Anime Club - Heaven Society

[Opask]

The fuck is this Sekai-Project.

 

I go on their website to buy Second Fault and its not there.

 

The first one is.

 

Same thing goes for World End Economica. The first one is there but the second one isn't.

 

Please don't make me buy this through steam. Valve doesn't need anymore of my money.

 

Before anyone says it, yes I know that I can probably just remove the steam.api or whatever such file and it will probably be DRM free.

But thats not the point. I still have to purchase the game through valve ( + revenue to valve) and I still have to download it through valves service which totally defeats the purpose of DRM free.

[Vitalius]

@Vitalius. If it requires cuda. How are you able to use it?

I can't.

I'm looking into the generic upscaler now (NNEDI3) to see if I can use that.

 

@TheProfosist 

http://wiki.mikejung.biz/MadVR_Chroma_Upscaling

^MadVR upscaling using NNEDI3. What do you know of this, o wizard?

@wolfgang

In that wiki, and a few others, NNEDI3 is usable by all 3 GPU manufacturers (Intel, AMD, & Nvidia). So I assume I can use NNEDI3 to upscale individual images as well. Will look into it.

@CatCloud Yes, you can play region locked games. Whether it being PAL VS NTSC depends on the Display. The display *must* support 50hz or it won't work with PAL only games.

 

@KingCry That's what we are talking about. Putting custom firmware on a memory card so you can do stuff on a PS2.

It suits the game to a T. And "Setting Sail, Coming Home" is one of the best ending themes I've ever heard in a video game.

That's crying tier stuff for me. I love that game. I bought the OST. Best OST I've ever bought. 

[BashZeStampeedo]

That's crying tier stuff for me. I love that game. I bought the OST. Best OST I've ever bought.

Agreed on the emotional response, though I've purchased a number of OSTs in my day and many have a special place in my rusty heart. Even Thomas Was Alone has at least one track that gives me the same response (also amplified greatly after having played the game). I'd be hard-pressed to rank them against one another

[Opask]

@Vitalius.

 

NNEDI3 is glorious.

 

Don't know if it itself will work on linux but the rest of madVR won't. Its built completely on DirectShow or some crap like that.

 

Its windows exclusive and literally the only reason windows even has a place on my disks.

 

 

@BashZeStampeedo

 

Thomas was alone was probably the best 4 hour game I've ever played. The story and music were so damn beautiful.

[That_Random_Guy]

but the real question is what soldering iron is it?

some cheap 30ish dollar soldering iron from lowes. but i found an old intel core 2 duo processor while looking for the iron.... still havent found it

[Raudi_]

@CatCloud Yes, you can play region locked games. Whether it being PAL VS NTSC depends on the Display. The display *must* support 50hz or it won't work with PAL only games.

 

@KingCry That's what we are talking about. Putting custom firmware on a memory card so you can do stuff on a PS2.

Well there is the hardmod route also which is the absolute cheapest and easiest way to do it imo then there is also swap magic but last I knew that works only on the fat ps2's

[CatCloud]

@Vitalius...so I can finally play dot.Hack GU .... Cries . I can finish the series... "sniff"

[Charger]

some cheap 30ish dollar soldering iron from lowes. but i found an old intel core 2 duo processor while looking for the iron.... still havent found it

I got my self a hakko fx 888 as well as some random weller and a trash brand one that I use for melting wax

[BashZeStampeedo]

Thomas was alone was probably the best 4 hour game I've ever played. The story and music were so damn beautiful.

The narration oozed charm as well.

I actually cried at the mid-point, even having guessed what they were building to. I think the simplicity of the game definitely worked in its favor. Critical Miss summed it up pretty well.

[Raudi_]

Mine drop to 4.6 then back up to 4.7.

Got to remember the 4 core multi is x45 so when the CPU is under a load on all the cores it will only run at a multi of x45

[That_Random_Guy]

I got my self a hakko fx 888 as well as some random weller and a trash brand one that I use for melting wax

im about to get all ghetto and hot glue them back together lol and pray it works, but i would seriously like to do it right though

[Charger]

Oh random question... are there any cases that have a 4 pole front audio connector on them rather then a mic / headphone jack?

[Opask]

The narration oozed charm as well.

I actually cried at the mid-point, even having guessed what they were building to. I think the simplicity of the game definitely worked in its favor. Critical Miss summed it up pretty well.

Its all coming back. I think I need to go play it again.

 

And yep that is spot on. Just goes to show that you don't need flashy graphics and all that jazz to tell a great story and make an enjoyable game.

[CatCloud]

Oh random question... are there any cases that have a 4 pole front audio connector on them rather then a mic / headphone jack?

Maybe a itx case, but I've not seen one myself.

[BashZeStampeedo]

Just goes to show that you don't need flashy graphics and all that jazz to tell a great story and make an enjoyable game.

If anything, modern non-AAA games are offering us so many nice titles in recent years that it's very reassuring to people like me, who only have time for something like Undertale on their vacations, can find something special. I'd become so jaded since the tail end of the PS2 era that I never would have expected stuff like Thomas Was Alone, Journey, Stanley Parable, Bastion, Braid, Super Hexagon, Shovel Knight and so on to come around to challenge my perceptions of games (and sometimes even my old-fashioned skills).

[Raudi_]

So watch should I watch from this list or at least in an order

He is My Master
Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai
Sora wo miageru shouko no hitomi ni utsuru sekai
Ghastly Prince Enma
Kikoushi Enma
Sola
Inukami
Uragiri wa boku no namae wo shitteiru
Kowarekake no orgel
Time of Shura
Haiyore Nyaruko-san

[-CLASSIFIED-]

@KingCry , i think i lucked out on this cpou , boots into windows at 4.6ghz 1.24v no prob 

[themaniac]

16GB OF RAM!!!!! looks like games will need more then 8GB soon so it looks like i will be getting 16GB of ram

[Raudi_]

@KingCry , i think i lucked out on this cpou , boots into windows at 4.6ghz 1.24v no prob 

 its so far average 4.7 -4.8 seems to be the 4790k's limit

[-CLASSIFIED-]

 its so far average 4.7 -4.8 seems to be the 4790k's limit

well this is matching my daily from the 4690k so i know im getting a performance boost not bad imo 

[Opask]

If anything, modern non-AAA games are offering us so many nice titles in recent years that it's very reassuring to people like me, who only have time for something like Undertale on their vacations, can find something special. I'd become so jaded since the tail end of the PS2 era that I never would have expected stuff like Thomas Was Alone, Journey, Stanley Parable, Bastion, Braid, Super Hexagon, Shovel Knight and so on to come around to challenge my perceptions of games (and sometimes even my old-fashioned skills).

Also thing about these games is not only are they good but also they reach out to so many platforms from the get go.

 

There is none this crap about "Oh it won't be profitable for us to release it on anything other then this one specific platform." 

In fact most of the ones you listed are not only available on all pc platforms but also on many other consoles and handhelds as well.

 

I'm a firm believer that a game will be profitable if it is legitimately a good game. If its actually a quality game that people want to play, it should have no problem selling on multiple different platforms.

[Vitalius]

Well there is the hardmod route also which is the absolute cheapest and easiest way to do it imo then there is also swap magic but last I knew that works only on the fat ps2's

bro, you need to get updated on your PS2 hacks.

 

@Vitalius...so I can finally play dot.Hack GU .... Cries . I can finish the series... "sniff"

yus, finally

Note for Moderators: This is explaining how to put firmware on your PS2 that lets you do basically whatever you want with it. It isn't strictly for piracy. Obviously whoever does this will use it for whatever they use it for. It's like explaining how to root your phone. If that makes sense. Homebrew applications and whatnot.

Doing this allows pretty much instant load times (over the network anyway or on internal HDD), more freedom with the games you actually own, and adds more features to the PS2 than the original had. By a long shot.

For example, I have many old PS2 games who's disks do not work anymore due to age. I still own the game. So I use this to let me play them via saved images I have.

/note for moderators

• Use SMS, Simple Media System, which plays DivX/XviD movies with different screen resolutions and encoding methods, includes support for network files, USB drives, hard disc drives as well as the disc drive. It now also allows subtitles to be displayed, and contains a fully functional MP3 player.

  Imagine that. MP3 Player on your PS3.

• Play backed up DVDs without having to disc swap using ESR. i.e. you take your copy of a game, make an image on your PC, burn that image to a blank DVD, and you can play that on your PS2 without the original. It requires you to mod the image though.
• Load games from USB Hard Drives. Note: PS2's have USB 1.1, which is slightly slower than DVD speed, so 50% of PS2 games don't work, and those that do stutter, this is not a good idea.
• Emulators.

  That's right. Emulators for your PS2 that let you play SNES, Atari (all version), NeoGeo, and other older systems on it.

 

 

I did the following with a fat PS2. It would work exactly the same with a Slim PS2. Only you'd have to open the tray, block all the sensors (tissue paper works), then use that to disc swap. It's actually tons easier.

1. Put firmware files on USB (after downloading them ofc). 
2. Put USB in PS2's USB port.
3. Get copy of 007: Agent Under Fire (or similar game that this trick works with).
4. Beat first level of 007 -> save game. (this process would be similar for wtv game you used, unless the game just let you do it from the menu, lucky you)
5. Make an ISO of 007 on PC.
6. Replace 2nd level file of 007 (DRIVER.IMG or wtv) with firmware files.
7. Burn modified ISO to blank DVD (I recommend higher quality blank DVDs).
8. Load up 007 in PS2 with my save data.
9. Open PS2 drive tray using modified Abercrombie & Fitch card (what I used) without letting it dump it's memory (you can use any rigid rectangle and some scissors to make this).
10. Replace authentic 007 disc with modified 007 disc.
11. Load up 2nd level.
12. PS2 will boot to firmware install screen. Follow steps to install it on your memory card (8MB minimum). Fairly simple but note the interface will be like DOS prompt, but for PS2 controller. 

 

 

And bam. Free McBoot is on my console via the memory card. I can play games off the USB drive, the internal HDD (the PS2 could have an internal IDE drive if you had the Network attachment), or over the network via Samba Share.

Note that Free McBoot just boots other program-like things. It isn't the thing that lets you play games from the above mentioned mediums. It comes with packages and whatnot already.

Other notes:

• PS2 Network Adapters are available for purchase on Ebay. Their speed is Ethernet 10/100, so max is 12.5 MB/s. For reference, the PS2 read DVDs at 4x speeds, which maxed out at 5.6 MB/s.
• There are other homebrew apps for PS2 ofc. 
• Your memory card will be "used up" as it will have Free McBoot on it, so you will need another one, or you can use a USB drive for save files. Huzzah.

[That_Random_Guy]

I got my self a hakko fx 888 as well as some random weller and a trash brand one that I use for melting wax

FINALLY FOUND IT its a Weller as well

[themaniac]

if only team vulcan ram wasn't so damn ugly i would get it since its the cheapest 16GB kit of ram

 

[BashZeStampeedo]

Also thing about these games is not only are they good but also they reach out to so many platforms from the get go.

Indeed, though there was that annoying phase with XBLA exclusivity and the like. But you can't win 'em all.

 

 

So watch should I watch from this list or at least in an order

They're so varied and middling that it's impossible to just recommend one. Whatever you feel like at the time, I guess. For instance, Nyaruko has a pretty fun start, but halfway through the first season it becomes another of those "we've run out of jokes and creativity" series like Zombie Desk Car, and the second season phones things in pretty hardcore. Yet some people adore them despite such major flaws. The rest are also similarly big cases of YMMV.