/vr/ - Retro Games

Talk about coin-op games.

2:21 This is a very cool trick you can do in Star Force, apparently only doable with a pear-shaped stick. You become invincible.
https://youtu.be/kGcs9jU3Bgs?t=141

>>5111407
Are you aware of Xevious 3D/G? Similar in style, but more fleshed out, while retaining the randomness.

>>5111397
I'm giving this another chance after some months.
No personal experience with Xevious to help you. That's one game I want to 1-ALL one of these days though. Did you like your time with it?

>>5111394
Nothing, and no. Just want to discuss these here with those that don't post on /vg/.

Current goals, progress, recent PBs, clears, scores, and all sorts of discussion related to the genre.

I want to clear at least the first loop with all six characters in Sengoku Ace, it's fun. I'm going to need to develop good strategies with the worst character, the wolf, such as ways to handle the boss rush in stage 5.

>>5023394
I quit RPGs because they became too boring even with self imposed challenges and shmup take many many more times the effort, you simply don't know because you glance at them and think they look simple. Yes, that includes more complex ones like the SaGa series.
RPGs have many options but boil down to figuring out the best solution and repeating it, there's no nuance after all. I played that shit for years, including "beat with the least powerful characters possible" runs so don't come with your bullshit, Jarpig. Your genre sucks in terms of skill gameplay. Also sucks in terms of story, it's children shit, read something. Leave your kiddy bubble.
>>5023397
Two of my favorite genres

>>5023362
>Uh, yes
>honey
Ugh I can hear the low volume tranny voice from here
There are thousands of cool shmups, of different subsets too, that one in particular is just a crappy game as explained by others ITT.
Someone not figuring out what's wrong with Tyrian is indicative of their lack of experience with the genre. A "don't know better" case, if you will.
Bad games exist. Shocking.
>>5023372
They're a bunch of storyfags too, check RPGCodex. Only difference is they prefer CYOA novels to movie-style structures. RPGs are cancer born from people that don't actually enjoy skill-based gameplay, and this cancer has spread to other genres now.

>>5023347
>zoomer
Being able to play MAME after arcades died here was a fucking dream, you disgusting jarpig. You probably were jacking off to FFX back then.
>>5023351
It's a crappy shmup, would you say someone is a JRPG fan if his exposure to them was Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and that was it?

>>5023324
Forgot pic

Reminder that this is the kind of player we're dealing with here, people.
>>5023321
Probably listing that wouldn't fit in a single 4chan post. Anyway, it's painfully obvious to anyone with minimal shmup experiencie / appreciation.

>>5023272
>1cc nonsense
Did you miss all the posts saying we advocate for 1cc because otherwise people will find the games boring if they credit feed? It's a reasonable stance and his reply was polite and informative. But it triggers your anti-skill sensibilities. Then you attacked us. You hate this genre and its players and want to see it gone from /vr/ forever as it's been lately.

>>5023257
Are people in other threads playing SNES Final Fight?
What about this thread? >>5011837
You're full of shit, jarpig.

>>5023207
Try Twin Cobra on MAME, it's not hard as is but if you use autofire it's even more manageable. Pick blue power up.
Similar game but you'll have a better experience. Fire Shark arcade is quite tough.
You also have tools like save state to practice sections that may be giving you trouble before going for the 1CC on MAME compared to playing on a Genesis.
It has to be that version though, the Japanese Kyukyoku Tiger is both tougher and with checkpoints.
In the latest MAME 0.201 the processor speed was corrected for Twin Cobra, no idea if it affects anything really though.

>jarpig posts: attacks
>posts with actual knowledge: >>5023174
hmm makes me wonder
>>5023185
No idea about that worthless port but the original is super hard, particulatly the Japanese 1P board. Recovery is an insane ordeal.
Anyway, stop playing those ports, man. Them being on original hardware doesn't make the experience better.

>>5023161
Okay? But you have to play with a coin to score because it gets reset after each continue? What are you trying to get at here?
>>5023163
>you only care about a specific playstyle.
Yeah because credit feeding is bullshit that leads noobies to hate the genre?
Console shooters can be fine but they aren't AS good
>Even the NES ports have merit
Why would you play a worse version of a game?
Did you miss my post with plenty of easy arcade 1CCs that aren't watered down?
Fucking /vr/ I swear.
>>5023165
>making fun of people into challenging games
More anti-skill showcases from /jarpig/!
>>5023170
The jarpig jannies ad mods aren't instantaneous or flawless, remember last time I posted on /vr/?

>>5023148
Exactly, fuck off Queen of Jarpigs.
>>5023150
Talk about any shmup and you'll get discussion. Do it. But you actually don't care about shmups, don't you?

>>5023127
What? Someone that played a couple of downgraded ports in his childhood and has never even thought of playing the better versions?
Someone that wants to talk about a crappy DOS game but doesn't because he's too scared?
Wow such PASSION for the genre!
>>5023145
To score you have to 1CC in the first place, scoring is the next step. You show your ignorance on arcade-style games here.

>>5023103
You're clueless, I like KoF, however there's this very avid anti-shmup poster that used to avatarfag with KoF gifs.
If you pay attention, we have our thread on /vg/ which is full of RPG discussion. We just want to be left alone and have a place, not be persecuted by you anti-skill jarpig scum. In fact, again, why are you here other than for this? You don't like the genre, nor us.
>>5023104
No, it's precisely because of this that the RPG obsession here is extra baffling. It's like the place was full of kids that got into older games with the ones that more closely resembled modern ones (jarpigs)
>>5023110
We have older poster that lived through that... Just, c'mon.
>>5023114
I actually did post on their jarpig threads since otherwise I couldn't talk about anything here, and bringing my own perspective to the table but that was triggering shit for them.
>Also pure skill based arcade games make up a huge chunk of retro gaming, them being so grossly underrepresented on a RETRO GAMES board and misunderstood if not outright insulted regularly is a disgrace.
Nailed it. This is why I say it's an anti-skill jarpig board.
>>5023118
>fuck up
There are never shmup threads here without us, an we are the ones that play and can give actual advice instead of, you know, recommending NES ports of arcades?
>>5023120
How is it better? I don't know much about the port.
>>5023121
>Is there any proof that people from /vr/ actually attacked anyone?
Your posts in this very thread, such as >>5022554 and more. There's never any shmup thread, you don't like the genre but as soon as one pops up you have to either autosage it or attack their community.
The fact that our threads kept getting deleted.
The fact that we get banned on sight no matter how reasonable.
Fuck off if you're here just for the drama then.
If you are actually interested in the games, go here >>>/vg/226741032

>>5023131
Exactly

>>5023094
Simple answer, the rest of /vg/ leaves us alone, doesn't come storming to a thread about a genre they don't care about, also our threads or posters don't get deleted for wrongthink like here.
You've used this "vg is full of jarpigs" card before, and no, it doesn't work.
Also, a lot of shmupg posters came from vr so they've dealt with your shit for years.
Indeed, pre-PS1 the west wasn't into RPG, which begs the question as to why a board dedicated to old games is so fucking obsessed with that genre. Could it be because they're modern minded collectorfags and not actually players?

>>5023084
Indeed there's very little in this genre for storyfags/aestheticsfags/progressfags and all that sort of extrinsically motivated player, which is the average player these days and certainly most people on this board.
You may say the games can be pleasing aesthetically but that crowd prefers more "immersive" experiences with more "content" these days... like say Jarpigs.

>>5023074
I actually tried being polite which was fucking dumb in retrospect.
>I actually like the genre
Where are the threads?
>>5023075
It's one of the only shmup series I'm not into LMAO I'm known for shitting on them I'm just saying even THAT series deserves more than a filthy jarpig.
>>5023076
Cee is banned for 30 days on sight when posting advice and correcting misinformation...
I don't even play 2hushit what are you smoking, Queen of Jarpigs?

>>5023070
cum on even 2hufappers deserve better than this, Touhou is a series of actual games after all. They don't have to suffer this Shining Jarpig.
>>5023072
You're spot on but they just won't listen.

>>5023052
>cares about politeness
>cares about a community of a genre he actively dislikes
>doesn't realize that shmupg allows for broad topics with shmups being the main one
IT ALL BEGAN IN 94
>>5023054
>There's no world to be drawn into, no conflict to care about.
Here comes the aestheticsfag/storyfag army! You took your time, /jarpig/
There are many genres about just beating the game in single player without any interesting story. Shmups after Xevious being one of them, but there's bmups, arcade platformers, many more. Not everything has to be either a jarpig or a "golden era arcade".
Face it, some of us actually play single player games for their challenge and nice mechanics to completion. Sorry if it disturbs your comfy anti-skill echo chamber, jarpig.
>>5023067
Yeah, banned for being pro-skill in games in an anti-skill board.
And there you go again, downplaying the skill of players, and making fun of their skills. Predictable.