Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-24, 02:34

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Since I have reached the Dalton Era in the slow Bond marathon me and have been doing, I’ve been, painfully, playing through Goldeneye 007 on my N64. I am enjoying the hell out of it, though the slowdown combined with the sometimes too quick AI have been aggravating.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-24, 02:02

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After buying some midi couplers, I managed to get my RPi 4B to act like an MT-32 using MT-32Pi. I don’t have a DAC or some kind of MIDI input, so I’m not going to be doing things simply, but this let me spend $8 to use my UM-ONE-MKII. Some day I will grab a mixer to get everything working with no …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-24, 01:26

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After buying some midi couplers, I managed to get my RPi 4B to act like an MT-32 using MT-32Pi. I don’t have a DAC or some kind of MIDI input, so I’m not going to be doing things simply, but this let me spend $8 to use my UM-ONE-MKII. Some day I will grab a mixer to get everything working with no …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-20, 19:00

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-01-19, 09:51: If you ever decide to play it, go for the original SNES version. Later PlayStation and DS ports have some issues with sound effects. Be warned, though, if you want to play it on hardware, it's going to be quite expensive.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-12, 18:32

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[...] If you have at least 64MB RAM in the PC you can just use Puppy Linux Retro 4.1.3 and even install it onto a hard drive. Granted, it works a million times better with 128MB RAM. Thing is, I'm not looking for a usable desktop system, it's the hardware detection in Knoppix that I'm after, plus a …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-05, 10:03

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I've been playing through Fallout 1/2 as I said I would, and I ended up laughing my ass off earlier as a result. Filename Untitled.png File size 21.49 KiB Views 73 views I mean, I'm only using a laptop's 1650/Desktop 1070 interchangeably to run it.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-02, 07:39

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kolderman wrote on 2021-01-02, 04:20: Interesting Morrowind was longer than Oblivion. Morrowind had less fast travel, which is why it took longer.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-02, 02:41

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I have finally made it through my run of all five mainline Elder Scrolls games, this time around with every character being a Dunmer named Lilonah, so, naturally, I've moved on to the Fallout Series. I've only in depth played the most recent one, so I am in for some fun. That's a lot of gaming! How …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-01-01, 22:32

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I have finally made it through my run of all five mainline Elder Scrolls games, this time around with every character being a Dunmer named Lilonah, so, naturally, I've moved on to the Fallout Series. I've only in depth played the most recent one, so I am in for some fun.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-12-14, 18:01

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I can't stand Conker's Bad Fur Day. The camera is awful, the N64 controller (as usual) makes it unplayable, and the game is not that funny. If you have access to an xbox one or later console, the rare replay version feels a lot nicer to play. Of course, it doesn't fix the other problems you have …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 08:09

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-12-13, 07:54: Heroes of Might and Magic, though I don't recognize the edition. That's specifically HoMM3.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-12, 20:50

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I want to get into Morrowind and Arx Fatalis on a modern PC with mods.. Havent looked into which ones to use with either of them yet though. If you look up the STEP Morrowind guide, you can have a mostly vanilla game with modern graphics. It's only managed to randomly crash like three times in the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-12, 08:54

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I'm 50 hours in to Morrowind, and I have been loving everything but the handful of times a crash combined with not saving has ruined progress.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-12, 03:03

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I managed to snag myself a GTX 280 for the grand total of $25, and it even came with drivers For a completely different in every way card ! image0.jpg I will test it out and ,at some point in the future, put it in to a system. I was originally going to put it in the HP workstation that I have so it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-11, 03:25

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I just managed to buy an SC-55 with control firmware 1.10 in a local pawn shop . - Display backlight is OK, but LCD text is rather pale - 1 or 2 of the front buttons don't work - Battery was still in but had not leaked (removed it). - it was covered in stickers and adhesive velcro pads - it was …

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Re: Apple is getting off AMD GPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-12-09, 17:40

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It will at least be interesting to see how they will try to make something that can be even close to the GPUs in their Mac Pros.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-06, 17:35

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(I dunno if this is the right thread for this or not. If not, what thread would be better?) Is there someone on these forums that is capable of fixing up an OG Xbox? (Namely, removing the clock cap, maybe installing a more reliable PSU) The PSUs are totally fine, and usually don’t require any …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-12-06, 07:05

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It took me beating both Arena and Daggerfall for me to be able to enjoy Morrowind's combat system enough to be able to play the game. Instead of complaining about the lack of hitting, now I'm just happy to not have to flick my mouse around while missing.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-04, 02:45

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I've been spending a while now trying to figure out how to get my Dell Audigy 2 ZS working in tandem with my Vortex 2 card so that I can properly use daemon tools for CD audio. My DVD Drive is picky as all hell about burned disks.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-03, 05:11

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Went through another Dark Forces mission. I'm currently at mission 9: Nar Shaddaa. This game has been so far really funny, however I had to patch it to support mouselook, since I can't play with keyboard only anymore. The game in it's base form supports mouse aiming, albeit horizontally only. I am …

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