/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1826303
2/3

>>1826307
3/3

Mark III Alien Syndrome

FC Goonies

SMS Fantasy Zone
1/4

>>1826404
2/4

supa meatroid

>>1826406
3/4

>>1826408
4/4

>>1826407

Mark III Double Dragon - Posting both, story and character pages.
1/5

>>1826424
2/5

>>1826427
3/5

>>1826430
4/5

>>1826434
5/5
Where's Chin and who is this Jeff dude? Yes, I know he's based on the Lee brother wannabe enemy from the arcade version.

>>1826407
That's regular Metroid though.

Metroid II: Return of Samus
1/5

>>1826484
2/5

>>1826486
3/5

>>1826489
4/5

>>1826495
5/5
>There will never be a Metroid II remake

Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa Opa

Super Metroid for real
1/5

>>1826927
2/5

>>1826938
3/5

>>1826945
4/5

>>1826949
5/5

Dracula Densetsu
1/2

>>1827283
2/2

Dracula Densetsu II
1/4

>>1827346
2/4

>>1826307
I always thought it was weird that you can eat the gum Edi E spits out.

>>1827350
3/4

>>1827353
4/4

>>1827352
Fun fact: If you pick the gum with full health, it gives you 42,910 points. This is a reference to Akira Nishitani, who was born on September 10, 1967 (Showa Year 42).

>>1827362
Goddamn I love easter eggs.

Final Fight soundtrack poster with player and boss profiles.

>>1826312
>WE ARE MADGEAE
I think they're trying to tell us something...

>>1827368
Final Fight has quite a few. You can stand in front of the dog in the Bay Area to get points and lives (that might have only been in the SNES version though? Can't remember for sure.) There's some trick involving inputs right as you destroy drum cans and other such background objects that will force big point items like gems and gold bars to come out. Also there are apparently rare "lucky" and "unlucky" difficulty patterns. When you start a game there's a low chance that it can just just randomly be harder or easier than normal.

>>1827406
>Guy
>Not wearing sneakers

>>1827461
That wasn't a thing until Street Fighter Alpha. He just had boots originally.

Dracula X: Chi no Rondo
1/2

>>1827505
2/2

>>1827441
>You can stand in front of the dog in the Bay Area to get points and lives (that might have only been in the SNES version though? Can't remember for sure.)
Yeah, it only works in Final Fight Guy to be precise. And what he actually does is refill your health.

I always wondered why the arcade version of Final Fight had two difficulty options to change. Does it have something to do with the "lucky" and "unlucky" patterns that the programmers put into the game?

Dracula XX
1/4

>>1827568
2/4
Forgot to comment this on the previous image, but I find it funny how they had to specify that Richter is the only playable character.

>>1827572
3/4

>>1827581
4/4

Super Mario World enemies from Mario Mania
1/3

>>1827602
2/3

>>1827608
3/3

Robo Army
1/4

>>1828050
Fuck, forgot image.

>>1828057
2/4

>>1828058
3/4

>>1828061
4/4

Golden Axe Warrior
1/3

>>1828082
2/3

>>1828104
3/3

The bosses of River City Ransom

Star Tropics
1/3

>>1829091
2/3

>>1829094
3/3

Star Tropics II: Zoda's Revenge
1/2

>>1829393
2/2

Golvellius
1/3

>>1830097
2/3

>>1830098
3/3

Zelda: A Link to the Past from the Official Nintendo's Player Guide. Only covers bosses and certain dungeon enemies unfortunately.
1/6

>>1830551
2/6

>>1830553
3/6

>>1830559
4/6

>>1830560
5/6

>>1830565
6/6

Dracula II
1/3

>>1830701
2/3

>>1830703
3/3

Time Soldiers for SMS
1/4

>>1831549
2/4

>>1831554
3/4

>>1831559
4/4

PCE Gradius II
1/2

>>1832375
2/2

AC Vigilante

>>1827568
>>1827572
I realize the artwork for Richter, the girls and drac himself is the ugly realistic artstyle they went for this butch adaptation while using the actual rondo of blodd anime artwork for the enemies.

>>1827581
>>1827585

>>1833230
>ugly realistic artstyle
Akihiro Yamada's art is not that bad. I like his Annette.

Funnily enough, the US manual used the same art for the PC Engine and not the new art they used in Japan and Europe. I always suspected the US version was made first for this reason.

The art for the enemies is not 100% identical though. I posted the PCE enemy list in these posts (>>1827581 and >>1827585) and the only common enemies are the Bone Pillar, the Crow, the Skeleton, the Armor Knight and Salamander (which is a renamed Serpent).

>>1833257
More SNES Dracula X
2/3

>>1833260
And the enemy list, which is also 100% recycled from the PCE version
3/3

PCE Golden Axe. The names are a bit different from the MD version shown in the last thread, but just as alcohol-influenced as that version.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy
1/3

>>1834781
2/3

>>1834785
3/3

Rockman Megaworld, featuring enemies from Rockman 1-3

>>1826501
Metroid II was god tier comfy-creepy for GB.

TMNT on NES was filled with miscellaneous freaks of nature, It was like Ninja Gaiden.

>>1836913
Karate Bosses?

>>1837025
>>1837026
What game is that for?

>>1837051
Ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikiinya!

>>1836917
I love how that Shredder is traced over from the first Eastman & Laird comic

It's Kunio's Samurai Drama, Gather Everyone!!

SFC Gradius III
1/4

>>1839417
2/4

>>1839419
3/4

>>1839421
4/4

I'm hoping this wasn't posted before

>>1839482
It was posted in the last, thread, but that's okay. Here's the scans from the MD manual.

>>1839992

>>1839997
3/3

AC Cadillacs & Dinosaurs. Sorry that the scans cuts off between pages. Whoever scanned this didn't scan the whole spread correctly.

>>1839992
I have ashamed my fellow vr troppers

>>1840063
That's okay, there's some other repeats in this thread.

>>1839482
>Dwarf

>>1826501
You sure about that m8?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amL8eLfn0yo&feature=player_embedded
It has Linux support too. I'm not even sure if it's done yet either.

I wasn't able to bost the blogspot link for some reason, but it's in the video description.

>>1827441
>There's some trick involving inputs right as you destroy drum cans and other such background objects that will force big point items like gems and gold bars to come out.
I only learned that until pretty recently. Pic related.

>>1839482
>long moan

>>1840946
Protip: The bad guys in Golden Axe are named after alcoholic drinks.

>>1840946
I love this Pokemon's smug expression. Every time I see it, I keep trying to find R34 of it. To my dismay it has very little of it, let alone anything decent. That is all.

MD Altered Beast
1/6

>>1842114
2/6

>>1842118
3/6

>>1842120
4/6

>>1842124
5/6

>>1842127
6/6

Fantasy Zone Gear

>>1842120
>>1842124
>>1842127
nice artwork

SMS Space Harrier

>>1844332
2/3

>>1844336
3/3

>>1827441
>>1840897
Any documentation on this? I couldn't find anything.

>>1844358
It was covered by Gamest Magazine back in the day, which was the premiere magazine of choice for arcade gaming in Japan. Pic related, which is from an article where they discuss the trick.

Also, Akira Nishitani (the game's co-designer) discussed the trick at one point on Twitter. His handle is akiman7.

>>1844332

Space Harrier 3D
1/4

>>1844710
2/4

>>1844712
3/4

>>1844714
4/4

Argos no Jyujiken (Mark III version of Rygar/Argos no Senshi)
1/3

>>1845358
2/3

>>1845361
3/3

A strategy guide for Argos no Senshi (aka Rygar) distributed by Tecmo in Japanese arcades. I wonder how many game companies did this.

>>1846925
Here's the full spread. Unfortunately it gets cut off between pages.

>>1846930
And here's the back cover.

>>1826303
Someone translate the Japanese in Poison's writeup, quickly! I wanna see once and for all if she really is a girl.

>>1833116
wild sambo

>>1847403
She's not really a "she."
>身長175㎝/体重52㎏
>いま流行のニューハーフで、健康と美容のためにストリートファイトを行っている。長い脚、身軽さを利用した蹴りが得意。
A fashionable shemale who participates in street fights to maintain "her" beauty and health. She specializes in kicks thanks to her long legs and nimble shape.

And from the SFC manual in previous thread
>ニューハーフ
>B88・W66・H89
>ロサンゼルスの孤児院で育つ。美容のためにも闘いはやめられないと彼(?)は考える。フライドポテトが好物。
Raised in an orphanage in Los Angeles. Keeps getting into fights believing that it will retain his (?) beautiful shape. Favorite food is french fries.

>>1846925
>>1846930
Just gotta say, this is a really neat find, even if I can't read Japanese. Appreciate you posting it.

>>1847670
The monsters in Algos no Senshi have completely made-up names, so I wouldn't know how to translate most of them. Some of them are pretty obvious (like the headless "No-eyes", Leon the giant chameleon, and the Wolf Clansmen), but I don't get why King Liger's minotaur-like lieutenant is called "Sniper." Would be nice to figure the etymology of these enemy names.

Some of the enemies do appear in the NES Rygar, but that's not a straight port.

>>1847751
>Some of the enemies do appear in the NES Rygar, but that's not a straight port.
And here they are. The Rolphers are the only enemies in the NES Rygar that appeared in the arcade version. At least from the ones listed in the manual anyway.

The enemies of Shadow Dancer for the Master System. I kinda cheated on this one since the manual doesn't have the enemies listed, but rather they're showcased in the game's attract sequence, so I took screenshots of them and made a collage.

This is the only console port of the game that's (somewhat) accurate to the arcade version. I left out the palette swapped variants and not all the arcade version's enemies are included.

Story and character descriptions for the original Street Fighter (1987)

Kenseiden for the Sega Mark III. The long-tailed pot-bellied monster on the first page is not listed in the English manual. Not sure if he was removed from the actual game or they forgot to list him. Some of the names seemed to had been switched between enemies like in SMS Double Dragon.

>>1851057
2/6

>>1851059
3/6

>>1851064
4/6

>>1851069
5/6

>>1851071
6/6

FC Ganbare Goemon 2

>>1847653
Darn it all to heck.

>>1852702
Honestly I don't get why people still make a big deal about Poison's gender. It's like the only thing people bother to talk about Final Fight nowadays. Poison's loli sister from Mighty Final Fight is cuter anyway.

>>1853261
兄がふたりいるのだが、ふたりともニューハーフだったため、彼女もよく男と間違われた。
>She has two older brothers, but since they're both shemales, she gets mistaken for a man as well.
>two older brothers
Does that mean Roxy is a guy too?

>>1853857
bullshit, it doesn't say--

>futari mo newhalf

holy crap

>>1853261
okay wait, what's this say her name is

>>1847403
The current canon is that she is either a transwoman or a biological woman. It's whatever you want it to be.

I don't know what the big deal is anyway. If it makes your dick hard, get knee deep in that ass, homie. Life is too short to care. Go bury that dick in some ass and enjoy your life.

I've also been curious about Roxy. Was she ever trans or always a biological woman?

>>1853261
>>1853861
the character name is "Poison Kiss"

>>1853861
The name is not listed there, but that's Poison Kiss (ポイズン・キス), Poison's younger sister from Mighty Final Fight. Not sure why they gave her such a confusing name (since it sounds like they just gave Poison a last name), but then again this is the same series where Andore's younger brother is called Andore Jr.

>>1853872
Poison's current backstory in SF x Tekken and Ultra SF IV leaves her true gender ambiguous.
>I've also been curious about Roxy. Was she ever trans or always a biological woman?
She was a transgendered originally, but they retconned it in Capcom Classics Collection. Here's a scan from Tokuma's Final Fight strategy guide with the following text next to Poison and Roxy:
ちなみにこの二人の男です。
>BTW, they're both men.

A complete chronology of Poison's gender confusion in Japanese.
http://www.geocities.jp/redcyclone0601/konnanoarika/arika2014_7/tsubuyaki20104_7_1.html

>>1828108
Dweepie is waaaaaaaay more badass in this pic. In the game looks straight bitch

>>1854174
I'm surprised Golden Axe Warrior never got a JPN release. Not even a Game Gear port. I've always assumed that Ax Battler game was a port.

>>1853934
Thanks for the info.

Got any other interesting info to drop about Final Fight or anything related to it? It's super interesting stuff.

>>1854340
Akira "Nin Nin" Nishitani writes a lot about Final Fight and the Street Fighter games he worked (namely the II and EX series) on Twitter (his handle is nin_arika). Most of it are documented on the Red Cyclone website (a Japanese Street Fighter fansite).
http://www.geocities.jp/redcyclone0601/konnanoarika/konnanoarika.html

He talks about things like how he had to shorten Cracker Jack's name to just Jack due to a trademark infringement with the people who produce the snack.

>>1854790
Thanks.

I'm also sad every time I realize that Japan still has Geocities.

>>1854916
Japanese Geocities has a much better hosting service than the defunct American one. I've never seen a bad Geocities.jp site.

On the subject of Nishitani's tweets, here's a collection of translated ones:
http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/akira-nishitani-speaks-sf2-director-154210.0.html

It was pretty interesting to hear him confirm the "lawsuit dodge" theory for Poison's gender recently. People had been saying that for a long time, but then there were also things like the concept art that had "newhalf" written on it that still had people debating whether she was always intended to be a guy from the get go or not. Turns out she wasn't, and the whole idea didn't even come until after the game was already released in arcades.

>>1854936
The whole reasoning for Poison and Roxy being shemales to avoid a lawsuit from feminists in the US never really made sense to me, considering Final Fight was an arcade game originally, so it's not like they had the luxury of putting enemy profiles on the game's instructions like on a console game. Plus, they ended up replacing them with Billy and Sid on the SNES versions anyway.

Scanned this from an old Japanese magazine.
Enemies from Firework Thrower Kantaro’s 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō.

>>1855164
Nice! Which magazine was it? Any other cool stuff there?

>>1855217
Famicom Magazine, and yeah, but nothing that directly pertains to this thread's topic.

>>1855297
Cool! Maybe you could start a separate scan thread someday.

Getsu Fuma Den
1/4

>>1855593
2/4

>>1855595
3/4

>>1855596
4/4

>>1855593
love this game

The Quest of Ki

MSX Parodius (predates the arcade version by a few years)
1/4

>>1857146
2/4

>>1857148
3/4

>>1857153
4/4
I love how all the enemies had ridiculously elaborate names in kanji, following by simpler and more accurate name.

PCE Wonder Momo

Mark III Captain Silver
1/6

>>1859630
2/6

>>1859634
3/5 (miscounted the number of scans in the previous posts)

>>1858464
NOT RETRO but is there a way to pirate and emulate the cell phone wonder momo remake? I figured asking doesn't hurt.

>>1859640
4/5

>>1859645
5/5

PCE R-Type Part 1

>>1861886
PCE R-Type Part 2

NES Mission: Impossible. The game never had a FC version, so you have no choice but to settle with punny names.

NES Lone Ranger. Same as Mission: Impossible, as it was an NES exclusive.

NES Rollergames

NES Bucky O'Hare

NES Tiny Toons Adventures

NES Monster in My Pocket
1/4

>>1865856
2/4

>>1865859
3/4

>>1865862
4/4

NES Zen the Intergalactic Ninja

Laser Invasion

>>1867004

>>1867004

>Dat casual racism

>>1826303
I love this thread so much

>>1867009
You should check out what they called the main bad guy.

>>1867017

That's not racist, that's just lazy/insane. At least "Yabba Dabba Ali Baba" is hilarious.

>>1867029
There's even more jingoism in the Mission: Impossible manual with the stage names.

I posted the Japanese Contra manuals in the previous thread, so I'll post the US version this time. Since the original Contra doesn't have an enemy list, I'll start with Super C instead.

Note that the image of Red Falcon is an alien mook from Stage 8.

>>1867087
Operation C. More enemies are mentioned in the stage descriptions. I'll post them if anyone is interested.

>>1867092
And here's Contra III: The Alien Wars. It's interesting how the enemy names can be categorized in three ways.

Close or accurate translations
>Man-faced Mutts
>Sniper
>Tri-Transforming Wall Walker

Given to the wrong creature
>Vicious Slave Hawk (it should be Slave Beast Taka)
>Beast Kimkoh

Completely made up
>Chrome Dome (isn't this just the Wall Walker's first form?)
>Corporals of Punishment
>Para-Slug
>Psycho Cycler
>Twylobite
>Mutant Megasquito (seems a name more suitable for the giant flies than the humanoid birdmen)
>Metallican
>Robo-Corpse
There are more enemies listed in the Nintendo Power review of the game.

I would post some Probotector scans too, but the only I could find were for Super Probotector.

>>1867037
>syrinx temples of east berlin
what are they referring to? honestly.

>>1867101

iirc the german Club Nintendo Magazine just assigned the names of heavy metal bands to the bosses

>>1837252
If I recall correctly TMNT 1 was licensed from E&L directly and the arcade and later games were licensed from MWS, hence the different visual styles overall.

>>1867316
I'm sure all of them were licensed from Mirage Studios. I think Konami was just lazy and used whatever stock art they could get a hold of (hence the cover art).

>>1826418
>his

>>1867171
Here the names they used for Super Probotector. They're pretty much rough translations the ones in Contra Spirits.

>>1868059
2/3

>>1868063
3/3

TMNT 2: The Arcade Game
1/2

>>1868120
2/2

>>1867004
>Yabba Dabba Ali Baba
can't fucking breathe

Great thread, this needs to stay alive

>>1827602
Ah, the Mario Mania strategy guide. It taught me about Doki Doki Panic at an early age..

>>1831085
Swoosh looks like a pair of tits.

>>1867087
>Note that the image of Red Falcon is an alien mook from Stage 8.

I still hate it when people call Uranian Devil Gyava "Black Viper" or Emperor demon heart Gomeramosking "Red Falcon".
I'll never forgive Contra 4 for that.

>>1869553
Contra 4's producer, Tomm Hulett, was unaware about the regional differences between the previous games at the time outside the retcon in Shattered Soldier (probably explains why he thought the AC Contra was called "Gryzor" in Japan).

Also, the guy was a huge nostalgiafag for the localized names and backstories in old Konami games. Hence why the two new heroes in Contra 4 were named after Mad Dog and Scorpion, Bill and Lance's old nicknames.

TMNT III: The Manhattan Project

Dumping the bestiaries from the Nintendo Player's Guide to Link's Awakening.

>>1870504
2/10

>>1870508
3/10

>>1870510
4/10

>>1870514
5/10

>>1870518
6/10

>>1870520
7/10

>>1870523
8/10

>>1870528
9/10

>>1870532
10/10
I find it surprising how ridiculously detailed these Nintendo Player's Guide were. Was there anything else like this back in the day?

>>1870514
>The lesson here is not to hit him. Be nice to domestic animals

>>1869553
I'm more pissed that Konami shutdown the Shin Contra and Neo Contra websites from their Japanese servers. It's passed /vr/'s cutoff point, but the Neo Contra websites had a complete list of all the enemy characters in the game and as far as I know, they never published an official guide for the game.

MSX2 Akumajou Dracula (aka Vampire Killer)
1/2

>>1872848
2/4 (not 2 as previously stated)

>>1872852
3/4

>>1872856

Majou Densetsu (aka Knightmare)
1/2

>>1872870
2/2

>>1872080
Neo contra the ps2 game?

>>1872913
Yes. Some of the images have been preserved on the Internet Archive version though, but not all of them. It such a shame too, since they have score and hit rate data.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080121231053/http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/neocontra/aboutgame_cha_te.html

The Gradius V website was shut down too. If you go to the current url for either site, they'll just redirect you to generic product pages.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071204174034/http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/gra5/

>>1872852
>MAMMY MEDUSA

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. The Gates of Death are called Shimon in Japanese. The play on names got lost in the translation.

AC Legend of Kage instruction card

>>1875292
>Behold your foes!
>Red Monk! Blue Monk!
>Blue Ninja! Red Ninja!
>Red Dandy! Blue Dandy!

Such variety!

>>1875337
Well it was an early 80s arcade game. Can't waste all that graphic ROM on more than four enemy characters.

The bosses from the AC Punisher game.

SFC Gunforce
1/2

>>1876253
2/2

Windows Splatterhouse
1/4

>>1877325
2/4

>>1877327
3/4

>>1877332
4/4

The bosses and stage of the arcade Darius

Dumping the liner notes from the Dragon Saber soundtrack

>>1878632
Huey Lagoon

>>1878634
Siria Philiarne

>>1878645
Arlia the Sun Goddess

>>1878649
Frog and Sea Worm

>>1878654
Topo, Insect and Chaos

>>1878658
Insect 0 and Akira-kun

>>1878667
Cockroach and Centipede

>>1878670
Flyer II

>>1878674
E-Ptera, Dragon Zombie and Rockhead. The enemy descriptions have been translated in the following site, but the guy forgot to translate the story and protagonist bios.
http://shmuplations.com/dragonsaber/

Bumping with D.J. Boy for the Mega Drive. It's funny how D.J. Boy's real name happens to be Donald J. Boy.

If anyone has a request for a particular game or translate a previous scan, let me know, since this thread is approaching the image limit.

Mutation Nation
1/5
>Lower-class Bio
>Mutated Bio
>Plant Bio

>>1880942
2/5
>Insect Bio
>High Speed Mecha Bio
>Throwaway Mecha Bio

>>1880962
3/5
>Animal Bio
>Lower-class Bio
>Insect Bio

>>1880972
4/5
>Bio Dog
>Recycled Bio
>Insect Bio

>>1880984
5/5
>Area 1 Sub-Boss A
>Area 1 Sub-Boss B
I can't help but feel the developers weren't creative with the character names.

Dumping some Makaimura (Ghosts 'n Goblins) guide scans I found on Twitter.

>>1881503

>>1881506

>>1881510
From a different guide

>>1881514

>>1881517

>>1881506
>UDDI PIGGU

Well, my brain is officially full of fuck, now.

>>1881520

>>1881526

>>1881503
>dat raven
It's like he's saying "Aww shiet, look at dis nigga thinkin he gon get through these levels. Das sum funny shit, son."

Filling out the last few image slots with a few Neo-Geo scans. This one is from Crossed Swords.

Nam 1975

Top Hunter

Ending this thread with the Mega Drive port of Double Dragon II: The Revenge, which has a slightly different roster from the NES version in the last thread, since this is actually a (rather shitty) port of the arcade game

>>1847653
>Favorite food is french fries.

How does Poison maintain such a fine shape eating that greasy crap?

>>1882542
By getting into tons of street brawls, duh.