/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8766192
yes there are some

https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html
Download eXoDOS and just play random shit. You'll find something good eventually

Yes.

>>8766203
looking at screenshots, it looks like a fun little top down shooter

>>8766192
in search of dr.riptide

>>8766192
Genocide.
Turn based artillery game.

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/genocide-brp

>>8766389
Destructible environments, lava flow, nukes and satellite lazer beams. One of the best freeware DOS games made.

>>8766389
I have a friend that'll really like this. Thanks for the recommendation.

>>8766427
I've considered giving that a try since the Ross's Game Dungeon video on it. Looks pretty cool

>>8766192
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P__DjJyXNbo

https://youtu.be/uP7e5U-rEW4

>>8767719
YOU are
the
President

I love this schizo looking stylization.

The only MS-DOS games (or the ones that used the large floppy disks) I know are Brix
and Epic Pinball

>>8766192

>>8766203
I remember playing this as a kid and the intro screen was so fucking loud and our PC's speakers didn't have a volume knob, so I'd always unplug them when starting the game so my mum wouldn't yell at me for being too loud.
Thanks for reading my blog post.

Ganja Farmer

>>8766192
My favorite DOS puzzle game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0aaebTWhAw

Jazz Jackrabbit is better than quite a few 2D sonic games (I wont say which)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2idyeFWdmA

>>8766192

>>8766192
You can do all kinds of weird shit.

I love this game, one of the first I played on DOS. People may think it's an action game looking at screenshots, but it's more like a proto Abe's Odyssey, where you control a mutant that can transform into 3 different types of robots, each with unique abilities, solving puzzles that require each type, unlocking new abilities, etc. The atmosphere and the look of the alien planet is fantastic.

Early Sierra games are a lot of fun. Police, Space, and Kings quests

>>8772059
I was a big Sierra fanboy growing up, and even I will admit that Lucasarts' adventure games were better.
Some Sierra games just straight-up stink.
Codename: ICEMAN springs immediately to mind.

>>8766192

https://kittenm4ster.itch.io/barrack

>>8769481

Jazz 2 is even better but 1 is great too.

>>8772351
well yeah no duh, nobody can beat prime lucasarts

crimewave

>>8772351
Huge Sierra fan to this day. Strongly disagree and think Lucasarts is overrated.

>>8772675
I think Lucasarts was more consistently good. Sierra has a mix of trash games, ahead of their day masterpieces, and everything in-between

>>8772947
>I think Lucasarts was more consistently good.
Exactly.
I challenge anyone to name a legitimately bad Lucasarts game.

>>8766192
Unfortunately not, play some virtual tennis instead.

>>8766192
Mega Man I and III are abysmal, the Mega Man II beta on DOS is fine but incomplete.

>>8767719

>>8769373
Go down the Boppin rabbit hole
>read the 10 page rant on game design hidden in the Credits section (i think)
>the last boss battle and the ending
>look up who the developers are

>>8766192
Death Rally is one of those games that a lot people fondly remember yet it never gets talked about. So it's arguably a hidden gem.

>>8774397
Based

>>8775548

>>8766192

arctic adventure

Any idea why my DOSBox screenshot function doesn't work? Isn't it supposed to be Ctrl+F5? I use DOSBox ECE if that matters.

>>8776513
check bindings if it actually is Ctrl+F5? every fork of DOSBox seems to remap everything in their own way

>>8777270
Yeah, it's set up. I tried other keys as well. Doesn't work for some reason. Weird. I'l use an external program I guess.

>>8766389
>>8766393
Holy fuck! I wish I knew about this back when me and my friends were playing Scorched Earth every day.

>>8775579
I downloaded this off an abandonware website. The screenshots looked pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs2GIZVGoI

Electronic Popple is a 1997 MS-DOS beat-em-up published by Capcom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofGwqUhgb7Y

Boppin
Princess Maker 2
Monster Bash

I always wanted to try Barb Wire

>>8777270
Okay found the issue. I need to run DOSBox in with admin rights for the screenshot function to work. Unfortunately the capturing process takes place before scaling which is the whole reason I use ECE in the first place. Aspect ratio is all wrong.

>>8780713
> I need to run DOSBox in with admin rights for the screenshot function to work.
you're probably saving capture data to some system-restricted location e.g. somewhere in Program Files; you can change it in the DOSBox config to a different non-restricted folder so it doesn't require admin rights

>>8780770
Not a DOS game
>>8775549
>very cool, very sane edgelord manifesto
>characters commit suicide
>developer is trans
The most shocking thing is that Jennifer's still alive.
>>8772485
Neat. I wish to god itch.io allowed you to search/sort by retro platforms. If you look up NES, C64, DOS, or any other system you'll get tons of 'aesthetic' results. I'd love to weed those out and play new content for old systems.

>>8766192
I spent way too much time with El-Fish back in the day. Procedurally generated aquarium simulator without any gameplay.

>>8780772
That's the thing. I'm not doing that. It's just something like C:\Games\Emulation\blablabla. Really weird. Screenshot function isn't what I was hoping for anyway it seems. Took this one with MSI Afterburner and the result is more akin to what I was looking fore BUT Afterburner doesn't play nicely with DOSBox it seems. Moving the mouse while it is running in the back makes the emulation and music slow down drastically.

Knights of Xentar (Dragon Knight 3) is.... pretty good, if not interesting at least. I don't play porn games so there's probably thousands like it out there but this was new and interesting to me, I had never played anything like it. The voice acting is atrocious.

>>8781693
I'm trying to get this to work and I've already run into a roadblock. I have the game installed but I also want to patch it with the NR18 patch, and I also can't start the game without getting past the fucking codewheel prompt.

So yeah, how do I patch the game and get move past the code?

>>8781801
never mind, I actually figured it out. Went to MyAbandonware, downloaded the 343MB ISO and the Adult censor remover patch. Installed the game then extracted the two files from the patch into the game folder and it worked.

Also foregoes that retarded codewheel prompt at the beginning.

>>8774394
so you get fucked just for nuking little israel

>>8775548
>>8775549
they sound jewish.
>we are not happy unless we are upsetting goyim

>>8782057
You sound retarded.

>>8780898
I found Fraps to work quite OK with DOSBox, even as much as performing better while capturing some 3D games much better than the internal recorder

>>8782057

>>8779442
This looks good

>>8774454
Fuck yes


Also Master of Magic, a 4x game. I have been replaying it via GoG and just bought the caster of magic mod on top of it for a new experience. Mixed reviews so fingers crossed!

>>8766192
Classic DOS game.
Freeware.
God of Thunder is also good.

https://www.adeptsoftware.com/classics/

>>8782061
Just because you lack pattern recognition doesn't mean everyone else is retarded

>>8782983
Kek'd

>>8781693
>porn games
How is this a porn game?
It looks like final fantasy.

>>8782979
shame we cant play the second one because of flash death, noteven the buy option work, but his news filtering website to whine about trump is fine and dandy

https://youtu.be/W7WUvPCg-ic

>>8766192
there's Metal & Lace

>>8783857
For some reason a lot of Japanese porn games are really fucking good games that happen to have porn in them, like the Rance games are great RPGs.

>>8783857
save scantily-clad women from bandits and monsters then see them naked.

>>8778818
Damn this looks pretty good. I've been on a P&C kick lately.

>>8772059
While I like the style of their games, I can't play a lot of the early text parser ones. Really really hate having to type commands. I'm glad there are fan remakes of the first 3 King's Quest games though.

OH I JUST REALIZED NOBODY POSTED THE BEST GAME EVER MADE ONLY FOR DOS

FUCKING

PIZZA WORM LETS GOOOOOOO

https://youtu.be/5fTadADw534

https://youtu.be/nG_xOtMbOp0

>>8775579
Pondering his chalice

>>8784921
>In the 1990s some students of the ETH Zürich formed a game development group called "Alpha Helix" and developed "The last Eichhof" as comment against the concentration of the Swiss beer market which led to the decline of smaller and independent breweries like "Eichhof".

>>8766192
I WANNA ROCK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwrg0db_zY

I sure hope you guys are using Sound Canvas VA for your DOS gaming.

>>8785004
for me it's the Yamaha XG50

>>8772059
is Police the one where you can get naked?

Crusader: no remorse and the sequel Crusader: no regret are my favorite games ever.
Beautiful isometric graphics, fun weapons, lots to explorer and full of secrets, I'm still trying to figure them all out even all these years later

>>8785004
is there a tutorial for that?

>>8785234
Also it uses tracker music and it sounds amazing even today
https://youtu.be/V6ZD79GIL4Y
devs must have had lots of fun making the game, there's a ton of hidden secret photos of them scattered around secret areas.

>>8785237
For setting it up with DOS-Box and ScummWM you may refer to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumRboSfn90

In case of DOSBox you would do something like this:

General Installation
1) Install Sound Canvas VA
2) Install loopMIDI bc you need an application that the audio plug-in can well, plug into: https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html

Create a virtual MIDI port
3) Launch both loopMIDI and Sound Canvas VA
4) Create a port in loopMIDI for Sound Canvas VA to communicate through, so that DOSBox can recognize and use it.

Finding out the MIDI device ID in DOSBox
5) Launch both loopMIDI and Sound Canvas VA, then run DOSBox
6) Type "MIXER /LISTMIDI" into DOSBox - this will give you the IDs of all available MIDI devices incl. Sound Canvas VA, in this case it's "2" (if a game ever asks, by default MIDI is available on address 330 and interrupt 2)

TBC

>>8785446
that's amazing thank you a lot

>>8785451
lol sorry I wasn't quite happy with it. I'll repost it in a minute

>>8785237
For setting it up with DOS-Box and ScummWM you may refer to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumRboSfn90

In case of DOSBox you would do something like this:

>General Installation
1) Install Sound Canvas VA
2) Install loopMIDI bc you need an application that the audio plug-in can well, plug into: https://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software/loopmidi.html

>Create a virtual MIDI port
3) Launch both loopMIDI and Sound Canvas VA
4) Create a port in loopMIDI for Sound Canvas VA to communicate through, so that DOSBox can recognize and use it.

>Finding out the MIDI device ID in DOSBox
5) Launch both loopMIDI and Sound Canvas VA, then run DOSBox
6) Type "MIXER /LISTMIDI" into DOSBox - this will give you the IDs of all available MIDI devices incl. Sound Canvas VA, in this case it's "2" (if a game ever asks, by default MIDI is available on address 330 and interrupt 2)

TBC

>>8785484
saved

>>8785484 continued

>Setting up Sound Canvas VA MIDI playback in DOS games
As you probably already know, every new DOS game comes with it's own audio setup and you have several options to get a game to use your new virtual MIDI device. You can:
7a) Run a game's audio setup and choose the corresponding option for background music - remember that Sound Canvas VA is intended for BGM playback, you still want to pick Sound Blaster 16/Pro or whatever for sound effects and voices, or
7b) Use a custom per-game config file (see pic rel) where you specify the audio set up (the highlighted lines in pic rel under the [MIDI] section are all you need to get Sound Canvas VA going), or
7d) Write a general DOSBox config file that is used for all games - I don't recommend this
7c) Set up the corresponding options in your DOSBox frontend GUI of choice

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:MIDI
https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MIDI_software_devices

All of this might seem like a huge hassle at first glance but you really only have to do go through the first 6 of 7 steps once. After that all you have to do is tell each new game to use Sound Canvas VA for music playback just like you used to tell it to use Sound Blaster 16/Pro before. And make no mistake about it, the difference in quality is enormous.

>>8766192
Terrafire and Astrofire.
2 More classic DOS games.
Both are now freeware.

https://www.ortsoftware.com/

>>8785234
Gonna be that guy. The controls eat. Hoping ScummVM tightens up the compatibility and eventually introduces a saner scheme. Don't jump on my ass; didn't say it was unplayable. Just far from ideal. You know this.

>>8785591
nah pretty much everyone agrees controls are shit, I got used to them though.
ScummVM is playable except the elevator in level 1 doesn't work for me (seems like it was a resolution problem) and you can't turn while running with the gun out, other than that it's a pretty port.

PSX version is actually more polished, if graphically simplified, controls are extremely similar but feel more tight and easier to work with, also it has the no regret roll.

No regret plays the best, too bad the game was made so much harder with traps and shields everywhere, it's also the prettiest

People are gonna deny it up and down, or immediately disqualify the notion of using it because le retroarch hate, but DOSbox Pure seriously owns and you should try it now. The way it handles disc image games and hope you can run games from zip files is fantastic, and has all the usual RA niceties. Per game configs are great for DOS games. Not saying don't use DOSbox-X or that it's inferior or anything. It's great, but give Pure a try these days.

>>8785596
I'd be tempted to play the PS1 version if the grayfix weren't so nerfed, haha.

>>8785597
wait a second do I really have to go through that hell that is the retroarch interface to play things with that?

>>8785598
looks great on my miyoo mini, smaller screen size hides the lower resolution and it's fucking crusader in my pocket, I love it so much

>>8785601
If you're not regularly using RA now, I'm afraid you just don't get it. RA is hardly about the interface, which does kind of smell, but it shouldn't filter you.

>>8785605
Red Alert? What are you talking about?

>>8785608
Oh fuck off.

>>8785484
>>8785492
I redid that one so it makes more sense in terms of following the guide and also removed all of the unnecessary visual clutter.

>>8766192
This post suddenly causes me to realize that I have made a couple of DOS games that are /vr/, as a teenager and college student. I will not be posting them.

>>8785597
DOSbox Pure is amazing. Having the convenience of keys already mapped to a controller when launching a specific title is something I thought would've been impossible for DOS titles. It really is the DOS roms meme.

>>8785597
I hate Dosbox-X because it uses different keyboard shortcut keys from original Dosbox (and Dosbox daum).

>>8785773
Maybe, but it's up-to-date and seems to have everything Daum has and more, with similar flow and interface (certain keys aside)

>>8785605
Fuck Retroarch with a rusty shovel. The UI is garbage whether you want people to ignore it or not. Also it's the only emulator where I've gone in to report a whole class of games were broken on a core, only to have the jackass core maintainer tell me that "nobody plays those anyway," close the issue, and mark it WONTFIX. Thanks a lot, buddy, telling me I'm "nobody" sure makes your project look good and professional.

Most emulator authors have a little pride, but when you're merely porting somebody else's emulator into Master Control Program, I guess shoddy work is A-OK!

>>8786002
I know original dosbox is slow, daum is dead.
But I don't think I need the new features introduced in dosbox-x so I stick with the original and daum (for save states).

>>8786017
Oh, they're dickheads and I have my own grievances with how it works. That said, til every emulator for every system RA supports has all its features or even decent video output without judder, lag, and shitty scaling, it'll have a permanent place on my computer.

>>8785662
Guess you have no way of scrubbing identifying information from the source and recompiling?

>>8785234
main menu music comfy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLIB94Ikb2U&list=PLkog_NvP2P1Ivwh8ofQeytRDJ5akEKagC

It's cursed to obscurity. Nobody on 4chan has ever played it.

Ninja Gaiden II

>>8786036
>Well it sucks and the people behind it are dicks but I'mma use it anyway 'cause it has something I want
I feel like that's the root of all modern tech woes. From Apple's walled gardens and Facebook's monopoly, to the near-universal acceptance of pulseaudio and systemd on Linux.
Fuck that, somebody needs to say "no" once in a while, and just refuse to compromise with shitheels and their shoddy merchandise.

>>8786140
Yes.

I can't make my own and never will be able to, and there is not yet an alternative that suits my needs as well. I'm not sitting on my hands for a more 'ethical' solution for your sake, you buttmad schiz'. It's not like I'm paying for any of this shit anyway.

>>8786116
I played it just now. Neat enough Ultima VI clone I guess.

>>8786171
You are the downhill slide personified.

>>8786298
blah blah larp larp
What the hell did you ever do for me or anyone else?

>>8786315
What would that have to do with anything? You're the one who's taking personal offense to me saying that at least some people should say "no" the the shit peddlers even if you don't.
You call me butthurt, but you were the one who started this, being dismissive of anyone not liking retroarch for being "filtered" and not "getting it." An assmad way to describe people who don't make the same choices you do, and one which is only further illustrated by your continued posts in that vein.

>>8786336
Still using it til you make or someone else makes something better, you fucking weirdo.

>>8786339
Never said you couldn't, if you paid attention. Just that somebody needs to stand up and say "this is not alright, fuck these guys" once in a while.

>>8786116
>>8786180
Tried it for a bit in late 90s or early 2000s.
Also tried The Magic Candle III and Lord of the Rings II The Two Towers.
The reason I tried those games was because they look like Ultima 6.

>>8786356
Okay. You do that. You make your piddling, impotent stand. Like I said, you probably don't get why one would use it or the features aren't important enough for you to overlook your schizo grievances. Most emu devs are assholes, and it's free to use (not even meme-free where users/info/ads are the product), so I simply don't see the point of refusing to use it on moralfag grounds. You just don't like it, but due to your self-righteous nature it can't just be a matter of taste. I don't give a fuck if it's 'wrong' to use anyway.

>>8786401
>you probably don't get why one would use it
I totally get it, I just disagree, for the reasons I already outlined. Go ahead and use it, but don't go around acting like people who don't use it are "filtered" and "don't get it" and other mem shit, because that is where I gotta say "fuck you and the horse you rode in on."

And you were clearly projecting hard when you called me butthurt; it seems like you realize you don't have any principles or convictions, and you're not okay with that, and you're trying to take that shit out on me.
Get over it, you make your choices, I'll make mine. If you feel bad about it, reconsider your choices. Or don't, it's your life. I'm just here to stand up for anyone who doesn't want to use retroarch or applaud their domination of the emulation community.

a few

>>8766192

Have you tried Fuck Quest for DOS? You play as Richard Eter trying to get pussy, but you're hideous and no girl will have sex with you unless you put on a Tom Cruise mask first. There's also a sequel where you're trying to bang Jennifer Aniston

>>8788821
more like Hidden Coomers

>>8784921
>>8784929
Where can I get a copy of this in full? I want it for my collection

>>8766192
Vlak

>>8788517
So that's where that old man face is from.

>>8766201
Indeed found some good stuff, thanks anon.

>>8768356
This Is Why Nobody Likes You New Jersey
WPS8X