ITT: Awful password systems

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Anonymous Sat Jul 5 20:38:29 2014 No.1742424 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Awful password systems

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 20:39:58 2014 No.1742428 >pic unrelated

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 20:40:36 2014 No.1742429 All of them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 20:42:40 2014 No.1742438 File: 6 KB, 256x224, password.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A tedious game deserves tedious passwords http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_owDUBxm7w

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 20:51:41 2014 No.1742463 >>1742428 Colorful but still annoyingly long

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:09:52 2014 No.1742501 As someone who played on the Wii U, with save states at the end of levels: Holy shit, those were supposed to be passwords?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:39:40 2014 No.1742574 River City Ransom and Guardian Legend had horriballs password systems, but eh.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:45:57 2014 No.1742592 Why did the SNES Mega Man games have passwords? I'll give the NES games a pass, but there wasn't any real reason not to have a save system on the SNES. All the other Mega Man games released on PlayStation and beyond had one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:46:56 2014 No.1742596 >>1742592 Because SRAM and save batteries upped the cost of cartridges.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:47:13 2014 No.1742597 >>1742463 It's really a pain to type in, it's that the games are easily short enough to play in one sitting. When you do have to use them, it makes you sorely miss the NES password system, it was much easier.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:48:06 2014 No.1742604 >>1742424 dat music though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rqK5uWs9gk fuckin nostalgic shivers man

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:54:47 2014 No.1742620 File: 59 KB, 1280x720, chiyotanikerahatohorasutenohatekiratonarihashiteto.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1742463 But that's not even long, and numbers are infinitely easier than random letters. try Maze of Galious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:57:22 2014 No.1742631 >>1742620 Were they always hiragana, or could they use katakana, too? If it's just one or the other, it's not so bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:57:56 2014 No.1742635 >>1742463 >12 numbers that was brightly colored and only had numbers >Annoying Pick one But I do agree that by MM7 they should have had some save system.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 21:59:43 2014 No.1742639 OP hasn't seen Guardian Legend or NES Metal Gear passwords

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:00:02 2014 No.1742640 >>1742574 Let's talk about the games with the worst passwords/password systems. River City Ransom - too fucking long Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Too long

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:00:34 2014 No.1742643 >>1742631 ソンツシ I can't imagine being a little kid and having to deal with that. Like the difference between I and l and if 1 was just a straight line.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:03:01 2014 No.1742651 >>1742592 A lot of 16 bit games have passwords

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:04:09 2014 No.1742654 >>1742438 >Someone actually programmed this

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:05:34 2014 No.1742661 >>1742640 Came here to post these. good lord >>1742438 what the hell is that

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:07:11 2014 No.1742665 >>1742640 >>1742661 I forgot to add, RCR's password system was just for your character stats, not game progress. It's weird, though RCR honestly doesn't take that long to beat.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:10:43 2014 No.1742676 File: 9 KB, 204x179, FFFFFFFFUUUUCCCKKKK.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dragon Quest 2 might be the worst thing ever invented. 52 letters in kana. Putting in the scroll of honor (saving) was the best thing they could have done.

>>	Anonynous Sat Jul 5 22:11:45 2014 No.1742684 File: 48 KB, 400x300, IMG_0005[1][1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1742424 that one to save your progress from golden sun 1 to golden sun 2

Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:13:02 2014 No.1742690

>>1742639
>NES Metal Gear

It had an interesting system. Unlike most games that deciphered the inputs, it seemed to have pre-programmed definitions for conditions. There's no way that the password to get to the final area with no equipment being FUCKM E1111 11111 11111 11111 was generated by a computer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:15:57 2014 No.1742695 >>1742690 >implying the computers aren't becoming sentient They're just biding their time.

Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:30:56 2014 No.1742736 [DELETED]

Everyone in this thread is neglecting the literal worst password system of all time. I will agree that there have been some bad ones, but this is the worst. Just watch this video and you will understand what I mean. Not immediately, but it will happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_owDUBxm7w

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:31:48 2014 No.1742738 >>1742736 Did you just miss this post? >>1742438

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 22:34:41 2014 No.1742743 >>1742738 yes ;-; ctrl f lies

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 5 23:16:28 2014 No.1742857 File: 42 KB, 450x338, international_password.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1742463 >annoyingly long >12 numbers Behold the hell.

>>	Legion of Anon Sat Jul 5 23:59:41 2014 No.1742983 Faxanadu Metroid /thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 00:00:23 2014 No.1742985 File: 585 B, 230x192, Golvellius-SMS-US-pass.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Golvellius seemed more tedious when I was a kid, but just selecting the letters rather than scrolling through them is remarkable.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 00:54:43 2014 No.1743117 >>1742684 that has to be the worst password system of all time

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 00:57:40 2014 No.1743121 >>1742684 I remember waiting an entire week to replay Golden Sun 2 because I had just finished 1 and was waiting for a friend to bring his old GBA. Yeah, I could've taken an hour to write in the password, but fuck that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 01:16:11 2014 No.1743149 >>1742983 Metroid and Kid Icarus are not even bad. They had cool passwords and even memorable ones ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER ICARUS FIGHTS MEDUSA ANGELS

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 01:17:38 2014 No.1743156 >>1742983 I kinda agree on Faxanadu, but that is mostly for the font. The American version had a font where people can't tell some letters apart while the PAL version had a thinner font

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 01:20:11 2014 No.1743161 >>1742857 oh god this. so fucking much... thats one of the reasons memorycards were heaven itself

Legion of Anon Sun Jul 6 01:24:29 2014 No.1743163

>>1743149

Perhaps so, but for those of us unimaginative fucks back in the days before internet, it was hell. I can't begin to count the number of times I would write down a password the EXACT LITERAL way it was displayed, only to get "Password Error" or whatever the fuck the error message was for my efforts.

>>1743156

Precisely what I'm getting at with both games. The font was horrid, and as I stated earlier, you had a 50-50 shot of getting Metroid to accept any password you entered, no matter how accurately you wrote them down.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 01:28:45 2014 No.1743171 >>1742438 >implying that isn't the best password system ever

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 01:38:38 2014 No.1743185 >>1742438 hahahhaahaa that's incredible

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 01:45:40 2014 No.1743194 File: 143 KB, 539x539, mike.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >playing a game with a fuckhuge password >scribble it down on a scrap of paper >the next day you go to put it back in >is that an "O" or a "0" >is that a "1" or an "I" >mfw

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 04:14:16 2014 No.1743497 ITT: People with no knowledge of computer information sciences try to critique the password algorithms of games made years before they were born.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 04:31:33 2014 No.1743516 File: 22 KB, 247x251, 1363756627802.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >you have to EARN the password

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 05:12:27 2014 No.1743558 File: 751 B, 127x161, Image1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1743194 That's why I learned to always write my shit down like this

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 05:55:32 2014 No.1743589 >>1743194 >can't even tell the difference before you wrote it because of the dumb password font lookin at you desert strike + sequels

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 07:33:12 2014 No.1743673 >>1742857 Oh god I opened this thread only to post this. It's worse than Hitler.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 08:04:13 2014 No.1743706 File: 13 KB, 450x338, supermonacogppassword.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1743497 >implying the only problem with some password systems are their lenght

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 09:11:12 2014 No.1743768 >>1743497 Dude, read the thread. There's no excuse for most of this stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 09:23:54 2014 No.1743780 >>1742424 Saw the thumbnail in the catalog and the music immediately started playing in my head.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 09:26:04 2014 No.1743784 >>1743558 This. Also, modern password/pin code systems often specifically avoid using ambiguous characters (1 and I, etc). We learned a lot from vidya games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:05:42 2014 No.1743825 >>1743497 We aren't talking about fuck easy systems like the one from crash bandicoot one you fucking muppet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:08:33 2014 No.1743831 >>1743516 You mean like Maui Mallard with bonus games?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:10:40 2014 No.1743836 File: 3 KB, 256x224, atlantisfactor.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1742424 I'm surprised no one has mentioned the one in G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor. What the fuck is this?

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:21:04 2014 No.1743854
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I always thought this password system was weird. I think MM7 used something like this but the pictures actually had numbers in them as well. So you didn't have to write down character names.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:24:59 2014 No.1743861 >>1743854 >Complaining about four characters long passwords Even if you didn't know the names, you could have just given them your own nick names like "monkey, old guy, arabic guy, aladdin, bitch, robin williams, etc."

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:26:07 2014 No.1743862 >>1743861 >Your own nicknames >Aladdin

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:27:23 2014 No.1743865 >>1743861 I'm not really complaining. I'm just saying I found it really strange.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:27:34 2014 No.1743867 >>1743862 You would know it is fucking Aladdin as a kid because his name is on the fucking game

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:30:46 2014 No.1743871 File: 9 KB, 512x480, GuardianLegendTheU_013.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Every time. >>1742857 HOLY SHIT! What's that game's name?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:31:53 2014 No.1743875 >>1743871 International Superstar Soccer

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:38:29 2014 No.1743885 The Battle of Olympus... I often got the passwords from the gods 3 times just to make sure that I wouldn't lose my progress due to typos.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 10:44:30 2014 No.1743896

>>1743861
>Even if you didn't know the names, you could have just given them your own nick names like "monkey, old guy, arabic guy, aladdin, bitch, robin williams, etc."

Tiny Toons Wacky Sports Challenge used this kind of password system. I remember renting it as a kid and finding that who ever had played it before hand had written passwords in the notes section of the manual. They obviously didn't know the character's name though and just wrote a generic word for each one like "bird". I specifically remember Calamity Coyote was referred to as "mutt"

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 15:35:32 2014 No.1744585 >>1742684 Golden Sun deserves to be retro. We all know deep down that if it had came out on SNES, people would regard it in the same way as Chrono Trigger.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 15:39:34 2014 No.1744594 >>1744585 Get the fuck out of here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 15:53:52 2014 No.1744629 >>1742654 It might have even been less work then to program a menu interface actually.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:01:01 2014 No.1744652

>>1743854

I still remember the password to the second stage by heart.
Genie, Abu, Aladdin, Sultan

Mostly because for some reason my dad thought it sounded pretty funny and rhythmic in Swedish or something and would chant the password like a little jingle whenever we were playing.

I thought it was pretty neat how the passwords themselves sometimes sort of corresponded to the stage they led to sometimes. Like how the carpet ride stage code both started and ended Jasmine and the Jafar stage started and ended with Jafar.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:04:01 2014 No.1744664

>>1742438

Nobody wants to deal with shit like that, putting a PW in should be as quick and simple as possible. It's like they sat around a table like "Okay, we need to find a way of making sure the player is frustrated and ready to switch games by the time they actually get to continue their progress..."

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:10:08 2014 No.1744685

Faxanadu passwords sucked. I inevitably lost half my progress from writing down a password wrong, so I started taking pictures of the screen. And I still fucked it up frequently, even though I was reading it directly from the picture of the stupid thing. How is that even possible?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:13:54 2014 No.1744693 >>1744585 >regard it in the same way as Chrono Trigger. ehhh....if you said fire emblem or lufia I would sorta agree with you.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:23:16 2014 No.1744721
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tru story time.

The manual for the Genesis version of Jurassic Park had the password to get to the next before last stage printed in it.

There was a page where it explained how the password system worked, the password was in the screen capture.

I still haven't beat the fucking boat level to this day. Fuck that level. Fuck it so hard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:24:26 2014 No.1744726 >>1744585 I love me some Golden Sun just like the next anon but 1 i think it might of been over looked with the slew of rpgs in the Snes library 2 i can wait a bit longer discuss it with /vr/ there is still tons of ground to cover here

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:35:32 2014 No.1744757 >>1743558 >>1743194 >password system uses small letter Absolutely disgusting Its like the developers wanted to troll you

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 16:44:23 2014 No.1744791 >>1743831 yeah.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:27:37 2014 No.1745070 >>1742643 It astounds me with the Japanese language in general how no one throughout history looked at that and said "we can do better" and changed them to be less alike. But everyone just rolled with it and here we are.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:31:06 2014 No.1745083 >>1745070 Oddly, I never had problems with ソ、ン、ツ、and シ. It was さ and ち that gave me hell for a while.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:33:08 2014 No.1745090 >>1744721 I booted this up yesterday, I barely could get past level 2. Riding dinos was fuckin fun tho

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:34:39 2014 No.1745097 >>1742684 I don't see what's so bad about this, you only have to enter it onc.... >1/6 Wait there's 6 pages of this shit? Holy hell, nevermind.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:37:16 2014 No.1745106 >>1745097 To be fair, it's a clear game password for a fairly long RPG, but it's still infuriating, especially when you have to dig through six pages of random numbers and letters, trying to find out which one you got wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:37:33 2014 No.1745108 >>1745083 I haven't looked at kanas in 10 years but I remember them as chi and sa. Then I checked my work just now and saw I got them backwards :[ So yeah those ones suck too. Out of all the possible shapes why are there so many that are so similar?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:40:36 2014 No.1745113 File: 476 KB, 165x115, 2b0.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1743875 That long a password for a football game.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:40:56 2014 No.1745115 [DELETED]

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>>1744585
Golden Sun is hands down the single most overrated series in the history of videogaming. It's the sole reason I hope GBA never becomes /vr/, despite having fond memories of the console and firmly believing it to be the best handheld ever.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:43:49 2014 No.1745128

>>1745108
When I was first learning katakana and hiragana, my only real hope to tell Sa and Chi apart was to relate the two to my hands. Sa makes a softer sound than Chi, and being right handed, my left hand is weak. So, the one pointing out to the left has to be Sa. Crazy, but it worked for me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:50:45 2014 No.1745150 >>1745115 >Golden Sun is hands down the single most overrated series in the history of videogaming. hell to the no mother fucker. who the fuck do you even talk to that makes you think that

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:51:42 2014 No.1745151 File: 383 KB, 876x768, cheerleaders.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1743896 Plus it was a pretty sexy password system too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:52:31 2014 No.1745152 >>1742684 try Oracle of Seasons/Oracle of Ages for a retro equivalent of this ass hole

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:54:08 2014 No.1745154
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>>1742983
Metroid's passwords are fine, I've never had a problem with them.

If you think a 0 looks like an O then guess what, you're borderline-illiterate.

See >>1743497 :

You might think Metroid's password system is annoying, but I bet you couldn't design a better one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:54:56 2014 No.1745157 >>1745150 the internet

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:55:30 2014 No.1745160 >>1743871 >>1743875 Guardian Legend

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 18:56:58 2014 No.1745162

>>1745150
Golden Sun was overrated from before it even came out. I distinctly remember Nintendo Power claiming it to be Chrono Trigger 2.0 and in the top 3 best RPGs ever made according to their reviewers. I remember this because after I played it I was so disappointed and pissed I dug out that issue and wrote a letter to NP telling them their reviewers were horrible.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:02:54 2014 No.1745178

>>1745162
well you see CT is overrated, people won't shut up about it. No one cares about GS, no one talks about it at all pretty much. Once theres as much circle jerking over GS as there is about Zelda, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and/or Chrono Trigger then I will concede that golden sun is the most overrated thing ever

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:04:38 2014 No.1745183 >>1745178 Well, what games do you like friend? I bet they are shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:05:31 2014 No.1745185 >>1745178 Anyone talking about GS in a positive light means it's overrated. It was that terrible. It's up there with memetically bad games like FFII, Bubsy and Action 52.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:06:56 2014 No.1745193 >>1745183 I like all the games you like. not saying any of those games are bad, or that I don't like them, but they are all overrated

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:14:10 2014 No.1745210 >>1745185 Those are different levels of bad. FF2 is not as bad as Bubsy, and neither of those are as awful as Action 52. At least FF2 and Bubsy were finished games that can be completed.

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:19:49 2014 No.1745230

>>1745210
I clearly wasn't all that serious comparing GS and the rest to Action 52. I exaggerated to simply say, Golden Sun is a very poor game that is mind-bogglingly overrated, and if it wasn't for the marketing and the fact that it was pretty much the only native RPG for the popular handheld, it would be one of those games that are obscure artifacts only known to the most die-hard JRPG enthusiasts, and very much rightly so.

But that's off topic and not /vr/ so let's stop at here.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:27:11 2014 No.1745259 >>1745150 hope you got a few hours to kill http://lparchive.org/Golden-Sun/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 19:44:28 2014 No.1745306 File: 3 KB, 210x125, why.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1742857 >finally manage to qualify for the wc >copy the whole freakin password >play again >enter password >nothing happens

Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:39:59 2014 No.1745597 [DELETED]

>>1745151
Furfaggot go home

>>1745115
This guy.
>My brother never played Golden Sun before
>one day my friend comes up to him
>"Hey, you like video games, right?"
>"I didn't like this game. Can you see if I'm doing it right?"
>We try it
>He comes back the next day.
>"That game is bad."
>"Okay, you can keep it, though."

That's how a copy of GoldenS

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:41:11 2014 No.1745606 >>1745597 *That's how a copy of Golden Sun was left to rot in our shelves.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:43:18 2014 No.1745610 >>1745597 >>1745115 >>1744585 >>1742684 >>>/v/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:48:50 2014 No.1745637 File: 333 KB, 278x200, michael bay; the animated series.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1742438 one of the many games you'll find in hell

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 6 21:51:48 2014 No.1745645 >>1742424 I always thought this was a mini-game that I was just really shit at

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 16:11:25 2014 No.1747580
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>first two games, four letters long, only letters
>third one, 16 letters, letters, numbers, random letters replaces with random symbols + four random symbols, pic related
Its kinda cool how the game generates different password everytime you go into password screen(in-game, not from title-screens menu), but damn for such simple puzzle game its really unnecessary and pointless.

Thankfully for gameboy one they went back to shorter, six-letter passwords, though it had those unnecessary numbers and symbols too

Anonymous Mon Jul 7 23:10:18 2014 No.1749119
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welp, at least those horrible long password are separated in "blocks"

BUT HOW ABOUT THIS?

OMG I HATED THIS SHIT SO MUCH BACK IN THE DAYS

Legion of Anon Mon Jul 7 23:55:53 2014 No.1749335

>>1745154

Yeah, 6 year olds(about how old I was playing this game) will immediately understand that on a game, 0s are displayed different from Os. And several people HAVE pointed out better ways to design better password systems back in the day, but since reading comprehension isn't your strong suit(borderline illiterate...my, how the wheel turns...), I'll break it down for you: remove comparable characters. So simple, even you can understand it, puddin' head.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:05:09 2014 No.1749379

>>1742574
>Guardian Legend
It was long, but it did really nice things to compensate. The upper and lower case letters were marked so you didn't mix them up and it gave you the option to try entering the password after you wrote it down so you knew you didn't write it incorrectly. I don't know much about how password systems are made, but with those kind of considerations I'd imagine that they would've shortened the passwords if it were possible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:15:41 2014 No.1749415 Legacy of the Wizard was a mighty pain in the ass. Sixteen-character passwords, and on those 80's and 90's television sets it was awfully easy to mix up your 1's and I's.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 00:47:36 2014 No.1749538 >Zombies ate my neighbors. I think its a 5 character string, but it FAILS TO SAVE YOUR INVENTORY. Do the game in one pass or not at all, because lord help you against giant baby doom without werewolf pots or improved weapons.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:01:38 2014 No.1749572 >>1742463 Spoiled brat

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 01:47:53 2014 No.1749681 >>1742424 The Spell of Restoration.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 07:37:37 2014 No.1750228 File: 138 KB, 540x448, Flint.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 'sup guys?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 07:41:00 2014 No.1750238 >>1742684 Wrong board? Maybe. Worst password system of all time? YES.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 08:23:30 2014 No.1750291 File: 57 KB, 600x420, gfs_46777_2_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Rolling Thunder 2, anyone? Not necessarily bad, but it definitely was memorable...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 08:34:02 2014 No.1750308 >>1747580 you'll notice that the symbols are to get rid of the ambiguous Os, Us and Is, they don't "randomly" replace letters

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 08:35:34 2014 No.1750313 File: 16 KB, 960x641, ENGAGE RIDLEY.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1742690 Sometimes shit just happens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 09:21:08 2014 No.1750369 >>1750308 You do realize it was a form of censorship, right? Notice it's the vowels that are replaced, not "ambiguous" letters.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 09:26:13 2014 No.1750375 >>1742665 >I forgot to add, RCR's password system was just for your character stats, not game progress. Entirely incorrect. The password saves what bosses you've beaten. Do your goddamn research.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 09:56:06 2014 No.1750424 File: 38 KB, 720x400, what00.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1750313 >mfw i booted the game up and put this in

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 10:02:47 2014 No.1750432 The legendarily shitty Hoshi wo miru Hito, an RPG in which grinding is an absolutely slow and awful experience, doesn't save your level in the password so you start from level 1 every time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 11:15:58 2014 No.1750521 File: 1.54 MB, 276x225, 1388004771148.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1750424 >mfw I used it on the 3ds version to test it It crashes your 3ds in case you're wondering. For real.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 11:33:40 2014 No.1750543 >>1750521 He ain't lying. It does. It would also crash the game on an NES, right?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 12:32:09 2014 No.1750637 >>1750543 Apparently in some versions, it just resets the game, but for my 2nd print (yellow label) version, it hard crashes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE9lT9s2wkE

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:02:23 2014 No.1750693 >>1743706 Explain how this works, please. What do the colors mean?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:13:36 2014 No.1750712 >>1750693 I think it's just to indicate that they're letters.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:13:49 2014 No.1750713 >>1750693 Letters, not numbers. Easier way to differentiate I from 1, O from 0, and S from 5.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:16:48 2014 No.1750717

>>1745230
>and if it wasn't for the marketing

I had never even heard about GS until I picked it up and I enjoyed it very much. Granted i don't care much for (J)RPGs so I have nothing to really compare it to. Was it great? No, but it was decent. Was it "a very poor game?" Far from it. You seem to like to exaggerate too much.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:22:54 2014 No.1750729 >>1750712 >>1750713 Ah, I see. That makes a lot of sense. I feel like a retard now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:39:19 2014 No.1750752 >>1750729 More like you were thinking it was more complicated than it really was. Brain says "It can't be this simple, so it's not", and you pass over the basic explanation repeatedly searching for more complex logic.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 13:51:14 2014 No.1750769 >>1742640 >Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Too long The japanese version only 6 characters long, so I never had any problem with it. Hiragana is easier to type, I guess.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 14:07:11 2014 No.1750791 File: 9 KB, 320x240, James Pond 3 (USA, Europe)000.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 14:24:31 2014 No.1750830 Related: Lemmings for the Pal Mega Drive. The passwords were different than the US version... guess which list of passwords all the Pal magazines kept publishing?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:30:14 2014 No.1750938 >>1750432 What The Fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:39:04 2014 No.1750961 >>1750432 This game is the epitome of shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:42:10 2014 No.1750968 >>1750543 Metroid passwords contain a "kill bit" which, if set to 1, causes the game to reset. It seems to be an anti-cheating mechanism, designed to prevent players from typing in random gibberish and seeing what works.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:52:20 2014 No.1750983

>>1742665
I think it's the GBA game (River City Ransom DX) that doesn't save which bosses you've beaten.

River City Ransom's password system is perfectly fine, I don't know what everyone always complains about.

>>1749335
>remove comparable characters
Why? If you can't tell the difference between O and 0 that's a PEBCAC.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:53:46 2014 No.1750989 haha, he needs passwords in a MegaMan game!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 15:54:41 2014 No.1750992 >>1750983 >I don't know what everyone always complains about It is too fucking long for starters and you have to get the password without any space breaks

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 16:01:15 2014 No.1751006

>>1750992
>It is too fucking long
No it isn't. It's exactly as long as it needs to be.

It needs to store several stats (most of which are 6 bits long, a few of which are 7 bits) plus the bosses beaten, plus the player's inventory, plus money on hand.

It also needs to reserve a bit of space for making a parity check, so that it won't break the game when you mistake an S for a 5 or whatever.

It adds up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 16:05:05 2014 No.1751019 File: 55 KB, 640x480, usagi computer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >ITT: /vr/ wonders why their huge RPG save file can't be stored in a short string of all-capital letters

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 16:11:15 2014 No.1751035 >>1751019 ITP: Something that is not happening ITT

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 16:11:58 2014 No.1751038 >>1751019 >RPG saves >password The password is just a way to unlock content, it doesn't actually store anything

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 16:13:16 2014 No.1751039 >>1750983 Unless you're familiar with the font or 0 is alongside O for you to compare, then it's going to be kind of hard to tell the difference. Shit, most fonts literally make an O just one unit wider than 0.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 8 18:23:37 2014 No.1751354 >>1745152 But those games only have 12 inputs. That's nothing compared to SIX PAGES.

Anonymous Tue Jul 8 19:14:09 2014 No.1751526

Did any games use a scheme where the password "characters" are button presses?
So instead of being hex or text strings that took forever to select a character, it would be something like:

↑↑→←AB↓BBA↓↑

Sure, you'd only get about 2.6 bits of information per button press, but you could enter several button presses in the time it would take to enter one text character. On a SNES, you could bring that up 3 bits of information (4 directions, 4 face buttons) and use the triggers to back up if you made a mistake.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 04:03:41 2014 No.1752682 >>1751526 I remember Croc on PS1 did that. IIRC, it also came with a save feature, much like Crash Bandicoot 1.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 9 04:07:48 2014 No.1752686 >>1752682 Rayman didn't have input passwords, but it did have the password/save option Which was neat if I couldn't find a memory card. Usually most games didn't even bother and used it to shill memory cards.

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