/vr/ - Retro Games

>>819394
OP you should have made mention that it really needs to be pictures from actual games.

>>819428
The text is pixel art, but the background is just regular art put through a dithering filter.

>>819436
Sorry for the mixup

>>819436
it's okay anon

You may recognize this scene from the NES port of Hokkaido Serial Murders: The Ohotsuku Disappearance as it was featured on GCCX (translated EP #105).

>>819463

Old one is still up, faggot. Learn to use the catalog

>>804831

Let's get crackin'. I do love these JPC screenies.

>>819472
And it's reached the image limit, so.

>>819472
Yeah but the image limit has been reached.

>>819472
But it hit its image limit unless someone deleted some of their posts. I agree OP could have linked to it in the first post.

>>819428

I think that's kinda self evident from it being on /vr/. Now that I think about it, asking people to post the game the pic's from when they post it would have been an idea. I say that, but where this pic's from escapes me right now...

>>819474
>>819475
>>819476

I'm sorry. I'm retarded.

>>819481
S'okay

>>819480
Forgiven.

Some of these are from this awesome tumblr:

http://fmtownsmarty.tumblr.com/

I lied: these all are. Gotta go invest some time over at the Tokugawa library for different stuff, since my haul only covers several games.

Japanese PCs are so fascinating.

>>819482
Well I'm just not keen on people posting pieces by Paul Robertson and the like as it's not really the purpose of the thread.

>>819501
Because it can't be reposted enough or have too little peers:
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=view&tid=320480

>>819482
>but where this pic's from escapes me right now...

you serious?

>AIDS

>I can't DEW this anymore...
>Even the text and my hair have turned green..

Pic is from Basted, an action RPG for the PC Engine. I mesmerised by the pants held up by belts the girl on the right is wearing. Though I'm probably just being derpy and they're part of the jacket.

Have a bdsm fairy.

Our work here is done. There is no one left to rape.

>>819572
Night Slave is better.

Some Power Dolls stuff.

This dump's from the Tokugawa screenshot FTL, developers/publishers K and up:

http://fullmotionvideo.free.fr/screen/a.html

Game's Mercurius Pretty, apparently.

Here's the first game the Atelier developers ever made.

Not kidding.

>X-Multiply
This made me really uncomfortable.

>>819615
Pixel art that depicts space anything is truly one of the greatest things ever.

>>819630
It's either space or Neo-Tokyo that got the grandest pixel art back then. I tend to avoid posting pics that clearly look like de-rezzed JPEGs, not stuff that's more hand-crafted.

>>819635
I think it's because of the stars and the lights. Pixel art does very good for them.

>>819646
Yeah, even when there's dithering or stippling.

Can the PC-98 do per-scanline color changes like a bunch of other old-school systems can do? I haven't noticed it in any of these screenshots, which all seem to cap out at 16 colors. Are there any games that do this?

If only.

>>819587
This one exist in english.

I love when they draw room.

>>819521
Hahahaha. The look of that girl in the poster is hilarious

>>819624
What game is this? What's it about?

>>819610

In english? Where from? I thought it only came out on PC 98 and ntsc-J Dreamcast

>>819848
One of the Mujin games, with which I'm unacquainted.

>>819859
This is for PC98. Menus are in English, I guess.

>>819878
It looks like a post-apocalyptic RPG!

>>819884
I just took a look at it on Tokugawa. The screen I posted is from the third game; the first two games take place on tropical, desert islands, and the games are probably based around survival/adventure. Third game's set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, so you're right on that.

>>819889
>dat snow
So perfect.

Maybe it's just me, but this 90s anime aesthetic just strikes me as so much more charismatic than what we get today.

>>819906
Hey hey, no porno.

>>819905
That's because it's hand-drawn stuff we're talking here, so there's more imperfections and less chances to eke bye with digital coloring.

>>819916
>implying it's a dick

>>819918
>Japan

>>819905
I love this kind of nose that doesn't make any fucking sense. It's like a cast shadow with a contour and without an actual shadow.

>>819878

Ah, hell- by the looks of thing @ mobygames not enough of it is in english for proper playing. Thanks anyway.

>>819926
Worse than those noses are all of these ax-shaped jaws I keep seeing these days—as if the head itself is compensating for the curved nose.

>>819928
Well yeah, it's a tentacle.

>>819916
it's not censored, so it's not a dick.

>>819926

>>819931
It's even hotter, FUCK!

>>819928
What the fuck is going on with your pelvis.

>>819936

>>819932
Shit, you're right.

>>819905

All anime is shit now.

Only most of it used to be shit...

>>819948
I liked Girls und Panzer.
Also, Attack on Titan.

>>819948
>Jojo's anime is on a "hiatus" due to the Hyperdimension Neptunia anime.

>>819951
If you liked Girls und Panzrer, you should try Upotte. Havent got around to watching attack on titan

>>819951
Assuming you didn't read Attack on Titan and are just watching the anime, prepare for disappoitment. It starts really well and then promptly goes to shit.

Now let's not derail the thread.

>>819948
Don't start it, anime was always a passtime for weird social recluses, that was true before and is still true now.

>>819960

It used to be in America, and most of the recluses were adults with taste so we consequently only got the worthwhile stuff. Now it's massive and we get all the generic shit. The Japanese know this and consequently make more generic shit.

Things ARE different.

Was there ever such a thing as a PC-98 demoscene? I don't know if Japan ever had anything like that, or if Western demosceners would care enough about this system, but I can hope. Given the system's arresting high-resolution low-color graphics and orgasmic FM sound I think it's fair to say that a well-made PC-98 demo would be nothing short of breathtaking.

I know nothing about this system aside from what I've seen in screenshots and heard in music clips on youtube, but it basically seems like the purest expression of early-90s aesthetics anywhere.

>>819970
Either way you should switch to a proper adult hobby that suit your superior tastes better.

Alright, enough of this.

>>819972
That's probably the most obscure of the obscure, since we're having trouble just getting to mainstream releases. I bet there's something of a demoscene tucked away somewhere. There is one for Yamaha FM music, for example.

>>819978
Stop shitposting, please. We're having a thread here.

>>819978

I have. Rarely watch animu anymore.

>>819982

Calm down.

>>819970
American tastes don't influence what anime is made at all. Anime is made to sell BDs and merchandise for ridiculous prices to a reasonably small number of japs and to advertise other media.

Nevertheless some quality anime is made nowadays alongside a slew of garbage, just like always.

You guys should get into Artdink, they make games about stuff like SimCity in space on an O'Neill cylinder.

>>819989

>american tastes don't influence what anime is made

This isn't true. Since the mid-naughts or so, Japan has viewed anime as a cultural product and made sure it turns out a certain way. It's not just American tastes, but other foreign markets as well.

>>819980
>There is one for Yamaha FM music, for example.

Interesting. I know that Yamaha FM chips are pretty popular with general retro enthusiasts and a lot of people still make music for them, but I don't know if that constitutes an actual "scene". Is there a scene somewhere that I should know about?

>pc98 / fmtowns / msx general

>>820074
Why not ?

>>820079
I'm not complaining

>>819989
Newtype USA Volume 7 Issue 1 (2008)

An interview at a convention from one of the columists

"12 years ago, an anime producer told me that the foreign market was worth only 10% of a japanese company's interest. Can you put a number on it now?

"Sure. It's 50% of our business. Half of our plans, half of our selections, are geared directly toward foreign markets, specifically america. And its worth 50% of our profits"

>>819954
Jojo is not on a hiatus, they are just making enough episode so they can roll in October. Do you think they are making each ep. one by one each week ? This is not south park.

Yes, posting stuff from the FM towns blog thing is lazy as hell

>>820163
Fucking badass, what kind of game is this?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc98/metal-eye-2

>>814495
>by the by, do people who play these old Japanese PC-98 etc visual novel.adventure games read Japanese?
I can read Japanese, yes. Part of the reason I like PC98 is that the text looks much nicer than on systems like the NES, Genesis or even PlayStation1. Old consoles had shit resolutions and usually all the text is in Kana-only, whereas PC-98's resolution is reasonably high and has no problem handling both Kana and Kanji.

>>820224
What about the PC-FX?

>>820230
i've never played anything on it, but from the screenshots I've seen it seems to be like with the ps1, i.e. it can handle Kanji but the text is still ugly due to the low resolution.

Picrelated is Phantasy Star on the SMS, which uses Katakana only (PSII on the Genny had Hiragana and Katakana, while in PSIV they finally managed to make it display Kanji)

>>820260

>>820273

>>819559
That's nice. What game?

>>819781
that game has some well-made H scenes

>>820364
Apparently it's DoDonPachi_Dai_Ou_Jou/ Kingdom Grandprix

>>820389
ultra-lewd

>>820404
Yeah that's not Dodonpachi.

>>820394
That fucking game.

All of my hnng

What's a good place to get FM-TOWNS roms, other than Share and Perfect Dark which I can't use at the moment?

In particular, I'm looking for Branmarker 2

>>820534
Jesus, that's one angry looking tree.

>>820459
You ain't lying.

>>819508
>http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=view&tid=320480

Holy shit I love you

>>820585
What's this? It looks really familiar.
>>819508
>40gb
Damn, my drive is almost full. Bookmarked.

>>820696
Viper GTB

>>820696
>It looks really familiar
probably because this series is famous for its many animated sex gifs that can be found all over the internet

>>820716
How do I play it

>>820716
>dat 90´s anime style

Love it

>>820716
Thankyee.
>>820728
It's a Windows 2000 game, so it should just run from an installer or something.

>>820728
It's pretty subpar actually.
When you are in top view, just wander around until you find something.
The combats are pretty useless, so try to skip most of them.
But if you want to win anyway, you have to press the attack button in rythm.

Why japanese never made "proper" Point and click game ?

>>820730
It's Takahiro Kimura. He did various anime in the 90s and 2000s.

>>820824
I guess they didnt care much for that kind of gameplay

>>820074
Pretty much. It's all we're talking about.

>>820183
Good find.

>>820224
Who knows. All I know s that the visual novel developed because most Japanese PCs couldn't draw multiple full frames fast at all, meaning that it was easier to make detailed, static screens that wouldn't look patchy when transitioning. That would explain why there's so much awesome pixel art, too.

Not you, >>820224, but I was referring to >>820824.

>>820845
>>820848
Yes, but how static it must have been ? Because "proper" point and click are very static too. You just have a sprite to animate and that's it.

>>819994
what game is that? is that the SimCity in space? looks awesome

>>820874
nevermind, I found it. I always forget to check filenames

>>820927
>no gameplay on youtube
fuck

>>820936
I can't find very many screenshots or anything


apparently, it was for PC-98 and FMtowns, and they made a heavy remake for the PC...

I really really want to play this game now..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyee2aZhcjc

>>819889

why are the roads exploding?

>>820943
also, that screenshot is apparently Tokio 1, and the other screenshot posted was Tokio 2.

so there are two games

fuck

>>820943
What a weird view angle.

>>820858
Forget all that, I read a better explanation from >>820695.

>>820874
Tokio 2. Artdink made two SimCity-like games based around a Tokyo-related space colony. They're both damn funny games, apparently, and I bet they're the cream of the crop as far as PC98 sim games go.

>>820936
I just went looking for an old NicoNico vid of the first game in action, but now it's on this massive YT channel full of stuff I used to watch there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEVar8E3Ro

There must be even more Artdink videos on that channel, for that matter.

>>820943
They re-released both games in memorial packs, something Artdink did for a lot of their old computer games.

>>820958
It works!

>>821051
My pleasure.

Time for me to post A-Train screens?

>>821015
thanks!

>>821054
>A-Train
isn't there a windows version ?

>>821050
>>821052
>that fucking view angle again

>>821062
Fuck me, responding to >>821057

>>821054
Depends on which installment you're talking about:

http://www.atrain.jp/product/index.html

>>821059
It's a cylindrical space colony.

>>821015
>that nightlighting
>that space station management
>that simcity feel

what I wouldn't give to play an english version of that...

>>820096
But then why is most anime still generic moeblob shit?

Is there a list anywhere of how many of these games were translated into english?

>>821248
VNDB covers more than just VN.

>>821215
>But then why is most music generic wubtronic shit?
>But then why are most movies generic explosion space shit?
>But why are most western games generic respawn-FPS shit?

But why are you so dumb?

>>821261
>implying the west, specifically america is into moeblob shit
But why can't you context?

>>819394
The best part of this game is that you keep staring at the picture and getting closer and closer, and the closer you look the more you realize how much they used fancy techniques effectively. What you think is a whole range of colors turns into a few basic ones skillfully repeated over and over, it's like the 'turtles all the way down' except with color, just when you think you've hit the end there's another trick to get more color out of the limited palette.

How on earth is this stuff not considered some fantastic artistic achievement?

>>819437
>middle robot

G-Getter?

>>821272
Because dithering has been used since the end of time on everything.

>>821162
I just wish I knew moonrunes.

>>821272
>How on earth is this stuff not considered some fantastic artistic achievement?

Probably because people who study and create art see and do this all the time.

>>821328
What a waste of electricity.

>>821373
>no power costs until A-Train 9
It's based on late-'80s Japan, so yeah.

Also: more Tokio 2. Screens of this are much harder to find.

Anyone here checked out the PC-98 version of E.V.O.? It's a hell load crazier, plotwise.

>>821425
>plotwise
Doesn't matter if gameplay sucks

Guys I think I have a dithering fetish and I have no idea where it came from, since I've never played any of those games.

>>821438
There's a PC98 tag on sadpanda.

>>819948

Attack on Titan, Jojo's Bizarre adventure, That Fujiko Mine Woman all came out in like the last year though bro

>>821438
You must like fishnets.

>>821445

I uh

I do, actually.

>>821442

Time for "research".

>>821459
Good 'ol CTR. Really stretching the definition of pixel art there, though.

>>821453
Me too.

>>819394
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>>819478
>>819482
>>819508
>>819786
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>>819791
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>>819905
>>820549
>>820551
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>>820749

>You will never see new anime & Japanese vidya with these art styles ever again

>>821474
This

>>819972
The demoscene seems to be mainly a European thing (with small popularity in America). The closest thing that Japanese have is the doujin soft scene, which is a bit more commercial in nature. I get the feeling that in the mid-80s and early 90s, when Americans and Europeans were coding demos and graphical effects to impress each other, the Japanese were doing hobby games and selling them through magazines and hobbyist computer shops.

>>819980
>>819996
The Soundshock used to be the center of the Western FM scene, but they shut down a few years ago. You can still read everything, though:
http://soundshock.se/phpBB2/
Nowadays I think most discussion goes on on chipmusic.org, the DefleMask forums, and some IRC channels that I'm not privy to. Of course, in Japan, they use MML-based tools and not trackers.

>>821474
Things come and go, together with people that made them.
I wonder if marvel fans are nostalgiaing over sixties style of drawing too.

>>821474
>>821483

>>821512

No, because they are objectively worse. They don't nostalgiafag over the 90's either because 90's were a shit time for comics.

>>821547
Those are some harsh fighting words. Nobody in their right mind would even remotely hint that Jack Kirby's drawings are worse than the Photoshit we have going on nowadays.

For those who want to emulate these games the following emulators:

FM-Towns - UNZ
MSX - BlueMSX
PC98 - Anex98 or T-98 Next
PC88 - M88

And of course DOSBox for those rare games ported westward

>>821550
X86k?

>>821552
Never emulated it but try WinX86k High-Speed

Are there any retro VNs that are close to Yu-No in quality?

>>821547
>because 90's were a shit time for comic

Comic newfag here. I hear this a lot, care to elaborate?

>>821571
Divi Dead.

>>821571
Nocturnal Illusion

>>821571
Muv-Luv

>>821575
I don't know shit about Western comics either but I gather that everything was way too dark and edgy for a while, every character was a foul-mouthed antihero, etc.

>>821556
Yup, that seems to work. It breaks desktop composition, but apart from that seems flawless. If it can play this, it should play anything. Sorry, but I don't have any games with good pixel art on me.
>>821575
I've never been to /co/, so I don't know the consensus, but my personal opinion is that 90's comics are unnecessarily grimdark, almost self parodyingly so. A lot of comics, also had that weird trying-too-hard-to-be-realistic artstyle. Some good stuff came out of it, but for the most part, it was pretty terrible.

>>821605
>trying-too-hard-to-be-realistic artstyle
That's the current style.

>>821550
Which version of Madou Monogatari is the best? I played through the fan translation of the Game Gear port of 1, but I might try to play 2 and 3 in moon.

>>821608
I can't really find any good images via google, but I mean that one that looks realistically proportioned and well drawn, but has a weird shiny brown pallete. I have no real idea how to describe it, but I've noticed that a lot of 90's comics uses that type of art.
Modern stuff at least seems to be more stylized.
>>821628
Ah, I miss teletext. Had a lot of potential, but the internet came along and replaced it before it reached it.

>>821621
PC98 bro if you crave some dithering.

>>821634
Sounds like exactly what mid-00's comics and now look like.

>>821645
What is this game? It looks incredibly fun.

>>821605
I think the thing was the indies came along and seemed like an actual competitive force and the two major names thought in order to keep their staff from moving over to other companies they needed to give them more freedom so you had all these artists that had been told they needed to tone down stuff for the kids for years finally able to do what ever they want. Which of course resulted in many of them going over board with it.

>>821650
Shadow President.

>>821641
this, what I remember most about comics from the 90s is that a lot of them started to adopt that tall bony aeon flux style art, which I wouldn't call realistic at all

>>821650
>>821645
it looks anxiety attack provoking to me

>>821645
>5000 missiles
>do it
>bad idea

>>821695
Well yea. Isreal isn't that big. A couple of hundred would have been enough.

>>821714
You need to wipe the rest of the sandniggers around Israel as well.

>>821645
>5K nuclear missiles

you just caused the extinction of mankind

>>821803
Seeing how it only killed 4141 people, they must have really, really low yield warheads on them. Hell, you could fire duds and kill that many people from the impact/debris.

>>821863
>it only killed 4141 people
you're missing three zeros there, buddy

>>821863
4,141K people, anon.

That's over 4.1 million.

>>821876
And that's terrible.

>>821878
That's not even 0.1% of the world's population, you baby.

>>819972
I just read http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/デモシーン and apparently no, there was no demo scene worth mentioning in Japan, aside from a couple of reverse weeaboos who did amiga demos. There was a notable MSX demo scene, but only because the MSX was fairly popular in some European countries like Holland and Spain.

>>821886
>not getting the ref
>2012+1

>>821889
...is there such a thing as a soundblaster demoscene?

>>821575
Some of the stuff was X-TREME and tried too hard to be cool or dark. Here is (a) Batman around 1993-4:

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/141_4_0000005011.jpg

Linking so not to add to the image count with non-/vr/ related pics. But he's pretty much remembered as a joke during that arc. They're using that outfit as a skin in Origins though.

>>821971

That's not really batman. It's Azrael (John Paul Valley), who took over for Batman after Bane broke his back. He's supposed to be over-the-top. The whole point was that Azrael was going *too damn far* when punishing criminals.

Sage for not /vr/. Knightfall is pretty great, though. You all should read it if you haven't already.

>>819435
Kindly requesting source on what game this is. Filename says appare but Google just turns up steakhouses.

>>822001
Appare-den: Fukuryū no Shō

Tip for finding source by name: Put the name of the machine at the end of your search. Or just put ROM or something to make it vidya related.

>>822035
Thanks. It doesn't look like there's a translation for it though. Too bad, it looked neat.

>>821889
>There is a thread about the demo scene on the second channel bulletin board, demo party online "2chparty" was opened by volunteers in 2009. In off-line, a demonstration party Japan's first full-scale "Tokyo Demo Fest" was held at last in 2011.

Huh, interesting. There could be something good here.

>>822062
>it looked neat
I agree. Some more screens:
http://mercenaryforce.web.fc2.com/pc9801/pc98/00656.html
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc98/appare-den-fukury-no-sh/screenshots

I can't seem to get it running on np2...

>>821665
One word: Liefeld.

>>821605
>I've never been to /co/, so I don't know the consensus
/co/mrade here. The consensus is that they're edgy/grimdark with bad Lee/Liefeld art.

However, most people on /co/ don't read comics and of those that do, most haven't read anything pre-2000.

There's a lot of shit from the 90s, but a lot of gold, too. Just like every other era of capeshit.

>>823171
>>823173

These are pretty neat.

Quick question what's the best version of Illusion City to play?

>>823585

Unless you can speak Japanese, you're playing the first 6 disks of the MSX version.

I've always wanted to do pixel art like those PC-98 games like Dokyuusei. Is there a tutorial anywhere to do em? Can't seem to find em. Was always wondering how to do those dithered "color blending" they were doing.

Are these 8-bit images?

>>823624
MSX and PC-88 were 8bit but PC-98, X86000 and the like were 16/32 bit.

>>823172

FANTASTICO

That feel when japan talk about weird ass amiga games:
http://jun.2chan.net/31/res/2026499.htm

>>823603

I would really like to know this as well. If I had to guess because of how consistent the approach to pixel art was then it was partly due to the tools used at the time. The closest software I can think of that directly replicates this art is Deluxe Paint but chances are likely it's some proprietary analog to it that was sold in Japan.

>>823684
I used to try to re-draw some pics in PC98 style with Photoshop. Ask me anything.

>>823687
And the result if I just use 16 colors dithering.

>>823687
Heeeeeeeeey, that's really nice! Do you have anything else to post...?

>>823689
And the original pic.

>>823690
I made this one too.

>>823694
original

>>820401
>asters22.png
Trying to google this one, not having any luck. Anyone know what this is from?

>>823694
>>823689

Is there any sorta of tutorial for doing such a thing?

>>823716
No.
But I can give advice and how I proceeded.
I can also give you the original PSD files.

But just now, I'm going to the gym.

>>823715
Not really sure it's a real game, since it seem to be taken from Deluxe paint 2.

>>823694
Pretty convincing. Hey, just an idea for a project in case you don't already have enough of them, how about giving the same treatment to Carrera from the Viper OVA to resemble something from the games?

Other aster thing

>>823725
very different imo since Sogna wasn't all about dithering.

Jesus, I can't even remember the last time I saved this many images from a 4chan thread. This stuff just never stops delivering.

>14 colors

>9 colors

>9 colors again

Master dithering pushing the technical limits of an early display.

>>821474
There's some tradeoffs that have to be made sometimes, but yeah, I do miss older animation styles. I'd even prefer the animation of the 70's over what we have today.

>>823783
>>823792

It's really amazing what people did to push the limits back then. Look at this. I would've never guessed this is only 9 colours

>>823723

That'd be awesome. How much of it is photoshop wizardry and how much is just knowing good dithering/stippling/pointillism patterns for shading and doing it by hand?
I remember looking at some pixelart on deviantArt and there were guys that made big, SNK size sprites in a cave with MSPaint, that just seems like a mad amount of work, but the results were pretty sexy.

>>823171

Oh Lawd, dat massive Eighties hair! That shit needs to come back.

I am loving this thread so much. Good job /vr/.

From the previous thread, I asked this question:

>>804878
What's this game...? I recognize the map...

How about some sprite sheets? I love good monster designs.

>>824185

yes

yes moar

>>824185
>no credit needed
I almost shed a tear

>>824185

>>823672
vidya players on 2chan are notorious westaboos

>>823813
Go to GIMP, change the color to indexed, choose how many colors you want to use for the palette, choose your dithering pattern then clean up manually by hand

Something similar is how PC-98 artists did this. It's never done by hand.

>>824301
Well, almost never. There are many instances here where they are.

>>823813
http://www.mediafire.com/download/b1v0694mjg4cbqr/metal_slug.psd
http://www.mediafire.com/download/8wbs3b39fjif37j/samus.psd

>>824336
Awesome!

>>824271
That's pretty cool. I never knew about that before.

>>824375
Nah, nah, nah. It's a bit wrong, Japanese like Western games for the glitches they bring out in them and more for fucking about. All games are; exploits and funny bugs.
Story not cared about. It's gameplay, there's evidence everywhere if you watch the nico-nico and visit 2chan and 2ch

>>824382

>>824393

>>824181
[Mink] Wonder Parallel Wars II

>>824393

Damn, what game are those from?

>>824402
>>824213
>>824185
Why don't they just make the backgrounds transparent?

>>824408
Ogre Battle

as is
>>824402

>>824408

This>>824393
and this >>824402

Are from Ogre Battle on the SNES.

>>824412
Yeah, I wonder why they don't.

>>824403
Thanks

I wish this project was more popular:
http://tss.asenheim.org/

>>824412
For convenience I assume.
when you paste transparent shit on paint it becomes black, and making backgrounds transparent in photoshop is easy. Dunno about Gimp tho

>>822227
Managed to get it running, too bad my phone can't play it at decent speeds...

There are a lot of free games and apps for these old systems over at Vector, including graphics programs:
http://www.vector.co.jp/vpack/filearea/towns/
http://www.vector.co.jp/vpack/filearea/dos/
http://www.vector.co.jp/vpack/filearea/x68/
http://www.vector.co.jp/vpack/filearea/other/

>>824426
Yeah, it's pretty easy with GIMP.

>>823840
What is this??

>>824449
>tumblr
Just a pic probably.

>>824454
Aw

>>824454
>>824459

No, its from Zombie Ate My Neighbors. The Castle of Dr. Tongue level.

>>824412
Having transparency means having to add an alpha channel, which takes up some memory. Not much of an issue today anymore, but back in the days of limited color palettes etc. it was a big deal.

>>824471
I'm talking just about the rips, not for the actual games.

>>824185
Won't post because it's not /vr/ but the PSP remake had some damn fine sprite work. I always wished Square would go back and remake 5 and 6 in that style too, and then we got the awful looking FF5 cell phone game and my dreams were crushed.

...anyone else really want old Japanese computers and games all of a sudden?

/vr/ roadtrip?

>>824531
Yeah, but there's no way I'm sitting in a cramped car with some fatsos. I hate to break it to you guys this way, but I am actually really handsome.

>>824531
Sure. Let's meet up in the Publix parking lot at 10 PM. Japanese computers are expensive so bring lots of cash.

>>824471
The term "alpha channel" implies multiple levels of opacity. Binary alpha (it is either a visible color or it's invisible) just takes a single entry in a palette. Pretty much every "palettes, tiles, and sprites" video hardware configuration has color 0 in each palette (even the background tiles) be transparent.

>>824542
Then you can drive.

>>824554
You can't fit fat people in a Lamborghini Diablo

>>824563
>diablo
Only ugly people own a Lambo Diablo.

>>824637
Only ugly people are jealous of handsome people with a good looking and fast, cool car

>>824563
>Not driving an Eight Six Trueno.
Stay pleb.

>>824683
I love Initial D! and Mangan Midnight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llLeR7DiAIk

>>824689
You are an ok dude Anon McAnonski.

>>824689
>Mangan Midnight
>M five keys away from W
huh

>>819910
>>819820
>>819596
>>819521
>>819394
How does one actually make images in this style?
Do you draw it first, then apply dithering/stripling, or do you start out drawing it pixel-by-pixel?

I love the style, but I've no idea how it's done.

>>824902
Depends. Something like Snatcher appears to have been drawn on the computer, Otherwise It's like I said above, you draw it in real life, scan it in and then clean it up. Anime style uses clear contour lines and clean geometric shapes so it looks great on a 640x400 resolution.

>>824902
>pixel by pixel
No. You make images in that style the same way you would make any other image. dithering and stripling are only utilized because of color restrictions

>>819482
Meryl?

>>824185
http://www.bogleech.com/games.html

>>819938
>>819931
Man I wish more games like YU-NO were translated.

>>820276
>>820273
>>820260
>scroll scroll scroll STOP
>TFW you immediately recognize PS screenshots so many years later

>>824902

See here:

>>824301

Also here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dithering#Digital_photography_and_image_processing

Basically, professionals use an algorithm to do it and then clean up. Some nutcases on deviantArt will do it by hand in MSPaint just because they like the look, though, but that's hugely inefficient and almost never helpful.

Pic's from Transantarctica/Arctic Baron. Saw this pic on RPS and now I'm looking into it. The image forming in my head is a snowbound FTL, but that sounds too good to be true. Anybody played it?

>>826402
Give it a try and tell us.

>>826697
Yeah, no.

>>819446
>>819446
what game is this?

I cant find the Rise part of this game anywhere only the imagine one
Could /vr/ help me find it?

Or maybe some of you have it and could upload it? Its quite popular
Every link I find is dead and every torrent seedless