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Dracula XX has disappointingly poor graphics and the music is so badly arranged that whoever arranged it should be in jail for crimes against humanity, but the actual gameplay is mostly pretty okay!
Unfortunately Richter's movement speed is AGONIZINGLY SLOW. The walking animation also plays way faster than it does in Dracula X, so you get this weird combination of an animation that suggests he's trying to be Sonic while also moving so impossibly slowly that I constantly jump just to make him move even the slightest bit faster. Like damn dude Dracula's going to go enslave the entire world or whatever and you're just barely managing to move faster than a slug moving through freshly-placed tar or something. Hurry the hell up Richter!
Other than that, yeah, the game's mostly pretty okay where it actually matters.
On 1/7/2024 at 12:13 AM, Tanooki said:The only thing bad about Metroid II is what's bad about the original, NO coded in MAP.
Lol you don't need a map for either of them. I didn't, anyway.
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A small number of Dreamcast games don't work in VGA and as far as I know they can't be forced to do so. As far as I know, you'd have to use S-video to get the best video quality from those games, as that is the highest-quality analog video thingy that works with everything. Not even sure what DCDigital does with those games.
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Metroid II, which is a great game, not a bad one.
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I bought exactly zero games for all of these systems when they were on the market, and the system that I have bought the most games for is of course PC.
Given what I was given at the time and what I've been able to get in the past 5 or 6 years, the system here that I have the most games for is Mega Drive. My Genesis games all ended up in a landfill somewhere (not by my choice) and about half of my Mega Drive games are repurchases to replace my trashed copies, but in total, counting the replacements, the stuff I haven't been able to replace, and my newly acquired games, I've owned at least 35~40 Genesis and Mega Drive games over the course of my life.
Everything else listed here is in the single digits or zero except for Saturn.
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30 minutes ago, Boschloo said:
Kirk needs to play Sega Saturn.
Absolutely not. The Saturn doesn't deserve to be defiled like that.
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lol Kirk is way, WAY, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY worse than this.
Honestly at this point Kirk and the whole Super Nintendo section should be cleansed from the site like the Amico section was.
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As expected, SuperGrafx game prices went up now that this thing released. Madou King Granzort tripled in price, Aldynes doubled, and 1941 Counter Attack increased by about 50%.
Even Battle Ace went up by 80%! It was only 2000 yen to start with since nobody wanted it though lol
Curiously, Daimakaimura seems unchanged, at least for now.
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Losing Shinkiro was not great for SNK. He was probably the best artist they ever had. Wikipedia says he's over at Capcom now.
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*laughs at prices of anime in Japan, where you pay 9000 yen for 2 or 3 episodes*
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I paid 11000 yen for Radiant Silvergun (no obi) last year. It might have been two years ago, but it was one of those two.
Basically, ebay sucks for buying old games and you should never use it for that purpose.
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2 hours ago, roots.genoa said:
Which is weird, because English and German share the same roots, so a lot of words are similar. I agree some aspects of the Japanese language are easy, but the vocabulary takes time to learn since their words doesn't sound at all like "ours" (in Western countries).
I found it odd as well, but Japanese was my third time learning a foreign language and German was the first, so that might be why. Standard Japanese has very simple verb conjugation and few irregular verbs, which also helps. I'd also say that German grammar is more complex than Japanese grammar in general. I can't do the accent properly for German, Spanish, or Japanese, but I have been told that my German accent is especially terrible.
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4 hours ago, Boschloo said:
Well it can't be that hard, I mean, any 3 year old in Japan speaks Japanese.
I have said many times in various places that it really isn't that hard, and that I found learning German to be significantly more difficult. Spanish was the easiest, though I never used it and forgot Spanish entirely.
People always complain about kanji, but you should ignore them because even that is actually not hard. It just takes time. I've asked quite a few Japanese people about this, including those that don't know any language other than Japanese, and they all agree that it's really not hard and just takes time. As a result, you probably shouldn't have any difficulty as long as you are not ultra lazy and actually put in the time to learn, preferably by taking classes at a university or a language school.
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This is why you learn Japanese and play the super cheap Japanese version.
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On 12/10/2023 at 8:53 PM, roots.genoa said:
Anyway, even if my PC was able to emulate the Switch correctly (which I doubt), I wouldn't want to play Switch games on my PC because of that convenience. I also prefer handhelds anyway, enjoy HD rumble in Nintendo games, and most of all I'm no f'n pirate. 🙂
I prefer handhelds as well, which is why I got the Steam Deck, but nobody said anything about piracy. Not sure how the French government rolls, but I'm sure you know about the Sony v. Bleem! thing and apparently it's possible to dump your Switch games somehow, but I don't know how and I am not interested in emulating the Switch anyway.
I don't like or trust software emulation in general, but it does have some advantages over running things natively.
On 12/11/2023 at 3:48 AM, JPF997 said:such a feature doesn't exist on PC yet
It does on Steam Deck, which is a PC.
On 12/11/2023 at 4:07 AM, Razzie.P said:Something I've been curious about, and the one thing that always prevents me from getting something like this or Steam Deck -- if someone already has a pretty high end gaming PC and has no interest in playing handheld, do these still offer any benefit to warrant owning?
I'm always interested in picking one up, but I'm not sure if it offers anything I don't already have.
It's easier to carry with you and will probably consume less electricity, which is apparently a concern for people that live in (maybe only some parts of?) Europe, where electricity bills seem to be quite expensive. That's it.
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32 minutes ago, roots.genoa said:
Do Steam Deck and ROG Ally allow to suspend a game like the consoles now do? That's one of my main problems with PC (and don't tell me I can let the game run and do other things).
Steam Deck does. I think it may depend on the game, though, as I tried suspending Tales of Vesperia on the title screen and the intro started playing when I restarted, but then in Sonic Mania I tried it in game and the timer didn't change between when I put it in sleep mode and woke it up.
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I'm pretty sure Switch games run better through emulation on most handheld PCs than they do on the Switch itself, which often struggles with its own exclusive games and results in many of them running at sub-native resolutions. Like I said before, just play on PC because it's better.
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Final Match Tennis is supposed to be really good.
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I have never understood the appeal of these games for whatever reason.
My father used to play one of them (and probably still does), and I used to watch him play on occasion and I never saw anything that looked particularly intriguing. In high school one of my friends said something interesting: "GTA is good, but most people that play it are playing it for the wrong reasons", although I never inquired as to what any of those reasons, right or wrong, were.
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4 minutes ago, DragonGrafx-16 said:
Hm... other than the difficulty change it seems they wanted to cut the size of the ROM for the NA version? And that's why the animation is cut down?
I guess it's because of the mapper. I have no idea how the FC and NES work, so I don't what a mapper actually is or does (I'm assuming that it maps something, but you never know), but that seems to be the reason.
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10 minutes ago, DragonGrafx-16 said:
What's different in Famicom Contra over NES (NA)?
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2 hours ago, -^CrossBow^- said:
Nope I have not although I did fill out the form to choose the cover for my physical version of the game.
I got the PC version somehow and it seems that the ROM is contained in the PC version's installation directory. I don't remember specifically backing for something that included the PC version, but apparently I did.
If you have the PC version, you can try running that ROM on a ROM-loading cartridge to see what happens, but in that case it could just be weirdness caused by the ROM-loading cartridge. Might be worth trying.
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On 11/16/2023 at 8:20 PM, masteries said:
Reviewing the 16 MB .bin file of Demons of Asteborg, there is a very large section with only easy recognisable patterns such ABCDEF... abcdef.... 1f2f3f... and these sort of things,
and a lot of large empty parts (parts of 128 to 256 KB).
Probably the game would fit into 64 Mbits in a properly structured ROM.
So not only did those bastards make a limited edition version of their first game that has exclusive in-game stuff after the Kickstarter but they also filled the ROM with literal nothingness to inflate the ROM size just to have the biggest ROM size ever but in a meaningless fashion. Great. I am starting to dislike these guys. I kind of wonder how much money they would have saved themselves and the Kickstarter backers by having a smaller ROM size, but I also kind of don't even care anymore.
On 11/17/2023 at 11:41 PM, -^CrossBow^- said:Well this morning I received an email from NeoFid asking me to choose my cover for my physical copy. So... I guess mine is now in the process of getting shipped out to me soon.
Did you get it yet? I have not gotten around to testing it, as my life is basically just (barely) sleeping and working at this point.
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It's here: https://retro-bit.com/eliminate-down/
Nice timing. Go buy it if you want it. I want it, so I will.
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1 hour ago, zzip said:
Yeah, it's the best PS4 for sure, I'm still waiting for it to be a good PS5 though
Given the almost complete lack of PS5 exclusives 3 years into its life, we might be waiting for that for a while. Astro's Playroom was really nice, though; yes, it is a tech demo to show off the features of the system, but it was good and fun, although quite short (probably because it's a tech demo). This sort of game, the type that uses the unique features of the console and can't be done on PC or any other console, is what I want from console games. It took me about 61 minutes to beat Astro's Playroom; if they made a sequel I'd buy it, although I'd like something longer and with more replay value.
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I played MD City Connection last year at an event. They had it for sale there, but it was expensive and I didn't have any cash on me, so I didn't buy it, but it's really good. The dude from Habit Soft that I spoke to said they improved the controls over the arcade version, so it's arguably the best version of the game.