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2 hours ago, LeatherRebel5150 said:

There is a guy on youtube in the middle of doing that, I think the channel is ThatBeast ? or something similar 

Aha, it's Thabeast721:

https://www.youtube.com/@Thabeast721/videos

I'm also aware of N64 Glenn Plant's reviews, but as far as I know he's only committed to doing the NA and PAL libraries, with a smattering of Japanese games as he sees fit (he's done 23 of 85).

As for the feasibility of doing the Japanese part of the library too, I'd agree that odds are against succeeding within 1 year. Maybe half are either playable without Japanese or have a translation patch (~20 Japanese retail games have been fan-translated). And we'd have to work through baseball games, shogi games, horse racing games, etc.

Still, it'd be fun, and the N64 has the most manageable Japanese-exclusive library of all major consoles except maybe the XBox. Well, the Master System JPN-only library is small too, but the European and Brazilian libraries sure aren't.

How about aiming for all the N64 games -- i.e. including Japanese exclusives -- in 2025 (not 2024)? A bunch have been fan-translated, after all!

That's something no site has ever done as far as I'm aware -- beating a system's library in all regions. And it'd be a great opportunity for all the people who have studied Japanese for a couple years to step up to the plate -- or just anyone who's willing to hold their phone up for hours at a time. 

1 hour ago, Splain said:

It's definitely odd in that it focuses so hard on being a professional bowler, and everything you do contributes to your career earnings and records and such. And playing the cosmic bowling mode is like "welcome professional bowler SPLAIN for an exhibition game!!" and you can't just, like, bowl a quick round without it playing somehow into your total career. It makes me wonder if there's some kind of end to it all when you earn enough money or something. But the manual says nothing and nobody on the internet has said anything.

There's a guy on YouTube beating all the N64 games, but he hasn't gotten to this one yet. MeridianPrime back in the day just got second in a tournament and called it good. So it's the same question as in other games that don't show credits or do anything special when you win a tournament.

We really need to do someone to do a deep dive into this one and Centre Court Tennis to see if there's some kind of meaningful ending lurking in the code. Some sports games have such weird, obscure win conditions that are still undocumented after all these years.

We only realized the deal with In Your Face on Game Boy a couple years ago, and I've found three tennis games on Genesis with oddball win conditions that aren't mentioned in the manual (Agassi: go 16-0 in one sitting; Davis Cup: become world #1 and you don't even need to play the Davis Cup; ATP: win three seasons in a row). No doubt there are still a bunch of games with "no ending" that have one if you just fulfill the right conditions.

Chakan?

6 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

I have reversed image searched titles out of curiosity to see if I could have found it that way _after_ I correctly guessed without doing so.

Yeah, I did that with the Might & Magic game that came up recently, just to sate my curiosity. I don't think I guessed, and I would have been way off -- I assumed it was some obscure Saturn game or something!

I think doing a reverse image search crosses the line, but Googling categories of things is fair play IMHO. I've certainly looked at things like chronological lists of games to remind me of what my options are.

As for a guess, hmmm...a Choro Q game?

I keep thinking it's going to be a Die Hard game, so I'll guess Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas. (Watch, it'll be the other one.)

Kaze no NOTAM, or another one of those arty Artdink games?

7 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

I'm happy knowing I never would've got that.

I actually enjoyed the game, but I've never minded the jank and hassle of the Hydlide series -- rather like it, actually. Virtual Hydlide is goofy as hell, of course, but I appreciate the way its vaguely roguelike aspects make it a relatively short playthrough with very little in the way of exposition, cutscenes, or grinding. This is how I reviewed it back in 2018:

"I'm not a big fan of the "guilty pleasure" descriptor for games -- or any form of media, really -- but Virtual Hydlide comes close. Is a bad game you enjoy playing still a bad game? Maybe... [...]

Anyway, Virtual Hydlide is a very sincere pumpkin patch, and I hope the Great Pumpkin visits it someday, at 5 frames per second."

1 hour ago, BlackVega said:

Virtual Hydlide Sega Saturn?

You've got it!

Not those: Hint: the tiny bit of color in the bottom-left corner is a big clue, if you've ever seen even a few minutes of this game.

8 hours ago, guitarzombie said:

Two of Us by the Beatles

Oh, man, you're making me wish there had been two characters in that first screenshot, because there could have been. But at least there are two in this one:

Hint: I'd be surprised if there's anyone in this thread who hasn't heard of this game.

1 hour ago, Sumez said:

I can't make out anything with that Reed filter  Where are the pixels? 

Wish I could give you an emulator screenshot, but the process of getting to the part of the game I had in mind would take a while, so I had to use YouTube. 

Phase 2, in which Doris gets more of her oats:

Nope, nein, and iieiie.

1 hour ago, mbd39 said:

It looks so damn familiar. My next guess is Wardner.

Not Wardner, though that's an underrated Genesis game. I enjoyed beating that one about 10 years ago while I was working a temp job that required me to just sit at a table a lot of the time, with lengthy downtime.

58 minutes ago, Gaia Gensouki said:

Abadox for the NES or Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts for the SNES?

Neither, though I understand your train of thought!

Not Kolibri, though that would have been a fun pick!

Here we go:

3 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

Bam!

Oh, jeez, I honestly thought I was totally off base! Awesome. I'll come up with my own offering tomorrow.

I was thinking Dynowarz but doubted I was right.

48 minutes ago, G-type said:

looks familiar...

Yeah, I feel sure I've seen it before. Adventures of Kid Kleets, maybe?

Nice work, folks! Am I correct that this is what's left?

Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.    4.5     
Body Harvest    4.5    Complete all missions, 100% not required
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack    3.5    Any ending
Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling    4.5    Finish first in one tournament
Carmageddon 64    3.5    Complete all races and missions in Carmageddon mode to see the ending
Doom 64    3    Defeat the Motherdemon on any difficulty to see the ending screen
ECW Hardcore Revolution    3.5    Win all three belts in story mode and do the title defenses
Mia Hamm Soccer 64    4    See "sports games" above
Nightmare Creatures    3.5     
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber    4     
PGA European Tour    5.5    See "sports games" above
Rat Attack!    2.5     
WWF Attitude    4    Win all three belts in story mode and do the title defenses
WWF War Zone    3.5    Complete the story mode
WWF Wrestlemania 2000    1.5    Complete Road to Wrestlemania

If no one else gets to Rat Attack first I could beat it before the New Year, but my free time and will to play games are in very limited supply right now, so please don't let me stop you. (I kinda hate that game, but I think I can remember how to beat it.)

20 hours ago, mbd39 said:

You got it. One of the best Data East games on the NES.

Oh, maaaaan. I should have beeen able to get that. Definitely a memorization game but I got quite a bit of enjoyment out of it once I accepted its premises. It's a very fair game.