/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2797946]

Can we have a Virtual On thread

anyone here actually played the original in an arcade? shit was sweet

[Anonymous No.2797976]

>look for a copy for my Japanese Saturn
>$10-15
>look for that fancy dual-stick controller for the game
>$80 plus shipping
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2797979]

>>2797976
well, could be worse...

still steep tho

[Anonymous No.2797996]

>>2797946
How rare are these things nowadays? There's a machine here at a local Chuck E Cheese/Peter Piper Pizza-type place.

[Anonymous No.2798012]

>>2797996
About as rare as the next arcade machine.

Was Oratario Tangram even released in American arcades? I've never seen it.

[Anonymous No.2798021]

>>2797996
not sure, but considering arcades themselves are rare, probably moderately.

I went to PA to visit my friends and we found a small arcade at the local mall, and it had one of them. shit was fun as fuck.

[Anonymous No.2798029]

>>2798012
I think it was. It also got an xbox 360 port which isnt too bad

[Anonymous No.2798032]

>>2798029
>xbox 360 port which isnt too bad

isn't too bad?

It adds new lighting effects, adds the arcade-only color customization and adds the 5.66 arcade-only Virtuaroids.

It's the best possible version to get.

[Anonymous No.2798035]

>>2798032
The only thing it's missing is the twin sticks.

[Anonymous No.2798081]

Always wanted to get this, but the twin sticks are stupid expensive and I hear it's pointless to play it without them.

[Anonymous No.2798098]

>>2798081
nigga just get the 360 port.

>>2798032

its LITERALLY the best version, even without the joysticks

[Anonymous No.2798115]

>>2797946
it was THE shit using those joysticks.
So enjoyable

[Anonymous No.2798763]

>>2797976
>>2798081
If you think that's bad, just remember that for the past 15 years or so, the Saturn sticks with adapters have been considered the cheaper and superior alternatives to the Dreamcast sticks since they look nicer and can be used on both systems instead of just one. For memory card stuff, just keep a regular controller plugged in.

>>2798032
>>2798098
>analog stick Virtual On
>Microsoft's asymmetric analog sticks
no thanks, maybe if there's a Wii U pro controller adapter

[Anonymous No.2799058]

>community college I went to five or six years ago had a virtual on cab in their little arcade room next to the cafeteria
>Also had a neo geo with metal slug/puzzle bobble, marvel vs Capcom 2 cab, tekken tag cab and Indiana Jones pinball table
>when they got like two 4 year programs they jacked up their tuition and changed from "community college" to just college
>all the games were gone after that summer
>probably thrown out

[Anonymous No.2799108]

Fuck the twin sticks

It's a great series even without them.

[Anonymous No.2799130]

>>2798081
The stock DC controller would only need just a single extra button in order to make this worth trying. Just one. Sega not having 6 face buttons on the DC controller seems like the dumbest shit in retrospect, especially with the existence of Capcom fighting games on the damn console.

[Anonymous No.2799424]

>>2797946
>actually played
Of course. I play it regularly.

>>2797976
I think I paid $5

[Anonymous No.2800510]

>>2799108
thanks, grapefox

[Anonymous No.2800517]

Played often. Was in my 20s when it came out and arcades were still the real deal. One of the games I still hold in awe of the power a sweet arcade game w/ awesome cabinet holds. Also found a twin Virtua Racing setup in the back of a trucker gas station in Ontario, OR. I fuckin squeed.

[Anonymous No.2800529]

>>2797946
In the arcade? Every time I go (Arcade Odyssey in Miami has it -- although they might have taken it out? I doubt it, but it's possible).

one of my buddies kicks my ass playing Fei-Yen against my Viper II, but I beat the shit out of everyone else I know

>>2798012
Oratan cabs are rare as fuck in the states, and I don't think there was ever a single 5.6 cab in the US. You might be able to find a 5.4 cab somewhere, but it's not likely at all.

>>2798081
it's almost great on the DC pad actually
except you're literally missing two buttons so you can't fucking circle-dash properly (you can attempt it with the stick, but the game requires you to keep it perfectly horizontal when doing it, also you have movement on the d-pad, so good luck clawing that)

If you have a 360, get that version.
Twinstick control only really works with the twin sticks though, don't bother with the dual-analog mode on the 360 port.

[Anonymous No.2800547]

>>2797946
I grew up playing that, Daytona USA, Super Hang On and AfterBurner II. I cried when I heard they removed it from the local laser tag joint

Word of advice to anyone looking to play the windows port of Operation Moongate:

http://www.oratan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1422

The following enables debug mode, which gives you the switch to turn the game from 30fps to full 60 Like the arcade version), It also has a link to patch in the original "YOU WIN", "YOU LOSE", "DRAW" and "TIME UP" voice clips and enemy Fei-Yen's sound effect when it goes hyper mode as well as removes the "now loading" screens

Apharmd is best Virtuaroid

[Anonymous No.2800697]

>>2798012
I think that's the ONLY version I'd ever seen stateside actually.

Vaguely remember playing it at a round table pizza or something, one got brought to Sakura-con one year, and I think there's one at Another Castle games, as far as WA goes.

[Anonymous No.2800714]

>>2797996
>There's a machine here at a local Chuck E Cheese/Peter Piper Pizza-type place.
Same, it sits next to some kind of lightgun game. They're rarely turned on, seems kids would rather play in a bounce castle than an arcade game. I'd consider asking to buy it but I dont even know what one would go for.

[Anonymous No.2800720]

The PS2 version feels so right, I got the twin sticks for the Saturn, but the dual sticks on a the PS2 pad work so well I hardly use it

[Anonymous No.2801594]

>>2797946
Last year I went to a place called Skateland that had it and beat someone while the graphics on my side started glitching out a lot. It seems like every other time I go there the blue machine has an "Out of order" sign put on it.

[Anonymous No.2801623]

>>2800547
>Apharmd is best Virtuaroid

I WOULD agree, but I hate how the CW causes the original Apharmd to slide forward each time. It NEVER grabs the enemy in time to matter any and I'm glad every future Apharmd doesn't do it. Apharmd C in VOOT is really the better model.

[Anonymous No.2804050]

>>2800714
here, I think I'd like to go through with it and ask the guy if he'd sell. But like I said, I have no idea what one would go for. Is there a site that tracks the value of them like pricecharting does? I'm expecting around a grand, but thats just a complete guess.

Also, why don't we have arcade generals?

[Anonymous No.2804064]

Operation moongate: play as temjin, Try cancelling CW to Crouch CW. The sword will swipe twice while moving forward, enabling you to slice as far as 200m range. Try also cancelling CW to crouch LW for bomb to a face of a blocking opponent.

Oratorio tangram: there are few almost instakill combo, fei yen can combo close combat to air stunned enemy to death except AI Ajim (fuck that). Raiden's half stun laser (LTCW releasing one of triggers early) followed by normal laser will hit enemy TWICE for fabulous damage.

[Anonymous No.2806864]

>>2804050
>Also, why don't we have arcade generals?
Too varied a topic, I think. How could you hope to contain fighting games, shmups, light gun shooters, and driving games in the same thread, for example.

[Anonymous No.2806893]

HEY I HEAR ONE OF YOU FUCKERS JUST WON BY A TIMEOUT. HERE I AM TO KICK YOUR SHIT IN

[Anonymous No.2806906]

Best way to play this game on emulators?

[Anonymous No.2806907]

>>2806864
isn't that exactly what generals are for?

[Anonymous No.2806909]

The original Virtual On turns 20 next month. Scary how time flies, I remember reading about AM3 developing a mech game in magazines.

[Anonymous No.2806927]

Anyone played the Sega Ages 2500 remake of the original? It's pretty good

[Anonymous No.2806936]

>>2806907
Those arcade genres already have their own semi-regular generals.

[Anonymous No.2806985]

>>2806927
Is it a remake or just a better port of the arcade version? I got the PS2 Sega Ages remake of Out Run and hated what they'd done to it so much it put me off the rest.

[Anonymous No.2807285]

I played the original in a place called monkey world in the UK during the late 90's shit was awesome.

[Anonymous No.2808774]

>>2806985
generally both, that's the point of the 2500 series.

[Anonymous No.2808848]

>>2797946
Theres a machine in my Rustys Pizza parlor a few blocks down
Cant beleive how lucky i am

[Anonymous No.2808852]

>no one has two sticks

Plebs all of you
Got them both for $70

[Anonymous No.2808863]

>>2808852
I have two because the first one's box got ripped somehow and seeing that big tear on my shelf was triggering me so I bought a second one. I reasoned that this way I could play two player but then I realised that I have no-one to play it with.

[Anonymous No.2808875]

Youmacon and Midwest Media Expo always have the arcade version on free play in their game rooms.

[Anonymous No.2808940]

>>2797946
A game store down the road from me has one, so it's really easy for me to play almost whenever.

[Anonymous No.2809006]

>>2808852
Except I am looking at my two Saturn Twin Sticks right now anon: >>2798763

My Virtua Sticks are in storage though.

[Anonymous No.2809549]

>>2808863

Interested in selling the one with the ripped box?