So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

Lashed the GNET back into a cab last night and gave Psyvariar (original version, not the revision) a proper blast for the first time.

Have played many a bullet hell game in my time, but my christ, this has to be up there with some of the most complex patterns/versus hitbox size. The ship doesn't have that 'tiny, I'll dodge through rain' feeling that the likes of Cave shmups have.

That's why I can't get another GNet, many of the games worth playing require a Tated monitor and it's just too bloody awkward to do that on the AWSD and swap it back.
Bugger!
I'll have to get another cab!

o1s1n

You'd easily fit a small candy in that attic of yours

The Last Bandit

Hmm might just keep my Gnet so and look into modding it. Price of genuine cards is a bit high for me.

Retr0gamer

I one credited Psyvariar the first time I played it on PS2. Can't ****ing do it anymore. It was totally bizarre that I managed it.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I one credited Psyvariar the first time I played it on PS2. Can't ****ing do it anymore. It was totally bizarre that I managed it.

You're getting old man, getting old!

o1s1n

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Hmm might just keep my Gnet so and look into modding it. Price of genuine cards is a bit high for me.

Ebay can be handy enough for them, people don't tend to bid at all as everyone has flashed mobos

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I one credited Psyvariar the first time I played it on PS2. Can't ****ing do it anymore. It was totally bizarre that I managed it.

Are you sure you didn't just have a seizure from all the colours/booming techno and complete it in your mind while on the floor in convulsions?

That's one amazing feat if you did that, fair play.

Retr0gamer

Never been able to do it again. I think I just had the equivalent of winning the lottery when I played it and got lucky with the level up invincibility

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

You'd easily fit a small candy in that attic of yours

Just saw a converted Mushi King for sale over on J+ (unfortunately it's sold!)

Good comparison shot beside a 29incher - I'd say you'd fit one of them up that spiral staircase

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

Just saw a converted Mushi King for sale over on J+ (unfortunately it's sold!)

Good comparison shot beside a 29incher - I'd say you'd fit one of them up that spiral staircase

You'd need small girlie hands and to be about 4 foot tall to play on that thing :eek:

Andrew76

Steve SI wrote: »

You'd need small girlie hands and to be about 4 foot tall to play on that thing :eek:

No comment on the 'girlie hands' remark but there is a chair to sit on...

What would bother me though is the screen size, looks too small. What is that, 17/19 inches??

o1s1n

Far smaller than that, 14 inches!

Definitely not 'main cab' material, but nice for a 2nd/3rd cab option if space is tight.

CiDeRmAn

I might make a project of building a cab for the gamesroom, use a CRT or, maybe just maybe, the SD monitor I have that looks a treat with retro inputs.
Might be more cost effective than the mortgage mini cabs typically cost!

Griever931

Playing Streets of Rage now, having trouble beating the two women before the last boss.

Andrew76

Griever931 wrote: »

Playing Streets of Rage now, having trouble beating the two women before the last boss.

Maybe ask Ciderman for some help? :pac:

(He thinks the SoR games are muck. But he's wrong. :P)

CiDeRmAn

Andrew76 wrote: »

Maybe ask Ciderman for some help? :pac:

(He thinks the SoR games are muck. But he's wrong. :P)

(He's not you know!, at least when it comes to the first one, I may be softening my position on the second one only)

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

(He's not you know!, at least when it comes to the first one, I may be softening my position on the second one only)

You accidentally hit the wrong font. I fixed it for you.

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

You accidentally hit the wrong font. I fixed it for you.

Hmmm, I know where you work, expect a visit from Mr Lump Hammer and Mrs Pliers very very soon!

johnny_ultimate

Digging the Xbox 360 mode on DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou. It's another brilliant arrange mode for Cave 360 releases, more accessible and inventive than the core game. The interesting factor here is that health, bombs and 'ShotLaser' are all tied to one energy bar, that counts down from 10,000. It becomes a fun balancing act between survival and score-chasing. You can use the 'ShotLaser' (i.e. press the shot and laser buttons at the same time :pac:) to rapidly build up your important hyper attacks levels, but it quickly drains your gauge and means you're at risk of death (you auto-bomb when shot, but you need at least 2,000 energy for it to work - technically you have infinite lives as long as you keep the gauge above 2,000 at all times). However, activate your hyper and you can recharge your gauge by defeating enemies. The risk-reward aspect comes as you can build up your hyper gauge to ten different levels. Higher level ones give you the best recharges and scores, but require copious use of ShotLaser to build them up and hence means you're more and more at risk of death. The dynamic of deciding whether to take a risk for seriously high scores or to focus on surviving is really interesting.

It sounds complicated, but is actually beautifully engineered and a whole lot of fun. It always impresses me how many unusual, obsessively specific score attack modes those folk at Cave manage to come up with. So many creative variations on a core formula.

CiDeRmAn

I was looking at that Dodonpachi game on eBay, seems quite reasonable to me.
Is that the best place to pick it up or is there better value to be had out there for region free Cave goodness?

johnny_ultimate

Just over 20 euro on Play Asia at the moment!

Myrddin

Speaking of Playasia JU, what's the story with the Resi Re-remake over here in PAL land? Will it definitely be a digital release only over here? I see Playasia have a Japanese version up for pre-order which actually has both English & Japanese languages...

johnny_ultimate

Myrddin wrote: »

Speaking of Playasia JU, what's the story with the Resi Re-remake over here in PAL land? Will it definitely be a digital release only over here? I see Playasia have a Japanese version up for pre-order which actually has both English & Japanese languages...

I think it's still up in the air about physical release over here. I haven't been following it that closely though because I don't think the world needs another frickin' version of that game

CiDeRmAn

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Just over 20 euro on Play Asia at the moment!

And that price jumps a tad with postage!

o1s1n

Had a great session of Time Crisis 3 and Crisis Zone on the ps2. Fantastic games but by jesus, that screen flash every time you fire the gun. I now have a headache!

Retr0gamer

Beat Kenka Bancho at the weekend. Narratively speaking it might just be a masterpiece.

The game starts with a protagonist that thinks he is the toughest bancho in Japan. He is on a school trip to one of the most beautiful places in the world, Kyoto. Instead of taking in the wonderful culture and sights of this city he decide his time is better spent running around, beating the crap out of other banchos around the country to confirm e is indeed the toughest in Japan. He also has three women that are crazy about him and he ignores, dismisses and treats like **** and yet still gets to choose one as his girlfriend at the end of the game (and then acts totally uninterested and nonchalantly). At the end of the game the protagonist confirms he's a bad ass just like he has always known and hasn't developed at all as a character. The fact that he has zero character development is either subversion at its most genius or just Japanese wackiness at work.

The game is a load of silly fun despite not exactly being well made.

Not reto at all but started fallout new vegas again last week.
such a good game.
modded the bejasus out of it this time too!

o1s1n

I've had a Turbo Ever drive for two years and only realized this evening that it has a reset button :O

CiDeRmAn

There's a reset button?
I have a first run Turbo Everdrive and didn't know!

o1s1n

It's absolutely tiny and you'd assume (like me) that it's a component on the PCB :eek:

See the tiny white square in the top right beside the sd slot?

peter_utv

Captain Comic...... kicks the Lamas ass......If you've never played congratulations you're young if you have you also know what an acoustic coupler and a BBS is and what life was like before the internet.