/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6333617

Woah! I figured they were gonna space out the Castlevania episodes much more. They only have Super and Symphony after this. Also the two N64 games.

>>6333618
Super would be very fun to watch, I can already imagine Kacho getting into game over hell around stage 8, but eventually he could beat the game in an epic finale.
SOTN I dunno if I want to see, RPG games aren't fun in GCCX's format, linear action games are more fun. Whenever he'd get stuck in a game like SOTN; the ADs could just tell Arino where to get certain weapon or spell to overcome whatever challenge he might get into.
Would be fun to see him play CV64 though. Although I'm not sure if he could beat it.

>>6333617
You might as well put the whole pastebin in the OP. The episode list is really useful.

https://pastebin.com/u/GCCXGeneral

>>6333618
>>6334292
>Dec. 6, 2018
I definitely thought they might wait longer before another Castlevania game. Do you think they won't bother with Simon's Quest or any of the Game Boy ones?

>>6333617
I hope he plays DKC3 someday, those episodes are maximum comfy.

>>6334327

Completely forgot simon's quest. That'd be a nice episode.

>>6334468

I think tha'ts inevitable, but what they do is intentionally space out the most popular games so they don't burn through them all at once. DK3 might be 3 years away. They're going to do a few more mega mans and x series too over years too.

>>6334292
>>6334468
>>6334776
It says DKC1 was on in 2009 and DKC2 was 2013. I think they're overdue for DKC3.

I think the order they're going to go in is:

>2 years time - Simon's quest
>2 years time - Super Castlevania
>2 years time - Symphony of the night.

>>6335090
>I think they're overdue for DKC3.

Go ahead and suggest it. Click on the joystick button. First line is name, then game, then game center. The AD staff can read English titles.

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

>>6335369
I know. I already did it. The pastebin says to check that a game you suggest had a release in Japan, so I just look up the Japanese names to be sure and send that in.

>>6335609

Oh cool thanks. I think all fans of the show should submit suggestions. I've done countless and many have been made onto the show. Not sure if it's coincidence or not.

>>6335647
Even if it's coincidence or it takes a couple years, it's fun to see a suggestion make it on the show. I'm sure every request helps a little.

>>6333617
Where can I download all the subbed episodes to now?

>>6335721
All the subs from the last few years are in that paste in the OP. Everything else is in batch torrents under episode downloads in the third paste here. >>6334292

>>6335721
No, they're gone forever and you will never be able to watch them.

>>6336980
>so_writes_a_liar.arino
I don't have the image handy.

>>6335708

So I suggested Chi no Rondo 2-3 times, using different IPs and names. I will laugh my ass off if the episode starts with the ADs saying "this game was heavily requested by fans".

>>6337675
It's probably been requested a lot anyways, but that would be pretty funny.

>>6338165

Yeah I imagine anything I request has been requested 50 times by Japanese. I only do requests to amplify what I presume they're requesting, but also request some niche stuff they likely won't know about. I have also spaced my requests by years so they seem genuine rather than spamming them.

>>6333617

so this upcoming season was all shot months ago and they just edit them later so that season is safe. The big planned events are all going to be cancelled though.

>>6338404
Trips and segments are shot months in advance. Challenges are only shot like a month or two before, and they still need staff to edit everything into episodes afterwards. They might only have the first few episodes of the season ready to go.

I would bet on the June live challenge eventually being postponed and the Asakusa Hanayashiki thing in August being cancelled or put off for a year or two.

>>6333617
That Messe Messe Club shit was cringe as fuck. New episode when?

>game shitty see exu

Have they played TMNT? It did have a Japan release and it's one of those "worst games ever" from your childhood. I guess the show was bigger in NA than Japan.

>>6343528
>Have they played TMNT?
Nope, the episode list is in >>6334292

anyone have a prepatch rom of the RGM undub?

>>6343528
>>6343713
I don't know if they'd want to play that first game on the show. Any of the arcade style beat em ups like Turtles in Time would be cool if they could afford the rights to do it.

>>6343720
nvm

>>6343725

It would be a great game for the show, and likely haven't heard of it because it's more obsucre in Japan. The game is stupidly hard and obtuse and just the sort of thing to punish Arino. I'm just picturing the narrator explain the different characters, their weapons. And then Arino realizing Donatello makes more snese to use for everything.

>>6333617
It says next episode is Part 2. They might have to do that with more challenges this season if the virus messes them up for a while.

btw, if people could recommend more n64, sat, and ps1 games for the show pelase. i want to see more 3D games. I'm hoping for Silent Hill to be on the next DVD set as a bonus challenge.

>>6345278

2 parts for Chi no Rondo!? That seems pretty nuts. Either they're milking it because it's a legit classic (it was one of PC Engine's most popular games and part of a big well known series) or Arino somehow got into difficulties. I would have thought that Rondo would be 1 part, and then Symphony would take 2 parts.

>>6346536

I checked the light and it looks like they're milking it. It's clearly day light and no more than 6pm.

>>6347224

So guys, I've been always seeing friends commenting on this show and memes posted around /vr/ but I never actually watched a single episode.
Time to fix this.
Where do I start?
Any classic or best episodes to focus on?

>>6348072
There's almost an overwhelming amount of episodes to choose from. The recommendation list >>6334292 is handy for breaking down a lot of episodes by category, like if Arino had fun on a hard game or had to deal with some crazy terrible game.

You can also pick an episode where he plays whatever your favorite game is, but that's sometimes frustrating to watch if he's hopelessly bad at it.

#13 Tokimeki Memorial and #34 Ghouls'n Ghosts are probably what I'd give to someone who's never watched any episodes before.

>>6333617
I just watched the Rondo episode without subtitles, and man, apparently you don't even need subtitles. He might as well mew or bark because you already know exactly what he's saying even if you don't understand a word in Japanese. A monster appears? Scary! beat the monster? Glad! Found meat? "Meat!" Found a key? "What the hell is that thing?"

>>6348173
>don't even need subtitles
Careful anon, you'll rouse the "LOL EOP" crowd who will rant and rave that you aren't getting the full GCCX experience unless you know japanese well enough to know if he's saying "Scary" or "That surprised me".

>>6347224
I got a laugh out of how they let Arino play once as Maria, then forced him back to Belmont.

>>6348234
Might be revealing my own shitter status but I absolutely love Maria mode. The movement is so fluid and satisfying on it. Definitely one of my top 3 Castlevania alternate character modes along with Maxim and Julius.

>>6348234
>>6348173

So if you know the game, and you're familiar with the show, you can completely fill it in with that plus any basic Japanese you know. Plus they use a lot of English gaming terminology too. Theonly thing you miss out are on Arino's snide comments and sarcasm, which have actually made me laugh a few times. This won't work on a game you don't know though. Like the narrator will start explaining game concepts and well, if you don't konw the game it's all magic.

>>6348778
>>6348173

Don't forget Arino's big "EH!?" whenever something puzzles him.

>sou
>nande
>dou iu koto
>nani
>nani kore
>sugee
>kowai
>abunai
>bikkuri shita
>yokatta
>hazukashii
>eh
>aa
>kagi
>itai
>imasu
>doko
>inai
>masaka
>owatta
>wakatta
>urusai

>Stage Ichi no bossu Why-burn

Oh man now I know why FF5 translated some enemies as "Y-burn" when it's clearly Wyverns.

>>6348234
>Careful anon, you'll rouse the "LOL EOP" crowd
I fluent in several languages, just not Japanese.

>>6349943
Also, lol at my own "I fluent". Whatever. When's the next expisode?

>>6349943
Why do ESLs always try and brag about this? You know it only makes you look worse, right?

>>6349960
You would understand if you read the post I was replying to. Also, it most definitely makes me look highly superior to brainlets like you who can barely reach fluency in their own language, let alone a number of foreign ones.

>>6349971
Ah yes, the old "ESL thinks he knows English better than a native" post. Always a fucking classic.

And you're right, I don't know a number of foreign languages. I just know one, Japanese. We could sit here comparing charts and argue over "hours required for fluency" to prove unequivocally that my one is superior to your several, but we don't even need that. Even if it took as long to learn German as it did to learn Japanese, knowing just Japanese would still be superior to knowing several mainland European languages.

Because you never really see anyone here saying "Man, I wish I knew Dutch...", do you?

Man the Russia episode was so fun

The part where he goes to the game store and it's full of fans is really fun, everyone's so excited

>>6350001
Not here but if you're interested at least the slightest in poetry, dramaturgy, literature or philosophy then yes lots of people do say things like 'I wish I knew french/german/whatever'

who gave them permission to film my wife

>>6350001
>Because you never really see anyone here saying "Man, I wish I knew Dutch...", do you?
Not the anon you are arguing with, but this is a board solely about a medium that at least 50% of the material came from Japan. If the board was dedicated to some medium where at least half the material came from the Netherlands, you would probably see some people saying "Man, I wish I knew Dutch." If you are trying to base the value of Japanese on utility value, it's completely useless outside of Japanese media. Spanish is useful in large chunks of the world. So by that metric, knowing japanese wouldn't be superior to knowing spanish.

You may notice that this is pretty much the only place where people who know japanese spend more time bragging about it than using it. Because this is the only website where people are pathetic enough to think learning a language is a great achievement, despite the majority of the world speaking 2 or more.

>>6351167
I SAID STO PIT

>>6351167
her boyfriend

Man I love travel episodes so much. That concert scene was so wholesome. It always makes me smile a ton to see Arino's reaction at foreign fans

>>6351328
>>6351127

Did Arino-Sama ask why a bunch of Russians know who he is? The show isn't broadcast there officially.

>>6351364
It wasn't filmed but it's likely they know about fansubbing groups

>>6351384

I do remember that famous clip, probably on youtube, from one of their live shows and they were getting these faxes from Greece. Arino was like "why are we getting faxes from there? We don't broadcast there." And the other guy was like "uh... I think maybe they're following us on twitter?" and then Arino "Oh they're not just watching this on youtube are they?" I feel that was probably 7-8 years ago.

>>6351394
>Oh they're not just watching this on youtube are they?
Russians most definitely are

>>6348173
Videogames are stupid, yes.

>>6351141
Sure, but the vast majority of people here aren't interested in those things.

>>6351224
You're correct, Spanish is useful in many parts of the world. How many of us will ever travel to one of them? How many of us will ever leave the tourist areas, or realistically encounter situations in which there's nobody around who knows English? Even in Tokyo these days you can get by fine with just English, most people know enough to take your money.

The value of a language is in its cultural output, not in talking to bums. You can go all over the world, know what conversations you'll get? "Where are you from?", "Why did you come here?", "Have you tried *LOCAL DELICACY* yet?", "Have you seen *LOCAL TOURIST ATTRACTION* yet?". People are fucking boring, and most of them speak English anyway.

Learning Japanese is a great achievement, because most of this site is constantly seething about the fact they can't speak it. I'm sorry that nobody cares you know Dutch, I'm sure you have a real inferiority complex about it.

Why do you EOPs argue about pointless stuff so much? To distract yourselves from the reality of your own EOPery?

>>6352956
nice blog

>>6352956
>this the only place where people are pathetic enough to think learning a language is a great achievement
>It's a great achievement because it makes people here seethe!
Did you really fail to read my post this badly? You are taking pride in being pathetic. And I never said I know Dutch, are you that desperate for something to attack with?

>>6350001
Sure, except Japanese is just a minor Asian language almost entirely devoid of utility. And you really should've mastered your native language properly before learning to read comic books, to be quite honest with you.

>>6352956
You don't need Japanese for travel, not even in Japan. Have you ever even been to the damn country?

>>6352960
This faggotry makes me miss that retard Zombie

>>6353837
He's apparently been banned from Twitter repeatedly. You shouldn't miss him or even bring him up.

>>6333617

>GCCX'S JUNE 21st LIVE CHALLENGE MAY PROCEED AS SCHEDULED, OR IT COULD BE DELAYED. THE STATUS OF THE SHOW'S PLANNED RETURN TO ASAKUSA HANAYASHIKI ON AUGUST 22nd IS UNKNOWN.

They will likely just go ahead with them without a live audience.

>>6334327

I 100% want to see Simon's Quest. Seeing him get lost by bullshit would be amazing. Then if the AD is worth anything they'll just have to tell Arino some of the cryptic cues. We'd also get to see how the japanese see Simon's Quest since supposedly it's as cryptic and absurd to them as it is to us.

>>6355432
>Kacho bravely plays video games for the masses during a pandemic
Based

I haven't watched in a few years, do they still intercut him traveling to arcades (or something like it)? I think it would lose its charm without it

>>6355432
The June challenge wasn't going to have an audience anyways, just staff in the studio for the live broadcast. Even so, the Japanese fans are nervous about whether they'll be able to go ahead with it on time.

They've already sold tickets to the Asakusa Hanayashiki events, but I can't imagine them even going to that amusement park at all unless things are dramatically better by August.

>>6355452
Yeah, they still have the trips to arcades and other places. We don't know how many they already have taped for this season. They sure as hell aren't going to record any more trips until the virus stuff settles down.

I just suggested Simon's Quest and Maze of Galious. I was going to suggest Legacy of the Wizard but they did that way back in 2008! Pretty cool now I sort of have to see that.

I don't think they've done too many Falcom games other than that right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Falcom#Works

>>6355461

They could space out arcade trip segments, and film new in-studio segments to pad them out.

>>6355472
I'm sure they'll stretch things out however they need to. We'll probably get more challenge footage and multi-parters this year and maybe next year.

>>6355481

Shit maybe that's why Rondo is a 2 parter now?

>>6355623
Yeah, I think so.

>>6355436
An Ugro-Finnic person described, in detail, the differences between the US and J versions, and released a retranslation. https://bisqwit.iki.fi/cv2fin/diff

>>6357115

Yeah but I want to see what the Japanese think. Maybe the English people are somehow overlooking something obvious or maybe the Japanese think it's as confusing as we do? I actually can't think of any Japanese guidebooks or magazines have been scanned that discuss Simon's Quest either.

>>6355436
There are no cryptic cues and the game is tiny. It only takes a few hours to explore everywhere and try most things. You don't need a guide and you don't need help to beat it. Just don't quit the moment you're stuck and you'll get through right away. I wish you fuckers stopped parroting nonsense about game you probably haven't even played.

>>6358732
>There are no cryptic cues

well there are, at least in English. The question is whether they would be for a Japanese person. There might be context that we're missing.

Can anyone think of any 3D, N64, PS1, Sat, games that might be good for the show?

>>6359040
I think DK64 would be amusing.

>>6359330

Yeah. They'd have to do 3 first though.

>Super Godzilla

...why? This seems like such an odd choice for the show. This isn't even the best Godzilla game.

>>6360042
They like to do weird and bad games sometimes because it's fun to watch him muddle through them.

>>6360068

There would be better bad godzilla games. This game just has weird gameplay that seems ill suited. The Famicom Godzilla game is awful and would fit better.

Goose have been so good about putting out subs I'm already starting to jones for a new one. Cmon boys.

>>6360074
>The Famicom Godzilla game is awful
I beg to differ, I love it. Although I know I'm just nostalgic, even being objective it's still an OK game, wouldn't call it awful.

>>6333618
Is there any upload of the NES Castlevania episode? From what I can tell it was a bonus episode on one of the physical releases and I can't seem to find even a raw upload

Long shot. In one of the recently translated eps they go over Gameboy games, and there was a top down action rpg that looked cool. I can't remember the name of it though. I might have to redownload the entire episode.

Top down, Japan only, action rpg, played like Zelda or final fantasy adventure.

>>6363351
Was it Dragon Slayer Gaiden? They showed that in the 1992 GB segment in the Murasame Castle episode.

>>6363362

Yes! Thank you. Never heard of that game before and it's never talked about in Dragon Slayer retrospectives.

>>6363383
I know of it but have never played it. It does look pretty cool.

I guess i was wrong. sorta a fun ep. I don't think this would be fun to play but it captured teh godzilla film feeling a lot.

>dead at 63

Arino better watch out.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-04-23/actress-kumiko-okae-passes-away-at-63-from-covid-19/.158878

>>6362110
As luck would have it, I've had the raw of that challenge sitting on my desktop for the last couple of years. Here you go Anon -

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

eh? This game's bad too.

what's that music they play during segemnets?

I need to apologize to Arino-sama and the crew of Game Center CX. I saw the show as a Let's Play style show, and skipped all the segments aside from Arino's Challenge. Now I see that it's actually a variety show and the visiting of game centers and museums are as important as the challenge segments. The show is about the celebration of gaming, the old, the bad, and the good.

I skipped all the travel segments in past shows and I feel like I missed out so much. This Russian segment is very respectful to Russia and they show so much.

>endingu
>continu
>chansu

why do they add u all the time?

>>6369052
it's kawaii uguu

>>6369052
Non-nasal Japanese phonemes end with a vowel sound. That's just how their language works.

Their basic i and u sounds are less drawn out than the other vowels, so loanwords that would've ended with a consonant in the language of origin would usually end instead with kind of a half-heard i or u sound in Japanese.

What are your top 5 episodes? For me, it's go by train, mighty bomb jack, the feudal lord's ambition, shadow land and super ghouls n ghosts

>>6369215

>Clock tower
>Nosferatu
>D
>Biohazard
> Quiz Nanairo Dreams: Miracle in Rainbow Village

I'm preferential to these 3D (or fake 3D) adventure games and quiz games rather than test of skill games. I like to see Arino plan things out with drawing maps and trying to figure out where to go. mansio of Lost Souls is ruined because there's literally a mirror that tells you where to go next and the AD or director should hav ebanned that .

>>6355470
>Not a single Ys on GCCX yet
Fucking why?

>>6369215
>Adventure Island
Gotta love watching Arino take on one of the hardest platformers around and getting torn apart by it.
>Battletoads
He has a lot of fun with it, despite it not being a puzzle game.
>Sonic the Hedgehog
His increasing hatred of hearing "SEGA" every time he got a game over, and Nakayama's introduction never stop being funny.
>Lemmings 24Hr Live show
For pic related alone if nothing else.
>Jogging Race or Nosferatu
Both are funny as fuck really.

>>6369405

how long are they?

>>6370601
1 and 2 could be played together in a single episode.
The others are of a fair challenge length.

>>6370615

Fitting because Ys 1-2 got released for the PCE-CD on a single cd. And I noticed that the show doesn't have a PCE-CD, rather they have the turbo duo the later ugly system.

these games look so bad lmao

>>6369405
Perhaps Falcom just won't let them use the games for whatever reason.

>>6371489

yes they do have to get the rights. thought I don't see why they wouldn't. I suggest submitting a few nihon falcom games on there page.

>the show has official candy or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mGBaXPlri8

>>6371506
That's dried squid pieces. It's a collab product since he eats a bunch of it on the show, I assume. There are other varieties.

wtf kibe!? I have the same shoes. They're rubber and ideal for wet or rainy days. Why did you bring these to Russia?

>>6371592

ah like beef jerky?

>>6371621

Merrell? I have the steel toed version for light days at work.

>>6371506
>>6371592
I believe that brand of Arino's squid was a collaboration for a limited time and was discontinued sometime in the last few months.

any chance they could come to Toronto? GCCX in Canada?

>>6371872
I'm sure it's possible, but I doubt anyone's going anywhere until there's a covid vaccine. It might be a couple years before they do another big trip.

>>6367521
>I skipped all the travel segments in past shows and I feel like I missed out so much.
Holy shit, how could you do this to yourself? At least you finally saw the light.

>>6369215
>Ninja Gaiden/Ryukenden
It's one of the games that he really pushes himself to win and one of the episodes where he and the crew really came together to help him. the last boss fight is the most kino thing to happen in the show that i literally cheered for them.

>Legend of the river king 2
one of the comfiest episodes by far and all he does is fishing in it. it also gets surprisingly tense when he finally found the river king or even any fish to catch.

>Hokkaido Serial Murders: Disappear in Okhotsk
it's an actually hilarious episode despite being a detective game ep. I've always had a soft spot for detective games but this managed to come in a full package of pulp, drama and comedy. also Arino abusing the "check here" command on a showgirl's tits and a surprise visit from Yuji Horii

>Takeshi's Challenge
It's probably the shortest and funniest challenge but basically prompted the show to change their format in the next season and for good reason. It's insane that he even managed to beat this game in 5 hours since most would just dump this in the garbage for less than an hour.

>Clock Tower
Probably the best puzzle/survival horror ep he played in a while (i havent seen the Biohazard ep yet) and it's interesting to see his take on the game itself. He managed to get into parts they don't normally show

>>6372470

hell night would be a good sequel to play for clock tower. it's like 3D first person clock tower.

>90% of the show are side scrollers

>Seicross

Pretty boring game and ep. Who asked for this?

>>6359040
Blast Corps would make for a fun episode.

Bump.

>thread isn't bumping
I see the two week limit is still in place on /vr/.

>>6374839
We can do a new thread when we get a new GC sub.