Video Games Thread

[Warlord]

(06-24-2019 09:43 PM)ViperSniper Wrote:  Fitz hooked me up with a Raspberry Pi a couple of years back & is still getting a workout. Sure there will be times I will game less than other times but couldn't see me ever getting over it as there is just farr too many games to ever get over!

I was gaming over the weekend..I've gotten right back into Street Fighter II: The New Challengers!! Such a classic game that still holds up! My fighter was always Guile & never realized how wrongly I was using him growing up..it's embarrassing how misused he was as I was alll about specials & heavy kicks & punches & hardly ever the medium or low attacks! Never did combos either.

So now I've been learning all over again how to use my fav childhood character! Lol

I would use Guile as a long distance counter fighter..but now use him more as an aggressive come forward pressure fighter..who can also be a counter fighter if need be

Wish I could test my skills on any former Street Fighter gamers!!


Several other games I've picked up and still chipping away at are..
Legend of Zelda on nes

Castlevania 1 on nes

Mike Tyson's Punch Out (STILL have not clocked this and currently upto Sandman)


Sonic 3 on Sega

Comix Zone (never seen this until thr past year) and is a fucking crazy intersting game about a comic book writer that gets sucked into his own comic book world he has created and has to fight his way back to reality. It's not just your typical side scrolling game but also going up and down levels (pages). The layout on screen is comic book pages so you will jump into the next box (scene) of the page!

Earthworm Jim on Sega

Super Mario All Stars on snes. (Never owned a snes but decided to play all 3 orignal NES versions which had been redone & updated with finer graphics. Exact same stages and layout to the original but with a new look. Currently on Mario 1 still..can't wait to play 2 & 3 next!!

Ironically, they just announced the Raspberry Pi 4 yesterday. I picked up the 4GB version that is supposed to ship on August 1st. Looking at its specs, I fully expect it to be able to now emulate N64, which is all I thought was really missing from my set up.

I want a system to archive every cartridge game ever released in North America and Europe, and at last with the Pi 4 I will have it. I reckon I will turn my Pi 3 into a "dream box", which means you can basically turn it into a router to connect your Sega Dreamcast to the internet. (A lot of the Dreamcast's online library is now supported by the fan community.)

Consoles that play CD roms can all either play burned games straight out of the box, or can be made to play them through software/hardware mods.

As it stands I have a Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, Playstation 1, Playstation 2, and Nintendo Wii that can all play burned games. (The Wii also plays Gamecube games, which is why I haven't included it here.) The only ones that required a hard mod were the Playstation consoles.

Yes, I could emulate every one of those systems on a PC, but I prefer playing games on original hardware. Some games (light gun games) can't even be played on modern TVs. They have to be played on old CRT TVs. So there's that to consider too.

Anyway, exciting times we live in. Who could have ever imagined you'd be able to create a piece of hardware capable of storing and playing every cartridge game ever released? Unreal.