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Son Of General Retro Discussion
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See before I would have thought 'who am I to question if Enternow has a console modded?'
But then I heard about the 50hz Megadrive and my world came tumbling down!
Nice one on the Gamecube - was that from back in the days where multiple consoles were plenty?
Pretty sure I don't have any 100% boxed up unused consoles left anymore!
Ah the Megadrive has since been sorted with a trip to Radionics
Yeah I bought the Platinum one brand new & never used it. It's not sealed, but everything is bagged & in pristine condition. I got rid of all my duplicates some time ago but couldn't bring myself to sell that one, it's not worth much but I like owning it.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Super Mario Bros. gets downright evil come world 7. I cruised until then only to be destroyed in 7-1 and 7-2 which became my final resting place
Is that the original NES version you're talking about? Don't remember that game being overly difficult at any point. Old age and slowing reflexes has probably caught up with you.
That reminds me, I must download that demo ROM of Battle Kid 2 and see what it's like.0 -
Yeah same as Steve's, it has the full disc size lid on it & is chipped for multi region goodness. Of course, I also have a Platinum limited edition Windwaker Cube all boxed never even used...but thats only for looking at The Modded one is the workhorse
I have a platnium version aswell, think mine was a metriod bundle, not too sure. Just after taking a look at those japanese GC boxes....
....damn you all. I just bought series 1 & 2 of Cereal Killers trading cards so my pocket cant take anymore for the week0 -
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Is that the original NES version you're talking about? Don't remember that game being overly difficult at any point. Old age and slowing reflexes has probably caught up with you.
Yes it's the original and I'm actually finding I'm much better at games these days than I was when I was younger. It does get quite evil come World 7. Bullet bills and hammer bros everywhere so if you lose that fire flower you are boned.
Also I'm beating this without warps and there's no continues in the original so you have to collect every coin you come across to build up lives.
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The Last Bandit wrote: »Might be a bit easier if you tried it at 50Hz ?
It's actually PAL optimised.
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Jack burton wrote: »top 25 sega mega drive games - dorkyl
At the risk of sounding like johnny ultimate, how mainstream!
Not a single treasure game.....DONT WORRY WE HAVE ALL MORTAL KOMBAT II AND 3
**** sake..............and no ristar! OR SHINOBI III, ok I'll stop now
What absolute ****. Altered Beast, Streets of Rage 3, Double Dragon, Battletoads, Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 are borderline awful or just plain awful. Where's Gunstar Heroes, Phantasy Star 4, Jungle Strike, Revenge of Shinobi, Shinobi 3, Shining Force 2, Rocket Knight Adventures, Contra, Thunderforce 4.
FFS, these are all mainstream games as well, I'm not even trying to be a videogame hipster!
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This is kind of worrying, I need to get to japan fast:
http://famicomblog.blogspot.ie/2012/07/japanese-retro-game-shops-in-decline.html
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Whiskey aside ("Suntory Time"), most Japanese drinks do lean unfortunately towards the 'piss' end of the spectrum. Even the greatest mascot of them all - "Boss of them All since 1992" - couldn't get me to drink a can of rank cold coffee. At least the ads are good. The first ad is probably better than any recent Final Fantasy game. Apparently the drink itself is some weird herb **** though. Shame.
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Iffy chocobo racing aside - who'd have thought they control like broken tanks when forced to race for the amusement of rabid punters? - I always thoroughly enjoyed the extended Chocobo quest. If you follow the (pretty clear!) instructions of that guy in the hut, it doesn't take that long at all. Never could warm to any of the chocobo subquests in the rest of the series as a result. Was it VIII or IX that had the Chocobo forests? They were nothing compared to the joy of finally hatching a black chocobo!
It's been a while since I played, but I remember underwater materia being poorly signposted. Very easy to miss without a guide. Was there an NPC who told you about it? Again, been at least six or seven years since I've played it, so my memory of some things is a little hazy.
What I do remember is how surprisingly funny the game is. Never realised you could actually get in to the brothel at the start until my third playthrough. Bizarre stuff. And the date with Barrett is a classic
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »Kid Icarus brings new meaning to "the claw". It's genuinely hurts to play for extended periods :pac: But I somehow taught myself to play it on the bus. Eventually. Still, it's not one for anyone with arthritis. It's an absolutely fantastic game though, once you get past that major hurdle.
Going end up with a 'strong hand' from playing the 3ds
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Not sure the trainer is needed, it's not like FFVII is a tough game, it's a total breeze and really simplistic for a JRPG.
Don't think there's any shame in enjoying FFVII. It's a great game and lots of fun just don't come telling me that the absolute nonsense plot was amazing or anything.
Now saying you enjoyed the plot of Kingdom Hearts 2 and onwards, that's a different matter entirely.
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Well at least Persona 4's story is works well within it's own universe and deals with some really deep social issues.
It also doesn't rely on any Deus Ex Machina like the worst of the anime tropes 'his force of will was so strong'.
Sephiroths force of will was so strong it kept him alive despite being impaled.
His force of will was so strong he was able to control a alien creature that specialises in planetcide.
Then there's the 'Weapons', the only explanation for them is that Evangelion came out in 1995 and the writer watched way too much of it.
It's a rollercoaster ride but when you look back at it, it was nonsense.
If you want to argue with me then my only reply is 'this guy are sick'.
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right , I am now an expert at makin' c64 serial cablesh0la! I built a working psu adaptor for the Commodore 1541 drive, hurray!
, next I have to build a serial cable ( I have a few 6 pin din plugs spare)
plus side , its free, downside , I feckin HATE soldering DIN plugs!
handy hint 1 : use network cable , its perfect
handy hint 2 : when you pick up the 6 pin din plugs , buy a socket as well, its 2 quid , and when you're soldering to the pins, if you have the plug in the socket (clamped or in helping hands or whatever) , if the plug plastic heats up , and the pins move , the socket will keep them straight.
handy hint 3: heat shrink cable is you friend , cover each pin connection as soon as you solder!
Have my drive working now , and did a test copy with star commander , and had r-type running on the '64 within a few minutes.
yeah I could buy an ultimate 1541 but I like doing it the hard way!0 -
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FF VII's storyline is vague and open ended..but I generally like that in media rather than having everything wrapped up in a neat little package.
Where's the Deus Ex Machina in FF VII by the way?
FFVII's story isn't vague and open ended at all, it's actually very simple. The only thing that is vague is the god awful localisation that makes it so hard to understand. Super soldier throws a tantrum when he finds his mother is an alien. Gets killed but stays alive due to the force of his will. Decides to use the force of his will to control his mother and get the black materia to create a wound in the earth so he can... become a god of planet with no life on it, great ambitions there.
As for the deus ex machina, somebody using the 'force of their will' to control something that happens to be a few thousand miles away or keep himself alive is a deus ex machina in my books. There's plenty more there but that's the big one for me.
Persona 4 may be a load of wacky japanese nonsense but there's nothing wrong with that as long as it's consistent within its own universe, something I feel FFVII doesn't do very well and instead relies on said deus ex machina.
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Some classic games done up in the style of traditional Japanese prints.
More:
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/07/01/your-favorite-nintendo-games-as-youve-never-seen-them-before-as-traditional-japanese-prints/0 -
a5y, you're beginning to sound like Retr0 - I'd be very careful of that.
Question: When has Retr0 admitted embarrassment, about anything, ever? I don't think I need to start being too careful just yet.Where's the Deus Ex Machina in FF VII by the way?
I can think of a few examples:
Clouds' escape from from the second reactor interrupted by several hundred feet of falling. He survives because he lands in a flowerbed, the only flowerbed in the entire city. Fortunately, even though the flowerbed is inside a church, he isn't killed by crash landing on the roof, as that has already collapsed... and without crushing the flowerbed under its beams. What.
There's the Tarzan cable in Midgar that just about will swing them to safety when the plate is dropped. For a cable that long it sure wasn't carrying any power or any obvious function, other than leading to the edge of the carnage. No explanation as to why it exists, but its just as well it does because its precisely the only thing that can save 'em.
Then there's that junon cannon. The weapon that happens to be just about "just about powerful enough" for the only targets it is ever fired at. Only in all cases none of those targets existed at the time of its construction.
Evidently the cannon was designed by engineers with crystal balls or something similar. Also, when the management of the supposedly narrow-minded and ruthless corporation were told about their request for a its budget to combat giant monsters, forcefields and preventing the end of the world they thought it was entirely reasonable. Just as well they did though because the world couldn't be saved if they hadn't listened.
Also arguably/kinda/sorta deus ex machina:- Cait Sith the second (where was the stand-in when his predecessor got KO'ed every time up 'til then?)
- the rocket and the entire space program (you'd think having a space program might be worth mentioning in the Shin Ra
tech stuff at the start of disc 1) - giant materia (somehow conveniently overlooked by all the materia looters right up until the moment the plot says to race against time and get them.)
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Everytime I try to play FFVII, and I have it in my collection since the time it was a current game, I get hung up on the damn random battles and the linedancing that ensues...
Does this make me a bad person?
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