Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?

Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?
 

I don't even know what I have been playing. I have been nibbling on a ton of different games, which seems to be a sign that my gaming burnout is worse than ever and I need a break
- Chrono Trigger (snes)
Played on real hardware. i was lucky to find some brand new snes controllers, but the d-pad is so stiff that I ended playing with a Dual Shock 4. Mixing Nintendo and Sony feels as cursed as ever
- Tetris The Grand master 4: Absolute eye (Steam)
After so many years, it's back. Unfortunately it's closer to The Grand master ACE for Xbox 360 than TGM 3 Terror Instinct for Arcade. I'm not sure if Arika will ever release a PC game after the experience of extreme negative reviews and everyone wanting to murder them because the game can't be played correctly with a keyboard. The game was designed for an arcade stick (what I played it with), and they were not expecting PC fans to do key combinations that are not phisically possible with a d-pad or a stick.
- Picross E (3DS)
This game managed to trigger an addiction on me like I have not seen since The Binding of Isaac. So many sleep hours lost trying to complete puzzles instead of going to bed
- Lots of Famicom (nes) stuff
The AV famicom finally arrived and i got to try the flashcart on it. On top of the normal games, I got to play several translated that never left japan or was mangled by localization.
While it feels good not having to deal with Retroarch latency problems with Vulkan since 1.19, this console can be a hellish experience. While the Snes has RGB and i can easily convert to HDMI and play at 1920x1200, the NES / Famicom is composite video out and attempting to get a passable image on a computer screen using transcoders and linedoublers is an arduous tasks. The easier option would have been pluggling it to living room TV that supports composite video, but the gamepads have 1 metre long cables, making it impossible. So now I am waiting for some spare conductive membranes to arrive so that I can fix a nes gamepad with a good cable lenght (and they may be issues with extending the famicom gamepads due to the power output required for longer cables).