I’ve read that there’s an option for combat automation in Nier Automata but I don’t understand how it works. Is it a toggle in the options menu or some sort of in-game upgrade/customization? How does it work, do you move the character around while she auto-attacks when in range? Can you provide any input on skill or item usage? Can you temporarily take the reins?
iirc it’s done via the chip system, so you can just turn it on off through that menu (and it’s somewhat modular. physical attacks, ranged attacks, item usage, all as separate chips).
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the game must be on easy mode for those chips to be available I think
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If you haven’t played the game before those chips take the slots that would be filled by ones that grant you other bonuses and abilities.
One of my friends played through with the auto combat stuff on and still had a good time with it.
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I paid $1.02 for Sonic Mania let’s see how this goes
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Ahh jeeze I am about to own a ps2 super slim again what is the easiest way to play stuff on it?
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Thanks @dedede69 @toups @LaurelSoup
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What’s the best way to play the original Secret of Monkey Island today? I saw that Steam has a special edition with new graphics and voiceover. Is that any good?
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Depends: if you want a more modern action menu interface over a multitude of verba on screen, then yes. Otherwise it might be better to stay with the older graphics (thus, any platform supporting scummvm).
I went with SE for the reason above. Anyway, I removed the characters’ voices because I felt it was more charming with on screen only dialogues.
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While debatably the “best”, and not the easiest to find because they don’t sell it, the EGA version of Monkey Island 1 is the only version of the game that Ron Gilbert worked on.
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I played the FM Towns version in ScummVM last week and it was very good. I remapped advance text to Z. The ideal way to play…
I just chose fm towns to be “quirky” (it seemed the same as every other version I played)
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Nice, thanks for the advice! Turns out I already own the Special Edition on Steam, must have been from a bundle. So I’m thinking I’ll probably play that one in Classic Mode, which I gather uses the VGA graphics and sound.
Not sure which one it is, but one of the special editions let’s you switch graphics but it sadly maintains the remastered music across both. At least I’m pretty sure this is true. Or maybe I’m just thinking of the voice acting.
MI SE locks the voice acting to the new graphics. I’m not as familiar with how the sound is handled in that version.
MI 2 SE is the one that lets you keep the voices with the original graphics. The music is a disaster in that version; the remixed music is OKish but mixes in a lot of natural sounds (wind and birds and such) that I feel are a poor match for the rest of the presentation, and the original graphics mode has a badly recorded version of the original music that doesn’t loop correctly, and hard fades between rooms with no attempt to implement iMUSE.
Find the games on archive then drop them into ScummVM, I think other folks have said as much but…yeah they hold up fine. Get one of the slightly later versions if you want the interface to be a little more elegant looking, that’s about it.
If something can run ScummVM, it’s pretty much the best way to do it.
Like you literally cannot be permanently stuck in either game so there’s not a lot of need for QOL improvements and the new graphics are just plain worse.
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Push left button. Let top door open. Seat game disc on revealed drive. Lower top door until it clicks into place. Press right button to power on unit and and boot game.
If you mean stuff not on discs I don’t know.
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Every couple months I read up on this then don’t actually do it…
You can get freemcboot on a memory card (I believe through on of those ps3 era usb/memory card adapters) which will then let you launch games over a network share. The USB 1.1 ports aren’t fast enough to load games from external drives unfortunately. I believe some models can be modded to attach to hard drives directly using various degrees of soldering too.
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from what ive read you can burn fmcb to dvds now so you can basically load any patched burned disc. not sure tho im all in on pcsx2 at this point tbh
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When I was playing a bunch of PS2 games, I used Free McBoot on a memory card + burned DVDs*. It doesn’t work if the game was originally printed on CD-ROMs. I could sometimes use a flash USB + OPL for those.
I think using a network is supposed to be better though. I’ve never tried it.
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how does sb feel about suikoden 5