Thread 12006531

What vidya sources do you use?

Original games and manuals

>>12006531 (OP)
Scans of EGM;et al from the 90s.
I like to pretend that it really is 1989 or 1990 and play no games that fall outside the eras.

lemon64 & lemonamiga.com and segaretro.org

>>12006531 (OP)
Not Hardcore Marxism 101, that's for sure.

>>12006531 (OP)
Not that one anymore

>>12006554
>>12006556
what did i miss?

>>12006531 (OP)
I get all my information from deranged schizo trannies on /vr/

>>12006531 (OP)
Playing games myself.

>>12006565
2016 election happened, people went fucking insane, including OP pic related.

>>12006531 (OP)
I just make things up

>>12006570
A lot of liquid helium takes here but honestly you could do worse. I think the restriction to retro keeps it from being completely worthless (as is evident with /v/).

>>12006531 (OP)
GayFags guides
>>12006565
they tried to cancel one of the best fan translators out there because he accuarately translated the word ''tranny'' in a japanese game

>>12006583
>>12006604
Libs are a pox but its either them or its rightoids who I find nearly as detestable. So I guess I don't really care. Bottom line is if you're an individual thinker you can't win. Your only option is to get used to the world being a complete shitshow.

>>12006531 (OP)
>Using HG101 which is proven anathema for retro gaming
Thanks for supporting one of the parties responsible for the degradation of the romhacking scene by the way. Fuck off and die.

>>12006710
HG101 is too enshittified now to even suggest ironically, you might as well suggest some neocities with queer punk shit all over it at that rate.

>>12006805
Qrd? I can't find anything with a search engine.

>>12006805
maybe pay for your games instead?

>>12006859
Nta, but that's not an argument since romhacking implies it's a hacked ROM, not a pirated one.

>>12006863
yeah right

>>12006847
To be quick about it:
>2016 election happens
>Site owner and staff crash out
>Makes site shittier as a result
>Advertises ACLU on their site, only to ditch them when the ACLU defends conservatives as well
>Attacks fan translator and others for providing accurate fan translations instead of sanitized "For modern audience" ones
>Also edits older articles, like going from covering Valis franchise well to suddenly calling it "Otaku slop" (or so I've heard)
Literally went from a comfy gaming site to basically Resetera (with a little less anti-Japanese racism) overnight, and now you can't mention it on this board without everyone ranting about it.

>>12006869
Every single Ms. Pac-Man machine is a hack, anon.

>>12006878
I'm sure you never pirate games

Pre 2016 HG101 was excellent. The layout redesign alone ruined the site already, and then came the political cancer.

A site that I like is https://shmuplations.com/

>>12006870
Oh thank you. I recall a couple years or so back that some fools were trying to ruin romhacking, one of the more innocent and fun aspects of gaming. That was them? ha.

>>12006882
You're right I never wield a weapon while demanding physical property from anyone, much less on the sea.

>>12006886
no, just digital property

>>12006892
It's ok. I give Nintendo lots of money, second hand stores too. The stuff that magically makes it my way for free isn't for sale, so it's cool. Very cool in fact because I'm preserving game history and thus a bit of wholesome American culture that's hard to find these days.

even if it werent for the edgy pseudoleftism and trans chasing it does nowadays, hg101 was always just lame surface level analysis of genuinely interesting games that deserved better writeups, unless they were shitty obscure-for-a-reason rpgs ofc in which case hg101 would give those games the red carpet treatment. all in all it was garbage that was only tolerated because nobody else on the english-speaking internet would give those games any attention back in the 2000s, and the site struggles to justify its continued existence to this day

>>12006531 (OP)
original games, vintage magazines,
crash
https://www.crashonline.org.uk/
and crash next
https://fusionretrobooks.com/products/next-magazine-issue-1-2
occasionally surf game collector youtube

>>12006842
I won't donate to them but I'll probably still lurk the site (maybe use WayBack machine). There's a lot of content from a lot of different writers on the old version of the site.

worldofspectrum
https://worldofspectrum.org/
and spectrumcomputing.co.uk

>>12006902
So you admit it. Scumbag.

this is current day
https://fusionretrobooks.com/collections/crash-magazine
Vintage magazines
Sinclair user
personal computer weekly
computer and video games C&VG
The Big K
Crash
Your Computer
ACE (Advanced computer entertainment)

>>12006920
I didn't admit anything. In fact I've done the right thing.
-t. current NSO account holder;etc;etc

>>12006902
NIntendo is Japanese culture though. If you were preserving American culture it would be Apple, old PCs, Tandy, Texas Instruments Ti994A, Commodore. Anyway sorry of truth hurts. Nintendo is a milennial hipsetr fetish it seems that mainly states, no you were not there. By American friens had commodore 64s not nintendos as kids in the 80s.

>>12006936
>NIntendo is Japanese culture though.
That's not quite true anymore and you know it, but besides that, there's numerous non-Nintendo games, like my pic related in my previous post. I got the cart btw as well.
SEGA's Shinobi also usually springs to mind because Nintendo won't even sell the altered ROM in America.

>>12006934
in all seriousness, i cant believe you're still responding to me

>>12006949
I can't believe you haven't an hero'd. You sound like a barrel of laughs.

>>12006934
if I am understanding this right your some sort of paid sgill/advertiser for Nintendo and to me a literaly who on youtube? Correct? A kind of prositute so to say?

>>12006947
>>NIntendo is Japanese culture though.
>That's not quite true anymore

>>12006954
all wounds heal with time. you'll get over your butthurt some day

>>12006956
No, I'm saying that when I download a game it's either from Nintendo legally, or elsewhere magically.

>>12006956
>some sort of paid shill/advertiser for Nintendo
samefag sry typo.
>>12006947
I gues syou don;t like text adventures much then the quintessential early American game, you know...keyboards?

>>12006962
Whatever. Have you written many games since you are an expert above my pay grade on youtube?

>>12006959
Yes, fuckin' really. Example: The 1989 film "The Wizard" which more or less starred the NES and a preview of Super Mario Bros. 3, oh and some punk kids and some story. Actually a fairly good story for what the film was, but I digress from the fact that it's beloved by millions and it's embedded in American culture regardless of the Japanese origin of the video games.
And also, are you telling me that an arcade in America that was packed full of Japanese games were somehow un-American?

>>12006963
>I gues syou don;t like text adventures much
Correct. At that point, I'll read a book, or listen to Art Bell.

>>12006970
Yeah well it would since Nintendo paid them, Bit like you. Nice to know wheer the warped view of retro gaming comes from, yourbought butthole.

>>12006968
>you are an expert above my pay grade
That much is true. Good post, anon.

>>12006973
Well you can't you work for Nintendo and none of their shit had a keyboard Are you the one who spamms al the threads about Zelda that aound like they were written by someone on heavy medication?

>>12006975
You sound like a kid for real. You should leave. 18+ here.
Honestly, your logic is childish, your word-choice betrays a simplistic view of the conversation, and finally your choice to bash a retro-beloved film tells everyone else here what I already knew.

>>12006976
Yes being on youtube makes people experts. I've noticed that. If there was another youtube and were on that too you could be twice as expert I suppose..

>>12006978
>none of their shit had a keyboard
Wow you are underage. You should leave. Like I said 18+
They did have a keyboard for more than one system fyi.

>Are you the one who spamms al the threads about Zelda that aound like they were written by someone on heavy medication?

No, but I am quite sure that's you now that you mention it. lol

>>12006982
>tells everyone else here what I already knew.
That you sound like a faggot? Suprisingly enough, not clicking on that shit. Go hug a mario doll or whatever you do with them when you are alone (do nintendo pay you for that as well...maybe...maybe).

>>12006985
You sound obsessed with the underaged...Do you have a great interest in underaged people, it's rumoured to go with the community you are part of or do you stick with Mario dolls?

>>12006987
Click on what? God, your parents are bastards.
Leave.

>>12006992
bossy little turd as well clearly do you have special youtube powers then? Or does your pimp the mario doll?

>>12006547>>12006539
>>12006552

based

>>12006934
>-t. current NSO account holder;etc;etc

>>12006531 (OP)
https://w.atwiki.jp/gcmatome/

>>12006552
Bong/Euro detected

>>12006565
Even aside from politicals, HG101 is not a trustworthy source of information, with glaring errors like implication you can't play as Tails alone in Sonic 2. The site is a decent place to find games to play, but everything written there should be taken with a big grain of salt.

>>12006565
faggot leftist site

>>12006847
>>12006870
Don't forget the fact that most of the people that wormed their way onto RHDN's moderation team to plot against the website and sabotage it in secret came from Hardcore Gaming 101's discord. They weren't just fucking over fan translators, they were aiming to fuck over the single most prominent repository for romhacks in general.
And they succeeded.

Wikipedia is ok, would always double-check their dates though (fixed a shit ton of mistakes there, that's a +/-)

MobyGames would be GOATed if it weren't for their money-grubbing, still rely on them heavily

amiga.abime.net is a great database for everything Amiga

segaretro.org for Sega

/vr/ archives are amazing, this place used to be so damn good

For original documentation and old gone vidya sites: archive.org

Apart from that I love reading scans of old mags

lmao a whole thread of homos seething.

>>12007150
Man, you guys weren't kidding. I try to cut libs some slack but its pretty bad when they declare their departure to bluesky. Well, its at least nice to see these malignant types self-segregate from society.

>>12007120
>>12006904
I just use it as a means to find gems. I wouldn't argue that any of it is quality journalism.

>>12006904
They had some good articles with original research on old Korean games

>>12007284
What did you expect when op starts with the hg101 logo?

>>12006904
I'm sad no one really took up the mantle to just do HG101, but better and with out dumbass soap boxing shit, shit that comes close ends up being HG101 lite, political interjections included.
It really can't be that hard, if Niche Gamer was an answer to shitty modern game journalism, surely there can be an answer to the current state of HG101

>>12007283
Oh and I forgot my biggest source of all, the autists (or possible Chinese content farms) behind those 1,000 video gameplay documentation channels on YT.

Squakenet (pic related lol), World of Longplays, AL82, FirstPlays HD, zirkoni, petsasjim1 (very gemmy), etc.

In the end nothing describes a game as well as playing it, second to that is watching someone else play it.

>>12007341
Love squakenet, I remember it used to be a cool source for abandonware

>>12006531 (OP)
GameFAQs still, YouTube, Discord, and even Reddit for guides. I don't love the options for sites nowadays, but you go where you have to go to get info.

GameFAQs is still basically the same as it always was, which is cool. Just the boards are way slower.

>>12007358
I like him but I don't think he's read a manual in his life, he's just going to load up a game and start clicking random shit. He's a perfect example of the LCD user.

>>12006531 (OP)
i used hg101 a lot in 2010-2012, it was good place to find interesting older games and that's about it. them going full retard however does not shock me at all

>>12006883
This, it was all over with the shitty redesign. They offer a way to access the old site but the pages are all broken. Then it completely killed itself with the political bullshit.

>>12006883
Shmuplations is excellent, yeah

>>12007109
I'd include a Nintendo site but I've never found one that was anywhere near as good as lemonamiga or segaretro.

>>12006531 (OP)
>small circle of friends with similar taste
>natural curiosity
>those every game in a console library videos
>scrolling lists and searching interesting names
>looking up what developers have made on moby games

I like Fighters Generation for its writeups in obscure fighting games, as well as lesser discussed entries in classic franchises, plus cool sprite and artwork galleries.
The downside is that it's written by a single person, who is a hardcore competitive fag and likely autistic, so the reviews can occasionally suck and focus too much on balance and stuff, and be biased as hell. Like, who the fuck cares about character balance in obscure fighting games that you'll extremely likely never play against another human opponent, ever?
Also I've read him trash a game, then go back and edit his review later with EVO numbers to present himself as right. Like
>haha this game got just [insert low number of participants] at EVO! how embarrassing, it seems like i was right in my review all along, the game is trash *cheeky emoticon* (i'm serious, he does that)
which is just fucking cringeworthy and makes him out to be a manchild.

>>12006531 (OP)
Playing games.

>>12006531 (OP)
Vtubers

>>12006531 (OP)
>>12006554
>>12006565
>>12007120
>>12007286
Game journalist here.

The HG101 crew are known in "gaming media" circles as huge scumbags who most journalists know better than to work for (which is why you'll notice that they have to use the same few writers, most of whom are irl friends of the site admin, for everything). They regularly bounce checks, don't do research, are politically obsessed psychopaths, and will try to use "cancel culture" on anyone they dislike. Literally the worst people I've EVER interacted with. STRONGLY advise NOT using their site.

>>12007873
>Game journalist here
i STRONGLY advise you to find a real job

>>12007873
Man, imagine being so bad, even journos hate you

>>12007341
This is my favorite one of those. Some guy booted up Petit Copter to show it off and spent almost 20 minutes trying to get a single star in the very first room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh5u3GultDw

>>12008218
These are levels of cooked that shouldn't even be possible.

>>12007341
Classic Game Room served a similar function too. Each review was rushed because they were making them daily, but at least Mark actually played all those games and he had a lot of deep cuts in there too

>>12006805
>supporting
It’s 2025 and I have an ad blocker.

>>12006554
If it not an interview they're translating, the place is not anyone's worth of time.

>>12006870
lol they hate ACLU? They're megacentrist as fuck, they don't care if you're left or right, if it hurts the freedumbs, they'll drag your asses to court.

>>12006531 (OP)
I only use Mobygames and japanese blogs.

>>12008798
Centrism is fascism according to people now

Lunatic Obscurity is an odd game a week blog that usually goes actually obscure for its picks.

Gaming Hell has really well researched stuff about mostly arcade games. Updates rarely but cool when it does.

RPGBlog was a guy working his way through PCE/SuFami rpgs, but is now chrongaming SRPGs. He plays mostly what he wants lately.

SuperAdventuresInGaming is mostly Amiga/DOS stuff but loves its fmvjank and point and click stuff. Another one that rarely updates but is great when it does.

>>12008903
What japanese blogs?

>>12008553
>Classic Game Room
Mark's my favorite retro game reviewer. He didn't care about the technical aspects of the games, he just cared if they were fun or not, which is all that matters. It's a shame he only saw reviews as a business opportunity and not a passion thing but I admire his ability to be up front about it too.

>>12008495
That's fucking incredible.

>>12009664
in his defense it IS kind of a hard game to control, but it's not THAT bad.

>>12006904
>in which case hg101 would give those games the red carpet treatment
I have to point out that even their "red carpet treatment" is abysmal. The more obscure a game is, the more their articles seem decent, but that's because the game is obscure. If you know anything about the game, you'll soon realize what they're writing is, at best, surface-level fluff and, at worst, totally inaccurate garbage that then gets fed to Wikipedia and other normie sources. HG101 is a cancer no matter what.

>>12009634
Loved early CGR but it turned to shit at some point during the 2010s
The humor turned to just "dude Truxton and Vectrex lmao" all the time and it got old really fast, plus he started shilling his merch way too much