starbarry clock posted:

alright there are a few enemies mostly bosses with weird hitboxes like spring beak but if you equip ranged weapons like the bow whip boomerang or poledart you can hit him pretty consistantly
i think what most people confuse for poor hitbox detection is that enemies do have invincibility frames if your weapon doesnt hit them hard enough
have you ever noticed that if a chobin hood gets knocked down you can keep hitting it and stacking damage but if it makes a surprised face ":O" your attacks go through it? that isnt the hitbox its just the invincibility frame
also the only reason you have the choice of not spamming spells in trials of mana is because you have a variety of party members to choose from and you can avoid a lot of spell casting with duran/kevin/hawkeye and certain classes for the mages too
magic in general is a weaker choice in trials of mana and a lot of it is because the magic system is just objectively weaker than smacking people with buffed werewolf kevin
try playing trials of mana with duran/angela/charlotte and see how much of a slog the magic system is compared to the equal party setup of secret of mana

oh also
you can help your allies navigate the terrain better by modifying their ai in the options menu you can make them more or less aggressive and typically speaking making your allies super aggressive means they dont run in circles around the enemy like dummies and get stuck on the environment
depending on the area i will set the ai to different settings depending how fast i want to get through or if i want to grind or whatever

absolutely anything posted:

dude come on i’m fully aware of the (also awful) way the game handles invincibility frames and damage application, the hitboxes suck in addition to that. they suck in unison. the game is a perfect harmony of things that suck that creates a game suckier than the sum of its sucky parts.

also i’m literally using duran/angela/charlotte, i’m using plenty of magic, but i’m having way more fun with trials due to the fact that on a fundamental level it feels less awful to play. but going “oh yeah well try playing the game in the specific way I think supports my stance” is a funny line to attempt to take

and lmao how is constantly going into the ai menu and adjusting your party per area so they don’t constantly run into walls an acceptable solution. how is it acceptable at all. knowing the workaround to lovely systems doesn’t make them good

Phantasium posted:

secret of mana's hitboxes are unclear because you can miss attacks and also enemies can dodge and defend them, however there's only barely an indicator in the latter part and none in the former. it's made more sense in like, the iOS version and the newer remake when they actually added "miss" indicators (although i had some caterpillar's hitbox like, completely disappear in the remake).

starbarry clock posted:

it does make a different sound if you miss though but a visual indicator wouldve been nice

TVs Ian posted:

I wonder if it would be possible to make a modern 5200 controller. Like, a Jaguar controller with a modern analog stick in place of the d-pad.

And I just searched to verify how many buttons that 5200 had and found somebody already built one.

They're expensive, but I would imagine they're such a niche item that not much can be done about that. Looks like you can get the boards and DIY it for cheaper.

lo carb Lo Pan posted:

Ive noticed on Ebay some sickos modded the Neo Geo AES joystick for 5200 since they have the same controller port with different pinouts and have made some questionable modding adding number pads in.

TVs Ian posted:

So that's extremely hosed up, but now I want to build a 5200 fightstick with an analog arcade joystick and mechanical keyboard switches for the number pad. But like, with a custom wood or acrylic housing, not slicing up a perfectly good stick. I need to see if the board for that other controller could be repurposed for that, I could use another project I'll never finish.

Wendell posted:

I think that this will make for nice retro gaming. 11 previously untranslated English games!

https://twitter.com/ArcSystemWorksU/status/1225071583464570880?s=20

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

my guess would be it's partly the AVGN reference, and partly the sheer weirdness of the game's existence

it's a game based on a Japanese movie that was filmed in English, with American and African actors, to be released in America, but somehow just never came out anywhere in the world except Japan. a year after the movie came out, Kemco licensed it to make a Famicom JRPG... and then three years later decided to translate the game to English and release it in the US, independently of the movie.

meaning, we got the originally-Japanese RPG based on it, but we didn't get the English-language movie it was based on.

e: it was also a late release, coming out in 1992 in the US, and late NES games tend to be kind of generally expensive and rare i've noticed, especially if there's anything remotely interesting about them

Relax Or DIE posted:

maybe the wrong thread BUT:

I have a bunch of loose 3/DS games from various sales and I'd like to get cases/inserts for them so my ~collection~ looks better on my self. Is there a better way to go about this than ordering some blank cases and printing off the inserts from online somewhere?

TVs Ian posted:

I wonder if it would be possible to make a modern 5200 controller. Like, a Jaguar controller with a modern analog stick in place of the d-pad.

And I just searched to verify how many buttons that 5200 had and found somebody already built one.

They're expensive, but I would imagine they're such a niche item that not much can be done about that. Looks like you can get the boards and DIY it for cheaper.

Wendell posted:

I think that this will make for nice retro gaming. 11 previously untranslated English games!

https://twitter.com/ArcSystemWorksU/status/1225071583464570880?s=20

Djarum posted:

Fun fact Phantasy Star 4 was originally to be on the Sega CD. I have never seen what was cut going from CD to cart but both one of my best friends and I have both had dreams about playing the CD version.

RichterIX posted:

Man, I know they would gently caress it up but the game I would be most excited about in the world is a new Phantasy Star game. I don't know if it's just that I grew up on PS1 but no other game sticks that same aesthetic. Hell, only 3 of the 4 Phantasy Star games do.

Djarum posted:

Well I was told that there was some movement on a new real Phantasy Star about a year ago but I haven’t heard anything about it since. The success of the Sonic game made Sega realize that not only do they have a ton of IP that people love but if they make good games that people might buy them.

The Kins posted:

Sega put up some job ads about six months ago specifically for a new game in the Phantasy Star series, but those roles included client and server programmers so odds are it's another MMO thing.

al-azad posted:

Phantasy Star’s original Dragon Ball rear end style.

Djarum posted:

Fun fact Phantasy Star 4 was originally to be on the Sega CD. I have never seen what was cut going from CD to cart but both one of my best friends and I have both had dreams about playing the CD version.

Miles McCloud posted:

As for Sega ever making a proper PS5, I think it would be awkward due to how well PS4 serves as an end to the narrative. I also would rather not see the series go further down the Final Fantasy route of having recurring motifs but no narrative continuity. I would much prefer a big budget remake of the originals. PS2 especially, it's the most frustrating mechanically of the Genesis games, but has a really interesting atmosphere that would translate well to a modern title.

Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:

Two things I learned from this month's issue of Retro Gamer

1) there was an official Mega Drive port of Duke Nukem (in Brazil, of course)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPdrJtrCi3U

Miles McCloud posted:

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

tbh i feel like it's been long enough that any PS5 would very consciously be the start of a "new" Phantasy Star series, most likely referencing the originals and sharing characters/locations but not being a direct sequel to any of the previous stories

that way, you keep enough that people going for a nostalgia buy are like "oh hey this is the Phantasy Star I remember and love," but people who've never picked up a non-PSO game in the series (or one at all) can still get into it

Pegnose Pete posted:

I said this before but if they make a new PS game it's gonna be full of B-tier anime titties like the modern Shining games.

Pegnose Pete posted:

I said this before but if they make a new PS game it's gonna be full of B-tier anime titties like the modern Shining games.

FireMrshlBill posted:

What’s the best light gun for PS2? Is it the guncon 2? Is there a better one that would work with PS1 games as well (if there are ps1 light fun games worth playing).

Some reason I have been wanting to get time crisis 2 and 3 and a lightgun, and just saw a Reddit post about a time crisis setup and figured I should go for it.

I use component to my crt but my component switch has two outputs, so how would that best connect with the light gun? Just use the green output?

If someone has an extra official one they’d like to sell, let me know and I can set up a SAmart post.

2reachmu posted:

And if your looking for some upgrades -- this guy on ebay has microswitch mods for just about every lightgun: https://www.ebay.com/sch/magictrashman/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

2reachmu posted:

I think the link up for guns in on blue for component, though I could be wrong and it's green, it's def one or the other though.

Illuminado posted:

Works great, just remember that light guns work best on curved glass.