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On #SaturnDay here’s “Dynamite Deka”, better known as “Die Hard Arcade”. This is a 1997 port of #Sega’s 1996 Titan Video Arcade 3D beat-em-up, developed by Sega AM1 & published in-house. Sega did not have the Die Hard License in Japan, hence the different name.
#Retrogaming #Saturn

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We are not yet continuing with Wonderland, but some days ago I upgraded the black A500 to 1MB of chip RAM by way of mainboard swap. And a quick session on one of the later savegames didn‘t reveal any crashes. Even with lovely graphics enabled! So this bodes well.
#retrogaming #commodore #amiga500 #interactivefiction #magneticscrolls

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A group of fans are working on porting Super Mario Bros. to the PC. It seems pretty straightforward except it adds new sprites, an fps counter, and widescreen support. Hopefully they can complete the project before Nintendo’s lawyers come knocking on their door! :mario8bit:

Here’s a teaser trailer:

https://youtu.be/g7q51QZmeC0

#RetroGaming #Nintendo #MAR10 #Mario

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If you enjoy the retro era, this game is for you! Palas made an amazing tribute to Castlevanie with #pico8! Even though it tilte me like no game in a while, I really enjoyed playing through the oldschool madness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fshS8Zs1bYU

#retrogaming #platformer

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On #MasterSystemMonday here’s “Global Defense”, also known as “S.D.I.”. This is a 1987 port of #Sega’s System 16 arcade shoot-em-up from the same year, with conversion duties handled in-house by R&D 2. The game’s control system was severely limited by the #MasterSystem’s control pads.
#Retrogaming

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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Street Fighter II Dash Champion Edition”. This is a 1993 port of #Capcom’s incredibly famous 1992 1-on-1 fighting arcade game. Conversion duties were handled by #NEC Home Electronics Ltd. It’s a remarkably good port for the relatively humble #PCEngine.
#Retrogaming #HuCard

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On #SaturnDay here’s “Henry Explorers”. This bizarrely named game is better known as “Crypt Killer” & is a 1997 port of #Konami’s 1995 arcade lightgun game. This version is compatible with the #Saturn Lightgun, the Shuttle Mouse & the 3D Control Pad.
#Retrogaming #Sega

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Hey #VGMWednesday

Are you into metal and a mountain of pain? Last call. Get into the belly of the beast with my favorite tune from TNT: Evilution a commerical Doom 2 WAD.

Everytime this song comes around the game is saying GET READY. HERE COMES EVERYTHING I GOT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riFo0xd6jG8

#Doom #RetroGaming #DOSGaming

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On #WiiUWednesday here’s “Monster High: 13 Wishes”. This is a 2013 action adventure game developed by Game Machine Studios & published by Little Orbit. The game is based on a special from a TV cartoon show, itself based on a toy line.
#Retrogaming #Nintendo #WiiU

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#Turbografx16 users in the USA got the complete game on a single #HuCard. In Japan, the full game was eventually given an enhanced release on a SuperCD.
#Retrogaming #NEC #PCEngine

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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “R-Type I”. This is a 1988 port of #Irem’s 1987 horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up, converted & published by #HudsonSoft. Despite the name, this is only the first 4 levels of the game, with later levels released as “R-Type II”.
#Retrogaming #NEC #PCEngine #HuCard

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On #MasterSystemMonday here’s “Championship Hockey”. This is a 1995 ice hockey simulation game developed by Imagitec Design & published by US Gold. It’s a direct port of Electronic Arts EA Hockey for the #Sega #MegaDrive. It was released in Europe only.
#Retrogaming #MasterSystem

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🌸 there is a special place in jannah for the people that devote their time to translating these text heavy games like sakura wars, even though they'll never see a dime for it

:tomo_MimimiSalute: we are in your debt (but in terms of money we have no money)

#SakuraWars #Translation #RetroGaming

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The best Pac-Man clone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8gbqALgg8

#RetroGaming #MSX #Pac-Man

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As we are currently stuck due to technical difficulties with Wonderland, we switch to a different Magnetic Scrolls game: The Pawn.
It is a humorous, weird fantasy text adventure set in the mythical kingdom of Kerovnia.
#interactivefiction #magneticscrolls #retrogaming

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Alright, done a by-hand compile of Nuvie from the GitHub version, because it's easier to use the modern style open world map view in this one.

However, the instructions on GitHub don't seem to be right, so here you go. This is on Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS running on aarch64 hardware, but the same should work on any standard Linux install. You'll might need to install cmake and whatever your distro's build-essentials package is.

You'll need SDL2 and its libraries installed for this.

git clone https://github.com/nuvie/nuvie.git
cd nuvie
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make

You can optionally make install after this, but I just ran it from the build path.

your .nuvierc config file is made at the root of your home directory

To make it live in large window on a 1920x1080 display (alt+enter for fullscreen), and force it into New mode, which replaces the parchment viewports with an Ultima 7 style map and interface windows, I changed the following settings:

<scale_factor>4</scale_factor> <game_style>new</game_style>

Other game style options are original and original+ (which removes some but not all parchment borders to expand the map).

Setting use new dolls to yes improves paperdoll handling in new mode
<use_new_dolls>yes</use_new_dolls>

I also downloaded extracted and copied the GOG version of Ultima VI to the path where I built nuvie, updating the config file with the following hard paths:

<datadir>/home/kg/Software/nuvie/data</datadir>
\ /home/kg/Software/nuvie/ultima6

Downloaded the offline installer from
https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultima_456

As discussed earlier, once you've grabbed U6, stick it in a directory called ultima6:
sudo apt install innoextract
innoextract setup_ultima_vi_-the_false_prophet_1.0_cs(28045).exe

After character creation, I'm looking at .nuvierc's built in preferred gender and character portrait settings, although this might only work for new games that skip the intro (and thus, potentially, character creation).
<gender>1</gender>

If you'd rather try hex editing the nuvie save format, savegames by default live in the hidden .nuvie directory of your home directory. Hard path looks like this for me:

/home/kg/.nuvie/savegames

Don't forget to click Introduction on the main menu and watch that before you do character creation. And make sure to put all of your party members into Command mode for true turn-based combat.

@[email protected] this is your damn fault by the way - your urge to make an Ultima-like has definited stirred a need in me.

#retrogaming #ultima

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23877 points
#tetris #gameboy #retrogaming

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On #HuCardHuesday here’s “Parasol Stars: The Story of Bubble Bobble III”. This is a 1991 single screen platform game developed and published by #Taito. It’s the third game in the Bubble Bobe series, and returns to the single screen format.
#Retrogaming #NEC #PCEngine

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On #MasterSystemMonday here’s “Altered Beast”. This is a 1989 port of #Sega’s 1988 System 16 arcade beat-em-up, with conversion duties being handled in-house by Sega R&D 2. The gimmick here is you play as a resurrected warrior who can transform into various beasts.
#Retrogaming #MasterSystem

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Reminder, not really coincidental but who cares? After doing videos of Duke Nukem 3D I will be doing Wolfenstein 3D 100% Kills.

It's just more fitting than ever. It'll be a sight to see.

#BoomerShooters #RetroGaming #DOSGaming

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On #SaturnDay here’s “X-Men: Children of the Atom”. This is a 1995 port of #Capcom’s 1994 CPS-II arcade fighting game, featuring the famous #Marvel comics characters. It was noted for its impressive graphics, smooth gameplay & fast pace.
#Retrogaming #Sega #Saturn

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💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 A while ago we held a poll here on Mastodon asking for a non-Lucas adventure game to play, and the winner was Beneath a Steel Sky (Revolution Software, 1994).

So that's what we're looking at in this episode!

Thank you for using LINC and be vigilant.

https://www.dosgameclub.com/beneath-a-steel-sky/

#dosGaming #retroGaming #podcast

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#VGMWednesday

The name's Stone, Blake Stone. He's James Bond in Space but that's just the coating of a well polished, incredibly difficult Wolfenstein 3D engine game that has cool features such as level instances being saved within an entire episode, a built-in map with 100% completion trackers, and all the cool arrangements of baddies. Let's not forget the scientists who are randomly determined to be friend or foe.

Nothing like sneaking around a corner and some asshole yelling, "YOU'RE DEAD". I can mimic that voice pretty well. Not a bad game. A very good game but it was surpassed by something not very long after its release. DOOM. Oops. Also it's Spear of Destinyesque expansion game also got surpassed by Doom 2. Double Oops.

So anyway very DOSsy music in the Soundblaster sense. Let's load up level 2. Oh it's. It's Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin. Very nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TVl6XCBMf4

Do you come from the land of ice and snow?

#RetroGaming #DOSGaming

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What a nice little tribute to Rise of the Triad. I really need to try that master that game one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo3sIBNgWi0

#BoomerShooter #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #RiseOfTheTriad

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On #MasterSystemMonday here’s “World Class Leader Board”. This is a 1991 golf simulation game ported to the #Sega #MasterSystem by #Tiertex & published by #USGold. It was originally developed by Access Software for various home computers.
#Retrogaming

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