Gotta kill some time for the next couple days and i havent played many retros in my time so i donno.

So there's this console series called hypergamer, which is like a mostly finnish thing maybe, and i just wanna know if there is a version of the consoles that exclusively has some type's of rpg's, like a handheld dragon quest thingy?

Hi i just got my first Japanese Sega Saturn model 2, Fenrir ODE, and 256gb micro sd. I want to future proof my Saturn for decades to come and decided id like to have a company recap all the internal psu/motherboard, as well as region unlock. Im not sure if there are any other services i would need, i saw the Fenrir now supports backing up saves to the microSD.

For the services ive seen lots of companies, stone age was most familiar but their prices seemed high. Does anyone know cheaper shops that do full recaps in USA but also a good job with similar quality components?

On black friday i bought a fenrir ode , 512 gb se card, and a sega saturn from ebay. I bought the cheapest japanese white model 2 that looked decent.

I am planning to get FRAM upgrade for permanent saves, and recap service. Should i just go through stone age games for the FRAM and recap service? I believe this will set me back about $200ish for the shipping, recap of board/psu, and fram upgrade.

Is there any alternative shops youd recommend or anyone in southeast usa someone can recommend? Would a resaturn psu make more sense than recapping the OG psu? Thanks for any help, cant wait to play shining force 3 and dragon force!

Sorry if this is well known to some...

I actually found a decent deal on a flea market today. German Version (I am german, so dont hate me with "Oh, its bad Pal 50 Hz bullshit" because I dont care about it being 50 Hz...) of Legend of Dragoon for around 1/3 less than EBAY sells the game usually. As an JRPG fan I, of course, bit the bullet (especially since only a few JRPGs released here at that time). Discs also looked very clean, too. Although... no manual.

When I got home I noticed that the discs have a "Promo Only" text on the bottom. (Link to an scanned image of Disc 1: Click me). I tried googling it and found sold listings on ebay, usually around the price of - what I assume - is the "normal" version. As far as I can tell it also seems to be the complete game (I have all 4 discs).

Has anyone more knowledge about this? Is this an early version compared with the regular release? Are there any notable differences? Was this given to specific magazines? I would really appreciate to know more about this. :/

Help is appreciated and thanks in advance. Love to finally be able to experience another supposedly well-loved classic of the genre on OG hardware :) And yes, I own the digital PS5 version just in case...

I find this game a pretty fun, if not simple, game experience. Easy to control and figure out and doesn't over stay it's welcome by being pretty short. The plot doesn't make a whole lot of sense(they decide to come back and rob the same house?) but it's a fun time for me for the hour that it takes to beat it. What about y'all? What's your favorite game to play for the winter/holidays?

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And it might be that even if a game is considered good or great it might not be what you exactly want. Like Star Dew Valley is overall seen as a great game but its not for everyone. Or many people want similar games or sequels to games that they like but everyone has a different idea what that might be.

There are some thought to think about that..

City Connection is an arcade game from 1985 where you drive around trying to paint all the roads in each city. It was then ported to a couple home computers and the NES.

The NES title screen as I've always known it.

When you complete a stage, your score is tallied as our hero enjoys a smoke.

But I recently noticed the arcade's artwork...

Wait, who's that blue-haired girl?

Turns out the western NES release is the only version with that male protagonist. Everywhere else, it's Clarice - even the Famicom version!

I had no idea.

I've been wanting a multi console and i think the retron 5 is my best option but I'm not sure can you guys help me?

Today I was playing PS5 at a friend's house. But the game after being bought, we have to buy a lot of extras or pay to speed up some things. As I remember (M37) when I got a new game (my patents bought them all) I didn't have to buy or wait for anything and I find it very frustating. Are all new games the same? Sorry if this is not the right sub for this but I had to get it out...

There was a pair of games I used to play with my brother and friends. They were strategy games with a tactical map view and a combat grid (I think 3x4).

The tactical map was fairly simply. Just outlines of states (Civil War) or countries (WW2) with background color, maybe based on who controlled the cities. Squares represented cities. I don't recall any texture or geography to the maps.

The combat grid was squares, with different terrain in each one. Units had strengths and weaknesses depending on what terrain they were in. It was turn based. You would place/move your units, then the battle would play out for the turn.

The gameplay was simple, you just move your units around and can attack adjacent square/cities. The civil war game had infantry, cavalry, cannons. WW2 had infantry, tanks, airplanes, boats, and maybe artillery.

There was a single-player vs AI mode and a multiplayer mode. In the multiplayer mode you could set it so you could not see the opposing side's units and were essentially attacking blind (I think, maybe you could see what was right next to you).

Both games had a feature where every few turns it would make you answer a history trivia questions from the manual to continue.

Both games had events where at certain turns if a certain side owned a certain city they get reinforcements. For example, in the Civil War game when the confederates took Tennessee by a certain turn they got an infantry unit. The same for some other states like Missouri I think. In the WW2 game whomever owned Rome by a certain turn got an airplane unit. Or if the Axis captured Copenhagen they got a tank unit because of the oil fields.

The goal was complete domination, except for the confederates. If the confederates survived until a certain date they won because reinforcements from France or someone arrived.

The WW2 game was only the European theater. I want to say it was called "Europe: 1942" or something like that.

I don't remember anything about the name of the Civil War game.

I want to say you could choose to play as certain generals, but I don't remember if that actually affected anything in the game. It only determined what trivia questions you got asked or something.

I don't think there was any resource management but I don't fully remember.

This would have been early to mid 90s I think but those games could have been older and might have been DOS games.

ChatGPT has not been helpful. It thinks every game is released by Sierra On-Line. And when I describe the game it applies those descriptions to other games even when blatantly false.

They might be by Interplay or Impressions Games.

Does anyone remember these games or am I making up my childhood in my head?

If somebody could hack Jackal for the nes and replace the jeeps with 1st gen Tacomas, or Miatas… or cyclists. That would rule.
What are some of your stupid but fun wishes for modding old games?

I'm researching all the releases of DK and I'm stumped on if this version ever actually existed or not.

I already have an SNES Classic, but I'm not sure which way I should go.

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Looking to buy a friend an NES and a couple games for Christmas and am trying to decide between a couple options (he's big into Nintendo and collectibles).

1. Buy NES Console with new 72 pin and some games: Looking on Ebay these seem to be pretty common. I am aware a new 72 pin may go bad quicker compared to the original 72 pin, but how long would the pin realistically last? I also heard of the "death grip" which would suck a lot if he had to use pliers to remove the games.

2. Buy NES Console with original 72 pin but cleaned and some games: I've heard people say cleaning the original 72 pin is more ideal, but if you have to keep cleaning it overtime, why not get a new one? Plus, I've found "polished 72 pin" consoles more expensive than ones with a new 72 pin in Ebay, so not sure if the extra price bump is worth it.

3. Buy new NES clone console that can play NES games and some NES games: Reasoning behind this is to remove the headache of him having to clean and maintain an old console/72 pin and the main "gift" would be the games I buy for him to collect. The new clone console would just give him something to play the games on. New clone consoles look to be 25-40 so that's also appealing and it would be new.

I don't know much about NES consoles so any help would be much appreciated! I've mostly been looking on ebay.

My old PS1 will only play games if it's stood on its side wtf 😂 I'm guessing it's something to do with the laser maybe but I dunno anyone know what this is?

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From my last post about troubleshooting Trespasser to run on Windows 11, it not does technically run super smooth with DirectX 9 compatibility from the CE Patch off of TresCom, however, all of the textures appear to be removed now... No files were deleted here, and I only added in the new docs to run the CE Patch... Any tips of how to get the game looking good again?

None of this was ordered online, I foraged like my ancestors through thrift and antique stores to find it all.

Completed Shock Troopers in 18 credits..I wonder how much that would have cost on a coin op back in the day 🤔 20p a credit? 🇬🇧