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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 30, 2017 2:09:02 GMT
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Post by Melanogaster on Jul 13, 2017 2:29:12 GMT
You guys are lucky to have this one... unfortunately, as we know, it never made it down here on Tectoylands. I used to play the MS-DOS version a lot with family and friends back in the day, always experiencing that fine mixture of fun and hatred and joy and anger and laughter and finger-pointing that only the multiplayer mode can provide us -- especially with one keyboard for three simultaneous players...
I think they've done a very nice job with the SMS conversion, given the system's constraints; the pace isn't the same, as we would expect, but it's got a nice flow and the challenge is there, for the most part. The kids on my block would surely have appreciated a good living-room-crowding alternative for California Games.
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Post by Melanogaster on Jan 8, 2017 20:12:04 GMT
#13 is really bothering me. I know I know it, but it eludes me at the moment. That moon is from Pit Fighter!
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Post by Melanogaster on Jan 8, 2017 15:36:35 GMT
32 is Gangster Town. Sixty-Hertzers should be awarded double points for guessing anything on the music lot!
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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 4, 2016 13:02:54 GMT
There are 30 levels altogether -- you're close to escaping that world of madness!
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Post by Melanogaster on Jan 16, 2016 14:30:09 GMT
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Post by Melanogaster on Jan 9, 2016 15:33:35 GMT
How can The Cyber Shinobi not make it to the final? What a tragedy!
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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 13, 2015 22:18:27 GMT
Nicely done, rupert! Looking forward to the finals.
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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 20, 2012 3:12:45 GMT
A-ha! So a way out has been found, thank you very much Melanogaster! Not a problem; it's really not that easy to guess that without the manual, indeed. Talking about the tec toy version: melanogaster, I had never ever seen a copy of this game in its tec toy version until recently when an ebay seller put one for a ridiculous BIN price, claiming the game was a 200 copies-only release. Can you confirm it is THAT rare ? Short version: certainly not. Long version: the thing is, throughout the past few years of retrocollecting and researching, we came to learn here that Tec Toy did not distribute their games in a coherent, uniform-ish way at all. Talking with other people over at different brazilian SMS related forums, I now know that, while I was the only one I knew in my state that had a Psycho Fox, apparently in Rio and Porto Alegre it was just not that common and in São Paulo it was very common. For some time I didn't even knew about the existence of a blue re-release of Ghouls'n Ghosts, while in Rio and São Paulo they were very used to it. On the other hand, while I myself had sold a few copies of the white/blue Shinobi release over the years, many people from Rio, São Paulo and Porto Alegre had never seen it before I scanned the cover of my copy a couple of years ago. As for Dragon Crystal specifically (which I know because it's one of my favorite games), I have a complete copy and sold another complete one I had some time ago. Back in the day, just in my city, four other kids had it, two rental stores had it (one had two copies) and the two main retail stores had them for sale for a long time. A cousin and a friend, which did not live in my city, had a copy each. As for cities on other states, I now know that in Porto Alegre it apparently was relatively common while people had lots of trouble to find it in Rio or São Paulo. But if you want to forget all that and look only at recent (2006~2012) auctions, then I guess it's safe to say the game is very difficult to find in its complete form, since I've seen perhaps only half a dozen copies in the meantime.
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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 19, 2012 2:15:42 GMT
Concerning the "clicking on the wall" mentioned, here goes an excerpt from the manual (my copy is Tec Toy so this is the only scan I have): Translation: Are you lost? You are walking in circles and cannot find a way in or out. What should you do? Stay in front of an obstacle or an area that looks suspicious and then press Button 2 several times to find a hidden passage.
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Post by Melanogaster on Sept 25, 2012 22:13:44 GMT
TransBot and Great Basketball!
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Post by Melanogaster on Jul 10, 2012 2:01:18 GMT
Nope, in fact its slower than I expected. I was under the impression that PAL-M (the TV standard in Brazil, and which this console uses) was 60hz, but actually its the same speed as 50hz. The internet had lied to me! Anyway it explains why games which have a problem on NTSC/60hz consoles managed to get a Tec Toy release unchanged. Something else must be off then, because if what I'm seeing on ninjabearhug's SMS Quest videos is 50Hz gameplay, there's no way I haven't spent my younger years into deep 60Hz awesomeness...
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Post by Melanogaster on Jun 26, 2012 1:08:03 GMT
Indeed a very a good job, ian, congratulations. Loved the big cart design; refreshing but yet it keeps the retro feel. Just to echo kungfukid: are the member bios gone or is it just temporary...? How are Internet creeps supposed to harass ShadowAngel with random, unscrupulous PMs as of now?
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Post by Melanogaster on May 8, 2012 4:00:15 GMT
Nice episode! TransBot is awesome! It's been 6 years now since that first contest we had when I scored ~2,5M and the game glitched all over me. I see now that brian has a 5,5M+ hi-score, and with no sign of garbled graphics... quite an achievement.
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Post by Melanogaster on Apr 13, 2012 0:36:51 GMT
Just a simple, easy quicky. Need to find a decent program to edit pics/screens on a 6-years-old mac... Psycho Fox.
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