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Thunder Force V? Better on Sega Saturn of course.
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>>12266108
>Released in the US on PS1 but not on US Saturn
>Was developed for the Saturn anyways
Why
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>>12266414
The west is retarded
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All it takes is to see how insanely ugly the city stage is on the ps1 to see that this is true.
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>>12266416
>The west is retarded
where u is negrumps?

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10/10 and one of the best in the series, equal to or better than 2. it’s the longest, most satisfying adventure of any of the classic tank re games, and has the best music in the series.
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>>12262680
My meds? MINE?
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>>12262527
Tank controls are horrendous
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>>12264638
they’re perfect for this type of game and tomb raider. go play your cookie cutter third person action game control some more.you ain’t even retro, bro
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>>12262527
Sell it to me..I've only played RE4 and I fucking hated it. I ran out of space for items and shit.
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>>12262527
this game is kino of the highest order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGMTeeBvcE

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what does /vr/ think of GOG and their goal of bringing Good Old Games™ back to the market and making them easily compatible with modern hardware?
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>>12256336
>Their Resident Evil 1-3 releases are easily the definitive versions of those games.
Are they really? I was thinking about buying them but figured they'd probably be worse than the ps1 ones
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>>12265983
You can patch them classic rebirth and stuff, then they become definitive.
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>>12257590
>very bad job at keeping games update if a game gets frequent patches.
Thats entirely on the devs.
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>>12256716
Thats not true for everyone. My game does alright on gog and honestly any extra money is nice.
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>>12264197
Not really. It's just GOG but with worse games. I don;t like them, because they've been keeping the newest Flatout 2 update from coming to GOG, despite them allowing this update to come out to Steam. That's just petty.

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Go feed your neopets RIGHT NOW /vr/
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>>12265070
kau used to be macy gray
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>>12264741
Which half?
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>>12264360
The last time I logged into my neopets account was before half of the current 4chan demographic was born, in the summer of 2003.
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>>12264360
I forgot my password all the way back in like 2004
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are digimon just successor to these

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What are some classic design principles that you think have been lost to time?
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>>12265595
Then he's retarded, because the statement he was responding to was "the soundtrack slaps" not "the art is great and definitely doesn't have any AI stuff in it"
Shame they missed that placeholder stuff, but I don't give a shit, I'm not gonna play a Final Fantasy-like regardless, I just agree that the soundtrack is fantastic
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>>12260148
my anal virginity
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>>12265675
The problem with lives is that your failure is punished with repetition, which is unfun, which is anathema to good design.
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A few things to have into account:
Kids now were born in a world where video games aren't novel or new anymore. They take it for granted, it's something that's there, like many other digital entertainment. Most of them were raised by phone games.
Moreover, it seems while videogames are still bviously popular, the real thing kids love is youtubers and tiktokers. Sometimes, ecelebs will play or talk a popular game and kids might get interested but their primary idolatry is for these ecelebs, not video game characters.
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>>12261396
There was a dramatic drop in this board's post quality this year and my best guess is that whoever moderated this board went away after the hack.

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.
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>>12264428
Jigglypuff won, it's survival for the cutest and singing pink ball beats moon alien pink ball
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>>12264054
pu-rin pu-rin
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>>12253120
>It's not even that important in Pokemon Red and Blue, not a single named npc uses one, you can easily miss it
Just like Pikachu.
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>>12253120
This mothefucker is still the best Pokemon ever and it's not even close
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Pikachu is the one pokemon on viridian forest that's rarer to find, same with Jigglypuff and the area before Mt. Moon.
They are Pokemon with cool specials that appear very early on, and aren't the common pidgeys and ratattas you find all the time, plus they are cute. It's easy to see why they are popular

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what’s your ‘if you haven’t played it, you haven’t lived’ game. a game you think everyone needs to play once
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>>12264785
>i never played shining force but i must reply negatively
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I only ever played the Game Gear Shining Force and I loved it. Nintendo was clearly inspired by Sega when they made Golden Sun. Shining Force? no! golden Sun!
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>>12264797
>the simplicity of the first game
its literally the same shit, but 2 has a myriad of QoL fixes. for "playing sf1 to the end" and not getting bored at the chokepoints and slog forrest maps, theres nothing really like that in sf2 (except for the 2 desert battles. wow.). more likely you couldnt figure out how to get past taros and gave up, or you just happened to be a in a weird mood in life at the time. if you like sf1 that much, theres nothing in sf2 to make you THAT disinterested.
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>>12265739
>Nintendo
>made Golden Sun
Bait of the day.
If it's not bait, then you're really close to figure out something about the game developers, anon.
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>>12263096
This game is boring as fuck. First game was better.

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>widely worshipped as one of the greatest games of all time
>only 200k person-hours to make
>would be 50-100k person-hours with modern tools
>still no indie attempts to make a game like this, 23 years later

What gives?
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>>12266016
>unironically
>proceeds to write a bunch of schizo nonsense about why the success of other games don't count as success.
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>>12266064
>avowed, outer worlds & the frontier
>successes
funny joke anon
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>>12266050
if that's all you heard then maybe shit like the star wars sequels, amazon LOTR or other subversive slop might be more your speed.
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>>12266154
Trying too hard, tourist.
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>>12266154
Only confirming that you're a plebe

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It feels like I’m living every day being chased by something
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rotten fish and cheese
rotten fish and cheese (pew-ey!)
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>>12262325
It's the best game on the NES.
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>>12265723
Hard agree.
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>>12262605
What?
You can't see into the future? How else would you know to have a almost full Drill and a Energy Tank because you can't avoid the attacks? What was devs smoking to design this

What does /vr/ think about the EXA Arcade?
https://exa.ac/en/games-list/?v=0f177369a3b7
>Was completely out of the loop with the whole exa arcadia thing
>Wait what Air Gallet "EXA Label", Fixeight "EXA Label" among many others
Still its kind of cool that they, I assume improved a game that didn't exactly do wonders in the arcades like AirGallet. On the other hand it feels like this frankensteins monster abomination they brought in the original artist ok but, who even worked on the gameplay?
Hell the game isn't even presented properly since EX Arcadia doesn't do 240p.
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never heard of it, looks like it's mostly shmups and fighters, the main appeal of arcade games to me is experiences you can't easily have at home like lightgun games and sit-down racers so seems pretty pointless
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Entitled much
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>>12258641
I like it but I don't think its library justify buying one. There's like 3 games I'm interested and that's about it
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>>12259935
>my picrel shows 2 different prices at the same time (i had either 2 tabs open in the same browser or different browsers at the same time) wtf?

It's only a few dollars difference, probably the price updates the Yen to Dollar conversion in real time based on the exchange rate.
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>>12258907
>pirates upset they can't pirate
There are already dumps somewhere on the archive. Emulation is only a matter of time.

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-- Real Hardware --
>GBA (AGB-001)
>GBA SP (AGS-001)
>GBA SP (AGS-101)
>GB Micro
>Nintendo DS
>Nintendo DS Lite
>Nintendo 3DS with open_agb_firm
>Game Boy Player on Game Cube
>Game Boy Player on Panasonic Q
>Visteon Dockable Entertainment System

-- Emulators --
>NERD's Sloop
>Wii U M2Eng GBA VC

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>>12264268
thanks good to know, n64, dreamcast is not so important, i have a psp my mother plays for 8/16 bit up to psx, i got her a n3ds years ago i modded which also covers those. if the switch can run psx better than the n3ds then it will cover plenty of games

as for gta, vice city is her favourite which is already on switch anyway, but would be good if lcs/vcs also run well.
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>>12265059
>if the switch can run psx better than the n3ds then it will cover plenty of games
Well, anon, the New 3DS is a potato. An amazingly good potato for *native* playback of games, as it has hardware for 3 consoles in one: GBA, DS and 3DS. But a potato for emulating anything modern. Glops meme comparison:
New 3DS: ~4.8 GFLOPS
Switch (Docked): ~393–512 GFLOPS.
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>>12260413
was my gba sp 101 and gameboy player until I got the anbernic 34xxsp. It's a perfect gba sp replacement for me and since it's like having a flashcart with save states (I had one but it stopped working like a week after i bought it, fuck everdrives) I just prefer to use it instead.
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What are the top 10 GBA games? I want to gift a handheld with a few GBA games on it to a friend in need. Please advise, thanks frens
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>>12266218
Do you know your friend at all? If so you should know what genres he likes, google and go from there.

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What was namco thinking by killing Xenosaga and ending the career of Soraya Saga which ended up in Monolith being sold to Nintendo and being sent to the Zelda dungeon? It’s one of the greatest video game blunders.
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>>12261754
>The first game has an amazing soundtrack
It's just too bad there's very little of it. It went for a more ambient approach, which made the game feel a little empty and boring at times.
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>>12259173
Xenosaga takes too long to get interesting. The first 2/3 of the game is a slog and the last 1/3 is excellent.
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>>12265491
>The last 1/3 is excellent
I must have dropped it just before that part, because I was extremely bored. I liked the battle system in the game though.
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>>12265506
The game becomes great just as it ends
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>>12262585
>watch it on tubi
Now I wished to see Shamanic Princess, Jungle de Ikou and Birdy the Mighty get N64 titles

Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels is finally getting released
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>>12262635
I didn't know there was a PC version and now I am deeply interested. The dithering is a nice bonus! Holy abandonware here I come
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>>12253775
Frank Cifaldi recently made the game's source code available, in hopes that the ROMhacking community can make it rebuildable.

https://bsky.app/profile/frankcifaldi.bsky.social
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>>12262635
KEK. Let me guess, you need more?
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>>12262635
Nigga. You have provided me the best Christmas week I could have wanted. Thank you.

I've gotten everything working perfectly including gamepad. Anyone need help just ask.
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>>12265968
>>12265973
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Welp. Game crashed at level 3 so beware. Although possibly it was just my Magpie upscaling that crashed it but yeah

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For me, it's the PC Engine.

Ft. homebrew classics like Atlantean, Mysterious Song, & Ultimate Rally Championship
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>>12261348
>Space Fantasy Zone, coming soon!
I'm still waiting
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>>12262616
How long?
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>>12263435
1992 was 80 years ago
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>>12249550
thanks for that image.
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Street fighter 2
>The PC Engine version was published by NEC Home Electronics and released exclusively in Japan on June 12, 1993. it includes the barrel-breaking bonus stage and numerous sound clips. This version was released on a 20-Megabit HuCard, and with optional controllers with more buttons

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>This will sell our videogame.
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>>12262237
She a baddie
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>>12262227
You think they played at Itagaki's funeral?
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>>12264047
depends, do they accept warrior NFTs for a game that never launched?
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>>12262227
It was mostly a way for Midway to get some extra mileage out of their unsold Terminator 2 cabinets.
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>>12262398
The Pizza Hut and Wal Mart lobby both had this before they got rid of their arcade games so I see that.


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