/vr/ - Retro Games

>>500418

this makes me wish emulator and rom experts would come here and school us on things like this

>>500435

Is this based on a specific area of China? A farm town or something? No I've never been to China. What clued you in?

>>500447

Well, in the case of these SFII rips, I used MAME, set the dipswitch to "test" mode, restarted the ROM (F3) whilst holding down Player 1 LP + Player 2 LP+MP, which gets you to the "scroll test" mode. That lets you look at all three laters of the backrounds. Then I took a bunch of screenshots and pieced them all together in Photoshop.

>>500473

I did something similar to this only using Kawaks. It let you disable layers and whatnot midgame but not sure if it did for Neo-Geo,

Don't like the reddish color they gave this one in Night Warriors.

>>500435
>aspect ratio

hnnnng

When you're on the right-hand side of this stage, you can hear the bell in the coliseum tolling. Neat touch.

>>500490
Neo-Geo doesn't have layers, so that might be a bit difficult.

>>500459
There's an unused graphic for a sign that reads "Taiping Road" (in Chinese). That might help identify where it's based on. I know Fei-Long's stage was based on a real-world location, but I can't remember what.

In the first Darkstalkers game, when you fight CPU Bishamon he has a special intro animation where he comes out of the igloo. Have to wonder what his relationship to those kids is.

>>500567

Huh. Interesting. Thanks.

>>500527
>>aspect ratio
>hnnnng

The arcade SFII games are kind of weird: the native pixel resolution is 384x224 (a widescreen ratio of 12:7), but this looks stretched if you display it with native sqare pixels. It looks normal when squashed to 4:3.

I don't suppose anyone would happen to have any from the arcade version of Mortal Kombat 2?

Occasionally lightning will reactivate the dilapidated laboratory equipment, and the stage will bask in a dim light for a few seconds before it flickers back into darkness.

Is this from a fighting game? I don't know.

Favourite stage of all fighting games. The music kicks ass too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0z-tKf6stc

>>500648
Yeah, I fired up MAME to check and then scaled the picture over here - looks roughly correct if you scale it 4x horizontally and 5x vertically. Correct integer scaling would require 7x horizontal and 9x vertical, so 2688x2016. (This is why we need 4k desktop monitors.)

It's a shame so much old sprite work was done with non-square pixels.

>>500670

>That guy on the far left in the gray

His awful animation and super-short arm will always be in my memory.

>>500668
Looks like Garou: Mark of the Wolves to me but it's been a while I might be wrong

>>500641
oh, or the arcade version of MK3

>>500668

Did you get this from /wsg/? There was a guy in there posting King Of Fighters backgrounds and this may be one of them.

>>500716
Looks like Cody broke out of jail.

>>500683

I like this place, too. In fact, I like everything about art of fighting except the gameplay

Can't find the animated version.

Remembered what Fei Long's stage was based on: the Tiger Balm Garden in Hong Kong, now unfortunately demolished.

>>500726

Naw, that's just a cameo. But he did break out of Jail in SFA3.

Fun fact: Cody and Jessica are in Guy's stage in SFA2. Whenever a female enters the arena on a P1 side, Jessica slugs Cody (!!) for looking at her.

Love those little touches.

>>500716
I dunno about the the PC or Amiga MK versions, I know PC MK2 was the best port, but I believe the original resolution was something around 400x300, so that would have probably gotten scaled down.

>>500763

Man, I've always loved how Sakura was just fighting in her backyard. I think that's her little brother playing games inside (his name is Kei...isn't it? I forget)

Going off of that other detail with Cody/Jessica, I think he loses the game whenever Sakura loses a match, but someone will have to verify for me.

>>500787
Kei is Sakura's friend who shows up in her ending, then later in intro sequences in the VS series. Can't remember waht her brother's name is.

>>500825

I always wondered who replaced those crates in between rounds. They're just going to get broken again. And what were they even carrying in them?

>>500840
I always wonder who moves M. Bison's body between rounds when you fight Akuma in SSF2T. When he gets SGS'ed by Akuma, he falls in place, so he's to the right of the center of the stage. When the next round starts, he's smack in the middle.

Even though I never cared much for the Art of Fighting series, it's hard to ignore the detail that went into the stages

This is from the 3rd game.

Last Blade 2.

>>500973

That is amazing.

I feel very meh about posting ones like this, since it's not from the arcade version, but oh well.

Anyone have any experience running the mortal kombat games on mame? Particularly if it can work with a very limited CPU?

>>500668
It's from some personal blog featuring HTML5 capabilites with canvas or something like that.

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

>>501194
How limited? Tell me what CPU you ahve, I'll tell you if it would run. They are not very demanding and run flawlessly on adequate hardware.

The only problem is the weird button layout. But when you finally figure it out, it's all well.

Arcade MK were so, so superior to console ports in every way imaginable.

>>501049
daym

>>501001
Damn you, SNK, why did you have to leave us?

>>501253

They didn't.

The SNK of the 90s that developed multiple fighting games a year is gone, but the SNK that still makes good fighting games is still here.

>>501215
Well, I'm thinking of running it on an an 1ghz AMD APU (nettop chips)

>>500726
>>500768
That's actually Ken & his wife, if you play as/fight Ken on that stage, he won't be in the background.

As long as we're talking about background details, how about this one.

In Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (I think), Blanka and Beast are shown huddled around a fire in the background, but if you pick Charlie, Blanka won't be in the background. Capcom knew how the SF Live Action movie fucked with the story and decided to put it as a joke in the game. Subtle. Very fucking subtle. And hilarious.

>>500763
MAME says 400x253.

I could have sworn at least one of the MK games was a medium-res (512x384 or so).

>>501267
Capcom vs. SNK on the Dreamcast (maybe more systems) was amazing with background detail.
For example, in this stage the harder you or your opponent hit the floor, parts of the house around you would fall apart, and if managed to get the house to it's bare bones and ended the match with a super, the whole damn thing fell apart!

>>501335

MAME says a resolution of 399x253 for Mortal Kombat 1, 2 and UMK3.

That's a bit more than the average 320x224 of many arcade games (and Genesis)

>>501464
Yeah, and the 55Hz field rate totally screws most TVs if you use it with a supergun.

>>501490

>>501496

The Final Fight cast seems to be on good standing after that whole kidnap your daughter/girlfriend and try to take over the city thing.

With the exception of Two-P, who clearly did something to invoke Haggar's wrath.

>>500506

Dat bathhouse. I used to have dreams about this place as a kid.

This is why I fell in love with Capcom as a kid. Their backgrounds were always so perfect and made me wanna go beyond the level and explore those places more in-depth.

>>501210
Oh, then this probably is too.

>>500721
No, I believe I got these two from /v/.

goddamnit OP, thanks for all the effort and feels.
maybe check out samurai showdown and guilty gear, both have topnotch backgrounds.

The lack of MK background composites must be from various layers scrolling separately.

>>501670
Yep those are series of illustrations by Mark Ferrari (used to work with LucasArts so it seems) with animation added by some studio to showcase HTML5 capabilities of palette shifting.

http://markferrari.com/art/8bit-game-art/

Anyone got ones of the grassy field and waterfall backgrounds from Street Fighter Alpha 2?.

>>502894
Sure, it's very likely that lots of people have it since it's on VGmaps:
http://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/Arcade/index.htm#StreetFighterAlpha2

>>501878
What's that?

>>504907

A stage in Last Blade 2

>>500670
This happens to be the exact right size for a background on the Galaxy SIII

>>501496
When a hot girl fighter (sakura/chun li/cammy/rose) walks in front of cody, he looks at her and his girlfriend slaps him

>>501509
Haggar seems to just be playing/roughhousing with him, he doesn't look pissed

beautiful thread

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Anyone have these in higher or even ultra-high res? I have a couple monitors and would really like to use these as wallpapers

>>505446
These are from games that ran at 240p. None of them exist in high or ultra high res. You can blow them up, with or without filtering.

>>505446
You could just upscale them yourself. Also, this is pixel art, there's really no point in getting them in higher resolutions as they won't give you more detail, just bigger pixels which, like I said, you can do yourself.

I realize its like 20 years too late, but if I was interested in making backgrounds like the ones posted ITT where should I start?

Especially stuff in the same vein as the SNK animated ones.

>>505959
Get good at regular art and then start drawing with pixels.

This is why I asked in the first post if anybody had full rips of the backgrounds for SSFII HD Remix (not just screenshots of the game in action). They'd be gloriously HD images.

I don't know how you'd go about ripping them (it's a PS3/360 game), but I was hoping maybe Capcom/UDON might have released them promotionally. I guess not.

>>507440
I don't know why you'd want them. I think that HD Street Fighter redraw was a giant failure and looks extremely ugly. Maybe that's why nobody has bothered ripping that stuff?

>>507080
Thanks for that non-answer.

I guess I should have asked something more like what program(s) should I use for pixel art. Thought this being /vr/ someone might have a good recommendation. But google is fine too.