like okay we got a kinda gothic soundtrack, and some dark gotham assets, we got batman, we got...sewers....rrrrrrrhrkhgfksjghfd JETPACKS AND CYBORGS *WILD THUDDING SUNSOFT NES BASS*

then they just didn't even give a fuck when they made Return of the Joker, they made Batman's sprite and a big zeppelin and then started slapping homing cannon lasers onto him

Sunsoft is some crazy motherfuckers

I always liked this game, and Return of the Joker, don't know why people get down on them

>>1041132

People like Batman. Return of the Joker is the one people don't like.

>>1041137
probably because they're going not-muh-batman so hard they can't appreciate hardcore japanese homing laser platform action

(that or the fucking stupidly large sprites and hitboxes)

>>1041127
The way both Batman games were designed always made me wonder if they weren't originally supposed to be something else, you know, like a Journey to Sillius or Shatterhand kind of deal, maybe the original game was supposed to be an original IP or some random obscure sentai show, and just latter decided to slap some Batman imagery to make it sell more copies.

>>1041060
That's not what I'm talking about. If you simply did not use black backgrounds, the NES could accomplish that feat without any real problems. They typically choose not to for aesthetics purposes.

>>1041201

Well, purple is not a good color for him. I'm sorry, but he doesn't look like Batman at that point and it really just causes the game to not feel like a Batman game.

You could say that Metroid was a Batman game. It's actually Bruce Wayne inside of that mech suit. Just take 5 hours to reach the end.

>>1041201
so you're complaining about the aesthetics of the backgrounds vs. the aesthetics of the character

one is gonna be dark, the other isn't, have you never played NES games? just enjoy the batman

>>1041219
by which i mean im in agreement with >>1041201
:B

>mfw listening to dat glorious nes batman soundtrack

>>1041227
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXridId_lM

>>1041219
If you're not going to read the fucking shit, don't reply. If you paid the fuck attention, you'd realize I'm not complaining about anything, at all.

>>1041072

Isn't Kung Fu also based off of a Jackie Chan movie?

>>1040548
really, i tought this game was a piece of shit, like totally rad.

Star Wars episode 1 video game for PS1.

Somehow I liked it more than the movie.

>>1041409
Yes, its Japanese title is Spartan X, which was the Japanese title of Wheels on Meals.

>>1040619
>a store to purchase items

Yeah, but you know what's BULLSHIT? When you go in the store, it's Ronald on the other side of the counter! Selling you the items! What's going on here--YOU'RE supposed to be Ronald! I guess having a multibillion-dollar international franchise wasn't enough for him, the lousy money-grubbing two-timer.

>>1041215
>I'm sorry, but he doesn't look like Batman at that point and it really just causes the game to not feel like a Batman game.

Wow dude, seriously? That is nitpicky as fuck.

>>1041409
Your Kung Fu NES is based on the arcade game Kung Fu Master which in turn is based on Bruce Lee's Game of Death

>>1042634
I forgot about this movie, gonna watch it now while playing kung fu.

http://viooz.co/movies/7204-wheels-on-meals-1984.html

>>1040515
Love this fucking game. I used to play it with a friend. The American version is censored, and I actually downloaded the PAL version and emulated it. Character speech is way cooler

>>1040943
Batman on NES is one of the NES games that's the most faithful to its original material

You can't expect NES games to have much more than that >>1040994

Batman Returns (NES version) is also very faithful, like every Batman Returns.

>>1041127
>complaining about random-ass robot enemies on an NES game

I respectfully suggest that this may not be quite the hobby for you.

>>1045608
>Missing the point

He's wrong, but you're missing the point. He doesn't have a problem with robots in games, it's because it's Batman that he has an issue.

>>1045610
The point is irrelevant, because it's Batman platforming on the NES. Random-ass robots are bordering on "it's not a bug, it's a feature" territory.

The Joker summons lightning and you guys are bitching about robots.

>>1040943
It's an awesome game, but the most un-Batmanlike thing about it is that Batman has a gun.

>>1041256
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD2P1BDSU4w