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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:And this insistence will never not be a kick in the pants for me, who likes having Gyruss at accurate speed (the one on Mame2003 runs too fast). It's pretty easy actually. You can set a per rom emulator/core.
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Chainclaw posted:I'm doing a ton of house cleaning, and going through boxes of old paperwork. I found this amazing flyer and am not tossing it out. I didn't realize how massive that thing actually was, it's basically just a PC tower on its side.
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Chainclaw posted:I'm doing a ton of house cleaning, and going through boxes of old paperwork. I found this amazing flyer and am not tossing it out. the finish on that thing is definitely not "fish egg"
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Chainclaw posted:I'm doing a ton of house cleaning, and going through boxes of old paperwork. I found this amazing flyer and am not tossing it out. drat, I remember the hype for that or maybe it was just "hype."
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Just saw the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in Seattle tonight, and holy poo poo. I wish they'd done more FF4/FF6, but they did some early FF and a bunch of 7/8/9 songs, and closed on One Winged Angel, and it was incredible. I can't recommend going enough.
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Code Jockey posted:Just saw the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in Seattle tonight, and holy poo poo. When I saw Dear Friends they played One Winged Angel, and then they were called back for an encore and the crowd demanded One Winged Angel as the encore. For a second encore, the crowd demanded it for a 3rd time. Suffice to say I didn't have to deal with traffic getting out.
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signalnoise posted:When I saw Dear Friends they played One Winged Angel, and then they were called back for an encore and the crowd demanded One Winged Angel as the encore. For a second encore, the crowd demanded it for a 3rd time. Suffice to say I didn't have to deal with traffic getting out. Jesus Christ I can't even listen to the same song twice a day, much less one right after another.
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Mar 27, 2017 16:27
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I've yet to hear of a video game music performance that didn't finish with One-Winged Angel. At least the one I went to in Vancouver which was more all-encompassing it was only played a single time, as the encore.
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Mar 27, 2017 16:30
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Finale should been Dancing Madly instead. All 15 minutes of it.
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Mar 27, 2017 16:48
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Rirse posted:Finale should been Dancing Madly instead. All 15 minutes of it. Dancing Madly is a beautiful, beautiful song. It's also a very, very long song.
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Mar 27, 2017 16:59
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One-Winged Angel feels like an opener to me and you close with Dancing Mad. It even finishes with a wicked guitar solo, dammit.
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worthless. posted:Jesus Christ I can't even listen to the same song twice a day, much less one right after another. Yeah, fan appreciation is great and all, but that just sounds like a kind of tacky thing to do on the audience's part. Back-to-back encores of the same song strikes me as being disrespectful of the performers and undermining the whole point of such a concert in the first place.
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Did they do any FFXIV, by any chance? I mean, I'm assuming not, but I dunno, they've done some live performances now and then. Live "Locus" or "Under the Weight" would be something.
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Mar 27, 2017 17:28
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SwissCM posted:RetroArch is a lot easier when the ROM files you have are in a specific naming scheme. NoIntro for ROM-based files, ReDump for Opticals and TOSEC for disks/tapes. If you have those sets, everything scans in perfectly with the thumbnail metadata that you can download in the interface. Maybe it works better if you use a desktop utility to generate a RetoArch playlist. I haven't bothered and just use the "Select File and Detect Core" option, which if you break down large sets into separate directories by starting letter, makes navigation easier.
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Shadow Hog posted:Did they do any FFXIV, by any chance? They actually did do a number of songs from it! I can't remember exactly which, but probably 2 or 3.
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Kthulhu5000 posted:Yeah, fan appreciation is great and all, but that just sounds like a kind of tacky thing to do on the audience's part. Back-to-back encores of the same song strikes me as being disrespectful of the performers and undermining the whole point of such a concert in the first place.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Maybe it works better if you use a desktop utility to generate a RetoArch playlist. I haven't bothered and just use the "Select File and Detect Core" option, which if you break down large sets into separate directories by starting letter, makes navigation easier. This is what I do. It does it by filename and seems to pick up almost everything that has artwork available for it. It could be better, though. I think eventually Kodi (with libretro cores) will be the best choice, they have scraping and library organisation down pat. But that's still under development.
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Anyone have some tips on troubleshooting arcade monitors? The samsung monitor that came with my cab mostly works, but has some issues where the vertical position knob doesn't adjust the picture down far enough (So the top image rides right along the top and I have a black bar below the bottom inch of the image), and I have some weird geometry on the sides of the picture. My first idea is to replace some pots on the screen control board as it's a fairly simple board and the pot contacts appear to be a bit rusted (contact cleaner seems to have helped, but not by much). Otherwise I think I'm left with getting the chassis removed and re-capped (I know there are people who do this, but I don't know where to look. Any ideas?).
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I have an N64 GameShark with the "fake" parallel port and seven-segment display on it. The circuit board inside seems identical to a photo someone gave me of a normal fully functional unit except that it's missing a couple of 74-series ICs. Does anyone know if I can make this unit fully-functional by soldering on the two missing ICs or does it have deeper issues like lacking functionality in the firmware?
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Shadow Hog posted:Did they do any FFXIV, by any chance? Apparently they did Answers and Dragonsong, with Susan Calloway. She also sung Eyes on Me.
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Mar 27, 2017 22:36
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GutBomb posted:It's pretty easy actually. You can set a per rom emulator/core. Yes, except when you consider the core compile done through a Raspberry Pi fails half the time, and if I upload it directly to a "cores" folder have led to hard crashes previously. It seems straightforward, but when it's RetroPie, nothing is simple.
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BattleMaster posted:I have an N64 GameShark with the "fake" parallel port and seven-segment display on it. The circuit board inside seems identical to a photo someone gave me of a normal fully functional unit except that it's missing a couple of 74-series ICs. Does anyone know if I can make this unit fully-functional by soldering on the two missing ICs or does it have deeper issues like lacking functionality in the firmware? You can do that on most "version 3.3" and most "version 3.2" GameSharks without the parallel port enabled. You will need to reflash the firmware onboard the unit, which can be done in standard reflashing equipment once you remove the chips. Additionally, version 3.2 carts with the parallel port enabled can be upgraded to the 3.3 software which is a little more stable, through the parallel port interface. Some of the later "version 3.3" GameSharks without the parallel port officially enabled have a redesigned board where the space for the proper hardware is missing entirely, but you don't seem to have one of those. Anyway here's some threads with people working on making the parallel port work with GameSharks of the proper design but the components not installed, some with parts lists to install: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160707114504/http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/getting-parallel-port-on-gameshark-3-3-to-work.31963 https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20160324183917/http://www.kodewerx.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&start=0&t=7189
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fishmech posted:You can do that on most "version 3.3" and most "version 3.2" GameSharks without the parallel port enabled. You will need to reflash the firmware onboard the unit, which can be done in standard reflashing equipment once you remove the chips. Additionally, version 3.2 carts with the parallel port enabled can be upgraded to the 3.3 software which is a little more stable, through the parallel port interface. drat, I was hoping all I had to do was put on the parts because I have no way to reflash it.
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BattleMaster posted:drat, I was hoping all I had to do was put on the parts because I have no way to reflash it. Depending on when the particular cartridge you have was manufactured, it may not actually need reflashing. But you probably don't want to spend all that time soldering on tiny parts to find it needs to be reflashed at the end.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Tacky and disrespectful of creators is basically nerd fan culture in a nutshell. I've convinced myself that if I ever wrote the next inexplicable teenage phenomenon, I would grow to hate my fans very quickly.
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Star Man posted:I've convinced myself that if I ever wrote the next inexplicable teenage phenomenon, I would grow to hate my fans very quickly. Only nerds can truly understand how awful nerds are and loath them appropriately.
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Finally cut down a proper SFC cart to fit my SD2SNES. Was much more annoying than I was anticipating. Suggest not attempting unless you have a proper square file, side cutters, and a few good exacto knives. A small hacksaw is useful too. Biggest annoyance was the cuts running parallel to the edge of the cartridge because those you definitely don't want looking like you just haphazardly cut out, and the longer the cut is (the sd card slot) the harder it is to keep perfectly clean. Still not 100% happy with it but until my other sacrificial carts show up from Japan it'll do. Now it's time to come up with a proper sd2snes sticker.
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worthless. posted:Jesus Christ I can't even listen to the same song twice a day, much less one right after another. sounds like a room full of the kind of people who wet their pants whenever Darth Vader turns on his lightsaber
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rdbbb posted:sounds like a room full of the kind of people who wet their pants whenever Darth Vader turns on his lightsaber What if all bands just played their most popular song 3 times in a row? "hey I hope you liked Runaway, now here's Runaway again, and then one more time."
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Random Stranger posted:Only nerds can truly understand how awful nerds are and loath them appropriately. I'd be taken away from the convention center in a body bag because I brought a milk crate full of Molotov cocktails and winged them at the audience at my own panel.
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kirbysuperstar posted:Apparently they did Answers and Dragonsong, with Susan Calloway. She also sung Eyes on Me. I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I'm not too familiar with the full version of "Answers", though. Never got far enough in the Bahamut questline to hear it proper (I've done more of Alexander for cryin' out loud), and it's one of those tracks Squenix is very protective of on YouTube.
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Shadow Hog posted:"Dragonsong" was quite good! Admittedly I hadn't properly heard it until Final Steps, but I really dig it. Here it is.
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Well, I dunno if I'd take any chances after both versions of Pier Solar were distilled rear end, but they made a pretty good trailer at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3CTqTzkgZQ worthless. posted:What if all bands just played their most popular song 3 times in a row? "hey I hope you liked Runaway, now here's Runaway again, and then one more time." Anyway, here's Wonderwall. Three times.
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a converter to play jamma games in an MVS cabinet finally popped up on eBay. I tried to make my own but I'm bad at that sort of things and the cost of loving up is pretty high. Also, my Gigawing hasn't suicided and it's been quite a while since I checked.  
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Floigan Brothers on disc DLC was finally released http://www.dreamcastlive.net/blogs/post/All-Floigan-Bros-DLC-Released/ The DLC was on disc, but had timed VMU downloads to unlock the cosmetic items. Up until this month only the January DLC was available, but now you can have all 12 of them. More importantly is that most of these were never released back in the day because Floigan Brothers did not sell as well as anticipated (it was supposed to be the first of a series) and Frank Welker is the voice of one of the main characters.
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I remember really looking forward to Floigan - something about the cartoony designs spoke to me - but then it came out and the reviews were god-awful, thus I skipped it entirely. I have no idea if I dodged a bullet or not, in retrospect. Odds are, I probably did.
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I remember the Molyneux-esque promises being made about that game way back. It makes sense that it didn't live up to expectations.
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Man, the video coming out of these $50 SCART->HDMI upscalers is... underwhelming. I was hoping for something a bit sharper but I guess I'll live with what I can get until my OSSC number comes up. I should just bite the bullet and build an emulator box to hook up to my TV but I really dig knowing that a game is running on the real deal 
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Martytoof posted:Man, the video coming out of these $50 SCART->HDMI upscalers is... underwhelming. I was hoping for something a bit sharper but I guess I'll live with what I can get until my OSSC number comes up. Upscalers are really something you can't go halfway on. Either be ready to commit or it won't be worth it. There's a reason people buy framemeisters.
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No, I totally get that, I just didn't realize the dropoff would be that drastic. I'm not out a lot of money so I'm not that worried about it -- and it IS still better than composite -- but I'm looking forward to getting a real solution.
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