/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2146721
Well, I'd say this but I still can't beat it as an adult.

DK64 is one though. I couldn't get past the original Donkey Kong game but can run laps around it now.

I once had 1st place on this map from the very beginnning, all the way to the end.

Then I crashed the final jump.

I still cry about it to this day.

00 Agent.

It took a looooooong time.

>>2146721
Fuck this stage. I beat it eventually but it was by far the most frustrating one in the game. Even the speedrun world record holder slows down more than he would usually have to during the first corner where you can fall down.

I've returned to Episode 1 Racer many times for the last 12 years or so, and the first time I managed to win at Abyss and beat the game for that matter was a few weeks ago.

Haha faggots I beat this shit
With heavy, heavy abuse of savestates

>>2146721
That wasn't the hardest. For me it was the swamp track where Anakin is the favorite.

Oddly enough, I could beat it as a kid and now I can't.

>>2146721
This one was a lot harder for me.

Pretty much every course on Baroonda was a fucking bitch.

>>2146721
I remember exactly where I was at the time I finally beat that stage, it was such a ballache.

>>2146748
That's exactly where I stopped. It shouldn't have really been part of the main game, it should have just been a hidden easter egg.

Contra
Super C
Ninja Gaiden
Castlevania
Metroid (but I gave in and used a map)

So a lot of classics. I guess I was bad at video games as a kid.

I have the opposite problem. There are a lot of games I beat as a kid that absolutely destroy me now.

>>2147356
That one drags on for fucking ever and you need to know the best route through the serpentine swamp section (also there's a shortcut in the canyon serpentines that explodes open in the second lap), but at least it doesn't completely fuck you over for a single mistake. Personally I also fucking hate the Boonta Eve Classic.

>let's begin with a maze section with half a dozen different routes that partly cross each other
>let's have another maze section with different routes
>and then some tight turns with rock arches and rock needles all over the place
>okay what now, I know, let's have tusken raiders with fire geysirs
>and a jawa sandcrawler that can run over you in a narrow canyon
>you thought it was over? nope, more tight turns and finally a field of rocks that severly damage you when crashing into them
>oh and by the way cheat tier sebulba is the track favorite

It's weird since the four invitational tracks afterwards are far easier than the final championship.

>>2146721

Anyone know how to run the pc version of this game? Tried a ton of fixes and tweaks but all i get is cutscenes, sound and black screen.

Even tried to run it on my XP machine to no avail.

>>2147502
Get an image from here (I previously had issues with one that the game wouldn't recognize): http://pastebin.com/mQPTT64T

Download the custom installer here and follow the instructions: http://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2013/12/02/star-wars-episode-i-racer/

Widescreen doesn't work so don't bother, no clue about the LAN play fix.

This was godamn impossible when I was younger. Using a worn out N64 joystick probably didn't help.

>>2147502
What are the differences between the PC version and the console ports?

This was also impossible, not to mention buttclenchy as hell. This game probably does a better job than any other of simulating the 'pressure' of being ahead of someone in a racing situation. Actual racing sims can never get the AI right, and most other games once you get to the front, you're already faster than everyone else.

This fucker just gives you a head start and slowly catches you over the rest of the race, and if you make any mistake you know he's going to be right behind you. It's amazingly intense.

>>2147356
The reason it was hard for me to finish that course was because it was SO. FUCKING. LONG. It's length wouldn't have been so bad if it actually gave you a straightaway once in awhile or something, but the entire time you're either zigzagging through narrow paths or dodging obstacles. There was no room for fucking up.

>>2147467
The Boonta Eve Classic had the same problem. The part that always messed me up was that part where you race through those arches.

>>2147717
PC is way god damn better. It was the original i think.

It is pretty different apparently. i have not played the n64 version but i would assume the pc version has better frame rates.

>>2147467
>>2147807
I dunno, I don't think Boonta Eve Classic is really hard. Grabvine Gateway is slightly harder because you are practically forced to use the Z button and slow down on purpose to turn in zigzag because I realized some years later that Z button is helping a lot for sharper corners

>>2147721
This one and the other secret cars were also hard as nails without milk on the PS1's Ridge Racer Type 4.

>>2148061
I always thought every harder track but the Classic Eve was hard.

Sebulba even ate my dust for most of the time, never even saw that secret flamethrower.

>>2148076
if you have a good course knowledge, Boonta Eve Classic is pretty easy

>>2148076
Oh god, I just remember using the cheat to be Sebulba with friends and just endlessly hearing his taunt.

>>2148061
Grabvine Gateway was horrible because you couldn't see anything.

what's with Bozzie and his smug face?

>>2149196
I always thought Ben Quadrinaros looked like an old lady.

>>2146721
>Neva Kee
Mah Nigga

>>2149196
He's got a hot date tonight.

>>2147717
The PC and Dreamcast version are damn near identical apart from network play and local 2player respectively. The N64 version suffers from cartridge limitations and looks and sounds worse with muddier textures, all cutscenes missing, much of the music missing and worse sound, however it's unique in having a cheat available that allows you to individually control the engines with the thumbsticks of two controllers. Custom controllers have been built solely for this purpose.

Needless to say the arcade and GBC games are entirely different.

>>2149717
>solely for this purpose
Perfect Dark (and I imagine GoldenEye but not sure) have control schemes that use two controllers and two joysticks.

Neat info though, never even knew there were supposed to be cutscenes.

>>2149792

They are just intros to the track and are lame anyway...

PC, N64 and DC are the same game, the only difference are the PC/DC FMVs, the N64 cheats and the PC speed gauge that is vectorized...

>>2146959

Control was the worst to me, it took me literally ages defend Natalya successfully, now I even run in circles trying to kill the maximum number of enemies as possible...

>>2150194

Also...

> perfect dark
> challenge 29
> challenge 30
> mfw

I never won Challenge 29 without tricking the game...

>>2150184
Oh. That's a bit disappointing. At least you saved me a blank disc for my Dreamcast couldn't get the PC version to work and gave up promptly because I have it on N64

I thought there was actually going to be like a story besides you race to get money to buy parts to race.

>>2150203
>I never won Challenge 29 without tricking the game..

Man, I used the two player challenge mode cheat to unlock everything when I was a kid. I tried doing them as an adult and they're damnnnn hard.

>>2150218

> I thought there was actually going to be like a story besides you race to get money to buy parts to race.

Nope, they are like this for each track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca5KkEfgSfM

The game's intro is the same as the N64 but CGI...

> couldn't get the PC version to work and gave up promptly because I have it on N64

I threw some links the other day about how to run it properly, it included opening the .exe with an hex editor...

Are you in Win7?..

>>2150218
>>2150376

Get the .ISO from TheIsoZone, CoolROM or any place you like...

http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/windows-games/star-wars-episode-1-racer/

Follow this instructions (READ IT IN HIS ENTIRETY):

http://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2013/12/02/star-wars-episode-i-racer/

Hack widescreen:

http://www.wsgf.org/dr/star-wars-episode-i-racer

I don't remember doing anything else, if you have problems I can upload my SWR folder to Mega...

>>2146721
Honestly if you manage to not fall to the bottom on the first turn you can easily win the race.

>>2150376
>>2150396
I saw the links, but I tried like a year ago. I've since lost interest to play it on PC. Thanks though, I'm sure people will appreciate it.

>>2146721
As a kid, I beat this with a maxed out Bullseye Navoir.

As an adult, I've beaten this with stock Bullseye Navoir.

I still can't beat it with stock Anakin.

>>2147467

Is not so hard...

>>2150445
>Bullseye Navior
>not playing the entire career with Ebe Endocott
Who needs turning anyway?

>>2150445
I did with stock Anakin many times.

>>2150810

1 million laps later...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLizDzlAoEE

I'm the only one who don't see 1080p in ANY YT video?..

>>2150810
I just went around it. I was never much of a daredevil.

>>2151280

I love the engine sound fx.

>>2151280

OK, we need to play this shit online.

>>2150236

But I didn't cheated, I just did pic related...

Not like I had cheats back then or anything, or now for that matter, but I couldn't get far in Zelda II for shit when I was a kid (that fucking cave) and nowadays the game is pretty easy for me.