Orange Slices wrote on 08/26/16 at 01:22:25:


Still can deteriorate them XP

neak wrote on 08/26/16 at 19:33:44:


One of my favourite games ever <3

Have you played the original as well?

As I mentioned the other day, I wanted to give the original Super Smash Bros. another try. So far I've just done a few runs of 1-Player Mode.

First was Mario. I was doing fairly well, though I did miss some Pacifists, and then I somehow managed to fling myself off the stage with the Up+B attack very early in the Fighting Polygon Team battle. No Miss x10 and x11, and No Miss Clear goes out the window. I still managed to finish with over 1.1 million points.

Then I tried Jigglypuff. I got the highest PR by far with Jigglypuff back when I was good at the game--well over 1.6 million. The key is to play on Very Easy, and use Up+B to put your opponents to sleep, then push them off the stage. The biggest mistake I could see in this run was... failing the Break the Targets stage. However, come the end of the game, I realized I only had in the 1.3 million range. Later I figured out what I did wrong... I didn't use Jigg's Sing attack in mid-air, so I could get Hawk+Pacifist on every stage (except the team battles). Hawk is an extra... 18,000, I seem to recall.

And just now I had a passable DK run. I only got one Pacifist (Pikachu, the easiest one) since (1) I seem to have lost my knack at getting Pacifist on Link, the first opponent and (2) Giant DK killed both of my partners. At least I didn't botch the Break the Targets or Board the Platforms rounds this time. This run ended with a score of 1,235,590.

During the DK run, I noticed that I usually can't get the Control Stick to "smash" to the left. I can smash right, but rarely left. This means that trying to do a left smash usually performs a left tilt, and I can't roll or dash left either. Seems like I've got another bad Stick. I just bought this controller about a year ago, but it's a third party, made in China. But I just had to have a green controller. The stick does feel kind of stiff and makes squeaking noises when you do hard tilts on it. Seems like good N64 sticks are hard to come by now, because the one I had been using couldn't register a hard right, rendering me unable to complete the Handcar Havoc course in Mario Party.

I usually play 1-player on Normal, and it's a moderate challenge to finish it without dying, as this game's main mode is longer than in the sequels. The original SSB rewards you immensely for not dying, because the No Miss keeps getting bigger with each successive stage and the No Miss Clear at the end is a cool 70,000. You also get 210,000 for finishing the game on Normal, versus 70,000 for Very Easy. (each step up in difficulty adds 70,000)

A little earlier I did another Star Fox 64 run, taking the Corneria-Sector Y-Aquas-Zoness-Macbeth-Area 6-Venom route this time. Corneria was a lot better than before, 246. Sector Y was so-so, I think I had 266 there. On Aquas I really seemed to have lost my knack for spamming the Hit+1's with the torpedoes-- I couldn't even break 200! Zoness was mediocre, I think I had 333. Area 6, though, was one of my largest improvements over last time... I finished with 525. Total Hits ended up being better than last time, 2,020, despite taking (what is for me) a lower-scoring route. I can work off some of that rust... as long as my controller holds together.

EDIT: I might better go dig out that other N64 controller right now, because I just had a really sucky run with Link. I didn't even make a million this time  

My fighting (without the ability to dash, dodge, or smash attack to the left) really suffered-- I died fighting the Kirby Team, and that's after restarting the game twice after dying on Mario Bros. Oh, and I (predictably) missed the last platform on Board the Platforms. This run underscores the importance of not dying in 1-Player mode. I barely got any points after each late-game battle once the No Misses stopped coming in (the Metal Mario fight got me no bonuses). I died on Master Hand, too, but it really didn't matter at that point.

EDIT: I think I might have semi-fixed my controller by whacking the Control Stick hard to the left. However, it sure didn't help my Captain Falcon run, where not only did I fail to get a million points, I didn't even make it to 900K! I don't know where I lost so many points, because at least this time I didn't die until the Fighting Polygon Team, though I did also fail at Platforms.

Make no mistake, the original SSB takes some getting used to when you've been playing the sequels for the past 10 years.

EDIT: ...I'll never be good at this game again, at least not with Captain Falcon.  

Still can't get him over a million points again, but at least I got to about 935,000 this time. I should probably consider (1) playing on Easy and (2) using a different route on that Board the Platforms stage...

Finished SM64DS yesterday, now going for the 150 stars.

Forgot to say that I got the 150 stars 2 days ago or so. Yeah, it took me a little while because I've been playing other games at the same time.

I would be re-downloading Asphalt 8 to my school laptop if I had a phone to verify my Microsoft account (It says that's what I need to do in order to get back on for some stupid reason)

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of the Nintendo 64 in America, I've spent much of the past couple of days playing games from 1996. Some early N64 games-- Killer Instinct Gold, Pilotwings 64, and Wave Race 64 so far (none of which I'm particularly good at), and I still plan on doing some Super Mario 64 and Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire by the end of the month. I've also dabbled on some SNES games from the same year: Super Mario RPG, Kirby Super Star, Tetris Attack, and Donkey Kong Country 3. Not trying to beat any of them, just play each of them long enough to bring back the memories of when I played them for the first time (I actually didn't play Tetris Attack as a kid-- I just bought that one used fairly recently).
I also played a few rounds of Tetrisphere, although that game didn't come out until the following year. (Most of the world didn't get Mario Kart 64 until 1997, as well)

I was excited about starting the 6th grade two decades ago. The school I had been attending at the time taught 4th, 5th, and 6th, so being in the 6th grade really made me feel like one of the big kids. Our school textbooks were color-coded by grade level, and I really liked the purple color of the English and math books we used in 6th grade. Also the 6th grade science book was really cool-- it had a periodic table in it. That might have been the first time I saw one. The highest element on this table was number 109, then known as "Unnilennium", literally meaning "one-zero-nine", chemcial symbol Une. (It looks like the element has since been renamed "Meitnerium"-- other man-made elements numbered over 100 have undergone similar renamings)

Also, the 6th grade was the first time I had multiple teachers (that was another "big kid" thing for me at the time-- up through 5th grade, we were taught all our subjects by one teacher, in one classroom), and turning 12 meant that I was just a year away from becoming a teenager.  

However, I'm a little embarrassed of the way I acted back then. I remember I was rather uncooperative with my teachers sometimes, and would rather gossip with my classmates or design Super Mario World levels on paper than do my assignments or participate in class activities, hehe. Looking back 20 years I feel I was so immature as an 11/12-year-old, and I got sent to the principal's office quite a few times, and each office visit meant I wouldn't be able to play Nintendo for a while. I was hardly a model student. My grades were abysmal too at the time, in all brutal honesty my 6th-grade self was a total loser.  
I just wish I had gotten more motivation to act mature and do everything my teachers wanted from me... I may have been grounded sometimes but I know that in truth I got off way too easy in my preteen days.

I had been reading about the development of the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64 in video game magazines throughout 1996 (mostly Game Players, which became Ultra Game Players that year) and saw beta screen shots of Mario 64-- I was just so, so excited to get a N64 for Christmas at the end of the year and be able control Mario in three dimensions. Some of you are too young to remember this, but the first 3D Mario game was quite a big thing for the evolution of video games.
The console was originally going to be called the "Ultra 64". I even remember the logo they had planned on using.

Before this time, the most powerful console Nintendo had was their 16-bit SNES, and in the mid-90s, rival companies Sega and Sony had already released 32-bit consoles, the Saturn and the Playstation. Nintendo basically skipped the 32-bit console generation, and really needed to release a 64-bit console in order to keep up with the Joneses. The Nintendo 64 propelled Nintendo to new heights, and Sega, its main rival throughout the 90s, was showing decline by the turn of the millennium, with the Dreamcast perhaps being its last major console release.

http://shmuplations.com/mario64/

Mario 64 interview from when the game came out.

^$50 seems a lot to pay for an incomplete JPN version of SM64, for comparison I paid ~$15 (including delivery charges) for this version http://i.imgur.com/xSvPB3I.jpg

If you don't want to hack the corners off the cartridge you could always use a gamebit and swap the gameboard out into an unwanted USA cartridge shell to play it.

So I just randomly downloaded the first Pikmin game off of the eShop today.  I just played for 4 hours straight haha.  It's actually really fun, and stressful  

I've never played any of the Pikmin games until now

Finished Star Ocean 5 (PS4).
Playing Divinity: Original Sin (PS4).
Might get the new Paper Mario tomorrow.

Edit: Started Paper Mario. It's pretty good.

Mafia III. So many good and bad things to say.