/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3357797
bump.

What's your favorite?

>>3357813
Out of this pile? Its tough. Robocco Wars is awesome, at least I really like it.

Evangelion is a guilty pleasure, but I think its a fairly solid title.

Goemon 2 is great and obviously is Super Metroid (I bought them because I the English versions are too expensive). I also have Harvest Moon for the Super Fami.

Its hard to pick just one, so I'd say its a tie between the Goemon 2 and Robocco Wars.

>>3357797
Only retro JP game I've got is a complete copy of FE4, which is fairly common.
I've got a JP saturn and ~6 games coming in the mail soon as well.

>>3357797
neat. i've been wanting a famicom with disk system and mario 2 just so i can say i have beaten every mario game. i may be missing a couple of the super super obscure ones but mario 2 on disc system is a bucket list game.

>>3357836
I have a huge stack of JPN Saturn games. I might have some doubles if you're interested.

I can go upstairs and take a picture of them if you'd like to see. I have a nice collection as I like Saturn as well.

>>3357851
Disk system is cool. I saw a few of them there, but they were always a little to pricey and in suspect condition. Any Disk System in good condition is gonna be marked up like crazy unless you get lucky.

I game hunted like crazy in Japan over those 4 years and found some really neat stuff for ridiculously low prices.

>>3357797
so i love me some game center cx. im sure you know of it if you are both a retro gamer and interested or involved with japan. he seems to go to a million arcades in that series and in every thing i've seen of stereo typical japan there are usually aarcades everywhere. is this accurate to real life at all? just something i've always been surious about. seems like it would be pretty rad to live around several little arcade places.

>>3357863
I'd like to see your saturn games, and even any recommendations you have for import games, if it's not too much trouble. I've got a small list of games to get (mostly shmups right now) that I'd like to add to.

>>3357874
Okay nice I can answer this. Basically yeah. I think Game Center CX is filmed in a fairly big city so usually there are a lot of game centers.

I was living in a semi big city in Northern Japan and there was a few options I had, but nothing like Tokyo. My wife lived in the middle of nowhere so there was not much around there, but I did go to a Mom and Pop type secondhand shop occasionally and find something good. In terms of arcades in the countryside? Not really.

>>3357889
I'm gonna dump the pics from my phone just give me a second.

>>3357889

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>>3357904
Some psx games mixed in there. I actually just found another stack here. Lemme layou it out for you.

Here's my JPN Saturn btw.

>>3357906
Here's some more Saturn games. I'll make a post about recommendations in a second.

>>3357889
In terms of imports for the Saturn I recommend:

Puyo Puyo RPG is cool but maybe difficult to play.

Last Bronx (really cool fighting game)

Saturn Bomberman is the one that supports 10 player games if you have the multitaps or whatever for it.

Saturn Bomberman FIGHT!! is also cool.

The three gundam games you see here >>3357914 at the bottom left are cool.,

The Sakura Taisen games if you can read Japanese or have a translation you don't mind using.

Fighters MEGAMIX is cool and I'm not totally sure it got an NA release, please correct me if I'm wrong.

There are others, but these are some that just stand out to me as both good games and cool collector's pieces.

Because I can't help but mention it, X is a pretty fun and unique game for the Gameboy.

Full 3d graphics and it inspired Starfox.

>>3357926
>>3357914
>>3357906
>>3357904
Thanks. Nice collection!
I'll look into Puyo Puyo, it does seem cool.
I definitely want to eventually get enough controllers + multitaps for a 10 man bomberman game.
I've got both of the Sakura Taisen games on order already.
I had thought that the 3 gundam side story games were just Story CDs that complimented the show, but looking into them now they look really fun. I'll pick them up soon.
Fighters Megamix DID get a NA release, but it's cheaper to import it.
Thanks again!

>>3357945
No problem dude. I actually came on here a few years ago offering to game hunt for people under the name SuperFamiOP, unfortunately a few days after that I was hospitalized for almost 2 months so I kind of forgot about doing it.

If you guys have any questions or anything I'll be on another few hours.

>>3357941
How much did that run you? It looks fun.

>>3357941
Were you the one posting about it in another Gameboy thread?

>>3358015
Nope, that wasn't me. I haven't been on /vr/ for almost a month. This is my first time back posting in years though.

Is this still a comfy board?

>>3357968
X can run for as high as $90, but I caught it at $25. I think the price dropped off recently.

It also has a english sequel for the DSI on the eshop for like $8 called X-Scape.

>>3358015
Yup. It's a pretty awesome game despite it's shortcommings, and I want to spread knowledge of it's existence so I that it will get more discussion.

so i have known a few japanese people in my life and i know the weirdest parts about moving from japan to the USA. but what was the weirdest part of moving to japan from where you did *and where is that?*

>>3358028
I haven't ever been to Japan, so this is just hearsay on my part, but I've heard that Japanese would rather you play up the American stereotype than you try to speak Japanese and otherwise culturaly integrate.

Kind of a "Do it perfect or don't do it at all type" situation

Today I acquired a Famicom and some games.
I shall proceed to play them.

>>3358694
>Radia Senki and Langrange Point
Great finds, anon, those are both awesome. Same with FF3 - my favourite famicom rpg personally.
What are the other two games on the left side? I don't recognize the covers and am having a hard time reading the titles.

>>3358714
>What are the other two games on the left side?
Just Breed and Ginga no Sannin

>>3357797
I have a famicom converter, the only way I can find games for a decent price is in lots of 30. is 40 dollars a good price for a lot of 30 games?

>>3361241
It depends on the games. A lot of my Famicom games I didn't spend more than 5 dollars on and I have about 20 or so. 30 games for 40 dollars isn't all that bad though.

I need a system that runs famicom. I was thinking of getting one of those multikart consoles to run my Famicom and SuperFami games (I did the SNES tab thing because I have two SNES'). Are there any you recommend for Fami and SuperFami?

I wish I bought a SuperFami in Japan. I had a Famicom but unfortunately I left it at my in-laws house and won't be able to get it for awhile.

>>3361447
I wish I could recommend games, I've never imported games before.

>>3361458
Its OP btw sorry.>>3361447

I just want one of those multikart consoles and am wondering if its worth it just for Fami and SuperFami.

>>3361468
I'd get a toploader and a famicom converter, I'm currently using an NES clone. because it's a hassle to put the converter in a front loader.

>>3358694
This is such a fucking ghetto setup

Recently acquired akumajou special: boku dracula-kun and made an adapter to play it out of a gyromite cart. Hopefully it will be the start of a wonderful import game collection...

>>3358694
Man the famicom FF games look awesome.

>>3361515
Good first choice!

>>3357941
I could have it for 700 yen.
stupid me ./

>>3358694
do famicom controllers feel any different than NES controllers, or is the difference just aesthetic?

キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━ッ!

>>3364634
are you >>3357836 and >>3357945
the same dude?

>>3364792
Yep!
Everything works, and it's not as yellowed as I thought.
Sadly I have to wait for the games to come in, it's going to be hard to wait.

>>3358694
Almost bought this same Famicom Twin from a Hard Off 2 months ago, but they were asking 5200 yen and I already had a famicom, so I passed. It's pretty neat, but nowhere near as pretty to me as the original plus disk system.

>>3358694
>ginga no sannin
I probably won't ever be able to actually play it, but I almost want it just for the Ken Ishikawa cover art.

Also his mega man comic is fucking nuts.

>ctrl f
>no virtual pro wrestling 2 or vpw 64
C'mon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os1kM9CeUHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbrR5VjEChU

Been going hard on famicom lately. Some of the only games I can get cheap anymore, I'm glad shipping from Japan is a lot cheaper than it used to be. But I'm also lucky enough to have a local shop nearby that gets them in somewhat regularly.

>>3365685
It seems to be Go Nagai

>>3366581
So it is! I guess it's not difficult to confuse the two of them, but yeah it's definitely Nagai and not Ishikawa. Thanks anon.

These days I almost exclusivley play imported games. Learning Japanese was by far one of the best decisions I ever made.

Anyone played the Medarot series? All the first five games are fantastic.

What the hell is this game and why I cant find it anywhere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj6pR6lP1zY

>>3368049
I've heard the first one has been fan-translated to English. It's really too bad the Medarot games made in recent years haven't been localized.

>>3368049
How difficult is learning moonrunes?

>>3369812
It's easy to speak but ridiculously difficult to learn how to read. The first two alphabets are easy (and tend to be the only ones used in famicom games and earlier) but learning the 3rd alphabet which is actually Chinese is quite difficult.

>>3369818
I don't think Kanji itself are that difficult, there's just a lot of them but in themselves they help with all the homophones and overall vocabulary and give structure to a sentence.
I find games without Kanji the hardest to read because you're confronted with walls of kana and need to guess which parts should be kanji.

>>3369980
I can second this.
>Kanji = OK
>No kanji but spacings between words = OK
>No kanji and no spacings between words = fucking dropped

>>3370473
I find the second one to be a bit of a hassle, I'd rather have kanji.

The real bullshit mode is katakana-only games. Full on, dante-must-die mode Japanese.

I'm planning a trip about a year from now since I just started my first career and will have significant disposible income. There's a few things I want to pick up like a white saturn.. how good are prices with the exchange rate and what's the best region to hunt for shit?

>>3370515
>what's the best region to hunt for shit?
If you have an address to ship to, Amazon. Otherwise, look for Book Off/Hard Off stores (usually not much worthwhile there, but sometimes you get lucky, and everything is really cheap), and A-Too (エーツー) stores. That's where I've had the best luck.

Anything in downtown Tokyo will probably be pretty picked over and/or overpriced, so if you can, look around in other cities and suburbs.

>>3357968
I remember that, I also remember a guy who would go on cheap game hunts. People would name games that they wanted, and the guy would go hunting for them, and he would get as many as possible for less than 1000 yen total.

>>3363523
I think that NES controllers are comfortable but think famicom controllers are less so. Particularly mine has rough buttons, they aren't as good as on an NES controller.

>>3369818
>>3369980
>>3370473
>>3370503

how should I learn the grammar?

>>3371113
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
Then just read a ton of shit and look up every word you don't know until it sticks.