/vr/ - Retro Games

Probably like Fabio. Tall long flowing hair.

>>4783537

http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

>>4783537
>butt pixels

>>4783553
It's the escape hatch.

Nude. Zero suit was a mistake.

>>4783549
That is some crippling autism.

>>4783562
Gotta appeal to horny tween Nintendorks

>>4783568
The artists were continuously examining their work on CRTs. The box was made by marketing people who saw only paper representations. Squares are useful for representing relative positions of pixels, but often not the best way to display them. The projector at the cinema uses triangles.

>>4783574
But we're not using CRTs. You're viewing this thread on an LCD. And on these types of displays, the developers have consistently shown a preference for square pixels. Consumers, likewise, prefer square pixels. Everyone who isn't an suffocatingly autistic prefers square pixels. So it seems that is indeed the best way to display them.

>>4783591
I run old consoles through Never The Same Color filters :-)

Take your pick.

Remember when Samus was 6'2" and didn't need a man's permission to do stuff?

>>4783596
Both at the same time

>>4783603
no

Suit? Metroid is a robot, dumbass.

>>4783613
This is correct. Metroid = Metro Android

>>4783537
Metroids don't wear suits, unless you count the hosts they inhabit as parasites.

A fucking thread dies for THIS?

>>4783620
The name original referred to the playable character who runs through metro/subway tunnels. It was only later assigned to one of the aliens.

>>4783537

>>4783620
Metroids don't inhabit other beings, they latch on and suck 'em dry.

>>4783625
Check the copyright date dummy.

Why are you morons falling for such obvious bait?
When did this place become /v/?

>>4783631
What did you mean by this?

The name was conceived much earlier in the development of that unofficial Ridley Scott's Alien game.

>>4783631
>Two Player Alternating Game
Man, that's misleading to the point of false advertising.

>>4783637
>Samus is sort of like an android robot of sorts, so we sort of just tacked "roid" from that onto the end of "Metro", and... yeah.
What a bunch of horseshit

>>4783665
That's how most creative works are.

>>4783669
But Samus isn't "an android robot of sorts" at all. She's a bitch in an exosuit.

This smacks of desperate historical revisionism to explain something which need not be explained.

>>4783683
It's just how they made the meaningless cool name. It doesn't matter.

>>4783684
...and yet less than a year later, when the game was released in the west, the name came to be used to describe the enemies (or rather their bioweapons).

That's a far better explanation in my book than the horseshit quoted above.

How is meatroid's butt smell like hehe

How does morph ball work? Where do the limbs, helmet etc go? Is there any in-universe logic for it?

>>4783716
As far as I know, there's never been any official explanation for it, but it seems like Samus turns into energy when her armor is rolled into the morph ball form.

>>4783716

>>4783716
It is like a pokeball.

>>4783659
That was my first thought as well.

>>4783630
...l-lewd

>>4783620
got em

>>4783716
In Prime there's a log about the space pirates trying to replicate it and ending up horribly mutilated.

>>4783895
Ha, I remember that. There was some great, dark comedy sprinkled in those logs.

>>4783769
CUTE

>>4783574
>The artists were continuously examining their work on CRTs.
What the fuck?! No, they weren't, in early NES era each time you had to make a test build you had to burn a new ROM cartridge, which was time-consuming. Most sprites were designed 'dry' on graph paper, or in computer programs - on compute monitors much more accurate than TVs.

Graphics would only be tested on real hardware once test build was compiled, and even then NES graphics will look different on each TV.

>projector in a cinema
You DO realize that films aren't a digital medium, right? In analog video signal there is no pixels, while video games DO have pixels. Which is why we use pixels.

Blurriness might make things look superficially better, but it actually loses information - it's really hard to tell that the power suit's visor is actually a visor, or what the hell is that thing between her arm and helmet (it's her body.)

>>4783716
I always assumed it's some kind of space warping technology. I mean, there is faster-than-light travel in Metroid universe, so some sort of warp drive could exist. If so, Chozo could apply that tech to let space fold into itself to basically fit more mass in a smaller space.

That's pure fanwank of course, I have no proof of that. However, I think such bizarre scifi explanation would fit the mystique of Chozo race.

>>4784238

>>4784464
Is this Loss?

>>4784238
>in early NES era each time you had to make a test build you had to burn a new ROM cartridge
EPROMs, do you know about them?

>>4784492

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebCHHCw9rY&t=114s

>>4784495
Did they not have some kind of primitive CAD for mapping stuff without compiling it into the game?

>>4783636
A few summers ago

>>4783659
>>4783812
Spotted the underage. Won't deny that two player alternating is mostly retarded but not as retarded as snowflakes who are triggered by their lack of understanding of simple words.

>>4784774
But Metroid doesn't have a dedicated two player alternating mode, it never has.

>>4784774

>>4784786
>dedicated two player alternating mode
Millennials and their words. They just can't stop pulling shit out of your bitch ass
>>4784802
>is euphoric
tips fedora

>>4784864
go back to /v/, you're like 19

>>4783659
Most shooter and platformer games back then had this, it's so two kids can play without having to fight over the controls. Yes it's not really two player but it's "two player" in the super Mario brothers sense

>>4784986
Yes, and if you'd ever played Metroid before, you'd know that it isn't one of those games. It has no two player mode at all, alternating or otherwise.

>>4784889
>Projecting: The Post

>>4783596
>justin bailey in those retarded high heels
Those don't work for a space bounty hunter. Let Zero Suit keep the garbage, please.

>>4783591
Speak for yourself, faggot. I'm viewing this on my CRT.

>>4784994
that's true, if I'd ever played metroid before I would probably have known that.
is metroid any good? I had a sega so never had a chance to play it but it always just kind of looked like zillion but with an ugly color palette

>>4784774
I liked to do it with Metal Gear Solid 4, and deliberately waste all the items to make it more difficult.

>>4784802

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/

>>4783562
The Super Metroid devs should have stuck to their guns.

>>4783630
>mfw rule 34 of a metroid sucking samus' dick

>>4783659
>implying it's not a hidden feature that no one discovered yet
Anon, please.

>>4784774
But Metroid literally doesn't have a 2 player mode. Not even an alternating one that was advertised on the box.

>>4785014
Bitch, you literally said "Spotted the underage." in your previous post. By your own logic, you are also projecting.

>>4785723
>millennialogic
wew lad

>>4783537
Samus Aran is a girl.
Go Google it.

>>4786376
It's been established by leading video game industry professionals that Seamus Aran is a transgender

>>4786376
We're talking about Metroid, not that girl from Smash.

>>4786387
>>4786389
my fist your face
my foot your ass

>>4786469
being this mad
next you'll be telling us Yossy isn't male because he lays eggs
some males have an ovipositor, get over it

>>4786501
haha

>>4786387
>people pulling bullshit out of their ass on twitter are touted as "industry professionals"

nice try, brian.

>>4786376
>>4786387
These statements are not contradictory.

>>4783626
That dude looks kind of skinny. I like his metal hair style, though.

>>4788198
they very much are, you degenerate.

>>4783716
In some games, like Super Metroid, or the first couple Smash Bros games, you can go frame by frame to see Samus literally morphing into a ball.
Later on, the Prime games established that it was a matter-to-energy system and Samus is contained as a glowing ball of energy inside a metal sphere which is presumably the Power Suit having transformed itself, since it's now been established that the Power Suit is now an energy construct rather than a full physical exoskeleton suit.

>his
That is transphobic!!

>>4783716
I think the morphball is essentially based off the woodlouse's ability to turn itself into a literal ball completely covered by chitin.

>>4784492
hehehe
Hahahahahaha...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>4783591

These modern so-called retro titles are made to entertain kids who never grew up even playing on a CRT and the only image they have in their head of "the old games" is square pixels, but it is not how we saw them growing up.

How can you prefer something when you've never even experienced it any other way?

It's why it still kills me to do this day to see what's happened to cinema, if you are old enough to remember seeing a movie with an actual reel-to-reel projector, you'd remember how much sharper and crisper movies in the theater were, even with all the pops and scratches because film's resolution was only limited by the grain of the film stock. But all these 2K and even 4K video files blown up on a giant cinema screen look blurry as hell to me. Sure it's a "cleaner" picture with no degradation from repeated plays but at what cost?

>>4789660
>woodlouse
Armadillidiidae is a separate family though, to be horribly pedantic ;-)

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