/v/ - Video Games

>>15636039

You need Haunting Ground in your collection. It's a surprisingly good game.

>>15636096

I've never played them before but have a friend that adores them. They're simple stealth-platformers, right? I like the idea on paper.

>no budokai 1 or 3

its shit

>>15636284

Did you get Sky Gunner?

Emulating Gundam Musou 2.

It runs better and at higher resolution than PS3 version lol. Graphics are almost the same, minus some shaders.

Emulation is the future.

>>15636296

Sadly, I haven't seen it during my time looking at various stores. Rather find it locally than buy it online and risk the disk being damaged unless I have no choice or know for sure I won't find it locally (also don't like buying before seeing said disks in case it doesn't work).

>>15636109

Pretty good games, I'd recommend all 4 of them

>>15636345

oh and there's also lightning striking all over you have to dodge, I forgot to mention that.

>>15636345

Can't say I'm that interested in extreme sports games as much (though I played Tony Hawk back in the day at friends and family's houses), but I'll keep an eye on that one.

As for other hard to find games, I have yet to see a physical copy of Blood Will Tell (Dororo), but I would be interested in trying that one out (though I worry what the price for it will be if I ever do. The prices online for it are absurd). Would also like to find a few of the Atelier games for the system, but so far have yet to see any of those as well.

>>15636373

I think I've only ever seen Atelier Iris in the wild. It seems weird that these games are everywhere for the PS3/PS4 but the PS2 ones are very hard to come by.

>buying games

>not emulating them

Why? PS2 emulation is really good. You're only playing into the (((retro))) scheme.

>>15636381

Is AC 3 US a different game than AC 3 JPN?

>>15636382

Still sucks for a lot of games. Would rather just use the real hardware. For some people it's a great experience having the real disc and everything. Doesn't Steambot Chronicles, a must play, work like utter shit?

>>15636387

yeah, but there was a fan patch translating the half of the game that was removed for the US (somewhat) recently.

>>15636387

Vastly different. US version cut a ton of content and drastically altered the storyline. Japanese version also has branching paths with multiple endings.

>>15636397

I'd say it's just a waste of money. You're paying for something that can be easily be fixed in emulation and hardware will eventually break down due to the CD laser burning out.

>>15636410

Then use a hard drive to load the games if you're concerned with laser failure. This isn't the thread for this kind of autistic debate.

>>15636160

Well, you should play 1 at least

only DBZ game with the story actually ever done well, its hard not to be fond of it

the lack of streamlined supers was also nice as well

>>15636418

Does the hard drive connect with IDE or a proprietary interface? Can you use any commercial hard drive to load games? Don't you have to mod your PS2 to load games off of the hard drive?

>This isn't the thread for this kind of autistic debate

Yes it is. It's a PS2 thread, isn't it?

>>15636437

Interesting. Can you always play PS1 games on a PS2?

>>15636462

what is it about child bodies that makes them so sexy?

get undubs for any jrpgs that have them unless you like ear rape

>>15636468

Men are programmed to be attracted to young healthy bodies. Modern "pedophila" is actual just describing being attracted to young adults, E.G 13-16.

Real pedophila goes down into the 10 and below catagory, when pregnancy becomes not viable and could harm the girl, however it is still possible.

>>15636160

I know it's a fair bit of work, but you could always just copy the game names into a text editor, copy the entire thing into an alphabetizer, cull duplicate lines, and paste back the results and screenshot like that. Probably a bit more work, but it would fix the organization issue, and you could save the file if you needed it to edit in the future.

>Doesn't 180 seem low to you? I consider there to be about 60 must play original Xbox games, but I felt the number 300 or so would be more on point for the PS2.

Depends on your interests and what you consider parameters for "must play" on a particular system. There's a fair amount of games I personally like, some of which I'd consider must play and others not (for example, while I won't say I disliked WA4, it's not by any means a must play, and you'd probably do better with Alter Code if you wanted another WA; a lot of fans, at least on imageboards, seem rather iffy on games after 3 or ACF, depending on where they draw the line). Do you just mean amongst the best examples on the system? Do you wish to include multiplats that might be better on other systems? Considering you have some Japanese files, can you into moon? There are a fair amount of factors at hand.

>>15636284

I've been managing alright myself in trying to avoid paying full price, but I run my fat PS2 both with physical where feasible and HDD loading where not. Latter's probably the better way for people going forward, especially as prices continue to creep up (I have no fucking clue how BWT is pulling $150 these days; doesn't seem like the demand should be there even if it is rare), but I like having copies of games I like, so long as I'm not having to pay absurd prices, and loading grants access to fan-translations, bugfixes, undubs, and other possible "unofficial" content. Pick ups have slowed down some (not to the point of Gamecube slow, at least), between rising prices and an obvious lack of need to pick up copies of what I already have, compared to what I don't and still have interest in mind for. If I can manage a cheap price, fine, if not, there's loading.

>God Hand

Hope you didn't have to pay much for it. I got mine for $18 complete, but I'll admit that was some years back.

>>15636314

>>15636345

There's a few copies out my way, which seem promisingly complete, but at $30 each, I'm not sure if I want to drop the money, at least without trying it first (another perk to loading/emulation; assuming it works with any). And I certainly understand about wanting to look locally for actual inspection of what you're looking to buy, but sometimes, and perhaps more "somewhere" as the case might be, casting the net locally isn't apt to even find any copies. And with online, you can (and should, always) ask the seller for pictures of the case/cover/disc/manual/whatever before buying, rather than just trust their own description. Warehouse stored copies you'd have to write off though, as the seller no longer has access to them. Either way, do your best to avoid paying average prices if possible, though I'll admit I've had better luck with that through particular brick and mortar.

>>15636373

>>15636379

Where I live, there's a surprisingly high chance of finding the more niche Japanese games every so often. Whether or not they'll be at a good price though is another issue. Atelier Iris 1-3 are maybe $15-20 each (last ones I saw were $17), while BWT is $150 and very hard to come by (I got mine for $22 $11 with voucher complete last year). And while mentioning Atelier, Mana Khemia is about as common as the Iris games and about $20-25 these days, while MK2 is $50+ and hard to find.

Interestingly, the PAL version of BWT is apparently much cheaper than the NA one, though still kind of high at $45-50 worth from what I've seen. Not sure what's made the NA version get up to three to four times the price in comparison, aside from maybe HIDDEN GERMS faggotry. Used to be about $35 here a few years back; in retrospect, I'd been kicking myself a bit for not looking into it more at the time, until I lucked out even better than that.

>>15636441

PS2 is physically backwards compatible with PS1 discs, with minor incompatibility varying on model (mine if memory serves can't play Legend of Dragoon). As to loading, not as far as I'm aware. PS2's PS1 mode apparently doesn't recognize HDD storage as a means to possibly call from, since the PS1 didn't have that option. Now, you can play PS1 games via POPS, but that's emulation, not loading, and I'm not sure what compatibility is like with it there.

>>15636593

>Depends on your interests and what you consider parameters for "must play" on a particular system.

Mostly action games, I'm pretty generous however.

>can you into moon?

I can navigate menus. That's about it.

>>15636747

Well, out of curiosity, why isn't Okami in there, when the subsequent releases cut out the credits song and loading minigames? And while more action-JRPG, you have .hack//IMOQ but no G.U. (if the reason being Last Recode, apparently those versions are considered bad by imageboard .hack fans)? Just some things that stand out as missing at a glance. But again, point being that "must play" is not the same as "worthwhile." 180 games being possibly worthwhile, sure, I'd buy that; must play though, I'd say would be a good bit lower and outside of a certain amount of "should appeal to anyone" would still be kind of subjective. If you specifically want must plays, it's more apt that your stuff could use pruning than growing. I'm just saying.

Also,

>La Pucelle Tactics

Consider La Pucelle: Ragnarok for the PSP. PS2 original was censored, extended PSP version has a fan retranslation patch (admittedly I'm not sure if it's a straight imported script or saw restoration/retranslation for the ported content).

>>15636884

Must plays was the wrong way of putting it, I'm more open to the worthwhile games. Being that what appeals to me most is action games, although I enjoy RPGs, I only have so much time to play them. With the quantity of games on the system do you not think there's more? I'm sure I'm missing some, and thank you for the recommendations.

>>15636979

Well, some of what you have already might be better on other systems. Phantom Brave for example, where I think the version with the most content is the PSP one, though I could be wrong (might be the Wii); really the only PS2 TRPG by NIS that didn't get ported elsewhere with extra content was Soul Nomad to my knowledge (might be a game to look into). Grandia II's PS2 port is also considered really subpar. Silent Hill 2 I'm not sure if you've got the Greatest Hits one (the v2.01 makes me suspect it, but I'm not familiar with that), but that has content backported from the Xbox version; Konami being too cheap and lazy to give it its own version here in NA unlike in PAL. It simply got bundled into the red banner Greatest Hits treatment instead.

I know some anons like Graffiti Kingdom as well (which has a predecessor in Magic Pengel on the same system; think I've heard combat's different), and I've seen at least one adamant about Dual Hearts being good (game's a successor to Alundra to my knowledge, which is similar to Zelda). Of course, downloading gives you some more freedom to grab whatever and decide later if you really want to keep it than having money invested in buying stuff.

>>15637271

You're right about SH2, grabbed the wrong version, saw one that specifically said Director's Cut and as it turns out that as the European version.

>>15637376

Here's the thing: I think most PS2 game rips are apt to be from the basic release a region got, unless otherwise specified (and sometimes the secondary prints can indeed be better). Hence why I'm unsure if that one you have is the basic or GH; 2.XX leads me to think it might be, but unless you've got a quick why to find out upon boot up, or have ability to peruse comments on the download, it's hard to say, and I've generally seen it more often done for PS1 games. One could have just as well used less space in identifying the rip as "(GH)" or something. But that's just my thoughts.

>>15636109

They're simple stealth-platformers, yeah. Stealth is more the ideal way to play than the only way - there's plenty of levels where you're forced to fight head-on - but being sneaky usually lets you oneshot enemies from behind.

I'm playing Pirates the Curse of the Black Buccaneer and GUN right now, both pretty cool.

The four Ratchet games on the PS2 have been great to me.

I'm torn between

>Shinobi

>The Jak and Daxter series(Up to Jak X at least)

>Armored Core(Starting with the PSX games which means I have to get off my lazy ass and get my controller working on the emulator)

Which one to go for?

>>15639257

>Pirates the Curse of the Black Buccaneer

Never could finish that game, but it was pretty damn good from what I remember.

Not PS2, but I recently played through Medievil. The gameplay isn't that great and the camera controls are awful, but the music is nice and the atmosphere is great this time of year.

If anyone has a guide or a link on how to mod a ps2 that'd be awesome. As much as I like physical copies I'm not about to spend 80$ on a old game.

>>15644189

If you have a fat you can use FHDB + Network adapter + IDE hard drive + OPL to load games from the hard drive.

If you have a slim you can use FMCB + SMB share + OPL to load isos from a network share.

You could also buy a modchip and solder it to play burned games.

>making a bread for the nogamestation 2

What’s the point?

>>15650045

Should be in the share thread's gitgud.

>>15650045

>hurr I can't use the catalog

No one should have to spoonfeed you, you inept retard

You're missing Shadow of the Colossus and Legend of the Dragoon (or was that PS1?) OP. Other than that though, fantastic taste.

>>15650679

Legend of Dragoon was PS1. Same with Legend of Legaia and Legend of Mana, while on the topic of JRPGs starting with "Legend."

>>15650679

It was PS1 and it was terrible.

>>15651699

Legend of Dragoon is one of those games I've seen so much back and forth on over the years I honestly don't know if it's worth backlogging. It certainly seems to have sold quite well (better than most Sony owned JRPGs, even getting a Greatest Hits print), but it seems like either people really fucking love it, or really don't like it (though perhaps going in with an assumption from what fans say colors that worse than it might be).

>>15651839

I played it and loved it, but the english dub fucking sucks, it's awkward as all hell. I don't know if there's an undub, so if you can into moon just play the japanese version.

>>15636437

aren't most of the SATA adapters supposed to fuck with game compatibility though? i'd have done it by now if i'd heard otherwise

>>15636468

you'd have asked your dad by now if your brain hadn't repressed it

>>15656705

>no one's going to give you a you, gives him a you

Here's your (YOU)

I had a fat PS2 I modded using the OSD method and I was running games off of it fine. I wanted to add more games so I plugged the hard drive into my adapter and it the same thing started sparking and smoking. Now the hard drive doesn't read in the PS2 or on the PC (obviously because the chinkadapter probably did this).

So where do I go from here? I was using the official Sony hard drive that came with Final Fantasy XI and I hear those are hard to come by and hard drives over 40gigs don't work and some drives don't work at all just because. Of course it has to be SATA as well. Of course I'd need a new adapter and I wouldn't go cheap this time.

Was thinking about just buying the games I want. I have most of them and I don't think it would be more expensive than getting a new hard and IDE adapter.

What about burning games to CD is that a thing? I remember the Mexicans (das racis) didn't buy a single PS1 game back in the day.

>>15656729

>obviously because the chinkadapter probably did this

What make where you using, out of curiosity?

>I was using the official Sony hard drive that came with Final Fantasy XI and I hear those are hard to come by and hard drives over 40gigs don't work and some drives don't work at all just because.

I've got a IDE well above 40gb that's been working just fine with mine. Probably not the best make of drive, but you shouldn't need a proprietary drive for loading off of.

>Was thinking about just buying the games I want. I have most of them and I don't think it would be more expensive than getting a new hard and IDE adapter.

Depends on the games in question you want to play. Most common, mainstream games are still cheap, a lot at $10 or lower, at least where I live, but more have been going up of late (Samurai Western's like $70+ when it was $20 or so a year or two back, for example).

>What about burning games to CD is that a thing?

To DVD, yes. For some you'd have to find or convert them from being formatted for their original CD media to run off DVD. But I don't know if you'd need a modchip at this point to run them, or if FreeMcBoot alone would suffice. I don't think it would help you bypass region lock either if that's an issue (I could be wrong though), and laser life span is a thing.

>>15636039

I've been neglecting my PS2 for a while and I feel really bad for it. I just have too many games lined up in my backlog on other systems. I might sneak Ace Combat 5 in or some light gun games though.

>>15656743

>>15656729

Just pick up a new IDE drive. I got a used 500gb Seagate off craigslist for $5 that works great. No one wants IDE drives so they're cheap and don't be afraid of trying a used one.

>>15656797

Off Craigslist huh? I don't think most people would find any good results thag way. Finding old ones on ebay might be better luck. I wanna try a few things like the chink sata adapter or a good quality ide to sata adapter. I've had great results with the latter on my xbox.

>>15656813

Yeah I got lucky I guess. I'm using an official network adapter too so I could play online if I wanted to. The chink sata ones don't have real ethernet.