My older brother never got into or learned how to setup emulators, so one day I walked him through setting up Fightcade with the auto-rom-download json files so we could netplay 3rd Strike, and now he just logs on and uses the lobbies to download and play single player stuff.
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I am playing PC Engine games for the first time, ever, on the MiSTer I just got. This thread couldn’t be more timely for me in terms of access to the library. So far I am loving this 16 bit bizarro world.
China Warrior made me laugh right off the bat. HUGE fighting man sprite. Felt almost like a Newgrounds flash game or Katamari loading screen. Not a great game or anything.
World Court Tennis is a pretty snappy 2D tennis game, one of my least favorite genres even though tennis is my favorite sport. This goes beyond the pale though with a full on 8 bit Quest mode where you have to hunt down and defeat the Tennis King, and are thrust into Random Matches (battles) to play 1 game in order to move forward and buy new shoes or whatever. I can’t win a match!
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Me neither ^_ ^
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I think… I think I did it
Topped it:
I won’t be satisfied (or impressed) until I beat the second leg though
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The Legendary Axe is pretty solid so far, it does have a bit of that Castlevania forward pumpin’ to it though you can change the direction of your jump in midair however it’s easy to trick myself into using it as some Mario-type course correction when instead it’s an abrupt reversal of momentum that’s just as likely to hurl me over whatever platform I was re-aiming for, still gotta commit!
Attack range is much shorter than the whip cuz…it’s an axe, and some of the hop-happy enemies are a bit annoying to deal with but where it gets interesting is the metre at the top of the screen. When you attack, your attack power goes down and refills as long as you don’t attack again (see below) so do you strike with quick weak ones or wait for big hitters? Kinda puts some of the enemy movement into context…it is a touch, dare I say, Souls-like. Collecting crystals extends your attack power.
So far the bosses have been: a giant spider, two bears and two maybe sentient maybe not…rolling boulders…kinda generic barbarian vibe all around but I’m into it, especially some of the backdrops.
missed a jump and fell into a secret:
edit: ah the metre won’t refill when you take damage, tough!
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I gotta get rich and buy a fucking PC Engine again, fuck
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I’m kinda rich / heavily in debt and did just that a couple months ago. Sure I could just get a MiSTer for like $500 or whatever it’s going for atm instead of buying all these old original consoles and maybe even save some money but this is more fun. Except when I got the Duo first and the disc drive didn’t work. I got my money back but PS1 era is now my limit and I’m not even gonna try to fuck around with older disc based hardware. Just gonna use the Wii for Mega CD and CD RomRom.
I really like the size but honestly the cables sticking out to the sides means it ends taking up as much space as an SNES anyway. I’m starting to dig the cyberpunk aesthetic though.
Still playing SGB but looking forward to explore some PCE soon. This thread rules.
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I gotta get rich so I can get someone to make real slim cables and such for the PC Engine
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Ah, but you haven’t met the challenge! There are two separate clocks: a time limit that you can think of as “par” and a stash of “extra time” that you can use up once you go over. You can see it from this board. “Timetable” shows you the time you would have to race under to make it. “Time limit” shows you how much extra time you have left. If it makes you feel any better, I’ve been trying to get “under par” for five days now.
@meauxdal have you played this and can you do it?
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ahh it seemed too easy
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It’s getting just one credit from me! I get antsy about video game pinball. I gotta accept I just do not like it.
I always forget Gateball is a fucking nightmare.
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4-8-8-0-0 with 2.05.21"
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i have briefly played Victory Run but i don’t recall spending much time with it. just enough to be like “this is a real good faux-3D racer for the era”. definitely didn’t accomplish anything tricky. i’ll fire it up on the MiSTer today and see what i can get
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Yeah, it seems like it requires a nearly perfect run. To clarify, when you raise the numbers next to parts in the beginning, you aren’t upgrading those parts. Instead, you’re choosing how many replacement parts you have stocked up for later.
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taking screenshots with your phone makes them look 49839839 times cooler anyway
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I just finally got why it’s called the “Run” button. Like run the program. I am slow/dumb sometimes.
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Galaga 88
I’ve been throwing this a few credits for a couple of days. Yesterday, I decided I wanted to beat it. I may have…leaned on an old crutch. I was disappointed to see that the ending text isn’t the same as the arcade’s but I’ll take the Starship Troopers-esque hoo-rah. The inter-dimension travel, third-tier upgrade, and unique enemy behavior are all good wrinkles to the Galaga cloth.
What really strikes me about this game is how it nudges me towards a more respectful play. In the Intergalactic Dancing sections, I get the same bonus score in the end whether I shoot all of them or touch nothing. Galaga are worth more points when they engage me in direct combat than when they’re waiting in line or getting into formation. It all makes me feel like these alien hordes are just as sentient and creative as my little guy, and maybe I shouldn’t be trying to exterminate them all!
Anywho, my high score is 259,060, so get those mean shots right in their ugly faces, recruit!
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