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RZA Encryption posted:What are some good baseball games? I was playing Cal Ripken Jr on SNES last night, which I think controls well, but doesn't have real teams or stadiums. Did we really get a whole page without mentioning Ken Grif for the SNES? It's like the only good baseball game! (The regular one not "Winning Run" that one is  )edit: two pages apparently!
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Set up a Retropie yesterday, is great. I just wish I didn't have to adjust the settings to reduce input lag every single time I start up a game. Hoping that upgrading from a 2A to a 2.5A power supply might help a little.
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Not a Children posted:Set up a Retropie yesterday, is great. I just wish I didn't have to adjust the settings to reduce input lag every single time I start up a game. Hoping that upgrading from a 2A to a 2.5A power supply might help a little. What platform(s) are you emulating? Another common solution to the input lag problem is switching your TV over to Game Mode, if it has one. Modern TV's have so much post-processing built in that it introduces a not insignificant amount of lag. For whatever reason it's especially noticeable when playing SNES games like Super Mario World.
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Has anyone realized how amazing old video game magazines are? I've been looking through publications like EGM, Super Play and Video Games and Computer Entertainment. I didn't grow up with this stuff but its just so interesting to look through all the articles and think, "this was the only stuff these guys had to get information". The advertisements are sick too.
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Erluk posted:Did we really get a whole page without mentioning Ken Grif for the SNES? It's like the only good baseball game! Yeah Ken Griffey Jr presents MLB is amazing. I'm surprised Baseball Stars or Little League Baseball for the NES didn't get mentioned either. If you're looking for something more current but not painstaking the way The Show can be, I highly recommend Super Mega Baseball.
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Aug 16, 2016 16:36
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EGM was fantastic back in the day because I got to drool over such exotic things as the PC Engine/TG16 and Neo Geo in the ads. Also, Sheng Long. 
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Aug 16, 2016 16:36
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Wizgot posted:Has anyone realized how amazing old video game magazines are? I've been looking through publications like EGM, Super Play and Video Games and Computer Entertainment. I didn't grow up with this stuff but its just so interesting to look through all the articles and think, "this was the only stuff these guys had to get information". The advertisements are sick too. My favorite were the ads that had these pictures of these super tricked out for their era AV setups, and the headline "You could win the ultimate gaming system!" or something to that effect. It was a total scam obviously, but they were a constant in those magazines.
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Aug 16, 2016 16:37
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I think someone did an article writeup about those contests. I remember reading one. It was literally impossible to win the grand prize or something. For the longest time, I read just Nintendo power and my friend had a Genesis so I didn't know there was anything beyond Genesis, nes, snes and n64. Gamecube came out then half a year later I managed to get a ps2 and it changed my life there. Well I remember a friend getting a dream cast too.
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Aug 16, 2016 16:43
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Wizgot posted:its just so interesting to look through all the articles and think, "this was the only stuff these guys had to get information". That's not true! 
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Rirse posted:Dang, tried out the Gameboy I got a few years ago at a yard sale for five bucks, and while it still works (I got a copy of Tetris for testing) it has a few thick lines toward the bottom that cover up the screen. Probably not going to get a flashcart for this then, even through if I did get a Everdrive GB, I would just get a used Gameboy Color instead. 2 pages back, but if you're thinking about getting a GBC, get a Kongfeng GB Colour instead. (Provided you can mentally cope with the screen being the wrong aspect ratio and don't need the infrared port.)
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Aug 16, 2016 16:48
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Wizgot posted:"this was the only stuff these guys had to get information" there was tons of game related discussion on places like compuserve and prodigy, and on BBS (tho mostly about piracy/cracking) and newsgroups which is probably where the best discussions were
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The oldest post I could find on rec.games.video.nintendo...from 4/20/1993. Kids born 3 years after this post was made can now drink legally. quote:STAR FOX BLACK HOLE Nail Rat fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Nail Rat posted:Kids born 3 years after this post was made can now drink legally. You mean 6 years. 
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Not a Children posted:Set up a Retropie yesterday, is great. I just wish I didn't have to adjust the settings to reduce input lag every single time I start up a game. Hoping that upgrading from a 2A to a 2.5A power supply might help a little. Have you overclocked? That generally helped a lot with the speed responsiveness of all the games I tried.
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Nail Rat posted:The oldest post I could find on rec.games.video.nintendo...from 4/20/1993. And in commemoration of that day they can fly through the black hole as god intended 
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Drone posted:When I first got my Pi, I was a dumbass and corrupted my microSD card like three times by improperly powering down the Pi. Lesson learned. Wizgot posted:Has anyone realized how amazing old video game magazines are? I've been looking through publications like EGM, Super Play and Video Games and Computer Entertainment. I didn't grow up with this stuff but its just so interesting to look through all the articles and think, "this was the only stuff these guys had to get information". The advertisements are sick too. My parents kept them all these years, actually. I gave them to a friend of mine who's big into retrogames and video game archiving. Last I heard he wanted to scan them. Should maybe tell him not to waste his time, actually.
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Aug 16, 2016 18:29
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My Lovely Horse posted:one review was red text printed completely across full page screenshots, completely unreadable. gamefan was the worst about this, which was weird because they were the best at everything else, made all the other mags look like pleb poo poo
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Drone posted:What platform(s) are you emulating? Another common solution to the input lag problem is switching your TV over to Game Mode, if it has one. Modern TV's have so much post-processing built in that it introduces a not insignificant amount of lag. For whatever reason it's especially noticeable when playing SNES games like Super Mario World. SNES, mostly. Definitely not my TV; I've been gaming on it with no problems since I got it. I've adjusted some of the settings, and I can get the controls on-point at the cost of introducing some stuttering. SnatchRabbit posted:Have you overclocked? That generally helped a lot with the speed responsiveness of all the games I tried. I have not. I'll give that a shot, I'll google up a guide. Thanks!
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I think Play-Asia will have them for sale tomorrow morning. Though I am willing to play inflated prices if the drat thing is matte. Received mine today, Firmware 11.0 out-of-the-box. How do I check the panel shenanigans again?
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Aug 16, 2016 18:45
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Ah, this must be from that book series-gone-TV show I've heard so much about, A Throne of Games. (Even though that was only the first book, and the series is actually called A Song of Fire 'n Ice)
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Aug 16, 2016 18:49
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Shadow Hog posted:Ah, this must be from that book series-gone-TV show I've heard so much about, A Throne of Games. This is a pretty good dad joke.
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Aug 16, 2016 18:52
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d0s posted:gamefan was the worst about this, which was weird because they were the best at everything else, made all the other mags look like pleb poo poo Gamefan weren't trying to be journalists, they were someone's tumblr in the 90s complete with hundreds of images horribly aligned on a page, obnoxious color schemes, and of course the random racist diatribe. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
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al-azad posted:and of course the random racist diatribe. that only happened once 
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d0s posted:that only happened once Gamefan was a trainwreck. http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gamefan/GameFAN.htm
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I never had a subscription to a proper game mag as a kid until getting Nintendo Power in late '97, so my information about the wider world of gaming was limited to what I read at the rack in the 7/11 or supermarket, and the selective bits and bobs that came through in the 2 page video game section of the monthly Disney Adventures. As a result the few times I actually purchased an issue of another gaming magazine proved be a real bounty of information. I still have the first Tips & Tricks Video Game Codebook. Beyond the staggering number of cheat codes there was a lot of other cool information in it. Each section was dedicated to a particular platform, and at the beginning there was a brief history/overview/review of the console in question, with several little sidebars pointing out neat peripheral hardware and other trivia. I learned about the SGB Commander and the Capcom Pad Soldier from that. The cheats themselves were an incredible spark for imagination: reading about games I'd never heard of and getting these glimpses of what was possible in them without any proper context left a lot to be inferred, especially when some of them had insane conditions or button combinations, or the results were patently unbelievable. And then there was the simple joy of having this huge dump of all the cheats that applied to many games I already owned, suddenly having new toys to play with.
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Gamefan is responsible for turning me into a weeb. The first issue I read (has Turok on the cover) ends with a review of Plastic Little (a really bad ecchi film) and Perfect Blue (you know, the not-so-secret inspiration for Academy Award winner Black Swan). In the same issue they have a review of a Ranma 1/2 fighter and this huge double-page spread of Wild Arms which got me SUPER PUMPED. I think one of their later issues had the entire ending of Final Fantasy in screencaps because why the hell not?
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Schremp Howard posted:Yeah Ken Griffey Jr presents MLB is amazing. I'm surprised Baseball Stars or Little League Baseball for the NES didn't get mentioned either. The criteria included MLB license, or else I'd have said Baseball Stars straight off. I never played Griffey because I never owned a SNES.
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Allen Wren posted:The criteria included MLB license, or else I'd have said Baseball Stars straight off. I never played Griffey because I never owned a SNES. I missed this, or else I would have mentioned that the MLB got the rights to RBI Baseball in 2014 and deliberately made a game that is barely more complicated to control than the NES game. I think most people hate it but I played 2014 and 2015 and they seemed alright to me.
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I'm of the Nintendo Power -> ExpertGamer/GameInformer -> GameWinners.com -> GameFAQs.com generation. The magazines get a lot more dull around the beginning of the PS2 era though. I like the ones that have mini-walkthroughs of 5 games randomly. I got one for Tomb Raider III hand-drawn walkthrough of the first half of the game, and it also had strats for Turok 2, Trap Gunner, Darkstalkers 3 and Ocarina of Time. I would read them even though I didn't even have an N64 to try Turok with. But I could tell you where the key was in Primagen's Lightship or whatever. Tangentially related, I just ordered the only copies I could find on ebay of the US Wild Arms + Wild Arms 2 strategy guides for old times' sake. Gonna play through those again soon and I need some solid bathroom break reading.
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PlayStation Magazine (PSM) which was technically an unofficial magazine until 2007 when it became officially official, was consistently good throughout at least the PS2 era. They did a lot of weird articles, hired indie comic book artists to do pinups and stuff, and Joe Mad's new Battlechasers RPG is basically every idea written down in a "our dream RPG" article from the magazine. e: They also made the news with their infamous nude female lead game that was a bunch of doctored Tomb Raider screenshots. al-azad fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Caitlin posted:Gamefan was a trainwreck. yes undoubtedly, but they were also "real" in a way so many magazines back then weren't. they seemed to genuinely love games and writing about games and showing you cool poo poo that had nothing to do with advertisers because most of it you couldn't even get in the US. in the days before the web a magazine like that was indispensable and super appreciated
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d0s posted:yes undoubtedly, but they were also "real" in a way so many magazines back then weren't. they seemed to genuinely love games and writing about games and showing you cool poo poo that had nothing to do with advertisers because most of it you couldn't even get in the US. in the days before the web a magazine like that was indispensable and super appreciated for the thread so that it isn't skimmed over from the goldmine that is the HG101 archive of that ... Gamefan posted:djpubba "real" is a very relative term
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Caitlin posted:for the thread so that it isn't skimmed over from the goldmine that is the HG101 archive of that ... Where did you learn to fly? 
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Local CL has this PVM for sale for $50. Sony PVM-14N5U 14" NTSC Monitor See here for details -- http://www.broadcaststore.com/pdf/model/17906/pvm20n.pdf No RGB, guess that makes this a pass? How much should I expect to pay for an RGB model? Guessing CL is still the best outlet for these types of monitors or is there some other place to find one?
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Bonobos posted:Local CL has this PVM for sale for $50. S-video is more than good enough for 16bit and earlier, you should already have contacted the seller and struck the deal.
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HG101 gamefan thing posted:Kei also confided to whoever happened to be listening that he was not jealous of American men. He explained that American men may have large penises, but they were not able to have very stiff erections because of that. He went on to say that Japanese men had small penises, but enjoyed the luxury of VERY hard erections (illustrated with a shaken fist in the air, arm bent at the elbow) lmao
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My mag of choice was Videogames and Computer Entertainment. It was made by the people who did Electronic Games in the Pre Crash era and I would say Next Generation was the closest thing to a successor. Except unlike NG there was no hint of Wired like pretension. They were critical of the game companies and would report the stuff they pulled. The mag initially reviewed games without scores and were more interested in talking about what's out now as opposed to poo poo IN THE FUTURE YOU PROBABLY WONT GET BECAUSE ITS A GUNDAM GAME IN 1990 type stuff. They were talking up how great the Vectrex was even back then. Things like sex and violence in games. It wasn't trying to appeal to the small children that Gamepro was nor did they pander to console players and preview crap like EGM did. Sadly the market liked EGM and slowly the magazine became more and more like that poo poo rag. ( Nintendo Power was propaganda but in those days their maps and walkthroughs alone made the publication worthwhile. ) I also loved Computer Gaming World for similar reasons but yet again Ron Paul's Free Market decided aiming for younger and dumber was better and PC Gamer won out there. 
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d0s posted:lmao Holy lol Also yeah I really liked Video Games and Computer Entertainment to
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Phantasium posted:I missed this, or else I would have mentioned that the MLB got the rights to RBI Baseball in 2014 and deliberately made a game that is barely more complicated to control than the NES game. I think most people hate it but I played 2014 and 2015 and they seemed alright to me. Oh hell yeah, I need to try this out. I wish there was a physical release, though. =[
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RZA Encryption posted:Oh hell yeah, I need to try this out. I wish there was a physical release, though. =[ There is for the 2016 version, which I haven't tried. https://www.amazon.com/RBI-Baseball-2016-Xbox-One/dp/B01CR385LS
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