Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

Doge

First it invaded the Vectrex and now its on my beloved c64:

There is just no getting away from it!

*MUST NOT FLAP!*

Doge

The developers site is worth checking out too:

http://games.sos.gd

Lots of wonderful and whacky Retro goodness.

Mr.Saturn

Anyone here ever pick up the PAL version of King of Fighters: Orochi Saga on the Wii? Is there some mythical online outlet that doesn't charge 50e for it?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Twitch is playing Mother 3!
http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

Atavan-Halen

Happy St. Patricks day I suppose!

CiDeRmAn

I shall wear shamrock as I die for the nth time in Dark Souls 2!

eddhorse

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I shall wear shamrock as I die for the nth time in Dark Souls 2!

Only 9th?

I chose Sorcerer, used to a shield

Danonino.

Started as a deprived... It was hard beating up the undead with a broken dagger for hours
I have quite the awesome mace now though :cool:

Atavan-Halen

I'll be partying like its 2008 by going to see All time low tonight and one of the bands that shaped my teenage years, fall out boy, tomorrow night.

Steve X2

Which model of PSP is generally considered the best of the bunch?

CiDeRmAn

I think you'll be looking for the 3rd gen PSP, Slim'n Light, similar to the 2nd gen but with a better screen and battery.
Lovely console.
Better than the Go as at least you have the option of playing UMDs and mem card installed apps.

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I think you'll be looking for the 3rd gen PSP, Slim'n Light, similar to the 2nd gen but with a better screen and battery.
Lovely console.
Better than the Go as at least you have the option of playing UMDs and mem card installed apps.

I dont have the PSP-3000, but have read online that the screen is very nice but has some problems(less ghosting, but introduced another problem).


http://news.cnet.com/sony-responds-to-psp-3000-screen-issues/

I've got the 1000 and but want to grab the "best" model now while I can still pick them up new and boxed etc.

Also, whats the deal with the really cheap PSP 3000 on Amazon? It's only 69.99 sterling new but it seems to lack wifi

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PSP-Console-Charcoal-Black/dp/B005Q77H9O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395082178&sr=8-1&keywords=psp+3000

Atavan-Halen

That's the psp "street" and the most current model. Released as a budget version similar to the wii mini so it lack wifi. Although afaik you can still connect to psn and all that if it's connected to a PC. Not sure what the reviews of screen quality etc are though tbh.

Steve X2

Looks like I'll need to do a bit of research so.

On a side note, tried the latest psp emulator on my pc earlier, wow, it's come a long way since I first tested it.

johnny_ultimate

eddhorse wrote: »

Only 9th?

I chose Sorcerer, used to a shield

I went pure sorcerer from the off this time, after basically realising in the last hours of the last game how much I loved the soul arrow / homing soulmass combo. It was tricky at first (didn't help that I haphazardly joined the Covenant of Champions, which made the game like twice as hard without me knowing) but flying along now. Sorcery FTW! I think I beat the first five or six bosses without even using a melee move :pac:

Steve X2

So after a bit of research it seems the psp 2000 is the one to go for screen wise.
Anyone have any thougts on why I should go for the 3000 instead?

Retr0gamer

Iga has left Konami to as he says make the games he wants to make. That's such a shame, Konami truly are a shadow of their former selves. Iga help program many of their old school shmup s and was the creative mind behind castlevania since symphony of the night.

I'll expect we'll hear from him doing and Inafuna a kick starting a castlevania spiritual successor. I'd rather Iga's castlevania than the god of war clone it turned into and that absolutely terrible 3ds game.

CiDeRmAn

I have that God of War clone and have yet to turn it on, missing nothing I take it?

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have that God of War clone and have yet to turn it on, missing nothing I take it?

It's not bad, just not castlevania. Starts off absolutely appallingly as well with a dreadful swamp level bogging things down then picks up. The game is less button mashy than god of war but really it's button mashing and lots of dodging. Enemies have way too much health, it takes too long to get through them which upsets the pace a bit. That's my main problem, castlevania had a flow and a rhythm to it due to tight pacing so this feels nothing like the old games.

If you're all out of DMC and Platinum games then you could do far worse.

MrVestek

So I actually had some time to play some games last night. I got to the very last castle in Super Mario 3D World and the last bunch of levels on Sonic: Lost World but I got hit with the usual crap that I just don't have time for these days in games anymore.

I still need another few red rings to unlock the new world in Sonic: Lost World and I need 30 more green start thingies in Mario.

I just can't be arsed re-doing a bunch of levels when I simply don't have the time!

Just let me play the game dammit...

o1s1n

Was going to pick up Dark Souls II and make a start over the weekend, but then realized I hadn't finished GTA V. As that contravenes my 1 game at a time rule (!) I finished off the main storyline in GTA V over Sunday/Monday.

Really enjoyed it, but as usual with modern GTA games, towards the end it fell victim to cover and shoot/swarms of enemy scenarios. When games get to that point I just want them to hurry up and reach their conclusion. Which was a shame as many of the earlier missions were a lot more creative.

I'm only on 73% complete mind you, so plenty left to do. Whether I'll get around to it though is another thing.

Now, time to die, over and over and over again

Typical,
Want to send a chassis to the UK today and parcel motel is not working.(the sending side anyway)
on the + side its 15.50e to on posts 30e!

Any body need some arcade tubes?
they are getting skipped this week.
20" polo tube (maybe 2)
13" poker monitor (working but noisy and spare chassis)

Doge

This game is not half dramatic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWm0u2cKAI

MrVestek

waveform wrote: »

This game is not half dramatic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWm0u2cKAI

I remember playing that a fair bit in the arcades back in the day.

It was around the time of the first Crazy Taxi game too... I really wanted them to port it to Dreamcast but alas it was not to be.

I wonder if this would work on the bartop... :-)

o1s1n

The crowning glory in that game is the hilarious expression on the president's face throughout. Absolutely brilliant

MrVestek

o1s1n wrote: »

The crowning glory in that game is the hilarious expression on the president's face throughout. Absolutely brilliant

OMG I'm dying here. Please drive carefully.

Doge

It should be the new troll face!

MrVestek

waveform wrote: »

It should be the new troll face!

johnny_ultimate

Oh dear, how a once mighty series has fallen: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/yaiba-ninja-gaiden-z/critic-reviews

Retr0gamer

Getting Spark Unlimited to develop anything is a recipe for disasater. How they are still going while better developers are closing shop is beyond me.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Kieta Takahashi (Katamari / Noby Noby Boy) has a new tee again!
http://venuspatrol.com/2014/03/keita-takahashi-venus-patrol-debut-legend-romantics-t-shirt/

will feature glow in the dark ink that’ll let the stars & ‘legendary objects’ shine through the evening.

Retr0gamer

The original Shin Megami Tensei is on ipad and iPhone today. 6 euro. Never thought I'd see the game in English. Works really well with touch controls in landscape mode. Everybody buy this game and we might see smt2 and smt...if on the App Store!

TechnoFreek

MrVestek wrote: »

I remember playing that a fair bit in the arcades back in the day.

It was around the time of the first Crazy Taxi game too... I really wanted them to port it to Dreamcast but alas it was not to be.

I wonder if this would work on the bartop... :-)

Don't think this game emulates properly yet.

TechnoFreek

urbanledge wrote: »

Typical,
Want to send a chassis to the UK today and parcel motel is not working.(the sending side anyway)
on the + side its 15.50e to on posts 30e!

Hmm. I'm about to send my AWSD chassis off too. 16.50 for me. Have paid for and printed parcel motel label. Actual parcel motel location better be working when I go to send!

Steve X2

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Hmm. I'm about to send my AWSD chassis off too. 16.50 for me. Have paid for and printed parcel motel label. Actual parcel motel location better be working when I go to send!

I'm posting some stuff tomorrow or Thursday, let me know how you get on if you're going tomorrow

I paid and printed my label,
went down to it and the machine wouldnt take it.(edit,this was yesterday evening around 6)
they said its fixed tho.
I paid 15.50

so did they put it up a euro?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

urbanledge wrote: »

I paid and printed my label,
went down to it and the machine wouldnt take it.(edit,this was yesterday evening around 6)
they said its fixed tho.
I paid 15.50

so did they put it up a euro?

I paid 16.50 for the largest size box under 10kg

ah,
mine was medium !

johnny_ultimate

I'm sure a few people here might get a few ideas from this novel form of online selling revenge: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/disgruntled-online-shopper-texts-entire-works-of-shakespeare-as-revenge-9201564.html

o1s1n

Anyone see this? Apparently it's in Stoneybatter

CiDeRmAn

That looks very cool, it'd be nice to see videogame art used in its regular form rather than as a piece of satire but still, looks good.

Jack burton

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That looks very cool, it'd be nice to see videogame art used in its regular form rather than as a piece of satire but still, looks good.

I've seen a few legit space invader pieces when I was in some city's around the continent. They are pretty cool

Just seen the rift dev kit 2 has been announced.
wont be getting it myself Id say but looking forward to trying it!

CiDeRmAn

urbanledge wrote: »

Just seen the rift dev kit 2 has been announced.
wont be getting it myself Id say but looking forward to trying it!

So, what's the difference between the two?
And how does this compare to the recently announced Sony headset?

Better screen and full head tracking.
Not sure about the Sony one but I'm doing put my money on the rift!
I'm not a Sony fan tho. Except the ps2!
I bet it'll be silly money.

Doge

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

That looks very cool, it'd be nice to see videogame art used in its regular form rather than as a piece of satire but still, looks good.

Here's a few pieces in Cork:

http://www.powerdownkids.com/2013/06/17/video-game-graffiti-cork-edition/

The Zelda graffiti is on the fence surrounding UCC so it might make a good place to take photos at Kaizo Con.

TechnoFreek

Sera wrote: »

I'm posting some stuff tomorrow or Thursday, let me know how you get on if you're going tomorrow

Stoopid printer at home acting the horlicks. Have to wait until tomorrow before I can print label at work and then post. :mad:

eddhorse

This game popped into my head today for some reason, remember it being difficult ! Sega Megadrive

Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude!

http://youtu.be/Tb5kENqmveA

Doge

eddhorse wrote: »

This game popped into my head today for some reason, remember it being difficult ! Sega Megadrive

Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude!

http://youtu.be/Tb5kENqmveA

Donkey Kong Country eat your heart out!