The Gamer's Quarter

[dessgeega]

i just finished dracula x: chi no rondo for the pc-engine super cd-rom from the beginning, no continues, in front of my parents whom i watched play nes castlevania when i was little. my mother was on the phone from shaft's ghost through the credits, which really disappointed me, but my father, who reached dracula when i was little but was never able to defeat him, cheered me on in the final battle.

my route was 0, 1, 2', 3', 4', 5, 6, 7, final. i lost my first life in stage 6. (i finished with 3 lives, i think.) and i played as richter, of course.

my file is currently 88% complete.

VICTORY.
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[Shapermc]

That 'ta girl! Hell yea.

Now I feel weak in comparison.
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“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!"

[Tim]

[Shapermc]

Arghh! Tim broke the avatar restrictions?!

Anyways, welcome Tim. I miss the Calvin and Hobbes.
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“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!"

[Lackey]

I'd like to get my parents into videogames.

My brother once tried to show my father the wonders of NHL Sports via Xbox (both are hockey fans) but the results were uninspiring. My dad likes to scoff. He does this at videogames regularly. I mean, he literally makes a sound sort of like "scoff!"

Also, Dess, congratulations! I don't mean to distract from your accomplishments.
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[Tim]

[seryogin]

Death Note is a fine manga. A bit on the silly side, but then again what manga isn't?
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[Tim]

[dessgeega]

[seryogin]

You are correct, Tim!

Death Note has a fairly serious tone, though the situations fueling it would look way too ridiculous if it treated them with less pomposity.

But, yes, a Hard Corps speed run would be good.
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[dark steve]

This topic reminds me how infuriated I am over the lack of an OSX magic engine. That guy told me in an email it was a sure thing but HE WAS LYING TO ME.

People keep sniping Hard Corps out from under me on ebay.

[sawtooth]

That guy? Bannister?

[dark steve]

Nah, the Magic Engine guy. I talked to him once! For clarification, bannister is now "twitchy roller coaster guy", john stiles is "the skittles guy", brad oliver is "probably catatonic guy" and the dude who works on sixtyforce is "the jerk who works on sixyforce."

[sawtooth]

oh, hah, I just bothered to google "magic engine."

Nothing new in nearly four years? That's pretty awful.


brad oliver is actually doing things, though. "Twitchy" is a damn good description of bannister, though.

[dessgeega]

well! i rescued the final prisoner and finished the game to see the best ending.

now i'm going to look at all the spoilers i've been witholding myself from looking at, and set the game aside for a while. i think we both deserve a rest.

working on this game has been the most satisfying experience in my history with the castlevania series.
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[Shapermc]

NOT JUST YET YOU DON'T! The forum demands a speed run. If you get it down to a managable size I will even host it.

Anyways, yea, you really should buy Chronicles soon.
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“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!"

[friedchicken]

You know, I've always thought of PCE Dracula X as the epitome of late 80's / early 90's video game style. It's almost like I've avoided buying it because I fear that I'll be disappointed by it. I take it that's not the case?

Anyway I've got to chase down a PCE before I do anything.

EDIT: Yes, Chronicles is heartily recommended! Shaper, I thought you'd want to know that with my recent Ceramic White Slim PS2, I can finally play my copy again!

[Shapermc]

[DonMarco]

[dessgeega]

contra hasn't arrived yet, so i put the game back in my super cd-rom and played it a bit more, checking out some of the secret stuff i discovered while perusing spoilers last night (including a whole boss).

now my file is 100%. i also have every technique video unlocked except the very expensive final one.

if contra doesn't come along and distract me, i'll probably continue playing rondo. at some point i'm sure i'll attempt to record something (though i'm not sure i have space on my computer for recording), even if it probably won't be a proper speed run.
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[seryogin]

[dark steve]

The second one is great, in a "get drunk and go stagger into a movie" sort of way.

[seryogin]

Well, that depends on the people around you, now doesn't it? And I certainly don't have anyone around who I'd like to share such a thing with.

I mean, Romper Stomper is the same type of movie. Especially, when you watch it with a real skinhead next to you and the both of you make fun of the Australian girl that tagged along.

Zoom in on a portrait of Hitler.

"Australian president?" I say.

"It's not the president," she says.

"Wow, according to this movie, Australia has, like, just become Vietnam," I say

A guy in the Australian navy appears on screen.

"You see," my skinhead friend. "He's in the navy because the Australian army is just the Viet Cong."

"Oh, be quiet."

Then a Polish guy walks by, watches the movie for a second, and says: "Man, I was looking forward to going to Australia, but this movie has killed that, you know."

"It's not like that," she says.

And so on.

Quite a tangent.
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[Shapermc]

[dhex]

[seryogin]

[Persona-sama]

[seryogin]

[dessgeega]

here it is.

you do not know what i had to go through to get this encoded, nor do you want to.
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[dhex]