lol
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alien soldier is the greatest gay artwork of the 1990s
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Paprium is real. I own it. It says FUCK on the spine making it more embarassing to display than a Deathsmiles faceplate.
The screed that came with it is really something. WARNING: LANGUAGE INSENSITIVITY
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read up to “interlaced frame rates” and then something in my brain snapped
THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS AT ALL
YOU’RE TELLING ME YOU TOOK THE TIME TO SHOVE SOME OFF-THE-SHELF PARTS FOR MUSIC AND DO 68K ASSEMBLY BUT YOU COULDN’T BE ASSED TO LOOK UP WHAT “INTERLACED” MEANS
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Okay No one fell for my trap someone explain what the Megadrive Mini Zero is please.
*researching noises*
…it’s a ~$50 piece of Japan-exclusive plastic in the shape of a Power Base Converter, but unlike the real Power Base Converter it does not let your miniature Mega Drive play any 8-bit sega games
in other words, it’s the gentleman’s/gentlelady’s/gentleenby’s alternative to the 32X-shaped piece of plastic
no idea why they waited 2 years to release it tho
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I got weak and stress bought an Analogue SG to finally play Paprium. Apparently patched to get rid of the graphic errors. I will see if I noticed the fuck-you-lag.
But then I found setting it up to tiring after dadding and played Beyond Oasis on my RG351V in bed. Because of course.
I got about a third of the way through Oasis before realizing I have in fact put time into this game before and it just fell off my brain immediately. I am foolishly commiting myself to beating it this time. I just got to the Volcano which has to be the most hateful part of the game or it is just going to get worse from here. If I had played it on the analogue I would have screamed. Save states make it very pleasant.
This also reminded me I rely on save states to enjoy these old games and why the hell did I buy this special box that can play games I already can play on a dozen things.
At least the special box can play Paprium before the digital version drops and owns me. The special box does seem to play Megadrive games very well. Noticed slow down in Sonic 3 that I don’t see in emulators and have to imagine that is…real.
Now I am stupidly looking at Megadrive carts online because they are very nice to look at. Being a big idiot over here!
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I ended up beating Beyond Oasis and it was the last video game because my wrist has been screwed up since then!
Didn’t stop me from stress buying football games for the Megadrive.
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game shop 1983 is wonderful and run by a single guy and that news letter is really great and has a lot of enthusiasm in it. I thankfully got to see the actual shop before it closed because Pandemic. Now it is just a web-store.
Real labor of love and was happy to take some of the dead football game stock off his hands.
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Thinking about David Robinson’s Supreme Court as maybe the peak of naming things things.
I’ve played Paprium.
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the OST to paprium seems pretty dank
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I’m not getting off this train I decided. I signed up just for the updates. Just getting the digital game though the GG version really intrigued me.
The Soundtrack didn’t stand out to me but:
I’m playing on a Mega SG
From a cheap bluetooth audio transciever from my TV
To cheap bluetooth headphones
Noticed there is some weirdness with Sonic 3 (end of bonus stage counting noise cuts out) so fully expect this is a problem on my end.
I know I am me but also haven’t noticed in frame-drops yet. Even though Fonzie specifically programmed in Frame Lag if paprium detects it is being played on a Mega SG.
Also this experience let me know the Licensed By Sega screen when you turn on a genesis game was copy-protection from the console and huh!
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been continuing my years-long trek through phantasy star ii
just finished Uzo Island which has great music but miserable design lol, it’s like the most evil version of a jrpg dungeon and it isn’t even one of the “hard ones” in this game
now i’m supposed to take on the 8-floor climatrol dungeon after another few hours of grinding xp and meseta… this game is definitely a major slog lol. i feel like i gotta persevere as best i can and make it to the end
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hi
my opinion on Taz-Mania is turning around because I booted it up and found out you can just brute force through the whole game in 10-15 minutes
also I like the soundtrack
however they decided that putting the game to “hard” means that Taz doesn’t get to spin around fully invincible like an idiot, which seems to be a horrid miscalculation and misses the point of the character and seems unnecessary with the damage increases, which get rid of the parts where you can do things like ignoring level design. I’m baffled enough by this that I switched to running to the game in Blast’em because I thought it was an emulation glitch and I’m still not convinced to the point that I want to boot the game on real hardware to actually see if they were this stupid
anyway, my badge is on the desk
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How did you get past the minecart levels that ruined me as a child
- has not played the game in 25 years.
you just memorize it, the most brute force-y way of doing it
the only tricky bit is when you have to speed up to clear a jump and then immediately go over an obstacle after landing
I can tell the minecart level has horribly scarred you because you think there’s more than one, although the next mineshaft level directly after it is also stupid
do you like blind jumps
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