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Post by mainpatr on Feb 17, 2020 20:16:24 GMT -5
Reminds me that I recently saw someone referring to Silent Hills as ”Kojima’s cancelled masterpiece”. I was like...masterpiece? What the actual f? As disappointed as many of us were when Konami pulled the plug, I think it’s safe to say that NONE of us played the actual Silent Hills. Make believe is a powerful thing. I would’ve been very surprised if Silent Hills had lived up to the hype that was P.T. I really wonder about what happened if it did see release. As it stands it's already one of the most talked about games of the last decade and it's only a demo. That's pretty interesting I think, and I wonder if it's still going to be remembered so well 20 years from now. It for sure would've been one of the biggest releases of the 2010's I think. But yeah, it's hard to live up to something like that. And if it wasn't for the names involved and the fact they removed it, it would've probably been more forgotten by now.
Anyway, I got a copy of Bionic Commando for the NES a while back. It seems like everytime I buy an NES game, it has to sit on my shelf for a couple weeks before I get it to work. Everytime I think to myself I should contact the seller or get another copy and I try the game for one last time, it works. With Bionic Commando, pushing the game in real hard worked, even though the game kind of gives back a little when you release it. But it keeps playing somehow. What's even more impressive is that Final Fantasy wouldn't work for weeks, and then once it did, I got through the entire 30 hour game with the game crashing only once on me. But back to Bionic Commando, I've only really tried it a couple of stages, but it's interesting how close it is to the Gameboy game in a lot of regards. Hopefully next time I put it in it'll work too. How is your NES's 72 pin connector doing? Mine wore out a while ago,need to get a top-loader.
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Post by retr0gamer on Feb 18, 2020 3:56:34 GMT -5
That definitely sound like your NES and not the games. I gave up on using a NES. I've taken my two apart so many times to fix the 72 pin connector and even replaced the part as well and issues always come back 3 months later. Not worth it. I just got a Famicom with a converter to save me the headache.
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Post by shelverton on Feb 18, 2020 6:11:34 GMT -5
I hope the coral Switch Lite comes to the west. It’s the first one I actually like and would buy.
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Post by mainpatr on Feb 19, 2020 5:27:07 GMT -5
Why do game developers keep coming out with new versions of games that permanently replaces the old version that you paid for? Sleeping Dogs,Warcraft 3 Reforged,and now GTA IV. Rock$tar is putting GTA IV back on Steam, but removing multiplayer and forcing you to update to "GTA IV Complete". IT"S NOT A COMPLETE EDITION IF YOU ARE REMOVING CONTENT from the original!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by lurker on Feb 19, 2020 10:30:29 GMT -5
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Post by lurker on Feb 19, 2020 15:11:24 GMT -5
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Post by lurker on Feb 20, 2020 9:44:35 GMT -5
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Feb 20, 2020 17:27:54 GMT -5
How is your NES's 72 pin connector doing? Mine wore out a while ago,need to get a top-loader. I used to have a top-loader but it gave in very quickly. They're supposed to be more durable I think, but I liked the original model better anyway, so I just got that when the toploader died. That definitely sound like your NES and not the games. I gave up on using a NES. I've taken my two apart so many times to fix the 72 pin connector and even replaced the part as well and issues always come back 3 months later. Not worth it. I just got a Famicom with a converter to save me the headache. I don't know if it could be my NES, since I'm not very technically knowledgeable, but there has always been a clear difference between games. Just to check I went through all my NTSC NES games and tested them. Most of them worked in one or two tries. 3 out of 10 didn't, but I could still get them to work with some trouble (cleaned them while I was at it). Bionic Commando gives me the most trouble, but it seems stable once I get it to run. Some games always play the first time I pop them in. So at least it can't be in too terrible shape.
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Post by lurker on Feb 20, 2020 19:34:58 GMT -5
So we're getting a pixely metroidvania based on Record of Lodoss War...
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Post by shelverton on Feb 20, 2020 19:48:51 GMT -5
So we're getting a pixely metroidvania based on Record of Lodoss War... Alucard, is that you? The animation looks more or less ripped from SotN.
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Post by Snake on Feb 21, 2020 13:23:44 GMT -5
So we're getting a pixely metroidvania based on Record of Lodoss War...
Now here is a game I've been waiting for since the early trailers! Record of Lodoss War could use a revival.
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Post by JoeQ on Feb 21, 2020 13:27:11 GMT -5
It's made by the people who previously made Touhou Luna Nights, Pharaoh Rebirth and that little freeware SMT metroidvania.
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Post by Apollo Chungus on Feb 23, 2020 15:12:54 GMT -5
I've been playing a good chunk of PowerSlave lately, both the PC and console ports. It's been quite a fun experience, though I definitely prefer the console version so far (I'd give the PC version more playtime, but its lack of in-game saves combined with dang long levels make playing through it an aggravating endurance). However, I'm having issues trying to run the PowerSlave EX port by Samuel "Kaiser" Villarreal (who also handled DOOM 64 EX and the recent Turok ports). I managed to find links for the original upload that included all the assets, but trying to boot up the application only gets me a "Exception caught in main: see CRASHLOG.TXT for info" followed by the application closing down.
This seems to crop up every now and again with other games running on Kaiser's custom engine, including the aforementioned ports, and I'm honestly wondering if there's something missing from my PC that's needed to run the thing. For context, I've got a Windows 7 that came out back in 2010 or thereabouts, and I don't really have the means to upgrade it. If anyone could help me figure out what to do, I'd really appreciate it - especially since I've got to talk about this port for the reviews I'm doing for PowerSlave, and I'd like to be able to take screenshots/actually talk about the port in some detail.
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Post by dsparil on Feb 23, 2020 16:28:24 GMT -5
Just to ask the obvious, but did you look in the crash log?
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Post by kaoru on Feb 24, 2020 6:34:36 GMT -5
Still in a dating sim kind of mood.
I tried Elf's Doukyuusei. Which is often cited as the first real Dating Sim, coming out on the PC98 in 1992, two years before Tokimeki Memorial made the genre a break-out hit. Tho like a lot of Elf's games from the 90s, Doukyuusei seems quite popular too, getting several sequels and less-raunchy ports to consoles. It's quite interesting, because it does not use the usual stat-raising/date-sheduling gameplay we are used to by now. Instead it is kind of open world, actually. You have rundabout 20 days of your vacation to find love and can freely roam the size-able city. Every time you try to enter a building/location or interact with someone within, some time goes by. Depending on the time of day there might not be anything there, or a joke-character, or one of the girls to talk to. Find and talk with the main girls enough and you'll see events and eventually an ending with them. It's super free roam and quite hard because of it. Also, who played Sakura Wars now knows where it gets it free time segments from that give you an hour to roam the theatre/city to try to run into events with the girls.
There's also Meine Liebe, Konami's first stab at trying to do an Otome Tokimeki Memorial, a year before the first Girl's Side released... so the same year the hated Tokimeki Memorial 3 came out. The most hilarious thing about it is that someone during the designing progress apparently thought that boys are beyond gossip, that a slighted guy would never spread nasty rumors about a girl. So none of the five guys will "bomb" you when you ignore them, instead you have three female friends who's affection you also have to juggle and which do the bombing should you make them mad. Which makes the whole game seem like whoever made it doesn't have high opinions of women. No matter how mad they are, those girls will still invite you to all social events, happily laughing along with you during it, while spreading nasty rumors behind your back. And they even actively pursue the same guys you try to date! I really don't understand that design process. Or how to win the game. I got all stats maxed out, saw all events with Naoji, he had an aura sparkling like a unicorn disco ball by the end... and still one of my "best friends" stole him away and I got the forever alone ending.
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