RetroAchievements

[EvilDragon]

Well, there exists something similar to C4A: RetroAchievements.
It's a lot bigger though

http://retroachievements.org

They use modified emulators that upload the score to their server...

I wonder:
Any dev interested in adding the RA-Stuff to some of our emulators?
That sounds awesome for the Pandora (and Pyra).

https://github.com/RetroAchievements/RASuite

 

[levi]

That seems to be about more than score. I noticed one achievement recently uploaded that was about beating a specific opponent in an N64 Pokemon game. I don't know if all those conditions are documented somewhere short of grepping through the source code.

 

[second exodous]

This would be cool. I wonder how they combat cheating? Do the emulators come from their site?

 

[pmprog]

This doesn't seem to be about "competing" in the same way as C4A. This is just for adding "achievements" to retro games. I've not looked into the code, but I don't think they care about cheats (because it's not really a competition), because I've seen comments about people trying different versions of a game rom... so there'd be nothing stopping somebody editing a ROM file to "hardcode" cheats, rather than just emulator-based cheating.

 

[EvilDragon]

Oh, right. That's less interesting then.

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[canseco]

Any dev interested in adding the RA-Stuff to some of our emulators?

Retroarch 1.6.9 supports Retroachivements, with Hi Scores, Hardcore mode, achivements, etc.

 

[Grench]

My biggest complaint about 'achievement systems' is when they are implemented as required with no way to turn them off.

Example: Pinball Arcade on Android
Great game - emulates pinball machines through history. Very expensive game too - hundreds of $ if you want all the tables.
Recently started requiring a Google+ login in order to play. I don't want a Google+ account.
Keeps flashing 'achievements' on the screen that overlay and interrupt gameplay and updates them back to Google+.
I just want to play the game I paid for in offline mode - but there isn't one. I purchased it before the Google+ account requirement and prior to 'achievements'.

So - if I had a vote on whether to roll 'achievements' into anything, make sure they are turned off by default - or at least have a way to turn them off.

 

[pmprog]

My biggest complaint about 'achievement systems' is when they are implemented as required with no way to turn them off.

Yeah, but on the otherhand, if you've ever played Convoy (which I think is a great game), it has achievements in, but it's all local to the machine.
What bugs me more than achievements is "locked" content. Convoy, like FTL, is a bit annoying in that sense, because it's a roguelike and thus random each time, the chances of you stumbling over the item to unlock a certain thing can be very remote, and the odd chance you do find it, you might not be equipped to complete the mission etc.
I appreciate some of it makes "story" sense... but to me it's a frustrating way to "prolong" the games life. If I find the game fun, I'll come back to it regardless. All locked content does is annoy me and make me look for save game/profile editors to unlock it all