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I picked up "Mario and Sonic at Beijing Olympic!" for DS last week. It's actually pretty good. Brought back memories of the old Konami Track & Field game for NES -- but you can't use a pen on the A B buttons for insanely high speeds like you could on the NES controller.

I had the Advantage joystick for the NES and Konami Track and Field. It was really easy to just put Turbo on and then hold down the A and B buttons for ludicrous speed.

My favourite trick was to use the running pad thing - and instead of runnning on it you got down on your knees beside it and pounded it with your fists. Made long jump a treat.

All, of course, related to the trick of playing Duck Hunt from two inches away. Perfect accuracy, every time.

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[All, of course, related to the trick of playing Duck Hunt from two inches away. Perfect accuracy, every time.

We ran the score counter to the max once doing this, just to see what would happen. Can't recall (it's been so long), but I think it stopped at all 9s. (as opposed to rolling over like an odometer.)

I remember discovering that the source files for the original version of Civilization were written in a file format that I could edit in Word Perfect and resave. It took a lot of tweaking, but the game went SO much faster when the wonders of the world took one turn to build and cost very, very little gold. You had to get to them fast, though, or the AI would beat you to it.

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I remember discovering that the source files for the original version of Civilization were written in a file format that I could edit in Word Perfect and resave. It took a lot of tweaking, but the game went SO much faster when the wonders of the world took one turn to build and cost very, very little gold. You had to get to them fast, though, or the AI would beat you to it.

Hey, I did the same thing! I also rewrote the introduction so that it came mostly from Genesis and included elephants among one-celled organisms.

*laughs*

Awesome.

Hehe... I think I edited the dialog boxes and random text in that game too. Good times.

I found a cool little game for the DS called Orcs&Elves. It was originally a phone game, but I guess they revamped the graphics and upped the game play a bit. A very fun first person fighter for a person with my fly-like attention span.

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I found a cool little game for the DS called Orcs&Elves. It was originally a phone game, but I guess they revamped the graphics and upped the game play a bit. A very fun first person fighter for a person with my fly-like attention span.

I've seen that on the shelves and wondered if it was any good. So you'd recommend a pick up if I see it cheap?

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I found a cool little game for the DS called Orcs&Elves. It was originally a phone game, but I guess they revamped the graphics and upped the game play a bit. A very fun first person fighter for a person with my fly-like attention span.

I've seen that on the shelves and wondered if it was any good. So you'd recommend a pick up if I see it cheap?

Yeah, I would if you see it under $20 and if you liked Doom. Consider it a modified Doom engine with swords, wands, and crossbows.

I had a gift card balance, so I bought it on Amazon for $18 with free shipping.

Here are a couple write ups of Orcs & Elves. IGN actually reviews the game where Gamespot has user reviews and previews.

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Well, I'm about two-thirds of the way through the main plot of Final Fantasy XII and, as usual with these games, about one-tenth of the way through the side-quests. I'm really enjoying to game, but this is one I may not see through to full completion. That would require a fight against a monster with 50 million hit points that can kill with each and every strike. No thanks.

What I'm finding interesting is the usefulness of buff spells. In older editions of the game, spells like Bubble, Haste and Berserk were . . . amusements. Haste was handy for boss battles but most other fights didn't last long enough to bother casting it. With your character now being far more free-roaming, a single casting of Haste can last for an entire dungeon, or at least and entire room, and definitely gives both melee fighters and spellcasters an edge.

Bubble lasts a similar amount of time. It's a bit less useful than Haste since it just makes your melee meat puppets a bit meatier, but I'm at the stage in the game where I'm thinking that having Bubble on my main fighter at all times is a good thing.

And, yes, Berserk is a buff. In fact, if you combine Haste, Bubble, Berserk and Bravery, you have a one-man killing machine. The rest of the characters are solely responsible for healing the monstrosity and looting the bad guys.

Anyone else still playing?

Love to play XII sometime soon.

I'm catiching up on my FF games.
Just replayed 1 on the DS (GBA version) and now playing 2 (on the same cartridge). Just bought 5 for GBA.
Still have 5 and 6 on the PSX, which I haven't touched and then I still have to finish 8 and 9 on the PSX as well.

Once I get all those done, I'll hopefully get around to anthing X and higher!

If you're a completist, go for 8 and 9, but they're rather seriously flawed games. 8 has the whiniest protagonist in the history of the series and a plot with enough holes to ride a level 99 chocobo through and 9 is . . . well, not bad, really, but seems to have been made for people about two decades younger than me.

My main problem now with 8 and 9 is that I abandoned the games years ago and now if I try and pick them up where I left off I've completely forgotten the magic/materia/whatever system and how it works. Also - completely forgotten where I am in the plot and what the objectives are.
And I don't have the time to start from the beginning again. (though one day it might come to that)

I also became disenchanted with 8 - and 9, though I like the return to a 'fantasy' theme, did seem aimed young, as you say.

Mostly these days I'm hoping for them to put Chrono Trigger on the downloads for the Wii.

There's a Chrono Trigger for the PSX that includes new cut-scenes by the animators of Dragon Ball X. I highly recommend it. And if you haven't tried Chrono Cross, give that a try too. There's a ridiculous number of characters, though.

Anyone else looking forward to the Okami wiimake? The paintbrush mechanic is tailor-made for the pointing controller.

Do we have a mechanism for sharing Wii codes here on the board. Is there a reason for me to PM it rather than post it in the clear?
Once Smash Brothers comes out I'm going to be looking for people to play with.

I want the PS3 controllers with rumble to come out!

 motion sensing whoop dee doo i want rumble rumble 

Wait, what? PS3 controllers don't come with rumble?

Dude, that sucks!

Wii remote rumbles.

*has GC Mario Kart and F-Zero GX on way in post*

PS3 couldn't get the patent for rumbly-rumbly in time.

In other gaming news, I'm becoming pretty good at video Texas Hold 'Em. Maybe I should try my luck at Atlantic City...

I'm about three-quarters of the way through Harry Potter for the Wii. I found the game on sale for half price last week. I like a lot of the changes that they made to game play. I played the first three on the PC and this is much more grown up, without being too difficult. There are just two things that bother me, everything is so dark that its sometimes difficult to make some things out, and there don't seem to be any shortcuts (secret passages, yes) for moving, so you do spend a lot of time running from place to place that takes up the most time.