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emSparkly posted:As much as I love the 7th gen, I do wanna interrupt to ask: 6 is probably the best "traditional" Wiz game to start with. 7 and 8 are better experiences but 6-7-8 form kind of a set which makes me feel it's a little better to start at 6. If you wanted to jump straight to 7 for the improved grid dungeon crawler or 8 for the overall best experience that's cool, too, I just think of 6 as a starting point. Wiz 1 is the one to play if you want to see what the influential game was, but the barrier to entry is sky high on that one. All of the console versions of wiz 1 that I know of have the English version on them, including the many, many Japanese console versions, so you can pick one and go with it.
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Random Stranger posted:Protect that precious baby and never let it update. I put Halo 3 ODST in as a test of the disc drive and the bastard nearly got me! Instead played some Tetris to make sure it reads. njsykora posted:I assume Humphreys is not dumb enough to drill holes into the side of the console or remove a bunch of stuff from the inside to try and make cooling better but instead loving up the airflow pattern of the console and ending up with a worse console. So he's got that over most retrogaming Youtubers at least. All I did is put a spare 120GB HDD I had (sucks it didn't come with the offical HDD but I got people on the hunt for me) and format it. It works. Asa far as I am concerned, I call that good and it goes on the shelf display shelf. No point pulling it apart to redo paste or RGH/JTAG as it's not really going to go in service. A bonus is I received 5 Xbox Ones last week and they all work enough for me. Today I got 10 Xbox One Controllers and so far 2 work completely fine minus lack of batteries.
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what the gently caress. i was gonna order something this week > (i will probably still make my order even if it doesn't show up by tomorrow, but i won't be happy about it) mikeycp fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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Waltzing Along posted:#4, definitely. you sick son of a bitch
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Waltzing Along posted:....no On the one hand, seems like a lot of the cheaper deals were drying up. On the other hand, I had a wishlist of about $400 in stuff I didn't need that my broke brain regrets not ordering now that I can't 
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Waltzing Along posted:....no All good things... I haven't used the past month because I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow, too. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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Apr 19, 2024 12:05
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We will look back in ten years and remember these times.
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The true box theory was the free shipping we had along the way
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Waltzing Along posted:#4, definitely.
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emSparkly posted:As much as I love the 7th gen, I do wanna interrupt to ask: Hot take, Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land for PS2. Not part of the original series & developed by a different company, but it has the Wizardry trappings without being more obtuse than enjoyable (usually). It's streamlined a little in some areas like character building which I think might be good for a first timer. If you'd prefer the more traditional experience, then seconding what Random Stranger said re: 6-8. 6 is cool and probably the best traditional, 7 is great and when they started trying to really shake things up, and 8 is a great and wonderful game that's very different from any other Wizardry.
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I just beat Wiz 8 and have played 6 - I skipped 7 for reasons I don't remember. 6 is good but you have to be OK with every single screen looking exactly the same whether you're on a mountain path or in a dungeon, and making a map by hand or using a 3rd party tool like grid cartographer to map. Wizardry 8 is good but the combat is so, so, so slow even with max speed mods for enemy movement animations. The last big fight of the game lasted about 35-40 minutes for me. I'd still recommend both games and will probably play 7 at some point with a 6-8 playthrough with the same party but there are definite caveats to the games if you want to try them out. I'd also recommend the SNES port of Wizardry 1-3 with an english patch, I enjoyed those pretty well when I played them and they turn the wireframe graphics to some pretty nice looking sprites and such.
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suruga-nah I guess that might explain why my order from last weekend was randomly shipped by DHL in like 3 freakin days
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Phantasium posted:suruga-nah
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They still got stuff I like for good prices though…
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Yeah but shipping is always what kills you buying from Japan.
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I’m shipping myself to Japan next month instead
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emSparkly posted:What would be the best Wizardry game for a first timer? Remake compilations of 1-3 are on SFC (a very, very late release) and PS1/Saturn. The former has a complete English fanpatch, and the latter is mostly in English by default (once you adjust the options).
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Mr E posted:I just beat Wiz 8 and have played 6 - I skipped 7 for reasons I don't remember. 6 is good but you have to be OK with every single screen looking exactly the same whether you're on a mountain path or in a dungeon, and making a map by hand or using a 3rd party tool like grid cartographer to map. Wizardry 8 is good but the combat is so, so, so slow even with max speed mods for enemy movement animations. The last big fight of the game lasted about 35-40 minutes for me. I'd still recommend both games and will probably play 7 at some point with a 6-8 playthrough with the same party but there are definite caveats to the games if you want to try them out. Going to second the recommendation for the SNES port. I started with 5 on the SNES and then went back to try 1-3 when it got a fan patch and it felt like a very solid adaptation. I also love 8 a lot, but if you're trying to figure out "what's the deal with this Wizardry series they love in Japan" it's not a good place to start since they largely built their games off 1-3 and 5.
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njsykora posted:Yeah but shipping is always what kills you buying from Japan. And suruga-ya's shipping is always petty high. You need to place a huge order with them to bring the price down. Backto j4u.co.jp for me, I guess.
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Random Stranger posted:And suruga-ya's shipping is always petty high. You need to place a huge order with them to bring the price down. Backto j4u.co.jp for me, I guess. How high is high? Thanks to the pandemic I got used to paying 20 bucks for express shipping from japan a lot.
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I have a cart with stuff I really want, so I'm gonna have one last go no matter the shipping And right when I realized they have board games too!
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ok it's like $27 for dhl shipping which, is about the same as i pay to get things from amazon.jp so i'm not upset it'll be here like wednesday so
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Agrias120 posted:Back to forgetting about Suruga-ya for another 10-12 years. I never ended up ordering anything from them. But it was fun browsing the selection and guessing which random way their auto-translator decided to romanize various names/titles.
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I’ve been looking for a cheap flash cart or multi cart for my Nes (UK Mattel version) and I’ve noticed a lot of the listings on websites like AliExpress say they don’t work on that system, is this a thing? As far as I knew there was little to no difference between them…. I can’t find any info when googling
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AlternateNu posted:I never ended up ordering anything from them. their auto translator is astoundingly bad
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Gaz2k21 posted:I’ve been looking for a cheap flash cart or multi cart for my Nes (UK Mattel version) and I’ve noticed a lot of the listings on websites like AliExpress say they don’t work on that system, is this a thing? As far as I knew there was little to no difference between them…. Poking around I'm seeing people say the Mattel version has a "PAL A" lockout chip and the later NES version has a "PAL B" lockout chip so there can be incompatibilities.
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mikeycp posted:their auto translator is astoundingly bad I suspect in many cases they auto translated in 2008 and never updated. My favorite is how Luigi sometimes gets translated as a super obscure 13th century Itallian nobleman whose only accomplishment was being brother to somebody who was marginally more notable. Now that I think about, maybe the auto translation wasn't that far off...
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Random Stranger posted:I suspect in many cases they auto translated in 2008 and never updated. My favorite is how Luigi sometimes gets translated as a super obscure 13th century Itallian nobleman whose only accomplishment was being brother to somebody who was marginally more notable. this is actually called localization
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mikeycp posted:ok it's like $27 for dhl shipping which, is about the same as i pay to get things from amazon.jp so i'm not upset Shipping small stuff isn't terrible, the real appeal of the free shipping was getting loads of big bulky things that are more expensive to ship than their cost.
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Yeah, but honestly I've been using it to just get a ton of random poo poo. I could have loaded up on a bunch of weird huge controllers, but I'm also dumb enough that I've already had and gotten rid of a lot of my dumber huge controllers. I had the Onimusha Soul Controller at one point, poo poo I preordered it from EB. I think I'm good.
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Been a while since a sick mail day like this.   
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Kick rear end, I hope it didn't hurt your wallet too much. TG-16 game prices have gone up a to nasty levels.
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This video dropped today and is very relevant to this thread's interests. https://youtu.be/gbjzXuXlZJw?si=vGaf-Dt1Db_ZoAEE
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wa27 posted:This video dropped today and is very relevant to this thread's interests. fixed the embed IG-88 posted:Been a while since a sick mail day like this. That Devil's Crush isn't sealed is it? Because   if so. How much was the sealed Alien Crush?The MD sequel to Devilish has an amazing Sakimoto OST. Apparently he did this GG original too, but SMS PSG is kinda crap and there's only so much you can do with it. Ofecks fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Ofecks posted:fixed the embed I effectively sold off a bit of LEGO inventory for things that scratched that same collector’s itch. Sealed Alien Crush was $145. Devil’s Crush $400. I had a good month at work. Now just a couple high tier pinball games left. (focus is handhelds for now)
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Tired of waiting for Surugaya to have BC PS3 back in stock while their free shipping was a thing, I started checking up on places where I could buy one for a good price and preferably with its OG box. And found this beauty:   Just look at it. Ancient box in bloody good condition, all inserts included, even the original ethernet cable is still packed in place. It's a CECHB00 model and its glossy finish is in amazing shape too considering how these things get scratched by air friction alone. Two(!) Sixaxis controllers in pretty good condition for both their age and how lovely these things last. It even came with some games:  Though the only surprise here (other than some bootleg Tetris game as the previous owner's single only PS2 title) is the fact there's a 2018 football game on a console that came out in 2006? drat! Preparing to test it out I was very worried that I would gently caress this pretty thing right away and long story told short: I seem to have done just that. I read somewhere that the very early PS3 models do not have a multi voltage power supply so I didn't want to even risk just plugging it in directly in my European 220V 50Hz current mains. No, I had a stepdown transformer from when I first got my Neo Geo AES years ago, this thing below and thought it would be safe:  Apparently not. Maybe it's not powerful enough? I plugged its original power cable on the transformer and, let me tell you, it looks weird as hell. There's a tiny, strange green wire built into it, which I have no idea what it is. What the hell is this tiny wire?  Anyhow, the console turned on at first and I was ecstatic! Asked me for language, timezone, and if I could see the 1080p HDMI video mode. Just as I finished answering those questions, the system proceeded to shut down. I turned it on again and proceed to answer the same questions only to have the system shut down again on the exact same spot. And then, it did not turn on anymore from here onward! I did not smell any burning components, the system was running pretty cold when it did turn on, but my suspicion is that I fried up something, hopefully just the power supply and none of the vital chips. Please advise? I was planning to get at some point a different, compatible power supply from a later model that would run at lower temps, or maybe even build an external one with a modern PC power supply (saw a guide for this last week), but I'm not sure if this is the right way to proceed from here. It's also pretty annoying I can't tell if I'm even pressing the power button properly since they aren't real buttons that would provide me actual "this got pressed" feedback.
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