Shining in the Darkness - trapped in intro screen :-(

Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> Scott H <weaponx013 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> benstylus wrote:
>>> BelPowerslave wrote:
>>>>> Huh - precisely when? Like - I turn on the system, the old guy appears
>>>>> and then... what _should_ happen if there are no saves?
>>>> As far as I recall, he should immediately ask you your name. From
>>>> there you type it in and he keeps going with the story.
>>>>
>>>>> P.S. Anyone else tempted to go 100% with emulation nowadays? Maybe I
>>>>> take gaming way too seriously, but with more and more hardware dying on
>>>>> me as the years pass I REALLY don't like the idea of losing high scores
>>>>> and important saves. The trouble is of course that emulation still
>>>>> leaves much to be desired compared to the real thing *sigh*
>>>> It depends on the system, for me. For stuff I don't care anything
>>>> about, like the NES, N64, Lynx, Turbografx, etc., or the stuff where
>>>> the hardware is way too expensive and/or shitty, like the Neo Geo, Neo
>>>> Geo CD, any given arcade game, etc. I don't mind emulation.
>>>>
>>>> For stuff that I own the actual hardware, I won't emulate it for
>>>> anything other than testing purposes(to see if the game is even worth
>>>> buying, etc) or getting screenshots. That's just me though...a lot of
>>>> people don't mind emulating everything...
>>>>
>>>> Bel
>>> emulating sega is a sin.
>>>
>> That's right, do it and the next time you have a hardware problem we'll
>> ignore you.
>
> Heh, well I'd better not have any more troubles then I emulate just
> about every classic console and home computer I ever ran across, and a
> couple I never had the pleasure of using. But I still far prefer the
> real thing. I really envy folk with access to the European and American
> secondhand markets. Hardware is a PITA to come by here in NZ.

I'm just kidding about the ostracization thing, I only do that to
trolls and obvious pirates really. People who rely solely on emulation
(including compilation discs) are robbing themselves and poisoning the
well of public opinion for these older games though. If it makes you
feel any better, I have to use E-bay to buy anything second hand,
everything locally is torn up, cart only, or overpriced. I've pretty
much been relying on sites like genkivideogames and e-bay for about
eight years now.
I was really shocked at how much easier something like Dracula X
Chi no Rondo was on the actual hardware verses Magic Engine. I don't
ever want to own over 600 games or so at once, but I enjoy collecting
the ones I know I will play and trading off the chaff periodically.


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Scott
www.gamepilgrimage.com

In article <gg1c1r$t91$1@news.motzarella.org>,
Scott H <weaponx013 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
<snip>
>well of public opinion for these older games though. If it makes you
>feel any better, I have to use E-bay to buy anything second hand,
>everything locally is torn up, cart only, or overpriced. I've pretty
>much been relying on sites like genkivideogames and e-bay for about
>eight years now.

Where in the world do you live? Even in the backwater part of Florida
that I park my car in, there are independent game stores that service the
self-proclaimed hardcore gamer. Got a nice, minty complete copy of
Suikoden II from a place called Game Over, which always has a ton of old
Sega stuff lying around too. There's a new chain called Play N Trade that
has a dubious reputation, but the older stores in the franchise all have
buckets of 8-bit stuff. And the flea markets are full of guys trying to
sell unopened games from five years ago, when speculation was at its
height. It's definitely a buyer's market where I am.

-KKC, who may have to scale back purchases once he gets the car repair
bill.
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