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Ketch .
Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 420
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: Hacked Roms? |
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Has anyone played Rom hacks? I'd like to see some good ones out there. (I'm looking forward to when people can hack PS1/2 / GC games) to make their own alternate versions. Like Half Life 2: Substance. > ie. Metal Gear Solid: Substance::Substance. |
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purplechair .
Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: |
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I had a great idea for a rom hack yesterday. Streets of Apathy. You play as some kind of whiney emo kid, and you just walk down the street, past kids and happy couples and people reading newspapers and drinking coffee. There's no fighting. Some melancholy music plays in the background. At the end of each level, a boss appears and you walk past them.
It wouldn't be a very good game, but someone would probably put it in a museum somewhere. |
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Alc .
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 109 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Most ROM hacks are crap. Replace Mario with a penis, make him fight purple testicles, and call it "super fuckk brothers". Most of them are for the original Super Mario Brothers because it's so easy to hack.
Mario Adventure, however, is really worth checking out, although you'll probably need savestates for some of the levels. |
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Dracko .
Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:03 am Post subject: |
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Other interesting ROM hacks:
Castlevania Remix: Castlevania, Bela Lugosi style.
Sonic 2 Delta II: Sonic 2 with the zones that were cut out during development added in.
Also, the Pink Floyd: The Wall hack for Donkey Kong has a special place in my heart. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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deepblue .
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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Dracko wrote: | Sonic 2 Delta II: Sonic 2 with the zones that were cut out during development added in. |
How did I not know of this? It must be played! |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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That is running on the NES?!
Holy crap.
Quote: | Sonic 2 Delta II: Sonic 2 with the zones that were cut out during development added in. |
You know, I heard about something like this, but this is awesome!
EDIT: This is pretty cool too! I would like to see more things like this considering how much censorship went into NES games (or so I hear). _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Lackey .
Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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i've long been a fan of dragoon x omega. it's dragon quest with a desperate future setting. it works surprisingly well. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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Shapermc wrote: |
That is running on the NES?!
Holy crap. |
I honestly can't tell; is that sarcasm?
And here's the Pink Floyd hack I mentioned above. Ignore the clueless reviewer. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 6563 Location: bohan
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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i don't think that reviewer has actually seen the wall, which makes the prospect of reviewing a hack based on the wall kind of ridiculous. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think he even admits it himself later on. He hasn't even heard any of their music, let alone the Roger Waters era stuff. Which helps explain why he understands none of the sprite changes or anything else, really. I like it for fanboyish reasons in part. Also, it's just plain weird as well as hilarious. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Swimmy .
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Sonic Robo Blast 2 counts, right? _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
-seryogin |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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It's more of a mod than a hack, I'd say. Drawing the line might prove elusive, however.
Here's a Mario ROM which is highly conceptual and I find ridiculously amusing: Mario Battle No. 1.
Has there been any mention, by the way, about http://www.selectparks.net/ over here? You might find it very interesting and bookmarkable. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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myfanwy ashmore, creator of mario battle no. 1, is my livejournal friend.
that gives me great personal satisfaction. _________________
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B coma .
Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 279
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Someone hacked a fully functional Knuckles into Sonic 1, and it's pretty novel to poke around with. The highpoint was discovering I could finish Marble Zone in all of a couple minutes. You can find it cough planetemu cough through the usual channels.
Thanks for the info on the Sonic Delta thingy. I'm a pretty rabid Sonic fan and I hadn't heard about it 'til now. |
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Ketch .
Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 420
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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Taking my cue from Bela Lugosi Castlevania, I've taken to playing Contra Hard Corps in Grayscale and it feels like an extreme version of a 50s B-Movie! (Or the best gameboy game yet). |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Someone find me this, please:
_________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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Ketch .
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showka .
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showka .
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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purplechair .
Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:05 am Post subject: |
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I downloaded some stuff and started working on a hack of Final Fantasy for the NES. I thought it'd be impossible to draw a Nazi soldier with just three shades of red, but I was wrong!
This is really fun! It's like the time I wrote a crappy little RPG in Basic... it seems oddly perverse, but I have way more fun making games than I do playing them. And I mean in general, not just the ones I've made! |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:26 am Post subject: |
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making games is the absolute best. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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i can't believe i allowed this thread to go this long without mentioning air.
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Dracko .
Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:11 am Post subject: |
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I'm afraid you're going to have to explain this one to me. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Tablesaw .
Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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Dracko wrote: | I'm afraid you're going to have to explain this one to me. |
You see, the girls are waiting in the warm, gentle air of summer. Why summer? Because spring was never waiting for these girls. It ran two steps ahead, and they followed in the dance. Between the parted pages, they were pressed with love's hot, fevered iron, like a pair of striped pants.
The Mushroom Kingdom's melting in the dark, all the sweet green 1-ups falling down. Someone left a brick out in the rain. I don't think that I could break it, for it took so long to make it, and I'll never find that hidden block again.
Oh noooooooooooooooooooooo! _________________ It's the saw of the table! |
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OtakupunkX .
Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: |
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So its basically an angsty version of SMB? |
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Swimmy .
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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It's a hack that you can only beat if you have intricate knowledge of SMB's glitches. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
-seryogin |
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a_plus .
Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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i'm downloading air now... the screenshots look scary.
i wish i could read more japanese! |
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a_plus .
Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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it would seem i didn't patch it correctly... i can't get past the title screen!
..or is that just one of said glitches i need to get past? |
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Swimmy .
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a_plus .
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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ah! thanks! |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:16 am Post subject: |
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air is just fabulously evil and also fabulously poetic. there's a stage that starts with that slow walk toward a pipe but there's no pipe - mario sleepwalks through the entire stage, an obstacle course of springs and platforms that he navigates without your control.
i have a video of the entire game being completed if anyone would like it. _________________
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JasonMoses .
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:20 am Post subject: |
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Is this the one you're thinking of, dess? |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:27 am Post subject: |
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why yes, sir. yes sir it is. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: |
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It's like a pomo adventure game of sorts, the more I play it. It's goddamn unforgiving though, but I don't see that as much of a problem. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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a_plus .
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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i found the weirdest secret in the first level, i think.
that pipe end after the standing spiny... somehow i entered it and got to a water level and can't figure out how the hell to get to the axe...
so, so bizarre and addicting. i love it. |
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Pijaibros .
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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My lord, this Air game is so brilliantly brutal. Just looking at those screenshots inspired fear within me. To think I thought we all knew SMB on an intimate level, but this shows just how much I've yet to firmly grasp in 20 years.
Since I've been out of gaming anything in my PC for years, I must ask...what is the new emulator of choice for these titles?
Last time I emulated anything was way back when then Pentium I was all the rage.
Edit: Found an NES emulator that will let me use my PS2 --> USB adapter caled NEStron, though I'm open to suggestions if there's a better one out there
Played for 30 minutes...1-3 owns me. |
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sawtooth .
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:29 am Post subject: |
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Can anyone rapidshare the movie or host a zipped copy of the .torrent? My school has got some ridiculously stupid bandwidth shaping thing going on right now, and I can't even download files that end in .torrent. _________________
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:12 am Post subject: |
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here it is! _________________
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OtakupunkX .
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: |
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Pijaibros wrote: | Since I've been out of gaming anything in my PC for years, I must ask...what is the new emulator of choice for these titles? |
I've been using Nestopia. It lets me use my PS2 -> USB converter and has this really cool NTSC filter that makes the game look like it's running on a late 80's RFU-only TV (kind of taxing on the CPU though, which is ironic). I haven't tried Air on it yet (I should probably download that soon), but Nestopia's pretty much compatible with every NES/Famicom game and emulates every imaginable periphial ever, including the keyboard and the Crazy Climber controller I never even knew existed for the Famicom. |
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OtakupunkX .
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Air is very difficult.
If I ever finish it pigs will fly, snowballs will form in Hell, and both Starcraft: Ghost and Duke Nukem Forever will be released. Possibly on the same day. |
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sawtooth .
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome! Thanks a lot. _________________
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simplicio .
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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While we're on it, people should check out the Ninja Five-0 runthrough on that same site. Emulator abuse or no, it's a beautiful thing. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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ninja 5-0 is a beautiful thing.
so is your avatar, simplicio. _________________
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simplicio .
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! You know, I played a ton of Motocross Maniacs when I was a kid, but I'd forgotten it even existed, till last night when I decided sprite motorcycles are the best motorcycles and went looking for a fix. It was the first random one I found, and suddenly it all came back to me! I only got 2 hours of sleep last night because of it.
Also, speaking of sprite motorcycles, the same site has reediculous Excite Bike footage.
Also, gameboy skateboards don't hold up as well, and I'm sorry to say that Skate or Die! in no way recaptures my childhood.
Also, the Ninja Five-0 video. Now! Seriously, it's not so much a speedrun as it is a perfect representation of Pure Ninja Essence. I can't think of anything else in games or film that captures it so perfectly. It may just change the way you think about ninjas entirely. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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have you ever played the gameboy color sequel to motocross maniacs? it is almost unfairly good.
the gameboy advance one has off-the-hook level designs, but it plays much more like mario kart. _________________
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Pijaibros .
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:34 am Post subject: |
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Ninja Five-O is pure excellence in a pocket format.
It and Double Dragon are my favorite titles to endlessly play through on the go. |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:51 am Post subject: |
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double dragon is pretty great. ninja 5-0 is also excellence. i really need to track down a copy. _________________
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:29 am Post subject: |
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Be very cautious about purchasing Ninja Five-O people! Wes bought a copy off of Amazon.com and it was a bootleg. Most of the ones on eBay are bootlegs. I ended up buying this game used with no box or manual because it was legit (so far the only one I have bought this way!) becasue they are that frustrating to find. If you are going to get a bootleg and pay someone to pirate you may as well just emulate.
Notes on finding an original: the actual cart has the Nintendo Seal of Quality on it. The label will have numbers and letters imprinted on it which you can only see at the right angle (take a look at some of your current GBA games at an angle and you will see them). Also this game is called Ninja Cop in other countries. This game is pretty much language free, and the story you do miss is ... well, ok to miss. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"
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OtakupunkX .
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:35 am Post subject: |
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This Ninja Five-O game sounds exciting. |
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