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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition
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Actually the cartridge slots on saturns are notoriously bad. If you are inserting different cartridges in them then the metal wears down and eventually you'll have trouble with the saturn reading carts.
Again this is another reason why you should have a 4 in 1. Put it in the cart slot, if it works you'll never have to remove it. In fact you have absolutely no reason not to have a 4 in 1 cart. It's pretty much essential for a Saturn.
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »MP is a pain in the arse in DQIX, alas. Played it with a friend a few times but the time you mess finish up putting party members away and getting together in the same place... It is fun when you get there, just a lot of effort.
I take it it can't be played over internet? (DS connected to router, connected to series of tube, connected to router, connected to friends' DS) That's a bit of a bummer. There's some famous maps with ridiculous monsters and rewards I was hoping to get my hands on, and this sounds like its going to be more difficult to do now.
I know exactly what you mean. I gave up on it completely and even deleted my save first time around since I was promising myself I'd stop (it was a time sink and I really wasn't enjoying it). This is my second time around, and I'd made my party around a theme to inject some personality into them. Worked out a little better, and got OK likenesses at character creation too.I've played a few DQ (IV, VIII and IX) in-depth but never finished one :pac: DQIX is good, but definitely suffers from the lack of a more coherent story, and it's a real shame they did away with individual party members in favour of customisation. Feels a bit hollow as a result.
^ Thief
^ Mage
^ PriestOverall happy so far and can't wait to get some more games. Just purchased Guardian Heroes from an Irish seller on eBay, so should have it soon. Looks brilliant!
Gah. I've really put getting a multiplayer adapter and extra pads for a Saturn off too damn long. Probably should get a decent sized TV first before bothering though.
If it is faulty then just use it as a good reason to upgrade to a 4-in-1 cart. They're a must have for the Saturn
Losing data from a Saturn battery feels bad. Though I am looking forward for killing my way through GH again.Retr0gamer wrote: »Actually the cartridge slots on saturns are notoriously bad. If you are inserting different cartridges in them then the metal wears down and eventually you'll have trouble with the saturn reading carts.
Damn. Didn't know that, but the upside of losing my data is the slot should still be close to pristine. Anyone make replacement parts or are they just pulled out of broken Saturns?
What about Saturn Bomberman + Netlink?Again this is another reason why you should have a 4 in 1. Put it in the cart slot, if it works you'll never have to remove it. In fact you have absolutely no reason not to have a 4 in 1 cart. It's pretty much essential for a Saturn.0 -
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Playing some Landstalker as part of the HG101 Game Club 19XX. I'm quite enjoying it but it has some big problems. It looks gorgeous and is an isometric game. However it controls completely different to any other isometric game. You have to use the diagonals to move and it just feels horrible compared to every other isometric game ever made. Also it was meant to be Sega's answer to Zelda but it's no where near a good and the dungeons rely on too much combat which is horrible with these controls, and platforming, a complete disaster in any isometric game and more so in this one because you've no shadows to tell you the position of anything.
It's good fun one you get over the weirdness. It's by the same team that made the Shining Force games and you can tell because the music sounds very similar.
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Playing some World of Illusion via the wonders of the Nomad. Ah yes, back when games were games
The only illusion games I played as a kid was Caste Of Illusion and Land of Illusion on the SMS.
Castle of the illusion was basic enough in terms of graphics and gameplay, but was alright.
Land of Illusion had evolved beautiful in both aspects though, lovely detail for an SMS game and lots of nice game mechanics added also.
I can remember Land of Illusion being quite an eerie, tense but magical game all at the same time.
It's a combination of the eerie but brilliant music, the enemies and the bosses.
It's hard to explain. You've motivated me to fire it back up to see how it plays now.
I haven't played with my Mickey™ in about 20 years......;)0 -
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Just hack away and dodge, not much too it
Is that really all there is to it ? I've been doing that but my companions kept dying, I thought I was missing something in the strategies section.
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Been a while since I've played it but it wasn't too complicated just really hectic. I'd suggest in hte strategies section telling magic users to stay well back and only using the hand to hand fighters directly unless healing is desperately needed.
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Didn't Retr0 use savestates to clear Ninja Gaiden & Contra? I just felt it was worth raising that point for no apparent reason.
Pah, Contra was simple didn't need save states at all. If you think it's hard then you're a patsy. All I can say is that if Arino from Game Centre Cx can beat it then anyone can.
Ninja Gaiden I just used them for bug on the second form for the last boss. Since I have his attack pattern nailed down though I could easily beat it without save states, it's just with the bug it doesn't give you a chance to learn his pattern.
As for the NES, I have one, a PAL NES. I'd rather have nothing than a PAL NES though. PAL NES owners are the lowest form of scum :P
Of course I have a Wii as well! Bought one on launch day. It's what I play my NES games on, in 60 mother****ing Hz!
As for the CDi CD-R king... some of the later and good games have poxy copy protection. They have music tracks less than 4 seconds long and nearly every CD writer picks that up as an error so it's kind of hard to actually get the good games on the system. Either that or every website has bad dumps of the games and are sharing the same ones just nobody is stupid enough to waste a CD-R on the games.
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Option for ignore read/write errors?
Nope, doesn't work. Tried everything and it's a problem with these games. I've tried every work around that people have put online. Either I need a better CD burner or else the dumps that all the rom sites are using are all bad dumps, which could be very likely when you look at the amount of downloads of these games and see that you're the only one that has tried it. It's kind of annoying because I really want to play Zenith which looks like one of the few actual good games for the system but can't get it to burn. It was the last release for the system to so doesn't exactly appear on ebay very often.
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If you must play games illegally get the TOSEC set for CDi and burn them. It could also very well be your cd burner as some are not good at burning ISO's and BIN and CUE files for older consoles. I've a few burner drives and the older ones are best for this purpose.
And of course, burn at the slowest possible speed(4x if you can, 8x if you must). I use ImgBurn and it works every time.
CDi games are mostly dirt cheap though, so just buy them
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If you must play games illegally get the TOSEC set for CDi and burn them. It could also very well be your cd burner as some are not good at burning ISO's and BIN and CUE files for older consoles. I've a few burner drives and the older ones are best for this purpose.
And of course, burn at the slowest possible speed(4x if you can, 8x if you must). I use ImgBurn and it works every time.
CDi games are mostly dirt cheap though, so just buy them
Thanks, I'll look into that TOSEC set. I think it is my drive that's the problem. I've two CD/DVD burners and they just refuse to write the files or write them with errors. It's a common problem with CD-i games. apparently the <4 sec length tracks helped some way with the stupid limitations of the machine.
As for buying CDi games, they may be cheap but they are all crap. All the good ones are expensive or at least go for more than I'd pay for them. Most also ship from europe and the sellers there charge stupid amounts for postage/
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