/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1371446
>Eginbear
>Edinburgh
Heh, now I get it.

>>1371446
There's a part in Final Fantasy 1 or 2 that looks exactly like Ireland. Highly doubt it was intentional but it was still cool

oldie

The map in FF III looks like a baby. Makes sense once you know the plot.

I think I may just be grasping but I think the Phantasy Start map was inspired greatly by the US map

>>1371487

*Phantasy Star

and here's the map of Palma

>>1371492
Man I really gotta sit down and finish this game again

The Cloudside and Darkside maps are mirrors of each other.

>>1371482
I don't see it in either main world map.

I don't remember the plot at all though, something about one world floating above the other.

>>1371524

>>1371524

Are you blind? It makes perfect thematic sense. Your pleb is showing.

>>1371540
Oh my god my sides

The Ultima 2 map is an obvious copy of Earth

Sorry but someone else did it 10+ years previously

>>1371492
I'm not really seeing anything here...

>>1371553

ok

>>1371446
Terranigma

>>1371540
I see a kind of distorted version of this personally.

FFIV, the continent where Mysidia is.

Birthed from womb of Dragon's maw

>>1371468
Ueamatsu is a pretty big fan of celtic music, so who knows, might be legit.

>>1371468
Not seeing it on the FF1 map. NE continent is supposed to be a bird though.

I don't have a map of FF2's world though.

>>1371651
It might have been 2 it was a very small part like you could fit three character models on it

>>1371446
Portoga = Portugal, right?
A little to the left and it would be perfect location-wise.

>>1371545
I don't see it.

>>1371725
you need to truly believe

An undamaged Drogen from Breath of Fire. I warped back in there using the Dr. Warp item and mapped the place. The fire glow is also gone.

>>1371446
So what is Aliahan supposed to be, anyway? Is it supposed to be Atlantis, or some mythical south-Pacific Atlantis-analogue that I've never heard of?

Found this on 2chan a while back. No idea what it's for, but look how they mixed the poison swamp tiles with mountain and forest and water tiles. Neat stuff.

>>1371783
>some mythical south-Pacific Atlantis-analogue that I've never heard of?
That would be the "Lost Continent of Mu."

>>1371810
Looks vaguely like Astraya.

>>1371810
Too many colors for an NES game, probably somebody's pixel art

>>1371725
If you could read Runic it would make more sense.

I remember first seeing the map of e3m2. They also reference it in the novel which is pretty cool.

>>1371586
This thing could almost be Heaven And Earth Trio general, what with how the areas are even named after real world locations.

Also, most of the Pokemon games model the region completely around an area where a Pokemon Center is located IRL.

>>1371510
i dont see it

>>1371446
>yggdrasil in russia
>dharma not in india
>no desert in middle east
>pyramid in eastern sahara

doubtful

>demon lord's castle in africa

that's racist!

>>1371446
>yggdrasil in russia
>dharma not in india
>no desert in middle east
>pyramid in western sahara

doubtful

>demon lord's castle in africa

that's racist!

>>1371947
I'm guessing it's supposed to be in the conceptual sense, volcanoes becoming ice etc.

>>1371846
>>1371810
It's a Dragon Quest 3 hack. Compare to OP's map.

>>1371947
>lava becomes ice
>lake in middle becomes desert in middle
>forest... stays forest
>ice forest becomes normal forest
>desert catches on fire

I think it's a bit of a stretch.

Terranigma, obviously the Earth.

I know it's been pointed out already, but I'm showing the pic

>>1372921
I'm retarded and i forgot to attach pic.

The Oracle series of Zelda has some interesting tidbit about their maps:

There's an area in both of them that will be different depending on your animal friend.
If your friend is a flying bear, that area will be filled with large holes.
If your friend is a kangaroo, it will have a lot of cliffs.
If you friend is a dodongo, it will be a lake.

Alse there's Subrosia in Seasons. It's the typical underground lava land, but if you pay attention to some details, it seems that the area is actually upside down, with reversed gravity or something. For example, there's a half buried pirate ship in the overworld, but you can see the other half coming out of the floor in Subrosia...

>>1371651
Northwest continent kinda looks like a seahorse!!

The snowfield in Little Ninja Brothers is part of the main map, but with a palette swap. Going there normally, through the cave, will flip a switch that changes the palette of the ENTIRE world map to winter upon leaving the cave. Going back the normal way will flip it back to the summer palette.

I realized this when i was mapping the game with a walk through walls code. I ended up on a green snowfield, which looks fucking weird since the ice tiles were effected too. Out of curiosity, i changed it to winter by going through the cave and used my codes to leave the snowfield, and then all of Chinaland was frozen over.

Because of this, i had to make an arbitrary decision on where the border between Chinaland and the snowfield would be.

>>1372402
It can't be a hack, look at how many colors the poisonous tree/mountain tiles use. Probably a mockup.

>>1372924
Of course Terranigma is based on the Earth, that's not even notable

prepare your mindfuck

>>1371540
autism has spoken

>>1372924
>freedom

The most unusual configuration of blocks in any Mario level.

But to what end? Maybe there's some hidden message...

People probably know about this one already, but I always thought it was pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bf_eumWpMM

>>1373124
y-you too

Map 94 of the NES version of Gauntlet.

It's a bit of a stretch, but Chrono Trigger sort of has a north and south America.

Mapping an RPG back in the 80's: Graph paper and colored pencils/ink pens.

Mapping the exact same RPG today: Emulator, ROM, screenshot hotkey, and mspaint.

>>1373301
Wonder if anyone did this on graph paper? Did they show their parents? Were angry letters sent?

>>1373372
>mspaint
>Using Paint for anything.

>>1371651
> NE continent is supposed to be a bird though.

the head is on the upper-right of that continent. the town and patch of light green grass is the eye, normal grass the beak, and i guess the desert is its chest. extremely fluffy, fat chest.

>>1373385
Isn't there an in game reference to the bird shaped continent? One of the final fantasy games (1-6) made a reference to part of the map that had some kind of animal look to it.

I don't have screenshot but the normal gym in Pok?mon g/s/c looks like a clfairy, in fire red there is a forest that has a rough outline of the games pcb printed out. There was that Kerby level with a female body outline similar to the one above from a different game.

>>1373124
I don't read moon runes, what's it say?

>>1373405
Missed the Kerby one that was already posted my bad.

>>1373405
>Thank you!

>>1373401
Something about a town in the eagle's eye.

>>1373410
That's it.

This area behind the exit of Viridian Forest in Pokémon Red and Blue can't be reached or seen in normal gameplay. It bugged me for years until I looked at the full map and realized the whole exit area was just a copy paste of the entrance.

>>1373405
It says "Arigatou" in katakana.

>>1373564
Similar, in Gold and Silver there's an unreachable chunk of the Ruins of Alph in the corner of the Violet City map. The door and signs are nonfunctional and the rest of the area to the left is filled with trees.

>>1373564
>>1373593

I've always wondered why stuff exists in games that are not used at all.

Like, wasn't space a precious thing back then? You'd figure they'd trim everything they didn't need. Especially on a Gameboy game.

Or do they sometimes just not notice it's even there?

>>1373597
Maybe that's why they used the same region of tiles for the entrance and exit.

>>1373597
Not so limited that a programmer can't fill up all the space in a square map, or even have a little fun when nobody's looking...

http://tcrf.net/Ganso_Saiyuuki

>>1373121
a ri...

>>1372924

>Santiago
>in fucking Bolivia

>>1373648
Dude that's clearly Argentina.

Even the grass is whiter.

>>1373648
They also put Stockholm in Norway.

>>1371446

The full dragon warrior map is on the dragon warrior 2 map

>>1373675
>Full map

Yeah the terrain but there's fucking nothing there. Like 2 towns and dracocastle.

>>1373675
Except they shrunk it by 50 percent, which makes it look weirdly out of place surrounded by all those bigger continents.

>>1373675
Also I just noticed that's not the real DW2 map, it's a mock-up someone made that uses the full DW1 map.

This is the actual in-game map used in DW2.

>>1373597
Convenience and laziness. I know there are parts of level structures from Sonic 1 in Sonic 2.

>>1371651
NW looks like an elephant fucking a pepper while being hit in the head by a kolibri

>>1373593
>>1373597
The reason the ruins of alph is part of violet city is because they were trying to make Johto look more connected than Kanto felt.

Note that there are less gate houses, and some of them can even be bypassed entirely, like National Park's.

They did the same thing to an even greater extent in Ruby and Sapphire, in fact the only gatehouses in Ruby and Sapphire are the ones leading to and from the bike path, and the entrance to the safari zone.

>>1373124
I'm happy with myself. Just started learning Japanese about 2 weeks ago. アリガトウ means thanks. Sorry if others answered I am just happy with myself.
>>1373675
>>1373686
Still back in late 80's I remember finding that and it blew me the fuck away. I visited both castles to see what was in there. If I remember right there's really nothing but the king and the son of the Draco Lord but it's still made me happy knowing they did that.

>>1374320
That's why ruby and sapphire are my favourite, the world is almost completely connected and all the games since have reintroduced gate houses. It's lame.

Post moar cool maps

I print them all and collect them, cool maps from videogames/books/movies is the only thing i collect

The Secret of Mana world map has a Mars face on it. Two, actually. One out in the ocean, though it doesn't seem to be present in pic related, and one in the south mountains of the eastern continent, which is visible in this pic.

>>1374461

>>1373704
I miss RPGs where simply getting to the next town/dungeon was a minor accomplishment in itself

>>1374467
Dragon Quest is amazing at that. Make you feel so lost that finding the next town makes you feel happy.

>>1374462
I remember when I got this game back in 94 or whenever it was, my brother called up the nintendo hotline asking what the face was and nobody had an answer. he was convinced it was some kind of door to a secret area.

>>1373082
The Japanese don't make as much of a big deal about nudity as westerners do.

>>1373121
アリ

Huh, I have no idea what it means though.

>>1374542
see
>>1373124

>>1371651
I've heard many times that the NE continent on Final Fantasy IX is supposed to resemble that, but I've never seen it.

>>1374551
Maybe they meant the northwest one? That looks more like a pterodactyl than a bird, though.

>>1371651
Diest?

>>1374320
>The reason the ruins of alph is part of violet city is because they were trying to make Johto look more connected than Kanto felt.
But you can't see them in gameplay.

>>1374461
Huh, I never knew about the one in the mountains, what really confused me about the eastern continent was the weird circular thing in the southeast part of Northtown that's not there when you land. Is it a racetrack or a circus or something?

>>1374893
I remember being very disappointed about the scale of the map. Like, you'd start the game exploring this quite large area which is just a small fragment of the entire map, and then finally moving on to new locations, and find that the rest of the game is not to the same scale, and features a lot of land you can't even explore.

Fucking Square.