/vr/ - Retro Games

Sorry about messing up the greentext. I forgot to change the line break when I copied from the pastebin.

>>6554181
Man I really liked the Dragon Quest episodes

>June 27th Notice: The merchandise that had been intended for August's canceled
>Asakusa Hanayashiki event is now available for purchase while supplies last.
>https://amiami.jp/top/page/s/gccx2020.html

Has anyone bought anything yet?

Translate Rondo of Blood or get fucked!

>>6554347
If you just press Dracula XXX and Dracula YYY, you will be sucked.

>>6554341
Nothing in the line appealed to me. The only GCCX merch I own are the pic related patches. I'd love to own the big King plush you see in some episodes though.

>>6554181
I love this show, and massively appreciate it getting fansubs but why the localisation of character/place/etc names? It's the smallest of issues to hold against the subs, but it just reads weird.

>>6554545
Yeah, the King and Arino plushes would be nice to own.

>Ogawa the cute fortune teller will never help you play Panel de Pon
I simply live with the pain.

>>6554341
Ordered the water bottle, needed one anyway.

>>6554545
>>6554957

IIRC, those were limited to crane game prizes.

>>6554341
Brainlet here. I really want to get this shirt, it's amiami so I should be able to order it even in the US right? Can I buy the shirt on the english version of amiami? Send help.

>>6555887

https://www.amiami.com/eng/search/list/?s_keywords=game%20center%20cx

I'm not saying you didn't try, but...

>>6554616
The subs are aimed at people who don't know of the original games or watch anime

>>6556613
You're saying that the majority of people watching subs of a show about a middle-aged Japanese comedian playing games AREN'T weebs in at least some capacity?

>>6555872
I seem to remember them selling some of the plushes around either the 15th anniversary time or the Bakarhythm battle before that. I don't remember exactly when I saw pictures of them in stores. They might have been overstock at the time.

>>6556721
I'm not a weeb and I love the show. I hate anime and other nip shit. My gf loves it though.

>>6555680
>Cute
My God that's bad taste in women

>>6557234
Taste is subjective.

Could someone post a link to the livestream again please.

>>6556062
Sorry. Thank you for the help. Do you know which shipping method is cheapest/best for the US? Or should I just pick one and see how much it is at checkout?

>>6554181
Why is this overrated boomer gook allowed on /vr/ but not retro gaming youtube shows?

>>6558043
One makes money off of youtube views, one makes money by getting paid to make a TV Show. The former makes money by having people advertise for him since every view is more money for him, the latter doesn't make a dime off of people watching subtitles of the show. One is an e-celeb, the other is an actual celeb.

>>6558043
I saw a James thread just yesterday.

>>6557146
>I hate anime and other nip shit
>>6558043
>overrated boomer gook
The state of shit taste on /vr/

>>6558741
There are only like a couple people who suspiciously try to shoehorn AVGN into /vr/ threads. They often reply to each other or themselves.

>>6558043
James loves Jews.

>>6558026
https://mega.nz/file/RnRkXAxa#JaS55D7CUzVn42AkAvKKzYOQNhQcIgH8C6pDzDHHvZw

>>6558043
Is that Henry Winkler?

>>6559826
Thanks anon.

>>6558036
Probably stuck with whatever option they offer.

>>6560378
It's in the OP if you click on news.

Trying to find the episode for Castlevania, AFAIK at this point it any active upload of it has been lost and there are no references to it on most episode lists and all torrent sites outside wikipedia and dead links to gccxraws. Anybody who thinks they have it, or just have a big collection see if you have it. At this point I'm considering buyfagging just to confirm I'm not a schizoid

>>6554307
>went to check this on the SFC version of DQ1
>it doesn't have it

Wonder why they removed it, or if the English fan translation just forgot to add it.

Ogawa's behind

>>6560987
I posted this last time it got mentioned, but I guess you didn't see it:

https://mega.nz/file/CNE1zCKa#IWUat2yEr0knG9xPzkX3otnLFY_YsDfBPQog8JYUrWQ

>>>/tv/

e-celeb threads and tvshows are not /vr/

>>6561867
I didn't catch it last time, thank you so much, this really made my day man

>>6554181
It looks like the old Nintendo Channel stuff has been retired. The pastebin says Nintendo took down the GCCX youtube videos but left up the GCDX ones with Hamaguchi, and they're still making the Yoiko episodes with him and Arino. Yoiko's Paper Mario Origami Life is up next sometime over the summer.

>>6561498
Ogawa's embarrassed.

https://otn.fujitv.co.jp/gamecenter/index.html

Daiku no Gen-san next week.

>>6554181
>>6566109
>Due to COVID-19 precautions, this challenge was conducted without staff assistance.
I wonder how many they'll decide to do like that.

>>6566160
What they're doing now is setting up like a life line booth where Arino can scream for help and they respond to him from afar. He did it during the live show several times, it was fairly amusing.

>>6566168
I guess next week's episode was probably shot back when the state of emergency was nationwide. It would be kind of spooky if they shot it in the normal challenge room, then just set up a couple stationary remote cameras or something and just left him totally alone with an intercom. We'll see what they did.

>>6566160
>さらに今回はスタッフなしの完全ぼっち挑戦!

Zero mention of Corona. It's likely, but just your assumption at this point.

>>6566981
It's not my assumption. The pastebin has been keeping up with all the covid news and cancellations and shooting schedules. It's probably right.

>>6559507
>They often reply to each other or themselves.

I want a panda car.

>>6569845

>>6571382
It was THAT bad?

>>6559826
>they didn't hang my drawing
No, it's ok, it's fine, no really.
;_; they hate baka gaijin fanart

>>6571828
It's pretty bad.
Long story short: the movie has two stories: a normal Arino challenge, a retelling of his Mighty Bomb Jack live challenge and a love story set in the past about a kid trying to impress a girl with videogames. It's the most unoriginal shit ever with the typical antics and cliches including bullies.
Then there's a part where the kid literally time travels to the future and appears in the stage where Arino is playing Bomb Jack, tries to help him, fails and returns to his seat to keep watching him.
And during this time the movie is constantly switching between 4:3 and 16:9 and it's a bit jarring.
Arino is right, just don't watch it, even he knows it's bad.

>>6554181
>New subtitled episode from GooseCanyon is the second part of Dragon Quest:

Wake me up when it's something to give a shit about.

>>6557234

Normal looking girls in glasses are high tier. Idiots who go for "models" or sluts are fools.

>>6564083

None of these segments have been translated but based on format this sounds like a lot of fun. First it's a PS game which the series needs to focus more on. And it's actually having some fun with some of the more obscure "practical" games.

Oh someone tell them about all these other gadgets and guides. There's a fish tracker for the Gameboy and it kinda works. So a few fishing segments would be amazing.

>>6571828
>>6571382

Arino was never consulted on the film and when they first announced it during one of their ice cream eating segments he mocked the idea saying the show's format didn't fit a film. And that the people writing it had no experience in drama. He was 100% spot on.

>>6572051
The fuck you on about? The ending was hype.

>>6572331

>JRPG challenge

I sleep.

>>6572370
So did some of the staff in the first episode.

>>6571878
What was it, anon?

>>6571881
I'm sorry anon but this awful description just makes me want to watch it more. Are there subs for it?

>>6571828
Apparently the only good stuff is the recreation of late 80s Japan.

>>6572058
Based and redpilled.

>>6572370
Watch it before spouting shit.

>>6573179
This one. I used the right hashtag before the deadline but I didn't see it in the two walls with drawings.
Sad times.

>>6573198
fug, I'm sorry anon

>>6573187
Pleae tell me there are fucking subs, I want to watch this train wreck

>>6573181
You first have to find a raw, everyone stopped seeding it on Nyaa

Does anyone have the raws for resident evil 2 and sonic the hedgehog 2?

>>6573463
And before you say it, the megas were taken down and no one is seeding them on nyaa.

>>6573181
>>6573437
It's not subbed. The episode list in the OP says what's subbed and what's not if you need to look anything up.

>>6573181
>>6573437
Seems like the Russians subbed it in Russian though I haven't seen it yet.
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5346590

>>6572370
i watch gccx in 20-30 minute bursts in bes before i sleep and the dq episodes have been knocking me out. it's been great

Guys I miss Sayapyon

>>6573569
>>6572370

Well... it's a slow and grindy. The staff was dozing off during the shooting. kek

>>6571881
Wait, they made a movie revolving around that one asshole kid who used all of Arino's coins?

When's Lemmings

>>6573463
Some guy seems to have uploaded the raws for Resident Evil 2 on Youtube, albeit with bars on the sides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8I34mdsHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mAjJDSrZQ
There's also other DVD challenges on the channel - City Connection, Twinbee, Bomb Jack, New Adventure Island, Spelunker and The Tower of Druaga.

>>6574478

Those are easy to get and hard to come by. So download all those. I can't find raws elsewhere.

>>6573657
Me too ;_;

>>6573463
Not sure if there was ever a better upload, but I had Sonic 2 saved, so here you go. Use base64decode:
.
aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvVkJvMWtUcFEja2FVb3VpaHNGSUQ0ZmtDN29rb1BHZUwyLXYzc2wxVURkSW5RM3BxaHhOUQ==

>>6573198
I found your tweet. They may have ignored you if they thought that you were a professional artist trying to promote yourself. 13 different hashtags in your tweet was probably way too many. You sprites are nicely done, though.

>>6575014
>MFW people get mad at the punch line of this skit on the twitch stream.
>Or complain that Arino 'fat shames' watanabe

>>6575460
Didn't consider that, it makes sense.

>>6574478
nice, thanks

>Domo, Game Center CX!

>>6574478
>>6574970
Thanks anons!
Don't apologize for quality, it's better than nothing.

Are the GCCX games good?

>>6579292

yeah they're pretty solid

Yoiko related
This is pretty neat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwHSBrylCQg
while I wouldn't spend money on it right now, my younger self would have loved it.

>>6579292
Second one is better imo because it comes with a VN which is funny and great in it's own right with lots of shit talk on different Japanese developers/publishers

>>6575465
I understand getting mad at the gay joke but when did he fat shame him? I never caught that. Arino busts everyone's balls unapologetically all the time. He even yells at kids.

>>6581442
Watanabe is female. She was the chubby AD who came back as a director later, and she's gotten MUCH bigger recently.

>>6581489
Oh I was still thinking of the GAYme center skit. I don't think I've seen her yet. What did he say? Was it mean or was he just poking fun?

>>6580053
Please never let Arino near legos again

>>6581532

>sees fat demon creature in Nosferatu
>"oh it's Watanabe"

>>6581532
It's been a running joke for years and isn't treated as mean-spirited or anything by her. He gently teases her about her weight and how much she eats, compares her to whatever bloated creatures he sees in games, etc. Her nickname is Black Kirby.

>>6581736
>isn't treated as mean spirited
>compares her to bloated creatures in games
jeez

>>6581760
Making fun of someone's weight is treated very lightly in Japan, certainly different from many other countries. People don't tend to get offended by it. Since she's laughed it off for years, so does everyone else. It's just treated like how Arino makes fun of whatever personality quirks some of the other ADs have.

>>6581442
Eh Watanabe takes all the fat jokes in good fun and to be fair, she does nothing to prove Arino wrong. Whenever the camera points at her she's eating something in a single bite.

>>6581760
If it touches a nerve maybe you should lose some weight

>Black Kirby
>Interests: Eating
It's her shtick. All the people on GCCX are boiled down to a basic element. Takahashi is cardigan man.

>>6582968

I would. Not gonna like. I feel there's a 75% Arinoa has had sex with her too.

>>6582974
He's a married man. You're are allowed to have female friends while being married.

>>6582978

I'm gonna let you in on a secret. Married people have affairs all the time, especially tv stars and professional people. If you're around someone for like a decade the chance of porking goes up.

And maybe I'm projecting, because something about Watanabe just makes me want to bent her over a desk and dominate her.

>>6582986
You're crazy if you think Arino is actually like that.
Also based, seems we both like thicc ladies.

>>6582990

>family values Japanese celebrity would never cheat on his wife. not ever

>>6583386
Arino has a wife with two girls, I don't see him risking it over her. I think it was Inoko Max that got into an awkward argument with one of the female ADs one trip, him I could see getting handsy.

>>6582974
The one who must likely had an affair was the producer and that one translator from Something Awful.
Arino even joked about it on air once.

>celeb relationshit gossip
This is the reason why I avoid generals like the plague.

>>6581736
>>6581760
>>6581781
Arino jokes about everything. He's a professional comedian. Nothing he jokes about should be taken seriously.

>>6584181
In every general ever, it's always just one or two people trying to stir shit up or just posting out of boredom when things are slow.

>>6584201
>>6584181

>thread that rarely is made is a general

Oh stop being little bitches, if you don't like the topic, make something people can engage in.

I was always curious, why is the wording in so many Japanese to English translations so... kooky? There's a certain sentence structure that, while grammatically correct, doesn't sound right when repeated out loud by native English speakers. Perhaps the translators are being too literal with their translations, or is the Japanese language that unwieldy? Is that why "skill", "trick", "ability", among others, are always replaced with "technique"?

>>6575465
you mean this one?
twitch.tv/gccxstream/

>>6585048
It's just the act of translation, which is an art as well as a science. Nerds tend to go for more literal translations which sound awkward in English. You need to re-write it to fix it.

>>6586334
>>6585048

This topic has literally come up on /v/ right now in regards to Kojimbo-san.

>>>/v/516202341
>Translation is actually a really fine art. Translation isn't word to word, but word to idea, then idea to word in other language. Classic works get the best translation around, but the problem is there's a lot of translation work and not the time and talent to get the best possible. There isn't even a best possible translation (see how works get new translations done every few decades at best to improve on outdated language). A lot of translation is just trying to be decent.

>>>/v/516201540
>Read about Jeremy Blaustein translating the first Metal Gear Solid, then Agyness Kaku translating Metal Gear Solid 2. Kojima loved the translation of MGS1 at first, then learned a little later on how much liberty Blaustein took in translating (just standard to make everything match up with cutscenes etc.) and got angry. With MGS2 Kaku had much less freedom, even certain words had to be translated directly/to a certain word. This is why in MGS2 characters say things like "sneaking mission" which sound stupid in English. Probably just the same thing today in Death Stranding, too literal translation because Kojima's trying to protect his work too much.

>>6554181
July 23 episode has a hiragana title? The first thing that comes to mind is Hebereke.

According to Japanese Twitter, Arino beat Hammerin' Harry in 1 hour and 50 minutes - his second fastest clear time.
The challenge also seems to have been filmed without any staff assistance at all.

>>6566587
Basically confirmed. It says they shot it two months ago.

>>6566587

Lol that's literally what happened. Arino-san alone! I bet the narrator had fun with this.

>>6586385

Is that the Famicom or Super-Famicom version? Please not another Fami-game. I'm kind of sick of that systerm. I think they should limit the amount of Fami games per season and try to introduce more N64, MD, SS, PS, PCE, and other consoles.

My wishlist for this season is a Zelda game or DKC3.

Fastest clear time is the penguin love story game right?

>>6586385
>>6586420
We knew when the game was announced last week that it was Famicom and that there was no staff help.

They're definitely due for more Zelda and DKC, hopefully this season. I think that penguin game is still the fastest clear.

>>6586385
I hope he hangs in there

>>6586342
This ignores the basic fact that Agness Kaku is a literal retard who shouldn't be anywhere fucking near a piece of entertainment. There are dozens of examples in the intro alone where she rewrote shit poorly because she hasn't even the most basic understanding of how people talk.

MGS2's translation was poor thanks to Kojima, but it was even worse than it had to be thanks to Kaku.

>>6583402

You might have seen hundreds of hours of him, but you don't know the real Arino-sama. That guy is playing a character. I think one of the only times he dropped character was in that Angel Quiz game where he gets very oddly defensive about his daughters dating. That brought out the stern Japanese father in him.

>>6587238
Game Center CX isn't even Arino's claim to fame. No one here knows the real him but IN MY HUMBLE OPINION he's not going to risk his comedy career over the chubby woman on his video game show.

>>6587516
He has mentioned in a few episodes that as time goes on, more people recognize him as "Arino-kacho" and less recognize him as "Arino of Yoiko".

>>6587523
To be fair being recognized for your own project sounds a lot better than being recognized as one guy in a crowd of 50 duos sitting in a studio on a show with canned hyena laughter.
It's honestly one of the reasons GCCX is watchable to this day, just staff, a comedian and a solid premise.

>>6587516

Like a youtuber, he has a presenter mode, and you never get to see the real him.

>>6587523

GCCX was supposed to be a side project, and it sort of is (2 eps per month isn't much). But it's remarkable it's become as popular as it has.

>>6587516
I'm not making any accusations since this entire conversation is pure speculation, but "real" Arino is definitely not like Arino-kacho. His jumpsuit, blue collar worker hairstyle, and employee-esque demeanor are all affectations for the character. Whenever you see him caught outside he looks much more like a typical celebrity/actor, dressing "cool" and with a much more contemporary hairstyle, and not acting like a humbled doddering middle manager. In that world, it's entirely within the realm of normality to pork your female assistants.

>>6586385
I wonder if this means that easier games will be challenged as to reduce the amount of staff interaction needed.

>>6587516
The Japanese don't care about infidelity. Hamada and Endo got caught and nothing happened.

>>6588606
That's more because literally every male in Japan spends half his time at soaplands to avoid the nagging wife, so men don't give a shit.

Plenty of women have had their careers completely fucked because they slept with married men, Becky was an obvious recent example. Women are eviscerated by other women who are terrified of some young starlet seducing their husbands into leaving them.

>>6588302
Sure, we don't know how is he in real life, but neither do you. You're just assuming based on your image of normal japanese people.

>>6566160
>>6588407
If the virus hangs around for a long time or gets worse again, they'll probably have more easy games, maybe more one-day shoots stretched into two episodes, maybe a relocation to somewhere more spacious like they did for the live commemoration.

>>6587603
>comedian and a solid premise
With the added bonus of "no negativity" for the script, until somebody pokes fun at it and they just improve in a way that would get them blacklisted for Jap advertisement shows.

>>6587004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffJbFx1WuO0

I watched the Retro Game master versions of a lot of episodes like Clock Tower, etc. The resaon being that the "full" eps are in some ungodly 320x240 early youtube tier with insane blur and compression. You can hardly tell what's going on!

>>6574478
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8I34mdsHA [Embed]
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-mAjJDSrZQ [Embed]

Dead links! Please tell me someone downloaded them for safe keeping!

>>6582990
>Also based, seems we both like thicc ladies.

I think it's because Watanabe comes off as hedonistic with her food habits. Ergo she's likely a sexual freak and likes it hard.

>>6554181
I haven't seen this show, but Retro Game Challenge is based.

>>6574478
>>6590176
The entire channel is gone. There will probably be another one up in a month or whatever, then that one will also disappear suddenly. That's how it's been for years.

I love these detective adventure games. Can't wait until they get to the GBA era.

Also love when they use the big boards. Wish they used them more oftne.

I remember when Nakayama was this awkward shy guy, nowadays seems like he got a little more confident

good for him

>>6591027

>literal neckbeard

>>6591027
In the live show last month, Nakayama showed off his wedding ring.

>>6590987

>The first Ace Attorney game, Gyakuten Saiban, was originally released as a Japanese-only title on the Game Boy Advance on October 12, 2001. The two sequels, Gyakuten Saiban 2 and Gyakuten Saiban 3, were released on the console on October 18, 2002 and January 23, 2004, respectively.

Woah baby! Ace Attorney via GBA-player for Oct 12th 2021 show?

>>6590176
Where were the original DVD rips hosted? I can't seem to find them anywhere.

I used to be so into this show but now i try to watch and just get distracted after 15 minutes and do something else.

I mostly like the travel parts anyway.

what a creepy episode. just hear a faint distant laugh from the hallway

>>6593438

yeah that sucks.

>>6586363

MORE famicom bullshit?

>>6591091
woah