So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CiDeRmAn · 31-12-2011 8:48pm

Hmm,
to use the homebrew channel to sort my my behaviour or find a neuro-surgeon sober enough to pop a mod-chip into my limbic system...

The search continues....

Doge · 31-12-2011 10:22pm

EnterNow wrote: »

The cheapness of dvdr's made rewriteables defunk really. ESR in its native state won't allow for piracy, you need to patch game images if I recall. HD Loader, similarly, won't allow a burned disc to be dumped to the HDD.

haha, i just have a few DVD-RWs at hand to try out it if it works.

ESR patcher is the tool you can use to burn the games, I didn't realize ESR was the name of the homebrew app also!

CiDeRmAn · 31-12-2011 11:06pm

Happy days!
Seems like my busted Wii days are over!
Seems Wii consoles are going for as little as 50 on Adverts right now.
That's cheaper than a repair, plus I have the games that you need to get the HBC back uo and running!
Fingers crossed I'll be back playing my illegitimately bought Wii titles in jig time!

Sparks43 · 31-12-2011 11:09pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Happy days!
Seems like my busted Wii days are over!
Seems Wii consoles are going for as little as 50 on Adverts right now.
That's cheaper than a repair, plus I have the games that you need to get the HBC back uo and running!
Fingers crossed I'll be back playing my illegitimately bought Wii titles in jig time!

You dont need a exploit game now m8

Just look into letterbomb for the 4.3 wiis:D

weeder · 01-01-2012 9:29pm

50 euro, interesting that i may have to invest.

im still playing vice city. so fracking addicted to it again, except this time ive gotten in a week to where it wouldve taken me a month solid to get to,

on to san andreas next.

o1s1n · 01-01-2012 9:37pm

If you guys are buying second hand Wiis, just make sure to test them out in case they're suffering from that GPU problem.

Black speckles on the screen are the onset of it.

weeder · 01-01-2012 9:42pm

is the gpu chip dyin altogether or is it just a 360 style death? i.e sorted by a reflow

o1s1n · 01-01-2012 9:49pm

As far as I know, it's totally ruined due to heat and you need a new GPU.

It's caused by Wiiconnect24 being on and trying to update all the time. Make sure any Wii you have has this disabled. Apparantly it's been fixed in a firmware update, but I wouldn't be too sure!

CiDeRmAn · 01-01-2012 10:10pm

The GPU failure is in earlier models and, I'd say, just turn of Wiiconnect and you're laughing.
The effect, for me, emerged with flickering contrast issues, then the screen would tear and go to black but still the sound of the game running in the background.
Later the tearing became more immediate and now the Wii is virtually unusable.
A part of me is kinda impressed, a design flaw that only raises it's head after the announcement of the WiiU... I wonder what was really in the 4.3 update

(only kidding Nintendo, I love you...)

Myrddin · 01-01-2012 11:29pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The GPU failure is in earlier models and, I'd say, just turn of Wiiconnect and you're laughing.
The effect, for me, emerged with flickering contrast issues, then the screen would tear and go to black but still the sound of the game running in the background.
Later the tearing became more immediate and now the Wii is virtually unusable.
A part of me is kinda impressed, a design flaw that only raises it's head after the announcement of the WiiU... I wonder what was really in the 4.3 update (only kidding Nintendo, I love you...)

WiiConnect24 was a soft-mod killer was it not, silently updating your firmware... I'm surprised you had it switched on Cidona?

Mr.Saturn · 02-01-2012 4:51am

I've been sinking lots of time in Donkey Kong Country 2 because I felt I didn't have enough contempt for this whole life business. Marvellous game, though.

Retr0gamer · 02-01-2012 5:32am

Not a fan of DKC2. Competent platformer but nothing more.

CiDeRmAn · 02-01-2012 1:27pm

EnterNow wrote: »

WiiConnect24 was a soft-mod killer was it not, silently updating your firmware... I'm surprised you had it switched on Cidona?

I was a real man (once)
I had a launch Wii and hard modded it as soon as the Wiikey was released.

None of this wussy soft modding malarkey for me!

That said it was at the time that most ways to make sure your Wii is up to speed and capable of running everything you throw at it is geared towards softmodded consoles.

So, next time, it's softmods all the way.

Mr.Saturn · 02-01-2012 4:08pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Not a fan of DKC2. Competent platformer but nothing more.

Yeah, I read your blog on it yonks ago. How come you didn't play DKC3?

Retr0gamer · 02-01-2012 4:41pm

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

Yeah, I read your blog on it yonks ago. How come you didn't play DKC3?

Most people haven't, it came out really late in the SNES's life span. I've been meaning to get around to it but at the moment I'm still trying to stop procrastinating on a yoshi'd island polay through.

CiDeRmAn · 02-01-2012 5:07pm

Played it, finished it, it's good fun but I think isn't as good as DKC2 and I overall would prefer Yoshi's Island instead, one of the other handful of AAA games released late in the Snes' life, the other one being Street Fighter Alpha.

Mr.Saturn · 03-01-2012 12:04am

Alpha 2 on the SNES is a game that shouldn't exist, logically and practically speaking. It was like some masochistic coder's wet-dream trying to convert that baby into 16 bits. The real boon is that, aside from the slightly surreal loading times, it manages to be a good game.

o1s1n · 03-01-2012 12:21am

People always make that loading out to be a big deal. I'm pretty sure it's just the cart loading sound effects onto the sound chip. The game is an amazing port. One I really need to pick up a cart of!

Retr0gamer · 03-01-2012 1:14am

It's actually the game decompressing animations into ram on the cart. Not a big deal when you considering how much animation they managed to cram into that game. Really fluid and close to the arcade machine. It's better than Batman Forever on the SNES which had loading times and still looked like absolute ass.

o1s1n · 03-01-2012 1:18am

Ah it was wiki where I read that about the sound chip, must google around to see if that's true -

A Super NES port was also released in 1996. This version makes use of the S-DD1 chip for on-the-fly graphic decompression. Despite the graphics decompression chip, this version has loading delays when entering matches while sounds are loaded onto the sound chip

Retr0gamer · 03-01-2012 1:29am

Interesting. Wouldn't have thought that the sound would have caused load times since it's not anything special in that category. Star Ocean uses the same chip but there's a lot less sprite data it has to decompress of the fly.

the_syco · 03-01-2012 1:44am

Came across "8-Bit Commando" which looks like a good laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7_77vc074w

johnny_ultimate · 03-01-2012 3:31am

SpaceChem is my new favouritist game ever. This is my proudest moment thus far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nB-Rbrytsw

I know: it's pretty much like watching porn. Really clinical, science-based porn.

DinoRex · 03-01-2012 12:51pm

I started on Xenoblade Chronicles yesterday.

Enjoying it a lot. The chain attacks took me a while to get the hang of but I think I have the combat down now.

It has a very old school JRPG feel, but it has been nicely updated for a modern age and they've put a lot of work into it so it isn't needlessly frustrating. For instance if you die, it's not a game over screen, you go back to a check point with your XP in tact.

o1s1n · 03-01-2012 1:08pm

I really have to go back to Xenoblade. Was enjoying the hell out of it until Dark Souls came along. Which well and truely banished all games I'd been playing up until that point to a dusty corner.

Thinking about it, I was finding the battle system great until I got to a boss about 12 hours in. Can't remember his name, but you have to build up combos by attacking small enemies and then unleashing a combo on the big boss.

Just couldn't get the hang of it though and ended up rage quitting. Found it odd as up until that point the battle system seemed to have been working really fluidly.

Retr0gamer · 03-01-2012 1:45pm

The dying and not losing your XP thing has been around in JRPGs since the start of time, more accurately since Dragon Quest

However it's definitely the most progressive JRPG since FFXII. The big difference is that unlike FFXII the battle system actually works and it's not a slog to get through. It's got a real time battle system similar to western RPGs but also has a variety of techniques you have to use in combos to hit enemies with status effects that adds much needed strategy that is missing from most western RPGs and FF12.

If you are getting stuck on a boss it's usually because you aren't levelling up enough. There's no point grinding for levels, the quickest way to level up is to do as many quests as you can since you get massive XP rewards for completing them. I found I had to tell this to a lot of people almost giving up on the game but once they understood this it was plain sailing. The side quests are very streamlined, for example if you are told to collect an item there's usually no need to return it to the quest giver and most quests are usually completed as you ramble about the world. It also helps that the world is so gorgeous and a joy to explore that I don't mind doing the side quests. You can level up in a matter of minutes doing side quests and if you are having trouble on a boss just remember that Xenoblad eis a game where even 2 or 3 levels can make a massive difference and that's usually all it takes.

I must get back to it but have skyward sword to beat first. I got side tracked by dark souls as well.

o1s1n · 03-01-2012 1:48pm

I didn't know that about the side quests! Cheers for that, it explains a lot.

I found there were so many of them it was a bit overwhelming and I was just trying to go on with the main quest instead.

As for Skyward Sword, I must be the only person who isn't really interested in playing it. After going through OOT again so recently on the 3DS I'm completely and utterly 3rd person Zelda'd out.

Retr0gamer · 03-01-2012 1:52pm

There's tonnes of side quests but you don't have to do them all, just enough to level up a bit. I like doing as many as I can and usually end up over levelled for the area and the boss.

Skyward Sword the first Zelda that i'm not excited about playing. Have played the first 3 hours and not felt really compelled to go back to it.

DinoRex · 03-01-2012 1:55pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Skyward Sword the first Zelda that i'm not excited about playing. Have played the first 3 hours and not felt really compelled to go back to it.

I was enjoying it, but there are just so many pointless annoyances in it that it just wore me down in the end. I'll probably go back to it eventually though.

I'm also playing Ghost Recon for the 3DS and it's fantastic. Shame they spent a lot of money on a license that probably actively put a lot of people off a great game.

Doge · 04-01-2012 9:19pm

the_syco wrote: »

Came across "8-Bit Commando" which looks like a good laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7_77vc074w

That looks absolutely fantastic, thanks for that!

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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