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Fuzz posted:Guys... I... I think I might not like Secret of Mana. Yeah, the secret is that SoM is not a very good game  Multiplayer is its saving grace; it's decent enough to gently caress around with a friend in. That's about the only thing that makes it tolerable.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:35
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Fuzz posted:Guys... I... I think I might not like Secret of Mana. Is this your first time playing Secret of Mana? I can see how it comes off as repetitive and minimal content wise today but I think it is definitely worth a play through. Back when it first came out I had never seen anything like it and I loved every second of it. I ended up maxing out all weapons with all three characters plus each magic. I’ve done replays over the years on emulators and the Wii but I’m happy as hell to do it all over again with a Super Nintendo controller in my hand.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:35
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Cocked the trigger and downloaded hackchi and loaded up the roms I had. If I’m just using snes games I don’t need Hackchi Correct? .smc and .SFC make no difference on it? Edit: drat just caught that I meant we don’t need retroarch Spiffster fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Oct 21, 2017 |
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Oct 21, 2017 01:41
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Spiffster posted:Cocked the trigger and downloaded hackchi and loaded up the roms I had. If I’m just using snes games I don’t need Hackchi Correct? .smc and .SFC make no difference on it? I think hackchi does conversions for roms, if you're not doing anything that doesn't run well in the stock emulator, you can just sync them.
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Oct 21, 2017 01:43
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titty fat pizza posted:Is this your first time playing Secret of Mana? I can see how it comes off as repetitive and minimal content wise today but I think it is definitely worth a play through. I played it once for 10 minutes with 2 friends with a multitap, but they were in the desert already and the sand pits and scorpions were annoying so I got bored with no context. I dunno... watching stuff about SD3, I can already tell I will lose a LOT of hours to it, playing it and then replaying it with a different combo and a different main quest. Think I'm just gonna switch over and miss out on whatever references three are between the games.
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Oct 21, 2017 03:33
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Fuzz posted:Guys... I... I think I might not like Secret of Mana. You make a lot of good points. I had the same experience with bosses. Spam hostile magic until it dies. I could never defeat a boss through skilled regular fighting because most boss special attacks are spells that can't be dodged.
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Oct 21, 2017 07:40
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Dejawesp posted:You make a lot of good points. I had the same experience with bosses. Spam hostile magic until it dies. I could never defeat a boss through skilled regular fighting because most boss special attacks are spells that can't be dodged. I feel like the gigas-type bosses are generally the only ones with magic dangerous enough to just nuke down. Otherwise i prefer using weapons.
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Oct 21, 2017 08:06
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Christ the stupid heart tank or whatever its called on the Spark Mandrill stage is hard to get in Megaman X. At least with just the leg upgrade, I was at it for like 10 minutes before I gave up in frustration. Guy's I think I'm bad at Megaman  .
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Oct 21, 2017 11:23
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Axetrain posted:Christ the stupid heart tank or whatever its called on the Spark Mandrill stage is hard to get in Megaman X. At least with just the leg upgrade, I was at it for like 10 minutes before I gave up in frustration. Guy's I think I'm bad at Megaman You can use the Boomerang Cutter .
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Oct 21, 2017 12:09
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I've never played Megaman X before, so getting that exact wall charge jump right really was a chore. Got it after like 15 minutes, felt like a loving wizard. 
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Oct 21, 2017 12:21
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barbecue at the folks posted:I've never played Megaman X before, so getting that exact wall charge jump right really was a chore. Got it after like 15 minutes, felt like a loving wizard. When X came out it felt practically revolutionary when coming from games like Megaman 1 and 2 I never liked the follow up X games though because they seemed to have thrown the megaman formula out the window. No boss power was any clear counter to any other boss (not apparent to me anyway)
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Oct 21, 2017 13:04
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Dejawesp posted:When X came out it felt practically revolutionary when coming from games like Megaman 1 and 2 I don't have a whole lot of experience with any X game other than the first, but that one has a super clear weakness order Chill Penguin -> Spark Mandrill -> Armored Armadillo -> Launch Octopus -> Boomer Kuwanger -> Sting Chameleon -> Storm Eagle -> Flame Mammoth -> Chill Penguin And the majority of those have a big animation or effect attached to them. Mandrill gets straight up frozen in place, completely wrecking his pattern, Armadillo loses his armor, Chameleon gets cut down from the ceiling, Penguin is engulfed in flames, the homing torpedos follow Kuwanger even when he teleports
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Oct 21, 2017 13:34
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Dejawesp posted:You make a lot of good points. I had the same experience with bosses. Spam hostile magic until it dies. I could never defeat a boss through skilled regular fighting because most boss special attacks are spells that can't be dodged. Yeah, I gave up and settled for watching an LP off and on. I started SD3 with Hawk main + Kevin and Lise, and holy poo poo how does anyone think that SoM is the best in the series? Like, you seriously need to get your nostalgia glasses checked, because the prescription is wrong. Combat is fast and strategic, you have way more control of your party AI, the tech attacks are awesome, and in the first 10 minutes I already gave more of a poo poo about Hawk alone than all of the characters in SoM after playing through, from what I can tell, almost half the game. The day/night stuff is really cool, particularly how it plays into some of the puzzles and such, and honestly I'm getting some hardcore Daggerfall/Morrowind style vibes from it. Guys... Seiken Densetsu 3 is really loving good. Like already feasibly competing for top 5 RPGs on the system. Goddamn.
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Oct 21, 2017 13:50
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Fuzz posted:The day/night stuff is really cool, particularly how it plays into some of the puzzles and such, and honestly I'm getting some hardcore Daggerfall/Morrowind style vibes from it. Welp, I'm loving sold.
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Oct 21, 2017 13:53
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Welp, I'm loving sold. To clarify, you won't be wandering the countryside with a cart, looting entire towns and dungeons and crap, but it has that very open world vibe with lots of towns and politics and different races, and lots of nuance and tension going on. It could just be that with Hawk's story you basically start by ending up in jail and escaping, like every TES game ever. Not gonna lie, that may be a big part of it, come to think of it...
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jivjov posted:I don't have a whole lot of experience with any X game other than the first, but that one has a super clear weakness order Yes it's all good. I mean X2 and so on. The powers are just sort of useful and the fights are in reality about learning attack patterns and how to avoid those. I think with X I started with Flame Mammoth. For the first Megaman game I went Fire > Bomb > Guts > Scissors > Lightning > Ice because if you went to the fire boss with full health you could just face tank him and shot at him and he would die first. I heard some people started with iceman but I thought he was pretty hard without lightning. Megaman 2 had this odd thing where the saw blades boss was stupid easy and saw blades countered something like 3-4 bosses.
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Oct 21, 2017 15:08
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The real problem with further x games is they never again included the stage changes that x1 had. Beating storm eagle first made his ship crash into spark mandrill's stage, launch octopus first flooded sting chameleon's stage, chill penguin froze flame mammoth's stage, etc It ruled and it sucks they never did it again
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Oct 21, 2017 15:15
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Republicans posted:I feel like the gigas-type bosses are generally the only ones with magic dangerous enough to just nuke down. Otherwise i prefer using weapons. yeah seriously i don't know why everyone defaults to spamming magic, I never give a single gently caress about leveling any spell the entire game, weapon charge attacks are sufficient enough. The sole exception being the wall boss, where them being paused by the spell's attack animation helps buy some time iirc. SD3 is still better however.
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Oct 21, 2017 15:15
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Is the girls support magic any good in SOM? I only really use the healing spell. She has damage improving and damage reduction spells but they cost a lot of mana and I wonder if I get that back in a fight. Her mana being pretty much the time limit on any given boss fight,
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Oct 21, 2017 15:22
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Snuffman posted:The Gamegrumps just did a playthrough and apparently there's a part on stage 3 where you can farm enemies for a bunch of lives? I remember that, just put a rubber band over the fire button and do something else for 20mins.
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Also for those jumping into SD3, this page has a good summary of the basics: https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Seiken_Densetsu_3/Part_2:_The_Mana_Fairy Don't actually use the rest, though, because what the gently caress, figure that poo poo out yourself. 
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Oct 21, 2017 15:47
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Dejawesp posted:Is the girls support magic any good in SOM? The buff spell that Luna has is straight up broken and using it all the time is a good way to get its so your attacks just do the damage limit with no charge towards the end of the game.
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Oct 21, 2017 15:55
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Wasn't there some command line to disable a thing in the built emulator to enable transparency? My gf loves Kirby and playing Dream Land 3 the forest levels are almost impossible since the trees aren't transparent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxL-878TFfM&t=382s
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Dejawesp posted:Is the girls support magic any good in SOM? Moon Energy (Luna, makes your attacks crit) is really good, as are some of the Saber spells; Stone Saber will make your regular attacks instakill normal enemies like half the time, Flame Saber will engulf them which both does bonus damage and stuns them, and Moon Saber makes all your attacks drain HP. All the Sabers will make you do more damage to enemies weak to that element, which is handy on bosses. Lucid Barrier (Lumina) basically makes you invincible to physical attacks briefly which is what most of the damage in the game is. To make buffs last long enough, single-cast them on the boy (or whoever you're controlling) instead of multi-casting them. The problem with the girl's buff spells - and Lucent Beam, her one good attack spell - isn't that they aren't useful, which they are, it's that every 2 MP you spend on one of them costs you a Cure.
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wizard on a water slide posted:Moon Energy (Luna, makes your attacks crit) is really good, as are some of the Saber spells; Stone Saber will make your regular attacks instakill normal enemies like half the time, Flame Saber will engulf them which both does bonus damage and stuns them, and Moon Saber makes all your attacks drain HP. All the Sabers will make you do more damage to enemies weak to that element, which is handy on bosses. Lucid Barrier (Lumina) basically makes you invincible to physical attacks briefly which is what most of the damage in the game is. To make buffs last long enough, single-cast them on the boy (or whoever you're controlling) instead of multi-casting them. Good advice. I was going to ask if saber spells made you do more damage against bosses weak to that element. Yes the big issue is the mana cost. 2 mana is basically 75% of full hp for the whole team so if a buff reduces all damage taken by 10% for 20 seconds at the same cost then I don't feel like it's worth it
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https://twitter.com/clydemandelin/status/921787359066169345 Never heard of this game but it sounds interesting.
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Looks like it requires bsnes, unless Retroarch supports some sort of xml addition it needs. On the subject of fan translations, I started up Treasure of the Rudras. T=he default names for the various arcs are Sion, Riza, and some bullshit wizard name. I started with Sion and the characters I have met so far are Huey, Foxy, and Doug. Sion and loving Doug, friends forever.
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Oct 21, 2017 22:39
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Straight White Shark posted:Yeah, the secret is that SoM is not a very good game The saving grace is the super melancholy music when there really wasn't much like it at the time, but yeah otherwise I agree.
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SeANMcBAY posted:https://twitter.com/clydemandelin/status/921787359066169345 Holy poo poo. I first heard about the game when DeJap were starting their since abandoned translation project in 2001. I'm genuinely excited to finally play it!
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Vintersorg posted:Wasn't there some command line to disable a thing in the built emulator to enable transparency? My gf loves Kirby and playing Dream Land 3 the forest levels are almost impossible since the trees aren't transparent. I had the same issue. You need to change the preset ID of the rom in hakchi. you press ctrl + alt + e when selecting it to do this. change it to 0xA410 to enable the transparency effects but bear in mind this will disable the in game saving so you'll have to use the snes classic's save states.
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SeANMcBAY posted:https://twitter.com/clydemandelin/status/921787359066169345  I don't know if it's any good but I always wanted to try the series.
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Detective No. 27 posted:What Shin Megami games were on SNES and do any of them have any good translations? In addition to SMT1 and SMT2 translations, there's also Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei which is an enhanced port of the first two NES games (before Shin was added to Megami Tensei). It does have a full translation available. There are also the two Majin Tensei games, neither of which has an English translation. They're strategy games so they are pretty unlike the other Megaten games on SNES.
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I bought a third party controller (the Wii Fighting Stick by Hori) and the NES games I've installed don't recognize the joystick as the D-Pad. It works on all the SNES games though, even the ones I've installed Also, and this is weird, sometimes the main menu simply will not let me scroll to the right when I'm using this joystick. Anyone using third party Wii classic controllers have issues like these?
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I'm getting an error message about being unable to connect to USB when I try to use Hakchi. It appears to be a common issue with Ryzen systems. Is there a known fix for this issue? I'm using the original cords that it came with and have tried different ports to no avail.
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Dejawesp posted:Good advice. I was going to ask if saber spells made you do more damage against bosses weak to that element. Elemental damage isn't implemented for physical attacks. Using Frost Saber against enemies that resist frost doesn't have any damage reduction. All the sabers do is give you a bonus 25% damage and a status effect.
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Kevyn posted:I bought a third party controller (the Wii Fighting Stick by Hori) and the NES games I've installed don't recognize the joystick as the D-Pad. It works on all the SNES games though, even the ones I've installed You need to change your inputs in retroarch for the nes. I think. No clue about the menu issue though.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Elemental damage isn't implemented for physical attacks. Using Frost Saber against enemies that resist frost doesn't have any damage reduction. All the sabers do is give you a bonus 25% damage and a status effect. welp, I learned something today. it's amazing how much stuff just doesn't work right in older JRPGs, I've been playing the NES final fantasy games lately and my favorite is the LOK2 spell in FF1, which literally does the opposite of what it's supposed to do (raises all enemies' evade) I guess my point is the same tho; saber spells are good - particularly the ones with useful riders which is stone, fire, and moon - but whether they're worth spending 4 MP, eh
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Still no SNES classic; I watched Brickseek like a hawk but it never showed any of my nearby Walmarts getting a shipment. Though one somehow shows -1 SNES classics available now, so I'm starting to question its accuracy.
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It's accurate, I catch stuff on brickseek faster than it shows up on istocknow. Usually about an hour or so lead time in my experience. Though if your Walmarts are like mine the electronics departments are stocked by lazy pricks who will tell you they don't have them in stock over the phone and not bother checking. That happened to my sister, I told her to call to make sure but she decided to take 5 minutes to drive there anyway. Lucky she did too since there was 5 left. The clerk said they didn't notice them.
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