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  • Retro Gaming
  • steveoath
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    Just bought a PSP GO for emulation (since they can no longer access playstation store PSPs are mucho cheapness). GOing to load a custom firmware to allow homebrew emulation. What do you consider must haves for 16bit and 8bit eras?

    Obvs for me anyway – Mario land games, Sonic, Mario World, SF2.

    flyingmonkeycorps
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    Chrono Trigger was amazing on the SNES if you’re not averse to JRPGs. James Pond 2: Robocod on the Megadrive. Micro Machines.

    tomhoward
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    Top gun. The theme tune in 8bit sound is almost hypnotic

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    jimjam
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    Where to start. SFII has to be right up there. Never gets boring. Ghouls & Ghosts is probably my favourite platform game, Strider and Super Shinobi were excellent too. Thunderforce 3,4 and R-Type for shootem-ups.

    dlr
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    I have a JXD S8700B, Puzzle Bobble 2 on the Neo Geo is my current fav, I will defeat it!

    I have always found beatemups not so good on thumb controllers, need a proper stick. Sonic the screen was always too zoomed in for me/the speed.

    metcalt
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    Desert/Jungle/Urban Strike, many hours spent on those games. I’m surprised the level codes aren’t etched into my brain.

    finbar
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    Sorry, venturing slightly off topic, but how cheap are we talking? Can you still use PSPs to play modern games then?

    I’m completely clueless about these things, but I was thinking about buying a PS3 to idle away a few hours and a PSP could be a good alternative.

    DavidB
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    Which firmware steaveoath?

    I have a PSP GO gathering dust.

    jimjam
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    finbar – Member

    Sorry, venturing slightly off topic, but how cheap are we talking? Can you still use PSPs to play modern games then?

    Emulators for most old consoles are freely avalilable online, as are most of the games incase you didn’t know.

    isitafox
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    You can download pretty much complete game collections for each console, easier to do that and delete the ones you don’t want than try to think of ones that you do as you’ll always forget some!

    Malvern Rider
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    And (altho diff criteria) Downhill Domination

    Milkie
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    I’m starting to build a arcade coffee table and these are my must have emulators/games.

    Atari – 2600/5400/7800 – Pac-Man/Asteroids/Breakout/Pong
    Sega – Master/Mega/CD/32x – Alex Kidd/Sonics/Mortal Kombat/Streets of Rage
    Spektrum/Amstrad/Commodore – Manic Miner/Elite/R-Type
    Playstation 1&2 – Tekken/THPS/GT1&2/Crash Bandicoot/Micro Machines/Worms
    Nintendo – NES/SNES/N64 – Marios/Kart/Brutal Mario/Bomberman/DK/Killer Instinct/GoldenEye X
    Neo-Geo – King of Fighters/Blazing Star/Metal Slug/Fatal Fury
    PC – Wolfenstein 3d, Quake 1/2/3, Duke Nukem 3D/Darkplaces

    …Keep the games coming, I had totally forgotten about Desert/Jungle/Urban Strike.

    I’m currently using a Pi2 running RetroPie with 2x Wireless PS3 Controllers. I will be upgrading the Pi to a 3ghz+ PC to run Goldeneye X and PS2 games… Eventually. 😉

    jimjam
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    You had me at Arcade Coffee table.

    razorrazoo
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    I have just dug my PSP out of the loft (it’s a first gen), was going to ebay it but drop me a line if anyone is interested and I’ll get a list of games I have with it (I definitely have the Sega Megadrive Collection and Worms Open Warfare).

    razorrazoo
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    Atari – 2600/5400/7800 – Pac-Man/Asteroids/Breakout/Pong
    Sega – Master/Mega/CD/32x – Alex Kidd/Sonics/Mortal Kombat/Streets of Rage
    Spektrum/Amstrad/Commodore – Manic Miner/Elite/R-Type
    Playstation 1&2 – Tekken/THPS/GT1&2/Crash Bandicoot/Micro Machines/Worms
    Nintendo – NES/SNES/N64 – Marios/Kart/Brutal Mario/Bomberman/DK/Killer Instinct/GoldenEye X
    Neo-Geo – King of Fighters/Blazing Star/Metal Slug/Fatal Fury
    PC – Wolfenstein 3d, Quake 1/2/3, Duke Nukem 3D/Darkplaces

    I’ll assume that no Streetfighter 2 is an accidental omission?

    Also Super Tennis & super Bomberman on the SNES.

    DavidB
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    Mine would have:-

    Ghosts and Goblins
    Galaga
    Bomb Jack
    Commando
    Defender
    All Ultimate spectrum games, Knight Lore, Jetpac,..

    steveoath
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    @finbar – I picked mine up for a smidge over 30squids.

    6.6.0 firmware is down-gradable on some PSPs (CHECK YOUR MOTHERBOARD USING pspident as per videos below) to 6.2.0 which can be made into a permanent custom firmware (you could have it as a “light” custom firmware, which would need to reloaded through a simple onscreen app each time to shut down the device.)

    This tutorial is very good, as he explains exactly which motherboards can be used, and the over the two videos how to get the firmwares onto the device.

    [video]https://youtu.be/TB9M8qH1eTU[/video]

    [video]https://youtu.be/7dnXr8Z2UIM[/video]

    There is also this huge wiki http://wololo.net/cfw4dummies/

    As for games – which platform was Silkworm/SWIV on? I have fond memories of that! And NARC was awesome as well. I loved sabbateur on the Speccy.

    DaRC_L
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    How about Bushido Blade, Sledstorm and Downhill Domination (or even No Fear Downhill MTB) for emulation?

    lemonysam
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    Cannon Fodder on whatever
    Worms on whatever (not so much retro as timeless)
    Lemmings on whatever
    Shining Force 2 on Mega Drive
    Chrono Trigger on SNES
    Mario Kart 64 on N64
    Nights into Dreams on Saturn
    Pandora’s Box on Acorn

    razorrazoo
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    Just chucked my old PSP in the FS section if anyone interested.

    gonzy
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    Strider
    Robocop
    Chase HQ
    R-Type
    Grand Theft Auto (PS1 version)

    finbar
    Free Member

    There is also this huge wiki http://wololo.net/cfw4dummies/

    Thanks Steveoath.

    lemonysam
    Free Member

    Oooh… Speedball II – Brutal Deluxe.

    Ice Cream, Ice Cream!

    mattyfez
    Full Member

    Some of my faves not mentioned yet:

    Super probotector (contra 3) SNES
    Wonderboy in monster land – mastersystem
    Alex kid in miracle world -master system
    life force salamender -NES
    Ninja gaiden – nes
    castlevania – various
    Parodius – mental jap style side scroll shooter
    golden axe – megadrive
    Pilot wings -snes
    super ghouls andd ghosts – snes
    mario kart – various
    james bond golden eye (multiplayer, must have spent months of play time n this with friends))N64
    U.N. squadron

    The beauty of emulators for classic consoles is that the games are so small in terms of memory, you can just download pretty much all teh games for a particular console in one pack/torrent

    kayla1
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    There are some proper classics there!

    Pop n Twinbee
    New Zealand Story (ridiculously hard!)
    Rolling Thunder 1 & 2
    Rainbow Islands
    Super Mario Allstars is good too, with the 16 bit versions of the 8 bit NES games.

    I love platformers 😀

    richmtb
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    I loved the SNES, and I like this idea.

    I’ve just bought a PSP. I’m going to give the custom firmware and snes emulator a try

    juan
    Free Member

    Obviously Legend of Zelda… I am sure it’s an omission. Earthworm Jim, mario kart, final fantasy

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