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@Azure Fang  
God damn it. This is why we all agreed that Gamestop wasn’t allowed to buy our shit anymore.

@Officer Hotpants  
GameStop’s “rebranding” Kong. They stopped accepting submissions earlier this year and closed some features (game chatrooms, for one). Meanwhile, they’re pushing their new “Kartridge” launcher/storefront app. There are some expectations that the flash archive end of the site will shut down completely by the beginning of next year.

@Williver  
Nice. I’ve been putting together a new system, myself. How’s the game? I’m not much of a fighting game person but I’ve been meaning to get it for ages just to support the devs.

I upgraded my laptop’s RAM from 2GB to 4GB two days ago, visiting a small-business computer parts shop, and now my laptop can better handle Them’s Fightin’ Herds! I paid 40 bucks for it and I feel it was worth it for the convenient location of the store and to support a small business.
 
I bought Them’s Fightin’ Herds two years before but now I can play the game at decent framerate with 3D backgrounds and at a resolution where the text is readable.
 
Has anyone ever played that game? I’ve played a bit of the one story chapter that went up on April 30.

@Azure Fang  
Kon not doing so hot?

@Havoc  
Was an unlocked offline version of the final update of AI:TG ever made/found? The one I have is still 1.828, and the last version was 1.832; with Kongregate looking more and more like it’ll purge its archive in the foreseeable future, and Tukkun never making good on the re-dev, I’d really like to get the final version offline.

@Officer Hotpants  
Yup sure was. It was fun even though I never got to finish it since some of those levels got really hard.

@coolmaster43232  
Now THERE’S a time sink.

My current Idle is NGU: Idle.
 
@Officer Hotpants  
I played that one for a bit. I think I still have my save somewhere.
 
I should play Anti-idle again. again.

I remember playing a game called Chip’s Challenge when we got are first windows computer.

@Azure Fang  
After all this time I just remember the game being doable throughout the tutorial until I got to the boss. Then it’s over half an hour just doing chip damage to him. And as for Realm Grinder, the thing that hurt me more than anything else was when I left it to site nearly a year, thought “I should see where it’s at” and loaded it up only to find that I’d reset the game and hadn’t bought a single buff or building before closing it the last time I’d played.

@Officer Hotpants  
You see, I’m one of those heathens that didn’t actually like Legend of Dragoon and can’t see all the hype about it, even though I breathe RPGs. Suppose I could go back and give it another chance; I do own it and have ISO’d it already.
 
As to difficulties with Vagrant Story, the issue is it has a really harsh resistance system; you needed to keep one weapon of each physical type (blunt, slash, pierce) on hand at all times or you were relatively fucked. You could bypass it by chaining attacks until your risk was high enough to give you an ungodly damage bonus, but if you screwed up your timing on a single strike you’d be dead in a single hit.
 
 
@Havoc  
@Officer Hotpants  
You just reminded me that I lost my Realm Grinder save paste when I reformatted. The curse is lifted! I’m free!

@Havoc  
It’s an easy trap to fall into. Fucking Realm Grinder, man…

Idle games are weakness of mine. Making numbers go up is fun!

I can’t wait to play this again I’m pretty sure if I said the games name they’d be someone would confuse it for the GBA version. This is a unique piece of music from this game
 
I wound up getting a game from one my parents friends for there GGPA meetings for the Super Famicom.
 
I never played and RPG outside of Pokemon series or the Paper Mario series.

@Azure Fang  
You forgot Legend of Dragoon. You absolute philistine.
 
I tried to play Vagrant Story once but I couldn’t figure it out, and I’m pretty sure I must have been doing something wrong because the first boss probably wasn’t supposed to take 40 minutes to kill. I finally got past him, saved, quit and ended up not playing it again before I had to return it.

@Azure Fang  
Thanks for that. I do have VC version of Pokemon Gold and Crystal.

@coolmaster43232  
Start here. Some resources there will be of enormous assistance to you.
 
EDIT: For my own safety, just gonna mention that nothing on the above link is illegal, it does not contain any ROMs itself. Unload your hammers, fellas and fillies.

@Azure Fang  
I should try and find a rom site to see if they house the game I’m looking for. Sadly I know that Nintendo doesn’t like rom sites so I know some have been shut down by DMCA’s from Nintendo. I also lost OG Pokemon Gold and Crystal.

@coolmaster43232  
Emulation of everything pre-PS1 is so low resource at this point, you could be running a potato with a nickel and penny stuck in it and still play smooth. PS1 emus have generally been optimized as well, but take a tiny bit of tinkering to get smooth on low-end systems. It’s not until you start emulating PS2 that rig strength ever becomes a real factor anymore.
 
What’s funny is Nintendo system emulation is actually often the most forgiving. I’ve seen some really old rigs run Wii and DS emulators without much hassle. The issue comes from Big N and their team of copyright hounds sending love letters en masse for even thinking of acquiring copies of games you might even already own physicals for.

@Azure Fang This actually happened way before we had a computer so back then I couldn’t do that at the time it died. Now I could but my computer is kind of slow and could have problems with games. I’m sad they haven’t released it on the VC on the 3DS or the Switch.

@coolmaster43232  
That’s why I swapped to emulators long ago. My entire PC has to fail to stop me from playing the games, and I can fit the entire GB, GBC, and VB library on a 1GB thumb drive for portability.

I remember a game that owned on the Game Boy Color that I played on it stopped working. I believe the internal battery died.

@Officer Hotpants  

 
Suikoden I and II, Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX and Tactics, Grandia, Star Ocean: Second Story, Parasite Eve 1 and 2 (close enough), Legend of Legaia, Kartia: Word of Fate, Vagrant Story, Shadow Madness, Jade Cocoon, Breath of Fire III, Xenogears, Azure Dreams, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (another close enough), Alundra, Tales of Destiny 1 (fuck 2 and the rest of the Tales franchise, don’t @me), Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, SaGa Frontier 1 and 2, Digimon World 3, Vanguard Bandits, Legend of Mana, Chrono Cross… I wouldn’t go so far as to say PS1 was the definitive RPG system considering some of the gems on SNES, but the above list of quality PS1 RPGs definitely ranks it high.
 
There’s a reason it’s one RetroArch core I ensure stays up to date at all times.

@Jomok0  
There’s definitely that. PS1 was THE platform for RPGs, which were my jam and a half. But another problem is that some of the N64’s biggest titles didn’t really appeal to me. I hate Donkey Kong, for instance, and don’t much enjoy cart racers. And while Smash Brothers was… okay, I’m not big on fighting games in general. My N64 was mostly a Zelda/Golden Eye/Star Wars machine.
 
I’d have played the shit out of Doom64 if they’d given a single solitary indication that it wasn’t just another port of the PC Doom to a console (like the one on Playstation) but they didn’t and so I didn’t. Didn’t find out different until I found Civvie’s channel about three or four months ago.