/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1214552

>Your game is "Ghosts 'n Goblins"! Now go play it

Aw hell naw

>Your game is "The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$!"! Now go play it

t-tomorrow.

>>1215838
oh god

don't do it anon

I've still gotta do Sweet Home...

I'm scurrd guys...

>Your game is "Sword of mana"! Now go play it!

I'm totally ok with this.

>go to the v/vr gauntlet wiki
>"The IRC channel is located at #gauntlet on irc.rizon.net"
>oh sweet! I can talk to people about how horrible/awesome I'm doing
>channel is so dead I'm appointed as admin
what....

>>1217149

I don't think anyone goes on that anymore. Although it's probably to do with the fact that the past 4-5 threads have been really inactive.

>>1214552
>Mortal Kombat 3

Hue

[hype]

>Your game is "Tecmo Super Bowl"! Now go play it

Talk about good luck

Hey, just wanted to say /v/ is taking their threads back from you guys. I hope that's not a problem. :^)

>Your game is Fifa 99!

>>1222787
I spent countless hours on Fifa 99 with my 1998 Gaming PC. Thanks for reminding me, downloading right now.

Where did the rules go? It's still the same as it used to be, right? Why isn't the console order in the OP?

I was thinking about resuming my Gauntlet run (I was at GBA, Shining Force) but if they changed everything up I don't think I should.

>Your game is "Grand Theft Auto 2"! Now go play it
k den

>>1222845

Changed it up since the last 3-4 gauntlet threads were completely dead. This one isn't doing too well either.

>>1223274
I think it's because while a lot of people are doing it, not many are posting progress. At least that's what I've been doing.

>>1223274
Shame. /vr/ is too slow for the Gauntlet, and judging by lurking the /v/ Gauntlet revival, /v/ is too fast for it.

Well, I'll start Shining Force later today to try to give it some more activity. I'm gonna continue to use the old rules; otherwise it isn't really a "gauntlet."

>Your game is The Bard's Tale Construction Set!

If i ever actually do finish a dungeon in this thing, the next person who gets The Bard's Tale should play through this inevitable fucking disaster made by someone who didn't even play the original.

>>1223302
/vr/ has had a ton of successful gauntlet threads

>>1223302
I've come here from the thread on /v/.
I managed to finish Abadox and I rolled Flintstones - The Treasure of Sierra Madrock.
The game is pretty fun until I got to the ice area and got my ass kicked, I'll start posting my progress when I start it back up.

>>1223370
Oh, I know, I've been a Gauntlet fan since /vr/ was made, but /vr/ has slowed down gradually, and there don't seem to be enough interested people nowadays to sustain it, or at least there aren't enough interested people that have the time to play through the games in such a short timespan (said camp which I fall under).

>Shadowgate

Ugh, I'll pass.

>UFO Defense

Lets do it. In this case i'll roll with OpenXcom instead of the DOS version, though.

In good tradition i'll let you pick the names, 10 rookies need naming before we can get them killed.

>>1223495
Richie
Howard
Marion
Joanie
Potsie
Ralph
Al
Chachi
Chuck
The Fonz

>>1223493
>Your game is "Shadowgate"! Now go play it

Do I have to? If you've beaten it once, it's not like you can lose...

>>1223512

Done.
I'll try to keep one alive, at least.

>>1223543
Eh, I have two recursive problems whenever I play it;

One is that i "lock down" where i can't find the answer anymore.
Second being the fact that I can lock myself UP by finding the answer in rooms that require a key item(That t(r)oll bridge for instance)

despite that i've been doing a Mega Man Gauntlet to train for taking the random approach.
MM4 > MMX > MM&B > MMZ4 > MMX6 for instance,

>>1223557
Forgot MM V between X and MM&B.

>>1223545

>Do a few routine crash sites
>This happens

Welp.
Oh, and Potsie got shot.

>>1223396
I managed to beat the ice level and jungle level with relative ease bar a few stages, but this game just amped the difficulty up.
I've been through 20 lives and Fred is still at the first stage.
Barney managed to get a few lucky throws and he's at stage 6.

>>1223659
Well that was a letdown. No big last level or boss, just a stairway that leads to the treasure.

>>1223694

Well done man. Soon i will upload pictures of my run of sword of mana on gba. What should i expect from the game?

Here we go. Got this at 12:30 this morning and started Metroid.

Already finished Abadox and The Flintstones before I rolled the rest and I was wondering if SimEarth is a game that you can actually finish or even has a high score.

The NES games list really needs purged of famicom games and other garbage.
You're likely to get a game that's fucking crap

>Your game is "Gemfire"! Now go play it
I usually roll garbage on these, but this looks pretty good.

Well, turns out that Beavis and Butthead for the Gameboy is an incredibly boring and shitty game.
Who would have known.

>Tasmania story

I'm frightened.

>>1223875
Oh god it's worse than I thought.

>>1223875
>>1223884

>>1223898
I believe in you anon, you can pull through.

Do you have any screenshots?

Okay, starting Shining Force. I couldn't get it to load on VBA, and NO$GBA had fucked up sounds, so I'm just going to play the original Genesis version just so I don't have to figure out how to get the GBA version to work.


So, standard backstory, a thousand years ago Light fought the Darkness, Light sealed away Darkness for a thousand years, it's now back. The exposition was given to you by this pretty elf girl. She asks for you help, and asks for your name.

/vr/, what do I name myself?

>>1223902
I uninstalled, sorry mate. Either way I'm taking a break from GB roms for a bit though, just got buttblasted by DK Land. Man, fuck those pigs.

>>1224030
Sad to hear, I hope you get back on the horse soon.

Any idea for a name with >>1224010? I need one to progress and I have a rule against naming my characters on my own for Gauntlet RPGs.

>>1223370
As someone who finished a gauntlet around when /vr/ was first made, it's only gotten worse for them to stay alive here. The initial wave of people helped the threads go on, but you really need it to stick to make it work. I'm not sure if the rule change can help this, either,

>>1224067
I'd do it if I knew what the fucking rules were or how it worked.

I'm on #gauntlet on rizon...so lonely.

>>1224042
Go with the default name "Max," I guess.

Otherwise, I'd go with something that slips off the tongue, like... "Bimmy."

Yes, Bimmy will do just fine.

>>1224042
I'm back. Look at those motherfuckers, they look nothing like tasmanian tigers. I think it's a gauntlet game, there might not even be an ending.

>>1224070
Starting Spelunker 2, oh boy

>Retro gauntlet
>GBA is an option

>>1224074
I wasn't given a default, so Bimmy it is.

Alright, so I'm apparently a scrub knight, and everyone is either trying to push me out the door to go fight, or they're telling me how much of a scrub I am, which makes the former camp seem like they want to send me out on a suicide mission.

There are a bunch of centaur everywhere but nobody has made any comment on it.


I talk to the king, and...


Shit, I think I am being put on a suicide mission. There are forces about to invade the city, and they can't send their knights out without them being noticed, probably because all of them are centaurs. So they want to send me.


Well, at least from what I understand I get troops. I have a Knight, a Mage, an Archer, some guy whose text I skipped over by accident (his name is Luke), and my apparent friend Bimmy, to form a party of six.

We went to our headquarters, only to find monsters there, and oh shit it's one of those tactical RPGs. I've never played one of those before.

>>1224092
no, fuck this untranslated crap ;.;

I now have The Adventures of Bayou Billy.

Sounds like a classic.

>Your game is "Robocop vs. Terminator"! Now go play it
What could possibly go wrong!

>>1224137
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1591/

Translation patch.

>>1215892
just do it, get rid of those glass shards and go

>>1224136
And I instinctively hit the tab button, normally my fast forward, but apparently for this emulator the reset button. I have to start all over now.

>>1224136
>Bimmy
At first I was like "what?", but then I realized it's like Bimmy and Jimmy from Double Dragon.

Also, he has no default name in the game itself, but in the manual (or something) his default name is Max. I'm the same way though, I go with the default name. If there is no default name, I always name them Bob.

>Your game is "Maniac Mansion"! Now go play it

I've heard this game was good; any tips for a beginner?

>>1224141
This is actually a lot better than I expected
Remote grenade launcher is my new waifu

>Top Gun
oh no
OH NO
OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>1224174
Please tell me it's the DOS version.

>>1224182
NES

Is there a way I could just play it on DOS?

I have no idea what that is honestly

>>1224185
AH GAD
DO NOT PLAY THE NES VERSION IT SUCKS ASS THAT CONTROLLER WAS NOT MADE FOR CLICKING THINGS!

>>1224189
I've got no problem with it since I'm using a keyboard

>>1224152
Well, I got back to the first battle.

That guy whose text I skipped over is dead.

We otherwise got through it okay.


The last enemy, as he died, told how the Darkness was attacking the town we just came from, and now we need to go back to it.


There are enemies all over the road.


I don't think I'm going to make it, but I'll try my best.

Whoo, I got Lemmings. It's on, bitch.

>>1224196
Damn, that was a long battle. I wish there was a speed-up button in-game, each battle takes 3-5 seconds with the A button held and troop placement takes a long time. Just getting back to town took me half an hour.

Anyway, the town is badly hurt, but the soldiers there managed to fight off the Darkness for now.

A crazy old man that I assumed was a random NPC before just joined my team after the attack.

The Darknes killed the head of the army and killed the King, who told us to go to another town to send a message to his daughter.

The daughter of the commander joined my team to avenge the commander's death.


I currently have a party of 8.

>>1224284
I fought for fifteen minutes before Bimmy died, and APPARENTLY you have to keep him alive. I hate when games make one character necessary for the party.

>>1224317
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I get to the LAST FUCKING ENEMY and they make a beeline towards the ONE GUY YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO LET DIE, and they get a CRITICAL HIT AND OHKO HIM.


OH WELL, GUESS I'LL DO THE WHOLE FUCKING FIGHT A THIRD TIME.

>>1224353
Oh, wait.

Wait.


When you lose a fight you keep your Exp. gains.


Ohhhh thank God. This isn't a big deal at all then.

>>1224356
So far I have died again twice. It seems the enemies have some kind of fourth wall-breaking knowledge of the game's rules and know to attack a specific guy so they don't lose the mission, despite there being no in-game reason Bimmy isn't allowed to die.

I won't give up on this, though.

>>1224136
>>1224169
The game does give you a default name; you just have to hit "END" without entering a name.

>>1224356
You can use Bimmy's "Egress" spell to run away from battle and repeat it for level-grinding purposes, if that's your thing.

Not sure if giving hints in /vr/ gauntlet threads is frowned upon, though, so eh.

>>1224424
Bimmy is the leader of the Shining Force.

As the saying goes, if you kill the leader, the troops soon follow.

>>1224427
I wasn't aware of that, but too late to change it now.

I'm really hating this game. It would be fun, if it wasn't for that fucking "this character can't die or you lose" rule.

>>1224431
But you can revive players as soon as you go to a church. Three of my troops died during a battle, and I was able to revive them all for only 110 gold. I don't see why it's that big a deal for Bimmy to just get revived later.

And I really need to find out how to unbind tab as reset without unbinding the fast forward key, I've done it twice now. I save after every loss to be safe, but just now I hit it halfway through the sixth time I tried battling them.

>>1224438
Okay, so after nine tries, the final try resorting to covering that one guy with the entirety of my other troops like a meat shield, I get past that group of enemies, and now I'm in this town, Alterone.

>>1224467
Forgot pic.

>>1224469
Got this guy in my party. Currently have 9 people.

So I find the king (I had to talk to every NPC twice before I found the one that allowed me to enter the castle), and he tells me to go upstairs, when, look, it's the Big Bad, who already captured the city and ordered me to be arrested.

>>1224534
A dog-girl broke me out of prison and joined my party, and then there was an immense battle in the middle of town. Leveling up new characters is going to be a bitch, isn't it? I have to make sure not to kill enemies but leave them with a sliver of health, and then have the newer enemies cherry tap them to death, and since they have low speed it takes forever for them to get a turn until they get to Lv. 3 or so. Still, the knowledge to not let anyone go anywhere near that one guy in my party caused me to win the fight on my first try.

I saved the city, and I'm done for the night.

>>1224586
I apologize for the double post, but, d'aww, this girl is just too cute. Possibly waifu material if she gets a bigger role in the story as time goes on.

>>1224534
Bimmy just can't catch a break, huh?

What the hell is this?

>Bard's Tale (NES)

I felt reasonably confident until i had to name my party.

I'll need more than a week.

Sup guys, s3krit here.

for whatever reason, my box is being slow as shit. So if game generation is taking a while, I can only apologise.

>>1223859
Dem portraits, man.

>>1223859
Alright, I've decided to forfeit Beavis and Butthead and count it as a loss which according to the rules that I've read on /v/ means I have to go back a system.
I rolled pic related and it looks pretty fucking fun.

>Your game is "Metal Gear"! Now go play it

I've never actually played this.

Looking forward to it.

>>1227045
>NES version

You're not in for as good a time as you think.

>>1224592
I went to resume my game, and fuck fuck fuck it somehow didn't save.

I saved the game half a dozen times, and the couple of times I accidentally hard reset my file was still there, but it's not there now and I can't find the SRM file anywhere on my laptop.

What do I fucking do? I spent six hours working on that fucker and for some reason I can't save states on my Genesis emulator, so how am I going to finish this game when I just lost an entire six hours of progress?

>>1227097
Through insane abuse of the fast forward button coupled with knowing how to not lose horribly, I cleared the stretch of game that took me six hours the first time, in 90 minutes.

It turns out the area I had stopped in last time is literally right before the first chapter ends, so I'm not going to progress any further tonight.

Oh god, not this, please! This shit was fucking creepy for me in clildhood. I even remember how it was purchased: we went to a store with my mother and there was stand with NES games. I really liked Home Alone movie and noticed this game, so I asked mom to purchase it for me. Even seller said it's a bad game and recommended not to buy it. But I insisted. Okay, here we go.

>>1227921
Wait, it's not that one. I've played Home Alone 2, I guess. Don't know, if I should be happy or not.
>Bethesda

>The Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun
Sounds dope as fuck can't wait

The hell I'm supposed to do here? Survive for 20 mins? That would be very boring.

I hope it's fun.

>>1227952
boy, you're gonna love this game.

>Your game is "Battletoads"! Now go play it

welp

>>1227952
Yes. That is literally all you do. I drew this game the first time I tried the gauntlet. Closest I got was I think like 5 minutes left.

I suggest scrapping this try and rerolling your game.

OP here, is it me or did this thread just fucking explode?

When will dreamcast be added

>>1228795
The Saturn isn't added, so idunno.

I think we should pair the Masters System with the NES, pair the Saturn with the GBA, and pair the Dreamcast with the N64 and PS1.

>>1227978
Playing it and recording gameplay, game is quite fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiMHW7x6DzY

>>1227340
Resuming.

>>1228976
Well, I went to a town, found out that the bad guys bought all the boats the town had (why would you sell it to them?), decided to go look for the king's daughter, the town I was approaching ambushed me and almost wiped out my entire party, I managed to slay every last enemy by keeping Bimmy as far away from combat as possible, and they apologized to me because they thought I was with the bad guys.

I found the king's daughter, who took the news of her father's death horribly, but then joined my party.

I got turned into a hen.


Then I snuck past a guy and turned back into a Bimmy.

>>1229112
I went to a dungeon to find an orb, killed some monsters, found a spooky scary skeleton, the king's daughter set it on fire in a fit of rage okay I made that up but I like to give additional personality to party members so I had the king's daughter defeat it herself rather than using the whole party, I got the Orb of Light, and a goddess told me how Bimmy is the greatest hero in the universe and how he'll save the day.


I really, REALLY hate Bimmy.

I need to go to a circus to save the grandson of the one guy in town that has a boat, but I found an interesting detour; Runefaust (the bad guy forces) put up a play of them defeating the Shining Force, with production quality that rivals the Ember Island Players. The play in its entirety I added to the image for your amusement.

don't forget to join me on IRC.

#gauntlet on irc.rizon.net

to talk about your gauntlet adventures!

>>1229216
In a twist NOBODY expected, the circus tent is full of evil creatures!

Defeated them, the fortuneteller I met earlier turned out to be evil, and when I went to get my new boat, she fucking burned it, making the hour of playtime a complete waste.

Thanks, Bimmy. For the great hero, you sure couldn't stop a single person burn down a ship when they're right in front of you.

Now, I'm at... I have no fucking clue. This place is fucked up. I was told to look for someone, and I'm walking around here, and everyone is acting like they're zombies, and the pastor wouldn't tell me anything. I found the guy I was looking for, he screamed "It's a trap!" and the pastor appeared, turning into a commander of Runefaust and surrounding me with zombies. This seems like a simple fight except OH SHIT THE GUY I CAN'T LET DIE IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FIELD SURROUNDED BY MONSTERS. I have to get my party to surround him like a meat shield and fend off his attackers.


Bimmy's presence is feeling less like having a protagonist and more like every battle being an escort mission. I normally just leave him at the starting point (unless he needs to level up to match the rest of the troops), but here there's clearly no choice.

>>1229391
That was harder than it needed to be.

Every enemy was of the undead type, which means they're weak to Blaze. I have two mages that know Blaze, but I forgot to revive the one that died in the previous battle, mainly because the friar wouldn't talk to me. I was in such a rush to protect my escort/protagonist that I blocked his path with the nearest party member, which was my other mage. I killed a few enemies with her, but she died early on in the match, so I had to tough it out the rest of the match using only physical attacks, which are weak against the undead. I made it to the end without my escort/protagonist getting hit more than once, and it was explained that the friar had been possessed.

That doesn't explain all the people walking around like zombies, who suddenly disappeared after the fight.


Anyway, I have two awesome birdmen on my team now, and Chapter 2 is over. I have more characters than my party can hold, so I'm going to have to think about what arrangement I want on my team.

>>1227840
So I loaded the rom and was blessed with a blank screen. It would seem even god hates this game.
reroll gave me pic related.
The adventures of the greediest duck in Duckville.
Maybe money isn't the root of all evil.

>>1229850
Lucky bastard.

>>1214552
I want got one but I need finish FFVII (NES) first.

>Your game is "Magical Pop'n "! Now go play it
This... the screens of the game seem quite interesting, I might do it.

>Shin Nekketsu Kouha - Kunio-tachi no Banka
A Japanese beat-em-up set in a prison. It seems to be quite story-based with lots of dialogue, but fuck if I'm going to bother trying to decipher it

>>1231389
So get the patched ROM instead. Or patch it yourself.

>>1231389
Oh, a River City Ransom game. I got a different one once in the Gauntlet, and enjoyed myself, so I think you're in for a good time. Do patch it, though.

>>1231414
>river city ransom
>not Kunio-kun

That game is pretty badass, though. Kickass boss fight music.

>>1231397
>>1231414
I'm an idiot, it never even occurred to me that it would be translated. Thanks

>>1231418
I'm just calling it what English speakers would know it as.

>>1229441
Resuming.

I fought a battle and saved a quarry full of slaves. The birdmen are rather awesome. I could just go to the enemies with them as scouts, attack until their HP is low, send them back to the healers, and have the rest of the troops finish off the enemies.

>>1231450
Well damn, I just got wasted.

There was a battle to get to a bridge, which I won rather easily, but after that was a second battle. Your party regains all HP and MP between battles and nobody died, so the consecutive battles isn't a problem, but this is the first battle that had a severe obstacle to it.

There was a giant laser cannon that counted down and fired after so many turns, hitting all troops (friend and foe) in a certain longitudinal range. This giant cannon is placed at the end of an incredibly long, narrow walkway, with a couple crevices to hide, but there are enemies in said crevices. You had to hide in the crevices and wait for it to fire, and because of their size, only 3-4 troops could go forth.


I lost a third of my troops by misestimating the range of the cannon, so I escaped from battle to go revive them.

I feel like I need a break even though I can't due to the Gauntlet time limit. This game is starting to get overwhelming. I've never played a tactical RPG before, and having 12 characters to work around and manage health and MP and placement, is just hard for me.

>>1231149
Is a good game. I don't remeber if I finish or put to side...

>>1223793
This has been pretty good, even if I've made some bad decisions at the start (I've had one experience with TBSs and I hated it, but that's a terrible excuse).

Started with the first family in the first scenario - which is apparently the easiest (the red ones at 3-4-5).

>>1232305
And here's how things are now.

Initially I made a truce with the Lyle (blue union) but they broke that so I took 1-2-6 from them. Suddenly they were my friends again, but they wanted to defect but they've attempted to fight the bottom guys and 10 defected to them (I'm terrible with names). I'm going to leave them for now and fight them later - because I'm going to have to eventually.

The family that was at 13-14, when defeated, joined me which was handy. The guys at 24-27 and 26-25 both defected, I think.

The guys at 8 aren't doing anything.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to get this done by Monday, so I might drop out and just continue playing this because it's quite enjoyable.

Shame the music is pretty off-putting (had to mute it).

>>1232310
>but they wanted to defect
I meant I wanted them to defect.

Also the guys at #12 had a dragon. From the sprite I thought it was a dinosaur and I was disappointed. I think a dragon volunteered for my army but I haven't checked that out yet.

>>1232315
I've got what appears to be an overweight magic Plesiosaurus. Though I've got two of them now and you can only have one fifth unit (reserved for magical creatures/wizards).

>>1232736
Forgot my image.

And I should have said one fifth unit on the battle field. Though having an army full of dinosaurs would be great.

Nah

>>1234073
C'mon, easy win, especially with an emulator and a fast forward feature. You could beat the whole thing in a single day.

>>1232738
Here's my progress from last night.

The evil guys succeeded in taking back #10, then did a nice trick of attempting to invade #7 with #9, failing and then attacking with #10 since #7 was weak. So the Lyles joined me, which is great because some of them have some very good stats.

Though I discovered I didn't have two Plesiosauruses since they only stay for one battle. I like to think it's the same one just being indecisive because he's left twice and volunteered three times.

Alright, here's my progress so far:
3D World Runner
Stunt Race FX (failed)
Super Mario Bros.
Super Bomberman

Time for Game Boy. It's a game about tanks I've played before, pretty short it seems.

>>1234696
Any reason you went with the NES version over the SNES version?

BTW, Gemfire is my heroin.

Gonna do the whole list.
>Ikari Warriors II Victory Road
Any good?

>>1234743
Basically, you control this cutesy tank and can rotate its turrret to fire. Not a hard game, but it's pretty fun.

>>1234781
First boss, it's a dragon tank! Hopefully this time it won't try to heal itself...

Got Mega Man, which is a series i've always been meaning to play but never actually got around to before.

So far i've finished off Cut man and Bomb man, and had my first game over at Elec mans stage, so i've been tackling Fire mans stage instead. All these mans are a hassle to keep track off.

I'm having fun.

>>1234798
Level 2 boss midboss is a clone of your tank that enlarges in the middle of the fight. Not too bad.

Now the actual boss of this level is this giant clumsy robot that tumbles and tries to flatten you. The three-way shot makes quick work of it.

>>1234809
Last boss is this guy, you face him after going through a little boss rush.

>>1234753
No other reason other than I rolled for the NES.

Is there any difference other than graphics and music?

>BTW, Gemfire is my heroin.
Good choice of poison. Eventually I'm going to have to play as the other families and scenarios.

Step 1 of my half thought out plan is complete. I need to start getting people to defect; I'm running out of vassals. And I need to do something about the people on the Isle Of Man, they keep attempting to plunder me.

I beat this game once upon a time but not recently.

This title screen is nostalgic for me.

>>1234832
Well, and that's it for Trax.

You escape the giant tank base of the enemy forces, and run along the sunset whilst being chased by the stage 2 robot.

I'll be rolling for the Mega Drive soon.

Found the fire magic.

Found a heart container at... Stonehenge?

Entrance to first palace.

YES.

Fuck this goddamn bubble, my attacks are doing nothing and I'm doing nothing but losing health.

That's what I get for challenging the bubble I guess.

On a side note, I think I misread earlier because I have the shield spell, not fire. That might come later because I definitely remember it.

>>1235209

Haven't played Zelda 2 in ages but i remember those fuckers being damage sponges.
Enjoy the fast versions that comes along later.

>>1235198
Rather a lucky strike to enter the gauntlet with this. Let's start out with Toadman.

First boss!

I'm a bit rusty so I died once, but down he goes.

I put a crystal-like thing into this statue.

>>1235224
Got down to the miniboss for now, Overestimation led to little troubles, I've been playing Mega Man Unlimited before this.

So I left the palace and it didn't fall into ruins after I left. I realized that I completely forgot to get the item in here so I came back in to get it. Not there yet, but I did kill one of those damned bubbles. The lack of the infinitely spawning enemies made it much easier and faster.

>>1235241
One down, 7 to go.

I found it, finally.

Decided to get a game over because I just leveled up and was at one life.

>>1235253
Brightman's stage seems to be all but bright. One life lost.

Found magic container in cave south of the spawn point.

>>1235262
Forgot picture.

Found what looks like an angel statue in a cave north of the spawn point.

>>1235260
Spikehoppers, and one totempole dumped an extra life on the spikes.

This scene is pretty well-known.

>>1235276
That entire game is well known....

That "angel statue" was a trophy it seems. Time for new magic from a wizard living in the basement.

>>1235280
That guy in particular, I think. I've heard my younger brother say that phrase even when he hasn't played the game before.

The jump magic from the town of Ruto allowed me to get past.

>>1235270
Might want to review the graphics if i continue,
2/8 done; Pharaohman's up next.

>Conquest of the crystal palace

Haven't heard of it before, but why the hell not.
Catchy-ass music and the gameplay seems pretty solid. It even has waifus!

>>1235295
Scorpion Roombas, Flies, what's more to add.

Fucking hell, an old lady just turned into a bat when I talked to her and it killed me. I was just looking for somewhere to restore health/magic in town.

>>1235301
Halfway through,

>>1235296

First boss(es) down accompanied by a jolly jig and peace sign.
Life's good.

I found a mirror under a table that a lady was looking for and then the guy in her basement taught me a life spell.

>>1235308
Cruel takedown. And still some graphical glitches apparently.

Probably NEStopia being the problem here.

>>1235318
With 3/8 down and some tweaks in hope to solve the glitches, I advance to Ringman.

>>1235296
>It even has waifus!
Can't beat my Gemfire husbandos. Best boy is Seth.

There wasn't much of interest in that village other than the spell. A guard told me that only villagers can cross the bridge to the other side of town and there was a sleeping purple slime.

>>1235325
First a snail, now a hippopotamus.
I'm not going to ask a question why.

>>1235340
Things can get more strange after all.

I stumbled upon this guy's cabin in the woods. I'm guessing the river man is the guard from earlier.

Welp, time for Death Mountain.

>>1235345
4/8. Making progress, Dustman next.

>>1235362
Eddie being himself.

>>1235376
5/8.
Skullman's up next.

Game over. The red axe-throwing monsters are devilish.

>>1235376
Come now.

>>1235394
6/8. Going on a roll.

>>1235401
This one makes sense at least.

>>1235404
*sighs*

>>1235408
alas, 7/8.

And i'm probably nuking the image limit with this.

>>1235408
You can always go down the latter, come back up, and have him give you a second thing. As long as you don't grab the item you can do that indefinitely.


>>1231568
I apologize for not playing yesterday, I've been really sick and yesterday I was just miserable. I'll try to catch up today.

>takes quick look at walkthrough just to see how much I have left
>only about a third of the way through the game

Oh, this is gonna suck.

>>1235423
I know of that trick though I haven't made use of it yet through this run, it's a semi-speedrun that I'll do for the gauntlet.

>>1235420
8/8 m8 thats gr8.

Time to get a drink and then it's to enter Cossack Citadel.

>>1235446
Just let's get the wire first.

>>1235461
Separate victory tune, only to get teleported back to the checkpoint of the stage. Of course.

On my way back, I realized there was stuff north of Saria. I'll check that out before returning to Death Mountain.

>>1235472
With the Balloon adapter here as well, time to wrap up.

>>1235493
I wonder why they install cannons when they're never used.

Picked up a saturn for $40, was in really good condition too. Only problem is I thought the one I got was a 2nd edition model. I thought it was the first until later. Anyway, it doesn't look that different, though I'm concerned the best games were Jap only. Anyone know?

Sega saturn general. What are you favorite games? Anyone have that saturn rec image?

Whaddya know, there was a palace up here. I think a guy in one of the towns mentioned that there was a glove I should get in the swamp. This palace might be it.

>>1235495
1/4 done.
So many points to ask "WHY".

>>1235509
How to effectively screw up a no-damage run.

>>1235521
2/4 despite a death.

Found that glove the person was referring to.

>>1235315

I'm not man enough for this.

>>1235527
This is going great so far..

>>1235535
Night time is best time.

>>1235541
Taking the short route.

>>1235530
HANDY GLOOOOOOOOOOVE

>>1235546
Kalinka is saved.

>>1235558
And one of the best quotes from our beloved Doctor Wily.

>>1235558
Fucking russians, man.

Second boss.

>>1235562

>wriggling intensifies.

Meanwhile i'm zipping through the first Wily stage with ease.

>>1235568
Magic... man.

>>1235571

You gotta love these.

>>1235576
Even when this shit happens.

>>1235580
It's MEGAMET!

>>1235584
And then there's this faggot.

>>1235534

After a GAMERU OBERA and repeated failures on stage 2, it's finally cleared.

>>1235590
Same stuff, Getting a drink in the meantime.

Palace 2 complete.

>>1235593

For a game that started happy-go-lucky this took a fucking disturbing turn.
Suddenly there's contorting faces in the background, spiders everywhere and little purple dudes vomiting blood.

I wanna go home.

Back to Death Mountain. Hopefully the experience from Palace 2 will help.

>>1235602
Always happens.

Anyhow, back with a new glass, and after the 8, Time for Wily Machine.

I'm certainly going to lose a life on him

>>1235614
Oh. I didn't.

Now time to obliterate Wily.

>>1235495
>I wonder why they install cannons when they're never used.
Decorative reasons, clearly.

>>1235619
And that concludes the fight.

Wily's Capsule is mostly hidden in the darkness, and has the tendency to spawn right above your head apparently, though an easy trap for him; with the Pharaoh's sun above, although it traps you as well since of his energy ball.
Despite that the fight is rather easy, with some nice music to add.

It's a great game.

>>1235628
My first gauntlet challenge so far, and completed in only a few hours. Quite an achievement for me in terms of skill; as it usually took me more than two weeks to get through Mega Man 9 on the Wii, and I did not even pass Stage 2 yet.

Despite that I've been practicing the NES games for quite a while, and I'm planning to buy them on the 3DS as well, I'll side with either 5/6 or replace 5/2, perhaps with Oracle of Seasons as well.

With that rounded up however, it's time to tackle the SNES tomorrow.

>>1235628
On another note; I should think before jumping in the first place.

>>1235602

Nasty stage all around, but the boss was pretty easy thanks to a magic weapon from the store.

>>1235641
Or maybe now...

...or not...

dis gunna b gud
as bass

>>1235656
>Megaman and Bass

May God have mercy on your soul.

>>1235681
Thanks,

ZSNES is being a bitch as usual, so snes9x. hopefully the translation patch gets recognized.

Finally, I found the hammer.

>>1235687
I dunno what happened to my image.

>>1235653

Stage 4 is fire, instant death and tears rolled up in one, so i'm taking a break now. When i get over the trauma, i'll get right back on it.

>>1235689
Well. here goes nothing.

>>1235716
Intro stage contains moles,

>>1235691
4chan ate it. It often swaps images when they're posted right at the same time.

>>1235719
Protoman's here...

>>1235724
...And so's King.

Found a heart container in a cave that was previously sealed off by a large boulder.

>>1235726
And that concludes the first boss.

Wonder how that name got there.

>Your game is mighty morphin power rangers the movie: Now go play it

Found a guy who taught me how to stab downwards in the air. Also in Mido, I learned that the island palace has the raft and that I should go back to Error and talk to him.

Found a place called King's Tomb. No idea what to do here though.

>>1235730

>HUUUH
>HUUH
>HUUH
>HUUH

So far it's going good though.

Thank you, o wise error. I don't know why they had me run all the way back here just to tell me this, though.

Lo and behold, there was a tunnel that I fell through. I don't know how to get up here though.

>>1235762

I think you should have/be able to get a spell to turn you in to a fairy, letting you fly up there.

>>1235754
1/8...

>>1235767
That rings a bell. I'll have to look for the fairy spell then.

What is quiet? The door?

Why can't you tell me where your daughter is? I could help her that way.

>>1235765
2/8

Now I know why I needed mercy.

Found a container of liquid in a cave. A kid in Mido told me there was magic hidden in a cave in a swamp so I'm going to assume this is some magic substance.

>>1235805
3/8

This is taking long.

I went to talk to the person who told me about the magic in a cave, but before that I accidentally talked to this lady again. Turns out that was water of life. Who puts these things in caves?

>>1235823
4/8
This is quite sadistic.

>>1235848
Probably those who died when they were exploring them.

>>1235867
It could be worse.

I did my playthrough of that game as Megaman. Ten times harder.

>>1235881
The game seems to be so.

Protoman became a punching bag that seems to have lost thought, and the level designs etc. are against Megaman.

Hence why I chose Bass for this playthrough.

5/8 done.

Up the shaft

3rd palace.

>>1235887
6/8

Bosses that can heal themselves, yay.

first game down, beat the high score on the hardest difficulty. if anyone wants to try and do better, be my guest, this game is a nightmare. the game is "Gotcha!: The Sport". it requires light gun support.

>>1235914
7/8

>>1235937
8/8.
Time to go to the longest castle in the Mega Man Franchise.

>>1235963
999 screws are easy to get.

>>1235976
Music that plays through the stages is pretty awesome.

>>1235986
Stage 1 done, time for the second and longest.

Boss of the third palace, a mounted blue iron knuckle.

I beat him, but I never got the raft item. I'm going back in.

>>1236013
>Die
>Get bounced back to the start

Oh for fucks sake.

Raft acquired.

The raft led me across the ocean.

>>1236160
Get the fireball. Farm Tektites.

A lady was thirsty so I went to a nearby fountain and got some for her. I'm not sure how Link really carried it over though. Maybe he kept that container the water of life was in.
>>1236179
I don't really wanna grind, that's boring.

I've come across Darunia. I was told to talk to a man here.

Is this written on the wall? Spoken by an invisible man? I'm not sure.

Found a baby

Found some boots. A guy in a town said that these should let me walk on the ocean. According to someone else, there is also a heart somewhere on the water.

>>1236223
Throw baby

>>1236349
put boots on head

What if I don't want to play Kid Klown in Crazy Chase?

>>1236410
Then quit the thread/keep going even though we think you're a faggot now

>>1236357
I don't have a lake to throw the baby in.

>>1236430
If those boots walk on water, you'll find one eventually.

>>1236410
>not wanting to play a 10/10 game like that

>>1236223
Jesus Christ, look how fucking happy Link is!

>>1236437
>[insert lame joke regarding disgraced Lostprophets front man Ian Warkins here]

>>1236437
After some murderous serpents kidnap a child from a nearby town and you find him unharmed, I'd be happy as well.

>>1235423
I thought I was well enough to resume, turns out I wasn't. I think I am now though.

>>1236449
So would I. Raping dead babies is no fun.

I got a game over, so I decided to search for that heart on the ocean. I ended up finding it near another palace on the water. That's where I'll be heading after I beat the one I was at earlier. Also, walking on the water is a lot of fun. It feels free.

Fourth boss. IIRC, his name is Carrock. Anyway, all you do is use the magic from a nearby town to reflect his magic back at him. Wizrobes are pretty boring in this game, now that I think about it. Blue wizrobes in the first Zelda were annoying as all hell and some of the strongest enemies in the game, but in Zelda 2 all you do is use magic and they die in one hit (excluding this boss, of course. He takes 5-6).

I found... a small Link? This screen comes up when I walk on a specific tile. Weird.

>>1236528

>>1236528
That's a 1-Up doll. They give you an extra life. This does not stack however, so it's best to save link doll locations and then go find them before going down the long painful road to the great palace.

Not that you need them, it just helps. Kind of weird how the game doesn't just up your max life count permanently for each doll, but hey, Z2 ain't exactly perfect, and furthermore, that might be considered as being too easy by some.

>>1236450
Finally got to playing.

That mission was a bitch. Apparently the cannon only counts down when there's a troop (friend or foe) in front of it, which meant if I wanted my troops to progress, when the cannon was about to fire I had to place a stronger troop in the line of fire and have them take the hit. By doing so I was able to get enough troops to the cannon to kill it before it fired again. I got another centaur troop, I'm going to replace my archer with him because he isn't of any use whatsoever.

And that ends Chapter 3.


At the start of Chapter 4, I meet a general of Runefaust, the kingdom attacking, and he tells me that the Darkness has swayed their king to do the Darkness' bidding. The general disagrees with the Darkness but fights for loyalty to his king, and tells me that if I slay him in battle he wishes for me to free Runefaust from the forces of Darkness.

That sounds like a reasonable wish.

>>1236552
Oh shit, this battle is the opposite of the last battle. Rather than having to continually take cover, there's no cover whatsoever. It's just my army, the enemy's army, and a wide prairie between us.

Fifth boss. And what do you know, I forgot to get the damn item again. I hate having to go back inside.

>>1236613
That was an ordeal. I kept my troops in files, with healers in the back and mages in the middle, yet somehow they still killed my mages before their first squadron was taken out.

After the first wave of their troops, the next ones were easier, and by the end we took out the general's support before he could attack.

The general himself went down hard, though. He had the highest HP of any enemy I've faced in this game, and he passively healed 15-20 HP every turn. Even with six troops attacking him (one for each cardinal direction, plus two of my centaurs can attack diagnolly), it took five or six turns to kill him. He wished us luck in defeating the Darkness before his demise, and I'm back in town, which I forgot to mention is entirely on wheels and rolled away before returning.

Ah, so this is probably where the item is. Fucking false walls.

After some bullshit, I found this flute.

Fifth palace complete.

Using the spell called "spell" that I got in this hidden village, this monument was uncovered.

Current Game: Star Soldier.

I have never heard of it before despite growing up on NES.
>*click click*
Hey, look... it's a SHMUP! I like SHMUPS. Let's see how NES handles some ships blowing stuff up.

On a side note, due to the rapid nature of this genre I probably won't be able to do screencaps without dying. In light of this, I'll post pics related to my mood at the time of posting when I can't do screenshots.

> current mood- chill.

>>1235692

After some rest i finally beat this fucker.
Wonder how many stages are left?

>>1236813
I remember playing this when I was 4. Never found that hidden village as a kid. Wouldn't have been able to beat the game even if I did, but I would have to loved to have finished all the regular palaces

>>1236868

No NES game is complete without a screen full of birds.

>>1236875
Yeah it's kinda bullshit. You have to find it by using the hammer in a secluded forest to start clearing the trees from the ground. Under one of the tiles is the village. The only other time you use the hammer is to destroy boulders so unless I missed some villager dialogue telling me about it, I wouldn't have known what to do if not for hitting the button accidentally.
Anyway, I'll continue playing tomorrow. I think I have a good idea of where the next palace is.

>>1236697
I gained a couple party members, including a cute little creature who can not only fly over terrain but can also use spells, meaning they can attack enemies in places where they can't get hit at all.

I had a fun little castle siege, and found my way to a harbor town. I think I might finally get my boat, and if Bimmy just sits there and let a villain burn it to the ground again I'm going to throw a bitchfit.

>>1237067
We ended up running into another commander, who conveniently had a ship. It wasn't a hard battle, we killed his troops and at the end fought him, and just like the last commander he was a hell of a fight. At the end he asked us to spare his life.

I said no, but it was a But Thou Must scenario and I had to spare him. Luckily Darksol killed him for me, and now I'm sailing the high seas on a boat ready to go somewhere else. I'm currently being ransacked by monsters, and haven't gotten a chance to revive slain party members, so this is gonna be interesting. I'm wondering, where would I go if I failed? I've only failed a couple times, but when I do I get sent back to the church, but I wasn't given an option this time.

>>1237121
And then my fucking emulator froze, and I couldn't get a save state out of it, making the past three fucking hours worthless.

>>1236843
So how does the NES handle ships blowing stuff up? Not GOOD.

The backgrounds flash on and off screen. Scrolling? What scrolling? Your hitbox is bigger than your ship and it lags a bit when bullets hit you. The enemies all have smaller hitboxes than you. The controls glitch sending you to the middle of the screen if you press DOWN and left or DOWN and right.

You can barely see anything. You randomly disappear behind the background. The background is destroyable in places, so sometimes it destroys the background and not the enemies. Also, the bullets blend into the background at times.

Making it worse: Your gun OVERHEATS. In a SCHMUP. You'll spend half your time dodging while it cools down (amid flashing background that you vanish behind at that).

This. Game. Sucks.

That said, I'm on level 6 now.

Mornin'

Let's see if I can dethrone King.

>>1237249
>You randomly disappear behind the background
>The background is destroyable in places
takes some getting used too but stops bothering you after a while. also this isn't the first game where the scenario gets in your way (sonic wings). getting under the scenario is GOOD most of the time as you are invincible during it.

>Your gun OVERHEATS. In a SCHMUP
hm what? what version are you playing? i have played star soldier since i was like 6 and i don't remember that.

>>1237418
Protoman's an idiot in this game as it appears.

>>1237439
As always.

>>1237442
>shocked

>>1237447
My reaction exactly.

Anyhow, with King down, and the thought someone made THAT joke already; Time to advance to Wily.

>>1237454
Instead of teleporting hatches you get the Mega Man (X)1 approach, with a fixed order of bosses and several obstacles. Including those damn Yoku blocks.

>>1237461
And here we are.

>>1237492
Wily Machine 8 seems to appear here, and the same goes for his capsule which is pretty much more annoying than MM7's.
Most notably the sound he makes when appearing/disappearing.

>>1237497
And that was MM&B.

The translation seems to involve a little more heavy language; but that's a bit clear. Though it makes them look out of character sometimes.

Despite that the game was quite a challenge; and it's an average one so to say.

>>1237502
On to the next chapter of the Gauntlet.

>>1237507
I'll join you I think, though I'm not so good at games.

I will start at NES.

>>1237512
Here I go

>>1237507
>Your game is "Mega Man 5 "! Now go play it

If someone's interested, I will reroll anyway.

>>1237515
yeahhh, fuck that. re-rolling because.

Roll result

>>1237521
Join me, friend!

Where on earth am I supposed to go?

>>1237521
A sandwich later I'll just say "fuck it" and continue on.

>>1237535

Re-rolled AGAIN and got something worth doing

>>1237542
Why is Megaman half naked.

>>1237557
Actually liking this.

>>1237559
Anyway, I know part of the story already, so let's continue.

>>1237560
Beginning to feel this has no stages.

When I die I'll move onto SNES because, well, I'm having shit lucky with NES

>>1224704
did you stick with it anon? that is a great game, albeit brutally difficult. it is honestly the hardest rpg i've ever played but one of the most fun too.

>>1237564
Play style's similar to the usual NES series despite having no colors except a sepia-tone.

If dubs I'll switch games.

Oh Dear

>>1237596
completely new to this one.

>>1237607
Well, you're in for some fun. You've got a week, keep at it.

>>1237613
This is pretty cool, this opening.

I might struggle to do this in a week, what with life and all, but I'll do my best.

Last night's progress. It went faster than expected since the grumpy guy at #13 decided to defect (didn't think he would since nobody else wants to).

Should be able to finish the rest of this tonight and Monday morning.

Post number decides what I do with #8. Odd: Invade. Even: ask all of them to defect and then invade.

>>1236223
I feel like he's going to throw it to the ground for a touchdown.

>>1237152
It's a shame you aren't having a good time with this/losing shit loads of progress.

>>1237596
Sounds cheery. Does look good.

>>1237616
I believe my best friend played this once.

>>1237585
One down... Unknown to go.

>>1237621
killed the second one of the evil guys.

>>1237621
Right, all of a sudden the emulator bashed me back to the first stage, probably happened when I pressed DEL to clean up dropbox for the screenshots.

I'll go and re-roll to get another game anyhow; Three megaman games in a row becomes a bit stale.