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[0123456]

After hammering Xports new emulator (big thanks for that) and reliving all of my old Megademo days I'm looking for some games.

Never really played that many back in the days (even though I had 1000s of "backups" ) as I was more into the music, demos and hacking.

I've recently completed Supercars II and Batman - got quite far on Deflektor, Lemmings, Turrican II and Rick Dangerous 2 but apart from that I can't remeber any other addictive games

What do you recommend?

[Boff]

I used to enjoy (off the top of my head...this is going back a good few years now   )   Wings, Speedball 2, Desert Strike, It Came From The Desert and Kick Off 2 (hard on a xbox pad   ) Haven't really tried xports Amiga emulator yet, will have to give it a shot.

[moviecut]

try this one:

- sensible world of soccer
- chaos engine 1&2
- ruff n tumble
- slam tilt
- mr nutz
- lionheard
- super skidmarks
- mad bomber 2
- gravity force 2
- turrican 2&3
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[pneumonia]

Battle chess pwns if you are a chess fan.  

[Scoobysnaxx]

Champions of Krynn
Death Knights of Krynn
Dark Quenn of Krynn
Dr Plummets house of Flux
Kingdoms of England

For sure you have to try the first three

[shorty]

Not to forget...

Another World (UK Name)/Out of this world (US Name)
Flashback
Lotus Turbo Esprit


I find it a problem, so many games, great games.... and how many can i remember!!.......... 3!!  

- Shorty

EDIT:: Ooooohhhh, all the monkey island games
Both Turrican games
Creatures (its not so good on amiga, but def. try it on C64)

....errrrr

[0123456]

Thanks for those recommendations folks, will be digging them out as soon as I've done this so I can play them using because it just aint the same on and Xbox pad.

[shorty]

Yeah thats a great tut.

Did you know that you can add a 9 way port in the memory slot and then adapt various controllers (Snes, Megadrive, Nes, C64, SMS....etc, etc) to work with it.

 - Shorty

[0123456]

Indeed, I'd assume it would be a case of getting the pinouts of the pad/stick you wished to use and modifying them to the port on the back of the pad.

That's why I intend to use a 15 pin VGA cable instead of the 9 pin mentioned in the tut - that would give me enough pinouts to be able to utilize up, down, left, right, start, back, a, b, x, y, black, white, l, r.

Due to the limitations of a VGA cable (only 14 wires, no pin 9) this means that I cannot assign the rthumbdown and lthumbdown buttons without using NAND gates etc.. but hey, no biggie.

[shorty]

You could always make your own cable.

I can get 15 pin connectors (without pin 9 missing, and then you just need 15 (or more) core cable.

Try looking at RS components... or whatever you guy use in the USA.

Further still, you could use any old connector with as many pins as you need.

 - Shorty

[0123456]

I picked the VGA connecter because a] there happens to be one lying around and B] it fits quite nicely into the memory card slot of the controller.

Will be looking into different connector types for my second pad mod...Also shorty, I'm UK based

[shorty]

Always good to see someone from the UK    Scotland myself.

- Shorty

[Juganawt]

There are just too many damn good Amiga games, but here are some of my faves from the old days...if you grab this lot, you're sure to be busy for a while!

Zool 1 & 2
Run the Gauntlet
Wizkid
Wizball
Harlequin
IK+
Batman The Movie
Batman The Caped Crusader
Head over Heels
Lemmings 1, 2, All New World Of
Cannon Fodder 1 & 2
Sensible Soccer
It Came From the Desert / ICFTD 2: Antheads
Rocket Ranger
Defender of the Crown
Sword of Sodan (it's a bit crappy now, but still a good laugh)
Elite 1 + 2
Captain Blood
Speedball 1 & 2
Xenon 1 & 2
Chaos Engine
Heimdall 1 & 2
Skidmarks
Robocop 1, 2 & 3
A Rockstar Ate My Hamster
Marble Madness
Alien Breed, 92, II, Tower Assault, 3D
Monkey Island 1 & 2
Another World
Flashback
Prince of Persia
Assassin / Assassin SE
Barbarian 1 & 2 (palace versions)
Blastar
Uridium 2
Paradroid 90
Bard's Tale 1,2 & 3
Bloodnet
Dreamweb
Body Blows
Captive 1 & 2
Captain Blood
Carrier Command
Dungeon Master & Chaos Strikes Back
Civilisation
Cybernoid 1 & 2
Darkseed
Moonstone
The Lost Patrol
Platoon
ANY of the Dizzy games
Dojo Dan
Drakkhen
Dune 1 & 2
ECO (not sure if it works in WinUAEX though)
Diggers
E-Motion
Elvira 1 & 2
Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters
Exile
Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2
Faery Tale Adventure
Fire & Ice
FirePower
First / Second Samurai
Full Contact
Future War Time Travellers
Beneath a Steel Sky
Operation Stealth
G.Nius
Gauntlet 1 & 2
Genesia
Ghosts N Goblins
Ghouls N Ghosts
Gods
Magic Pockets
Golden Axe
X-Out
Great Giana Sisters
Hacker 1 & 2
H.A.T.E.
Hired Guns
Rise of the Dragon
Hunter
Hydra
The Immortal
Impossible Mission 2
Impossible Mission 2025
Ishar 1 & 2
Jaguar XJ220
Crazy Cars 3
Jimmy White WHirlwind Snooker
Karate Kid 2
Katakis
Pirates / Pirates Gold
Kikstart 2
Killing Gameshow
King of Chicago
SDI (Cinemaware)
Leisure Suit Larry 1 - 5
Hero Quest
Last Ninja 2, 3 & Remix
Leander
LED Storm
leathernecks
Legends of Valour
Lionheart
Little Computer People
Live & Let Die
Llamatron
Lotus Challenge 1 2 &3
Lure of the Temptress
Mad Professor Moriarti
Major Motion
Mercenary 1 2 & 3
Miami Chase
Micro Machines
Midwinter 1 & 2
Mortville Manor
Dogsbody
Myth
Nebulus 1 &2
Night Breed - The Movie
Nitro
North & South
Shadow of the Beast 1 2 & 3
ATV racing
Outrun Europa
Overdrive
Pang
Paperboy 1 & 2
Parasol Stars
Terramex
The Pawn (Text Adventure)
Perihelion
Star Ray
Pinball Dreams / Fantasies / Illusions
Adventures of Willy Beamish
Populous 1 & 2
Power Drift
Power Monger
Premiere
Project X
Apidya
Putty & Putty Squad
Pushover
Quik & Silva
Qwak
R-Type 1 & 2
Hard Drivin
Race Drivin
Rainbow Islands
Bubble Bobble
Rampage
Ramparts
Ranx
Rick Dangerous 1 & 2
Rise of the Dragon
Roger Rabbit
Rodland
Roll or Die
Savage
Settlers
Shadoworlds
Shadow Warriors
Shufflepuck Cafe
Silkworm
SWIV
Sim City 2000
Simon The Sorceror
Skeleton Krew
Space Hulk
UFO Enemy Unknown
Skidz
Sly Spy
Spindizzy Worlds
Spy Who Loved Me
Star Wars, SW Empire Strikes Back, SW Return of the Jedi
Strider 1 & 2
Stunt Car Racer
Supercars 1 & 2
Stardust & Super Stardust
Superfrog
Supremacy
Switchblade 1 & 2
Joe Blade 1 & 2
Swords of Twilight
Syndicate
Fusion
Terminator 2 Arcade Game
ThunderBlade
Thundercats
Time
Toki
Torvak The Warrior
Tower of Babel
Total Recall
Turrican 1 2 & 3
All the Ultima Games
Untouchables
Venom Wing
Gemini Wing
Venus the Flytrap
Chrome
Vigilante
Vindicators
Viz
Virus
Walker
The Wall
Arkanoid 1 & 2
War in Middle Earth
Warlords
Warriors of Releyne
Wing Commander
Wings of Fury 1 & 2
Wings
Wiz N Liz
Worms
Wrath of the Demon
Xenomorph
Xenophobe
Xybots
Zany Golf
Zombi

[Danjuro]

I always loved games involving inertia, so I'd recommend Zarathrusta, or even Exile (though I doubt this one would be playable without a keyboard). Everybody knows Air Taxi and Space Taxi already I guess If anybody else know of any other games involving this kind of mechanics and would be nice to share her experience with us...

Also I came accross a nice port (sic) of the PC game Portal. It is an adventure game that had a nice premise, even if sadly the "game" (this is more like a book) system shows its limits, especially in the 2nd half of the game.

Finally, a friend introduced a really nice lil shooter to me the other day : Hybris. The controls are a bit complex (you need to do joystick motions to active bombs or power ups, so you could play without the keyboard), but feel right when you're used to them, and the game looks and sounds great.

Oh and with v7, I was finally able to play with the legendary Wizkid. This game is messed up

Good day.

[BlaCkAdDa]

Don't forget the Pinball games
Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions and Slam Tilt!
and Yo Joe is a good platformer