Son Of General Retro Discussion

Steve X2

I've grabbed "Another World" on the iPad as it just came out.

Will give it a good go and see how they did. I like the way you can switch back and forth between the updated graphics and the original style as you play.

€3.99 on the app store and it works with iPad and iPhone.

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johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Slightly disappointed by Mass Effect 2. The rotten combat of the first game was improved but it's still not great. However that's not my main contention. I didn't think the story was nearly as good as the first game. I think the collectors were a much worse antagonist than the excellent Saren ultimately. Still don't let that put you off it. It was still utterly enjoyable and an absolute steal for the 13 euros I spent on it.

The story in Mass Effect 2 is inspired. Not the sci fi hookum, that's still nonsense. But the way the narrative adapts to player choice and decisions is wonderful. The ending and character's fates are genuinely impacted by how you played. That's a pretty spectacular advance. Heavy Rain can **** right off in contrast.

Retr0gamer

Pyongyang wrote: »

Taito are currently going for the world record longest arcade cabinet. Prepare to soil yourselves and behold Darius Burst 48!* :eek:

WARNING!
A GIANT 48 SCREEN ARCADE CABINET
IS APPROACHING FAST!


*Sadly it was an April Fool.

Not coming to an irish arcade near you.

I wonder how the lump that works!

o1s1n

What the flying ****?! I thought that was a photoshop job. Just did a google -

Forty-eight players can play Darius Burst Another Chronicle 48 together. Taito notes that, regardless of player, when your ship is destroyed, it will regenerate at the far left. The player in the far right seat will have to wait about a minute for his ship to arrive in his area of play.

That giant boss shown in the cabinet shot is "Unagi Fossil." It's meant to be 32 meters wide.

Edit - you can only do this to me on April 1st

johnny_ultimate

Missed the April Fools bit o1s1n

Its a gorgeous cab. Totally worth last 200 yen which could have been spent on kit kats.

Retr0gamer

Just saw an ebay advert for the mega man game on the neo geo pocket. Apparently it's '75% new'

o1s1n

How do you know when Ciderman has been in your house?

Andrew76

That's just pure mean! :mad:

johnny_ultimate

ICO / Shadow of the Colossus review in the Ticket today:

"The latter is a third-person fantasy action game (with shades of God of War)"

While I kind of see where he's coming from (although the GoW sequels were much more indebted to SotC) that statement really bothers me.

Retr0gamer

That's like reviewing the Maltese Falcon and saying there's shades of Chinatown in it. Games journalism really is in a mess at the moment.

johnny_ultimate

This is the fellow, we should remember, who never mentioned the fact that Ocarina of Time 3D was a remake in his (three star, if I recall) review. Apparently he has many of the game journalist positions in Ireland locked up.

pdbhp

What a toss bag that journo is!
I cannot even read the tripe in newspapers especially games reviews as it always seems they are critiquing a totally different game.



Been playing Ghost Trick the last few days and it is totally kick ass! Really funny parts in it.

Retr0gamer

Yeah I've met him. Nice chap. Not much of a clue about games though.

pdbhp

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah I've met him. Nice chap. Not much of a clue about games though.

They probably said that about Stalin at sometime aswell:pac:

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah I've met him. Nice chap. Not much of a clue about games though.

Yeah was introduced to him last week, and he was at a press screening I was at this morning. Nice guy, I'd agree, but it's such a shame he's taking up pages that could be occupied by actual gamers.

Retr0gamer

pdbhp wrote: »

They probably said that about Stalin at sometime aswell:pac:

The difference is that this guy isn't going to cause any deaths.

Unless he insults Earthbound.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yeah was introduced to him last week, and he was at a press screening I was at this morning. Nice guy, I'd agree, but it's such a shame he's taking up pages that could be occupied by actual gamers.

Well he does play games and has an interest in them but doesn't really have the knowledge you'd expect from some one whose job it is to review games.

pdbhp

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The difference is that this guy isn't going to cause any deaths.

Unless he insults Earthbound.

Maybe his own:pac:

That poor fool wouldn't even know what earthbound was!

CiDeRmAn

No games for me but did spend the evening giving a relativistic and quantum mechanical description of reality, dipping liberally into metaphysics and philosophy...
Boy, am I tired!

Atavan-Halen

Anyone ever come across Ganbare Neo Poke-kun on the NGPC? Really want to try it out!

o1s1n

I came across that before, sounds hilarious. This is worth reading -

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/neopoke/neopoke.htm

Atavan-Halen

Yeah I had a read of that earlier, seems like it's one of the rarer games on the NGPC None on ebay or other online shops from what I can see

o1s1n

Are you going for a specific region or are you just buying whatever takes your fancy?

How about you go for a complete Jap and I'll do EU? Someone else can do the US

Atavan-Halen

Deal! Was going to try go for a full set!

Dr Bob

DinoRex wrote: »

Who remembers this bad boy?

I always was intrigued by them when they showed up in catalogues.
also ...this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aCeg-EbOAI

o1s1n

Excellent!

Just watch out though, there were a crap load more Jap games released than EU ones.

Which is obviously a good thing, just makes it at least twice as hard to get a full set.

Here's the complete master list. Every game has a 'yes' beside it for Japan'. Check out all those 'no's for Europe!

http://www.neo-geo.com/pocket/

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Excellent!

Just watch out though, there were a crap load more Jap games released than EU ones.

Which is obviously a good thing, just makes it at least twice as hard to get a full set.

Here's the complete master list. Every game has a 'yes' beside it for Japan'. Check out all those 'no's for Europe!

http://www.neo-geo.com/pocket/

Oh yeah, lump me with the most and more expensive list :pac:

Pyongyang

Anyone here enjoy a good migrane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUU_F9TvXco

Atavan-Halen

Oh and are we going for boxed and complete or any condition?

Pyongyang

luas_dublin wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aCeg-EbOAI

I hate that video. Yer man completely ruined my dreams of that game. I hoped one day to own it and he just ripped the piss out of it.

Retr0gamer

TBH the west didn't miss out on many NGPC games that were worth playing with the exception of Neo-poke, card fighters 2, Biomotor Unitron 2 and Ogre Battle. Still not seen a neo-poke but I'm sure the day it does appear is the day I'm not looking and o1s1n snaps it up :P

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

Anyone here enjoy a good migrane?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUU_F9TvXco

You want a migrane? Here you go.

EVERY Friday the guy sitting beside me in work sends me a link to that video. Then proceeds to talk to me only in lines from the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

atavan-halen wrote: »

Oh and are we going for boxed and complete or any condition?

Well if you're going for the hardest one, Japanese, then feck it, might as well go all the way and only get sealed games

Seriously, I'd say that's a pretty hard complete one to put together. Some of those games are probably super obscure.

Probably best to stick with EU. Boxed if you can. They're really love so they are.

Atavan-Halen

Pyongyang wrote: »

I hate that video. Yer man completely ruined my dreams of that game. I hoped one day to own it and he just ripped the piss out of it.

Ashens rips the piss out of most things though!

Retr0gamer

Think it's time to resurrect the arcade and retro podcast discussion. Being the most educated person on the dole queue with no thesis to write and no sign of that changing means I've plenty of time to do it now. Have mentioned it to Dino Rex a few times and I think he'd make a good host considering he has the experience. Anyway I can do this anytime, if it's by skype I'd need an AG-13 battery for my microphone first though, anyone know where to get one?

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Well if you're going for the hardest one, Japanese, then feck it, might as well go all the way and only get sealed games

Seriously, I'd say that's a pretty hard complete one to put together. Some of those games are probably super obscure.

Probably best to stick with EU. Boxed if you can. They're really love so they are.

I'm going to go for a full Japanese set if it kills me :P There's only 1 game on that list that wasn't released in Japan =/ Some of the Jap games were in the nice plastic cases but most of them are in the cardboard ones. I'll go for boxed where I can and loose if not!

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

TBH the west didn't miss out on many NGPC games that were worth playing with the exception of Neo-poke, card fighters 2, Biomotor Unitron 2 and Ogre Battle. Still not seen a neo-poke but I'm sure the day it does appear is the day I'm not looking and o1s1n snaps it up :P

Ah yes, Magical Drop Pocket. Forgot I had that, thanks for reminding me. :pac:

/Edit - by the way, should be picking Faselei up over the weekend. Really interested in seeing what all the fuss is about!

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

EVERY Friday the guy sitting beside me in work sends me a link to that video. Then proceeds to talk to me only in lines from the song.

Do you live work here by any chance? :pac:

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

/Edit - by the way, should be picking Faselei up over the weekend. Really interested in seeing what all the fuss is about!

Not played it yet but it's nice owning something that's rarer than radiant slvergun (but cheaper :P )

o1s1n

atavan-halen wrote: »

I'm going to go for a full Japanese set if it kills me :P There's only 1 game on that list that wasn't released in Japan =/ Some of the Jap games were in the nice plastic cases but most of them are in the cardboard ones. I'll go for boxed where I can and loose if not!

If you're considering loose Jap carts, I have Pachislot Aruze Dekahel lying about if you want it? It's the only unboxed game I have and it'll probably get lost as it's so small. I also can't figure out how to get passed all the menus to play the damn thing

Pyongyang wrote: »

Do you live work here by any chance? :pac:

You scoff, but I'm telling you. Come next Friday you'll be singing that and cursing me at the same time!

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Not played it yet but it's nice owning something that's rarer than radiant slvergun (but cheaper :P )

Actually something I meant to ask, any idea if it has a save feature? I wonder does the battery need changing?

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

If you're considering loose Jap carts, I have Pachislot Aruze Dekahel lying about if you want it? It's the only unboxed game I have and it'll probably get lost as it's so small. I also can't figure out how to get passed all the menus to play the damn thing

Yeah defo, drop me a PM and we can work summat out!

Pyongyang

I've been looking up some cables and connectors for my home theatre setup and just had to share these. Don't think I'll be springing for a a few 12ft pairs of these for my rear speakers. :eek:

http://www.pearcable.com/sub_products_anjou_sc.htm

...and I quote:

"... way better than anything I have heard...Simply put these are very danceable cables. Music playing through them results in the proverbial foot-tapping scene with the need or desire to get up and move. Great swing and pace—these cables smack that right on the nose big time."

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Actually something I meant to ask, any idea if it has a save feature? I wonder does the battery need changing?

All Neo Geo pocket games have flash sram so no need for batteries. I've heard reports that the CR battery is needed to save since some people think games are saved on the console but I'm pretty sure it's flash based SRAM.

o1s1n

12 foot pair - $7250 :eek:

And here I am happy with my €5 RCA cables! I've obviously been missing out.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

12 foot pair - $7250 :eek:

That's nothing. Just found these Siltech Emperor Crown bad boys. 2m speaker cables at $40,000 per pair.

You want interconnects with those cables?

Yours for just $17,500 per pair.

http://www.innerearmag.com/reviews/cables/Siltech_Emperor.shtml

I (quietly) enjoy the frills and spills of being a 'bit' of an audio and videophile but flippin' heck that's just utter robbery.

Glass toslinks look cute though, might have to search for some cheapy ones.


By the way, you'll probably want some speakers to go with all that expensive speaker cable right? Here's a nice set of Transmission Audio Ultimate's. Yours for a handsome $2,000,000.

http://www.transmissionaudio.com/images/Transmission_Audio_ULTIMATE.pdf

Pyongyang

In 'sort of reference to the above, I wonder when we'll see these in Ireland?

Recession? What recession?

For the record I was in the Burj Kalifah recently and never saw one so it must have only been installed there recently...or the whole stupid idea never took off.

o1s1n

Funnily enough, I was looking at vintage Wharfedale speakers earlier today in work to go along with my setup. A lot of them were in the UK and I was starting to think I must be mental given how much the postage would cost.

Don't feel so bad now! People be crazy.

wrote:

I wanted to see/hear what this cable can do for lower priced audio gear and tried it with an unconventional system arrangement: a Bel Canto S300I integrated amplifier (around 3K) connected with the above mentioned loudspeakers. Though expecting improvements, I was not prepared for the dramatic results which, in a nutshell, converted an otherwise fine audio system into high performance high-end. This authenticated the value of the cable as a signal conductor of the highest quality.

Now I'm sold! Off to the bank I go for a loan.

Pyongyang

"the dramatic effect"...

It's utter turnip juice like this that just makes me laugh until I stop. Seriously, what a load of old plop.

That said, I've a few Monster HDMI and digital coax cables (that I got super cheap, hence I bought them) knocking around in my stash of cables along with a few cheapies and honestly I see or hear no difference. Cable shmable when it comes to HDMI. Digital coax and analog goodies I can understand (to a degree) but stupidly priced cables that send 1's an 0's are a mugs game.

Bought myself a couple of higher-end DVDO video processors though this month (in the mail presently). One for HDMI goodness in the living area and one to use with my consoles. Those are certainly worth the investment though, especially retro consoles to plasma and lcd displays.

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

It's utter turnip juice like this that just makes me laugh until I stop. Seriously, what a load of old plop.

Indeed. I can get another dramatic effect without the need of $40,000 cables. All you have to do is turn the volume up really high really quickly. Fairly dramatic.

Pyongyang wrote: »

That said, I've a few Monster HDMI and digital coax cables (that I got super cheap, hence I bought them) knocking around in my stash of cables along with a few cheapies and honestly I see or hear no difference. Cable shmable when it comes to HDMI. Digital coax and analog goodies I can understand (to a degree) but stupidly priced cables that send 1's an 0's are a mugs game.

Couldn't agree with you more! I was recently looking up RCA cables on ebay and the amount of 'Gold plated! bling tastic!' ****e selling for a fortune was unreal. From most of the opinions I've read, it's meant to make bugger all difference in realistic terms. I can't say I noticed either. Pretty sure the HDMI cable I'm using to connect my 360 to the tv came from the €2 shop.

Pyongyang wrote: »

Bought myself a couple of higher-end DVDO video processors though this month (in the mail presently). One for HDMI goodness in the living area and one to use with my consoles. Those are certainly worth the investment though, especially retro consoles to plasma and lcd displays.

You're mad for those scalers and video processors aren't ya? :P

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Now I'm sold! Off to the bank I go for a loan.

"and what do you need the loan for?"

"Err, a cable"

"....."

Pyongyang

atavan-halen wrote: »

"and what do you need the loan for?"

"Err, a cable"

"....."

..."Everybody be cool this is a robbery! I've a plastic bag here and I want all your Chord Company, Pear, QED and Siltech cables and interconnectors. You can keep your wallets and phones, I just want your cables!"

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

You're mad for those scalers and video processors aren't ya? :P

Aye. I think I just bought a third one without realizing too. Hah!

But see devices like that are worth the investment because they actually make an improvement to your existing equipment. Cables on the other hand just connect and transport information, there's no improvement made anywhere except shielding older analog outs and ins, which granted has been proven to make a justifiable improvement.

Digital cables just work. End of. And if anyone tells you otherwise then they are a complete bell end.