The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread

[Big C]

I'm taking a break from this forum before one more newbie who speaks English as a tertiary language makes an fool of themselves and gives me a headache, whether over Brutal Doom mods or not.

I can only see it happen so many times before I just get irrationally angry.

[Carbine Dioxide]

Just watched someone play Corpse Party: Book of Shadows. some of it is close to being porn. I almost died of laughter.

My school also had a lock down because of someone dropping another someone off with a semi automatic.

[leileilol]

Compression tests with BPG,applying it to the OpenArena data


There's some nice space gains from it. going down from 309mb to 132mb is... something. and that's the bloated needs-to-reboot one with the huge memorysucking md3s. BPG is particularly effective with skybox textures. My 11mb directory of them in JPEG FORMAT became 1mb.

has me optimistic (ha) about OA3's end size with the bloat controlled with texture limits (one texture per model and atlas up many textures where possible) and skeletal formats (Raven Software MDR) used. Heading for a 100mb target size with loads of content sounds far more realistic now.

[Devianteist]

Just watched someone play Corpse Party: Book of Shadows. some of it is close to being porn. I almost died of laughter.

My school also had a lock down because of someone dropping another someone off with a semi automatic.

@Corpse Party; One of my friends talks about that, and mentioned the borderline porn aspect. Didn't believe him, guess I was wrong.
@Lock Down; And that's when I'd be cowering underneath the nearest, and largest, object. Is everyone okay?

On another note, I just got ahold of a copy of DOOM3+ROE for the PC, not BFG. Anybody know some good sites for DOOM 3 mods?

[Carbine Dioxide]

Yeah everyone is fine.

I am done with Corpse Party. Too perverted for me.

[TheBadHustlex]

I am done with Corpse Party. Too perverted for me.

Guess I'll need to check that out. It doesn't seem to be a scat/tentacle-movie, and I hope I'm not wrong.

[Nash]

The official Ultima Underworld spiritual sequel has been announced. This makes me really moist.

(Coincidently I was playing UW a while ago!)

[NeuralStunner]

BPG

This looks amazing. Though I'm skeptical about this statement: "Files are much smaller than JPEG for similar quality." To my eyes, the quality is much better. Not having JPEG's obvious blockiness is a huge improvement, even when it adds a couple KB. Try the comparison tool with both sides set to "tiny" and look how smooth it is.

Particularly interesting is lossless compression and alpha support. (I'm guessing this would give better compressed size than PNG for "busy" images such as photos.)

The license doesn't look like it'd be too much of a problem, either...

[Marisa the Magician]

I wouldn't be so happy with what looks like a patent-encumbered format.

[DoomRater]

This is ridiculous. I cannot find a movelist for Giga Mac in Punch-Out anywhere on the internet.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

is it even worth bothering to collect retro games that are in the PAL format?

[wildweasel]

is it even worth bothering to collect retro games that are in the PAL format?

There are some games that remain PAL-exclusive (on all but download services, of course) that are worth tracking down. Terranigma for SNES and U-four-ia: The Saga for NES never received US releases, and are only available in English to PAL regions. I'd also argue that certain games' PAL versions are superior to their NTSC/US releases, in particular the second and third Gex games, where the voice actor for Gex was replaced with an alternative British actor (in the third game, it's Danny John Jules, the Cat from Red Dwarf).

[Viscra Maelstrom]

is it even worth bothering to collect retro games that are in the PAL format?

There are some games that remain PAL-exclusive (on all but download services, of course) that are worth tracking down. Terranigma for SNES and U-four-ia: The Saga for NES never received US releases, and are only available in English to PAL regions. I'd also argue that certain games' PAL versions are superior to their NTSC/US releases, in particular the second and third Gex games, where the voice actor for Gex was replaced with an alternative British actor (in the third game, it's Danny John Jules, the Cat from Red Dwarf).

hmm, those seem to be very specific examples, though. i was talking about more in general, particularly for consoles like the PSX and N64 (since that's the oldest we happen to own apart from a Mega Drive.) everywhere i go, it's all about how PAL got screwed over big time when it comes to console gaming.

[YukiHerz]

I have a hard time searching for ps2 games, most stores here will only sell games that have spanish as an available language, and hardly NTSC games come with anything else that is not english...

Viva Latino America :v

[Kinsie]

is it even worth bothering to collect retro games that are in the PAL format?

Old microcomputers like the Commodore 64 and the Amiga tend to have a very Euro-centric library.