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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:I went to Super Potato in Japan in 2014, 2015, and 2016 I went in 2015 and I didn't care that they didn't have many games. It was still cool as gently caress to go to the upstairs area and play all the arcade games. Plus they let you smoke indoors which is pretty novel as an american 
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Jun 10, 2017 22:11
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brb moving to canada
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Code Jockey posted:brb moving to canada https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/873601054226698242
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Jun 10, 2017 22:42
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Mac had best version of the original Might & Magic. Shame it was never ported.
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Jun 10, 2017 22:48
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Ofecks posted:I think it was more than "a few". Off the top of my head: Not to mention the oddball 60+ hz games like Tetris TGM.
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Jun 10, 2017 22:49
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Now he's just pandering to the middle aged nerd demographic. But I will admit that it is working. al-azad posted:Mac had best version of the original Might & Magic. Shame it was never ported. I got a wacky idea to do a full playthrough of the Might and Magic series last month. I've never managed to finish 1, 2, or 9, so I thought since I'm going to have a ton of free time it would be kind of amusing to do. I was going with the C64 version but I was having trouble figuring out how to handle the character disk stuff with it so I jumped over to the DOS version. I haven't gotten a lot further than rolling up my party, though, since M&M1 is still from the "really punishing to get started" school of mid-80's RPG's. I'm not sure I'll last that long, but I'm really looking forward to playing 3-5 again since I think that was the peak of the series... Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Jun 10, 2017 |
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Jun 10, 2017 23:00
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This is the best celebrity video-game tweet since Asuka from the WWE talked about her complete sets of Virtual Boy and Nintendo 64DD games.
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Jun 11, 2017 03:39
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Random Stranger posted:Now he's just pandering to the middle aged nerd demographic. Get a Mac emulator going and try it out. Having a mouse interface to do poo poo like inventory management is lifesaving, there's no blips or bloops to piss you off, and the art is redrawn and looks like an HD Tiger Electronics game or something.
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Jun 11, 2017 04:53
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Kid Fenris posted:This is the best celebrity video-game tweet since Asuka from the WWE talked about her complete sets of Virtual Boy and Nintendo 64DD games. what
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Jun 11, 2017 05:35
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END ME SCOOB posted:This is actually the correct answer. It just runs at a nicer resolution. The music is butchered and the music in Bubsy is nothing to talk about anyway.
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Jun 11, 2017 05:45
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WWE's Asuka used to work in the games industry and she has an obscene game collection that she sometimes tweets about : https://twitter.com/wweasuka/status/842138150470356993
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Jun 11, 2017 06:05
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Seeing those SNES games reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Is there any actual difference between SNES cartridges that look like this: and ones that look like this without the recessed chunk on the bottom? 
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Jun 11, 2017 06:47
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Mak0rz posted:Seeing those SNES games reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Is there any actual difference between SNES cartridges that look like this: No difference, but there are reasons for it.
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Jun 11, 2017 06:55
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Holy poo poo I never knew this! That's fascinating, thank you.
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Jun 11, 2017 07:37
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Until today I thought the change was to make it easier to insert the cart.
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Jun 11, 2017 07:40
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Similart to the SNES lock is the Gameboy lock. Only the first model would lock the game in place when you switched it on, but they had to keep the little notch in the game carts until GBC became the standard.
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Jun 11, 2017 07:56
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The Japanese Mega Drive model 1 likewise has a cart lock, which is why Japanese and reproduction carts have a notch missing on the left.
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Jun 11, 2017 08:05
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Woah that's neat! Why the gently caress were so many people yanking the games out while the system was on? 
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Jun 11, 2017 08:22
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Because little kids don't think things through all the way. I would guess that as soon a a sub 7 year old wanted to play a new game he would just grab a new cart and yank the inserted one out without powering down the console. I know that's what I would have done because I have vivid memories of doing that to my poor Sega Genesis.
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Jun 11, 2017 08:43
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If you didn't slam on the SNES' eject button as hard as possible then you didn't live. I think that's another hardware thing they tinkered with because I vividly remember being able to launch games clean out of the console.
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Jun 11, 2017 08:59
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al-azad posted:If you didn't slam on the SNES' eject button as hard as possible then you didn't live. I think that's another hardware thing they tinkered with because I vividly remember being able to launch games clean out of the console. Actually, Sony is the company that perfected that tech. 
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Jun 11, 2017 09:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4YDXTr55-U Lord Voultar brings us a great video of him repairing Doujindance Pcengine Duos. There will be glue...
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Jun 11, 2017 10:28
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Cindy Shitbird posted:Actually, Sony is the company that perfected that tech. Ah, the old disc-to-shuriken converter. It's a shame that
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Jun 11, 2017 10:34
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That's probably what my doujindance Duo-R looks like and I'm afraid to ever open it or power it on again. The bubble wrap is absurd but what's wrong with using epoxy or hot glue to keep the connections secure? It makes future modding work near impossible but it should be a set-and-forget kind of thing. The guy talks about learning CAD and fabricating boards which interests me. I've used autoCAD a bit before but I have no idea how one would go about getting pcb boards printed.
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Jun 11, 2017 11:42
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Heran Bago posted:The guy talks about learning CAD and fabricating boards which interests me. I've used autoCAD a bit before but I have no idea how one would go about getting pcb boards printed. Oh hey, I've actually done that for class! There are specific computer aided design (CAD) programs just for laying out PCB's, so not autocad. They take a list of components that you'll need on the board with the connections between them (usually taken from another CAD program because engineering software can never be user friendly) and let you place them down however you want and define the traces, through holes, pads that they connect to, and everything else. Once that's done there are two options: there are places that will take your file and do a proper PCB for you with all the acid etching done, or if you have a CNC machine and sheet of copper cladding on a PCB then you mill it out yourself by having the machine carve away the copper on the board. I'm sure there's a couple more options than that, but those are the methods that we've used. It actually doesn't cost that much to have a place make the PCB for you as a one-off.
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Jun 11, 2017 12:30
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Mak0rz posted:Seeing those SNES games reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask. Is there any actual difference between SNES cartridges that look like this: Huh. I knew about the different cartridge styles, but didn't realize they had gone back and reissued earlier games with them, I'd always thought it was just a "games released after a certain date used the new cartridge style" thing.
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Jun 11, 2017 13:22
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univbee posted:Huh. I knew about the different cartridge styles, but didn't realize they had gone back and reissued earlier games with them, I'd always thought it was just a "games released after a certain date used the new cartridge style" thing. SMW was a packaged game and a number of other first-party titles were probably in print for the duration of the console's life. They wouldn't just go back to using an old shell mold for a cartridge just because a game was originally released before x date.
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Mak0rz posted:Presumably SMW and a number of other first-party titles were in print for a long time during the console's life. They wouldn't just go back to using an old shell mold for a cartridge just because a game was originally released before x date. Yeah, that definitely makes sense, I guess in my youth I never thought about things like multiple print runs, and I never knew anyone who got SMW outside of in the launch bundle.
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I think SMW is a unique case because it was a pack-in throughout the consoles life, so it was sold as new through both case revisions E: beaten
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Jun 11, 2017 17:52
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I think SMW is a unique case because it was a pack-in throughout the consoles life, so it was sold as new through both case revisions I think they dumped it when All-Stars came out for the bundle-exclusive All-Stars + World cart, but pretty sure SMW was sold separately due to the $99 gameless SKU of the console. Man, remember when current consoles were $99? 
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univbee posted:I think they dumped it when All-Stars came out for the bundle-exclusive All-Stars + World cart, but pretty sure SMW was sold separately due to the $99 gameless SKU of the console. Sure can! Six months ago when the NES Mini came out!
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Jun 11, 2017 18:03
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univbee posted:Man, remember when current consoles were $99? The last few years of the Wii before the Wii U came out?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I think SMW is a unique case because it was a pack-in throughout the consoles life, so it was sold as new through both case revisions Many games had at least two print runs because of the Player's Choice line.
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Jun 11, 2017 18:14
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univbee posted:
Last Thanksgiving with the Amazon exclusive black and white Mario 3ds xl.
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Jun 11, 2017 18:19
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RZA Encryption posted:Last Thanksgiving with the Amazon exclusive black and white Mario 3ds xl. REALLY sorry I missed that, hopefully there'll be something similar this year.
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Jun 11, 2017 18:26
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I think SMW is a unique case because it was a pack-in throughout the consoles life, so it was sold as new through both case revisions Zelda, F-Zero, and a few others also are available in both case styles. I can't think of any third party SNES games that came out in both case styles, though.
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Getting any Nintendo system without some kind of Mario was definitely not the norm. I did appreciate the Killer Instinct bundle when I needed a replacement SNES and got a cool new game that I didn't already have. I'm sure I'm not the only one here that felt mega gypped when Mario 64 was sold separately for $60. Even the fact that it only came with one controller bothered me. I needed another replacement and got the SNES mini brand new for a cool $39 on sale when Toys R Us was clearing out the last run of them. I think the Genesis 3 got as low as $29 before it disappeared. $99 was awesome when they were more current, but getting any new console from a store for 20% of launch price will never happen again. I'm still pissed I missed out on a cheap top loader NES since my old one was still technically working just barely. That's another one I know I'm not alone on.
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Random Stranger posted:Zelda, F-Zero, and a few others also are available in both case styles. Cursory glance, Actraiser has both styles.
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