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Anonymous Thu May 24 11:27:26 2018 No.4795184 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good sidescrolly runny shooty games that aren't Contra, Metal Slug, Gunstar Heroes or Alien Soldier?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 11:31:22 2018 No.4795193 >>4795184 Wolf Fang, though it plays like a hybrid between that and a regular horizontal shooter, it depends on the level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCHMsxRLLsg There are many more, but this one deserves attention.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 11:37:52 2018 No.4795207 Rapid reload and demon front redering ranger R2

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:29:38 2018 No.4795308 File: 116 KB, 704x448, playstation-31398-11312269679.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Roosters/Midnight Wanderers Not in this aspect ratio though

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:30:56 2018 No.4795312 >>4795308 You know that ratio is the internal framebuffer, that's how the machine renders graphics internally before stretching to 4:3

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:42:40 2018 No.4795338 >>4795312 So what's the correct aspect ratio for CPS-1 games? 4:3 (or 3:4 for verts) or pixel aspect?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:43:47 2018 No.4795343 >>4795184 Alien Hominid Best "metal sluglike I've played.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:44:57 2018 No.4795348 >>4795338 4:3

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:46:52 2018 No.4795352 >>4795348 Why is that? Seems weird to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:51:52 2018 No.4795361 >>4795343 Play more games.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:53:54 2018 No.4795363 >>4795184 Assault Suits Leynos.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:57:27 2018 No.4795369 J. J. Squawkers Thank me later.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 12:58:06 2018 No.4795371 >>4795363 The second one for the Saturn is much better.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 13:04:38 2018 No.4795381 >>4795371 Valken is good too.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 13:11:35 2018 No.4795394 Mystic Warriors, dat OST https://youtu.be/O2lMFBCzMSU Also Dolphin Blue's pretty fun, mostly because of the art and feel though the mechanics and game design are nothing special

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:08:53 2018 No.4795494 >>4795184 rapid reload

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:11:16 2018 No.4795507 MD Batman & Robin

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:12:19 2018 No.4795509 >>4795352 because arcade screens were 4/3 ?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:21:40 2018 No.4795552 >>4795509 I know that, but why then did they program the games to stretch to 4:3 instead of just straight up making them 4:3? There are plenty of 4:3 or 3:4 arcades out there, pixel aspect included.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 14:24:50 2018 No.4795565 Psychic Killer Taromaru

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:04:49 2018 No.4795687 File: 183 KB, 320x224, RangerX004.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4795184 Ranger X is quite great.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:06:11 2018 No.4795691 File: 40 KB, 768x672, 2661052-superstarwarsempire001.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Some people complain about the difficulty for some reason, but I think the super star wars games are great fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:16:24 2018 No.4795726 >>4795184 Try Gunners Heaven on PS1

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:18:57 2018 No.4795734 >>4795726 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23oe8kucW6A

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:25:07 2018 No.4795748 >>4795726 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUsXFAZR-I

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:32:28 2018 No.4795778 Turrican

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 15:39:30 2018 No.4795797 >>4795778 >recommending Eurotrash

Anonymous Thu May 24 20:23:09 2018 No.4796576

>>4795184
Gunforce 1 and 2
Mystic Warriors
Sunset Riders
>>4795338
4:3
>>4795552
>why then did they program the games to stretch to 4:3
They didn't, that's just how CRT's work. All developers knew this and took it into account while making their sprites and backgrounds. When CPS1 games are at 1:1 pixel ratio they made everything on screen too fat, so that when it gets squished inwards by the CRT the final result is it ends up looking correct.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 20:28:14 2018 No.4796596 Im playing Shock Troopers (Neo Geo) at the minute. It's quite fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 22:06:18 2018 No.4796809 File: 92 KB, 582x800, karnov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dem fireballs tho

>>	Anonymous Thu May 24 22:17:32 2018 No.4796827 Jailbreak Aliens arcade

Anonymous Thu May 24 22:41:10 2018 No.4796881

>>4795348
>>4795352
yeah CPS1+2 use a widescreen resolution that gets squished to 4:3, meaning the pixels aren't square. It looks weird as fuck on a modern monitor with sharp pixels. Adding scanlines helps to break up the tall pixels a bit.
It must've been a nightmare to develop for, I wonder if the artists still painted the graphics on a machine with square pixels?
It gets even weirder with some games like D&D:Tower of Doom, you can see some of the in-game art was clearly designed for the squish (like the moon in the background of the forest scene, which was drawn wide so when it got squished it becomes a perfect circle) but then some elements aren't designed for the squish. Most of the UI looks designed for square pixels, like the little diamonds on the HUD that look too tall when squished, or any character portrait that appears (they're perfect squares if you use square pixels).

>>	Anonymous Fri May 25 02:21:09 2018 No.4797294 >>4795184 I fucking hate metal slug. But i gotta say thats the coolest cosplay i have seen.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 25 15:17:00 2018 No.4798416 >>4795207 demon front is pretty solid, though it lacks any "oomph" metal slug had

Anonymous Sat May 26 05:42:03 2018 No.4799829
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>>4795184
I remembered playing a game in the arcade that was run & gun where you were on Dolphins. It was 2 player simultaneous play, one as a guy the other a girl. I thought it was fun but tough, maybe because I was not familiar with it, but sadly the arcade around me replaced it with Guilty Gear probably because aside from myself and my cousin, no one played that machine. I don't know if it ever got any home conversions.

Anonymous Sat May 26 05:47:22 2018 No.4799834

>>4795184
Demon Front for the IGS PGM

>>4795748
looks nice, i hear it plays well.

>>4795778
I'm a big, big fan of the Amiga, it's a superb machine, but the Turrican games are awful. 98% of platformers on the Amiga are trash.

>>4799829
Dolphin Blue for the Atomiswave. Demul can handle it pretty cleanly.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 26 07:47:21 2018 No.4799972 >>4795184 Cuphead

>>	Anonymous Sat May 26 08:18:02 2018 No.4800010 >>4795343 then play demon front, it shits on alien hominid.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 07:51:24 2018 No.4802024 >>4795184 Sunset Riders

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 08:02:44 2018 No.4802034 >>4800010 >then play demon front >Looks it up It's literally just Metal Slug.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 12:04:49 2018 No.4802380 File: 2.99 MB, 480x324, Ruff´n´Tumble (Amiga, 1994).webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4795184

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 18:26:19 2018 No.4803158 >>4802034 that's why it's good

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 19:37:19 2018 No.4803323 File: 21 KB, 512x480, 1390194762047.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Metal Storm, motherfuckers

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 19:57:13 2018 No.4803372 >>4795184 Blue Dolphin.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 21:05:12 2018 No.4803484 >>4803158 Yeah if I want to play Metal Slug Ill just go play Metal slug

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 22:15:05 2018 No.4803603 >>4803484 you're saying that like more metal slug isn't good

>>	Anonymous Sun May 27 22:32:14 2018 No.4803635 >>4802380 Looks good, but controls are sloppy, level design is mediocre and it runs at 25FPS instead of 50.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 28 01:40:00 2018 No.4803937 >>4795184 Cybernator, Metal Warriors, and Front mission Gun Hazard.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 28 21:02:21 2018 No.4805520 >>4802380 too much platforming

Anonymous Tue May 29 00:11:17 2018 No.4805857

>>4795184
>Ghosts and Goblins series
>Shinobi series
>Adventures of Batman and Robin for Genesis
>Aliens 3 SNES,
>Elevator Action Returns and Elevator Action EX,
> Rolling Thunder.
>Rendering Ranger R2

A lot of dumb game journalists will not classify Shinobi and Ghouls/Ghosts series as run'n'gun simply because your character doesn't have a gun, but don't be mistaken, it's the very same genre, it's just you throw blades instead of shooting.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 29 00:34:18 2018 No.4805898 File: 53 KB, 640x400, abuse.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Abuse.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 29 00:42:54 2018 No.4805910 >>4805857 To be fair, those two games are much slower than your typical run 'n gun. Your point is still perfectly valid but I can't get too mad at someone not considering them as such, especially in the case of Ghouls 'N Ghosts / Ghosts 'N Goblins.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 29 00:59:14 2018 No.4805926 >>4805898 Is there any way to play this in60 fps? I always wanted to play free abuse but framerate kills it for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 29 07:44:01 2018 No.4806252 >>4805926 https://antonior-software.blogspot.com/2016/05/abuse-1996-sdl-port-09a.html According to PCGamingWiki, this should help.

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Tue May 29 21:32:27 2018 No.4807470 File: 345 KB, 800x1097, 256075-alisia-dragoon-genesis-front-cover[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Alisia Dragoon

>>	Anonymous Wed May 30 21:58:24 2018 No.4809425 >>4806252 cool

>>	Anonymous Wed May 30 22:01:01 2018 No.4809429 >>4795184 Gunforce and Gunforce II

>>	Anonymous Wed May 30 22:01:22 2018 No.4809430 File: 109 KB, 640x902, IMG_7264.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4807470 Great game. Also this. The Genesis really rules for side-scrolling action.

>>	ssp Wed May 30 22:17:03 2018 No.4809443 File: 117 KB, 800x679, despacito-sega-cd-front-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Duke nukem 1 and 2 Wonder boy 3: monster lair

>>	Anonymous Wed May 30 23:33:03 2018 No.4809583 >>4795193 >Wolf Fang Holy fuck, thank you

>>	Anonymous Thu May 31 19:49:54 2018 No.4811225 >>4809443 nice mega cd game

>>	Anonymous Thu May 31 20:13:37 2018 No.4811271 Demon Front > ???? > metal slug

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 1 11:06:20 2018 No.4812523 File: 1.88 MB, 3087x2920, des.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4809443 >>4811225 this is better

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 1 11:14:07 2018 No.4812534 File: 28 KB, 220x266, 220px-Hunter_Hunted_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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