my favorite ps3 theme are the noby noby boy ones that make all the noise
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I liked the Flower one
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there used to be some cool dark souls themes exclusive to the japanese store, one for each covenant in the game.
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I do wonder if I can contribute to preservation with these Toro and Kuro JPS+ themes I have.
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I played some Puppeteer and was pleasently surprised that it got more interesting and demanding as I went on but I couldn’t bring myself to keep going because it still felt a bit janky.
I call it PS3 Clockwork Knight.
Still need to put Hard Corps: Uprising on my PS3, need to figure out how to be a pirate this thread might help thanks.
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this is such a hilarious deep cut
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also Legasista, if I ever find the time
here’s some physical copies I still want to play more of:
the spine-less game is:
I got a Japanese copy of Motorstorm because it has some DLC on disc?
Also I already played, finished and sold Yakuza Dead Souls, Time and Eternity and Tears to Tiara II. They are all among my favorite things on PS3, highly recommended.
Wish Folklore wasn’t so expensive 
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I have successfully installed Assassin’s Creed English and restarted the game.
One of my goal games once the ps3 was all setup (it’s all setup) was Rush’NAttack: Ex Patriot. A Linear Search Action game by Konami. It takes the 8bit game RushNAttack, slathers it in Unreal 3 (Dropped frames, sudden load spikes) and grim dark 2D Action.
I’m an hour or so in and it is more video game than expected. Or rather I always suspected it was more Video Game. There are 36 floating crystals hanging around. I guess it is linear but there are plenty of different air-ducts and such to arrive at your objective. I have it on Novice which is good the battle system seems like the worst part.
I don’t like playing 2D games with an analog stick. It is less Brown and more Yellow and Green as much as possible. I have 6 of 36 of the bobbles so let’s say I’m about 1/3rd through the game of not trying to hard.
I don’t know why I never dived into the main game (there was a demo at the time). I’m not saying it is good, but it is a comfortable video game about stabbing lots of prison guards in the back.
Also it has had one jumping puzzle on a radiation lake where the platforms had physics so I died at that 5 times. Good-Bad stuff.
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Oh this totally exists because of Shadow Complex, doesn’t it?
So if you’ve hacked your ps3 and also like to go to blockbuster it can cause problems between the many different paths to go to blockbuster.
The best file browser I can find is multiman.
The website and the forums and posts all kind of assume you know how all this works and what does what.
I installed a second kind of launcher program called webman which also let me easily track internal temperture (my new thermal paste seems to have done nothing so maybe if I get real sassy I’ll dissamble the ps3 AGAIN next year?) webman also lets me override fan speed.
Somehow changing the fan speed made multiman crash every time. Also multiman does all the stuff webman does but a different confusing menu. Also webman can be a file-browser but it was worse.
I set the fan back to stock and installed 3D Dot Game Heroes to my ps3 so it can be played through multiman or webman who mount the (iso data) to my ps3. Same way I played Assassin’s Creed.
3d dot game heroes and Gran Turismo Prologue Spec 3 (20 yen!) work great and both fill the roll of listen to my own music as the ps3 gets more and more distressingly loud.
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I was determined to play seriously every game in the Capcom Arcade Cabinet when I bought it 15 years ago or whatever. Now I have finally done that. Capcom pre-making a porn game and making a bunch of money wasn’t very good. The games have awful jumping. The enemies spawn near constantly in a way that playing pacifist is a safer way so you don’t catch a stray bullet or just lightly touch another enemy.
Let’s put asside input lag at least.
Pirate Ship Higemaru is at least a crazy idea for a game. Does it work? Eh. But bomberman but you are using barrels to roll into pirates? Okay!
Makaimura (I am not going to try and keep the english names straight) has all these Capcom problems but is a compelling video game. Maybe the music is carrying it. Would much rather play the versions where you can attack up.
While i would say all these games are very hard it does come down to jank movement and infinitely spawning enemies as opposed to thoughtful level design expecting you to dance. The closest to Almost A Good Game is Speed Rumbler where you are mad maxing around enemies and barrels and trucks trying to rescue your family in 24 hours. It has generous checkpointing but you are useless until you blow up some prisons and then manage to rescue the prisoners by running them over. You can dive out of your car but you move so slow and the enemies spawn so constantly I never lasted more than 2 seconds. I can see all the ways to make this into a good game though.
Avenger is just like a top down beatem up and that’s cool.
The absolute worst of the bunch is Legendary Wings which combines shitty veritical shooter with shitty Capcom platformer. It looks cool but is miserable.
Here’s my ranking from best to worst!
1943
Speed Rumbler
Avengers
1943 Kai
Black Tiger
Section Z
Higemaru
Side Arms
Son Son
Vulgus
1942 beep beep beep
Gun.Smoke
Commando
Trojan
Savage Bees
Legendary Wings
I could feel these games getting their hooks into me but I have to stop because all I do is curse while I am playing them and I keep thinking “wish I was playing a better game that wasn’t complete bullshit.”
Congrats capcom you made a bunch of money on smut and then went “what if we made good games instead.”
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I remember having a Capcom Collection for the PS2 when I was a young teen. I was totally enamored with 1942 and Gun.Smoke. I cannot explain why.
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This is such an iconic game. I played the arcade version every chance I got as a kid (which was pretty often, as it seemed to get around).
And I feel lucky that I also played Legendary Wings for NES as a kid. My memory of it is nothing but positive, colored by nostalgia as it may be.
“The Devil is waiting for us in the palace. Rush courageously.”
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we didn’t know how good we had it with those ps2 arcade collections
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As opposed to all the a la carte offerings?
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they were so cheap you got so many games and the ports were pretty much left alone
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ps2 taito legends 2 is one of the best bargains in videogame history imo
in speed rumbler, iirc, you can jump out of your car just before it explodes, and if you survive a few seconds, a new car magically appears for you to get into
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i always wonder what happened to ghosts and goblins/maikamura composer ayako mori considering the song is like, 2/3 of the series identity (& thats not a negative!) + she’s responsible for head hunting/training harumi fujita
Tthe obvious conclusion from the single (english translated) interview available is - she quit cuz the work sucked & now is doing something entirely different. But also wonder if its a situation where nobody’s taken the time to track her down & ask . cuz…i mean to me the game basically is something to back the song.
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