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kirbysuperstar posted:Darius Gaiden, R-Type Delta, Thunderforce III and LIGHTENING FORCE I love R-Type and all, but I'm not sure Delta is a good game for new players. I'd recommend Final over it as I found it a good deal easier. Then again maybe I'm broken because I also find Super R-Type a lot easier than R-Type 3. d0s posted:Blazing Lazers/Gunhed is not very difficult and is also one of the best shooters ever made. Any caravan-type shooter is going to not be very hard because the goal is racking up huge scores more than really precise gameplay. Blazing Lazers is awesome as poo poo, as are all of Hudson's TG16 shmups, and none of them are very hard so they're great for beginners. It's too bad the Star Soldier games are going for crazy amounts these days, especially Soldier Blade which is probably the best shmup on the system.
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Soldier Blade on TG-16 and Wii/PSN is perfect for a beginner. Nice difficulty curve (I still haven't beaten the last stage, perpetual beginner that I am) and a fun weapon system and great soundtrack.
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McCracAttack posted:Dear Livejournal, d0s posted:Try some of these http://caravanstage.com/games/ Got to give a shout to Recca. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t_Ve4Ljs8I How the crap did they make 8 bit Nintendo do that.
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Allen Wren posted:So, I am seriously hilaribad at shooters of the ilk being discussed---definitely the vertical bullet hell type, but I'm also hugely bad at the classic ones that are more sedate and usually side-scroll. Like, "plonking a dollar or two in just to get through a stage, let alone many stages with which you might 1CC." What would the thread consider the best starter shooters, where you might actually have a chance at A) beating it and B) maybe learning something instead of just getting steamrolled? A lot of people had already brought up games I would mention, but I'd also add Raiden Project for the PSX. It's Raiden 1 and 2 on one disc. Raiden doesn't really get bullet hell until later games in the series (and even then not as bad as say Cave or Psikyo does with their games).
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Jun 19, 2014 10:17
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Gun Nac is an easy and fun shooter if you want to emulate or drop a lot of money.
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Jun 19, 2014 10:43
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The latest Raiden game dropped on PSN a couple weeks ago for around $20, if you want something new that isn't a danmaku game.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:A lot of Compile's shooters are generally fairly easy - Blazing Lasers, MUSHA, etc - but I find 'em kinda dull, you tend to spend a lot of time just holding down the fire button for ten minutes per stage while you watch enemies die to your huge, screen-filling shots. The fun of these games is either in figuring out the combination of powerups to give you attacks like that, or doing the opposite and increasing the challenge by giving yourself the worst weapons. I think this flexibility is one of the best things about Compile's shooters, it's not like they immediately give you a fully powered up superweapon to annihilate the game with, you have to actively seek out stuff to build up like that.
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Jun 19, 2014 11:14
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Stoomie posted:Is there an actual established "GBA mod" for busted DS Lites? Or is it just a hack-job of taking the top panel off? Some people are content with just ripping the top screen off, some people do case work to make it look good. The only hardware mod you need to do is wire something to a pin where the top screen connects so it thinks the top screen is still there. It does a check at boot to see if the top screen is connected. It actually skips this check if you set it to boot directly to the game in the menu and only have a GBA game in, but if it ever "forgets" your menu settings it might stop booting when it starts checking again. Other than that just relocate the speakers and make holes for them. you can do this with a phat, too, but lites are more likely to have a broken hinge in my experience. Please don't do this to a working system.
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Jun 19, 2014 12:22
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As if there aren't 100 million DS units floating out there
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d0s posted:The fun of these games is either in figuring out the combination of powerups to give you attacks like that, or doing the opposite and increasing the challenge by giving yourself the worst weapons. I think this flexibility is one of the best things about Compile's shooters, it's not like they immediately give you a fully powered up superweapon to annihilate the game with, you have to actively seek out stuff to build up like that. Really? I feel like a lot of 'em give you the big spread weapons pretty early on, and once you've got them it's hard to lose them. More than anything, I think those old Aleste or Aleste-esque Compile games just have really poor pacing, they feel like they drag on forever sometimes, even compared to other Compile games like Zanac. I wouldn't say I don't enjoy them, and the stuff they made at Raizing is great, I'd just rather play something faster these days.
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ReverendHammer posted:A lot of people had already brought up games I would mention, but I'd also add Raiden Project for the PSX. It's Raiden 1 and 2 on one disc. Raiden doesn't really get bullet hell until later games in the series (and even then not as bad as say Cave or Psikyo does with their games). Aw hell yeah Raiden! Raiden II was the first vertical shooter I ever played way back when I was a kid staying at a hotel in Indiana on vacation. It still to this day gets a ton of play on my MAME cabinet and xbox and it has aged extremely well. 
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Tyson Tomko posted:Aw hell yeah Raiden! Raiden II was the first vertical shooter I ever played way back when I was a kid staying at a hotel in Indiana on vacation. It still to this day gets a ton of play on my MAME cabinet and xbox and it has aged extremely well. Does this mean Raiden 2 is finally playable in MAME? That game's had issues working properly forever.
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Allen Wren posted:
"Unlimited" being the extra crazy hard mode. Novice on world ignition is manageable. Believe it or not, it's substantially easier and more forgiving than, say, Zanac.
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iastudent posted:Does this mean Raiden 2 is finally playable in MAME? That game's had issues working properly forever.
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Zeether posted:No, nobody's gotten to working on the board it's on. That screenshot is probably from the PC version. Tyson said he had it playing on his MAME cab, that's why I was curious.
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iastudent posted:Tyson said he had it playing on his MAME cab, that's why I was curious. I may have been going crazy, I was probably thinking of the first one or something. When I get home I'll check and see, you've got me doubting myself like crazy now but I know I played some Raiden game a 1000 times.
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It probably wasn't Raiden 2/DX, those games are notoriously hard to emulate and even the ports aren't as accurate as people would like.
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al-azad posted:As if there aren't 100 million DS units floating out there Well the thing is if you got a working system, you can sell it off to buy a broken one and still have a good deal of cash left over. So you come out ahead that way.
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al-azad posted:As if there aren't 100 million DS units floating out there 
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RZA Encryption posted:Some people are content with just ripping the top screen off, some people do case work to make it look good. The only hardware mod you need to do is wire something to a pin where the top screen connects so it thinks the top screen is still there. It does a check at boot to see if the top screen is connected. It actually skips this check if you set it to boot directly to the game in the menu and only have a GBA game in, but if it ever "forgets" your menu settings it might stop booting when it starts checking again. I'm confused, don't GBA games play on the top screen? Do you swap the video wiring as well?
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GBA games play on the touch screen (bottom)
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You can put them on either screen, actually. It's an option in the menu.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuhg6LkLjsI Yeah. I'm really bad at these. I'll definitely consider the names you guys have dropped, some of them I have played before, I've always loved Raiden. I know I've got the PC port of Raiden II somewhere in stratified layers of backups. But, like, as you'll see in the video, what you guys consider easy and what I consider easy are really not the same thing. That's not a joke video, that's me actually trying. It just looks like a joke.
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Is it wrong that I want to swim in that like scrooge mcduck?
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Allen Wren posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuhg6LkLjsI Nothing for it but practice. Memorization is a part of it too; learning the patterns and so on. In Gradius especially you want to mow down those straight lines of enemies at the start of the stages ASAP so you can power your ship up. Also, I'm absolute trash with a d-pad when it comes to shooters. I need a stick, even a cheap one will do.
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I got the gameboy everdrive from Acid today. Its missing the sd card I paid extra for and she did such a hackjob on cutting the SD card slot the case is cracked. The label she said she would put on is of course missing as well. I am glad I got it though. It had Kirby dream land 2 loaded in it and man I love that game. Now that that saga is over, anybody have a neo Geo mobo they want to sell? I need to complete my supergun setup!
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I received my ACID package today too! My EDGB is in good shape, pretty case, no label of course. The TurboED 3D shell is....not so much a shell as it is a front thing sitting on top of the PCB? I don't really know what this thing is. I got a free Pokemon crystal GB case, though! And my MVS cart was in there too. Those things are big~
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Quidnose posted:I received my ACID package today too! My EDGB is in good shape, pretty case, no label of course. That's exactly what the 3D shell is. There's not really a way to have a case for the TurboED but it at least protects your pcb and makes it look decent inside the case.
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Quidnose posted:The TurboED 3D shell is....not so much a shell as it is a front thing sitting on top of the PCB? I don't really know what this thing is. Yeah, that's how the one I ordered is too. It's mostly a cosmetic dust cover for the part of the Turbo ED that sticks out when it's inserted. Any more and the Turbo ED wouldn't fit.
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I got my package from Acid, as well, but it was just my EDGB. The Turbo ED, PS2 SATA adapter and Free McBoot were all conspicuously missing. So was the SD card I paid extra for on the EDGB. So, YMMV, I guess.
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Hoooooooly poo poo.
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The EDGB does not play nice with the GB Boy Colour. It hard locks the system. I'll have to dig out my extreme purple GBC to use this. Either that, or the card I am using might be bad.
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I was supposed to get my GBED today too, but it wasn't in the mailbox so I checked the tracking number and it got updated as "Your item was undeliverable as addressed at 8:25 am on June 19, 2014"! Rad! So I went to the post office to see if I could grab it there, and it turns out no I can not. The manager said it was probably because the apartment number was left off and gave me a phone number to call at 7AM tomorrow to try and wrangle the package over to me. Fun. This sure is some adventure.
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Soon to be poisoning some unfortunate city in China...
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trunkwontopen posted:The EDGB does not play nice with the GB Boy Colour. It hard locks the system. I'll have to dig out my extreme purple GBC to use this. Either that, or the card I am using might be bad. It works fine with the GB Boy Colour, it's your sd card.
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I've recently been starting down the path of buying up old NES, SNES, and Genesis games to build a collection. To go along with that, I ordered a Retron 5. It got in today, and I'm mostly liking it so far. It outputs stuff cleanly to 720p over HDMI, which is the main reason I got it. You can apply filters and stuff if that floats your boat, but clean pixels are the way to go for me. It does a really good job of replicating the audio in the games I've tried so far. I think there were a couple off notes in the first couple levels of Sonic 2, but it was really hard to tell if it was just my imagination. Also, playing Genesis games with a SNES controller is a weird thing you can do because of the emulation and button mapping stuff. The controller that comes with it is just weird. They would have been better off cloning a SNES controller and adding menu buttons. It's not terrible, just a bit unusual and not well suited to any particular system. It also has an analog stick despite the fact that none of the Retron supported systems used one. The build of the hardware is pretty decent. There's some cheap plastic in spots, but otherwise it's fine. It does grip Genesis carts too hard though, you have to use quite a bit of force to pull them out. I really hope that doesn't cause extra wear and tear. I also heard that putting in multiple cartidges was hugely inadvisable, so I haven't tried doing that yet. Kind of sucks to not be able to do that though. There's one HUGE issue with it however: It deletes battery saves. I bid farewell to my Metroid Zero mission save, which sucks. It has save states, but that's not a replacement for battery saves. It is supposedly just a firmware bug, so a patch will likely come out to fix it eventually. They also do seem to push updates pretty frequently, which is nice. I suspect the opinion here isn't super high of the Retron due to it emulating instead of actually being a hardware replica, but I'm finding it as a pretty good way to play old games easily. The new TV at my workplace also only supports HDMI, so this is kind of ideal for that kind of environment.
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trunkwontopen posted:The EDGB does not play nice with the GB Boy Colour. It hard locks the system. I'll have to dig out my extreme purple GBC to use this. Either that, or the card I am using might be bad.
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Well I've decided to downsize my Famicom collection. I've decided I'm going to keep 40 games that hold a special place in my heart (as one Cassette drawer thing holds that many) and I'm selling the rest. If anyone's interested I'll make up a list of the games I'm selling (at least 140 or so) and make an SA-Mart thread. Shipping from Australia to America is comparable to Japan to America, right? I am keeping my copy of Super Monkey Daiboken though, sorry guys.
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Quick question. Does anyone know the name of the SFC game about an intergalactic bounty hunter? About all I remember is that it was a platform game. It was based on the character from two movies, and possibly a comic too. She comes to Japan tracking an escaped space prisoner, and either she or the alien set up a trap zone with no one else in it to battle it out. Except two technicians get inadvertently trapped in the zone as well. Excitement, danger and hilarity ensue. Any ideas, I know the first movie had an English release. Also the alien had a little white face that would come out of its head like a snake.
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