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Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

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  • #5222
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    It has aged horribly etc etc

    Seriously though, is that designed from scratch like? Looks nice so far, seems like a good template for a platformer


  • #5223
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    80s Synth Pop wrote: »
    consolegoods has saturn model v1 and v2 chips in stock. both are plug and play.

    Typical Paypal/US/Draconian nonsense:
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Removal of the "Sega Saturn Modchip Board V2 (mod chip)

     [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Although we are holding stock of these, we have been asked by Paypal to remove them from our calaloge and not accept Paypal payments for this item in future. This is due to Paypal's policy on mod chips

    Btw, has the design of the mod chip changed, meaning you don't need to solder to 5v & the cdrom logic board anymore?
    [/FONT][/FONT]


  • #5224
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    On some boards you might get away with out soldering to the cdrom controller. I think the 64 pin cdrom boards are still need to be soldered to for best effect.


  • #5225
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Yeah it's all my own work. Haven't done anything artistic since secondary school so hoping it wouldn't look crap. It will be for a platformer, it's only meant to be a one level demo for college but I want to add a boss in there :) I'll be adding more to the game soon but I have my building base for the stage so I'll animate my sprite and then I can work on getting her control nicely.


  • #5226
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    The Last Bandit wrote: »
    Is the WiiU usable at all with out the update or is it just online stuff is narfed.

    The games are usable but the online functionality is built in from the opening screen and with the connection as ropey as it is.....
    I got my machine updated, and got myself a Nintendo ID thingy as well as linked it to my Club Ninty account, but when I run Netflix from the frontend I get an update that took an age to get downloaded and then it quits with an error!

    I should have a Lan adapter soon and, while not as speedy as the wifi which isn't speedy at all, at least it'll be consistent.

    Looking at the WiiU shop is pitiful as well, lots of 5 stars for games that are getting 70 on Metacritic, so I won't be digging deep just yet.


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  • #5227
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The Last Bandit wrote: »
    On some boards you might get away with out soldering to the cdrom controller. I think the 64 pin cdrom boards are still need to be soldered to for best effect.

    I've never heard of a plug & play Saturn modchip...they all need to be connected to 5v & the logic board as far as I knew so there must be something new with these ones
    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I should have a Lan adapter soon and, while not as speedy as the wifi which isn't speedy at all, at least it'll be consistent.

    Your lan connection won't be as fast as your wifi...are you sure about that??


  • #5228
    The Last Bandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,729 ✭✭✭The Last Bandit


    Soldering the 5v is optional (and best practice) but shoving the wire into the PSU connector with a match is adequate enough for some :)


  • #5229
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Yeah, all the forums are saying that, in tests, the Lan is showing up to be slower than the Wifi connection, that the system is not yet optimised for a physical connection at all.
    That said, at least the usb-Lan option is consistent and has seemed more reliable than the wifi one, which is very poor.
    To give you an example of the latter, my Wii and 3DS have no problem linking with the home wireless network and downloading whatever, on the otherhand, the WiiU has been nothing but heartbreak, initially refusing to connect to the internet via the network until a further antenna was added and then refusing to update, later updated, it's refusing to update various apps and, when I try to watch one of the promo videos on the WiiU store, it is nothing but Buffer City!


  • #5230
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,434 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Andrew76 wrote: »
    Any of the seasoned pirates on here know if the Sega Saturn needs to be modded to play CDRs? Specifically the white Jap model, incase that makes any difference.

    Its fine for two to three button shmups...which is most. But Radiant Silvergun is missing certain weapons because one button wont work properly :(


  • #5231
    Dale Parish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Dale Parish


    Does anyone here play Command & Conquer?


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  • #5232
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Typical Paypal/US/Draconian nonsense:



    Btw, has the design of the mod chip changed, meaning you don't need to solder to 5v & the cdrom logic board anymore?
    [/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT]

    I'm pretty sure he will accept payment for them if you send him an email, just in a cheeky way ;)


  • #5233
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Anyone played BLOPS 2? I know CoD gets a lot of slagging but it's a fun mindless way to spend a few hours at christmas. I usually don't mind them but BLOPS 2 has seriously disappointed me. The story is nonsense of the highest order with character I don't care about and blend into one, a foul mouthed commander that almost gives the new DMC demo a run for it's money in terms of embarrassing dialogue and some really silly design decisions. There's one mission when you play a machete wielding maniac that is absolute face palming nonsense of the highest order.

    They tried to shake things up with new Strike missions that give you a RTS view of the game and you can jump into any unit at any time. These would be fine except for one thing, the AI of your team mates is terrible. Instead of ordering units around you have to jump between them since you can't trust them to do anything other than die horribly. The best thing that can be said of them is that they are optional.

    Then there's the return of the zombie mode which is usually good fun to play with my brother except they have managed to ruin that to. They tried to improve zombie mode by making it needlessly complicated. You now have objectives to complete in some missions and it just makes the whole thing a confusing mess. However that's not the worst part. For some reason they decided to put fire absolutely everywhere in these missions. It's an absolute joke, you can't walk anywhere without accidentally stepping through fire or worse falling into a fire pit and dying. It's more annoying than deadly but it's such a bad design decision that it's baffling it made it through QA.

    As for other games I'm playing I've started Farcry 2 again. What an under rated game. It's so much fun and I love how much destruction and chaos explosives cause in the game. Atmosphere is top notch and it hasn't been too repetitive yet. Also started Spec Ops the Line which so far has been quite good. I'm a bit burnt out on RPGs :)


  • #5234
    megaten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭megaten


    Anyone know what's the general opinion on code of princess? Seems like it's coming over.
    http://www.siliconera.com/2012/12/28/code-of-princess-rated-for-germany/
    It's probably download only since the developer is listed as the publisher.
    It looks interesting but I've read mixed opinions


  • #5235
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,607 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    I've heard awful things about it from a few places, middling reports from others. And can't say the prevalent artwork of excessively proportioned females is an encouraging marketing decision...

    Probably one of those games that will break even just because its a JRPG from Atlus, though, regardless of merits / demerits.


  • #5236
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Heard good things from people I'd trust. My friend is sending it to me and he says it's pretty much the spiritual successor to Guardian Heroes.


  • #5237
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,971 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    I've heard awful things about it from a few places, middling reports from others. And can't say the prevalent artwork of excessively proportioned females is an encouraging marketing decision...

    Probably one of those games that will break even just because its a JRPG from Atlus, though, regardless of merits / demerits.
    Oh, an Atlus game?

    Call me when it releases.
    In 2014. :rolleyes:


  • #5238
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,607 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    Oh, an Atlus game?

    Call me when it releases.
    In 2014. :rolleyes:

    The Persona 4 Arena situation is beyond farcicial at this point. They can keep Code of Princess - which has been pretty harshly received by many of the more reliable sources out there - if they just get P4A out. Although TBH Atlus (or Zen United, although by the sounds of it they're half responsible, half victim) only shot themselves in the foot when it comes to sales due to the delay. The game will arrive with a whimper if and when it does show up in Europe.

    **** region locking.


  • #5239
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Zen United have a history of being an awful publisher with a lot of delayed games. They blame it on the region coding programming despite the fact that only a single variable needs to be changed in the code to disable it or set the region. They're a joke, I'd say it's more them looking for capital to get enough copies out there.


  • #5240
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    +1 about Far Cry 2, a brilliant game only slightly spoiled by the re population of the various rebel checkpoints as soon as you turn your back after clearing them out!
    If not for that it would have been an incredible game, instead it feels a bit cheap, using up ammo and gun health and then asking you to do it all again, but the story, the landscape, the sense of place that only a few games share, greats like Dark Souls or Luigis Mansion, a great game, must play it again.


  • #5241
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,607 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Yeah Far Cry 2 is a fascinating game, and has ambition to spare. It does alas eventually get dragged down by the constant respawning enemies and mechanics that were so refreshing for the first few hours. But it's a really intriguing setting, and it's a game where you actually feel like there's a constant fight for survival. So many games developers are so anxious to make you an overpowered killing machine that they sometimes forget how much more interesting it can be to make you vulnerable.

    I have the third game to start, but no Clint Hocking :(


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  • #5242
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Yeah, all the forums are saying that, in tests, the Lan is showing up to be slower than the Wifi connection, that the system is not yet optimised for a physical connection at all.

    I can't say I've had similar results. The wired connection is far faster on my network anyway. Had the update done in less than an hour, versus the wireless which was at about 20% after two hours & then subsequently failed. Havn't had a single issue using the Wii lan adapter


  • #5243
    [Deleted User]
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    I'm sure there's a daily mail newspaper headline in there, "Fenian plot to strip Great Britain of her precious retro gaming treasure...

    Fixed that for ya ;)
    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Anyone played BLOPS 2? I know CoD gets a lot of slagging but it's a fun mindless way to spend a few hours at christmas. I usually don't mind them but BLOPS 2 has seriously disappointed me....

    I have it but haven't started it yet. Christmas vouchers were burning a hole in my pocket so I grabbed it a few days ago. Don't think I would have paid cash for it otherwise though. The series has become more and more bland, generic, and irrelevant in the last few years, like it was a victim of it's own success. It went from something new and exciting with modern warfare and world at war to an uninspiring, once annual November cash cow focused on the irritating multiplayer competitive mode to the detriment of story and all the other aspects of it. I'll probably play it for a while, think "meh", and then trade/sell it like I did the last couple.
    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    They tried to shake things up with new Strike missions that give you a RTS view of the game and you can jump into any unit at any time. These would be fine except for one thing, the AI of your team mates is terrible....

    The AI in COD has always been a bit "get behind the darkies" though hasn't it? (that was a south park reference BTW, not me being a racist!). You can't ever rely on your AI buddies, you're on your own, they're basically cannon fodder/bullet shields, and the enemy AI always seem to ignore them most of the time and send 90% of their ammo your way.


  • #5244
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It went from something new and exciting with modern warfare and world at war to an uninspiring, once annual November cash cow focused on the irritating multiplayer competitive mode to the detriment of story and all the other aspects of it.

    Well I wouldn't be that kind on World atWar. thought it was terrible especially compared to the two WW2 CoD games before it on PC. Even the disappointing CoD 2 was far better.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    The AI in COD has always been a bit "get behind the darkies" though hasn't it? (that was a south park reference BTW, not me being a racist!). You can't ever rely on your AI buddies, you're on your own, they're basically cannon fodder/bullet shields, and the enemy AI always seem to ignore them most of the time and send 90% of their ammo your way.

    Yes it's always been pretty bad but the problems with these missions is that you need to be in 3 or 4 places at once which is impossible so have to rely on the AI which is abaolutely terrible. It just doesn't work. Also all these levels suffer from respawning enemy syndrome.


  • #5245
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Are we forgetting perennial 2nd placers Treyarch made this one?
    Are y'all expecting a lot from the gunw@nk genre?
    When was the last time we had a truly great one?
    Well...
    Spec Ops The Line is probably it, as far as consoles are concerned.

    The Crysis and Far Cry series are probably some of the best first person titles, aside from the superb Metroid Prime games.
    But then, there's Half Life 2 and sequels plus the Portal games as well...
    So, real world war games are a bust.


  • #5246
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Doing sprite sheets for my main character all day today. At least I got them all out of the way. I can start working on the controls tomorrow and maybe even atesting some enemies tomorrow if I have time and aren't sick of pixel art by then.

    Here's a sample:

    234278.png


  • #5247
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Cool, like Siberia but in 8bit :D


  • #5248
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Put me in it! I can just throw empty vodka bottles as my attack :P


  • #5249
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,313 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    atavan-halen wrote: »
    Put me in it! I can just throw empty vodka bottles as my attack :P

    Drunken hobbits might just fit the setting. I'll see what I can do. I do need an enemy like that :)


  • #5250
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    Hmmm...isn't pixel art just a way for indie developers to be lazy with their work?

    *flees*


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  • #5251
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,754 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Hmm...
    Hmv in Sligo had their WiiU games discounted, no such discount in Swords :(
    Very disappointed, hoped to pick something up...


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