Lordmonkus

Yeah it's been out a while but it's just so good I just figured I would share this info for anymore who may not have it or played it before and has a PS3 or 4. I buy PSN cards and dump cash on my account and wait for the flash sales and grab games for dirt cheap. I don't like paying full price for digital only games, this way if for whatever reason I lose access to the games it's no big deal when you only paid a couple of bucks for them. If I am gonna pay more than 3 or 4 $ for a PS3 game I will head to a local game store and pick em up used and actually have a physical copy. Love the PS3 at this point in time, very affordable system and dirt cheap used games and easy to find. Some great exclusives to the system too like Dragon's Crown and the HD remaster of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. I also grabbed the Flashback remake, Galaga DX and Soldner X2 and X3. 5 games for under 10$ you can't go wrong.

Right now Sony is running a flash sale and they got the newish Strider game on for under 4$. If you don't have this game or have not played it before I highly recommend it. It's basically Strider but with a heavy Metroidvania component to it. This game is for both the PS4 and PS3. There are some more games on there worth a look as well but Strider is by far the highlight in this sale.

Mount a Sybian to the top of that thing and queue the porn music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ljLPZEfjs

It's such a shame they got the Star Wars license too because there is so much gameplay in that universe to be had and they are gonna make what look like very cool games on the surface but end up being extremely shallow and chopped up like Battlefront. For my sci-fi fps fix I will play Planetside 2 which is free to play done right (not pay to win) and it is absolutely massive and deep.

Screw EA and their chopping up of games and selling each piece off at full price.

I saw this a couple of days ago, looks good. I just hope it does well and they redo System Shock 2 as well, that game was freakin incredible.

Added my vote as well now, just under 16% as of my vote.

I was asked to make a video on how to get TurboGrafx CD games up and running in Retroarch. One problem though, I have never done any video stuff ever before outside a couple of lonely streams and a barely passable high school film class project back in high school 25 years ago. So anyways I figured since I was going to do this I would cover the TurboGrafx CD, Sega CD and the Playstation in one video. Here is the the video I made https://youtu.be/jXSrVEU7cWc It is nothing fancy at all so don't expect much but I hope it is clear enough to get the job done. Maybe I will do more videos in the future, I do have a couple ideas on what I would like to do such as shaders and Retroarch tweaks to fine tune performance. Anyways I will accept feedback and tips on making more videos. I know this video is probably pretty rough but I am ok with it considering this was my first attempt.

The process starts and you either pick either Rom or MS-Dos game. If you pick rom you end up having to choose the emulator which since it's a Windows game there is no emulator so that's a road block. If you pick MS-Dos game it thinks it's a DosBox game so that ends in an apparent road block. I may be getting hung up on something simple but it doesn't feel too intuitive compared to importing a Steam library or scanning a default location.

Lol, no need to apologize at all. Pointing people to the tutorials is better than trying to troubleshoot blindly.

@slashguns04 If after watching the tutorials you are still having problems send me a PM and I will be happy to help out any way that I can. But I can tell you this right away the toughest thing is making sure you have a working proper syscard3.pce file in your system / bios folder for whatever emulator you are using. I use Retroarch for my TG / PC Engine. I have used the standalone Mednafen in the past and it does get the job done but it's so messy.

Hmm, maybe I did something wrong but when I tried to just drag the shortcut file in to import it didn't work for me. I had to import each game by clicking Game then Add and point to the .exe file. This was on my laptop which doesn;t have many PC games so it wasn't a big deal but no way hell I would wanna do it that way on my main gaming PC.

Fair enough.

Any plans to upgrade the forum boards to not take so long to refresh and load pages ?

LOL I would trade my internet with most anyone. Mine is 90$ a month for 10 Mbit down, 1 Mbit up with 200 Gig cap and then throttled after that. I do for all intents and purposes live in the middle of a forest however and I am on wireless internet. Would be much better of I lived in the city.

What would be nice is if we could keep shortcut files to all our games in a single folder and then to import them just drag them all in like rom files. For me this would be the best way since I don't have that many games on Steam and I do not install any games to C drive at all. My games are kept on 2 separate drives, SSD for games with load times like BF4 and MMOs and a normal drive for non load time critical games.

Cool, though it's really not that big of a deal. The X68000 is cool and all but the reality is that what it did so well was that it did arcade ports to near perfection but with Mame that kinda negates the need for the X68000. The Castlevania on the X68k was good too but that game was re released on the Playstation as Castlevania Chronicles so unless there's some really weird obscure system exclusive gems on the system it's not really worth the hassle.

I had another go at this last night and it ended in me curling up in the fetal position rocking back and forth. Ok maybe not that bad but I had zero luck with it. The documentation for it is bad at best and what does exist is beyond confusing so for now i'm just abandoning the whole idea. I simply don't care enough about emulating those older computer systems though it would be nice to have the X68000 working under Retroarch with it's simple controller setup and fancy shmancy shaders (yes, shmancy is a word).

No, I am not linking to any bios files or asking for them. I am simply showing a simple little patch I found over at romhacking.net that people can use on their already found and working syscard3.pce file so that when you boot a TG CD game you no longer have to press the "Run" button. The game just bypasses that screen and auto loads the game. Here is the link to the patch file over on romhacking.net Make a backup of your working file just in case something goes wrong. Extract the ips patch file, run it and point to your syscard3.pce file and you are done. And if you already knew about this file, a curse upon thee for not letting me know about this before

Yeah upscaling isn't the same thing as a shader and generally you shouldn't use shader and upscaling at the same time. Though there is a shader that upscales in Retroarch but I have no experience using it. Use shaders for 2d sprite based games and upscale 3d polygonal games. If you like the look of and you want to smooth out sprite based games look into the xBR shaders in Retroarch.

Check out the Cave shooters Mushihimesama and Deathsmiles, both of these games are amazing on Mame so they should be just as good on Steam.

Oh shit, where to begin. Short answer, shaders are basically a set of graphical "filters" (for a simple term) to modify the look of a game. Long answer gets far more complicated but for a place to start reading go over to the Retroarch shaders forum and you can read up on them. link Now going by your post you are looking to make 16 bit and under graphics look HD and that simply isn't going to happen but there is some stuff you can do depending on personal taste and keep in mind all shader choices are personal preference. Some people prefer to smoothed out sprites and round them off while other people try and mimic the old look of a CRT TV which is what all the art in these older games was designed to look best on. Personally I go for a good CRT look but that's just me. Here's a thread I started a few weeks ago talking about shaders and what kind people like to use and there's some screen shots to give you some idea of how they look. link Different emulators implement shaders in different ways but Retroarch probably does the best job of it and has the widest variety to suit different tastes. Keep in mind though that shaders do require a decent graphics card, the power to require to run shaders has little to do with CPU power. I hope this gives you a start on what you want to know, feel free to ask anything else and i'm sure myself and others here can help you out.

Yeah reloading is awful unless there's a way to press a button to do it (don't think there is one off the top of my head). Try out Alien3: The Gun, no reloading in that game from what I can remember.

Yeah the track ball is alright for those analog control games, it even works somewhat ok with 720. Takes some getting used to and obviously not as good as the original arcade joystick but there really isn't too many other options.

Forgotton Worlds was different. I know it had a spinner which if I remember correctly you pressed down to shoot. That game is not easily controlled through emulation. Edit: I just tried it out using your setup which I never thought of using before and it is actually very playable. It's much smoother than Ikari Warriors and Heavy Barrel because it was an analog dial rather than an 8 step rotary.