ikk

5 hours ago, Splain said:

Weird, I'm also emulating but those stairs worked for me, there's a button somewhere that I'm sure you pressed. I see other weird stuff, like sometimes the control stick stops moving Bomberman left or right, and I have to use the D-pad until I finish the level and can reset the game. Also some stuff is invisible that shouldn't be, which is manageable but gets really bad in the casino level. But I can pick this one back up, I've still got my save file.

Turns out I did miss something. They seem to have cut it out of the longplay I checked when I got stuck, but you're supposed to freeze and blow up a fountain to get the stairs down... Fortunately a guide did mention it so I redid the level and the stairs worked this time, I'll keep at it.

The control stick is also an issue for me, but I'm just playing with the D-pad.

This is the bit of the longplay btw, they never blow it up with a fire bomb after they freeze it

I'd be interested in:

• 112 Operator
• 911 Operator
• Forgotten City
• Psychonauts
• Smoke and Sacrifice

These are the ones I have unclaimed from Humble Bundle:

• Overgrowth
• Life is Strange complete season
• Grey Goo Definitive Edition
• Batman The Telltale Series
• Game of Thrones The Telltale Series
• Jurassic Park The Game
• Poker Night 2
• 2x Poker Night at the Inventory
• Puzzle Agent
• Puzzle Agent 2
• Wolf Among Us
• Steamworld Heist
• No Time to Explain Remastered
• 2x Kiln
• Day of the Tentacle
• Guacamelee Gold Edition
• Hand of Fate
• Human Resource Machine
• Stanley Parable
• The Swapper
• Team Indie
• Tower of Guns
• Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005, the good one)
• Ryse: Son of Rome
• Else Heart.Break()
• Company of Heroes 2
• Saints Row 4
• Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics Hub
• Tower of Guns
• Amnesia Fortnight 2014 the series

I'm giving up on Bomberman, these stairs seem to be glitched in project64 and I can't continue

Looked at a longplay and I haven't missed a button or anything, these stairs are supposed to be down.

g

2 hours ago, ZeldaFan042 said:

What is left that isn't being worked on?

I think WWF Attitude is the only game left that isn't being worked on. Maybe also Brunswick since @Nugfish hasn't been on in a while.

34 minutes ago, KokiriChild said:

I want to help close out these last few titles if I can. What’s left? Is Bomberman still available or should I focus on something like Nightmare Creatures?

I barely started Bomberman so feel free to take it if you want.

I can start Bomberman tomorrow.

Next year I also won't be helping the N64 topic. We could also do a different smaller library as a 1 off, something like Wii U. Otherwise I'll be pushing the Gamecube topic.

They made it to the Netherlands! Had some old empty frames, so they're hanging next to Taz

I wonder if this store owner guilt trips everyone he sells an expensive item to.

Gamecube. Finished the PAL set years ago, then went for the bigboxes and now I'm still picking up cover variants and player's choice editions.

9 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said:

I'll go ahead and try out ECW since that one's very short

Honestly I don't get the HLTB time for this game, apparently it's a reskin of WWF Attitude but ECW has a time of 3.5hrs and the other 7hrs

33 minutes ago, Brickman said:

Is there any games remaining that aren’t too difficult and take max 5-7hours?

This should be all that's left with HLTB (main story) times and what's claimed/mentioned:

1 minute ago, ZeldaFan042 said:

I am almost done with Body Harvest, but you can take it if you'd like.

If you're almost done it's yours. I don't have much game time this week, but I'll start something else next week (not wrestling though, I can't do fighting games ).

Most of my game time this year went towards the N64 topic. Thanks to that I haven't played much on the PS5 I bought yet. In 2024 I also want to push the Gamecube topic a bit. I have some games I definitely want to beat, but I don't want to pin down everything for the year and stuff for completion topics is also dependant on what others beat.
My goals for 2024 (16/35):

Beat 10 Gamecube games for the topic

1. PN03
2. Lost Kingdoms 2
3. King Kong
4. Spyro: A Hero's Tail
5. Ultimate Spider-Man
6. 1080 Avalanche
7. Zapper
8. The Incredibles
9. 2 more

Beat 10 games for any completion topic (this could be more Gamecube)

1. Gregory Horror Show (PS2)
2. Pokemon Blue
3. 8 more

Beat 5 games on PS5

1. The Last of Us 2
2. Sackboy
3. A Plague Tale: Innocence
4. Bugsnax
5. 1 more

Beat 5 games on PC

1. Baldur's Gate 3
2. Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
3. Epistory: Typing Chronicles
4. Aperture Desk Job
5. Ghost Recon Wildlands

Beat 5 games that don't fit in the categories above

1. Deadpool
2. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
3. Psychonauts (XBOX)
4. Batman Arkham Knight
5. A Short Hike

I finished the first level of Body Harvest yesterday. I'm impressed they managed to get this open world game on the N64. The game has some frustrating bits (long time between saves, so dying can set you back a lot) but I'm having fun with it.

We only have 5 weeks remaining, how are all the claimed games going?

I'll give body harvest a shot if nobody else is working on it yet.

16 hours ago, Gulag Joe said:

9. Three times more than SM64. But if you want to count only gem mint, then 3 mantles are gem mint, equaling that of SM64. Therefore, SM64 pricing = 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle. This theory proves that SM64 prices are indeed true and accurate so we can now confidently say that myth has been busted.

Why exactly would a 71 year old baseball card and a 27 year old game be equal in price..?

baseball cards != videogames

I played it for the first time on the SNES mini, so I have no nostalgia for it. While it was fun to experience the start of a great franchise for a round or 2, I probably won't revisit it.
If I want my Mario Kart fix, I'll go to either Double Dash or the most recent entry.

26 minutes ago, GPX said:

A lot of graded games are sold or traded in private. This was how I often obtained them for my collection. People would be connected via sealed gaming forums or Facebook etc. People often put in their lower-tier stuff on eBay and the rarer stuff are often kept or dealt with in private. Basically if you truly want the grails with graded stuff, you got to find connections, not look on eBay listings only.

You're the one who mentioned there were plenty on our ebay, I just got curious and checked if they actually sold

The reason I believe there is little interest is because I don't hear much about it on the Dutch gaming forums and discord groups I'm in. There might be other places where people trade graded stuff over here, but I don't know about them.

But again, I'm not against graded games and I wouldn't mind having a couple of my sealed games graded but I don't think it's worth the high cost with shipping and import tax and I'm fine with having those in regular acrilic display cases.

1 hour ago, GPX said:

Grading of games was initially a US thing and it started with VGA. This caught on gradually about 10 years ago over to UK and Europe and you can see plenty of VGA Pal games currently on eBay of Europe.

The last few years most of the attention is towards the US again because of the WATA entering the market. Most of the WATA collectors are currently from the US. I would say VGA is still the preferred option over in the Pal regions for the sealed collectors. UKG a popular choice mostly for UK people.

Most graded games you see on european ebay are from the UK and graded by UKG, but if you actually look at the EU only 43 graded games sold in the past 3 months. Even if you do include the UK, there's still only 219 sales in the past 3 months.

There just doesn't seem to be much interest in graded games over here.

Quake 2 is done:

17 left!

I'm neutral, grading just seems like a US thing to me and all the outrage about it is enjoyable to watch.

There's no trustworthy grading company in the EU as far as I know. If that were to change I would be tempted to submit a couple of games for my own collection, but I'm just as happy having those in regular acrilic display cases.

Quake is done:

I'll take the sequel as well.

Not a fan of N64 shooters, but I'll try to knock out Quake today or tomorrow.

Goemon's Great Adventure is done:

Decent platformer with fun boss battles although I wasn't a fan of the robot battles. And that final castle was hard...

10 hours ago, Tantalus said:

The grind is over. World Driver Championship is done.

Great to see another long game done and congrats for taking the 3rd place from @ZeldaFan042