/vr/ - Retro Games

Bump. I thought everybody liked F-Zero.

Velociraptor is best character

I'm all about Little Wyvern.

Love this game and dat soundtrack.

X is kinda all right, I started with GX so X feels more like a prototype with really slippery controls and really short courses

F-Zero is a series that has only gotten better with iterations in my opinion. F-Zero is horribly bad, but F-Zero X was much better, and F-Zero GX is a masterpiece. Although I never played any of the GBA ones, admittedly.

>You will never find an affordable 64DD to play the better version of F-Zero X

Wipeout is better.

Fuck I love this game. I need to find a cart of it someday, as I lost my VC purchase of it when my Wii bricked two years ago.

>>363581
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXqJEEAA-sw
This song gives me a boner. It was only on the DD expansion version, right?

>>363581

why have I not heard of this?

>you will never own arcade F-Zero GX

>>363561
F-Zero isn't horribly bad at all, I still enjoy the hell out of it just as much, if not more, than I did when I was younger.

And while F-Zero GX was incredible (and Sega's AM divisions are the only ones I would ever trust to make a new F-Zero from this point onward), the music simply wasn't as good as X.

>>363601
If they re-released F-Zero GX with X's music as bonus content, I would be totally content with dropping $50-$60 for it. Mute City and Big Blue just weren't enough.

>>363596
Yeah, normal N64 has no remix for Rainbow Road.

>>363598
64DD version has a track editor that allows for all kinds of wacky racing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAXBG-XhmXU

HE IS THE HERO
LEADER OF THE TEAM
DARK GREEN AND SILVER
IT'S THE SUBTLETY
SHINING LITTLE WYVERN
MAKES THE SPEED OF LIGHT
FINE TUNED MACHINE
GONNA BE A STAR

am I the only one that actually really likes GX's soundtrack?

>>363637
I thought it was really good too, but I liked X's more. Having X's music as bonus content alongside GX's music would have made that game orgasmic.

>>363647
I don't really like X's soundtrack only because it sounds like some midi ass shit. I know there redone versions with actual instruments, so if that was included in GX it would be great.

>>363609

Xs soundtrack was not that good

>>363637
The character themes were better then the track themes

>>363639
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAXBG-XhmXU

speaking of, are there any romhacks with custom tracks for X?

>>363662
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQpoijwYurU

If GX can have a song from the original end up this good I'm sure that a whole remake of X's soundtrack would be awesome.

>>363637

I like it more as well, that Lightning, Big Blue and Fire Field themes are orgasmic, Aeropolis gets a gold star as well. Sand Ocean, Port Town and Green are boring though, both courses and tracks.

>>363673
There are plenty. I recommend the trackes made by Philippe Brodier (best trackmaker imo), most of them are hard as fuck tough.

>>363581
You can make custom tracks on the PC and patch them to a rom. The software crashes all the time... but you can do it.

Here is a track I did some years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjz90_U0GtE

I don't have the patience to make new ones anymore. Meh. Someday I'll do more...

>>363546
I love the prototype feel of F Zero X. The tracks seem to be flaoting in the middle of nowhere, that always fascinated me for some reason. And the simplicity of the design allowed the X Cup to exist. It also made custom track making very accessible for fans.

>>363903
Holy fuck, that video is fucking awful. If that's yours, do us all a favor and take it down. I'm going to go clean the blood from my ears.

One thing that pissed me off about GX music is that you can not select course tracks besides the bonus ones

Emperors Breath is a fuckawesome track along with >>363689 that only gets used in Story Mode. Just listen to this shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGeJs6jYM08

It kind of sucked that you don not have the Mute City course from chapter 7 anywhere in the cups as well, it was the best Mute City course in the game. The others really sucked in comparison

>>363637
I like it too, especially the character themes. But X's is just more befitting. Like the track music in GX just feels more ambient. Nothing compares to Dream Chaser blaring while you boost past everyone.

Master Mode on X is ridiculous. Can breeze through Master on GX, but wow. After beating Expert on X, I thought I was ready for Master, but holy fuck.

A lot of fast times are on youtube but I don't know how legitimate they are OP.

I really enjoyed the original, That huge jump in white zone 2 man ;_;

>>364090
>Fire Field
Even with the Wild Goose I crashed so many times. Damn those drone cars.

>>364109
That is my biggest gripe with the original, too many damn drone cars as you call them. I didn't think Fire Field was too bad compared to white zone 2.

Here's a little unknown fact: a jazz album was released for f-zero, here's the playlist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqpZtPcDYAk&list=PL7511644E8E4E1A3B

>>363364
I wish there was a similar game, but more concentrated on slow and precise flight path optimization rather than a huge amount of gimmicks like slides, attacks and damage boosts.

>>363636
>dat master class ending video
>dat wink at the Star Fox Series
>dat episode of the anime
James McCloud is now my husbando

OP here again, what exactly is the difference between sliding and jumping, and how do I change between the two? Does it have something to do with that acceleration vs. max speed screen?

>>364143

>Jazz F-Zero

there goes my friday night

>>364154
slides are borderline exploits and should definitely be taken out

attacks are hard to pull off and are rarely rewarding

but boosts bring a strategic element that actually strengthens precise path optimisation, so I don't see a problem there, it actually reinforces the gotta go fast no matter the cost feel of reckless racing along with attacks

>>364862

you can't really jump in F - Zero unless the course has ramps or is designed to fuck you over if you go too fast and throws you off the course

>>364923
>if you go too fast and throws you off the course
>tfw when going so fast in Jack 2 in F-Zero X that you fall off
A-at least I hit 1400

>>364936

>Going so fast on Silence that you fly off the track.

>>364871
in a good way or bad way anon?

>>363650
You shut your whore mouth.

>>363598
Silly anon!
Of course you can!
Theres an action replay code to activate the arcade version of the gamecube disc! The whole arcade GX, not just tracks, BUT THE WHOLE FUCKING ARCADE GAME is on the GC disc! Crazy

>>364992
>tfw AX machine is being sold near my house for over £2000

>>364959

>>364959
It happens right after you go over the pink shit.
>tfw you don't even know the name of the regens

Was there an arcade version of X? Was it secretly hidden on the cart, too?

>>364936

X courses are full of sudden turns, it's really not possible to not slam and decelerate at least ones during a race

good luck if you chose one of the faster cars, cause you'll be flying off of courses all the time.

Kinda reminds me of GXs Green Plant - Intersection where at the end you get plenty of boosts to accelerate to ridiculous speeds and right before the finish line there's a curved turn that with fuck you over for certain if you don't hit the breaks

>>364998

FUCKING BUY IT!

>>365009
Nope, only the gamecube version
>>364998
Ripoff anon. Listen to me, theres an AR code for the GC version that activated the entire arcade version of AX. AX was just the gamecube hardware with a specialized version of the game

>>365023
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SEGA-F-ZERO-SIMULATOR-DRIVING-SCI-FI-ARCADE-AMUSEMENT-MACHINE-/120820720392?pt=UK_Video_Games_Coin_Operated_MJ&hash=item1c2179e308

here is the link anon.... a man can dream ;_;

I just checked the SDA for best times on MC1. The record was 1:06. I watched it, and it turns out that he got that time by bullshitting his way through the air and essentially glitching the whole thing.

I wanna know what the legitimate fastest is, and this is what I'm seeing. Fuck.

>>365021
>Ripoff anon.

>not wanting pic related

are you serious?

>>364998
If you have any intent to ever buy one, do it now, if it truly is by your house. Shipping on these things is MONSTROUS.

So which does /vr/ think was more difficult f zero X or GX. I was 10 when f zero X was out and loved. GX was cool on the GameCube but it just didn't seem to have magic that X had me

>>365084
GX definitely, especially those very hard missions.

I still shudder at the thought of doing any of those again

>Playing F-ZeroX with little brother
>Going 2fast4sanic
>"Hey anon, why does it look like they're not moving?"
>Can't unsee

>>365034

this is something I can't stand either, most recording put up on youtube are custom car snaking bullshit with TAS sprinkled on top

If Nintendo actually mans up and makes F-Zero online multiplayer, the custom and broken physics exploit shit will definitely need to go, even if all cars would have to drive like Blue Falcon

>>365114

I don't get it

>>365139
The racers aren't moving, the world around them is.

>>365084
X for sure. It has rubberband AI, which GX was kind enough not to include.

For some reason, I've just been addicted to playing all these futuristic racing games where you go so fucking fast. Thus far I've been playing WipEout for a long while which has woo'd my urges, but now I seek other ones. And knowing about F-Zero (but never tried), I can safely say I want F-Zero GX.

But from what I heard from right off the bat is that the AI are a bunch of cheating dickheads. Even to the point where beating a race is dependent purely on luck in later difficulties. How true is this?

>>366038
>But from what I heard from right off the bat is that the AI are a bunch of cheating dickheads. Even to the point where beating a race is dependent purely on luck in later difficulties. How true is this?
Very true. But it's still an extremely fucking awesome game, especially if you gotta go fast.

Polite sage for not retro

>>366038
Entirely untrue. GX does nut rubberband in GP races. Some characters do tend to do better because they have good AI, like Black Shadow and Mrs. Arrow, but it's almost never the same two or three dickheads on your ass the whole time.

Story mode however, there is a lot of rubberbanding. But you usually face just one opponent in story mode, making it much easier to deal with. Chapter 7 however has I think 25 racers, and two of them cheat more than anyone in Mario Kart, making one of the tougher things in the game.

>That X Cup in F-Zero X
>Getting a tack that has a sloped turn so sharp that all the computer racers fly off the track and die

>>363636
I think I'm in love with you

>>366135

I fucking loved that. Watching EVERY AI racer go hurtling off into the distance on the first hill. Driving granny speed to sightsee and finish the race safely.

>>364245
was their ever a good translation of the anime?

>>366038
That's only the story mode missions. The grand prix mode has none of that.