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File: 1425498534676.png (9.93 KB,524x415,524:415,GAW.png)

 No.1794 [Open thread]

I'm looking for more non-zelda top down adventure games, already tried out Golden Axe Warrior, Willow, Crystalis, Crusader of Centy and Star Tropics.
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 No.7451

>>7447

It's been years since I've played Corom, but here's a little of what I remember;

-Don't waste your money on Link and Plate Armor, just save up to buy the Magic Armor as soon as possible.

-Same with the Long and Broad Sword, you'll find the Magic Sword pretty early in the game.

-Since the only thing you really need to buy is the Magic Armor, once you have it you can spend any other gold you find on Salves and Blast and Hammer spells.

-This is the one I'm least sure of, but I think there is no maximum Strength, so rather than waiting until your Strength gets low, just use all Heal spells as soon as you get them.

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 No.7480

>>7444

Random fact: C64 games usually use port 2 for game controllers because programs like to use the memory address reserved for port 1.

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 No.7487

I've heard the Gameboy version of Daikatana is a lot less shitty than the shitty version.

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 No.7515

>>7487

Can confirm, it's pretty good, but a bit short.

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 No.7605

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File: 54af4e0caf8ef19⋯.png (109.27 KB,640x439,640:439,mother .png)

 No.7216 [Open thread]

Why do so many people say that this game is unbearable because of the random battles? Have they never played any other RPG from that era?

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 No.7273

>>7265

They're only monotonous if you don't use 4th-D slip.

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 No.7520

Because there's so damn many of them. The way the game calculates random encounters is super shitty and primitive. You can literally take one step and end up in a battle, win, take another step and immediately end up in another battle.

To put it into reference, the first final fantasy game has a ~25 step minimum before the next encounter. Mother has none

It doesn't help that you have very limited combat abilities for the first few hours of the game, especially before Magicant. Ninten has no offensive PSI, making most battles before you get Lloyd unnecessarily frustrating and/or long

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 No.7562

File: 24fef08c45304e0⋯.webm (15.87 MB,853x480,853:480,WTF_commercial.webm)

>>7216

>unbearable because of the random battles?

It's because the game is designed that way. Very intentionally, it's an uphill battle against all odds. Seriously, have you even played the game?

Mother 3 is pretty fucking good at hammering that point home. Some people die, but it is for the "good of all" bullshit, but it is supposed to be unfair and hard. You personally grinding for levels or gear does not matter. Play the game as it is. Maybe the grind was supposed to be horrible part of the story?

Sorry for the webm.

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 No.7574

>>7216

because most people suck at videogames

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 No.7600

>>7562

I disagree. I think that games should be fun even if they're an uphill struggle. Honestly Mother 1 and 2 were much might lighthearted and heartfelt experiences. I didn't have a problem with the encounter rate in Mother 1; hell it's one of the several games I consider to be a masterpiece. It's definitely not to just make the game seem like a struggle because I doubt that was the intention for Mother 1 at all; it's just the game being an NESRPG.

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 No.7242 [Open thread]

Whatever happened to the adventure genre? These days it's nothing but goddamn dialog wheels and cinematics. No longer are you just a dude with a sword saving the world from some asshole where the only helpful people tell you where to find the next magical trinket to advance.

The PS1 was full of these, the PS2 had quite a few but it fell out of fashion. I would say Dork souls is the modern version of them but it's distinctly different in how closed and linear everything is. There's no exploration of an area to see where you can get, it dropped all the 3D platformer elements entirely.

What's your favourite retro swash buckling game?

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 No.7339

>>7242

>Whatever happened to the adventure genre?

The adventure genre lives from puzzles and as we can now the mainstream is to stupid/lazy and doesn't have the patience to solve puzzles.

Additionally making a game with good puzzles takes time and so its much easier for the industry to produce skinner boxes to dazzle the masses.

At last there is the fact that adventure games have in the past been used to promote graphics and technology in gaming, but they lost that function to FPS games.

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 No.7598

>>7242

>dialog wheels

Almost no modern action-adventures have dialog wheels. Are you sure you're not thinking of RPGs like Mass Effect and Fallout New Vegas?

Also, wouldn't Dark Souls and Breath of the Wild fit perfectly into what you want? You're a dude, you have a sword and lust for exploration. Go on a journey.

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File: 8b080a2ffaf5f46⋯.png (1.21 MB,1111x719,1111:719,the holy trio.png)

 No.7317 [Open thread]

Out of the three (Four if you count Redneck Asspage.) games made with the Build Engine, which do you think is the best? I'm counting them off by Protagonists, Fun and Advancements.

I personally think Blood is the best because *OW THE EDGE* and also because I like Double Barrel Shotguns.

damn that artwork is good

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 No.7435

>>7427

Nah, Douk is the funniest out of the build games.

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 No.7459

>>7435

>Funny

"BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS!"

"BALLS OF STEEL!"

Vs

"What a wonderful new smell I discovered"

Blood's comedy is less up-in-your-face. But Dick Kickum does produce some hilarious moments with a soundboard.

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 No.7476

File: 3e41fd138bdfc25⋯.jpg (273.24 KB,922x1796,461:898,1505845230268.jpg)

>>7459

Nigger don't you dare shit on Douk's one-liners, they're awesome.

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 No.7483

File: 3b6e8c2eb2d6b02⋯.png (19.13 KB,80x89,80:89,what are you doing.png)

>>7476

Yeah after replaying DN3D using EDuke rather than 20th Anniversary I can say that Duke is on par with Blood.

i am retarded

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 No.7596

Duke has a good campaign and is fun to play ironman, unlike Blood which demands save scumming on the higher difficulties. I mostly play solo so it gets my pick. Blood has snappier gameplay though, and is a lot better in multi.

>Out of the three (Four if you count Redneck Asspage.) games made with the Build Engine

Wasn't there a bunch of Build games released around 1998? I think a Vietnam game and one more I can't remember. Real low budget stuff.

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 No.19 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

Classic PC maing. Good shit.
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 No.6183

>>5538

thanks for this bro

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 No.6478

>>6167

>54.95

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 No.7301

>>19

Russell Crowe on the left.

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 No.7410

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

I just played through Dune 2 as the Atreides. Despite having plenty of dated interface and gameplay aspects, I enjoyed it. Dune 2000 updated the gameplay a lot more (especially the OpenRA version), but I prefer the aesthetics of the original game.

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 No.7567

File: 5c3e51e4712488a⋯.jpg (1.65 MB,1900x1812,475:453,1413733888051.jpg)

>try Daggerfall

>having fun learning the ropes

>try Fighters Guild quest for the first time

>find werewolf in dungeon

>…4 hours later, use cheats to find it, but can't get out because I forgot to Anchor near entrance (had no spell points)

>give up on Daggerfall

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File: 9a39028277f51c9⋯.gif (1.62 MB,240x136,30:17,arinoparty.gif)

 No.6567 [Open thread]

Hook me up with arino reaction pics anons.

Also GCCX thread.

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 No.6575

File: 5537e11629739f7⋯.png (1.74 MB,640x2880,2:9,Never forget.png)

Here you go

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 No.6583

File: d8da30d912bac1b⋯.jpg (8.58 KB,300x168,25:14,abed.jpg)

Abe san is more necessary.

Also anyone knows if the DX chapters are subbed?? I can't find it. To be youtube Nintendo channel is bretty gud, also Minecraft to be a game iam not interested in the 2 players survival looks funnier

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 No.7566

https://nyaa.si/user/Zombie_Kabuto

2 episodes done. Next one is Super C

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 No.2952 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

So, our threads kept getting deleted over there, at first because of magnet links being posed in the threads, but now I really don't know what the fuck for, so I'm personally moving my shit over here.

Release google spreadsheet link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14fCQ3NXIlW1ZC_gjIejpQVPG34fLWmSoXYgSTyxdRWM/edit

That spreadsheet has most, if not all, of the releases from various high-quality DC release groups around.

So… yeah. What are your favorite games for this thing?

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 No.7813

Did the NoBS links all get deleted from that Google Doc? What the hell are those retards doing? Good thing I downloaded the old version of the doc to my PC. Any new releases pop up lately?

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 No.7814

>>7813

Actually wait, it seems all the NoBS links are shoved inside the "old version tab" mixed in with everything else. What a mess.

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 No.7815

Karous - New English TL playable on DC or in emulator:

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/4664/

^ While you didn't need to know any Japanese to play Karous to start some of you may be interested in checking out the release notes.

>>7814

>>7813

Feel free to fix, and to also mirror games into your own cloud accounts (mega preferred). I've sort of left it to run wild as I don't have the time to maintain integrity myself.

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 No.8031

What's a good place to get Dreamcast CDIs these days? Been out of the scene for years, and the spreadsheet is destroyed… How is ComradeSnarky? Is he still at it with NBS-DC?

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 No.8032

>>8031

Archive.org has tosec/trurip collections, and a kind of musical audio format romance has a decent collection of CDI.

There's also probably using your eyes, but you can look that up to confirm.

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File: f1cc42ee0590704⋯.jpg (20.73 KB,232x319,8:11,Adventureisland.jpg)

 No.4734 [Open thread]

I'm buying myself a NES for Xmas this year after losing mine years and years ago.

What are some of your favorite lesser known games that aren't going to cost an arm and a leg?

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 No.7377

>>4734

Metal Storm and Shatterhand are both pretty good

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 No.7379

Scott Pilgrimfags aside, Clash at Demonhead is one of my favorite single-player games on the system. A lot of it does admittedly come from nostalgia and fondness for its presentation over the actual gameplay. Some of my favorites as far as gameplay goes are Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, and Kung Fu, but those are pretty obvious.

I don't really know what counts as a lesser-known game anymore with freely available ROMs and boards like this one, but StarTropics, Faxanadu, and Golgo 13 are worth checking out.

If you're looking for fun multiplayer games, there's Yoshi's Cookie, Trog!, and Baseball Stars. North & South is really good for that purpose but way too expensive.

I'm not sure what the prices are for these games nowadays, either.

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 No.7527

File: 8137d2f9f020ba9⋯.jpg (135.7 KB,640x902,320:451,bignose.jpg)

File: 893e9dd361877b4⋯.jpg (117.51 KB,300x353,300:353,KamenNoNinjaHanamaru.jpg)

File: 116fc483af9ebbe⋯.jpg (31.88 KB,250x342,125:171,KabukiQuantumFighter.jpg)

All platformers. First one has a fucking fun multiplayer mode where you have to collect more bones in a level than your opponent - and you have 60 seconds to do it. There is five levels and who has more bones together wins. There is also SP mode which is nothing out of ordinary.

Kamen - Here is a unique one; no swords or guns - you throw a bird to damage enemies. There is a card game after every few levels, where you have to kill the boss by using higher-numbered cards than him. During the levels you can find cards that will double or triple your damage output (some are hidden). High variety of levels and enemies. Great soundtrack too. Highly recommended.

Kabuki - this time you fight with your HAIR. There are power-ups like bombs that you can use too. This one is more straightforward, but I still like it.

IMO, get Kamen if you would choose one of these. There is also an American remake - Yo Noid - which is just much worse. Though the levels are the same, the whole concept has been fucked. Graphics and soundtrack are much shittier.

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 No.7530

Milon's Secret Castle - hard platform game but I liked it enough to finish it

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 No.7536

>>7527

I'm seconding Kabuki. It's a great action platformer for people who like stuff like Ninja Gaiden but want to play something else.

I think the cost might have jumped up a bit since the Cinemassacre video came out a while ago, but it shouldn't be too bad.

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 No.7321 [Open thread]

What are some vr games that have religious themes. Extra points for ultimate sacrilege!!!

Anything is fine though. Xenogears is a good example. No matter how minute, I'm interested in games that have judeo Christian themes.

Other religious beliefs are good too. The more pronounced the better.

TY!

:)

Diablo

Xenogears

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 No.7432

>>7430

He probably knows more about Jewish history than his own

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 No.7443

File: c940d0c5d8cc888⋯.webm (7.65 MB,480x360,4:3,think.about.it.webm)

>>7432

Jew history is what they teach in school these days. They apparently have Holocaust classes and stuff like that about why being white is evil.

Oh and none of that surprises me much. When I was a teenager (this was the 80's), I went to a private catholic school where some nuns made us watch Holocaust-related movies and other brainwashing stuff. Even the Indiana Jones movies they played had that brainwashing in them. A whole lot of stuff from Hollywood does, in fact.

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 No.7532

>>7443

I don't care. Just tell me about christian games

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 No.7533

>>7532

Well, there's Wisdom Tree's stuff if you're desperate. Spiritual Warfare is actually a pretty decent Zelda clone. I don't think any of their other stuff for the NES is any good, though.

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 No.7535

>>7533

Thanks. I didn't know about wisdom tree. I wish there was a true crusader sin I could play

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 No.411 [Open thread]

So, I'm trying to build a decent collection of Saturn games and it has come to my attention that both PAL and NTSC Japanese games the other region doesn't have.

From what I've researched the US has:

Iron Storm
Magic Knight Rayearth
Albert Odyssey
Astal

Europe has:
Deep Fear
Keio 2 Flying Squadron
Dragoball Z The Legend
King of Fighters 94

Any other games I should know? I'd rather collect games in a language I understand instead of importing straight from Japan. Speaking of which, are Astal, Magic Knight and Albert Odyssey good?
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 No.1884

>>1871
>>1874
Cool - I'll have to look into some imports then, too!
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 No.3445

>>411

Are you wanting to collect or you want to play?

If you want to play just modchip it, and get an Action Replay. Cause sheesh some of those games are expensive like Street fighter zero 3 + cart

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 No.6559

File: 0255ac151c55e83⋯.jpg (65.81 KB,510x510,1:1,Initial D.jpg)

The Initial D game for the Saturn wasn't as bad as it looked especially since there wasn't any eurobeat.

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 No.7493

Panzer Dragoon Saga is MUCH more common in Japan. It's not super expensive if you buy an import version.

It's the best game on the system. Hands down.

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 No.7534

>>411

I remember 2 games in particular

Mr Bones wasnt a great game, but its one hell of a meme fest

there was a game made by Enix. I cant quite remember the name, but you control some big airships in a strategy game that kinda reminds me of Valkyria Chronicles, just a little more primitive

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 No.7115 [Open thread]

What is the true to play ancient vidya? While I've always preferred to play games on the original hardware, I only emulate if the game is expensive or rare, like Paper Mario 2 or Earthbound.

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 No.7344

>>7231

The most worthwhile PS1 games are still very expensive and even just rare/hard to come by. Particularly, Tail concerto, silhouette mirage, Megaman legends+tron bonne. They're going for hundreds of dollars, but that's just when you're lucky enough to find a copy at all.

PS2 on the other hand will probably have plenty of cheap games for another 5 years at least due to just how popular it was around the world (until all these youtube ecelebs start bringing more unwanted attention of people who were probably born after the PS2 was launched).

Always buy after next gen is already out. That way you have kids/casuals selling off their old games they've grown tired of for new gen shenanigans. Bought infamous 1+2, uncharted 1+2 little big planet, and skate 3 for $5 each. Very very soon you'll see prices skyrocket up to $40/$50 now that the ps5 has already been teased.

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 No.7351

>>7344

The PSIO is probably a better alternative financially at this point for people who plan on getting a ton of games and don't really care about the physical aspects of the games.

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 No.7376

>>7351

>PSIO

Meh. It's a nice idea, but it's too expensive, needs the IO port and a chip as well.

100 CD-Rs cost $20.

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 No.7519

For 8 and 16-bit era console games (nes, genesis) it's a matter of preference. The graphics were designed with many different monitors in mind, so display isn't an issue, and emulation is so good at this point, especially on the 8-bit side of things, that it's very hard to tell the difference from the real deal

For 32/64-bit consoles (ps1, n64) playing it on actual hardware is usually much better than emulating. Most modern PCs aren't really powerful enough to be able to emulate 3D graphics hardware entirely in software, and as a result most of them aren't really emulators as much as they are interpreters, converting the game's system calls to native ones in real time (eg. running an n64 game in openGL). You're not emulating these games as much as you are using a program that lets you run them on your own system, and as a result accuracy is obviously an issue.

Things are flipped on the home computer side of things. Most games late-70s/early-80s micros relied on some form of hardware trickery that simply can't reasonably be reproduced via emulation. The apple ][ used NTSC color artifacting to display color, as did most games for early IBM PC compatibles, and the 6581 SID used a hardware fault to play sampled audio. None of these things work quite right in emulators because they relied on a lot of non-digital hardware to work.

Later home computers like the Amiga and post-VGA PC compatibles, meanwhile, emulate like a dream since a) most hardware faults were ironed out, and the hardware itself was powerful enough that games didn't need to use hacks to get good graphics and sound anyway, and b) the bigger range in hardware being written to (a game written for the A1000 would be expected to run of an A500), meaning that emulators can afford to be looser when it comes to accuracy and still play pretty damn identically to the original system

Games written for computers with x86 processors like IBM PC clones, the NEC PC-98 line, and systems like the Tandy 1000 that were compatible with but distinct from the IBM PC are usually better emulated, primarily because most of the hardware on modern machines is compatible with them, and all an emulator needs to do is smooth out the differences

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 No.7522

File: af0d32af0081275⋯.mp4 (4.6 MB,640x360,16:9,Vintage Apple IIe pinball ….mp4)

>>7519

What if your Apple II only had a monochrome monitor?

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 No.1725 [Open thread]

Know any shitty games with great/catchy soundtracks? Pic related
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 No.4103

>>4101

Yes I know that they aren't /vr/ legal however they were really comfy.

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 No.4108

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 No.4171

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 No.7008

>>1725

Darkman (NES)

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 No.7521

Most games tim folin worked on. He did the soundtracks for us gold and ljn (the american equivalent of us gold)

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 No.2667 [Open thread]

Anyone up for a video pinball thread? Recommendations, high scores, webms welcome.

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 No.2947

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>>2944

It's something I never experienced, because my local only ever hosted Dredd, Fish Tales and Adams Family.

Given its location, that was pretty swell, but.

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 No.2950

>>2943

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Madness

wow you're right. she did voice something in it.

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 No.4703

File: 82c3d262664912d⋯.jpg (232.22 KB,1024x768,4:3,timeshock.jpg)

>>2675

Nice one. Timeshock was my favorite, but the entire series is great.

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 No.6939

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>>2667

it was my first game of GBC, I stopped playing when I got other games, but when I was in college I felt like playing this game again. I have more fun playing this game now than as a child, too bad that the save is not working anymore

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 No.7516

>>2667

Does anyone remember the name of game that mix pinball and arkanoid? Google give me nothing.

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 No.7471 [Open thread]

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 No.7489

File: db0fd1b15cb6113⋯.png (28.29 KB,641x400,641:400,metalorange-1.png)

File: 8b3489355889a58⋯.webm (1.96 MB,300x300,1:1,cyber block metal orange ….webm)

File: 9d5be24da9987c1⋯.webm (1.51 MB,300x300,1:1,Touhou Lotus Land Story -….webm)

File: f5562f60dbc8224⋯.webm (3.53 MB,300x300,1:1,Carat Magical Blocks.webm)

Learn how to webm.

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Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.

 No.7458 [Open thread]

I'm currently going through this same issue, please tell me there is a fix for this?

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 No.7460

>>7458

Well, I would try one of two things first and foremost, the first being to check all your caps. Check to see if any are leaking or bulging. In no specific order, I would check the cable(s) that connect the screen to the logic board. Try unplugging them and then plugging them back in. Also, make sure that they are nor damaged. If none of what I said helps, then you may need to buy a replacement screen.

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 No.7464

>>7460

i'll do this, thank you.

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 No.7473

So it took to a retro games repair shop and he told me it was the ribbon cable, i've messed around with it, and it sometimes works and other times doesn't, i can't seem to get the picture back. If i can't get it to work, i'll just buy another cheap dmg and re-do the mod again in one shot so i'm not bending the ribbon cable from re-entry.

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 No.7481

I got another gameboy today, and bivert modded it as well, and for some reason i can't close it completely without squeezing the backlight. When i tried the original gameboy (the one with the distorted screen) it worked without problems (so it's not the screen that is the problem it's something with either the bivert chip or the back board).

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