/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7396484]

>no password system

[Anonymous No.7396515]

>>7396484
Sure buddy, I love to write passwords letter by letter.

[Anonymous No.7396529]

>>7396484
Imagine not using S A V E S T A T E S

[Anonymous No.7396684]

>>7396529
Imagine not C H E A T I N G

[Anonymous No.7396709]

>>7396484
>RPG has a password system

[Anonymous No.7396719]

>Please insert a BLANK floppy labeled "Game™ Save data"

[Anonymous No.7396734]

>it has up as the jump button

[Anonymous No.7396736]

>Your password is l01ItOlI+B9og8

[Anonymous No.7396750]

>>7396709
Which RPGs besides Famicom Dragon Quest 1 have a password system instead of saving

[Anonymous No.7396752]

>>7396484
Lose you password, you're fucked
Battery save loses power, you're fucked
EEPROM master race to the rescue

[Anonymous No.7396770]

>>7396752
>Battery save loses power, you're fucked.
Just open up the Cartridge or Hucard, then replace the battery.

[Anonymous No.7396896]

>>7396750
Dragon Quest 2

[Anonymous No.7397038]

Now this is a based password system.

[Anonymous No.7397136]

>>7397038
Easily the best

[Anonymous No.7397146]

>>7396770
Do any hucards contain battery saves? The only game I own on hucard is Keith Courage in Alpha Zones

[Anonymous No.7397950]

Why were the passwords always so long? Why not just make it something short and simple

[Anonymous No.7397990]

>>7397038
balls nice

[Anonymous No.7398249]

>>7397146
no actual games had batteries
only the Ten no Koe Bank save data backup card

[Anonymous No.7398264]

>>7396529
this
This is the only time that using save states isn't cheating.

[Anonymous No.7398419]

>live in third world country
>family from US sends me PS1 with Crash, Croc and Pandemonium
>no memory card

Croc and Pandemonium I was able to beat since they had passwords thank the heavens

However I went a year playing Crash for hours at a time trying to beat it only to have the electricity shut off in my town at random times so I would always lose my progress fuuuuuuck

[Anonymous No.7398526]

>>7397950
It probably depends on how much data was being recorded.

[Anonymous No.7398537]

>>7396750
Swords and Serpents.

[Anonymous No.7398713]

>>7396484
>passwords
We called them combos back in the day.

[Anonymous No.7398743]

>>7398713
In Australia and parts of Europe, yeah.

[Anonymous No.7398760]

>>7396484
>Using passwords
>No memory or ability to save progress
To the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.7400317]

>>7397038
Based

[Anonymous No.7400345]

>>7398419
I'm pretty sure Crash had passwords.

[Anonymous No.7401072]

>>7396484
>game uses passwords and not saves
literally the only (ONLY) good password system is Metroid 1 and that's because the password screen is insane nonsense that initializes code from the text and not just predefined set points to continue from.

[Anonymous No.7401081]

>>7396484
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_owDUBxm7w

[Anonymous No.7401085]

>>7396515
>Sure buddy, I love to write passwords letter by letter.

If I didn't know better; I'd think you were being sarcastic fren.

[Anonymous No.7401090]

>>7396770
>>Battery save loses power, you're fucked.
>Just open up the Cartridge or Hucard, then replace the battery.

wouldn't replacing the battery fuck the existing save and only help with new saves?

[Anonymous No.7401120]

>>7396484
I gave up on spellcaster on master system and gargoyles quest on gameboy because of the hard to write down passwords. I had populous on master system and entered it in wrong one day and it sent me 1000 levels forward. Castlevania 4 was not bad and other games usually had 5 letter passwords or they would spell out words. The classic wonder 3 with its cheat password west 0ne or something like that.

>>7397038
Easy to write down and its possible to remember some of them.

[Anonymous No.7403394]

Snow bros has the best password system: only 4 letters

[Anonymous No.7403489]

For me it's Batman Return of the Joker
>only 4 letters
>always visible when pausing the game
Game is short and piss easy though

[Anonymous No.7403542]

>>7396484
Thank fuck most GB games used saves instead of passwords.

[Anonymous No.7403726]

>>7396484
>mfw Mario Bros 3

I can understand not having a save battery in the cart, but no password? Are you fucking joking? How can you have a long as fuck game like that where you have to beat it all in one sitting? When I was a kid, I think to actually beat the game legitimately, I had to keep the console running over the course of two nights.

>b-b-but there's the warp whistle!
fuck you, I'm talking about beating the game legitimately, not using the secret in-game cheat code.

[Anonymous No.7404229]

>>7403726
Is there a romhack of SMB3 that integrates a save system?

[Anonymous No.7404240]

>>7396750
Faxanadu, The Magic of Scheherazade (both based and soulful af games)

[Anonymous No.7404241]

>>7397038
too bad if you dont beat the game in one sitting u suck

[Anonymous No.7404250]

>>7403726
>using warp whistles is cheating
It isn’t.

[Anonymous No.7405765]

Find me a worse password system than Dragon's Lair on the Super Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNR98Kpguaw

[Anonymous No.7405853]

>>7403726
The warp whistles are the fucking save system you idiot. Are you incapable of exercising any sort of self control to stop yourself from using every warp whistle instead of the one that takes you closest to where you left off?
That bring said yeah it's a dumb system to begin with, and being frustrated that that's all you have is legitimate, but calling it cheating is pants-on-head retarded.

[Anonymous No.7407749]

>>7404250
>object of the game is to save the 7 kingdoms and stop bowser
>item allows you to literally bypass saving the the kings
Using them is cheating.

[Anonymous No.7407765]

>>7397038
Except in the later games when they used different colored dots, and you were stuck playing on a black and white TV. Shit sucked.

>t. Poor boomer.

[Anonymous No.7407803]

>>7396484
>the controls are like that of a tank but its a sidescroller

[Anonymous No.7408364]

>>7405853
What about the warps in Mario1 and 2? Battletoads? Are these all legitimate ways to play the games?

[Anonymous No.7408459]

>>7408364
>Are these all legitimate ways to play the games?
Why not? As long as you're not using obvious cheats, secrets are fair game. Atlantis no Nazo is entirely build on using warps (it's hilarious garbage).