/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9413356]

What's your opinion on /vr/ handheld fighting games? Which ones are your favorite? Preferrably the ones that were custom made for handhelds, not simple downgraded ports (i.e. SFA3 for GBA)

[Anonymous No.9413361]

>>9413356
the neo geo pocket ones are overrated. they all run on the same damn engine and none of them are better than console fighters

[Anonymous No.9413363]

>>9413361
They're not supposed to be "better" they're supposed to be handheld fighters.

Also, it's at least better than SNK vs Capcom Chaos or whatever the fuck.

[Anonymous No.9413549]

>>9413356
kof 95 on the gameboy was my very first fighting game ever, I played the shit out of it. I remember being obsessed with nakoruru after finding the cheat code to unlock her on gamefaqs, I didn't even know until years later what series she originated from, I just thought it was cool she had a bird.

coincidentally I actually just gave it a try earlier today for the first time since I was a kid and holy shit does it feel weird. you feel preposterously stiff and leaden when moving around on the ground and throwing out attacks but then at the merest touch of a jump input you rocket RIGHT the fuck outta there across the screen. it feels fuckin spastic. the lil chunky sprites sure are cute though.

[Anonymous No.9413554]

>>9413356
All of the NGPC are awesome, outside of those I haven't played any other.

[Anonymous No.9413617]

I really liked Power Quest. It's not the best or deepest fighting game but I like the character designs. Story was a grind though

[Anonymous No.9413632]

Advanced Adventure kicks ass

[Anonymous No.9413645]

>>9413632
>No Yamcha
Pass

[Anonymous No.9413654]

I like handheld games a lot, but not fighters. Handhelds typically have too few buttons for them to work well.

[Anonymous No.9413657]

Pocket fighter on wonderswan works pretty well considering that game was 2 buttons to begin with.

Plays pretty great if you can get over the not Dpad. Then again not much reason to play this over the original lol

[Anonymous No.9413659]

>>9413356

SFA3 for GBA and SFA for GBC are technical marvels and the devs deserve credit after getting shit on by Capcom for missing some arbitrary deadline

[Anonymous No.9413687]

>>9413657
NGPC has the best d-pad

[Anonymous No.9413775]

>>9413356
They were okay. They were there if you REALLY had to play a fighting game outside your house and they achieved that purpose, aiming a younger audience with a casual approach.
My favorite is a downgrade because it was the first GBA game I got — Guilty Gear X: Advance Edition.
Call it Stockholm syndrome because it was all I could play for a time, but it was my introduction to the series and I found a liking for the downgraded soundtrack and how fast the game played despite the sprites being glorified smudges on the screen.

[Anonymous No.9413782]

>>9413361
>over rated
Is this a joke post?

[Anonymous No.9413785]

>>9413687
It doesn’t have a dpad

[Anonymous No.9413789]

>>9413775
GGX:AE was not a bad game, but I wish they made GG Petit 3 instead. GBA screen was still too small for non super deformed characters.

[Anonymous No.9413807]

>>9413659
>SFA for GBC

This. It's a port of a CPS2 arcade board for a f'n gameboy color and yet it's better than the CPS1 Street Fighter II port for the SNES/Genesis.

[Anonymous No.9413813]

>>9413807
>better than the CPS1 Street Fighter II port for the SNES/Genesis
No, it's not. The fuck are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.9413832]

>>9413361

>None are better than the console fighters

bait post

[Anonymous No.9413835]

>>9413813

Elaborate your question.

[Anonymous No.9413836]

ehhh

[Anonymous No.9413849]

>>9413835
Comparing SNES/Genesis SF games to GBC SFA port:
>Better graphics
>Better sound
>Closer to the original arcade versions
>6-button controls
>Were released within a year from the arcade version unlike GBC SFA which is a 2000 release - five years too late

[Anonymous No.9413991]

>>9413849

We can agree on better sound. Music also, why not. And not because I enjoy the work Capcom did with those console sound chips. Did you enjoy that Guile theme on SNES? Being better than the GBC don't speak too much in that regard.

Graphic wise, the attention and effort put in a CPS2 to GBC port is nothing short of admirable. It's the impossible port, and yet Crawfish Interactive delivered. They trimmed detail of the backgrounds in order to save resources and yet backgrounds are recognizable, beautiful and cleaner. They cut the futile, they got all the moves and stable frame rates in an 8-bit NES grade hardware.
The SNES console was at it's prime and yet it's a better than nothing port. Low effort to take advantage of its features, missed opportunity to add transparencies for fireballs. Capcom got the safe route and yet it had slowdowns.

Maybe it would made more sense if i had compared to the SF Alpha SNES port, but the thing is: when I want to play SF II the SNES/Gen ports are needless to me, but I always have room for the GBC SF Alpha for being the awesome port it is.

[Anonymous No.9414131]

>>9413356
one of the few handheld fighters ive played, along with zatch bell and digimon battle spirit.

the sound track is great

[Anonymous No.9414186]

>>9413356
I was amazed at the fact that I had Tekken in my pocket. It translated well to GBA (only 2 buttons), and no characters were neutered. It's something of a mix between Tekken 3 and 4.

[Anonymous No.9414204]

SNK vs Capcom on NGPC is amazing. Plays very smoothly despite the underpowered hardware, especially with that clicky stick. I own two copies. Now I just need to find a 2nd NGPC and a link cable, lol. I bought it digitally on Switch as well.
As much as I love the game though, anyone who thinks it's okay for fighting games to force the player to grind the game to unlock characters has clearly never had to unlock all the characters and moves in SNKvC 3 fucking times.

[Anonymous No.9414257]

>>9414204
Just link up to the Dreamcast. Unlocks them all instantly : )

[Anonymous No.9414262]

>>9414186
It's closer to Tag, even has a 3v3 tag mode

[Anonymous No.9414492]

>>9413659
Absolutely This. The devs at Crawfish were nothing short of wizards for making the port that good

[Anonymous No.9414513]

>>9414257
I had a Dreamcast with a copy of King of Fighters 98, but no cable unfortunately. And I'm pretty sure this won't work on the Switch port.

[Anonymous No.9414743]

>>9413549
Those Takara gameboy fighters are really enjoyable and all have 2 players via super gameboy.

[Anonymous No.9414759]

This and Samsho on GG are underrated.
They play as reasonably well as the GB games but with full sized sprites and in color, technically superior to both the GB versions and those bootleg ports of SF/MK on the NES.

[Anonymous No.9414767]

>>9413356
There cool little time wasters but you can only do so much with a portable fighter.

The best ones are made with being portable in mind like SNK vs Capcom NGP and not a lazy cash grab downgrade.

[Anonymous No.9414776]

I really like Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, and I was incredibly impressed with the Game Boy version. It's also enhanced for use on the Super Game Boy.

[Anonymous No.9414785]

>>9413654
NGPC was perfect. Tap for weak, hold for strong.

So you can do a combo by doing tap-tap-hold-hold. Clever and feels intuitive.

[Anonymous No.9415265]

>>9413356
My opinion is what's the point

[Anonymous No.9415272]

>>9413356
I find these games charming. there are 2 types of these games, demakes like SFA2 on gba and new games like the pocket fighter series.

[Anonymous No.9415291]

>>9415272
kek what the fuck is this

[Anonymous No.9415293]

>>9415272
Good Lord anon why would you save that?

[Anonymous No.9415301]

>>9415272
bad luck kek

[Anonymous No.9415317]

>>9415272
Anon...

[Anonymous No.9415373]

>>9413356
They can be fun. Maybe not for tourneyfag but for a trash player like me, the greatly simplified move sets and execution allow a casual like me to enjoy something almost resembling a real fighting game. Samurai Showdown 2 pocket was my favorite and I still get Jubei's theme stuck in my head.

[Anonymous No.9416457]

>>9415291
>>9415293
>>9415301
>>9415317
What was it?

[Anonymous No.9416552]

>>9416457
bad boob job

[Anonymous No.9416789]

>>9413363
>Also, it's at least better than SNK vs Capcom Chaos or whatever the fuck.
Filtered.
SVC Chaos is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.9416791]

>>9416789
SVC Chaos is peak soul

[Anonymous No.9417071]

>>9416789
>>9416791
I'm not sure which I like better, SVC Chaos or SNK Match of the Millenium on NGPC. That's how good MotM is.
>>9414785
This. Two buttons can work way better than you'd think it would as long as the game was designed with that in mind. Moves that ordinarily need more than 2 buttons just get changed to a different command that also makes sense. Zangief's Lariat has two versions done with a QCB + punch or kick, and Gouki's Raging Demon is now a charge super (hold b, f, b, f) with punch. Sakura's take on the Raging Demon is done the same way.

[Anonymous No.9417263]

>>9416789
>SVC Chaos is pretty good.
No it isn't.

[Anonymous No.9417364]

>>9413356
I played a number of them. Game Boy ports pretty much all suck though SNK was most capable of doing it right. Neo Geo Pocket took a hot shit on everything else that I've played. I haven't played any on game gear or lynx and basically nothing on wonderswan for fighters, except for one piece grand colosseum or whatever it was called.

I got a neo geo pocket color back around 2007, they had taken old stock and put it into a blister pack with six games and you could buy it new for all of 40 dollars. I have fond memories from younger days of playing KoF R-2. It's where I first got my taste of the series. Even in SD form, Athena and Yuri were cute, Mai was smokin hot, and Rugal was a douche. The music was awesome too.

I also had a few other games, but nothing else really captured my interest. Even got a flash cart and still found myself not that into the library, so finally I sold it a few years ago. Was pleasantly surprised about how much people pay for them. Frankly though I don't know why you'd bother unless you wanted a novelty thumb stick to try and then sell. I enjoyed it but you're just as well to emulate the full versions nowadays.

[Anonymous No.9417375]

anybody who thinks 2-button 8bit systems can't do fighters never played joy mech fight. Balance problems aside it is a perfectly competent fighter.

[Anonymous No.9417516]

>>9417071
I have tried MotM for the first time ever via emulation and holy shit it's good! Very easy to pull off motion specials and combos and it feels great when they connect - something not every full scale fighting game can be proud off. Also I dig super deformed style.

[Anonymous No.9417526]

>>9417375
If Virtua Fighter 5 can pull off the largest move list in the fighting games genre with only three buttons, one of which is a block button, I don't see the problem with making a typically small 2D fighting game move list work with two buttons.

[Anonymous No.9417718]

>>9416789
Liking a shit game doesn't make you better or a special snowflake.

[Anonymous No.9417734]

>>9417526
Virtua Fighter style inputs are way different than most 2D fighters. I'm not saying fighting games can't be done with 2 buttons (they can and have) but a lot of VF commands are a far cry away from 2D games.

[Anonymous No.9418393]

>>9417734
Then why not make a 2d game with VF style inputs? Not everything need to be 6-button bloat

[Anonymous No.9418398]

>>9413645
Kill urself

[Anonymous No.9418885]

>>9418398
Why? Yamcha was the best part of og Dragonball and you will never be a woman

[Anonymous No.9419048]

>>9416789
Dan has a move where he punches so hard he breaks his wrist. SvC is kinda shit but it's definitely got soul

[Anonymous No.9419053]

>>9419048
>soul
Yup

[Anonymous No.9419074]

Both SNK vs Capcom fighting games are based af.
Capcom vs SNK games are overrated and made for the western Marvel VS series consoomer.