>>21
Oh hey, I bought that game a few years back for no real reason. I only played a bit of it but thought it was interesting nonetheless.

While I do play a lot of vidya in my spare time, I actually don't delve into obscure games as much as the more popular ones, but here are a few I've finished over the past few years/from childhood.

>Metal Max Returns
Found out about this back in 2020, really cool JRPG that mixes the gameplay of the OG Dragon Quests with a world like Mad Max. Had tons of fun exploring the world and going from town to town repairing, upgrading and customizing my Tank, great little soundtrack too. Only suffers from a weak story and even weaker party members, a real shame they lose ALL of their personality the second they join your party. Great game though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI1XqEyVowo

>Phantom Crash
Really unique mech fighter game released on the original Xbox. Fun combat, an okay story, a really cool world but the one thing about this game is that it has an incredibly unique and amazing soundtrack. One of my favourites in gaming. I never finished the game though, despite owning it from when I was a kid. Really should get back to finishing it one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5otbc54hEg

>Mendel Palace
Really cool puzzle game from before Game Freak made it big. For an NES game it's surprisingly short and easy, would honestly recommend it to anyone despite its age. I actually found out about it by doing a /vr/ gauntlet last year, never finished the gauntlet as I was given fucking Hatris to complete which was impossible for me, but I'm glad I played it just for Mendel Palace. The soundtrack was also composed by the Pokémon composer so a lot of it sounds like lost Gen 1 tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNmBcIs-Fs

>Battle Mania
Dirty Pair the game, basically. A really cool Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>925
It's neat (and I do wish BeOS became Mac OS X), but it's always just going to be a novelty at best without a company behind it like the old days, especially given that it's not Windows nor Linux/Unix.

>>927
>without a company behind it like the old days
It does have a company behind it though

https://www.haiku-inc.org/

Haiku will actually be viable to daily drive someday like 9front is for those who only need to manipulate text. All it needs is for Chrome to work since so much is done in the browser nowadays. It might get to stability before ReactOS. This is probably going to happen when the year of the Linux desktop finally arrives which is when the desktop is obsolete and also when Linux is compromised and people move to the BSDs.

>>925
I think it's pretty neat.

>>125
Always wanted to try PSO, as a kid I wanted the Gamecube version so I could get a Tails chao in SA2:B, and now as an adult just to see how it'd run on a Dreamcast in 2022 and if it'd be fun, never played an MMO before so having my first be something like PSO might make me gloss over the outdated aspects of the game.

Will probably have to look into it eventually if I do go through with it one day.

>>125
I've actually set up a private server for this game, although it only lasted around a month and I didn't have a lot of time to play on it. You can set up a local server pretty easily, just download the game off of archive.org.

I used to play pso on the dreamcast online a few years back,I've never heard of this. I'd love to hop on and try playing with some people from here

>>23
Really love the Super Mario World arrangement done by Soichi Noriki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yh-lVFUQ8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOW-8mIQNUg

Also, while this isn't really an "arranged" soundtrack, I'll include it because it's quite cool. From what I understand since the SNES used samples for the instruments in the music, people found the original uncompressed/unaltered samples/instruments used and "restored" a lot of the music for a few games like Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e12KntT3o7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riCDOHaaF90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQemjPDIw3I

Love this remix, even though I don't think it's actually a song from Super Metroid.

>>24
>Super Mario World arrangement done by Soichi Noriki
Good stuff, definitively one of my favorites as well.

>>25
>I don't think it's actually a song from Super Metroid
It's the Ending theme for the original Metroid.

Might as well post a few more picks:

ActRaiser Symphonic Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF6YctrQWFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7JsX4U7HuI

Vapor Trail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrQxJiSAEtY

Super Hang-On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sOXziJaPE8

sex friday will continue until moral improves

>>1742
I've been fuckin around with how powering up works. I ditched the two button holding system so now you just power up when you fill up the weapon meter, you can also freely switch between elements now. Also attacking drains mana instead of a timer.

i neglected mapping for like a week to play Organ Trail, but now I have more ideas

sooo…. What's gonna happen with gzdoom now that everyone had a meltdown?

>>1846
all the devs (sans graf) moved to uzdoom

Only played 1,2 and 4, never understood the hate for 4.
I mean yeah it changed the series forever and might be a bit overrated too, but for me it felt like the natural evolution of RE.
Played 4 on Wii, incredible experience with the wiimote aim and waggle for the knive attack.

That said, back to the topic, I'm working on the other retro RE games, going to play 3 soon.

Also whats 1.5 like? First time I hear about that.

>>38
>Also whats 1.5 like? First time I hear about that.
It's just the scrapped concept for 2 that made it 80% of the way through development.

>>36
I completely forgot I was meant to respond to this thread, time to do it now while I have some time.

I remember playing REmake back in 2014 (not classic I know) and loving it a lot and when I heard the popularity of REmake was going to give us a REmake 2 I held off on playing 2 until quite literally, one day before REmake 2 came out.

I played RE2 in one 8 hour sitting and absolutely loved it, it's my favourite RE game tied with the remake of it. I didn't think I'd play both stories but after playing Leon's I just had to play Claire's. Leon is a fantastic character along with Claire and I wish we got another game in RE2's style for him. It's been so long I can't remember much about why I loved it but it just oozed with atmosphere, had fun gameplay and environments and a fantastic soundtrack. Tank controls are something I still quite enjoy for being a unique take of games even if it's a bit outdated, awkward controls can also make a lot of fights scarier since I'm not fully in control of my character.

I played RE3 around a month later and also enjoyed that, I remember finding the city to be a really cool area and felt much bigger than it actually was. I also loved how it was set a day before RE2 happened, there's just something really cool about RE2 and 3 taking place so close to each other and being able to explore areas in 2. Kinda like Silent Hill 3. Carlos was a fun character and I liked how the game never stayed in one place and I was constantly moving around Racoon City. I'd rank it just below RE2/REmake 2 imo. Perhaps the same as RE1.

CV is something I played over two months but don't remember much of sadly, had a great save theme though.

I disliked RE0 a lot, the idea of not having an item box confused the hell out of me for hours until I finally figured out you're literally meant to use items constantly and not horde them made it faster, so wasting them is a good idea and leaving stuff where they are helps a lot. I dumped everything in the main hall and after around 5 hours decided to just leave it all there and pick things up as I go, I left weapons and shit behind because the game WANTS you to. It's a weird mechanic that didn't work well for me but I do wish they instead had item boxes but as a separate entity from each other and maybe having thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>Where did it all go wrong?
Well, by the time you get to 3, the formula is running stale. The basic mechanics of the games aren't all that different, besides the addition of Nemesis and a few other things. You also start to see them loose focus, become less of a thoroughbred survival horror franchise and bring in more action set pieces. Code Veronica is where things started to go wrong. REmake is where the franchise got back on track. The gothic aesthetic was beautiful and still looks great to this day, chilling gameplay, builds on everything the old games had and polishes it up. I figured the next game in the series would be a step up from REmake, instead we got Zero and eventually Resi 4.

I think the franchise should have ended after 3 or REmake. There was really nothing left to add. At the very least, there should have been a hiatus. I haven't played anything past 4. I've heard Resi 7 is a good horror title but I can't run that thing anyway.

>>1784
Hiatus sounds about right, Was more Halo needed after 2010?

Every time a game series has reachd the end of its natural cycle, it should go on break for awhile, and devs try out new IPs and ideas, then later on return to a revitalized series.

>>1754
I miss my old hardware. Not the giving it to someone part, I'm happy they had something. I regret not preserving it.

>>200
checked, sorry, still on 7

>>348
i feel like the only reason to keep using xp is if you are a turbo autist that writes their own drivers, or has super old hardware/niche hardware that requires you to use their own unsigned drivers.

>>1757
Not him, but the only reason I moved from XP was to get access to that extra RAM without sacrificing too much compatibility with old games (almost all do work). The only reason I installed XP was better stability.

Mostly screw arounds with it on a VM. God how I love Royale Noir looks

I found this ancient PC-98 emulator for the PSP, which appears to be a port of Neko Project II, and wondered if I could run it in PSVita through Adrenaline. I have a PSP Go as a back up in case that doesn't work out. I'm not sure how the controls work since its keyboard based and the PSP DOSBox controls are very awkward for me at least. I've heard there are ways to attach a keyboard to the Vita, no idea about the PSP, but that takes away from the portable appeal.
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/DOSBox_PSP

Can anyone recommend some good lesser known VNs

>>1803
Just realized I added the wrong link orz
Here's the right one
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/NP2_for_PSP_by_sakahi

>>1803
Recently played through Re-No - Stayin' Alive, it was short but sweet.

Other random stuff that comes to mind:

Aegean Kai no Shizuku (more of a myst clone but still interesting and worth cheking out)
Jewel Bem Hunter Lime series
Exciting Milk series

I have emulated it on RetroArch. I didn't play it back then.

>>559
I own a PC-9821 V13 with a voodoo2 and the famous 86 soundchip, with an AMD K6-III cpu. Its almost as maxed out as you can make one for that era.