Who do you think are the 3 most iconic video game characters of all time?

I’m not talking about who’s objectively the best, who’s sold the most games, or who has had the biggest impact on the industry. I want to know which three characters feel the most iconic to you, purely based on your own opinion.

Personally, I’d go with Mario, Sonic, and Link. They’re the first three characters that come to mind when I think of iconic video game characters. And also, I think their colors look really pleasing together and create a nice visual symmetry.

But I’m curious to hear everyone else’s picks. Who would be your personal Big Three of gaming, and why?
Just to clarify: This is entirely based on your personal opinion, so don’t feel like you have to include a character just because they’re considered iconic by other people. For example, if you don’t like Pikachu, you don’t have to include Pikachu in your list. Pick whoever feels right to you!

Super Saiya Densetsu was one of the first DBZ games ever, the SNES card battle RPG that covers the Saiyan and Frieza sagas. It never left Japan (the English comes from Klepto's fan translation), so a lot of people never played it.

I've been working on a full rewrite of it that runs natively on PC, with two modes:

- Classic: the original game exactly as it played on the cartridge

- Remastered: HD redrawn characters, portraits, maps and battle backgrounds, widescreen, cleaner text, a bigger inventory, cheats and fast forward

Pics are original on the left, remastered on the right.

It's free and open source. You need your own copy of the game though, nothing is included and I can't share it, so please don't ask. Windows only for now, Android is planned.

Full disclosure, it's made with a lot of AI help (the readme says so upfront). If that's not your thing, fair enough.

https://github.com/JackRushante/DBZ-Super-Saiya-Densetsu-Rust

Would love to hear what you think, and if you remember this game at all!

Keystone Kapers takes the #10 spot with 14 votes.

Important Notice: Two games will start to place every day moving forward now that the top 10 has been filled in.

Top 10:

#1 Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

#2 Yars' Revenge

#3 Adventure

#4 H.E.R.O.

#5 River Raid

#6 Pitfall!

#7 Missile Command

#8 Frogger

#9 Solaris

#10 Keystone Kapers

Rules:

1. Two games will win their place each round (we start from #1 and work our way down). For the top 10 only one game will win per day instead.
2. Most combined upvotes for each of the two individual games (one individual game for the top 10) wins the spot(s) each round (upvotes add while downvotes subtract).
3. Nominate one game of the Atari 2600 per comment. (Nominations will only be counted if the game title is the only comment or if you specify that your choice of game is your nomination for this round within your comment or if the nominated game is clearly separated from the rest of your comments.) (ex. Pitfall or I nominate Pitfall this round.) Please nominate using the full title of the game.
4. Name a specific game title, not entire runs.
5. Official Atari 2600 multi-game cartridge(s) are allowed, just list them correctly.
6. The Atari 2600 is region free so ANY official games available on the console are eligible for nomination.
7. Indy games are allowed as long as they have their own individual cartridge and can be played on original hardware.
8. Only complete games on cartridge(s) can be nominated (sorry Cheetah Program & test cartridges).
9. If two or more games would be tied to place for a ranking I will inform DA PEOPLE in the following post so that everyone can vote which games should get the ranking between the tied options.
10. Games nominated that have not already placed on the top 100 list should not be removed at any time by the individual who originally placed them.

This is a faithful port of the original ZX Spectrum version of Elite, with features from the BBC Micro version, modernised for 60 FPS gameplay, improved controls and a save system, plus a touch of seasonal fun.

I've taken great care to preserve the spirit of the original game.

Honestly, I'm not even sure which flair to use. It's a rework rather than an emulation. But hey, games are supposed to be fun, after all!

I have such a difficult time finishing JRPGs. I can thankfully cross this one off. Great game!

I wanted to convert .SPC files to .VGM so I could use them in SidWizPlus to create oscilloscope visualizations. I came across a program called "SPC2VGM"designed for exactly this purpose, converting SPC files for emulation on a YMF278 core, but I just can't get it to work. I open vgm_cmp.exe and enter the command (the GitHub page gives an example: `spc2vgm song.spc --auto-playback -o converted/song.vgm`), but it doesn't work. Do I need to put the .SPC files in a specific folder? Am I typing the command incorrectly? Do I need to install extra software? Am I opening the wrong program?

THNX ALL Happy gaming

In the spirit of Halloween. If you could have one horror movie made into a retro video game. What horror movie would it be and what would the game play style be? A RPG? Action shooter? Racing? Platformer?

I would love a Evil Dead RPG, where you play ash and he has to find the book of the dead and save his girlfriend from the evil demons!

I just really think they're neat!

- Marge S.

So I got myself a modded NES from oldskoolconsoles.com and the Delock 62783 SCART to HDMI converter which also doubles as a scaler so I can hook up the NES to my TV.

But I'm disappointed in the overal picture quality the converter is outputting, it just looks bad. I know NESRGB modkit provides a better quality image than vanilla NES composite and it does indeed look better than composite that but it doesn't look as good as I hoped.

I'm OK with upscaling to 720p at minimum, but I wasn't expecting it to look this bad. I'm not sure what the problem could be, maybe settings on the upscaler or the NESRGB mod, but both don't really provide many configuration options to improve picture quality.

Basically everything looks sort of blurry and there's a white outline or glow around every object in the game, both foreground sprites, background sprites and UI elements. See attached photo of the world 1 map of Super Mario Bros 3 taken up close. See the white outlines around everything? I wasn't expecting it to look this bad.

I hope my modded NES isn't faulty or something. If anything I would prefer that the Delock upscaler is simply a piece of crap (I have to admit, it was a pretty cheap unit) and I should replace it with an OSSC or a Retrotink.

Any advice?

These games are so special. What are your thoughts on Quintet's world reincarnation games?

Apologies if such a question was brought up in here before because I was interested in learning how the peripheral worked since I remember messing with Super Mario Bros cheat codes long ago with the PIGOAP code.

But basically I wanted to get a better understanding of how the device worked since I didn’t understand how a cheat code like PIGOAP caused Mario to go into a swimming state.

Number one. NAM-1975. Published by SNK for the Neo Geo and takes place in The Vietnam war hence the name "NAM".

Plot: Two special forces soldiers named "silver" and
"brown" going back to the war zone to save an ex-army scientist and his daughter.

Number two. Alligator Hunt. Developed by the Spanish company, Gaelco and takes place in a sci-fi space setting.

Plot: Two skateboarding kids with laser guns shoot down alligator-like aliens from invading Earth

Number three. Pirates. Developed by Another Spanish company Called NIX and takes place in the Golden Age of Piracy.

Plot: A male and a female pirate collecting three map pieces to locate a hidden treasure.

Number four. Wild Guns. Developed by Natsume for the SNES and takes place in a Steampunk-sci-fi wild western setting.

Plot: The female protagonist named "Annie" avenges her family's death and gets revenge on an Outlaw gang, with help from a local bounty hunter named "Clint".

Number five.Hard Times. A bootleg reskin hack of Blood Bros.
Developed by the Italian company Playmark, and takes place in The Prohibition Era.

Plot: Two Bounty hunters who are also whiskey smugglers. Waging a two-man wars against rivals, mobsters and thugs across city streets and rooftops.

Got side tracked for an hour drawing nina... :D

Pirate costume party at the cafe arcade I was volunteering at.

For years, Chinese hardware manufacturers have carved out a market niche with an array of handheld Android gaming devices focused on retro emulation and/or more modern game-streaming capabilities. Now, though, a major game industry trade group is targeting one of those manufacturers, Anbernic, asking the US Trade Representative (USTR) to add the company to its list of "Notorious Markets" that "engage in or facilitate substantial copyright piracy or trademark counterfeiting."

TorrentFreak was among the first to notice the request from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which was submitted to the USTR last week. In it, the US trade group—which represents major publishers including Nintendo, Microsoft, PlayStation, Amazon, Epic, EA, Ubisoft, and more—notes that Anbernic devices "are routinely offered or shipped with removable memory cards preloaded with hundreds or thousands of unauthorized copies of copyright-protected video games published by ESA members."

While many online sellers do include an SD card full of ROMs alongside emulation hardware of all types, Anbernic itself does not appear to do the same when selling directly from its website. Regardless, the ESA argues that these ROM-laden Anbernic devices selling through "normal retail channels" help to "normalize hardware-based piracy by delivering illicit catalogues through a polished consumer product." This, the ESA says, meets the threshold for a "superfake," an ill-defined designation that applies to "high-quality counterfeit trademark goods ... on a commercial scale."

I recently tried recording gameplay from my original hardware and ran into some issues with both stability and video quality.

For my setup, I used an old Roxio capture device that was originally intended for transferring VHS tapes to DVD. Since it has composite AV inputs, I connected my Sega Saturn to it and captured the signal through OBS on my laptop. While it technically worked, the results weren't very good, and the overall experience felt unreliable.

I'm looking for advice on the best modern approach for capturing gameplay from older consoles that use composite AV connections. Ideally, I'd like a setup that allows me to:

• Capture gameplay from systems like the Sega Saturn, PS1, SNES, Genesis, etc.
• Record through OBS on a PC or laptop.
• View the gameplay on my computer while recording.
• Optionally split the signal to a CRT TV as well, though that's not a requirement.

For those of you who regularly capture footage from original hardware, what capture devices, converters, upscalers, or overall setups would you recommend? Thanks!

totally took me off guard. was not expecting this.