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Is there like a beginner episode where I can see if I dig the show? The staggering amount of seasons is pretty intimidating in the OP.
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Firstborn posted:Is there like a beginner episode where I can see if I dig the show? The staggering amount of seasons is pretty intimidating in the OP. Random Stranger posted:There's a lot of episodes; where's a good place to start? There've been a number of good episodes released since that list came out, and some of that stuff is on the DVD, but that (and the advice about picking a game you recognize from the SA-GCCX episode guide) ought to get you started. If you want my suggestion, Ghosts 'n' Goblins is a good, typical, early episode; if you like that, it's only going to get better from there.
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Firstborn posted:Is there like a beginner episode where I can see if I dig the show? The staggering amount of seasons is pretty intimidating in the OP. Beside my already posted suggestions, don't worry about jumping around or jumping ahead. The flow between episodes is so minor that it's not worth worrying about. Feel free to dance around the listings since there's very few episodes that I'd actually call "bad" (essentially Princess Tomato and Fatal Fury). Pick what you want and go for it. SomeMathGuy posted:Seriously, the CPU seemed to knock it out of the park regardless of where the pitch went in the late innings of game 4. I honestly think Arino would have walked away at least with game 4 if the AI hadn't gone into "super-cheat" mode. One thing I noticed that you might not pick up on is that the AI's players don't actually suffer from fatigue. They would keep their team's best pitcher in for 18, or in one case 27(!) innings with no ill effects. Apparently Koshien for the Famicom was relatively popular and people are still modding the game to keep it up to date with the new teams for each year's tournament...
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If you get the DVD, you should totally watch Atlantis no Nazo/Mystery of Atlantis(Season 2 Episode 1). It was the first episode of the show that focused mainly on Arino playing games badly and it's still one of the best episodes. The game is just perfect for the show, and the amount of teamwork Arino and the staff use during the run is great.
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Jan 13, 2015 05:30
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SomeMathGuy posted:Entertaining episode, but man was the proverbial deck stacked. It didn't help that Arino kept throwing the ball to the umpires.
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Samba De Amigo posted:I'm not at all surprised that Arino lost in this one. It seemed pretty buggy whenever the pitcher tried to pick up the ball off of a squeeze or sacrifice bunt.  Either way, thank you SAGCCX for finally translating this episode. I've been waiting for this one since I've seen the original version a long time ago, but have long forgotten how it ended until tonight. 
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The way I saw it he always managed to run/dive between the ball and the batter, sometimes by a mere pixel or two, and since the pitcher was therefore incorrectly positioned he couldn't grab the ball. Could be wrong though.
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Thanks for the new release! It was enjoyable to watch even though it was clear pretty soon that he would get nowhere near clearing it. Lots of funny moments still. "He plays like the Kacho!" Kakaricho and/or RS: I remember reading a rumour somewhere that the fact they spotted Inoue's unpaid electricity bill was the reason Kan decided to re-hire him. Is that true?
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Jan 13, 2015 12:55
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Thanks for the new episode; this one has a massive amount of overlays -- how much work did that take?
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Random Stranger posted:Apparently Koshien for the Famicom was relatively popular and people are still modding the game to keep it up to date with the new teams for each year's tournament... This is done here with Tecmo Bowl as well, strangely enough. http://tecmobowl.org/
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Definitely looking forward to checking this out later today---cheers to an untold amount of GCCX awesomeness still to come in this new year of 2015!
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Is that "whistle" sounding song that plays almost all the time an actual baseball song or something? I swear the same music is in Bad News Baseball.
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I kept hearing the 53 Stations of the Tokaido song in whatever was playing most of the time. 〽Ten miles? Eight miles? ♪
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Obeast posted:I wanted to ask about this since it seems like every time Arino used the pitcher to pick up a ball after a successful hit or bunt, it never worked whereas the other fielders could pick it up just fine. Is/was this a bug/glitch in the game itself or some kind of real life rule in Japanese High School Baseball that Arino might've not known of? Na, the pitcher is a standard fielding member even in Japanese baseball. Either Arino was just missing the ball by pixels or there was a small bug there. Pitcher is allowed to pick up the ball and field.
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As far as I could tell, there was no real cheating going on, at least not one that's obvious. Arino was being pretty blatant with his predictability when it comes to pitches, and I wouldn't be surprised if the AI simply figured "well, the count is 3-2, so just like the five times before, there'll be a fastball coming inside" and crushed it. They could have picked a better game, though - that fielding is very rough. Look at Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for a much more comfortable game, where a minimap of the field is displayed when it's time to field, there's an indicator where the ball will land, you can see which player you're controlling immediately and control him accurately before he comes into view with the minimap. Something like that would have probably helped him out a lot. And then he'd play against the Mariners and get loving crushed by Griffey's overpoweredness. I love the feeling of complete and utter despair going on in this episode - it's probably second only to Castlevania 3 in "man, this is SO not working out" factor.
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Azazell0 posted:Kakaricho and/or RS: I remember reading a rumour somewhere that the fact they spotted Inoue's unpaid electricity bill was the reason Kan decided to re-hire him. Is that true? That's what the bit at the very end of Shocking Videos MAX was about. Heavy neutrino posted:Thanks for the new episode; this one has a massive amount of overlays -- how much work did that take? A lot.
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Thanks for all the hard work on a great episode.
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It was great to go back for another episode of Shocking Videos MAX, the absurd premise of that segment combined with Inoue's super-serious descriptions of the various video game "tragedies" always makes me laugh. Thank you for another quality translation work, team.
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Random Stranger posted:That's what the bit at the very end of Shocking Videos MAX was about. You mean in this episode or the very last bit somewhere else? Because I didn't get it.
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Azazell0 posted:You mean in this episode or the very last bit somewhere else? Because I didn't get it. Yeah. There was the message saying to pay his electric bill. "Have you paid?" "No."
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Random Stranger posted:Yeah. There was the message saying to pay his electric bill. "Have you paid?" "No." Yeah, I spotted that, but what I wanted to know was if that was indeed the reason they re-hired him. You know, after realizing he's financially in dire straits. I guess it was, and I guess he's still with the show?
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Azazell0 posted:Yeah, I spotted that, but what I wanted to know was if that was indeed the reason they re-hired him. You know, after realizing he's financially in dire straits. I guess it was, and I guess he's still with the show? I always assumed it was a joke but you guys probably know better.
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FredMSloniker posted:There've been a number of good episodes released since that list came out One that really should be added to the "epic" list is the two-parts Battletoads. It's one of the few that Arino comes right out and says he loves playing, and even if he's frustrated he's clearly having fun up until the end. It's also probably my favorite challenge. Although I also just re-watched the Quest of Ki three-parter and enjoyed it so much I had to play Quest of Ki (Everdrive N8 ) for myself. I really want to see the raw live footage of the Part 3 Special but that'd probably be hell to translate.
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Azazell0 posted:Yeah, I spotted that, but what I wanted to know was if that was indeed the reason they re-hired him. You know, after realizing he's financially in dire straits. I guess it was, and I guess he's still with the show? Another source says it is, but I don't recall if I found that in one of the GCCX books or something else...
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Considering that this was a pretty terrible game, which I don't know the rules of nor did Arino do well in, this was a really fun episode. Not sure why, it just sort of had a good dynamic to it. Thanks for the translation
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Light Gun Man posted:Is that "whistle" sounding song that plays almost all the time an actual baseball song or something? I swear the same music is in Bad News Baseball. Generally each school's cheering section alternates between some decided cheer songs (including that 'whistle song' where they're shouting cheers for specific team members as well as the entire team), classic pop/anime songs, and some brass band renditions of popular songs from the last year or so, etc. Here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui9FKVKvJNE A few years ago Mariko Shinoda (then a member of AKB48) got media attention for tweeting every time her song was played by cheering sections, and responding to cheer squad members/players who tweeted to her about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICO--4YnSBg (Random fact: a Japanese Youtube channel that had a lot of GCCX episodes several years ago replaced the episodes with Koshien cheerleader videos when then channel started to get attention from Fuji TV.) Kakaricho fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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If you want to know more about Japanese high school baseball, NHK did an episode of BEGIN Japanology on it.
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Kakaricho posted:Generally each school's cheering section alternates between some decided cheer songs (including that 'whistle song' where they're shouting cheers for specific team members as well as the entire team), classic pop/anime songs, and some brass band renditions of popular songs from the last year or so, etc. Here's a sample: Hahaha yes, the play the Lupin theme in that first video. And people seem to know the lyrics even! Off-topic, but American surf band The Ventures still! tour Japan and have done a recording of the Lupin theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRK89TbaEI
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We need to ask the most important question regarding gccx: Who's your favorite member of AKB
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Smoking Crow posted:We need to ask the most important question regarding gccx: Who's your favorite member of AKB I hate them all equally.
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Smoking Crow posted:We need to ask the most important question regarding gccx: Who's your favorite member of AKB Rowdy Roddy Piper
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Cialis Railman posted:If you want to know more about Japanese high school baseball, NHK did an episode of BEGIN Japanology on it. Nice documentary, it does a nice job of explaining the Handkerchief Prince reference, and why the players are scooping dirt into bags on the losing screen. Light Gun Man posted:Hahaha yes, the play the Lupin theme in that first video. And people seem to know the lyrics even! I think they're just cheering. Standard high school baseball cheering is 1 - Well known song chorus where you bang your thundersticks/cones together. 2 - Chanting for the team when the chorus ends 3 - Repeat Smoking Crow posted:We need to ask the most important question regarding gccx: Who's your favorite member of AKB Past or present? There's a big difference.
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Thanks once again for the high-quality translation - very enjoyable episode. I might've missed it, but is the meaning of a "Go Home" club ever explained? I was assuming it was "the people who had no club and just went home."
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Kakaricho posted:Nice documentary, it does a nice job of explaining the Handkerchief Prince reference, and why the players are scooping dirt into bags on the losing screen. I actually watched it as I started out working on the episode to give some more context. Vermain posted:Thanks once again for the high-quality translation - very enjoyable episode. I might've missed it, but is the meaning of a "Go Home" club ever explained? I was assuming it was "the people who had no club and just went home." It's come up a couple of times in the series, but it seemed very self-explanatory as just "no after school activities".
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Random Stranger posted:It's come up a couple of times in the series, but it seemed very self-explanatory as just "no after school activities". This may differ by region, but where I used to teach club activities were mandatory in JHS, but in HS you didn't need to join a club if you don't want to. Those that don't usually do a great job of being loud annoyances in front of convenience stores.
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Kakaricho posted:This may differ by region, but where I used to teach club activities were mandatory in JHS, but in HS you didn't need to join a club if you don't want to. Those that don't usually do a great job of being loud annoyances in front of 
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Question for those who watch the raws. In season 18, there is a running gag in the tamage where VE Fukawa always tries gets a bite from Arino. Is it just a running gag or is it something else? Wonder why the food isn't given to D Watanabe. Did VE Suda leave the show? I think I heard it on the thread a while back. Did Fukawa take his place?
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Hirayuki posted:Aw, you know I love him. Nope, these kids are loud, shoplifting dicks, but at least they keep hair dye companies in business. joek0 posted:Question for those who watch the raws. Suda's vanished. Kakaricho fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Jan 14, 2015 |
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Kakaricho posted:Suda's vanished. I can see it and all his tweets.
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