Topic: RetroAchievements Thread

I thought I’d make a thread dedicated to the RetroAchievements site. This is my first created thread, but I’ll likely avoid the self-introduction cliche. If you know me, that’s awesome. If you don’t, I hope we get to know each other!

Here’s my account link: https://retroachievements.org/user/Yousef777

I’m playing Bully/Canis Canem Edit. This is my third time 100%ing the game. I did it on Xbox and ps4 before, so I thought why not do it again?

RA has achievements for most old consoles. PS2 might be the latest, but I’m not sure.

I will use PushSquare gauge interest into this topic, since I don’t know how many people here play a lot of retro games.

I might submit to the self-intro cliche eventually. I changed my avatar twice, I was jokingly nicknamed “brunette hatsune miku”, so why not commit to the full-bit, eh? I love her space channel 5 costume and I do like miku.

I wasn’t sure what to name this thread. I thought of something ambitious like making it into a club, but I’d rather not bite off more than I can chew. Should see how much traction there’s here first. Maybe I’ll consider it based on feedback.

I’m mainly interested in Retro gaming discourse as a hall, so I’d like to stir the pot and hope some cool peeps walk in and share some discussions. Even if you’re not using RA.

If you actually do want a short thing about me, I do wanna say I’ve been using push square for ever ten years despite how recent my account is. I thought it’s finally time i give back to a community that helped me in hard times. I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to mention I tend to prefer “she/her” pronouns, I thought that might be worth mentioning.

Also I’m 25 and English is not my first language (it’s Arabic) so excuse me if I sound a bit unnatural sometimes. I can also communicate in Spanish and Italian without too much problem.

Pretty cool idea. I’m pretty sure @nessisonett has mentioned this in the past or is in fact an active participant?

Hi there,
I'm an avid RetroAchievements Hunter, too. Often bite off more than I can chew, and then I jump back to one of the many, many picross or puzzle games I have horded on my retro handhelds.
I'm TheVVolf over on RA: https://retroachievements.org/user/TheVVolf
Currently playing O-chan no Oekaki Logic and Advance Wars (again) on my RG35xxSP.

@AgentCooper Yep, been loving them for a year or two now!

Currently playing Pokémon Unbound, as I’m taking part in the current community event which requires hacks and homebrews. Might be better to stick my impressions of these games here this month, as they obviously aren’t official games.

@nessisonett Sounds mint, something probably 10 years ago I would have been all over, these days I have no chance. Never say never eh? 👍

I haven’t played a Pokémon game since yellow and my little brother overwrote my save with a one of a kind (at the time) Mew on it, haven’t been back to the series since 😂

@Anti-Matter I doubt you’d enjoy this thread given it requires emulation to incorporate the achievements!

This month’s event finished! Hacks and homebrews so a side of gaming I’m familiar with but haven’t played this many in such a small window before.

First beat the Ocarina of Time Spaceworld 97 Beta Experience, a recreation of the original demo shown off at Spaceworld. It’s really cool to see the origins of the game but obviously more like a tech demo of sorts.

Next beat Vector Pong, which is Pong for the Vectrex, wireframe sh*t. Hard as nails but good fun and the hardware’s interesting.

Next I beat Toadette’s Christmas Adventure, a rubbish Mario hack. Not much more to even say.

Did Portal 64 after that, which is Portal’s first few levels on the N64. Absolutely ludicrously impressive, full voice acting too. Shows just how far things have come with regards to homebrew.

After that, Minesweeper on ColecoVision. I learned I am atrocious at minesweeper. The 50/50s are killer.

Pokémon Unbound was the biggest time sink this month and it’s undoubtedly the best Pokémon content I’ve played since maybe Gen 5. Really really good, not just for a hack but stands alongside the official games in terms of quality. Can’t imagine how much effort it took. Highly recommend. I still have postgame to do too!

After that, played an Uzebox(open source console thing) game, Holey Moley, basically Super Motherlode but pretty fun if a little buggy.

Finally, I played Shotgun Mario 64 which is super fun. Just Mario 64 except with a shotgun. You can use it to propel yourself around when you jump too, which totally changed movement. And of course, blast enemies and destroy terrain to completely change the game. It’s so much fun, even if I feel bad for trying the BLJ as a laugh and unintentionally landing it for the first time ever and getting past the infinite stairs to do the final boss with only 13 stars. I’ll definitely play more.

Pretty fun month all round!

Another month’s worth of games down! This month, the event involved beating games from a drawn console from each generation of gaming, from the 2nd generation to the 7th.

2nd generation - I beat Hangman for Atari. I’m rubbish at Atari games so this was the extent of my abilities. I can play Hangman.

3rd generation - Kirby’s Adventure for NES. Really good actually, aged pretty well. I’ve now played a few Kirby games and appreciate them more than I used to, I find the newer ones insultingly easy but perhaps need to give them another go.

4th generation - Wheel of Fortune for Sega CD. There are barely any Sega CD games and this was all I could bring myself to play. Pretty rubbish but the creepy presentation with FMVs made it way more fun.

5th generation - Mario Tennis N64. I bounced off a few games for this one, beating Mario Kart 64 on 150cc and Mirror before realising I’d need to do it on 50 and 100cc too. Also played a lot of Banjo Kazooie but felt myself flagging near the end and didn’t want to push myself to the point I stop enjoying the game. Anyway, Mario Tennis 64 is irritating. The AI is really mean towards the end. Decent for the time but hit registration and the AI mean I’m very glad it’s over.

6th generation - Tekken Card Challenge for Wonderswan. I had no clue what to play on this console. Barely anything looked decent so ended up playing this game all in Japanese with no idea what was going on. Somehow beat it.

7th generation - Used the GameCube launch event to switch my DSi roll for a GameCube game, so beat Mario Party 4. Big memories of this one as a kid, great selection of minigames. The final Bowser fight was annoying though, dying made you start the whooooole thing over again.

Wildcard - SSX on PS2 and oh boy, that’s a good game. I’ve heard Tricky is even better too. Bit of a nightmare to emulate bizarrely though!

Gran Turismo 3 has cheevos now so I’m getting sucked back into it. This month’s challenge board has dropped too so I’m just waiting for a roll, seems to be based on the Kanto map and is about celebrating the devs who make the achievements!

This month’s crop:

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Still holds up, the parkour is remarkably good. Combat isn’t brilliant but it’s from that pre-Arkham era where every game either had amazing or terrible combat, no inbetween. Couple annoying sections but fun.

Metal Slug Advance - I’m rubbish at these games. No idea how I beat it, punishing as hell. Final boss is evil.

Dragon Quest IX - Still a favourite of mine (probably beat it about 6 times), just sheer gameplay-first fun with some brilliant smaller stories around the world.

Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland - Been sleeping on this one, just as brilliant as Underground and 4 for the open games, the open-world works really well actually. Maybe I actually like it better than Underground 2.

Jeopardy NES - Had to for the event. Very very American questions, lord knows how I won.

Another month of RetroAchievements down.

This month’s crop didn’t really need me to beat many games, more just getting specific achievements. I did beat Toy Story 2 on N64 though, a genuinely very good platformer by Traveller’s Tales. Also Wishing Sarah, a weird Game Boy homebrew Yume Nikki-like. Other stuff this month was just things like getting a couple cheevos in Soulcalibur and Samurai Warriors.