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Classic Video Games / Re: What's your Mario kart series tier list

« on: April 09, 2020, 11:12:05 pm »

1- Mario Kart 8/DX
2- Mario Kart 64
3- Mario Kart Wii
4- Mario Kart 7
5- Mario Kart: Super Circuit
6- Mario Kart: Double Dash
7- Super Mario Kart
8- Mario Kart DS

I never played the arcade games or Tour; not really interested in them. Also I didn't grow up with the popular MK games: Double Dash and DS, so I have very little attachment to them.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Favorite 16-bit soundtracks

« on: April 07, 2020, 11:43:49 pm »

-Streets of Rage
-Sonic CD (I like the US and Japan/PAL versions more or less equally)
-Dragon Quest III
-Donkey Kong Country 1-3
-Mega Man 7
-Mega Man X
-Star Fox
-TMNT IV
-Waterworld (Dean Evens' music in general, is great)

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Classic Video Games / Re: What are the best games (in order) for the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series

« on: April 04, 2020, 08:29:23 pm »

I could never really get into the Final Fantasy games so I can't rank them, but I am a huge fan of Dragon Quest/Warrior. My personal ranking for the main games is:

1. Dragon Quest V
2. Dragon Quest III
3. Dragon Quest IV
4. Dragon Quest XI
5. Dragon Quest VIII
6. Dragon Quest VII
7. Dragon Quest I
8. Dragon Quest II
9. Dragon Quest VI
10. Dragon Quest IX

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Hardware and Tech / Re: NES Satellite issue

« on: March 28, 2020, 02:17:36 pm »

Update (not that anyone cares): The NES Satellite seems to be working again. I didn't do anything to it since I last posted on this topic, its been sitting in my closet for months, but out of curiosity, I thought I'd dust the accessory off and see if it'd work on my the AV Famicom I had recently got in the mail. Turns out that the NES Satellite not only works fine on the AV Famicom, but the thing was reading all of my button inputs fine again.

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General / Re: What games are you playing during this dystopian lockdown?

« on: March 27, 2020, 11:20:37 pm »

Been playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX and when it gets released in a few days, Persona 5R.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What Are Some Easy RPG's

« on: February 18, 2020, 08:21:06 pm »

Dragon Warrior/Quest I is pretty short and straight forward. I'd recommend playing the SNES, GBC, or mobile ports of the game over the NES version. If you have the time, you can beat the game in a day or two.

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General / Re: Games With The Same Name Different On Other Devices

« on: January 28, 2020, 11:18:21 pm »

Tetris 2 on Famicom and Tetris 2 on NES are pretty different. The Famicom Tetris 2 plays like an actual Tetris game and includes 2-player, battery back-up saves, and an extra game called Bombliss. Also Koichi Sugiyama composed the music (the composer for the Dragon Quest/Warrior games). The Tetris 2 North America and Europe knows is actually called Tetris Flash in Japan and is like the weird love child of Tetris and Dr. Mario. While it too has a 2-player mode, it lacks a save feature, bonus game, and at least to me, is no where near as fun/easy to pick up as regular Tetris. While still on the topic of Tetris on NES, the Famicom version of Tetris is different from the licensed NES version being developed by Bullet-Proof Software rather than Nintendo R&D1.

Other games that are different on other consoles that come to mind are: Sonic Unleashed on PS3 vs PS2, Sonic Generations on PS3 vs 3DS, Sonic Colors on Wii vs DS, Ghostbusters II on NES vs GB, TMNT on GBA vs every other platform it was released on, The Adventures of Batman & Robin on SNES vs Genesis vs Sega CD, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on SNES vs Genesis vs Game Gear vs Game Boy, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie on SNES vs Genesis, and Strider on NES vs Genesis.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Game that Never Released that You Wish Had?

« on: January 23, 2020, 12:36:16 am »

Given how short lived the console was their are many games to choose from, but Dragon Hopper on Virtual Boy seems like it would've been a fun game to play.

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Classic Video Games / Re: 25th Anniversary of PlayStation!

« on: December 05, 2019, 03:34:27 am »

Hard to believe it's already been 25 years! I think I was introduced to PlayStation around 1999 when my cousin gave my oldest sister his PS1 and games since he had gotten the Dreamcast. It was one of the early model PS1s (the ones that had an actual composite connection) so the discs wouldn't want to spin properly unless it was on its side.

PS1: Mega Man X4- I love just plowing through this game. It doesn't have any weird gimmicks like the other X games (besides X1) that bog things down. Other than X4, I like Dragon Warrior VII, Mega Man 8/X6, Spyro 1, Zoop, and Wipeout 3.

PS2- Katamari Damacy- Along with Picross, this is one of my favorite chill games. Great music and such a simple fun idea. Other games I enjoyed were Sly 1/2, Dragon Quest VIII, Battle for Bikkini Bottom, Jak and Daxter, Hit & Run, SSX Tricky, and Kingdom Hearts II.

PS3- I don't really have a favorite for PS3 since I didn't get one until like 2014 and haven't played a game yet I'd call my favorite on the system. I did enjoy Sly 4, Puppeteer, Sonic '06, Metal Gear Rising, and Persona 5 though.

PS4- It's hard to pick just one, but between Dragon Quest XI and Owlboy, I suppose I'll go with Owlboy since I enjoyed the extra stuff the Switch version of DQXI added. Owlboy was a surprise for me. It looked like a fun 2D platformer adventure game from trailers and little bits of gameplay I saw, but I found myself relating to the main character Otis, liking many of the main/side characters, and in general, found the game to be a fun experience from beginning to end. Besides DQXI and Owlboy, I had fun playing Sonic Forces, Sonic Mania Plus, Mega Man 11, Team Sonic Racing, and Yakuza 0.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Video Game Cartridges and End Labels

« on: November 18, 2019, 06:32:28 pm »

I'm not very fond of the amount of variation in cartridge shape and colors when it comes to Famicom games after being so used to how nice and uniform NES carts look. As for the end label issue, I ended up making my own end labels for my Famicom, Super Famicom, N64, and 5200 games.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Weird Game Gear cartridge

« on: November 05, 2019, 11:36:16 pm »

don't know either

I think that the circuit board should have a battery in it but I don't see one. If it were a game.


I just read on an un-secure site google link that there is a game test cartridge out there according to the Game Gear Service Manual page 29 and 30 but I didn't click on the site link

I assume you're talking about this:

30
31
32
33
34
35

Someone on twitter linked me to this. If I'm reading this manual correctly, then I'd need a link cable plugged in to get past the initial soft check step. The manual also confirms that the Japanese text on the red screen that appears is about a communication cable problem. I'm not sure what the "exclusive adapter" that is mentioned on page 34 is; I'm assuming it would be a Game Gear Link Cable (Gear-to-Gear Cable)?

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Classic Video Games / Weird Game Gear cartridge

« on: November 04, 2019, 06:23:11 pm »

Earlier today I found a Game Gear game that had no label besides "GG Checker" at a thrift store. It appears to be official looking at the circuit board and it brings up the licensed by Sega start up screen when I turn the game on. I assume it would be like a button test program or some other kind of test cartridge like Nintendo made for their consoles, but nothing happens after the licensed by Sega screen except that a red screen with Japanese text appears. Pressing the buttons does nothing. I couldn't find anything online about this thing, so I'm not really sure what it is. The only other thing of note about the cartridge is that rather than a game bit screw on the back it has a small phillips screw similar in size to the ones early NES game carts used.

Update: The text on the red screen basically translates to "Poor Connection." So I assume this cartridge is for testing the link cable connection between two Game Gear consoles.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Super Nintendo/Super Famicom Games Discussion and Favorites

« on: September 22, 2019, 07:37:34 pm »

Other than the bigger games, some of my favorite SNES/SFC games are:

Zoop
Mario's Super Picross
Super Adventure Island II
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday
Tetris & Dr. Mario
Super Tetris 3
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!
True Lies
Astro Go! Go!
Super Game Boy (not a game, bit it really opens up your library of games to play on SNES)

If you have a Super Scope, Yoshi's Safari is pretty fun too.

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General / Re: September 2019 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: September 11, 2019, 09:34:38 pm »

Got a Japanese Cobalt Blue 3DS and Slime Morimori: Dragon Quest 3. Been wanting to play this game since I first heard about it eight years ago and was hoping Square Enix would've localized it in that time, but that unfortunately never happened. I don't know how to read Japanese/Kanji, but I was able to beat the first Slime Morimori game on the GBA with no language barrier issue, so I hope the same will happen with this game.

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Modern Video Games / Re: Nintendo Switch Most Anticipated Games

« on: August 24, 2019, 10:31:30 pm »

My most anticipated Switch games currently are:

• Dragon Quest XI S
• Astral Chain
• Link's Awakening
• Luigi's Mansion 3
• Fuga: Melodies of Steel
• Eastward
• Shovel Knight's physical release