/vr/ - Retro Games

>dat boss theme

>>617987
Probably one of the best soundtracks on the genesis.

>best Donald Duck game
Have you ever played Quackshot?

YOU CAN FUCKING TURN INTO A NINJA HOW COOL IS THAT SHIT

Also,that one zambie level towards the end was legitimately unsettling.

>>618032
I in fact have not.
I shall have to fix this so that I can give a more accurate opinion.

I've played it but I thought the platforming was a bit dodgy. You change direction too fast, and that rotating thing in the first level is annoying as shit

The animation is nice though

>get all the way through to Sacrifice of Maui without dying
>kick the boss' ass, time to climb
>fuck up a single grapple jump
>insta-kill lava

All dat zombie powder...

>>618038
It's easily one of the best game for the Genesis, pretty long too, with the possibility to visit different levels at the same time.
The last temple is so good I still have chills remembering it

>>618064
It is pretty fun so far, I like the idea of going back and forth between levels to collect items like Zelda...

But why does Donald eat chicken?

>>618039
>I've played it but I thought the platforming was a bit dodgy.

This. You move too quickly, the screen scrolls too fast, and you're kind of slippery to stop. You have to like, edge around making sure you're not going to run into enemies.

It's still fun, and I still played through the whole thing, but it's not really a great game.

>>618215
>But why does Donald eat chicken?
It's not cannibalism if it's a different species.

>>618221
It's still a bird!
And aren't there sentient chickens in Disney?

>>618231
Look at those faces. The nephews are shocked. Horrified.

Donald is pissed. No fucks given. They are sitting down, and they are eating that bird. And anybody who argues will be tomorrow's dinner.

You don't fuck with the Duck.

>>618217
I'm sure it's mostly my nostalgia blinding me, but I never had issues with the game's speed.

My only real complaint about it is grapple points having really touchy hitboxes.

>>618215
I know your dirty secret you read cracked

>>618231
We eat mammals you know.

>>617987
I'm one of the three people who got to enjoy the superior looking and sounding PC version as a kid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD50UmdV6ng

>>618331
The animals we eat cannot communicate with us in our language, write, or use civilized tools.

If it ain't our equal, it's our food.

>>618336
Damn straight buddy.
Still have my disc too. Pity it doesn't work on newer Windows OS...

>>617987
>that's a donald
this makes me wonder if a series of games with donald as different personas was originally planned

>>618340

I'm pretty sure chickens and ducks don't talk to each other.

>>618346
>I'm pretty sure chickens and ducks don't talk to each other.


Not after the "Barnyard Incident".

>>618346
Ducks and mice don't talk to each other either.

And yet there's Disney.

>>618340

This is how it works:

Sapient duck (Donald) = Human
Normal duck = Ape
Random bird = Random mammal

>>618345
A Maui Mallard franchise WAS planned, including a comic series.

Unfortunately it didn't sell well enough.

>>618360

>>618336
>>618342
Right there with you bros. First game I got when I was six. Donald has never been that awesome again.

>>618231
>It's still a bird!

>>618410

>>618358
>>618346
>>618340

>>618426
Donald is a hardcore motherfucker.

>>618426
what the...

>>618426

Why is he clamping a chicken
How is the chicken not being crushed by the clamp
Why is there a clamp bolted to the table
Why does he have an axe

So many questions

>>618398
>>618336
>>618342
a PC port that is actually better than the console version?
in 1995?
I am shocked

also
>Pity it doesn't work on newer Windows OS...
I'm sure there is a way to get it to work, there always is

>>618485
The only way I've found to get it to work is to download a Windows 98 virtual console.

>>618336
>>618398
I watched my big brother play this aa few times, but never played it myself.

>>617987
Maui Mallard In Cold Shadow (what it was released as here in the states) wasn't anything really all that special and this is coming from a kid who DESPERATELY wanted to play it growing up

I think it would have been much better if it had just been about Donald becoming a ninja instead of him going on some kind of tropical vacation. Because I really did enjoy the Cold Shadow segments

>>618485
It's better because America didn't get the Genesis version of Maui Mallard.

>>618358
Fantasia 2000 had Donald look confused when a family of normal ducks walked by

>>618512
It was Donald solving a case in a tropical location. He had already learned how to become a ninja.

That is the point.

>>618484
Why do you think it's a chicken and not a goose?

>>618512
Are those not the same game? I always assumed the SNES was the one everyone talked about because it was so much better than a Genesis one out there (as usual)

>>618525
The SNES and Genesis versions were different.

and I found the SNES version to be easier, mostly because they made your basic shot a long-ranged projectile.

>>618032
as a kid I loved playing this game at my uncles. good game.

>>618519

Because I've never eaten a goose and I don't know what one looks like.

>>618525
Genesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYOmml-KQMA

SNES
http://youtu.be/Nxsnrnw7HCI?t=10m23s

PC
http://youtu.be/IvZPLHAwBnA?t=4m59s<wbr>

I don't understand how anyone can argue for Quackshot being better than Maui Mallard with a straight face without being a total Sega nut.

When judged as a platformer, Quackshot can't compete with its slow pace and poor level design, and if seen as an adventure game it can't compete with proper genre entries. I dare say even Donald no mahou no boushi is more fun to play than Quackshot, despite its many shortcomings.

Maui Mallard is a high-speed action platformer with tight controls and beautiful graphics that almost manages to reach the level of the Disney game gods at Capcom.

>>618767
>http://youtu.be/IvZPLHAwBnA?t=4m59s
The real question that young me never got the answer to: how do you do these cool things the end ninja bosses did (like moving on the ground, attacking while running,...)?

>>618821
>I don't understand how anyone can argue for Quackshot being better than Maui Mallard with a straight face without being a total Sega nut.

I don't understand how anyone can argue Donald Duck games with a straight face

>>618852
You can't, only the computer enemies can do that.

Cold Shadow's only abilities are Wall Cling, Grapple, Staff attack, and Teleport/Sprint

>>618867
At last here in Scandinavia discussing Donald is appropriate regardless of age.

>>618867
You callin Donald Duck shit son?

>>618940

With the deal with you guys and Donald anyway? He seems way more popular there than anywhere else.

> ITT: casuals who never played Donald Duck Mahou no Boushi (Super famicom only)

>>618984
Looks like that SNES Pacman game.
Which sucked.

>>618986
I can see you never played this game.

>The Sacrifice Of Maui
that one was the pits. That music made up for it, though

>>618970
The Phantom too. Shit we got sick of 50 years ago they eat up

This stage was hysterical.

>>618990
Is there any translation for it? Or can you figure out what you're doing by just running around?

Gooby pls

>>618990
Whats that screen shot trying to convey. It DOES look like Pacman 2

>>619006
Moon runes aren't helping your arument

>>619003
It's untranslated but the story is easy to follow.

Also, stage used Mode 7 to rotate it 360º so Donald could walk, climb, jump and etc.

>>619020
I might give it a shot at some point.
Does the rom come with translated controls? Or is there not much to figure out past jump/move?

>>619003
It's a week before Daisy's birthday, so Donald took her around to see if he can guess what would she like.
Daisy finds a fancy hat on a store, Donald correctly guesses she would like that and wheh he notices the price tag, he almost gets a heart attack because the fucking thing costs an arm and a leg.

>>619045
So Donald decides to take some part time jobs (Windows cleaner, newspaper delivery, recsuing Grandma's kidnaped pet or trying his luck on Goofy's hysterical TV show.)

>>619039
Every stage gives you a quick review of what you have to do, and how you must do it. No problem there.

>>619060
Seriously, Goofy is an asshole.

>>619065
Payback for the fishing incident, I'm sure.

>>619065
After completing 3 levels (you don't need to play all four) Donald is ready to buy the hat, only to find someone already bought it.

FFFFFUUUUUUUUU-

Oh wait. A weird guy ask Donald to restore the lights on his manor (It was overrun by ghosts) and as payment, he can give him another hat like the one he wanted.

Donald agrees because why fucking not.

>>619083
After finishing this ordeal, Donald realizes that the guy was... a sentient hat.

Actually, the guy is a king. Pegleg Pete (who else?) seized his kingdom, cursed him (so that's why he's a hat) and banished him to Donald's world (the ghosts kept the portal closed)
So the guy begs Donald to go with him to his kingdom to save everyone, at this point Donald decides to follow him because he just wants to punch someone in the face for the hat fiasco.

>>619108
You must defeat all of Pete's henchmen before attacking his blimp squad to hijack one, then traveling to his lair and show him what happens when you piss off Donald Duck.

>>619125
Enjoy the beautiful scenarios before punching that guy down the cliff to his death..

>>619132
A Sonic-looking stage where you must beat the hare in a race so you could block his exit before he escapes.

The bad news: the hare is an asshole and will play dirty to win.
The good news: you can do the same.

>>619143
This stage is full of gremlins trolling Donald all the time and setting up dumb traps that can be seen from a mile away and dodges by simply jumping over them.
Then you fall on the REAL traps they laid on the area where you are expected to land.

>>619167
It's Pete time.

>>619180
A mountain of corpses later, Donald break the curse on the king, saves the world, etc.
He's sent back to his own world with the only reward he accepted: the hat.

The ending includes a whole song (And the game is fully voiced, at least by donald himself. He even says "Gawd Dammit" when he loses a life and his angry animation is played.

>>618358
but what about goofy and pluto

>>619221
Hot Dog --> Pluto --> Goofy.

>>619213
I'm playing this right now and, I've gotta be honest...
It's a bit easy.

>>619213
Looks like a good game to play thru. thanks for dumping all this op

>>619243
The game is easy.

Not so easy as Magical Quest, but nowhere as insanely difficult as Maui Mallard.

You will finish it on a couple of hours.

>>619249
I'm not OP, I just noticed the lack of this Donald game and dumped all the info to fix that.

The game was programmed by Epoch, so if you have played those SFC Doraemon games you already know what you will find.

>>619256
Maui doesn't really get insanely difficult until Flying Duckman.

The mojo mansions theme just played in my mnd so ooudly it felt like the soundtrack of the thread

But

Why noones mentions lucky dime
Capers on sms

>>618767
That sprite animation on the genesis... That's fucking amazing. Was the SNES like that? Watching the beginning of the SNES one I can't really tell since they obviously have two different stories.

>>619282
The SNES version is a hell of a lot brighter and you move faster, it seems.

I think the Genesis does the game better justice, it's alot smoother.

>>619282
The Snes had the same animations, but also had an improved soundtrack, improved backgrounds (The Genesis ones were already great) AND added that fucking difficult bonus stage where you must fight for the right of getting the password.
The Genesis just had Donald riding an unicycle and completing a fairly easy stage instead.

>>619315
>Babalau Baby
>easy

>>619315
It also turned your basic shot into a projectile, removed Bombbugs and ammo combining, caused you to lose all your ammo and Zombie Powder when going to a new stage, and allowed you to stay as Cold Shadow indefinitely.

>>619348
>and allowed you to stay as Cold Shadow indefinitely.
The Snes version still slowly depleted your mojo meter when you turned into Cold Shadow.

>>619356
No, the Genesis version did.
The SNES version depleted your meter only when you did the useless spin attack.

>>619375
My bad.

>>619348
Also the SNES version casualized the Flying Duckman level by allowing you to float about in any direction.

It's been ages since I did any ROM hacking, but I speak Japanese and am currently NEET, so I have enough time at the moment. Is there enough interest to begin a project on mahou no boushi? I may need help with editing graphics for the non-text parts.

Could end up with some fun threads here on /vr/ if we started doing translations.

>>619401
Could be useful. There are alot of japanese-only games.

>>619396
The soundtrack for the Flying Duckman was also completely different in the Genesis and the SNES version.

Hell,from what I seem to remember,the jungle level with the vine bungees was also very different between the two. It's been a while since I replayed Cold Shadow,but I remember there were a lot of differences between the two,to the point where they're basically different games.

>>619414
Yeah, Test of Duckhood in SNES was changed from a bungee jump platforming challenge to navigating a maze while carrying Muddrakes across.

>>619405
Are there any good ones on the SNES you can think of that have yet to be translated? I guess Marvelous, maybe, but that's a bit too ambitious to start out with.

Mojo Mansion
Dark Cellar replaced by Dark Hallway, Organ Climb level extended. Metal Spider can no longer be attacked during its spawn animation and has two phases.

Ninja Training Grounds
Main level mostly unaltered, Shadow Clones attack the instant you get close to them. Shadow Clone Boss added Green lightning-shooting clones and extended fight to include the golden Yin-Yang symbol.

My memory fails me on Muddrake Mayhem. The boss fight was changed to only one totem-toting Muddrake horde I think, but its health was increased and the last Muddrake hid in the roof.

Sacrifice of Maui
More enemy types added, level made much more Maui-oriented. Escape The Volcano changed to Maui riding a rock up instead of Cold Shadow grappling up the volcano.

Trial of Duckhood
Changed into a single level where you guide Muddrakes through a maze of thorns and spikes. Frog God boss changed to feeding him all the Muddrakes on screen instead of killing it directly.

Flying Duckman and Realm of the Dead I can't remember properly, outside of Flying Duckman giving you 8-way shooting in SNES version.

>>619435
Perhaps make a thread about it?

>>618970
>>618998

Most people learned to read with Disney comics. We also get good new material on a regular basis - Disney stuff from Disney Italia, Phantom stuff from Team Fantomen. It also doesn't hurt that you can get comics in grocery stores, so kids can just randomly find them when shopping with parents.

>>618340
are you trying to tell me that ducks can speak chicken language ??

I suggest your suggestion is wrong sir

>>619401
>Could end up with some fun threads here on /vr/ if we started doing translations.

Dis gun be good.