/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1520361
You accidentally something there, OP. Loved it, played all the PS1 games, but never beat 3, because fucking paradox cheaters. The music was really good though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H59_wzbG_qg

you forgot a verb there, bud
I LOVED spyro 3 as a kid it was do comfy and magical, my mum loved watching the game too
I played spyro 2 later and was a little disappointed becaise I thought it was a sequel and while it was great it just felt like a less impressive spyro YOTD

I tried spyro 1 recently and it felt pretty dated since there were two sequels that improved upon it, perhaps it would have been best I played them in order. I wanna finish spyro 1 soneday just so I can say I finished the trilogy

>>1520361
The original trilogy were some of my favorite games growing up and I still love them.

>>1520413
The first Spyro is a bit simple in comparison, but the cozy factor to it, and the general care that went into it (though that could be said of all three games I think) keeps it a good experience, if you ask me. And it's not like it takes that long to play through either.

Posting some video links for those that haven't seen them.

Interview with Stewart Copeland on making the music for Spyro.
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kc2gGycBXc
Making of Spyro the Dragon
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVFMpBDIuzc
Making of Spyro 2
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3pCo4hhtp4

Makes me wonder if there a making of video for Spyro 3 floating around somewhere, but if so, I haven't found it on Youtube.

first two are great, three is a convoluted mess

>>1520915
I wish the mods would ban you for shitposting so hard around here.

>>1520891
I love dream weavers. Wish it had more fools puzzles thoug.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6JivxOTaQE

>>1520937
lol how is that even a shitpost?
opinions you dont agree with = shitposting?

>>1520406
I could never run that Paradox hack because the damn emulator would keep crashing; both epsxe and PCSX Reloaded

I that purple dragon all the time, OP.

>>1520937
Think my favorite section in the first game was Dream Weavers. Looking back, I don't feel there was much wrong with Beast Makers, but as a kid finally leaving that dreary swamp and once again seeing the vibrance and color in Dream Weavers was a breath of fresh air.

Lofty Castle was probably my favorite level.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqxLW9138g

>>1520941
Nope, you're shitposting on other threads too.

>>1520943
I believed there's a fixed rom now, but I didn't play spyro three yet. Recently finished.

>>1520951
Dream weavers is the best for its craziness. I liked magic crafters a lot too, but was scared to death of those giant dino like badies.

>>1520968
The big yellow guys? Yeah, They kind of scared me a bit too. I rather expect them to take multiple hits to die the first time through, the way the dogs in Toasty do. Once I found out they didn't they were pretty much a pushover, albeit a loud one as I recall.

The enemies that scared me the most were those fucking buck toothed trees in Misty Bog. On and maybe those cave scorpions/spiders or whatever they were in High Caves.

>>1520968
Just wish I knew where it is. I had managed to get all the way to that midnight map (can't remember the exact name), but that anti-hack stuff was just getting on my nerves.

>>1520406
That cracktro is really awesome.
I never knew all the glitches in the game were casued by this crack, back then I thought that my copy was damaged little did I knew when I reached the final boss...

>>1520981
I've downloaded it from here. You can always keep one save on another virtual memory card, remove it, and then go to the boss. If it doesn't work, just repeat the process and try another iso with the spare save.

http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/playstation/psx-isos/spyro-3-pal-platinum-original/

>>1520975
I feared these and the dogs, too, but only because I wasn't gud enuff to beat'em at once.

>>1521000
I remember Zooey telling me it was a cracked copy, but I thought "this bitch ain't got nothing on me!". Too bad, the little fucker deleted my save. I don't remember too many glitches, though, only falling in an infinite hole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrBBzQjZI4w

>>1521019
To be fair to the third game being a bit buggy, as far as I know it was rushed a bit due to Sony liking the series enough to try to get it as a yearly release, at last for a few years, and the fact that if they didn't release it by during 2000, part of the meaning for the name of the game (Year of the Dragon) would have been somewhat lost. Still surprisingly solid, all things considered.

>I feared these and the dogs, too, but only because I wasn't gud enuff to beat'em at once.
Yeah, once you get used to them they're not too difficult. Something about the way the trees moved and attacked though was fucking creepy. Hell, they've even got a unique death animation for Spyro if Sparx is gone already as far as I recall.
>The fucking hollow tree in Misty Bog filled with about ten enemies in very close quarters.

>>1521043
>9 of them are frogs that have ranged attack milimetrically matched to spyro's breath
This made me sweat even as a grown up.

>>1521137
Yeah, you REALLY have to take that damn tree slowly and carefully. While I enjoy a challenge, I have to question the logic of putting that many enemies that close together. Especially since, as far as I remember, you can't exactly return the same way you came, and in order to get back to the main part of the level, have to clear the tree and climb a bit until you have room to glide back down to another platform. Also don't recall there being any fodder in that part incase you get your ass kicked around by the frogs and gnorcs.

>>1520891
>the cozy factor to it

The total lack of anybody friendly to talk with (except a handful of dragons who just go "thank you for releasing me" before disappearing into thin air), the enemies infesting hub worlds as much as levels proper, and the general quest of "All your friends and family and homies are trapped in crystal in their own homes, go save them" made the whole thing a lot more tense and lonely to me. Spyro 2 and 3 were much more cozy in comparison.

>>1521164
>All your friends and family and homies are trapped in crystal
I imagined Spyro rescuing Tupac from the prison cristal

>>1521164
I think I found it a bit more cozy due to the simple objective (dragons, gems, eggs), the soundtrack (not that 2 or 3 anything wrong with their's), and that "first attempt" charm within the series while still being really well made just makes it really cozy for me. Don't get me wrong though, I love all three games, and really appreciate the improvements made in the second game and carried over to the third. Honestly can't even pick a true favorite out of them.

TROUBLE WITH THE TROLLEY, EH?

>>1521219
Honestly, I don't recall having that much trouble with him once you learnt he course. Hell, last time I played it had been years since my previous run through and I got all 50 cogs on the first attempt at that part.

The alchemist mission though is still a massive pain in the ass.

I think the later Spyro games are better.

>>1521219
>>1521224

Funny you guys are saying that. Me and my bro are just like that: he has no trouble with the trolley, but other stuff bleh. Meanwhile I'm the one who can get the alchemist quest in one try. Never found it hard.

>>1520951

I have to agree with ya. It was just a physical manifestation of fun. My favorite level there was Dark Passage.

>dat music
>dem hell dogs

My cousin had Spyro 1, and whenever I went to his house we'd play it all the time. We never got past the first world, but I remember playing the first flying stage over and over and laughing because we sucked at it.

I begged my mom to get it for me, and for 3 years straight I got a new Spyro every Christmas. 1, 2, then 3. I played them religiously. I would not rest until I 100%'d every one of those fuckers.

>>1521278

My favorite level as a kid was that world in Dream Weavers where there are a bunch of wizards, and you could go down those supercharged arrows and knock them all down like bowling pins.

>>1521306
You sure you're not thinking of Wizard Peak in Magic Crafters?

I wasn't allowed to play Spyro growing up because my mom thought dragons were satanic. I'm dead serious.

However, I figured out how to play the demo's on the Crash Bandicoot games...

Now, I own all three of them and they are really fucking good games.

>>1520406
The music HAD to be made by the same guys who did the Amanda Show, Good Burger, and other Nickolodeon stuff.

>>1521943
My parents may not have allowed me to buy or play that many games, but not even they were that awful. Spyro 1-3 was a mainstay of what little I grew up with vidya wise.

Bit off topic, but did she disallow you from playing Pokemon as well? I know some places like churches preached that Pokemon was evil and stood for Pocket Demons and were turning kids towards satanism, and some parents believed every bit of it.

The first time I saw Spyro was when one of my dad's friends tried out a demo of the first game at his house. He had a demo disc and was looking through it while he talked with my dad and I just watched.

Later on I got a PS1 demo disc from Pizza Hut and it had a Spyro 2 demo that I really enjoyed. I was looking to ask for Spyro 2 for christmas until one of my cousins let me have the first game. It was a ruined copy.
Thing was so scratched up that no background music played in most of the levels and the game almost always froze whenever you freed a dragon or went into a level. Pretty much every time it had to load.
Can you imagine playing the first game without music?

I eventually ended up getting a new copy of the first game along with Spyro 2. Then Spyro 3 came out, I was sure as hell excited for that. I tried out a demo and later got the game. Didn't like it as much as 2 but I still enjoyed it a lot.

Enter the Dragonfly came out and I wanted a PS2 just to play that and Wrath of Cortex. I had no idea that Insomniac didn't develop EtD but I never ended up playing it anyway so I don't really know how that ended up.
But yeah I loved the Spyro games. Playing as a purple dragon who could torch sheep and chickens and turn them into butterflies for his dragonfly sidekick to eat was fucking awesome.
Being able to play the games on a PSP years later was like a childhood dream come true. I would have loved being able to take the games around with me back then.

>>1522025
Actually, as far as I know, the Amanda Show actually ripped the Wizard Peak theme from Spyro and remixed it, and it took Copeland giving them (post use) permission to use it to settle things and calm fans of Spyro down. But yeah, Copeland also did the music for the show as well, but had not given them permission to take music from Spyro initially.

>>1521943
>However, I figured out how to play the demo's on the Crash Bandicoot games
I bet that felt amazing

>>1522037
Enter the Dragonfly is pretty damn bad as far as the post Insomniac games in the series, with at least some versions plagued with horrific amounts of loading due to the game being rushed for a Christmas release.

>>1522030
>Pocket Demons
I guess they didn't rag on Revelations: The Demon Slayer, because the title sounded biblical as hell.

>>1522043
used to drive me nuts as a kid.
nobody believed me and I never had the time to compare them back to back.

Those Giant yellow things in that one dreamweavers level of the first game used to scare the shit out of me.

>>1521224
>can literally see where he has to get to. its a straight line
>takes the most obtuse fucking path in the history of video games

the damn fireflies in that shiela level in YoTD were the same.

>>1521219
>>1521224

Never even remotely had trouble with the alchemist but fucking goddammit
>trouble with the trawwlley EHHHHHH

>>1520406
The memories

>What's a big, handsome, sexy dragon like yourself doing around a freezing, cold place like this?

>Why don't you get inside, and we can warm each other right up...

>>1521219
>mfw when I got passed the trolley part on my second try and all my friends were always complaining about it.

I dunno if it was just luck or I was good, but it was a good feeling.

>>1521019
Well I remember bugs like Sparx being green all the time and every time he eats a butterfly he disapears.
The air balloon would get mixed with the rocket, and also you wouldn't be able to travel to other hub worlds.Eggs would disapear randomly so you had to go back to previous leves and get them again.
It was some serious shit but it didn't stop me from enjoying the game

>>1522030
Surprisingly no, growing up I remember having an Ash Ketchum hat and collecting cards and battling my friends.

>>1522272
>>1522275
im sorry but i started bursting out laughing at this
because of how tom kenny makes the voice so low and whispery

>>1523714
Now I remembered. The music was buggy too, and the boices were chopped. I suppose it didn't matter too much to me as a kid.

I never had a PS1 as a kid until late in the game and never got to play any of the big games, is there an easy way to emulate it on anything? Preferably Wii as I like sitting comfortably while playing games.

Or if not, how easy is it to get a PS1 to play backups? I've seen the disk swap which seems damaging to the console, and as I remember everyone had a chipped playstation back in the day.

I really want to play Spyro and some other games.

I loved the first 2 i recently completed a 120% run on the first game and am starting the second game now. I guess because i played it more i think the second one is perfect in every way.

>>1525201
Well, if you haven't had much experience with the Playstation and have a lot you'd like to play, you'd probably save money in the long run using a PSP with CFW to emulate or something (and aren't particularly interested in starting a physical Playstation game collection), since Playstation games run natively on there. You might need to find a particular download of the third game though, since Insomniac did stuff to screw over pirates; I don't know much about that since I have actual copies of all three.

Pretty sure they have them on the PSN for fairly cheap prices as well, if you're more interested in playing on an actual console like the PS3 (should you have one), as I don't think the Wii can play Playstation games, even when modded (at least to my knowledge; could be wrong). Only issue with going the PSN route for digital PS1 games is that not everything's made it on there for various reasons, regardless of whether particular games are good or not.

Heck, even a physical copy of Spyro isn't that much. Last I recall the first one was about $12 out here, and all three games together are only about ~$45, which isn't too bad for three particularly good games on the system.

>>1525219
I honestly can't pick one that I love more than the others. All three meld together into a very enjoyable experience.

>>1521224
>>1521219
THIS TIME I BETTER NOT CATCH YOU SNEAKING BEHIND ME

Sheila a best.