Retro Dragon Ball games

[Anonymous No.2350372]

What are your favorites? which ones do you want to play?

[Anonymous No.2350393]

Hyper Dimension for the SNES is pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.2350405]

>>2350393

Agreed, look gorgeous too.

Have you played Super Butoden 2?

[Anonymous No.2350438]

>>2350372

I wish someone just ripped the sprites from this game and inserted them into Super Butouden 2 for the Super Famicom.

[Anonymous No.2350446]

>>2350438

Why? I love Shin Butoden, but I think the SB2 sprites actually look sharper. Shin Butoden (and Ultimate Battle 22)'s sprites look a bit washed out.

[Anonymous No.2350467]

>>2350446

The sprites can just be tweaked to look better. The point is you wouldn't have to draw character sprites from scratch.

[Anonymous No.2350469]

My most nostalgic one is Legendary Super Warriors for the GBC.
I don't know what I thought I was going to get, but card game rock-paper-scissors wasn't it. Still played the hell out of it though.

[Anonymous No.2350475]

>>2350467

Oh you mean so SB2 could have more characters.
I agree, would be great to have a bigger roster.
I still like SB2's kind of unorthodox roster though. Love Zangya.

[Anonymous No.2350484]

Honestly? Retro Dragon Ball games are pretty shitty, with some RPGs being exception.
Probably because most Dragon Ball games up to the PS/Saturn were developed by TOSE. There were games with good presentation like Super Butoden 2, but it's not something that I would like to revisit.

[Anonymous No.2350493]

This theme from SB3 is still one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mheu4FPou7M

[Anonymous No.2350495]

YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE ME SOME PLEASURE, RIGHT?

[Anonymous No.2350497]

>>2350484

Ban Dai licensed games are usually average at best and clearly made to appeal to the fans more than anything else, this is true not only to DB games, but licensed games in general.
Modern DB games are also like that, but let's not go into there because it's not /vr/.

I honestly think Super Butoden 2 is still fun to play nowdays. Especially if you've got a buddy to play VS with who knows how to play.
The game becomes even better with the turbo mode (I didn't know about this as a kid).

Hyper Dimension or Shin Butoden on Saturn are also pretty decent.

I think the real bad retro DB fighting games were the PS1 ones, Ultimate Battle 22 and Final Bout. Legends was good, although it can feel repetitive and simple, it's still fun to mash buttons and see shit happen. Loved it as a kid.

The Famicom and SFC RPGs are good also, but again, only for fans.

[Anonymous No.2350520]

Still the most memorable DB game theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzB3M0em_zQ

[Anonymous No.2350528]

>>2350520

Agreed.

Original version is nice too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMnptbOB5kU

and original arranged version too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luq0ll6CDEU

also, fuck it, I think Kenji Yamamoto was a great musician and sound technician. I don't even care if he ripped off some melodies from other songs, he did a great work with the games and also doing original music for the DBZ "hit song" CDs

[Anonymous No.2350531]

>>2350520
>>2350528
love that theme
Feels so out of place in DBZ though.

[Anonymous No.2350536]

Of course I didn't know that Dragonball was an anime (no one did then) or even how shitty this game really was when I was a kid. Used to play the hell out of this garbage, though. I guess I just liked how weird and japanese it was. Imagine my surprise when I found out years later that the sandwiches are panties.

[Anonymous No.2350537]

>>2350531

A lot of the DBZ game music sounds a lot like the music found in the Hit song collection OSTs.
This is because they were made by the same group of musicians (Project Monolith, headed by Yamamoto, original arranger of cha-la-head cha-la)

This doesn't sound like DBZ music, but it's still amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaHjAYFZDpc

[Anonymous No.2350643]

>>2350536

This is the grand daddy of all DB games.

Good thing better DB games came out years later. But I still like the OG Dragonball for NES/Famicom. Then again, I also like Ikki.

[Anonymous No.2350660]

This.

Hyper Dimension is also immensely fun and I really liked Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout on PS1 as well. It was a pretty cool precursor to the Budokai games.

[Anonymous No.2351565]

>>2350393
For a bit, yeah. It's a really good looking game, but there is no complexity to it whatsoever. Gets old fast.

[Anonymous No.2351647]

>>2350520
I'd argue that the Trunks theme was more memorable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6PcxWFypA

but really, all three Butoudens had tons of excellent tracks. Shin Butouden only needed to remix those and it was set. It did have a nice Mr. Satan theme though, which was also remixed in a more obscure album.

[Anonymous No.2351898]

>>2350393

Literally the only good game, aside from super sayan densetsu.

[Anonymous No.2352146]

>>2351647

Sounds like something from Castlevania or Ys.

[Anonymous No.2352236]

Am I the only one who played the Buu Yuu Retsuden (the Japanese version came for sale in my country somehow)? Game might be meh, but it has some cool music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LghZFtXHjA

[Anonymous No.2352563]

>>2351898
>Literally the only good game

HD looks great, but Super Butouden 2 is a better game.

>>2352236

I have it (bootleg copy), it plays similar to the Butouden series. It's not bad and has a good roster. I dig it.

[Anonymous No.2352579]

Dragon ball legends.
I remember the game being fun, and somewhat better than all the other dragon ball's games i played in the 90's.

[Anonymous No.2352587]

I loved Dragon Ball Z Legends and Buu Yuu Retsuden, and will probably love Hyper Dimension when I get around to playing it.

You know, for anime vidya having such a bad reputation, Dragonball games have a decent track record if you ignore the last console gen.

[Anonymous No.2352785]

Dragon Ball would have been an ideal title to use with this game engine.

[Anonymous No.2352873]

>>2352785
not exactly the same, but similar idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqxO9jMalrg

[Anonymous No.2352895]

>>2352873

I remember this game being so damned hard. I really tried to like it back then since DB games were scarce as fuck but the gameplay was near unforgiving once you reach the mirror match and boss battle.

[Anonymous No.2353973]

Bump.

By the way I found out where pic related is from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUnYYsFxDY

[Anonymous No.2357223]

HI-MI-TSU

[Anonymous No.2357248]

>>2352236
>Am I the only one who played the Buu Yuu Retsuden

nope. It was incredibly common back in the late 90s/early 00s over here, when DBZ was showing, usually packed next to either Genecyst or Kgen on kids PCs. Nobody knew what the fuck an emulator was at the time though, mostly because kids either had PCs or Playstations. I immediately recognized it though, even though I didn't knew this game existed until then.

A few years later I managed to snag the French copy complete with manual in the local pawn shop. No idea how it got there, but it was a nice catch. Not a bootleg either (I haven't checked, but it doesn't look like one). There are some marks in the manual but who cares.

Brought it into work a few years back, when we had a party, it was a giant nostalgia bomb for everyone.

And yeah, the game is pretty darn good as well, as long as you know how to deflect the super beams. And it had probably the best Meteo attacks not counting Hyper Dimension.

I wish there was a compilation of all the small animations that characters do when you knock them off screen and they jump back. They happen so rarely, I barely noticed that they are there. I think Vegita does a spit, but I don't remember what the rest of the crew does.

The game was full with so much content, and had a great cast too. It's only fault is not using the correct colours on some attacks, and no proper 6-button support.

[Anonymous No.2357257]

>>2357248

Buu Yuu Retsuden was officially released in Europe, France for sure, and probably in Italy and Spain too.
DBZ (and other animes like Ranma or Kimagure Orange Road) were fairly big and popular in those countries in the 90s, so it was nos urprise Ban Dai decided to localize DBZ games over there.
Super Butouden 2 was also released in Europe under the name "Dragon Ball Z : La Légende Saien"

[Anonymous No.2357264]

>>2357248
Buu Yuu Retsuden was officially released in Europe, France for sure, and probably in Italy and Spain too.
DBZ (and other animes like Ranma or Kimagure Orange Road) were fairly big and popular in those countries in the 90s, so it was nos urprise Ban Dai decided to localize DBZ games over there.
Super Butouden 2 was also released in Europe under the name "Dragon Ball Z : La Légende Saien"

[Anonymous No.2357274]

>>2357264

And here's a little oddity not many know about. Super Butouden 2 almost made it to America.
The title of the game was going to be simply "Dragon Ball", and some characters have weird name changes.

This scan is from a latin america Club Nintendo magazine, at the time, DBZ still wasn't broadcasted in latin america (at least, not legally), but by 1995 (which is when the game was going to be released), the original Dragon Ball was airing and probably up to Piccolo Daimaoh saga, and many people knew about DBZ already. Probably what stopped Ban Dai from releasing the game in America was that there was no market for it in the US. A shame really.

[Anonymous No.2357323]

Is there any way to play jap PS1 games on a US PS3? I want to buy pic related.

[Anonymous No.2357325]

>>2357223
I guess a DBZ fan would be stupid enough to use such a horrible filter

[Anonymous No.2357329]

>>2350536
>no one did
I swear there was a syndicated local station that ran some really shitty localization of Dragon Ball when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s

[Anonymous No.2357336]

>>2357325

I don't emulate. it's a pic taken from my CRT. Not the best quality since I used my shitty cel phone's cam though.

>>2357323

I actually don't think the PS3 is region locked, so you shouldn't have any problem as long as it's original.
The Saturn version is better though.

[Anonymous No.2357337]

>>2357264
>Buu Yuu Retsuden was officially released in Europe

I know, I have the original cart.
I just don't know how it ended up in the very small town I live, where maybe 20 people knew what a Mega Drive is.

[Anonymous No.2357339]

>>2357264
I have to wounder why France was so early to adopt anime, so much so that they even co-produced some anime in the late 70s and 80s. Does it go back to being exposed to it through the process of getting permission to use the Lupin name in an anime?

[Anonymous No.2357340]

>>2357329

Harmony Gold did run a pilot for a Dragon Ball dub back in 1988. Only incomplete dubs of a couple of the movies exist.

[Anonymous No.2357342]

>>2357329

Harmony Gold (company responsible for Robotech) actually localized the first 10 episodes or so of the original DB in english.
Goku's name was "Zero", Yamcha was "Radecki" or something like that.

[Anonymous No.2357345]

>>2357336
>it's a pic taken from my CRT
>pic's name is formatted like that of a screenshot from an emulator
just how stupid are you?

[Anonymous No.2357350]

>>2357336
How's the Saturn version different?

[Anonymous No.2357353]

>>2357339

I loved those japanese-french-spanish anime productions.
I'm from latin america and we got those series dubbed on VHS.

D'artacan was great, pic related too.

[Anonymous No.2357357]

>>2357342
>>2357340
yes, this is obviously what I'm thinking of, I distinctly remember the name zero actually, and I am imagining that some syndicated stations with lack of programming probably repeated this test run over and over.

[Anonymous No.2357361]

>>2357345
>>pic's name is formatted like that of a screenshot from an emulator

What.
As I told you, I don't emulate. I made that filename myself. I even added "himitsu" on it.
Here's the original pic directly from my cel. You can see the corners of the TV.
At any rate, take it easy. Even if I was emulating (which I don't), it's no big deal.

>>2357350
As far as I can tell, it runs faster. Might have better sprite animation too but I'm not sure.
Not too weird since Saturn games often do 2D better than PS1.

[Anonymous No.2357367]

>>2357361
sorry, it's just a reactionary thing, just too used to the people that militantly post shitty filters and then call them the best thing ever.

in other news, google's shitty AI thinks that a glass of wine is not wine, and that pigs in a blanket are sushi...

[Anonymous No.2357378]

>>2357357
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZtzZj3mgX4

[Anonymous No.2357391]

>>2357357
>>2357378

That harmony gold dub also served as the basis for the first spanish dub in latin america.
Pic related is from a sticker album where Goku is called Zero.
They only dubbed the first 10 episodes in spanish with Harmony Gold's script, then a year later or so they re-did it with the orignal names, and then continued dubbing the whole series.

[Anonymous No.2357395]

>>2357378
this dub is actually decent... I mean I hate the better known dubs and I can stand this.

[Anonymous No.2357404]

>>2357395
I should say decent for the time before a bunch of autistic animu fans start internet yelling at me

[Anonymous No.2357502]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ZocawlIpc

[Anonymous No.2359467]

Best DBZ fighters on each respective consoles

[Anonymous No.2359486]

>>2359467

I was disappointed that the Saturn game doesn't have beam duels.

[Anonymous No.2359489]

>>2359486
I'm disappointed the Saturn game isn't on anything other than a fucking Saturn.

[Anonymous No.2359497]

>>2359489
Saturn is a great console for fighters. I am disappointed at the retarded prices some games fetch.

[Anonymous No.2359580]

>>2359467
>>2359486

Great games right there anon, I'm jelly, even tough I have a fairly faithful bootleg cartidge of SB2 from the old days that still kicks ass, and I can play Shin Butouden on the Saturn (backup CD). One day I'll get both legit games, good thing they aren't rare.

Also, as much as I love Shin Butouden, I agree it's not really as good as SB2, or even SB3 gameplay-wise.
But without comparing it to SB2, it's still one of the best DBZ fighting games. Great roster, interesting new mechanic to send your opponent off to another plane on the stage, classic Butouden controls, now even better thanks to the Saturn pad (you just have to change the default control setting so it can play like SB2 with both L and R to dash in each direction. On default control you can only dash with R and the d-pad, and use L to jump to the sky. Pretty shitty control scheme, but it can be fixed so no problem).
My main problem with Shin Butouden is how small the stages are, you can't dash far enough, your opponent is always near, similar to the tournament stage on SB2. The split screen goes crazy sometimes spinning around because of you or your opponent moving in the opposite direction below. That, and a few other little details that I find make it not as smooth as SB2, but presentation-wise, it's very pretty. Great animation intro, the VS screen before you go into battle are amazing, these character profile pics are badass. Music is amazing as always, lots of remixed songs from SB2 like Gohan's theme. Sadly it lacks a story mode, like Super Butouden 3. But it makes up for it by having that big ass roster.
I don't know, they fucking nailed it with Super Butouden 2 and then couldn't match that kind of quality again, in both presentation and gameplay. But Shin Butouden is pretty close.

[Anonymous No.2359590]

>>2359580
i love mr satan mode. Never bet against goku haha

[Anonymous No.2362153]

>>2350372
aww nostalgie. at the dawn of internet and emulation i found info (Henry Lapierre's DBZ game site) that dbz games and emulation actually exists, so i went hunting for them. Super boutoden 2 was best, much later came Hyper Dimensions. The PS1 looked like unattainable ... but with time it proved wrong.

[Anonymous No.2362162]

>>2350537
Sounds like it could've been an insert song or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewzi45xuuzU

[Anonymous No.2362165]

>>2362153
i even play through most of the famicom games.
But the best ones were the snes ones, the rpg, then SB2=HD>SB1>SB3, ad the Gokuden1-2 was also great with its authentic story (as much i can remember).

Then much later the whole francise was picked up again and came the new gen version games which i had no emulator for (and no money for buying those things in here, east-eu)

[Anonymous No.2362172]

>>2357323
You can make a japanese psn account no problem, tons of jap ps1 and other reteo console games are availBle on it

[Anonymous No.2362179]

>>2350475
I loved how it was (imho) a great opponent to the fighting game kings Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. It had genuine things, like the split screens, meteos, full screen blasts, secret characters, plus it has a full story behind it with 300 episode... unlike those two.

[Anonymous No.2362234]

what's the deal with beams looking totally shit in UB22?
Been a while since I played but I remember every fucking special attack looking like a single ball of energy, even ones that are supposed to be continuous beams like the Kamehameha.

[Anonymous No.2362297]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prDIvbyDlgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkbk6isr7qM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zQD0IjHdO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2bxcpeJPE

[Anonymous No.2362352]

>>2362297

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTeQSue9Eg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EThj4adxFnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3kVVyWbfZM

[Anonymous No.2363438]

>>2362162

Mind Power was actually released in one of the Hit Song Collection OSTs produced by Monolith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qnGfycMjMM

The songs that were released on these CDs and not used in the series are called "Image Songs". They are popular in japanese series or games OSTs, usually songs made by the sound team but that never actually make it to the series.
Some examples of image songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj93kgyYmeA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5C1u67MNEs
(this one is also from the song hit collection, but Monolith wasn't involved in it. Still has very bizarre tracks like this one called "a ballad for majin buu")

[Anonymous No.2363506]

>>2362297
>>2362352

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEgBAUOHQ_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WN1MO3pLa8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPo0UZev1T0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYuo91cazI

[Anonymous No.2363587]

>>2357367
Congratulations, you're worse than what you hate.

[Anonymous No.2366069]

>>2350643

Bump and to correct myself here, the first Famicom DB game, "Shenron no nazo" (or "Dragon Power" in the west) wasn't the first DB game ever. That actually was a game released for the lesser known Super Cassette Vision by Epoch, in 1986.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9RGx-zIZQ

I like Goku's sprite animation

[Anonymous No.2366165]

>>2366069
da duck?

[Anonymous No.2366618]

>>2357367
> the people that militantly post shitty filters and then call them the best thing ever.

This does not happen. What happens is people like you militantly telling people that all filters are shit and that nobody should use them any time someone posts an image that even hints at using a filter.

[Anonymous No.2366741]

What's the name of that card game, not the GBC one. I remember playing a lot when I first started playing with emulators.

[Anonymous No.2366746]

>>2366741
super saiya densetsu like the most downloaded rom back in the day haha

[Anonymous No.2366749]

>>2366746
Thanks, that game was pretty cool. I should replay it, but I don't want to destroy my memories

[Anonymous No.2366750]

>>2366749
I like it it just got a new translation a little over a year ago. The random battles can be annoying but it's not any worse than final fantasy 1 or 2.

[Anonymous No.2366761]

>>2366069
Idk if it was that one or the other but I remember playing a DB game on the nes that sucked hard. I don't think I ever played one I liked until Budokai 1&2 but I remember that one being especially bad.

[Anonymous No.2366775]

>>2366761

On the NES? it was probably Power Dragon (aka Shenron no nazo).
The very first DB game was for a console called Super Cassette Vision, only in Japan.

And as already stated in this thread, if you want to play some good retro DB games, or at least playable without knowing japanese, try Super Butouden 2, Shin Butouden, Hyper Dimension, those 3 are pretty good.

[Anonymous No.2366846]

>>2366775
Is that the one that's kind of a zelda ripoff?

[Anonymous No.2367024]

>>2366846
>Shenron no Nazo
>1986

>The Legend of Zelda
>1987

Pretty sure it's the opposite.

[Anonymous No.2367281]

>>2362179

I know what you mean, man. Outside of Capcom and SNK fighters, Super Butouden 2 is one fighting games I keep playing today, not because it's DBZ (or at least, not just because of that), but because it's a genuinely good game.

[Anonymous No.2368926]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qw95rTx4W4

[Anonymous No.2369004]

>>2357223
>Gohan's sash
>red, not blue

Way to fuck up, designers.

[Anonymous No.2369018]

>>2369004

It was sometimes red on the manga coloring.
I haven't noticed it until now actually.
What's weird is that it's blue on the actual game boxart, but all his sprites on the game have the red sash.

[Anonymous No.2370592]

Anyone played the PC Engine game?

[Anonymous No.2370615]

>>2362165
oh god I can remember completely playing thru a non-translated version of that one circa 99/2000. Talk about trial and error mixed with aimless rpg exploration... ugh. that bonus fight with ssj vegeta at the end was nuts too.

[Anonymous No.2370802]

>>2370615

Me too, playing untranslated DBZ RPGs was the first thing I did when I discovered emulation back in 99/2000.

I played through the card-based ones for Famicom and Super Famicom, and also the Super Gokuu Den games on SFC (weird mix between visual novel/quiz game and RPG battles)

[Anonymous No.2371824]

>>2370802
I could never figure out how to play the Gokuu den games. I can beat the first two enemies without problems but then Yamcha comes and I get rekt so hard. By fucking Yamcha.
It's been about 14 years, since I played it the last time though.

[Anonymous No.2372172]

>>2371824

The battle system is simple but can be hard to get around if you don't know how it works. Basically it's like a rock paper scissor game (with more options), so you need to memorize which attack is better than the one your opponent will do. For the most part you can spam Kame Hame Ha and win though.

There are english translations by fans by now, I think they're complete for the most part although they're not professional, so it should be easier to play (also on the quiz parts)

[Anonymous No.2375293]

BUMP

[Anonymous No.2376051]

>>2350372
Supersónico warriors GBA is pretty damn good

[Anonymous No.2377070]

>>2376051
is that retro yet?

[Anonymous No.2377224]

>>2377070
No, it is not. And hopefully never will.

[Anonymous No.2377264]

>>2350372
is there a working saturn emulator for it yet? couldn't made it to work with ssf/satourne/yabause

[Anonymous No.2377414]

>>2370802
>>2371824
>>2372172
Seriously ... how do you beat Yamcha ?
I tried it 16 years ago, I tried again last year and agai na couple of weeks ago.
I have no idea !!!
is there an useful walkthroug or something out there ?

[Razz No.2377459]

>>2377414
Hold L+R to charge up your ki and increase your speed. You should be able to interrupt all of his attacks.

[Razz No.2377467]

>>2377459
Oh and for when you get stuck at the Rabbit Wizard, hit him with ONLY the nyoibo.

[Anonymous No.2377562]

>>2377459
>>2377467
Cool, I'll try that, thanks bro !

[Anonymous No.2377646]

>>2377224
>And hopefully never will.
You realize it's just a matter of time, right?
Or are you just a "EVERYTHING I DIDN'T GROW UP WITH IS SHIT" faggot?

[Anonymous No.2377681]

>>2377646
>>2377224

You two stop right here and now, this is a Dragon Ball thread, not another 6th gen vs /vr/ thread.

[Anonymous No.2378462]

>>2377681
Sorry Dad.

[Anonymous No.2380553]

>>2350497

I played the shit out of Dragon Ball Z III RPG on my olde Famiclone without knowing japanese at all, beat it multiple times