/vr/ - Retro Games

I still greatly enjoy video games, most of which are old, after 30 years of playing them.

i've come to terms that I hate jrpgs
since then i've had more fun

>>7763882
I was the one who first leaked the existence of the SpaceWorld 97 Gold and Silver roms to /vp/
That's pretty much the only major thing that's happened to me in terms of retro gamer cred

Why would I be an attention whore? I just play video games.

I was the first person to get the bear mountain collectable in Silicon Valley.

>>7763882
I remembered that Twisted Metal Black had a secret button code to make Raven pop out of her car with a machinegun, blasting at nearby enemies, and also while showing her titties (so not the same as her widely known alternate special attack, where she does this fully dressed).
This was never well documented, and it's difficult to find much reference to it online at all, it's not mentioned on any fan wikis or cheat sites (or wasn't, haven't checked recently), beyond a thread on NeoGaf from over a decade ago.

It's like, you hold down the shoulder buttons, and then tap triangle three times, or it was up on the D-pad three times.

Not even a discovery, as much as it's remembering an old easter egg that the world never noticed, not even the Twisted Metal fandom.

>>7764262
That's pretty based considering how much those roms meant to those guys, Anon.

>>7763882
i invented video games

>>7764258
Personally, I don't hate them, I just think I've mostly outgrown them with age, they're just not what I want out of videogames anymore.
If I want a roleplaying game, I want something like Baldur's Gate or Morrowind.

>>7764262
You did the right thing by foiling the petty shits at TCRF.

>>7764408
I don't know if what I did sped up the process of getting the ROMs out but it's possible. Originally they were planning to release it alongside a translated rom (for a fucking demo with like one cutscene that wasn't accessible) around a month after they got it but the roms ended up dropping like a week or two after they got it instead. The roms were posted by some vindictive guy, don't really know what his problem was with the group exactly but he definitely seemed to be doing it to spite them. I think the story goes he forced/blackmailed/tricked someone in the group into handing over the roms

>>7764412
Y-you're Joe Videogame?!

>>7763882
I was a solid NHL 94 competitive player from 9-12 years old. I only let the community know how young I was around 16 or so.

>>7764417
I thought they were going to not release the original rom at all?

I have a game probably nobody else in the world has anymore, I got it from a friend who got it from a friend etc and I've saved it across computers ever since the early 90s.

>>7764425
I think the plan was always to release the original rom alongside the translated version. I don't remember any rumblings at the time that the rom wasn't coming, just that it wasn't coming yet (for artificial reasons)

>>7764421
the one and only

I wanna fuck somebody

I just found out the hard way that the PS2 version of picture related has a glitch where you can't get 100% completion because the alternate paths in some levels that only open as you progress through the game stay locked no matter what, and it's never been documented because there's barely any discussion of the game on the internet to begin with.

>>7764515
>I think the plan was always to release the original rom alongside the translated version
Pretty sure the original was never going to be released. That is why they didn't released it before the translation.

>>7764485
If it's good you should consider uploading it. Sad when good games fall into complete obscurity.

>>7763882
I remember making like 200k in Crazy Taxi arcade mode, that was cool.

>>7764423
I had no idea there was a NHL '94 competitive scene.
I don't hear people talk about hockey games too much, is NHL '94 a classic?

>>7764751
It's not bad, but it's fairly basic and I'm not sure if it's fully complete. It's a gravity cave flier game where you go around in a rocketship blowing up varied enemy buildings and turrets, refueling&repairing at launch pads, and you have a machinegun and a slowly recharging single shot cannon.

All in all it's a bit cursed kek, it was probably originally distributed around old BBSes or passed around a university of floppies, and I've never found even a mention online about it.

>>7764753
noice

>>7763882
No, you weren't.

I invented the Muk joke.

>>7763882

I got my name in Nintendo Power for high scores a couple of times.

>>7764416
>You did the right thing by foiling the petty shits at TCRF.
What's wrong with the guys at TCRF? I haven't used that site much, but I found it really helpful for seeing regional differences in games. Surprised at the difficulty increase for USA versions of games.

>>7763882
im in a [spolier]summoning salt vod[/spoiler]

>>7764814
I thought I literally had the game you're talking about but after digging out the old burned cd it appears to be a different gravity cave flier game called Gravity Force by Jans Hassler

>>7764814
It would be interesting to see it uploaded if you wanted. I know I'd archive a copy of it. But I do appreciate the allure of having a game like that.

As for me, I have a fully formed Quake mod that I and a friend make in college in the late 00s using quark. a full campaign sequence of about 25 levels and a hub world. I can't speak for the quality of the levels, but it's probably be considered ok because myself, my friend, and several other people have played the levels and liked them. We called it, The Rise of Yig.

>>7766521
The one I have is called "Grav"

>>7766594
I'll see if I remember to come back tomorrow and upload it, it also has some kind of wierd graphics bug on doxbox that kind of makes it unplayable, I suspect it's somehow related to screen size or resolution settings or something.

>>7763882
I met the guy who first discovered the credit easter egg in Adventure, no cap. He told me about how he called Atari up, and he still has the letter from Robinett. What's oddly fitting is that he only lives a
few miles away from where Bushnell worked as a teen. It was also fun hearing about how he worked on the console ports of Mortal Kombat before moving to Warner Bros.

>>7765170
Look up the Nintendo Database's Totaka's Song page (assuming it's still around, but if not you can find an archived copy) if you don't believe me. NinDB was the first English language website to document the song and to give it the name "Totaka's Song", and I was one of two people who discovered and sent in the Warioland VB appearance 15± years ago (the email addy I used then is long since gone, so naturally I can't prove that I beat the other guy to it). My initials are M.B. Sorry if that's not enough for you, but I am who I am.

>>7766083
you never heard about the gen 1 beta fiasco?

>>7766793
Who you are is a faggot. Clear and simple.

>>7767253
Be that as it may, I discovered Totaka's Song in Wario Land VB and was credited for it by Fryguy64, the webmaster of nindb.net.

I have 180 unique gba games. And I'm not talking about the crappy shovelware, I collect games i actually want, like Alien Hominid, Demikids, etc.

I had 0 games at the beginning of last summer. I was bored and depressed after getting laid off in the middle of covid and started picking them up.

I beat mario 1, 2 and 3 in one awesome summer as a 13 year old kid. The only console my poor fag family had in 1999 was a NES our cousins gave us for free.

>>7763882
Super cringe. I bet you were also the first person to get your homoerotic fan art of Wario posted on some random blog as well.

>>7767434
Nope. :)

>>7764405
Screenshot it or I don't believe it.

>>7767625
Not him, but I remember hearing about this as well.

>>7767625
It pains me to link to a neofag thread, but here you can find people talking about it years ago along with a YouTube video of it that seems to have been taken down: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/hot-christmas-cocoa-hidden-topless-code-found-in-twisted-metal-black.217135/

Added games to mobygames

>>7767625
>>7767634
>>7767647
I don't have an emulator set up, or my copy of TMB available, but there's this. If you do, you can try it yourself.

>>7763882
nope. I'm painfully mediocre and/or kind of bad at games.

>>7764412
We thank you for your services.

>>7766934
that involved Helix Chamber though

>>7763882
I saved the video game industry from disaster. I created Gacha.

>>7763882
I beat Emerald Weapon without the Underwater materia.

Several gaming feats that while not world class make me elite

-Beat a ton of NES games including the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
-A few 1CCs on relativily easy games like Metal Slug

I'm back with the ancient cursed cave flier game, what site I can easily upload the zip to?

>>7766764
That's awesome, Anon. Awesome cool to learn that the guy who discovered that got into the industry himself.
>>7768153
anonfiles_(dot) _com, though I'm not sure this is the right thread for it.

>>7768153
Archive.org

>>7767314
>lose job
>waste money on video game collection
idiot

>>7767265
Wrong again. Other people did. Not everyone cares about having their name on some shitty website. You didn't even own the fucking game before them lol. Delusional loser.

Almost had world hi score in mega drive of columns until system froze

Found a easter egg in dark cloud that wasnt and i dont think still is listed on most sites about the game and if there is mention of it its probably from me trying to spread info bout i

>>7768153
either of those sites mentioned should be fine, just tell us what you call it. Thanks anon, nice to see an ancient game take a step back from oblivion.

I played a game once

>>7769835

I got a letter printed in N64 magazine (uk). It was about a goldeneye glitch

>>7763882
I started shit posting about Dr. Slumps low poly A E S T H E T I C and now it actually got translated. Never thought it get his far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc4Uw0b81dg

>>7768796
Anon, of all the claims made in this thread, why are you persistently fixed on mine? Nobody was documenting Totaka's Song appearances online before Fryguy64, thus getting credited for the discovery on his site is as close to official as it got. You can't prove that anyone waited several minutes after the credits before me. I did that intentionally back when people online first started hunting for the song.

Cope.

>>7763882
I have a few random ones most people never believe but I don't care.

1ccd both Star Wars Arcade and Space Harrier on Master System the first time I played them. Took me ages afterwards somehow to get consistent with SH again which I now think it funny cause it seems braindead now. Maybe SW Arcade is the same I only played it a few times in the arcade and only beat it the first time.

Found a glitch in Tomb Raider that lets you skip almost the entire Colosseum. No one seemed to care but that was pre speed running and now I can't be bothered to remember.

Was so good at Starsiege Tribes I had to change my name on a weekly basis to keep from the enemy team quitting when I showed up. My score was routinely higher than the whole opposing team combined. It's not that I'm a savant at shooters but that game, especially the modded servers had all kinds of fun shit I could play with that others didn't seem to get.


I had one of the bigger tribes begging me to join and refused because one of their members team killed me once to get to an inventory station first. The leader kicked him hoping I'd join but I still refused and he (Foxpax MADDOG) turned into a team killing troll who always got kicked instantly and soon quit. I continued on my merry way.

There are other stories oldfags here might recognize but I'm too lazy to retype and most pass them off anyways. So here's some Shermie to keep you company.

>>7768796
This has nothing to do with what you asked

I've dumped several protos.

>>7770606
"Nobody waited after the credits before me" lolllllllll wrong and pathetic.

>>7770792
This is just sad.

>>7770631
I know what it's like when you discover something cool and people either don't care or don't believe you, Anon, so I believe you. It would be nice if you could remember that Tomb Raider glitch, but I'm sure speedrunners have discovered it themselves by now.

>>7770818
Did you know if you wait after the credits in alladin on she's fireworks eventually start going off? I'm the first person in history to discover this, despite the fact I didn't even own the game when it was released.

>>7770828
Rent free.

>>7763882
I played through Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with my toes.
Also, I've completed the first stage of Ninja Gaiden 2 on the NES while blindfolded.

>>7770834
Try harder zoomer.

>>7770891
No, he's right. You're obsessed. It's pretty weird.

>>7763882
I’m like less than 500 score away from getting top ten in Oregon trail. I really need to go back and get my record. That game is easy AF

>>7770907
>photo of image viewer
Why wouldn't you just post the image?

>>7770914
Cuz I’m a dirty phone poster atm

>>7770905
Zoom zoom

>>7770828
Seething autist.

>>7770953
Hi zoomer.

>>7770946
>>7770981
Obsessed

>>7770994
Zoomies gonna zoom

>>7771009
None of the posters you've been replying to in the past hour have been me (OP), you sperg. Rent free and tearing down a wall to expand the living room I've built in your brain.

>>7770606
>Cope
Indeed
What a sad desperate attention whore

>>7770827
I'm sure they have, it's not complicated there's just some spot in the main colosseum room I think where you can wiggle through a corner or something and drop right down to the corridor that ends the level.

I beat Punch-Out!!

>>7763882
Top 3 world record in crazy taxi dreamcast tournament settings for time and traffic

>>7766934
No, tell me pls. Never heard of a gen 1 beta.

>>7766934
Are you talking about offhand comment from a GameFreak employee; the one where he said there were originally 170 Pokemon?

I took a huge shit on a Sega genesis once.

>>7772602
No.

>>7772505
The Cutting Room Floor wanted to withhold the 97' beta of Gold & Silver, and instead release their own version. I don't remember all of the details, but someone knows the story.

>>7768005
I have been told that Helix Chamber and the TCRF-based group that were involved with the SW97 effort were somehow interlinked or associated with one another but I have no fucking idea.
>>7772505
The same guy who had the SW97 roms also had beta Gen 1 shit like old sprites and maps and stuff and Helix Chamber wanted to reveal some of the stuff. There was a set of backsprites for nearly the entire beta dex including shit we still don't really get.
>what you'd expect them to do
Release all this stuff online, maybe do a live stream showing it off. See the Hidden Palace release for Sonic 3's recent beta.
>what they actually did
What they did was create fake front sprites based on their imagination and then put them into a rom hack. They then live streamed someone playing this romhack and apparently from what I've been told, the implication was that the rom was the proto and they weren't at all clear about what was real and what wasn't.
This obviously backfired with the public because that's fucking retarded. Eventually they did just release the real beta stuff on their website through blog posts without tampering with them.
Some of this stuff is literally Capsule Monsters era, you should check it out.

>>7772814
Using a 32x is not that impressive, anon.

>>7772882

I found Chris hoolahan room in a link to the past on my own as a kid.. I was in shock and had no way to prove it to anyone. I remember it perfectly.

It wasn't till years later I read about it on the early internet..

Imagine trying to explain that to people.

>>7774387
That must have freaked you out, huh? Like 'who the hell is Chris Houlihan?!'.

>>7763882
I have 2-all'd the Strikers games, and have logged over 7000 hours of shmup playtime.

>>7772862
>>7772873
When will people understand that you have to share the load...

I have a speedrunning game record on a version of a game where I'm the only contestant

but I did find some new tricks.

>>7766083
There is nothing wrong with TCRF. As with everywhere there will always be people dumb people and drama, but it's like saying wikipedia is shit because you heard one guy made some drama.
Overall it's still the better site because, unlike on fan sites controlled by a small group of people, content is less opiniated/based on assumptions and can actually be corrected.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen. The main issue i've witnessed with the site is people making contributions of "things they heard" "things they've seen", as in, not things of their own research or things they checked up on themselves to make sure it's correct. This can lead to hearsays of hearsays, or misconceptions and assumptions passed as fact; plus when you contribute something not of your own you're supposed to provide source but these people don't always do that.

However like I said at least one day someone who actually cares and does his own research will check and correct. The same thing is less likely to happen on fansites.

>>7775213
>content is less opiniated/based on assumptions and can actually be corrected.
To my understanding, it's not, and that people take articles extremely personally and will editorialize the hell of them, putting odd slants on them.

I held the official world record for Super Mario Bros.

>>7763882
Im the one who leaked pokemon prism to 4chan a few years ago. I was talking shit on their discord about how easy it'd be to leak it and not get caught and they basicly gave me the file and told me to do just that.
I also sent it to a few random journos but that didnt amount to much compared to 4chan's vp and v boards.

>>7775213
>>7775354
If TCRF is meant to be a repository of information, it should be written in a neutral tone, much like Wikipedia. Often it isn't. Instead it's someone's blog post put up as a wiki page along with whatever random feeling they have on the game. It's unprofessional and cringe.

>>7775668
Any good examples?

>>7772882
I am in awe of this amazing burn

>>7778098
Dabbing on a widely recognized failure from over two decades ago isn't that hard, though I admire how it's presented.