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whats /vr/ thoughts on legend of mana
i don't think its a good follow up to the mana series, but i can see what square was going trying to do
>>2884396
whats was to shit up amazing series. but hey it looked pretty.
>>2884396
i bought this day one having missed the mana series. i still miss it
This was the last good Mana game. It had beautiful music, the graphics and the atmosphere went hand-in-hand that made you feel like you were playing a painting, but fuck, most importantly it was fun as hell. I just don't know what happened to the Mana series, because LoM was the last time the thunder struck.
And got tired of the clunky controls, terrible voice acting, repetitive dialog ("I see" "sailor" like really? people not helping at all) and slow and boring music (only liked the menu theme though) the best part so far is playing those arcade games, does the game get any better?.
Seems like you just wanted to play some action games and went in with the wrong expectation.
>>2883848
No. It was awful when it came out and it's worse now.
>>2883851
I went with the expectation of a good adventure game with fun time-sensitive sidequesting like in zelda majora's mask
How do you pick your route?
I've started playing it few days ago and the only route I've completed so far is Left->Right->Left->Left, seems like it's a harder game than Outrun 2. I'm thinking to beat all levels using these routes: LLLL, RLLL, RRLL, RRRL, RRRR
>>2878426
>how do you pick your route?
Near the end of the stage the road forks and you either veer left or right which takes you on a different path:^)
I usually have my route already picked out before I start depending on which ending I'm shooting for.
>>2878426
it depends on the time left.
better times more right.
since left is an easier route,
NES consoles should be reissued by Nintendo, And the top 50 NES games of all time. Heaps of the best vintage toys are always being made new (transformers, rubicks cubes, monopoly etc) No pessimists allowed in this thread. Anything is possible
>>2886090
IF Nintendo did any sort of reissue with the NES you can sure as bet they'd go the route all the other companies went with their reissues and make a plug and play all in one. Not that, that's bad, but don't expect it to play all your NES games.
That's a big IF though.
>>2886090
There's no fucking reason to Nintendo reissue an older console if they can just port their games to the newer ones.
>>2886090
They have no need to, not when they can just churn out games via Virtual Console.
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So, what's the backstory behind this owl?
He's Rauru
He's a Sage reincarnated as an owl for the express purpose of helping the Hero of Time when he's finally born. The other prevailing theory is that he's simply Rauru in owl form.
I hold with the former.
When did Castlevania truly die, /vr/?
With the release of IGAvania on the PSX?
With the addition of moeshit in Rondo of Blood?
Or with the multi-whip bullshit in Super Castlevania IV?
>>2870670
What the fuck does IGAvania mean?
I still like them honestly.
>>2870678
IGA (Koji Igarashi) is the man who made most of the decisions for Symphony of the Night.
He hated whips and pixel-perfect platforming.
Previous thread - >>2853901
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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>>2873091
what game?
Will an NTSC only CRT run PAL games in colour?
>>2873280
Some yu yu hakusho game
ITT games that aged like wine
>aged
Games don't age, champ.
So... a game which for a decade or two got supposedly better, but inevitably turns bitter like vinegar?
I just got a hardware level SNES clone from the 90s which plays everything with 100% compatibility. This is not a glorified android emulator with cartdrige slots (those abhorrent things don't even deserve the honor of being called a clone), this is the real deal, a masterpiece of reverse engineering. Have any of you gotten anything as glorious as this piece of hardware?
This console is awfully rare and it has quite a history. I don't really know where it was manufactured, but it was either in Brazil or China. This thing is so amusing because I don't really know of any other real commercial clone of the SNES. I believe there aren't many units left, I estimate there should be around 2000 at most,this it is extremely unique, being the only real SNES clone I personally know, aside from the counterfeit SNES (it does exist).
>TPC-5
I love this series
>>2882712
>I estimate there should be around 2000 at most
Based on what?
Looks cool though.
Did any of you ever have or played with pic related as kids? can it be emulated or modded?
>>2879758
Lol how the fuck are you going to mod it?
> amazing stereo sound!
> now with 2 action buttons for maximum control!
> 4 color screen with super realistic grafx!
> 7688 more racing games!
> state of the art ic555 processor!
>>2879796
maybe by adding 1 more game? or a faster speed for tetris?
>>2879758
>be me, 12 years old & living in a 3rd world country
>mom buys me brick game
>play tetris & snake all the time
>bitch granny (not real granny) see me play all the time
>bitch granny begins punching me in the back of the head every time she sees me play
>says i look like an idiot whilst i play with the device
>finally dies 3 months later
>play it during her funeral with no fucks given
>good times
So nipples were allowed in NES games?
>>2879173
only on fat guys it seems
>>2879173
Male nipples were not offensive at all during the 80s. Male nipples were commonly seen in Disney movies, even, and many other cartoons. It is not not considered offensive for a male to bare his chest now and it wasn't offensive at all in the 80s.
Yeah man, there are like 20 NES games with tits, even.
Spoiler warning, check the filename if you don't want this game to be spoiled.
Anybody else get the impression GameSack is slumming it lately?
>>2892337
No one has heard of your youtube channel, noone cares about it either.
If you want to advertise at least pay for it so I can adblock it.
Thanks
well they've gone back to a weekly release schedule, there's less time to cover more stuff.
>>2892382
>it's not pewdiepie so i don't watch it
What does /vr/ think?
Me personally thinks hd-upscales with epsx/pcsxr look good in screenshots - for 3d games - but are atrocious ingame because of the jitter, despite gte accurancy. They are a no go for 3d games with prerendered bgs and 2d pixel art games.
Both widescreen hacks in pcsxr or mednafen suck, because they cause slow down and frame-drops and mess up 3d games with prerendered bgs.
Mednafen is very good and accurate. I like it. But it looks really low-res. It also does not support antialiasing.
I like to enhance the picture of mednafen for 3d games & 3d games with prerendered bgs with a bicubic filter. A) for smoothing the edges (antialiasing) and b) for smoothing textures.
For 2d pixel-art games I prefer a PVM, a good CRT or a good CRTshader. I think 3d games look so so on any kind of CRT/PVM device or simulation of such, because the degrading outweighs the enhancing.
2D games looks superior through a CRT because the textures/pixels are smoothed+bleed together to a certain amount through the CRT/analog input but appear really sharp again through the spacing of scanlines which looks really gorgeous in my opinion. 3D PS games on the other hand have prominent jagged edges, which are not meant to be there. So naturally you want to smooth the source to create a superior output, but not add scan lines, as they would degrade the picture again, making the jagged edges prominent again, instead of masking them.
I hooked up my PS to my CRT and my HDTV & found the output to be okay on my CRT, a bit too sharp - prominent jagged edges. The output on the HDTV was too blurry & smudgy for my taste.
I tried to mimic the effect of the PS1 on my CRT but without the scanlines & came to the conclusion that bicubic filtering is the best way to enhance native PS.
You see 3 pictures:
1 Raw
2 Bicubic MitchellNetravali (scientific best way to upscale an image psychovisually)
3 Custom Bicubic B-Spline filter
I personally prefer B-Spline- with the compromise of sharpness.
1. Mednafen with a front-end and accurate filters.
2. A PS2 with its enhancement features on.
3. A PSX with the best output you can mod it to support and a high-quality display (anything but LCD).
>>2890908
In that order, BTW. Hell, it's also prolly from least to most expensive too, but I can't be entirely sure for a given geographical pricing market.
Here is a comparison of the Bicubic Catmull-Rom filter and the Bicubic B-Spline by way of illustration.
Now imagine this filter in effect in for example games like Final Fantasy IX and its prerendered backgrounds.
This filter may be blurry, but it makes textures really smooth and the output interpolation really consistent instead of uneven, which I value the most.
Why exactly is this thing so expensive?
Surely the tech used can't be that much. Is this just that rare or does the hardware actually warrant the price?
It's not rare it's a currently manufactured product. It requires a very fast processor so yes the tech being used really is appreciable. There's really no competition though so they can charge whatever they want, which is probably a matter of setting the price at a point where their production all gets bought up. The fact that they have "budget" models like xrgb mini tells you it's not just BS markup though.
Make your own, charge less, and out compete them then, OP.
>>2885452
Good idea. I'll get started on the logo.
Why pink hair?
Oh, it's THIS thread again.
/sage
cause tingle sodomized him
>>2882162
>Why pink hair?
To provide the player with a strong visual anchor. There's a lot of greens and browns in the game, with brown hair as seen in the official artwork the player character would blend in too much. With pink hair it is easily trackable even with peripheral vision.
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