/vr/ - Retro Games

I've recently bought two notebooks. One for map making and the other for tricks or tips or passwords for any retro game I'm playing. But they're just things I learn while playing. It's pretty fun. Helps too because sometimes I'll put down games and when I come back I forget my strats.

used to
if a game has a password i savestate on that screen.

>>9998248
I take a picture of it with my smart phone camera

People would write codes on the inside of the rental cases for the cartridges my grocery store rented. Was kino personified.

>>9998282
>Was kino personified.
I was in the kino when the kino and then kino but kino so it was o kino but sovl you know frfrfr haha

>>9998248
>kino notebook
You're repulsive to me.

>>9998251
Did you get graph paper for the maps or did you get the dotted kind?
>>9998254
I used to do that but I always lost track of the photos.
>>9998282
That is beautiful. I like when I get a game and find writing inside of the manuals.
>>9998342
Maybe you will discover fun one day zoomie

>>9998248
I did when I was a kid.
I started out writing down passwords as I got them.
Then I'd print out pages from the library and glue them into the notebook.
Eventually we got internet at home so I didn't need the book anymore.
Now if I play a game with passwords I just take a picture with my phone.

>>9998294
based and kinopilled

I play emulated and take screenshots like a normal 2023 person

>>9998450
Just graph paper. My Wal-Mart was super limited so that's all I could find. I wish I could pick up the dotted kind, but graph paper still works.

>>9998526
I use normal graph paper too. Mine is just a stack of sheets and I tape them together.
>>9998510
*like a normal 2023 poorfag

I use a .txt file like a 21st century man

>>9998248
I did back when I was your age. I still usually have a notepad and pen on me in case I need it. But for shit like what you're doing, nah. I've been using a text editor since the mid 80's.

>>9998545
>like a normal 2023 poorfag
Says the person using graph paper and a pen

>>9998248
Writing my own book for NES/Famicom games as I play them so future me won't get stuck.

Making it in official tone, with illustrations, game ratings, and advices to "player" from "editorial staff" because I like it that way

This is a 4th edition, actually, already wrote 3 as a kid.

>>9998294
ludo

>>9998450
>zoomie
Zoomers are the only ones retarded enough to keep constantly spouting shit like
>KINO! LUDO! BASED! CRINGE!
And all that other moronic crap.

>>9998248
I used to do this for Mega Man X. Most games I play use either no saves or save files, though

>>9998849
First you seethe about people being able to afford games, now you're seething about people being able to afford paper and writing utensils? You thirdies really are poor holy crap.
>>9998887
Samefag

>>9998863
I love this! What game is the illustration supposed to be? It's super cute and very kino. The thing in the water looks like the Pokemon Lapras so I'm tempted to guess that it's Kasumi and Masaki at the coast before you challenge the gym, but the volcano and the dinosaur in the sky definitely rule that out. What am I looking at?
I'm tempted to copy your idea.
>>9998895
What about hints and secrets and maps and stuff though?

>>9998914
>You thirdies really are poor holy crap.
I'm so poor I can only afford a $3k gaming PC, but not pens and graph paper! Stop embarrassing yourself.
>Samefag
Pay attention retard.

>>9998926
And yet you're too poor to afford a phone to take a picture of that $3k PC you claim to own. We know you're posting on a pentium shitbox running Windows XP, you're not fooling anyone Jamal.
>Inspect element
Do you think I was born yesterday?

>>9998920
>What game is the illustration supposed to be?

It's for Adventure Island 4. Thats Higgins, Tina and their dinos.

These games had similar ending screens (characters sitting/walking on the beach) so I wanted to draw one as the "ending" for the last AI game released on Famicom.

>>9998935
>Do you think I was born yesterday?
No, but I think you're a fucking idiot zoomer. I'm so retro guys! I bought an old CRT and use graph paper and everything! I'm just like you!

>>9998248
I did for the Forbidden Siren games

>>9998946
That is awesome. Are you drawing in a notebook or are they detached pages they you're putting into a binder or something?

>>9998950
I haven't used a crt since like 2009.

>>9998863
you need to make a thread with that stuff anon

>>9999018
It's a thick school notebook.

Found all of them just now, somehow I managed to keep consistency in their covers

> 1st version - Plain red
> 2nd - Plain blue
> 3rd - Snakeskin pattern I
> 4th - Snakeskin pattern II

Third book actually have an "announcement" for 4th at the end so I'm just doing what I've promised myself to do like 20 years ago lol. And it helps to gain interest in playing more games, too. It's like a personal history record

>>9999107
Nah, this thread is enough

>>9999174
Show us more pictures of the inside. You have singlehandedly turned this into the comfiest thread on the board.

>>9998248
I have a notebook I bought for that, but I haven’t played anything that really requires it. Last night realized a bit into a dungeon in Eternal Ring that I should probably be roughly mapping and taking notes, though, so maybe I’ll finally crack that notebook open.

>>9998248
>Go to elementary school computer lab
>Print off all the codes I need like a makeshift strategy guide
>Also some pages of yo mama jokes
I ain't writing anything more than I already have to

not my fault JRPGs have shit ton of point of no returns and secrets are so easily missable

>>9999216
Okay, but the text inside isn't in English. Also i'm not that far into the library yet

Inner cover artwork. Sonic because i'm a Sonicfag and because why not

>>9998935
>Samefag!
>Muh inspect element!
And what exactly were you trying to achieve when you negated your own point?

>>9999518
>>9999524
Unfathomably based

>>9998248
I do that every time I play Deus Ex and games like it because for some reason my retard brain thinks writing down number codes and passwords is easier than just checking the text log.

>>9999518
>>9999524
This looks so good! I wish I could draw as well as you. How do you pick which games to add? Do you just make a page for everything you play?

>>9998254
Based

>>9998248
I kept a few passwords in notebooks, but mostly they're filled with highly autistic tournaments I played in sports games.

>>9998248
I write notes in the manual as intended.

>>10000975
Holy kino

>>9998510
>>9998758
Of course you could just take screenshots and write in notepad++. But for me, using one device to do nearly everything gets really boring. It's too easy, humans weren't meant to have things so easy.
I have a notebook where i write my current objectives in games (in case i take a break), places to backtrack, and puzzle solutions. Very useful for King's Field currently.

>>9999539
>>10000901
>>10001104
no cap fr fr shits fire bruh

>>10000894
Heh, thanks
I probably need to get back into drawing somehow, kinda lost my spark many years ago

> How do you pick which games to add? Do you just make a page for everything you play?

All of games I've played as a kid on real console + ones I've played just now and liked
Not every game has codes or some valuable info to write down, and i'm limited by 96 pages anyway.

>>9998863
Please post more of these

>>10001154
More more bro these are so skillful

>>9998863
>>9999518
>>9999524
>>10001154
I wish i was 10 again when i read your posts. I could've done the same thing with my own games AAAAAAAAA

You aren’t a computer user if you don’t have a notepad and pen/pencil on your desk. You’re just a filthy consumer.

>>10001286
I have a scrap piece of paper that doubles as a coaster.

>>9998248
Yep have since the 80s still have a lot of em too hanging around

>>9998248
If I need to remember something from a game I will take a photo and delete it once I'm finished with it because it's not 1998 anymore.

>>9998248
>Print cheat codes for Simcity 2000 from a website back in the late 90s
>my mom finds them while cleaning one day
>gets extremely mad at me because one of the cheat codes was porn

>>10001147
I agree, however I suggest you stop using zoomer lingo ironically before you find yourself using it frfr

>>9998248
usually just a .txt file

>>9998863
Nice, I do the same, except its a gamefaqs style guide, and much, much more N-nukes

>>10002602
I have enough common sense to know how retarded zoomer speak sounds. I felt disgusted even typing that drivel.

>>10002602
frfr or frirlfr?
No sane human would use zoomspeak outside the zoomernet. How do you even speak a zoomroglyphic?

>>9998950
>I'm so retro guys! I bought an old CRT and use graph paper and everything!
Yeah, this shit is cringe. No one I knew ever wrote things down in notebooks or drew maps on graph paper, at most we'd write down passwords in the backs of manuals or on random scraps of paper. My blood boils every time that someone says the "correct" way to play Zelda or Metroid on NES is to draw fucking maps for them, it's a clear sign of an underaged fag trying to fit in.

>>10003025
>>10003119
You liars, admit you're enjoying it.

I write passwords and cheats on the notes section of the game manual

I had one up to 1999, I think. Had no internet before then. I recall I joted down all the Ultimates and codes for Killer Instinct (SNES) on mine.
Because of no internet, I had to discover those by hand. It's weird that you can even discover the codes for the 2 special stages (Spinal's Lair and Sky Stage) just by pushing buttons at specific times. I guess I had too much time on my hands back then.

When playing Resident Evil I was keeping notes on loose paper on my desk with locations of herbs or extra ammo that I couldn't pick up so I could revisit later/when I needed it.
When playing Myst I was doing the same, writing down symbols I needed to remember or notes of where to go/what we found etc. The worst was the the fucking maze that I tried to map out.
It's fun, and in some ways feels more immersive than typing it or whatever. Feels like I would ahve been doing back in the day when I needed to take notes, and is less intrusive. Never really thought about keeping them long term in a book, but it's not a bad idea if I get a cheap notebook. The scribblings looked like a mad-man's notes by the end.

>>10003138
>I'll prove their point by writing spewing nonsensical zommer gibberish
Mission accomplished?

>>10004232
This but unironically

>>9998248
I write my own guides as a play and replay to test how different things in games work.

>>9998510
>he has baby hands and can't write or draw

>>9998248
>Do you keep a kino notebook for documenting hints and passwords and maps or do you look everything up on the internet like a filthy degenerate?
I remember doing this for a few select games as recent as last year. Front Mission 2 and 3, Dino Crisis 1 and 2. Depends on the game

Jack bros, we won

>>9998248
No, I do not have a "kino" notebook, nor do I look up shit on the internet
I just play games