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Bocc Kob
Oct 26, 2010

Dominic White posted:

Multiupload covers just about all the major sites.. but I expect the number of file-hosting options available to shrink VERY quickly soon.

Until they're inevitably replaced by several more.

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zari-gani
Sep 6, 2004

How much do you want it? ;-*
Well, that would explain why the file I was downloading from Megaupload stopped mid-download...

Bocc Kob posted:

Until they're inevitably replaced by several more.

Good name for the next big filesharing service: HydraUpload.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



zari-gani posted:

Well, that would explain why the file I was downloading from Megaupload stopped mid-download...

It's official. That video is cursed. I think you have to translate it now or you'll be seized by the feds in seven days.

Yes, even in Canada.

I'm really glad I took the time to mirror everything a few weeks ago.

zari-gani
Sep 6, 2004

How much do you want it? ;-*

Random Stranger posted:

It's official. That video is cursed. I think you have to translate it now or you'll be seized by the feds in seven days.

Don't worry, I got it through Multiupload afterwards! And it's a good episode so I'm definitely going to translate it.

Viscous Soda
Apr 24, 2004

The White Dragon posted:

Wow, that's fuckin' creepy. I used MU like, not even two hours ago to grab a memory card a goon put together for me because I couldn't figure it out myself.

I finished the Flashback episode a bit before noon, I'm glad that I remembered to start the download this morning.

rdbbb
Jul 26, 2011

Bocc Kob posted:

Until they're inevitably replaced by several more.

And maybe won't flaunt their poo poo as wildly as MU.

cronox2
Jul 24, 2010



woah, you look
REALLY pissed off...
Yes. I can finally watch a new episode in true Arino style:



Only took 2 months after ordering to arrive, but it was worth it!

On the whole voltage concerns, it looks like the only thing that's 220V about it was the lightbulb itself. After switching it out for an American 110V one and re-doing the plug (the prongs on the one it comes with are too short) it seems to be working fine.

cronox2 fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jan 19, 2012

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



zari-gani posted:

Don't worry, I got it through Multiupload afterwards! And it's a good episode so I'm definitely going to translate it.

That's another episode that no one has requested that's on the way, guys.

I forgot to mention this zari-gani but you know that thing at the end of that video that's going to make everyone flip out? There's one of those for Mystical Ninja/Goemon featuring Nakayama and Tojima. I don't know why they made it (especially since it ties into something completely different) but it exists.

Bocc Kob
Oct 26, 2010

Random Stranger posted:

I forgot to mention this zari-gani but you know that thing at the end of that video that's going to make everyone flip out?

Why would you do this. :mad:

zari-gani
Sep 6, 2004

How much do you want it? ;-*

Random Stranger posted:

That's another episode that no one has requested that's on the way, guys.

But first, three other episodes no one asked for! (Actually that's not entirely true as the third one was requested at least once.)

Random Stranger posted:

I forgot to mention this zari-gani but you know that thing at the end of that video that's going to make everyone flip out? There's one of those for Mystical Ninja/Goemon featuring Nakayama and Tojima. I don't know why they made it (especially since it ties into something completely different) but it exists.

Sweet, but I have a feeling it's not nearly as good.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



zari-gani posted:

Sweet, but I have a feeling it's not nearly as good.

Perhaps, but I knew you were interested in Goemon so I thought I better mention it.

Bocc Kob posted:

Why would you do this. :mad:

Do what? Casually drop that there will be something so gloriously awesome that it will blow all of your minds and none of you have any idea what's coming?

Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jan 19, 2012

Tucked In The Cut
Nov 15, 2006

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'd rather brush my teeth
with a rusty razor
than front and bullshit
with all you fakers

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Count me excited for the Jake Hunter episode. Funny how many people played Phoenix Wright but had no interest in Jake. I recommend everyone pick up Memories of the Past who had even a remote interest in Phoenix. It's real hardboiled.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

lanzy posted:

Count me excited for the Jake Hunter episode. Funny how many people played Phoenix Wright but had no interest in Jake. I recommend everyone pick up Memories of the Past who had even a remote interest in Phoenix. It's real hardboiled.

I just ordered it last night. I was wanting a new portable wordy-adventure to play, so why not this?

Johanz
Nov 3, 2010
The Flashback episode was pretty good! Just watched it and I just wanted to chime in at how odd the game felt, mainly due to the fact that they cut out all the story segments, intro, the plot twist and everything. The game felt like it had no motivation at all, haha.

Crazy western games, I tell ya! It is kinda fun how japanese just seem to put "western games" ontop games that aren't made in Japan. How is the western game culture in Japan anyway? I guess it must be getting more popular with games like Assassins Creed and such getting quite noticed over there. The only thing I saw during Japan was when I was in uh, some shop in Akihabara and in front of me I saw a guy that was going to buy Dragon Age.. For the PC! Figured he must be some sort of western gamer fan, because I dunno. Western PC RPGs feels like a sorta otaku genre for a japanese gamer, sorta like crazy import shooters is seen over here, but I'm just guessing! Anyone have some cool stories or something on western games in Japan?

Awesomonster
Feb 26, 2008

Because there's always an ending.

Zeether posted:

There's Aquabats music in the episode? The staff must have good taste.

They play the Aquabats in the Korea trip episode as well, I'd have to watch it again to remember which song (though I think it might've been Super Rad?) or where, but it did give me a bit of a thrill to hear, I remember that much :3:

Cemetry Gator
Apr 3, 2007

Do you find something comical about my appearance when I'm driving my automobile?
Oh please? Is it Go by Train!? I mean, what's not to anticipate with that one? In some regards, I don't want to see it, because that means this image I have in my head of Arino sitting in his chair, wearing a conductor's hat, and making train noises probably isn't anywhere near reality...

And because of that, I suddenly have lost the urge to live.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Cemetry Gator posted:

Oh please? Is it Go by Train!? I mean, what's not to anticipate with that one? In some regards, I don't want to see it, because that means this image I have in my head of Arino sitting in his chair, wearing a conductor's hat, and making train noises probably isn't anywhere near reality...

And because of that, I suddenly have lost the urge to live.

Speaking as someone wh owns seven Densha de Go games (seriously) I can assure you that it is not an episode on track for release.

Mister Chief
Jun 6, 2011

Random Stranger posted:

Speaking as someone who owns seven Densha de Go games (seriously) I can assure you that it is not an episode on track for release.

I see what you did there. I'm going to guess Paris-Dakar Rally Special and The Night of the Sickle Weasels are both currently in the works.

Zeether
Aug 26, 2011

Random Stranger posted:

Speaking as someone wh owns seven Densha de Go games (seriously) I can assure you that it is not an episode on track for release.
I have played some of the games and I've read the episode synopsis on Crunk Games...and yeah, it looks like a tough one to translate (there's quite a bit of onscreen text about the train you're driving and the next stop and such)

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


cronox2 posted:

Yes. I can finally watch a new episode in true Arino style:



Only took 2 months after ordering to arrive, but it was worth it!

On the whole voltage concerns, it looks like the only thing that's 220V about it was the lightbulb itself. After switching it out for an American 110V one and re-doing the plug (the prongs on the one it comes with are too short) it seems to be working fine.

where did you order it from and how much have you spent on this?

jyrque
Sep 4, 2011

Gravy Boat 2k

Johanz posted:

Crazy western games, I tell ya!

(Western) PC games in general aren't that hot in Japan. When I was in Japan, any given 'otaku' software store in Akihabara there would be a whole floor of porn games with a tiny shelf and a sale bin for Western games. There you could pick up Diablo 2 for 30 bucks, Total War collection for 110 bucks or even Mount & Blade for 60 bucks!

It's obvious from retail prices alone that PC games really don't have much value in there, be it due to uppity salespeople or just plain lack of demand.

You see the occasional Japanese Western game enthusiast on internet but that's a given, considering how many people there are in Japan. I think Xbox is healthy in Japan only due to pandering to the otaku culture with Idolmaster games and whatnot...

Western console games, on the other hand, seemed to enjoy a familiar spot on store shelves. Where in our stores we would have Madden, NHL, Modern Warfare next to a Atlus RPG, in Japan it would obviously be vice versa.

Dr. Video Games 0031
Jul 17, 2004

Well, it doesn't help in GCCX's case that western console games for 8 and 16 bit systems WERE actually almost always terrible and generally completely overshadowed by Japanese games. Most of the decent ones like Out of this World, Prince of Persia, or Lemmings were ports of PC games. Wasn't until the PS2 generation that western game developers really broke back into the console market with some force.

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


Every time it goes "19** in games" I get disappointed that it doesn't do any C64 games. Did the C64 sell in japan at all? I never had a nintendo, until SNES.

Dr. Video Games 0031
Jul 17, 2004

Krinkle posted:

Every time it goes "19** in games" I get disappointed that it doesn't do any C64 games. Did the C64 sell in japan at all? I never had a nintendo, until SNES.

No, it did not. I don't know if they even tried.

jyrque
Sep 4, 2011

Gravy Boat 2k

Krinkle posted:

Every time it goes "19** in games" I get disappointed that it doesn't do any C64 games. Did the C64 sell in japan at all? I never had a nintendo, until SNES.

C64 was a massive flop due to so much local competition. MSX especially shadowed over it.

There were actually a lot of home computer systems in Japan at the time C64 was conquering the world elsewhere. There was a segment for old, forgotten consoles and other hardware in GCCX but I forget which episode, that showed some early consoles on par with original Atari.

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


was just watching the actraiser episode and they just showed a c64 game... no wait it's apple town story, a port of little computer people, a c64 game. amazing coincidence, to learn this thing, right after asking that thing

Johanz
Nov 3, 2010

jyrque posted:

(Western) PC games in general aren't that hot in Japan. When I was in Japan, any given 'otaku' software store in Akihabara there would be a whole floor of porn games with a tiny shelf and a sale bin for Western games. There you could pick up Diablo 2 for 30 bucks, Total War collection for 110 bucks or even Mount & Blade for 60 bucks!

It's obvious from retail prices alone that PC games really don't have much value in there, be it due to uppity salespeople or just plain lack of demand.

You see the occasional Japanese Western game enthusiast on internet but that's a given, considering how many people there are in Japan. I think Xbox is healthy in Japan only due to pandering to the otaku culture with Idolmaster games and whatnot...

Western console games, on the other hand, seemed to enjoy a familiar spot on store shelves. Where in our stores we would have Madden, NHL, Modern Warfare next to a Atlus RPG, in Japan it would obviously be vice versa.
Interesting stuff! And I even think I saw M&B when I was in Japan.. I can't quite remember though~.

Hmm, I wonder what the most popular western games are in Japan, I bet it must be like.. Another World/Out of This World and Lode Runner. I know atleast two japanese game devs that have cited Another World/Out of This World as a source of inspiration. Hideo Kojima and... humm, someone else I can't remember haha, but I know it is atleast two anyhoo.

DiscoJ
Jun 23, 2003

Just anecdotal but Skyrim had quite a heavy presence in stores when it was launched. I was quite surprised.

Hakkesshu
Nov 4, 2009


lanzy posted:

Count me excited for the Jake Hunter episode. Funny how many people played Phoenix Wright but had no interest in Jake. I recommend everyone pick up Memories of the Past who had even a remote interest in Phoenix. It's real hardboiled.

Probably because there's so much shovelware on the DS that it's impossible to keep track of what's good and what isn't.

I heard about the Jake Hunter games, but always assumed they were terrible. They have gotten literally no buzz on any of the gaming forums I frequent.

joek0
Oct 13, 2011
The government just shutdown Megaupload. Glad the videos are still on Multiupload.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Hakkesshu posted:

I heard about the Jake Hunter games, but always assumed they were terrible. They have gotten literally no buzz on any of the gaming forums I frequent.

I've never heard anything about Jake Hunter. I wouldn't give it a second look on the shelf if it wasn't for Arino playing it.

And as for western games in Japan, I've heard that FPS didn't really catch on there but when I was in Tokyo I saw giant, multistory tall adds for Modern Warfare 3.

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Hakkesshu posted:

Probably because there's so much shovelware on the DS that it's impossible to keep track of what's good and what isn't.

I heard about the Jake Hunter games, but always assumed they were terrible. They have gotten literally no buzz on any of the gaming forums I frequent.

I think the problem here was that there was an early version of the game with terrible localization that completely destroyed keeping things interesting (and thus game review scores were low) and had tons of content edited out (this bad version is called Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles), but a later unedited edition was released with a Phoenix Wright-level awesome re-translation (this good version is called Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past).

excusemeprincess
Jul 23, 2001
There was a pop-kun here. It's gone now.
I think the link for Ultraman is incorrect. It takes you to the Season 1 torrent. Anyone have a link to the actual episode?

edit: Final fight also seems to be broken. I can't download the file.

excusemeprincess fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Jan 20, 2012

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



excuse me princess posted:

I think the link for Ultraman is incorrect. It takes you to the Season 1 torrent. Anyone have a link to the actual episode?

edit: Anyone having trouble with multiupload now? I can't connect to the files.

TV Nihon changed around all of their torrents a few days ago and stuck the Ultraman episodes along with the North Trip in the season one torrent.

Also:

Megalixir posted:

Megaupload is dead at this point.

You might want to find somewhere else to upload episodes on.

excusemeprincess
Jul 23, 2001
There was a pop-kun here. It's gone now.

Random Stranger posted:

TV Nihon changed around all of their torrents a few days ago and stuck the Ultraman episodes along with the North Trip in the season one torrent.

Also:

Thanks. As for Final Fight, it's on multiupload. I just tried it again and it worked so never mind that.

Egregious
Oct 29, 2011
The Flashback episode was pretty good. Great effort by the SA team as always. It's interesting a lot of the story was cut out. Arino always has some comment about a game's plot if it is heavy on it.

Hakkesshu posted:

Probably because there's so much shovelware on the DS that it's impossible to keep track of what's good and what isn't.

I heard about the Jake Hunter games, but always assumed they were terrible. They have gotten literally no buzz on any of the gaming forums I frequent.

I've probably missed out on a number of good DS games because of this thought. I'll try to check this Jake Hunter game though.

Nowadays when I play a game I wonder how Arino would feel about it or play it. Lately I'd been playing Rayman Origins and to be honest if you're trying to 100% every stage it can be a REALLY difficult game. I've died enough in many stages where the game takes pity on me and offers to leave the level (possibly to the next, I always elected to Stay).

Hokuto
Jul 21, 2002


Soiled Meat
Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past is currently available on Amazon for $12.25 and qualifies for free 2-day shipping for super saver members. I went ahead and ordered a copy for myself.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



My copy arrived today so I tried The Petty Murder of a Fragile Heart (aka Shinjuku Central Park Murder Mystery) for about ten minutes. It definitely shows its roots as a famicom game; all of the writing is incredibly brief and abrupt. It's also clearly set in Tokyo (it uses photographs of real locations for some backgrounds) though the localization tries to cover that up a bit.

cronox2
Jul 24, 2010



woah, you look
REALLY pissed off...

Krinkle posted:

where did you order it from and how much have you spent on this?

http://www.dinodirect.com/table-lamp-nude-mr-p.html

It was cheaper when I ordered it (it was $12 each I believe).

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Sashimi
Dec 26, 2008


College Slice

Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:

No, it did not. I don't know if they even tried.
They almost certainly did not. The Japanese PC market in the 80s was tiny since the computers of the time did not have enough capacity to store kanji. If you used a PC in Japan back then, you basically had to know English. There were computers that ran on kana, but I don't think they caught on with consumers.

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