Arcade Games

[Anonymous No.2575605]

ITT: Top Tier Arcade Games

[Anonymous No.2575610]

MARS
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MATRIX
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[Anonymous No.2575613]

More like POOP master

[Anonymous No.2575618]

ATTENTION NARC ONE –
OH NO, THE NARCS, MAN!
QUIET ONE-ONE – IN PROGRESS

LET’S GO

[Anonymous No.2575672]

Despite how hard this game can be it never wears me out. When another game is giving me grief I always finds myself playing garegga to level out.

>>2575610 I played this game once but I haven't picked it up since. A lot of people sing its praises, so what makes it so good?

[Anonymous No.2575681]

>>2575672
What makes this game special? I see it often mentioned as the greatest SHMUP of all time. Genuine question by the way, I don't know much about the genre.

[Anonymous No.2575703]

>>2575618
D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DON'T SHOOT

[Anonymous No.2575723]

>>2575681
Crazy complex rank system, requires an incredibly deep knowledge of the game's systems to complete a 1cc, plus it just has amazing aesthetics and one of the best soundtracks ever made for a shmup.

[Anonymous No.2576114]

my favourite

[Anonymous No.2576145]

>>2575672
The Dreamcast version was awesome because you could use the gold you get in game to buy stuff like more lives, video strategy guides, alternate level designs, etc. It's one of those rare semi-modern games you could also play with a stick and 1 button.

[Anonymous No.2576181]

>implying there will ever be a shoot em up as atmospheric as Rayforce

[Anonymous No.2576220]

>>2575672
It's like a faster dangun feveron with a reflect mechanic. Lightning fast bullets and no focus movement. Did I mention it's fast cause I think I kinda danced around the issue.
Your three weapons are activated by a single button at different timings, so when you want to repeatedly use your shotgun for example you mash the button at a different rhythm. Holding the button down all the way explodes a full screen bomb. Holding for a bit and letting go gives you a small invincibility shield.
Reflecting bullets will release cubes which power up your main weapon. Meaning you must milk that score in order to survive. This score grinding mechanic is further expanded in the dreamcast port where you must spend points in an ingame shop to unlock features.
It's extremely hard with a pumping techno soundtrack. It's Mars Matrix. Play Mars Matrix.

[Anonymous No.2576223]

>>2575672
It's like a faster Dangun Feveron with a reflect mechanic. Lightning fast bullets and no focus movement. Did I mention it's fast cause I think I kinda danced around the issue.
Your three weapons are activated by a single button press at different timings, so when you want to repeatedly use your shotgun for example you mash the button at a certain rhythm. Holding the button down all the way explodes a full screen bomb. Holding for a bit and letting go gives you a small invincibility shield. It's completely different from the Giga Wing shield that has always the same duration and the bombs were stocked as items.
Reflecting bullets will release cube items which power up your main weapon. This means you must milk those score items in order to survive. This score grinding mechanic is further expanded in the Dreamcast port where you must spend points in an in-game shop to unlock features.
It's extremely hard with a pumping techno soundtrack. It's Mars Matrix. Play Mars Matrix.

[Anonymous No.2576225]

>>2576145
It's also one of the rare verizontal shooters. It's a vertical shooter on a 4:3 ratio screen.

[Anonymous No.2576362]

Top tier..... Or God tier?

[Anonymous No.2576387]

This one stole most of my pocket money as a kid.

[Anonymous No.2576408]

>>2576362
Outrun: Top tier
Outrunners: God tier

[Anonymous No.2576424]

>>2576362
God tier. One of the best driving games ever made.

[Anonymous No.2576442]

>>2576408
Outrun 2: Elder God tier

[Anonymous No.2576450]

>>2575681
>What makes this game special?
Shinobu yagawa, but seriously it's a game that just becomes better and better the more you learn also every ship you can play as has different strategic nuances if you are playing for score. No matter how much you memorise the game there will always be something slightly different in every game forcing you to use reflex and intuition aswell be it position and timing of medal drops or your ships positioning when enemies aim at you.

[Anonymous No.2576465]

sunset riders is a fucking awesome game. It never gets old, no matter how many times I've played it, it just never gets old.

[Anonymous No.2576469]

Personal favorite

[Anonymous No.2576470]

Don't know how many people may have played this. I fucking loved this game so much but was such a bitch to find a cabinet in Sydney, Australia.

Virtual On

[Anonymous No.2576471]

>>2576470
Neither tomb raider, megaman legends or Zelda, Virtual On was the very first game to feature lock-on targeting.

[Anonymous No.2576493]

>>2575681
Because anon, Garegga is arguably the seminal game of the genre. Before Garegga, you had your traditional vertical games, and the refinements thereof. Sure, there were occasional deviations from form (Recca, Batsugun and Donpachi come to mind), but on the whole, no one had figured out how to make a bullet hell game click.

But the madman S. Yagawa, a fresh hire at Raizing, decided to make a truly original shooting experience. He had hit upon the idea of a dynamic rank system, in an effort to engage players at the game center, some RNG elements to keep the game from being pre-routed, as most arcade shooting games could be, and uncharacteristically dense and mind-warping patterns for an arcade game of the period (knowing Yagawa, this was probably no coincidence).

Fast forward a bit, the game is coming together, and it comes out in arcades. Players are blown away by the essentially perfect stepping stone between traditional shooting and bullet hell.

But don't take my rambling word for it. I'll link what I can to spread the magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VisS7_ROmYw The world record for Garegga as of time of writing. With extensive annotations by both the uploader and the player. Should be mandatory watching for anyone with even a cursory interest in the game. (also make sure that you have stereo speakers or headphones, or else the audio on the replay is damaged and you won't be able to hear the pulsing OST)

http://shmuplations.com/scorer4/ Earlier interview with the player, also recommended reading. But idk, I feel I have to cap off the worthless rambling I'm doing somewhere. ^.^

[Anonymous No.2576496]

>>2576493
Garegga is overrated, the only time I liked Yagawa was when he was forced to cross his rank gimmick work with the CAVE style with Ibara Kuro Black Label and Daifukkatsu Black Label.
The red bar from daifukkatsu makes much more sense to me than the hyper thing from daioujou.

[Anonymous No.2576514]

>Impying Genpei Toumaden isn't Namco's magnum opus
>Implying it isn't also the best platformer released for arcades

You just need to git gud is all~

[Anonymous No.2576516]

>>2575681
There's a rank value that changes the amount and speed of enemy bullets fired at you. Basically Higher Rank = More Difficulty.
The rank goes up every time you collect power ups, medals, bombs and lives.
Bombing, dying, staying in your last life, avoiding powerups keeps the rank down. The rank also goes up the longer you stay alive by means of a timer that's always counting up. There's more to that but that's the gist of it.

[Anonymous No.2576519]

>>2576516
>avoiding powerups keeps
And medals. Fixed.

[Anonymous No.2576526]

More like Rape-o-tron

[Anonymous No.2576530]

Does anyone know what games these characters are from? I'm assuming they're arcade but I might very well be wrong

[Anonymous No.2576531]

It's fun, skilly, gory but still manage to be hilarious at times, the only weakness it has is probably the AI but it's still the best Fighting Game ever for me.

[Anonymous No.2576534]

>>2575681
>>2576493
Isn't that a double-edged sword? On one hand you have a complex shooter, on the other a game that has way too much hidden shit to understand the game playing it normally. To me an arcade game is about learning while you play, not reading tons of extra stuff to even understand how the game works, you will never play Garegga "right" just practicing.

[Anonymous No.2576535]

>>2576530
yie ar kung fu, dunno about the first one

[Anonymous No.2576537]

Isn't that a double-edged sword? On one hand you have a complex shooter, on the other a game that has way too much hidden shit to understand the game when playing it normally. To me an arcade game is about learning while you play, not reading tons of extra stuff to even understand how the game works, you will never play Garegga "right" just practicing even when you have light-speed reflexes.

[Anonymous No.2576539]

>>2576537
meant to quote >>2575723 >>2576493

[Anonymous No.2576541]

>>2576530
The first guy is from Lock 'n' Chase.

[Anonymous No.2576543]

>>2576537
On the one hand, straightforward arcade games are very nice. But on the other hand, everything is going to have nuances to it at one point or another, and sooner or later, you'll either be forced to consult guides, or, if guides aren't available, use lateral thinking to weed yourself out of whatever conundrum is facing you. For simple survival play, it doesn't matter too much (just know that the rank system exists, know to not hoard resources, suicide occasionally, etc.) and it's a relatively simple clear. But Garegga's main strength is it's scoring play anyways, so you're going to be missing out on a lot. (if you just play games for survival and want a screen filled with bullets, Cave games are inarguably superior).

[Anonymous No.2576547]

>>2576537
Not really, the spawn points and medal drops are always the same. If you play by a certain route, always collecting the same stuff and dying at the same places your rank value will MOSTLY tend to stay the same.
There was another Yagawa game, Armed Police Batrider which was even more random and it also had rank bullshit. In that game the stage order is always random, the final boss is dependent on what order you got, you might or might not fight special bosses depending on ramdom conditions and every time you die you're forced to switch to a different weapon/character.

[Anonymous No.2576549]

>>2576547
>ramdom conditions
Meant to say CRYPTIC conditions. The sub bosses might seem random but they're not.

[Anonymous No.2576550]

I like Alien vs. Predator.

/r/ing more games that look this noice

[Anonymous No.2576552]

>>2576535
>yie ar kung fu

Right in the nostalgia, which version should I play? Arcade?

[Anonymous No.2576556]

>>2576550
I *THINK* Powered Gear might look a bit like the style in AvP.

[Anonymous No.2576559]

>>2576552
Sure.

[Anonymous No.2576561]

By the way Battle Greggor is overrated as fuck.
"Rank was a mistake"
-Shinobi Yagawa.

[Anonymous No.2576563]

>>2576550
You probably already know it but Cap Commando is bretty gud too.

[Anonymous No.2576568]

>>2576550
The Punisher

[Anonymous No.2576659]

>>2576530
No idea on the first one, but the rest are Yie Ar Kung Fu.

[Anonymous No.2576692]

Numan Athletics.
Basically a 3 buttons masher Olympics game, but with cyborg throwing missiles and shit.

[Anonymous No.2576709]

>>2576692
Wow that sounds insane.

[Anonymous No.2576714]

>>2576692
The second one is even crazier.

[Anonymous No.2576713]

>>2576709
It is. https://youtu.be/afS5ks54tms
There is also Shinkansen-stopping and battlecruiser fighting.
Didn't think something from 1993 would be so "futuristic".
There is a sequel but the emulation with mame is laggy.

[Anonymous No.2576716]

>>2576713
>fuck, wrong copy/paste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2LISdcPbw

[Anonymous No.2576720]

>>2575605
ARCADE MASTER RACE. GOAT GAMING PLATFORM.

There really are hundreds of top tier arcade games. I don't even know where I should begin.

Latest discovery was a Bomberman variant with pigs called... Butasan, I think it was? Actually a pretty cool game and maybe the best Bomberman inspired game that I've played.

[Anonymous No.2576723]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL3Q6CR-WjM&list=PLflZE1h4nYnDLF_GUT9JgmXDzjCCVCevu&index=2

[Anonymous No.2576724]

>>2576692
>>2576713
>>2576714
>>2576716
Well now I have to play this shit.

[Anonymous No.2576725]

>this topic
>no pic related

[Anonymous No.2577185]

Rastan Saga

[Anonymous No.2577228]

>>2576514
>came to post this

I also love getting raped by psikyo

[Anonymous No.2577302]

>>2575610
Go play mars matrix.

[Anonymous No.2577512]

>>2576725
wow dodonpachi I bet nobody has heard of that before I'm glad you posted it

[Anonymous No.2577520]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbT9iP-s5rmZXtT0PtZtsKF2hC1TUwnnb

DoDonPachi one of the best.

[Anonymous No.2577540]

>>2575703
FREEZE, YOU'RE BUSTED

[Anonymous No.2578121]

>>2576692
>>2576713
Why don't these work in MAME 0.161? Where'd you guys download the roms from?

[Anonymous No.2578125]

>>2578121
A lot of the 90's Namco roms are missing important files. Get MameUI, right click on the game and select "audit", and it will tell you what you need to download.

[Anonymous No.2578221]

>>2576362
>>2576408
Speaking of arcade racing games, everyone on /vr/ should immediately try out Double Axle. I just only recently discovered this game and I can say without hyperbole that it's one of the best unknown racing games of all time. The handling is about what you're expect from a sprite scaling 2D/pseudo-3D racing game, but it just feels RIGHT for the type of game that it is and it really feels like you're driving this HUGE FUCKING TRUCK. Plus you can drive over trees and houses and boulders and shit that are on the side of the road, which is hilariously awesome. Just a stupidly fun game.

[Anonymous No.2578224]

>>2578125
are you sure that's not the bios files? if a lot of games seem to be missing the same file at the same time it's probably a bios

[Anonymous No.2578226]

HEY HEY HEY, IT’S TIME TO MAKE SOME CRRRRRRAZY MONEY, ARE YOU READY?

[Anonymous No.2578246]

>>2578226
>tfw MAME won't run that

suffering

[Anonymous No.2578258]

>>2578246
The Dreamcast, Gamecube, and PS2 ports of it are really solid.

YA YA YA YA YA

[Anonymous No.2578260]

>>2576725
Honestly DDP is getting liek Ikaruga the shmup everyone who doesn't actually know shit about the genre spams. Go play DDP for score and when you can fully chain 3/4 stages come back and tell us if you still think DDP is great. Ketsui is far more deserving of the attention.

[Anonymous No.2578264]

>>2578221
Double Axle is fun, but a more exciting Taito racing game is Chase Bombers. Fun track design, very bright and colorful graphics, and items you can shoot opponents with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLAqhH6ibbs

[Anonymous No.2578267]

>>2576537
I'm so bored of reading this bullshit perspective... For one contrary to plebular belief the shmups genre has a lot less to do with speedy reflexes and alot more to do with memorization, execution and improving your probabilities in situations. If you are playing on intuition and reflexes alone you will get no where. As for garegga well it depends on the individual you can figure alot of it's fundamentals out alone just by having an attentive attitude and using trial and error but for the more subtle nuances it's this depth that has given the game its 20 year longevity amongst the score players and that's why it's so highly regarded. I prefer Ibara personally but garegga is fully worthy of it's praise. Why can't every type of arcade game exist anyway? I hate it when people talk about "arcade games SHOULD be" to suit there own desires, if you don't like it play something else but there is room for every system of play in this genre.

[Anonymous No.2578268]

>>2578260
And then maybe more people will start playing Ketsui, and you'll have to stop liking that, too.

[Anonymous No.2578269]

>>2578246
but demul will

[Anonymous No.2578273]

>>2576547
>There was another Yagawa game, Armed Police Batrider which was even more random and it also had rank bullshit. In that game the stage order is always random, the final boss is dependent on what order you got, you might or might not fight special bosses depending on ramdom conditions and every time you die you're forced to switch to a different weapon/character.
Fuck me i've spent all morning so far correcting inaccurate bullshit in shmup threads here seriously you guys are clueless.... everything you said is wrong, the stage order can be selectable every player turns that function on in the dip switches, I assume you are talking about normal mode also and no the finals bosses arn't random they, 1 you will always get and the other 2 will appear if you have collected a special power up item and special option item before that point. Other bosses in the game are relatable to the characters you play so if you have a mahou char in stock and still alive at the various points the mahou bosses will appear same with garegga. Go watch a decent player and you'l see they fight the same people and execute the same suicides and player order every time and you couldn't even get the player death thing right..... the game allows you to play as either a team, a team you select the individuals for yourself or an individual player so maybe try that if 3 diff chars is to much for you. Now go away and stop spreading misinformation.

[Anonymous No.2578276]

>>2578268
No way i've played many shmups extensively and there popular doesn't concern me at all a good game is a good game... however there are certain titles that get spammed by the ignorant and ill informed who come to conclusions before they can even play the fucking game to a basic level.

[Anonymous No.2578281]

>>2578221
Nice fine i'l try this one out, how are the controls to configure in mame?

[Anonymous No.2578283]

>>2578121
Always get roms from retroroms, it's an easy free sign up and they always have the most up to date roms.

[Anonymous No.2578287]

>>2578281
It's basically standard racing game controls if you're using a keyboard.

[Anonymous No.2578291]

>>2578121
It's not the ROM, you're missing a BIOS.
Which is like a type of rom anyway.

[Anonymous No.2578292]

>>2578121
http://www.planetemu.net/roms/mame-bios-pack
Download this pack and unzip in in your mame rom folder thing.

[Anonymous No.2578294]

>>2576469
Space Harrier. Superb choice, my friend.

[Anonymous No.2578295]

>>2576716
Namco are the fucking best.

[Anonymous No.2578308]

>>2578295
Lucky & Wild also by Namco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9bNLM47ipQ

[Anonymous No.2578521]

>>2578283
I'm using the roms from emuparadise. Do those not working for anybody else?

>>2578291
>>2578292
I'll try this and see if it works, but I think it probably IS something wrong with the ROMs. I can't get the Cruis'n games to work and a bunch of other stuff either and I'm pretty sure I have the BIOS files for those games.

[Anonymous No.2578540]

>>2578267
For one contrary to plebular belief the shmups genre has a lot less to do with speedy reflexes and alot more to do with memorization, execution and improving your probabilities in situations.
Ok, this semen slurping genre isn't for me then.

[Anonymous No.2578543]

>>2578267
>For one contrary to plebular belief the shmups genre has a lot less to do with speedy reflexes and alot more to do with memorization, execution and improving your probabilities in situations. If you are playing on intuition and reflexes alone you will get no where.
Ok, this semen slurping genre isn't for me then.

[Anonymous No.2578545]

Cadillacs & Dinosaurs

[Anonymous No.2578548]

>>2578221
Looks a lot like Power Drift, and i love Power Drift.

[Anonymous No.2578587]

>>2578260
Go play any shmup for hundreds of hours trying to reach competitive levels of high scores and tell me it's still great.

[Anonymous No.2578590]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhKAAT6zRN8

[Anonymous No.2578645]

>>2578521
for whatever stupid reason the dump on emuparadise is not complete.

Put this in your "roms" folder. It should work now.
http://www.planetemu.net/rom/mame-roms/namcoc70-1

[Anonymous No.2578705]

>>2578645
Is the problem on emuparadise with the ROMs or something else?

[Anonymous No.2578796]

>>2578543
Thats correct you don't have what it takes mate so maybe try a more idiot friendly hand holding genre for your mental capacity.

>>2578587
If you genuinely love the game it won't matter in the slightest, Gradius 4 for example I have almost cleared 2 loops yet the game is so fun to me if im stuck in a rut and can't get out of stage 4 or something i dont even care because the game is just great and i know progression will come or maybe it won't but who cares?. Look at kamui the Garegga WR holder she has been playing that game for donkeys years and just loves it to the point she has no interest in any other shmup. If you only play to prove a point or solely to be the best then yeah you're going to end up frustrated and miserable with it.

[Anonymous No.2578813]

>>2578796.
>being this elitist buttmad because someone touched your autist genre

[Anonymous No.2578817]

>>2578796
>If you genuinely love the game it won't matter in the slightest
True, which is why Dodonpachi is still played by people who enjoy it's chain-scoring mechanisms.

[Anonymous No.2578834]

>>2576362
nah bro
>image for ants

[Anonymous No.2578996]

>>2578813
Weird there isn't any mad in there at all, wishful thinking i guess.

>>2578817
>True, which is why Dodonpachi is still played by people who enjoy it's chain-scoring mechanisms.
Yep infact only recently one of the top japanese players who has been back n forth on the game for years has just no missed the game with a crazy score and no doubt the wr will be beaten again.

[Anonymous No.2579002]

>>2578813
Whatever helps you deal with your inadequacies.

[Anonymous No.2579016]

My Favorite 2D racing game
great rally feel

[Anonymous No.2579019]

>>2578834
>super hang on
does anyone else feel like this is one of the most over rated arcade games of all time?

[Anonymous No.2579027]

>>2578543
why? the same could be said of almost any genre of arcade games really.

[Anonymous No.2579039]

>>2578796
>she
You fucking wish

[Anonymous No.2579043]

>>2578705
The emuparadise romset version is up to 1.50. Currently mame is on 1.63. Yeah some of their stuff is outdated and will not work.

[Anonymous No.2579047]

>>2578705
Are you using a frontend? I recommend Mame Plus or QMC2 Mame. Right click on the rom that's giving errors, then on audit, it should tell you exactly the files you're missing. Download them and put them inside the zip.

[Anonymous No.2579052]

I love shmup fags

[Anonymous No.2579063]

>>2579027
Not all arcade ganes require that much memorization or have a rank system that invisible and abstract, playing a lot is enough too get good most of the time, instead of reading a lot about the abstract rank programming to learn how the game is screwing you.

[Anonymous No.2579068]

>>2579027
Not all arcade ganes require that much memorization or have a rank system that invisible and abstract, playing a lot is enough too get good most of the time, instead of reading a lot about the abstract rank programming to learn how the game is screwing you. It may be fun now with all the infromation you have on the internet, but not back then when people hardly knew shit about it.

[Anonymous No.2579069]

>>2579019
>overrated
I usually find that it's overlooked more often than not. It's a great beat the clock racer but in the end Outrun is better in just about every way.

[Anonymous No.2579091]

>>2579052
Holy shit why are they fucking like this

Every thread

Every time

[Anonymous No.2579094]

>>2579019
It's better than Hang-On, an already great game, in every way.
The supercharger adds quite a bit of depth to the game instead of feeling tacked-on, like in Turbo Out Run. There's tons of content racing-wise and four great tunes, as well.
Honestly, I can't think of any flaws.

[Anonymous No.2579110]

>>2579068
More whining from a guy who just can't seem to accept the concept of variety amongst arcade games. Fyi all that is known today about garegga was discovered by players who to nobodies surprise just played the game alot.... the only thing the internet did is allow more contributors to the info pool and the information to travel further and be quicker to digest than during the pre-internet arcade community days. Try claiming it as a negative till you go blue in the face it still all equates to you're for some reason annoyed by a game that you can't grasp,understand or play so it suits your ego more to blame the game instead of yourself for being ass and not just playing something else you prefer instead.

[Anonymous No.2579116]

>>2579039
Well whatever it is my understanding is kamui prefers to be considered a she.

[Anonymous No.2579120]

>>2579110
I have not even interest in playing Garegga, the bullets blending with the background most of the time is quite shitty, even older games in the genre got that right.

[Anonymous No.2579127]

>>2579120
>the bullets blending with the background most of the time is quite shitty
See? Proving my point again everything is the games fault with you. I have never had an issue with visibility in garegga although some do however thats what the type 2 release rectifies so maybe you should try that and then blame something else again.

[Anonymous No.2579129]

>>2579127
I'll just play a better game as you advised me, thanks.

[Anonymous No.2579136]

>>2579129
Absolutely for begineers who still confuse easy with good there are many shooties to accommodate, i think deathsmiles on level 1 for each stage will be more your speed or maybe crimson clovers novice modes? just until you're ready to play with the big boys.

[Anonymous No.2579149]

>>2579136
I said a better game, not a better game in an autist genre.

[Anonymous No.2579163]

>>2579149
What's so autistic about shmups with anime girls? Haha oh wait everything

[Anonymous No.2579167]

>>2579149
Better meaning easier and negatively terming the genre because you can't accept it's you that doesn't have what it takes, keep protecting that ego insufficient brony.

[Anonymous No.2579192]

>>2579167
>you can't accept it's you that doesn't have what it takes
Yes, i definitely don't have interest nor +1000 hours of free time to waste on an autistic game to beat some retarded score record from a japanese tranny.

[Anonymous No.2579197]

>>2579192
>retarded score record
Still doing it brother! gotta protect dat ego by shitting on everyone else haha its pathetic. I do believe you though that you don't have interest but i think it's broader to you don't have interest in anything that actually requires effort. Maybe a couple of twinkies and cheering on a football game will give you some artificial sense of achieving something.

[Anonymous No.2579232]

Please stop this retard fest.

[Anonymous No.2579257]

>>2578292
Will these make all the ROMs from emuparadise that don't work start working?

>>2578645
I did this and it made Numan Athletics 1 start working, but not the sequel or any other games.

>>2579043
Pretty sure they're up to 0.162 or thereabouts. Is it possible some of their ROMs could be fucked up though?

[Anonymous No.2579395]

>>2579127
>everything is the games fault with you
visibility in garegga is a common criticism

[Anonymous No.2579398]

>>2579257
No it only fixes some Namco games. Individual games will need other fixes to work.

Here is what you need for Mach Breakers
http://www.planetemu.net/rom/mame-roms/namcoc75-1

[Anonymous No.2579415]

>>2576387
The slowdown makes me sad. I thought there was something wrong with MAME.

[Anonymous No.2579449]

F F F

[Anonymous No.2579454]

Eward Randy

[Anonymous No.2579461]

>>2579454
Edward*

[Anonymous No.2579587]

>>2579094
This. Turbo in Super feels incredible with the way it influences your turns and drift. It's also frustrating in a very satisfying way. It took me hours just to get down the mechanics to beat the first course, but by the time you get to Senior you're so familiar with the handling you could react to even a randomly-generated course.

If you don't like Super Hang-On it's because you gave up on it immediately. Or you played the choppy Genesis version which handles terribly. They really tried with that port but the Genesis was just not up to the task.

[Anonymous No.2579952]

When I was reading the earlier parts of this thread I thought, man this is cool I should have stuck around. Then I got to the end and was like Aw not this shit again.

>>2575610
>>2576145
>>2576223

Seriously though, I'm so glad I gave Mars Matrix another try. I think I was too critical of the aspect ratio the first time around, but this is definitely one I will be playing a lot from now on. Will have to check out the Dreamcast version cause that sounds like lots of fun.

Also shoutouts to everyone who brought up the Space Harrier/Mega-Tech games. That pseudo-3d Sega goodness is eye candy to me.

[Anonymous No.2580274]

>>2579398
How do I find out exactly what is needed for which games?

[Anonymous No.2580313]

>>2580274
If you're using a frontend, right click -> audit
If you're using the "official" version, you have to open the from command line, something like this:
c:\emulator\mame.exe -machbrkr.zip
and it should tell you if any files are missing.
But you should really use a frontend like QMC2 or MAME Plus.

[Anonymous No.2580317]

>>2580313
>open the rom from command line
AutoFixed.

[Anonymous No.2580326]

>>2580313
I don't know what the fuck a "frontend" means. I found something called "MAME Plus! XT_x64 v0.162r5256". Should I download that and set it up? Or a different version? Or what?

[Anonymous No.2580329]

>>2580274
>>2578125

[Anonymous No.2580343]

>>2578125
>>2580329
That don't do shit.

[Anonymous No.2580353]

>>2580326
Sure, that'll work.

[Anonymous No.2580374]

>>2579047
Same zip as the ROM, correct?

[Anonymous No.2580405]

>>2580353
Alright, it appears to be working so far. I'll let you guys know if anything else fucks up. Thanks to everyone who offered advice.

[Anonymous No.2580589]

What are some good side scrolling platformers?

[Anonymous No.2580603]

>>2580589
wtf is that?

[Anonymous No.2580609]

>>2580603
retro video game

[Anonymous No.2580631]

>>2580609
never heard of this before. looks like a skitzo nightmare.

[Anonymous No.2580634]

>>2579395
>visibility in garegga is a common criticism
Amongst everybody who is terrible at the game, funny that. Unfortunately many people always seek to blame everything before themselves no matter the game however you'l notice decent players never do they just see it as challenge to adapt to like any other, it's a psychology thing.

[Anonymous No.2580637]

>>2579415
>The slowdown makes me sad. I thought there was something wrong with MAME.
You can enable cheats then in slider controls overclock the cpu and it'l run slowdown free.

[Anonymous No.2580643]

>>2580634
yeah the fact they made the bullets bright purple in the saturn version was just coincidence.

[Anonymous No.2580646]

>>2580634
Yeah, and you take the opposite route and blame the people for everything, even if it's clearly a flaw of the game. People can adapt to even the worst design choices.

[Anonymous No.2580682]

>>2580643
>yeah the fact they made the bullets bright purple in the saturn version was just coincidence.
Yeah cater to the whiners, meanwhilst find me any decent run on the saturn version that doesn't use default bullets. If you have some kind of eyesight issue fair enough but beyond that it's just excuses and scapegoating for poor play.


>even if it's clearly a flaw of the game
Subjective tbh personally i've never had an issue with it since day 1 of playing. I find the inconsistency of the birds a more problematic issue.

>People can adapt to even the worst design choices.
Good players do as i said and everyone else finds fault and moans thus getting no where.

[Anonymous No.2580691]

>>2580682
>Subjective tbh
Of course it is, but when a game about dodging bullets makes those bullets tricky to spot many people will complain. That's the reason why a lot of bullet hell games use smaller hitboxes and bigger, brighter bullets. You can see the game not conveying that type of information as a challenge rather than a flaw, but in that case you can see just about anything a challenge rather than a flaw.

[Anonymous No.2580759]

>>2580691
>That's the reason why a lot of bullet hell games use smaller hitboxes and bigger, brighter bullets
No it isn't the smaller hitbox idea came from Tsuneki Ikeda seeing Battle garegga and wanting even more bullets on screen, giving the player a higher sense of risk whilst actually being possible due to the small hitbox. It was an injected idea to progress a tired genre at the time into new territory and nothing more. Know your shmup history.

[Anonymous No.2580780]

>>2580759
Come on. Do I really have to say this? There are two different versions for a reason, If you can't see the bullets on A, play B. There's nothing wrong with making these games more accessible to the wider audience. Just Pick the game that you like and have fun,

[Anonymous No.2580791]

>>2580759
Except it has been kept long after technical limitations allowed for games to have bullets with massive hitboxes specifically because it lowers the risk of collission and allows to easier read the patterns with your peripheral vision.

[Anonymous No.2582683]

>>2580609
JJ Squawkers is magical.

>>2579019
Super Hang-On? Fuck no. Barely hear about it (everyone seems to play and mention Outrun loads more) and it's actually ace as fuck.

>>2576181
Rayforce is my favorite shmup of them all.
Fantastic game. Surprisingly deep mechanics for a '94 release, too.

and that presentation, hnnng
From space, to the moon, to the skies, to the surface, to the underground cities, all seamless, all with beautiful semi-3D effects.

also, this motherfucker is pretty iconic for a guy who appears so late in the game

>>2576408
I'm with you on this. Outrunners is stunning. Gorgeous visuals. Wonderful course design. It's Outrun but bigger and better. Loses a bit of the relaxed feeling, with Sega's louder style coming more into play.

but you can't relax when all of this backed by SEGA SYSTEM MULTI 32 POWER

>>2576470
Virtual On is a masterpiece.
I still wish I could get to a VOOT cabinet in the US. There's a VO cab down by Miami that I go to sometimes to play with some buddies.

playing VOOT on the DC is fine, but twin sticks feel like you're really piloting a mech, it's so good

[Anonymous No.2582708]

>>2576550
this game is excellent, I only got to play it once on a real arcade

[Anonymous No.2582729]

>>2582683
Entering the underground city has got to be the coolest moment in any shoot em up. Especially because of that haunting ambient music.

[Anonymous No.2582747]

Anyone have good/bad experiences with iL parts?

[Anonymous No.2584629]

Bamp Bamp buuu

[Anonymous No.2585695]

X-men vs street fighter

[Anonymous No.2586030]

>>2579016
my negro