/vr/ - Retro Games

>best dragonball role playing game?
Dragon Quest
I kid. The only Dragonball game I ever played for a decent amount of time was Ultimate Battle 22.

OP here with an exploit for Super Saiya Densetsu that allows for Goku to become extremely overpowered at the start of the game.

You can do this on emulator as well as cartridge as it doesn't rely on savestates.

When fighting Raditz in stage 1, have Goku grapple with Raditz and avoid attacking with Piccolo. Instead push X when selecting characters to attack and it will cut to Goku and Raditz grappling, causing only Goku (not Raditz) to take damage. Repeat until Goku dies (and start over) OR reaches 5hp or below, in which case you can use a Kame card to refill his health and gain him a level up. This can be done many many times during the battle with Raditz, to the point where Goku has a power level surpassing Vegeta.

Here's my super Goku about to 1 shot Vegeta.

>fond memories?
pic related
IMO, really captures the feel of the battles in DBZ in video game form.

I just picked up Dragon Ball Z: Kyōshū! Saiyan for nes and it's really fun. It's grindy, but it's a satisfying grindy.

Hyper Dimension is the best DBZ game

Gogetto is the GOAT

>>1468028

My nutella flavoured mangindo warrior.

I'm still trying to find a repro for that, because I've been emulating it all my life and I absolutely love the game to fucking death.

I remember playing this game Goku Hishouden a lot on the Game Boy. The things I did as a kid. And no, I couldn't read the moonrunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqrdpLn2ZEI&list=PL565593B1A1A0325C

I had this game as a kid.

It took a while, but I figured out how to play and beat the game after a lot of frustration. It is also the very thing that sparked my DBZ autism.

I still remember the kanji for Punch, Kick, Energy blast, Kamehameha and that useless charge attack

>>1468028

>Gogetto
>GOku - VeGEta - KakaroTTO

>>1467954
>1-shot Vegeta

At BP 20872? You're not even Kaioken! Isn't he at BP 22000 in this fight?

Or do you have a Chichi and Enmadiaou card combo up your sleeve.

>>1467939
That SNES card battler rpg, and Hyper Dimension.

The Megadrive fighting game has to be the one with the most fond memories for me, since it introduced me to Genecyst and emulation in general.

>>1468583
>That SNES card battler rpg
i think it was for the famicom

>>1468560
>>1-shot Vegeta
I thought his BP here was 18000, I could be wrong though. If you use the power-up cards and Kaioken Kamehameha his ass he goes down. Depends what his defense card is however.

>>1468640
>Depends what his defense card is

Use a Piccolo for maximum devastation. Now that I think about it, 18000 sounds right. A level-Z kaioken'd put you at, what, 54000 or so? I just wasn't seeing any ki technique cards in your hand, and BP 20000 isn't Broly enough to beat him to death with just one non-ki card.

>dat animation at the end game when you blast Kamehamehas so huge the PC has to dodge from a head-on perspective

>>1468541
I imagine it was different in some countries? I know the French never bothered to use Kakarotto so Vegitto ended up being called Vegeta + Goku = Vegeku.

>>1468640
>i think it was for the famicom

There was one on the SNES. It covered DBZ from Raditz to Freeza. You could alter stuff around pretty neatly - have Tenshin, Yamcha, etc. all alive on Namek (I think Piccolo was the only one forced to die), have Ginyu swap bodies with someone and then keep Ginyus body - and then swap bodies with Freeza for lulz. Also you could kill Freeza without going SS, Goku will only transform if someone from your crew dies to him. Also, if you had Goku go SS and Vegita surviving, you got a secret final fight against SS Vegita.

SS Gohan can also be unlocked with a cheat device.

>>1467980
Close. The Saturn version moved and played much better than the PS one.

>best dragonball role playing game?
I'll admit, I never played any DB RPG in its enterity, I only played DBZ III which I own as a pirate cart for a Famiclone, I liked it but since it was in japanese, I couldn't advance much, anyway the card system seemed fun, I should play some translated version some time.
>best dragonball fighting game?
Super Butoden 2, no contest.
>fond memories?
All Dragon Ball vidya bring back good memories from my childhood, Super Butoden 2, DBZ Legends, Final Bout (although I always thought it sucks, the intro movie is still awesome), Ultimate Battle 22 (It also sucks, but at the time it had the biggest roster of any DB game), Buu yuu retsuden, and the aforementioned DBZ III. I also vaguely remember emulatin some other DB vidya back in the year 2000, one of the SNES RPGs (Leyend of Saiyans, probably), it seemed really good, and I also emulated the first GBA game, but didn't got past the beginning, never was too fond of playing emulators.
Overall, the one with the best memories for me is Super Butoden 2, I used to rent it all the time when I was a kid in a nearby video store. I remember not knowing who the fuck were all these characters (only Dragon Ball was airing on TV at the time here, I knew about DBZ, but I wasn't familiar with the characters, the fact you can't use Goku in the game unless you enter a cheatcode also made it more confusing for me, and of course it was in Japanese), but that mysterious feel was also awesome, I remember getting a chill down my spine during the Cell cutscene with that music... basically, that game was the first time I experienced the Cell Game, and it was awesome.
>exploits or hacks?
I always turn the turbo cheat on Super Butoden 2, it just makes the game much better.

>>1468882
Butoden 2 has a translation? Interesting to know, thanks.

>>1468932

It seems so, never played it myself though.

I know the game was officially released in france back in the day.
There were also plans to release it in America, under the name "Dragon Ball" (yup, plain and simple), and it was in english, but it was cancelled due to the poor repercution Dragon Ball had in the states back then (the very first DB episodes that got broadcasted, and had the wrong names, Goku was called Zero, and Yamcha Redacki, I believe it was done by Harmony Gold).

I have some scans from a magazine showing screenshots of said version, will post later

>>1468882
>Super Butoden 2, no contest.
Mah nigga. I played it on a bootleg SNES cartridge. Good times.

>>1468702
The Viz translation of the Manga calls him Vegerot.

I mean what the fuck is that

>>1468717
I've heard of that. Which game is that one?

so i hear theres a turbo mode in Butoden 2? I keep hearing it makes the game way better. is there any footage for that mode on youtube or anything?

>>1468991
>Saibaimen -> Cultivars
>Mr. Satan -> Hercule
>Vegetto -> Vegerot
>Piccolo's speech pattern

Fucking Viz

>>1469376
>Big Green will never come to your house and defile your anus

Dragon Ball Z legends was my shit.

>>1469376
As much as I don't like it, "Vegerot" is at least somewhat understandable. You never really stop to think about it but in an English version of Dragon Ball where Goku's Saiyan name is translated as Kakarot it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to keep Vegetto when you've taken the "to" out of "Kakarotto"

>>1468932
It's fanmade.
There's also an official French release, but from what I've heard the translation is Zero Wing levels of bad. That is, if you can speak French.

>>1469232
this one
>>1467954

>>1469291

Dunno about youtube footage, but it does make the game better because it's faster. Niggas be blazing through the screen and all that.

Here I'll dump some scans from a magazine about the unreleased English version of Super Butoden 2. Sorry the article itself is in spanish.

>>1469578

Yeah, Broly was going to be called "Tara" for some reason

>>1469581
> Mr Satan is called Sarah

>>1469581

And it was going to be called simply "Dragon Ball".

>>1469586

Last page was just a page explaining the characters, because at the time only Dragon Ball was being broadcasted on latin america (although I have been already reading DBZ stuff from manga published in Europe that got imported here)

>>1469591
> Those spoilers

God, i'm glad i didn't read that magazine back then...

>>1469606

>he haven't read the full DB manga by 1996

>>1469606
not that the magazine (Club Nintendo, those scans are from March 1996) is any better right now

>>1469487
>you will never be the prince of Space Warriors

>>1468882
>Super Butoden 2, no contest
Unbalanced charcters (Cell was a steaming pie of shit, lacking of many of other charcters´standard moves, while Piccolo Gokuh and Brolly were OP as fuck), annoying OST and generic backgrounds. Frankly I enjoyed Hyper Dimension more

>>1468023
Is that the one that came with the Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans OVA? If so, is it any good?

>>1469586
>Megrim
>Poomaru
>Tara

where the hell did those translations come from? I recall Broly being called Tara in the French version, but that's it...

>>1467939
>implying it isn't Bid for Power.

>>1470298

It's alright, I mean you are entitled to your opinion but... annoying soundtrack? really? it's in fact one of my favorite soundtracks in any game, even more the arranged versions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3aGWhuzI8M

Anyway, Hyper Dimension is fine, really good spritework, but as somebody else said, it's just a Street Fighter clone, whereas Super Butoden does its own thing with the split-screen and fast-paced gameplay.

I agree the backgrounds are generic - but Dragon Ball has always had generic green hills backgrounds during fights, it has to represent the Cell Game after all. And anyway it has some iconic locations during the story mode part where you can visit Bulma in the city, Goku's house, etc.

Anyway, I admit nostalgia may be a big factor, but I honestly haven't enjoyed any other 2D DBZ fighting game more than Butoden 2. I tried Super Butoden 1 and 3 and they are nice, but not as good as 2, Ultimate Battle 22 is shit, Legends can't be considered a proper fighting game, it's more like its own thing, and Bu yuu retsuden is good but still not as good as the butoden games. Hyper Butoden as I said is good, but boring because it's just a normal fighting game, where are the amazing air and fast paced battles DBZ is known for? And I haven't tried Shin Butoden for Saturn, I heard the gameplay is actually pretty good, plays just like a Butoden, but has these ugly sprites from Ultimate Battle which is a shame.

bumping thread

>>1469535

It certainly makes more sense than "Vegito"

>>1470298
>complaining that Goku and Broly, the secret characters you need a cheat code to play as, are overpowered

YOU DON'T SAY.

Plus Piccolo is too slow to be OP.

>>1470310
Dragon Ball Z Gaiden: Saiyajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku is the one you're thinking of. Same style of game but the one in the pic aboce is the first of those rpg card games.

I want to try it out but was dead set on beating them in order. After I finish with Kyoshu Saiyan i'll pick up Dragon Ball Z II: Gekishin Freeza and so on.

>>1472918
I'm still not sure how that even came about. Like, even on the action figures that came out in the US around 1998 or 1999 it was spelled like that.

>>1469586

Late reply, but that makes sense considering that is what the manga is called from start to finish - Dragon Ball. Z or anything else is anime only.

>>1473052

Nah, it was because they probably thought they'd confuse american kids if they released it with the title "Dragon Ball Z", back then they were trying to promote Dragon Ball in the US, as I said there was an awful localization handled by Harmony Gold (which changed Goku's name to Zero, among other things), and Ban Dai even released some toys of Goku, Krilin and Yamcha (they actually got the names right for the toys though, probably due to Ban Dai), check the font of the title "Dragon Ball" in pic related, it's the same used in that screenshot in the magazine. But in the end DB didn't take off in the US and I guess Ban Dai cancelled the release of the game.

>>1473415
There were two "failed" English dubs of Dragon Ball. The one you mentioned, the 1989 Harmony Gold one (And really isn't all that bad barring the name changes. The voice acting is very good and the scripts, while not accurate, are no worse than what FUNimation was going to do later, lame jokes and all.). Then the second dub was in 1995 by FUNimation and that's where that line of action figures came from (That logo in particular was FUNi's during that era -- interesting that the same logo is used in that supposed English version of Butoden 2). Neither dub got very far. Harmony Gold did a few episodes and dubbed movies 1 and 3 and FUNi dubbed the first 13 episodes and movie 1 before scrapping it for DBZ in 1996, then ultimately went back to it with their in-house cast in 1999 with movie 2 and 3 then finally redoing the whole series from scratch in 2001.

does anyone know the game that was (i think) for gameboy where you play as goku running on snake way dodging obstacles and jumping gaps etc? it may have had other mini games within it but the snake way section is the only thing that sticks out in my mind.

Budokai Tenkaichi 2 is #1

>>1476019
Yes, I assume you're talking about
>>1468449
>>1468475

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNG46de4Fo

>>1473415
Do you have a picture of the Goku figure on card? I have a kid Goku that came on that card that I got from a K*B Clearance bin as a child. but everyone tells me it's a Goten figure from Irwin's DBZ line.

Which is not possible, because It's Goku. I bought it as Goku, it came with a staff and it was on THAT card.

>>1476289
woah thanks man, that just struck some serious feels deep within. totally downloaded this from one of those old gif infested midi playing angelfire websites

>>1476321
Yeah, but Goku never wore that outfit, only Goten did. If you're certain that it said Goku on the package, then the goofballs in 90s US anime merchandising probably fucked that up, which honestly isn't surprising.

>>1476321
You know, if I didn't have that exact Goten figure you're talking about, I'd swear you were wrong and it has to be. Goku as a child never had a blue shirt like Goten does, but the Irwin Goten figure looked a little nicer than that figure and let you remove the dogi...and the arms for some reason.

>>1476321
Looks like I found the Goku figure from that line (With nyoibo and all), but it looks nothing like that figure.