Re: Retro gaming
Posted: July 12th, 2018, 11:49 pm
If nothing else, that Game Vault app has finally motivated me to get a spreadsheet together, just to be super thorough and to fill in the gaps.
Yeah man, it's only there now as I added it.
Boo.
Really enjoying the app.Suits wrote: ↑July 13th, 2018, 8:33 amYeah man, it's only there now as I added it.
If you notice at the bottom of the screen on the app, it has a + button. That allows you to add regional variations to a title. You can adjust the title, the boxart, release date and region there. It takes a few seconds, I often don't bother updating boxart and release dates, I just add a PAL version.
When you add something whether it's added to the database overall, or just for the users account - I'm unsure.
I often have to add PAL variations of smaller less popular games, perhaps a side affect of the app being American.
It does take some getting used to but becomes a very versatile, helpful app once you're used to it.
Ah, cool. I wasn't aware of the details but I knew there was other functionality in the app. Good stuff.Simonsloth wrote: ↑August 2nd, 2018, 11:26 pm Really enjoying the app.
I’ve just spotted you can toggle each game as completed or playing. Nice for me to keep track of games I start and forget to go back to.
Cheers dude.KSubzero1000 wrote: ↑August 11th, 2018, 9:48 pm The cardboard Game Boy boxes have a very specific charm, don't they? I lost all of mine during a move (Is that the right phrasing? Doesn't sound right.) - thankfully, I still have all the cartridges. It's nice to see them being cared for like this.
The Warioland 4 boxart is amazing, but it's also the first time I found out the Japanese box art was different. There was a store which carried a few import games and for some reason they had Warioland 4. The smaller box was just just so colourful and full of life. Both instances of it are ace though.Man, I'm a big sucker for the 90's Nintendo cardboard stuff, especially the Japanese stuff but yeah, the PAL GameBoy stuff holds a super nostalgia effect on me. Not only do they look cool but I lusted after a lot of these as a child, either in the shops, or on the posters that came with the games. More often than not only having the box art to study to try and work out what on earth they were all about. So actually having them in my hands now is wonderful.
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Yeah, I see what you're saying and agree regards the movement weight - although it's hard to totally place them in the same bracket I suppose due to the significant platform restraints. I often wonder what was choice and what was the result of performance regards these types of games and their physics.
Man, I was literally about to pull the cord on a £150 boxed version from Japan when my pal that has a retro video game store (The Retro Hunter) messaged me and said he had something in via a walk in trade that I may be interested in and did me deal on it.