/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1935465]

Are there any other games like D&D Shadow over Mystara, or Knights of the Round where it's like a sidescrolling beat em up with levelling and item inventories and shit? Co-op a must.

I really liked D&D:SoM, the spritework was well done and choosing paths and stuff was a lot of fun. But there's only so many times I can replay it. But yeah, any ideas for awesome Arcade games along those lines? Any system/region is fine, I have trouble emulating mame sometimes.

[Anonymous No.1935481]

You may or may not enjoy King of Dragons

[Anonymous No.1935637]

There's a few along with some with no level ups at all.
Dark Seal 1 and 2, being one such case.

[Anonymous No.1935671]

I've been playing a lot of Gaiapolis lately, an arcade-exclusive beat-'em-up from Konami featuring character designs from Shuzilow HA (the TwinBee guy). It's actually overhead action game, so it's much closer to something like Legend of Valkyrie than Tower of Doom, but the combat system feels like a beat-'em-up.

[Anonymous No.1935673]

Honestly, not /vr/ but you would LOVE Dragon's Crown for PS3/vita. It was made by one of the main dudes behind D&D arcade(George Kamitani) after he left Capcom and is sorta like his dream RPG beat em up he never got to make.

[Anonymous No.1935714]

I'm gonna buck the trend a bit and try to give you some overlooked gems. I may be stretching things a bit as far as what you're looking for, as some of them, it's been so long since I've played, I can't remember if they EXACTLY fit the bill.

Gauntlet Legends is an obvious one, just thought I'd throw that out there.
Arabian Fight is a beat-em-up with Sinbad worked into the cast. Interesting setup, but it might not have inventory or leveling(hard to run on emulator...the video system is unique).
Arabian Magic does have an inventory, but not leveling. This time, it's generic Arabian trope, but the depth of combos lends it some replayability if you're into that sort of thing.
Dungeon Magic is TOTALLY your thing! Leveling, inventory, diverse party, the only real difference between it and D&D is the view(DM is angled top-down view). I'd say go with this first from my list.
Finally, not /vr/, but Crystal of the Kings is a nifty game you might want to look at.

Hope something satisfies your craving here...

[Anonymous No.1935754]

Dungeon Magic

[Anonymous No.1936326]

>>1935481
We tried that, it was alright!

>>1935637
Okay I had no idea what Dark Seal was until I found it was called Wizard Fire in NA. Will give it a shot!

>>1935671
This looks great! It doesn't have to be a side scroller or anything, just a good co-op game, I'm being bugged to find new shit since we've played everything we have to death.

>>1935673
I'd agree, but no PS3! We stop at PS2 except for nintendo consoles

>>1935714
Much appreciated anon!
We play the shit out of Gauntlet on the Dreamcast.
Never emulated the SS32 before [did want to try the trackball sonic game, is that even possible though?] Honestly, I'm not that great at emulating MAME either, but I've gotten a few games to work [Mega Man Power Battles/TMNT/Simpsons/KOTR/D&D etc] I just get jammed occasionally I guess I don't have the right CHDs or Bios' something.
>>1935754 Dungeon Magic does totally seem like something we'd dig, will be checking that out definitely!
And Crystal of the Kings despite the graphics does seem intriguing!

Seriously, thanks for all the recommendations guys, I've mostly been a console emulator, so I've yet to really crack into the MAME thing, bar a few SHMUPS for me, and the odd TMNT/Simpsons game my friends wanted to play. Looking forward to trying these!

[Anonymous No.1936334]

>>1935671
>Gaiapolis
Nigga I was playing that shit today, what a great fucking game.
>Legend of Valkyrie
A nigga after my own heart

[Anonymous No.1936359]

>>1935465
guardian heroes, it's sidescrolling but only has 3 planes of action but the fighting system is very solid and it has leveling. I know it might be kind of obvious to some people but I'm just throwing it out there.

[Anonymous No.1936364]

>>1936326
>It doesn't have to be a side scroller or anything, just a good co-op game, I'm being bugged to find new shit since we've played everything we have to death
>Sega Genesis
Battletoads
Battletoads and Double Dragon
Bio-Hazard Battle
Captain America and the Avengers
Contra Hard Corps
General Chaos
Golden Axe, II, III
Gunstar Heroes
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Road Rash, II, 3: Tour De Force
Rolling Thunder 2
Soldiers of Fortune
Sonic The Hedgehog 2, 3 & Knuckles
Streets of Rage, 2, 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Toejam & Earl
Two Crude Dudes
World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
X-Men, 2: Clone Wars
>SNES
Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country, 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, 3: Dixie's Double Trouble
Final Fight, 2, 3
Joe & Mac, 2
Kirby Super Star
Kirby's Dream Course
Kirby's Dream Land 3
Pocky & Rocky
Pocky & Rocky 2
Pop'n TwinBee
Return of Double Dragon (Super Double Dragon)
Rock n' Roll Racing
Secret of Mana
Seiken Densetsu 3
Shin Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun: Kunio Tachi no Banka
Super Bomberman 2, 3, 4, 5
Super Mario Kart
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time
Tetris Attack
The Lost Vikings
The Lost Vikings 2
Wild Guns
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
>Sega Saturn
Astal
Batsugun
Battle Garegga
Blast Wind
Capcom Generations 1: Wings of Destiny
Darius Gaiden
DoDonPachi
DonPachi
Dungeons & Dragons Collection
Dynamite Deka
Elevator Action Returns
Gekirindan
Guardian Force
Guardian Heroes
Gunbird
Gun Frontier
Hyper Duel
Loaded
Magical Night Dreams: Cotton Boomerang
Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001
Radiant Silvergun
RayForce
RayStorm
Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus
Sexy Parodius
Shienryu
Strikers 1945
Strikers 1945 II
Terra Diver
>PS1
Crash Team Racing
Future Cop L.A.P.D.
G-Darius
Gradius Gaiden
Legend of Mana
Loaded
Raiden DX
RayStorm
Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012
Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus
Terra Diver
Twisted Metal 2
Vigilante 8
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
Zanac X Zanac

[Anonymous No.1936367]

>>1935465
YOU MIGHT ENJOY D&D REVENGE OF MY NUTS

[Anonymous No.1936371]

>>1936364
>N64
BattleTanx
BattleTanx: Global Assault
Beetle Adventure Racing!
Diddy Kong Racing
Jet Force Gemini
Mario Kart 64
Perfect Dark
Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA
San Francisco Rush
WCW vs. nWo: World Tour
WCW/nWo Revenge
WWF WrestleMania 2000
WWF No Mercy
>Sega Dreamcast
Cannon Spike
ChuChu Rocket!
Dynamite Deka 2 (Dynamite Cop)
Fast Striker
Gauntlet Legends
Giga Wing
Giga Wing 2
Gunbird 2
Ikaruga (Imp)
Mars Matrix
Power Stone
Power Stone 2
Radirgy (Radio Allergy) (Imp)
Samba de Amigo
Shikigami no Shiro II (Imp)
Spawn: in the Demon's Hand
Sturmwind
The House of the Dead 2
Under Defeat (Imp)
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
Virtua Cop 2
Virtua Tennis
Zero Gunner 2 (Imp)

[Anonymous No.1936375]

>>1936371
>Arcade
1943: The Battle of Midway, '43 Kai, '41: Counter Attack, 'XX: The War Against Destiny, '44: The Loop Master
Air Gallet
Alien vs. Predator
Alpha Mission II
Andro Dunos
Aero Fighters(Sonic Wings), 2, 3
Armored Warriors
Batsugun
Battle Bakraid
Battle Circuit
Battle Garegga
Blazing Star
Blue Hawk
Burning Fight
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Captain Commando
Contra
Crime Fighters
Cyber Lip
Cybattler
Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons
Daioh
Dangun Feveron
Dead Connection
Donpachi, DoDonPachi
Dragon Blaze
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom, Shadow over Mystara
Eco Fighters
Eight Man
Elevator Action Returns
ESP Ra. De.
Final Fight
Gaiapolis
Gekirindan
Ghost Pilots
Giga Wing, 2
Growl
Guardian Force
Guardians
Gunbird, 2
GunForce: Battle Fire Engulfed Terror Island, 2
Gun Frontier
Guwange
Ikari Warriors, II: Victory Road, III: The Rescue
King of The Monsters, 2
Knights of the Round
Mahou Daisakusen, Shippū Mahō Daisakusen Kingdom-Grandprix, Great Mahou Daisakusen
Lucky & Wild
Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting
Mercs
Metal Slug, 2, X, 3, 4, 5
Metamorphic Force
Mutation Nation
Mystic Warriors
NAM-1975
Night Slashers
Ninja Baseball Batman
Ninja Combat
Ninja Commando
Out Zone
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
Progear no Arashi
Robo Army
Salamander 2
Samurai Aces
Sengeki Striker
Sengoku 3
Sengoku Blade
Shadow Force
Shock Troopers, 2nd Squad
Smash T.V.
Strikers 1945, II, III, Plus
Sunset Riders
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Turtles in Time
Terra Diver
The Punisher
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
Undercover Cops
Violent Storm
Warriors of Fate
X-Men
Zed Blade

[Anonymous No.1936387]

>>1935714
>>1935754
Yeah apparently I'm missing a rom or chd image so it won't play. I'm using MAME 0146b, though like I said, I'm pretty new at MAME emulation.

[Anonymous No.1936398]

I think Cadash might be up your alley, too!

[Anonymous No.1936401]

>>1936387
Disregard that, I just downloaded another rom and it works. The first one was like 500kbs and didn't work, the second was 7 megs and did. Weird.

[Anonymous No.1936405]

>>1936364
ecchi guy !! where's your tag

[That Ecchi Guy !!SXqkEzxV5p0 No.1936417]

>>1936401
If there are multiple versions of a ROM for each region you'll still have to download the parent ROM for the game to work. Think of them as language packs. This usually just applies to arcade games though

>>1936405
Forgot I had it off

[Anonymous No.1936434]

>>1936401
okay son you want to know about mame? there is always a parent rom that may have a completely different name like Dark Seal in japan is Gate of Doom in the US. so you need the parent rom dark seal and then to play the US version you need the gate of doom rom as well.

>>1935754
This is on taito legends 2 for PS2 which has TONS of awesome games on it. thanks for posting that though it reminded me of Dark Seal/Gate of Doom and Dark Seal 2/Wizard Fire both isometric action games similar to dungeon magic but not as beat em up. OP you should definitely try them too.

Other games I recommend
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder (especially if you though SoM looked nice)
Night Slashers - just a regular beat em up with an awesome theme and great graphics though.
Tecmo Knight/WildFang - A beat em up where you control different monsters you can ride a tiger, a giant, or a dragon and switch between them sometimes. Super gory and lots of fun.

[Anonymous No.1936436]

>>1936434
WOW GAYEST THING IVE SEEN TODAY

[Anonymous No.1936437]

>>1936375
>no Chiki Chiki Boys/Mega Twins
Dissapointing list

[That Ecchi Guy !!SXqkEzxV5p0 No.1936465]

>>1936437
Thanks for the suggestion

[Anonymous No.1936469]

>>1936465
No problem, thanks for the ecchi.

[Anonymous No.1936480]

>>1936436
that's not very nice

[Anonymous No.1936489]

>>1936359
Played it a fair bit, but thanks for the suggestion! We've got a metric shitton of console co-op, looking for something new for us to play.

>>1936364
There's a few in here we've not played, cheers ecchi! [mostly the saturn ones, I admit, and all but about five of the arade ones] But this is a fantastic reference list, cheers man. I was starting to worry that we'd played everything out there.

>>1936398
Blitzed through cadash, both genny and t16 versions.

>>1936417
>>1936434
Okay, the language pack thing makes a LOT of sense. The CHD terminology always threw me, I always used to find giant 4 gig files whenever I went mame rom hunting and had no idea what everything was or how it worked.

>>1936434
looking up Taito Legends 2 as we speak!

>>1936465
That is a pretty good picture.

Have I mentioned I love /vr/ sometimes?

[Anonymous No.1936995]

Guardian Heroes

The game allows you to upgrade your spells and various stats. It has multiple endings. I think something like 45 unlockable characters for the Arena. They re-released it for XBLA with a bunch of cool upgrades too!

[Anonymous No.1937025]

>>1936995
>They re-released it for XBLA with a bunch of cool upgrades too!

I got that shit for like 2 bucks. It feels like such a steal getting shit like that so cheap.

[Anonymous No.1937080]

>>1936371
Turok Rage Wars is cool for bro-op on the N64

[Anonymous No.1937218]

>>1937080
Thanks. I forgot about Rage Wars

[Anonymous No.1937374]

>>1935673
Avoid Dragon's Crown.

It's the most visually polluted game ever made.

[Anonymous No.1939065]

>>1936326
Try final burn if you're having trouble with roms/bios's etc. Mame is a real bitch and is super picky when it comes to having compatible roms.

[Anonymous No.1939071]

>>1936364
>Astal
Awful game that is constantly recommended for some strange reason.

[Anonymous No.1939530]

>>1939071
It's one of the few passable platformers for the Saturn. I think b/c it's exclusive it gets recommended.

[Anonymous No.1939534]

>>1939071
Its not like there's much else you can recommend for Saturn if you can't read moon runes.

[Anonymous No.1939705]

>>1937080
... Until you run into that fucking bug that makes it impossible to beat co-op mode.