I might be able to beat Axelay but it's proving too difficult so far. Same with Pocky and Rocky.
I will beat Axelay and Pocky and Rocky, I'm just slow with my output since I'm doing them all on 1 credit and on the hardest difficulties. If you guys want to beat some other stuff I can do all the shmups.
Hah, I beat Pocky and Rocky this year, but it was on easy (before I was aware of this thread). That was another on my short list, but I'll go ahead and defer to you guys
Shoot, I think someone already got Gemfire. Hopefully it's not too long
I beat it on snes and nes, both took a few hours. The snes one, I wasn't even done with second year and I beat it; if you break up the countries into smaller bits they surrender eaiser it seems. On the nes I accidently beat it cause I wasnt expecting the computer to surrender. Snes one made me work for it; Not work hard for it, but I did have to fight their 250 tropps with my 999 troops + dragon.
Never mind I had 2 other areas with 999 tropps right behind that one, ready to go.
Side note, PSP locked up on breath of fire. No big deal normally, but I don't save often in BoF, until you get the warp spell, it's great to use save at any place you know you need to come back too soon, when you can jsut let yourself die, and you warp to the save sport with full health and all items you just had. I think you lose some gold and that's it. Right now I've recovered my progress and I've just completed the dark\light tower.
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
Shoot, I think someone already got Gemfire. Hopefully it's not too long
I beat it on snes and nes, both took a few hours. The snes one, I wasn't even done with second year and I beat it; if you break up the countries into smaller bits they surrender eaiser it seems. On the nes I accidently beat it cause I wasnt expecting the computer to surrender. Snes one made me work for it; Not work hard for it, but I did have to fight their 250 tropps with my 999 troops + dragon.
Never mind I had 2 other areas with 999 tropps right behind that one, ready to go.
Side note, PSP locked up on breath of fire. No big deal normally, but I don't save often in BoF, until you get the warp spell, it's great to use save at any place you know you need to come back too soon, when you can jsut let yourself die, and you warp to the save sport with full health and all items you just had. I think you lose some gold and that's it. Right now I've recovered my progress and I've just completed the dark\light tower.
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
I meant someone earlier in the thread. Hopefully you didn't put too many hours into it.
I might be able to beat Axelay but it's proving too difficult so far. Same with Pocky and Rocky.
I will beat Axelay and Pocky and Rocky, I'm just slow with my output since I'm doing them all on 1 credit and on the hardest difficulties. If you guys want to beat some other stuff I can do all the shmups.
Good to know. To my credit I did beat ActRaiser 2 on hard ^_^;
Shoot, I think someone already got Gemfire. Hopefully it's not too long
I beat it on snes and nes, both took a few hours. The snes one, I wasn't even done with second year and I beat it; if you break up the countries into smaller bits they surrender eaiser it seems. On the nes I accidently beat it cause I wasnt expecting the computer to surrender. Snes one made me work for it; Not work hard for it, but I did have to fight their 250 tropps with my 999 troops + dragon.
Never mind I had 2 other areas with 999 tropps right behind that one, ready to go.
Side note, PSP locked up on breath of fire. No big deal normally, but I don't save often in BoF, until you get the warp spell, it's great to use save at any place you know you need to come back too soon, when you can jsut let yourself die, and you warp to the save sport with full health and all items you just had. I think you lose some gold and that's it. Right now I've recovered my progress and I've just completed the dark\light tower.
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
I meant someone earlier in the thread. Hopefully you didn't put too many hours into it.
Aww crap, I thought for sure I saw it on the from page as unbeat. It couldn't have taken me too long, since I got 2ish hours of BoF in that night. And it was good to see it was such a half-ass port, so I know I'd rather have the nes vs snes one. Looks like I might have to pick up the pace, but on the other hand, I have timed events going on my castle story game....
And yes, I play castle story on my cell phone. With my wife.
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
Nope, I'm pretty sure it's the same on all difficulties. Too bad the AI is so easy to exploit (LMK if you want to know the trick).
Wasted way too much time in BoF trying to get a darkDR. Like, spent more time in it then the entire game. Got two angelAR and a few agileHTs, and a sleeper, so I did pretty good, but still want that damned dagger.
What do you use for the screen capture? Seen a lot of people having long talks about which ones work on which TV/console and I'm considering getting it since I'm vaguely close to world record time on a game or two.
What do you use for the screen capture? Seen a lot of people having long talks about which ones work on which TV/console and I'm considering getting it since I'm vaguely close to world record time on a game or two.
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
It's not cheap. The El Gato is around $150 and the Framemeister around $350-400. If you want to a cheap way to record you could just go old fasioned and record using a VCR, then worry about converting the video digitally later (some cheap devices will do this, but the results aren't going to be nearly as good).
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
It's not cheap. The El Gato is around $150 and the Framemeister around $350-400. If you want to a cheap way to record you could just go old fasioned and record using a VCR, then worry about converting the video digitally later (some cheap devices will do this, but the results aren't going to be nearly as good).
Buy a Dazzle... they go for pretty cheap and will do a good job on retro stuff. All you need is a computer and some AV splitters along with the dazzle.
Not sure what the answer is for updating this thread but it's been pretty much the same for the last 3 years. Get to about 100-150 games and then the thread falls off completely. The NES one seems to have 500+ games done by the end of January. I actually find the discrepancy pretty surprising. Personally, I just don't have the time or motivation to play games that are terrible.
Thanks guys. I'll look into the ones you guys suggested. It doesn't have to be amazing quality, just good enough that no one is gonna claim it's a TAS or something. I'll research this more thoroughly when I'm not tired, but thanks guys and if anyone wants to PM me patronisingly basic instructions on the hook up, please do. I'm sure speedrunning sites know all about this anyway.
How much, and do they work solidly? I'm not over concerned about pristine visual quality, just something to prove the times if I ever do actually get serious about the world records.
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
It's not cheap. The El Gato is around $150 and the Framemeister around $350-400. If you want to a cheap way to record you could just go old fasioned and record using a VCR, then worry about converting the video digitally later (some cheap devices will do this, but the results aren't going to be nearly as good).
Buy a Dazzle... they go for pretty cheap and will do a good job on retro stuff. All you need is a computer and some AV splitters along with the dazzle.
Not sure what the answer is for updating this thread but it's been pretty much the same for the last 3 years. Get to about 100-150 games and then the thread falls off completely. The NES one seems to have 500+ games done by the end of January. I actually find the discrepancy pretty surprising. Personally, I just don't have the time or motivation to play games that are terrible.
I think that's the main issue. Once the Mega Mans and Donkey Kongs, and all the usual good or first party games are gone, interest dries up.
But I'll do my part throughout the year. I was already trying to beat as many of my SNES games as possible before I even found this thread
What was the deal with the character Captain Commando? He was an abortive Capcom mascot or something?
Something like that. He was actually in manuels for some of Capcom's NES games
Funny how his appearence keeps changing. Guess they weren't really sure what to do with him. He did get his own arcade game which had a SNES port and shows up in Marvel VS games. I have an odd bit of nostalgia for this game and own the arcademarquee.
Cleared Super Earth Defense force tonight. Video coming soon.
I always get it and E.V.O confused, and wonder why so many people want to pay so much for that game.
EVO is an awesome game. Super Earth Defense Force is actually suprising good as well, but since the youtube drones haven't caught on to it yet it remains dirt cheap. EVO...not so much.
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Originally posted by: cirellio
From what's remaining on the list I've beaten..
ActRaiser 2 and Gradius III this year.
I might be able to beat Axelay but it's proving too difficult so far. Same with Pocky and Rocky.
I will beat Axelay and Pocky and Rocky, I'm just slow with my output since I'm doing them all on 1 credit and on the hardest difficulties. If you guys want to beat some other stuff I can do all the shmups.
Originally posted by: Brock Landers
Shoot, I think someone already got Gemfire. Hopefully it's not too long
I beat it on snes and nes, both took a few hours. The snes one, I wasn't even done with second year and I beat it; if you break up the countries into smaller bits they surrender eaiser it seems. On the nes I accidently beat it cause I wasnt expecting the computer to surrender. Snes one made me work for it; Not work hard for it, but I did have to fight their 250 tropps with my 999 troops + dragon.
Never mind I had 2 other areas with 999 tropps right behind that one, ready to go.
Side note, PSP locked up on breath of fire. No big deal normally, but I don't save often in BoF, until you get the warp spell, it's great to use save at any place you know you need to come back too soon, when you can jsut let yourself die, and you warp to the save sport with full health and all items you just had. I think you lose some gold and that's it. Right now I've recovered my progress and I've just completed the dark\light tower.
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
Originally posted by: Ozzy_98
Originally posted by: Brock Landers
Shoot, I think someone already got Gemfire. Hopefully it's not too long
I beat it on snes and nes, both took a few hours. The snes one, I wasn't even done with second year and I beat it; if you break up the countries into smaller bits they surrender eaiser it seems. On the nes I accidently beat it cause I wasnt expecting the computer to surrender. Snes one made me work for it; Not work hard for it, but I did have to fight their 250 tropps with my 999 troops + dragon.
Never mind I had 2 other areas with 999 tropps right behind that one, ready to go.
Side note, PSP locked up on breath of fire. No big deal normally, but I don't save often in BoF, until you get the warp spell, it's great to use save at any place you know you need to come back too soon, when you can jsut let yourself die, and you warp to the save sport with full health and all items you just had. I think you lose some gold and that's it. Right now I've recovered my progress and I've just completed the dark\light tower.
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
I meant someone earlier in the thread. Hopefully you didn't put too many hours into it.
Originally posted by: pegboy
Originally posted by: cirellio
From what's remaining on the list I've beaten..
ActRaiser 2 and Gradius III this year.
I might be able to beat Axelay but it's proving too difficult so far. Same with Pocky and Rocky.
I will beat Axelay and Pocky and Rocky, I'm just slow with my output since I'm doing them all on 1 credit and on the hardest difficulties. If you guys want to beat some other stuff I can do all the shmups.
Good to know. To my credit I did beat ActRaiser 2 on hard ^_^;
Originally posted by: Brock Landers
Originally posted by: Ozzy_98
Originally posted by: Brock Landers
Shoot, I think someone already got Gemfire. Hopefully it's not too long
I beat it on snes and nes, both took a few hours. The snes one, I wasn't even done with second year and I beat it; if you break up the countries into smaller bits they surrender eaiser it seems. On the nes I accidently beat it cause I wasnt expecting the computer to surrender. Snes one made me work for it; Not work hard for it, but I did have to fight their 250 tropps with my 999 troops + dragon.
Never mind I had 2 other areas with 999 tropps right behind that one, ready to go.
Side note, PSP locked up on breath of fire. No big deal normally, but I don't save often in BoF, until you get the warp spell, it's great to use save at any place you know you need to come back too soon, when you can jsut let yourself die, and you warp to the save sport with full health and all items you just had. I think you lose some gold and that's it. Right now I've recovered my progress and I've just completed the dark\light tower.
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
I meant someone earlier in the thread. Hopefully you didn't put too many hours into it.
Aww crap, I thought for sure I saw it on the from page as unbeat. It couldn't have taken me too long, since I got 2ish hours of BoF in that night. And it was good to see it was such a half-ass port, so I know I'd rather have the nes vs snes one. Looks like I might have to pick up the pace, but on the other hand, I have timed events going on my castle story game....
And yes, I play castle story on my cell phone. With my wife.
Originally posted by: Ozzy_98
Think I might hook up the snes and play art of fighting on the TV, it's not working worth a damn on PSP. Anyone know if you have to beat the storymode on any special difficulty to get the ending?
Nope, I'm pretty sure it's the same on all difficulties. Too bad the AI is so easy to exploit (LMK if you want to know the trick).
Originally posted by: pegboy
Here's the video of my no-death run of Firepower 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b...
What do you use for the screen capture? Seen a lot of people having long talks about which ones work on which TV/console and I'm considering getting it since I'm vaguely close to world record time on a game or two.
Originally posted by: HochiKongCountry
Originally posted by: pegboy
Here's the video of my no-death run of Firepower 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VjP72lxf8
What do you use for the screen capture? Seen a lot of people having long talks about which ones work on which TV/console and I'm considering getting it since I'm vaguely close to world record time on a game or two.
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
Originally posted by: pegboy
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
Originally posted by: HochiKongCountry
Originally posted by: pegboy
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
It's not cheap. The El Gato is around $150 and the Framemeister around $350-400. If you want to a cheap way to record you could just go old fasioned and record using a VCR, then worry about converting the video digitally later (some cheap devices will do this, but the results aren't going to be nearly as good).
Originally posted by: pegboy
Originally posted by: HochiKongCountry
Originally posted by: pegboy
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
It's not cheap. The El Gato is around $150 and the Framemeister around $350-400. If you want to a cheap way to record you could just go old fasioned and record using a VCR, then worry about converting the video digitally later (some cheap devices will do this, but the results aren't going to be nearly as good).
Buy a Dazzle... they go for pretty cheap and will do a good job on retro stuff. All you need is a computer and some AV splitters along with the dazzle.
Not sure what the answer is for updating this thread but it's been pretty much the same for the last 3 years. Get to about 100-150 games and then the thread falls off completely. The NES one seems to have 500+ games done by the end of January. I actually find the discrepancy pretty surprising. Personally, I just don't have the time or motivation to play games that are terrible.
Originally posted by: Andy_Bogomil
Originally posted by: pegboy
Originally posted by: HochiKongCountry
Originally posted by: pegboy
I use the RGB output of a model 1 SNES into a Framemeister upscaler (which converts it to 720p) which is then fed into the El Gato HD Game Capture.
Alternatively you could just capture directly with the el gato and skip the framemeister but it will only recognize the signal (incorrectly) as 480i, and that can cause issues.
In general, doing captures from old 240p hardware (like the NES and SNES) is a pain in the ass.
If it's a real ordeal I doubt I'll bother, depending on how much the total set up costs. Just seems like the kind of thing where you go through about three sets of parts till you find one that works and I don't care that much. What did you pay for the El Gato and Framemeister?
It's not cheap. The El Gato is around $150 and the Framemeister around $350-400. If you want to a cheap way to record you could just go old fasioned and record using a VCR, then worry about converting the video digitally later (some cheap devices will do this, but the results aren't going to be nearly as good).
Buy a Dazzle... they go for pretty cheap and will do a good job on retro stuff. All you need is a computer and some AV splitters along with the dazzle.
Not sure what the answer is for updating this thread but it's been pretty much the same for the last 3 years. Get to about 100-150 games and then the thread falls off completely. The NES one seems to have 500+ games done by the end of January. I actually find the discrepancy pretty surprising. Personally, I just don't have the time or motivation to play games that are terrible.
I think that's the main issue. Once the Mega Mans and Donkey Kongs, and all the usual good or first party games are gone, interest dries up.
But I'll do my part throughout the year. I was already trying to beat as many of my SNES games as possible before I even found this thread
quirkly little Capcom beat em up, a personal fav
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge
Minnie doesn't even get named in the title what is up with that?
Sparkster
Had this forever but got around to beating it, fun cute little platformer.
Originally posted by: HochiKongCountry
What was the deal with the character Captain Commando? He was an abortive Capcom mascot or something?
Something like that. He was actually in manuels for some of Capcom's NES games
Funny how his appearence keeps changing. Guess they weren't really sure what to do with him. He did get his own arcade game which had a SNES port and shows up in Marvel VS games. I have an odd bit of nostalgia for this game and own the arcade marquee.
Also CAPtain COMando XD
Originally posted by: pegboy
Cleared Super Earth Defense force tonight. Video coming soon.
I always get it and E.V.O confused, and wonder why so many people want to pay so much for that game.
Originally posted by: Ozzy_98
Originally posted by: pegboy
Cleared Super Earth Defense force tonight. Video coming soon.
I always get it and E.V.O confused, and wonder why so many people want to pay so much for that game.
EVO is an awesome game. Super Earth Defense Force is actually suprising good as well, but since the youtube drones haven't caught on to it yet it remains dirt cheap. EVO...not so much.
Anyway, here's my run on hard mode: