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What you have to do is you first gather all the games you want to load. I recommend alphabetizing them before you start to make things a bit easier later. Then, find a safe place on your computer, and create a new folder to store your games. Next, take the first game you want to convert to an electronic file, and look at the pin connections exposed on the underside of the cartridge. This is how the original system reads the game data. Place the game beside your computer and head over to Vimm's Lair. Click on The Vault, and then click on the correct console. Browse the listings and then download the ROM file for the game sitting in front of you.
Try starting here.
The Vault is where he stores a lot of old ROMS to try out.
And then go to r/emulation for more help.
Get the emulator (PCSX2 1.2.1) and Rom from Vimm. You will need to find a PS2 bios, I got mine from TheISOZone. Be careful where you get the bios from, a lot of the sites had questionable downloads.
The configuration on PSCX2 is good as is for FFX. You will have to configure the controller to how you like it, but that isn't difficult. There are some weird quirks in the game, but all are cosmetic (for instance, in some boss fights, both your characters and the boss will be facing backwards.) None of the quirks I have found impact gameplay.
Another nice feature is the ability to run on Turbo mode. If you press TAB, the game will speed up to roughly 2x (pending on how well your computer runs). It is nice for things like the Calm Lands where you have to walk and fight for what seems like days. Make leveling a breeze, in general.
One thing to note: Make sure you have enough RAM on your computer because the game runs completely off RAM (roughly 3.6 GB). I don't know why this is, I don't know a ton about this, but my roommate gave me the heads up. If I run things like Word or Outlook while playing, sometimes my computer will crash.
Hope this works for you. May Yevon be with you.
The entire Avernum series - 4-6 especially are awesome. The first 3 are very oldschool style but once you get into them are just as awesome. Great storyline...funny..all around good RPG's. Anything else by spiderweb software is good too.
Masters of Magic - you can find it free on many of the abandoned games sites. you need to get dosbox for it work it. It's very oldschool but still one of the best strategy games I've played.
You could also go here http://vimm.net/ and get emulators and pretty much any game you could ever want for old consoles.
Its simple just go to the site that i havent recomended here and download the file Go to the download folder on the emulator and look to see if the game is in there, if it is good, if it isnt just go to the download folder on the celphone and unzip it reset the emulator and see if it is there, it should be in there to play now
Consider using an emulator! That's what i'm currently doing. I own a copy of the game, but unfortunately my ps1 and ps2 died as well. :(
I recommend Vimm's Lair. They have both the emulators and ISOs to play the game.
I would suggest using the ePSXe Playstation emulator. It also has more advanced graphics port so, if you adjust the settings accordingly, the game actually comes out looking nicer than it did on the ps1! i'd show a screenshot, but unfortunately ePSXe screenshots always show up blank. you can't screenshot it. :(
The ONLY problem i found, however, is that when switching to the 2nd disc portion of the game, i actually had to insert the 2nd disc and boot it from there. It won't pull from ISO itself.
But i even went and purchased a usb controller and then hook up my laptop via hdmi cable to my tv and BAM. i'm reliving the dream, baby! :D
pm if you need more info if you're not familiar with emulators. :)
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I tend to agree with you. The term Master Sword was instigated in canon only after The Legend of Zelda. The original manual refers to it as the Magical Sword, but the property of shooting beams at full health was still there, and all cartoons and derivatives, disregarded the "Magical Sword" moniker and referred to it as the Master Sword.
It's a remake of the original Bionic Commando. From what I've heard, there's a few new additions. Play the first one on an emulator, and purchase away!
I prefer the homebrew method mentioned already. Follow the guide, and you can't go wrong.
The R4 is a cool route too, but really just best to do on a standard ds/ds lite.
One thing that's not really gone into in the guide is how to put in games. You'll need to find roms (game files) and copy them over to the rom folder at the root of the Sd card, it'll have a folder for each system like ds, Gameboy, etc. I just delete the rom folder after setup, create a new one called games, and in there add folders named for each system I plan to have games for.
Each game type ranges in size, so since you said you'd like to go with ds and gba games, I'd recommend upgrading your SD card to a 30gb sdhc SD card. It's the max size a dsi can take I believe. The guide will tell you for sure though. Ds roms can get large for certain rpgs and franchises. Gba not so much but there is a lot of variety out there for licensed games and fan made games/translations.
When you're ready for games, stick with trusted sites. I go with this site and a few others, but always have a few backups as most rom sites get shut down sometimes and be careful where you download them from. It won't ruin your dsi if you get a bad rom, but it's like trying to watch a pirated movie or download free songs on livewire in 2006 sometimes.
Same sd, the 2 largest for a dsi are gba and ds. The file formats are typically in rom form, but are denoted by the system. So Gameboy are in .gb, gba are .gba etc.
I always sort mine using folders so it's not a huge mess.
I get my roms from here. Just know that it's a good idea to stick to games you own. Different places have different laws about copyright/pirating. Some places don't care if it's not being produced anymore and you're not profiting from it. Others like in Australia consider it punishable by fines.
You're young and can't afford games yet. No harm in that.
I'd recommend checking out some more free games. c: Free games are on the Epic Store every so often and there are plenty of MMOs you could sink time into. Check out Mabinogi for something old and definitely dated, but interesting. Emulators for old consoles are also a really good choice: Visualboy Advance is a really good Game Boy Advanced emulator and Vimm's Lair is the best place to find the games. Look into Summon Knight: Swordcraft Story as well as all the old Pokemon games!
Emülatörler. Buradan bir sürü oyuna ve o oyunları çalıştıracak emülatöre göz atabilirsin. 5. nesile kadar çalıştırmakta sıkıntı çıkmaz ama 6. nesil konsollarında zorlanır bilgisayarın.
Every rp2 has a micro sd card with a library of folders that you can install game into. You can download roms of games from various sites online, though I recommend http://vimm.net as it has a pretty extensive library without many ads or faulty downloads. I'd recommend watching some videos on getting everything set up when you receive yours as it can be a bit challenging for someone new to retro handhelds.
Good luck
It's the file. Try extracting to another path then copying back to your game folder or find another rom. The best site i know is Vimm's Lair (open the link in another browser, reddit doesn't support it)
PCSX2 is the one I used for P3 FES. But if you would like portable version I would recomend PPSSPP. But for PCSX2 you need bios files. You can easily google them as well as the emulator. The game itself i downloaded from here. You can also check some tutorials on YouTube. I hope I was a bit helpful.
Vimm's Lair "Preserving the classics since 1997."
http://vimm.net/vault/?system=Wii
The Vault contains every game ever released in the US for eleven classic systems. To play them you'll need an emulator from the Emulation Lair.
Consoles
Nintendo 1985 Genesis 1989 Super Nintendo 1991 PlayStation 1995 Nintendo 64 1996 PlayStation 2 2000 GameCube 2001 Wii 2006
Handhelds
Game Boy 1989 Game Boy Color 1998 Game Boy Advance 2001
all free. no ads. old school site, decent download speeds. been around forever. found a bunch of roms for nes and snes. PSP and PS1 on here already that emuparadise doesn't have for some reason. i havn't tried the wii section yet but looks good.
I went searching for some manuals about a year ago and I seem to recall finding 1 or 2 websites that had scans for most common games. Never found anything near a complete archive, such a thing does not exist to my knowledge.
http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php
Here's a couple I dug up, but I'm sure you already found those if you searched the Web. Definitely would love to hear back if you find any other good collections!
Toe Jam and Earl! http://vimm.net/manual/?p=details&id=2774 It contains the lyrics to the Toe Jam and Earl rap song and a bunch of random 90s hip hop slang scattered throughout it. Also the game was probably the funniest game released in the 16 bit era.
Back when I had very limited access to the internet, I visited http://www.dosgames.com/ to download free DOS games and http://vimm.net/ to download SNES games/emulators. I needed stuff I could play offline. I used Miniclip a good amount too, especially since they had (and still have if you dig around) .exe downloads for their Flash games. They're one of the only Flash games sites I've seen do that, it was cool. The first site I think I ever made an account on was eBay. I think I bought an N64 game, but I don't remember.
>Get the emulator (PCSX2 1.2.1) and Rom from Vimm. You will need to find a PS2 bios, I got mine from TheISOZone. Be careful where you get the bios from, a lot of the sites had questionable downloads.
>The configuration on PSCX2 is good as is for FFX. You will have to configure the controller to how you like it, but that isn't difficult. There are some weird quirks in the game, but all are cosmetic (for instance, in some boss fights, both your characters and the boss will be facing backwards.) None of the quirks I have found impact gameplay.
>Another nice feature is the ability to run on Turbo mode. If you press TAB, the game will speed up to roughly 2x (pending on how well your computer runs). It is nice for things like the Calm Lands where you have to walk and fight for what seems like days. Make leveling a breeze, in general.
>One thing to note: Make sure you have enough RAM on your computer because the game runs completely off RAM (roughly 3.6 GB). I don't know why this is, I don't know a ton about this, but my roommate gave me the heads up. If I run things like Word or Outlook while playing, sometimes my computer will crash.
>Hope this works for you. May Yevon be with you.
Not condoning the use of emulators, but i was able to download it from http://vimm.net and got it to play on my laptop nicely. I ended up purchasing a ps2-style controller from Gamestop. twas quite a lovely experience.
although, i think i ended up having to insert disc 2 during the "switch to disc 2 now" before i could play the second portion of the game. once i saved while playing on disc 2 i never had to insert it again, though.
If you open the config file it lists the roms and where they're downloading from, including the names of the files when they're downloaded. You can go and download the roms yourself from an awesome website: http://vimm.net/. The Arcade plays only gameboy and gameboy colour roms. I'm not sure why they're not downloading, the original issue was that the links went stale but this new version should solved the issues.
I suppose we're all a bit nostalgic for those old precious games. Here's your gateway to hours of fun and enjoyment on the nets. Still not nearly as cool as playing them on that though.