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General / Re: Anyone else suck at finishing RPGs?

« on: July 15, 2023, 11:47:46 pm »

At this point I pretty much just stick to my favorite RPG series: Dragon Quest. I've dabbled in other RPGs but rarely finish them even if I thought they were fun. I'm currently giving Mega Man Battle Network a go and am enjoying it enough to the point where I could see myself finishing it and continuing on to Battle Network 2. I'm down to replay RPGs I've beaten like the pre-Switch era Pokemon games or Paper Mario 1-3. Outside of DQ, Pokemon, and Paper Mario, the only other RPGs I've finished have been: Mother 3, Chrono Trigger, and Persona Q2.

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General / Re: July 2023 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: July 15, 2023, 11:36:47 pm »

I've been a little bit amazed how many times now I've found multiple Gamecube games stuffed into one game case (three times now). The other day I found a Bratz game at a thrift store, decided to open it and ended up not only finding that Bratz game, but Metroid Prime and Scooby-Doo Unmasked. Unfortunately, Prime and even more unfortunately *sarcasm* the Bratz game aren't getting read on my Gamecube (I already have Prime on Gamecube, so it's no biggie). Even if the Gamecube game case says Madden or whatever shovelware, it never hurts to check inside for the chance of extra games even if they're technically loose copies.

Updated July 29

PS1
Driver
You Don't Know Jack Mock 2

PS2
Once Piece: Grand Adventure (no disc)

PS3
Little Big Planet
Little Big Planet 2

PS4
Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection

Gamecube
Scooby-Doo Unmasked

Xbox 360
The Gunstringer
Attack of the Movies 3D
Xbox 360 S 4GB model 1439

Game Boy Color
Gex 3: Deep Pocket Gecko

Wii
Wii Sports (Nintendo Selects release)
Wii Sports Resort

Switch
Gravity Circuit

Other
The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony
Sonic the Hedgehog Infinite figure
Hallmark Cat Mario Ornament
Hallmark Metroid Samus Aran Ornament

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Modern Video Games / Re: Limited Run Games Showcase 2023

« on: July 12, 2023, 08:12:38 pm »

I was at work while this presentation went on, but looking at their twitter feed, I'm looking forward to ClockTower, Gex Trilogy, Tomba, Shantae Advance, and Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore. Also I was happy to see that Plumbers Don't Wear Ties finally has a release date...or month in this case.

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General / Re: June 2023 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: June 28, 2023, 06:36:29 pm »

Sega Saturn
Virtua Cop (JP)
Virtua Cop 2 (JP)
Clockwork Knight (JP)
Saturn Bomberman (JP)
Nights into Dreams (JP)

PlayStation
Tomb Raider II

Nintendo 64
Pokemon Stadium 2

Virtual Boy
Nester's Funky Bowling

Other
Tandy Sports Arena
1988 Nintendo Z-Bag NES travel case

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General / Re: Your Top Video Game Franchises

« on: May 30, 2023, 07:12:08 pm »

1. Dragon Quest
2. Mega Man
3. Mario
4. Jupiter's Picross games
5. The Legend of Zelda
6. Sly Cooper
7. Little Tail Bronx
8. Pokemon (would've been much higher but I've fallen off the series heavily after gen VII)
9. Sonic the Hedgehog
10. StarFox

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General / Re: May 2023 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: May 27, 2023, 10:19:12 pm »

Switch
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Other
DSi Lanyard
DS Lite car charger

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Classic Video Games / Re: How many on here use a CRT for playing retro games

« on: May 03, 2023, 08:58:55 pm »

I have a 26" Sharp CRT TV and still use it from time to time. How my set up is with a Retrotink 2x mini and S-video amplifier, I can play consoles like the SNES, PS2, and N64 on either the CRT or HD TV or both at the same time if I wanted to. I mainly use the CRT for light gun games on NES, SNES, and PS1 and RF only consoles like the Atari 7800. I have a VCR/DVD combo that outputs HDMI so in theory I could have RF games go through that to the HD TV, but I usually have problems getting the signal to display. I have a thing that takes HDMI signals and turns it into Composite video, so if I really wanted to, I could play PS5 games on the CRT

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General / Re: April 2023 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: April 29, 2023, 07:42:37 pm »

PS1
Gunbullet
Rescue Shot

Virtual Boy
Galactic Pinball

Saturn
2 "For Parts" Saturns which ended up working mostly fine
ReSaturn PSU

Wii
Wiimote w/motion plus and nunchuk
Wii Sensor Bar
The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

PS3
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift

PC
Pokemon Gotta Make 'em All! Red version

Other
New Super Mario Bros. Wii simplified piano solos

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General / Re: March 2023 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: March 27, 2023, 06:14:18 pm »

3DS
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice
Otosan
Fragrant Story

PS1
Rockman: Battle & Chase

Super Famicom
Rockman's Soccer

WonderSwan
Engacho!

Saturn
Rockman 8: Metal Heroes

Other
Kirby Plush

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General / Re: February 2023 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: March 01, 2023, 08:59:03 pm »

Not a whole lot this month. Just random things.

Xbox Series S
Hi-Fi Rush

SNES
InterAct Super Pad controller
3 SNES controllers

PS2
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies

Wii
Nyko wireless sensor bar

Other
Yoshi beanie plush from 1997
Ghouls 'n Goblins ReAction/Super 7 figures set 1

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General / Re: Rarest Items in Game Collection?

« on: February 21, 2023, 11:53:45 pm »

I have some games that go for a bit of money, but I wouldn't exactly call them rare. Games like Pokemon Emerald, Heart Gold, Black 2 or the mainline DS/3DS Dragon Quest games. In terms of consoles that are rare-ish, I have a Game Boy Light, Virtual Boy, 32X, and Nuon.

The things I would count as rare (being small print run over value) that I own are:

-Tail Concerto (PS1, loose, ~150,000 sold)
-Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (DS, loose, ~100,000 sold)
-Nintendo Roulette board game from the 1960s (complete, ?? made)
-Sutte Hakkun (SFC, loose, ?? sold) It was a very late Super Famicom game release (June '99)
-Retrobit Mega Man: The Wily Wars re-release (GEN, complete, 20,000 made)
-Retrobit Avenging Spirit re-release (GB, complete, 5500 made)
-Rikki & Vikki (7800, complete, 550 made)
-Virtual Boy Works Collector's Edition (book, complete, 500 made)
-Primal Rage Blizzard trophy (?? made) I could only find one video about this trophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC54e6vw3aM
-Game Gear Checker cartridge (GG, loose, ?? made) A test cartridge for checking link cable connections between Game Gear consoles.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: February 15, 2023, 11:26:22 pm »

Finished Mega Man Zero the other day. Overall, while the screen visibility issues were very annoying, I enjoyed the game, especially the last stages. Before tackling Zero 2, I decided to give Hi-Fi Rush a go since that game looked really fun from the trailer and it reminded me of No Straight Roads which I really enjoyed. Finished the first stage and while it's really fun so far, I'm really not used to using an Xbox controller. Having grown up with Nintendo stuff, Microsoft's ABXY placement feel really off to me and takes a while to adjust to.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: February 10, 2023, 11:41:32 pm »

I've been giving the Mega Man Zero games (playing Zero 1) a try and I'm not sure if the reason people say these games are hard is because of the bosses/levels or because of screen crunch/leaps of faith and enemies shooting at you from off screen. It's reminding me of the GBA version of Mega Man & Bass with these annoyances. The boss fights so far have been fine as long as the boss has stayed on screen where I can see them. The levels in these missions have been disappointing ending so quickly and not being very interesting outside of the occasional enemy shooting at or dropping something on you from off screen.

I'm liking the story, setting, and character designs though. The fact that Zero gets multiple weapons that can be leveled up is pretty neat too.

I played through all of them a few years ago. The first game was my least favorite by far. Had the least amount of content and was definitely the most frustrating. No option to continue and replenish lives was really unfortunate if you saved the game with 0 lives and a difficult stage ahead of you. I also had to change the default controls (I was playing on PS4 with the legacy collection, not sure what you were playing).

My ranking is 3 -> 2 -> 4 -> 1. I prefer the ZX games personally because I feel like they had more to offer.

I'm playing the Legacy Collection on PS4 and I immediately changed the controls to feel more like the Mega Man X games (X jump, Square weapon, Circle dash, L1 is sub-weapon). Good to know that the other games are better.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: February 08, 2023, 11:44:22 pm »

I've been giving the Mega Man Zero games (playing Zero 1) a try and I'm not sure if the reason people say these games are hard is because of the bosses/levels or because of screen crunch/leaps of faith and enemies shooting at you from off screen. It's reminding me of the GBA version of Mega Man & Bass with these annoyances. The boss fights so far have been fine as long as the boss has stayed on screen where I can see them. The levels in these missions have been disappointing ending so quickly and not being very interesting outside of the occasional enemy shooting at or dropping something on you from off screen.

I'm liking the story, setting, and character designs though. The fact that Zero gets multiple weapons that can be leveled up is pretty neat too.

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General / Re: January 2023 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: January 31, 2023, 11:24:35 pm »

Didn't really get all that much this month.

GBC
Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey

PS2
Final Fantasy X-2 (case only)

Xbox 360
Left 4 Dead 2

Wii
Skylanders Giants

Other
DSi/3DS charger for cars
Splatoon manga vol. 2
Dragon Quest The Adventures od Dai vol. 1
Random Pokemon cards
Insurrection Industries Sega Genesis 2 scart cable
Performance Game Boy light and magnifier
GBA SP travel case
Meganium and Scyther Pokemon figures
Game Informer #347 (Sonic Frontiers)