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  1. Hungry Friend

    Unpopular Opinions Time

    Suikoden 2 smokes the entire FF series. I consider VI its equal partially due to nostalgia but Suikoden 2 is the better game with a better villain. Luca Blight is actually strong enough to be intimidating in battle unlike Kefka.
  2. Hungry Friend

    Unpopular Opinions Time

    All drugs should be legalized or at the very least decriminalized. Cannabis is a good start but needs federal legalization, but psychedelics like mushrooms, LSD, Mescaline, 4-aco-DMT etc should be legally available as well. Opiates, stimulants, benzos etc should be medical imo as they are today...
  3. Hungry Friend

    What minimum specs should i aim for with PS2 and N64 emulation?

    Unless something's changed recently you still need a fairly good CPU to run games like Shadow of the Colossus or hell, even Tekken Tag(likely due to the filter Namco applied to the game to reduce the jaggies in versions outside of Japan). Most shit should run alright with a modest PC but if you...
  4. Hungry Friend

    I need some JRPGs!

    Suikoden 1 and 2, in that order. There are tactical elements/portions but they are very simple compared to, say, FF Tactics or the Fire Emblem series. I suck at tactical RPGs and the battles, specifically in Suikoden 2(more complex than S1), never kept me from enjoying those amazing games. #1 is...
  5. Hungry Friend

    Possible Malware in Demul?

    I just went ahead and got it running. Hope those little scares are just that; little scares/false positives. Final Tuned never left Japan and it looks way better than even the very competent PS2 EVO port. Still need to tweak the emu to get ir running 100% flawlessly without any audio popping...
  6. Hungry Friend

    Possible Malware in Demul?

    I suspected they were just false positives; thanks for the quick replies and when I have the time I'm gonna go ahead and set Demul up and get some of those beautiful Naomi 2 games running. From the YT videos I've watched it looks like the various versions of VF4 run almost flawlessly. PS2 port...
  7. Hungry Friend

    Possible Malware in Demul?

    When I downloaded the latest version of Demul and tested the .7z file on Virustotal I got the following result: Has anyone had issues with Demul or do you think these are simply false positives? I want to get VF4 Final Tuned running on my PC but if anyone has had issues with Demul, please let...
  8. Hungry Friend

    How do you cope with games that are too difficult?

    Assuming we're only talking about games designed to be hard and not ones that are simply hard due to bad design or something, I usually get pissed off and refuse to let the game beat me. Sometimes it works, sometimes I just lose patience and stop playing but generally, if it's a game I actually...
  9. Hungry Friend

    People Need to Learn...

    No doubt they know what emulators are but I seriously doubt your average reporter would have any idea how to actually use one or know any of the details as far as accuracy and such go for individual emus. I mean almost all retro LPs on youtube are very clearly emulated so they're pretty well...
  10. Hungry Friend

    People Need to Learn...

    It's not at all surprising that gaming "media" knows nothing of the emulation community and its vast base of knowledge, and I'm not exactly all that knowledgeable either but it really should be common knowledge by now. Emulators, and good ones at that, have been around since the 90s so the...
  11. Hungry Friend

    Do you prefer literal or liberal translations?

    I dig good liberal localizations but the kinds of things I can't stand, and this is only one extreme example, are things like the "Weapons of Magitek destruction" line in FFVI Advance. That bothered me much more than it probably should've but it broke immersion by reminding me of the current...
  12. Hungry Friend

    Do you prefer literal or liberal translations?

    That's one thing the Doctor L CT hack removed from the Chrono Compendium retrans; all the -kuns, -sans and whatnot were removed as well as re-adding much of the original US script albeit without censoring sexual references, drinking etc. The Mystics are actually supposed to be called demons from...
  13. Hungry Friend

    Too Damn Real?

    Double Dragon 3 NES(arcade version is horrific) is criminally underrated and it also does away with those terrible reverse controls from DD2. It's about as hard as a beat-em-up can get and I've only actually beat the darn game once, but for an NES beat-em-up it's really good if you can get past...
  14. Hungry Friend

    Too Damn Real?

    Well that opens up quite another can of worms, but my main issue with modern games is all the DLC crap but if I go into a rant about that my post will simply be deleted. My other point is that one doesn't even NEED a big budget to make a beautiful game with many old classics being perfect...
  15. Hungry Friend

    Do you prefer literal or liberal translations?

    My only real problem with the Doctor L trans is that Ozzie, Flea & Slash are retranslated(properly I might add) to Vinegar, Mayonnaise & Soysaw respectively but I prefer the US versions BY FAR. Other than that I can't think of a single advantage the original US trans has over that hybrid of the...
  16. Hungry Friend

    Too Damn Real?

    The homogenization of in-game graphics that you speak of, and there certainly are exceptions but I think much of that has to do with the fact that big games today are so expensive that companies are much less likely to take risks and use unique art styles, hence why we usually see the...
  17. Hungry Friend

    Too Damn Real?

    2d imo certainly ages more gracefully but keep in mind the fact that textured polygonal graphics were still in their infancy back in the mid-late 90s and early 00s while sprites were a tried and true method. I agree with the sentiment though, because even some NES games like SMB3 still look good...
  18. Hungry Friend

    Too Damn Real?

    I prefer various stylized art forms/direction in games simply due to the fact that games designed to look realistic tend to age very, very badly. I certainly see your point but as far as keeping realism out of games, that, for me, mostly applies to gameplay because trying to make games too...
  19. Hungry Friend

    Do you prefer literal or liberal translations?

    I generally prefer something in between. Now I don't know any Japanese just as a discalimer but take the RPGOne trans of the JP version of FFVI. It's apparently a very literal translation and the hacking job is phenomenal, but the dialogue sometimes comes off as dry and unnatural, unlike the...
  20. Hungry Friend

    Are most of your emulated games ones you don't own.

    Since I started gaming on the NES and really got into gaming starting with the SNES, I still own quite a few old carts as well as original GB games, but emulating stuff is often much more convenient. My NES has been broken for who knows how many years, and while my SNES still works(well, it did...
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