Possessed

Tack said:

Wasn't X7 considered worse? 

 Damn, you were right.  I forgotten how awful X7 was. X6 had terrible, awful, atrocious level and boss design but it least it still had a game engine that was fun to play.  The only thing about X7 that's even remotely fun is using the Z-Saber, and it's practically useless anyway.  Everything about this game is truly terrible.  They even took concepts which should have been fun and managed to make them infuriating.  This game wouldn't even be very hard if it weren't for the atrocious camera angles and horrible response time/character control.  Holy shit, X8 better be better (never played it before) or else next time I go through this series I'm stopping at X5 (which was the original intended ending anyway.)

I remember that too.  There was a certain other member being an ass at the time too, but he seems to have decided to become easier to get along with and I haven't minded him lately.

I can tell you it was in one of the religion threads in particular.  Also perhaps the petition made my DE to collectively ignore him may contain some links.

^^Hahahahahahahahaahahaha. (@-1)

DuracellEnergizer said:

It reached 27°C (80°F) today, it's supposed to reach 33 (91) tomorrow, and get as high as 39 (102) on Sunday.

And just to avoid any uncertainty, 25 (77) is the highest temperature I can stomach.

 Lmao, if anybody ever doubted that you were Canadian before, they sure don't know.  80?  That's walk in the park weather.

Can't wait.  Whenever I finally get all my Inuyasha-editing out of my system and get around to my ROTJ edit, I will be using your ROTJ as a base, so naturally I can't wai tto see your ESB as well.

As far as the sabers go, I'm just happy they have white cores again.

Personally I think it would be much more constructive to raise awareness about coping with cyber bullying than preventing it.  Some people will always be assholes and that will never change.  You can raise sympathy and put in the minds of many, but there will ALWAYS be people who like to hurt.  Always.

Not to mention you can play with a PS3 or an XBOX 360 controller without even having to buy anything.

Also, yes I used to have that adapter to plug in a snes controller into a usb port.  Cost me like 2 bucks.  Although it doesn't have enough buttons for N64 games.  But I play all my emulated games on a PS3 controller.  It's layout is similar enough to play SNES games, but with enough buttons to play n64 games.

bkev said:

I like Project64 the best mostly for its native widescreen support thanks to Jabo's Direct3D.  Playing Zelda in 16:9 without having to stretch it is nothing short of amazing.

 Not technically native support as it's actually just the plugin.  You can use that plugin on any emulator.  I use Glide64 because then I can use HD texture packs and play the game in HD.  Although for games that don't have a texture pack that I like I will use the Jabo plugin.

There is a texture pack available for OOT written for Jabo, but I don't use it because there isn't one for MM, and I usually play those games back to back and want the experience to be the same.  Weird of me, I know, but if MM has to be in 4:3, then I want OOT to be in 4:3 as well.  To me the extra detail in the packs is worth the ratio.

Hmm... that's odd.  What graphics plugin are you using, and have you tried any others?  I use Glide64 for games if I'm using an HD texture pack, but Jabo seems to work fine for others.  

Also, which version are you using?  V 2.1 fixed many issues and is alot faster than 1.6, which is more popular for some reason.  Although I go back and forth between versions sometimes.  Overall 2.1 works better with most games and is much faster, but I have to use 1.6 to get Conker's Bad Fur Day to run at full speed for some reason that I'll never understand.  (Really, I don't get it.  It used to work perfectly on 2.1 for me, then I did nothing, and just suddenly one day when I booted it it would only run at 45 fps no matter what I did.  It was really quite baffling.  So I just use 1.6 for that particular game to save myself the headache.)

What does it do?

Still 14 days since an on-topic post.

This one shall be no different.

Although, I wanted to play a NTSC speed Master Quest, and the only way to do that is to extract the master quest rom out of the GameCube port (which works perfectly btw, you just use dolphin to extract the rom out of the gamecube iso and it works perfectly on emulators), and, interestingly enough, when you do that it comes out as a file named urazle.n64, which seems to indicate that at the time of the gamecube port nintendo was still referring to master quest as ura zelda internally.

Whoops, I am referring to Master Quest, because I was under the impression that Ura Zelda was the basis for Master Quest, although I guess they aren't technically the same, although master quest is still a DD game is it not?

Anyway, all I said was that I play Majora's Mask on project64, and then you come in and talked about how project64 is inaccurate in ways that don't pertain to this situation or what I was talking about in anyway whatsoever, I guess it just was a little confusing.  I use project64 to play games, and it works fine for that.  Sorry.

Danfun128 said:

I wasn't specifically talking about Majora's Mask.

I don't know how to explain how important emulation accuracy is to me, but I will try my best.

1. Many Super Mario 64 hacks can't run on a real n64 because they make inaccurate hardware assumptons. Doesn't affect my enjoyment when I'm playing it on the emulator at all.

2. Games like Pokemon Snap and the 64dd games are unplayable on less accurate consoles. I don't know much about those, but I can tell you it runs Ura Zelda perfectly.

3. Accuracy in emulation allows for tool assisted replays to be run on an actual console. Again, what does this have to do with enjoying playing a game?

4. Although meant for the snes, http://byuu.org/bsnes/accuracy">this article should explain some things. Pity it's incomplete though.

 While your points are valid, I honestly don't see how they have anything to do with whether or not somebody should play a game on Project64.  Maybe I misread, but I don't recall anybody saying they were trying to make a hack or a TAS, just playing the damn game.

O S U R!

Majora's Mask, in fact, runs perfectly fine on project64.  If there's anything about it that's so inaccurate on project64 that it honestly ruins the game for you, then I seriously feel sorry for you and I question whether or not you're actually playing for fun.  I played through the whole game on it and it was great.  Also, it was nice being able to play it on a 65 inch HDTV and not have it be blurry or pixelated.  Thank you, bluedart for that.

Then again, things like frame-buffer effects being a half second off don't bother me, but hey maybe I'm weird.  I must be crazy, but things being slightly different that I would never notice unless it was pointed out to me just don't affect me at all.

imperialscum said:

Possessed said:

The bit he said about ImpScum was pretty funny too I thought.

I didn't quite get it.

Btw, good luck Trident. :)

 I didn't either I just thought the placement of such a statement was humorous.  

Also there's the madness of Team-Negative-1 and the other madness it inspired.

It has been rereleased for 3ds, my cousin has it.

Also, if you've got a nintendo wii it's pretty cheap on the virtual console.  I emulate it on project64 (legally... I bought it on the virtual console then there's a way to extract the rom from that)

Just one last tidbit for it.  The guy who designed all the sidequest said that he incorporated every type of situation or problem for a character to get into that he had EVER experienced or witnessed in his real life, everything.  From a family friendly filter of course.  (he was in his 30's at the time)

The Exorcist.

Excellent, excellent film.  Almost traumatic to watch, for reasons I can't explain why.  There are films that are scarier than this that don't leave half the impression.  But of course everybody here is probably already familiar with the effect it can have.

A bit of news for people who want to see it.  Netflix has added it to their streaming catalog, and as I just watched it I can confirm that it is the theatrical cut, which is a plus in my book.  None of the added music, pointless hospital scenes or spiderwalk (although I did miss that one) are present.  With all this in mind, it does seem to be based off of the transfer used for The Version You've Never Seen onward. ie cleaned up video quality and clear colors, but the cut is the theatrical, and while it's been a while since I've seen the film, I *THINK* damien's demonic eyes at the end are original as well.  I wasn't aware something like this officially existed?  I thought all HD/restored versions of the film were the "special edition"?  But I'm not sure, either way Netflix has the theatrical in great HD quality so go watch it.

The only thing I really miss (other than the spiderwalk... but that doesn't bother me a whole lot) from the extended version is the Exorcist and Damien's dialogue about Pazuzu choosing to possess raegan to show them the evil beast within them all.  Those lines were great and in my opinion changed the tone of the ending.  

Based on what you've said I believe you would love MM.  If the main quest wasn't fascinating enough to play the game (and it is) the side quests involving small town villagers would really appeal to you I think.

Are you a Zelda fan?  Majora's Mask has a TON of sidequests that deal only with interacting with smaller characters that have an odd assortment of problems and situations and doing what you can to help solve them.  While it doesn't fall into the manipulation of Sims, it's definitely interesting and pretty involved.

The bit he said about ImpScum was pretty funny too I thought.

Anyway, I wish you weren't leaving.  Best of luck to you.  Hope you change your mind.

But if that happened would it not open up the possibility for them to be reincarnated as something better?  Perhaps a hammer?

I'd like to come back as a phillips screwdriver.