/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3075139
The music is especially advanced in ToP.

The streaming audio is really nifty. I don't know exactly how they did it, but the solution complicated by the fact there is no interrupt mechanism between the main CPU and audio coprocessor. I think they used timers in the APU and took advantage of V-blank happening at 60Hz to time a window to implement a very tight protocol.

Moreover the game featured fading between two tracks (think Valencia near musicians). Not completely impossible to figure out how they did it, but an extremely cool effect not seen anywhere else to my knowledge.

Btw, the ToP overworld is one of the best, if not the best looking mode 7 map on the SNES.

>>2901415
Official box art.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/snes/tales-of-phantasia
Mobygames page.

http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/55008/snes204/Tales-of-Phantasia.html
ROM download if you are so inclined.

You got dunked on, son.

Planning to play this, what should I expect, /vr/? I'm not a man of JRPGs but I don't want to pussy out.

>tfw only two Tales games are retro

Should I play the GBA version or the SNES version?

>>2126972
Seconding Tales of Phantasia. The 48 megabit Rom allowed for digitized voices to be added to the music. I nearly shit myself the first time I heard that.

I was wondering about the GBA remake. is it any good?