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Khromak last won the day on September 30 2021

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  1. What's the deal with save states for long games? Is it acceptable to save state at the end of a play session to alleviate the whole "leave your console on for days straight" issue? There are a couple games I'm looking at with infinite continues/ lives, but they're long and don't have passwords or save functionality.
  2. Boulder dash is done, finally. I stand by all my previous posts, the controls are trash in this game which gets really frustrating at the end when extreme precision is required, and tbh some of the levels seemed like random chance carried me through, though I'm sure with a deeper understanding of the mechanics (what causes enemies to get stuck especially) it could be managed better. In the end I spent over 3 hours on 24-1 before getting a single win, then cleared 24-2, 3, & 4 in a total of maybe 3 lives. The difference on difficulty in the final world is crazy, at least for me. Fuck this game. I was raging so hard at my controller/TV while trying to beat that last level. If I never play this game again it will be all too soon. The earlier levels are pretty fun because there's some leniency but by the end you have to get every damn diamond, kill every bug in the exact right spot, and the timers are tight. One dpad press not recognized and you're dead or the board is unwinnable, and that happens constantly. I ended up finishing it on my AV famicom because I thought the controller on my twin famicom had a gummy dpad, but nope the exact same thing happened there too, constantly, maybe even worse.
  3. I don't think the issue is any individual action, but the sum total of them. It's not illegal as a guy who grades video games to make public statements that games are worth 25 billion dollars. It's also not illegal to sell your friend a video game. It's not illegal to sell a graded video game, or to have delayed services when your company is backlogged. If you combine all this together though, it's really suspicious and (IANAL) could be illegal. Employees of grading company and auction house company colluding together to "sell" a game to generate hype. Not actually selling the game, but going all over the news to talk about how much you "sold" it for. Going on TV to talk about how it could be worth 10x as much, when your services are based on a % of the value of a game. Advertising to customers that they can get their products back in a week, while actually taking months/years. Meanwhile, your employees are mysteriously selling tons of games their own company graded. If you're seen as an authority (grading company, auction house) on a thing, your word carries a whole lot more weight. @Code Monkey in your example...if you were a realtor who was listing houses, and you went on the news to tell people that you've been a realtor for 30 years and have tons of experience and that houses are skyrocketing in price and going to be 10x their value next month, so that you could earn a higher commission on the sales of houses, and then you fabricated a fake "sale" of your house to your friend, while retaining control/ownership of it, and took interviews with reporters telling them about the record-breaking sale of your house, oh and your friend just so happens to be a real estate appraiser...it might be a little bit of a problem. I think this situation is really easy to boil down to a single issue and ignore all the context, but taken together I do not understand how anyone can see this as not problematic. Sure, people could've done better due diligence to not buy an item for $1m when it was $50k a month prior...even though the EXPERTS IN THE FIELD were saying it's going to the moon. Also consider the others harmed through this: People who paid exorbitant fees to WATA to "insure" their graded games based on the inflated estimates. People who paid for extra-fast service, cleaning, sticker removal, etc. so they could rush their SMB1/SM64 to market to cash in on the hype. They did these things based on the information being put out there by companies/employees/advisors who were deliberately taking actions to enrich themselves on the backs of these people. Again, I'm not a lawyer but..."wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain." looks an awful lot like exactly what has been described here.
  4. I'm on world 5 of the third loop (17) of Boulder Dash now and taking a break for a bit. This game makes me feel like every controller I own is broken. It feels like the controller inputs are only checked once every 3 seconds. I'm sure my strategies are a bit crude, which is requiring more tight maneuvers than I really NEED to do, but I'm rather enjoying the puzzle aspect of the game and coming up with strats, I just DESPISE trying to actually execute them in real-time because of the endlessly frustrating controls. @T-Pac I recommend playing one loop of this and calling it a day. Playing all 4 loops will drive you insane, even with save states.
  5. I've gotten through the first loop and about half of the second loop of Boulder Dash. Definitely seems like the increased difficulty from the progression of stages is more significant than the difficulty from the loop, since the re-dos of 1, 2, and 3 were not particularly challenging. I imagine the stacking effect of them will make the second, third, and fourth versions of worlds 5 and 6 will suuuuck though. I'll be doing more of it tomorrow throughout the day, but might take some breaks so I don't get too angry
  6. I posted some of my thoughts above but this game feels like StarTropics to me: the game expects you to make quick, precise movements and timings, but has controls like a Dragon Warrior game. It's fun and has some interesting mechanics, but it can be stressful to try to pull off tight timed moves or maneuver around enemies/things falling on you with controls like that. The other tricky part is that the levels come in groups of 4, so you have to execute 4 tricky levels in a row to be able to move on to the next "world". This won't be a problem with save state abuse though. I've been enjoying it thus far, but there are some frustrating parts for sure. Having infinite continues is nice!
  7. Oh interesting! I didn't see that the "24 levels" are just the same 6 levels, but with more difficulty added. That should be...interesting...I'll bet some of these levels will be really challenging with the reduced time/increased crystals, as I already found them tough as-is. That said, I think I can take this one down, given enough time & practice.
  8. I've started Boulder Dash, I'm finished with the first 4 worlds (of 24) so a long ways to go, but so far it's...alright. The controls aren't nearly good enough for some of the tricks they expect you to pull off, IMO. Maybe I'll get used to it, but I think most likely I'll just have to repeat levels A LOT to get them all in one go. That's been my experience thus far at least, and I imagine the challenge only gets much tougher.
  9. Looking forward to the T-Pac arcade episodes
  10. Ultimately there isn't a very compelling practical reason to collect carts if we're being honest with ourselves. I have a pretty decent collection of various systems but other than nostalgia or cover art, there's no reason to have those physical products haha. I agree though, despite having flash carts, I still prefer to play on the original cart any time I can. I will say it is nice to use save states, to practice games in sections or to "save" your game between play sessions
  11. Funny you mention it twiz, because I think the charged up shot basically ruined all the future entries, because you're constantly holding the button and then almost anything in the game dies to a single shot, including usually multiple enemies in a single shot. It totally eliminates any skill from previous games, especially since the charged shot is like 10x the size of a regular buster shot. No need to aim, mash, or prioritize targets, just blast absolutely everything away with charged shots. Plus listening to the charge sound for hours straight.
  12. I'm sure I can't be the only one who experiences this but TBH, I can't remember the bosses for MM4-6. I could list off a handful of them, maybe a dozen or more, but I couldn't identify which of the 3 games they came from. I remember bits and pieces of the mechanics, like the Rush options, but very little else. I can't remember almost any of the music. MM2 & 3 will always be my favorites. I know all the bosses, their weaknesses, all the songs, all the places where you use all the special items, where the e tanks are, everything. I'd have to say MM3 -> MM2 -> MM -> The rest. I'd probably say 5 -> 6 -> 4, but TBH it's been too long since I played them to say that definitively.
  13. I feel you on this one. I own all the games on the list and several flash cartridges, but I've never beaten any of the games left on the list at this point, except games that other people are currently working on. If you want to take the rest of the year off, no problem I keep going back through the list and trying to pick out games I want to try to beat. I've got a decent list now, but they're all pretty tricky. I'm sure I'll crack a few of them eventually, though my progress will definitely be significantly slowed down based on the list we have and my lack of experience with them.
  14. Bard's tale is done, and our party was more badass than any of my previous parties. Got a lot of exp and awesome items diving the final dungeon, including TWO staves offering in and out of combat heals, which I'd never seen before. Turns out they eventually break though... had a lot of charges or a low chance to break.
  15. Well, some good news on my end, I got my CRT back up and running with fresh capacitors! In the end, the culprit might've just been an unplugged cable, but for only like 30 bucks i got some insurance against future problems with 55 new capacitors. Still have to fix my NES though so for now I'm still doing my NES gaming on the flat screen. The bard's tale is going great, I'm around level 21 and working on grinding levels and new gear while making my way through the final dungeon. Should be done tonight or tomorrow at the latest
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