What’s retroachievements? Basically it adds XBOX Live style achievements and global high score tables to retro emulation platforms. This added layer of social gaming and community driven accomplishment hunting really builds on the retro games emulation experience. The best part is you can get it running on pretty much any platform you emulate games on, your phone, your deck, your weird android handheld, HTPC, even your lappy-5000.
Since RA adds score and achievement tracking, those of us who game at decisively higher levels and compete for the most glorious prizes imaginable like to use it to track our games. Now is a great time to get it set up, so when the call for challengers comes to Beehaw, you can dive right in.
Here are some of the most fun achievements I have personally gotten.
Batman Returns
Castlevania 3
Arthur’s Absolutely Fun Day
Felix the Cat
Anyway, this has been anarchist propaganda, toodles
This software sounds pretty sketchy, it must be allowed to view the entire system’s memory and it has a webserver? What could possibly go wrong?
This sounds like a fun idea, but hard pass!
“view the entire system’s memory” oh wow I never thought about it thaaaaaaaaaat whey
Here’s how it actually works if you are curious. https://docs.retroachievements.org/developer-docs/getting-started-as-an-achievement-developer.html
Yep. That’s what I read. I don’t like the idea of an app that examines other apps memory unless it’s either the OS or antivirus.
How do I check if a certain game has an achievement set or not? Say NES Contra
Usually I don’t make these sort of replies, but did you even try and figure it out for yourself? You literally go to the website and type Contra into the search box…
Ahh crap, I kept searching for Contra in docs.retroachievements.org instead of the original site and found nothing. Thanks.
It’s a great website. I used it a couple years ago as an excuse to finally play the predecessor to the first castlevania game I played as a child.
Had typed a long response and it went away, let’s try again… 😅
So, been lately in a Castlevania binge (Metroidvanias only, I’ve always sucked at the platforming ones) and there’s a nice group of games there, you beat Aria, now try Dawn which happens a year later, a very rare direct sequel among these. Then there’s Harmony of Dissonance, Circle of the Moon if you’re into that one (I’m lukewarm on this one), Dawn as mentioned, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclessia, and of course the grandaddy of them all, Symphony of the Night. All these are FREAKING FULL of achievements on Retroachievements, unlike the officially released versions on Steam with the Advance and Dominus collections, which only have a tiny handful for each game. Retroachievements has like 5 to 10 times the achievements for games, every achievement on the official releases is in Retroachievements, along with A LOT of ones not covered. Even tiny little missable details like this one on Symphony which I’ve always loved. It also has achievements for the nutcases like speedrunning ones or the “Defeat X with no damage and without using so and so item”.
Just make sure the emulator and retroachievements recognize it, i’ll have to redo Portrait at some point because it never recognized it as Portrait for some reason (ROM issues or something?)
And of course, once you’re done with these, there’s Bloodstained, the Castlevaina not Castlevania, quite fun and with the right vibe!
Oh, I played through Dawn as a kid multiple times. It’s great. It’s what made me play Aria in the first place.
I’ve tried Bloodstained, but another game release got in the way. Definitely need to give it another go.
Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll check them out.
I used RetroArch when I played Aria. Works, has support for Retroachievements built in, is cross platform, and I even got it to where I could save on mobile and have it sync to my PC and vice versa, but I don’t like the interface. I even got to the point where I could theoretically sync the saves to my modded 3DS, but only manually.
RA sent me into a fever dream with Pokémon Pinball on the GBA, trying to get all of the achievements that counted for the “beaten” tick on my profile. Why did I do that? Why?
