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Monopthalmus posted:Has anyone used the FlashMasta Neo Geo Pocket Color or Wonderswan flashcarts? Any good? Are they the best option for those systems? The switch for switching between the two games on my FMNGPC is a little finicky and the flashing software throws a fit if you try to flash anything smaller than a mb on it but I otherwise haven't had any issues with it.
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:Did some googling, found this: That almost sounds familiar, like I'd forgotten about it. I guess they must have licensed it or something for Frogger Hyper Arcade Edition though. And to compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIRpYwVpP4E Yep, that's it alright. To be fair, Konami is far from the only Japanese company to take liberties with music clearance (or the lack thereof): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxopKhzS_O0 Not all units have this tune; it was apparently revised at some point. Discount Viscount fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Nov 16, 2016 09:21
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wa27 posted:I'm excited to watch this when I get home. One of my favorite articles is the guy who detailed his repair of Computer Space. Someone posted it here last year:
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Sony's got even more retrogames on sale this week. I didn't bother listing things with last week's sale, but right now I'm figuring why the hell not:
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Monitor Burn posted:Did a thing today (just a composite mod): Nice LED.
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al-azad posted:Legend of Mana is the best in the series They burn people at the stake for heresy, you know.
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A nifty thing with the Namco Museum games is that they all support tate mode and are actually the best ports of the games you can get before the modern 360/Windows/PS4 ones.
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Random Stranger posted:Gex: Enter the Gecko (see if you can remember which of dozens of shoddy late 90's 3D platformers this is without looking it up!) ...what's a social life?
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al-azad posted:Legend of Mana is the best in the series I've wanted to play this for years! Is this PS3 only or can I get some of this on my 4?
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Random Stranger posted:Sony's got even more retrogames on sale this week. I didn't bother listing things with last week's sale, but right now I'm figuring why the hell not: Buy Klonoa. Then buy Klonoa 2. Then buy the Wii remake because they're all super good.
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Drowning Rabbit posted:I've wanted to play this for years! Is this PS3 only or can I get some of this on my 4? There is currently no way to play PS1 games on the PS4.
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njsykora posted:Buy Klonoa. Then buy Klonoa 2. Then buy the Wii remake because they're all super good. The first two GBA games are on the Wii U Virtual Console, get those too. I haven't played Klonoa Volleyball but I'm sure it's spectacular.
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Also get a Wonderswan and play the Klonoa game on that too. It's tough to play on an emulator because it does the vertical screen thing the Wonderswan does for seemingly no reason on some stages.
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njsykora posted:Also get a Wonderswan and play the Klonoa game on that too. It's tough to play on an emulator because it does the vertical screen thing the Wonderswan does for seemingly no reason on some stages. "It's cool" is a perfectly valid reason. Being able to play the Wonderswan in horizontal and vertical orientation is cool but there are very few games that play entirely in the vertical position so I kinda wonder why they bothered.
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Drowning Rabbit posted:I've wanted to play this for years! Is this PS3 only or can I get some of this on my 4? PS3, PSP, and Vita. The PS4 retrogames on sale tended to be oddball PS2 ports.
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kirbysuperstar posted:There is currently no way to play PS1 games on the PS4. Ell pits. The store is so badly organized that I can never find what I want. Guess I was just on the wrong console this time!
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Do all the PS2 ports on PS4 run like poo poo or is it just Dark Chronicle? I went and bought a GBC at the weekend and took it home only to discover that my Oracle of Ages no longer boots, tried cleaning with alcohol and on my GBAs but no dice  Also aren't the batteries on these games supposed to be nearly dead by now? My pokemon blue and link's awakening both have working battery saves
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fruitpunch posted:Do all the PS2 ports on PS4 run like poo poo or is it just Dark Chronicle? Probably just Dark Chronicle. Most of them run better than did on the PS2.
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fruitpunch posted:Do all the PS2 ports on PS4 run like poo poo or is it just Dark Chronicle? PS2 emulation on PS4 isn't terribly accurate.
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I don't think I've ever gotten a clear answer to this, but does the PSN release of Suikoden 2 have all the same bugs as the disc version, like the missing music tracks, and the Suikoden 1 protagonist's name not transferring properly?al-azad posted:Legend of Mana is the best in the series I might have liked Legend of Mana if it had some semblance of challenge. There were a lot of neat combat mechanics you had no reason to pay attention to because nothing was as effective as just equipping a spear, holding forward, and mashing attack. Random Stranger posted:[*]Chrono Cross (the first part in SquareSoft's "inferior PS1 sequels that are only tangentially related to the beloved original game" duology) I think most of the criticism heaped on Chrono Cross is warranted (not what anyone wanted in a sequel, poor pacing, bad at telling its own story, a largely generic and interchangeable cast of characters), but I still love it to death. It is gorgeous and completely nuts. There is nothing in Chrono Trigger as great as the whole Dead Sea/Tower of Geddon segment of Cross, but most of Cross is definitely long stretches of very atmospheric tedium punctuated by moments of staggering brilliance. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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I believe it's identical to the original PlayStation release, so yeah, all the bugs are in place. For the PSN sale I recommend the first two Suikodens, the Mega Man Legends games, Vagrant Story, and Resident Evil 2. All pretty good.
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Rollersnake posted:I might have liked Legend of Mana if it had some semblance of challenge. There were a lot of neat combat mechanics you had no reason to pay attention to because nothing was as effective as just equipping a spear, holding forward, and mashing attack. I'll take that over the mess that the other Seiken Densetsu games are. Like SoM is too simple for its own good, there's nothing under that game's hood but pretty graphics and easily top 10 video game soundtracks. SK3 smartly let you tailor your difficulty (once you realize that's how the characters are set up) but combat is still pretty banal and the deeper you dive into its systems the more you find things that don't work as advertised or literally don't work. All around LoM is just a better designed game. I agree there's little challenge, there should've been a hard mode out the gate, but it's the problem of a lot of open world games where the amount of fun you get is how much you engage with what it has to offer and I rang it dry. And it's so rare to see a non-linear Japanese roleplaying game but they all do unique things no one else does like Steambot Chronicles. e: It was really disheartening playing Sword of Mana because LoM is charming and funny but Sword may be the most boring game ever. I can't even blame it on being a remake of a GB game, that had some goddamn drama in its monochrome screen. Sword was just dry as the Sahara ooh boy. al-azad fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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I fixed my new Virtual Boy's ribbon/PCB separation issue all by myself, using the "baking" method!  It shouldn't have taken me four hours to do, but it's done now so yay
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Kid Fenris posted:I believe it's identical to the original PlayStation release, so yeah, all the bugs are in place. You all have zero excuse for not getting at least Mega Man Legends 2. It's that drat good, especially for all of a few bucks, and deserves far more love  .Especially as we'll never ever get MML3 
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:I fixed my new Virtual Boy's ribbon/PCB separation issue all by myself, using the "baking" method! I have 3 VBs sitting in a closet, dead from that. Please, teach me your ways
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al-azad posted:And it's so rare to see a non-linear Japanese roleplaying game Akitoshi Kawazu makes pretty much nothing but non-linear JRPGs, so if you like Legend of Mana's bullshit, go play the SaGa games, Last Remnant, etc.
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Just in case anybody was looking for a supergun, I just stumbled across this on ebay when looking for something else and it looks like the best deal out there, absolutely destroys the vogatek things which used to be the leaders in cheap superguns: http://www.ebay.com/itm/152257119363 It has just about everything you need to properly play arcade boards, headers to use ATX power (and added -5V) or an arcade power supply, individual RGB brightness pots and an auto brightness mode, neo-geo HD-15 controller ports and screw terminals to make your own controller, built in autofire, built in audio attenuation/RCA out, built in voltmeter etc etc. I don't think I've ever seen a mass produced supergun this cheap and this full featured and if I didn't already have a sigma I'd be all over this thing. e: d0s fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I have 3 VBs sitting in a closet, dead from that. Please, teach me your ways How dead? I followed this guide: http://www.projectvb.com/displayfix.html I preheated to 200, stuck in the ribbon as instructed until the ribbon was close-to-flat (took about 2 minutes). Then I picked it up, rubbed my thumbs on the contacts, and used packing tape (erroneously referred to as masking tape) to reinforce. I had to do this a number of times, as it's an imprecise fix. But it DID eventually work.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Akitoshi Kawazu makes pretty much nothing but non-linear JRPGs, so if you like Legend of Mana's bullshit, go play the SaGa games, Last Remnant, etc. Last Remnant is definitely on my long list of poo poo to play although the SaGa series I'm hesitant on. But the ps1 had the best experimental RPGs before everyone settled into a winning formula on ps2 which in turn killed some of my favorites. Like Musashi Samurai Legend is pretty high up there on the list of "the boringest videogame."
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I got the RGB scart cables from Retrogamingcables for my PAL SNES, connected to a Bang & Olufsen MX7000 CRT. I won't bother you with blurry iphone pictures of a CRT screen, and instead just say it's good.
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d0s posted:Just in case anybody was looking for a supergun, I just stumbled across this on ebay when looking for something else and it looks like the best deal out there, absolutely destroys the vogatek things which used to be the leaders in cheap superguns: Thanks for the link. This looks pretty great. I'm really considering getting it.
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al-azad posted:I'll take that over the mess that the other Seiken Densetsu games are. Like SoM is too simple for its own good, there's nothing under that game's hood but pretty graphics and easily top 10 video game soundtracks. SK3 smartly let you tailor your difficulty (once you realize that's how the characters are set up) but combat is still pretty banal and the deeper you dive into its systems the more you find things that don't work as advertised or literally don't work. I'd rather be forced to play Seiken Densetsu 3 in Japanese than LoM, to be honest Will agree that Sword of Mana was an utter disappointment. I traded it in after a month 'cause I just couldn't stand looking at the cart. I'm gearing up to play secret of evermore blind but I have to get the save battery replaced first.
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If you were disappointed at not traditional Mana games this is another reminder that they remade Final Fantasy Adventure as Adventures of Mana for smartphones and thankfully Vita and it is fantastic.
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fruitpunch posted:Do all the PS2 ports on PS4 run like poo poo or is it just Dark Chronicle? Open up Oracle of Ages and look for broken solder joints around the chips on the board with a magnifying glass. Then reflow the busted joins (or all of them if you really feel like it). I've had it happen to two GBC games myself and I hear its common to happen to Ages and Seasons specifically too.
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Saw this on local craigslist and thought of you guys :-* https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/vgm/5846837040.html
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Turbinosamente posted:Open up Oracle of Ages and look for broken solder joints around the chips on the board with a magnifying glass. Then reflow the busted joins (or all of them if you really feel like it). I've had it happen to two GBC games myself and I hear its common to happen to Ages and Seasons specifically too. I had a pretty interesting problem with and old Super Mario Bros. DX cart that somehow had what I assume to be the high bit of the address line busted. It'd boot, but most of the graphics were totally scrambled. I checked it using a tool a friend wrote (a cart-swap checksum tool); the first half of the ROM was repeating twice.  I'd be curious if something similar was happening with that cart, or in general what kind of data it'd barf out in a dumper or verifier.
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RichterIX posted:Saw this on local craigslist and thought of you guys :-* it's weird that thing thing that bothers me the most is the really thick control panel, the stick has like no clearance and must be uncomfortable as hell to use
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d0s posted:Just in case anybody was looking for a supergun, I just stumbled across this on ebay when looking for something else and it looks like the best deal out there, absolutely destroys the vogatek things which used to be the leaders in cheap superguns: How much of a problem would it be to convert to S-Video or composite with this?
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