some cd pressings are just shit sometimes, some plants are notorious for it. they can look perfect but still not work.
i have a few games that lock up at certain points but it’s all games with very visible scratches. on the other hand for some reason i have saturn games that are extremely scratched but work 100% fine. the saturn can read anything.
if you can find em some stores offer to recoat the surface layer of cds, which sometimes can be enough to fix errors if it’s only the plastic coating on the underside that’s damaged. some of them will do that for a few bucks, beats having to buy a game again in some cases.
I mean, haven’t been diggin’ at it constantly, but right about when i was finishing Orochi 4, along came SW5, so i assume that the next logical move will be a spinoff in the SW universe, or Orochi 5.
Or so i would believe…
There is a point every summer or so where I go “I should bust out the N64 and play a game on it” (always summer as I’d only be able to hook it up in the basement and it’d be too cold in the winter) and basically how much JRPG BS is there in Paper Mario? I mean less in terms of quality and more… well in my head a random Dragon Quest is probably approaching 100% JRPG BS, basically uncut that. Am I gonna be drowning in random battles, can I just run away from them all if so, am I liable to screw myself over like I did in Mario & Luigi Superstar Sage or Super Mario RPG due to poor decision making, is there a half that is more Mario-like, etc.
I haven’t played in 20+ years but as someone who had bounced off of 99% of JRPGs for the entire SNES generation, Paper Mario was finally one that Kid/Teen Mikey was able to see through. I think it’s relatively brisk and not too grindy.
what happens to all the gashapon prizes that people don’t want? like if you really wanted a particular prize and ended up getting 6 of a different one… what do people do with them?
(is there some kind of gashapon online marketplace or something?)
You mean for the physical stuff? You can trade them in to stores for pennies, sell them on auction/trade sites for slight bit, or straight to the garbage.
99% of folks just get one and are happy though. If you want a specific one going online is almost certainly cheaper. There will probably be an extreme markup for covetted ones (like the current n64 analog stick).
