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yes.
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are there any emulators for the snes? as in, emulators of other consoles that will run on the snes.
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this is all pretty fascinating.

a new problem has arisen, though: my ps2 pad has gone haywire. i turned on edf2 and only the left stick seemed to function, so i couldn't get beyond the title screen. then i put in metal slug 3, and the menu screen madly flips between all the choices. if i select one, the game immediately cancels it. the impression i get is that the game is receiving constant input from the d-pad and face buttons. does anyone have any clue what's going on here?
dual shock to shock yr mind, bub.
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the keys don't feel stuck, and yes, it's a first party controller. i tried putting it in the second controller port and it wouldn't do anything, but maybe that's because there's nothing for the second player to do on edf2's title screen, and i can't get any farther than that.
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later i'll try a bunch of games with the controller in the second slot. in the meantime, i'm trying to find breen's speech on the dangers of instinct, which plays in the plaza in the first chapter of half-life 2. the script at gamefaqs doesn't have it.
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thanks a bunch!
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skip the squaresoft game. play paper mario.
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three questions:

would it be easy or difficult to get my hands on a saturn backup cartridge?

how is one's score in xbox live doom calculated?

boojiboy, what's the story re: your being banned from the whitecastle.com forums?
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well, i need it for dezaemon 2. which uses like 2000 blocks per save.

boojiboy, that story was not as exciting as i hoped. i still like you, though.
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there's biometal gust, a remake of biometal (a hori shooter for the sfc/snes) a flat-color polygon remake of daioh gale (the example game from the superfami dezaemon) made with deza2's 3d workshop, and an original vertical shooter about nightmare butterflies. HOWEVER, if you watch the attract mode for a while, eventually you'll start to see demos of other games, and if you press start while they're playing, they'll download to your user game. one of them is a super-hard gradius style game with flying saturns that shoot cds, the other is a short vertical shooter with super cute sprites that look like they're out of a snes rpg.

also if you want to see some neat stuff do a search for "deza2" on youtube.
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no home should be without a pc-engine. it's also really cheap to collect for if you go with used games. you want galaga 88 and atomic robo-kid special for starters. consider ninja spirit and devil crash.
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buy the coregrafx.
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i can't remember in which order they are off the top of my head, but one of them's a soft reset and one is save. (if you hold a and press start you'll continue from the highest world you saved in.)
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decontrologic
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gate of thunder's on the virtual console now? that's pretty hot.
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i was wondering if it was that, but i knew the game the title refers to is fictional, and the games daphny described are real.

now i'm going to have to read that book. thanks, bakin' lips.
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is there a discussion of half-life 2 episode one somewhere on the forum? our search engine is a bit terrible.
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breakquest is a wonderful revision of arkanoid that i wholeheartedly recommend. nervous brickdown isn't.
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anna
i wanted to use doom because it was simple and i have a better grasp of the limitations of doom levels than any other first-person shooting game
i was thinking about using forge, because forge is beautiful and easy, but it's mac only as far as i know

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forge?

anna
marathon's level editor
it's really polished. you go into a first-person perspective and navigate the space to add textures and adjust details

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I've seen quake editors that let you do that
actualluy
there's an open source FPS engine whose editor is entirely in-engine...
but I can't remember what it's called

the quick question is: what is it called?
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i've always thought that "mother" referred to the earth. but yeah, relationships with mothers (and grandmothers) play important roles in the mother games.
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who made that hack that changes super mario bros.'s enemies into dragon quest slimes?
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so does anyone know a good sharp x1 emulator?
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initially it wasn't possible to save data to a famicom disk, so the disk system was a way for nintendo to release more ambitious games: games that actually save player progress. the neat side effect of the disk format is you could actually rewrite your disks with new games instead of buying new game carts. anyway, it wasn't long before they figured out how to save data to carts, which is why the nes never got a disk system.

a while ago nfg translated the manga / instruction manual that comes with the fds. it should give you some idea of what the good and bad things about the disk system are.

while you're at it find an fds emulator and play otocky. it is one of the good things about the disk system.
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i've never managed to finish stage ten.
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is there a lightgun solution for the pc? the mouse is way too accurate for n.y. captor in mame.
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arkanoid plays really well with the stylus, though i love the paddle, both for arkanoid and space invaders, and i'd recommend importing one if you can. the invisible space between the screens has always felt pretty natural to me in arkanoid. it helps that the ball never goes back and forth between the screens rapidly: the top screen is always where the blocks are, and the bottom screen is always where the paddle is, so there's always that very tennis sense of serve, return. the game uses space really well, despite the initial feeling that there must be wasted space on the bottom screen.
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so let's say hypothetically i'm releasing a game a week from tomorrow and i want to record a gameplay video for youtube. what's a good free screen recorder THAT WILL ALSO RECORD AUDIO FROM SPEAKERS, because that seems to be the part all the programs i've found seem to have trouble with. camstudio included.
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i want to record gameplay footage (which is to say footage of the game actually being played).
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say i did do that, though, what program would i want to use to put them together and make them sync?
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thanks takashi!

crossposted from the gamer's quarter:

so, after collecting various bits of advice, the solution that i arrived at was to record video using camstudio, record audio using total recorder, and then add the audio track to the video track with virtualdub. the problem was getting both tracks to sync, and in a way that was foolproof and repeatable (i don't know how many times i'm going to need to record).

i hit on the idea of giving both programs the same RECORD and STOP shortcut. in practice, though, one program catches the keypress and the other one doesn't (because it's already been caught). so they needed to have different shortcuts and i a way of triggering them both at the same time.

my solution: joy2key. now i have my saturn pad rigged so that pressing the B button calls both programs' RECORD shortcuts, simultaneously, and pressing the A button calls both programs' STOP shortcuts. sure enough, i get a video track and audio track of the same length that sync perfectly. amazing.
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three questions.

ONE. there's this old two-player arcade game with these bunnies tied to, i dunno, sticks of dynamite maybe? players compete to make their opponent's bunny explode first? something like that? does anyone know the game i'm talking about?

TWO. there was a question here. it's gone now.

THREE. how's saturn emulation these days?
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