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Gaming Discussion / Re: Let's make a list of co-op local play RPGs please?

« on: January 15, 2012, 07:50:02 pm »

So are you saying that the main story-campaign of the single player experience, is also playable co-op, using local wireless?  Because that's what I mean.

Oh. No. That's actually what we didn't like about it. To unlock any missions to play multiplayer, one of you has to have already done the story mode. Otherwise, you only get like...two I think.

~DS

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Personal Projects / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.

« on: January 15, 2012, 07:48:29 pm »

Also, unless there's some sort of tile restriction (which I assume there isn't. Isn't this all graphics?), why not include lower-case letters?

'Course, it's all in katakana anyway, which is pretty much the same thing. But that's besides the point.

~DS

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Site Talk / Re: Was the site down?

« on: January 15, 2012, 03:38:38 pm »

It was definitely down earlier.

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard not being friendly with one another.

« on: January 15, 2012, 02:15:40 pm »

I never saw the point for this wireless trend. Especially when stuff can work fine with wires.

Well, I already bought a wireless mouse for my laptop. The keyboard I got wireless because I'm using my computer from my couch, and it's already a giant jumble of wires in here.

~DS

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Personal Projects / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.

« on: January 15, 2012, 12:55:24 pm »

Also, I don't know if you guys want to be picky or not, but that sign says "Town of Aljiba" in Japanese. Sorry. ^^;

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Let's make a list of co-op local play RPGs please?

« on: January 14, 2012, 11:10:07 pm »

Phantasy Star 0 does offer local co-op. The girlfriend and I played it. It wasn't nearly as good as the PSP games.

~DS

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General Discussion / Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard not being friendly with one another.

« on: January 14, 2012, 06:09:42 pm »

Having just finished my new PC, I bought a new wireless keyboard to go with it (Logitech K360 with a fancy design on it). I already had a Logitech M510, and I love it.

Unfortunately, occasionally one or the other will randomly act up when I am playing a game (or sometimes even during web browsing, but that feels rare). They both came with the "unifying receivers", so at first I thought "Well, maybe the two receivers are causing interference?", and I set the unification software up and linked them both to the same receiver.

At first, it worked fine, or so I thought. But it's still doing it.

I tried searching Logitech's personal forums and they had two other people with similar issues, but no replies on the posts. I also tried googling for a way to perhaps change the frequency on the two devices so they might not interfere with one another. No dice.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this? It's pretty frustrating. T_T;;

~DS

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Personal Projects / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.

« on: January 14, 2012, 02:06:39 pm »

Dunno if you want to try and get the real translation in there, but it actually says "The valley/ravine/canyon of death".

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Car troubles part deux.

« on: January 13, 2012, 11:30:06 am »

Well, it's update time!

I drove the car up there yesterday with my dad, and talked to a guy in service. They said at the very least they'd take the car, and wave the $95 inspection fee. I had to skip school today (three days total so far because of car problems!).

I drove it up there this morning, and dropped it off. Had a shuttle take me home. Went out with the girlfriend and her mom for breakfast, and while we were eating I got a call. It was the radiator cooling fan (like my dad said it was), and they were willing to split the costs with me. I told them that since that went bad exactly one week after me buying the car, clearly this was something that was wrong when I bought it. He put me hold. He came back and said that they would fix it for me and get the car back to me today, but that it was a "final settlement" deal -- they'd fix it for free, but if anything else goes wrong with the car they're no longer liable for it.

A good deal considering that's the only other thing wrong with it. My dad said I might need some spark plugs, and perhaps a thermostat (if I'm still having temp. issues). And there's something caught in my heating system that makes noise when I turn my heater on. But all minor shit. My dad said there shouldn't be anything else wrong with this car for quite some time. I mean, I just put a new battery in it. It's getting a new radiator cooling fan. They put new breaks/rotors on it, and worked on the suspension (a tie-rod) and other things before they even gave me the car. It has a rebuilt transmission. Not much else can go wrong that would be major, and my dad inspected the car to make sure nothing else was wrong anyway.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Monster Hunter.

« on: January 12, 2012, 02:23:29 pm »

I stand corrected.

Either way, my point about that still stands. Kut-ku isn't much of a challenge anymore.  By the time you face him in Freedom Unite, you've likely faced enough Velocidromes to make the Velicopray armor, and have enough materials to upgrade your weapon of choice at least twice. He's easy to beat at that point.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Monster Hunter.

« on: January 12, 2012, 01:56:04 pm »

I believe Silenthal means he did it on the PS2 version of the game. Yian Kut-ku isn't much of a threat in the PSP versions.

Each Monster Hunter game has "THAT MONSTER" that everyone struggles with. In Monster Hunter Freedom Unite? That's Tigrex. In Tri? That's Barroth. In the original MH, the first one was Kut-ku. Once you beat these monsters once, you unlock the ability to fight other monsters, get to other areas, and make better gear. Then you can overcome that monster easily. It's meant to challenge you, and show you that you're not going to progress as easily as you had been up until that point.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Monster Hunter.

« on: January 11, 2012, 08:00:47 pm »

I've never heard of this claw thing, and never used it, and I consider myself a veteran monster hunter. I just use the camera centering button to move the camera around when I need it to.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Monster Hunter.

« on: January 10, 2012, 05:29:33 pm »

I am considering buying my gf a PSP for her birthday.  It is a sneaky way to get her to try co-op stuff on the platform with me.  Not just Unite, but Phantasy Star and quite a few others.  I do want to try Unite in that manner.  It really irks me that Tri can't be played entirely co-op in splitscreen for the whole game.  Why just the arena mode only, Capcom?!  (It's like every time Capcom has a genius idea for MH, some little troll in their company runs up to it and pisses troll pee all over it.)  Anyway, I have to give Tri a shot someday because I went and spent actual money on the thing.

Have you tried Gods Eater Burst yet, DS?

I don't think Tri would be any good split screen. Just like a Resident Evil game is hard to play that way. It's just easier if you can see everything.

Yes, I've played Gods Eater Burst. My girlfriend loves it to death, but hates Monster Hunter. The difference, she says? Gods Eater has an actual story.

In my opinion, Gods Eater is a terrible Monster Hunter ripoff. The combat is decent, but not varied enough to keep me interested (there's only three types of weapons, and they're all swords. A short sword, long sword, and great sword. The difference? Their combos work out a tiny bit differently, and they do varied amounts of damage). The setting is post-apocalypse (real creative), and the story doesn't seem that interesting to me. It doesn't hook me like playing Monster Hunter did. In order to upgrade your equipment, you have to run around stages hoping to find random drops that are scattered throughout the stage. At least in MH, you can tell something is an herb point, mushroom point, ore point, etc. They're just little flashes on the ground in GEB. And you don't always know where to get the items that you need, as far as what stage has what items. In MH most stages have a similar setup, in that you can likely find common drops in every stage.

I could go on. I don't care for it as much as I do MH. I still like it, but I'd rate it something like...6/10 whereas MH would be a 9/10 for me. It feels like they were just trying to cash-in on MH's popularity, and threw together a typical post-apocalyptic story with stereotypical anime characters to try and connect to the anime crowd. Both of which fall flat on their faces.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Monster Hunter.

« on: January 10, 2012, 02:55:50 pm »

See, as a big Monster Hunter fan myself, I can understand your problems. Especially since I bought the PS2 game thinking "Oh, wow! This is going to be awesome!" and then barely got about as far as you had, and quit in frustration because the game was just too damned hard.

Then, when I went to Japan the first time in 2009, a friend told me about the latest Monster Hunter recently released in Japan that had received a fan translation: Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Freedom Unite in English speaking territories). Later iterations solve many aspects of what frustrate you to no end.

- First, I say that you should almost always try to play these games with people. There's a lot more strategy involved and the monsters are usually a lot easier to beat with at least a second person. For example, a friend and I played the latest iteration when I was in Japan last. He would play Hammers and I would use Long Swords/Dual Swords. He would focus on stunning the enemies, while I focused on cutting their various limbs off for carving, and then doing as much damage as I could. Yes, you can play single player but it is a LOT slower and harder to get anything done.

- Making new equipment is made a lot easier in newer iterations of the game. In the last three iterations, you get a personal farm where you can get materials for making equipment outside of quests. In Freedom Unite/Portable 3rd you can get herbs, insects, mushrooms, ore, fish in these farms. They start off very ill-equipped (usually just a place to plant herbs and one place to mine for ore), but as you collect points for your farm (obtained by collecting special items during quests which are really easy to find), you can upgrade your farm a lot. I'm not even done leveling the thing up in Freedom Unite, and I've got three places to mine for ore (each one giving better ore as you level it), three places to plant herbs, a place to farm for insects, a tree to hit to get insects, a place to bomb for ore (requires barrel bombs), and a fishing dock where I can fish something like 12 times.  Using your farm, you can do simple quests for money (like...gathering mushrooms), and then immediately go to your farm to get materials that would otherwise cost you mining picks and whatnot or would be time consuming to get. You only get a certain amount of pulls per quest, though (three or four per mining spot/insect gathering spot, you get a certain amount of mushrooms once, etc).

It really becomes a lot easier. Also, once you actually start fighting the challenging Wyverns (I assume you were doing...Yian Kut-Ku?), you get better at fighting, both because you get better equipment and because you get used to figuring out patterns and dealing with smaller monsters and whatnot.

The only frustrating thing with MH games now, to me, is starting a new character. When you first stat out you basically have to gather every freakin' thing in sight. That way you have the materials to make Mega Potions, Flash Bombs, Sonic Bombs, and other important equipment that you cannot buy. However, if you're playing with a friend and your friend has a bunch of them? They can just give them to you. The only things you cannot trade to another person are things rare-level 4 and up (so basically, no super-rare monster materials and no rare metals/insects).

Also, the later installments introduce better weaponry, IMO. The original series only had Great Sword, Sword and Shield, Lance, Hammer, and Bowgun, IIRC. Since then they've introduced: Long Swords (my personal favorite), Dual Swords, different Bowgun types, Gunlance, Bow and Arrow, and the Switch Axe. There's a lot more variety in play style with these new weapons.

Personally, I hope you give a later installment a go. The original wasn't very good, IMO. I mean it was Capcom's first attempt at such a thing, and they really did a lot of things right, but also did a ton more things wrong. The game was way too difficult and tedious for anyone to get really into outside of online play. You can play the newer installments in single player and they're a lot simpler to get into. I still recommend online-play, though. Moulinoski, for instance, did not care for the series until I introduced him to online play.

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Car troubles part deux.

« on: January 10, 2012, 12:50:32 pm »

Like I said, that was just how it was explained to me by my dad. Could he be wrong? Of course. He hasn't been a practicing mechanic in over ten years.

I'll suggest the idea that the coolant temp sensor is bad to him, and maybe I can get him to come look at it. Is that part relatively cheap/painless to replace?

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Car troubles part deux.

« on: January 10, 2012, 12:20:53 pm »

I don't know how to do any of that, but I'll mention it to my dad.

The way it was explained to me was that the thermostat is what tells the car when to flush the water around that is supposed to cool off the car. Once it reaches a certain temperature, it shoots cool water in to make sure the car isn't overheating. It's supposed to work hand-in-hand with the radiator fan to keep the car from overheating. For whatever reason, my thermostat isn't cooling off the car properly, nor is the fan kicking on.

I just called a local lawyer for a free consultation about this. He basically told me it's a "buyer beware" situation. I should've had the car inspected, and despite the fact that they gave me a verbal promise that the car would be drivable and safe, anything they do is on their grace, and I should take a soft approach about it (saying stuff like I'm a good customer, and thus they should try to keep me happy), and hope that they help.

~DS

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Personal Projects / Re: Rondo of Blood PSP dub for PC-Engine.

« on: January 10, 2012, 02:08:54 am »

Also, why "Atop the Corpses of Thy Brethren" but "Dinner of Flames"?

You could read that first one? I sure as hell couldn't, until you pointed out what that says. >_>;

~DS

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General Discussion / Re: Making new labels for SNES/SFC cartridges.

« on: January 10, 2012, 12:10:49 am »

I too would like to know these things. More specifically, the bits about manuals/boxes. I've got tons of carts that are missing them, and I'd love to have them and would hate to have to shell out a ton of money to buy them on eBay.

~DS

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Gaming Discussion / Re: X-Box 360 Memory Card Question

« on: January 09, 2012, 07:45:17 pm »

Do you know anyone who has an old 360? Plug the memory card and a USB drive into that 360 and transfer your shit onto a USB drive, then throw that on your 360.

Source: http://www.gamefront.com/how-to-transfer-old-xbox-360-data-to-a-new-xbox-360-slim/#section3

~DS

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ROM Hacking Discussion / Re: Mega Man X1-X3 and 7th saga Hacks and Docs (SNES)

« on: January 09, 2012, 07:42:58 pm »

They look fine to me (except the skull. Wasn't that supposed to be an "R" for reploid?).

I'd have to see it in game personally to really judge, but it looked fine in the picture.

~DS