The control pad thing worries me. This looks like a great game to add to my HTPCs for my ppl to enjoy.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

[quote=razing32]

Quoting: wojtek88I have a feeling Indie devs and medium sized companies will be doing just fine since they can't afford to aggravate consumers.

This!

I have a group of friends that are very like minded and when we gather to play games we are usually all playing something indie or something retro (GOG or even older from PC's graveyard years).

Then I have a few AAA supporters friends. They usually try to get us to go along with what they recently fancy but it's all a lot of nonsense and shit to me. They will literally drop games less then 2 months in with constant complaints about it and become forgetful when the next shiny comes along.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are playing 'Towerfall Ascension 8 Player', 'Mother Russia Bleeds', 'Pac-Man 256' or other stuff someone discovered having a jolly ole time @ 1/2 the cost and 90% less complaints.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ended up getting it and played with some of my friends this weekend. Laughing the entire go at it. I did however had to get a work around for the bad control scheme to get them to be a little more solid. I used Antimicro and left the game on KB control scheme and used Antimicro to use gamepads. It ran so much better this way. Now to make a script for my HTPC for this setup.

It was a fun day. I need more games like this in my library hopefully GOG finds some other obscure fighters.

One of my dude picked up his own copy so I did my duty!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Wow. I forgot about this game. I was playing and ending this game back when I was still on Windows 98 SE and I was duo-booting with Linspire, I believe. This was the last SINGLE PLAYER Windows game I felt I had to end before considering going full in on Linux.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: iplaygameswearingatux

Quoting: razing32Are these actual ports ?
Did someone do any work on these or is this just a rom + emulator ?

rom + emulator (+ 4 avatar images in Metal Slug X)

The BIOS is not compatible with newer MAMEs, but the games are OK (the Metal Slugs at least). I was looking for a way to force start MAME with the GOG BIOS, but couldn't find it yet.

They work.

In terminal type mame and the name of the rom file - It will open. You could also make a shortcut to it if you like. This is how I play them.

I have the HB versions but one of my friends bought them via GOG and uses Fedora - Got them up and running with the latest MAME.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I wonder why is it THESE set of games were released and not others? Because all of the NeoGeo arcade games work on Linux, Mac and Windows via emulator. The 2x they were on HB and now on GOG....Why these specific games and not the others?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: OrkultusI have the NeoGeo X Gold handheld. Got pretty much all of them. I will pass on this.

That looks dope!!!! but I already have the Neo Geo gamepads and fighting sticks for the computer. I lost my passion for mobile gaming since I ride my bike to work. When I was a mass commuter I use to play my NeoGeo Pocket Color daily!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: razing32Are these actual ports ?
Did someone do any work on these or is this just a rom + emulator ?

I can only speak for the HB versions but these were just the ROMS with a MAME wrapper.

Pros of the HB version

- Gamepad Controllers were built in; No need to configure
- Save/Load States were built into the menu system and accessible via gamepad
- These were the exact arcade versions not the watered down console ports
- You can extract the 2 files needed to work with MAME, if you wanted to

Cons

- Unable to configure gamepad settings unless you go into the .ini files
- Logos upon start up

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Avehicle7887

Quoting: Megazell

Quoting: Avehicle7887

Quoting: iplaygameswearingatuxCould anyone please confirm whether the games are playable in MAME?

I wrote a slightly detailed guide how to make them work in MAME, you can find the link here (links to gog.com forums)

That guides seems really complicated. I have the HB versions and I just dump the neogeo.zip and the game.zips and they work as is. Were GOG versions altered?

Can you please upload a screenshot of what's inside the neogeo.zip in the HB version? If they're altered I wouldn't as I don't own the HB version.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: zimplex1Why would I spend money on these when I could just run these games in an emulator for free?

Because you want to.

I don't mine picking these up, especially when they were available via the 2 instances they were given out via Humble Bundle.

I would prefer if companies sold the ROMS of their games from yesteryear to the public.

I don't have the GOG versions but the HB versions came with a wrapper that took care of the controller settings for you, you also had save states setup via gamepad presses.

You can do that with MAME but MAME still has issues with defined controllers. If you removed a controller or connected it to another USB port - you may have to reconfigure on the fly. There is a way to lock it down but it requires a lot of setup.

Many people complained about the DOTEMU port but I've put these games on some really low tier machines and they ran awesomely.

If they support Linux, I'll support them is how I go about it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments