PumpkinSpice
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I have a ridiculous quantity of Super Famicom games but I would trade all of them for the Super Nintendo versions in a heartbeat.
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Laevateinn
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I'm happy focusing on Sega because Sega is best.
I just wish that my games weren't stolen and I wasn't so goddamn poor at the beginning of the millennium.
I just wish that my games weren't stolen and I wasn't so goddamn poor at the beginning of the millennium.
D.Lo
Member
I would change virtually nothing about my collection. Sure I probably would have bought or sold certain things slightly differently, would have been great to get a few more of the rare Saturn games for peanuts in the early 2000s. But overall I'm pretty damn happy with my set these days.
Speaking of collection, as promised a while ago, here is my newest oldest (!) Nintendo item. This is a pre-war Hanafuda set. I can't get more specific than that on date, but this of course means they are most likely from the 1930s, up to 1941.
Speaking of collection, as promised a while ago, here is my newest oldest (!) Nintendo item. This is a pre-war Hanafuda set. I can't get more specific than that on date, but this of course means they are most likely from the 1930s, up to 1941.
They are included as part of a cute hanafuda kit, with various gambling pieces.
Nin Ten Do in their original Kanji logo.
Beautiful condition considering these are maybe 80 years old!
theSlacker
Member
It is amusing to me that, even though it is a completely different kind of game, that is the same thing I've said about and why I love the first two Katamari games.
Beer Monkey
Member
Are there any cheap SNES->NES (SFC->FC) controller adapters out there or am I going to have to hack one?
Beer Monkey
Member
Thanks!
IrishNinja
Member
DLo that's a dope hanafuda set!
i'm just gonna pretend they did, yeah
like i know they said it was that, but i'm still betting they wanted to cut corners on localization costs & figured people'd either not notice or care for the most part
amen
i'm just gonna pretend they did, yeah
like i know they said it was that, but i'm still betting they wanted to cut corners on localization costs & figured people'd either not notice or care for the most part
amen
Amazing stuff!
sleepnaught
Member
Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this, but...
Is there a reliable way to print off Sega Genesis game case sleeves? There's a website that has scans of a lot of games, just curious if printing them off through Office Depot or somewhere looks good.
Is there a reliable way to print off Sega Genesis game case sleeves? There's a website that has scans of a lot of games, just curious if printing them off through Office Depot or somewhere looks good.
sixteen-bit
Member
IrishNinja
Member
that dreamcast sign in the back knows what's up
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Ain't nobody gave 3 fucks bout Sega on 10/26/2000.
IrishNinja
Member
true, i was having such a blast with my 8 minutes of Summoner before returning it for credit on Shenmue, due out in like a week or two
Tekken Tag & SSX were fun (TimeSplitters turned out cool) but the PS2 was a DVD player right up until about MGS2, whereas the DC still has the strongest launch lineup of all time
Tekken Tag & SSX were fun (TimeSplitters turned out cool) but the PS2 was a DVD player right up until about MGS2, whereas the DC still has the strongest launch lineup of all time
Conrad Link
Member
Definitely not, everyone was too excited for Majora's Mask!
PumpkinSpice
Banned
There are a bunch of utilities around that can convert between raw save file data and epsxe-style virtual memory card formats. I don't remember which one was good, just that it was kind of a giant pain to find it, and it's probably only gotten harder in the last few years.
Kinda tangental but the PS3 memory card makes transfering saves so, so much easier. It has gotten fairly expensive but if you can find one for a good price it makes transfering saves between real hardware, PC, and PS3/PSP/Vita much easier. I use mine way more often than I expected.
Amazing get! I gotta track one down myself just to have it.
2000 gaming nostalgia is my weakness. I can't. The god tier games still being pumped out on current gen consoles + the EXCITEMENT of the PS2, GC, GBA and Xbox... fuck me.
davidwhangchoi
Member
that was the day fantavision launched
7DollarHagane
Banned
Ps2 launch was all hype.
I found myself excited about Madden 2001 of all things because it looked so good. aside from ssx and Tekken, there was nothing to play on the thing.
I waited in line for one bc of hype but I didn't get one. Ended up waiting for the Gran Turismo 3 red box bundle.
Then I got out of games for a while when starting college. I played gta 3, devil May cry, final fantasy x, and. Metal gear solid 2, but I didn't get hooked on games really again until halo came out.
I found myself excited about Madden 2001 of all things because it looked so good. aside from ssx and Tekken, there was nothing to play on the thing.
I waited in line for one bc of hype but I didn't get one. Ended up waiting for the Gran Turismo 3 red box bundle.
Then I got out of games for a while when starting college. I played gta 3, devil May cry, final fantasy x, and. Metal gear solid 2, but I didn't get hooked on games really again until halo came out.
D.Lo
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Yeah mine was a DVD player until Tony Hawk 3 and Devil May Cry. And PS2 games had such shit PAL conversions ugh. Especially frustrating when the Dreamcast had 60Hz on basically everything except Code Veronica, and even most N64 games had gotten great PAL conversions for years by then.
Shin Johnpv
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I didn't get a PS2 till FFX dropped. The PS2 had to have one of the worst launch day line ups ever.
I didn't get a PS2 until MGS2 but had a friend who bought it on launch luckily. Tekken Tag and Fantavision are still great but I can see why people think it's a weak lineup. My biggest regret was not getting Ridge Racer V sooner, it had a lot of negative reviews and so I didn't pick it up until a few years later and found that I absolutely loved it.
Anybody remember The Bouncer hype? I fell for that so hard.
Anybody remember The Bouncer hype? I fell for that so hard.
Ha, I think the jaggies single-handedly perpetuated the myth that Dreamcast was more powerful because of how bad the IQ is on some of the early releases. That clean dc 480p VGA is magic.
Didn't the NTSU/PAL Tekken Tag get an image buff over the NTSCJ version? I remember it lacking jaggies.
Didn't the NTSU/PAL Tekken Tag get an image buff over the NTSCJ version? I remember it lacking jaggies.
Laevateinn
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PS2 launch just helped confirm that I had no connection to society. The world was wrong.
D.Lo
Member
Yeah I believe so. I always hated how it looked with that disconcerting floating edge of the fighting ring though.
Dead or Alive definitely looked worse on PS2 though, and this was only through composite on both consoles.
I had two mates that worked at an electronics store so I had so many games back then...
sixteen-bit
Member
Same. Bouncer was such a waste of money, lol.
I didn't get a PS2 until 2013 or so. They had just stopped being manufactured so I decided to pick one up new in box while I still had the chance.
I only have like 4 or 5 games for it. 2 of those have katamari in the title. I'll eventually pick up more cheap games for it, but it never really appealed to me all that much. I know it has a great library, but it never felt like it catered to my tastes personally.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Now is the time. I don't think new reprints of PS2 games are going to be available for much longer, and the retro market is starting to catch up to the system.
I was so freaking excited for the PS2 when it launched. My dad was good friends with the owner of our local video game store, so we were able to get a system on launch day, whereas they were sold out everywhere else. I was most hyped for Summoner, since I was a huge RPG fan, but we also picked up SSX since it was the best reviewed launch title.
...To this day I think I've only put 5 or so hours into Summoner. SSX was my jam, I played that game for hours upon hours upon hours. It was nice having a second DVD player too (we had bought our first way back in 1997, so we had a nice little collection already).
Oh yeah. I actually really enjoyed The Bouncer when it came out, but I was glad that I only rented it, as it was super short! Eventually I picked it up for about $5 at EB Games when they were clearing out PS2 stuff many years ago.
I remember that happened on that PS1 Evil Dead game. I rented it and was realy confused for a couple hours until I realized the PS2 wasn't playing the CG cutscenes because of the load time speed option.
...To this day I think I've only put 5 or so hours into Summoner. SSX was my jam, I played that game for hours upon hours upon hours. It was nice having a second DVD player too (we had bought our first way back in 1997, so we had a nice little collection already).
Oh yeah. I actually really enjoyed The Bouncer when it came out, but I was glad that I only rented it, as it was super short! Eventually I picked it up for about $5 at EB Games when they were clearing out PS2 stuff many years ago.
I remember that happened on that PS1 Evil Dead game. I rented it and was realy confused for a couple hours until I realized the PS2 wasn't playing the CG cutscenes because of the load time speed option.
davidwhangchoi
Member
nobody brought Fantavision at launch? surprised.
SSX and Madden was okay.
SSX and Madden was okay.
Barrel Cannon
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I have quite a few JPN N64/Saturn games. If you have a bit of background knowledge on the original games or if the game is a party-like game(Fighters/Racers/platformer) then a Japanese version is fine imo. Other than RPGs I feel like the Super Famicom versions are still a pretty great alternative because a lot of games don't require you to know much Japanese. The only major downsides is that you need to remove the plastic locks in your drive bay and the price increases over these last few years. I remember when Super Metroid was way cheaper. I had the option of buying a boxed copy for like $20 once and passed(which is stupid in hindsight considering the game even has English options for the Japanese version).
You can still find some pretty decent deals in auctions/best offers though IMO, as super famicom versions aren't usually as hunted as the NTSC versions.
Side note, I remember seeing the DKC trilogy boxed for $50 on ebay at buy it now which is a steal(another gaffer here ironically bought it). A game like that doesn't really require much Japanese knowledge IMO. You just need to know how to use the save system and your good to go.
There are so many nostalgiac feels from seeing all the random stuff in the backround.
Amazing pick up. I've never played any Hanafuda games so I have no nostalgia for them but it's an interesting historical pickup for what's arguably my favorite gaming company.
Why did so few games on PS2 take advantage of progressive scan anyway? It clearly had the power to do it considering a huge percentage of DC games had it too. But so many games are interlaced on it.
Speaking of Dreamcast, Behar Bros are sending me a replacement cable for my damaged Toro. Can't wait to play DC in 480p native for the first time. SoulCalibur is definitely going to be the first game I try. I may actually drool when I see it.
Barrel Cannon
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IIRC the PS2 didn't have the video memory to take advantage of progressive scan. That's why so few games had it to my understanding. Savvy developers were obviously able to take advantage of it(Polophony comes to mind with their sharp 480p output on GT4)
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Some games made use of field rendering (rendering half the image only and scanning those out to each interlaced field) to lower memory footprint but it wasn't across the board. There are a lot of PS2 games that are 480p compatible but there's just no config item in the game itself.
I still think almost nobody having 480p compatible TVs made justifying taking time to add it in & test was the main factor there.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
I usually add a "Canada Only" filter for NTSC-U stuff since uh a) there seem to be a way higher percentage of scammers in the US and b) shipping costs out of the US are stupid.
Barrel Cannon
Member
Oh gosh I didn't know what you meant and did a quick ebay search. It's absolutely flooded with fakes. If your Japanese isn't too rusty you can get the Japanese versions boxed for pennies
That's a good idea. Limits the results for sure but there are a lot of scammers these days in the states unfortunately
. Everyone seems to be trying to make a quick buck illegitimately these days. I'd have less of a problem if they said repo in their ad titles.
Kawika
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Now that I have a PVM 20L5 I am suddenly excited to play 480p content. I think I am going to remove my PS2 from my accessible retro consoles because almost every game in my collection is available on another console in some form (final fantasy remakes, personas on psp/vita, gta and metal gear games, maybe not gran turismo but I never go back to those).
My favorite console in generation 6 was the XBOX. I always felt like the Dreamcast and XBOX were spiritually related. That said, I really want to re-buy a DC and a XBOX but I am afraid neither will hold up like I am expecting. As it is, I think there are very few Gamecube games I still want to play. I still love Thousand Year door, F-Zero, Sunshine, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime etc. I am really hoping they port the Zeldas and sunshine to the Switch at this point. (triple dip on the zeldas ftw/l).
I can't believe how offensive 480i has become to my eyes. I though the MGS games were 480p.
Anyway, I have been on a holding pattern with regard to original XBOX because of the OG XBOX BC coming to the XBOX ONE S/X.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Assuming you're not having issues with redbook audio specifically, I had a lot of problems with a CD burner that just wouldn't go below 16x speed.
There are a lot of reasons to still consider many PS2 versions the best, even in spite of contemporary ports and HD remakes.
For games that aren't lag sensitive, hook your PS2 up to an HDTV that has good deinterlacing instead. I still swear the results can be a lot better than a CRT.
My Panasonic plasma (rest in peace) made 480i look exactly like 480p. It was better than the framemeister for sure. So much so that I didn't understand complaints that 480i was "ugly" until it died on me.
Still, a CRT is best. Native res will always win for me.
Kawika
Member
Yeah, I can do that but I only have a 4K HDR TV and a 1440p Monitor near the CRT so I would have to be dealing with more scaling issues too. I think I would rather just not use the PS2. It was my least favorite of the that generation and like I said, everything I care about has been ported to other systems or has a hd remaster. I have very little nostalgia for the 6th gen as it was the gen I started to enjoy PC games more.
I never was lucky enough to have a Plasma but I had an early HDTV that I thought everything looked pretty okay. I played almost all of that generation in 480p thanks to my Toshiba CRT taking a crap when HDTVs were just coming out. (my 65" 4K didn't cost as much as my 1st 32" HDTV). I have hooked up things to that tv since and there is no way I would choose the LCD over the CRT for that resolution.
davidwhangchoi
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Hey retroGAF,
as per sixteen bit's recommendation,
my 1st ever JYP ps2 game! Phantasy Star collection has english text for 1-4! 240p!
i thought artwork was creased or worn but no! it was just the plastic case =)
sixteen-bit is getting me to spend money =)
now i need a JYP ps2 system...
as per sixteen bit's recommendation,
my 1st ever JYP ps2 game! Phantasy Star collection has english text for 1-4! 240p!
i thought artwork was creased or worn but no! it was just the plastic case =)
sixteen-bit is getting me to spend money =)
now i need a JYP ps2 system...
D.Lo
Member
Laevateinn
Member
This is funnier than it should be.