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  1. 13 hours ago, godslabrat said:

    ...and by that, I'm talking about the most negative aspects of what "gamer culture" is and has been.  At what point did people get taken seriously for their choice in gaming platforms?  At what point did the industry start catering to people who based their whole life on gaming?  And more relevant, when did our culture accept that as normal?  I know there have always been bad eggs, going back to the very beginning, but can we mark where it actually branded the hobby?

    I think people getting taken seriously for their choice of game platforms probably started in the late 80s to early 90s with the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" campaign. But with the industry catering to people who base their life on gaming and "gamer culture becoming accepted",  I think that started in the early to mid 2000s when online gaming had become mainstream. But to answer the question on when gamer culture first branded the hobby, I gotta say around the "Let's Play" era so around 2007-2012. I don't really like "gamer culture" as you put it, because it feels like the people who are apart of it almost want it to be like a religion or something.

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  2. 10 hours ago, Syzygy1 said:

    I'm 16 (going to be 17) and I want to own an arcade when I move out of my parents' house. Thing is, I don't know a lot about money so it's going to be hard. I also need to know about space, what games I want, and how to make it like a real 80s arcade. I intend it to be similar to John's Arcade and have it in my basement. And I don't know how to repair any games.

    I'm three years younger than you so I don't have a basement arcade, but I would suggest getting two multicades (1 vertical screen and 1 horizontal screen) and see which games you like on them (most have 60-100 games on them). After that try to find said games you like on the multicade. Don't take me 100% seriously, I'm suggesting what I would do when/if I get make a basement arcade.

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  3. On 7/17/2019 at 1:48 PM, Cesar_Esteban said:

    I have this system and can attest to the fact that it plays Ninja Gaiden 1 (2 & 3 too). I strongly suspect that the issue lies with your cartridges, most likely need to be cleaned. The only straight up incompatible game I've found so far is gauntlet.

    I've cleaned my ninja gaiden 1 cart several times with 99% IPA. I haven't opened it up though so it might be a trace issue.

  4. 7 hours ago, Austin said:

    Assuming the game is already installed, you can try running the game from the Steamapps folder. You will need to locate the folder on the hard drive where Steam is installed (say, C:\Program Files\Steam). Somewhere in there is the "Steamapps" folder. This usually houses the games you have downloaded. Look for the folder of your game (it may be under another sub-folder here called "Common"). Try to run your game from there. Many require Steam to run, but some will actually work fine, particularly old DOSbox-based stuff.

     

    It's not really recommended you use XP as a primary OS these days though. The security holes alone in that one and all its unsupported software is crazy, I bet. Then you run into things like this where you can't access your Steam library. Curious to know if you get it resolved though.

    On my computer it appears that that the game is not installed. Looks like I'll either need to upgrade or "legally buy the game from the official website",  I think I'll do the former.

  5. 10 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

    or you buy increasingly older stuff and cling to using that to find your fun.

    I'm probably going to do that. I already told myself if next gen is all digital or (god forbid) streaming only I'm going to only buy Nintendo products, and after they switch to all digital or streaming only i'm just going to buy games 20XX backwards.

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  6. Being someone who likes video games and wants to play them 10-30+ years down the line, stuff like streaming only game systems and all digital systems kind of make me worry about how we'll preserve and play these modern games in the future.

     

    Is it going to be next to impossible to play today's games tomorrow through emulation or by using the native console, or have people already found loopholes and such to preserve such stuff? 

     

    (Sorry if it sounds like I repeated my first paragraph, I'm very tired at the time of writing this post)

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  7. 20 hours ago, Magmavision2000 said:

    712445578_Copyofdownload(2).jpeg.97accf80217141d4305491d186e688d8.jpegAlright, so I broke my NES a couple of months ago (it's a long story) and I've been looking for a NES to play my games on and I found this thing on ebay for $25 (including shipping) and i said "what the heck i might as well check it out". After waiting about 4 days, it came into the mail today and I was pretty excited to see what a $25 NES would have in store. So In the box you get:

     

    1. System

     

    1. A/V Cable

     

    1. Power Adapter

     

    2. Controllers 

     

    So I hook it up to my CRT and pop in Super Mario Bros and already there's a huge problem, it sounds like nesticle. Everything was in a different pitch and Sounded like Mario ate one too many mushrooms, after I was done with that vaporwave version of Super Mario Bros I decided to play some Ninja Gaiden 2 on the system and guess what? There was little to no difference between playing on an original NES and playing it on this NOAC system! After being happy my $25 NOAC system wasn't nesticle in a box I played every game I have in my collection and they all worked, except one and that was Ninja Gaiden 1. So out of all 8 of my games 6 work (seemingly) perfectly, 1 has bad sound and 1 doesn't work at all.

     

    The controllers are really above average. They're like if Nintendo made brand new NES controllers but rounded.

     

    Overall I give this system an 8/10. This system is a decent NOAC Clone System and it's perfect for someone who just started collecting for the NES but doesn't want to spend $60-$80+ for an original NES. even though it has poor sound quality on some games and May have some terrible compatibility issues it still gets the job done and plays most of the essentials. Basically its like McDonalds, its not the best but it gets the job done.

    Update: So one of my games stopped working on the system after 1 day so this system now gets a 7.5/10.

  8. 712445578_Copyofdownload(2).jpeg.97accf80217141d4305491d186e688d8.jpegAlright, so I broke my NES a couple of months ago (it's a long story) and I've been looking for a NES to play my games on and I found this thing on ebay for $25 (including shipping) and i said "what the heck i might as well check it out". After waiting about 4 days, it came into the mail today and I was pretty excited to see what a $25 NES would have in store. So In the box you get:

     

    1. System

     

    1. A/V Cable

     

    1. Power Adapter

     

    2. Controllers 

     

    So I hook it up to my CRT and pop in Super Mario Bros and already there's a huge problem, it sounds like nesticle. Everything was in a different pitch and Sounded like Mario ate one too many mushrooms, after I was done with that vaporwave version of Super Mario Bros I decided to play some Ninja Gaiden 2 on the system and guess what? There was little to no difference between playing on an original NES and playing it on this NOAC system! After being happy my $25 NOAC system wasn't nesticle in a box I played every game I have in my collection and they all worked, except one and that was Ninja Gaiden 1. So out of all 8 of my games 6 work (seemingly) perfectly, 1 has bad sound and 1 doesn't work at all.

     

    The controllers are really above average. They're like if Nintendo made brand new NES controllers but rounded.

     

    Overall I give this system an 8/10. This system is a decent NOAC Clone System and it's perfect for someone who just started collecting for the NES but doesn't want to spend $60-$80+ for an original NES. even though it has poor sound quality on some games and May have some terrible compatibility issues it still gets the job done and plays most of the essentials. Basically its like McDonalds, its not the best but it gets the job done.

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  9. 3 hours ago, RevEng said:

    I like your art, but I think its too wide for the 2600 players/sprites, which are only 8 pixels wide. You could draw them with background, but then the objects would be all the same color, and godzilla would take up most of the screen.

     

    There's a trick where you can skew each line of sprite data, to give more apparent resolution and width, provided your sprite is leaning or angular. This trick was used in Dolphin and Medieval Mayhem, I believe. I think godzilla is a good fit. Here's a sample of what that might look like, using only a single 8-bit player...

     

    1315769323_godzilla8pixelsplushmove.png.332867486a7d584ba348c955fc35109e.png

     

    ...I'm sure a real pixel artist could do a better job with it.

     

    I redrew the sprites with 8 pixels wide in mind

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  10. Now i'm not a programmer, but I've been thinking of a Game where you play as a JSDF helicopter Pilot and you have to fight a division of evil helicopter pilots,  alien U.F.Os and the final boss Godzilla. Even though I said i'm not a programmer, I drew up some crappy sprites on some graph paper as seen below. So what do you guys think? Would you play an atari game about godzilla? 

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