Tanooki
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You could do far far worse, there's Majora's Mistake. The rushed to market cobbled together hot mess with a central town and an odd spread of few dungeons and an asinine clock that punishes progress to a point, along with a huge tedious and obnoxious mask system where most of them have no functional use other than asinine fetch quest garbage just to pad out the clock and feed those with some pokemon like gotta get (catch) em all mentality in games. That game makes OoT a true pleasure compared.
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2 hours ago, imstarryeyed said:Those detachable controllers are great. I bought the SFII cabinet when it was announced that they were running out. I originally did not want it, as I am not a big SF fan but liked it enough to get it before it was too late.
The little joysticks feel very high quality and look amazing and work really well. If you are thinking of buying one I would say so, I hear they work on anything with USB.
Yeah that's my problem, the price I wasn't a fan of but it wasn't unreasonable. I kept seeing coming soon, then sold out, somehow I missed it, and now I've seen a-holes hoping to net a moron wanting like upwards of $700 for the thing new. NEVER happening. If I knew for sure the stick worked on USB for Windows, I'd buy it as a mini arcade stick for some classic games I have, including theirs like Capcom Belt Action through Steam.
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Wow that looks like a whole lot of really vintage handheld fun. Good luck with the sale, too rich for my sanity.
As nice of shape that is in, it'll definitely go to the right home and truly enjoyed, then displayed.
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I found a few things the last few days, no pics, I'm lazy.
Online I snapped up a deal for 2 inoperative handhelds, a GBC and a DMG unit. GBC looks like an easy fix, rotted battery connector (not the PCB attached side), and then a DMG that pops on and off with lines in the display which is also an easy fix, paid about 40 for them which unworking stupidly they're worth more than that now. I'm currently repairing, refurbishing, and upgrading all the GB family of systems as I enjoy it to make a few bucks.
A week ago and this is related to earlier ago today, I hit this goodwill locally and they're infuriating now as they're full ebay PLUS on games...today was $80 for Pokemon XD on Gamecube, so I ignored it. But last week I found for $3 for original 90s Pokemon and BD&A N64/GB (RBY) era beanie plushies which are worth around $100 together about. Today, after getting annoyed, I checked the bin again, found another this 8-10" tall 1998 Pikachu which has a battery box, motor and lights and sound for $2. It's like a $30-40 plushie and the last owner left the batteries out so no rot, now it's near my desk.
And then swinging around back towards home, half price books was about half price?! I finally got Advance Wars for a price I wanted to pay ($20, not $35-40) so that's going into my GBA here today to play.
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15 hours ago, bluejay said:Ocarina of Time was undoubtedly a brilliant game back in its day. It was the first 3D Zelda game, and did a fair job at impressing hundreds of thousands of people. It was the most critically acclaimed video game of all time until Breath of the Wild came along. If I had a chance to play it back in 1998 I'm sure I would have been absolutely amazed by it.
I played OoT for a few hours on my N64 today. Started from the beginning and made it to Kakariko Village, (damned lady can't rescue her Cuccos herself.) stopping by at Hyrule Castle. I have to say, I wasn't particularly impressed. I found the controls to be clunky (just like any other N64 game) and the overall layout of the map to be lackluster. Having a central hub (Hyrule Field) connected to all the different areas (Castletown, Kakariko, Gerudo Valley, etc.) doesn't feel like an adventure, but just moving towards a certain destination.
Your criticisms and this is being totally fair and picky as hell, but I felt that way when it came out more often than not when playing. After being so blown away by first party Mario to third party stuff like Bomberman 64/Hero type stuff, Zelda was jarring to me. I get the point of it, but not having the ability to jump drove me nuts, it was worse than like playing bionic commando and having the dude not be able to walk over an ankle high rock needing to go out of the way to use a tool to over over a brick basically. Zelda often felt that way to me. The set pieces impressed, the audio did, the gameplay (not the camera, that was great and adopted often since by others) bugged the hell out of me as much as it didn't. I think the game is at overrated and blown out of proportion as the so called highest rated/best game of the time as FF7 was for Sonys fanboys, Nintendos equally if not more so kiss Ocarina's ass and it's just sad. It's not a mediocre game, nothing close to that, but it has gameplay design and execution problems that make it at times suck, just a chore more than a fun ride. I just felt like I was being slogged along one spot to the next, sometimes combating dumb design choices than enjoying it. Even the dialogue as you pointed out, even to the simple CHIME...! treasure over and over without a skip got grating.
I own it, I won't sell it, I've tried to replay it off and on for years, even tried the 3DS one, twice no less, hoping it had some tweaks but it didn't save it. I made myself finish the game back in the 90s when it came out, I quit about walking into the desert away from town towards the colossus. I shelved it for months, came back before I went back into school, and killed it in a sitting to completion in one shot as I knew if I stopped I'd likely never come back with college courses in the way. Ever since I usually can get maybe up to or through the water temple, but not much further, sometimes as short of feeling like I'm just 'doing the motions' to get big Link, and I'm done. I prefer most of the 2D titles to it, and I'd take Wind Waker above all in 3D and Twilight Princess over it too even if I didn't finish that, Skyward Sword maybe if the motion controls didn't ruin it. BotW gets no vote, totally different style of game, incomparable.
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On 11/29/2020 at 12:51 PM, turboxray said:My local Sears often messed up and if you ordered NES games from their catalog, you could potentially get them before the actual release date. I got Zelda 2 a week or two before release date from Sears. I had school classmates call bullshit on it so I brought the manual to school to prove it haha. Same thing happened with SMB2. Maybe it was just my local Sears that messed up.
I remember that. I think I got Mega Man in Dr Wiley's Revenge early because I had used either them but I think it may have been the JC Penney catalog. I ordered it through my parents there, and was able to pick it up at the local mall shop before it supposedly was sitting on that rack at Toys R Us and the rest. That was always a nice treat.
To everyone:
I don't recall how Zelda 2 worked out, but if you know your Nintendo history (people, all you in general) that year was a real sob for the market when it came to memory chips, there was an awful shortage and Nintendo got nailed it with it too. They had promised at the time to have both SMB2 and Zelda 2 out. One of them had to take a hit, it got a really bad release that trickled, the other, got pushed to stores as the primary. I remember this as i was more jacked up for SMB2 at the time and I found it when it was promised and in decent supply too at a Montgomery Wards where they kept the real stock in these huge tall glass cases on pegs. Zelda 2 got sacrificed with chips for Mario, so it made it, just slow, a trickle, and really badly...not that Mario was super meaty on being everywhere either but compared it was due to the chip shortages. That may account for people thinking it was a 1988 vs 1989 game, memory problems, and not where you forgot what happened type of memory.
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Well I don't know about everyone just buying to use a few and not really play, but I'm not thrilled I missed out on SF2 and seeing the scalping garbage people online trying to sell them makes it all the most stinging. I refuse to pony up that absurd amount for some new item from a grifter which is a damn shame as it looks great. Oddly, they still see the replacement detachable 2P USB joystick modules on their site. I bet those probably would work on a PC or mobile device with a USB jack.
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I know I had it the year it came out, just can't remember if I got it or it was a gift that got me the game, but knowing what other titles I have and when they came out I know it wasn't in 1989. I'd save most my allowance using a little on baseball cards and comics up until that crumbled around 1991, so I could buy a game every few months or so, then there were the b'day and christmas gifts so I had a pretty decent trickle of stuff throughout the year as I could save for the many months between the gift periods.
I never got rid of it either, I still have my original cart and manual too.
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Well now that's impressive. Despite the external differences, it's like I'd put it around probably 90% accurate to the actual cabinet. I've got a 2 slot as people here would know, and they used the same basic cabinet and your measurements were slightly different, as was your side art as mine doesn't say 'system' but has the MVS logo with multi video system under it. Just little things like that. The CPO area the buttons are odd, BCD are flat, but should be more curved between A to D and you chose ball top joysticks vs the usual tear drop style you find too on the US unit. But hey when you're going custom, you make it to how you want the fit, especially when going to that level of extensive effort. It's a smart design, should share the plans maybe so others can do it given you went right in with that super gun, standard CRT TV on a smart thick wood mount (weigh far far less than the 20 to 25" original in a metal cage.)
If I was up on wiring and all that other, never really learned 'tools' other than what little I've attempted so carpentry is out, as I think that subwoofer would be fun for the various beats you get from blasts and shots in metal slug to blazing star type games.
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I put an order before agreeing with zeta basically, DKC2 just I detest compared to the other two. Simply put, they just made it a far more aggravating game, especially with those f'ing toll booths forcing some coin harvesting having to do some more progressively annoying stuff to get enough of those as the game went along. 3 had a little, but it was pretty optional so it was more like the original where it wasn't a pain.
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1-3-2 other deserves no vote (nor is it a 'country' game) might as well have put the Wii 3DS Switch games at least as they are part of the DKC line resurrected though I'd put them under the original trilogy too. Thunderbird is right though, the 3 Lands on GB are solid.
I'd write it, but it would be re-writing it. Zeta said it why DKC is better than the other two, overcomplicated a perfect formula.
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I'd rather if they did it, they did it just for a series again and on a big anniversary, limiting it largely like SMB. Perhaps do Zelda 1+2+G&W+better Nelsonic watch LCD next year for its 35th, Metroid is 35 too but it wouldn't work because the best you could manage would be 1+2(GB), no LCD game exists and 3+ too many buttons.
Beyond that, and I've said it for a very very long time. They need to make some compilation carts for appropriate hardware. 3DS should have had some Virtual Boy releases. The DS could have had anything from a NES through GBA spread of greats. But given now the twice dipped history, and the boutique stuff popping up it would be best to do a dedicated closed handheld and have as Austin said a 30-40 game list of GB and GBC games. While a DMG shell may be best, I wouldn't fault them for a GBC style either, because either way they'd emulate the GBC core to full effect.
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Dude you'll get no argument out of me on wheels. My 2 slot is pretty cherry, they've seen it years ago in this thread, but it's also the bulkier model with the back destroying 25" LCD and metal harness setup bolted into it. I thought when I had a pinball machine that was bad, this somehow manages to way obviously worse(more.) To move it, I got one of those lame As Seen on TV solutions, these plastic smooth bottom casters with the reverse being these like 1cm thick firm foam/pad things which the system rests on. I can slide it with nearly no effort around on carpet thankfully with it.
I'm not sure about the metal work, I can't do any of it, never was taught any handyman skills or tools much which sucks. But I do know watching things, once you have the mold unless you're good at blacksmithing, the metal form is far better and easier to create, if the tools are there. The wood is fine, hell you can even sand it as smooth as metal and powder coat it and until it planks(splits) with age or wear, no one would be the wiser.
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He did more than four, even on the NES, but they got some other varying names beyond the 4 volume 'How to win at...' series for NES. I used to have up until somewhat recently (year back?) a couple of those original how to win books. They're terrible as far as so called winning or help work, but his goofy weird summary/story almost like writing style for the reviews are pretty fun just to glance over. Sometimes it made me wonder if the dude ever actually played every game or some kid gave him some notes to go by at times.
And, yes, you're right there were ones for the SNES and Genesis, more from there too if I remember correctly as he kept busy for years in the 90s with that racket. I'm sure the internet killed his business, that's for certain. I'm kind of surprised someone like him didn't take his weird style and stuff it on an early internet (mid/late 90s) format setup for people to dig into once he saw the writing on the wall.
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When I've looked into it, this was pre-stupidity making a run on it, the 70% is diluted, literally filtered watered down alcohol. Which is why I was told and learned never to use it because 30% of that cleaner is you exposing electronics that hate water, to well...water. It doesn't dry as fast and a bit will stick around until it evaporates long after the 70% alcohol vanishes which can lead to various problems. I've got a few bottles of 91% and I have and will continue to stick to using it as it's safe, nothing better but that electrical contact cleaner.
91% has been a problem as I do look when I hit the stores, and it has been short at kroger and walgreens when I've taken a peek or I'd buy more. But whatever you're on, or on about, I've never heard of putting magic herbs inside of alcohol to fill out some/all of that other 30% in 70% isopropyl alcohol, that's new on me.
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I was able to get a nice deal from a guy online for a pair of battered looking GBA SP 101s through a group I'm in on facebook. They arrived yesterday, the pearl pink one fired up fine, buttons checked out, wasn't too bad other than being a light by funky and well beat up. Then there's the pikachu 101, art on the exterior is jsut gone, all blackened and nasty on every seam and crevice. I hadn't looked close at first, plugged it in the light was on but it was dead battery to start I thought. Then I charged it a tick while going over the first, came back, dead. I wrote the guy during the time for a response he said it worked, but it sure as hell didn't. I knew it did supposedly when I got it, so I got to cleaning the battery connector, buttons, switches etc, nothing. I got kinda peeved and wad like whatever, got aggressive slightly with the power switch on-off super fast and it attempted maybe 1 in every 15-20 swings to power on, eventually once it did, then didn't again...it lived? Stripped it, cleaned the hell out of the on-off switch, other contact points, board, whatever. Now it works perfectly, and it is still 100% confusing what got to it because non of the water sensitive squares in there show it got washed in coke, candy, food, whatever. Got a pair of shells, new power plugs, and some second hand OEM rear stickers coming for them too in the mail. Keeping all I can off the pika model, going to restore that one to new.
(The other sold to cover my expenses.)
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Yeah given the work here, it would be negligent and bad hiding in this mess as it'll be lost in under a week. I wasn't a fan of removal of the metal parts of the cabinet as I think it could come apart, but damn does it look legit so far from what I can see, especially the CPO area that should be powder coated metal to stand up to fist pounds and lots of abuse.
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That roughly sounds right. There is a youtube video from the Gaming Historian, about an hour long, it has all the details. I remember back when the Gamecube came out I got stuck in a lame bundle with EB games to get mine, had to get 2 games, an accessory or two, and since the accessories were crap, one of them was oddly the book Game Over by David Scheff, and he covered the life of Nintendo to that point from the 1880s to present, so it had an entire chapter dedicated to the Tetris debacle and what you said, and what I remember from it and the youtube video lines up fairly well. Basically tengen bought rights they had NO right to outside of arcade as Nintendo legally only legally sealed the deal on it for home console(handheld falls into it too for Gameboy) sales in the US etc. The one thing that got wrapped up differently were various home computers, that's where I think mirrorsoft had the rights, so like in the US you saw spectrum holobyte get a chunk as they put out Tetris, Welltris, and I think Hatris too on PC.
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Mmm BPS Tetris, absolutely terrible compared to Tengen and Nintendo's takes. Music is a bit annoying as are the sound effects, controls aren't bad, but the way the controls work are not friendly compared to the other two. I don't recall it having any options to really configure either, just a bare bones terrible version against the other two.
I'll take the modern 4th Tetris on the NOAC that Basic Fun used on their tabletop Tetris cabinet, that one is fun.
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So I'm curious are we ignoring the handheld releases? I mean I know they're somewhat compromised by the lower resolution and square LCDs that annoyingly remove some horizontal grace on incoming barricades, bullets, and enemies. I had the GBC game back in the day, and I recall it against the TG and SMS versions being as hard, if not worse due to the less view space. It didn't feel lacking though, maybe harder, not really sure.
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Very nice, a bit longer than I figured it would have been. It really is a fun game and definitely not easy, but the SNKgrish in full force adds a layer of amusement. I'm glad it's one of the 30+ carts I have for my cabinet.
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It can yeah, volts is a problem, amps shouldn't be if it's not decently higher. I asked Nintendo as I have this AC adapter, but it's like well over what the unit asks for which is like 200ma vs like 1.5A I think is what I've got. They said short term it would be fine, but since it would be rapidly charging the battery it could damage it in time.
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Ugh...sorry I can't watch that. Between the Che shirt and talking to a puppet it was a bit much. I've played various versions of it over the years, not a majority, but i will say the NES version that Tengen did was nothing short of stunning. You have that original mode, then you have like the speed hack chip mode, then different map and display types, tiny, etc. It's a lot for the value there, and it looks close to the original too unlike Pac-Man with its strange colors.
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I think it was defective, and yes actually it or a replicade I would have expected to take a short drop like that onto a soft surface. Had it hit the tile or hardwood here though, I'd count myself lucky if it hadn't cracked. It's gone, I couldn't get it open and I saw no reason to destroy the side art ripping it to pieces to get in there to repair the screen and anything else that may have knocked loose.
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I don't have any new enough images I could care to upload and then stuff on here, but I do. She loves to use my Neo Geo off and on, in particular bust a move 2 and then league bowling more than any others. She also has enjoyed using my old 8/16bit Nintendo stuff so I ended up getting her the classic editions of both for her room. She had a GBC I got her as her first, but then ended up with a DS (broken gone now) and she kept a few games for the GB/C but sold it to get a Switch. I let her use a spare GBA SP of mine if she wants to use the old stuff she retained. So there is an appreciation there, not a picky kid when it comes to using real controls or a touch panel, or if the copyright is 20th or 21st century either.