Emulation central - recommendations in 1st post

[Vorark]

Seeing this thread gives me hope that you guys aren't all GBAtemp about piracy.

I swwear they had ROMs there before. of yet another webpage.

They had. In the old days of yore, GBATemp would even dump and release games themselves.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

They had. In the old days of yore, GBATemp would even dump and release games themselves.

Yup. They were part of the GBA "Scene". Now they ban over so much as mentioning emulation or piracy. Place has really turned nutty.

 

[lightbane]

Did they change to become that after the Big N sued them, or did they cuck themselves for no apparent reason?

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Did they change to become that after the Big N sued them, or did they cuck themselves for no apparent reason?

From what I understand (not a firsthand witness), it was in response to a round of legal action against a bunch of other sites. GBAtemp flipped out, and that was that. This should not be confused with the "ROMpocalypse" that happened this summer; the event in question was several years ago.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Panzer Dragoon Orta is fully playable in the latest dev build of CXbx-Reloaded. I love this game, still have my original Xbox disc stored away somewhere.

It's very impressive how far this emulator has come this year. The game runs just fine at full speed (native resolution, 640x480) on my very modest i5 3570k (4.4ghz), but there are some audio glitches (sometimes music doesn't loop and sound samples get repeated). Nothing major.

The only problem I have right now is that the game runs at 4:3 and running the emulator at fullscreen stretches the image (forcing aspect-correct scaling at the driver level doesn't work). I am downloading the official Microsoft dashboard to install it within the emulator and see if I can set a 16:9 from the Xbox system settings. Right now I'm running it windowed.

edit: I installed the original dash and it worked fine, however there's an easier method: just go to settings -> eeprom and you can set resolutions from there.

This is great news. I am looking forward to replaying this game as well as Otogi and Ninja Gaiden Black. There were some cool games on that console.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Pretty sure the original Panzer Dragoons are 100% playable on mednafen-Saturn as well. So, soon you could play the entire series!

 

[Great Deceiver]

Yes, I posted some screens of Panzer Zwei running on Beetle Saturn a few pages back.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...ations-in-1st-post.86871/page-92#post-5863680

Orta is by far the best game in the series, though, perhaps tied with Saga.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

What are the xbox exclusives worth to be played?

 

[sullynathan]

What are the xbox exclusives worth to be played?

Ninja Gaiden Blacc

 

[Siveon]

What are the xbox exclusives worth to be played?

Fusion Frenzy was really fun back in the day. I know there's Kingdom Under Fire games, Otogi as well. If the emulation scene got really impressive we could get that SMT Japan only game as well.

 

[mck]

Breakdown, Splinter Cell Double Agent, Conker remake, Tony Hawk 2x

 

[Don Peste]

What are the xbox exclusives worth to be played?

Breakdown, Brute Force, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Conker, Dino Crisis 3, Dinotopia, Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes, Galleon, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Hunter: The Reckoning - Redeemer, Kingdom Under Fire, Kung Fu Chaos, Otogi, Phantasy Star Online, Raze's Hell, Shenmue II, Star Wars: Obi-Wan, ToeJam & Earl III, Voodoo Vince, Whacked.
Edit: Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360

Bonus

Metal Wolf Chaos is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by FromSoftware, released for the Xbox in Japan on December 22, 2004.

The game revolves around a fictitious President of the United States named Michael Wilson. Using a suit of powered armor named Metal Wolf, he battles forces who have taken over his country in a coup d'état, including his nemesis, Vice President Richard Hawk.

Although released exclusively in Japan, Metal Wolf Chaos has full English voice acting.

This one has rats.


Plain silly.


For the 360 I can add: Halo 3: ODST, The Outfit, Saints Row I, Doritos Crash Course.

 

[Siveon]

FYI Phantasy Star Online, Voodoo Vince, Shenmue and eventually Metal Wolf Chaos are on PC.

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

Who here has experience with second gen. systems? I can't for the life of me figure out if Intellivision or Atari 7800 are emulated well enough to be worth my time....

 

[spekkio]

I've removed games available on PC and trimmed my Xbox "collection" to this:

Checking the /V/ list is really depressing. A few exclusives, a lot of multiplatform games, but how many of them can be really called great?

Beyond Good & Evil was decent, but not the best Zelda clone.

Riddick was one of the first popular consolefagged FPSes. Eeeh.

DOA? Boobs are always nice, but it's not that the genre evolved that much since the SF2 era, is it?

Doom 3.

Morrowind? Hiking simulator genre emerges. Wheee!

Fable. AWESOME design gimmicks. Can we get the gameplay back?

Halo. Got the casuals into the FPS genre. #nukeitfromorbit

Indigo Prophecy: Press X to pay respects.

Ninja Gaiden: supposedly great (haven't played yet), but isn't it the series with each next game being worse than the predecessor?

Oddworld: Loved first two Abes, but going 3D turned out to be a difficult task for devs... See also: Castlevania.

Splinter Cell: see Ninja Gaiden, 1st game was probably the best.

Kotors: Last good Biowhore / Obsidian / Star Wars games. And were they really that great?

Thief 3: inferior to first two games in every possible way. The Age of Decline is upon us!

tl;dr

A really depressing platform, marking the end of the Golden Age...

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Now let me go back to modding the hell out of Archimedean Dynasty. I mean - fuck me! Game was made in 1996 and it hasn't been surpassed by any other game from the genre in almost 20 years. Plus the genre of X-Wing / Wing Commander "arcade-ish sims" is p. much dead.

#releasethekraken

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

I've removed games available on PC and trimmed my Xbox "collection" to this:

Checking the /V/ list is really depressing. A few exclusives, a lot of multiplatform games, but how many of them can be really called great?

Beyond Good & Evil was decent, but not the best Zelda clone.

Riddick was one of the first popular consolefagged FPSes. Eeeh.

DOA? Boobs are always nice, but it's not that the genre evolved that much since the SF2 era, is it?

Doom 3.

Morrowind? Hiking simulator genre emerges. Wheee!

Fable. AWESOME design gimmicks. Can we get the gameplay back?

Halo. Got the casuals into the FPS genre. #nukeitfromorbit

Indigo Prophecy: Press X to pay respects.

Ninja Gaiden: supposedly great (haven't played yet), but isn't it the series with each next game being worse than the predecessor?

Oddworld: Loved first two Abes, but going 3D turned out to be a difficult task for devs... See also: Castlevania.

Splinter Cell: see Ninja Gaiden, 1st game was probably the best.

Kotors: Last good Biowhore / Obsidian / Star Wars games. And were they really that great?

Thief 3: inferior to first two games in every possible way. The Age of Decline is upon us!

tl;dr

A really depressing platform, marking the end of the Golden Age...

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.
.

Now let me go back to modding the hell out of Archimedean Dynasty. I mean - fuck me! Game was made in 1996 and it hasn't been surpassed by any other game from the genre in almost 20 years. Plus the genre of X-Wing / Wing Commander "arcade-ish sims" is p. much dead.

#releasethekraken

This is entirely expected considering the history and design architecture of the console. The only major Japanese support that thing got was from Sega, right?

 

[sullynathan]

Splinter Cell: see Ninja Gaiden, 1st game was probably the best.

this is completely wrong, but ultimately doesn't matter since all the SC games are on PC

 

[glass blackbird]

Splinter Cell 3 is the best one, everyone knows that. Not much reason to emulate when it's got a really good PC version, though...

 

[spekkio]

Oh. I've only played 1 & 2 so far, and 2 was decline. Good to know that 3 is worth playing.

Depression decreased by 1%.

 

[Great Deceiver]

A really depressing platform, marking the end of the Golden Age...

Definitely play Panzer Dragoon Orta. I think it's the best game on the system (tied with Ninja Gaiden Black). Some of the other Sega 'exclusives' are pretty good too, but I don't know if they've aged well (Gunvalkyrie comes to mind, JSRF was decline compared to the first JSR).

I remember that my Xbox was mainly used as a media and emulator box before such things became trivial (this was back in 2003 or 2004), XBMC (which later morphed into Kodi) was a great piece of software. It was a great homebrew machine (due to the x86 architecture) and the first time I installed a modchip myself.

However, despite these good memories, I hate the console for bringing about the true age of decline. I think a lot of what is wrong with videogames today stemmed from it - railroaded, health-regenerating FPS, recent formulaic Bioshit, sub-30fps being considered acceptable (a lot of PS2 titles, especially early ones, ran at 60fps), etc.

 

[lightbane]

Good to know that 3 is worth playing.

Not regular 3 though, but the "updated re-release" it got later. IIRC the original third entry has bad gameplay, too much story-faggotry and fucking Ryu Hayabusa whinning about killing way too many people. It was the same kind of rape Samus went through Metroid Other M.

 

[sullynathan]

Good to know that 3 is worth playing.

Not regular 3 though, but the "updated re-release" it got later. IIRC the original third entry has bad gameplay, too much story-faggotry and fucking Ryu Hayabusa whinning about killing way too many people. It was the same kind of rape Samus went through Metroid Other M.

Splinter cell 3 not shitty ninja gaiden 3

 

[Taxnomore]

Splinter Cell Double Agent for old-gen consoles is superior to the PC version. I have played them both ; they are entirely, entirely different games.

 

[spekkio]

Good to know that 3 is worth playing.

Not regular 3 though, but the "updated re-release" it got later. IIRC the original third entry has bad gameplay, too much story-faggotry and fucking Ryu Hayabusa whinning about killing way too many people. It was the same kind of rape Samus went through Metroid Other M.

Splinter cell 3 not shitty ninja gaiden 3

Well, I was a little bit surprised with lightbane's post. "Since when Ryu Hayabusa is in Splinter Cell 3? Maybe I really need to check this one out?"

 

[glass blackbird]

Splinter Cell was a much bigger hit than Ubisoft anticipated, so they got some B-team to make a sequel in the same engine while the original people worked on Chaos Theory. So that's why Pandora Tomorrow sucks, yeah.

Double Agent was split between the teams; the original devs got the PS2/XBOX version which is pretty solid. But for some reason, the Pandora Tomorrow team got to make the 360/PC version which sucks ass, and Splinter Cell has sucked ever since.