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shymog posted:Has someone ever compiled a list of original Famicom Japan exclusives that can be played without extensive Japanese reading ability? There's a series on Youtube called "You Can Play This" that's all about that. They cover all consoles, but there's a lot of Famicom. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2623B0CF29C34A33
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shymog posted:Has someone ever compiled a list of original Famicom Japan exclusives that can be played without extensive Japanese reading ability? poo poo, I just played a pretty neat Famicom game about a bald kid with a third eye (looks like Krillin from Dragon Ball) goes around punching monsters. You can charge up your powers to create a mobile platform you can hop on. There's an in-game store you can spend spirits to buy power ups like a flame shot. It plays similarly to Demonhead but with linear levels. It's a Famicom "gem" I've never heard of before and randomly selected it while going through my ROM list.
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Apr 4, 2013 21:52
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Dudes, recently my wife liberated a Model 1 Sega Mega Drive from her parents storage (and from the clutches of her brother, haha sucker) awesome right?  Wrong, the bastard wont power on.  The symptom is pretty much no power LED flashing on, and no display or function on the TV set. A little bit of googling tells me it could be down to an old/broken power adapter, or a fuse in the console may be dead. Is there anything in particular I should do to fix this?
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Apr 4, 2013 21:52
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al-azad posted:poo poo, I just played a pretty neat Famicom game about a bald kid with a third eye (looks like Krillin from Dragon Ball) goes around punching monsters. You can charge up your powers to create a mobile platform you can hop on. There's an in-game store you can spend spirits to buy power ups like a flame shot. It plays similarly to Demonhead but with linear levels. Mitsume ga Tooru? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoD13BIHoJ0&t=0m14s
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Apr 4, 2013 21:57
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My game collection is about as big as I can handle without moving into a place of my own. I really should dump the MicroVision, most of the small (but space-devouring) Genesis collection, the PS1 games and a buttload of PC games (also space devouring, several big box games). Given how much I seem to actually play the Dreamcast that should go too, but it's loving amazing how compact that system and a sizable game library for it is (although extra controllers and a boxed keyboard and arcade stick bloat that out a bit). Plus there's a lot of sentiment in that library, as I managed to find a lot of it for quite a bit cheaper than it was going for (Super Street Fighter II X for  god drat) and we played a lot of the fighting games for it in college.Man, the 3DO should probably go too if I'm being honest, and I have a PS1 with a motor problem that I'm not inclined to fix since I have two other systems that play PS1 games. I do buy most of my games fully intending to play them, I swear!
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Apr 4, 2013 22:11
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This is it, yes. If you're trying to find language friendly Famicom gems then take a look. Also, Holy Diver.
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Apr 4, 2013 22:12
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That Sansui Joycard I ordered that was listed as New? It's used. Complete in a box that's been retaped closed. The controller is in great shape and all but the metal plate on front has tiny scuffs and I feel so violated!
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Apr 4, 2013 22:39
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Heran Bago posted:That Sansui Joycard I ordered that was listed as New? It's used. Complete in a box that's been retaped closed. The controller is in great shape and all but the metal plate on front has tiny scuffs and I feel so violated! It'll eventually come back in your favor brother. I've had that same thing happen plenty of times, but have also had plenty of times where an ebay auction with a stock photo arrives and is beyond prestine when you expected it to be a beat up mangled piece of poo poo. I've got a great example of this and Virtual Boy games I'll post tonight if I remember.
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Apr 4, 2013 22:44
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Yuck, I think I've got my first totally bum cart   A grimy copy of Mike Tyson's Punch Out. The case only had two of the three screws and it had that chunk taken out of it - my guess is someone got mad and chucked it. The contacts are scrubbed clean and I'm just getting a gray screen. Is it beyond hope or is there some arcane art to repairing traces?
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Apr 4, 2013 23:38
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shymog posted:No, not quite. It lets you tap to take a picture and highlight the text to be translated. I'm looking for something that does it in real-time. Worth noting tho that machine translation tends to gently caress up much more than usual when given kana-only lines to translate.
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Apr 4, 2013 23:40
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Having used Google Translate in vain attempts to keep up on Japanese game streams, I wouldn't trust it to translate to a doctor in Tokyo if a loved one was rolled into the ER.
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Apr 4, 2013 23:43
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What is this AR Japanese Translator for iOS? Sounds handy for kanji that I have no idea what it is.
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Those who were on the fence about getting an n8 because they don't have a famicom or an adapter, this is coming soon:
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Apr 5, 2013 00:31
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Want that flash cart. When awful machine translation is the only option write it in both languages if you can. Same body of text twice. With a little English comprehension the reader might be able to piece the meaning together.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:49
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Holy gently caress Quest of Ki. I got to floor 67 and gently caress these levels are maddening. I quit.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:56
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HKR posted:Those who were on the fence about getting an n8 because they don't have a famicom or an adapter, this is coming soon: Reported for posting porn in a worksafe thread.
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flyboi posted:Holy gently caress Quest of Ki. I got to floor 67 and gently caress these levels are maddening. I quit. But you didn't even reach the best floor, 98. 
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Random Stranger posted:But you didn't even reach the best floor, 98. I DON'T WANNA Besides, I beat "Quest of Ki" on level 60! I just gave up on Tower of Daruga 
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Apr 5, 2013 01:13
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flyboi posted:I DON'T WANNA You've got to get The Return of Ishtar and Nightmare of Druaga so you can give up on all the games in the series!  Seriously, Nightmare of Druaga is kind of a puzzle orientated game in the Mystery Dungeon series which is interesting. The Return of Ishtar, on the other hand, is completely forgettable and it's only available in English on one of the more expensive Namco arcade collections.
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I just realized (Don't ask, I am a complete and total idiot) that I had a Japanese N64 transfer pak. So keeping count here, Japanese pokesta1 and transfer pak but no suitable gb games and an american pokesta2 and pokemon yellow with no suitable transfer pak. Someone really hates me. Gonna call up a few shops tomorrow afternoon that sell this sort stuff and see if I can snag one.
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Apr 5, 2013 01:23
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Let me see what it would take to make a Genesis not look like poo poo on my TV. Oh so it can't just do S-Video let's see what this RGB thing is. Oh those big ugly cables I threw out years ago were "SCART" and the cost to set this up would be... oh.. ohhhhhhh... Well what about my NES I mean how bad could- oh. VVV Space is a commodity but I might as well join the Trinitron club. Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Heran Bago posted:Let me see what it would take to make a Genesis not look like poo poo on my TV. Oh so it can't just do S-Video let's see what this RGB thing is. Oh those big ugly cables I threw out years ago were "SCART" and the cost to set this up would be... oh.. ohhhhhhh... Genesis model 1's can do S-Video with some light modding (And I, or other goons in this thread would be capable of doing said mod). NES's look fine on a CRT over composite. RGB modding is far too crazy and limited for sane or semi-sane people to do.
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iastudent posted:I'm running into a bit of trouble getting my PS1 imports to play on my US system. I thought I had read previously that by using a Gameshark or Action Replay to pause a NTSC-U disc while the tray was open (usually by selecting it to read music tracks), you could then swap out the disc and put in your JP or whatever one, then start the game up by exiting the cheat device's menu. Quoting this since it got stuck at the end of the previous page. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or if there's some other component I'm missing. I just want to play imports without resorting to getting a JP PS1 or modchip.
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Akileese posted:I just realized (Don't ask, I am a complete and total idiot) that I had a Japanese N64 transfer pak. So keeping count here, Japanese pokesta1 and transfer pak but no suitable gb games and an american pokesta2 and pokemon yellow with no suitable transfer pak. Someone really hates me. Gonna call up a few shops tomorrow afternoon that sell this sort stuff and see if I can snag one. Good news, you're in the clear. Transfer Paks are not region-locked. Since I had everything lying around from the last test, I confirmed that it doesn't matter which region the Transfer Pak's from. Just the N64 cart and GB cart's regions have to jive.
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iastudent posted:Quoting this since it got stuck at the end of the previous page. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or if there's some other component I'm missing. I just want to play imports without resorting to getting a JP PS1 or modchip. A lot of games (Especially later ones) will need codes to start up. Some just won't. Best way to play PS1 imports is a modded PS1/2 or a JP PS1/2.
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iastudent posted:Quoting this since it got stuck at the end of the previous page. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or if there's some other component I'm missing. I just want to play imports without resorting to getting a JP PS1 or modchip. Are you holding the disc-lid-closed button through the whole process? Usually people cram a ball of aluminum foil in there or take a spring out of a pen and put one end on the spike the presses the button down. The spring thing worked for me with a "swap disc" and no mod.  VV I think so but the specific gameshark is important and I didn't even know some games needed codes. Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Heran Bago posted:Are you holding the disc-lid-closed button through the whole process? Usually people cram a ball of aluminum foil in there or take a spring out of a pen and put one end on the spike the presses the button down. The spring thing worked for me with a "swap disc" and no mod. Yeah, I am. All the games I imported though refuse to go from the Gameshark screen to their own once I exit out the GS. Can you use any US PS1 game as the game you swap out for the import? iastudent fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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I finally managed to mod my 60-to-72-pin connector to passthrough the audio. Holy gently caress am I bad at soldering, though, like I think most 6 year-olds with decent color-in-the-lines skills could do better than I could. The Everdrive definitely needs work for the expanded sound, some of it sounds really weird and it's definitely the main thing the Powerpak still does better (also selective Famicom Disk System side changes). Also, I don't think Gimmick! is working with it (the game plays but the sound is hosed), which is interesting since the Powerpak works. Also note that there's some bad info online, you need to tap pin 45 (forty-five) on the Famicom side of the adapter for sound. I'm going to try and do the audio passthrough cable mod to circumvent internal modding required. Hopefully I'll have that done tomorrow. I also need to find a way to cut a notch out of the NES cartridge shell so I can get at the microSD slot and USB port; if I get that working I'll pretty much have the perfect NES flash cart for my liking.
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iastudent posted:Can you use any US PS1 game as the game you swap out for the import? Generally, yeah, but you want one with that's nearly full/has a large TOC from what I remember.
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HKR posted:Those who were on the fence about getting an n8 because they don't have a famicom or an adapter, this is coming soon: Not too shabby. For the curious, krikzz himself says it's identical to the Famicom 60-pin version, the only difference is it being 72-pin. It will run the exact same firmware and have identical (in)compatibility. He also says the cost will be either the same or slightly higher than the Famicom-size one.
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It looks like it'll mount pretty easily in a NES shell too. Finally a use for my dead copy of Karate Champ.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Is it using the higher quality flash memory ala the Powerpak? Sorry for Dunno if this is the "higher quality" memory but this is what it uses for PRG/CHR http://www.cypress.com/?rID=13170
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Tusen Takk posted:This looks fantastic! How did you do that/where did you get the cases/ make the inserts? I downloaded the inserts off thecoverproject.com and printed them myself using a photo printer and photo paper. Alternatively, if you don't have a good printer, you may be able to get the covers printed at Staples, but I'm not sure what kind of paper they'd use. The cases, I bought them here: http://www.genesysdtp.com/index.htm?nintendodscasedetails.htm One caveat with those cases though, you have to cut a little plastic on the top portion of the gba slot. You just have to cut it down so it's mostly flush with the rest of the case. A decent pair of diagonal cutters can do each case in 1 minute or less.
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Doug Dinsdale posted:Good news, you're in the clear. Really? So why does my Pokemon Yellow not work with the transfer pak? Is the pak bad? e: I think the Pak is bad. It's missing clips and generally looks like poo poo. So w/e. I got that one in a bundle and it was free. I just bought another one off ebay. Not a huge deal. Akileese fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Apr 5, 2013 |
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:Is it using the higher quality flash memory ala the Powerpak? Sorry for Neither the Powerpak nor the N8 use flash memory, "flash cart" has just become a generic term mostly.
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Lime posted:Neither the Powerpak nor the N8 use flash memory, "flash cart" has just become a generic term mostly. Oh okay. I just remember the Everdrive used a different type of flash than the Mega Everdrive or something. The better one loads faster and isn't supposed to have limited writes or something, I forget.
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Lime posted:Neither the Powerpak nor the N8 use flash memory, "flash cart" has just become a generic term mostly. They're called flash carts because you store the games on flash memory (in older ones they were custom modules, in current ones it's CompactFlash or SD, whcih are still flash memory).
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Finally got my SD2SNES after months and months of waiting, and it is one of the best things I have ever purchased, gaming wise. Just started a new game of Seiken Densetsu 3 and seeing it playing through my SNES on my old crappy CRT gave me goosebumps.
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Install Gentoo posted:They're called flash carts because you store the games on flash memory (in older ones they were custom modules, in current ones it's CompactFlash or SD, whcih are still flash memory). Okay, yeah, from that perspective they're all still proper flash carts. Still, it's worth distinguishing what carts actually run ROMs from, and krikzz himself calls the N8 a RAM cart.
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