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Son Of General Retro Discussion

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    #7142
    safetyboy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭safetyboy


    Modmii does it all for you

    http://gbatemp.net/topic/207126-modmii-for-windows-official-support-topic/


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    #7143
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


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    #7144
    a5y
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭a5y


    Just got sniped on 3 2 auctions for Saturn games. May well be 3...

    Same guy each time. Nothing rare or uncommon, but the combined packaging rate was £1 extra per item.

    Its high time I started buying NTSC anyway. Thanks auction sniper guy.:D


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    #7145
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,916 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Zak and Wiki is a joy, confined to bargain bins for years. Don't let the cutesy visuals turn you off a very clever puzzler.

    Also: Sin & Punishment 2, No More Heroes... Also all those Nintendo ones.

    Rememer that bried period in 2009 where Zak and Wiki was coming to the end of its first print run, so game stores were offering quite a bit for it in trade, on the assumption it was going to be rare?

    Yeah, not so much.

    In regards to Wii titles worth your time:

    Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Awesome tag-fighter, bit of a throwback . You can pick up a stick for it quite cheaply too.

    All of the Sega lightgun offerings go ways to justifying the Wiimote's existence.


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    #7146
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    Rememer that bried period in 2009 where Zak and Wiki was coming to the end of its first print run, so game stores were offering quite a bit for it in trade, on the assumption it was going to be rare?

    Yeah, not so much.

    In regards to Wii titles worth your time:

    Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Awesome tag-fighter, bit of a throwback . You can pick up a stick for it quite cheaply too.

    All of the Sega lightgun offerings go ways to justifying the Wiimote's existence.

    I've been looking for TvC yesterday as I seen the stick and game about a month ago for €35 in HMV alas it's gone now:(

    When I last had a Wii I had a Sega light gun game it was reasonable and cheap enough so I'll be on the look out for any of them.

    Was gonna pick up Links Crossbow Training aswell, is it any use?


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    #7147
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,968 ✭✭✭Doge


    Interesting little feature here on the Best and Worst voice samples used in old video games:

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



    Brought to you by a rather young sounding presenter called Rinry.


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    #7148
    Doge
    Registered Users Posts: 8,968 ✭✭✭Doge


    This feature on Video Game Box Art is pretty good too, probably worth subscribing and watching the other videos:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMFoD1JAdS4


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    #7149
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,916 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    Rememer that bried period in 2009 where Zak and Wiki was coming to the end of its first print run, so game stores were offering quite a bit for it in trade, on the assumption it was going to be rare?

    Yeah, not so much.

    In regards to Wii titles worth your time:

    Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Awesome tag-fighter, bit of a throwback . You can pick up a stick for it quite cheaply too.

    All of the Sega lightgun offerings go ways to justifying the Wiimote's existence.

    I've been looking for TvC yesterday as I seen the stick and game about a month ago for €35 in HMV alas it's gone now:(

    When I last had a Wii I had a Sega light gun game it was reasonable and cheap enough so I'll be on the look out for any of them.

    Was gonna pick up Links Crossbow Training aswell, is it any use?

    It's pretty much a tech/hardware demo for the Wii/Zapper. It's a fun lightgun/mini-game thing, but best picked up on the cheap.


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    #7150
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,784 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    waveform wrote: »
    Interesting little feature here on the Best and Worst voice samples used in old video games:

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



    Brought to you by a rather young sounding presenter called Rinry.

    I love Rinry!!!!!!!!!


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    #7151
    Steve X2
    Registered Users Posts: 8,864 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    A little something for the hipsters, you know who you are ;)

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    #7152
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    It's pretty much a tech/hardware demo for the Wii/Zapper. It's a fun lightgun/mini-game thing, but best picked up on the cheap.

    Watched it on youtube earlier, looks crap gonna give it a miss.

    Gonna get Batman the Brave & the Bold, Sin & Punishment when I get some dollars next week.


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    #7153
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    I picked up a good few NTSC snes carts for a modded snes I'm due to receive next week. Do you think the best option is to cut up the snes and be done with it? Or buy an adapter, or just use the pcb's and leave them in their cases when not being used? I'd say the NTSC carts make up like 2% of my collection and I'd rather not hack the hell of the cartridge slot...


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    #7154
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Looks good, never heard of it though. Is it available in PAL...
    ask Retr0 v he mentioned it too (and actually played it) *doesn't have a Wii >:*
    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I'd recommend Fragile Dreams, one of the most emotionally involving games this generation and criminally ignored. The combat is crap but narratively it makes up for it amazingly as well as the visuals. Ico-esque:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENhS2lhNk-c


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    #7155
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Steve SI wrote: »
    A little something for[IMG][/IMG] the hipsters, you know who you are ;)

    28484026161978718534317.jpg

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    #7156
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,934 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    You've got to love Legend of Dragoons fanbase. One of them just commented on a review I did on my blog ages ago:

    'fag :) LOD is the best rpg of its time, maybe second to FFVII'

    I should thank him for backing up everything I said about the game.
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    #7157
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,934 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Looks good, never heard of it though. Is it available in PAL...

    It did get a PAL release, never seen it in the shops but it should be cheap on amazon, I got it there.
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    #7158
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Really loving Legend of Grimrock. On the 4th level now.

    Also... f*ck these spiders!

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    #7159
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIuLVveE6wI


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    #7160
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users Posts: 10,543 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Weekend in the retro forum

    tvoff.jpg

    All too busy to post.

    Monday morning back to work

    homer-work-frome-home.jpg

    Time to go on boards.


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    #7161
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,190 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    DinoRex wrote: »
    Really loving Legend of Grimrock. On the 4th level now.

    Also... f*ck these spiders!

    pEcGE.gif

    Still on lvl 2 as I haven't got back to it yet. Do you have a Mage in your group? Are they useful as they skill up? Mine only have Fire spell atm.


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    #7162
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Well that fire spell is pretty damn useful when going up against a group of enemies as it will hit all four at the same time while your warriors can only hit one at a time.

    Those giant spiders are buggers for poisoning you so have a poison shield spell is very handy.

    The puzzles get really tricky too... stuck on level 5 arsing around with a teleporter and haven't a clue what I'm doing.


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    #7163
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,597 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    This game is great! Just started it an hour ago. Down to level 2. Walked into a room and got mangled by three guys with spears.

    A mage seems like a must this early on. That fire spell is a godsend.


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    #7164
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    My minotaur is seriously tough now. Many a time he's left fighting on his own with all the other guys dead and still manages to pull through.


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    #7165
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,597 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Is there a way of bringing people back to life? For some reason I was thinking it was one of those 'when they're dead, they're dead' cases and reloaded an earlier save.


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    #7166
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    If you get to a crystal.

    Sometimes this involves a lot of back tracking, even to a previous floor too. But in general once monsters are dead they stay dead. I've only encountered respawning once and that was because you needed the monsters to solve a puzzle.


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    #7167
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,544 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    DinoRex wrote: »
    If you get to a crystal.

    Sometimes this involves a lot of back tracking, even to a previous floor too. But in general once monsters are dead they stay dead. I've only encountered respawning once and that was because you needed the monsters to solve a puzzle.

    What a bunch of nerds!

    Next you'll be sharing Risk stories! "And then I threw a six!"


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    #7168
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,934 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I bought my first D20 on the weekend. There's no going back for me.
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    #7169
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,198 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Name Change Request:

    Arcade & Retro & Magic The Gathering Forum

    Also a "Nerd or GTFO" warning should be added to the charter, and user access should be determined by die rolls.


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    #7170
    Andrew76
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,190 Mod ✭✭✭✭Andrew76


    DinoRex wrote: »
    If you get to a crystal.

    Sometimes this involves a lot of back tracking, even to a previous floor too. But in general once monsters are dead they stay dead. I've only encountered respawning once and that was because you needed the monsters to solve a puzzle.

    Apparently getting a Crystal will also regen all party health? Haven't tested it out yet.


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    #7171
    DinoRex
    Registered Users Posts: 3,695 ✭✭✭DinoRex


    Yep. You can use them multiple times too. Reading reviews it seems a lot of people seemed to have missed the point of the crystals.

    I'm pretty sure I found a note by the first one that explained them.

    I don't think they help with hunger though, which I get a feeling is going be a much bigger issue as you get further into the dungeon.


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