Thread 12105602

What are your favourite old school coin eaters?

Alien Vs. Predator is probably one of the best looking sprite based beat em ups I've ever played. I've also recently discovered Night Slashers (webm related) and it's a lot of fun. Also looking for recommendations for fun 2 player (or more) arcade games.

>>12105602 (OP)
I like Undercover Cops (Alpha Renewal version). I've always been a fan of Irem's gritty spritework and this game has it in spades.

>>12105718
Holy shit, those are some nice animations. Will check this one out!

>>12105737
Make sure you play either the japanese or Renewal version. The international version was gimped behond recognition. You can read more about the changes here if you're interested:
https://tcrf.net/Undercover_Cops_(Arcade)

>>12105602 (OP)
Metal Slug 1+2+X

What the FUCK was their problem?

I love pic related. Need to try 88 as well to see if it's any good.
>>12105751
That's a lot of changes. Why did they fuck it like that, I wonder?

Edward Randy : The Cliffhanger
Indiana Jones with the serial numbers filed off in a beat-em-up that takes place on boats, planes, and anywhere else the devs thought would make for exciting locations. Very impressive graphically.

Dark Adventure
Gauntlet with the Gradius upgrade system, and it has an ending after you beat all 40 levels. Once you git gud, you can tackle the non-North American versions which have 19 levels and multiple endings but are far less lenient about quarter feeding.

Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters
Isometric run'n'gun with a z-axis, ducking and cover, and just about everything can be destroyed. Fast paced and brutal action.

Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Platformer with RPG elements, you collect gold you can use to buy better armor(take less damage), better shoes(move faster), etc, and they last until game over. Can be beaten, but the final level is designed to end runs with bullshit.

>>12105602 (OP)
my favorite beat em up is Cadillacs but everybody's played that one. check out Guardians/Denjin Makai 2 and Zero Team for some good less known stuff.

>>12105718
>>12105737
same guys who later did pixel art for Metal Slug. the Gunforce games and In the Hunt look great too.

>>12105986
>Guardians/Denjin Makai 2
I second this one, it's up there with the best of the genre.

>>12105602 (OP)
>Alien Vs. Predator is probably one of the best looking sprite based beat em ups I've ever played.
When it comes to visuals, check out Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon and Violent Storm, both play great as well.

>>12105968
>Wonder Boy in Monster Land
I dont know if there is a proper way to play it in not fucked english on mame. If not, dont feel bad about save stating the sphinx quiz as long as you take the time to figure out the intended method of answering correctly. Its supposed to be trivial if you know the trick.

>>12105602 (OP)
Some good beat'em ups are Armored Warriors, Rastan Saga (need a version of MAME with widescreen), and both Denjin Makai games.

>>12106034
>Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon
I saw someone describe this as a high budget beat em up made by people who've never played a beat em up before and it's spot on imo.

Always been a fan of the Willow arcade game. I remember playing it every time I went to the movies when I was a kid.

>>12105602 (OP)
>looking for recommendations for fun 2 player (or more) arcade games
Here's some that weren't already mentioned and I assume you already tried most of the Capcom stuff.

Armed Police Batrider
Blazing Star
Boogie Wings
Cyvern: The Dragon Weapons
Dangun Feveron
Dead Connection
Dragon Blaze
Dungeon Magic
Dyna Gear
Elevator Action Returns
Gaiapolis
Gekirindan
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer
Guardian Force
Gunlock
Mahou Daisakusen
Shippū Mahō Daisakusen Kingdom-Grandprix
Great Mahou Daisakusen
Macross Plus
Mars Matrix: Hyper Solid Shooting
Metamorphic Force
Musashi Ganryuki
Mystic Warriors
NAM-1975
Nightmare in the Dark
Ninja Commando
Nitro Ball
Prehistoric Isle
Prehistoric Isle 2
Progear no Arashi
Rapid Hero
Robo Army
Sengeki Striker
Sengoku Ace
Sengoku Blade: Sengoku Ace Episode II
Sengoku 3
Shadow Force
Shock Troopers
Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad
Skull Fang: Kuhga Gaiden
Terra Diver
Three Wonders
Thunder Dragon 2
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
Viper Phase 1
Warriors of Fate
Wild West C.O.W.-boys of Moo Mesa
Wolf Fang: Kuhga 2001
Zed Blade
ZuPaPa!

>>12106174
It's alright. Pretty much SoR2-lite with a worse soundtrack.

>>12106405
>Viper Phase 1
this is kind of a knock-off of the Raiden Fighters games but not as good imo. definitely play those first, each one's better than the last.

>Armed Police Batrider
>Dangun Feveron
>Dragon Blaze
>Great Mahou Daisakusen
>Mars Matrix
all of these are top tier shmups, Batrider is probably my favorite game from your list. Gunbird 2 also well worth checking out, the best Psikyo game imo, I'm surprised it didn't make the cut for you.

>>12105602 (OP)
Night slashes looks fun from the outside,
but you play it and it's quite stiff. So it's good to play it once.

>>12106436
Agreed but figured Raiden's pretty well-known, similarly with Aero Fighters and a few others. Gunbird 1 & 2 I accidentally deleted while shortening that list, lol.

>>12106490
Osman has the most insane/random plot developments in any game, seriously WTF is even going on in there?

I love /our/ list

For me it's Twinkle Star Sprites.
Surprisingly very well designed VS shmup despite ADK barely doing anything of note of the same genre.

>>12106510
Its all a mindfuck from the last boss, Slaver, which may or may not be a woman, man, human, thing, ?

>>12105602 (OP)
AvP arcade was supoosed to get a port to 32x but it was mever released

Bump

What's the most complete Zero Team version to play? 2000? There are bunch of them.

>>12105602 (OP)
great webm

>>12106174
this take is dumb asf since it plays very much like FF. it's a great game.

>>12106436
>I'm surprised it didn't make the cut for you.
he's some poser who never played those game past the title screen

>>12105602 (OP)
Right now I'm playing Altered Beast and Crossed Swords.

>>12108158
I also have no idea which is which and the level order is all different. But anyway, also recommend playing this game and picking the girl to see her ass on her sprite.

Lots of good stuff to check out in this thread. Not sure if I've just missed them, but feels like I haven't seen an arcade thread in /vr/ for a while. Rastan Saga been mentioned a few times already, but I've only tried the third one, Warrior Blade (webm related). Love the widescreen on this game, looks amazing.

>>12106034
Too bad that we can't see up their skirt nor butt.

>>12109174
>can't see up their skirt nor butt
you want to see up their butts? upskirt I get, but changing the camera angle so it shows a view into their assholes seems tricky to pull off on multiple levels.

>>12109174
I'm seeing it on the top right screenshot there

>>12105602 (OP)
For games that works on both FBNeo and MAME which one do you prefer to use?

>>12109490
FBN. Mame is such an antiquated joke and it refusing to load games because you don't have a matching rom set.

>>12109221
Which one?

>>12109832
the one that post was replying to
>>12106034

>>12109840
I think he meant if it's upskirt or butt.

>>12109490
FBNeo generally runs better and has better RetroArch integration, supporting runahead and letting you flip dipswitches from the Core Options menu. It's also notably better for rotary games like Forgotten Worlds and Eco Fighters if all you have is a gamepad, turning them into pseudo-twin stick shooters by translating right stick directional input into the rotary axis. For vector graphics games though, MAME 2003 has way better rendering and antialiasing, at least for the RA cores.

>>12109174
Pretty sure you can see Sailor Mercury upskirt while she throws an enemy.

I like Rampart

>>12108998
Nice picks. I'm a fan of Congo Bongo and Tapper myself.

>>12108998
>Crossed Swords
Shit, that just reminded me I saved this webm for future reference cause I thought it looked very cool and wanted to play it.
>webm saved 2nd June 2021
better late than never

>>12106519
Tried Blood Bros recently and holy hell, can't remember the last time I chuckled that much during a game and that victory animation actually made me laugh out loud.

>>12113973
make sure to play Cabal too

>>12113521
I'm surprised how interesting Altered Beast is to play, mechanically. There's some action platforming stuff going on that I like, although one annoying thing is that the dragon's attavcks in level 2 are ungodly loud. Not sure if it's an emulation issue.
>>12113959
All you have to do is learn each enemy's pattern for blocking low or high, it's fast paced though.

Tank Force is great

>>12114848
ok

>>12114848
I actually already did back in the days...
...on the fucking C64, hence why I wasn't familiar with the silly victory animation which was absent from that version and your guy would simply walk off the screen.

for me, it's Logic Pro. This is a solid 2-player co-op game if you like to get your think on

I finally set up es-de nicely and now I'm very happy
no more having to deal with bullshit romset names
well organized metadata and videos are nice
https://archive.org/details/fbneo_1003_bestset
https://es-de.org/

>>12114975
No sound EQ?

>>12114975
>All you have to do is
tsk tsk, don't be such a spoilsport, anon.

>>12105602 (OP)
Not sprite based but I remember enjoying Dynamite Cop.

>>12120078
3D stuff welcome as well, doesn't have to be 2D or sprite based. I want to grab a few Sega Model 2 + 3 games, cause there's just something about those graphics that can't be beaten. Sega colours are something else. I love the way the assets look, like buildings and other environment stuff, there's something so damn comfy about them that I can't really articulate properly. Like in webm related, I love the look of all the household objects.

I just wanted to post this ass I found. Didn't know where else to put it.

>>12105602 (OP)
Rastan

>>12105602 (OP)
Spikeout
>>12121171
I agree. There really is something about those graphics that is pleasing to the eyes.

has anyone got this shit working on a PS3? I want to play 90's beat 'em ups on my CRT TV, but the only standalone mame that's been ported to PS3 is MAME v0.142, and I can't find a MAME v0.142 romset anywhere. I guess i'll have to install retroarch and use the MAME 2003 core.

>>12105602 (OP)
You already know

>>12122487
Yep, approved by /ourguy/ Mark of The Electric Underground
I also never heard of this before his video

>>12122674
>metal slug "fans" just credit feed and look at the epic chungus pixel art

>>12105602 (OP)
Ooh is this a horror beat-em-up? I am so playing this tomorrow night.

I just can't get this bitch to boot. Anyone got a complete file with all the gay fucking BIOs required to run it?

>>12123131
Get Flycast, then just drop the rars for naomi, naomi2, naomigd, and awbios into the data folder and bam

You got a dreamcast that can now play all Naomi and Atomis Wave arcade games.

>>12123192
Using retroarch so I can play it on Steam Deck, but I'm unforgivably retarded and dropped the bios a layer above where they were supposed to be in the system folder.
>You got a dreamcast that can now play all Naomi and Atomis Wave arcade games.
Watching through this today to see what's good: https://youtu.be/ninJrlbJSC8

>>12123192
Nice. You're a good man.

>>12116981
So, it's Picross coop?

I don't know if everyone is aware but you can play Naomi, Dreamcast and Atomiswave on Fightcade now.

>>12122508
>the only standalone mame that's been ported to PS3 is MAME v0.142, and I can't find a MAME v0.142 romset anywhere
You can create any version of the MAME romset you want. You just need the rollback roms they keep for people who need an older romset.

https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/mame/
1. Download MAME 0.142 for your computer, download the rom manager of your choice(romcenter works well for me but you do you)
2. Get games you want from the current romset through the pleasuredome torrents, get rollback romset from pleasuredome torrents.
3. Point rom manager at MAME 0.142's .exe, let it build a database from that .exe.
4. Point rom manager at both downloaded current roms and the rollback roms.
5. Tell it to fix all. If all goes well, you should be left with a MAME 0.142 compatible romset.

>>12105718
Was this the one that had the nazi cyborg from World Heroes as the penultimate boss?

Finally a good thread

>>12105602 (OP)
The Punisher
Cleopatra's Fortune
The New Zealand Story

>>12124237
wow, thanks, anon. i'm going to give this a shot tonight or tomorrow.

>>12124273
Glad to help. You can create a MAME romset for everything back to the original 0.01 with the rollback romset, if you ever wanted to see how bad it was at the start.

If you are trusting of random websites, I see a pre-made .pkg of MAME for PS3 with 2000 games pre-loaded on something called damnedmodders dot com, but I've never heard of them before so I can't vouch for them.

>>12123598
Yeah and the girl is pure sex.

How the fuck do you clear stage 5 in Circus Charlie? I can't work up any momentum on these damn ropes!

To many count, but if had to name some.
>King of Dragons
>Knights of the Round
>Gi Joe
>The Punisher
>Neo Turf Masters
>Undercover Cops
>Crossed Swords
Was also introduced to this hilarious game called Riding Fight, but the emulation is fucked and the audio is awful.

>>12105602 (OP)
Battletkads arcade will always hold a special place in my heart. Sad to see how much eas cut from it.

>>12122508
The PS3 can't output 240p.

>>12123023
A lot of them do, yes, but not me. I'm the real deal, playa.

>>12105602 (OP)
Hey whats the name of that beat em up were your a cop and your fighting a cult even thou the regular enemies are just mundane dudes the boss fights would get all supernatural?

>>12125658
One of the Sengoku games maybe?

>>12125658
or possibly The Peace Keepers

>>12105602 (OP)
This one I think. Was even more fun when I've played it in arcades with other people.

>>12126138
This game sucks, which is a shame considering how good the first one is.

>>12126138
It's good but the first one is better.

>>12125850
>>12125852
No it wasnt those. It had a pretty mundane name I think and I remember the last boss road a dragon that shot eye lasers at you. The end credits were his grave and they built up lioe he was going to come back to life only for a gopher or something to pop oit of the ground as a joke.

>>12126138
damn that bitch is hot