Damn, are you using Steam for these? I’d rather avoid installing Steam if I can, but if there’s no way to get ge-proton-10-22 on Lutris, I guess I’d suck it up for RBR at least. If I recall, I tried Disco through the Steam proton layer and it fidn’t work for me even through there (I’m running MXLinux).
I’ve tried with Wine and Proton using multiple configurations and nothing worked for me sadly.
I’ve tried through Wine and Lutris, but neither RBR or Sega Rally 2 worked for me. It sucks, because RBR is my jam, it’s the one game that has tempted me to dual boot Windows (that and Disco Elysium which I have yet to play.
I’m saddens that when I downloaded this the other day it wouldn’t run on Lutris for me. I don’t dual boot with Windows so I am out of luck. However, it id lead me to just downloading the cdi for Dreamcast and playing it through Retroarch the last few weeks. It’s been a blast, I’ve been playing the hell out of it and it still holds up.
Currently playing Shiren the Wanderer 4 - The Eye of God and the Devil’s Navel on my phone through the PSP emulator. A fantastic step up for the series from playing and beating the DS version this past summer. I play for the 15 min I’m on the bus in the morning, it’s the perfect game to get my juices flowing early morning. Improved graphics, better items and upgrades and additional ways to improve your runs with the ability to tag weapons and shields so you don’t lose them (and their upgrades) completely between runs.
In parallel with Shiren 4 I’m also playing the newest Shiren release Serpentcoil Island on my laptop. The contrast betwern the two is pretty stark. I’ve been playing Shiren off and on for twenty year and this game is by far the most difficult iteration of Shiren I’ve played. For the first two hours I couldn’t get past the damned fifth floor, just yesterday I finally made it to floor ten and got pummeled again. I appreciate the difficulty, but damn the game is kicking my ass. I also noticed there seems to be less upgrades and ways to create advantages between runs like Shiren 4, but maybe that changes as you progress through the game. The graphics are also in 3D for the first time since Shiren 3 on the Wii, initially I wasn’t a fan (Shiren just feels right as a pixel-art game) but after a few playthroughs I’m actually grown to like them. They can be a little rough and lacking detail at times, but they are charming.
I found House of Necrosis on Rock Paper Shotgun, which is basically if the Mysery Dungeon games and Resident Evil had a baby. I’ve done a few quick plays to level 4 and promptly got my ass beat by the boss everytime. This game is even harder than Serpentcoil Island which is saying a lot. Love the PS1 style graphics and menus though, and it’s a fun game thematically for this time of year.
I did try and start a playthrough of Resident Evil, but am stuck fighting and dying repeatedly on that first damn zombie dog, so I’ve kind of stalled out on it. The atmosphere still holds up and goddamn the live action cut scenes are so laughably cringe, I forgot they had done them live action in the first game, the actors look like cosplayer of the characters they’re trying to play in game and they act worse than porn actors lol.
Lastly I’m playing the shit out of New Star GP. I needed a good indy-style racing game and it efinitely delivers. I was initially turned off by the simplistic and stylized cartoon-y graphics, but they’ve grown on me over the course of playing thes past few weeks. I had to switch from normal to hard though because I was just wrecking the competition on normal, unfortunately you have to create an entirely new save to do so, so I’m having to replay the GPs I’ve already done on normal to get back to where I was. I dig that your rivals become more aggressive towards you on the track as your relationship to them changes, I’ve had a few assholes run me off the track as I’m trying to pass them. You also manage your racing team members which add perks to help you, which I found annoying at first, but came to like it as time went on (it’s especially necessary to manage your team and upgrade your car in hard mode). Great game, lot of fun and excellent in quick sessions.
Ditto, that and Wonder Woman are my favorites of the line.
Absolute Wonder Woman is the best of the line, followed closely by Absolute Martian Manhunter. Hayden Sherman is killing it with the pencils on WW (also, check out Batman: Dark Patterns, another book he’s does art for and is a phenomenal, 90s-esque Batman before the ‘Batgod’ bullshit). Absolute Martian Manhunter is seriously amazing if you haven’t tried reading it, the story is a lot different from other cape books (more psychologiclal horror/thriller) annd Rodriguez’s art is right up there with Shermn in terms of shear quality and creativeness. I love Absolute Superman (supes is my fav character and the take on Absolute is a great one) and Absolute Batman is just so ridiculous it’s good (in a 90s kind of EXTREME way) but not my favorite. Haven’t checked out Green Lantern and only read an issue of the Flash which didn’t really hook me, I might visit them sometime in the future but I don’t have much interest in eiher.
If there isn’t already the original trilogy should have enhanced, unofficial PC ports of Res 1-3. I’m not even a huge Resident Evil fan and I’d play those for sure.
Edit: A quick search brought up this RE2HD mod: https://www.pcgamesn.com/resident-evil-2/unofficial-hd-remaster-mod
And apparently there are also mods for the original with support for modern enhancements like higher res and what not. Still not exactly what I was thinking, as I was thinking along the lines of an new native port like the PC versions of the N64 games like OoT and Mario 64.
Oh yeah, getting the RBR setup to detect the right and left triggers as seperate can be a pain I remember, but as far as I know even that has a fix now.
It’s not an emu specifically, you download the game client for your particular OS (Linux in my case) and run the app and it’ll ask you to drag and drop a Super Mario Bros. nes rom into the game Window (literally drag and drop the rom) and from there you’re good to go. Just download the client for your OS and then the SMB rom (just a search for NES roms on Archive.org and you’ll find the Super Mario Bros. (world) rom). I don’t know how Hexbear feels about rom links but if you need me to I can DM you the direct link for the rom ;)
Okay, I just played the shit out of this last night and am floored by how good it is. It still does have that slight input lag delay that PC versions of SMB have, which is even more noticeable after playing and beating SMB on the OG hardware this past year, but once you get used to that slight delay it isn’t too bad, not perfect but still very playable and very fun. I dig the graphic upgrade and how it’s a upgrade of the look of the original graphics but not so dramatic to be jarring. I honestly think it did a better job enhancing the look of the original graphics then Super Mario Maker did. The remixed songs and geographic themes of the levels were a nice welcome surprise that retained the same level layouts but gave each world a distinct theme like later Mario entries.
So basically, this is my mofo jam right now. Thanks OP for the heads up on this <3
Huh, hadn’t heard of Old School Rally. I’ll have to check it out. Yeah, New Star is fun, but I do find the crew management stuff boring and slightly tedious. Overall it’s a solid racer. I did notice on the expert difficulty I was just getting smoked no matter how good I was driving, so I bet the crew management and upgrade stuff is even more necessary for playing elswise I have no clue how expert is winnable. Formula Legends sounds familiar but I couldn’t tell you where I heard about it from.
Actually RBR is super easy to get running on a Win machine now using the Rally Sim Fan’s version of RBR here: https://www.rallysimfans.hu/rbr/download.php?download=rsfrbr
In the last half dozen times I’ve never had an issue on Windows and it has great community support for mods and online play. Seriously, if you haven’t tried it I highly recommend it, seriously the GOAT rally sim even twenty years later. There’s also a couple other modern implementations of RBR as well that update the graphics and provide other tools too.
My dilemma is I only run Linux yhese days and am too lazy to implement a dual boot for just one game when 80+% of stuff works just fine for me through Lutris…although I have been tempted to because RBR, especially yhe Rally Sim Fan version, is just that damn good.
I have tried Art of Rally, for some reason though it runs like trash on my computer. The game that does run for me right now is New Star GP which is a fun F1-style game. I also play Colin McRae 2 for PS1 through retroarch which nearly scratches the rally itch, but damn Richard Burns Rally really spoiled me especially with the shear amount of community support and content. One of these days I’m just going to have to go down the wine troubleshooting rabbit hole and get it running, there’s really nothing like it.
Oh man, it’s pretty sweet. Here’ a link: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=31559.0
You do specifically need the MESEN emulator to run it though, but it’s so worth it and MESEN is actually a great NES emu.
Oh god, I really hope Sega Rally 2 works with Lutris on Linux. I’ve been looking for a good rally game since I can’t get Richard Burns Rally working on my Linux setup.
Another user mentioned Sonic A.I.R. below, it’s a widescreen PC port of Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Here’s the link: https://sonic3air.org/
Oh that’s pretty cool too, although Zelda 2 was never really my jam. But maybe I’ll have to take a stab at it again since it seems like a good excuse to with a enhanced version. Did you also ever see the MESEN Zelda 1 HD version with updated graphics and QoL tweaks?
Nice! This looks like it might be pretty cool. I just beat SMB on the original cart this past year so this might be a good complement. Thanks for the find ;)
Remembered I was playing 20 Small Mazes (excellent and free!) and was halfway through. Finished two quick mazes this morning. Been playing Word Play as well, I’m a sucker for word-based games. I often play Waffle and Bongo over at Puzzmo which are two good free ones.
Every time I open up Lutris I realize I have Dog of Dracula 2 (free cyperpunk parody of Blade Runner and the like, you’re a vampire dog…for some reason, I don’t know) which is pretty good from the hour I’ve played, so I’ll probably be playing that tonight sometime.
The other game that I might install and play tonight is The Wreck a visual novel exploring themes of grief, depression and family relationships. I played through the first hour some time ago and really liked it, but it was another game that got put on the backburner.
There is also the intriguing Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917 in which is set after the overthrow of the Tsar in 1917 Russia, you can help several parties attain power (including the Bolsheviks) and play out how each party being in power changes the scope of history. I haven’t gotten around to it because it seems quite daunting, it’s old-school style text-based interactive fiction, so it’s basically a choose-your own Russian history adventure. I’ll get around to it sometime, I just don’t think it’ll be tonight lol. If anyone is interested there it is free on itch.io and there is a browser version if you don’t want to download the files and a IF parser.
Read some of Columbus’ journal entries, straight up psychopathic, the guy was a nutcase.