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8-bit Miniboss posted:Everything I was interested in as a kid involved tape trading. And here is where we converge back to the thread topic: Holy gently caress the modern internet makes everything easier than it was in the 90s. If I want some obscure anime? I can torrent it at whatever quality I want from whatever torrent site, and I can pick between releases from different subtitle groups. Before, I ask around whatever nerd circles I could find, and hope for the best, which is usually a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of an already lousy VHS tape. If I want a ROM of a game I've never played before? There's a pile of websites with everything ever released individually downloadable, or GoodX torrents, etc. Back in the day, I'd scour whatever "DELETE IN 90 DAYS!!!" geocities pages which might have a dozen or so games, or I'd poke around on mIRC, but who knows if anyone would have what I was after. Plus the state of emulation back then, blah.
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this is where i got my romzz http://web.archive.org/web/19980114130321/http://snesmerism.deemon.com/ e: lol http://members.tripod.com/dark_schneider/emulation/emu_links_old.html
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holy poo poo i forgot about IHOR, the international house of roms http://web.archive.org/web/19980519093547/http://ihor.willy.com/
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Mar 14, 2017 23:33
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d0s posted:this is where i got my romzz I look at the 2nd URL and I think to myself I should rewatch Bastard!! at some point.
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d0s posted:this is where i got my romzz quote:SNES9x is supposed to combine split roms, but I know personally that Whoa, I totally forgot about the concept of split roms.
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*Pours drink out for Plastic Roms* They let me keep my games for 72 hours before I had to delete them. Captain Rufus posted:Oh the arcades and game rooms in the Navy early 90s to mid 90s when I got out? loving MAGICAL. Linked cabinets of Virtua Racing, Daytona, Outrunners, Super Street Fighter 2. Classics like environmental Disks of Tron, Star Wars Atari, Time Pilot. 6 player 2 Screen X Men, Mortal Kombats. Infamous Kusoges like the Gal's Panic anime porno Qix, Time Killers, that Hologram Cowboy Sega game. Pinballs. Go around the base or on some of the larger ships like mine and you WERE finding arcade machines Go do some laundry on base because the one on ship basically meant your day was spent in that tiny laundry room praying for death? Throw some coin in the jukebox to hear November Rain then play a couple games of Killer Instinct and some SHMUPs or maybe NBA Jam. Boot camp circa 2005 had a pretty good arcade setup. You had your usual Namco gun games and poo poo but also a row of Neo Geo cabinets and older Capcom machines. My berthing had a Raiden machine for some reason and it's one of the few shooters I can 1-credit. Ofecks posted:I guess it was sometime in 93, I happened to notice a half-hour show at 6am on Saturday in our local TV guide (not the national magazine, a newspaper-like booklet that came with sunday's paper) that just said "Dragon" in the limited space for that slot. I was really into the Dragon Warrior games on NES and I had heard there was an anime of it, so I was excited that it could be it. For whatever reason I actually got up at 5:45 to watch it live instead of taping. I was disappointed at first to find that it was Dragon Ball instead (not Z, the original), but I watched the episode and found it hilarious. They completely butchered the 4th wall and that was an extremely rare thing to see in a kid's cartoon, so I thought it was really clever and liked it a lot. Dragon Ball is still pretty good. It's lighthearted action comedy and switches between monster of the week and story arcs but never becomes overbearing or drawn out. It avoids the DBZ stereotype of people screaming for 40 episodes before something exciting happens. And since the power level is pretty low the stakes are always high and one-off characters end up being far more interesting when they can't sneeze and blow up the planet.
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d0s posted:Are we talking about the same place because I've never heard of a place called CAGE (this is in south florida). I do have a story about the owner of my Tates, I overheard a friend of his ask him how he sleeps at night selling bootleg HKDVDs at such a high markup and he responded "on a bed of money". It used to be you could get HKDVDs from certain websites for super cheap but you had to wait ages for really sketchy shipping form HK or China, so people still bought them from his shop Yes. CAGE is what I called Comics and Gaming Exchange which became Past Present Future sometime in the late 90's and moved locations about twice. Code Jockey posted:If I want some obscure anime? I can torrent it at whatever quality I want from whatever torrent site, and I can pick between releases from different subtitle groups. Before, I ask around whatever nerd circles I could find, and hope for the best, which is usually a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of an already lousy VHS tape. If it's obscure enough you can probably watch it on YouTube without having to hunt through awful torrent sites. I'm not into anime anymore and I still sometimes think I should marathon all of Fist of the North Star. All 150-some episodes are on Hulu... Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Random Stranger posted:Yes. CAGE is what I called Comics and Gaming Exchange which became Past Present Future sometime in the late 90's and moved locations about twice. Ohh ok I remember that place, used to get magic cards and manga back when manga was released in comic book like volumes. And yeah Tate's was ok for getting good anime before digital fansubs but once those became prevalent the place became completely worthless, though the atmosphere is way less "comic book guy" and more "tumblr geek chic" these days, where it feels like whatever the modern version of a hot topic is. they have nothing interesting.
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Random Stranger posted:
Fist of the North Star is so good. I marathonned it like a year or two ago, and man I wish there was more. Same as Legend of Galactic Heroes, both are huge series, but I got to the end and didn't want it to be over. d0s posted:Ohh ok I remember that place, used to get magic cards and manga back when manga was released in comic book like volumes. I had a place like this back in Oregon, used to blow so much of my allowance on Magic and issues of Battle Angel and Ranma This discussion is making me want to dust off my PC-FX again, the most Anime console.
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I remember watching the original Dragon Ball series every day at like 1 pm in the summer and then after it got to a certain point it just started over at the beginning because they hadn't translated any more episodes to that point. Similar memories are trading nes games with people and it being newly impossible to get them back. I'm sure my parents loved that.
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So what is the best classic anime game, anyway? I mean, we can all agree that it's definitely not Ranma 1/2: Hard Battles, but like any licensed material the crap is piled high and deep in the genre. The earliest one I can think of that's at least decent is the the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game but there's got to be a better, earlier example. But damned if my brain isn't overflowing with terrible Bandai Famicom games...
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I remember liking gundam wing endless duel. Were the snes dbz games any good? I don't remember much about them.
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Dragon Power (NES), a Dragon Ball rip off
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mariooncrack posted:I remember liking gundam wing endless duel. It's real fuckin' good.
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mariooncrack posted:I remember liking gundam wing endless duel. The SNES DBZ RPG with the card-based battle system isn't what you'd call "good," but high school me was a big fan and even now I have to admit that it's kind of fun just for all of the opportunities the game gives you to break with canon.
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mariooncrack posted:I remember liking gundam wing endless duel. It's probably this, such a good game, great soundtrack and looks fantastic. I fell in love with this back in the early days where it was soooo cool to play Japanese games we couldn't get in god's most beloved country.
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Code Jockey posted:Whoa, I totally forgot about the concept of split roms. Floppy to 4 x 8 megabit ROM's. Was great as long you were OK with waiting like 10+ minutes whenever you wanted to switch games.
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I remember downloading pokemon gold off a geocities website before the US release and getting stuck at the sudowoodo part, because we couldn't read Japanese and couldn't figure out the flagging for it. And then we had to delete it like the site declared.
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Random Stranger posted:So what is the best classic anime game, anyway? I mean, we can all agree that it's definitely not Ranma 1/2: Hard Battles, but like any licensed material the crap is piled high and deep in the genre. The earliest one I can think of that's at least decent is the the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game but there's got to be a better, earlier example. But damned if my brain isn't overflowing with terrible Bandai Famicom games... UN SQUADRON. (Aka Area 88.)
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Natsume's Mitsume ga Tooru game for Famicom is quite good. I see a lot of reverence for the Hokuto no Ken Mark-III game in Japan (the one we got for Master System as Black Belt) but I don't see the appeal. EDIT: I'm thinking earliest non-bad anime games here, not necessarily the best ones overall.
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Kids these days can play their ROMs right in the browser! Back in my day we had to emulate poor Pokemon Gold translations in the snow, uphill both ways!
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Heran Bago posted:Kids these days can play their ROMs right in the browser! Back in my day we had to emulate poor Pokemon Gold translations in the snow, uphill both ways! lol if you didn't brute force your way through the Japanese version on No$GMB shareware worthless. posted:I remember downloading pokemon gold off a geocities website before the US release and getting stuck at the sudowoodo part, because we couldn't read Japanese and couldn't figure out the flagging for it. And then we had to delete it like the site declared. Yyyyup that's where I got stuck too.
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The half-translated Pokemon Gold rom that was floating around online got passed around my gradeschool class on a floppy disc a ton, I think that was how everyone in my school learned that emulators were a thing. For some reason nobody ever made extra discs with it on them so there were a few fights that broke out when someone refused to give it to somebody else to take home and copy onto their computer.
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mariooncrack posted:I remember liking gundam wing endless duel. The PS1 fighters were also pretty decent. They aren't going to be played at EVO or anything but they are fun. Here's an article on them from HG101: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gundam/gundam.htm
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Kelp Plankton posted:The half-translated Pokemon Gold rom that was floating around online got passed around my gradeschool class on a floppy disc a ton, I think that was how everyone in my school learned that emulators were a thing. For some reason nobody ever made extra discs with it on them so there were a few fights that broke out when someone refused to give it to somebody else to take home and copy onto their computer. 
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Man now I'm remembering when I found out about Mame. As a kid who spent hundreds of dollars on TMNT, X-Men, Double Dragon, etc, the fact that I could play all of them FOR FREE AT HOME and they weren't poo poo versions like the NES Versions... Oh man... I'm getting
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d0s posted:I was lucky to have a store nearby called Tate's Was it pronounced "Taytes" or "Ta-tays?"
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Mame taught me how the economic lesson that making something free completely kills the value of something. I don't mean collector value, either.
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Random Stranger posted:So what is the best classic anime game, anyway? I mean, we can all agree that it's definitely not Ranma 1/2: Hard Battles, but like any licensed material the crap is piled high and deep in the genre. The earliest one I can think of that's at least decent is the the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game but there's got to be a better, earlier example. But damned if my brain isn't overflowing with terrible Bandai Famicom games... I'd like to see a write up for this. Take a journey down Popular Anime XYZ's line of games. Golgo 13 isn't a great game but it has a special place in a lot of people's hearts I think. And Macross Scrambled Valkyrie is the best shooter on SFC, Comcept games be damned. Also the Ackman games on SFC and Konami's work on Madara were pretty good although arguably those are based on their respective manga, and not anime. On Japanese PCs there was a lot of crossover between manga and anime artists so you'd get these beautifully illustrated games that looked like licensed titles but weren't. And if you really stretch the definition, Super Robot Taisen is a crossover of anime that's really long running.
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Random Stranger posted:So what is the best classic anime game, anyway? I mean, we can all agree that it's definitely not Ranma 1/2: Hard Battles, but like any licensed material the crap is piled high and deep in the genre. The earliest one I can think of that's at least decent is the the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game but there's got to be a better, earlier example. But damned if my brain isn't overflowing with terrible Bandai Famicom games... I am sorely disappointed in everyone replying to this post, because none of you mentioned Snatcher  .
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For anime games, I remember LOVING Dragonball GT Final Bout when I was much younger. I thought it was awesome that there were so many characters. Then I bought it a year ago or so, and holy poo poo it's bad. Picking Super Vegeta actually crashes the game. There's no way to save unlocked characters, and the fighting system just sucks to play. Also there's only like 10 characters so I don't know why I was so excited.
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al-azad posted:
It was one of the only NES games I ever got new (as a kid) and only because the local JC Penny warehouse had a billion new copies of that, Platoon and Operation Wolf for $11/ea for some reason. I've had a soft spot for it ever since. The romantic interludes also stirred feelings within young teenage me. Like, whoa, did I just score in this video game? 
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I remember slowly writing roms to a parallel port Zip disk. Holy poo poo 100mb of portable roms was mind blowing back then.
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worthless. posted:For anime games, I remember LOVING Dragonball GT Final Bout when I was much younger. I thought it was awesome that there were so many characters. I remember I was on a trip to Seattle, saw it in a store, and got really excited. I had never seen a Dragon Ball game in real life before. This was before the reprint so it was hard to find. According to wikipedia, there were only 10,000 copies printed in the initial run. It being sold for $150.
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mariooncrack posted:I remember I was on a trip to Seattle, saw it in a store, and got really excited. I had never seen a Dragon Ball game in real life before. This was before the reprint so it was hard to find. According to wikipedia, there were only 10,000 copies printed in the initial run. It being sold for $150. That's insane. Glad the price is down now so people don't mistake it with a good game 
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Random Stranger posted:So what is the best classic anime game, anyway? I mean, we can all agree that it's definitely not Ranma 1/2: Hard Battles, but like any licensed material the crap is piled high and deep in the genre. The earliest one I can think of that's at least decent is the the Ghost in the Shell PS1 game but there's got to be a better, earlier example. But damned if my brain isn't overflowing with terrible Bandai Famicom games... It's clearly Magic Knight Rayearth for the Saturn.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I remember slowly writing roms to a parallel port Zip disk. Holy poo poo 100mb of portable roms was mind blowing back then. And to sorta combine the two recent topics, back when I was in high school my mom worked at the library of my old middle school so I'd just dick around in there when I got out. I ended up installing a torrent client to a computer and using that to download a ton of anime in the background since they never turned them off. Every day after school I would slowly load as much of it as I could onto a couple of Zip disks, then bring them home and copy them onto my computer. Eventually one of them broke and got a corrupted episode of Chobits stuck on it forever, which made me extra mad cause that show ended up being garbo. Even with the one disk all of this was still faster and more efficient than doing it at home on my connection.
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When I was in middle school I brought in a project on a zip disk to be shown on a projector and my teacher was screwing around opening the other poo poo I had on there (I was the only one who used a zip disk) like marilyn manson music videos in .mov format and then he opened a porn .jpg it ruled
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I am sorely disappointed in everyone replying to this post, because none of you mentioned Snatcher We're talking about licensed anime here, not games that look like anime.
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