Beating old games

[flibitijibibo]

Has anyone else ever gone back and beaten an old game that they couldn't beat when they were younger? For example, I just 100% completed Mario Sunshine, and it was sweet... with the exception of the fucking blue coins.

[Kalub]

Crash Bandicoot Series, Spyro..... its all I can think of atm

[Heathen]

I went back and beat both 64 Legend of Zeldas.

[Xetsuei]

Sonic Adventure...that was seriously like the most confusing thing ever when I was 8.

[teh lag]

Lego Racers time trials. My god those pissed me off way back when.

[Zeph]

I was planning on trying to get all 150 stars on mario 64 later tonight.

[The_Wraith]

I've tried so hard to go back and beat Turok: Battle of the Bionosaurs, Donkey Kong Land, and Donkey Kong Land 2 for the Gameboy. Those games are impossible...

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

Definitely the spyro series, and commander keen.

[Kalub]

I was planning on trying to get all 150 stars on mario 64 later tonight.

Good luck, some of those stars are stupid hard to get. Like the catch-the-rabbit-in-the-sewers one....:mad:

[The_Wraith]

Good luck, some of those stars are stupid hard to get. Like the catch-the-rabbit-in-the-sewers one....:mad:I got that one on my first try. It wasn't that hard you just gotta trap it, kinda, and lunge at the right moment.

[Sever]

Fucking Allied mission #14 from Red Alert 1 - you have 2 separate squads, each with about 5 infantry and an accompanying medic, and you have 45 minutes to deactivate the enemy installation. You basically have to kill everyone else on the map, including flamethrower infantry, grenadiers and attack dogs. I beat it eventually, though, after playing some newer RTS's for a few years.

[itszutak]

This thread is inspiring me to go play Lego Island 1 again.

[Donut]

Has anyone else ever gone back and beaten an old game that they couldn't beat when they were younger? For example, I just 100% completed Mario Sunshine, and it was sweet... with the exception of the fucking blue coins.
Thats exactly what i was working on earlier today

[Heathen]

Tap your cartridge at the right time and the bunny freezes.

[flibitijibibo]

Xetsuei™;289665']Sonic Adventure...that was seriously like the most confusing thing ever when I was 8.That game was the shit when it came out. When my friend and I first saw the game, we were like, "damn, how are we gunna beat this game?" A few weeks ago I installed it on PC, and beat the whole thing the same night. XD

Playing/beating old games also makes me wonder: Where the fuck did *series* go wrong? In this case, Sonic, in terms of controls and speed, just sort of disappeared after Sonic Adventure 2, which also kicked major ass.

Well, now I'm off to Metroid Prime 1. Maybe with a slightly more (but still barely at all) developed brain, I can try for 100%.

[Zeph]

Good luck, some of those stars are stupid hard to get. Like the catch-the-rabbit-in-the-sewers one....:mad:

I find those easy. It's the fucking sledding/racing parts that piss me off. I just spent 28 lives trying to beat that fucking penguin.

[CN3089]

I find those easy. It's the fucking sledding/racing parts that piss me off. I just spent 28 lives trying to beat that fucking penguin.

Why don't you just use the shortcut?


Or is that how you lost the lives? :haw:

[Zeph]

Why don't you just use the shortcut?


Or is that how you lost the lives? :haw:

no, I lose lives like mad at this one s-turn.
I tried using the shortcut, but it said I couldn't and I had to run the race again..

[blind]

Not the wall shortcut, the falling down onto the lower level of the race shortcut.

[Zeph]

Not the wall shortcut, the falling down onto the lower level of the race shortcut.

Yeah, tried it twice. Off the edge onto what's below and across the ice blocks. :\.

[Pooky]

Sonic Adventure 2, which also kicked major ass.
That game had one hell of a fucked up retarded storyline though.



Well, now I'm off to Metroid Prime 1. Maybe with a slightly more (but still barely at all) developed brain, I can try for 100%.

I'm still sad I could never find the one last missile tank I needed before I sold my gamecube :(

[DrunkenSamus]

Fucking Allied mission #14 from Red Alert 1 - you have 2 separate squads, each with about 5 infantry and an accompanying medic, and you have 45 minutes to deactivate the enemy installation. You basically have to kill everyone else on the map, including flamethrower infantry, grenadiers and attack dogs. I beat it eventually, though, after playing some newer RTS's for a few years.

RED ALERT WAS AND STILL IS THE SHIT. The music tracks in Tiberian Dawn throughout Red Alert 2 complete the series...I sometimes go on the composer's website and listen to the tracks...so nostalgic...:rolleyes:

[Bad Waffle]

Yeah, tried it twice. Off the edge onto what's below and across the ice blocks. :\.

Zeph, i managed that on my second try when i was 13. Or 11. Or...something...

[LlamaMaster]

Beat all 3 spryos on the PS 100%. Right now I'm trying to beat Zelda OoT, which I still find fucking impossible. I cba to get all the stars in mario 64.

[blind]

You seriously can't beat Ocarina of Time?
I beat that when I was 7.

[ICEE]

When I was about 7 I had quake 1 on my computer (thanks daddy). as soon as my mom found out she 'uninstalled' it (unplugged the computer) and I couldn't play anymore. So I recently downloaded the n64 rom and beat it. it was pretty sweet.

[kenney001]

halo

[PenGuin1362]

RED ALERT WAS AND STILL IS THE SHIT. The music tracks in Tiberian Dawn throughout Red Alert 2 complete the series...I sometimes go on the composer's website and listen to the tracks...so nostalgic...:rolleyes:

I love you sir.

The command and conquer games are the shit. red alert would take fucking forever to beat though cause the ai was freakin crazy and would just build like a mofo.
I wish I had this kind of time to just go back and beat old games :(

[blind]

I love you sir.

The command and conquer games are the shit. red alert would take fucking forever to beat though cause the ai was freakin crazy and would just build like a mofo.
I wish I had this kind of time to just go back and beat old games :(
Press the buttons for the nuke :hellyeah:
Also, I've been playing Generals lately :] FUCK the Air Force general on Hard.
Theres two games that I REALLY want to beat fully though.
Jersey Devil for PS1 and The Lost World: Jurassic Park also for PS1.
I can't find the Jersey Devil disc and Lost World is still brutally hard :|

[Con]

I wanna go back and beat some old games that I never finished.. SEGA Bug anyone?

[Timo]

I want to go back and beat a really hard game of Civilization 2. Best game ever.

[DrunkenSamus]

I love you sir.

The command and conquer games are the shit. red alert would take fucking forever to beat though cause the ai was freakin crazy and would just build like a mofo.
I wish I had this kind of time to just go back and beat old games :(

Red Alert 2 was the last great CnC game...after that Westwood Studios was bought by fucking EA who completely messed up the series...

[ultama121]

CNC.

I'm a loooooooooong time fan. I remember playing the first game when I was like 3. The games that I could call Nostalgic to me would have to be Classic, RA 1, and 2. As I said, I go way back with the first, played a lot of RA classic, and RA 2 I remeber finding when I was like 8 at target at a discount. I was practically like "OMG MOM BAH MEH CNC." Luckily enough, she did. ;) I actually have never played CNC TS till recently though, I think I like it the most out of them all. It's probably the most balanced... (looking at you RA2). Love network games with CnC, endless fun that takes all night.

[ExAm]

Working on Ocarina of time right now, but I pretty much beat every old game I owned when I was younger. However I'm trying to get a rom of mega man legends to work, and not having much luck. I liked that game but got pissed at it after losing to one of the bosses so many times.

[Kalub]

wts Sega Genesis..... $329

[Llama Juice]

I was planning on trying to get all 150 stars on mario 64 later tonight.


Best of luck with those last 30 stars. Screen cap when you get all 150 plz.


There are only 120 stars in Mario 64

[Kalub]

I remember trying to get the 70(5) for the last bowser fight.... I never did :(

[JunkfoodMan]

Oh man I loved the music for the last Bowser battle (Called "Ultimate Koopa")

[DrunkenSamus]

CNC.

I'm a loooooooooong time fan. I remember playing the first game when I was like 3. The games that I could call Nostalgic to me would have to be Classic, RA 1, and 2. As I said, I go way back with the first, played a lot of RA classic, and RA 2 I remeber finding when I was like 8 at target at a discount. I was practically like "OMG MOM BAH MEH CNC." Luckily enough, she did. ;) I actually have never played CNC TS till recently though, I think I like it the most out of them all. It's probably the most balanced... (looking at you RA2). Love network games with CnC, endless fun that takes all night.

Tiberian sun sucked. The mod community made it a much better game though. Tiberian Sun Retro makes regular Tiberian Sun soooo much better. It actually looks like the real sequel to the first CnC.

[Bossniak]

Couple weeks ago, I finally went back to play some Battle Toads and beat it. I never beat it while I was younger. It felt good. :)

[CN3089]

Best of luck with those last 30 stars. Screen cap when you get all 150 plz.


There are only 120 stars in Mario 64

There's 150 in the DS port :ssh:

[LinkandKvel]

Beat all 3 spryos on the PS 100%.

Me too....ALL three Crash Bandicoots also.


Right now I'm trying to beat Zelda OoT, which I still find fucking impossible.How?


However I'm trying to get a rom of mega man legends to work, and not having much luck. I liked that game but got pissed at it after losing to one of the bosses so many times.Excuse me are we related? I HAD a working rom of megaman legends but it was wiped clean off my desktop....If I find another I will let you know

[p0lar_bear]

Currently working on Chrono Cross. Jesus Christ it's a long game.
I haven't even gotten Serge's body back yet, and i've been playing it on and off for a few months now..

Just recently beat Super Mario Bros. 3 on the Wii. Took like 5 retries on World 8.

[ExAm]

Excuse me are we related? I HAD a working rom of megaman legends but it was wiped clean off my desktop....If I find another I will let you knowOh man that reminds me of the time I shift+deleted half my desktop items by accident. Took some doing to get 'em back. Anyways, this was a little while after I had first gotten my PC, and on Macs, clicking one file and shift+clicking on another simply selects those two files, and more if you shift+click more. I had no idea that windows selected everything in between the first and shift+clicked items, and I thought I was safe after doing it to two files that were one on top of another, and shift+deleted. There was a window over everything to the right of the files I deleted, so I was ovlivious to the deletion of half the stuff on my desktop until about ten minutes later when I closed the window.
I don't shift+delete anymore :(

[Phobias]

I don't suppose anyone has ever played Aztec the adventurer (sp?).

I think it was the game you didn't need a cartridge for on Sega. I've never finished it (I last played it when I was 4 and have been trying to find it since)

[Llama Juice]

There's 150 in the DS port :ssh:


Touche'


I beat Conker's Live and Reloaded like a month ago... first time playing through the Xbox version...

Other than that?...

I'll play through the old Mario games every once in a while if I get bored.

[LinkandKvel]

Does anyone know where to find a dreamcast emulator? Maybe I can finally beat Jet Grind Radio. JSRF was the best underrated game I've ever played...love their music choice :)

[ultama121]

Went back to play through the Fan Translation of Tales of Symphonia for the SNES via Emulator, such an excellent game that never saw the U.S. Sure... there's the GBA port, except there was so much censorship in that port that I'd barf. Plus, It isn't exactly as fun to play on that small screen. There was also a PS1 remake that was Japan only that was completely remade. Luckily there is a fan Translation is in progress for that and is nearing completion. But now they released a port of the PS1 version for the PSP Japan only with Voice overs for EVERY SINGLE BIT OF DIALOGUE. In other words:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

Link to the Fan Translation patch for the Snes: http://www.dejap.com/top.php
Link to the Fan Translation patch for the PS1 (Unreleased but very close to completion): http://www.tales-cless.org/?page=news

The link to the patch for the Snes version is dead so just look around for it.
Oh, and I reccomend using the Znes emulator.

Also @ Link, there is Chankast which seems to be the highest rated, but its also a dead project judging by the homepage and seeing as there is not forum. DEMUL is probably the only real emulator in development. http://demul.emulation64.com/

[Zeph]

Zeph, i managed that on my second try when i was 13. Or 11. Or...something...

I got an N64 for christmas the year it came out and the first game I played was Mario 64. I beat the penguin on my first try back then. :\


Beat all 3 spryos on the PS 100%. Right now I'm trying to beat Zelda OoT, which I still find fucking impossible. I cba to get all the stars in mario 64.

Only hard part of OoT is the water temple and it's only just annoying.


Best of luck with those last 30 stars. Screen cap when you get all 150 plz.


There are only 120 stars in Mario 64

fucking pokemons.

[Bodzilla]

I've been meaning to go back and Murder Half life 1, but i'm just too busy.

one of those things i tried and just couldnt figure it out when it was a new game, (i was a wee-snapper back then btw) cause i was too used to Duke Nukem and quake :|

That and System shock 2.

actually while i'm thinking of it, not too long ago i went back and Beat Warcraft 1.
man i used like a bajillion cheats to do it. Thats one fucking ball breaking game. So incredibly hard, i dont think i'll ever manage to beat it legit, and if i somehow manage to beat it i'd realise that i just missed the launch of the xbox 1080 :|

[LinkandKvel]

Beat all 3 spryos on the PS 100%.
this but not Zelda OoT? Oh god I can remember it now....hours stuck on a level not knowing where the hell 2 go and I vaguely remember searching causing massive headaches. Am I the only one that's ever been so lost in a video game that I felt like puking?

also,
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WHY NAUGHTY DOG WHY? :gonk:

Fuck Jak and Daxter I want mah GOOD Crash Bandicoot back :gonk:

[Bodzilla]

good Old Bandi.

you know the Time trails, theres only like silver and gold or something for certain levels
a mate of mine got a platnium one.
i was like WTF?! had to see it to believe it. No fuckign idea how he got it hey.

[LinkandKvel]

good Old Bandi.

you know the Time trails, theres only like silver and gold or something for certain levels
a mate of mine got a platnium one.
i was like WTF?! had to see it to believe it. No fuckign idea how he got it hey.

You must be talking about these type of levels
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[Bodzilla]

you can do time trials for any level, but yeah he ownd at the game

[Pooky]

Does anyone know where to find a dreamcast emulator? Maybe I can finally beat Jet Grind Radio. JSRF was the best underrated game I've ever played...love their music choice :)

Dreamcast emulators are currently buggy and shit... you might want to try again in 5 years.

That said, Chankast is probably your best bet.

[Hotrod]

About two weeks ago, I tried to go beat Total Annihilation : The Core Contingency's (the expansion pack) Campaign...and failed. I was better at them when I was younger, even if I couldn't win then either.

[LlamaMaster]

Disregard what I said about zelda. It was only hard because I came back to playing the game after two or so years of never playing it. When I first left off I was at the start of the shadow temple, and coming back I had no idea where to get the eye of truth. Games not to hard now that I know what I'm doing again.

@link: Theres only a few parts in the spryo series that are hard. Sadly, I remember looking at the guide for the tree tops level in Spryo 1. (seriously, it looked impossible to get over to that island in the distance) One cool thing happened to me though (which has never happened again), the solution to getting to one of the dragons came to me in a dream. I forget the name of the level, but it's that one where the fairy kisses you and gives you a superflame.