/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10172270]

>earn cards and trade them with your friends
>no save battery in Return of the Ninja cartridge
What are some other software-related major fuckups/baffling decisions like this one?

[Anonymous No.10172325]

>>10172270
>Mr. Driller on the GBC is a score based game that doesn't saves the score.
>Ninjara Hoi is a JRPG for the Famicom that needs pic related to save otherwise you are fucked

[Anonymous No.10172329]

>>10172325
ASCII making a memory "card" for Famicom were really ahead of the times. You could even use Wizardly saves to transfer your party between three games.

[Anonymous No.10172374]

>let's release an online game
>without the online
derp

[Anonymous No.10172393]

>game has music stored as Red Book audio on disc
>recording is bitcrushed to hell for absolutely no reason

[Anonymous No.10172395]

>>10172325
>Ninjara Hoi is a JRPG for the Famicom that needs pic related to save otherwise you are fucked

wait, really?

[Anonymous No.10172397]

>>10172395
>>10172325
Anyways it's a 25-30hours long RPG, you can easily beat it over the course of a week end by leaving the Famicom turned on. Game Overing "just" takes away half of your money DQ style iirc

[Anonymous No.10172398]

>devs add a language selection menu to the PAL version
>users can press triangle to exit the menu and go straight to the title screen
>skipping the selection like this sets language to 0 (Japanese) but there's no relevant data on the disc, so text and voice-overs go missing, and other bugs get introduced.

[Anonymous No.10172408]

>>10172398
is it fixable? Like by resetting the game?

[Anonymous No.10172412]

>>10172408
Sure, its a cd game? Even if it were to write it to a memory card you can simply boot the game without one inserted

[Anonymous No.10172418]

>>10172408
Yes, resetting lets you choose again.
Although saving replay ghosts in that state will record with the Japanese names for the characters and tracks.

[Anonymous No.10172432]

>>10172418
>cool fact, me gusta

[Anonymous No.10173804]

>>10172270
>Midnight Mutants and Scrapyard Dog not having even a Password system, even though the Atari 7800 was well capable of both passwords and saves.
>Abadox not getting an improved version in the form of a PC-Engine Hucard release.
>7800 NTSC Impossible Mission is literally impossible to complete due to a stupid-ass glitch in the code that never got patched back in the day.
>Sinistar never got either a 2600, Atari 8-bit, C64, Colecovision, nor 5200 release during its prime.
7800 Prosystem adaptor for Atari 5200 never got a chance beyond a couple of official announcements before the Warner sold off Atari Inc.'s video game console and Computer divisions. To this day, no actual units, either broken or working, have been recovered so far.
>SNES never got an official adaptor to let NES games be played on it, nor were its innards allowing for NES/Famicom games to be played
>N64 was gypped of getting a proper chip for native processing of sound.
>Japanese Mark III, and rebranded 1987 Master System, allowed for playing of SG-1000 games, but for some reason, even with a converter inserted in the cart slot, The NA, Brazilian, and PAL Master Systems could not do the same.
>The 3DO's licensing Fee was fucking weak; literally just pay $3.00 and you can go make a game for it.
>Trip Hawkins not thinking twice on the selling of the 3DO technology to any company that could manage to pay enough, rather than sticking with either Panasonic, Sanyo, sticking with just those aforementioned two companies, or making more of a structured license strategy with said tech.
>Sega extolling that Sonic Xtreme/Mars be fully 3D instead of a mostly, if not entirely,, 2D Saturn game.
>Carmack's giant peeve with texture warping in the Beta version of DOOM for the Sega Saturn
>SNES DOOM not being left to stew for at least 3-4 more months.
>3DO consoles, regardless of what company variant, having ZERO copy protection in the hardware department
>Commodore refusing to improve the CD32's faults

[Anonymous No.10174001]

>>10172270
>>10172325
>>10172374
>>10172393
>>10172398
>>10173804
All based

[Anonymous No.10174269]

>>10172374
Major fuckup for the PAL release, for sure.

[Anonymous No.10174650]

>Super Mario Land DX adds SRAM to save highscore and settings
>soft-resetting deletes everything anyway
Based or cringe?

[Anonymous No.10174719]

>>10172325
>>10172397
So what's the purpose of its alternate "Diary" saving? Just a troll or what?

[Anonymous No.10174741]

>>10174650
Not a real game

[Anonymous No.10175130]

>>10174650
cringe

[Anonymous No.10175131]

Having to use a wii remote to play gamecube games

[Anonymous No.10175136]

>>10174719
A quick save I believe.

[Anonymous No.10175149]

Ninja Rahoi does have battery save

https://nescartdb.com/profile/view/1531/ninjara-hoi

Turbofile is just extra, it's not mandatory

[Anonymous No.10176601]

>>10175149
Is used for quick saves.
>An alternate method of saving - also available by speaking with a Reviving Jizo - is "Diary" saving. Diary-saving is NOT like traditional battery-backed SRAM (save-RAM, the save file that is stored on a game even when the console is turned off). It actually is very misleading in that regard. Rather, a Diary save will only function until the console is turned off completely: it remains there even if you reset. It's good for allowing you to move between save files. However, for long term play, you will need save-states or a Turbo File, or raise your electric bill by leaving the console on outright
I play it and remember I had to use save states to save the game.

[Anonymous No.10177687]

>>10173804
This whole post is not like the others. This is just a "I wish this had happened, wouldn't it be neat?" kind of thing, not truly confusing fuck ups like everything else.

[Anonymous No.10178047]

>>10175149
Sadly, not true (it's what I unfortunately thought, too) >>10175136 >>10176601

[Anonymous No.10178112]

>>10172270
I'm in the middle of playing this! Am stuck on like the 5th or 6th level though. Gonna need a guide I think.

[Anonymous No.10178120]

>>10175131
The community fixed that with softmodding

[Anonymous No.10178209]

>>10178120
how? I have hackmii

[Anonymous No.10178279]

>>10176601
This does not make any sense. If the battery is there then the savefile should be able to stay.

I guess they used the battery for extra RAM space during gameplay (many Famicom RPGs did that, using the battery as extra RAM even for things that aren't actually saved on the battery) but... if the save file is there on the battery for "diary" saves and it's gone upon turning the console off, this means that they actually DELETE it.

[Anonymous No.10178293]

>>10172393
games.

[Anonymous No.10178884]

>>10172270
Somewhat already implied by others, but any game where hi-score is the main goal but does not have a battery for saving. Even as a kid I thought it was weird.

[Anonymous No.10178998]

>make US version unbeatable
>uuhh, it's the Japs fault!
Bravo Vic.

[Anonymous No.10180584]

BUMP OF LIFE

[Anonymous No.10180625]

>>10172270
>scat-sue-me
No

[Anonymous No.10180685]

>>10180625
OK Auster.

[Anonymous No.10181096]

Game is short but there's so many things that hold you back from completing it quickly. Unfortunately you can't save your tedious progress due to it requiring a game pak to save.