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I’ve been enjoying emulating games recently - mostly NES, ps1 and gba - and I’m looking to branch out from my limited familiarity as I mostly play games I’ve played in the past (and then it was mostly rentals- so very limited exposure lol).

What games would you recommend checking out? Basically across any ps1-equivalent generation system or earlier. I’m interested in the FF series but have no idea where to start either 🤷‍♂️

My rotation atm:

PS1: Medal of Honor, ssx,

GBA: Pokémon firered, wario

NES: castlevania, ninja gaiden

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

I play lots of shmups like DoDonpachi, Dangan Feveron, Batsugun, Battle Garegga etc. Retroarch with runahead will make them run nice and smooth. Mega Drive and PC Engine have some great games like Gunstar Heroes, Contra Hard Corps, M.U.S.H.A., Eliminate Down, Gate of Thunder, Lords of Thunder, Soldier Blade, Blazing Lazers etc. Really shows how bad the SNES action library was in comparsion, especially the shmups.

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

I had a major DoDonpachi moment a couple years ago but I’m no shmup connoisseur. I’ll have to check out those others you mentioned.

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