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LiamMayfair, do gaming w I wonder when Elder Scrolls VII is coming out

1998 is the superior one.

Pechente,

Seriously 90s Windows design is actually pretty good in my opinion. Does a great job conveying functionality through shadows and highlights.

Anticorp,

No way. It needs that grippy part so your cursor doesn’t slide off.

Dasnap, do gaming w A wild night
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Look at this fancy cunt with the expansion pak.

Darkassassin07,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Na, OP only has the default mem pak.

The expansion had a red top that filled the space for the cover.

bronxasaur,

The cover actually fits on top of the expansion pack.

Source: I went and looked at my N64 😄

Kolanaki, (edited )
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Right on the front of the console, with the red banding. The system didn’t come with it. It was only needed for one game (DKC64), which it came bundled with.

Darkassassin07,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

:/

Until I zoom right in, it looks grey like the game cartridge in that photo. I’m mistaken on its size, could have sworn it took up the covers space.

It was required for more games though. Majoras Mask for example.

Jessica,

The photo is of a jumper pack, which did come with the console. If removed, the console will not power on…

Jessica,

The people upvoting OP and downvoting you have no clue what they’re taking about.

The photo is of a jumper pack, which did come with the console. If removed, the console will not power on. It is NOT a 4MB expansion pack…

All the jumper pack in the photo does is bridge the pins so the console turns on.

rollmagma, do gaming w No one could have anticipated this outcome

Actually not that bad, AK47s for arms mostly negates the praying mantis’ most dangerous feature which is it’s grip. Also, gorillas tend to use their hands while walking, so the AKs would get their barrels full of dirt.

Or maybe this is more mantis body and gorilla members? Which would be just a cricket with a funny butt.

TAYRN,

You’re giving the devs a lot of credit, here. It’s less “this particular chimera would be most adept to combat” and more:

“I drew a super-buff zombie alien man with a weird head. He can shoot lazers. Writers, make a backstory for him.”

lolrightythen,
TAYRN, (edited )

So basically:

Takano: I drew a hot big witchy gothy dommy mommy.

Fans (drooling): Step on me.

Takano: Writers, make it work.

FinalRemix,

And then they fired all the writers for the rest of the game.

lolrightythen,

Just procure more guns?! Yes, I live in the u.s…

FinalRemix,

Linear Launcher. The only gun you need.

MarcomachtKuchen, do games w Day 14 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

It’s still the game where the developers earned my most honest respect. I cannot even fathom how hard it must have been to keep pushing trough the time past launch and keep adding and adding and adding stuff. IMO they’ve reached a point past read redemption long ago and it’s allways a joy to see a new update trailer.

andw93,

Yeah. Personally I don’t like the game (like every sandbo) but ai have to admit that they are an example of redemption (I hope for others as well) by a developer who slowly tried to make up for his mistakes. Worth buying for that alone

durfenstein, do games w One of my favourite games in my childhood

You might want to check out Shadow Tactics, Desperados 3 and/or Shadow Gambit by Mimimi. Absolutely excellent adaptaions of the stealth tactic gameplay of commandos. Work great with controllers too.

JayleneSlide,

Mashing the upvote for Shadow Tactics and Shadow Tactics:Aiko’s Choice. And agreed, their controller scheme is so spot on. Aiko’s Choice adds some deeply bittersweet context to the first game.

TotallyNotSpezUpload,
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Desperados 3 made last Xmas much more enjoyable for me. ^^

otp, do gaming w "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

I remember getting Rock Band songs for $1.99. The old ones even went down to $0.99 for a few years.

Now, they’re about $3.50 and they’ve stopped releasing new ones.

FrowingFostek, do gaming w Took me a couple of tries, but it totally works.

This is new to me. Well done.

bobs_monkey,
samus12345, do gaming w Zelda tried her best
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Link: HEH! HYAAAAH! HAHT!

Translation: It’s okay, I know what that’s like!

https://preview.redd.it/whatever-the-f-this-is-v0-arxvarbbncqc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=9760bf0b8b1f5955b2f81d9eea03dbc7d7cdfc7a

Kolanaki,
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The “food so bad, it has to be censored” trope is one of the best.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I haven’t seen anyone not laugh at that joke.

darthsid, do gaming w Minimalism

10/10 - the Nintendo DS/3DS has enough games to keep you busy for life

someguy3, do gaming w A comical old game review for the Sims 2, ripping them for microtransactions.

You’d never be allowed to publish that today.

djsoren19,

Technically they weren’t even allowed to publish it back then, there were consequences from EA.

someguy3,

I mean the part about suicide.

SpaceNoodle, do gaming w How times change

NTSC is 30 fps.

Album,
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The console ran at 60 on NTSC, and 50 for PAL. Divide by two to get the standard.

PumpkinEscobar,

Cuz interlacing

RightHandOfIkaros,

The Super Nintendo’s interlaced video mode was basically never ever used. It could output 60Hz and more than often did.

Only some games had limited framerate for various reasons, such as Another World being limited by cartridge ram or Star Fox being limited by the power of the SuperFX. Yoshis Island also used the SuperFX and wasn’t limited like Star Fox was. Occasionally there was slowdown if a developer put too much on screen at once, but these were momentary and similar to today when a game hitches while trying to load a new area during gameplay.

9point6,

Kinda but also kinda 60

SpaceNoodle,

Interlacing is trash

partial_accumen,

Interlacing is native on CRT displays, which is what SNES was made for.

SpaceNoodle,

Yes, hence my comments.

Blue_Morpho,

Interlacing is native to US broadcast TV. Crt’s don’t have to be interlaced. Computer CRT’s were rarely interlaced.

partial_accumen,

Okay fine, be particular and ignore the context. Interlacing is native on CRT displays WHEN DISPLAYING NTSC OR PAL, which is what SNES was made for.

Blue_Morpho,

I’m just being nitpicky because you are using CRT interchangeably with Television. CRT’s are used in TV’s but aren’t interlaced unless the circuitry around them sends interlaced. So no, interlacing is not native on CRT’s when receiving an interlaced signal. If I plugged a Nintendo into my old ViewSonic CRT, I wouldn’t get a signal because it didn’t support NTSC interlaced input.

It’s like saying interlacing is native on LCDs. LCD TVs are interlaced, not LCDs.

partial_accumen,

I’m just being nitpicky because you are using CRT interchangeably with Television.

That was intentional on my part because of the audience and good communication. You’re technically correct, but without a paragraph of tangential and irrelevant explanation your audience isn’t going to understand you. Modern parlance usage of “television” isn’t the CRT appliance, its any appliance that shows the moving pictures and sound content of television programming. If you walk into any store today and buy a TV, you’re going to get an LCD, AMOLED, or quantum dot display. None of those are CRTs, yet everyone born after about 2002 will associate a TV or Television with a flat panel non-CRT display.

So no, interlacing is not native on CRT’s when receiving an interlaced signal.

And in nobody’s mind was the vision of plugging a SNES into a computer monitor CRT. You introduced that idea only to show how its wrong. You win at pedantry, but lose at communication.

If someone says to you “I’m watching TV”, do you poke your head around the back of the unit to make sure it has a tuner in it and if it doesn’t you quip back to correct them “You’re not actually watching a TV, you’re watching a monitor. A TV requires a tuner, which this unit does not have, making it a monitor, not a TV”?

Blue_Morpho,

If you were trying for good communication you would have said, "Interlacing is native on TV’s which is what the SNES was made for. "

Everyone knows what a TV is.

HEXN3T,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

NTSC is 59.94hz ???

SpaceNoodle,

Interlaced

refurbishedrefurbisher,

It is 59.94 fields per second, translating into 29.97 FPS. Interlaced video is fun. Reason why it’s not a round 60 or 30 FPS is due to maintaining compatibility with black and white sets.

240p uses each field as a frame, though, while still maintaining compatibility with NTSC. This is what most consoles pre-6th generation uses (same with PAL, but 288p at 50 FPS)

refurbishedrefurbisher,

At 480i. SNES used 240p, which is technically not standard NTSC, but compatible. Nintendo called this “double strike”, since each field would display in the same location.

SpaceNoodle,

Interesting.

ShortFuse,

Even interlaced it’s still 60 frames per second.

Sure they were technically 30 “fields” per second, but most games updated 60 times a second, even SMB on NES. You only saw one half of what the internal console rendered which is an output issue, not a rendering one.

Add on 480p and you get both 60 frames and 60 fields per second

starman2112, do gaming w I dunno... what if we gave this group drugs in all of their food?
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Fun fact, the Stanford Prison Experiment was actually kind of a joke! Zimbardo really wanted the result that he got, and interfered with the “study” to ensure that he got it. People aren’t as easily predisposed to evil as he wanted us to be.

Pronell, do gaming w Justice

Fuck man, I loved that game!

Never beat it without cheating but I loved it!

I’d kick him out because the game came out in 1991 and he is way too old to be with my daughter.

natecox,
@natecox@programming.dev avatar

Battletoads was so unbelievably rad that anyone who worked on it will stay young forever.

Ultraviolet,

The fucked up thing is that the Turbo Tunnel is actually one of the easiest levels in the game. The only levels easier than it are the first two and Surf City. Everything from the Snake Pit onward is where it gets really tough, but so few people get there that they don’t have the same level of notoriety.

Tropper, do gaming w Feeling old

This made me remember that NFS Underground 2 is 20 years old now, and it’s still the peak for the series.

randomuser38529,

cue Riders On The Storm

XEAL,

Unpopular opinion: I fucking hate the open world premise of NFSU2 and I just quitted playing after a while, but I’ve completed NSFU several times.

Swedneck, do games w Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability.
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just buy indie games lol

EdibleFriend,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Those have manuals you can read on the ride home?

Buddahriffic,

These days I’m driving on the way home.

RagingRobot,

Actually there is a company called limited run games I think that goes all out and prints physical copies of some indie games with instructions and bonus stuff. It’s pretty awesome but takes a while to get it.

EdibleFriend,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

Ok that is pretty awesome

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