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evobatman posted:Finally all is good in the world. The PAL/SFC console looks so much better than the purple wonder.
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evobatman posted:Finally all is good in the world. I should get a PAL SNES at some point, pretty cool design. TeaJay posted:The PAL/SFC console looks so much better than the purple wonder. Its true.
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The colors on the controller are nice, but I like my concave Y button
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Can I still participate in the retro social media celebration even though I no longer have a friendster account? Also I hope they cover games that aren't on the classic (they won't), because I could use some hot tips on how to keep from losing the boomerang while crossing the bridge in goonies 2. DalaranJ fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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Kid Fenris posted:Do people still smoke a lot in Japanese arcades? I was there in 2007 and the only ESP Galuda II machine I found was right next to a guy playing Mushihimesama with two full astrays and an apparent five-pack-a-day habit. yes, I smoked right at the game at every arcade i went to except for ebisen where you have to use an ashtray outside and a cho where you go to a little cordoned off area and sit on a couch to smoke between games.
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Jesus Neo Geo is a hell of a system to want to jump into when you're on a budget. I'm just glad that I got SNK Arcade Classics on PS2 and went small with the NGPC, love me some Gal's Fighters. So who's going to be first in line for the NES Mini? Probably not me since I keep wavering on bothering with it. I already have a good chunk of the games on it, and the rest I have no particular feelings about one way or the other. Realistically it'd probably wind up being shelf candy because it's cute and miniature. Also, Ofecks posted:Did it actually die? I've been following it for a long time, and he's taken literally years-long hiatuses before. Old rear end thing to drag up but the Sakura Wars LP by Spirit Armor? He hasn't posted since 2014 and the same goes for the thread which has since passed into archives. I'd consider that pretty drat dead.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Are there any good Game Boy or Game Boy Color games that are a little lengthier and meatier than the usual GB game? I've played Link's Awakening but what else is there? Metal Gear Solid is packed with content - there's the main game and a second loop/NG+ that's significantly different, plus 2D renditions of pretty much all the VR missions from the PSX game and some other stuff like multiplayer. It's a fully original game, not just a tie-in to the PSX game, and it's the best of all the 2D Metal Gear games. Stranded Kids is the first in Konami's Lost in Blue series of lost-on-a-desert-island-sims and it's pretty hefty by GBC standards. I think there's a translation patch for the second GBC game, too. Legend of the River King is a fun fishing RPG from the Harvest Moon devs, get the second one if you're interested. (The GBC HM games aren't particularly good, by the by.) If you're into Wizardry then there are quite a few Wizardry games for GB & GBC: remakes of the first three NES games, three original gaiden games, two more original games that tie into some PSX titles, maybe a couple more. They're all JP-only but most of them let you pick English from the settings menu and the others have been fan-translated. PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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So my copies of Yoshi's Island and Mario RPG arrived from the Land of the Rising Sun tonight. I swapped the boards for my SNES copies and now I have no reason to ever break out my SNES again.
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al-azad posted:What emulator are you running? The last one I used wouldn't load the save files after a while. I could transfer it to my computer and recognize it just fine but even when the path was correct the emulator refused to see it. SNES9xVITA. I haven't had occasion to hard reboot my Vita since installing the emus so I can't be any help there.
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I tried RetroArch on my Vita. Why is that thing so drat confusing to use?  Speaking of emulation, someone in C-SPAM said the sound when you throw an item in Super Mario Bros 2 sounds different on the NES Classic Mini compared to a real NES. Did Nintendo drop the ball on emulation, or did they pipe in the Famicom Disk System sounds maybe? Elliotw2 posted:That's a regular CRT, you can tell because it's not 16:9. Not to be snooty and correct you, but this is not necessarily the case. I had not one but THREE high-definition CRTs that were 4:3. One was a Sony Wega, one was a Panasonic Tau, the other was a Hitachi (and I remember the Hitachi one was the only 4:3 HDTV CRT I ever saw that did not have the "flat glass"). https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-CT-36HX41-36-HDTV-Ready-TV/dp/B00005RWAD Sony even made a 40" one. 300+ lbs. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:If you're into Wizardry then there are quite a few Wizardry games for GB & GBC: remakes of the first three NES games, three original gaiden games, two more original games that tie into some PSX titles, maybe a couple more. They're all JP-only but most of them let you pick English from the settings menu and the others have been fan-translated. The fact that you referred to them as remakes of NES games makes my eye twitch.
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Random Stranger posted:The fact that you referred to them as remakes of NES games makes my eye twitch. Yeah, remakes of the NES ports is more accurate. Most if not all of the JP Wizardry 1/2/3 remakes use the FC version as their base; only the PCE versions are based on the original games, as far as I know. PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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Nov 5, 2016 14:13
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h_double posted:SNES9xVITA. I haven't had occasion to hard reboot my Vita since installing the emus so I can't be any help there. Uncle at Nintendo posted:I tried RetroArch on my Vita. Why is that thing so drat confusing to use? I was using RetroArch and at some point it flat out stopped reading saves even when I pointed them to the correct folder. Looks like I'm getting Snes9xVita.
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Retroarch is poo poo on all platforms and in general
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Retroarch is poo poo on all platforms and in general I used it briefly on my Pi before I had an SD card reader to make a Retropie card and I would recommend no-one use it ever.
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njsykora posted:I used it briefly on my Pi before I had an SD card reader to make a Retropie card and I would recommend no-one use it ever. RetroPie uses Retroarch though?
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Retroarch has The OSS problem, in that the program itself is very good at what it sets out to do, but the UI is completely unusable garbage.
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I used RetroArch. I moved the directory for save files and then moved it back to default and it never read those files again no matter what I did.
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Drone posted:RetroPie uses Retroarch though? Oh yeah right, I'm thinking of RecalBox. Carry on.
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RetroArch should never have picked up that Sony XMB style of UI. That stuff only really works ok for short lists and minimal use.
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The version before they changed to the last/current mess on android was perfectly fine on my Shield portable. Load game, autodetect core, autodetect the Shield controls, and just play, with any and all consoles. Today I count myself loving lucky if I even get a game to start while stretched to widescreen and with screen overlay controls.
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I installed RetroArch on my Pie a while ago, tried to configure it and gave up. Hmm.
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Retroarch is especially bad on devices that don't have any other emulators ported, like the vita. At least on android and windows and such you have other options. It's like as soon as a device gets unlocked, some idiot shoddily ports retroarch to it and then everyone gives up.
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njsykora posted:I used it briefly on my Pi before I had an SD card reader to make a Retropie card and I would recommend no-one use it ever. Unfortunately sometimes RetroArch is the only option. I don't think there's such a thing as a Virtual Boy emulator on Android unless you use RetroArch.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I tried RetroArch on my Vita. Why is that thing so drat confusing to use? That's interesting, Jeff Gerstmann said the same thing on the Giant Bomb quick look. It was bugging him quite a bit. edit: at about 1:30:30 in here http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-nes-classic-edition/2300-11680/ is where he talks about it. Listening to it again I think he's right. hannibal fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to put it, but if anyone is looking to buy an  , I have several in very good condition that I have been hoarding (and playing, and rebuilding) for decades. Time to pick up the reigns and move on, so if there is any interest, hit me up and I'll put together some bundles. I don't even remember how many 2609A units I have. I know I have an Inty III, a Sears version, and pretty sure at least a handful of Inty IIs.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I tried RetroArch on my Vita. Why is that thing so drat confusing to use? poo poo emulation. Super Mario Bros 2 was released in Japan as Super Mario Bros USA and only on cartridge. (Fun fact: it's one of a handful of games that improperly were programmed for controllers so you cannot use any controller via the expansion port with it. Even though Doki Doki Panic works with expansion port.) It never really took advantage of the extra sound hardware of the FDS even as Doki Doki Panic.
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flyboi posted:poo poo emulation. Haha really? I mean I wasn't expecting much for $60 but I thought Nintendo was pretty particular about stuff like that. hannibal posted:That's interesting, Jeff Gerstmann said the same thing on the Giant Bomb quick look. It was bugging him quite a bit. Thanks for the link. I listened and to be honest, it does not sound any different to me. I think I am pretty anal with that stuff so maybe it's not so bad.
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Also it wouldn't make sense to use FDS sounds from Doki Doki Panic because it has different, worse music than SMB2.
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As long as I still get a sick baseline when I pause the game I'll be fine.
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Spoderman posted:Also it wouldn't make sense to use FDS sounds from Doki Doki Panic because it has different, worse music than SMB2. You raise an interesting point I never thought of; Doki Doki Panic is the only game I can think of where the FDS audio is only used for sound effects, and they did not use it at all for music. Weird. Wart's music would have really benefited from FDS music.
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I got some good deals today. Sega Marine Fishing for Dreamcast, Woody Woodpecker Crazy Castle 5, Game and Watch Gallery 4 (which completes the set for me), Attack of the Clones/Tetris World two pack for Xbox (guess which game I grabbed that for), and the real steal: Gauntlet Dark Legacy for GameCube for just a buck. Now I just need a bunch of people to come over and play it with me...
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9 year old me says that the Attack of the Clones was actually the better half of that pack in disk, because Tetris Worlds has strange rules and really weird backdrops.
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Elliotw2 posted:9 year old me says that the Attack of the Clones was actually the better half of that pack in disk, because Tetris Worlds has strange rules and really weird backdrops. I'm not super fond of Tetris Worlds myself, but I was standing there looking at a one dollar game, trying to remember if I already had it, and decided, "Why not just spend a buck for Tetris?"
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I was staring down a copy of Tetris Worlds for PS2 a few days ago for not much and decided against it. That is not a great Tetris game.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I tried RetroArch on my Vita. Why is that thing so drat confusing to use? Only 300+lbs. you say? 
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Could God make a Trinitron so heavy that even he couldn't move it? (That warning about earthquakes fails to mention that the earthquake would probably be due to the Trinitron falling off of something.)
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Djarum posted:So my copies of Yoshi's Island and Mario RPG arrived from the Land of the Rising Sun tonight. I swapped the boards for my SNES copies and now I have no reason to ever break out my SNES again. Is this easy to do? I have a 1CHIP SFC and want an EverDrive, but I replay Super Mario RPG once every year or two, and Yoshi's Island is also pretty essential. Assuming you just take the boards out of the SNES carts and tuck them inside Japanese ones? I need to open my SNES ones up to replace the batteries soon anyway.
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Pegnose Pete posted:Is this easy to do? I have a 1CHIP SFC and want an EverDrive, but I replay Super Mario RPG once every year or two, and Yoshi's Island is also pretty essential. Oh yeah. The PCBs are almost exactly the same. Just have a game bit screwdriver, open up the shell and swap the boards. I say almost exactly because it seems that the Japanese version of Yoshi's Island uses a different version of the Super FX chip. I need to research it more now that I noticed it.
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