/v/ - Video Games

>>15145756

The next time you get banned on cuckchan, just ban evade and stay there.

>Put monster rancher 2 into PS3

>It lets me make monsters out of bluray discs, DVDs, & dreamcast GD-ROMs

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

>>15145740

Why is Monster Ranch Dressing the Fourth angry?

>be 10

>new vidya store opens nearby

>go buy something

>place seems kinda sketchy

>store guy recommends me Monster Rancher 2

>seems legit

>go back home and start game on PSOne

>'hop-a-bout?'

>holy shit what a long and frustrating game

>despite getting good only got to stage 200

It took my ESL ass 6 years plus getting a PC to figure out it wasn't actually Monster Rancher 2. Turns out it was a pirate vidya shop, and it's still open after 12 years.

>>15146337

She would run tournaments, but would rig them to make herself look good in front of her clique (Like a tourney might get "delayed," and would find the right monster like Plant in MR1). I also remember a time when Lisa tried to fuck with the Tecmo Bowl community, and the guy in charge of the online stuff her to fuck off when she tried to bully him (I don't think Tecmo did anything because they didn't give a shit). She was a cunt.

>>15150638

3 is considered the 2nd worst game of the series, and the beginning of the end. It added a lot of gay species that looked like Pokemon rip-offs, and they were useless (bad skills, bad stat gains). Unlike the last 2 games where Min-maxing was possible (and fun if you knew how), leveling your monster sucked balls with the shit you had to do level skills and stats. 4 had a shitty translation because they ruined a monster's name…to shill fucking GamePro (they changed it's name to fucking GameProbot). No one liked the monster redesigns in 3 (Joker's new look made no sense). I never liked 4 because I felt like I was playing a shitty Hentai game, and it was flat out retarded that you had to unlock Mocchi, the species liked by nobody.

>>15150744

There was a way to get rare monsters in the PSX games because someone on Lisa's site (or Lisa) learned you could get a certain file or some piece of data from a disc, and throw it into a blank cd. You're only taking the file that produces the monster, so it's not like you're stealing games or music. That's how I got Teddy and other rares in MR1 & 2.

Ah, sweet, a monster rancher thread.

I spent a shitload of time converting a youtube nobody's videos of all monsters in all the books in rancher 1, 2, 3, and 4 for optimal visual guides. Problem was he yammers over the vids so I cut the sound out (you can't hear the monsters or game stuff anyway).

>Rancher 1 had unique monsters you can't get anymore (most faithful henger, Magics, Disks, and the best dragons) but proved to be rather easy when you know how not to be a dumbass

>Rancher 2 has several core bugs that fuck everything and make it 10 times harder than it should be, but if you work through it you get access to the most massive monster database in the game series and some of the most unique monsters (Gaboo, zilla, niton, mock, arrowhead, the list goes on). Computer obviously cheats and if you don't have a guide, locks you out of several monster speciesforever. Last time you'll see Monols and Galis outside of the handheld games.

>Rancher 3 is cute and easy, but introduces some nice monsters. Mixing was removed and a lot of species from 2 are never seen again, sadly.

>Rancher 4 is heavy handed with the personal busybody work and now a punishment if you just want to remain in E rank with your monster and grind for stats/techs, but lets you raise anywhere from 1 to 5 monsters at a time

>Rancher Evo is more of a general RPG and lacks most of what made Rancher fun

>I can't say much about the handhelds, never played them

>>15152248

Lisa didn't learn it, it was someone else.

Basically using a shitty little burner file, you could rip the data from a CD, change the data file into a notepad file, get rid of the old data and post the provided code data off of the site archive into it, save it, and then when you burned a disk, you got a disk that could do nothing but make monsters in the rancher games.

>tfw some madman dumped the code for the legendary Beck Mellow Gold version that makes ultra rare monsters in rancher 1, 2, AND 3.

>>15157863

>start game

>get through opening

>get monster either from market or by using your other disks

>when you get a monster you like, you take it to the ranch

>you go by a per-week schedule, each week is one event

>you train in stats to get your monster better

>you punish it if it cheats, or "doesn't finish"

>you praise it if it excels

>you rest it when 's tired

>occasionally you can check if there is a battle

>you go into a battle and move closer/father from your opponent, using a slowly generation resource (guts/will) to perform attacks

It's mostly about raising. Battle are important but take a back seat to the raising ,they are raising sims first and foremost, so if you're not up for long winded comfy, this is not the game for you.

>>15146018

>>15146059

>>15152248

>>15157818

This Lisa Shock story got me interested since I'm a fan of Monster Rancher and I never heard about this before. Could you provide more information? Like, are there any screencaps or websites/forums still up with proof of this? Were this tournaments and clique big in any way? How did she get ties inside Tecmo? Why did she forbid people from making guides?

>>15157935

I didn't see any screencaps, but Lisa was far to up her own ass for me to be comfortable, even before I knew anything. From what I gathered:

>Lisa spearheads an archaic site for all things monster rancher with the most ass backwards interface

>naturally ,guides on Gamefucks and other sites pop up that are better or have otherwise superior info

>due to lisa blowing someone at tecmo, ends up the USA rep of the rancher fanbase

>because of this ,gets hard code info from tecmo, allowing her to break the games on a fundamental manner

>because of this insight, is able to say that anyone else who comes up with this info themselves has "copied data from her work"

>threatens lawsuits up the ass left and right

>skip to today

>the monster rancher metropolis is still an archaic site

>doesn't allow images, text only

>in the age of wiki sites and internet usage, there are extremely few images of any of the rancher monsters that aren't from the anime (heavily altered designs), or fan art (99% deviantart trash)

>all because lisa wants to be fellated as a god among humans in regards to monster rancher

>this makes tecmo's exposure to other sites of games EXTREMELY LIMITED

>in a time where jewtube videos and in depth exposure gets games noticed, rancher is stunted to a text only no-fun zone

>tecmo didn't release monster rancher DS1 in the states because they were afraid of no sales

>decide to release rancher DS 2 but changing the name to just "Monster rancher DS"

>other than a single promo advertisement, everything was force fed onto Lisa's dated database, who refuses to upgrade anything and is still living in 1998

>game is hardly known about other than by the most diehard rancher fans

>tecmo shelves rancher, believing they can't sell the game series anymore other than some shitty phone games and a long dead mmo

>>15158315

>2 had bugs

Basically it had something to do with some of the settings in Stress. The algorithm is out of wack and it applies it at times when it's not supposed to be applied, which stress is what lops years off your monster's lifespan.

IE:

>Stress above a ratio of 8 with a cap of 10 (loose estimate) will shave three weeks off of a monster's lifespan per-week they have this stress at 8+

>sending a monster to errantry/training is not supposed to apply stress until after they come back and it adds a ratio of about 5 yo your monster

>your monster can have up to 7 marks of stress before you get any warning and only mint leaves will drop it any noticable amount (roughly 2 marks) as resting only removes a pitiful 0.5 per week resting

>the glitch happens when you send a monster to errentry

>it is given 5 marks of stress as soon as you click the "yes" button

>the game will give it ANOTHER 5 marks of stress when the errentry is finished, effectively scrubbing about 3 months off your monster's lifespan, regardless of how well you've been doing.

On top of that are some things that can fuck you out of getting monsters:

>item shop will get new items in after a few years

>if you do not reach Rank 4 (having beat the B rank official tournament) before the final item is in the shop, you will NEVER get the Mock seeds, thus you will NEVER be able to unlock the Mock

Also relating to the item shop:

>game has numerous monsters that are strictly "wild boss" monsters

>you can only encounter them if your monster is at a high rank and has high stats+loyalty

>if your monster beats them (while AI controlled) you will get a card for your album that lets you view them (you cannot obtain the actual monster though unless you use a gameshark)

>In the Junkle area, there is a monster called King Ape

>you can only run into King ape AFTER the shop sells magic Bananas but BEFORE it sells Nageel

>didn't encounter it by the time you got Nageel in the shop? You're fucked and can never fill out the card list.

>>15158431

Don't jump into 2. Due to it's glitches you'll be getting dead monsters who are spoiled shits who are stressed to fuck and back and only live to be 2 years old.

I suggest starting with 1:

>the weekly training actually gives you money

>the tournaments always have the same monsters

>only a few locked monsters with very specific methods to get them

>easy to get all moves wit ha single species and even max out stats if you're skilled enough

When you manage to unlock all the species in Rancher 1 and beat the big 4, THEN you are ready to go into 2, so long as you know the above glitches I listed.

The only help I know of in 2 is to give your monster a mint leaf at the start of every month. No exceptions. Punish them if they cheat, punish them if they "don't finish", but don't punish them if they "didn't do very good".

>>15159394

>>15159366

>mangos

what? You'll have to clarify that.

>2 wasn't that hard

it's a nightmare compared to 1 and on my first playthrough, I couldn't even beat the B rank official. That said, on a return attempt at the game, I shitkicked it by getting a gaboo in the market, focusing on power, life, speed, and some skill, and then abusing the fact that a gaboo gets a bunch of S grade hitting techniques that hit like a goddamn bus.

No, seriously, what's this "Mango" method?