I remember starting Majora's Mask, loving every minute of it, then having to go off to college and leave the N64 at home with the family. Now that I'm done, and my younger siblings have long since broken our N64, is there a way for me to restart (and finish!) my adventures on the PC?
The best (Legal) way to play it is with the Wii, where you can download a copy for 1000 Wii points (About $10)
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When I was a mere youth I had a ZX Spectrum. One of my favorite games was "Manic Miner",
but I am stumped as to the name of the sequel to this game.
The sequel you are talking about is Jet Set Willy.
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When I was a mere youth I had a Zx Sepctrum:
One of my favorite games was "Manic Miner"
But I am stumped as to the name of the Sequel to this game.
If you are talking about "Manic Miner" instead of "Manic Minor" than the sequel you are talking about is Jet Set Willy.
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I remember back in the day there was a Up Up Down Down cheat code that was used in a lot of things.
It is called the Konami Code, its
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
And it works on quite a few games, and even some websites.
A wikilink to those lists are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_code_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Konami_code_websites
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Why did many commodore 64 games require the joystick to be in port #2?
( Despite being single-player games )
I remember being annoyed by having to unplug and plug the joystick between games.
I never really thought about that much as a kid, when I had my C-64 (we just left a joystick plugged into #2 all the time).
However, after some digging, according to Ode to Joysticks:
Port 2 eventually emerged as the default, mainly because joysticks plugged into Port 1 could interfere with the command line interface.
Which is a good point, now that I read that, I do remember that having a joystick plugged into port #1 would send bizarre key codes to the primary BASIC interpreter/command line.
Ahhhh, memories!
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I'm trying to find a game I used to play on the coin-op something like 15-20 years ago. It is a 2d shooter game, seen from the top, with vertical scrolling. Your character hat to shoot and destroy or enemies, like tanks, and armored aliens. It was ambiented in extraterrestrial planets, space plants, etc. You started with simple guns, then could find much more powerful weapons. My favorite one with a violet/purple "bubble" that went around you and had a large rage. You also had a number of bombs that you could use, where you were in difficult situations with a lot of enemies, or that you could throw again the final monsters.
I found it for MAME a few years ago, but then lost it...
Any help is appreciated!
FOUND! It is OUTZONE gamerfish.com/action/outzone
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When I was a kid I owned both the Sega Genesis and the Sega Dreamcast and I'm not sure which of the platforms this game originated on. I know it came out sometime in the early 90s. The game focused on an orange cat who I think had save the world from some sort of crazy, yarn-stealing alien race. During his journey he collects massive amounts of yarn for his giant yarn ball collection.
Also, there may have been a really trippy carnival/amusement park level with clowns, giant candy, and a roller coaster that the cat had to ride on. I might be making that up though. Unfortunately, I don't remember any other details.
That would be Bubsy. Had it myself.. great game.
I remember the most notable parts of the game were the voice-acting and the strange bonus levels and other assorted psychadelic environments. I managed to track down some sound bytes if you're interested: here
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What is the meaning of special characters as _(U)_[!], which are usually at the end of an ROM-image-file-name (e.g. Mario Tennis (E) [!].v64 or Bomberman_Hero_(U)_[!].v64)?
My first thought was that the E for example stands for games with english translation.
It's a convention used to distinguish different dumps of the same game. They are mainly associated with GoodTools, a suite of applications containing databases listing software for consoles and computers
(E), (U) and (J) refer to a region; resp. Europe, USA and Japan. There are other letters for specific countries (e.g., a game only released in France would be (F)), but those three are the most common. This doesn't say anything about which languages are included; for that, (M#) is usually used to indicates the number of different languages - (M5) means the game contains 5 different languages.
[!] signifies a unmodified and exact dump, in contrast with [b] bad dumps, [o] overdumps, [u] underdumps, [h] hacks, and other modified dumps.
Wikipedia has a much more comprehensive list and explanation.
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I remember the first Street Fighter, Sagat was a boss where he got his chest scar from Ryu's finishing Shoryuken.
But in which of the Street Fighter series did Sagat first become playable?
Sagat became the penultimate boss in Street Fighter 2: The World Warriors. Along with the another 3 bosses, he became playable in Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition.
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What are the requirements for the different endings in metroid and what are the differencess between each ending.
There are 5 different endings. You can see screenshots of all of them along with requirements here: http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/b/met.htm
The Metroid Database lists slightly different requirements for the two worst endings:
I'm not sure which is correct.
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I know that PS2 games can only be played in a 'fat' PS3 with the right hardware to run it. But why is so difficult to emulate a PS2 game in the PS3 without that hardware? Is the processor, the architecture, both? Thanks in advance.
PS2 games were made for an older CPU. They cannot run on the CPU designed for the PS3.
PS2 games were created to work on Sony's Emotion Engine CPU and their Graphics Synthesizer GPU. This CPU/GPU combo was put in all PS2 units and in the first variants of the PS3 (the NTSC 20GB and 60GB models) to make them backward-compatible. These models can play almost all PS2 games.
The 80GB Metal Gear Solid IV bundle had the GPU as well, but replaced the Emotion Engine chip with software emulation of the chip. It can still play most PS2 games, but support isn't as good as the earlier models with the actual EE CPU.
Models since the MSG:IV bundle had neither the CPU nor the software emulation of the CPU required to play older games.
Sony has a knowledgebase article that explains which three versions can play PS2 games. They also have a compatibility tool that you can use to see if specific games can play on those specific models.
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I've been looking for an original Archon I for C64 for ages now, but all the offers on ebay are crazy expensive. So I thought I'd ask if anybody knows an online retailer that does trading of very old vintage video games?
I'm not interested in ROMs, as in fact I want the game just for the beautiful packaging it came with.
Old games that are in excellent condition can potentially be worth a lot of money, so it is not surprising that you have found Archon I sell for a lot of money on eBay. If you are adamant about obtaining this game, you need to research how much the game has been selling for over the last year or two and be prepared to pay approximately the same amount for the game. It will require patience and self restraint, but you should eventually be able to purchase that game you so desire.
Racketboy.com is my favorite community driven retro games website out there. They have some great guides to help you get informed on the best way to proceed with retro game purchases:
They also have a thriving forum with several members that are avid retro gamers and game collectors (some of them even own video game stores), and many of them have channels that they can call upon to find rare games for a fair price.
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I've been looking for an original Archon I for C64 for ages now, but all the offers on ebay are crazy expensive. So I thought I'd ask if anybody knows an online retailer that does trading of very old vintage video games?
I'm not interested in ROMs, as in fact I want the game just for the beautiful packaging it came with.
Old games that are in excellent condition can potentially be worth a lot of money, so it is not surprising that you have found Archon I sell for a lot of money on eBay. If you are adamant about obtaining this game, you need to research how much the game has been selling for over the last year or two and be prepared to pay approximately the same amount for the game. It will require patience and self restraint, but you should eventually be able to purchase that game you so desire.
Racketboy.com is my favorite community driven retro games website out there. They have some great guides to help you get informed on the best way to proceed with retro game purchases:
They also have a thriving forum with several members that are avid retro gamers and game collectors (some of them even own video game stores), and many of them have channels that they can call upon to find rare games for a fair price.
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So, a friend and I want to work through DOOM I and II on coop over a coming weekend. What's the best way to do this on modern hardware? We don't want graphical improvements and fancy features (except maybe mouse look), we want a classic DOOM experience.
This will be over a local network with a Windows XP and a Windows 7 PC.
Has anyone had experience doing this?
With DOSBox you should have no problem
Here's a wiki
There you'll have some source port to play your favorite game :D
Note:
Doom requires a fairly fast computer to run inside DOSBox, but many ports of its source code exist for modern Operating Systems, so you may find more luck downloading one of them instead. Because Doom makes use of your sound card and potentially Modem, you should take care to match your dosbox.conf setting to the settings found in the SETUP.EXE found inside your Doom folder. For the most part the default options will work, but if you are making use of the Gravis Ultra Sound or MIDI audio devices you should pay special attention that the DMA, IRQ and Addresses all match.
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There was a nice WWI flight game from Cinemaware on the Amiga called Wings. Between the sections of the game was a diary which was actually quite a good read. I never played the game to the end and didn't get a chance to read the full diary. I wonder if the diary can be found on the internet somewhere as I want to finish it (20 years later...)?
The site Recorded Amiga Games has a long play of Wings here: AMIGA LONGPLAY #378 - WINGS.
It should contain all the diary entries. But you have to pause it to read them. You may also want to skip ahead a little in the video since it's over 9 hours long.
You can either download it from the site or watch in on YouTube here.
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