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General / Re: The Top 10 Most Wanted Items on Your Wishlist
« on: September 22, 2015, 10:08:54 am »Unfortunately the primo SNES-stuff still is insane, so I'm just hoping the prices will eventually fall down again.
EarthBound (SNES)
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
E.V.O. (SNES)
Demon's Crest (SNES)
Super Mario RPG (SNES)
Knights Of The Round (SNES)
Illusion Of Time (SNES)
Doom Troopers (SNES)
Paper Mario (N64)
Cave Noire (Game Boy)
Most of these were never released in the EU, which is why I missed out on them.
I actually got Cave Noire, so in place is a complete Jumpman disk version for the C64. Never seen one for sale!
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Site Feedback / Personal rating/review option?
« on: September 22, 2015, 10:06:18 am »
I always liked these on discogs for example, to read up what some people think about certain albums, so why not games? For reviews of course you'd need some restrictions to avoid garbage/spam posts though, like a minimum of 100 characters or approval by an admin.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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Site Feedback / Missing categories/mediums/formats
« on: September 22, 2015, 09:41:39 am »
I couldn't find an appropriate topic, sorry if one already exists!
I wanted to add in my Commodore 64 diskette collection, but this format does not seem to be in the database yet, only cassette tape & cartridge. I don't know about the US, but in most of EU (except the UK I think) diskettes were way more common than any other format. These ones (also called floppys):
Definately need a "Commodore 64 [5,25"-diskette]" option.
E: Probably need to distinguish between diskettes suitable for either C64 or C128 or both too.
I wanted to add in my Commodore 64 diskette collection, but this format does not seem to be in the database yet, only cassette tape & cartridge. I don't know about the US, but in most of EU (except the UK I think) diskettes were way more common than any other format. These ones (also called floppys):
Definately need a "Commodore 64 [5,25"-diskette]" option.
E: Probably need to distinguish between diskettes suitable for either C64 or C128 or both too.
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Site Feedback / Re: German rating (USK)?
« on: September 08, 2015, 03:18:06 am »I'm currently working on something in the database, so I could add these ratings at the same time. Matt is the one who is going to apply my modifications in the end, but I can add the ratings to the pile of what I'll send him once I'm done with the rest.
According to http://www.usk.de/en/, there's 0, 6, 12, 16 and 18, is this all?
The format would be:
USK - 0 (Germany)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterhaltungssoftware_Selbstkontrolle
0, 6, 12, 16 & 18, those 5 are the ones that only are there at USK
The labels changed a bit over the years but yes, always been those 5.
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Site Feedback / German rating (USK)?
« on: September 07, 2015, 04:14:56 am »
Hi,
I wanted to add in a german USK "Ab 18"-rating from 2002, but these don't seem to be included in the database yet.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterhaltungssoftware_Selbstkontrolle
Are regional ratings added in on request?
I wanted to add in a german USK "Ab 18"-rating from 2002, but these don't seem to be included in the database yet.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterhaltungssoftware_Selbstkontrolle
Are regional ratings added in on request?
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General / Re: Harvest Moon series - any love? recommendations?
« on: September 01, 2015, 03:37:09 am »Hahaha, i would soooooo buy a FPS Harvest Moon
I never played Back to Nature so I can't say much about how it relates to the N64 version. I personally didn't have much of a problem with the 64 version. However, I played that one A LOT. So I'm not sure if that's just because I knew how the game worked insides and out. It may be a bit harder than Back to Nature. It's also a fairly expensive game. I own it. Maybe I should buy Back to Nature and compare it.
If your not into hand held gaming, and you love the farming and life simulator aspects of Harvest Moon, I would strongly suggest "A Wonderful Life" on the GameCube. Its all about living in a small mountain village. You only have three girls to choose from, and the village is on the small side, but you actually age in the game. So you see your character grow old, your child grow up, its kind of unique. I like it better than Magical Melody, because it seemed more like a farming/life simulator than a "collect the music notes for the goddess" simulator.
On the Wii, like I said, Tree of Tranquility focuses a lot on farming. Animal Parade focuses on farming, but also a lot on collecting a wide variety odd animals. It's fun, but it seems like they were starting to take Harvest Moon in a new direction.
Oh, and while Rune Factory Frontier does focus more on combat, it does have a lot of farming aspects in it. I didn't think the combat seemed too bad. I spent more time farming, crafting items, expanding my house and trying to hook up with the local ladies than battling. Rune Factory Tides of Destiny has a bit more combat, but still a good deal of farming, crafting, etc. I own Tides of Destiny on the Wii, but near the last dungeon in the game it starts lagging pretty bad because there are two many enemies on screen at times. I heard the PS3 version doesn't lag as bad, so you may want to consider that.
If you ever have any questions, feel free to ask. I LOVE Harvest Moon games. I'll help in anyway I can. It's great to have another person to talk to about these games
Well "A Wonderful Life" sounds like the thing I'm actually looking after! The dating sim part was always my least favorite thing about HM, so a small village part might be a good thing for me. Or maybe Tree of Tranquility. Guess I will start with these and Rune Factory and see how it works. Thanks for the help!
Re: Back To Nature VS. Harvest Moon 64 - the setting and looks are pretty much the same (routes are different though I guess?), BTN seems to be a bit more forgiving and added a few more features, also for some reason the families and their jobs and sometimes their personalities were randomly jumbled, f.ex Karen is a nice person there and Jeff's daughter, Popuri is the ditzy girl and her family owns the Poultry, Gotz is a lumberjack and his whole family died. Kind of weird...
The problem for me is, I have never found a Harvest Moon game that I have loved as much as Harvest moon 64. I have played nearly all of them and none have captured that magic. Guess it was just a perfect storm. Remember playing it all summer long when it came out. I even created my own guide with all of the hints and tips I found
Haha, maybe I feel the same about the SNES title because I played the crap out of this one. I too remember wasting entire school summer holidays with this game. Had no Internet back then, so I tried to understand the mechanics by myself. Now with all the documentation available one can see it's actually a really simple game but back then I just overthought way too many details, like when you dug up a mole, for some reason I thought this would trigger more bad weather or taking a peek in girls' diaries would have a negative effect somehow.
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General / Re: Harvest Moon series - any love? recommendations?
« on: August 30, 2015, 12:04:09 pm »Big fan of the Harvest Moon series. My favorite is of course "Harvest Moon 64," but I played the original SNES title a bunch as well. As far as hand helds go, when I was younger I played Harvest Moon GBC 2 a lot, which was a lot of fun. I also really enjoyed the Gamecube game "Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life" even if the overall town and variety was pretty slim.
A lot of the versions on the DS aren't worth it if you ask me. They were kind of lacking, such as Harvest Moon Sunshine Island. "Harvest Moon A New Beginning" on the 3DS was fun, but "Harvest Moon A Tail of Two Towns" isn't very good, and STAY AWAY from "Harvest Moon The Lost Valley." It's terrible. You may want to check out "Story of Seasons" on the 3DS. It's made by Marvelous, so they couldn't use the Harvest Moon name, but a number of former Harvest Moon developers worked on it, so it feels more Harvest Moon like than Lost Valley.
There were also a few on the Wii. I really liked "Harvest Moon Tree of Tranquility" but didn't get into "Harvest Moon: Animal Parade."
Over the years, the series has had its ups and downs and everyone will tell you that they like certain ones better than others. When talking about spin offs, for example, I didn't really like "Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon" on the PSP, but I know a lot of people did. I do, however, love the Rune Factory games. The DS ones are great, but as far as hand helds go I liked "Rune Factory 4" on the 3DS the best. You don't have to play the other ones to play this one.
If you want a console version of Rune Factory, I would suggest "Rune Factory Frontier" on the Wii. It's a bit pricey at times, but I think it was the strongest in the lineup. You can also try "Rune Factory Endless Ocean," it came out on the Wii and PS3. It's not as good if you ask me, but it did expand on the overall game.
Thanks! That futuristic Harvest Moon one sounds hilarious, I had no idea. I know you can only do so much with the simple concept of farming, but making it a rogue action dungeon crawler or placing it in an odd futuristic setting seems kind of a stretch. I'm waiting for Harvest Moon: FPS (sort of Super Noah's Ark 3D?) because now everything seems possible with the series to me I guess.
Rune Factory seems to be a more action based spin off series but it looks pretty interesting. I'm not too much into handheld gaming, so I might get one of the Wii ones.
By the way, is the N64 title that unforgiving? I read a bit about it and apparantly you are seriously racing against the clock more than on any other HM title, no leeway for screwing up at all. I know I was frustrated with it in Back To Nature way more than once (which was more or less a reworking of the N64 title), but supposedly they adjusted the clock a fair bit on this PS title, so the N64 one probably is hell for me, haha.
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General / Harvest Moon series - any love? recommendations?
« on: August 30, 2015, 05:40:47 am »
Not sure if it fits here, the series spans from its retro beginnings until modern gaming today.
I was one of the few people who actually bought the SNES title in late '97/'98 when the N64 was already out because I just loved the concept back then and I still have a soft spot for the very limited and kind of crummy first installment. Later on I bought the Game Boy color one which unfortunately was heavily riddled with bugs and graphic glitches (as well as an inexcusable german translation), but it had some cool new features, like Mini games and a fish pond to tend to. "Back to Nature" for the PSX was pretty popular back then and I played it a fair bit, it introduced a lot of really neat features like cooking.
That was my last, but I was always kind of interested to check out the new ones. But there is a ton of new installments and spin offs after BTN, so I'm a bit unsure what to get. There is even a whole "Mystery Dungeon"-type rogue action RPG spin off series out there which I think is a combination so funny (plant the turnips and kill all the monsters!) that I might go and check these out. But what about the main series? You know, I just want to plant some veggies and expand my farm, no fancy lore stuff like "The Secret of the Holy Melody Tree Island" or whatever. Anyone out here who followed the series until today and can recommend some titles?
I was one of the few people who actually bought the SNES title in late '97/'98 when the N64 was already out because I just loved the concept back then and I still have a soft spot for the very limited and kind of crummy first installment. Later on I bought the Game Boy color one which unfortunately was heavily riddled with bugs and graphic glitches (as well as an inexcusable german translation), but it had some cool new features, like Mini games and a fish pond to tend to. "Back to Nature" for the PSX was pretty popular back then and I played it a fair bit, it introduced a lot of really neat features like cooking.
That was my last, but I was always kind of interested to check out the new ones. But there is a ton of new installments and spin offs after BTN, so I'm a bit unsure what to get. There is even a whole "Mystery Dungeon"-type rogue action RPG spin off series out there which I think is a combination so funny (plant the turnips and kill all the monsters!) that I might go and check these out. But what about the main series? You know, I just want to plant some veggies and expand my farm, no fancy lore stuff like "The Secret of the Holy Melody Tree Island" or whatever. Anyone out here who followed the series until today and can recommend some titles?
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General / Re: RPG maker
« on: August 30, 2015, 05:20:15 am »
That's cool 
post your efforts when it's done!
I used RPG 2000 with the unauthorized translation patch, it was incredibly popular back then. So much fun, although I never finished a project! I always loved stuff like this, when games offered a level editors I often played around with these at least as much as with the actual game, a whole game creator that was relatively easy to use was like a dream came true. Maybe I'll get back to it some day!
post your efforts when it's done!I used RPG 2000 with the unauthorized translation patch, it was incredibly popular back then. So much fun, although I never finished a project! I always loved stuff like this, when games offered a level editors I often played around with these at least as much as with the actual game, a whole game creator that was relatively easy to use was like a dream came true. Maybe I'll get back to it some day!
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General / Re: August 2015 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased
« on: August 28, 2015, 03:28:36 am »Woo-hoo! Picked up complete copies of Tomba and Tomba 2!!!
Great platformers and pretty rare I think, congrats!
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Classic Video Games / Re: Do you support homebrew/repros or are you against it completely?
« on: August 27, 2015, 03:02:53 am »
Homebrews are very cool, repros are a mixed bag. Repros of games that were never originally released or localisations that never happened back then are fine, but counterfeits of rare games are a big no. I feel the same about music really, I love rare live or rehearsal bootlegs but can't stand counterfeits of rare records.
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General / Re: August 2015 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased
« on: August 26, 2015, 02:45:12 am »My Bruno collection continues to grow.
$3. The thing is damn near mint.
Super-fun, overlooked, run-n-gun.
Yeah, good stuff. Especially for only $3!
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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Files Patent for New Games Console; Will Not Include Optical Disk Drive
« on: August 24, 2015, 04:00:38 pm »
I really doubt they will produce actual cartridges anymore. Compared to the 90ies they'd now be able to cram insane amounts of data in a little N64 cart sized plastic box (probably even more than on bluray or whatever), but the production is way too complicated and cost intensive to be a sensible format to use today. If they would use a physical format that is not an optical disk it's maybe going to be a special SD card type similar to Nintendo DS's. I sure hope it's not digital only as well but as haloofthesun said, after all it's all just speculation about a patent file.
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General / Re: August 2015 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased
« on: August 24, 2015, 11:55:34 am »
Nothing incredible, more a personal thing. I loved playing this on the PS1 on CDR back then as I wasn't able to do so on the PC. I wanted to finally get the real deal
. It's actually a pretty good port IMO, though it gobbles memory card space like a total asshole.