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Three things to bear in mind about FF9:

1.) Ozma's AI script is almost entirely based on countering your menu cursor's movements.

2.) Several character skills are powered up in ways that are completely unrelated to leveling up. e.g. Quina's Frog Drop can quickly reach max damage by simply having Quina run around swamps and capture frogs.

3.) Enemy HP is restricted to a 16-bit value (i.e. a maximum of 65,535)

So it's not farfetched that a level 1 character can solo any boss in this game. All the player would have to do is train any non-level-specific character skill until it could achieve max damage.

Check Garlandthegreat's youtube channel, he's probably the best (or most autist) FFVII player in the world

In FF9 I found a full proof safe way to kill Grand Dragons up Gizamaluke's grotto at the start of Disc2 when going back to Zidane's party.

Grand Dragons have 3 attacks: a poison attack, a thunder attack, and the regular physical attack. The key is to have all your characters immuned to poison and thunder, which at this stage of the game actually takes a lot, and to have a shit down of phoenix down and always keep someone ready to revive anyone hit by his physical attack.

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>>3896362
the n64 port of blitz was 10 times better

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>>3897340
2001 was better

=== CURRENT EVENTS ===

[Highway to Hell] Second phase of mapping over?
https://warosu.org/vr/thread/3852524#p3855512

[Til 4-17] QUMP mapping deadline currently extended to the 17th of April
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zlfb2U2VCeS70uS6Klc2ZEOC9KtnYyCyBXEmeetjh0c/edit

=== NEWS ===

[4-1] BTSX Episode 3 beta
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/93570-the-dwmegawad-club-plays-back-to-saturn-x-e3-surprise/

[3-31] Kinsie has released MetaDoom 3.2
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=53010&p=987829#p987829

[3-31] Doom 64 Retribution released; a port of D64 to GZDoom that isn't dogshit
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=55039

[3-31] Quake Champions beta to begin on April 6th
https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/30/quake-champions-beta-begins-april-6th/

[3-30] Intermission E2M1 released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5XaOCWRZXw

[3-25] Poharex: Second Invasion alpha released
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=55797

[3-25] Stewboy released some of his MIDI files
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/93428-releasing-some-midi-files-ancient-aliens-resurgence/

[3-24] ZDoom LE 2.8.1a released; a fork for older computers
https://github.com/drfrag666/ZDoom-LE/releases/tag/2.8.1a

[3-23] First SLADE dev build released in over a year
https://devbuilds.drdteam.org/slade/
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=24955&p=986207

[3-20]Waterlabs GZD Released: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=55741

[3-20] GZDoom 2.4.0 and QZDoom 1.3.0 released
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55739

[3-20] French speedmapping project 3 Heures d'Agonie 3 has been released
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/93359-3-heures-dagonie-3-rc1/

[3-16] Turok 2 EX released
https://www.gog.com/game/turok_2_seeds_of_evil
http://store.steampowered.com/app/405830/

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>>3896242
I hope I can defeat frieza with my current power level!

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>>3896102
you shut your mouth

>>3896102
I also fucked up by having Super Star as my first Kirby game

>>3896134
I mean, I also played Kirby's Adventure and Kirby's Dream Land before this and I found them infinitely more enjoyable than this thing.

>>3895492
craigslist
game forum meetups
Old ass pizza places

>>3895495
that's all second hand. are you telling me sega doesn't occasionally throw some shit together for pocket change?

>>3895508
http://www.bmigaming.com/
I found the arcade store, but it's all popular stuff, and random amusements like skeeball. obscure japanese cabinets are harder to find.

this is going to be an adventure.

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Never played the original, but I love PW64.
It's both a relaxing game and a very challenging flight sim. Getting the gold medal in some missions (especially the hanglider) can take a lot of tries, but when you know what to do, it's actually possible, it's a well designed sim/arcade hybrid.
As a kid I just enjoyed flying around, discovering places and goofing around, the missions were too hard for me. As an adult I actually got into the scoring system and the missions, and completed it (or so I think, I believe I still need a gold medal in one of the cannon extras)

I about had anxiety attacks trying to land that damn rocket belt on the moving pads. The final helicopter mission was stressful too. It's a miracle I ever beat that game.

>>3895356
>>it' super-relaxing and won't stress you out like other games

I don't know who told you that and about which game exactly but the SNES version has a steap learning curve. The BGM is pretty good but even that I would hardly call relaxing.

Regardless, it's not hard to finish the first airplane segment once you know the controls and got gud. It's only where you get tol the third or fourth area where things get really challenging.

>>3895365
Seconding this about the N64 version. The visuals seem more outdated to me but it's got a ton of variety and the scoring system is excellent for replay value.

Haven't played the 3DS version yet but would love to as I loved every game before it.

>>3895197
no thanks.

Your sync is too high, use a hacked driver like soft15khz (crt_emudriver won't work on nvidia). Your sync frequency needs to be 15khz for an sd crt.

>>3895257
Is there any known way to other than soft 15khz because it doesn't seem to accept my gpu but I know I've heard of people using this line of gpu for 240p on crt?

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>>3893486
it never looked like that for me since i only played the other sonic games on the system.

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>>3893491
That's because you posted the Master System version of Sonic 2.

The Game Gear version of Sonic 2 was much worse and made the antlion boss almost impossible.

>>3893496

I got past the antlion boss but then died pretty quickly in the hang gliding level that follows.

There's a fully sick Samsung branded Mega Drive I've always kind of wanted

>>3893052
You mean the Super Aladdin Boy? Or was that Samsung?

Anyhow, all Japanese consoles were locally rebranded due to trading rules or ingrained xenophobia or something.

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>>3893042
I think OP is talking about original consoles.

I will at least.

play what you want to. why do you need the approval of strangers?

I already have them.

>>3891115
Was ever found out what the Book's meaning/backstory/link was in one of the "newer" (not retro) Mario was? Also under water.

Interesting fact. Mario is the reincarnation of the Hero, Peach is the Reincarnation of the Goddess Hylia and Bowser is the reincarnation of Demise. The Mushroom Kingdom is Hyrule millenia in the future.

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>>3891115
Well I mean they just could be carried over assets too.

mother 3 not retro reeeee

>>3889196
Bionic Commando: Elite forces is one of my faves.

I also have a soft spot for X.

>>3889369
Careful, you might get half banned for half announcing your report!

I've been playing them in order (but plan on doing vii last because of length.) I'm about 20hrs into IX and I really like it. I think it might even be my favorite in the series, even just this far in.

The story isn't amazing, and it probably isn't even the best DQ at being a DQ game, but it's nailing something I've been wanting for almost a decade now: It's a single player game that REALLY feels like an MMO. Even more specifically, it feels a lot like FFXI, which I really enjoyed back in it's prime.

I mean, look at it? It has repeatable fetch quests, enemies on the map that you can kite and zone, no random encounters, a sprawling network of NPC side quests, a crafting system with map gathered resources, notorious monsters, a world map cut into smaller zones with hubs, skill points separate from job levels, job specific quests, quests with very specific prerequisites; You never run out of things to do, and not in a vast empty world sort of way like III or VI did. it constantly feels like lateral growth instead of purely vertical growth. I'm really sad I missed out on the multiplayer.

What am I really missing out on without wifi besides the multiplayer? A player economy, dlc items, dlc quests... Anything else? And how much can be added back in? I'm less interested in equipment and items and more interested in extra game content. This game is my jam and I'm probably going to replay it.

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Thoughts on DQXI?

>>3889008
I have the consoles necessary for both versions. I'm probably gonna get them both since they're so different looking, graphically. Still debating whether to go 2D or 3D on the 3DS version, though, since you can't just keep both on for the full game. That'd be rad, honestly.

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This is Crusaders of Centy

>>3883413
There was a pretty large number of multiplats between Genesis and SNES, so I would imagine a Chrono Trigger port wouldn't be difficult at all. Although Square probably had to sign an exclusivity contract with Nintendo in order to have any of their games licensed for the SNES, so it's doubtful they could have ported CT to any other platform at the time.

>>3883413
No problem except that the game is heavy on transparencies which Genesis wasn't that good at

Root Beer, I suppose. Was never picky about the brand, though.

>Dedicated gaming beverage.
Stop. This is exactly what PepsiCo wants.