/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.485441]

raising animal genre(non pokemon) appreciation thread?
yeah, other than JRPG, i spent countless hours on digimon and monster rancher also harvest moon...
I love digimon one the most, the graphic was so ahead of its time imho though
want to play monster rancher 2 on ePSXe but it is impossible to generate the monster due to its CD-to-monster mechanism

[Anonymous No.485506]

>>485441
> impossible to generate the monster due to its CD-to-monster mechanism

No, no it isn't.

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.485527]

>>485441
Use ePSXe 1.6, 1.7 doesn't work with loading from the CD drive (or loading up other isos for that matter) for monsters.

[Anonymous No.485568]

>>485441

man i was amazed by this monster generating shit when i had this game. my dad had a huge CD collection so i remember grabbing huge stacks and sitting slack jawed while monsters popped out of them.

how did that shit actually work anyway? did it actually draw on any of the data, or was it just a gimmick with a random generator

[FinalMasterM !aDUgdVpoUk No.485674]

>>485568
Some type of coding on the disk. Specific ones were wrote into the game, so it knew when you put in that Pulp-Fiction soundtrack for a specific monster as apposed to using your copy of Final Fantasy VII.

Last I played it (emulated) a lot of the CDs/ISOs I used didn't produce the monsters they were suppose to. This might be because the data needed wasn't there where it was looking for it or the versions of those CDs/ISOs aren't the same as the ones set to produce the monsters.

[Anonymous No.485762]

So who else have beaten the Major 4 on MR2?

[Anonymous No.485862]

Does this count?

[Anonymous No.485871]

>>485527
Or use PCSX-R, essentially it's a version of ePSXe that's still updated regularly, has less overall emulation issues with games, and it uses the same BIOS and plugin setup from ePSXe. AFAIK all the plugins work with both, and you can even transfer your saves and savestates over by just copy pasting the files.

You can find a link to the newest version at:
http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Emulators

But if ePSXe works for you, don't worry about it.

[Anonymous No.485902]

>>485862
>tfw when it is not hentai

[Anonymous No.485912]

Hnngh, fucking love the Monster Rancher franchise (even MR3 has its strong points and EVO was...well, it was EVO) and am glad to see a thread for MR and other creature raising games.

Between Digimon World and MR1 and 2, so many countless hours and replays and alternate files have been sunk into them. What're your favorite ones, guys?

[Anonymous No.485938]

>>485902
>hasn't found out about the undress easter egg

[Anonymous No.486110]

>>485862
I love PM2. My number one "I mustn't play it because it's such a timesink" game. Yes, I find it more addicting that Civ, for example.

I love how the endeing were generated. One of my daughter turned out to be a dancing teacher. She started as a dancer, but she didn't have enought stamina or constitution so had to resort to teaching. She also married a successful high class merchant.

Too bad none of the sequels were translated.

[Anonymous No.486846]

>>485568
It reads the track times and mixed it with a data table. For rare monsters they programmed in the specific track time of the intended CD

[Anonymous No.486991]

> when trying all of your mother's discs
> get a monsterbro, train him
> aww yeah he loves potatoes
> the little faggot won't stop cheating on the training
> fighting my way up the ranks with my dinobro
> tfw he dies on rank A

Oh, my Zuum/Gaal hybrid, i'll never forget you.

[Anonymous No.487284]

So, now that you mentioned Digimon, what's the best Digimon game for the Playstation?

[Anonymous No.487306]

>mfw a Village People album gives you a Naga in a sailor-suit

[Anonymous No.487480]

>>487284
My pick is the first. 3 is great but kind of generic and has HORRIBLE backtracking and encounter rates and i couldn't like 2 at all, dungeon crawler without an ounce of charm.

[Anonymous No.487769]

>>487306

[Anonymous No.488172]

>>487769
That guy's looking fresh, what CD unlocks him?

[Anonymous No.488190]

>>488172
Billy Joel's Greatest Hits

[Anonymous No.488214]

>>488190

[Anonymous No.488993]

>>487306
>ABBA Gold gives you a golden Suezo
>Need for Speed 2(?) gives you that shell monsters in a car deco
>Dead or Alive gives a fairy that looks like Kasumi

[Anonymous No.489401]

>>487769

[Anonymous No.492709]

>>485441
>dat blatant geodude rip off

[Atwill !kelPcGZQlE No.492730]

Some PC animal raising.

[Atwill !kelPcGZQlE No.492736]

[Atwill !kelPcGZQlE No.492751]

One of those came-with-the-sound-card classics.

[Anonymous No.492773]

>>492709
>Has never played Monster Rancher

[Anonymous No.492795]

>>492736
holy fuck
i remember that shit

[Anonymous No.492904]

>>485862
> Make her into a high class prostitute
> Depressingly fap

Every time.

[Anonymous No.493241]

>>492773
only the the GBA version