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7 hours ago, Sumez said:

How do people go over their goal?
Should I add in all the games I've beaten that weren't on my list as well?

I feel like if I put 40 games on my list and beat 40 games not on my list, 40/40 would be misleading, since I didn't beat any games on my backlog. But at the same time at least getting through 40 games should count for something still.
Maybe something like "27/40 + 13" could be a useful metric dunno. Just speaking for myself anyway, if this were a competition I wouldn't have put 47 games on my list 

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1 hour ago, RH said:

I liked Mischief Makers as a kid.  Looking back, that's the only one I ever played and it's 2Dish, so does that even count?

I was gonna ask the same haha!  That was my very first N64 game. Hoping to clear it off my backlog list this year.

12 hours ago, LHCGreg said:

Vigilante 8 is done.

 

Gratz, had I picked this up I would of given it a shot but glad you nabbed it.  Cheers!

Oo this could be fun to do.  I only have 40 games, of which about 25 are boxed.  Shouldn't take that great of an amount of time and I'll get to revisit all the manuals and art etc.  NEAT!! 

3 hours ago, RH said:

That's the only adapter I'm aware of.  That's not a big deal to me. I'll sand down the edge if I have too with some fine grit sand paper, plus I'll pay attention when insert them.  It's odd that that can happen.  The labels are inset on the GG carts.  I'll have to inspect it when I get mine next years, but thanks for the update.

Here it is.

2 hours ago, RH said:

So I broke down an bought one of these from eBay.  I don't like supporting scalpers but some times desperate times call for desperate measures.

Anyway, being that I really want a Game Gear adapter for this thing, I just couldn't bring myself to pay near 10x the price on the Analogue store just to get one now, so I ordered one from Analogue last week.

I'm not expecting it to arrive any time soon and I am 100% believing that 2023 ship date estimate to be correct.  That said, has anyone ordered any of these additional accessories and found that they are shipping sooner than the Pockets?  The pockets are much more complex builds than something like these adapters.  My hope is that they can more easily order these from manufacturing and deliver them more quickly if they were not part of a bigger purchase with a pocket unit.

Any one ordered one separately from the pocket and seen these arrive more quickly?

I'm not sure if it was here or somewhere else, but I read that the adaptor can damage the carts/labels. They have some sharp edges that need to be beveled down.  I specifically remember the one for Game Gear being the biggest culprit of this issue.

Final Fantasy VI Advance - Complete 5/1/22

I finally finished this game after starting it a couple of years ago.  I had played through most of the game as a kid during the SNES era but never quite beat it on my own.  I did with my dad's saved data.  After multiple play through attempts spanning decades, I eventually gave the GBA version a shot.  I went through half the game ( to the World of Ruin) on a GBA and then came the Retron 5.  I finished it up on the Retron 5 on the big screen and loved it.  Also after all these years of talking about it being one of my favorite games ever, my wife could finally hang out and watch me play and enjoy it with me. 

I made a couple errors along the way, leaving the floating island without waiting for Shadow, which I had to finish the 2nd half of the game without him.  I also didn't have Mog in my party when I went on to get Midgarsormr Esper, which would of allowed me to play with Umaro the rest of the game.  I did however make a save point before beating the floating island so when I come around to do another play through, I can pick up with that save point and do a run through with Shadow and Umaro, the latter I have never played with.

It took me about 60 hours to complete.  I probably could of done it in about 45 hours but, once I got ready to go to Kefka's tower, I decided to level grind in the desert getting every character from the low 40's to  around 64-70.  This allowed everyone in my party to learn Ultima which was the nuke that ended Kefka's pathetic life.  A good strategy to mop up all the bosses in the tower is to get all your characters to learn Ultima and Quick.  Using Quick will allow the user to have two turns, combining that with Soul of Thamasa relic (allows user to cast two magic spells back to back) and you can really do some damage.  Cast Quick and Ultima, then because you get another turn you can cast two more Ultima spells.  This kinda locks the enemy down since they have to wait for your turn to end.  So you can just repeat this on most characters. I will come back to the game and defeat the Dragons Den which is unlocked after beating the game.  Also there are a couple Espers that I still havent seen.

Final Fantasy VI Advance didn't let me down, adding some new Espers and extra areas to the original SNES version. I will continue to call it my favorite Final Fantasy game in the series.  Now, on to Breath of Fire, a new experience for me.

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Been working through FFVI on GBA.  It's been great and I can't wait to finish it once again.  First play through on GBA

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6 hours ago, Jeevan said:

if u wait, it might go on sale for like 75% off in the summer sale   

Oh that's a great idea.  I downloaded it off of pc game pass I think and it was terrible. It was the original version though.

9 hours ago, Jeevan said:

like, i remember playing comand and conquer, but haven't played since i was a kid, i really wanna play it, might be something i visit after thps1&2 on switch

 

@Jeevan its starting to feel like it's time for me to do a playthrough.  Hello remastered!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_Remastered_Collection/  This thing looks beautiful! 

They teased doing a Tiberian Sun and RA 2 remaster about a year ago on their facebook.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158462452633789&id=115736333788&_rdr

What's up with the 2 different NES cleaning kit ones @a3quit4s? Were there variants or different cleaning kits? The mario one is cool!

1 hour ago, a3quit4s said:

Free bump for the best profile photo to have ever existed

Get that guy a Gatorade!  Mario is really red; he just wants to fly so bad!

6 hours ago, Nugfish said:

I never went outside of Command & Conquer and Red Alert, but I have easily spent more time playing those than any other series. I remember drawing base layouts during class in elementary school and spending ALOT of nights skirmishing on Red Alert 2: Yuris Revenge throughout high school.

Oh dang you were in deep. I never played Red Alert but I remember box pics looked soo good at the time!

1 hour ago, PuppyWaffles said:

Beetle Adventure Racing should be done tonight or tomorrow. Had a bit of a delay in playing. I highly recommend not getting bit by a Brown Recluse on your elbow! 

Ooo I've known so many people that got those bites. Those things can really do some damage.  Take care of it, hopefully youre back to full swing soon!

23 hours ago, Jeevan said:

when I played it as a kid, I preferred mouse and keyboard, just like with starcraft..... I am not a controller fan when it comes to rts games

Oh yea I'm a mouse and key board guy.  When I got my first PC in 95 I went so crazy with RTS games!  Warcraft II, Dune, Starcraft, Command and Conquer and a bunch of smaller games.  I still have a soft spot for that genre.

13 hours ago, Nugfish said:

Command & Conquer

How was it on 64?  I was a huge fan on PC many years ago.  Played all through Tiberian sun and expansion.

Wouldn't mind having a few of those games, if ya change your mind I'll be watching.  GLWS

Paper from ebay.

On 4/4/2022 at 2:26 PM, CD2193 said:

Happen to save a photo of the cart?

It was a long stream and I only saw it from far away.  Didnt stick around to see it come up

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