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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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    #1052
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Wha.....wh.....what in the absolute piss?


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    #1053
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    What am I looking at Sera? I mean I know what I'm looking at but what is it that I am looking at?
    it's a tutorial on how to play PS2 games on a Gamecube :rolleyes:


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    #1054
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users Posts: 10,539 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Sera wrote: »
    it's a tutorial on how to play PS2 games on a Gamecube :rolleyes:

    Does it work for Xbox games?


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    #1055
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    Does it work for Xbox games?
    I'm not sure, maybe you should try it?


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    #1056
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Could I cut a NES cart into a circle and make it work?


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    #1057
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    For fear of trying it with anything good we should experiment with Retr0s CDi collection!


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    #1058
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    For fear of trying it with anything good we should experiment with Retr0s CDi collection!
    no OwaynOTT got first dibs, let's start with Halo :pac:


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    #1059
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG9G3d2li08


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    #1060
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Feckin power cut in the whole area as I was on a run through of Metal Slug 3 on the arcade machine :mad:


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    #1061
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Feckin power cut in the whole area as I was on a run through of Metal Slug 3 on the arcade machine :mad:

    They must have only the one generator so...........:D


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    #1062
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Steve SI wrote: »
    Feckin power cut in the whole area as I was on a run through of Metal Slug 3 on the arcade machine :mad:

    think it was more than coincidence that it happened just as I walked into your estate


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    #1063
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    A quick perusal of Nintendo's Star Catalogue reveals you'd have to actually own most the company's output in the last 6 years to get anything halfway worth redeeming. I actually do, yet these feckin' Starmabobs go and expire.


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    #1064
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    the groutch wrote: »
    think it was more than coincidence that it happened just as I walked into your estate

    Stop disconnecting power lines will ya :D
    And how come it came back on the second you walked into the house, Hmm, suspicious.


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    #1065
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    A quick perusal of Nintendo's Star Catalogue reveals you'd have to actually own most the company's output in the last 6 years to get anything halfway worth redeeming. I actually do, yet these feckin' Starmabobs go and expire.

    I do own almost everything they made worth having and I still had to beg others for codes so I could accrue enough points for my G&W Ball.

    That said, if I had of bought more Wii games instead of "acquiring" them I would have had lots more points.... ahem.....

    Anywho, the postage from them was relatively quick, about 60 days instead of the usual year, so that's a plus.
    They must have improved the feed they are giving the mule carrying the Club Nintendo stuff from Japan to Ireland!


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    #1066
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,147 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    One for the visual novel fans:

    http://kotaku.com/5936134/do-japanese-and-westerners-have-different-taste-in-men-this-game-thinks-so

    Visual novels tend to be a bit on the creepy side, but those 'real' characters look a helluva lot creepier.


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    #1067
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,865 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    72 pin adapter gone in the NES. Had to order a new one. I guess my temporary fix really was temporary!
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    #1068
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    It's an awful design, I need a new connector my own too.


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    #1069
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,865 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    A short concise article about how great Earthbound is and why you should play it instead of FEAR 2 and Firewarrior:

    http://www.1up.com/features/essential-75-earthbound
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    #1070
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,541 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I keep trying to buy that game but it's just too damn expensive for something so common :(


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    #1071
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,865 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Yeah it's ridiculous. There's always carts of it on ebay. It's like FFVII syndrome taken to a crazy extreme and the price is only climbing.
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    #1072
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users Posts: 10,539 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Oh was actually playing Earthbound the other night for the first time on my Snes. It's very funny. Takes me a while to get into rpg games and mario kart at NTSC speed was sitting there waiting.


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    #1073
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Oh, I'm not saying that FEAR 2 was the best game ever, but it is one of the best FPS titles I've played.
    Better than, well, most I can think of in recent years.
    Earthbound I have yet to play, I think I will make it my treat for my 41st birthday, along with a US Snes, hopefully the family will start saving now....

    Leave Firewarrior alone! No one else loves it but me, I know it's flawed but I love it anyway!

    Coldwinter, I mention that a lot, class FPS on the PS2, as a single player game it is better than Goldeneye, but has much the same atmosphere, plus it has a frame rate that exceeds single digits, so it has that over the N64 opus as well!


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    #1074
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Earthbound I have yet to play, I think I will make it my treat for my 41st birthday, along with a US Snes, hopefully the family will start saving now....
    we'll wait til then to have the Earthbound podcast lol jkjk
    would be great to have another person to talk about it with


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    #1075
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Nintendo/Sega Rivalry Infographic

    Click for the full size pic
    segavsnintendo.jpg


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    #1076
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    if you clear Slender twice you get this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejatl89mf5w


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    #1077
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,773 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Yeah it's ridiculous. There's always carts of it on ebay. It's like FFVII syndrome taken to a crazy extreme and the price is only climbing.

    And most of those copies will go unplayed and only bought for the purpose of selling them on

    Also for something different, I was talking to a collector, who doesnt post here btw, and they have a sealed Metal Slug for the Neo Geo along with an unopened console in storage. I am totes jelly


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    #1078
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    I see Rage are letting you buy online now via their facebook page and paypal. Looks super awkward. Not sure how well that will work when they refuse to tell how much stuff costs.


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    #1079
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    DinoRex wrote: »
    I see Rage are letting you buy online now via their facebook page and paypal. Looks super awkward. Not sure how well that will work when they refuse to tell how much stuff costs.

    Also I pity the poor soul tasked with pricing everything, these days the price of an item can change multiple times a day.

    Now that they're set up with PayPal, they've no excuse not to finally set up their own website & maybe do things correctly.


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    #1080
    megaten
    Registered Users Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭megaten


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    One for the visual novel fans:

    http://kotaku.com/5936134/do-japanese-and-westerners-have-different-taste-in-men-this-game-thinks-so

    Visual novels tend to be a bit on the creepy side, but those 'real' characters look a helluva lot creepier.

    I think the reason they look creepy is that the characters look like photo manips. If it was just realistically rendered characters it would seem as bad. I do think replacing the characters with realistic looking ones misses part of the appeal of those games though.


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    #1081
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,865 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    No use to me since I can't comment or send messages. **** them anyway I was in there yesterday and they've nothing that isn't over priced. I can get games cheaper.
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