[Loki Laufeyson]

is there anyway to take screenshots of epsxe, other than printscreen?
i mean, it has a "snap" folder, and all
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[CubaLibre]

[Rud31]

Flower is great!
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[glossolalia]

i took flower as saying "hey why can't nature and technology get along" too and i never got the impression that the man-made objects were supposed to be "evil" in any way except for the downed electrical lines obv (which were nature's fault, so there you go with disharmony being the real enemy)

in any case the message is whatever and the value of the game is entirely in the way it looks/sounds/feels which is fantastic and there's really nothing else to compare it to

[thirsty fork plum]

glossolalia, that is one of the most overused and painfully contrived themes in the world. Surely, we didn't need a game to tell us nature and technology clash.

[glossolalia]

no we didn't

thankfully, like i said, the focus and value of the game is in the moment-to-moment experience which is both polished and unique, and not in whatever it may or may not be trying to say. that it explicitly says nothing and is open enough to elicit both Broco's and my interpretations in the first place should exempt it from the burden of "meaning" whereas Braid's verbosity unwisely invites it

[Drem]

And here I thought it was an allegory for the Cold War.


Alone in the Dark: Inferno is really ambitious, and it grows the farther I get into it. It's pretty rough around the edges, but I think it has some heart.

Edit: Wait, this isn't the Games You've Played thread.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[secret character]

Regen is accuracy-focused and supports Game Gear.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

I check that out too, thanks!

also I totally did not expect this "PSG Enhance" feature on Dega. It apparently converts the PSG audio to MIDI instruments or something:





obviously a lot of people will prefer the original sound, but it's pretty amazing to me that you can just switch this feature on and off while playing the games...
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[dessgeega]

what's that arcade game in which each player is trying to save a bunny from some kind of rube goldberg death machine
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

got any more details than that?

[dessgeega]

the bunnies were purple i think
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

but you don't know how it actually played, what the controls were, whether the players were competing or working together, whether it was stage-based with different machines, what the quality of the graphics were...

Luckily, we have the power to peer back into the mists of time to arrive at the answer you seek.

[another god]

Has anyone played Sodium One?

http://kotaku.com/5428426/home-produces-sodium
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[CubaLibre]

Oh Christ.
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[Drem]

I played a little bit of it. It guess it's nifty for Home, but it didn't seem particularly great. Granted I could never beat the tutorial, I think. It seems to have some sort of player run economy, where you collect materials and sell them to other people and stuff. Sounds kind of interesting, though I don't know what the materials are for in the first place.

It's free, so it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot yourself.

[another god]

[CubaLibre]

It's the age of All Videogames Become Mafia Wars. It's coming.
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[another god]

That it's free or that it's a community game?
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[CubaLibre]

It's not free.
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[Drem]

Actually, CubaLibre, I'll have you know that all the cool kids call it "freemium".

[Broco]

Videogame experience has really been determined a lot by payment structure. In the arcade days you had these tough, sharp little experiences with dozens of replays assumed to be the way everybody experienced the game. After moving to paying 50$ for boxed games, we got a lot of games valuing very long linear hallways of content or conversely, huge explorable sandboxes, giving players a lot of "stuff" for their money, and where replaying is a purely optional thing mainly valued because it constitutes even more "stuff". I haven't played Mafia wars so I don't really understand the experience implications of the new model, but I'm pretty damn sick of games where I just go through the motions to see more content, so I welcome some kind of change.

Anyway, there will always be exceptions.

[another god]

The value of games like Farmville and Mafiawars is directly tied to the social rewards. On a surface level it's obvious that if there was no facebook, there'd be no Farmville. But on a deeper level it's not just that facebook is the platform and that's it - that'd be like saying the Wii is the platform for Wii Sports and, well. That's me hitting the point home with a mac truck.

Back to the point - Cuba, what do you mean about Sodium being like Mafia Wars? Mafia Wars is pretty free. Isn't Sodium as well? And what does this all mean in respect to your "oh christ" moment?
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[secret character]

I can kind of understand not liking this model, as its success depends on exploiting the urge for status. That is to say that people who purchase things in these games usually appear to hold some kind of (virtual) status over people who don't. Seeing these people who purchase things having that kind of status then in turn makes other people want to purchase things, and so on.

On the other hand, I suppose that all marketing relies on exploitation to an extent.

[leoboiko]

What interesting DS game has lots of Japanese voice acting?
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

The Doki Majo Shinpan games, of course.


more seriously: scroll through some DS game release lists. The games with the largest carts are almost always the ones with the most streaming audio, and in many cases that streaming audio is voice files. Of course, few games use all the space in a cart, but game companies rarely spend the money for a cart size larger than they need (or think they need).

If you wanted it sorted by size, there's another site that will do it, but the sort function is actually kinda broken, so:

1024 (128mb)
2048 (256mb)
4096 (512mb)

[Rud31]

Tales of Hearts I would think.
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[CubaLibre]

[secret character]

I agree that micropayments for games you've already paid for are kind of awful, but when the game is free to start with I think it's a different thing. It's just a matter of how you look at it; if you think you're entitled to a full experience from something being giving away for free, well, as far as this model goes you're often wrong. It makes more sense if you look at it like a demo, where you're getting to try part of the game for free to see if it piques your interest.

That said, I think there are multiple ways of implementing this model, and at least some of them suffer from the problem I mentioned before.

[Touran]

I really dislike the idea of micro-transactions. More often than not, games that use a micro-transaction payment structure feature items/abilities/whatever that make the game heavily favor players who shell out cash for the upgrades. It's hard to make a compelling reason for players to pay extra for something, unless that something gives you a clear advantage. It's easier to swallow that pill if $5 let's you dominate other players.
As Cuba put it, Man, fuck that.

I have to note that I've been playing a lot of League of Legends, a free to play DOTA clone (or MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena), or TDA (Tower Defense Action) - these are terrible names) that features micro-transactions for mostly cosmetic changes. This is an implementation of the model that I don't find offensive.
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[rabite gets whacked!]

Is there a way of getting the Steam storefront to stop displaying all Railworks content? Where's my ignore button?
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[Daphaknee]

does disney world (disney quest or any other arcades in the resort) have an enviromental discs of tron cabinet
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[GrimmSweeper]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

How many Gen/Megadrive games (if any) were there that actually used the Mode button on the 6-button pad? I just got one recently and it's been bugging me.

[Lynchburg]

[Rud31]

Yeah Mode you just hold on start up to change it to be recognized as a 3 button pad.

Daphknee: I think the one in Future Land in Tokyo Disney does but that doesn't really help you at all.
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[Felix]

iirc, there was a WWF game that used mode to toggle which wrestlers you had waiting to tag in in 3-on-3 mode.

[Drem]

What's a good video codec for recording gameplay? I'm hooked up using composite cables going into my EasyCap USB device, and I'm viewing and recording the feed using Dscaler. I used the only compression available in the recording settings, which was ffdshow, but the video came out really blocky. It doesn't seem to handle motion very well. Size is pretty good, though. Any suggestions? Also, should I be choosing 1/2 Scanlines Odd, 1/2 Scanlines Even, Alternate Scanlines, or Full? I tried Alternate Scanlines but the video is really stretched width-wise.

[Takashi]

I'll be pretty honest. To record gameplay in real time, you should better stick with huffyuv or mjpeg and then reencode. That said, these codecs take tons of video space and modern computers are pretty fast, so I'm guessing you want something you can store on the net without post processing.

ffdshow is not really a compression codec, and yes a bunch of codecs (you can pick the one being used via the Options menu), and it's set by default to save MPEG-4 with a low bitrate. If you increase that value a bit (the slider on the top right) the video will look much less blocky. In addition, you can set it for a bunch of other codecs, like the huffyuv and mjpeg mentioned before. The H.264 profile codec seems less blocky to me in real time capture, but your mileage may vary.

You should use full frame whenever available, but that might be annoying due to interlacing. Otherwise, just use the half-scanline mode for games without high-res mode, and you're not really losing much information.

I don't have them anymore (it was a time before youtube), but I once did some really sweet 60fps videos of Jak 2 by capturing interlaced fields in MJPEG and then using VirtualDub to split the frames.
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[parker]

Got a real important question here does somebody make a knockoff or something of the vibrator peripheral for rez for 360 or do you just got to make do with a controller?
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