The VG Resource

Hello!

The name's Adrot. Currently from Romania , my main passion was videogaming since 8. Having a Win 95 and a trashed-and-found NES  working with games (not with me anymore), I grew an interest in the Nintendo community (and I didn't stop there). Started having some rom fun with SNES and GBA roms, from playing in remote places (even as to playing a fully functional GBA emulator to a 2009, 512 mb RAM SymbianS60v5 OS phone, quite the feat, still using it) to editing with tools (Lunar Magic, Reggie,Nitro Explorer etc), until adapting to learn some simple hacking techniques for my DSi and other types of roms.
I may not know any special programming laguage (I stick with HTML5,  I'm still trying to understand JavaScript), but I am willing to endure (mentally) to get the best experience of a forgotten game transformed and archived for future conservation, (and personal self-achieving, of course). That said, time and college WILL attempt to stop me, but as long as nobody else is doing it...then I will, for the time being. In short, I will rip games that I like, but nobody ripped them when I can. Other hobbies: Music composing/remastering (I don't know the notes but I can recreate them in my brain with synths), video/audio editing, translating RO/SPA/ENG and many more...

The games I currently rip are also noted in my signature, but for the tl;dr:
-Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Can be done)
-Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (Can be done)
-Salamander 2 (Hard, but possiible)
-Xexex/Salamander Portable (Time-straining, need alternatives for arcade/PSP sprite ripping)
-s Audio (Until 2017)
- games (Very rare, we barely entered this territory and there is still lacking knowledge for ripping.)


I am very pleased to join this community and I can't wait to see what reserves the future in the Resource.

//☆drot

whats good planet


reading this intro post gives me the good feels. windows 95. good shit good shit GOOD shit. welcome

not to poo on the culture there (and apologies if i do) regarding your trashed and found NES - I assume retro gaming in eastern europe isn't particularly great due to (I assume) nintendo really never paying attention to that region. could you go to like stores or markets in that area and easily find a famiclone?? (i'm thinking like russia's dendy but romania's like nowhere near there, so i...really, genuinely have no idea what 90's gaming culture was like over there)

(09-29-2016, 03:16 PM)Kosheh Wrote: [ -> ]whats good planet


reading this intro post gives me the good feels. windows 95. good shit good shit GOOD shit. welcome

not to poo on the culture there (and apologies if i do) regarding your trashed and found NES - I assume retro gaming in eastern europe isn't particularly great due to (I assume) nintendo really never paying attention to that region. could you go to like stores or markets in that area and easily find a famiclone?? (i'm thinking like russia's dendy but romania's like nowhere near there, so i...really, genuinely have no idea what 90's gaming culture was like over there)

Hi, and thanks for the kind reply!
Actually, the NES has a whole different backstory (Long story ahead).
 
In my childhood, I moved for a prolonged period in Spain, where I found the NES near a trash bin. An uncle made it work on the TV, and we played Top Gun (which I never understood the controls, but he landed the plane pretty good), Megaman, which I really didn't want to play because of the cover art, Tom &Jerry, which had a weird gameplay, and Mario + Duck Hunt. I loved Mario, even if I barely knew it, and learned later about him from Flash games and Newgrounds. But Duck Hunt... still pointing at the screen would barely work, until my dad told me to point it at a light bulb. Boy was that fun. But after that...We made a ''storm move'' back in Romania....many stuff were left there (The NES, a slides projector, one of 2 books with me and my class as characters, etc.)

I learned about its ACTUAL value after I requested a special DSiXL from my dad. And it looks like I wasn't the only Mario fan in Romania...some rich 5 year old got the DSi and Mario at his Birthday Party. But I didn't gave up. I knew my cousin had some kind of weird NES bootleg with a keyboard and other weird stuff, to which we had the chance to play SMB. Boy, the joy I felt that day... I memorized the castle patterns and I used them to beat him until World 5. But he donated the console to someone else.

Now, I know two other people who have: A DSiXL with Pokemon Black and Heart Gold, to which we tested to connect both (and failed), and another kid who has the 3DSXL, which I used some of my 3DS games (planned to sell my DSi, but this country doesn't appercite the value. I have like 6 games, an R4, which took me a year to trace it in the city,and Four Swords, the Limited Ed, completed.), oh yeah, and some dude on the bus with a 2DS and Razer Hydra playing Pokemon.

That being said, buyng a Wii U(200€-1.0799 RON) here,or a 3DS(100€-500 RON) ain't cheap. because of lack of localization, and import costs. Even some stores don't update the info on these products anyonre!
That said, I still tell about Nintendo to this day to people, because, it's siomething so great and timeless about it, they tend to forget because they never heard about it, it wasn't popular enough. That's how, in a boring , bland hour, I teached my class about gaming history in 10 minutes. They applauded me (hope it wasn't because of the bell XD), and I even convinced a friend about the great gameplay of the Nintendo games. He ended up buying a GBA SP. I praise him for that, not many poeple choose the retro style.

Oh yeah, most of the Nintendo and other retro stuff can be bought at olx.ro . Its like a Romanian eBay, except you can also use cash, and personal delivery. NES ranges from 20€ to 100€. It even has Game & Watch titles ang GBA keychains. Nintendo won't die so easily in Romania. Thanks to the company going mobile, Pokemon GO has raised popularity of their games once again, with its 10 Mill. downloads in the country, on Android alone. They even put Pokemon figures with Trading Cards at McDonalds. I saw a 5 year old kid holding a Shiny Magikarp figure, and a Squirtle card. Gonna be honest, I found and Eevee card two days ago. I almost cried. Last time I held a Pokemon TGC in my hand was in 2003 at Burger King, and it got destroyed along with a Pokeball by some bullies.

TL;DR, Nintendo has it's ways of becoming popular in Eastern Europe, and it makes me happy once again.  

//☆drot