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Ambitious Spider posted:So I ordered a handful of repros on aliexpress. Alien Soldier, Pulseman and God Medicine. It was pretty impulsive, but at 5 bucks a pop, I couldn't resist. Be careful about anything with a battery backup as a gb repro. I've yet to get one of these with one present, making those four dollar RPGs a bit useless.
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Shlomo Palestein posted:Be careful about anything with a battery backup as a gb repro. I've yet to get one of these with one present, making those four dollar RPGs a bit useless. Yeah, I have the same thing with my MegaMan: Wiley Wars repro. I just consider any aliexpress order to be potentially flaky and don't pay any more than I'm willing to lose.
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I know I'm way late but seconding Belmont's Revenge for Gameboy. This first GB Castlevania game is okay, but the second is great. Speaking of the Belmonts, I beat Castlevania II for the first time a few days ago. It gets a lot of hate, but I actually liked it. It's cool looking to see their first attempt at having an open world castlevania. Main problem is just that it's obtuse as gently caress, but if you have a map to look at, it's pretty fun.
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May 5, 2017 22:18
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Kid Fenris posted:It's one of my favorite arcade games, and I'd own whatever system hosted a home version: 32X, Jaguar, 3DO, PC-FX, Playdia, Pippin. It wouldn't matter. The SNES has a port but its pretty different, like a lot of arcade to NES or SNES ports. Its still kinda fun but yeah, that arcade AvP was a classic. I remember there was a discount movie theater near my high school that had that cabinet, and I played it a TON.
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May 5, 2017 22:31
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Zaphod42 posted:The SNES has a port but its pretty different, like a lot of arcade to NES or SNES ports. Its still kinda fun but yeah, that arcade AvP was a classic. It's a completely different game by a completely different publisher and developer, which is why there's not a home version of the arcade AvP game. Activision grabbed up console rights, Konami got a lot of arcade rights. This is the exact same reason why the Simpsons ports and the X-Men ports never happened.
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May 5, 2017 22:46
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Elliotw2 posted:It's a completely different game by a completely different publisher and developer, which is why there's not a home version of the arcade AvP game. Activision grabbed up console rights, Konami got a lot of arcade rights. This is the exact same reason why the Simpsons ports and the X-Men ports never happened. Ah, go figure. I saw it was a beat em up and always assumed it was Konami.
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May 5, 2017 23:03
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Ikari just updated the sd2snes firmware. Nothing major from what I can see, just looks to be bug fixes. https://sd2snes.de/blog/archives/833
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Shlomo Palestein posted:Be careful about anything with a battery backup as a gb repro. I've yet to get one of these with one present, making those four dollar RPGs a bit useless. I guess I've been lucky to get a battery in all 3 Game Boy repros I bought so far. I would think they would at least put on a battery holder so you could add your own, like the $7 SNES repros are doing now.
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univbee posted:That is an odd typo, but 2 hours also seems short if it's a true 2 hours. I use the sleep function a bit (I guess I kind of assumed that it would drain the battery very slowly, like a modern cell phone or laptop does in sleep mode). Maybe that's the issue. To get back on topic, I did some research on the Crazy Castle games (I find the licenseing wierdness that showed up in so many older games interesting) and came across this website. The author does a really incredible job of digging into the design of Gameboy games compared to NES titles of the time and it's definitely worth reading if you're into that sort of thing. https://gameboyessentials.com/main.html
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May 6, 2017 16:39
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Keeping wifi off also makes a huge difference, if you're referring to the 3DS.
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May 6, 2017 16:48
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Rock My Socks! posted:I use the sleep function a bit (I guess I kind of assumed that it would drain the battery very slowly, like a modern cell phone or laptop does in sleep mode). Maybe that's the issue. If you leave either of those sitting around for a day or so in regular sleep mode, it's going to take a lot of battery even though it drains much slower than active use. Gotta turn them all the way off if you really want it to last.
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May 6, 2017 18:08
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I just clicked on a random title and wow, this guy really goes into depth. Makes me wish that he wrote for Hardcore Gaming 101, or that their standards would at least be on his level. Welp, now I got a whole new site to explore and devour. Thanks for the link!
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Hands up if you look in the bin of random cables when you go into a thrift store to look for GameCube component cables. Someday I'll find a set for 50 cents and then you'll all die of jealousy! I did pick up a copy of Battlecruiser Millenium Gold, though, because I'm a sucker for punishment! Fake Edit: And as I was writing this post, a package arrived from Kid Fenris as my prize for being the only person stupid enough to say a blank cartridge had Alien 3 on it.  He was absurdly generous and gave me a set of NES Classic sunglasses, a movie I have been wanting to watch, a deck of Song of the Deep playing cards, the only Amiibo I now own (Tommy Nook), and the big prize of Eighteen Wheeler: American Pro Trucker for the Dreamcast. Thanks, Kid Fenris! Super cool stuff!Unfortunately, I have back to back finals on Monday and Thursday because the universe hates me and the worst two of them are on Monday (I mainly went out to get groceries after I finished doing a practice exam and decided to stop in at the thrift store as passed), so it will probably be Friday before I have a chance to play it. However, a full report on driving big rigs using the greatest video game platform known to man will be forthcoming (it's actually by Sega so I won't be shocked if it turns out to be a hidden gem, too).
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Random Stranger posted:Hands up if you look in the bin of random cables when you go into a thrift store to look for GameCube component cables. Someday I'll find a set for 50 cents and then you'll all die of jealousy! Until recently, I didn't realize these were rare. I got a set first thing when I got my GameCube. Same for the Dreamcast broadband adapter, which I guess they sold one batch of from Sega directly. Or at least that's what it seemed like, I had preordered one from them and from that point on it was always out of stock. I don't think I ever actually used the broadband adapter except to rip a couple of tracks off Sonic Adventure 2. I remember eventually getting it to work on PSO, but you had to make a save file from a Japanese browser disc or something to get it to kick in since it wasn't an official option for it.
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Rock My Socks! posted:Thanks for all the advise everyone; I went to a local shop during my lunch break at work and picked up Wario Land II, Heiankyo Alien and Tennis for about $25. Hopefully the battery save in WLII still works (though I'm hopeful as my much older copy of Link's Awakening still saves fine 25 years later). That's why you skip straight over to Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. It handles and looks much more like Super Mario World than the first. Good on you for getting Heiankyo Alien, more people should play it! And it's too late now but I hear James Bond 007 is a good RPG as well as Legend of the River King, Cattrap for a Fire n' Ice clone, and Revenge of the Gator and Kirby's Pinball for pinball stuff. Also if you can find it Bubble Ghost is still cheap and good I think. Oh and Solar Striker is a dirt cheap good shmup too. Random Stranger posted:That's kind of a fun topic that's nicely tangential here: what are the good arcade ports to the Game Boy? Elevator Action is freaking awesome and better than the NES version. I never liked Elevator Action until I played the Game Boy version it's that good. Burger Time is another really excellent port. Also: Random Stranger posted:Hands up if you look in the bin of random cables when you go into a thrift store to look for GameCube component cables. Someday I'll find a set for 50 cents and then you'll all die of jealousy! Please don't post my retirement strategy ITT, thanks. I look in the bin every time but haven't yet found one but have gotten other useful cords cheap (composite Nintendo, component PS2 and Wii, etc). It's the easy way to get a system off of an RF cable at least.
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Kid Fenris posted:It's one of my favorite arcade games, and I'd own whatever system hosted a home version: 32X, Jaguar, 3DO, PC-FX, Playdia, Pippin. It wouldn't matter. That rumor from Quartermann's page was what got me to buy a 32X. Which was dumb, but I loved that game, and was a naive teenager at the time. At least I got a nearly arcade-perfect port of Space Harrier out of it. 
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I AM THE TOILET posted:I just clicked on a random title and wow, this guy really goes into depth. Makes me wish that he wrote for Hardcore Gaming 101, or that their standards would at least be on his level. I dunno, in-depth doesn't always mean better; sometimes it's just wordy. Like I'm not sure a bullet list of Solar Striker's weapons helps put the game into perspective. Also the screenshots are badly scaled
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I bought a Dreamcast broadband adapter on eBay for $80 in like, 2003 when there were still some servers active. Looks like they sell for around $130 now. Not sure what you can do with them now other than stare at them.
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GutBomb posted:I bought a Dreamcast broadband adapter on eBay for $80 in like, 2003 when there were still some servers active. Looks like they sell for around $130 now. Not sure what you can do with them now other than stare at them. Phantasy Star Online mostly if those private servers are still a thing?
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GutBomb posted:I bought a Dreamcast broadband adapter on eBay for $80 in like, 2003 when there were still some servers active. Looks like they sell for around $130 now. Not sure what you can do with them now other than stare at them. I wouldn't be surprised if there were people running private servers just cuz.
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There's all sorts of private servers out there for games, and some of the games always supported hosting your own servers right on the Dreamcast, or on a PC. Some games still support using an in game browser to grab web images or whatever to use in game, and will do it over the broadband adapter.
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i found people on some message board playing duke 3d with saturn netlinks in like 2008. http://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/app.php/page/servers there are 7 people playing PSO right now on dreamcast
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The DC broadband adapter only works with PSO, Quake 3 and a couple other games, as far as I know. Incidentally, Alien Front Online was recently brought back online after 15 years of inactivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rYidc9E16I
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The DC broadband adapter only works with PSO, Quake 3 and a couple other games, as far as I know. I remember playing a few online games of one of the NFL 2K* games but that might have been with the 56k modem.
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Zand posted:i found people on some message board playing duke 3d with saturn netlinks in like 2008. This is awesome. I'm pretty jealous.
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Someone talk me into/out of dropping the $180 on a gscartsw_lite SCART switchbox.  Edit-- or getting a different/better SCART switchbox instead I guess. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 04:36 on May 7, 2017 |
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Xenomrph posted:Someone talk me into/out of dropping the $180 on a gscartsw_lite SCART switchbox. I got a regular one last month and it made my life objectively better hth
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Any tips on burning Saturn games for Pseudo Saturn Kai? Ive generally had success except BGM is always static instead of actual audio making it unplayable. Note I use cdrdao to burn in Linux, maybe it's because of that (it worked fine on Sega CD stuff)?
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Is there any way to run theme hospital on modern hardware? I loved that game as a youngin, and the last time I tried it on dosbox OS X, I had bad audio hitching issues. Like bad enough I gave up after the first level Is the best bet still just dosbox? I suppose that was a couple years ago and it may be fixed by now? Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 00:18 on May 8, 2017 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there any way to run theme hospital on modern hardware? I loved that game as a youngin, and the last time I tried it on dosbox OS X, I had bad audio hitching issues. Like bad enough I gave up after the first level https://www.gog.com/game/theme_hospital Looks like you can get it here and it works on OSX.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is there any way to run theme hospital on modern hardware? I loved that game as a youngin, and the last time I tried it on dosbox OS X, I had bad audio hitching issues. Like bad enough I gave up after the first level I don't know about OS X, but there were patches around for the Windows 95 version to run it on 7 a couple years back, which I used then. Those patches will probably still work for Windows 10. I think the GOG version uses DOSBox for the DOS version on the supported platforms.
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fishmech posted:I think the GOG version uses DOSBox for the DOS version on the supported platforms. I have the GOG version and can confirm that it uses DOSBox.
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Ludicrous Gibs! posted:That rumor from Quartermann's page was what got me to buy a 32X. Which was dumb, but I loved that game, and was a naive teenager at the time. At least I got a nearly arcade-perfect port of Space Harrier out of it. I have never heard of this game until now. Big thanks.
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falz posted:Any tips on burning Saturn games for Pseudo Saturn Kai? Ive generally had success except BGM is always static instead of actual audio making it unplayable. Note I use cdrdao to burn in Linux, maybe it's because of that (it worked fine on Sega CD stuff)? There isn't really a trick to it. It should "just work" for the most part. Do the CD tracks play normally on a different CD player? Do normal games work fine?
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Random Stranger posted:I have the GOG version and can confirm that it uses DOSBox. SimCity 2000 is the same. In fact I'm fairly certain anytime a classic game has separate dos and windows (and macos classic) versions, gog always uses the dos version due to how much easier and more flexible the whole thing is to get working on all platforms via dosbox.
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univbee posted:SimCity 2000 is the same. In fact I'm fairly certain anytime a classic game has separate dos and windows (and macos classic) versions, gog always uses the dos version due to how much easier and more flexible the whole thing is to get working on all platforms via dosbox. Yeah, and it's really disappointing. The DOS version is often just straight up worse. Especially for something like SimCity 2000, where the DOS version is flat out missing a zoom level (since it has much more restrictive resolution settings), a speed level (african swallow aka totally uncapped), and has some extra bugs with things like the microsimulators. With a simple fan-made patch, the Windows 95 version of the game runs fine on 64 bit Windows and you could run it in something ridiculous like 4K if you really wanted to, just maximize the window or otherwise expand it.
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fishmech posted:Yeah, and it's really disappointing. The DOS version is often just straight up worse. yeah but then the game is windows-only instead of being also available for gog's mac and linux users. unfortunately i think market forces won out there.
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univbee posted:yeah but then the game is windows-only instead of being also available for gog's mac and linux users. unfortunately i think market forces won out there. They could bundle WINE for most old games like that, which ran in Windows 9x but didn't really need 3D acceleration or whatever, in fact WINE on Linux will run Windows 95 SimCity 2000 without any patching (it's because what crashes it on Windows 7 and newer is a change to file load/save dialog boxes that doesn't cause a crash with WINE). Mac ports of WINE should also run it, though I haven't tested that.
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azurite posted:There isn't really a trick to it. It should "just work" for the most part. Do the CD tracks play normally on a different CD player? Do normal games work fine?
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Sounds like it's not burning the audio as proper redbook tracks, if I had to guess. Barely anything treats multi-mode disks right on Windows anymore either so it's not surprising.
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