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Arthur D Wolfe posted:I am still not sure whether it could be streamed due to the settings it requires to run on Win7, but I am willing to give it a shot. Might use it as a pre-stream this Saturday as long as I can get a guest; there is no way to run the game windowed, so I need someone to connect me with the stream chat during play. I'll see if I can be around a little early and keep you up to speed on what the chat is saying during the pre-stream. At least, if that's all right with you?
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And if Shining can't make it, you know I'm always good for being a co-commentator.
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| # ? Apr 17, 2012 23:43 |
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I kinda wish Demonophobia wasn't quite so unpleasantly explicit/the wrong kind of creepy, for the sake of people's reactions, but I suspect it would break multiple forum rules to actually post videos of that game. It's just so weird and freaky, with plenty of trial-and-error gameplay, but I suspect the actual content would land somebody in a lot of trouble with their video hosting and/or forum account. Edit: No, seriously, this game is *really*  and  and you should look it up at your own risk.
azren fucked around with this message at Apr 18, 2012 around 01:36 |
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Well, Arthur, I could always try guest commentating if you want, and I also found you The Dark Eye, potentially. The "Acceptable" seems okay...
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| # ? Apr 18, 2012 02:16 |
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I'll throw my hat into the ring for commentating on Saturday if and when there is room.
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| # ? Apr 18, 2012 03:44 |
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Shining Finger posted:I'll see if I can be around a little early and keep you up to speed on what the chat is saying during the pre-stream. At least, if that's all right with you? azren posted:I kinda wish Demonophobia wasn't quite so unpleasantly explicit/the wrong kind of creepy, for the sake of people's reactions, but I suspect it would break multiple forum rules to actually post videos of that game. JamieTheD posted:Well, Arthur, I could always try guest commentating if you want, and I also found you The Dark Eye, potentially. The "Acceptable" seems okay...
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| # ? Apr 18, 2012 10:02 |
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thread posted:Everyone nabbing my spot this Saturday and Arthur forgetting my Skype message from over a week ago  My fault for not posting in the thread/reminding Arthur I guess. Probably for the best as I'm out all day Saturday and not sure what time I'll be getting back, so I'll most likely miss the beginning. Eh bien, c'est la vie
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| # ? Apr 18, 2012 10:19 |
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| # ? Apr 18, 2012 11:36 |
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That's what I get for trying to scan through quickly while at work. Point still stands that I may not be there at the beginning so if you may want to get another person to fill the dead air or whatnot for then I would do so. You've probably got the hang of this streaming business by now so I reckon you'll know what to do 
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| # ? Apr 18, 2012 12:13 |
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Well, I just got done playing the Pat Cooper prequel. And, personally, I blame the internet. *Ahem* Yes, well...uh...I dunno if it's my computer or what, but this: This was both pants-splittingly hilarious, and pants-shittingly frightful at the same time. God, Pat is stalking me. The whole damned game she(?) kept just peering at me over the text box.
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| # ? Apr 19, 2012 03:21 |
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:I may have tracked down a copy of the game myself, waiting to see if it comes through. If I have it on hand by the next Horror Hour, would you be willing to guest for that? Definitely! skype jaythed, or mail jamie_t_d@hotmail.com with your other preferred method, I'm pretty flexible.
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| # ? Apr 19, 2012 15:47 |
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Hey Arthur, is this your dad: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fated-Fortu...34861263&sr=8-1
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ChaoticGood posted:Hey Arthur, is this your dad: Johnny Amadeus posted:This was both pants-splittingly hilarious, and pants-shittingly frightful at the same time. God, Pat is stalking me. The whole damned game she(?) kept just peering at me over the text box. So, I have managed to track down a copy of The Dark Eye and through some technical magic (emulating Win 3.11 in Dosbox and using a legacy version of Quicktime 2.12) gotten it to work perfectly. As such, the next Horror Hour is The Dark Eye, featuring JamieTheD as primary guest unless circumstances change! Our next topic of discussion will be the new Top 20 I suppose, but that can wait until after the stream this Saturday.
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I'll as usual be here Saturday And I'm willing to guest. Personally. I don't care what game you play for Horror Hour. For Now. I'll think of something at a later time.
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I'm curious, how hard is it to change between emulators during the stream? Because I'd love something like "Top 20 Games where you play the bad guy", but there's so many platform changes....
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:
Wow, that is quite the setup. I've seen the game before and I think we'll all be in for a real treat! 
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Domus posted:I'm curious, how hard is it to change between emulators during the stream? Because I'd love something like "Top 20 Games where you play the bad guy", but there's so many platform changes.... Seconding this. As for Top 20, I hear the SNES had some pretty goddamn abysmal games and would be pleased as punch to see some of them.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2012 01:36 |
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So, was anyone else having trouble with the stream chat yesterday? It kept loading and loading for me, and after about ten minutes it would finally load. I'd look at who was in the room, and it would be empty! Try after try that would keep happening. Stream was fun, though! I must say Eternal Champions on the Sega CD did have really unfair computer AI, but I would swear it was built more for Player Vs. Player. I mean, it has something like a dozen different types of Versus modes! Plus, that was in the same year MK3 came out, that's when fighting game companies just seemed to say "Screw it! Make them work for it." and jack up the difficulty to ungodly levels. And as for Rage in the Cage, did you try holding A+B before you started pushing towards the turnbuckle? I remember it being a little tricky to pull off, but it has to know your intentions before you start. If you scramble up the turnbuckle, you're doing a top rope move. If you're slogging slowly upwards, building tension (if you'll notice, Shawn did that several times), then you're trying to escape the cage.
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Johnny Amadeus posted:So, was anyone else having trouble with the stream chat yesterday? It kept loading and loading for me, and after about ten minutes it would finally load. I'd look at who was in the room, and it would be empty! Try after try that would keep happening. Yes the chat was behaving a bit strangely for me too. Took ages to load and then would update after long intervals with a bunch of old messages all at once. Enjoyed the stream though, so thanks Arthur and guests.
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Johnny Amadeus posted:Stream was fun, though! I must say Eternal Champions on the Sega CD did have really unfair computer AI, but I would swear it was built more for Player Vs. Player. I mean, it has something like a dozen different types of Versus modes! Plus, that was in the same year MK3 came out, that's when fighting game companies just seemed to say "Screw it! Make them work for it." and jack up the difficulty to ungodly levels. One thing I failed to mention during the stream is the utter bullshit that is the final boss. It's the standard "best out of 3" match against him, though the gimmick is that the Eternal Champion has multiple forms, can use his special moves as much as he likes, and you have to beat 5 different forms consecutively just to win a single round against him. And if you somehow managed to beat him, then you will have to fight his dark counterpart that was added exclusively for the Sega CD version. Who is just as much of a dick as the Eternal Champion was. And the kicker of it all? If you lose the match against the (Dark) Eternal Champion, you get a bad ending and are kicked straight back to the main menu, no matter how many continues you had left at that point.
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I had no issues at all with the chat. Admittedly, I opened the stream a good 30-40 minutes early so I wouldn't forget, so I don't know.
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Something I failed to mention during the stream yesterday is that I finally got my hands on a digital camera again, so it is time for a much belated gallery showing of the wondrous birthday gifts I received last month! First out are some wonderful Neo Geo insets that Domus picked up at a convention for cool people like herself. It should be noted that the first two are double-sided, so I can grab shots of the other sides if you really want to see them.  Top Hunter Roddy and Cathy, the spiritual precursor to Metal Slug.  Art of Fighting 2, one of the big fighting game franchises of the system.  A general advertisement inset that displays the Neo Geo MVS cabinets in three different configurations. Next up is quantum_squirrel who not only supplied me with four wonderful video games, but also personally crafted a custom-made AD&D collectible trading card!  The front, displaying our courageous (?) hero. Some paper bits are sadly missing as the postal service was rather unkind to the package...  The back, giving us a overview of our hero's capabilities - or lack thereof, perhaps. I am not sure how to best express my gratitude to Domus and quantum_squirrel, so I will simply give them both a big old Swedish "Tack så mycket!". You are officially in the top percentage of Loathsome Jerk viewers. Johnny Amadeus posted:So, was anyone else having trouble with the stream chat yesterday? It kept loading and loading for me, and after about ten minutes it would finally load. I'd look at who was in the room, and it would be empty! Try after try that would keep happening. Johnny Amadeus posted:And as for Rage in the Cage, did you try holding A+B before you started pushing towards the turnbuckle? Domus posted:I'm curious, how hard is it to change between emulators during the stream? Because I'd love something like "Top 20 Games where you play the bad guy", but there's so many platform changes.... With that said, everyone feel free to come up with the most bizarre Top 20 requests you can think of. If there is a way to make it work I can probably find it, and half the fun of my streams is watching me suffer anyway.
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azren posted:I kinda wish Demonophobia wasn't quite so unpleasantly explicit/the wrong kind of creepy, for the sake of people's reactions, but I suspect it would break multiple forum rules to actually post videos of that game. It's just so weird and freaky, with plenty of trial-and-error gameplay, but I suspect the actual content would land somebody in a lot of trouble with their video hosting and/or forum account. Having looked this up I would also vote for this. It really isn't all that bad if you're used to the absuridities of Guro and just general Japan gore. There's a traslated version out there somewhere, but I've never seen it. Though since it's just the stream and there's already videos of it on Youtube it should be ok, though don't quote me on that.
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:The whole thing was a bit absurd, but hopefully it was better viewing than me just climbing out two minutes into the match. It was a very enjoyable view! I spent hours on that game back in the days just to see those grainy old FMVs that would play whenever you won tournament mode with a character. It was just like, a five second clip of them either holding a belt, or if they were never champion, winning a match. I'd throw in an idea for "Top 20: Drunk and Disorderly", if only so you could show off the brilliance that is "Bozo's Night Out" on the Commodore 64. Seriously, that thing was genius.
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 And here is our Youtube playlist, properly partitioned this time around! Bad news for those of you living in Germany and Japan however: Make My Video with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch may be blocked in your countries due to the fact that a game based around making music videos has music in it. A note for those who missed the stream, I did beat Panic! yesterday but it was not recorded due to HDD space running out. I had freed up 250 GB for this stream since I knew it would be a long one, but even that generous estimate ended up falling short. As an apology I have provided a link to Frankomatic's excellent run of the game here and in the Panic! video description.
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How long did you actually end up streaming for? I gave up after 6 hours to go to a BYOM event at a friend's house. It must have been 2 or 3 am in Sweden at that point. Also, glad those flyers got to you in more or less one piece. 
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...okay, wow. I was about to post a link to the Smoke & Mirrors instruction manual just to show people how the tricks are supposed to work, but apparently the scans are completely gone from the internet. Welp. Guess you can't force your friends to take part in "Mofo the Psychic Gorilla" now. But the basic idea was that Disc 2 is where you do the set-up for the tricks beforehand, and there are even FMV's which tell you, the hypothetical owner of the game, how the tricks are supposed to work. edit: Thanks for pointing that out, I was worried for a second  Also, the recorded stream can be found here: http://www.twitch.tv/arthurwolfe/b/315740331 About 3 hours in is where Panic! starts. And Arthur could even rip that stream and cut/paste the Panic! part from it to YouTube. Tewratomeh fucked around with this message at Apr 23, 2012 around 01:24 |
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:A note for those who missed the stream, I did beat Panic! yesterday but it was not recorded due to HDD space running out. I had freed up 250 GB for this stream since I knew it would be a long one, but even that generous estimate ended up falling short. As an apology I have provided a link to Frankomatic's excellent run of the game here and in the Panic! video description.
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There's still something about 2D wrestling games that I enjoy so very much. I still play Fire Pro on my Dreamcast like once a month.
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Vrikkian posted:There's still something about 2D wrestling games that I enjoy so very much. I still play Fire Pro on my Dreamcast like once a month. Man, I thought I was the only one! I used to play Fire Pro Wrestling S: 6 Man Scramble on my Saturn every so often. But then Fire Pro Returns came out for the PS2 in the US, and that kept me from having to retype all the names in every time my Saturn's internal battery died.
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I see I wasn't the only one trying to figure out Smoke & Mirrors. I got Mofo to sort of work. It seems to involve the C button and the D-pad. There's a little green spark that appears on the 10 o'clock edge of the crystal ball after you double tap C. Messing around with C and the d-pad got Mofo to work after pressing start. He first asks four of these questions randomly: "Do you have relatives living on Venus?" "Do birds fire machine guns?" "Are you playing on a Sega CD system?" "Do you have metal skin?" "Are you over nine feet tall?" "Do you breathe air?" "Were you born on planet Earth?" Then he asks the color, suit, and finally what card it is specifically. Aside from Desert Bus and Smoke & Mirrors, all of the  ), because it's a very special game that can emit heatwaves when the screen flashes.
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Arthur D Wolfe posted:
I'm not sure if it's just me, but the first three videos on the playlist seem to be running at half the original framerate. The others seem to be fine, though... Also, dear God, how come nobody ever told me I sounded like a total dork?
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quote:Top Hunter Roddy and Cathy, the spiritual precursor to Metal Slug. There's an actual precursor to Metal Slug made by the same people, Gunforce II. It works in MAME so it's easy to check out. It's quite interesting in that it has very similar graphics as Metal Slug, but presented in a more realistic style.
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MadScientistWorking posted:Ehhh... Don't worry about it too much. Justin.tv automatically records the stream on its own. Domus posted:How long did you actually end up streaming for? I gave up after 6 hours to go to a BYOM event at a friend's house. It must have been 2 or 3 am in Sweden at that point. Shining Finger posted:I'm not sure if it's just me, but the first three videos on the playlist seem to be running at half the original framerate. The others seem to be fine, though... Arthur D Wolfe fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 17:37 |
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I think we're going to have to do a long and painful full and proper LP of Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. The game's just too much like a certain other adventure game (about an Alien Life Form) to just leave it at the first screen. Once you actually know what you're doing it's not a difficult game (there's literally no way to die or fail), it's just incredibly tedious and boring. Some highlights: -getting your own stunt doubles who look nothing like you, who can run around and punch people -collecting Penn & Teller autographs by stealing them back from the fans you give them to -seeing Teller playing multiple speaking(!) parts -more Debbie Harry than you can stand
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I stuck around for almost all of the stream (I was in chat as SHendrix). I missed most of Eternal Champions, though, so now I'm off to your Youtube account to watch the Smartest Caveman and friends. I still maintain that more strobe would have improved Marky Mark. Edit: The ridiculous cheapness of the AI in Eternal Champions was absolutely hilarious, and I'm glad I watched that. Brofessor Slayton fucked around with this message at Apr 23, 2012 around 22:22 |
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Johnny Amadeus posted:Man, I thought I was the only one! I used to play Fire Pro Wrestling S: 6 Man Scramble on my Saturn every so often. But then Fire Pro Returns came out for the PS2 in the US, and that kept me from having to retype all the names in every time my Saturn's internal battery died. Dude, an Action Replay for the Saturn is pretty much required. It's an import chip, memory card, and RAM cart all in one. Must have accessory.
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Will be watching the stream recordings tonight if I can! I was only able to stick around for some of Nocturne just after Werewolf-zerg rush, but I am looking forward to Make My Video. As for top 20 requests, I can only think of "Top 20 with bad bad bad voice acting". There must be enough games to fill that void. But any is good.
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Vrikkian posted:Dude, an Action Replay for the Saturn is pretty much required. It's an import chip, memory card, and RAM cart all in one. Must have accessory. I totally had one! The trouble is, mine was...shoddily made. It always had a hard time touching the contacts inside, so I'd have to put it in, turn it on, hope I didn't get the screen where it says it can't load the CD...then turn it off, pull it out, turn it back on again. There was a time when it was taking me 30 minutes just to start playing! Then after a few months the memory in the Pro Action Replay just kept junking the data in it. For Fire Pro? Still totally worth it.
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Good By the way Javelin I haven't forgotten about what I said a couple of weeks ago, I'll steal Arthur's hard work and make an avatar out of that skull from whatever that loving stupid voodoo zombie game was called tomorrow. Also by the way, I take back what I said about flavours, wheat crunchies are the best.
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