Benslammin
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Is Alundra good? I have been meaning to play it, I don't have much experience with these type of games.
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PS1 Appreciation/Collectors Thread of Ugly-Ass Polygons
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Nope. Super Robot Wars: Alpha Gaiden has a full english translation patch. I bought the game, ripped it to my PC and then patched it. Burned it on a disc, and tested it out on my PSone that I recently got back from Baphomet, who installed a mod chip. Ever since I played the first Original Generation GBA game, i've wanted to really get into the series. Just as a point, Super Robot Wars J on GBA has a full patch, and Super Robot Wars Z2 for PSP has a menu translation patch.
I'll snag Policenauts and Tales of Phantasia at some point as well.
Morrigan Stark
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Definitely. Best Zelda game ever.
sixteen-bit
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Alundra is quite good.
Which reminds me... It states in the manual that WD changed the difficulty and some damage stats. Anyone play the JP version? How would you compare the two?
sixteen-bit
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I remember hearing the North American one was censored.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I have both US and Japanese versions. I should finally play the J version... See that hell level as it was meant to be.
Picked it up on the same day I bought Bust a Move. Uncensored Japanese rhythm games baby!
Picked it up on the same day I bought Bust a Move. Uncensored Japanese rhythm games baby!
IrishNinja
Member
oh man, what did they change up in Bust a Move?
speedlolita
Member
Probably means Bust a Groove.
titties everywhere
IrishNinja
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Yeah I can't wait to see that final level, though I'm playing through PaRappa first. Also holy hell are those games difficult; I remember the timing on Um Jammer Lammy being a little looser, but PaRappa is really demanding. It might just be the emulator I'm using (Mednafen) introducing some lag though. Really need to get the proper hardware set up.
IrishNinja
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i used to love freestyling in PaRappa, but there's definitely levels (cooking chicken, ugh) that i never felt i had a firm grasp on what was wanted. that said, if your timing is off - PSP version, HDTV lag, etc - the game starts to fall apart too.
Also for anyone else on OS X, here's a quick guide I put together on ripping PS1 disks to BIN/CUE files for use in emulators. Just don't go distributing those files or you'll be breaking the law which is super uncool.
Edit: A friend pointed me to cdrdao which can handle multitrack files, here's a guide: http://pandorawiki.org/Creating_images_of_PSX_games_using_Linux
Edit: A friend pointed me to cdrdao which can handle multitrack files, here's a guide: http://pandorawiki.org/Creating_images_of_PSX_games_using_Linux
I couldn't figure out how to change the menu language in PaRappa, so I can't really tell, but is there any way to calibrate for lag?
putermcgee
Junior Member
Wow, I hadn't seen this post until just now, but I also just picked up Parappa and Um Jammer Lammy yesterday. My Um Jammer case has the spine card, but Parappa doesn't (it's the original release, though). I guess prices vary when importing, but I got them at a shop for 100 yen each.
I have more pictures on Imgur, but here are some highlights:
I used to have Bust a Move/Groove and Vib Ribbon too, but who the hell knows what happened to them. I think those are the last two on my small list of PS1 games I want to have.
Man that original retail PaRappa disk is super nice.
theSlacker
Member
Yeah that thing is looking cool as fuck. Makes me happy just looking at it.
speedlolita
Member
Love how UmJammer does the reverse case thing that Vib Ribbon does too.
I believe you're suppose to put the disc in the other way round though so you can see the art on the disc through the sleeve!
I believe you're suppose to put the disc in the other way round though so you can see the art on the disc through the sleeve!
Haha yeah someone pointed that out to me the other day. I was kind of going back and forth before that because it seemed weird to put the disk in backwards. The reverse cases are dope though, Vib Ribbon's manual has a tiny picture of Vib Ribbon in her crowned form in the centre that you can see through the hole in the middle too.
Edit: You can kind of see what I mean in this picture (not mine)
speedlolita
Member
Yeah I noticed that with my copy, very cool!
sixteen-bit
Member
Some of the teeth that hold the disc in place on my VR snapped off, so it harms the effect. Sucks.
putermcgee
Junior Member
That was my first thought because the black just looks weird. However, Spinning the disc around with it reversed never really looks right either. Honestly, while I think the effect is awesome with Vib Ribbon, I don't dig it so much with Um Jammer.
Can't you replace it though? I thought Japanese Playstation game boxes were made of standard Crystal boxes. I've replaced countless of my Saturn and Mega CD boxes with new plastic parts when they were scratched or broken.
[edit] looking at pictures, it's a special box
Maybe if you can find a cheap Playstation game with transparent inner parts?Vib Ribbon is in one of the fat cases with 'Playstation' embossed on the top and bottom sides. You could probably repurpose one from another PS1 game though.
Edit: Yeah actually it does have a frosted, transparent disk tray that you're probably not going to find easily.
speedlolita
Member
Slightly different to the PAL boxes. I think Ridge Racer (JP) has the same box if you wanted a replacement cheap. I won an original PlayStation (SCPH-1000, with S-VHS out) the other day on eBay and it has a copy with it with the same case as Vib Ribbon at least.
Mmm.
Mmm.
kunonabi
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Latest PS1 pick-ups. Next up is Countdown Vampires and maybe Clock Tower if I go a little crazy. I loved the game but not a fan of how expensive it is these days. Bought some PSOne classics on the Japanese store including a ridiculous game about SNK's Athena fighting dinosaurs in an underground lab or something.
Latest PS1 pick-ups. Next up is Countdown Vampires and maybe Clock Tower if I go a little nuts crazy. I loved the game but not a fan of how expensive it is these days. Bought some PSOne classics on the Japanese store including a ridiculous game about SNK's Athena fighting dinosaurs in an underground lab or something.
Nice pickups! That Athena game wouldnt happen to be that Athena adventure game would it? I remember it sounding pretty weird, but I'm sure my younger Athena loving self would have picked it up regardless. Kyo had one too IIRC. They were also PS1 exclusive I think.
sixteen-bit
Member
Graphics are on point tho
Here's a near complete list of PAL exclusive games:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090830061140/http://www.playstationmuseum.com/Games/PAL
https://web.archive.org/web/20090830061140/http://www.playstationmuseum.com/Games/PAL
kunonabi
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yeah it is. Athena ~ Awakening from the ordinary life ~ is the title. King of Fighters is Kyo is the other one which is like a visual novel with rpg menu based combat. I had it years ago but i sold it. I'll probably grab it off psn somewhere down the line.
Ingueferroque
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william_557
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Hercules
here's one i used to play ages ago
IrishNinja
Member
Herc's Adventures >>>
also i still can't get over how shamelessly Gunner's Heaven rips Gunstar Heroes, but it's a blast nonetheless
also i still can't get over how shamelessly Gunner's Heaven rips Gunstar Heroes, but it's a blast nonetheless
ExitPlanetDust
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I think some of the original Gunstar team was involved.
sixteen-bit
Member
Gunner's Heaven is a better game than Gunstar Heroes, free.
Yeah it's a top notch metroidvania. Love the series, I might actually think I prefer the second one even though the first game is awesome as fuck as well. This series is criminally underrated and should be up there with the classics.
Oh and dat music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBiyyZULyCM I always try to play this game during Christmas time and it gives me this cosy feeling.
sixteen-bit
Member
Never played Tomba myself. Seems kinda pricey to get into, but I see there's a PSN release too.
IrishNinja
Member
my man is getting more reckless with these statements by the day
Valkerionseven
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Late reply but no one else did so...
They are great, personally find them the best version of the games I've played (and the first versions.) Especially if you can get the making of discs that come with the games. They are really interesting to watch. Voice acting is about on par as other "anime" of the 90s but I will say a bit better since WD took time to do it as right as possible.
Biggest changes in the other versions of the game (DS and PSP) are in combat and general translation changes. Story is the same, so are the characters. Combat in the PS1 version is pretty classic turn based stuff, the PSP remake, while I did not hate the change in graphics, and it was nice(?) that they reused the Working Design animations, I thought the combat was changed for the worse in terms of spells. All the spells take like 5 seconds for a "charge up" animation, then w/e attack animation that follows is equally drawn out. But it is a good version of the same story I admit if you can get over the combat changes.
Lunar 2... never beat it but its about on the same level as the first remake on PS1. Same treatment all around.... its been on the backlog since I was 11 haha. and still looking for a freaking box for this game. Did not come with the box when I bought it :/ for w/e reason. All the content though.
This puts a little fire under my butt to play my copy of Gunner's Heaven. what little I played does not jive with this statement though.
sixteen-bit
Member
Sorry I didn't mean to hurt the feelings of Genesis tech demo fans. Y'all should check out Overdrive by Titan too when you have the chance.
Morrigan Stark
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WTF am I reading
IrishNinja
Member
Everyone stand back, sixteen bit is evolving into his final form
IrishNinja
Member
just hit disc 2 of Grandia recently, and i'm enjoying it but man leveling magic is for the birds
now that it's just Justin & my waifu Feena i'm realizing i really should've used magic more; just worked up to getting her flame whip & i gotta use this bum earth defense skill a ton more times before i can get him dragon cut. are there any other skills/spells in particular i should really concern myself with grinding out? the only one i had decent #'s on was sue's water ones.
now that it's just Justin & my waifu Feena i'm realizing i really should've used magic more; just worked up to getting her flame whip & i gotta use this bum earth defense skill a ton more times before i can get him dragon cut. are there any other skills/spells in particular i should really concern myself with grinding out? the only one i had decent #'s on was sue's water ones.
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