General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

MrVestek · 07-11-2018 9:41am

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Adrenaline not the best way of playing PSP games on the Vita? I've always found it very good.

Aye, seems fine to me so far.

DaveyDave · 07-11-2018 11:35am

One of my Japanese packages finally arrived. Got damaged a bit in transit though so what was an absolute mint condition box now has a dent and some creases and the disc case inside is cracked. Not a lot of damage but as someone who wanted it for collectable purposes it's kind of a kick in the balls.

Hopefully the next one isn't far behind and not damaged.

Inviere · 07-11-2018 6:00pm

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

You're not using the right homebrew, that's what.

That's exactly how he should be doing it to be fair

The Vita above is now a fully fledged PSP with a better screen, better specs, and better controls.

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Adrenaline not the best way of playing PSP games on the Vita? I've always found it very good.

That is Adrenaline by the looks of it

(full PSP Custom Firmware running natively on the Vita)

MrVestek · 07-11-2018 7:09pm

Inviere wrote: »

That's exactly how he should be doing it to be fair The Vita above is now a fully fledged PSP with a better screen, better specs, and better controls.

That is Adrenaline by the looks of it (full PSP Custom Firmware running natively on the Vita)

The OLED screen still impresses all these years later.

Nerdkiller1991 · 08-11-2018 2:50am

MrVestek wrote: »

The OLED screen still impresses all these years later.

Too bad my screen is burnt in.

Doge · 08-11-2018 3:08am

Grip: Combat Racing is a spiritual successor to the Rollcage games and just released on PC and Xbox One:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCump8QXWo0

Skerries · 09-11-2018 1:45pm

Alienware vehicle skin for GRIP

https://eu.alienwarearena.com/ucf/show/1938071/boards/contest-and-giveaways-global/Giveaway/grip-exclusive-alienware-vehicle-key-giveaway

um7y1h83ge06nx · 11-11-2018 2:52pm

Anyone else here eagerly awaiting a new DF Retro video? Seems like ages since we had an episode.

um7y1h83ge06nx · 11-11-2018 11:19pm

Alessandro Hot Syringe wrote: »

Anyone else here eagerly awaiting a new DF Retro video? Seems like ages since we had an episode.

Speaking of the devil, they have one on Tetris up in the last 5 hours!

11-11-2018 11:49pm

Alessandro Hot Syringe wrote: »

Speaking of the devil, they have one on Tetris up in the last 5 hours!

Any good? I'm out at the moment, can't check the YouTube

johnny_ultimate · 12-11-2018 12:24am

Good time to bring up that Tetris Effect is bloody magnificent. Feels like the game Tetsuya Mizuguchi has always wanted to make but now has the licence to do it. I love that he’s spent his career just making these idiosyncratic, trance-like games - and this is a further refinement of it, just with one of the most famous video games of them all added to the mix.

CiDeRmAn · 12-11-2018 7:58am

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Good time to bring up that Tetris Effect is bloody magnificent. Feels like the game Tetsuya Mizuguchi has always wanted to make but now has the licence to do it. I love that he’s spent his career just making these idiosyncratic, trance-like games - and this is a further refinement of it, just with one of the most famous video games of them all added to the mix.

Seems like ages since you've posted here!

Regards: Tetris Effect, I tried the demo last weekend, it was very nice indeed.
Might wait for a physical release though.

Jack burton · 12-11-2018 12:38pm

Anyone ever use this place https://www.shipito.com/en/

Looking to find a way to get some handy stuff from America shipped over to me

johnny_ultimate · 12-11-2018 12:50pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Seems like ages since you've posted here!

Regards: Tetris Effect, I tried the demo last weekend, it was very nice indeed.
Might wait for a physical release though.

I’m always here, lurking, biding my time...

Apparently the Tetris Effect physical release is up in the air for the UK / Ireland, so importing would be the best option (according to one of the game’s producers).

https://twitter.com/markmacd/status/1060522243187298304?s=21I’m

I reckon I’ll end up double dipping if it’s released for Rift at some point

Doge · 12-11-2018 1:39pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Anyone ever use this place https://www.shipito.com/en/

Looking to find a way to get some handy stuff from America shipped over to me

How about Address Pal?

um7y1h83ge06nx · 12-11-2018 2:57pm

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Any good? I'm out at the moment, can't check the YouTube

Haven't watched all of it, was watching it in bed and falling asleep last night.

He goes through the vast majority of Tetris games so it is detailed but maybe a bit repetitive too, a bit of an overload of Tetris.

Jack burton · 12-11-2018 4:33pm

Doge wrote: »

How about Address Pal?

They only do home delivery from America. I was going to use the other company to try and get all the games I get bundled into one parcel.

Not sure what the best option is though. I want to get my NTSC SNES and PS1 games though

Retr0gamer · 12-11-2018 4:55pm

I'll give Tetris Effect a go, loved everything Mizuguchi has done lately.

My only issue with it is that it's tetris, while I think it's a great game there's better puzzle games like puyo puyo and panel de pon.

Still, I was hoping teris/puyo puyo would have an option to play the stand alone games so this should scratch that itch. Wish it was on the Switch but I'd say it will come to switch and PC as Sony aren't funding or publishing the game. Going to hold out until it's on them as I never turn on the PS4.

DaveyDave · 12-11-2018 9:01pm

Jack burton wrote: »

Anyone ever use this place https://www.shipito.com/en/

Looking to find a way to get some handy stuff from America shipped over to me

I've used them twice. I've recently learned that they're moving their Nevada warehouse to another state so will no longer have 0% sales tax.

Other than that no issues. They send you weights and dimensions and photos of the shipping box. On request for a fee they'll open them up, take more photos etc. From what I can tell their customs declarations are grand too. AddressPal US have a serious issues with customs being completely wrong and over valued items even when providing invoices resulting in higher fees when landed.

I had a handbag and Ugg boots shipped over for herself, I believe it was 2kg each package. Around €40ish shipped. I think it was a fair price for a large box. But of course, vat and customs on top of all that gets expensive. Very expensive.

Shame it's so expensive to import from the US.

Outside of that can't fault the service. It's one of the cheaper, if not the cheapest, forwarding service. As you're looking to consolidate packages that rules out AddressPal.

MrVestek · 14-11-2018 1:43pm

Jack burton wrote: »

They only do home delivery from America. I was going to use the other company to try and get all the games I get bundled into one parcel.

Not sure what the best option is though. I want to get my NTSC SNES and PS1 games though

Not true. You can get them to deliver to the Post Office that's closest to you too.

Jack burton · 14-11-2018 9:51pm

MrVestek wrote: »

Not true. You can get them to deliver to the Post Office that's closest to you too.

Ah right. Still though I want to avoid an post with anything customs. They are complete gangsters when it comes to that. Not to mention their "handling fee"

DaveyDave · 14-11-2018 10:19pm

Might need a few more bits from The Box Protector Shop if anyone wants to do an order at some point, split shipping like what myself and Inviere did recently. Might get a few more stands as I could use one or two of them to hold up consoles/controllers. Also might get some misc PlayStation game boxes.

Does anyone know of a game box bigger than DVD? The PAL version of Silent Hill 2 is slightly bigger as it's cardboard and has 2 discs so a bit thicker and wider. Doesn't have to be snug or anything just something to fit.

Hopefully I can get those shelves up then I can suss out what stands I want to get.

o1s1n · 15-11-2018 12:49pm

Really interesting article about the history of designing 2D graphics for games, some great photos;

https://vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179656817318/designing-2d-graphics-in-the-japanese-industry

megaten · 15-11-2018 1:51pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Really interesting article about the history of designing 2D graphics for games, some great photos;

https://vgdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/179656817318/designing-2d-graphics-in-the-japanese-industry

Read that earlier, knew bits and pieces before but that was really comprehensive.

o1s1n · 15-11-2018 2:03pm

There's a huge amount of info in it, I haven't fully had time to go through it all.

Love this illustration of CRT (left) versus modern Display (right) to show how you need a CRT to fully see what the artists were intending;

CiDeRmAn · 15-11-2018 2:24pm

I was watching Voyager with Cidonalad the other day and in the episode, Investigations, there was a show within a show "Briefings with Neelix".
Apparently not only are there screen ratio issues in the 24th century, there are also scan-lines.

o1s1n · 15-11-2018 2:29pm

I like to think at some point in the future humanity sees the error of it's ways and reverts to CRT

Btw am I the only one who found Neelix to be a pain in the hoop???

The Last Bandit · 15-11-2018 2:51pm

o1s1n wrote: »

I like to think at some point in the future humanity sees the error of it's ways and reverts to CRT

Btw am I the only one who found Neelix to be a pain in the hoop???

He was a proper dose... actually not very keen on Voyager at all.

Watching DS9 at the moment and its very good, sure there are a few bogey episodes but on the whole its daycent.

Inviere · 15-11-2018 4:28pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Love this illustration of CRT (left) versus modern Display (right) to show how you need a CRT to fully see what the artists were intending]

The difference is night and day. Though that said, that's the most 'vanilla' representation of a modern display that you can get...the modern shaders go a long long way toward giving a more representative image.

o1s1n wrote: »

Btw am I the only one who found Neelix to be a pain in the hoop???

Early Neelix is painful. Though I always come to appreciate him later in the show when he's explored a bit. He's like the guy who's always laughing, but is only really masking pain/trauma by doing so. By the end of Voyager, I feel his absence near the end is definitely noticeable.

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Watching DS9 at the moment and its very good, sure there are a few bogey episodes but on the whole its daycent.

By far the best iteration of Star Trek there is

CiDeRmAn · 15-11-2018 5:12pm

Harry Kim needs to die, in a fire, but slowly, so we can see his misery episode by episode, like a slowly crisping screen saver.
What a magnolia, vanilla plank.

Tom Mann Centuria · 15-11-2018 11:27pm

Anyone going on their summer holidays to the Hull area of the UK next year? (because why wouldn't you)

This looks like it will be brilliant, Rob Hubbard is involved with it too.

https://www.hulltheatres.co.uk/events/8-bit-symphony?fbclid=IwAR3cSNn6g5FbxU4NHjEb397WpST5lVouPablq6IMbw9w96rKr8Q6RQBEalE

Celebrate the forgotten golden age of British computing genius with the world premiere of 8-Bit Symphony: 90+ epic minutes of game music from the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC with the Hull Philharmonic Orchestra. Lovingly re-orchestrated in the spirit of the original, with 5 orchestrated by the legendary Rob Hubbard himself, 8-bit has never sounded so joyful, nor so epic. Covering genres from Kung-Fu Movies to 80's epic Sci-fi to John Williams-esque romps, it's like discovering a world of lost 80's film soundtracks: the best melodies, and the biggest sound... to honour much-overlooked musical genius.

Dr Bob · 16-11-2018 9:18am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Harry Kim needs to die, in a fire, but slowly, so we can see his misery episode by episode, like a slowly crisping screen saver.
What a magnolia, vanilla plank.

nah Harry was alright ..Chakotay though..boring boring Chakotay should have been killed off in the pilot episode...

CiDeRmAn · 16-11-2018 9:44am

Dr Bob wrote: »

nah Harry was alright ..Chakotay though..boring boring Chakotay should have been killed off in the pilot episode...

Beltran complained about that too, afterwards.
And now, rewatching them many years later with Cidonalad, he really is the most boring first officer of the series, despite supposedly being a edgy ethnic terrorist or whatever they were going for, he winds up being the most "Starfleet" of them all!

Dr Bob · 16-11-2018 10:33am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Beltran complained about that too, afterwards.
And now, rewatching them many years later with Cidonalad, he really is the most boring first officer of the series, despite supposedly being a edgy ethnic terrorist or whatever they were going for, he winds up being the most "Starfleet" of them all!

To be fair to him he (Beltran) was kind of stuck...he pretty much hated the character from season 2 on ..but , it was a regular paying gig so he stuck it out. You find out weird stuff now once the actors are a bit more loose lipped about what went on in the background..like the fact that at the time anyway the actresses playing Janeway and 7 of 9 HATED each other and would nearly sabotage each others scenes..
(I think they made up later though)

CiDeRmAn · 16-11-2018 11:14am

I think the way that Jeri Ryan was dropped into the series was terribly contrived and, including that outfit, was a painful attempt to appeal to the nethers of a young male audience.
I mean, I enjoyed the way that the Borg found depth and complexity with her storylines, but it may have been to the exclusion of other characters, such as Beltran's.
Surely, with 25 odd episodes in a season, they could have found a way to make everyone interesting, with the exception of Kim, the plank.
DS9 managed this feat quite well, while also developing strong story arcs.
Also, Kazon, what an utter waste of time.

o1s1n · 16-11-2018 12:47pm

Inviere wrote: »

By far the best iteration of Star Trek there is

Would you put it before TNG? I haven't actually watched a single episode of DS9 since it aired!

Speaking of Voyager actors being a bit mad, anyone ever follow how the actress who played Kes ended up? Seems to have really gone off the deep end.

Optimus Prime · 16-11-2018 12:51pm

DS9 is top of the pile for me too, with TNG second. The stuff with Kes in real life is mad, almost as mad as Chloe from smallville! Though that would be a hard one to top.

The Last Bandit · 16-11-2018 1:10pm

Optimus Prime wrote: »

DS9 is top of the pile for me too, with TNG second. The stuff with Kes in real life is mad, almost as mad as Chloe from smallville! Though that would be a hard one to top.

Oh I think Dana Plato tops that one by some margin.

Retr0gamer · 16-11-2018 1:53pm

Yeah ended up in Night Trap.

Everything else in her life was normal and insignificant by comparison .

Inviere · 16-11-2018 5:12pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I think the way that Jeri Ryan was dropped into the series was terribly contrived and, including that outfit, was a painful attempt to appeal to the nethers of a young male audience.
I mean, I enjoyed the way that the Borg found depth and complexity with her storylines, but it may have been to the exclusion of other characters, such as Beltran's.
Surely, with 25 odd episodes in a season, they could have found a way to make everyone interesting, with the exception of Kim, the plank.
DS9 managed this feat quite well, while also developing strong story arcs.
Also, Kazon, what an utter waste of time.

That wasn’t Ryan’s fault though, and by all accounts Mulgrew made her life hell on set. I was so disappointed when I found this out, because I loved both characters.

o1s1n wrote: »

Would you put it before TNG? I haven't actually watched a single episode of DS9 since it aired!

Speaking of Voyager actors being a bit mad, anyone ever follow how the actress who played Kes ended up? Seems to have really gone off the deep end.

DS9, once it gets going, and I emphasize the gets going part, is outstandingly good. I love TNG, and it will always have a special place in my heart, but DS9 is where Star Trek grew up (before going downhill again). You’re so lucky you’ve the entire show unwatched, I’d love to see it again for the first time. The characters are all top class. You should set aside a few weeks some time and binge through it, it’s the best way to watch it.

DaveyDave · 16-11-2018 6:01pm

PSVR is €200 on Amazon with 2 games, one of which is Doom.

Trying so hard not to buy one. Had one for a few weeks before selling it to CeX for €80 profit (they weren't even hard to get!) I really enjoyed Until Dawn and would like to get it again...

Doge · 18-11-2018 2:40am

DaveyDave wrote: »

PSVR is €200 on Amazon with 2 games, one of which is Doom.

Trying so hard not to buy one. Had one for a few weeks before selling it to CeX for €80 profit (they weren't even hard to get!) I really enjoyed Until Dawn and would like to get it again...

Get it!
It's the price of a mediocre phone and comes with 2 games.

And since you made 80 euro profit off the last one it's really only costing you €120 !

Inviere · 18-11-2018 12:57pm

Doge wrote: »

Get it!
It's the price of a mediocre phone and comes with 2 games.

And since you made 80 euro profit off the last one it's really only costing you €120 !

I ordered one that comes with the headset, two move controllers, camera, and Doom for circa €250...seemed like a very good deal. Should pair nicely with my 5.05 PS4 Pro...

Optimus Prime · 19-11-2018 12:02am

Does anyone remeber the TV show “Super Mario Challenge “ I used to watch it everyday on my lunch break from school. I didn’t have a NES yet and had never played mario at this stage. 1990 I think. , I got one for Christmas the year this was on tv so lapped it up in the couple of months before hand.

Nerdkiller1991 · 19-11-2018 2:29am

Optimus Prime wrote: »

Does anyone remeber the TV show “Super Mario Challenge “ I used to watch it everyday on my lunch break from school. I didn’t have a NES yet and had never played mario at this stage. 1990 I think. , I got one for Christmas the year this was on tv so lapped it up in the couple of months before hand.

I very vaguely remember Around the World in 80 Seconds.

Also, wasn't there another game show on the same channel set in some sort of space station?

CiDeRmAn · 19-11-2018 11:35am

I wonder if this might be fun to pick up.
https://www.adverts.ie/monitors/computer-monitors-hp-e201/16634175
It's a 20" LCD monitor with a 360 swivel stand, perfect for Tate mode shooters?
Only lacking scanlines!

o1s1n · 19-11-2018 2:32pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I wonder if this might be fun to pick up.
https://www.adverts.ie/monitors/computer-monitors-hp-e201/16634175
It's a 20" LCD monitor with a 360 swivel stand, perfect for Tate mode shooters?
Only lacking scanlines!

I used to have something similar for tate shmups with my Dreamcast. Had an SLG3000 in between the console and the monitor, didn't look too bad actually. Kinda tempted by these.

Retr0gamer · 20-11-2018 11:10am

Lucasarts just put a shedload of their games up on steam including the indiana Jones games and escape from monkey island.

CiDeRmAn · 20-11-2018 11:58am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Lucasarts just put a shedload of their games up on steam including the indiana Jones games and escape from monkey island.

I always wanted to try their scifi one, The Dig

Retr0gamer · 20-11-2018 1:01pm

It's been on steam for years. No excuses 😂

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