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The Kins posted:Who do you think took the photo? Self-timer and a tripod. I don't expect his pillow to be able to take photographs.
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Nov 28, 2016 07:21
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d0s posted:there's a documentary about game preservation in Japan on NHK english streaming site starting in a few hours: I respect this guy's (Redon's) work but there's something really offputting about him and everyone who meets him says the same thing.
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Nov 28, 2016 07:23
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d0s posted:I always get a weird vibe from that place and the dude who runs it, like he's really into having girls come in to cosplay and people say he's got like a fixation with that stuff/a sex offender vibe. you decide: Exposed white socks in photo, confirmed as pedo freako pervert. I'm sorry you'll have to break the news to him, d0s.
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Nov 28, 2016 07:23
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I respect this guy's (Redon's) work but there's something really offputting about him and everyone who meets him says the same thing. Who's redon? I'm waiting for the doc to start, haven't seen it yet.
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Nov 28, 2016 07:25
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d0s posted:Who's redon? I'm waiting for the doc to start, haven't seen it yet. Joseph Redon, the French guy who runs Game Preservation Society. He doesn't seem like a creep or whatever, I guess it's just the typical collector demeanour.
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d0s posted:I saw people at the MVC2 cab one time only, the sticks were japan style but I'm not sure if they were actually good because the sticks on Raiden IV were absolute poo poo with huge balltops and very long shafts, I have no idea what was going on with that. I don't know the specifics because I didn't play any of the fighters because I'm not into MVC2 or those others. It's disappointing that with limited space they put in those games, I was there years ago and it was the exact same stuff only instead of triggerheart they had one of the mushihimesama games so they place has actually gotten shittier because triggerheart is awful (and I like the developer's previous stuff). Florida man as gently caress.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Joseph Redon, the French guy who runs Game Preservation Society. He doesn't seem like a creep or whatever, I guess it's just the typical collector demeanour. do you know if he's into actually dumping and releasing stuff the way someone like shou does or is he more into "preserving" stuff by amassing a big hoard of rare stuff and locking it in a room. from what I hear there are a lot of japanese collectors who are vehemently against rare/prototype stuff bring dumped and that is really loving sad
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/ The documentary is on in 5 minutes. Ooh bathing Capybaras I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Nov 28, 2016 08:24
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d0s posted:do you know if he's into actually dumping and releasing stuff the way someone like shou does or is he more into "preserving" stuff by amassing a big hoard of rare stuff and locking it in a room. from what I hear there are a lot of japanese collectors who are vehemently against rare/prototype stuff bring dumped and that is really loving sad Gamepres is a legit NPO that aims to make things publicly accessible but they don't have the resources to handle the huge and growing stockpile of stuff they have right now, so they're pretty much treading water until they can get a government grant or a wealthy benefactor or something. I think their long-term plan was to develop a proprietary emulator and distribute things that way but I have no idea how close they are to achieving that goal - I think they mostly just lease things for events or source parts for arcade repairs and so on. The guys Shou associates with mostly enjoy the cliquish aspect of collecting, I think, but they all seem to hate each other so I dunno what the hell is up.
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Just finished the documentary, yeah the guy seems strange but I'm very glad of the work he's doing. I really want to raid his x68000 drawers with a disk dumper and let those games be free tho 
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Nov 28, 2016 09:01
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I'm currently considering getting a Super Everdrive because of the sale. SD2SNES is a bit too expensive considering what I'll be playing on it. Thing is, my SNES is an unmodded PAL console. Is patching NTSC ROMs for it an easy process? I already killed a console back in the day trying to mod it and replacements are not that easy to get here in Bulgaria.
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Nov 28, 2016 11:30
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Why wouldn't you use a PAL rom? Alternatively I have an Australian PAL SNES and a Super Everdrive and ended up just importing a cheap no cables Japanese Super Famicom for like $30. gently caress 50hz it ruined my childhood and I didn't even know.
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dishwasherlove posted:gently caress 50hz it ruined my childhood and I didn't even know.
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The fact the Trinitron PVM I got for free doesn't properly work with PAL video but NTSC works perfectly made me just get a Super Famicom and my SD2SNES has loved me ever since
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dishwasherlove posted:Why wouldn't you use a PAL rom? Alternatively I have an Australian PAL SNES and a Super Everdrive and ended up just importing a cheap no cables Japanese Super Famicom for like $30. gently caress 50hz it ruined my childhood and I didn't even know. I've never really paid that much attention to the pal vs ntsc / 50 vs 60 Hz thing, aside from knowing about what territories have what, and how they're incompatible. So, do PAL/50Hz games just run annoyingly slower than NTSC/60Hz?
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Enjoying neo geo games the wrong way and pooping on Floridian arcade owners; welcome to the retro games thread.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I've never really paid that much attention to the pal vs ntsc / 50 vs 60 Hz thing, aside from knowing about what territories have what, and how they're incompatible. For most games in the 8 and 16 bit era, just open a video on Youtube and set it to x0.75 speed and you basically have the PAL experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSSYo0npMhA
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I've never really paid that much attention to the pal vs ntsc / 50 vs 60 Hz thing, aside from knowing about what territories have what, and how they're incompatible. Short answer: yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhESbeKFIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmMXA7FpR_U If you're a man of honor and kindness, you'll now feel much empathy towards us euro gamers. There's also the matter of - freely translated - "sorrow borders" which appear on euro games, because PAL TV system resolution actually has more pixels than NTSC, thus filling the empty spaces with annoying colored borders - or sometimes empty black - on top and the bottom of the screen. Some games were what you call "PAL optimized", but even that varies: for some games music is patched to run at correct speed but the game is still slower, and for some music is right but gameplay is faster! What a mess! All this we euro gamers had to deal with, and still do, if you're not into imports or modding your console. TeaJay fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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What is the real difference between an AES and MVS cart anyway? Are the pins just wired diferently a-la PC Engine/TG16? I thought I saw someone buying a cheap 161-in-1 cart and converting it where it just had wires all over internally, but now I cannot find it.
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So, I know someone mentioned it a while back but I'm quite interested in doing another gift exchange. I'm absolutely swamped with work at the moment, but I'm interested in helping out in whatever capacity I can. I should talk to FactsAreUseless and see if current mods are still cool with gift exchanges. Also, does anyone know what website was being used to track stuff for previous gift exchanges?
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falz posted:What is the real difference between an AES and MVS cart anyway? Are the pins just wired diferently a-la PC Engine/TG16? I thought I saw someone buying a cheap 161-in-1 cart and converting it where it just had wires all over internally, but now I cannot find it.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I respect this guy's (Redon's) work but there's something really offputting about him and everyone who meets him says the same thing. is this like people calling a celebrity a jerk because they were hounded for their autograph after they got off a plane
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rdbbb posted:is this like people calling a celebrity a jerk because they were hounded for their autograph after they got off a plane nice av brah
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TeaJay posted:Some games were what you call "PAL optimized", but even that varies: for some games music is patched to run at correct speed but the game is still slower, and for some music is right but gameplay is faster! What a mess! All this we euro gamers had to deal with, and still do, if you're not into imports or modding your console. Truxton MD has the same rom for all regions, but is optimized for 50hz for some reason. After playing a few credits of the arcade version, it's obvious that what you get playing it on a PAL console is the intended speed. This is both the music and gameplay - it's all 10% faster on NTSC. That's not necessarily a bad thing, after all you're supposed to grab all the Speedups and zip around like crazy, this just makes it crazier 
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Jimbot posted:Did people actually call the Super Nintendo the "Super NES" or was that just the XTREME 90's bullshit we look back on with confusion and shame? SNES or Super Nintendo is all I ever heard. It's pronounced "Atari tapes".
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dishwasherlove posted:gently caress 50hz it ruined my childhood and I didn't even know. I think we have our new thread subtitle right here.
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As someone once said, PAL is for your protection.
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Anybody here have Rockman & Forte for Wonderswan? I'm contemplating buying it and probably will anyway, but I'm curious as to how it actually plays.
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I've written a big post on the Kotoba no Puzzle series in the past so I'm not going to bother with that. I just wanted to say a few words about the GBA version. The GBA game was the first home version of the series and it has tons of content. There's around 650 puzzles available and almost all of them are either immediately available (about 250 of them) or are available after playing a stage or two. Other versions of the game gate a lot of the content and feed you levels linearly so this is really nice for a pick and play puzzle game. OTOH, the music, which is what attracted me to the series in the first place, is not very good and it's not helped by the GBA's sound system. Also as the earliest game it lacks the goofy dictionary function from later games where you could try to unlock a bunch of words specifically relating to a topic for their comedic definitions (like Katamari Damacy's gallery). For those reason I think my favorite version is still the PSP one, but there's nothing wrong with this one. It goes without saying, however, that you have to at least know some Japanese to play a Japanese word game. shyduck posted:Anybody here have Rockman & Forte for Wonderswan? I'm contemplating buying it and probably will anyway, but I'm curious as to how it actually plays. No personal experience, but I've been told it's pretty bad and not remotely worth the price it commands.
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shyduck posted:Anybody here have Rockman & Forte for Wonderswan? I'm contemplating buying it and probably will anyway, but I'm curious as to how it actually plays. yes, it stinks e: get buffers evolution instead
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d0s posted:yes, it stinks Also, do you have any other recommendations for the system that are somewhat English-friendly? Doesn't matter what genre, but I have only one game for it at the moment and I'd like to pick up a few more that I can actually play. edit: yeah I'm gonna definitely avoid it now, unless it falls in my lap super cheap or something, which it currently isn't shyduck fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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shyduck posted:Anybody here have Rockman & Forte for Wonderswan? I'm contemplating buying it and probably will anyway, but I'm curious as to how it actually plays. The definition of hot trash. Bad level designs, bad controls, bad enemy designs, bad weapons, annoying use of screen orientation switches. I don't care how much you like Mega Man, you will not like this game.
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shyduck posted:Also, do you have any other recommendations for the system that are somewhat English-friendly? you picked the wrong system for that unless you have a flash cart and can play some of the really expensive games like judgement silversword
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This FAQ is where I started for English friendly games. I should probably dump my massive stack since I have the flash cart now  http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?14232-My-WonderSwan-Misc-Questions-FAQ-(your-feedback-appreciated)
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shyduck posted:Also, do you have any other recommendations for the system that are somewhat English-friendly? Doesn't matter what genre, but I have only one game for it at the moment and I'd like to pick up a few more that I can actually play. The puzzle games are probably your best bet. Gunpey, Tane o Makutori, Ochan no Oekaki Logic, and so on. They're relatively cheap and most of them don't rely heavily on language. Naturally, you'll also want Densha de Go 1 and 2, though obviously these are much better on other systems (I played so much Densha de Go while travelling this weekend...). Action games on the Wonderswan do not come cheap and most of the library is adventure games.
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Thanks eBay! It even came in a case. 
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One more Wonderswan thing, I found the first Super Robot Wars game on the system extra difficult to get into. Usually I can push through on my meager Japanese skills but that one gave me trouble. Caitlin posted:Thanks eBay! I'm mildly curious about what happens when you try to trade pokemon with people playing on the regular cart.
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rdbbb posted:is this like people calling a celebrity a jerk because they were hounded for their autograph after they got off a plane I mentioned it because he came up in conversation recently and the people I was talking to were getting the same vibe off him and I was somewhat relieved to learn I wasn't imagining things. I don't feel slighted by him, he's a perfectly nice dude who's doing good work, but yeah, my comment came off way pettier than it should have. My bad.
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