Fun fact: Apparently if you use cheap component cables with a cheap scaler on a PS2 there's a subtle flickering that's just fast enough to cause temporary image retention on LCD screens (or in my case, LCD screen with an LED backlight.) Guess the game from the health bar.
>>12273430Enjoy your dedicated King's Field IV monitor
>>12273390I don't get why these cables upset you. It's just silly. You're free to keep using Oem solutions or hd retrovision ones. At least on my ps2, the Monster cable is as sharp as Mike chi's adapter on my setup
Okay got my new cables. They are slightly better and fix the overly dark areas. But I found out the problem is entirely the RetroScaler2x, if you enable 2x mode the picture jitters slightly. Is this a known issue with the RS2X on PS2?
>>12274848>thinkin you are retarded means I'm upsetretard
i had a shitty xerox 4:3 plasma monitor circa 2005 and was on 4chan so much that the sidebar was burned into it
What are the best levels from classic 2D Mario games?
>>12275498For Super Mario Bros. 3 (the real Super Mario World) I'd say level 2 is pretty fun with the pyramids and the map screen is as cozy as fugg with the Roman numeral III forming an oasis to the far right of the screen after you smash the rock. That moment is magical.
The retro era really ended with the mid 90s. Beyond simple arguments about 2D vs 3D, the vibe just changed. Everything became more focused on normalfag interests as opposed to nerds
>>12273025So?
>>12271458Most experts in decadeology agree with the analysis that the 90's are one of the decades in which there's a bigger cultural gap between beginning and end of decade.In the 90's we find:Went from aesthetics which were pretty much upgraded 80's to a futurism which was already thirsting for Y2KFrom the golden age of Disney's hand drawn animation to 3D animation like Toy Story and Reboot.From floppy disks to CDFrom cartridge to CDFrom MS-DOS to Win95At some point you would exprience internet for the first time (whether at school, a cybercafe, at a friend's house or at your own)
>>12274278It went from soul to soulless, y2k was over corporatism and consumerism way more than the 80s ever was and we never left and in fact sunk deeper. Today "alternative music" is Billie Eilish, boy bands but they're chinks, and joggers rapping about nikes and pills still but they dyed they're cheetos red so that means it's somehow anti mainstream
This isn't even true. The lead platform of the mid 90's was the PSX, and the PSX was successfull precisely because in its couple first years it specifically targetted teenage and young adult hardcore gamers: the ones that bought a lot of games full price at release. It was only once this audiance was established that they started looking for a wider audiance in the late 90's.
>>12275480>. Today "alternative music" is Billie Eilish, boy bands but they're chinks, and joggers rapping about nikes and pills still but they dyed they're cheetos red so that means it's somehow anti mainstreamJust goes to show that you bitter oldniggers don't even pretend to engage with the things you supposedly care about.
is spending 200$ (minimum) on a decent set of Magnetically shielded speakers + an amp worth it? I mean I personally think the built-in speakers sound fine but I know the PS1 has especially high quality sound. Is it worth it anons?
>>12273856>choir effect1: it's called chorus2: you're thinking of phasing3: neither of those are happening with my setup
>>12270909That depends on what you're wanting out of the setup. There are a lot of solutions at all sorts of price brackets. However, magnetic shielding has been getting less common these days.These were the first results on Amazon that mentioned CRT screens, so I saved up a couple years worth of Microsoft Points and I finally got them on a holiday sale knocking the price down to under $100USD. They are self-powered, so they don't require an amp. Unlike the ones I do that require an amp being comically large by comparison to the CRT, these are a fine size. However, I still have to save up for the matching subwoofer, which may take a couple more years of Microsoft Rewards grinding and more Doordash/Uber Eats work, but I get a lot of joy not only having the games look as good as I remember but sounding even better.
>>12270909>(minimum)it’s just old videogames, man. if you put good headphones on you’d realize how cheese the sound card is. why presume you’ll need $200 for that, but why *do* you need $200 worth of speaker audio for a kid’s game. also why would you spend that protecting speaker when you could get good headphones that would be compatible with all systems regardless of the tv set. a little adapter will let you connect your audio cables to headphones
>>12275351>headphonesAdult board. We use speakers.
>>12274208I'm thinking you sound like a huge faggot.
DAMN
>>12273043You'll never win money playing video games, loser.
>>12273051her hip game is ridiculous
>>12260159i've seen at least a thousand handfuls of hot chick gifs through a site called wifflegif, and all of them happened to be from tumblr
Those mid/late 90’s CAPCOM boys were at the absolute pinnacle of the art form of spritework. Nobody did it better, not even SNK with KOF13, despite having much better tech, over a decade to plan/wnvision, and a huge budget.
>>12263821>were allowedNo one is banning your gooner games, they're just letting you know you're a filthy porn-addicted pig. But you can still do that in peace you know
>we got shitty and unnecessary baby pokemon like Magby, Igglybuff, Cleffa, etc instead ofnt of these great designsWhat the fuck were they thinking? You don't even use any of those shitty baby pokemons in any game, not just gen 2 but neither gen 3 or anything beyond it.>igglybuff>literally jugglypuffs are handed to you at level 4 at the geodude route when you start the game in gen 2>jigglypuffs appear midgame so a igglypuff at the early game would have been acceptable but no, better make it useless dex filler.>Magby>if you somehow get it with the daycare egg it's a waste because 30 minutes later you get Magmars for free in the burned tower unlike Elekid and Smoochum that at least appear later in game and you could justify them>Cleffa and Pichu are completely inaccessible in gen 2 and gen 3 until you catch their evolved forms, defeating any purpose to ever use them.It's like they didn't want us to use the shitty baby Pokémon at all, they are not just unobtainable or pointless but they are hindered by the retarded friendship mechanic too which makes just catching their evolved forms more reasonable.
>>12273054there's no way this isn't real
>>12271048I don't really care what you've seen in your personal life anon, baby pokemon were marketed HARD and sell merch, especially in Japan. Igglybuff, Picchu, Cleffa, Magby, and Smoochum especially. Elekid didn't get much love.
>>12270518Was this supposed to be a farfetchd evo? Better than Sirfetchd desu
>>12271142>dropped the anchorjej
>>12273054Didn't the original Gigaleak reveal that they actually WEREN'T swapped?
Discuss anything involving Wii homebrew for playing retro games.Right now I'm using the Retroarch Hexaeco build for games and it's been working very well so far with everything I've tried (Neo Geo was the only core that I tried that had crashes and it was with the big games like KoF2002).
>>12273969For me I can't wait to git gud at Star Wars Arcade 32x again so I can shove it in the poseurs' faces.Yes, it's hard, but what did you expect? An easy game that's over in five minutes?
Do original Wiimotes have issues when they connect to 3rd party accessories? (like the Nunchuk or the classic controller)I have an OG and a fake one and the fake has no problems with my 3rd party nunchuk/classic controller but when I connect them to the original the classic doesn't work and the nunchuk disconnects after a few minutes, this happens on the emulators and Wii games.
>>12274005>Do original Wiimotes have issues when they connect to 3rd party accessories? (like the Nunchuk or the classic controller)No. In fact, thanks for reminding me that I can even do that. I got no problems like you describe at all.
>>12274005*and those aren't third party, anon.
>>12272745>pay for emulators
Metal Sonic is much cooler than Wario or Bass
>>12272008Nah, that's the thing. He was made for the purpose of being cool which made him uncool in the end ultimately. >Base/ForteA blue oni of sorts, nothing that special in comparison to any other blue oni.>WarioHe's got the most chrisma out of any rival character, he isn't a blue oni in the least bit.
>>12272008Well duh. He need good cooling to reach his speeds.
>>12272008Why would you choose Bass? Protoman is right there
>>12274113>Evil twin>Evil twin>Heroic older brother of the hero
>>12273125Nobody likes fat people other than other fat people, and we don't think you're cool
Why didn't Digimon games ever get as popular as Pokémon?
>>12275251nah everyone had one back then, you are acting zoomish.>>12275148nah, pokemon sucked hardcore.>played red/blue, but wanted more of an adventure like in both manga>played snap and it was shit>played stadium it was ok, more so a post game for r/b with no explorationnice battles though>refused to play yellow because it was basically a mod>finally play gold and I was amazed at the mechanics>not getting crystal because I am not buying the same twice with dlc>refuse to get Stadium 2 because it's going to be the same shit as stadium> between the two year gap between G/S/C and R/S discover rpgamer.com and find out about other rpgs like Bof,FF,Arc the Lad, Dragon Quest, etc.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>Early Pokemon>Simple and straightforward, even the dumbest kid on the playground can at least just solo starter their way through the game.>Nailed their core gameplay on the first attempt and every game after was just refining that.>Early Digimon>Too mechanically obtuse and grindy for the average kid to put up with. See all those "I got a Numemon fuck this game" stories the past 25 years.>Spent like a decade flopping all over the place regarding just what a "main" Digimon game should even BE before they finally settled on the World/Story split.
>>12274750First-mover advantage
>>12275349Didn't work for DQ in the west
>>12274750not enough (or good) marketing
Sonic the hedgehog, renowned for being the fastest video game character, also found time to invent idle animations. How can other games even compete?
>>12275406This board is for video games, not Euroslop.
>>12275427Hey anon do you have a gold medal in javelin throwing because you just threw that goalpost miles away.
>>12275434No one played the speccy and no one ever cared about it. Get over it.
>>12275438Yeah those 5 million units sold were obviously never ever used. Thanks for the info burger
>>12275454https://youtu.be/eAl0ld3to24JET SET FUCKING WILLY!
PC-98 chads, christmas starts now.Amy's fantasies (Aimmy to Yobanaide) has been translated today.Get it at the usual place.
>>12270191Translation Anon from the other month here. I've completed a first English draft of the script I was working on. Some things to point out about that.- I used "英雄伝説IV初期版ゲームシナリオ原本" as the source for the text. This is a book that came with the Red Package edition for the Windows version/remake and contains the unedited script from the *early development stages* of the original PC-98 version of the game. This means that there are some plot points, scenarios and system designs that were not implemented or were later modified in the retail PC-98 version. While the collection claims to be an "unmodified complete version", turns out not all the scripts are present. Specifically, the open scenarios only cover the Guilds in Phildin and Guia, omitting commission events for all other locations (likely because including everything would have far exceeded the book's 400-page limit). Fortunately, the main story remains largely intact; despite minor additions and deletions compared to the retail version, it is largely consistent, so a decent amount of it can still be used for translating the game.- The last third of the book's contents lists some revised scripts, with content that is relatively closer to the retail version. Pic related is the revised ending text; the earlier text was the same except for the underlined words.- Most of the scenario manuscript is organized by town and location rather than chronology. The dialogue of town NPCs at different stages of the story is grouped into a single chapter; for example, the starting village chapter (ED4-4.TXT and ED4-5.TXT) includes not only NPC dialogue from before departure but also the dialogue from the second part of the game.>>12271787The game looks very pretty and the combat is also an improvement over PC-98 White Witch, but man, it's a shame the game got rushed. Looking at the same prairie screens being reused so frequently can become tiring.Anyways, thank you again Anon.
>>12267432kek
>>12267432>Don't
>>12269725Yeah, that game is in desperate need of a translation off the DOS transcriptshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuXhdfKvjesIt is literally comes with a Instant Action mode which became common in Mech2 and onwards
>>12272643Woah, the whole script seems to be massive and I haven't even tried to locate all the script files in every archive yet, but I assume the text is also grouped by location in the game. As I said earlier, I'm still struggling with their format, and how to reinsert text without everything crashing. I was more focused on the main game module and editing the menus for now and noticed there are quite a few Spanish terms.Here's a first draft of the title/intro text :https://files.catbox.moe/7kxuw4.zipJust replace the DATA_H.DAT file in the ED4_98 folder of your disk image with this one; using AnexDiet or EditDisk.And here are my notes so far. There are still some approximations and holes though:https://pastebin.com/YQ4W7nVr>Looking at the same prairie screens being reused so frequently can become tiring.Agree they were a bit lazy with the screens between towns.
Is FF1 or FF2 more fun? I want a fairly short JRPG
>>12274510It depends. I think 1 is better, but 2 tries a lot of things. 1 also has a pretty hard start that demands quite a bit of grinding early on, but eases up later. 2 you can either quickly grind to the point of breaking the game, or casually play and things fall into place pretty well. You're also moving around more frequently than one, but that's due to the dungeons being lazy and pretty short. 1 has a neat implied story that is not presented strongly at all. You can play the whole game as if it were a simple dnd session between you and your friends. 2 has a stronger narrative that I appreciate, even if it is fairly derivative (it's basically Star Wars).1 is slow, but 2 is dumb. Take your pick.
>>12275001Even final fantasy 4?
>>12274510FF1 is probably more fun. FF2 is a better and more interesting game. Just play them all what else are you going to do scroll tiktok?
>>12275018FFV, right, anon. The game was arguably the first FF where they built fun systems. And it's crazy how well it aged. But it's not exactly an exception. It falls into the anti-fun JRPG thing of gatekeeping mechanics. 95 was crazy because it was like “get down to the fun mentality.” CT, Pokemon, SMRPG, and other JRPGs don't waste your time. You go straight to the fun “muh zoomer brain.” I advocate for ball busting WRPGs like Ultima, HOHM, or Wizardry. It's about having systems that allow player expression or at least are fun. Even the oldest WRPGs allowed for a lot of expression. Not that JRPGs don't still insist on doing that, but the first 10 hours of FFVII are vastly different from the first 10 hours of FFI-VI.
FF2 loves to pull dumb shit that feels like a game dev playing a joke on you.>endgame encounters right next to the area you walk through to get to the second town>weapons are weaker than fistfighting for a significant portion of the game>the spell that heals statuses doesn't heal statuses properly until you cast it on a (likely healthy) partymember dozens of times>shit, most of the "white magic" doesn't function properly unless you grind the hell out of it>the spell that half the plot builds up to just doesn't function properly and it's straight up intentional design choice>pic related in every dungeonAll that being said I'd still much rather play FF2 over FF3.
Two hour livestream starts in a few hours.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aicvb6aTpSQDecember 25 episode is Clockwork Knight: Pepperouchau's Adventure.https://otn.fujitv.co.jp/gamecenter/index.htmlhttps://pastebin.com/u/GCCXGeneral
>>12274297>>12274492Asians picked up the habit after SARS and held it up. COVID (which is another SARS btw) probably made them double down on the habit.
>>12274493>SARSTry the Spanish flu over a century ago.
>>12274492>>12274493Oh yeah, I forgot that Asians have a fixation for masking in public. I don't know about Japanese, but I know for a fact that mainland Chinese are pretty liberal about uncovered coughing, sneezing, hocking, farting, burping, and in some cases pissing. I used to work at a cheap motel that hosted Chinese tour groups. An old Chinese lady once hocked one right on my shoe.
>>12274650it's more about hay fever which is a big thing over there afaik
>>12274650>>12274657>I forgot that Asians have a fixation for masking in public. It mainly has to do with not being a selfish asshole or intentionally putting others at risk.Funnily enough, when the Spanish Flu happened, America tried similar masking policies, but they were met with extreme resistance. Also due to people being in much closer proximity to each other, it's much easier to spread illness so masks are just a common sense preventative measure.
Move aside fucking shits, best franchise coming through.
Isn't it weird how Jigglypuff was shilled a lot back in gen 1 as the Pikachu for girls? It's not even that important in Pokemon Red and Blue, not a single named npc uses one, you can easily miss it, Clefairy a few steps north is a direct upgrade and yet it got a recurring appearance in the anime, got into fucking smash (pretty underserved)Eevee in contrast has actually become the "Pikachu for girls" without any first installment weridness shilling necessary, just by pure merit of its design.
>>12264428My man. Clefairy was robbed
>>12270862Puff is more cute
>>12268185t. dominated by a jigglychad in smash
Is Jigglypuff the physical embodiment of Genki or Kawaii?
>>12274945It's less of a genki girl character and more of a cutesy idol wannabe.
