Contra: Operation Galuga - Demo (Atari VCS PC-MODE)

[@linuxlover_8436]

a few questions if I may: 1. Best contra game in years? seems that way... 2. what capture software and/or hardware are you using? Can't think of any other questions for now. I personally run my VCS with Peppermint OS 11 Devuan 64-bit (earlier build not current since the new team made it uglier). I maxed out the Ram to 32GB DDR4-2400 Gskill and use a 2TB Samsung T7 NVME external for PC mode (I discovered it is faster than the theoretical max an internal M.2 drive could provide based on my initial benchmarking). In hindsight, I think going with ddr4-3200 might have been better but would require a small overclock in settings and I didn't want to endanger my VCS b/c it took me about a year after purchase to finally unlock the dreaded Password as none of the bios flashing worked for me despite heavy correspondence with Atari during that time. I am weirdly curious of pairing an external gpu via the pcie 3.0 slot (wifi slot) as I don't use the wifi anyway and play hardwired when I'm online. I have designated 16GB of VRAM for gaming even though it seems this APU (or most APU's in general reportedly don't benefit from anything beyond 4-8 GB of VRAM being designated.

[@sabertoothretro]

1. This feels like Contra. I don't know if that makes it the best entry in years, but it's definitely a love letter to the original. 2. I have an AverMedia Live Gamer 2 Plus Portable in my setup for game capture.

[@HELLHAMMERHANDHIX]

FURST !!!

[@sabertoothretro]

Thanks for always checking these out!

[@HELLHAMMERHANDHIX]

So ,is the PC mode like running D.O.S games ???. And why can't they be released on standard vcs800 ???.

[@sabertoothretro]

Not DOS, but Windows games using Proton - which is a fork of Wine that is baked into ChimeraOS. Since the VCS is really just a x86 PC you can load virtually any OS on it if you want, either through a bootable USB, external or internal SSD. Can't be released directly to VCS store since AtariOS is Linux-based and doesn't have Proton/Wine. Also, the publishers would need to want to do bring the games to the VCS.