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Phantasia GBA owns for translating "ragnarok" as "kangaroo" because someone ran the script through microsoft word spell check real quick and didn't notice that change
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the wizards beard posted:Backlit TFT LCD displays for gameboy, apparently better quality than the 101 gba: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1051244254989027&substory_index=0&id=940780776035376 Oh poo poo 
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sinking belle posted:Phantasia GBA owns for translating "ragnarok" as "kangaroo" because someone ran the script through microsoft word spell check real quick and didn't notice that change That's pretty incredible
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8-bit Miniboss posted:I imagine some CPS2 board owners might be interested in this: http://arcadehacker.blogspot.ca/2016/09/capcom-cps2-security-programming-guide.html
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Sep 14, 2016 03:52
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sinking belle posted:Phantasia GBA owns for translating "ragnarok" as "kangaroo" because someone ran the script through microsoft word spell check real quick and didn't notice that change El psy kangaroo.
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sinking belle posted:Phantasia GBA owns for translating "ragnarok" as "kangaroo" because someone ran the script through microsoft word spell check real quick and didn't notice that change Still better than the fan translation of the Super Famicom version that was infamous for adding tons of dirty jokes where none existed. i.e. “I bet Arche fucks like a Tiger.”
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Sep 14, 2016 04:12
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Cloks posted:El psy kangaroo. this is the will of steve's gate
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Instant Sunrise posted:Still better than the fan translation of the Super Famicom version that was infamous for adding tons of dirty jokes where none existed. i.e. “I bet Arche fucks like a Tiger.” I love 90-00's fan translations
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Sep 14, 2016 04:19
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Elliotw2 posted:I love 90-00's fan translations and of course, when official localizations for some reason didn't include the added swearing that fan translations would have, all those people would suddenly cry "censorship!"
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Sep 14, 2016 04:24
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been a while since i've posted pick ups, but i've picked up a few games recently. 
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Sep 14, 2016 04:30
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liquid courage posted:been a while since i've posted pick ups, but i've picked up a few games recently. excellent choices
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Ambitious Spider posted:Thanks for the heads up. I always wanted to dip my toe in those waters and for 5 bucks can't go wrong No problem, glad my cheap-rear end curiosity might be of use to you! On that note:  Super Mario Bros. on my RGBNES-modded AV Famicom through S-Video, into the $5 "Easycap" I bought. EDIT: It also works with the S-Video mod that Monitor Burn did on my Genesis, which I expected, but it was good to confirm it. Kthulhu5000 fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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Sep 14, 2016 07:44
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Hey retro thread - I'm having a weird issue with my Genesis (2nd model) and I'm wondering if someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. After a few minutes of playing something (it doesn't seem to matter what), the audio/video starts flipping out like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGd4fl8WwF8 Eventually the game either freezes completely or crashes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKkS62GdAQ8 It's connected to video via RF (yeah, I know) and to power via a Sega Trio adapter. It's usually connected to a Sega CD and 32X, though it does that when it's by itself too. Is this thing fried?
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InvadErGII posted:It's connected to video via RF (yeah, I know) and to power via a Sega Trio adapter. It's usually connected to a Sega CD and 32X, though it does that when it's by itself too. Is this thing fried? xamphear fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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Sep 14, 2016 15:23
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InvadErGII posted:Hey retro thread - I'm having a weird issue with my Genesis (2nd model) and I'm wondering if someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. If it's a few minutes and if it occurs even if you let it sit at a title screen, my first reaction is that there's some kind of heat issue. Now IIRC, the Genesis is usually fine at dissipating its own heat without even a proper heat sink so it points to a deeper problem, but it's a starting point. So what I'd do is open the system up and take a look at the board. If it's had soda spilled all over it or been in a place with chain smokers or there's a giant nest of spiders or it has been drinking the blood of the innocent, then there's going to be gunky residue on the board. Too much in the right place and the heat builds up as the system runs. If you find this (don't bother if you don't find something inside), then clean the board and give it another try. I suspect the problem is going to be a damaged component building up the heat and causing the failure in which case there isn't a hell of a lot you can do. Someone with testing equipment, spare parts, and some skill at replacing parts on a board could possible identify and replace it, but it's really not viable for a model 2 Genesis.
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A new 7805 voltage regulator is like 99 cents and is really easy to change, but yeah I wouldn't go through much more effort than that for a Genesis 2.
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I'm having a weirdly specific issue with my N64. I bought a cheap S-Video cable for my SNES/N64/GCN, and it works fine. When I'm just playing games on my CRT all three consoles work fine. I can wire it into my Elgato Game Capture HD to record game footage without issue, using the Elgato's HDMI out to output to my computer monitor's (ASUS VE228) so I can play while I record video. For some reason, though, the N64 feed appears in the Elgato software, but my monitor doesn't get the signal. I can get it through composite just fine, and S-Video works for the SNES and Gamecube, but for some reason ONLY the combination of N64 and S-Video just doesn't work with my monitor (I don't have an HD TV currently, so I have no other modern display to test it on), and I have no idea what might be causing this. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Miles McCloud posted:A new 7805 voltage regulator is like 99 cents and is really easy to change, but yeah I wouldn't go through much more effort than that for a Genesis 2. I am going to ask a real stupid question here but why exactly are voltage regulators a thing? From what I understand, they take 110V from the wall and then it gets stepped down to 5V. Here is where I get confused. The SNES has a huge wall wart, which is a step-down transformer itself. So why doesn't the wall wart just step down to 5V? Why does it go to 10V and then 5V "inside" the system? What's the difference? And a separate question but since the SNES runs off of 5V, does that mean it can run off of a USB cable for power? Sorry if these are really dumb questions. I am pretty decent at modding and should know this stuff. HMC posted:I'm having a weirdly specific issue with my N64. I bought a cheap S-Video cable for my SNES/N64/GCN, and it works fine. When I'm just playing games on my CRT all three consoles work fine. I can wire it into my Elgato Game Capture HD to record game footage without issue, using the Elgato's HDMI out to output to my computer monitor's (ASUS VE228) so I can play while I record video. For some reason, though, the N64 feed appears in the Elgato software, but my monitor doesn't get the signal. I can get it through composite just fine, and S-Video works for the SNES and Gamecube, but for some reason ONLY the combination of N64 and S-Video just doesn't work with my monitor (I don't have an HD TV currently, so I have no other modern display to test it on), and I have no idea what might be causing this. Anyone have any suggestions? PAL N64 by any chance? The European N64 didn't have s-video capabilities for some strange reason. Maybe that's the issue?
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I am going to ask a real stupid question here but why exactly are voltage regulators a thing? From what I understand, they take 110V from the wall and then it gets stepped down to 5V. Here is where I get confused. The SNES has a huge wall wart, which is a step-down transformer itself. So why doesn't the wall wart just step down to 5V? Why does it go to 10V and then 5V "inside" the system? What's the difference? It may be that it was simply easier for them to get 10 volt output wall warts manufactured, than to get 5 volt ones that would be reliable enough. There also might have originally been plans to use more different voltages in the system.
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Sep 15, 2016 01:52
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:PAL N64 by any chance? The European N64 didn't have s-video capabilities for some strange reason. Maybe that's the issue?
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I am going to ask a real stupid question here but why exactly are voltage regulators a thing? From what I understand, they take 110V from the wall and then it gets stepped down to 5V. Here is where I get confused. The SNES has a huge wall wart, which is a step-down transformer itself. So why doesn't the wall wart just step down to 5V? Why does it go to 10V and then 5V "inside" the system? What's the difference? Back when these consoles were made switching power supplies and switching regulators didn't exist. Transforming 120/220v AC to DC was not very accurate and actually the voltage would jump around. The solution was to pick a medium close to the desired voltage and burn off the excess thus 9/10V stepping to 5V via regulators with heat sinks became a thing. Stepping DC voltage down is much easier as it's mostly constant versus AC which is a wave. The reason why you want a constant level is certain ICs had very strict min/max voltage which would break functionality flyboi fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Sep 15, 2016 01:58
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:PAL N64 by any chance? The European N64 didn't have s-video capabilities for some strange reason. Maybe that's the issue? Nah, it's NTSC. It works fine connected directly to my CRT, and when it's hooked up to the Elgato through composite it displays on the Elgato software AND outputs through the HDMI to my monitor just fine, same with SNES and GCN with the same S-video cable. With the S-video AND the N64, however, it displays in the Elgato software but NOT on my monitor (which I need because the software preview has several seconds of delay). It's just super-weird to me that THAT very specific configuration wouldn't work when every other one does.
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Anybody using SNES9x on Vita know how to "re-associate" saves or something? The SRM files are there, they even load properly if I port them to my PC emulator, but on Vita they're not recognized at all. I'm pointing to the correct folder, it just doesn't see it. Kind of frustrating because it's keeping up my 20 year long curse of stopping Secret of Mana midway. Thankfully the save isn't lost I just have to play it elsewhere and being able to play in bed on Vita is the best option.
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Hi hello here's a fun thing I did: http://gamepreservation.tumblr.com/post/150411590134/every-earthbound-review I pulled out and scanned every review of EarthBound to get a feel for why it didn't catch on. Them 1995 gamers were REALLY MAD at the art style. Literally all of them.
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TheRedEye posted:Hi hello here's a fun thing I did: I remember the look of Earthbound being really unpopular. I still don't like it, though it's more because I feel it's not very functional for the gameplay.
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I can't imagine the marketing on it did anything to help it when the ad taglines literally said "This game stinks!" either.
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I never understood either because it looked like an animated cartoon. Everyone who said it looked like the NES game are like the people who said Street Fighter 5 looked like 4. You have to be literally blind.
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al-azad posted:I never understood either because it looked like an animated cartoon. Everyone who said it looked like the NES game are like the people who said Street Fighter 5 looked like 4. You have to be literally blind. For years I actually thought the SNES game was the NES game, just "converted" to the SNES with minimal graphical upgrades. In all fairness to me, I had read about "Earth Bound" in Nintendo Power and I just assumed they ported it to the SNES instead. So for years that's why I thought the game had wacky graphics. Maybe these game reviewers didn't know about Mother and thought the same thing I did? fishmech posted:It may be that it was simply easier for them to get 10 volt output wall warts manufactured, than to get 5 volt ones that would be reliable enough. There also might have originally been plans to use more different voltages in the system. flyboi posted:Back when these consoles were made switching power supplies and switching regulators didn't exist. OK this makes sense, thank you. But then only makes me wonder why the hell the NES used AC. Doc Morbid posted:He said it works fine on the CRT, which wouldn't be the case with-s-video on a PAL N64. HMC posted:Nah, it's NTSC. It works fine connected directly to my CRT, and when it's hooked up to the Elgato through composite it displays on the Elgato software AND outputs through the HDMI to my monitor just fine, same with SNES and GCN with the same S-video cable. With the S-video AND the N64, however, it displays in the Elgato software but NOT on my monitor (which I need because the software preview has several seconds of delay). It's just super-weird to me that THAT very specific configuration wouldn't work when every other one does. Sorry about that! Not sure how I missed that. I guess as soon as I saw "N64 not putting out s-video" I assumed that had to be it. That really is a perplexing problem. Does the N64 output at a different resolution when over s-video or something? I am trying to think of something that could cause this. I found that the PAL N64 actually does have the capabilities to output s-video, it's just that it needs resistors. So the only thing I can come up with is that on the luma or chroma signal, the N64 has an output that your capture card does not like. Perhaps too strong on one of the signals. Your TV is OK with it but your capture card is a bit more picky. It's the only thing I can think of. TheRedEye posted:Hi hello here's a fun thing I did: That drat Game Player's magazine review. I was so mad about it back in 95. A 69%? What the hell? That should be for some vanilla crap like Bubsy or Socks the Cat. I remember they printed one letter from someone really pissed about it getting a 69% and their response was "stop writing to us about this! 69% is a good score!". Yeah OK, I came home with a 69% on my math test and was punished for a week. They aren't kidding anyone. There's no way the reviewer played it for more than 2 hours. Speaking of which I really did like the "out of 100" scale that Game Player's used. A lot of people hated it for some reason (most people say a scale from 1-5 is optimal but I am not sure why). I feel like a 5 is not that difficult of a score to get, but a 100% is near impossible. So high numbers gave a lot of wiggle room to differentiate between a great game like Super Punch Out and an amazing game like Chrono Trigger. On a 1 to 5 scale both games should get a 5. But on a scale of 100, I don't think Super Punch Out should get a 100%. Sounds weird but that's the way my brain liked it and I wish other magazines used it. It was so fun seeing what game would finally dethrone Super Metroid's 93%.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:OK this makes sense, thank you. But then only makes me wonder why the hell the NES used AC. I have to imagine they did it for cost reasons? If I had to guess I'd say that inside the NES wall wart is just a transformer and some wires, no PCB at all. By eliminating that part, they might have cut the price of the adapter by a bunch. xamphear fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Sep 15, 2016 |
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:OK this makes sense, thank you. But then only makes me wonder why the hell the NES used AC. The NES will actually run fine with DC in on the power port because of the hardware they used. So I think it's just a case of "it was cheaper"? al-azad posted:I never understood either because it looked like an animated cartoon. Everyone who said it looked like the NES game are like the people who said Street Fighter 5 looked like 4. You have to be literally blind. "Looks like a cartoon" and "looks like an NES game" aren't mutually exclusive in the least. The style they used evokes both. The people probably would have complained less if the game was coming out in say 1991 or 1992 versus 1995 though. Remember that it came out against things like Donkey Kong Country that were attempting to go as "high res" prerendered 3D with the graphics as the system could handle, which people were jizzing themselves over as such good graphics.
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I think likely at the time it made sense to differentiate NES from Atari in some fashion but I don't know much about consoles from that time. I do know though that Atari had their own issues with wall warts like the 5200 arcing when you plugged the adapter in. Also none of the ICs in the Nintendo are very complex or volatile to voltage jitter like later consoles were.
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al-azad posted:I never understood either because it looked like an animated cartoon. Everyone who said it looked like the NES game are like the people who said Street Fighter 5 looked like 4. You have to be literally blind. It's the flat look with minimal color palette that does it. SNES games generally didn't have that low detail style and it's a lot closer to what could be done on the NES.
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fishmech posted:The NES will actually run fine with DC in on the power port because of the hardware they used. So I think it's just a case of "it was cheaper"? In this case it is because it looks nothing like a NES game. FF4 is more simplistic like a NES title so I can't argue against you, just gently caress anyone who used NES game as a pejorative.
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al-azad posted:In this case it is because it looks nothing like a NES game. FF4 is more simplistic like a NES title so I can't argue against you, just gently caress anyone who used NES game as a pejorative. It was 1995. It would be like saying a game has PS2 graphics today.
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Even if the aesthetic was low res, the NES couldn't have handled the sprite variety or game palette. Even as a dumb kid I knew it belonged on the SNES, despite it not being fauxCGI jizz.
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al-azad posted:In this case it is because it looks nothing like a NES game. FF4 is more simplistic like a NES title so I can't argue against you, just gently caress anyone who used NES game as a pejorative. If FF4 had launched in 1995 instead of 1991 like it actually did, you'd probably have seen people complaining it looked "like an NES title" too. It's just a factor of releasing early vs late. And also this: Random Stranger posted:It was 1995. It would be like saying a game has PS2 graphics today.
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Random Stranger posted:It was 1995. It would be like saying a game has PS2 graphics today. It is the one video game thing I'm unironically mad about. I remember renting the game in '95 thinking it was so visually striking. Onett kind of reminded me The Simpsons in its palette and crazy characters. Oh well, history has been kinder to it than most games.
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Yeah ironically Earthbound still looks good to me today but Super Mario RPG looks really bad. Keep in mind that I do love Super Mario RPG's graphics. But it's unique in that it looks absolutely abysmal on anything other than a CRT. Still looks good on a CRT though.
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On the subject of terrible RPG's, I got the stupid idea to actually finish Final Fantasy 8. Goddamn, it is so badly written and nonsensical while trying to be serious and it's all so dragged out. I mean I should have expected that, but it's been seven or eight years since I played a Final Fantasy game.
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I thought Chrono Trigger wiped the floor with Earthbound back then and I still do today 
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