Recently bought a fat PS2 in really good condition, the only problem is the lasers dying, should I return it or try to fix it? On the one hand, you could emulate all of the games, but on the other other hand, the PS2 is almost in brand new condition, like it was just sitting in someone's closet for years collecting dust. Need it or keep it?
>>12473828To your credit you CAN overwhelm yourself with choices, but the PS2 had about as much jank as the PS1.
I guarantee a few dabs of alcohol on the laser will fix it. You just have to open it up and do it, extremely easy.Or you could jump through even more hoops to get a "good" emulator setup, which, disgustingly, is going to run on your fucking PC. This is probably the best option for you, and you should give away the console for free to someone who cares
>>12473682Yes, and I'd guess OP is like me who wants to use the actual disc.
>>12471949>I bought something that doesn't work>should I return it?
>>12472002This OP.Might be more expensive than $10, but if the laser doesn't work these are your options:>clean the laser>replace the laser>buy a third party sata adapter and an HDD>play games from HDD using Free MCBoot or Free HDBootThis guide is really good for setting up a HDDhttps://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-the-great-ps2-aio-guide.30219/
Is anyone else a collector of retro VG? How the fuck do you deal with the expenses? I can be an absolute cuck and buy loose cartridges and repro cases, but even that is over $100. Getting in complete in box will cost 3-4 times as much. Yes you can emulate but then you won't be getting the real experience. Are we absolutely screwed getting into this at this stage? >just paid over $150 for a loose cartridge and repro case.
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>>12475034I have a job
>>12475034I don't buy retarded shit like sealed graded games. 99.9% of games are like $20 complete in box. If you have a job you can easily budget $100 or $200 to get a nice collectible video game every month.
>>12475034most retro collectors I have seen or met irl are very bad with money but tbf here most people are in general. they have normal jobs but just dump every single fiat token they have into this "hobby". they have zero assets outside of their video games, often even some kind of debt to finance that crap.
>Now I'm really getting rather mad>You're like a NIGGLY, TIGGLY shitty little tag-nutWhat, exactly, did Nintendo mean by this?
>>12474194>bri'ish "humour"
>>12474215kill yourself amerimutt faggot
>>12474238Don't worry, his government will do that to him.
>>12474215yep
>>12474295You're thinking of Canada
Why did she do it?
so you can make another pointless thread on the plastic collector board.
stupid fucking bimbo bitch taking fucking KING KOOPA KOCK
>>12473972She didn't want Mario to claim his rightful reward... but she has to pay up!
>>12473978Bad thread is bad.
>>12473972
The most epic gaming moment in History!
>>12471360I could swear an NPC in R/B mentions that Cinnabar was built on top of a volcano.
>>12471360Very good post
>>12471360>the 20000s anime boomTime traveler spotted.
>>12455069Truly the peak of pokemon
>>12455069nah i've seen more epic
What does /vr/ think about the Outlaw series?
Needed nudity.
I only play law-abiding games
Why Americans didn't appreciate Virtua Fighter?
>>12475285>Why didn't the Europeans appreciate the Nintendo 64? many questions50hz with those framerates?
>>12475918It's true, PAL OoT ran at 16fps, imagine, and it wasn't even translated in many territories, having only the option of English. Then you get on the internet and Americans are waxing lyrical about OoT, must have been confusing.
>Sega Saturn I wonder why
>>12475279Because it's not good and it's a genuine rock paper scissors game?
>>12475285>Why didn't the Japanese appreciate Doom?This Japanese telecom company was spun off of a multiplayer service created for Doom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwango_(company)
This game is pretty fun
>>12474764That guy hasn't played a shmup in years
mork
>>12475453Can you give me a rundown over the autistic obsession with that guy? Because he seems inoffensive compared the myriad of self-described shmup "commentators" plaguing youtube.
>>12475464He's had some opinions that are not halal and therefore needs to suffer.
>>12476039Doesn't seem like it compared to youtubers literally straight up saying you can like shmups without learning them and shit
how about them apples
>>12475823I think that might mean you have autism instead, man
>>12475398Not at the same time. And most likely the maps are designed to align to nametable boundaries during transitions to keep things simpler. The devs were just too lazy to figure out scrolling or design their maps in a way that made such rooms unnecessary.
>>12475823>Everyone else is wrong, not meok>>12475821I like when this is done in media. Breaking Bad did it really well. In the later seasons, whenever some crazy fuckin shit just went down, there would often be a long 4 or 5 minute scene with someone (usually Mike) going through slow, mechanical motions, setting something up, the purpose of which wouldn't immediately be clear. It was a nice way to decompress and contemplate the consequences of what just happened and bring your emotional state back to a baseline, while also giving you the opportunity to play detective and try to figure out what exactly was taking place on screen now.
>>12475907Not saying he is wrong, just an autist.
>>12475925what's autistic about what he said though
Which did you choose?
>>12475860What if you pick dad again after resetting?
I seriously hope you guys didn't fuck this one up.
>>12475884>That Terra spriteYou fucked up before the game even began.
>>12473979I chose Charmander
>>12475884I never figured out what to do here. He just told me to back off and kept repeating it so I just left that moogle to die.
Let's give Vice City constructive criticism. What do you appreciate about it and where do you think it falls short, and why?
>>12464573I really loved this oneOne of the few things I hated about it was that Tommy wasn't able to swim... I remember the first thing I did was to cross to the second island and steal a Helicopter. That shit was awesome.I was 15 years old when I got it.
>>12473298>IV doesn't feel like an underbaked stepping stoneDelusion at it's finest.
>>12464573Very much enjoyed the hidden underground train area in VC. I remember stumbling on it one day and then showing my friends it but not how to actually get into it. They were super jelly.
>>12473386Testing this.
>>12473303to this day i still can't understand how some people say best radio or whateveri mean i get it's subjective an up to preferences and many are fucking suckers for le 1980sbut san andreas radio is pretty greatit has the 1980s and more but still many go with le 1980s of vice citydon't get me wrong i even like a bunch of stuff from it and i'm not a vice city denier like many of the faggots around here on the internet who insist that vice city wasn't pretty much synonym of gta back in the daybut still
Is Albion worth playing?Its looks really good for a DOS era RPG but i barley ever hear people talk about it.Do not want to get invested in a game that falls of considerably in the later half.Or give up on a game that has a slow start.
>sees players assume the role of a space pilot aboard a mining colony ship, who becomes stranded on a world set to be mined for its resources, despite it teeming with life and sentient races. why did these useless german cunts copy avatar?
>>12475462albionest the game feels more like an adventure rather than rpg
>>12475734>albionest
I really like Albion, but it is not for everyone, and it can get quite grindy at times. It is basically the spiritual successor to Ambermoon. After the team behind it went bankrupt, they no longer had the rights to make the planned sequel, so Albion was created instead. Ambermoon was officially released only in German, but nowadays it is easy to play in English thanks to the open-source Ambermoon.net remake: https://pyrdacor.itch.io/ambermoon
It's a good game, but it can be tedious
With decades of hindsight, what were the best 1980's RPG games or franchises?
>>12475938why no Wizard's Crown/The Eternal Dagger?
I played Akalabeth for the Apple ][ and I got filtered, then I emulated its MS-DOS version and yeah, filtered. I'm 30yo. My 1st RPG is SMRPG.Sucks to be a fucking millennial. I'm afraid I must download its manual and print it just as I did with Fallout.
>>12475951>niche in the west until years laterThis board is pathetic
>>12475982The more the merrier.
>>12476047thanks, I love Wizard's Crown
I'm assuming pic related, Monkey Mayhem from Time Splitters 2? How much more racist can a level get? Just look at the mission description:>"Some evil circus clowns have ENSLAVED the performing black Monkey niggers and forced them to carry their WATER MELONS! Free the black Monkey niggers by shooting the WATER MELONS out of their paws, but aim carefully..."Wow I'm surprised Free Radical Design (Rare?) was able to get away with this blatantly racist joke. Even by the lenient standards of 2002 it still feels like the ESRB would not allow such mature content in a video game unless it was rated AOAlso on the topic of Time Splitters I should ensure this thread is somewhat high effort I.E. pitch a few questions to anon like:>Who is the most powerful character in the TS Trilogy? (Lore-wise)>Who is the most powerful character in the TS Trilogy? (Gameplay-wise)>Who is the least powerful character in the TS Trilogy? (Lore-wise)>Who is the least powerful character in the TS Trilogy? (Gameplay-wise)>Who is your favorite character in the TS Trilogy?>Who is your least favorite character in the TS Trilogy?>Who is the highest IQ character in the TS Trilogy?>Who is the lowest IQ character in the TS Trilogy?>Who is the most based character in the TS Trilogy?>Who is the most cringe character in the TS Trilogy?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>12473425The Hong Kong Missions in the first Hitman game had some pretty ridiculous accents and chatacter models
Didn't read OP but check out my completion.
>>12475448>43 Gold Medals>23 Platinum Medals>10 Hard StoriesChecked! I'm impressed>Didn't read OPWhy not, Sergeant Cortez? Too busy keeping the Universe safe by kicking the seven bells out of fucking Time Splitters to read so much as a single fortune cookie I can only assume sir? Whatever, good job soldier
>>12475206HE'S PAKIDIZ GAI IS LODED
I didn't beat the game.
I fucking loved this game growing up. Why is it viewed as one of the lesser Kirby games?
>>12471820>The ability combinations are wildly unbalanced and most of them only exist for shard puzzles. Or, how about they look cool and are fun to use? I don't get you people.
>>12474909Most of them don't look cool and aren't fun to use, that's the problem.
As somebody who was a big Kirby fan before this game came out and who played it when it was new, I enjoyed it. My biggest complaint was, and is, that 3D, particularly N64 3D, didn't really capture the look and feel of Kirby's surreal atmosphere. I appreciate it more now than I did at the time, but I'd still say that it doesn't hold a candle to any of the preceding, or even the following, 2D Kirby games in terms of graphics.
>>12471207It's a fun Kirby game. People are going to instinctively try to find any reason they can think of to justify their dislike of it because of that.It's dumb. There are almost no bad kirby games, but very few people are willing to admit it. It's like they're allergic to having a genuinely good time while playing video games.
