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>>2844547
I've been meaning to ask on the Neo-Geo forums but I'll ask here first if anyones got some input.

My MVS cab is a 2 slot cabinet, that has a 4 slot board in it. Its obviously been replaced by the previous owner, and he got it from a place in vancouver (pacific vend stickers plastered everywhere).

Now this thing has some wonky as fuck behaviors.

>Slot 1 displays images incorrectly
Previous owner says the contacts were dirty. Its displaying I guess shifted bits, so there are obvious lines with incorrect graphics. I hosed it with contact cleaning but I haven't taken it out yet.

>Slot 2 doesn't have sound
>Slot 3 appears to be perfect
>Slot 4 has really low sound
>If multiple games are in, Slot 3 doesn't have sound

Among a few other issues.

Is it possible its not getting enough juice from the power supply? Theres absolutely no sound if I have multiple games in. Occasionally it will also skip games, but if I remove a game from the board it sometimes works.

Supposedly 4 slots are just wonky. I'll probably document everything wrong with it and make a post on the Neo-Geo forums later.

Came across a rather niffy CIC mod for the NES that involves soldering 2 wires to the board.

If anyone wants any information on this, I'd be happy to help.

Could a faulty limit switch on a Sega CD(2) lead to damaged gears and the sled attempting to go further away from the center than it should, or could damaged gears be mimicking a faulty limit switch?

Bought an "as is" Model 2 and I'm trying to get it up and running correctly.
Reads discs, but seems to take a bit long to load at times (I have no "properly working" point of reference so I can't really say on that one) and tracking for audio at times.
These are often times accompanied with grinding noises coming from the sled; The reason I'm not sure it's a limit switch issue is because one of the gears is a bit chewed up and that the grinding noise happens both when the assembly is near the center(what a limit switch problem would cause) as well as it pushing all the way out to the very edge.

If it is a limit switch issue (and as such need new gears or something along those lines) would someone be able to point me in the direction of decent instructions on how to go about either repairing said switch/bringing it back into proper alignment, or if it would be possible to replace the switch?

I have some video of the drive in action, but I still need to cut out the useless junk and/or possibly retake it as it the focus is debatable at times.

TFTD could look spectacular with a modern game engine.

It's hard, very, very hard. Why? The devs were responding to feedback from UFO Defense players who complained that the game was too easy because it had the difficulty bug that nobody knew about. Certain additions to TFTD such as melee weapons were due to player suggestions as well. "Some of the aliens have melee attacks, so the player should also be able to use them."

UFO Defense never gets that hard even on Superhuman and it's almost a breeze once you know what everything does and when it does it. Knowing TFTD intimately will just help you survive a bit better.

>flying Chryssalids
>maps with bazillions of tiny rooms in them
>flying suits don't work on land
>more enemies can use psionics
>tech tree is a lot more complicated
>TFTD equivalent of laser rifles has ammo clips so you can't fire it ad infinitum
>all ranged weapons have fewer rounds in their clips than UFO
>two part base missions
>unscheduled cruise ship and trawler attacks that can happen at random with no prior warning
>mixed alien crews
>all alien bases have Lobstermen and Tentaculats manning them
>Lobstermen are damn near impossible to kill
>only Lobsterman commanders let you beat the game unlike UFO where any commander can be captured

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>that genius who invests time on developing healthkits and whatnot

Silly boy, you can't kill aliens with medikits!

>>2861225
Demon souls

Wolfenstein?

Mortal Kombat is a little much for an 8 year old OP

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[12-15] Turok being re-released on the 17th
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[12-14] Romero recorded some footage of the SMB3 demo the Id guys did back in their Softdisk days.
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Valiant
or
Valiant Vaccinated + Trailblazer?

>>2858198

Vaccinated can be run with any gameplay mod, not just Trailblazer.
Valiant by itself is still the truest experience, though.

>>>/b/
>>>/v/
>>>/trash

>>2865306
why should i move to /b/ or /v/ with this?
Isnt retro gaming what this board is for?

>>2865304
Atari 2600 for arcades 'sit down for 5 mins and play a game' although I played HERO on the 2600 for almost 8 hours the first time I played it

Snes for jrpgs, arcade ports, and a few weird shmups but also megaman X, PILOTWINGS and more.

Snes is more expensive than the Atari overall, upto you is the depth of what you'd like to play, I own both.

They're protagonists so they had to look different.

>>2863418
Wasn't he a trainee or rookie or some such?

>>2863418
Looks like a tactical uniform, really. The extra padding in the elbows, and the vest pouches somewhat support that. If memory serves, most of the officers you encounter in the games I have played were just in their dress blues.

Better graphics, resolution and soundtrack, it's based on the megadrive version so if you played the snes you'll find the level design a bit weird.
The only way to run this thing on a modern os is to install windows 3.1 on dosbox and mount it to cd-rom drive, pretty annoying.

Other than graphics it's identical to the megadrive port. Also, play on hard mode.

>>2866102
i have it on windows vista 32-bit

>Why can't other N64 bros admit it?

I don't think anybody on /vr/ is contesting that the N64 had a smaller library. That's beside the point, though. People enjoy the platform for the quality of games available for it. I've also felt it worthwhile to invest in a WonderSwan Color, even though it has comparatively much fewer games than the GBA. There's no other way for me to play the Makai Toushi SaGa remake. Plus I did think the WSC remakes of FF1 and 2 were much more solid than their GBA counterparts.

Anyway, I owned both an N64 and a PS1 at some point during my youth, so both have a lot of nostalgia for me. N64 mostly for Ocarina of Time and Smash Bros., and PS1 for RPGs.

Arguing that a library is inferior is a completely pointless exercise. If my favorite games of all time were Super Mario 64 and OoT, then the N64's library would be superior to the PS's.

PS1 had a bigger and better library but it's hard not to admit that the N64 had a disproportionately large number of influential games.

Why not?

The soul in the Deku Mask is from Deku Butler's son. Damn feels....

>>2865834
because muh feels

Don't read guides, don't listen to people. The game isn't the hardest, so you can forge your own way through it pretty comfortably.

There's a ton of random shit that can happen though (and stuff that you won't see coming and can't exactly prepare for), so multiple runs are definitely better.

Seek out the side quests

>>2865223
Wow dick. Way to ruin it for him.

Someone please ban this asshole.

>>2865225
Dude he was asking for advice

Do you know how pissed I was when I worked so hard to get Kiss for fucking Frog and he gets killed by Lavos eggs in the 1992 segment - fuck you I'm doing him a favor

>>2864574
What's Mary Sue about Ramza exactly?

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>>2864586

>Horror Game that only makes sense if characters were Mary Sue not in terms of combat but being a magnet for a plot device monster

What the fuck am I reading? Do you even know what Mary Sue means?

>>2864593

Meant to quote OP, im still laughing though holy shit.

>>2863970
Dunno about essential, but there were a couple of games like Mother 3 and Seiken Densetsu 3, or maybe Terranigma? Haven't really kept track of what's gotten rereleases on actual official platforms.

>>2863970
Just look on RHDN for fully completed translations that appeal to you.

>>2864129
I have been ones I got so far were

Romancing Saga - SO HAPPY ITS DONE
Romancing Saga 3 - Has some glitches but I loved it before
Gunmans Proof - Tried it out before but want to actually beat it
Live a Live - Same as above
Dragon Ball Z Super Saiya Densetsu - Want to try out the new translations instead of the crap I played back in the day

Sonic

>>2859192
Thanks

My favorite NES game is probably Monster Party out of sheer absurdity. If including Famicom stuff tho then my favorite is Gimmick, which is definitely the better game.

released too late

>Why did X flop so badly?

>>2858179
Who said this game flopped badly?
>ITT: people who first played Paper Mario or Mario&Luigi saga
Don´t get me wrong, those games are great too

No I don't read your eviews

>reviewing 30 year old games

kek

nah dude, nobody cares about your opinions on old ass video games.