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Fucking chills man, the theme accompanying the text when you beat the game is so awesome, makes you feel like you truly won.
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>>12681747
That looks like Minnesota, not Japan.
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>>12682405
Kek
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>>12682536
it's called SOVL
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>>12681662
I cried a little and got goose pimply all over. Went to tell mom and she said
>if you're truly a LIGHT WARRIOR..... THEN GET A FUCKING JOB
I don't get why she can't celebrate my accomplishments. I think she might be a narcissist.
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>>12682616
Sounds like some DARK WARRIOR shit to me

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The best metroidvania of the 6th gen.
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>>12681282
FPBP

I really don't understand how they managed to get greenlit for sequels in the first place when the first two games were such utter shite. DMC1 in particular is probably the worst game I've ever played on the PS2 not counting shovelware.
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You can only be a hardcore game if you liked DMC 1&2
God gave me this message in 640x480
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ENTER:
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>>12682602
/thread
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>Be me
>Completely new to retro games (Oldest thing I've played is probably Witcher 3 or RDR1)
>Buy CRT cause its cool + want to play retro games on it (Commodore 1084 if anyone cares, same as in image)
>"Oh man can't wait to see what cool shit I missed out on"
>Realise I have no clue what I should actually play due to being newbie
>Any recommendations?
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If you actually want to go for a curated, enhanced experience, start with golden era arcade gaming. Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are a must. Don't just play for 10 minutes, try to get decent scores. Play for several days and learn the games and get proficient. Feel the raw ludonics, the DNA of video games.
If you want more golden era arcade stuff you can delve into Colecovision, good console with lots of great arcade ports and some exclusives as well.
After you went through the golden age arcade stuff it's time for you to get into the actual golden era of gaming and go nuts with Famicom/NES. Don't just play the top 10 games like Zelda, Mario 3 or Castlevania right off the bat (heh), try to delve into early Famicom first. I recommend trying any early 90s famiclone multicart, they include many classics, many of which weren't released officially outside of Japan.
I think you will be busy with Famicom for a while. And after that you have Genesis and SNES.
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>>12681883
Bruce Lee, short & sweet and holds up well.
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>>12681924
Her sneer always cracks me up.
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>>12682040
based casual enjoyer. it's weird how simply enjoying the games makes people so mad
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>>12681883
that's my favorite CRT. it takes analog RGB, you just need to make a custom cable. Same signal as SCART it just needs the weird DIN connector.

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>Play scarface for 3 hours
>PS2 is burning hot
>It gives up and starts failing to load textures
>Need to shut it down and wait for the console to cool down
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>>12681408
Piece-o-chit
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>>12681384
Has been for years
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>>12681374
>not my problem
theres like 2 open world games that dont run like complete dogshit on the ps2.
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>>12681374
Scarface has the best feeling chainsaw out of any game, retro or not.
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>>12681374
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVKTR7ZaLIg

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What a strange place to encounter Tony Jay
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Know this, Nameless One
NOTHING
can change the Nature of a Man

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It’s literally impossible to install the GTA III Upstate Liberty mod and I can prove it.
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Reminder if you didn't beat the original PS2 version you didn't beat the game. The missions were designed with the lock on aiming system and controls in mind. Free-aim completely trivializes the game and makes it piss easy.
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You’re both horrible pieces of shit.
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>>12681360
WHAT DOES THE REDDIT FROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?
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>>12681360
OK, prove it then.
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>>12682290
Should the burden of proof really lay with him

Mortal Kombat but the developers understand how fighting games work
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The Killer instinct videogames peaked in Killer instict 2 and Killer instinct gold.

The third one was trash.
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>>12679171
Stop going to bed then
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>>12682227
the 3rd is easily the best. It's not even close. It's running circles around the others in gameplay, roster, and content. There's hardly even any way to argue otherwise unless you just dislike anything modern
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>>12680401
Good. Tell your multiple personalities to stay that way.
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>>12682298

Actually is the worst.

>sells more than every Sonic game in Japan
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>>12680117
>says the guy talking to himself
I'm not (You). Or the voices in your head. Chump.
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>>12680410
Says the faggot who made yet another sega saturn thread to somehow cope that the system just wasn't nearly as beloved as he thought. I don't understand you. It has some good games, some of them are even fun to play. What are you trying to accomplish by repeatedly shitting up the board?
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>>12680445
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Stop liking Nintendo
Stop liking Sega
Start liking Playstation.... (But only for games made by british developers)
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>>12682527

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Gran Turismo (1) runs faster, looks better, and plays better than 2.

It also has a better soundtrack. We all convinced ourselves back in the day that 2 was better, but it wasn't at all
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Factually, I know these games are Japanese, but for some reason they have always felt like PAL-kino to me. Like something from Psygnosis.
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Can you drive the ultimate german shitbox in this game?
Yeah... gone real quiet now huh?
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>>12682145
>We all convinced ourselves back in the day that 2 was better
Not me. Anyway I like this webm of 2.
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>>12682205
>PAL kino
oxymoron
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When GT2 came out, my father went to do the weekly groceries shopping for once in his lifetime instead of my mother. Shop had a video game section. I had convinced him to buy the game but my sister was apparently appointed safeguard of the shopping but I still managed to get GT1 instead, which had a re-release 3 times cheaper than 2.

I remember at school someone trying to mock me for getting 1 just when 2 comes out but another boy stepped in and said, so what, it's a great game, and the first guy shut up.

Couple years later I finally got GT2 as well and I realized I had gotten the better deal all along so I still ended up playing it close to 100% completion. The PAL version of GT2 compared to the PAL version of GT1 is particularly bad, I think the 50hz conversion is worse but I'm no expert on this game's matter.

Thanks for reading my blog

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Publisher FAKKU Games has acquired the rights to the entire back catalog of F&C and has announced they will be rereleasing various Fairytale and Cocktail Soft games with official English translations. The announcement included the first ten games they will be rereleasing:
>Shinjuku Monogatari
>Ballade For Maria
>Jinmon Yuugi
>Count Dracula
>Necronomicon
>Marine Philt
>Dead of The Brain
>Dead of The Brain 2
>Pia Carrot
>Dengeki Nurse
They are partnering with fan translation group WINE to use their existing translations for Dead of The Brain 1 and 2 and Dengeki Nurse.
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>>12681287
I would be down to buy that. I'm all for supporting modern physical pc releases as long as they are not on CDR and have no online drm bs. What site has it?
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>>12681661
BEEP Online Shop. BEEP is a retro gaming store in Japan. They do reprints of old games occasionally. In addition to this new Windows port, they also did a reprint of the Sharp X68000 version, though that doesn't have English language support.

No one bothered to implement proper line breaking so it looks super ghetto, but apparently they did outsource a legit human translation. It's not MTL. They gave the same treatment to the game Cyberblock Metal Orange EX, so you can buy a CD of that and play it in English too.

I have no idea if there's DRM. Probably not?
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>>12681661
Also I'll point out that PC games getting a physical CD or DVD release is not that uncommon in Japan. AAA publishers aren't doing it obviously, but you see it a lot for doujin software and games from mid-sized publishers.
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might be cool how are the translations from this group?
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>>12682461
I highly doubt anyone here has played any of these games in both Japanese and English, so you're unlikely to get a proper answer to that question. That being said, as an EOP, I can at the very least attest to not having seen any obvious English writing issues (grammatical mistakes, awkward phrasing, etc.) in what I've played from them. (I've finished Dead of the Brain and am at what I'm guessing is around the halfway point of Dengeki Nurse.)

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Take me back
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>>12682131

People hated Halo 2 because:

>No AR
>No 3sk pistol
>Cut levels (Covenant Ship, Forerunner Tank, Earth Ark)
>Downgrades across the board to get the game to run on OG Xbox
>Dual wielding
>Arbiter being playable
>Cliffhanger ending
>Bungie cut the 3rd act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lL6RYrYc4U
>NOOBIFIED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocyYwLCDyCU

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>>12682131
3 is technically retro since it released before December 2007 and there's a bootleg Windows XP port.

Anyway:
>3 has some of the worst weapon balancing in the series (only 2's and 4's are worse)
>the Brutes aren't nearly as fun to fight as the Elites, the latter of whom aren't even in the Covenant anymore by this point
>the Flood are now made of paper
>you fight Scarabs too many times
>there's no really good vehicle sections outside of Tsavo Highway
>most of the levels are complete filler storywise because Bungie had to stretch Halo 2's cut finale into a full-length game
>soundtrack has very few original pieces as most of it is retakes of 1 and 2's music
It's still a good game and I doubt the consensus will ever be that people hate Halo 3.
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>>12682140
>Floodgate and Cortana are some of the worst levels in the franchise
wdym, Floodgate is one of Halo 3's only truly kino levels despite how weak the Flood are in 3
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Halo 2 was too ambitious. It was like two generations too early for the tech it was trying to push. Even if they did manage to ship stencil shadows, the resolution/performance would have been too low. pic-related is only simulated/approximated btw, it's not even the real deal that could have been with pixel perfect shadows and dynamic lights.

Xbox had a high end PC-level GPU coupled with a low-tier Pentium III 733 CPU with a crippled cache. The system has Direct X 8.1, shader model 1.1, vertex shader 1.1 and two Vertex Shader units, while the Geforce 3's only had one. The Xbox GPU was quite powerful.

Halo 2's Legendary E3 Level Will Finally Be Playable After 21 Years
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3360515088

Halo 2 Developer Commentary Remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAW2F6oPYMc
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>>12678063
Opposite, I found 2 disappointing and 3 a return to form.

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Thoughts on the Sakura Taisen series on the Sega Shitturn?
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>>12677413
My favorite game to play with one hand
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>>12681930
>they hated him because he spoke the truth
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>>12680052
>the PS2 remake is just plain better?
I wish I could hate people to death.

Anyway, ST2 is where the series peaked. I lost interest with 3.
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>>12680052
EOPs can't play the PS2 version because it isn't translated. Aside from that, there are a few purists who dislike the PS2 remake since it has the same combat system as the third game. If you do not fall into that category, there is no reason to play the saturn version over the PS2 version.
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>>12682418
The PS2 demake completely ruins the next chapter previews, and for that reason alone, it's unplayable dogshit.

Changes from NTSC-U GameCube RE4 to NTSC-J/PAL GameCube RE4 (Jan 2005)

Ammo and grenades drops significantly less often and Pesetas drop slightly more often
Ammo types now have individual caps, so you can only obtain 25 shotgun shells, 15 magnum ammo, and 10 mines at a time on Professional. Previously, the game capped you at a generic 150 'BulletPoint' value based on the sum of your inventory.
Ammo placements in the world have been revised (generally towards less ammo).
The Knife does 100% more damage to most enemies, with the notable exception of Krauser, who actually takes 12.5% less damage
The TMP does 40% more damage to Ganados and 20% less damage to El Gigante and Krauser
The Red9 and Blacktail weapon damage values were buffed to be stronger
The Rifle's exclusive upgrade is stronger (18.0 -> 30.0)
The Semi-Auto Rifle's exclusive upgrade was nerfed (0.4 -> 0.8 firing speed)
The Handgun exclusive upgrade crit chance was nerfed (50% -> 33%)
Matilda has a faster burst, higher rate of fire, higher firepower, and slightly slower reload speed
Mine Thrower mines explode after 3 seconds (down from 5 seconds)
The Merchant's First Aid Spray stock is now dependent on whether you have any healing items in your inventory. He has none if you have more than 3 healing items in your inventory, 1 if you have more 2-3 healing items in your inventory, and 2 if you have none. When playing on Amateur mode, he always has a single First Aid Spray in stock.
First Aid Sprays now cost 5000 (down from 10000)

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>>12679952
The Shotgun is less expensive to fully upgrade
Flash grenades kill Las Plagas wolves when their parasite is visible
U3 now takes 50% less damage from magnum weapons
Regenerators take 33% less damage from everything but the Knife
The boulder in the mines can be blown up with a Rocket Launcher
Incendiary grenades have an easier time hitting Mendez in phase 2
Ashley can no longer suplex enemies after stunning them with a door
Fixed a bug where you couldn't upgrade the Striker after buying it at the Merchant in 4-1 and had to wait until reaching 4-3
You can no longer exit and re-enter the 2x El Gigante boss fight room to respawn the gold bars of an El Gigante that was killed by the lava trap

>Changes exclusive to RE4 PS2/Sourcenext RE4 PC

The AI in the PS2 version of the game had to be downgraded for the PS2's weaker hardware. These changes weren't carried forward to the later ports.
Only 8 enemies can be active at a time

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>>12679961
RE4 has region-specific differences that apply regardless of port.

Changes exclusive to every NTSC-U (North American) release of RE4 GC

>Easy difficulty is removed as an option from the difficulty select menu
>Normal mode and Separate Ways (if available) begin at game rank 5 instead of game rank 3 [1]
>Assignment Ada is fixed to game rank 6 instead of game rank 4
>The village stage in Mercenaries has a unique dynamic difficulty mode. Unlike the other Mercenaries stages, the game rank is no longer fixed, and you also passively gain 30 dynamic difficulty points every second.
>The shooting range requires 3000 points per bottle cap instead of 1000

Note that the PC ports of RE4 are considered to be PAL releases internally. You need re4_tweaks to see these changes on PC.

Changes exclusive to every NTSC-J (Japanese) release of RE4


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>>12679961
>The boulder in the mines can be blown up with a Rocket Launcher
i did not know that
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>>12679952
The American cover is so much better it's insane. Minimalistfags are delusional.

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It's time to accept beat 'em ups peaked during the 6th gen
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>>12676987
Wish someone would recompile this game so people could make extensive mods for it.
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>>12677127
River City Ransom and nothing else the console
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>>12676987
>god hand
>viewtiful joe
>final fight streetwise
>spikeout
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>>12681110
>final fight streetwise

Lmao
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>>12681110
>>final fight streetwise

Hope that was a joke.

Could the DVD have stopped the rampant Piracy that, ultimately, was the demise of the Dreamcast?
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>>12681467
Okay, but that doesn’t make this >>12681293 post any less ridiculously inaccurate.
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>>12681439
>Using the Voodoo2 Sega was contracted to could have saved it. That gpu was fairly powerful. About 3x better than the NEC chip. It could have run Deus Ex.

lol wat
the voodoo 2 was a four-chip setup that required a ton of memory chipset to get 100 MPixel/s fillrate. the powervr2 in the DC could do 3.2 GPixel/s (or 800 MPixel/s with transparency on) with a single chip and 4 SDRAM banks.

voodoo 2 chipset alone would cost more than twice as much as an entire Dreamcast.
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>>12681480
Yep. The main reason the Dreamcast did pretty well for its first year in America is that it offered next gen 3D graphics at a low price.
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>>12681283
>Those were early 00s.
No, realplayer 4 was included on win 98 disc so it got a lot more use in 98 and 99. My hyper police fansubs from 98 or so were srill the tiny rm files. My berserk weekly fansubs were 100mb per episode asf files
The 100mb asf meant you could get a whole season (12 episodes) on just 2 cds if lucky, and at much higher quality in around 2000-2001 and RM died fast for fansubs. They replaced the old 90s realplayer software with the realone player which was a combined movie and music player and everyone hated it.
>>12681247
>Things that never happened
If you are doubting that playstation mod chips were common in the 90s it means you were not alive in the 90s, simple as.
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>>12681286
>No, see, here's a reason I made up!


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