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This. I had no idea this was going on till I was on twitter and saw people talking about how much of a trainwreck it is. But the dummies pay for it to shit on it. Whos the real idiot there? I still can never see the appeal of this cash in of pop culture cringe. People love making stupid people rich.

Hmm maybe?

For some odd reason I thought the manual to SMB had the fire flower listed as a "Lotus" flower.

Doom will make you a man. Play it. I got the big $130 bundle for switch.

This was fun

Dont even bother. Those legs are so tiny its virtually impossible to solder in a normal way. I could be wrong, but the way those things are soldered is with solder paste. Its like a toothpaste and your chip can stick on it. You then put it in an oven that gets to the right temp and melts the paste and automatically bonds the metal parts together. Its one of the reasons why its basically cheaper to replace those PCBs with new ones than to just fix the one component that needs replacing. Also its this technique that makes it much easier to condense space on a PCB,

That will probably be my first LRG order.

You haven't even opened it?!

Ah that makes more sense! Although it would be much easier if it was in one thread, with that mentioned in it haha. Carry on.

Why are you uploading pictures of games taken from google images to archive.org, then creating a post and sharing the link to it here?

When it came to points I think I was in the top 50 for Doom 1 on XBLA. Im sure its dropped now but I can't check it anyway. Also for Final Fight (Double Impact) on XBLA I think I was 27th. In the top 30 at least at the time.

There was nothing about these carts that even looked remotely bootleg. Don't get so nervous about these things! You can't go by silly things like the screws not being the right color or the plastic not being the right 'color'. These are silly and subjective. Look for 2 things, label stamp, PCB thats it.

I could be wrong but NES games can really be ANY size because of mappers located on the bard. The NES can only read 40KBs at a time, but since the mapper keeps switching the 40KBs that need to be read, there really shouldn't be a limit, correct?

I did not know about this either!

Thanks guys. I learned something! I know at larger pressing for CDs, that 'stamp' is actually cheaper in bulk and the laser burn is done at a lower print level. So its cheaper per CD to 'stamp' them.

Haha well yeah. Not nearly as hard as other shooters but its a good example to use! No turbo controller either.

Please, you're talking to someone that beat DooM Eternal and its DLC on Nightmare with a controller, Mutant Virus, 1cced Silver Surfer and 1cced Metal Slug 3. But I don't expect other people who beat those games not like that invalid. What are the point of video games? To enjoy and for relaxation. Games were tougher when I was a kid MOSTLY because of the hold over of arcade machines making money. Also for replayability because they were so short. Theres no game thats too hard, its just about how much time do you want to spend memorizing every minor detail for one game. For example, Battletoads. The game is only deemed hard because it requires a TON of time invested in it to memorize patterns and enemy placements, and eventually ways of beating it. How long would it take someone to really sit and be able to beat it, within 1 continue? 100 hours? 1000 hours? In the end, if you can finish it in all 3 (or 5? cant remember) continues in 50 hours, but need 100 or 500 to do it in 1 continue, is it worth it? Who's gonna be impressed with the time you spent to get there? Ultimately its up to the person if its WORTH the time invested in the game. For most people, the general audience, they want some challenge, but not to be beat over the head and find it stressful or cheap to die a lot because the game expects close to perfection. Once the n64 hit, they were able to shy away from the '100 hours to beat' thing and started to think of games you want to go and relax to. Being able to say you can beat some game in 1 continue is only impressive to people who are hardcore fans of that game. Casuals just want to finish it. And you know who they cater games towards? Casuals. They want you to finish their work. So to set your own self imposed limits to how you think a game should be beat is fine, but just for YOU. Developers want you to enjoy and COMPLETE their games, with some effort, for the thrill of the challenge, but not to the point where its almost like school work to analyze every level/section. Of course they do have hard modes for people who either want a challenge, or beat the game and are better at it. Sometimes games are made specifically for those people like those "I Wanna Be The Guy" games. So yeah, finishing a game using what the developers give you, is it. If you go past that, then it gets ridiculous. Alright now I think if you get 1 ups thats cheating and you didnt beat the game. Well, NOW I feel that if you die ONCE you didn't beat it. I think really the problem is the definition of the word 'game'. I think 'game over' was really intended for that round of play, because typically the only thing you really lose is points which after the arcades when games didn't have endings didnt mean anything anyway. I don't even think theres a game on the NES that saves your score with a battery. It erases the ram when you shut it off. The actual game isn't over until it shoves you back to the title screen, or you shut it off. Which is what I believe the developers intended.

I mean I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the process of burning EPROMs isn't any different from Mask Roms, just that you can only do it once and thats it.

Nice find! I forgot about that one.

There was some idiot that owned a game store that told me that. I told him about the glob top Star Foxes and SMB Duck Hunts how they're like that cuz its easier to produce. He told me he threw those out because they were bootlegs. Seriously. I tried to argue with this guy for about a half hour and he was a complete idiot. Even said he opens and cleans all his games. Well that same day with the argument my friend bought some cheap NES game and it had an ounce of weed inside of it. Actually, he had "Avenging Spirit" for Gameboy for $15 so I bought it out of spite to resell it. After playing it, I dug GB stuff and that fueled my GB buying haha. Funny off-story. Also he had a lot of debt and his store closed. He was even selling gift cards to the store after its inventory was sold to another store. Real stand up guy.

Yes. Again were not talking about the arcade. Whats the difference between someone beating the game in one credit or many? Skill. Do the people who designed the game care? No. Actually they were designed to make money, so they wanted you to spend a lot to get to the end to see the ending, so you get a sense of closure and relieving that tension. So yeah. You beat it. Who cares how much money or 'credits' it took you.

So that means you beat it, right?

Then why does the company who develops the game allow you to continue the game instead of starting it over, infinite or limited? Game over is a hold over from the arcades of inputting one quarter in, and losing. Thats it. Period. Continuing is adding another quarter to continue where you left off. Eventually this was dropped from the NES because it stopped being an 'arcade simulator' and a genuine home gaming platform. DooM was going to implement lives but they removed it, especially with the ability to save at the beginning of each level. Actually I think original doom allowed you to save at any point. So whats the criteria to beating DooM? Not dying once? Good luck for that on Nightmare.

It actually sold not that long after I tagged Hammer. Hope it was because he saw it and grabbed it!

You stole my comment!! Hahaha. Silver Surfer is one of those games that yeah is tiring but when you're fully powered up, you really don't even need the turbo controller. But if you're at the end and arent maxed out, yeah use it hahah. The biggest flaw ive always said in that game is how underpowered you are in the beginning. If they made the enemies a bit weaker, people would have enjoyed it more. I think thats a much bigger issue than the 'one hit death' environments in the game. Even with that, there is a password to turn that off IIRC. EDIT: Another point, of course if the game OFFERS auto fire, thats fine, as again, it was put in the game by the developers for you to complete. Kinda like beating Mega Man 2 on 'easy' or 'normal'. I think its silly to say someone didn't beat the game properly because it was on easy instead of normal. So if auto fire is programmed in the game as an 'easy mode' thats fine.