Quick Questions 2: The Quick and the Dead

Rud31 · forum ruler of Iraq Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex

When Game Grumps played the Nintendoland stuff it all seemed like you had to buy in to it being fun. Like convince yourself that you were having a good time not that the good time was really there all the way.
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another god · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Who's going to GDC this year?
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RadRad · Joined: 31 Jul 2013

Any good place to download or stream video game soundtracks?
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Drem · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: The Planet Bookshelves

For downloading, one place is http://www.gamemp3s.net. Another is http://forums.ffshrine.org/video-game-music-download-links/. For streaming, you can try some online radio sites like Live365.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:22 am

Most stuff is on Youtube these days. Sometimes there's too much of it on Youtube.

If you're using Chrome (regular, not some mobile adaptation), this site is pretty cool, either for specific games or to find something random.

I really wish there was some universal browser player for ValleyBell's modern VGM/VGZ standard. It supports a whole bunch of arcade games and stuff.

luvcraft · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:09 am

Name that game: A freeware, 2D PC strategy game with hex tiles, and a main character who looked a lot like Shiren the Wanderer. I thought I had it installed on this computer, but I can't find it. I think it's Japanese.

EDIT: Found it. Vantage Master.
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Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:31 am

are you thinking of the freeware release of Falcom's Vantage Master?

luvcraft · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:50 am

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Have they bothered fixing/adding the story translation in the past decade or so since they made it freeware?
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GcDiaz · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Clinton, MA

I'd like to get into MAME. Been away from the scene for near 10 years, and now I'm running into ROMs that for whatever reason will not work with any version of MAME I can dig up. Have tried the latest, the oldest, and a few in between. Anyone point me in the right direction? Is there one MAME version that just works with everything?
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notbov · Joined: 14 Feb 2009

this might be a dumb answer, but are you making sure you're grabbing the parent ROMs and not just the regional versions? most of the time when you deal with a game put out all over the world, you need the World revision before the Japanese or American revisions work (or, with games with 2- and 4-player variants, the 2-player version).

as for one MAME to rule them all, I don't think so, since they changed how the ROMs themselves get handled a while back, so some games that ran with a set of files or name in an older version won't work on current MAME releases.
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GcDiaz · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Clinton, MA

Assume nothing. I may as well be completely new to this.
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another god · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Who's going to GDC? I'm going this year, and I wanna meet up with some SBers if I can. Is there another thread where people would talk about this stuff?
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peetee · Joined: 23 Jul 2009

I am! unfortunately I'm not much of a regular poster on here but I've lurked for years >_>

of interest to you may or may not be this show that I am a part of on Tuesday of GDC:

it was cool last year and I hope it'll be cool this year and yeah! buncha chiptunes-ish music and hey doseone! so I'm excited about it (i'm space town savior)

apologies for the hugely self-indulgent post :/

dongle · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA

oh cool i'll go.

i think there might be more sb folks at lost levels than at gdc proper this year.

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:49 pm

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peetee · Joined: 23 Jul 2009

you'll need tickets, yeah! you can get them here: http://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2014/03-18.html

i'd like to network too but I always manage to screw it up somehow so whoops

lost levels is like a freeform anti-GDC (though I'm not sure they'd call it that) with a bunch of microtalks on pretty much whatever the speakers feel like! it'll be my first time going to that too -- it's Thursday 1-5pm: lostlevels.net

unfortunately I'm based in San Diego so I have no idea where one would stay either :(

The Blueberry Hill · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: The otherwise central zone.

Gee, Lost Levels looks great. If I ever do a USA trip I have to make sure I'm there at that time.

The Blueberry Hill · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Location: The otherwise central zone.

And now I'm looking at airfares and they're pretty affordable...

dongle · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Berkeley, CA

There are some hostels near the convention center, otherwise try AirBnB. Hotels are going to be either grody or expensive.

Felix · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:51 pm

I just stayed at this place for a work trip to SF, it's right nearby and it was pretty reasonable considering: http://hotelbijou.com

definitely wouldn't feel worth it had I been paying out of pocket though

parker · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 4:02 am

Is there some online place you can buy korean displays. I know some people are into those cheap korean monitors for super widescreen resolutions and whathaveyou but a friend of mine just wants a white tv that's at least 32 inches. Americans don't seem to like white tvs they want everything in tactical black carbon fiber or whatnot.
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Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 3:44 pm

anyone got an easy guide to making a us xbl account on a pal 360?
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owl · Joined: 11 Sep 2009

Does anyone have any advice on where to look for an English-language copy of Dark Souls II in Tokyo?

Brooks · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Location: peak caucasity

Can you not just get it offa PSN? That's what I'm going to try as of next week

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Rud31 · forum ruler of Iraq Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex

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parker · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:46 pm

Thanks
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Tokyo Rude · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Location: I'm on the phone Derrick!

Okay stand outside super potato go left. Take a right after trader2. Should be a few doors down before the game center. If it is still there.

Or just use playasia.

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Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:40 am

does anyone have any insight into how Idea Factory managed to turn their Never Land universe into such a stupidly large franchise, given the series started with a really ugly and generally unremarkable dungeon crawler? Did Spectral Force (a year later) really take off for some reason? Did they just pump a bunch of ideas through down-on-their-luck developers? Three Spectral games came out for the PSX during the second half of 1999...

yungincense · Joined: 09 Mar 2014

is there a "dark souls 2" kind of game with a professional wrestling motif?

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

CubaLibre · the road lawyer Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Balmer

I am thoroughly enjoying Binary Domain.

What is the multiplayer like? Is it any good?
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