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[PC/Console/Mobile Ports / Re: Battle Princess Madelyn [PC/PS4/XBOX/] by Causal Bit Games (Chris/LoboDaMainMan)]

GOG is the only way to go. Valve can shove Steam and DRM up their posterior cavities. I've got 266 GOG titles and counting. Love their sales events. Find some real gems for $5.00 and less. Ok, sorry... back on topic.

[High Score Records / Re: Implode High Scores]

DEAR LORD, why should I even bother playing this game?

I never intend to put that much effort into it. Play a quick game once every few years just so I get my money's worth out of it. I was just surprised to not see a high score thread for it. I figured it needed once so here we are.

STATUS: This is what you say now, but, five years hence, you and I will both talk about turning over the score counter TWICE and unlocking the OMAKE Arkhan buried deep in the game (a recreation of the shoot-em-up stage from Shadow of the Beast, but in the Egyptian Pyramid Plunderin' universe).

Been five years esty, any luck unlocking OMAKE? Haven't touched the game myself since because, as you had stated, what's the point.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: FX-Unit Yuki: The Henshin Engine for TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine]

Just received my copy yesterday. Haven't had a chance to play it yet, but looking forward to it. You guys never cease to amaze. Congrats on another amazing release!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Interest check: Airsoft...]

I play quite frequently and have a friend looking to start. What have you got. A list and pics would be helpful.

[General Gaming / Re: Halloween Games]

Sanitarium and the first Amnesia on the PC are really good games for this time of year. Sanitarium is one of those little known games that turns out to be a real gem. Amnesia was the only "horror" game that ever really made me scared to play it in the dark. I remember the first time playing it. Rounded the corner of a hallway and ran face first into a monster. At that very moment my cat jumped up on the entertainment center knocking a picture to the ground behind me. Scared me so bad that I nearly pissed myself. Good times, great games.

[General Gaming / Re: A 100$ fucking SNES SF2 repro]

RGT85 did lol.

Who the hell is this sorry excuse for an mouth breather and why does he have almost 50,000 subscribers??? I'm gonna go find a rock to crawl under and weep, for this world is beyond hope.

[General Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Thread (previously NX)]

Sonic Mania - I really like it and it plays just like the old 16 bit sonics. It feels most similar to a mix between 3 and CD, but graphically it looks like a higher frame count color count Sonic 2 and CD. I liked the old sonics, and like this one too - a great addition to my switch library choices. I wish there was a physical version, but I am glad to have it at all and wanted to support the devs for their great effort.

Still holding out hope for a possible cart release of Sonic Mania. Doubt it'll ever happen, but I'm gonna wait a few months longer and if none materializes, I'll likely pick up the download version.

Recently picked up Cave Story and Has-been Heroes. Cave Story I really enjoyed. HB Heroes, not so much. Looking forward to Mario Odyssey and plan on picking up Skyrim when it releases. Been years since I played through Skyrim and want to give another run through. Splatoon is on my pickup list as well.

Personally, I feel the offerings for Switch has been less than great, but hope thing turn around next year. Year one always tends to be the low point for releases.

Cave Story was really great on the Switch. So many choices for soundtracks and it controlled really well. Plus it's getting (or already has gotten) updates for 2p mode and a few other things. Though, I'm still stuck on the final boss.

I've been stuck on the final boss in the original Cave Story on my Wii for nearly eight years! He's a bastard and the devs should've dialed the difficulty back on him some.

I played at the default difficulty and was able to beat him on the first try. Perhaps I just got lucky. I was down to my last half life bar when I won, so I basically barely won. Was definitely a good game and will be  trying on a harder difficulty at some point.

[General Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Thread (previously NX)]

Recently picked up Cave Story and Has-been Heroes. Cave Story I really enjoyed. HB Heroes, not so much. Looking forward to Mario Odyssey and plan on picking up Skyrim when it releases. Been years since I played through Skyrim and want to give another run through. Splatoon is on my pickup list as well.

Personally, I feel the offerings for Switch has been less than great, but hope thing turn around next year. Year one always tends to be the low point for releases.

[Off-Topic / Re: Anyone going to Too Many Games in Oaks PA next weekend?]

Last time I was at TMG was when it was in Reading. Might have to check it out this year. Only two hours from me. Thanks for posting about it; as I had completely forgotten that TMG even exists. I've picked up many Turbo games there for really good prices.

[General Gaming / Re: OFFICIAL ZELDA:BOTW TOPIC]

Yes, you'll get the opportunity to do so at the Hateno tech lab.

[General Gaming / Re: OFFICIAL ZELDA:BOTW TOPIC]

I have been super busy the past few days and haven't had a chance to play much. But I've finally learned how to more easily kill guardians by parrying which has opened up a whole lot of new areas of the map to me.

I spam the time stop ability with them, then run up and take out the legs. If your lucky, you can overturn them and make things so much easier.

[General Gaming / Re: OFFICIAL ZELDA:BOTW TOPIC]

Compendium full, 115 shrines found, 324 korok found. Still only 51% complete. Seriously? Great game and overall time consumer. Well worth the price of the game and Switch alone.

70% of the completion percentage is korok seeds, and there are 900.

900??? Good one Nintendo, you always did excel in the completely ridiculous. Best of luck to anyone attempting to hunt them all down.

[General Gaming / Re: OFFICIAL ZELDA:BOTW TOPIC]

Compendium full, 115 shrines found, 324 korok found. Still only 51% complete. Seriously? Great game and overall time consumer. Well worth the price of the game and Switch alone.

[General Gaming / Re: Anyone happy with their 3DO?]

The system is worth owning just for Twisted. Put a good many hours into PO'ed and Killing Time. There was another fairly decent FPS about a haunted mansion, though the name escapes me. The system had its share of gems, but had an assload of stinkers as well.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Lucretia - Demon Princess (鬼姫の呪い in Japan) NOW IN BETA TESTING]

I received an email back in July which I had replied to, but I haven't seen any demo disc. I'll just have to wait for the ISO release I suppose. Game definitely look great. Looking forward to the release.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

Finally picked up a game controller for the first time in months. Been too busy working and having a blast playing airsoft during my far to little free time. Just started playing Xenoblade Chronicles X which I picked up new for $30 at Target a few months ago and so far have been performing very poorly. Either major grinding is necessary for progression or I'm doing something wrong.

Hop on now and then to read posts during lunch at work, but don't find the time or interest to post on here very often obviously. Hopefully that'll change, but its unlikely.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Game Stuffs]

Added 13 more MVS games from my collection. Also found various MVS mini marquees and paperwork I forgot I had. If there is any interest in them, I can post a list. Some go to the games I have for sale, so they'll be included with the games when sold.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Game Stuffs]

I would probably buy half of your MVS games if you'd ship to Canada...

Well, if I remember correctly I purchased my PC-FX from you, so I owe ya one. If your really interested, we can work something out. Send me a pm and we can go from there.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Game Stuffs]

After a lengthy nap, figured I'd wake this thing up to see if there is any new interest. Might be adding some goods to the list as well.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: USB converter for PC engine pad]

I remember RetroUSB used to have adapters for Turbobs, but everything else I recall seeing is DIY.

Have one of the RetroUSB installed into a TG16 controller that originally had a bad cord. Controls work great, but the I and II button turbo is erratic. Still happy with the results. Unfortunate he decided to discontinue it.

[General Gaming / Re: The 1st Video Game You Ever Purchased.]

Maniac Mansion for NES. Still a great game.

[General Gaming / Re: Retro VGS Game Console]

Is it just a coincidence that this is all popping up so close to April 1st?

I know I can't be the only one who thought about this. People have gone to great length for April Fool's jokes in the past, so who knows. Guess we'll know tomorrow.

[General Gaming / Re: DC Unreal Tournament or PCE Art of Fighting?]

I only have a 6 year old Macbook. It had a Windows 7 partition specifically for things like this, but I deleted it when I realized I hadn't booted into it in a year.

I have a couple of really terrible PCs that I only keep around for running Substation Alpha. I haven't a clue to their gaming potential.

I enjoy video games.

I think you are over estimating the requirements for Unreal Tournament GOTY. Any low budget Windows XP machine could run it as long as the cpu is in the 800mhz range and the graphics card is on par with a Nvidia TNT or ATI Rage 128. This includes gpu's like the onboard Intel Extreme graphics. If someone had something like an old Dell laying around, odds are the Dell would run the game fine if the Dell is from 2000 on up.

At any rate, just strikes me as odd that people would get by without a pc in the home. I mean yeah, it can be done, but personally I hate trying to type on tablets and phones, let alone do normal web browsing and online purchases on them. Even for casual use that feels painful to me. I guess though if thats all you got, then thats all you got. If anyone does care to do so though, you can buy cheap Athlon 64 and Core2Duo computers on ebay now. Would make good Xp legacy machines for old games.

I had a 400Mhz/512MB PC back when UT was released and it played the game just fine with a 64mb 3DFX card installed. Ultima 9 on the otherhand hated that PC. I even played through the Half-Life games with that setup with little trouble.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Nintendo and Genesis stuff you must buy.]

I also got my items in the mail. Just as mentioned already, they were packed to survive the dangers of the postal system.

[Off-Topic / Re: Foods from your childhood that you can't get anymore...]

Anyone remember the Nintendo cereal from the late 80's? Two half size bags of different cereal types per box. Great idea at the time, too bad it never stuck.

[General Gaming / Re: What was your first emulation experience?]

I'm with everyone else with Nesticle and Genecyst. I remember the team who made them also made a cool Streets of Rage style beat em up game that I played the shit out of. Magic Engine was my third emu. I think it was version 0.8 at that time? Had the emus and bunch of games zipped up and filling up floppies. Memories...

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: MSX2+ for sale (Sony HBF1-XV MSX2+) w/ BOX!]

What were you asking for the C64? I've been looking for a good priced system to mess around with. Always wanted one, though not sure why...

Since finding working software is getting harder and its near impossible to transfer images to real media it seems rather pointless to own, but I still want one.

Can't help that I'm a retard.

[General Gaming / Re: Wii U - Mariokart 8 Multiplayer meetup - Sign up here!]

I've gotten the game recently and would be interested in joining a game or ten. Same name and available weekend evenings.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

No pic, but just added 3DS Smash Bros to my recent gets. Anyone who has it interested in some battles when I get up and started on it?

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Just sold some unwanted items and picked these up.

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Apologies for the bad image quality. My little girl chose the AC4 and the Lego game.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: First foray into the PCE world...]

Oops, my very first post has not got to a good start  I meant to post this in the PCE section, not PCFX. Could the Mods oblige?

You are stuck, now you have to start a PCFX collection

Starting with the dating sims...

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB Mysterious Song]

So nothing to warrant a second purchase aside from collectard purposes?

What are these major errors you mentioned Rover? I, as well as many others have completed the game without running into any problems, so they would be more or less random occurrences? This, admittedly, is the first I've heard of any problems with the game so if it was mentioned about before, I missed it.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: NICE TG16 and CD ROM set w/cd system card and cables!]

If you're going to post in the FS forum with a link to an eBay item you're trying to get more exposure to, please change the post to "Item auction on ebay".  It's not in the rules, but it's common courtesy.

If he did that, people wouldn't bother looking.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: ATLANTEAN ORDERING INFORMATION (not til Friday)]

Out of curiosity Ark, have you started making the ROM available to people yet? I remember you saying about notifying folks when they are, but wasn't sure if it hasn't happened yet or if I might have been missed. I'm sure you guys are likely also busy making the cards too.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Did you get Smash 3DS yet?  I am going to pick it up today and I am pretty pumped to give it a try.  The demo had a lot of promise.

I played the demo and was definitely pleased. I have a 2DS and I had some difficulty with some of the moves. There isn't really anything to grip onto when holding it, so the system slid around in my hands when I was slamming the controls around. Had to resort to squeezing the system between my palms to support it which gave me a cramp. Wasn't fun.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Take Mario 3d off the maybe list and put it on the MUST HAVE list ;)

Honestly its the first new game I've played in a long time that was so fun it made me laugh and giggle like a little kid again.

I haven't had the chance to play Super Mario World 3D but everyone I know who has are saying it's the best Mario game in easily 20 years.

Must play.....

With reviews like those, who can refuse. Consider it bought!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Just had this show up in the mail.

Broke down and bought one of these as well.
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Get Super Mario 3D World Asap!

I actually mainly got it for the new Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors. Though Mario 3D is on the maybe list.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Just had this show up in the mail.

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Broke down and bought one of these as well.

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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB a few capacitors]

Nevermind, ordered them from Mouser.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB a few capacitors]

As the topic states, I'm looking for a handful of caps. Don't need to be anything great, just wanting to get a few more years out of my aging Macintosh LC. I could go straight to an online dealer or help someone on here out by taking a few unused caps off their hands. Voltage doesn't have to be exact, but as close as possible above recommended.

Here is what I need:
1uf 50v x1
10uf 16v x8
47uf 16v x5
100uf 6v x1

Just give me a quote with shipping to 17316. Thanks.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

I agree. Differences are pretty small compared to some other Genesis/SNES ports.

I'm looking at you Wrestlemania the Arcade Game!

32X version of Wrestlemania is king.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: What PC-FX game are you currently playing?]

Once a year I post in the PC-FX area.  You were lucky to be quoted in this year's rendition. 

You just posted twice, you broke tradition = failed this community. Your fired.

 

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: What PC-FX game are you currently playing?]

Wow Josh, that post was from over a year ago. Lol

Still don't have the damn game though. Power League is a great sports title, but not $40 great.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG16 Guide/Cheats book?]

QUESTION: Would the Bonk head have retained, lost, or increased from the stated "$5 value!"

Assume millions were made.

Ok, assume dozens were made.

All in a landfill somewhere.

[PC-FX Discussion / Re: What PC-FX game are you currently playing?]

Just hooked the FX up and started messing with Battle Heat some. Follow it up with another play through of Pia Carrot since I haven't played it in a while.

[Off-Topic / Re: Surge cola is back for sale]

I'd like to see a return of Josta. The prelude to energy drinks.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG16 Guide/Cheats book?]

Here's some stuff. MMIII book is for the computer game, but I count it as 100% official TG16 product:

SOMEONE POST A PIC OF THE PAGE.

GamePro also released strategy guides titled "GamePro Hot Tips" that had info for some TG games included. I can confirm two, Sports games and Adventure games. Not sure if any more were released.

Awesome. Didn't know about these. Ordered.

What is in that Ultimate Hint guide? I'll have to look for that.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG16 Guide/Cheats book?]

GamePro also released strategy guides titled "GamePro Hot Tips" that had info for some TG games included. I can confirm two, Sports games and Adventure games. Not sure if any more were released.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG16 Guide/Cheats book?]

I have that book along with the other two hint guides released for the turbo. Excellent amount of info in it. For the earlier hucard/CD games.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Duo screen burn in]

That happened to me when playing Bonks Revenge recently. I saw the outlines of the hearts in you life bar for a couple hours after. Had me worried till it went away. My TV is and LCD that I bought this past black friday, so it can happen on newer TVs too.