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Pokemon Emerald - I cleared out the trainers I had left and still had to statescum my way through Tate&Liza (mostly because I forgot that the Solrock also has Flamethrower and I was switch-stalling between Shedinja and "somebody that resists what's about to knock Shedinja out" while m...

Dune 2 but it's a rebalance mod that I'm testing - so there's a bunch to be said right now the CPU does not play fair with resources... or with structure rebuilding. If the CPU manages to capture one of your structures, you have to recapture it in order to stop the CPU from just rebuilding over tha...

Pokemon Emerald: what do you mean, "rock smash still required"!? (Trick House #3)

Pokemon Emerald : still surfing around looking for trainers to bully. En route from Slateport to Dewford (and I'm actually unhappy because I wanted to put this grand tour off until after T&L so that I could do it all in one pass but Claydol Says No ). I need to obtain a Magikarp at some point s...

Tate and Liza are fucking hard, I don't blame you. I forget how Juan and R/S!Wallace compare but. I never had R/S, only Emerald, so I only have "Whoops I can't actually deal with Shedinja at all" Wallace to compare to (the same problem barely even existed in ORAS, mostly because in ORAS y...

more Rayearth talk I had the good fortune of reading the (old Mixx localization of) the manga while I was in high school (I've only ever seen the first couple episodes of the anime but it's on crunchy so I really have no excuse not to finish watching it). Definitely one I recommend. Pokemon Emerald...

Magic Knight Rayearth ♫ HOLD O~N TO THE DREAM~ ♫ ...I'm assuming you're playing the Saturn version since you also had Sonic Jam in that last post? Pokemon Emerald : On to Mossdeep! I also picked up Sonic Origins on Switch (there was a sale) - and it turns out I like playing as Amy. Go figure.

Pokemon Emerald - Got to Lilycove and did the Lilycove things, time to go attack the main plot again. Next up: Mount Pyre (with a team that really isn't good at dealing with Ghost types)

Pokemon Emerald - Done with Fortree, done with the worst part of the game, time to have some fun again. Dune 2 - Because apparently I didn't have enough of this game while I was checking the campaign/scenario map disparities, now I'm testing a smallish rebalance mod (biggest change is that Hi-Tech ...

Pokemon Emerald: Punched through to Fortree. Almost done with the worst part of the game.

I was able to get 1:25 in Chemical Plant 2 in Sonic 2 yesterday. I might be able to shave a couple more seconds off of that?

Hydrocity was the only instance of it in Sonic 3&K, which is still amazing. I love people eeking out quality or colorful graphics from the MegaDrive (and addons)'s limitations instead of making it all Generic Western Grungy, which I hate. For some reason I remember it being used in Ice Cap and ...

Pokemon Emerald: Slowly making my way up to the Weather Institute. This chain of routes really needed a safe house outside of the WI, it's way too easy to run out of PP on the way in (and I keep getting my Shedinja KO'd by Leech Seed of all things, so that just makes things even slower).

I have to relearn Cave Story from the ground up with a gamepad and most joysticks are meant for 3d play so now instead of getting a lack of upward shooting while moving right I'm getting too many vertical inputs while walking left-to-right. Are you using a gamepad that doesn't have a D-pad? I alway...

I said this in the youtube comments somewhere (I think it was on the first Hell video) but Cave Story is not low rollover-friendly. My keyboard will not accept a Z or X input if I'm already holding both up and right (for some strange reason it's only those two together that block other keys) so I ha...

Have some music to celebrate. editor's note: the link is dead, long live the link What was it? wisecracks aside, you got further into Hell in the first session than I did my entire time with the game. I think I got to Heavy Press once before my brain crapped out in the altogether. There doesn't see...

Congratulations on beating the Blood-Stained Sanctuary/Sacred Grounds.

Have some music to celebrate.

editor's note: the link is dead, long live the link

and this is why i wanna be the guy has save points literally everywhere

(like seriously i never thought i would be saying that i wanna be the guy did something right where cave story did it wrong but this is the world we live in now i guess)

Dune II: finally I can put that away for a while

revelations: the demon slayer - i will not start this game over a fourth time. i will not start this game over a fourth time. i will not start this game over a fourth time :) okay so while i did start the game over again i made sure to beat the final boss first. so now it's actually on my "lis...

revelations: the demon slayer - i will not start this game over a fourth time. i will not start this game over a fourth time. i will not start this game over a fourth time cave story - raocow's playthrough got me wanting to play through it myself again. currently up to monster x, with a weapon raoc...

The labyrinth weapon trade is probably my favorite weapon in the game. The biggest cost isn't even that you lose the long-term trade for the polar star, but that you also lose the Fireball.

I could just hear the annoyance with everybody when raocow saw what was in the concealed box.

all right that should be the last time I need to edit my post on page one.