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Renaissance2K

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Retro Talkshop Thread

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Let's Play Together! Game of the Month
Every month, RTT gets together and brainstorms choices to vote as the Let's Play Together! Game of the Month.
Upon completion of the GotM, you will be rewarded with an Achievement Icon!
Let's play some awesome games together!

Game of the Month Captain:

Renaissance2K

Retro Talkshop Thread Founder & CEO: Lunar

May 2023

Daytona USA

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DAYYY-TOOOO-NAAAAAAAAAAAH USA is one of the highest-grossing

arcade games of all time, praised for its advanced graphics, its realistic physics, and of course, its unforgettable original soundtrack. The game - and its enhanced follow-up - ended up being a flagship launch-window title for the

before finding a home on

3D-accelerated PCs shortly after.

Play it on

Arcade

Saturn

Windows

PlayStation 3

Xbox 360

Play Daytona USA Deluxe on

Windows

Play Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition on

Saturn

Play Daytona USA 2001 on

Dreamcast

Finish the Beginner Circuit on any version of Daytona USA earn the Beginner Circuit badge:

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Finish the Advanced Circuit on any version of Daytona USA to earn the Advanced Circuit badge:

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Finish the Expert Circuit on any version of Daytona USA to earn the Expert Circuit badge:

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Monthly Leaderboard

Lunar

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Renaissance2K

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Slickriven

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2023 Annual Franchise Challenge

Shining

Shining is a Sega role-playing game franchise that originated back in 1991 on the Sega Genesis & Mega Drive. Over the years, the games have adopted different modalities and mechanics - including turn-based RPG, strategy, and dungeon crawler - though many games share common character threads and a fantasy aesthetic. Most Shining games take an average of about 20 hours to complete, with later generation titles being longer and portable titles being shorter.

Suggested Games

Shining in the Darkness

Shining Force

Shining Force II

Shining Force CD

Shining Force III

Shining Wisdom

Shining the Holy Ark

Shining Force Gaiden

Shining Force: The Sword of Hajya

Shining Force Gaiden: Final Conflict

Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon

Shining Soul

Shining Soul II

Shining Force Neo

Shining Force Exa

Shining Tears

Shining Wind

Beat any game in the Shining franchise in 2023 to earn the {imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 15 18{imgt} Max icon which will appear to your username everywhere in the Retro Talkshop Thread.

2023 Recap

Leaderboard

BloodPuppetX

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Kommie

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Lunar

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Renaissance2K

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SupremeSarna

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Yoshi

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May 2023 Edition - Rayman

Rayman launched an empire of cartoonish platformers, became one of Ubisoft's first unofficial mascots, and spawned a race of parasites so vile, they even threatened the Mushroom Kingdom. The hand-drawn hero made up for a lack of a body with excellent animations, psychadelic level design, and an incredible amount of detail to distract you from some brutal platforming and bosses. Originally intended to be a

Jaguar exclusive, the first Rayman adventure fell onto the scene in 1995 for the

PlayStation,

Saturn, and

PC, eventually being ported to a variety of handhelds as the horsepower became available.

Beat Rayman or any of its ports to earn the Rayman badge:

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 89 66{imgt}

April 2023 Edition - Golden Sun

Golden Sun was published by Nintendo in 2001, shortly after the launch of the

Game Boy Advance. Calling back to the best RPGs of the 16-bit era, it was at the time one of the largest RPGs to ever launch for a handheld. The game is remembered years later for its unique magic system which uses spells not just for battle but for navigating the world and solving puzzles.

Beat Golden Sun to earn the Isaac badge:

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March 2023 Edition - Virtua Fighter

Virtua Fighter released in

arcades in 1993 and is widely-considered the first 3D fighting game ever. Its character designs and fighting mechanics have gone on to inspire numerous other fighting games that followed. Sega developed home ports of the game for its

Saturn and

32X consoles, and followed up with a Virtua Fighter Remix re-release that improved the graphics.

Beat Virtua Fighter or any of its re-releases to earn a badge for the character you used:

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February 2023 Edition - Final Fantasy VI

Final Fantasy VI - released as Final Fantasy III in North America - was originally released for the

Super Famicom and

Super Nintendo. The game's legacy as the last old-guard Final Fantasy game is massive, and it's still celebrated for its memorable characters, unique antagonist, and robust soundtrack.

Beat Final Fantasy VI or any of its re-releases to earn the Kefka badge.

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January 2023 Edition - Doom 64

Doom 64 was released as a brand new Doom campaign for the

Nintendo 64, set after the events of Final Doom. While not extremely successful or lauded upon its release, the game has become somewhat of a cult classic over the years for its difficulty and atmosphere, in part due to a spooky ambient soundtrack from Aubrey Hodges. The game's sleeper status peaked in recent years when Bethesda dropped a remaster of the game in 2020 for modern platforms at a bargain price.

Beat Doom 64 or its remaster to earn a badge.

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Who's On?

Switch Friend Codes

Lunar

SW-7373-6931-1610

2022 Recap

January

Another World / Out of this World
February

Banjo-Kazooie
March

NBA Jam
April

Kirby Super Star
May

Alien Soldier
June

Valis: The Fantasm Soldier
July

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
August

Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
September

Dynamite Cop
October

Castlevania franchise
November

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins &

Robo Aleste
December

Mega Man 7
Annual Franchise Challenge

Lunar

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December 2022 Edition - Mega Man 7

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November 2022 Edition - Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins & Robo Aleste

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October 2022 Edition - Castlevania franchise

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Beat Castlevania: Bloodlines to earn either the John Morris badge and/or the Eric Lecarde badge - both of which first debuted in June 2019.

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Beat Castlevania: Rondo of Blood to earn the Grand Cross badge, debuting this month for the first time.

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 128 75{imgt}

September 2002 Edition - Dynamite Cop

Beat Mission 1 of Dynamite Cop to earn the Pool Jump badge.

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 100 75{imgt}

Beat Mission 2 of Dynamite Cop to earn the Flying Kick badge.

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 100 75{imgt}

Beat Mission 3 of Dynamite Cop to earn the "Pardon Me" badge.

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 100 75{imgt}

August 2002 Edition - Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 75 75{imgt}

July 2002 Edition - Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 94 75{imgt}

June 2022 Edition - Valis: The Fantasm Soldier

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 120 106{imgt}

May 2022 Edition - Alien Soldier

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 139 150{imgt}

April 2022 Edition - Kirby Super Star

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 207 150{imgt}

March 2022 Edition - NBA Jam

Beat any release of NBA Jam on any platform before to earn a roster badge for each team you use.

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Complete the NBA Jam: Tournament Edition challenge and beat every available team to earn the Jam-pionship Badge.

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 116 179{imgt}

February 2022 Edition - Banjo-Kazooie

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 60 75{imgt}

January 2022 Edition - Another World / Out of this World

Beat Another World on any platform to earn the Lester badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 105 75{imgt}

Beat Another World on a second platform to earn the This F###ing Worm badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 120 75{imgt}

Leaderboard

benstylus

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BleedingViolet

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BloodPuppetX

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ErickRPG

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Foxhack

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Kommie

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razeak

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Renaissance2K

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Slickriven

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SupremeSarna

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2021 Recap

January

Jackal
February

Super Turrican
March

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
April

Metal Slug X
May

Strider
June

Darkstalkers 3
July

Shantae
August

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
September

Super Mario Kart
October

Splatterhouse &

Silent Hill
November

Yoshi's Story
December

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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December 2021 Edition - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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November 2021 Edition - Yoshi's Story

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 100 75{imgt}

October 2021 Edition - Splatterhouse & Silent Hill

Beat Splatterhouse on any platform to earn the Rick badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 136 94{imgt}

Beat Silent Hill or its fogless remaster to earn the Silent Hill badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 130 75{imgt}

September 2021 Edition - Super Mario Kart

Beat the 100GP or 150GP Special Cup in the original Super Mario Kart to roll the
credits before October 1 to earn the Mario Kart badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 75 75{imgt}

Beat the 100GP or 150GP Extra Special Cup in Mario Kart: Super Circuit to earn
the Yoshi Kart badge.
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August 2021 Edition - Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2

Play through Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2's career with any of its releases, ports, or remasters to earn a badge for the character you used.

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July 2021 Edition -

Shantae

Play through the original Shantae on any platform to earn the 8-Bit
Shantae badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 71 75{imgt}

Play through Shantae: Risky's Revenge - or its Director's Cut - on any platform
to earn the More Than 8-Bit Shantae badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 86 75{imgt}

June 2021 Edition - Darkstalkers 3

Play through Darkstalkers 3 on any platform to earn a badge for the
character you used. The game has 18 playable characters, plus two secret characters
in some ports. Gotta catch 'em all!

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May 2021 Edition - Strider

Play through Strider on any platform to earn the Strider, standing
still and looking cool badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 43 75{imgt}
Play it on two platforms to earn the Strider, vertical slash badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 137 75{imgt}
Play it on three platforms to earn the Strider, legion badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 196 75{imgt}

April 2021 Edition - Metal Slug X

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 75 75{imgt}

March 2021 Edition - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time

Play through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV on one platform - the arcade original,
the famed Super Nintendo port, one of the maligned 3D remakes, or another version
I've missed - to earn the Leonardo badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 75 75{imgt}
Play through the game on an additional platform before the deadline to earn the
Donatello badge.
{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 75 75{imgt}

February 2021 Edition - Super Turrican

{imgt}https://i.imgur.com/... 128 140{imgt}

January 2021 Edition - Jackal

Play through Jackal on one platform to earn the Jackal Squad
badge.
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If you decide to play through a second time on a different platform, you'll also
earn the Medium Tank badge.
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For each platform you play through beyond the second (third, fourth, etc.), you'll earn a Heavy Tank badge.
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Antipop

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benstylus

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BleedingViolet

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ErickRPG

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Foxhack

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Kommie

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Lunar

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Renaissance2K

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Scott

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Slickriven

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2020 Recap

January

Sunset Riders
February

Strikers 1945
March

Super Mario Bros.
April

Super Dodge Ball
May

Metal Slug
June

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
July

Renegade
August

Metroid Fusion
September

Super Metroid
October

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
November

Sonic CD
December

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

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August 2020 Edition

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January 2020 Edition

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2019 Recap

Games

January

The Adventures of Lolo
February

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
March

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
April

Blaster Master
May

Beyond Oasis
June

Castlevania: Bloodlines
July

Onimusha: Warlords
August

Ico
September

Ninja Gaiden
October

Super Mario 64
November

Final Fight
December

Altered Beast

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December 2019 Edition

Altered Beast

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November 2019 Edition

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Bonus:

Final Fight 2

Final Fight 3

October 2019 Edition

Super Mario 64

September 2019 Edition

Ninja Gaiden

August 2019 Edition

Ico

July 2019 Edition

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June 2019 Edition

Castlevania: Bloodlines image image

May 2019 Edition

Beyond Oasis image

April 2019 Edition

Blaster Master image

March 2019 Edition

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening image

February 2019 Edition

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
image - Beat the game
image - Beat RR1 with a buddy OR Beat RR2

January 2019 Edition

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Bonus:

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2018 Recap

Games

January

Streets of Rage
February

Neutopia
March

Galactic Attack
April

Astyanax
May

Maniac Mansion
June

Arrow Flash
July

Sonic the Hedgehog 3
August

Popful Mail
September

Crash Bandicoot
October

Resident Evil 2
November

Mega Man 3
December

Outrun

Icons

January 2018 Edition - Streets of Rage

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Skipping Messages Here

19-Mar-23 2:23am
#121

Foxhack

SupremeSarna wrote:
I recall trying out Relm’s Sketch skill, only to have all my party members vanish, then the enemies vanished, and my button inputs wouldn’t register. I never tried Sketch again after that.
Sketch was always a Russian Roulette move. Will it affect the enemies? Will it affect you? Will it wipe your save? Good luck!

19-Mar-23 10:30am
#122

Yoshi

I continue to fail to line up what I am playing with the current month, but at least I knocked out another previous option: Castlevania II.

19-Mar-23 1:09pm
#123

SupremeSarna

Foxhack wrote:
SupremeSarna wrote:> I recall trying out Relm’s Sketch skill, only to have all my party members vanish,> then the enemies vanished, and my button inputs wouldn’t register. I never tried> Sketch again after that. Sketch was always a Russian Roulette move. Will it affect the enemies? Will it affect you? Will it wipe your save? Good luck!
Can it actually wipe your data? That’s terrible!

19-Mar-23 2:11pm
#124

benstylus

SupremeSarna wrote:
Foxhack wrote:> SupremeSarna wrote: |>> I recall trying out Relm’s Sketch skill, only to have all my party members vanish, |>> then the enemies vanished, and my button inputs wouldn’t register. I never tried |>> Sketch again after that.> > Sketch was always a Russian Roulette move. Will it affect the enemies? Will it affect> you? Will it wipe your save? Good luck! Can it actually wipe your data? That’s terrible!
Apparently

https://finalfantasy...

19-Mar-23 2:35pm
#125

SupremeSarna

@Renaissance2K May I suggest a GOTM for April? It’ll become much harder to acquire when the eShop goes down in a few days (unless you emulate, anyway), so now would be a good time to say it.

19-Mar-23 3:18pm
#126

Renaissance2K

SupremeSarna wrote:
@Renaissance2K May I suggest a GOTM for April? It’ll become much harder to acquire when the eShop goes down in a few days (unless you emulate, anyway), so now would be a good time to say it.
Go for it.

19-Mar-23 4:46pm
#127

SupremeSarna

April 17 is the 10th anniversary of the North American release of Pandora’s Tower

. Y’all should really play this game—it’s like 12 3D Zelda dungeons with a gothic horror theme, a romance with a sweet young maiden, a booming soundtrack, weapon crafting, lore to uncover, and memorable fights against vast beasts. Highly, highly recommend!

Like I said, it’s on the Wii U eShop for a little while longer, has physical copies, and can (presumably) be emulated. It’s a steal at $20… for now.

19-Mar-23 6:59pm
#128

Renaissance2K

I've never heard of Pandora's Tower, and it looks great, but I'm worried it won't get much traction. We've had three quiet months (though the issue with Final Fantasy VI seems to be less that people aren't playing it and more that it just takes so damn long).

What does everyone else think? At the very least, it's the first nominee for April.

19-Mar-23 7:48pm
#129

SupremeSarna

I'm always happy to spread the good word of it. Just bringing it to people's attention makes me happy, so I hope users will consider it before the affordable eShop version disappears. I'm definitely playing it next month even if it doesn't get the vote.

19-Mar-23 8:08pm
#130

BloodPuppetX

I think we should just take nominations as usual. I doubt too many would play that, especially if it isn't on sale. I should have played it more when I had it though. Same with Last Story.

19-Mar-23 8:14pm
#131

SupremeSarna

I just meant to nominate it early, since nominating it as soon as it leaves the eShop wouldn't be very effective. We'll vote as always.

20-Mar-23 10:59am
#132

Renaissance2K

We're in the last third of March, so let's look back on the badges we've earned:

Kommie

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Renaissance2K

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Yoshi

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Many thanks to everyone who's working through the Retro Talkshop Thread backlog this month. Keep those playthroughs coming, and we'll keep stuffing your face with badges.

Let's start taking nominations for the April Game of the Month. SupremeSarna already started us off by nominating

Pandora's Tower, which is about to disappear from the Wii U eShop forever. What else should we have in our lineup?

We'll start voting on March 26 and call the winner on April 1.

Let's hear some nominees!

20-Mar-23 11:15am
#133

BleedingViolet

I’ve been seeing Pandoras Tower being a valuable game on here for awhile.
I think even before the pandemic.
The idea the way you describe it sounds great though.
Other than buying a physical copy and making sure one of my wiis works
I have no real way to play it. It doesn’t use motion controls too does it?
Because fudge that. I can’t remember the last time I had one of the wiis
set up but the motion controls are not fun.

20-Mar-23 11:28am
#134

Renaissance2K

The rear box art says it supports the Classic Controller. You'll still need a Wiimote, but you won't need to use motion controls.

20-Mar-23 11:45am
#135

BleedingViolet

Excellent, thank you! Maybe it would be worth the purchase.

20-Mar-23 1:24pm
#136

SupremeSarna

The game’s awesome, so definitely look into it! You won’t be sorry. The Classic Controller is supported, but I think the pointer function of the Wiimote and Nunchuk is pretty efficient, myself.

20-Mar-23 8:57pm
#137

BloodPuppetX

I beat Metroid Fusion for a previous month's badge. And I'll nominate Red Earth for next month.

21-Mar-23 1:56am
#138

Renaissance2K

BloodPuppetX wrote:
I beat Metroid Fusion for a previous month's badge. And I'll nominate Red Earth for next month.
Doesn't look like we had a badge for that yet, so you're the first.

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Wheeeeeee, look at 'er go.

22-Mar-23 10:48am
#139

Renaissance2K

Finally finished Virtua Fighter with Jacky. It was a pretty easy playthrough - he has some easy combos - but I got trounced by Dural on a whole other level than with other characters.

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Case in point.

23-Mar-23 11:33pm
#140

Lunar

Sarah

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24-Mar-23 1:22pm
#141

Renaissance2K

Nice! Was that Saturn or Astro City? Looks like the former.

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Yesterday's theme was "Things Not Going As Planned."

I booted up the Saturn port with the intent of doing a Dural playthrough. I quickly discovered that I'm not very good at doing the Dural code; probably a 1/10 success rate. When you fail, you enter a match as a normal character - usually Akira or Pai - and then have to suicide before you can make another attempt.

Even when I was successful, I'm still not good enough at the game to 1CC it (even with a secret character) so the whole process would repeat a few matches in. 45 minutes and 5 rounds later, I had to give up. I booted up Virtua Fighter Remix just to see if the code was a little more forgiving there, but I had the same result.

I started looking around for other options. Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary has Dural implemented but not unlocked, if that makes any sense. Turns out there's a patch, however, which sent me down the rabbit hole of creating, patching, and serving a PS2 disc image. My office is a big mess of PS2 consoles and parts right now, so this was more of an ordeal than it needed to be, especially when OPL decided it didn't want to read from my network share anymore for absolutely no reason.

I did eventually get it up and running, though. Dural, as expected, is an absolute beast. It didn't take longer than a few minutes to smash Arcade Mode and get the credits to roll.

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Back to Final Fantasy VI...

I don't usually have time to complete more than one dungeon a session, but I plowed through Triangle Island really quickly and decided to take a shot at the infamous Fanatics' Tower, which a lot of us have been discussing and lamenting in this thread. It's the last side quest I have left (other than maybe seeing Shadow's dreams) before the final dungeon, Terra had learned Ultima, and I'd kept Phoenix locked to one of my mages since obtaining it with the goal of learning Reraise to deal with the tower boss' "fudge you" end-of-battle attack.

Somebody else in this thread mentioned "abusing Ultima" and yeah, that's definitely the way to go. I fought two matches trying to align weaknesses, reflect statuses, etc. to cater attacks to who I was facing, but Ultima ignores barriers and has no elemental alignment, so it just wipes the screen clean when you use it once or twice. By the time I made it to the top of the tower, my other two characters had learned Ultima as well, and the fourth was Gogo, so I made quite the mess.

Tower boss appears. Battle starts. He starts flinging big spells at me, nearly all of which get thrown back in his face because of Reflect Rings. I start scrolling through my spell list looking for Reraise and... I can't find it. Hit X a few times to switch to my other mages, and... nope, they don't have it either. Did I seriously not learn Reraise? I could have sworn I saw the end-of-battle confirmation. Oh crap. Oh crap oh crap oh crap.

So, I start the long, long, long process of draining the boss of its MP so it can't flip the table at the end of the battle. I cast Berserk on the boss to keep it from blowing itself off and start casting Rasp like it's the free chips at a Mexican restaurant. I cast it non-stop for what feels like an eternity, use Libra to check the boss' status, and... I'm only about 1/5 of the way there. This is going to take a while.

I've now blown past the hour "soft cutoff" point for my gaming session, and I'm still Rasping like Harvey Fierstein's larynx. The boss is now down to about 1/5 of its total MP. His pitiful forced physical attacks have slowly worn down my poor heroes, especially Old Man Strago, so I open up his spell list looking for Drain to get some of his HP back.

And that's when I saw it.

Reraise.

It was sitting there the whole time. I just missed it.

gosh darnit.

Strago casts Reraise on himself. Terra, Celes, and Gogo find their itchy Ultima triggers again. The boss returns the favor. Strago pops back up, flips the boss the bird, the battle ends, and I go into the menu to cast Teleport and GTFO of this hellho-

Oh wait, Teleport doesn't work here. Right. Fudge. What time is it? Fudge again.

And I swear, every two floors I hit another random battle, and it's those weird ballerina monsters that require two casts of Ultima and counter with curative spells because why not.

By the time I reach the bottom and save, I look like the Titanic "It's been 84 years" old lady.

And that's what I get for thinking to myself "HEY, THIS WASN'T SO BAD" as I approached the top of the tower.

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