/vr/ - Retro Games

I'm personally not looking at anything specific to play at the moment, but suggestions are welcome here and in our IRC channel.

And to show /vr/ my love for vidya, I'll be making various magazine dumps over the course of the next few days (weeks?) to bump the thread with.

Starting with The Official Nintendo Player's Guide from 1987.

>>831794
I forgot to mention that I don't have the time now, but I'll come back at you later.

I might turn your nifty guides into one big image, so they're read and shared more easibly.

>>831794
>>831797

What do you mean by "one big image"?

>>831804
To turn them into guides with nice typefaces and imagery that helps the reader to engage with the text.

Here's an old example. It's weird, but people prefer to read large texts like this.

Wait, is this actually the "prequel" to Bionic Commando?

So is this just netplay for emulated titles, or does this include multiplayer for PC games like age-of-empires?

>>831990

It's mostly geared towards console emulation, I'm afraid.

There are a couple of online matchmaking services where you can find people to play with (the old version, I mean), like GameRanger.

I'm up for it, even though I'm nowhere near as good for competitive play. But as I said in the OP, we're open to play whatever.

I'll be leaving for a couple hours, but I'll be sure to return and post the rest of it when I get back.

>Want to do netplay of all kinds of classic console goodness
>Don't have access to my router, or control over it, so forwarding ports is impossible

What I would give for netplay/killara that didn't involve having open ports.

NETPLAY BRO-BUMP

Back. Gonna be here all night long I guess.

>>832319

Kaillera doesn't require opening ports.

>>832717
if he has a firewall or other type of protection scheme it may

>>831947

You wouldn't know it from the hilarious engrish at the end of the game but Super Joe doesn't make it back out of the final fortress he blows to shit in one piece.

They could rebuild him. They had the technology.

>>832748

I'm not so sure about that. But then again, it might just be a rare quirk in any case, since no Kaillera documentation ever mentions requiring port forwarding... except for P2P.

Sorry for flaking out of uploading the guide. We kinda got together to play some Dungeon Explorer, and we set out to finish the entire thing in one sitting. That took us about 4 hours of constant deaths.

It was all worth it in the end. I can die happy knowing that I played 5-player Dungeon Explorer, one of my childhood dreams.

Also, nickf104, if you're reading this: sorry for not playing Mario Party 2 with you. I know I promised you we would after finishing, but the game went on longer than what I anticipated it would. Hope you see this so we can get together tomorrow and play as originally planned.

Anyways, back to dumping.

Apparently, Link is 16 years old in this game, as if to imply he was a child in the first game.

And this is western Hyrule... even though Death Mountain is always in the North of every other game.

... that is, unless, tha map is inverted, in which case it should be EASTERN Hyrule. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into things.

>In the town of Saria, ask the giant Slime all about it many times.

... what?

This game has an actually interesting mechanic for a 26 year old game.

>>831740
try reddit

>>833278

>>>/v/

I wonder if they'll ever use at least one of these guys in the upcoming Smash Bros.

That's it for now. I'll continue posting in a couple more hours. I'm out.

That Zelda 2 map is wrong, death mountain isn't even shown on that map. The place it claims is death mountain is a maze of caves whose name I forget.

>>833203

Believe it or not, in one house there is a slime, just like the normal enemy. You can't attack him, but if you use B in front of him you can talk to him just like townsfolk. All he ever says is "zzz" unless you talk to him 4 times, at which point he tells you how to find somebody. I think there was a townsperson who told you to do that, but it was pretty cryptic in wording. Honestly I think they did 4 times on purpose, since in my experience most games (including literally every other Zelda 2 character) have 1-3 lines of dialog, so by the time you got to this character, you were thoroughly conditioned to expect nothing meaningful from him since he just kept going "zzz" all the time.

>>833987
yes it does. that maze of caves is Death Mountain.

do u even Adventure of Link?

>>833242
>When Samus becomes round

>>834108

Looked it up again, you're right. I had it confused with maze island.

Also according to this pic death mountain is actually just west of central hyrule, with the entirety of the first game taking place in southern hyrule and Zelda 2 occurring primarily in north/northeast hyrule. Of course it also looks like an artist was just told to combine the two game worlds cohesively.

http://gengame.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/zeldaii-retrospective-2.jpg

(sorry I can't just upload)

Also, what the hell is calatia?

Here we go again.

Sorry. Dozed off.

This is why I love/hate this game.