Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20190925221545

Should be arriving then, sometimes it's better to not pay too much attention too it. You'd have to get lucky with some "new old stock" stuff. The issue with CRTs is that they take up more space than they are worth, so old stock seems to have gotten removed quite quickly. Trinitrons do get recommended the most yeah. I've only had some old "regular" Sony CRTs and it served my purposes just fine, helps it was a european model with SCART. Tough as well, dropped 'em down a flight of stairs once, landed on the screen but all it had was a minor scratch. I'd say it depends. Most authentic, sure. But emulators for older systems are actually fixing issues the original systems had and input lag has gotten to a point for some emulators that it's less than original. I'd say that's a better playing experience.

I only tend to go through very early 80's games when they are part of a series. It's not that they are bad, but generally too basic or too focused on score. Played the early Ultima games (and it's 1979 predecessor) and it felt like a chore. Started enjoying it around 4 though, they added some semblance of story in the game. Rottenblock can do it, no doubt. The rebuilt of Rance 1 worked like a charm and he had to reimplement the translation if I read the notes right. Rance II's windows port is System 3.5, but System 3.9 (rance 1 port uses it) is backwards compatible with 3.5. So I don't worry about that. The translator is another issue though. Rance 02 being nearly the same removes any incentive to translate the original. It's nice that people preserve the language, but I'd rather prevent students from suffering through it if they have no interest. It has no real modern use. I mean I have a Dutch sense of distance, so correct me if I'm wrong. That larger city should be like 10 km away? Shouldn't be that far too travel right? Don't know if you have your own car, but it should be doable by bike or public transport as well. I'd guess the quickest way of learning Japanese is to become an English teacher in Japan, adapt or deal with very awkward conversations.

Annoyingly it also promotes the spread of bad ideas, platformers with death zones everywhere springs to mind. Never played it, but am planning on it. Nothing wrong with a fun arcade rally game, I enjoyed V-Rally 1. N.I.C.E 2 seems like a mix of older NFS titles and carmageddon, though much less violent. Flatout and NFSU 2 were good stuff. I recently played a few stages in the newest "official WRC" game and it served me a 2 km stage. The previous release of that same series had "epic track which are long and challenging", these were essentially all stages combined which managed around 20-25 km. So it has been casualized, DIRT rally seems to have some longer stages though.

Spin-offs can be interesting, I generally play them for variety. It can get quite the slog if you go through all DQ games in a row after all. I enjoyed quite a few and Dragon Quest Monsters is a pretty good pokémon like game, haven't played that type of games since the early 2000's, but I enjoyed them. Most NES era translations are lacking. Religious censorship was common due to the USA being a big market as well, D&D lost it's luster so they then thought video games were satan. You'll find that in Dragon Quest (Warrior) as well if you play the NES releases. DQ 1-4 should be playable, keep in mind the American releases were called Dragon Warrior up to that point. DQ 5 and 6 Were not released in the USA until the DS remakes, but fan translations are available. The DQ 6 translation isn't complete (last update 2001) and has the following percentages for dialog/battle/menu/item 93%/80%/95%. I played it with that patch (NoPrgress), so it should be fine. DQ 7-9 and 11 are released in the west and 10 being an MMO will be very unlikely. The most recent Itadaki/Fortune/Boom street Were the Wii version (the one with DQ and mario characters) and an android/ios game which does not feature anything licensed, so just the board game. The most recent one (Dragon quest & FF) does have a fan translation project, but it's not finished. It should have most of the menu and cards done, that's the most important part of the game. Fair enough, yeah. It just surprises me that many smaller dev teams can exist for so long. The fact that Doujin releases are so common is something I miss over here, "Indie" isn't quite the same though I guess that's our version of it. I do remember using a steam mod downloader, it worked for a long time and apparently still works. However there seems to be an option for game devs to use a distribution method for mods which breaks that and fully requires steam. So pirated mods are the only option then. I barely remember playing any european game made before the crash, so it probably just meant there was nothing to crash, just a small market dealing with enthusiasts (I don't count pong clones). Atari was just so unimaginably huge at the time, it still shocks me what kind of innovations were made by companies trying to cash in on them. GameLine for example, allowing you to download games on your phoneline, it even kept track of scores for contests. Their intention ofcourse being to run a pseudo internet service for Atari 2600, the few screenshots that exist make it look like teletext. Too bad people saturated the market too much, would be interesting to see how the technology would've progressed. Seems to me like Japan has a tendency to just look at America and Europe as "the west". Previously boxart would be dealt with by the regional branch which gave us great discrepancies like Megaman 2 great PAL art vs the superman comic tier NTSC boxart. Now it seems much more like Japan vs worldwide releases.

I stopped caring. I try, but it means I'll spend far too much time on my posts. I ramble a bit too much and I get distracted by info easily. If I make sure everything's gramatically correct I'd probably be spending 2 hours typing a single post. Infact I got distracted looking something up for the rally bit and found out that there's a very in-depth website keeping track of most rallies on worldwide and regional levels going back for many years, even having the stage layouts of old rallies setup in a browser map. I'm not even a huge fan of the sport, but I love finding stuff like that.