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Replaying through DKR now, emulated copy. Own and beat origional a long time ago, is still a great game. I noticed something during the coin and trophy challenges that's bothering me though. Playing through Ancient Lake, pic stage, the first stage in the game, the computers are rubber banding like crazy. Now I'm used to games doing this, but I watched the map and the CPUs literally cut through the walls of the map and beat me to the finish line 50% of the time. I know thier cheating and I have no way to stop it. My issue though is I've never seen them do this before. Like never in my years of this game. Especially not during the coin challenge. Trophy? I can see, but not coin, or this early in the game for that matter. Am I crazy and it's always been like this, or is this strange to anyone else?
>>3182881
Weird, I recall from watching agdq one of the speedrunners said DKR had no rubber banding whatsoever.
>>3182890
Now that's really weird. I'm going to play the level agaon to see if I can repeat the phenomenon. The game doesn't have any antipiracu measures, does it?
>>3182906
Entering the level after beating it, no coin challenge, they are doing it lap 1 and/or 3. They will enter the stage at random points and emerge about half a lap ahead of you, but they are usually able to be caught up to (except if they do it right at the end of a race). I'm playing on Wiibrew, let me see if I can get to record it on a computer and upload it, this is really weird, and I have only seen it happen on this stage, I'm right now going through the silver coin challenges on the Ice world.
How about we dedicate a thread to Spencer Nilsen-sama?
You know, the famous Sega of America in-house music composer and technician who worked on games such as Sonic CD, Ecco The Dolphin (CD version) and Congo The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj
What are your favorite tracks by him?
Here's a pre-vidya music work he did, his solo album from 1989 "Architects of Change".
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_SPH_irG0c
>>3182587
Go to bed Spencer
I don't actually like his Sonic CD tracks.
Spencer Nilsen is the best!
The 7800 was technically more powerful than the NES and could do animated characters, it had abysmal sound and was released in a very small area.
I didn't know anyone with one when I was a little kid in the early 90s but I knew plenty of people with an NES still.
>>3182557
cool.
The 7800 was my first console bruh
>>3182557
cool.
So /VR/, I've decided to start purging all of my physical vintage vidya and just switch over to a raspberry pi emulation console. Buying the actual games just gets too damn expensive, and I was never really into it for the whole collectability of it all anyways. What do you think, is this a good idea?
>>3182539
What do you mean? It's for you. Why the fuck do you need input from strangers on what you prefer or don't prefer?
Turf the shit and go the emulation route. I've done so with a soft modded Wii and haven't regretted it. It's all expensive and time consuming and takes up a lot of space...I like spending the time just enjoying the games.
>>3182546
I guess he wants to know if it's a good idea or not, man. Maybe somebody else has done it and regrets it, having some concrete reasons why it was objectively a bad idea, like input lag, bugs or unoptimised emulation.
If we're gonna go down that road, why discuss anything?
Wtf is this and what does it do
Found in a lot this weekend
I think it's ps1 related
clean ur nails senpai
also, looks like a gameshark sort of thing for a ps1.
>>3182532
Knock off GameShark/Action Replay.
>>3182532
Could be an old external "modchip" like a goldfinger. Speaking of fingers.
>clean ur nails senpai
Bummer Man
>>3182502
what have I done.
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I just got this game & it crashes after the first cut scene. Anyone know how to fix it?
http://www.rebellion.co.uk/support
>>3182338
I'm from Florida
Run it on a virtual machine, it's probably one of those games that hates newer versions of DirectX or whatever.
>Not buying an Atari Panther
>>3182307
Are you the guy who did this animation?
Do you have the other shots of the specs?
>>3182309
No, fuck that guy.
Previous thread: >>3165325
This thread is for the spirited discussion of CRT displays - Televisions, monitors and projectors used for the playing of retro games!
>Try to keep it /vr/-related: Nothing past 5th gen(+Dreamcast). Slight OT might be okay if related to CRTs (E.G. 16:9 compatible models, flatscreens, etc.) Systems with backwards compatibility are also pretty safe territory, assuming you're focusing on the older games. PC CRTs are also a-ok.
>Produce OC! Get out your real cameras and take beautiful pictures of your CRTs displaying recognizable characters with the kind of beautiful accuracy that brings tears to the eyes of young and old alike! If you take 100 photos, at least one of them will turn out alright! (maybe)
>Try to be as detailed as possible when asking info on a specific model. As always, google is your friend, and we are your friends with benefits. Older archived threads aren't a bad place to look either.
>Share appreciation for others choice of technology and personal philosophy of gaming. As always show courtesy in your discussion and moderate yourselves first.
Discussion of video processing and scaling devices is okay, but try to keep the focus on CRTs and CRT accessories
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We were on page 10, I gave you a chance. pseudo-anonymous OP this time though.
>>3182134
Yep, as an anon (>>3182114) said, that's a retrace line. I get them on my monochrome IBM terminal if I turn brightness up too high.
Here's how the G2/screen dial behaves on my consumer set (see webm). That flicker around 12 seconds in is actually accompanied by a kind of 'ping' sound as electricity arcs somewhere in the tube. I assume that shutoff point is intended to prevent it on yours.
>>3182156
>Sony PVM 8044Q. Tell me about it.
>Assuming the image and other image things are all good, and assuming I would want a cute 'lil 8 incher, is it a good get?
If for some reason you actually feel 8" is adequate for a CRT and don't mind pressing your nose to it, sure, it'll be great. One of the better 8" sets you could possibly get.
A bit old - I believe it's the same series as my 1944Q, which was made in 1989. Be sure yours is in good shape. As it supports RGB, YPbPr, S-Video, and composite (same as the 1944Q), it'll do just fine aside from being ridiculously tiny.
>>3182281
Two attempts later, here. Started at default position, turn to the right, turn to the left. If turned any farther to the left, it will eventually white out and shut the tube off entirely.
>Turned to the right
The TV does not shut off; the picture simply blacks out. You can still hear the tube.
>Turned to the left
The TV shuts off; you can hear the static discharge from the tube and a click.
I think the best results so far have been with the pots on the flyback left at the level they were originally set at. The G2 was even painted down with a white streak.
Did you have to fight your friends to kiss you when you played KSS?
>>3182221
that shit got so many laughs out of my brother and me
>>3182229
Did you kiss?
>>3182257
Not IRL, sorry.
We grabbed healing items just so we could interrupt each other at inappropriate times with kisses and giggle like idiots.
Fuck, we had fun with this game.
Remember when these were a thing? Pretty sure I had all of the Doom and Resident Evil books back in the day. Do any of you still have yours?
The only vidya novels I have are the Warcraft ones, which range from poor to fantastic depending on the author.
>>3182215
All these people saying gameplay is more important than story, and you fags go and read books about video game stories.
>>3182305
This was back in the mid to late 90s. I couldn't afford to play all the games I wanted back then so I got the novelizations.
So this is basically absolute garbage, and cannot compensate for an actual computer, right?
>N64 games run slow as fuck
>Cave Story port doesn't even launch
>SNES games don't launch with anything other than Snes9x, also run slow
What do you mean? I got cave story to run great (however, I don't believe it's retro), most PlayStation games I've tried worked well, and the other emulators bar n64 and Saturn mostly work.
Are you using a zero or something?
What version are you using, and have you tried updating? Did you place the cave story files in the correct directory?
>>3182708
It's the CS that comes with it.
I have a Pi 3, and the latest Retropie. Both Kirby Super Star and Dreamland run horribly.
It's a frontend for something that doesn't need it. Just use fucking lakka already.
So I bought this piece of shit off Ebay because I figured a basic scaler would work, and the seller has sold like 200 of these. At first I assumed I needed to turn the Dreamcast to 480p mode or maybe it just wasnt sending the 480p signal.
Of course, after a bit, I think I've figured out that the converter I got is a piece of shit and doesn't work. Sometimes the VGA light will flicker on and then immediately turn off.
What's my best bet for a fucking working VGA to HDMI converter?
NEET converter. Amazon Britain.
>>3182105
Can you link to what you purchased so we can read more about the specific item?
>>3182105
Does your screen not have vga input?
Will this ever get good emulation?
I just want to experience this game again anons...
Then get an N64 and buy a copy.
>>3182031
I know I can do that, I'm just curious as to why this game's emulation is still so poor.
Is n64 emulation that hard? or has nobody really given the time to make it good?
>>3182041
Not the guy to ask, sorry :/
Is there a bigger plague to vidya than the collectorfag?
Someone who has a lot of games they play is fine, but the kind of person who buys boxed copies of games only to never touch them is a true cancer, especially since they take that game away from a person who would actually play it. Not only that, they hoard games to themselves causing them to inflate in price for anyone who actually wants to play it legit. Pure scum.
No true cancer kills your family.
I fucking hate this "cancer" shit.
>>3181962
There's a special place in hell for the ones who entomb prototypes.
>>3181962
Agreed but not complaining since I sell to those people all the time and it finds my own retro hobby.
I don't even need to worry about more expensive games because I can just sell them when I'm done with them.
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