I’ve essentially only emulated Pokemon games from my childhood and their romhacks previously. But now I’m looking to play things I just completely missed because I was too young, not born, or didn’t have the system then.

So what are your favorites?

Emulating on Android with Lemuroid btw.

  • Catfish@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Going to show my age here… Fool’s errand and Dark Castle. Mac games of much nostalgia.

    • ace_garp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The Fool’s Errand was such a good puzzler with a great sense of humour. Come to think of it, so was DC and BDC(beyond).

      Play Fool’s Errand online here for: Mac and DOS

      Dark Castle is Here

  • ramblingsteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Natsume games on NES have aged well, eg shadow of the ninja, shatter hand, and powerblade. But they’re tough games so could be brutal on touch pad controls. Arcon is a cool mix of strategy and action, and had a good NES port.

  • regis_c@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you can find an emulator and a device with no input lag whatsoever and an ideal control scheme, Kaboom! on Atari 2600 is addictive.

  • GreenCrush@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Super Metroid on SNES. Amazing, great game. My absolute favorite. And if it interests you, there are a lot of good ROM hacks for the game, giving you near infinite replay-ability.

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and more recently Link’s Awakening. Also the older Pokemon gameboy titles.

    • Omnimater@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      So I’ve never played a single Zelda game. Which one do I start on?

      I did play like 2 hours of BoTW on switch and just never got back to it.

      • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        A Link to the Past is the one you want to start on. It’ll get you right to the heart of what makes the classic Zelda games so good. If that’s too retro for you, play Ocarina of Time, you can’t go wrong with that masterpiece.

          • lynny@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            If you’re doing emulation, just go SNES. GBA is only worth playing if you’re going to play it on an actual GBA.

          • EvilEwok@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            There are exceptions, but for most games, given a choice between SNES and GBA versions, the SNES one is better. Usually sound is severely compressed on the GBA and the visuals are washed out.

            • lolola@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Some of the GBA remakes also added in voice tracks, like Mario saying “Just what I needed!” whenever you get a mushroom, or Link doing his grunts and “hii-yahs” whenever you swing the sword. I guess I could see how some people might think those were neat, but I mostly found them annoying, especially given the quality of the GBA audio.