I think it's awesome that people are still making vidya for old consoles. any of you guys played any new retro games, or even tried making your own?

>>11830013 (OP)
Too bad most of those Aftermarket games suck ass.

NES being the most cursed of them all with NESMaker

>>11830013 (OP)
the most recent one i tried was the mcdonald's gameboy color game out of curiosity

>>11830026
The more obscure the platform, the higher chance of quality homebrews. Microcomputers, despite ironically having a much lower needed skill to produce playable garbage, usually have really good stuff compared to new console games.

>>11830013 (OP)
I liked 1942 for the Atari 7800.

I thought Xeno Crisis was fun. But honestly I find it more fun to play with a modern controller. I get what they are doing with the Genesis layout, but due to the buttons being different sizes, it doesn't feel right and I never got the hang of it.

Rugrats and Garbage Pail Kids are pretty good

>>11830013 (OP)
>any of you guys played any new retro games
Several, actually backed a few on Kickstarter, also purchased some on Steam that come with the ROM. NES and Genesis are by far the two most popular platforms for this, but a lot of the NES games can be terrible, there is quite a bit of good homebrew for Genesis though. You would think SNES would be super popular for homebrew but not so much, I think even Dreamcast gets more homebrew attention than SNES, N64 is also pretty uncommon. Though there was a N64 homebrew Game Jam last year.

>>11830026
Why? Is it like RPG maker that too many make subpar games?

>>11830013 (OP)

Genesis stuff always intrigues me. ZDF is out there, it's a nicelooking game that plays like if Lords of Thunder had more bullets to dodge. It just doesn't know what it's doing with the cash shop (buy upgrades, lives, hints, OR trade in your cash for score, score does not equal extends) or any ship type that isn't the Knight (enemies with very specific weak points will just eat wider shot types). Melee seems to offer no more score/money, unless there's some melee only bonus. I'll play more of it.

Life on Earth is almost close to being good, but has a real mean streak in the level design. Also infinitely spawning enemies. It really wishes it could hit the highs of Shinobi/Rolling Thunder but there's enough there to...kind of like? Kai Magazine games are all like this, stolen assets, uneven difficulty, but very 'ok, I guess'. There's a 'fixed' version out there for emulators.

The Cursed Legacy really tries. It's an Alien Soldier-like with an amateurish quality to its sprites, but ideas through the roof. After beating an impressive looking (though clearly prerendered) boss you steal a mecha, and the game becomes a perfectly servicable Metroid-like with upgrades, a decent sized map, and sections to stop off at on foot which are more run and gun stages. Again, uneven difficulty, but really quite enjoyable, especially since the dev's The Cursed Knight was just a straight Mega Man X clone.

P45 II (The Freedom Star) plays well, looks good, sounds nice enough, it's just insanely easy and I 1cced normal my first go, you will too. Might try Hard sometime. Not much to say other than an okay shmup that was too 'okay' to be released.

>>11830013 (OP)
Since I couldn't get any modern systems, I am grateful there are still talented people making games for the systems I do have. I have been enjoying Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes which bridges Trigger to Cross. I remember making a guess a random number between 1 to 100 in Basic long ago, but I don't know how to start porting it to the console architectures.

>>11830013 (OP)
Retro Games only makes sense for SNES, GBA and Genesis. Maybe NES because of the big fandom. But the NES is rather limited.
Everything else isnt really worht.
I looked into how SNES coding works. I would like to do some SNES games, but thats a rather complicate than just doing some browser or normal code games.

>>11833050
>Since I couldn't get any modern systems
How are you able to afford literally several thousands in all this retro shit and not able to get modern systems? You have a copy of a Switch game in that photo!

>>11833050
>Since I couldn't get any modern systems
>Has Paprium and multiple sealed copy of Pier Solar
How are you able to afford literally several thousands in all this retro shit and not able to get modern systems? One of the games in that photo is even a port of a game to Switch, and the original game itself isn't even retro.

>>11833050
Whats up with the Scott Pilgrim game? That doesnt look like retro to me. At least thatnthis is a relaunch for the Switch.

>>11835450
>That doesnt look like retro to me.
It's not, it originally launched on the 360 and PS3. Even the game itself doesn't LOOK retro, other than it using pixel graphics they are far too well animated for any common home system from the 80s or 90s to have been able to pull off.

No idea why it was included in that photo. At least the other games in that photo, Pier Solar, Xenocrisis, Star Fox 2, Paprium, and what appears to be a Chrono Trigger Romhack are all either homebrew games that run on retro consoles or actual retro games, but no version of Scott Pilgrim belongs in a photo of retro games there unless someone re-made it to run on the Genesis or SNES or something.

>>11835472
Ok. Maybe it was placed to anger /vr/ as bait.

>>11834426
I scrounged up whatever I could back then. Takes months to save up, but I got the required amount of gems needed to get those. They aren't the initial releases and limited editions are too far out of reach, so I have to settle for what was feasible. I do hope to get a Switch one day, since there are so many games to my liking on it.

>>11835450
I like the Anamanaguchi soundtrack. They have a very NES like sound which appeals to me. The game's soundtrack was my first record I ever bought, and I hope to get a record player one day to enjoy the music, but for now I'll just enjoy the music through the game.

>>11835450
>>11835472
just report the attention whore for off-topic, the guy's a dipshit.

>>11836926
I dont care for the poster. I was just wondering because the pic looked valid for /vr/ minus Scott Pilgrim.