/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4345779
Best use of mode 7. Also the walker mecha boss is technology as fuck.

>>4345707
>I've been watching GameHut videos on YouTube

When will you normies stop coming to /vr/ because of some YouTube video.

>>4345792

This bread has potential, please keep Youtube on Youtube.

>>4345792
literally nothing wrong with GameHut, and this also implies you watched it too. embrace discussion.

I always thought mode 7 looked like shit.

>>4345958
I agree

>>4345958
Actually agree. Mode 7 severely limited the amount of tiles you can load in memory and most used it for shitty inflating bosses, rotating rooms, racing or over world maps in rpgs.

The Lawnmower Man(Genesis or SNES) had 3d sections like that. Game was weird though

>>4345958

All depends on how you use it. Most Mode 7 I've seen looks really unique and instantly recognizable. A few instances I've seen, on the other hand, looked like absolute dogshit (even in the same game!).

>>4345707
Ranger X had something like a different effect every level. One had half a dozen layers of parallax scrolling, another had lightbeams (that charged up your power!), another had water splashing around as it was disturbed by motion, another one had the light changing as you flew in and out from the forest.
Then there were the bosses.

Dynamite Headdy had crazy multi-part bosses

Contra Hard Corps had some 3d levels.

Vectorman had... just look at the game, easily the most impressive looking Megadrive title. If the title screen alone doesn't take your breath away, you get particle effects, lens flare, lightbeams and shadows, fullscreen rotation, and mode 7, by the time you reach the second level.

Adventures of Batman & Robin has so many visual tricks, it looks like a 32bit game.

>>4345707
Check out the mad hatter boss video for Bataan and robin for the genesis. Very impressive

>>4345792
What's wrong with GameHut?
It's actually really interesting to hear from one of the developers themselves on how they made the game.

>>4345792
>When will you normies stop coming to /vr/ because of some YouTube video.

Won't happen, 4chan is a normie social media site now. It has been for most of this decade, ever since they introduced archiving, made the bump limits insanely long, and removed sage and self bumping.

>>4345792
I mean, I don't think normies give too much of a crap about the former CEO of TT revealing all sorts of cool tricks used in 90s MD videogames or sharing proper prototype footage, the fact that it comes straight from the horse's mouth only makes it better and that video about the hi-color mode had me on the edge (even though somebody else technically reproduced the same effect years before he showed it). Dude is doing a great service as far as archiving and documenting history is concerned.

>>4346030
Sage and self bumping still work though?

>>4346030
Well, there is always 8 chan for insufferable oldfags like you, but you won't ever leave will ya? You are addicted to shitposting.

>>4346042
>atechan
>oldfags
their /vr/ alows 6th gen, lol. And it's completely dead.

>>4345958
It made cool title screens though.

Also Pilot Wings and Wings 2.

>>4345974
The power of mode 7: you can fight in a big tube, also the game runs at 10 fps now.

>>4346116
You know, the devs could have made the slowdown less terrible in that part if they ommited all the skeleton bones flying all over the screen when you kill them. Most of the slowdowns happens because of that.
Anyway, i thought these parts were cool. Maybe if it was an entire level like that, then yeah, but I didn't mind them, they were short sections.

>>4346014
Vectorman 2 was even more visually impressive than the first game, even if it had terrible level design by comparison.

>>4345707
the Metal Slug Games usually have some fantastic visual tricks at the time that can appear 3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUZWllxQjg8
>>4346014
>Dynamite Headdy
also this

>>4346040
>Sage and self bumping still work though?

No, they don't. On /co/ if you do a storytime, you need others to bump the thread for you. Sage only functions as an invisible downvote, it doesn't make threads die faster as it used to.

>>4346042
8 chan doesn't have any userbase.

The whole thing that made 4chan great was that it was too fast to be aggregated, and that it only remembered good content. It was a collective unconscious, a functional hive mind. Now even crap threads last weeks, and everything is archived indefinitely. The community lost it's ability to forget, so there is bigger pressure on anyone trying to be creative (whatever you post will be archived and can be reused against you).

And if you can't be creative then all that remains is reposting shit from other sites and the nonstop shitposting replies.

>>4345707
What would you consider the boss fights in this game?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xr03931gXCE

>>4346407
>whatever you post will be archived and can be reused against you

Don't be a namefag, I guess? This is exactly the problem with normal forums and social media in general. You'll be "that guy", before long people will start forming opinions on your posts way before actually reading them, so the whole discussion devolves into who's more popular. 4chan is fine, for now that is.

>>4346407
I'm so glad hiroshima cucked you old retards. There's no more classic internet for you fucks, consider killing yourself.

>>4346487
(Neocities)

>>4346407
>it doesn't make threads die faster as it used to

Sagebombing was a retarded quirk that only benefit people with huge egos. Sage (as in the Futaba sage) was always intended as a means to let you choose whether your post deserved to bump the thread because it actually added to the discussion or let it be when you just presented a simple opinion with no further argument because you needed to get it out of your chest or something.
That's how I always use it anyway, also when discussing off topic or when I'm really angry at someone and I want to insult them and my rage is so unjustified it borderlines on rule breaking and I feel guilty so I sage as if I know I'm doing a wrong thing like flaming or shitposting but I'm still being polite towards the board, and I think that's what started the aggressive sage meme. The fact you still think of it as an invisible downvote just shows how out of touch you really are.

Maybe the self bump removal is a /co/ thing (I don't post there), because it still works in any other board I tried.

>>4346552
Sage comes from the Japanese "sageru" which means "to lower", basically it was anti-bump. You don't like the thread, you voice your opinion, but sage it so it doesn't bump the thread. It was never a positive thing, and was never meant to be.

>>4346116

>>4346487
>There's no more classic internet for you fucks
There is, but it's on the deepweb.

>>4346557
Well, I can concede that, but it's a dumb thing to do since I actually want to discuss things as an OP or poster, not worry about my thread's appealing to the largest userbase so it doesn't get saged or preemptively killed. But then I get it, you like hiveminds and circlejerks which inevitably spawn idiots who try to fit in and just forgot how to think for themselves like any human being and don't even have a complete grasp on the medium they are discussing (/a/ in a nutshell) but hey they fit in so that's okay, to each his own I guess.

>>4345792
Fuck off, Gamehut is fantastic and Jon Burton created more worthwhile content in one console generation than your ugly ass will in the entire course of your shitty miserable lifetime.

>>4346642
What normies actually believe.

>>4346606
You can't stick out too much in any community, online or offline. You'll either be ignored or chased away. Any single group of humans eventually creates an echo chamber, because duh, people have to bond over something. I know it could be a hard concept to grasp for an aspie.

Saging was just the ability to tell somebody to fuck off without making their thread more popular.

>>4346030
>normie
Thanks for illustrating your own point, newfag.

>>4346116
that's not mode7

I never like the kind of 3d effects in 2D game. It look impressive but not fun to play. Like ContraH Sonic3 ro Lion king.

>>4345792
>30k subs
>Normie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkAHVzZ2ks8

Adventures of Batman & Robin totally took "Blast Processing" to a new dimension.

>>4347678
>instant nintendrone shutter-upper

>>4345707
The Lost Wolrd Sega Genesis

Not a "crazy" 3D effect, but I thought it was neat when I finally noticed it.

>>4349657

Appears to be complex parallax scrolling, nothing more.

>>4349550
>having owned only one console as a kid

>>4349674
What do you mean nothing more? It's still cool and 3D looking. By your logic, Sonic 3's texture mapped water was "just" complex parallax scrolling. And that Aladdin's from the Master System.

>>4349827
Parallax scrolling is incredibly common in 2D platformers. You sound like this was the first retro platformer you played.

>>4349832
Show me a couple "incredibly common" platformers with clever per column stretching to simulate 3D buildings on competing consoles. I'll wait.

>>4349850
The first level of Toy Story on Genesis.

>>4349827
>>4349832
>>4349850
>>4349920

Relax, d00ds. I was just pointing out that such a thing doesn't really qualify as an uncommon hard super-duper-cool bit of 3D. It still looks cool, take a Midol.

>>4349931
It's always cool to see 8bit systems doing multi-level parallax, some NES and Gameboy games had it too.

>>4349937
The port of Joe and Mac for NES has great parallax scroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3gpPM5PfMI

>>4346407
sage never made threads die faster, it made them not bump while increasing the post count
not being bumped makes threads die faster if more threads are being created
these days people have more of a tendency to stay in a thread for longer and make duplicate threads less (which, surprise, has to do with the archive and catalog, and which is not a bad thing because you don't have to have 2-5 threads open to know you'll be in one that doesn't die on the vine)
self-bumping should have an effect but only a limited one
>The community lost it's ability to forget, so there is bigger pressure on anyone trying to be creative
you fucking idiot
one of the good things about 4chan was always the drive to make people be creative
people stopped pointing out reposts as much, so it's good to have more room so people can be more aware of them and avoid them
you also seem to forget all of this was asked for before by the people who were already here 5, 6, 7, 8 years ago

Here's a different sort of 3D effect: Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire on the PC Engine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bOjMekDCY

Keep in mind that at its core, the PC Engine was an 8-bit system.

>>4345779
>>4345783
I don't know, I thought it was pretty distracting and I couldn't get into it.

>>4349827
>Sonic 3's texture mapped water
what

>>4349704
I owned several actually, just never a Nintendo one because I didn't like the games I happened to play on friends' systems.

Overrated as fuck company which repeatedly shits on its customer base. Nowadays I have a Wii and 3ds for emulation purposes though.