/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8837238]

Should I play the PS1 Tomb Raider games using an emulator, or are the GOG releases better?

[Anonymous No.8837248]

GOG version + Automated Fix is perfectly servicable. Unless you don't like widescreen.

[Anonymous No.8837291]

worst spammers on /vr/:
- Sonic
- Zelda
- Mega Man
- Donkey Kong Country
- Tomb Raider

[Anonymous No.8837306]

>>8837248
Thanks, anon. 4:3 is cozy, but if it looks and plays well in widescreen, that's also a great option. The Mario 64 port looks great in widescreen.

[Anonymous No.8837347]

>>8837238
play the saturn version, the atmosphere is better

[Anonymous No.8837423]

>>8837291
doom is worse than all combined

[Anonymous No.8838810]

>>8837238
Use an emulator. Having savestates and a rewind function will save you so much time.

Besides that, crt filters increase the graphics 100 fold

There is literally no reason to play this any other way

[Anonymous No.8838816]

>>8838810
The PC version of the game actually does have unlimited saving
The save crystals were only a thing in the console version

[Anonymous No.8838818]

>>8838816
I know, but consider how long it takes to go through the save/load flow compared to hitting f1 or shift f1 for savestates.

Also the rewind button is paramount to the enjoyment of any TR game when 1 wrong step can cost you minutes

[Anonymous No.8838830]

>>8837238
>Should I play the Tomb Raider games
no

[Anonymous No.8838879]

>>8837238
The actual best ways (google them)
TR1: TR1Main
TR2: TR2Main
TR3: Find the early build of TR3Main with not much fixed but cutscenes (but still runs okay)
TR4: Wait for Tomb4 or PSX
TR5: Tomb5
If you can't find one of these PlayStation will be fine.

[Anonymous No.8839013]

>>8838818
>the rewind button is paramount to the enjoyment of any TR game when 1 wrong step can cost you minutes
Chickenshit zoomer

[Anonymous No.8839031]

>>8839013
I'm 31 and smarter than you. I don't have all day to waste redoing shit that I already got right at least once, grandpa

[Anonymous No.8839054]

>>8839031
If you got it right, you don't have to redo it. Challenges come in packs, fuckfart.

[Anonymous No.8839059]

>>8838810
All good selling points for emulation + PSX versions as long as you aren't a purist. However, if you're gonna go this route you will encounter frame rate issues and will have to do some initial config to get an acceptable experience graphics-wise. Fortunately Duckstation allows you to fix all these issues, ie fps can be fixed by using the OC feature.

With all that said, if you dont want the extra features of emulation, GOG + automated fix patch will give you what you need straight away.

[Anonymous No.8839072]

Games on PSX need CRT filters. PC versions fail to compare the comfy blur

[Anonymous No.8839074]

>>8839072
>compare
capture

[Anonymous No.8840385]

>>8838810
>Use an emulator. Having savestates and a rewind function will save you so much time.
Seconded. If I were to play this today, this would be how I’d do it.

[Anonymous No.8840469]

>>8839072
Imagine being a zoomer
Imagine thinking in terms of graphics, regardless of generation
Imagine showing on /vr/ to talk about "superior display" of this or that display mode
Because you don't actually play anything nor care about games
All that matters is graphics

And faggots like you literally flooded this place after date limit was changed

[Anonymous No.8840535]

>>8840469
God take your fucking meds.
Go play Dwarf Fortress if you don't care about graphics

[Anonymous No.8840572]

>>8839072
>the comfy blur
pls kys

[Anonymous No.8840576]

>>8840469
>Imagine being a zoomer
Imagine thinking in terms of graphics
people talked about graphics since the fucking 80s you zoomer

[Anonymous No.8840579]

>>8840572
yes. the blurriness associated with low resolution CRT display
cope, PC babby
your version of TR is shit. SHIT

[Anonymous No.8840910]

>>8840579
you are a gay zoomer and good crts dont even have a lot of blurines. go play the nshityfour if you like blurines you hipster fag, I dont even like crts, I play my dc via vga on a big lcd screen bc its 100x better than a shity crt

[Anonymous No.8840981]

>>8840535
But he didn’t say that.
>meds
The standard response of a loser in an argument.

[Anonymous No.8841184]

CRT filters add infinite detail to the game. What was once a 320p blocky mess has been corrected to a super high fidelity piece of art. I'm literally playing on a 4k monitor and each and every pixel serves a purpose now.

[Anonymous No.8841242]

look at this beauty

[Anonymous No.8841284]

>>8841242
disgusting.
tr4 is only good on the dc via vga

[Anonymous No.8841302]

>>8841284
yeah I dont fucking think so. its washed out as hell

[Anonymous No.8841306]

>>8841302
>MUH ATMOSPHERIC FOG EFFECTS

[Anonymous No.8841317]

>MUH N64 QUALITY WALL BLUR


Its worth noting that the retard who made this video cranked up the resolution and most intelligent users would never do such a thing

[Anonymous No.8841376]

>>8841302
>>8841306
>>8841317
kys, I've played them both on real hardware, and the dc version on vga beats the shity pixelated ps version

[Anonymous No.8841380]

>>8841317
also nice wobly texture

[Anonymous No.8841384]

>>8841376
>source: my rectal evacuation chamber

[Anonymous No.8841392]

>>8841384
retroarch has a fix for ps1 wobbly & warped textures, but you probably didn't know that :)

[Anonymous No.8841410]

>>8841384
still better than ur faggy video made with emulators

[Anonymous No.8841417]

>>8841392
no i didn't and don't care because I wouldn't play the ps1 version on my pc like a retard since the pc version exists and is better. you are just a zoomer who likes Le epic soul nostalgia faggoteries. play the dc via vga or the pc version and forget the pixelated cut down ps1 version you trany

[Anonymous No.8841429]

>>8841417
>since the pc version exists and is better
this has been proven wrong time and time again. you just refuse to learn like a luddite. the windows version is outclassed by retroarch + emulator in every aspect, including graphics, playability and functionality

[Anonymous No.8841440]

>>8841429
>this has been proven wrong time and time again.
>>8841384
kys

[Anonymous No.8841535]

>>8841440
the last bastion of a man with no argument. cheers buddy

[Anonymous No.8841592]

>>8841535
thats literally what you said to me and i told you i played them both, you said its been proven that tb4 is better on ps1 even tho i presume you dont even own a ps1, pc, dc copy, you just play them on emulator and shit, so I replied with ur own reply. I didn't expect much from someone who unironically likes the ps1 version and plays it with disgusting crt filters that makes ur eye bleed. make urself a favor and go play the dc version in vga, thats all im gona say you trany frog poster

[Anonymous No.8841630]

>>8841592
>thats literally what you said to me
which post are you suggesting I made?

>make urself a favor
unrelated, but are you ESL?

[Anonymous No.8841735]

>>8837238
PSX version emulated on Bleemcast running on a Dremacast emulator on a virtual machine running on a dual boot on Mac for the real "as the developers intended" experience. Of course don't forget the scanlines as anon wisely recommends >>8841242.
If only there was a PC version of Tomb Raider!

[Anonymous No.8841852]

>>8841429
Nta, but the pc/windows versions of tomb raider are being worked on and patched by the community as we speak (thanks to reverse engineered code). Console versions will always remain static and will not improve in any way, perhaps only thanks to some scaling/filtering options available in the emulator. Proper widescreen support has been added and plenty of remaining bugs in the original code were fixed.

[Anonymous No.8841863]

>>8841852
>Console versions
yes, but I was suggesting emulators, not true consoles. I wouldnt recommend playing TR on a console either. Emulators are getting better and better every year