/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2160440
did n64 gauntlet legends have the nude valkyrie code? Did any gauntlet legends port have it?

>>2160506
>nude valkyrie code
Go on...

>>2160516
well she wasn't totally nude. she was naked but had black bars censoring her privates (and her eyes).

this code only worked in the early versions of the arcade game. No idea if any of the ports included this secret.

If I could own one arcade cabinet to have in my basement, I would have a hard time choosing between X-Men and Gauntlet Legends. GL is so fucking based and the console versions just didn't seem quite right.

>>2160594
You would get Legends and not Dark Legacy?

>>2160705
Nostalgia demands it

>>2160707
>tfw I still prefer playing regular street fighter 2 instead of super because of nasty algae

>>2160440
It's because of the working relationship between Midway, Rare and Nintendo. Nintendo prioritized American developers, particularly Midway.

>>2160440
Well those games weren't particularly graphically impressive to begin with of course the N64 could handle them

>>2160440
Dude, they made the elf into a chick? Weak, man. Elf was always my main in the 8 and 16-bit games.

>>2160589
I want to believe but it sounds suspect, can some produce proof of this

>>2161713
I remember doing the cheat in an arcade long ago

Basically, you pick second player, select Valkyrie, type in the code as 069 and your name as NUD.

There's also a cheat where you can play as a chicken. You pick any character and type in your name as EGG and your code as 911.

Maybe it was because those games were stored in chips instead of optical media in the arcade cabinets, and that might had made easy to port the games to the N64 since it used cartridges.

>>2161713

I have pictures

>>2161732

I took all of these from Mame. I can't help but think Midway got this idea from the rumored Nude Lara Croft codes that kept popping up in the late 90s.

>>2161750
>tfw being a second grader who could find every warez site in the universe
>looked for naked tomb raider cheats for so long before accepting that it was a lie

>>2161757
>not getting the nude raider mod

For shame

>>2161616
>Well those games weren't particularly graphically impressive to begin with
uwot

>>2160730
This. Killer Instinct, anyone?

>>2160440
I definitely did.

Captcha: pport

>>2161860

>>2161750
And the myth is substantiated. Nice. I miss this game, emulation has been shit on N64 and I can't set up mame. Guess I could just hook the old console up...

>>2160440
Cruisn World did have a good port but USA and Exotica's sucked ass.

Why couldn't they wait and port Cruis'n Exotic to the Gamecube instead?

>>2161878
the fuck. It's not a "myth", dude. Well, maybe to you, who first heard of it 1 day ago. but people who played this seriously back in the arcades ALL knew about this.

This isn't some EGM nude raider code type of myth, dude. It's common knowledge for fans of this game.

>>2162113

I wasnt' a fan of the series and knew about this cheat since I was ten.
I'm curious, has anyone been kicked out of an arcade because they used this code?

It's a shame all of the PC ports on the N64 were fucking god awful.

>>2161929
Didn't even include it in Midway Arcade Treasures 3, I would have taken that over yet another port of San Francisco Rush. Fuggin midway

>>2161828
AVAILABLE FOR YOUR HOME IN 1995

ONLY ON NINTENDO ULTRA 64

Even though people don't like it for some reason KI Gold is a 10/10 port of KI2

>>2162248
I remember Hexen being not that bad

>>2162248
The first time I played Starcraft was Starcraft 64.

>>2161860
Played this on MAME recently, aside from the gamma and the textures in some areas being slightly downgraded being different I can confirm it is indeed a flawless port

>>2161929
that's alright, World is the best Cruis'n anwyays

>>2162585

i might just be autistic but the one on the right looks like everyone is hovering like 5 feet above the ground

>>2160440
>they're practically arcade perfect
Gauntlet Legends isn't Arcade perfect, it's better than the arcade version.

>>2162501
>Starcraft 64.

>>2162651
The lack of shadowing makes it seem that way

>>2160440

Yea, Midway was a pretty essential developer for the 64 (Dreamcast too, to a lesser extent).

>>2160730
Don't forget Acclaim

>Midway
Don't you mean Eurocom?

>>2162439
I think it's just that a lot of KI fans don't seem too fond of KI 2 in general.

>>2164551
KI2 was alright. It had crazy, babby-easy combos that my younger brother and I could do with little practice, so it was more accessible than the first game. Kim Wu was one of my mains.

It just loses points for shallowness and taking out some fairly essential characters for no reason.

>>2164597
The character designs were all pretty hideous. All the females are identical facially.

I'm a sad person for knowing this: in KI Gold Orchid's thong turns into shorts for a frame or two when she does a sweep so she doesn't show bare ass to the camera. I take it the arcade version was different.

>>2164610
And yet, one fierce punch shows all of dat ass. On that basis alone, I'd have to question how deliberate it was.

>>2164597
>Took out some essential characters
Yes, this. I hated that Cinder and Riptor were replaced with "discount Conan The Barbarian" and "Girl with two knives"

>>2162423
They didn't even port it right, all of the SF Rush ports are fucked EXCEPT for the N64 version

>PSX port: Completely different game, crazy physics nowhere to be found, looks like complete shit, no Alcatraz
>PC port: Needs a specific 3DFX card to run, speed and physics are completely fucked up on modern computers
>Midway Arcade Treasures 3 port: Changed music, messed up the physics AGAIN, PC version has a bug which cars blow up if they go over 200 mph

Now the N64 has fogging and the framerate isn't the best (on real hardware), but at the gameplay and most of the graphics are exactly intact as they were in the Arcade

>>2164961
It's also the only console with the far superior Rush 2, the one where you're not stuck racing around in a liberal suburb nightmare

>>2160506
>nude valkyrie code

pics or it didnt happen

>>2165558
They're literally the 2nd and 3rd photos in this thread
>>2161732
>>2161750

>>2160440
It's just nostalgia, it was the first time consolefriends had 3D at home.

>>2162248
Forsaken was pretty fun

>>2165572
>it was the first time consolefriends had 3D at home.

>>2161929
whats the deal with cruisin' usa anyway

it looks 3d but it plays and feels like a 2d racer

>>2165591
It's pretty much outrun without branching paths and no gf

>>2162248
Hexen 64 was as good and it has 4 players coop in 1 screen[at the cost of graphics tho] + deathmatch options
and Turok 1 is better in the N64 just for the audio quality, that and i liked a bit the controllers on that game, Turok 2 is better on PC tho unless emulation

>>2160440
Midway's ports went like this:
>PC: Arcade perfect down to the menus
>Dreamcast: Arcade perfect
>N64: As close to arcade perfect as you could push on the hardware
>PSX: Complete dogshit

>>2161809
i own this, wish I had waited and got it for dreamcast for xmas back in the day because damn.

>that low frame rate
>graphics

the dreamcast version always looked like a direct neo-geo style arcade port

>>2166654
>Dreamcast: Arcade perfect
If i recall correctly, the Gauntlet Legends port for the DC was half Legends and half Dark Legacy

>>2166884
That is a correct recollection.
All the ports of Gauntlet were a bit different, but I think the anon was talking about ports in general - Dreamcast has a variety of good ports.

>>2166846
>graphics
Aside from the reduced resolution the graphics are similar/the same

Source: I own it and Midway Arcade Treasures 3

>Dreamcast's port of The Grid never happened

I'll forever be upset by this.

>>2160730
exotica was a terrible port

>>2164961
>Midway in charge of porting arcade games
What was the deal with these? I remember even shit like super sprint had downgraded graphics and sound from the arcade originals.

>>2165553

My brother and I spent a good chunk of one summer playing the ever loving FUCK out of this game. Night after night, scouring levels for keys and cans of Dew. God damn those were good times.

>>2167459
>and cans of Dew

>>2167172
>N64 port of War: The Final Assault never happened either

>>2167583
Really, Rush 2 did have cans of Mountain Dew to collect scattered throughout the racetracks.

Anyway why did Midway never port CarnEvil to a console? Or give them a sequel or spinoff?