Why's he the bad guy just because he wants the streets of Tokyo-to to be safe and free of ugly graffiti? Captain Onishima was a good man. The GGs are a criminal gang who belong in prison.
>>11387658>authorizes lethal force on children for graffiti & skating.>calls in SWAT & military over vandalism.>is so in the pocket of corporate interests that he kidnaps someone on foreign soil on his master's orders.>allows said corporate masters to conduct MK ultra-tier experiments on children to brainwash them into being conscripts.>>11391924hayashi is meant to be crazier than onishima but is nowhere near as evil as him. the worst he did was kidnap people and force them into gladiatorial fights where the losers got lobotomized.
>>11391505He betrayed the law
>>11394103>the worst he did was kidnap people and force them into gladiatorial fights where the losers got lobotomized.that's still heinously evil
>>11396495LLAAAAWWWW!???
>>11387732What's your skin color?
There is something magical about RTS games. They are the most high-T genre. Nothing else scratches that itch.There is something about building huge empires and armies from nothing and let them fight against others and enjoy the bloodbath. And micromanage every little thing.Building shit. Destroying shit. They're the closest genre to make you feel like god himself. For autists it's crack. There is excitement every second.>inb4 hurr gook clickerI don't even fucking play multiplayer. Just pick the difficulty you're comfortable it. Too fast and too slow is both shit.
>its high T>all about skill>micromanage every little thing!>no actually I play at 30apm vs computersIs this what awaits for life after 40?
>most high-Tkek not even chinlet
How the fuck do I get good at ecco 3? Every time I have to fight more than 2 sharks I get fucked sideways. Also does anyone have any underwater games they like?
>be dolphin>rapewow
>>11394756Jaws is a very fun game but I can't don't feel bad hunting down and cruelly murdering innocent people. Definitely a game I need many breaks from.
>>11395845It's a fucking video game you performative little bitch.
>>11396126>person still has a soul and isn't jaded beyond belief >you're a little bitch lol it's just a video game.pic related.
>>11396283horseshoe theory is real.
What makes gaming on hardware so peak is that there's nothing between you and the game. No filters to configure, no romfiles to browse through, no worrying about latency or screen aspect ratio, just pop a cartridge or disk in, and you're good to go. Emulation, playing "remasters" on modern consoles...it's incredible how tech in general so much more advanced, yet it still can't replicate the feeling.What do you think? Can you relate to this feeling?
>>11393824You are not 31 otherwise you would not be asking this question.
>>11393838>me: work hard, reap rewards>you: do nothing, get nothing
>>11393795>Can you relate to this feeling?No, as I'm not an autistic retard
>>11394236fighting game tournaments have gone to absolute shit and modern fighting games are even worse
>>11396452Can still go to Third Strike/CVS2/MVC2-3 tournaments if you want to (and honestly, all those games have cool scenes in 2024 minus some of the nogs). Not going to defend Slop Fighter 6 or Tekken 8 though, yeah
About a year ago I dreamt there was another gigaleak and their found picrel amongst the files
>>11395569Okay I’ve had a lot of scary nightmares in my life but I’ve never had a dream of getting raped or sexually assaulted, much less by the cast Mortal Kombat.
>>11395569Did it turn you gay?
i think i was 6 or 7 years old and it was thanksgiving and we got n64. i ate a shit load of thanksgiving dinner and played mario 64 until bed time. as i slept i had this very vivid dream of being in the game, seeing through marios eyes, and then i became very dizzy. i woke up and opened my eyes and all i could see was the game world still as if i were looking through mario's eyes. i tried to crawl out of my sheets but i was basically blind lol and then i started to throw up right there where i sat in bed. i picked myself up and crawled my way out of my room to the bathroom and kept puking the entire way there leaving this puke trail. by the time i got to the bathroom i could finally see everything clearly and didn't have to throw up anymore. the memory of getting an n64 is kind of stitched with experiencing 3d graphics like that for the first time and probably eating way too much that evening.
>>11392715isn't Wario German?
>>11396217Some weeeeird shit can happen if you're in that "not awake, not dreaming" state
Does anyone know of a good (and cheap) PAL -> NTSC converter that supports PAL60 properly? I have a European Dreamcast and it can only do PAL60, no NTSC at all. Even if I launch a CD with an NTSC game on it, the console displays it in PAL60, which has NTSC resolution and frame rate but PAL-based color encoding scheme. My Panasonic DVR just cannot handle it. If I record in NTSC mode, the colors get messed up. If I record in PAL mode, the colors look fine but there are lines of garbage signal at the bottom of the picture and about every 6th frame gets dropped to fit into 50 FPS. S-video behaves the exact same way, the image is just a bit sharper. Using RGB is not an option either because this DVR can only accept RGB inputs in PAL mode, meaning PAL resolution and 50 FPS. The results look very similar to PAL60 in PAL mode if I switch to 60Hz with RGB.I tried one of those cheap Chinese white converters and it can't do it properly either. It claims to support PAL60, but the colors through it still look messed up, just in a different way. Image quality isn't good either. I looked at a bunch of online marketplaces local to my country, cannot find any other ones (even used) with RCA input and output. The only ones I found use RF for input and I really don't want to use RF on a 6th gen console.
>>11394065blazing star
>>11394063>Skill issueOK, then show me a listing with that. Even on something like eBay. inb4 you post a passive adapter that just exposes the composite lead inside the SCART cable into an RCA jack, which misses the entire point of what I'm trying to do because it would still be PAL60 and not NTSC.>SCART RGB>This contradicts your op, but if true is your best solution. No converter needed.You need to learn to read. The results using SCART RGB and S-Video are very similar, I can only record PAL60 with dropped frames and mismatched resolution using either of those, at similar quality. And how does it "contradict my OP"? How did you think that I was talking about anything else than SCART in the OP? Have you ever seen a DVR with a D-sub input?
>>11393664I'm not looking for a new TV. My current CRT already does all of that completely fine. The problem is with my DVR. I only use it to record, I don't use it for signal passthrough because it adds a lot of lag to both video and audio (around 100ms, I measured with a script from PS2 Linux LiveISO). I split signal between my DVR and TV so I can record and have lagless gameplay too. The VCR might be a good suggestion, thanks.>"keene electronics" RGB2S-vid converterThat sounds like something able to solve my issues too but I cannot find it anywhere, not even photos much less listings.
>>11395896its rare nowbut they pop up on ebay from time to time
>>11395875>OK, then spoon food a tardno>You need to learn to readEpic irony. You need to learn to write. I asked you to list what works. You listed "SCART RGB". In your OP you said that didn't work.Enjoy being an angry little faggot who can't record his shit.
It's Friday night, so let's have a retro game ad thread.
>>11393532I feel like a lot people these days not only have a trouble understanding that things were different but that they even COULD be different.
>>11389207Normies, black people, rural fat people
>>11393767PC was still unremarkable in 1990 until wing commander arrived at the end of the year. PC was lagging behind the amiga when it came to VGA games, so a lot of the 1990 PC stuff was just remakes of sierra quest games, and SSI goldbox. They were bleak and most looked way worse than the genesis launch titles. Aside from wing commander, monkey island stood out as visually spectacular by PC standards. 688 attack sub as well (but it was a glorified slideshow of mostly still VGA images, no real action). Amiga up to 1990 had some good colorful screenshots and pretty looking action games (when not in motion) but in motion most Amiga games up to this point were sluggish and not great action games. Turrican was one of the few that played well at this point (1990) but strider looked and played way better.
>>11395908I get that feeling whenever someone here acts flabbergasted by the fact that renting games was considered a perfectly legitimate way to enjoy them way back when.
>>11392398the sad part is that laserdiscs eventually go funny and lose their video quality, at least the very oldest ones do anyway. But still, I'm glad based ray was here to call people fuckheads for bothering with vinyl.
Why does 90% or retro jarpig music sound exactly like this?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ZQpDizT7g
>>11396263Classical music filters niggers and jews out. That's why.
>>11396263My favorite game music "sound style" is that Japanese jazz fusion stylehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCjgIetFaf4
>>11396365Very good video, thanks Anon
>jarpig/vg/ kids?
>>11396371yw, the entire channel is worth watching actually. I've tried to make threads for retro game Youtube channels before but they tend to get jannied for some reason.
I am quite enjoying this, only just got to the big orc encampment. Obviously the big hurdle in 2024 is living with how obtuse the UI is and that I run the game in 720p so its not tiny. Something like binding skills to 1-0 would have been nice, or being able to edge pan the camera away from my character. Besides that, if I had criticisms it would be how shit the trade window is cause offloading shit to NPCs is more annoying than it has any right to be. Really shows that in 20 years Larian never figured out trading and inventory.
>pretty easy>most weapons are extremely similar> the movement, tho not bad, is a far cry from Super metroids greatness>due to the low difficulty, little to non build vatiety, and linear world progression, the game lacks any kind of replay valueSo why does everyone love this game so much? Is it just the music and art direction?
>>11391985>What version to emulate?Playstation is vanilla, Saturn has EXTRA contents but is a shoddy port, PSP has a new dub and an alternate Maria mode that plays differently from Saturn.
>>11378785I thought that difficulty was used to corral and direct the player too much. Going the 'right' way was fairly easy. Wanna sequence break? The difficulty becomes insane in places. Still fun but it harms replay value unnecessarily to some extent.>>11378858Weapon variety could improve, I agree. Seems like this was addressed in later games.
>>11380013Lol at the size of his right hand
>>11378846>over 200 repliesYou lost.
>>11378779you are correct yes, those ae all real flaws that needed fixing, still a great game on style alone tho
Only I have the brains to rule Lylat
>>11393852>fox falco matchup has been a thing since before meleeKino
>>11393704>the walls have screaming facesi can kind of see it?
First time I saw the real final boss was as an adult, revisiting the game. Bricks were shat.
>>11392969His conquest of the Lylat was bananas.
>>11395369No you can't.
Previous Gameboy recommendations thread died the other day, I wanna have a general GB thread, I specifically want to talk about the Original and Color games but anything in the Gameboy family is also welcome for discussion.Talk games, what you're playing, give recs, accessories, mods, homebrews, etc.Been recently playing Operation C and while Contra 3 gets more recognition for its technically impressive downport, Operation C feels like the more thought out game design wise. Both good games, but Operation C is my preferred of the two.Also have been playing Parodius and that is an excellent version of the game, very interesting what companies were able to push out of such limiting hardware for the time.
>>11394116I think the power switches also go bad with corrosion and drain power usage
>>11394131The power switches do get corroded and unreliable sometimes but you can cheat at fixing them without having to replace or open the switch by carefully dripping rubbing alcohol into the switch from a q-tip and sliding the switch around. If you can, stretch out the q-tip a bit and slip that into the switch as well. Its a contact issue not a part failure issue so if you can get the corrosion off the inside of the switch it will normally work correctly again. I fixed my childhood GBC power switch that way. Otherwise you have to solder the metal top off the switch, wipe it out, and solder the top back onto the switch or just replace it outright.
>>11394489I found that this only somewhat improves itI recently just got a new switch for my GBA which cleared up the drain of the battery so the LED no longer flickersIt also cleaned up the speaker clarity, but I assume that's unique to the GBA
Sometimes I just like to pick up my GBC and hold it. Maybe press a button or two and look at it in my hand, but that's it.
>>11396156I tend to do this, but I'll at least boot up a game or two for a minute or so, I'd I get in the mood, I'll elongate my session. Sometimes I'll just boot up a game for a couple minutes, put it down, then star back up again after finishing errands around the house.I love how easy it is to just pick up and play games on Gameboy.
Is Actraiser a metroidvania?
>>11391904What about Actraiser 3
>>11392356Solo Crisis isn't a Metroidvania either.
>>11391757There are some backtracking elements, as I remember taking stuff from later zones back to older zones. I just don't think of the game that way and more of its own thing as it has action segments and simulation segments. Back then, I think I considered it sort of that god game genre like Populous.
No, it' not a game from the Castlevania series with an exploreable map like Metroid which is the only thing a Metroidvania is or ever will be
>>11391757No and neither is actraiser 2.
>translation team blueballs their viewerbase by releasing a mere demoi have more faith in sega making a modern port of this game and its subsequent sequels than to wait for incompetent hacks on internetz to finish what they promised to do desu
>>11393456The difficulty is extremely front-loaded.My first few days of reading were so mind-crushingly hard, after my hour of studying I felt like some bastard had taken an ice pick to my skull. Not metaphorically, as in, "it was unpleasant", no, real, visceral fucking pain.It was so awful I bitched out of studying a lot of days in my first month. Eventually I steeled myself and forced myself to read, no matter how much I hated it.If you can do that, get through those first, terrible, terrible fucking weeks, you're basically 90% done already.The headaches lessened considerably in the second month, although they still sucked.In month three, I was reading a visual novel and noticed to my complete surprise that I didn't have a headache somehow. I was reading, and it was hard, but it didn't hurt.The headaches never came back. I learned more words, and reading became easier and easier.After a year, reading Japanese became something I did to relax. It was bizarre. Twelve months ago, reading was the most difficult challenge in my life. Now I looked forward to it. It was a treat. I could do anything in Japanese I wanted, any game, any VN, any anime, anything at all. Anime girls told me they loved me and I heard them say it in their own voices. I published a translation, and checked 4chan the next day and people were talking about my own translation, that I made. It was crazy; it felt like I had superpowers. All that in the first year. I was wishing I started earlier.I do not want to understate how hard it is to START learning Japanese."Study for an hour a day, every day" is a very easy thing to type, but it is a very difficult thing to actually do.Those first few weeks break people. Most give up.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>11393456Even an easy show like Precure is full of shit that is far above and beyond the scope of any JLPT test. Hell, just the first episode has Honoka being described as the 薀蓄女王, of which 薀蓄 you will never see even on the N1. And Nagisa's countless mis-spoken kotowaza throughout the series, from 爪の垢を煎じて食う(飲む) to 背水の瓶(陣) to 火に石油(油)を注ぐ, and more, while corrected by someone nearby, will throw off anyone who wasn't aware of them beforehand.And then being able to make out what the fairies are saying at all half the time is another quality bit of listening that is sure to filter out the inexperienced listener.These are all just examples that come immediately to mind, but suffice it to say that ANY native work, even if it's "easy," is going to be difficult for you for a long time just because there's no quick or easy way to acquire a lot of what would be considered common knowledge for a native.You CAN do it, but understand that it's gonna suck all kinds of ass for a long time and that the only cure for the pain is to read more and to listen, even if that's the source of the pain to begin with.
I like that they did the demo. It has me excited for a new game to play on my Saturn. Hopefully they do 3 and 4 eventually.
>>11394229Watching an anime raw when your knowledge of Japanese is poor is actually extremely fun.It turns any show into a mystery where you're trying to use all the clues you're given to sort out what's really going on.I went with Utena for one of my first shows, it was fucking hilarious. Every time something strange happened I assumed "Well, this must make complete sense; it's just that I misunderstood something." I only realized when I watched it years later that I was following along very well, it's just that the show is really fucking weird.I do recommend starting with a show for literal babies and working your way up though. I went with Cocotama and enjoyed it very much.
It's quite simple: you and your weird online friends produce a decent fan translation in a timely manner and without shitty memes, censorship or letting your tranny friend dub the intro then me and my headmates won't gang stalk you for the next decade.
December will be here soon. You are doing your yearly Parasite Eve playthrough. Right? It’s the perfect Christmas game.
>>11392390how long is this game that you couldn't finish it?
>>11393485>sonyJesus tap dancing Christ. I’d rather the series stay dead than to have those retards lay their hands on Parasite Eve.
>>11374629I've only played PE2, not PE. How's it compare in terms of story, in terms of gameplay?
>>11393948Better story and atmosphere for sure. Gameplay is less action oriented and more RPG-like. You aren’t able to attack until a meter fills up, but it’s better than it sounds. Gun customization system is very satisfying. God tier soundtrack. It’s a much better game than 2, imo.
>>11393948>>11395696Dont listen to this guy. PE2 is way better. All the stuff he said is good actually sucks
