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My time for the week... PS2 Suikoden 3 - 934 min (Two streams this week... both of them over 7 hrs long. Feel like I got a lot done, lots of chapters completed for various characters. I'm still not too keen on the battle system and wish it was a little more... traditional? Like in Suikoden 2 for example... Also, I'm really ready for some fast travel option. Viki is in this game (or at least, she has been mentioned by an NPC), and she was the teleporter fast travel person in the previous two. So I'm hoping to recruit her soon.)

Just the one game for me again... PS2 Suikoden 3 - 450 min (Played through Geddoe's first chapter. None of the chapters have been too difficult so far, but it took me a few tries to get past a boss near the end of his chapter. I tried him probably 3 or 4 times on stream. Then ended the stream because it was getting late. Then went back on offstream and tried a couple more times and figured it out. Because of the whole "team" thing in this one, or whatever it's called, you can only cast one spell per "team." So if you have both characters with big damage spells in the same team, you can only cast one of them. I split up those characters so they could both cast their biggest spells right away, and the boss went down much easier.)

Continuing with the Suikoden games... now on to the PS2 games... PS2 Suikoden 3 - 360 min (Never played this one, but apparently there's like three different main characters? Seeing the story from different perspectives maybe? Anyway, played the little Prologue to each of them, and then played through Hugo's first chapter. Next week will play someone else. Enjoying it so far, but a bit worried about the combat, it's set up quite a bit different than what I'm used to.)

Was going to try to do a 2600 stream on Twitch this week, but couldn't get the sound to work properly. No idea what was going on with it. Think it was a problem with the capture card. Anyway, in trying to set things up, I played a little... 2600 Frogger - 5 min Sky Jinks - 5 min Coco Nuts - 5 min

My work schedule changed, so I streamed twice last week and finished up Suikoden 2... finally... I think the final game save said I had around 75 hours on the playthrough. Considering going on to play Suikoden 3. Never played that one. But it would be on the modern tracker. PS1 Suikoden 2 - 571 min (So... on Suikoden 1, I messed up something and didn't get all 108 recruitable characters (although I swore I did) so I couldn't get the best ending. This time, I screwed up on what is essentially the only QTE in Suikoden 2 and didn't realize it (because I was talking to people in my Twitch chat) so one of the characters died. It's been a while since I played and I kinda remembered that the game wants you to think she's dead, but really, surprise!, she was just faking. But if you don't do some things right, nope, she's really dead. Well, I didn't do them and so she was really dead. So now I couldn't get the best ending in Suikoden 2 either. When I played through them both a few years ago (can probably go back to past What Have You Actually Played trackers to see the numbers even) I got the best ending on both of them. Oh well. I did go through and redo some things a few times at the end to see if they had an effect on the endings, but mostly they did not. There's a dialog option near the end with three options. The first one gives you one ending. The second one goes nowhere and the dialog keeps returning to the same options. The third one allows you to leave and go meet up with someone for a final duel. You can choose not to fight the duel or to fight it. So I did both. Either one gives you the same ending as the first one with a different ending picture. So... kinda saw like three different options for the end of the game, but none of them were the good one.) Also, here's a video of me fighting the last boss battle. (Before all the different ending options above...)

Just one game for me again this week... I know... so boring... PS1 Suikoden 2 - 431 min (I now have all 108 recruitable characters and I'm moving on with the game. Just liberated Greenhill, and I think Rockaxe is coming up soon. I'm sure I'll be grinding some characters to increase levels and make sure everyone is ready for whatever. I made a video of me fighting the Bone Dragon boss in Greenhill... it took a while because I wasn't really prepared properly for it.)

What built in game does it have?

IT'S OVER 9900!!!

Wow, some great games played by you guys this week! Only one game for me this week, and a bit of a guess on the time... PS1 Suikoden 2 - 480 min (I played about 5 1/2 hours on stream and then played about another 3 hours off stream, so I'm just gonna say it was around 8 hours. Got the "hero" from Suikoden 1 and did went to the fake peace treaty... not sure exactly what's coming up. I've been kinda referring to a guide, but I may just wing it from here on out. I've been playing this a long while and I'm ready to get it over with. I mean, it's a great game, but I've spent so much time on it.)

Nah... it was just holding up the shield. Had the Dark Shield, which damages enemies, and standing in a spot where medusa heads were coming at me in a steady stream. The shield would kill them and the familiar would get exp. But you have to keep the button held down so Alucard will keep the shield held up. There's a retro achievement for having all familiars above lvl 50. The Faerie was the one I was working on while at work, so it's maxed out... the others I just stopped when I noticed they were above 50. (The sword I actually got there legit while grinding levels for myself.)

Okay, about to go to bed, so I'll go ahead and post my times... PS1 Suikoden - 411 min (Started this back up even though I just finished a playthrough. Was wanting to do some achievements on Retroachievements. Not terribly far into it and honestly not sure how far I'll go on it. Don't wanna get burned out...) Suikoden 2 - 540 min (Time is approximate... streamed about 7 hours, but I think I played another couple hours off stream. Just about to the Rockaxe section.) Castlevania Symphony of the Night - 1020 min (Started up a playthrough for achievements like Suikoden above, played for a while, was having issues, ended up completely uninstalling Retroarch and reinstalling, which fixed some of the issues, then other problems popped up and fiddled around some more, and played a good long ways, then realised that it wasn't giving achievements because when I uninstalled/reinstalled Retroarch, I forgot to put my Retroachievments login info back in. So I started over, and now, on the second start, I'm almost finished with the game.) Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog - 10 min (Just testing out the core I downloaded for Retroarch. Played until I reached Marble Zone then turned it off.) TurboGrafx-16 Legendary Axe - 10 min (Same as with Sonic. Played through first boss and quit.) Played a lot this week. CV: SotN really gave my thumbs a workout.

Doing this while at work to cheat and level familiars in Caslevania SotN. Don’t worry, I’m not including this time in my weekly minutes. lol

lol... Glad you like it! My wife complains that mine makes a high pitched noise when I turn it on. I believe her because 1. It's something that can happen on older TVs and 2. She knows when I turn it on even if she's in another room.

Sounds like someone I would immediately decide not to do business with. Do people actually think this kind of thing is a good idea? That it convinces people to buy their crap?

I didn't time it... I really need to start remembering to do that... but I'll guess... Xbox One Forza Horizon 3 - 120 min (I have no idea how long I actually played, but it was at least a couple hours.)

Just one retro game for me again this week. Two streams and a little more offline, so this is a little higher total than recently... Playstation Suikoden 2 - 613 min (Finished up the Greenhill School section, added some recruits, played through the Knights of Matilda section and started grinding characters to get everyone leveled up and equipped reasonably. I tend to do this enough that the Luca Blight fight is pretty easy. I like RPGs where you can level up and then just cruise through parts.) Also, I was watching someone play Link to the Past getting Retroachievements. I thought, "Hmm... I wonder what achievements there are for the Suikoden games. So I checked them out, and now I'm kinda wanting to play through them again on Retroarch so I can do achievements. May not, though... don't want to burn out on them, but they are great games.

Just the one Classic game for me this week... again... PS1 Suikoden 2 - 433 min (I'm at the Greenhill school section... along with the kinda uncomfortable subplot or whatever of Nina the schoolgirl and her obsession with Flik. I tried leaving to recruit some characters after starting the Greenhill stuff, but I think it makes it so you can't until you finish the area? All I know is I left town to go to another place where someone was supposed to be, but they weren't there. I went to another area to try to recruit someone and they didn't show up (but I didn't really try that long...) Oh well, I'll finish Greenhill then try again.)

Just one modern game for me this week, but I did play quite a bit of it... XBox One Forza Horizon 3 - 348 min (I'm enjoying the free roaming just-screwing-around aspect of the game, and finding the garage finds is cool. But there are a couple things that have annoyed me. I'm currently level 21 in the game. At each new level, you are given a "spin"... think like the big wheel on The Price Is Right. Anyway, you can win several different cars or in game money. I'm level 21, so I've had 21 spins and have not one a single car yet. So frustrating... The other thing I don't like, is the constant advertisements in game for either the DLC or to get XBox Pass or whatever it's called. Grr...)

Back in the early 2000's, I would've said Freeport in Everquest. But then they changed Freeport and I didn't like it after that.

Just the one game for me again this week... PS1 Suikoden 2 - 605 min (Just up to the part where "The Hero" becomes the leader of the Liberation Army. Found out that the character who I thought I missed permanently can be recruited at a different town later in the game.)

I need to open up my TG-16 and look at the caps... it's never been opened up. Also, not exactly the same, but OG Xboxes need to have the Clock Capacitor checked/replaced/removed... some of them are okay, but some can leak and make a mess.

It was in Longview, Texas.

Info out now that Fenrir 21 pin versions are available from preorder... will ship in a couple months. Good news for Saturn model 2 owners. https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2021/04/03/fenrir-for-21-pin-saturn-consoles-to-be-released-in-may/

I don't remember any prices or much of anything specific, but... back in the late 90s, there was a place called "The Atari Shop" in my town. I went in there a couple times I think, and I remember them having tables full of 2600 games and just about everything else Atari related. The guy who owned/ran it was kind of a nut. I remember seeing him play Barnyard Blaster on an XE and raving about how "everyone thinks Nintendo was the first with a light gun" or something... I also remember there being a Jaguar running Alien vs Predator... but the only thing I ever got there was my copy of Adventure. I'm sure he had a lot of stuff that was rare or valuable, but at the time, I just didn't know or have the money. The place is long gone now, though.

Just a little modern gaming for me... PS3 Wipeout HD - 30 min (Just did a few races. I'm out of practice, so I didn't do great. But it's a beautiful racing game.)