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All New Sonic posted:Akumajou Densetsu (aka Castlevania III, has enhanced soundtrack) Also IIRC it's one of those unusual cases where the Japanese version is actually easier than the English version. Which is probably fine because I can't get goddamn anywhere in Castlevania III because it's brutal, but I haven't seriously tried to play through Akumajou Densetsu to find out whether it's too easy or something (I strongly suspect not, though). also the HELP ME password doesn't work
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Mak0rz posted:Also IIRC it's one of those unusual cases where the Japanese version is actually easier than the English version. Which is probably fine because I can't get goddamn anywhere in Castlevania III because it's brutal, but I haven't seriously tried to play through Akumajou Densetsu to find out whether it's too easy or something (I strongly suspect not, though). In the US version, the further you go in the game, the more damage you take from individual hits. The Japanese version doesn't have this. The different characters also take different amounts of damage but I'm not sure if this is in Japanese version or not.
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Oct 13, 2017 14:19
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Also they completely changed how Grant works. In the US version he stabs with the knife in what is the worst melee attack in the Castlevania series, but the JP version his basic attack is just throwing free knife subweapons. Edit: And they changed at least one checkpoint to be more brutal. In the Japanese version once you make it to Dracula you start right before his fight every time you die. In the US version if you die to Dracula you do the stage before him again.
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Oct 13, 2017 14:27
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Sir Tonk posted:
dig the setup especially the jesus candles from Fiesta
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Oct 13, 2017 14:39
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Mak0rz posted:Also IIRC it's one of those unusual cases where the Japanese version is actually easier than the English version. Is that unusual? I thought all the American versions of games were much harder back then to punish people renting video games.
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Oct 13, 2017 14:44
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Spoderman posted:Is that unusual? I thought all the American versions of games were much harder back then to punish people renting video games. I dunno. I thought that there were games that were modified or in some cases not even localized because they were considered "too hard" for American audiences. This was more prevalent during the 16-bit era though I think.
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Oct 13, 2017 14:53
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That's the usual excuse for SMB2 in particular, but there's a lot more cases where the US versions are made harder because we had a rental market.
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Oct 13, 2017 15:08
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Krikzz has joined the cool kids club https://twitter.com/krikzz/status/918842647682408449
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Oct 13, 2017 15:17
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SMB2 wasn't sent over because it was a cheap cash in on 99% existing assets and Nintendo was still terrified of being compared to lovely Atari 2600 style cash in games. It didn't even do any vertical scrolling because the engine had barely changed. They didn't really care about difficulty for US audiences in their games or games they published. Mak0rz posted:I dunno. I thought that there were games that were modified or in some cases not even localized because they were considered "too hard" for American audiences. Nah what you're remembering is stuff like Sony US making it hard to publish 2d games on the Playstation because random execs said Americans demand 3d. Or a bunch of SNES rpgs getting skipped because someone saw the translation cost and would just say it wouldn't sell enough, cancel that. fishmech fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Oct 13, 2017 |
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Oct 13, 2017 15:18
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Uh I just found an Olympus branded 20M2MDU for $325 locally... y/n?
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Oct 13, 2017 16:08
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If it's in good shape? Hell ya.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:37
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TheMadMilkman posted:If it's in good shape? Hell ya. It's this one https://m.ebay.com/itm/Sony-Trinitr...9%257Ciid%253A1
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Oct 13, 2017 16:41
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fishmech posted:Nah what you're remembering is stuff like Sony US making it hard to publish 2d games on the Playstation because random execs said Americans demand 3d. Or a bunch of SNES rpgs getting skipped because someone saw the translation cost and would just say it wouldn't sell enough, cancel that. For some reason I'm remembering the too hard thing for 16 bit era too, before the PlayStation was a twinkle in Sony's eye. Unsure why, maybe it's in an old video game magazine that covered some Japan news at the time. Anyone know the actual reason that Contra Hard Corps port US was made 5x harder? Rental excuse should only apply to Nintendo imo.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:52
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The rental angle of making the American versions more difficult wasn't to punish, it was to encourage sales. They made the games harder so they couldn't be beaten in a typical rental period on your first play-through of the game. You rent it, can't get more then halfway through the game during your rental period so you buy it. I can see how Konami would benefit from making a game hard enough that you can't beat it in a couple of days on your first run-through.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:05
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His eBay fee on that sale would be almost $50. Offer him like $250 in cash to sell it to you locally and he'll probably take it.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:06
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That will get him banned from eBay and charged the fee anyway.
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falz posted:Anyone know the actual reason that Contra Hard Corps port US was made 5x harder? Rental excuse should only apply to Nintendo imo. That one's actually backwards, when they translated Hard Corps for Japan they made it dramatically easier.
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Acolyte! posted:That will get him banned from eBay and charged the fee anyway. Fair enough. I've broken those rules before and not had issues but I can understand that. Just buy this one instead then, it's the same size and just a little older for way less. https://greensboro.craigslist.org/vgm/d/sony-pvm-1953st-retro-gaming/6339184979.html
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Elliotw2 posted:That one's actually backwards, when they translated Hard Corps for Japan they made it dramatically easier. Wikipedia says the releases were only a month apart, seems tight for that theory (or shockingly wikipedia could be wrong)
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Oct 13, 2017 18:19
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Speaking of PVMs, I found a Panasonic CT-1030M security monitor in a junk pile. It’s mono and only 10” but holy poo poo the difference between it and plugging a console into the HDTV.
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Oct 13, 2017 21:39
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XtraSmiley posted:No need to mutilate your system, the Everdrive works on both system types. Yeah, but I still need to be able to play regular US carts.
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Oct 13, 2017 21:42
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e, dp
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GutBomb posted:The rental angle of making the American versions more difficult wasn't to punish, it was to encourage sales. They made the games harder so they couldn't be beaten in a typical rental period on your first play-through of the game. You rent it, can't get more then halfway through the game during your rental period so you buy it. I can see how Konami would benefit from making a game hard enough that you can't beat it in a couple of days on your first run-through. This. In Japan, they had enough of a problem with rental stores using rom copiers to make their own copies of Famicom games that Nintendo successfully lobbied for a de facto ban on video game rentals. Which is why NCL really wanted to drop the Famicom like yesterday's news in favor of the FDS, which had a crude DRM system in it that used the Nintendo logo that was engraved on the discs, and the American and European NES had the 10NES lockout chip. But NOA couldn't get game rentals banned in the US, and boy did they try; so to get people to buy games instead of renting them, Nintendo made US releases harder than the Japanese equivalents to drive sales instead of rentals.
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Oct 13, 2017 21:44
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Sir Tonk posted:Yeah, but I still need to be able to play regular US carts. There's an aftermarket universal cartridge slot for the N64: https://www.shapeways.com/product/VRHZKBHUZ/n64-universal-cartridge-slot
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Monitor Burn posted:There's an aftermarket universal cartridge slot for the N64: https://www.shapeways.com/product/VRHZKBHUZ/n64-universal-cartridge-slot FYI about this. The cartridge doors tend to catch on the slot.
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Oct 13, 2017 22:20
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Monitor Burn posted:There's an aftermarket universal cartridge slot for the N64: https://www.shapeways.com/product/VRHZKBHUZ/n64-universal-cartridge-slot What the hell? Just file down the tabs inside and save $25. You have to open the console either way.
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Monitor Burn posted:There's an aftermarket universal cartridge slot for the N64: https://www.shapeways.com/product/VRHZKBHUZ/n64-universal-cartridge-slot It's cool someone made that, but I'd rather just cut them off and throw some tape over the holes.
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Pokemon OH SNAP! posted:Fair enough. I've broken those rules before and not had issues but I can understand that. Supposedly they've been cracking down lately. It's probably not worth the risk.
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wa27 posted:What the hell? Just file down the tabs inside and save $25. You have to open the console either way. Yeah that's what I do, but some people prefer the cleaner install, or want to keep the plastic unmodified in case they sell the console later.
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Quiet Feet posted:Supposedly they've been cracking down lately. It's probably not worth the risk. Yeah, they're making a big deal out of it right now. Not worth it.
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Quiet Feet posted:Supposedly they've been cracking down lately. It's probably not worth the risk. I got some stuff combined by someone on ebay and just ended up dealing with them off-site, but yeah it won't let you put email address in message and looks for keywords to tell if you're offering to pay outside of ebay.
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Ok I finally was able to get my cabinet that came with the house pulled out and taken apart and I found some uhhh... things? That look fishy and hopefully people know about Tldr is I turned it on one day The the screen looked like this  With brief moments of "clarity"  This looks like a pcb thing based on what I had read, but I don't see any bad caps at least as far as I can tell  These is this but it doesn't appear to be near any circuitry on the board itself  Other than that I found this on what I think is the flyback board but I think it's some sort of electronics grease that's a million years old   The cabinet is apparently older than most of my coworkers What should I look at next? Does anyone have any idea how much this thing is worth? based on old ebay posts i was guessing $2,000 at the max since it's popular in bars and poo poo, but if it's going to be a pain in the dick to fix i would take the loss and sell it to some shop (or a metro detroit goon who would like to make a quick flip) edit: looks like it's more like $500 - $1000 depending on the buyer so maybe i wont bother fixing it. FAT32 SHAMER fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Pull off the PCB connector (at the top of your pic), it's a JAMMA connector. Clean it with alcohol like you do a SNES edge and put it back on, see if it makes a difference. Arcade machines are pretty easy to fix, and if nothing else you can slap another JAMMA game in that cabinet and be ready to rock. How does the cabinet look on the outside?
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XtraSmiley posted:Pull off the PCB connector (at the top of your pic), it's a JAMMA connector. Clean it with alcohol like you do a SNES edge and put it back on, see if it makes a difference. Arcade machines are pretty easy to fix, and if nothing else you can slap another JAMMA game in that cabinet and be ready to rock. How does the cabinet look on the outside? Like new, and the trackball is new as well. It'd be kind of neat to be able to keep it instead of lugging it out of the basement
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:These is this but it doesn't appear to be near any circuitry on the board itself If you look closely, there is a thin copper trace running right over the top of that gouge, which is very likely severed. That would be the first thing I would try repairing. If that doesn't work, the video RAM might be hosed (judging from the fact that only the textures seem to be corrupted). I'm not at all familiar with Incredible Technologies hardware, though, so I can't give any advice beyond that.
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Yeah, you'll want to fix the traces All New Sonic pointed out. Also, even though the caps don't look bad, replacing them is another good step if the first repair doesn't work.
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Yeah I just automatically assume caps from the 90’s are bad. They dont always swell when they die either
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:These is this but it doesn't appear to be near any circuitry on the board itself Those trace lines are part of the circuitry my dude
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Dude, is it a lovely golf game? A new board might only be $50, check on eBay. Also, that cabinet is worth more as a dedicated Mortal Kombat than a lovely golf game (actually, maybe not, depending on which game it is). But really, you need to head over to KLOV to ask these types of questions. The dudes there will help you out. https://forums.arcade-museum.com
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XtraSmiley posted:Dude, is it a lovely golf game? A new board might only be $50, check on eBay. Also, that cabinet is worth more as a dedicated Mortal Kombat than a lovely golf game (actually, maybe not, depending on which game it is). But really, you need to head over to KLOV to ask these types of questions. The dudes there will help you out. Hell yeah It would be rad as gently caress if I could figure out how to convert it back to a mortal combat thing to have for when I have parties or kids Thanks for all the tips, guys 
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