davidwhangchoi
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you fight Geese Howard if you don't lose a round? never knew that.
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PS2 Appreciation & Celebration Thread, long live the King!
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you fight Geese Howard if you don't lose a round? never knew that.
Yep, watched youtube vids on it...Geese looks tough in this game compared to the Fatal Fury ones!
davidwhangchoi
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I need R-Type Final as well...I'll get the others too.
davidwhangchoi
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getting a used ps2 copy is pretty cheap right now, averaging about 15 bucks shipped used on ebay. and 35-40 new. i grabbed mine used off amazon
davidwhangchoi
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i was saying in jest bc i remember the scarce ps2 @ launch and the launch titles.. (i waited in line for a crap long time) what's it about, fireworks? never played it =)
davidwhangchoi
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ah i see, it's a puzzle game...
well, i'm about to start chapter 2 in Shadow of Destiny tonight. really excited for ps2 gaming right now. i tried r-type final yesterday and realized it's going to be a task to unlock 100 ships so that can wait a bit. the one part i never looked at was the AI vs. battle game. this time around i'm going to give that mode a shot as well.
Opened up a brand new, sealed, official (et cetera) Dual Shock 2 controller yesterday that I had bought off ebay a couple weeks ago. Box looks completely immaculate aside from some fading on the yellow cardboard, I can't fathom how there could be any possible damage. Plug it into my PSone and the d-pad is stuck / forces a down-and-slightly-to-the-left scroll no matter what I do or what i press. Plug it into my PS2 and it isn't recognized at all. Has anyone heard of this happening before or have any advice? Could i have possibly shorted something out? Do DS2 controllers not work well with PSone?? I also have an older, cruddy DS2 that works fine, but seems to have some input lag. I'm not sure if I'm just used to 360/PS3, but i'm currently playing Xenogears on PSP and it feels pretty snappy. Thinking about opening both controllers and combining the parts. Really regret selling all my original PS2 stuff a couple gens ago.
davidwhangchoi
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did you record it =) i liked the shatterhand run
Nope, I'll do that later, though I hate recording 2D games on PS2 due to 480i which is tough for me so I have to use something better.
And thanks!
NormalFish
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I asked this a while back and folks mentioned adapters to use modern fightsticks on a PS2. Wasn't totally sure on compatibility or anything when I looked around, though.
sixteen-bit
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Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
PS2 version of Tomb Raider Legend at 480p + Widescreen looks pretty damn good. A few framerate drops but otherwise you can really tell late PS2 games from early PS2 games (unless the game in question is Metal Gear Solid 2 which still looked good throughout the entire PS2 lifespan >_>)
Still powering through Persona 3 FES. Save file is at 71 hours.
Still powering through Persona 3 FES. Save file is at 71 hours.
StevieWhite
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Just picked up a Japanese PS2! Has a "PC Card" port which is missing from my NA model. Anything fun I can do with that, beyond hooking up the standard expansions?
davidwhangchoi
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i picked this gundam game today, anyone ever play this?
sixteen-bit
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congrats on the milestone
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I'm still in the hype phase so it will take some time before I can look back onto it more objectively but:
damn, Persona 3 has the best final boss I have ever fought. Didn't look up any guides and I don't think I was over levelled (entire party between 70-72)
That was intense as hell. Lots of tactics switching. Took lots of endurance too. All 3 of my attempts lasted over an hour. I have fought bosses with multiple forms before but this guy takes the cake at 13 forms lmao
Kinda want to do mainline now. But then I never did beat dds2.
damn, Persona 3 has the best final boss I have ever fought. Didn't look up any guides and I don't think I was over levelled (entire party between 70-72)
That was intense as hell. Lots of tactics switching. Took lots of endurance too. All 3 of my attempts lasted over an hour. I have fought bosses with multiple forms before but this guy takes the cake at 13 forms lmao
Kinda want to do mainline now. But then I never did beat dds2.
davidwhangchoi
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nice! they look so clean in those packages.Never played that one. Picked up a few games myself!
i still have my ps2 copy of persona 4 un-opened... i got golden for psvita but haven't got very far... i'm really interested in getting into the series one day.
i'm definitely going to watch your vid. i've been linking no death runs for a few arcade games in another forum i frequent. (i like watching those vids every now and then) i'm going to share yours there once it's up =)
Morrigan Stark
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I kind of want to play that... <_<Found an article on Eternal Ring.
Yup, definitely has that signature From Software look
Fucking LOL @ that Warren Spector quote though. Funny to hear something so myopic from that so-called "genius".
Saoshyant
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It's not very good, in my opinion. You can check for yourself, though, since it shouldn't be too expensive, but From has always made tons of clunky games -- sometimes that works in spite of that or even because of that, others like Eternal Ring's case, I'd say it doesn't period.
Morrigan Stark
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Hah, fair enough. Hell I remember seeing this game in bargain bins all the time and never bothering back in the day, after all.
So what doesn't work about it? Bad controls?
So what doesn't work about it? Bad controls?
davidwhangchoi
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never played it either... the fire looks cool in those scans.
Bandersnatch1
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I enjoyed Eternal Ring when I played it a couple years ago. I liked the emphasis on magic with the rings. If you like the King's Field type games you should give it a try. The game costs like $1 anyway. King's Field: The Ancient City and especially Shadow Tower Abyss are the best at that type of gameplay on PS2. Hopefully the translation for Hungry Ghosts finishes soon, been wanting to give that on a shot. As much as I love the Souls games, I wish they would revisit King's Field.
You will? Awesome. Here's something to note about this playthrough:
I perfected 2 characters in it, which I didn't expect to happen at all
Both Yuri and King's shirts are ripped off, lol
I almost perfect Geese in the 1st round, and shockingly didn't lose to him in the 2nd round
sixteen-bit
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90000 series looks so nice, especially in silver.
nice pickups KD is my favorite PS2 game
nice pickups KD is my favorite PS2 game
Saoshyant
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Everything about it just is sort of half assed or really clunky. You'll get motion sickness from the FOV, you'll see monsters with path issues, you'll find that the gem system is unnecessarily obtuse in a game that isn't that hard to begin with...
But on the other hand, it is pretty unique as a PS2 title and its closest comparison game-wise is indeed From's own King's Field series. The story is also rather good, some say it's the highlight.
Find it cheap and try it. You may be able to get through it (it's not too long either) or you may not be able to stomach it at all, but no harm done either way.
davidwhangchoi
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I got a slim silver PS2 today! It came with some extras I won't ever probably use, the eyetoy, silver remote, etc. I did score the matching silver component cables and optical cable.
i was about to grab a silver slim for 20 bucks but elected to get a genesis instead
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
You are excused this time because the genesis is awesome.
Don't let it happen again, though.
davidwhangchoi
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lol
i have a slim already so didn't want to double up yet =)
i stopped by a retro store today, called Digital Press in Clifton, NJ
here's my haul
most excited is the game in the middle:
it was 7.99. they had a buy 2 get one free on ps2 games so i just picked up FFXII and onimusha 3 for the hell of it.
man, i always wanted to play FM5 so bad but needed a copy of a blk label JYP disc. (since the greatest hit doesn't work w/ the fan translation) thankfully they had a copy of both the greatest hits and black label so i was able to double check the serial numbers on the discs since JYP's greatest hits disc look identical on the actual disc inside. (i wanted to make sure someone didn't sell them a greatest hits disc in the blk level case) they were really cool in letting me open them up.
sixteen-bit
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I herd FM5 is really good. Nice pickup!
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
New copies of FM5 were 500 yen bargain bin fodder a couple years ago in Japan, but it's wild to see a cheap copy in America.
Cool that it can be patched to English. I should do that to my copy and put it on my PS2 Hdd...
Cool that it can be patched to English. I should do that to my copy and put it on my PS2 Hdd...
davidwhangchoi
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i just starting playing FM5 tonight. it really looks great. such an upgrade over FM4 (which i liked btw), in the graphics dept,
this is such an underrated series that never caught on in the west...=( i hope more plp give this a shot
this is such an underrated series that never caught on in the west...=( i hope more plp give this a shot
How can you play Soul Calibur or Tekken using that
How can you play Soul Calibur or Tekken using that
Why would you play Soul Calibur or Tekken when you can play Virtua Fighter?
How can you play Soul Calibur or Tekken using that
Why would you p-
yeah that!
3 is amazing... but really terrible to play with the DC pad.
Should I get a Dreamcast to PS2 adapter for it?
Oh and I do have Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution, which is awesome!
That should help - even better if you have a PS2 arcade stick! the game isn't as easy to pick up and play as 2 or even 4, but when you get the swing of it, movement is a joy:
