/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.11007808]

Name a better retro collection. I'll wait.

[Anonymous No.11007818]

[Anonymous No.11007821]

Give up yet?

[Anonymous No.11007823]

>terrible port of Sonic CD
>Bonanza Bros. and Streets of Rage 1-3 all removed in the NA release
Garbage

[Anonymous No.11007824]

>>11007808
Sonic Fighters and R still not released on newer platforms, right? Despite how often Sega does rereleases and collections?
Anyways, the Mega Man Collections were pretty good iirc. &Bass was on it i think? and a racing game?

[Anonymous No.11007825]

[Anonymous No.11007828]

>>11007824
>&Bass was on it i think?
Nah, but Power Battle and Power Fighters were on the first one. & Bass is solely on Super Famicom and GBA.

[Anonymous No.11007829]

>>11007818
I wish vol3 didnt end up racer focused but whatever, great series. The taito compilations are dope too.

[Anonymous No.11007834]

>>11007808
>>11007821
>>11007825

[Anonymous No.11007885]

>>11007825
>Takes away the original stylized GCN menu designs for a generic list
Meh.

[Anonymous No.11007909]

>>11007828
oops, misremembered. still good additions though.
capcom need to stop neglecting &Bass

[Anonymous No.11008000]

>>11007834
>cool can I play Sonic 3 and Knuck-
>no.

[Anonymous No.11008113]

>>11007818
Great collections but I always wondered why they called it “Midway” Treasures when half the titles were developed and distributed by Atari Games.

[Anonymous No.11008114]

>>11007818
III's better because it's got HydroThunder

[Anonymous No.11008115]

>>11007808
sonic R and sonic fighters are both doodoo butt garbage, the only thing this collection had going for it was novelty

[Anonymous No.11008164]

collection of retro games is now retro itself

[Anonymous No.11008189]

>>11007821

[Anonymous No.11008202]

>>11007818
Solid compilation but I do recall some games not being emulated correctly, in particular Primal Rage which would frequently seize up and dip in framerate.

[Anonymous No.11008203]

>>11007829
I didn't realize Volume 3 would be all racers, I just bought it on a whim and was disappointed after owning the other two. If I recall correctly, the emulation is a bit laggy or choppy (at least on the GameCube version) for some of the 3D racers. The first two compilations are amazing though. I will never sell my copies of the trilogy.

[Anonymous No.11008221]

>>11008189
This game made me realize I was trans.

[Anonymous No.11008254]

>>11007824
Sonic the Fighters I think is actually included in Like a Dragon Gaiden, along with a playable Master System with some games when you get to the Daidoji hideout in Ch 3/4. It’s also backwards compatible for Xbox One/Series consoles along with Fighting Vipers IIRC so that’s a plus. Sonic R though hasn’t been re-released at all, and who knows if it will due to its poor reception/difficulty with porting it.

[Anonymous No.11008739]

>>11007818
I prefer the one with STUN RUNNER, but based nonetheless.
>>11008113
Atari's licensing situation was a real mess in the 2000s

[Anonymous No.11008748]

>>11007808
>Name a better retro collection.
Mine.

[Anonymous No.11008779]

>>11007808

[Anonymous No.11008782]

>>11008189
This was such a weird pack-in game for the Sega-CD. IIRC they only added CD audio to Golden Axe and the rest of the games are identical to their Genesis versions

[Anonymous No.11008790]

>>11008782
yeah, they could've at least added some FMV cutscenes

[Anonymous No.11008791]

>>11007808
didnt the mega collection have way more games?
CD is neat, but who the actual fuck wants to play R or a shitty fighting game?

[Anonymous No.11008798]

>>11008113
ataris been bankrupt and/or sold/restructured more times than anyone here can count

[Anonymous No.11008802]

>>11008791
Gems Collection had Game Gear games (the ones that weren't on Mega Collection+) and a few non-Sonic games to pad it out.

[Anonymous No.11008813]

>>11007808
Okay.

[Anonymous No.11008907]

>>11007825
SOVL.
I still can't get enough of the menu/UI and OST this had, so well made and comfortable aswell.

>>11007808
I think it's objectively inferior to Mega Collection Plus in pretty much every way... but I loved it as a child back then too. As someone who prefers the 8-Bit stuff over the 16-Bit due to its simplicity, or even the shorter length at times, it was a blast to play all the Game Gear stuff that Gems Collection had, and the menu/UI and OST were also superb.

[Anonymous No.11008952]

>>11008791
Gems' gimmick was that it was the obscure ones. Hidden gems and all that. Also Metal Sonic

[Anonymous No.11008975]

>>11008779
i KNEW they were in cahoots

[Anonymous No.11008992]

>>11008779
>Both know a girl sheep named Lanolin
>Both are baa-baa-bitchy as hell

[Anonymous No.11009031]

>>11008992
You seem obsessed with female sheep.

[Anonymous No.11009035]

>>11007818
Games don't run at the native frame rate.

[Anonymous No.11009040]

>>11007808
Sit.

[Anonymous No.11009068]

>>11007834
Your collection of Sega games doesn't come with a model of the original console, 2 controllers and can't be played standalone. Sad.

[Anonymous No.11009101]

>>11008813
Digital Eclipse recent collections are amazing, the Atari 50th and Jeff Minter collections are the gold standard now.

[Anonymous No.11009210]

>>11007818

[Anonymous No.11009228]

>>11007808

[Anonymous No.11009438]

>>11007821
Damn if I grew up poor in the early 90s I would have loved this

[Anonymous No.11009440]

>>11007825
I had this on gamecube. Pretty dope

[Anonymous No.11009473]

Love this game, it's one of the better pinball recreations. All the tables are good except Gorgar, hate Gorgar. Black Knight, Taxi, Space Shuttle, Whirlwind and Fun House are great tables. Also has cool presentation and doesn't need to worry about license fuckery and paid DLC.

[Anonymous No.11009672]

>>11009210
Nevermind, this fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.11010205]

>>11008164
meanwhile, the 2007 DS game Retro Game Challenge, based on GameCenter CX and focused on retro-style games that literally exist to serve as examples of retroness in video gaming, is not "retro" by /vr/'s rules

[Anonymous No.11010407]

>>11007825
This but the original
Gems collection is pretty disappointing all things considered, aside from alright pack soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.11010414]

>>11007808

[Anonymous No.11011424]

>>11008113
Atari's arcade division was basically not Atari, but more like Midway California

[Anonymous No.11013927]

>>11007808
How about Sega games, but in 3D?

[Anonymous No.11013939]

>>11009040
Shit*

[Anonymous No.11014028]

>>11010414
Why did it take THIS long?
Finally someone posted the right collection.

[Anonymous No.11014035]

>>11014028
>shaturn
Because nobody played it.

[Anonymous No.11014038]

>>11009068
this was pretty good but they fucked up the controllers. they are super light and dont feel right. i liked the little touch of the cartridge slot being able to be opened though.

[Anonymous No.11014057]

>>11014035
auster....

[Anonymous No.11014085]

>>11014057
Nobody played Astal either, no.

[Anonymous No.11014170]

>>11014038
Really? I never noticed a difference but then again it has been more than a decade since I held a real Sega 3 button. I was honestly just happy to have a USB 3 button controller, people only made new 6 button models and those weren't the ones I grew up with.

[Anonymous No.11014242]

>>11014170
Maybe saying they fucked it up is too harsh. It's perfectly playable. The controllers are just very lightweight so it feels a little weird. Especially since the nes and snes mini controllers feel like the real deal 1:1. It's nothing to really impact the games at all though so at the end of the day it's a very minor complaint.

[Anonymous No.11014301]

>>11014242
I get you. The reason why I got Mini consoles instead of some bland Android box is because their design, their controllers and their menus are all themed to the console.
Something like the weight of a controller being off from what you remember is just annoying. BTW I have the disappointing NEO GEO Mini and the controllers use analog sticks instead of micro switched sticks and have the face buttons in the wrong place.

[Anonymous No.11016117]

>>11014301
>BTW I have the disappointing NEO GEO Mini and the controllers use analog sticks instead of micro switched sticks and have the face buttons in the wrong place.
I mean, they simply removed the main reasons why anyone would prefer this controller really.

[Anonymous No.11016137]

>>11013927
I'm still mad they didn't release more stateside

[Anonymous No.11016927]

>>11008791
I mean, yes... but that was the whole point of the Gems Collection, to give us all of the installments missing from the Mega Collection, since it had an almost perfect selection of titles, but missed few that most of us might've enjoyed playing overall.

[Anonymous No.11016937]

>>11016927
>all of the installments missing from the Mega Collection

[Anonymous No.11017117]

>>11016117
Something I found out today. Apparently in China they've been buying the Neo Geo Mini controllers, modding them to use microswitch sticks and then replacing the USB-C with a real AES connector and then selling them at a bit higher price.
It's not perfect but for people who have an AES or a consolized MVS I am sure it's welcome since actual Neo Geo pads must be in short supply.

[Anonymous No.11017118]

>>11017117
Forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.11017509]

>>11008813
What the fuck is that bottom right art from?

[Anonymous No.11018949]

>>11007834
sonic 3 and knuckles is in mega collection plus...

it even has knuckles in sonic 2...

[Anonymous No.11018960]

>>11017117
why not just use the 8bitdo ones

[Anonymous No.11018969]

>>11018960
8bitdo is in league with the mafia

[Anonymous No.11018974]

>>11018960
Do the 8 Bitdo ones connect to a real console with AES connectors? Like I am not going to use it because I don't have an AES, it's just a cool thing for the few people who play on real hardware.
Also I saw those 8 Bitdo ones and they have shoulder buttons, eeew. Don't make an authentic looking pad and add extra buttons if you aren't going to make an OG one without em. Gross.

[Anonymous No.11019108]

>>11017509
No idea.

[Anonymous No.11020991]

>>11016137
I think that one is 2nd in the series. However, you have to look at it from a business/marketing standpoint: Sega games don't sell. So they just took the best one and got whatever they could out of it before the cost-benefit ratio plummets in terms of effort to localize and the poor social perception they're trying to piecemeal release the games as greedy cashgrabs. People already don't like Sega games here to begin with, so the US is lucky they even got one for the diminishing few in the small niche market of those that do like the games.

[Anonymous No.11021064]

>>11008203
I didnt either, after enjoying vol 1+2 so much i just grabbed vol 3 without thinking. Its not awful by any means, just wish they wouldve handled things diffrently.
>>11013927
I still wish we got the other volumes in america. Really fun stuff.
>>11016137
And ofcourse 3ds is region locked

[Anonymous No.11021079]

>>11018969
Cool

[Anonymous No.11021084]

I played the SHIT out of this way back when.

[Anonymous No.11021208]

>>11021064
>And ofcourse 3ds is region locked
Not if you hack it, which is quick and easy and there's no reason not to.

[Anonymous No.11021607]

>>11018960
8bitdo can't even get their controllers to work with steam, why should I trust them to get them to work with game consoles from the 90s

[Anonymous No.11021609]

>thread is full of konsole kiddie krap
Now that the children are finished posting, let's see some good PC game compilations.

[Anonymous No.11021614]

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[Anonymous No.11021617]

>>11021614

[Anonymous No.11021619]

>>11021617

[Anonymous No.11021620]

>>11021084
you wanna see if we can get sega swirl multiplayer going still?

[Anonymous No.11021625]

>>11021620
actually scratch that, it's over email so we can't do it.

[Anonymous No.11021627]

>>11021619

[Anonymous No.11021686]

>>11016937
Sega didn't even finish the game when they released it. In fact I think the entire 32X library was just games that were 75% done.

[Anonymous No.11022757]

>>11007834
the sound emulation was kinda sucky in some places, i wasn't too big of a fan of the borders, and it was really retarded to have sonic 3 and sonic and knuckles not able to connect. but i liked this collection back when it first came out since i was pretty poor at the time and the amount of games in it felt like a good investment.

[Anonymous No.11022767]

>>11008115
mentally ill pooskin hands typed this post

[Anonymous No.11022774]

If I wanna try the old Genesis games should I pick up mega collection or just emulate then?

[Anonymous No.11022828]

>>11022757
That's a fair criticism, I enjoy it specifically for the unlockables like Congo Bongo and I never noticed anything too poor about the sound emulation. It's entirely possible I wasn't being discerning because I got it for $15 at the time.

[Anonymous No.11022846]

>>11020991
I understand why Sega chose not to, I just don't agree with that choice. The place I went to had two copies on the shelf at launch, you're telling me they couldn't do that for the other collections too? A majority of the games in the NTSC-U collection are titles that only japs and weebs would care about, I thought they were trying to appeal to that demographic regardless of its size by keeping it as a relatively small release. I suppose even that was too optimistic.

>>11021064
>>11021208
There really is no reason not to hack your 3DS now, highly recommended.

[Anonymous No.11022916]

>>11007821
I literally have that and haven't played it in years.
My first console was a Sega Genesis in 1994.
Being half shit is what's great about the Sega Megasis, play General Chaos.

[Anonymous No.11023050]

>>11021607
>8bitdo can't even get their controllers to work with steam
What? Mine works perfectly...

[Anonymous No.11023242]

>>11009068
Doesn't this suffer from sound delay in the games

[Anonymous No.11023358]

>>11022774
You should emulate the gamecube games that emulate the genesis games

[Anonymous No.11025139]

>>11007818
FPBP

[Anonymous No.11025157]

>>11007821
Grew up with this one
>Mom and I loved Streets of rage
>Sister and I loved Sonic
>Mom and sister loved Golden Axe
>Mom loved Columns
>I loved Super Hang-On
>Nobody loved Revenge of Shinobi
There's a BR version that would have been even better.

[Anonymous No.11025180]

You know what's fucking retarded and pisses me off to this day? Gems Collection has all the Sonic games from Mega Collection Plus on the disc too. They're presented as being demos, but they're the full games of course, and using cheats to freeze the timer, you can absolutely just play them in their entirety.

If the games were just regularly playable, maybe as a sort of lock-on bonus for having Mega Collection save data, Gems would hands-down be the ultimate Sonic collection possible. Yet I haven't seen any autists make it happen.

[Anonymous No.11025201]

>>11010414
Genuinely sucks ass. You only like it because A) Its on the Saturn and you think you're cool for playing Saturn, and B) It has the stupid 3D level thing in it.
This is one of the worst ways to play these games, framerate is horrible and the music is just pre recorded audio files that don't loop. Stop being a faggot and do better.

[Anonymous No.11025241]

>>11023242
I heard that rumor when I got it a few years ago but it works fine. I can't say I've noticed any issue on the built in games or ones I've added that were tested by the moding community.
Just watched a YouTuber run some tests and he said it's on par with the emulation you get from a Raspberry Pi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC_mDhY4-3w

[Anonymous No.11025852]

>>11025201
>framerate is horrible
Made up bullshit.
It does have some additional slowdown on Sonic 2 (but at the same time removes some of the slowdown from the original MD ver) and also has completely slowdown-free Sonic 2 VS mode, making it the best way to play that mode since the original MD is extremely slow.
>muh CD audio loop
And yet it fixes the audio glitches on Ice Cap Act 2 on Sonic 3.
Get over it auster, Jam rocks.

[Anonymous No.11026298]

>>11025180
Why are you emulating a fucking collection?

[Anonymous No.11026310]

>>11007808
Would be better if the European version had the correct soundtrack :/

[Anonymous No.11026343]

>>11026298
Best way to play Fighters and R on modern hardware

[Anonymous No.11026654]

>>11026310
Technically, the correct soundtrack is US since it's a port of the older PC version, which used the US soundtrack in all regions.

[Anonymous No.11026669]

>>11026310
Don't forget the forced 50hz despite every single other Gamecube Sonic game having a 60hz option.

[Anonymous No.11026693]

>>11025201
Think? Know.

[Anonymous No.11027627]

>>11023050
double inputs unless I disable steam input which makes 90% of games unplayable.
>B-BUT IT DOESN'T DO THAT FOR MEEEE!!!!
stop lying.

[Anonymous No.11027865]

>>11021084
Were these emulations or straight ports?

[Anonymous No.11027916]

>>11016937
Weird that sega pretends this game never existed

[Anonymous No.11027986]

>>11027865
Emulation
I mean, do you really think early 2000s Sega would fucking do ports of half those games?