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Cycle · Posts: 1574

It pays to double check!

It's Sega Ages Vol. 1

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Another question! Are there any online specialty shops that still deal with brand new original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games?

Lasa Kon · Posts: 245

FortNinety wrote:

Another question! Are there any online specialty shops that still deal with brand new original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games?

Yeah.

fundogmo · Posts: 5

Cycle wrote:

QUICK QUESTION
Saturn Bomberman

NEVER sell Saturn Bomberman. Both out of principle and financial means.

It is the sole and justifiable reason to devote a drawer in the living room to 10 Saturn controllers.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Lasa Kon wrote:

FortNinety wrote:

Another question! Are there any online specialty shops that still deal with brand new original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games?

Yeah.

Cool. Nothing in the original catagory, but its a start. And they even have Rhino Rumble; I heard that game was hella rare (but not really).

Anyway, next question: anyone know what this is?

EU03 · Posts: 164

SD Snatcher is a RPG with several subplot additions to the general story.
Also:

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

FortNinety wrote:

Anyway, next question: anyone know what this is?

Of all people to ask this question, you were not one of them I would have expected to ask.

Clash! · Posts: 631

Where can I aquire the game "Arm Joe"? It looks setllar.

Screwtape · Posts: 81

Clash! wrote:

Where can I aquire the game "Arm Joe"? It looks setllar.

Five minutes' googling says here. Here's more info.

Clash! · Posts: 631

Screwtape wrote:

Clash! wrote:

Where can I aquire the game "Arm Joe"? It looks setllar.

Five minutes' googling says here. Here's more info.

Well I had googled as well, but everything I found that seemed to lead to the file lead to 404 Errors and crap. Thanks for finding it for me!

mr. newbie · Posts: 37

who takes all those cool pictures at the top of ic?

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Shapermc wrote:

Of all people to ask this question, you were not one of them I would have expected to ask.

Yeah, I've been really off my game as of late... :(

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posts: 3148

What's the absolute positive best version of Rayman 2, overall-experience-wise?

I mean, I'm guessing it's not the DS version, but......N64? Dreamcast? PC?

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

I say Dreamcast.

Cycle · Posts: 1574

Second.

kill · Posts: 126

is this "god hand" a Berserk game?

Ataru · Posts: 295

kill wrote:

is this "god hand" a Berserk game?

no.

EU03 · Posts: 164

kill wrote:

is this "god hand" a Berserk game?

My roommate said the same thing.

tacotaskforce · Posts: 571

Looking for the name of a (mac only?) shareware game from the early 90s. The game was black and white and had you as a blimp floating over a pit like the flying saucer of Space Invaders over a full Tetris board. The pit started out filled with blocks that would explode/earn points/release monsters when you dropped bombs on them. I think the goal was to rescue people trapped in the blocks without letting the monsters get to them. Also if you bombed your way down to the bottom and hit the ground then you would release burried radioactive waste that would float up and kill you.

Scratchmonkey · Posts: 2229

mr. newbie wrote:

who takes all those cool pictures at the top of ic?

I'm 90% sure that at least some of them were taken by Brandon Sheffield (AKA exodus), who runs the site.

This is just speculation on my part; however, since I recognize some of the locations in the shots and both Brandon and myself frequent the same basic areas, I think it's a pretty decent guess.

Zarak · Posts: 293

Zarak wrote:

Are these games good:

R-Type III GBA
Super Monkey Ball DS

I wouldn't mind a little more feedback here, please.

Also, are these games good:

Viewtiful Joe DS
Prince of Persia DS
Dig Dug DS

Karoshi · Posts: 968

HuCard Adaptors.

I have a Turbo Duo.
I have recently started importing games (Fatal Fury 2, Galaga '88).
I have a Arcade Card Duo in transit, but apparently I need a HuCard adaptor to play japanese games on my system.

Ebay turns up nothing. That site what sells brand new TG-16/PC-Engine stuff doesn't have anything either.

where they at?

Ataru · Posts: 295

the GBA port of R-Type III is an unplayable disaster; the developer didn't have the original source code and had to rebuild the game with the art resources only. D'OH!

Hopefully the original will show up on the Wii's virtual console sometime.

Zarak · Posts: 293

Ataru wrote:

the GBA port of R-Type III is an unplayable disaster; the developer didn't have the original source code and had to rebuild the game with the art resources only. D'OH!

Confession: I bought the game for like $7 a long time ago and could never get into it. I'm no connoisseur of R-Type or shooters in general so was just wondering if it was just me or if the game actually was crap. You gave me the answer I needed, I think.

Still would like quick opinions on the above games, but one more question: is NES Metroid unlockable in Zero Mission?

Jeilong · Posts: 99

Karoshi wrote:

HuCard Adaptors. where they at?

They are hard to come by. And when you do find 'em they are pricey. Useally it is cheaper to just buy a Jap PC Engine to play HuCards.

winkerwanker · Posts: 2414

Indeed it is. If i recall correctly you need only to complete the game on normal to get it.

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

Karoshi wrote:

HuCard Adaptors.
apparently I need a HuCard adaptor to play japanese games on my system.
where they at?

I seriously recommend that you just get a PCE to play Japanese Hu-cards. You can get them for like $30 no problem.

FAKE EDIT: $22.50 with no cables right here.

REAL EDIT: That's like $55 shipped. That's about $25 less than I see converters go for at their cheapest.

Crazy Bacon Lips · Posts: 783

I would have gotten one from Japan Game Stock, but the shipping is ATROCIOUS. Like, I was going to get a white PCE with the CD-ROM2 unit attached, for like 100 bucks, but the shipping is 70 goddamn ding dongs.

Koji · Posts: 571

winkerwanker wrote:

Indeed it is. If i recall correctly you need only to complete the game on normal to get it.

Winker's reply was an answer to Zarak's question regarding Metroid: Zero Mission.

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

Crazy Bacon Lips wrote:

I would have gotten one from Japan Game Stock, but the shipping is ATROCIOUS. Like, I was going to get a white PCE with the CD-ROM2 unit attached, for like 100 bucks, but the shipping is 70 goddamn ding dongs.

Well, when I got my PCE-Duo boxed from them I just tossed in like 4 hu-cards games and the total was still about 70$ less than getting even the next cheapest deal outside of Japan I could find. Even including shipping from JGS.

Crazy Bacon Lips · Posts: 783

True. I guess if you attach games and a multi-tap, it really doesn't come out to as much as if you bought each separately on eBay.

Ataru · Posts: 295

is there a Tekken faq aimed at easing Virtua Fighter fans into the game?

I just picked up the joystick+tekken 5 combo pack for $30 and I can't figure out how to play Tekken at all. It seems so ugly and inelegant and canned combo oriented.

EU03 · Posts: 164

Ataru wrote:

is there a Tekken faq aimed at easing Virtua Fighter fans into the game?

I just picked up the joystick+tekken 5 combo pack for $30 and I can't figure out how to play Tekken at all. It seems so ugly and inelegant and canned combo oriented.

Just...just sell it.
I bought the collectors edition. Then I just sold back Tekken 5 (which apparently someone had replaced the original one in the box with the Greatest Hits.

Jaihson · Posts: 133

Well, as with most fighting games, there is a significant amount of memorization necessary before you're actually playing the game, y'know? There isn't really an inherent logic behind why certain strings end up going mid or low, or why it's safe on block to do 2 hits, but not 3. The canned strings are almost never your best option, it's all about using pieces of strings linked together after launch/knock down. And then there's the character specific stuff like why so and so is more likely to try to launch after doing such and such, or when what's her face's oki is almost unbeatable and blah blah blah . . . but the same is true of vf, I guess.

So, uh, hit up tekken zaibatsu, don't expect d+p to do quite so well and be relieved at not having to perform 3 simultaneous throw breaks all the time.

I don't really play tekken 5 or virtua fighter . . . perhaps I'm finally beginning to understand this whole IC thing?

Maztorre · Posts: 1175

Jaihson wrote:

I don't really play videogames . . . perhaps I'm finally beginning to understand this whole IC thing?

Jaihson · Posts: 133

I still have much to learn.

Ataru · Posts: 295

thing is, for me, virtua fighter 4 straight up felt natural for me the first time I played it; instantly hooked, I found the learning curve to be not so bad until I got into very high level play, where I plateau'ed out. But with Tekken 5 I feel like I'm mashing even when I'm trying to do the special moves I read in the character's move lists. It's slowly starting to gell but it's ugly, ugly, ugly... nothing flows nicely, bad transitions from move to move, and what feels like long recovery frame counts...

I'd still like to get decent at it despite all I find repellant because it's so fucking unbelievably popular in the USA and I'd like to be able to play it in the arcade with some level of skill, as I can with VF4 evo.

EDIT: it's starting to sorta, vaguely make sense, but not quite. I have no idea how to block properly.

Lick Meth · Posts: 154

Ataru wrote:

thing is, for me, virtua fighter 4 straight up felt natural for me the first time I played it; instantly hooked, I found the learning curve to be not so bad until I got into very high level play, where I plateau'ed out. But with Tekken 5 I feel like I'm mashing even when I'm trying to do the special moves I read in the character's move lists. It's slowly starting to gell but it's ugly, ugly, ugly... nothing flows nicely, bad transitions from move to move, and what feels like long recovery frame counts...

I'd still like to get decent at it despite all I find repellant because it's so fucking unbelievably popular in the USA and I'd like to be able to play it in the arcade with some level of skill, as I can with VF4 evo.

EDIT: it's starting to sorta, vaguely make sense, but not quite. I have no idea how to block properly.

I'm not fond of Tekken, and every time I want to get into the game, I find it impossible to play. I complained (on another forum) that it wasn't anywhere near as comfortable to play as VF4:Evo, and was told that, regardless of how much easier it would be in VF4, to learn every move for every single character. Including all the oh-so-expendable moves/characters in it, because I'm sure many would agree with me that many of the characters are expendable.

Szczepaniak · Posts: 815

I'm running Magic Engine (various versions, demos and an old registered version), on a Windows XP PC, and I'm playing Dracula X running from an actual CD.

But I get no CD music AT ALL. I've tried other games, and also nothing. I do get sound FX though. I thought it must be my version, but they're all the same. (V1 won't even boot the CD! So it's V0.9 which I'm using)

Anyone know how I can easily fix this to hear music as well?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:
I've also tried various ASPI drivers, including 4.3 for Win95, and the proper 4.6/4.7 which is apparently the latest... Neither had any effect.

Also, my computer doesn't even seem to recognise that the disc actually has any audio tracks at all!

EDIT2:
I just checked on my boss' MAC and it can read the audio files just fine... It only seems to be my crappy PC. I had been fooling around with the ASPI drivers... Could this be it?

Cycle · Posts: 1574

hey, just so you know, lots of people don't like you right now.

Szczepaniak · Posts: 815

Why is that? Is it the Neo Geo thing? I can explain that! there is a legitimate reason for the events that took place!

Otherwise, what have I done now? Feel free to PM me or post here.

Quick Shot II Turbo · Posts: 468

It's probably this:

http://forums.insertcredit.com/viewtopic.php?p=243557#243557

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

No audio on DracX: You get the FX and occasional music because it is hardware made sounds. I had the same problem when I was still using magic engine. I fixed it eventually somehow, but I don’t remember. I know that when I did I still had a ton of weird audio glitches afterwards. This spurred me to just get a PCE-duo. Have you tried HuGo yet?

Cycle · Posts: 1574

does anyone have one of the Next Generation coverdisks that featured a database of all their reviews, and can they make an image of it and upload it somewhere (yousendit.com, perhaps)?

Quick Shot II Turbo · Posts: 468

I saw Monster Attack (EDF 1) on sale here for an... acceptable price by local standards, I'd say. Is it worth picking up?

I know EDF 2 is coming over here too, but it's been pushed back to February 2007 :(

eeemmecks · Posts: 124

I don't think Tekken 5 is as bad as you guys would like to think, but I can sorta see where you're coming from, since I like VF4 more and can see why it's a better game. Aside from Mokujin, though, who's sort of a throwaway and more interesting random select, every character has plenty distinguishing characteristics (despite how retarded they all look). The tekken movelists are quite bloated though, yeah.

Re: Strings - There is a logic to whether a given hit in a string hits high/mid/low, ends with a punishable move, etc. Generally, the following hit of a string will be used to beat certain moves if the first hit is blocked, or as a mix-up between mid or low gaurd. Strings usually end in an unsafe move to create a degree of risk between doing 1 or 2 or 3 hits or whatever, since the opponent has to guess whether you'll do the next hit after the previous hit connects.

I also agree that 3D fighters tend to have a serious lack of focus in their movelists. I think if the developers earmarked the key moves it would be much easier for a player to figure out the basic tactics for their character, then add flourishes with the more gimmicky/risky moves once they've mastered the fundamentals. Even in VF you use about 1/5th-1/3rd of your character's movelist most of the time.

Also, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwjxXMbOhr0

secondpillow · Posts: 144

How can I get my GBA SP to run old gameboy carts in black and white?

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

eeemmecks wrote:

I don't think Tekken 5 is as bad as you guys would like to think, but I can sorta see where you're coming from, since I like VF4 more and can see why it's a better game. Aside from Mokujin, though, who's sort of a throwaway and more interesting random select, every character has plenty distinguishing characteristics (despite how retarded they all look). The tekken movelists are quite bloated though, yeah.

Re: Strings - There is a logic to whether a given hit in a string hits high/mid/low, ends with a punishable move, etc. Generally, the following hit of a string will be used to beat certain moves if the first hit is blocked, or as a mix-up between mid or low gaurd. Strings usually end in an unsafe move to create a degree of risk between doing 1 or 2 or 3 hits or whatever, since the opponent has to guess whether you'll do the next hit after the previous hit connects.

I also agree that 3D fighters tend to have a serious lack of focus in their movelists. I think if the developers earmarked the key moves it would be much easier for a player to figure out the basic tactics for their character, then add flourishes with the more gimmicky/risky moves once they've mastered the fundamentals. Even in VF you use about 1/5th-1/3rd of your character's movelist most of the time.

On a related note, I was walking down the street the other day and once again the question popped into my head: what the fuck happened with Tekken 4?!?!

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

secondpillow wrote:

How can I get my GBA SP to run old gameboy carts in black and white?

hold right+b while turning on the system.

I think. It may be another combination of buttons and arrors.

eeemmecks · Posts: 124

Fort: I don't think anyone knows. Every time it comes up amongst tekken players all I hear is "such and such character was just a giant fucking glitch!" and "they thought they could do anything with the engine". I mean, it turned out to be a 2-3 character game at high level play (Jin/Nina/Steve, I think). I wonder if there are some wacky videos floatin' around?