Games that are allowed to be discussed fit the following criteria: All console games up to 5th gen. All Pinball games. All PC/Arcade games prior to the end of 2004. All 6th gen games provided that they were not also released on a 7th gen console that is not the Wii unless it came out prior to the end of 2006. All DS or PSP games provided that they were not also released on a 8th gen handheld. These last two rules allow for games like Twilight Princess, Baroque, and Godzilla Unleashed to be talked about while restricting games like Guitar Hero 5 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2013. HD rereleases/collections and ports are to be considered separate games when considering if a game may considered retro. eg: Okami HD does not invalidate its retro status on the PS2. Remakes and hd releases may be discussed but only in the context of their originals. Meaning you may not make a thread about the DQ3 HD-2D Remake but it may be discussed when being compared to other DQ3 releases. Adjacent topics may also be discussed. Magazines, guides, hardware, peripherals, tvs/monitors, etc. Keep in mind though that these are not explicitly the topic of the board and so a bit more effort should be put into OPs involving these things. Hopefully these rules seem fair enough to most people. And remember, if things become too busy here or discussion becomes to lopsided to the newer titles then a v2k board will be made. These are the rules as they stand right now but feel free to discuss them or alternatives in this thread if you wish.

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Reposting from /v/, I'm trying to figure shit out here on the site: 4chan refugee, don't know where to go, don't know what to do. Before the site died, I installed XP on an ancient PC I had lying around for the purposes of making it into pre-Vista gaming rig, strictly offline, of course. Much of my library fits the 98 and XP era, and I managed to get some games installed with GOG's offline installers. The reason why I'm bothering to make this thread, is that I want to know what source port and/or emulator is available to use, that's still compatible with XP. I don't expect much, already have ePSXe, Project64, and DosBox installed, just need to find what fits best. Another thing, I'm not holding my breath on it, is finding out how I can get some of my Steam games working. I heard of Goldberg Emulator, bit I never used anything like it. Don't really want to rely on One Core API for everything. Also, didn't think of it before, but is there a chance the N64 decomp ports would work?

So I beat the bloodmoon expansion for morrowind the other day. And while I did like it, I have to say that in the end it was kind of a not underwhelming but not great experience either. Solstheim is absolutely CRAWLING with enemies. I used jump spells to get around and even then they were still annoying, I can't imagine actually walking to get anywhere. You would end up spending half of your time in the expansion just beating on bears and fryse hags. It seems they decided to counter this by putting health potions in almost every single chest and on almost every dead character. I'm wondering if they were also doing that to make sure you'd be loaded up for the last area and the final fights but who knows. Todds design language seems to be all over it though. There is a mountain in the middle of the island that you CAN climb. The majority of areas in solstheim(I can't even call them dungeons) and just small burial chambers with maybe a couple rooms and a few enemies. "dungeons" are long tunnels with a few branching paths. The area you think will be the final dungeon or something close to it, castle karstaag, is just more of those branching tunnels below and a few mostly empty rooms up top. I don't think there's a single lock in the whole expansion with a difficulty higher than 75 and most are at 50 which is strange considering the recommended level for the final areas is 40, at least according to the wiki anyway. It figures that todd must have told the designers to make sure that players can do everything in one run of the expansion. They probably weren't thinking about adding any replayability. I do have to say though, I did like the main quest for the most part and I liked the raven rock quests as well except for the one where they tell you to fuck off and go across the island to figure out what stahlrim is. That really killed the flow of those quests. I ended up forgetting about raven rock for quite a while after that and I would have preferred I didn't. The side quests were a mixed bag. I liked the curveball they throw at you with the falmer research quest and I also thought the sovngarde quest started well but then completely fell flat on its face in the end. Same with the uncle sweetshare quest. Him actually giving up the act because you ask him seems out of character for someone that far gone. Some of the enchanted items you get are pretty good like the robe that fortifies your magic and cunjuration but lowers your personality by 100 and causes the sun to damage you. The white walker robe though is kind of dumb and basically just tarhiel tier shenanigans. Overall I'd say it's maybe a 6.5 or 7 out of ten. Now I just have to finish tribunal which I started and then quit when I had lost some save progress. People say that it's the worse one so I guess that will be interesting. I'm looking forward to hearing guards say "Mournhold, city of light! City of magic!" for 25 hours.

/CRT/ general This thread is for the spirited discussion of CRT displays - Televisions, monitors and projectors used for the playing of retro games!

Where can I download DOS rom sets? Myabandonware has purged several games, dropping from 5565 to 4530. I'm hoping to be able to get all 5565 games in one set. Archive.org has a few sets, but torrent sites seem to be the best option. The problem is they are shutting down, and the remaining ones have lousy search functions.

this is my favorite retro game it came out two years before i was born

What's your favorite Bomberman game? Also definitely check out Power Bomberman, a massive Bomberman fangame with hundreds of characters and an active online community.

So /vr/, what's your favorite retrocomputer? I'm fond of the MSX and Amiga.. Both have some great games (especially the Amiga, check out Turrican). What's your favorite

First, therefore benis.

Anybody like this game?

I started playing Koudelka recently. I'm only on the first disc but I feel like I've already fallen in love with it. I think a big part of the reason I'm enjoying it so much is that I decided to only play it at night. I turn off all the lights in my room and just lose myself in the world of the game. It surprised me how scary the game became when I did this despite it being a turn-based RPG. I keep startling myself when I think I see something suddenly moving on the screen, and whenever I hear a spooky noise I can't tell if it's coming from the game or the forest outside my window. What games do you like to play at night? And if you've played it, what are your thoughts on Koudelka?

No, I'm not going to track down a bunch of obsolete hardware at enormous cost to play Mother.

It's clear at this point as the years go by systems like the ps3, Xbox 360, and the Wii would be considered retro systems at this point but other disagree. What are your opinions on this because as unusual as it feels to some I feel that it's apt for the seventh console generation to be considered retro. Pic unrelated.

I beat silent hill for the first time last night. While I did enjoy a decent amount, I got the worst ending which left a bad taste in my mouth. I looked up what I did wrong and apparently there's a sidequest you can just easily miss. Same with saving cybil. I had the plastic bottle but I didn't find the spot to fill it. Oh well, that's how it is with these types of games I guess. I plan on playing silent hill 2 at some point but maybe I'll look up before hand what things I need to do to the good ending if I play it since I don't have time to replay games these days. I really liked the town though. At first I was pretty intrigued at the idea of a horror game where you have a whole town to run around in but I quickly saw that it's actually quite linear. Still, I liked its design and I imagine a lot of kids tried every single door to see if you could enter them.