Contributions

[Anonymous No.10418949]

What are your personal contributions to retro games?

Do you dump games? scan magazines? Help maintening websites / spread information ? Make mods/maps/romhacks ? Write guides? Repair hardware for other people ? etc Surely you're not just consuming and not giving back?

Let's find out if /vr/ still has people who care or if it's 100% zoomers shitting on popular franchises and other types of shitposters.
Make sure to remain as vague as you need to be to remain anonymous. This isn't a larping "Please thank me and praise me and be jealous of me" thread, let's not act like prototype hoarders between ourselves.

[Anonymous No.10418953]

>>10418949
I added the gameplay section for it came from the deserts wiki page, you're welcome

[Anonymous No.10418960]

i post on /vr/. only quality posts, no trolling or console war bullshit, just soulful high iq posts. if you agree with an anon on /vr/ that's probably me.

[Anonymous No.10418975]

This: https://www.youtube.com/@VirtualGamingLibrary

[Anonymous No.10418984]

i translated an rpg maker game (playable) and re-translated the main script of xenogears (not playable) and found all the goofs

[Anonymous No.10418986]

I post on /vr/ when it is slow, in order to keep it alive.

[Anonymous No.10418987]

I make doom mods. I've also used those mods to pay tribute to old NES games I love like Xexyz, Solar Jetman, Wizards & Warriors, and Zelda 1.

[Anonymous No.10419004]

15 years I dumped a Japanese game. These days every game is listed everywhere but at the time, that game was completely unknown and didn't have a single mention on the western internet and only appeared on Japanese websites. A couple of years ago that game got a translation.
I made maps and mods for games. Also romhacks of other games.
Done some research that I posted on TCRF, only posting stuff that I personally checked for within the game's code or art or in magazines.
Wrote some FAQs posted on gamefaqs, nothing quite extensive but insightful little things acquired by going through the game's code
There is more but I'll stop here to remain anonymous

[Anonymous No.10419018]

I dumped a few isos missing on archive, some of them i even bought off ebay just to do so.

I rescued like 50+ PCI/AGP graphics cards from the scrap a couple of years ago (pic is a fraction of the lot), along with a few other pc hardware from 95-2000ish. Haven't had the time to check they all work, but some of them certainly do. I wouldn't call that 'doing something for retro' but I'd give them to people who'd appreciate them. If any of yall need a diamond something hit me up at Anonymous

[Anonymous No.10419063]

>>10418986
>I post on /vr/ when it is slow
So you always post here

[Anonymous No.10419068]

>>10419063
Yes, but only when I'm awake and I don't repeatedly bump the same threads, I wait for someone else to post before posting again (unless I forgot something in my post and want to add a post script).

[Anonymous No.10419072]

I contribute nothing, steal everything, and I’m extremely critical of fan projects when they’re constantly delayed or have some freakzoid discord mental health reason why something isn’t released or is put on hold

[Anonymous No.10419176]

I call people faggots on anonymous image boards.

[Anonymous No.10419196]

>>10418949
i collect them cheap and sell them for huge mark up lmao

[Anonymous No.10419217]

I buy retro stuff for cheap and resell it at ridiculous prices
I'm one of the responsables for the high prices in the market.

[Anonymous No.10419505]

>>10418949
I've made maps for doom, quake and ut2004
I'm also an electronic technician but I've rarely fixed someone else's console, I think I fixed a ps1 power supply 20 years ago

[gamecube No.10419512]

I scanned primal.rage the avatars and I'm scanning hell a cyberpunk thriller now

[Anonymous No.10419519]

>>10418949
I work at a little retro game shop in town, and we occasionally take in broken consoles. If anyone asks, I offer to fix it. It doesnt always work out, but I try and the people taking them appreciate the effort.

[Anonymous No.10419534]

I spend about $500 in arcades per year.

[Anonymous No.10419542]

>>10418949
Nothing really. I've thought about posting scans from old magazines in my mother tongue or some random stuff I might have but I hate social networks so I dunno.

[Anonymous No.10419546]

>>10418949
Does making homebrew games count?

[Anonymous No.10419551]

>>10418949
I teach my friends how to jailbreak old hardware and how to run emulators so that we can all retro game together for cheap.

[Anonymous No.10419554]

I ask people on /vr/ what my opinion about old games should be.

[Anonymous No.10419562]

>>10418960

[Anonymous No.10419575]

>>10418949
>What are your personal contributions to retro games?
I helped a bit with Carmageddon meld pack back on CWABoard about a decade ago. IIRC by trial and error found what was the problem with some tracks crashing.
I also tested some weird problems with video on Linux for m210 while he was developing BloodGDX. And posted some bugs for Crusader on scummvm tracker.

[Anonymous No.10419618]

>>10418975
>youtube channel that shills modern western games
*yawn*

[Anonymous No.10419721]

>>10418949
I compiled the high quality manual scans that were released by Sega, Konami, and Nintendo for the mini consoles. Nobody appreciates manuals, but they always contain information that will make these games easier to play. I think a lot of people play old school games blindly and if they cant brute force their way through a blind playthrough they just assume the game was designed to be impossibly hard to beat. No, in fact, the games expected you to reference the manuals because how else will you learn what the fuck is going on?

[Anonymous No.10419749]

>>10418949
I just check out as many vidya as possible and on occassion help others identify games from their memories or blurry pics.

[Anonymous No.10419861]

>>10418949
I'm a leech who just plays and learns to have fun.

[Anonymous No.10419878]

>>10418949
I bought an rg35xx and play punch out and final fantasy 1. It's thankless work but I'm making this hobby better for everyone

[Chud Anon No.10419884]

>>10418949
I have a host of objectively correct opinions on decades old console wars that I constantly spam online on the retro video game section of an anonymous anime image board.

You’re welcome.

[Anonymous No.10419917]

>>10418949
I make sure to always tell anons their taste is shit and their favorite console/videogame is overrated, making sure the board keeps active.

[Anonymous No.10419968]

>>10418949
I make romhacks and mods on demakes like rockman 7.

[Anonymous No.10419997]

>>10418987
I love u kegan

[Anonymous No.10419998]

>>10418949
i made and helped with a few homebrew nes and genesis games years ago but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.10420005]

>>10418949
I've dumped rare games, bootlegs, prototypes, scanned magazines, offered to dump for others free of charge, wrote documentation on hardware that almost nobody ever bothered with. I specifically never bothered with credit for any of them.

[Anonymous No.10420009]

>>10418949
I give the companies that actually made these games money.

[Anonymous No.10420020]

>>10419884
not even the second post of this type in the thread. try harder

[Anonymous No.10420046]

>>10418949
I give fat stacks of cash to flashcart and ODE makers for their product, but only the good ones that don't require permanent console modification
I post harsh reviews about any products that are even slightly disappointing
I always repair instead of replace
I've shown a few people how to get their retro shit working or at least tested it and assessed the ebay value for them
I make offensive posts about the janitors who do it for free
Someday I'll make some less shitty homebrew and I too shall still be doing it for free

[Anonymous No.10420050]

>>10418949
I try to gatekeep know nothing normies out of the hobby. Nobody needs normies shitting up their hobbies for the general public. You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.10420059]

>>10419176
Thank You for your Service.

[Chud Anon No.10420067]

>>10420020
Fine, I’ll bring back Sega System posting

[Anonymous No.10420068]

I've worked at Goodwill for so long that I've made it to a high level multi area manager position. And I'm the one responsible for convincing the higher ups to not let a single retro video game into the stores' shelves and instead go straight onto our Online auction website for maximum profit.

[Anonymous No.10420074]

>>10420068
Goodwill has gotten really good at keeping PC games out of the CD stacks. Either someone else looks for software there too, or it just isn't making it onto the shelves.

[Anonymous No.10420079]

>>10420068
Better than all those games being worked over by greasy crackheads and greasier resellers I suppose

[Anonymous No.10420087]

>>10420074
Oh we notice. In many of our locations you'll notice an area that's behind a chained off and locked counter. We'll have our staff stock a book shelf behind that area with all the PC Games so you can't even figure out what's there with out asking for help. You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.10420092]

What a perfect opportunity, I've been asking the owner of the Malice beta to do a public release for months, it's the version where Malice is voice acted by Gwen Stefani. Reply to this post to show interest.

[Anonymous No.10420105]

Did you know that Goodwill was founded in 1902. That's over a Hundred and Twenty Years of service helping your communities. Think Goodwill.

[Anonymous No.10420171]

>>10418949
>What are your personal contributions to retro games?
I submitted a cheat for a game onto a now defunct cheat code site. So yeah I have that going for me.
>>10420050
>gatekeep know nothing normies
I do the opposite with the caveat that I tell them to just emulate and not to get into physical copies.

[Anonymous No.10420191]

I masturbate to drawings of Leona Heidern. This benefits us all in a mystical way that no one will ever fully understand.

[Anonymous No.10420221]

My father set the policy in place that every thrift-store immediately throw away any floppy disks into the garbage upon receiving them.
You'd think it was to protect people from data mining, but no, obviously not since it's not uncommon to see used CD-R's in thrift-stores. No he just hated floppy disks.

[Anonymous No.10420457]

I mention Ocarina of Time in any tangentially related place I can and how it's the best video game of all time, knowing full well what I am doing (you're welcome)

[Anonymous No.10420552]

>>10420171
>>10420050
Lmao

[Anonymous No.10420572]

>>10420092
He can keep it.

[Anonymous No.10422592]

>>10418949
What do you do?

[Anonymous No.10422595]

I scanned some stuff that's still online.

[Anonymous No.10422597]

I have helped hundreds of guys with diablo 2. Also have several guides about rare chars.

[Anonymous No.10422683]

>>10422592
it's somewhere ITT

also a game I worked on is being mentionned in another thread

[Anonymous No.10422946]

I dump obscure games on archive.org and review stuff on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@Lanslet

[Anonymous No.10422979]

>>10418949
Dump games (most formats, tape is pretty ghetto though and I don't have a 5.25'' disk option), mags, audio CDs (music, dramas). Have kept up a few collections until others could mirror (still keep them up-to-date).
Also dumped books related to companies artists or writers, but that's not so much /vr/ as it is whatever general it fits in. Translated a few games too.
Still plenty of cheap shit to dump, especially if it's Micro or "modern" PC stuff. Pretty easy too.

[Anonymous No.10422991]

Not much, In the early 2000 I dumped and distributed a couple of obscure psx games not found anywhere else. Mostly japanese stuff, like Time Gal & Ninja Hayate. I can't recall the name of the website where I uploaded stuff, it was a torrent site mostly for japanese stuff.

[Anonymous No.10423024]

>>10418949
i don't sell my old games at the cost of a liver

[Anonymous No.10423029]

I own and preserve a Korean GP32 with its original box.

[Anonymous No.10423053]

>>10420572
Easy enough for me. Fuck you, by the way.

[Anonymous No.10423069]

I passionately educate /vr/ anons on the wonders of emulation and how it is superior to collecting original games and hardware.

[Anonymous No.10423074]

>>10420005
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.10423085]

>>10418949
I used to write gamefaqs guides on PS2 games I loved and I was responsible for at least 40 xbox game dumps. Admittedly the only stuff I do now is occasionally make a mod for an older game but I rarely release them due to me never finishing them.
Currently working on a meme mod for Company of Heroes that essentially is every WW2 wunderwaffe meme thrown in and it's going very slow due to how the mod tools work.

[Anonymous No.10423203]

>>10418949
I helped translate Tsukihime and Meltblood.

I tell everyone to play starcontrol 2

[Anonymous No.10423347]

>>10418949
Surprised this didn't become a /dbs/pic thread. Good on you, /vr/

[Anonymous No.10423380]

>>10420092
Steal from him

[Anonymous No.10423414]

>>10418949
I keep a number of full romsets on soulseek in case archive or http websites are down and somehow soulseek ports remain open. Also have my favorite gamefaq guides and a few official PDFs available too.

Always wanted to make a faq but my favorite games have pretty much perfect ones. Can't think of anything I'd contribute. Last time I checked, Dragon Quest wikis were really bad, ran on fandom (so lots of ads and bad ui), and had tons of missing info. Maybe I can make a simple DQ wiki that runs on HTML 4 with no css or javascript.

[Anonymous No.10423419]

I've written an as yet unpublished Baldur's Gate 2 dialogue FAQ to help players experience the maximum and best party banter

[Anonymous No.10423925]

>>10419551
I believe I was more sigificant in the psp modding scene than I realized at the time in a particular country and thats all I'm going to say.

[Anonymous No.10424061]

>>10423347
bejitabro btw

[AC1 Hacker Anon No.10424621]

>>10418949
I think I kickstarted legitimate interest in modding old Armored Core games. I lack the capability to do it myself, at least in terms of modding ISOs at minimum.

[Anonymous No.10424627]

>>10424621
Okay, so what did you do ... just keep talking about it until someone else did the work?

[AC1 Hacker Anon No.10424776]

>>10424627
In essence, yes, but also no.

I tracked down a whole mess of memory addresses that manipulated aspects of the game, I have no doubt that this inspired research into other AC games where similarities were found.

I've found a way to manipulate not just AP and energy levels, but ammo counters, weapon types, what projectiles a weapon in a given slot fires, how much damage it does, whether or not it costs ammo or energy, whether or not it has recoil, raw player velocity addresses, map coordinates, behavior, appearance and RGB color of most projectiles, even what parts of a player's AC even display to begin with and where on the AC they display (including a mess of unused hardpoints), and even the particulars of AC1's chase camera behavior.

All found through RAM editing and nothing but. I disclosed what I found, where I found it at, and I have no doubts that inspired others to check stuff out for themselves. From the mouse-aiming hack to the dual analog hack, I take credit for nothing other than maybe being an inspiration. I don't have that much talent, just talented in pattern recognition.

[Anonymous No.10424786]

>>10418949
I helped develop the strategy to get a time of 1:11 in the Streets level of Goldeneye 007.

[Anonymous No.10425805]

>>10418949
I dumped the v1.0 AGB Aging cartridge that was previously undumped and hoarded by a collector.

[Anonymous No.10425828]

>>10424776
Wow I've been hoping to see you again. I stopped going to the AC generals on /m/ since 6 came out and don't really care to go back.

[Anonymous No.10425881]

I sell chinese bootleg games as legit ones to coomlectors

[Anonymous No.10426412]

I make sure things are cute and happy in discussions :3

You can call me posiposter! c: