Heya, KickMeElmo from RetroAchievements here. I created [email protected] a while back just in case anyone wants to post about their achievement journeys. I’d love to read about your progress!
Oh I’ll be doing that. What’s the craziest achievement you’ve seen or completed?
Seen? I’m actually a bit of a wimp difficulty-wise, so there’s a lot that intimidates me. Pretty much any 100-pointer seems insane to me. Completed? A now-demoted achievement for completing 50 waves of the arena in Golden Sun. That took hours to complete, and it was rough.
Thank you for answering. I look forward to trying some challenges, but I’m kinda an easy difficulty gamer myself
A year ago is certainly a while back, although RA has such active forums I’m not surprised people aren’t really using Lemmy for it, haha. I would have posted about my GCN summer last year, haha.
I’d like to revisit building a PiBoy. Was gonna do it. Never did. Any build guides with shopping lists and software lists that you would recommend?
Uhhh I’m not sure, this case is a kit that comes with everything but the pi, batteries, and sd card.
As far as software, I just roll a retropie image that I customize with Gameboy splash screens, etc.
I’m more experienced building retropies into a Nintendo cartridge. I used to make a ton of them during the pandemic. I eventually made my own retropie image that was all set up for mass producing.
Sweet.
How do achievements work? Do they require certain roms, or can you use rom hacks/different headers?
Hi! I’m an admin from RetroAchievements, excited to see all the hype around here. Each achievement set will have specific files it supports, as visible in “supported game files”. In the case of Earthbound, that encompasses a wide variety of translations as well as a few improvement hacks, plus the basic US version of the game. Usually games will have a much smaller number of supported files due to incompatibilities in the memory across versions complicating matters, as well as the achievement set dev being responsible for ensuring compatibility with the linked files. That said, hashing is based on the rom file itself, not the filename. In the case of SNES in particular, it’s just an md5 hash of the (headerless) game file. Different romhacks may have their own sets, and there are some special inert patches available to enable challenge achievement sets, such as one for completing the game while avoiding the cameraman at every opportunity.
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask!
Thanks for the explanation, I wasn’t completely sure how it worked because it seems magical. I tried my best with an explanation, but it’s all very new to me
I think they work through by going by the rom name and then checking the database online. I don’t know if romHacks work, it really depends if the community added it. You have to make a (free) account on the website to track your achievements and link to your emulator. Some emulators work with it, some don’t. But I haven’t dug deep on my retropie/retroarch devices to know if they all work.
I have nes->psx on this device so I’ll be testing a lot tonight.
I know delta and PPSSPP in iOS have support for it, but Delta requires a patreon subscription to use achievements so I won’t be doing that.
retro achievements on retroarch ps vita is my thing rn. sadly not possible on mister pi or analogue pocket but i’ll take it!
Oooh gonna try & get this going on my r36s!
You know that part where you take the secret portal in the bar to another dimension? How do you get past that? I have up on the game because I was just getting slaughtered.
Fun game until that. it really made me laugh.
There is a pattern to which teleport guy to talk to in the right order. I can never remember it and it’s always the most frustrating part.
