Looking that up has led me to discover https://forum.weightgaming.com/
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Got to the real last area in Infinifactory, first puzzle there is the first in the game to make me look up help as it apparently requires a weird mechanical edge case the game never previously even hinted at as possible for it to even be possible; we call that an ill omen.
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showed a friend a video of sin & punishment, that game probably has some of the most complicated and elaborate and dense worldbuilding and storytelling, incredible game imo, thereâs nothing like it. multiple levels take place within dreams or visions and the controls and feel of the game are razor sharp, as sharp as any other treasure game⌠this was formative for me. havent played it in a while⌠guess i should look into n64 emulation
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ok I should try this game again with properly working emulation
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Reinstalled The Saboteur for no particular reason. The GOG version is the one you want. I used to have the EA Store version through I think GamePass and you had to run the EA launcher to play it. Had to fiddle with control files to get it working right, but other than that itâs very solid.
Missions are these very sandboxy Sneak Into Area, Blow Thing Up, Kill A Bunch Of Dudes, Then Leave. I am currently stuck on a mission where I have to break a bunch of guys out of a very open and tightly guarded security fortress, and pretty much regardless of whether Iâm disguised or sneaky I seem to set off the alarm every time. I think this mission is the last one I did before I gave up the last time I tried playing this.
âIm a decent personâ is something the protagonist sometimes mutters to himself apropos of nothing. Bracing for the inevitable hetero-normative romance plot to appear and shatter my headcanon.
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A CIB copy of S&P was my first (and for a good while only) N64 game. It rules. I should bring it to a meetup or something.
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I remember very strongly considering âmoddingâ (read: cutting some plastic tabs out of) my N64 so I could play this but I never did. Iâm still not sure if I have actually. Maybe?
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may i suggest this instead given how crazy cheap these have gotten:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807630088435.html
supports all N64, Aleck64, and 64DD games - basically a fully compatible N64 flashcart for fifty bucks
and while you can get in there with pliers and/or a dremel and just get rid of the plastic, you may also consider the non-destructive option:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802492628525.html
these are also sold on etsy and ebay and other places in the US, just not quite as cheap. lmk if youâre looking
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try this one if youâre on Windows. dead simple and very good - just be aware system requirements can be higher than you might expect:
another fantastic option, potentially lower system requirements:
Aresâ N64 core is very accurate and has all kinds of support. I think you can play Hey, You Pikachu with the voice recognition unit on Ares⌠however, this is one of the more computer juice-thirsty N64 emulators
mupen64-plus-next in Retroarch is also great and has unique enhancements if you wanna go down the libretro road
Project64 3.x is⌠fine. hacky and inaccurate but with a great debugger and various enhancements
1964 is really only used for running very specific games with specific mods/hacks (Goldeneye 60FPS w/ mouselook, for example)
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Youâd likely remember at least the aircraft carrier part if youâd played it. Until I reached that part, I thought it was interesting enough but didnât yet understand why it got such praise.
My experience with Sin and Punishment was when they released it as a NA Wii Virtual Console title.
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i spent my first ever paycheck importing a copy of sin and punishment but could never get it to work even with the region unlocking cart thing. itâs never felt right for me on emulation and/or without an original controller, but finally played through it properly a bunch earlier this year on a crt and a mister with original controller and itâs a perfect videogame.
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For having âââânothingââââ plots I was way more interested in the worlds of sin and punishment and radiant silvergun as a kid than I was with the gigantic forest only a mile away from my house.
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You can also cut tab slots into the flash cart case
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Oh I havenât owned an N64 for many years, now, I was thinking of doing this mod like 15 years ago
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Revisit AREA 4643
All you have to do to play it on a US N64 is unscrew the dust cover for the cart slot, which is easy enough if you have a triwing. They just leave a cart in there to keep it from getting dusty.
This is what my 64 has.
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this reminds me I gotta get my grubby hands on one of those n64 flash carts
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Annoyingly in the last mission I did in The Saboteur the protagonist is like âI better be sneakyâ and when you open up the first cage theyâre also like âwe gotta be quietâ as the alarms start to blare - and you canât sabotage the alarm systems to be sneaky, so basically the way to beat the level is kill everyone first then break everyone out, tediously leaving the area and coming back after your heat dies down. It took forever.
Early game has you in one area a ton, I feel like the game should expand faster because I keep going through the same roads over and over. Some of the routes have weird and awkward hairpin turns that you take over and over, and all the cars handle realistically (terrible tbh)
Much like with many open world games of the era, cars and vehicles are a big feature but arenât used for much except âGo from A to Bâ.
Probably a product of games writing in the 2000s being not great but all the women characters in the game all have this grating plastic personality to them. Like the game is trying to make them so conventionally attractive they becomeâŚrepulsive? somehow?
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picked up the etrian odyssey remaster for switch, starting again on one. this is nice
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noooo translating the manualâs the best bit
i mean i also looked up a translation once i gained the ability to haltingly sight-read it, but