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Site Feedback / User Collection Pie Chart Customization?

« on: April 24, 2020, 08:45:01 am »

Hi all!

I noticed that there's a pie chart at the bottom of the user profile showing what their collection consists of. Very cool idea. I was wondering if there's a way to customize the colors for each system in the pie chart?

Thanks for your time.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Always online and the era of disposable games

« on: April 09, 2020, 08:36:56 am »

It started last gen and has really taken a foot hold this gen. Out of all the online specific games, oddly, my favorite is Warhawk from PS3. Loved the game. Starhawk wasn't nearly as good. Here's hoping a new Warhawk is in development for PS5, but with a single player offline capability that won't go away when the servers are brought down.

I don't like the practice of disposable games. You put all the time and energy into them only to find that your time was for nothing. I did recently pick up Division 2 but that was specifically because it was co-op oriented and only $5. I don't mind the $5 price tag for a disposable game, but sure as hell not $60.

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Modern Video Games / Re: What did you think of the PS5 specs announcement?

« on: April 08, 2020, 06:16:32 pm »

I think the controller looks pretty slick. I like it.

Now we need what games are coming at launch and a price point.

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General / Re: April 2020 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: April 06, 2020, 01:48:26 pm »

Last picked up Animal Crossing on switch for my daughter's birthday. She's loving it.

I've personally delved more into the retro scene.

Planning to buy Final Fantasy 7 Remake this Friday. After that.... God knows what's going to happen with this lockdown/outbreak.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Favorite 16-bit soundtracks

« on: April 06, 2020, 09:54:09 am »

Ninja Turtles 4 / HH
Jurassic Park - Genesis
Sonic CD, 1,2,3,K
Comix Zone
Mario World
Killer Instinct
Donkey Kong Country
FZero

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Classic Video Games / Re: Your Focus on Collecting?

« on: March 31, 2020, 09:03:58 am »

My retro focus is the Sega Game Gear. I pretty well stopped collecting for other systems a while back but continue to add to my Game Gear collection. There's a stopping point for me though. I'm still looking for a handful of games, but after those are collected, the rest of the Game Gear library will go onto an Everdrive.

Right now I have a few projects that I'm tinkering with. I am at the start of learning Z80 Assembler programming to start the process of creating my own Ninja Turtles game for the Game Gear. I've already created the box art, cartridge label, and full instruction manual to use as a blueprint. I've also put together mock gameplay footage of what I'm wanting it to look like once completed. It's essentially a combo of the original on NES and the 16bit games; Hyperstone Heist and IV. With having done that video, I have much of the sprite artwork completed for animation purposes. I also have a good chunk of one of the level's artwork completed.

My next project is how to get the Ninja Turtles game onto a Game Gear cartridge when complete. Luckily, I have a couple options. First option is the Everdrive cartridge. Second is to buy a PCB board and flash an eeprom with .gg ROM once it's done. I'm also looking into creating custom Game Gear cartridge shells.

Lot's on my table at the moment and almost all revolving around Game Gear.

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General / Re: What Equipment Have You Had To Replace Or Repair In Your Collection?

« on: March 28, 2020, 12:06:42 pm »

While some of this is no longer in my collection, I'll post everything I've had to replace and repair that I can remember...

REPLACE:
 - PS1 system (original had to be turned up-side-down to work)
 - PS2 Launch system (original was getting some disc read errors. Upgraded to Slim before Fat could die)
 - PS2 controller (my own damn fault)
 - PS3 60GB launch system (disc drive died. Replaced with 120GB slim)
 - PS3 controller (my own damn fault. Learned to stop raging after this)
 - Gamecube system (disc drive died; replaced with first Wii system)
 - Wii system (disc drive died)

REPAIR:
 - Game Gear (capacitors needed to be replaced which leaked and ate through motherboard which got replaced)
 - Game Gear games (while not broken, I went ahead and took them apart and gave the connectors a good cleaning)
 - Various PS1 games got resurfaced. Can't remember exactly which ones.
 - Jaguar controller (got on eBay. Connectors were bent to hell. Used needle nose pliers to straighten)
 - PS2 controller (attempted to fix after raging. Didn't work. Had to replace.)

You'll notice that there are no Xbox products listed above. That's due to only owning the first Xbox for one month, being disgusted with the Halo 2 community, and then selling it and never looking to the brand again. Saved me a lot of money. Jaguar and NES probably needed to be repaired as they both had the red blinky light of doom for many of the games I tried to play on them. They were sold as is on eBay a few years ago. Everything else in my collection.... never had a problem with. It's amazing how well my Sega systems have held up and how the PS4 has been reliable. Probably just jinxed myself though.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Sell me on Panzer Dragoon

« on: March 27, 2020, 02:47:47 pm »

Honestly, I can't. I've never really played the series and from what I've seen on Youtube, it doesn't appear to be something I would enjoy.

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Modern Video Games / Re: External HDD for PS4

« on: March 27, 2020, 01:35:10 pm »

Shoulda just waited for PS5 at this point.

The recent announcement that PS5 would have less than 1TB of SSD storage with external HDD support is one of the reasons I pulled the trigger. I've got plenty of room on the 4TB external for my entire PS4 library. I'm nearly done installing most my games on it and am breaching the 2TB range.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Hardest games you've completed

« on: March 27, 2020, 10:59:38 am »

I think that the biggest feather in my hard game completed cap is probably the first Ninja Turtles on NES.

It's a personal favorite as you can probably tell by my avatar. I used to be good enough at it to beat the game in 30 min without loosing a single Turtle. It was all about memorization or knowing when to use which Turtle. Keep in mind, I was probably around 12 years old, had a ton of time and very few other games to take my interest away from it. It was essentially the only game I played for like 6 months straight.

I've also beat Battletoads on NES a couple times which is a great game.

One of the more difficult games I own and simply couldn't beat was Judge Dredd on Genesis. It was given to me as a gift after participating in the Blockbuster Game Tournament where you had to play NBA Jam TE and the new Judge Dredd game and get as many points as possible. To this day, I really enjoy the game, but it gets to a point where it stops giving level passwords. Even with Game Geini I can't seem to beat it.

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Modern Video Games / External HDD for PS4

« on: March 27, 2020, 10:52:38 am »

The last couple years have shown massive increases for install sizes on games. Ridiculous sizes of over 100GB for games like Destiny 2, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Division 2. Back in 2015 or so, I upgraded my PS4's HDD from 500GB to 1TB. It still isn't enough to keep my favorite games installed and keep playing new ones. There was so many times I've had to uninstall and reinstall. RDR2 takes about an hour just to install from the two discs.

I had had enough of it. Bought myself a 4TB external HDD for game installs. I started yesterday and will continue today for getting everything reinstalled. It took about 3 hours to transfer nearly 800GB of installs from the internal to the external. Ridiculous... but now I have a majority of my PS4 game collection ready to go. Just pop the disc in and play like the good ol'days of PS1 and PS2.

I'll also note that after transferring the data off of my PS4's internal drive, keeping only apps like Youtube and game demos, the launch PS4 is running like it was brand new again. Massive difference as the system isn't having to think as hard and dig through all the install data.

I recommend buying an external to use. Load times appear to be faster as well. If you decide to go this route, it seems you have to use the second (right) USB port as the first port doesn't like to format/use the external drives. Not sure if that's just my system.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Do You Consider The SONY PlayStation 3's A Failure

« on: March 19, 2020, 03:21:24 pm »

Why would it be considered a failure?

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Modern Video Games / Re: What did you think of the PS5 specs announcement?

« on: March 19, 2020, 03:18:19 pm »

I'm still planning on buying assuming two things....
 1. It's got at least one game I want to play on it at launch that I can't get on PS4.
 2. It's $500 or less.

The tech overview was about what I expected. What I didn't like was how small the SSD is. I understand why as it's essentially light years ahead of most SSDs out there.... but still. Less than a Terabyte is going to hurt. The only thing outweighing that is that you can upgrade it later and there is external HDD support via USB. I was planning on buying an external for my PS4 games anyway considering that so many games have breached the 100GB mark for install sizes. It's kind of ridiculous.

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Modern Video Games / Re: 2020 Games

« on: March 11, 2020, 11:13:51 am »

- Streets of Rage 4

However, as always, I'll only be purchasing the latter 2 titles when (and if) they receive a physical release...

Has Streets of Rage 4 been confirmed as digital only? 

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Modern Video Games / Re: 2020 Games

« on: March 10, 2020, 03:35:25 pm »

My 2020 is kind of in a place of limbo as I wait for news on the PS5. I've been saving for PS5 the last few months anticipating a $500 price tag, but there are talks of potentially two different PS5s being released at the same time. Not sure what that might mean for pricing.

So far this year I've already bought The Division 2 for PS4 when it was on sale for like $5.

Anyway... I'm definitely getting the following:
 - RE3 Remake
 - FF7 Remake
 - Streets of Rage 4
 - Ghost of Tsushima

Normally, I wouldn't hesitate on preordering and picking up an awesome looking Resident Evil, but I've found that my taste has changed drastically since the series started, and I'm simply not that into survival horror games anymore. I currently have RE3 Remake preordered but after trying out the FF7 Remake demo... and with them releasing a week apart.... I'm thinking of getting FF7 Remake first and then getting RE3 Remake after a price drop.

As for Streets of Rage 4, I'm hoping to see a physical edition on PS4. Even cooler would be if Sega released a Complete series version of the game as maybe a collector's edition. Put the first three games on the disc with it. That would be pretty awesome.

Lastly, Ghost of Tsushima looks potentially incredible. I'd buy it on PS4, but I'm hoping that there will be a slightly more advanced PS5 version released with the launch of the new system. I know PS5 is confirmed to be PS4 backwards compatible, but having a definitive edition specifically for PS5 would be pretty awesome depending on what was included.

That's basically it for now.