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« Reply #60 on: March 18, 2009, 06:33:49 AM »
Did you play the PSP titles? They're quite good.

And as Demi has pointed out, there was that GBA version, based on GTA3's Liberty City...

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« Reply #61 on: March 18, 2009, 08:35:37 AM »
I could never get into the PSP GTAs, the controls never clicked for me.
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« Reply #62 on: March 18, 2009, 02:46:58 PM »
Oh god, I forgot how frustrating GTAs are. I was doing an early mission where I have to steal 3 racing cars and bring them to a garage, and you have to complete it in a certain amount of time. The fucking streets are so narrow (you literally cannot pass cars without bumping into oncoming traffic) that I bumped into a cop car when I had only one car left to steal. So I hop into the last car and I expect it to go to the hotwire minigame, which it has done for every single car that I've stolen so far. nope. So it takes me a second to realize that there was, by some miracle, no minigame required to stealing this car. By that time, a cop has already pulled me out of the car and I fail the mission due to 'BUSTED'  :'(. I actually kind of like the artistic style, but everything is soooo tiny. I am going to keep at it for a bit, but not sure how long my patience holds out.
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« Reply #63 on: March 18, 2009, 02:53:36 PM »
The time limits on some of these missions are pretty much tailored to make you do it twice. It's TITE.
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« Reply #64 on: March 18, 2009, 04:41:41 PM »
Did you play the PSP titles? They're quite good.

And as Demi has pointed out, there was that GBA version, based on GTA3's Liberty City...

Yes, I have LCS and VCS.

GTA: Advance is the worst GTA tho
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« Reply #65 on: March 18, 2009, 06:09:45 PM »
Bought it. The impressions were just too good to not give it a shot.

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« Reply #66 on: March 19, 2009, 05:44:15 PM »
All I have is an R4.  Does the patched version work with it?
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« Reply #67 on: March 19, 2009, 05:47:09 PM »
Yes
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« Reply #68 on: March 20, 2009, 05:13:42 AM »
Yes

Thankyousir!

Also went and ordered an Acekard 2i with 4gb micro SD card.  It was $47 with shipping, not too bad I think.  Going to give my old R4 to my wife and then sell off my DS Lite and maybe a few newer games I won't be needing any longer; DSi jolly roger set sail!
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« Reply #69 on: March 20, 2009, 08:10:17 AM »
Would it be worth getting an Acekard 2i or just get the regular AK2?
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« Reply #70 on: March 20, 2009, 11:15:59 AM »
CycloDS, man.
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« Reply #71 on: March 20, 2009, 12:47:59 PM »
The mission "Dragon Haul Z" is worth the purchase price.
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« Reply #72 on: March 20, 2009, 02:18:38 PM »
Would it be worth getting an Acekard 2i or just get the regular AK2?

If you are getting a DSi, then the AK2i is your choice. AK2i works on DS Lite as well. However, it is uncertain if a future firmware update will render the 2i useless.
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« Reply #73 on: March 20, 2009, 03:28:53 PM »
Would it be worth getting an Acekard 2i or just get the regular AK2?

If you are getting a DSi, then the AK2i is your choice. AK2i works on DS Lite as well. However, it is uncertain if a future firmware update will render the 2i useless.

Hmm maybe I should hang onto the Lite just in case.
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« Reply #74 on: March 20, 2009, 04:13:53 PM »
Would it be worth getting an Acekard 2i or just get the regular AK2?

If you are getting a DSi, then the AK2i is your choice. AK2i works on DS Lite as well. However, it is uncertain if a future firmware update will render the 2i useless.

there is already a flashcard that works on the DSi? I might need to pick that up.

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« Reply #75 on: March 20, 2009, 05:54:35 PM »
Would it be worth getting an Acekard 2i or just get the regular AK2?

If you are getting a DSi, then the AK2i is your choice. AK2i works on DS Lite as well. However, it is uncertain if a future firmware update will render the 2i useless.

there is already a flashcard that works on the DSi? I might need to pick that up.

Yeah, it's been mentioned a few times here already!   :lol 
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« Reply #76 on: March 20, 2009, 06:59:29 PM »
yeah, I just read up on it.  From what I can tell that Acekard 2i is the only one working right now, but Cyclo has shown theirs, it's just not out yet.  I'll probably wait for the Cyclo one.  I only really use my flash card to demo some games, mainly imports, anyway.

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« Reply #77 on: March 23, 2009, 02:34:07 AM »
Got this for 20 bucks, its good.

GTA4 annihilated.

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« Reply #78 on: March 23, 2009, 02:55:24 AM »
What's a good place to read up on which flash carts do what?  Does the Acekard 2i play GBA ROMs?  That's something I'd like to have on DSi.
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« Reply #79 on: March 23, 2009, 02:59:53 AM »
Only slot 2 flash cards can play GBA games.
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« Reply #80 on: March 23, 2009, 03:03:59 AM »
Jbore, asobit in aki has this for 1980 yen.

yes, under 18$

Other places have it for 3980, almost everywhere infact

Man, I bit the ONE foreign-game shop in Nipponbashi does NOT have this, and they won't have it on the cheap. I'll just drag the PSP titles on the plane with me next week, then grab Chinatown while I'm stateside next week.

What's the best place in the US to get week-old new title on the cheap right now? Target? Walmart?

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« Reply #81 on: March 23, 2009, 03:04:53 AM »
I could've bought this tonight, but ended up getting Valkyrie Profile instead.
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« Reply #82 on: March 23, 2009, 03:13:02 AM »
Mistake.

Never pay the Square Enix tax for portable games. 

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« Reply #83 on: March 23, 2009, 03:55:09 AM »
But I feel so spine-tinglingly rich and decadent whenever I do.
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« Reply #84 on: March 23, 2009, 04:35:24 AM »
Only slot 2 flash cards can play GBA games.

I'm asking this because the DSi also uses SD cards...wouldn't that work in its place?

EDIT: Never mind, nope!  Some are speculating that with the DSi's boosted memory, someone might be able to get it work one day for most games.
« Last Edit: March 23, 2009, 04:39:03 AM by the lyte edge »
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« Reply #85 on: March 23, 2009, 09:16:46 AM »
I could've bought this tonight, but ended up getting Valkyrie Profile instead.

i'm so sorry
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« Reply #86 on: March 23, 2009, 10:51:45 AM »
I could've bought this tonight, but ended up getting Valkyrie Profile instead.

i'm so sorry

VP DS is awesome, suck my two hanging ones
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« Reply #87 on: March 23, 2009, 10:52:16 AM »
What's a good place to read up on which flash carts do what?  Does the Acekard 2i play GBA ROMs?  That's something I'd like to have on DSi.

DSi will never have that option. You buy a DSi, say goodbye to GBA
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« Reply #88 on: March 23, 2009, 11:45:30 AM »
Gameboy Micro never supported pre-GBA gameboy games, yet I can still play GB/GBC games on it.  I'm sure there will be something allowing GBA play in the future.

But if you have a PSP, just play GBA games on that.

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« Reply #89 on: March 23, 2009, 05:39:27 PM »
What's a good place to read up on which flash carts do what?  Does the Acekard 2i play GBA ROMs?  That's something I'd like to have on DSi.

DSi will never have that option. You buy a DSi, say goodbye to GBA

I'm going to wait for the DSi to release in the States and Europe and see what happens when it's widely available for people to mess with before giving up all hope of that.  But it's fine since I have a GBA library and a GB Player and Micro to play them on.

Gameboy Micro never supported pre-GBA gameboy games, yet I can still play GB/GBC games on it.  I'm sure there will be something allowing GBA play in the future.

But if you have a PSP, just play GBA games on that.

I take it you do this with a GB Micro flash cart?

I do play some GBA games on PSP, but like I said I have a Micro and just play the carts on there when I feel like it.

Have you guys messed with the NES DS emulator?  Is it good?  I wouldn't mind trying that, although I just got the Acekard 2i and I'm reading you need to use another firmware for it to work with it. 

The Acekard is not running Neo DS, dunno why.  Maybe the same reason as NES DS?  SCUMM VM loaded up but wouldn't recognize my ROM directory, so things aren't perfect.  I bought the Acekard for DS games though, so it's fine.  I don't play DS much at all; when I go portable it's PSP.
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« Reply #90 on: March 23, 2009, 08:20:03 PM »
So Acekard isn't good for homebrew? I've got a AK2 coming in the mail.
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« Reply #91 on: March 23, 2009, 08:28:35 PM »
AK should be just fine for homebrew. Lyte probably doesnt know how to set it up correctly.
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« Reply #92 on: March 23, 2009, 08:54:37 PM »
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I take it you do this with a GB Micro flash cart?

yeah, it was the G6 something or other that was for both DS and GBA.

speaking of NES emulators, the one for the GBA was the saddest emulator I've ever used.  It couldn't emulate the whole screen, so it only did the bottom 3/4th or the top 3/4th; holding up or down wouuld scroll he screen up or down.

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« Reply #93 on: March 23, 2009, 09:18:54 PM »
AK should be just fine for homebrew. Lyte probably doesnt know how to set it up correctly.

It was all set up when I got it.  The DS games run fine, but the emulators aren't working for whatever reason.  Keep in mind I am playing on a DSi.
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« Reply #94 on: March 24, 2009, 11:03:45 AM »
Apparently flashcarts dont even work on European DSis

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When the Japanese DSi came out, homebrewers went to work on the platform. At least they tried to, but were met with some limitations. Nintendo obviously tried a bit harder to keep those flash carts off the system, but they couldn’t stop everything.

Now, with the DSi launching around the rest of the world very soon, it seems that Nintendo has once again went to work on shutting down flash carts. In the European DSi, it seems that even more measures were taken to block out this kind of activity. While the Japanese DSi had no problem running the acekard 2i, the Euro DSi won’t even start the device up. Just another hurdle for the homebrewers/pirates to tackle.

http://gonintendo.com/?p=76671
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« Reply #95 on: March 24, 2009, 03:34:54 PM »
I think I'm gonna pick this up today.

Aside from the drug trafficking, are there more side missions and tasks than GTA4? Do you actually get a tangible reward for completing them? I feel like the answer will  be yes to both.

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« Reply #96 on: March 24, 2009, 03:40:06 PM »
It has the taxi, ambulance, police, etc. missions with rewards for doing a certain set of them (5 rounds of ambulance is infinite sprint.)  There are other tasks you can do like the gun range, go-kart time trials or regular races.  Most rewards for all the side missions, from the ones I mentioned or lottery, usually end up giving you money; but money has purpose in this game, whether it's buying different houses (with different uses), cars or weapons.  One cool new thing other than the drug trading is the ability to steal either gang or amunation vehicles and search the contents at a secluded location.  They also have random encounter missions from GTA4 in there too.

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« Reply #97 on: March 24, 2009, 03:51:15 PM »
Sounds cool. What new uses do the houses have?

Also how much time have you guys spent on the game? I'm hearing the story missions add up to only 6 or so hours, which I'd actually be happy about as long as there's 15 hours of other shit to do in the city.

Also, how many rampage missions are there? And is drug trafficking as broken and simple as Fable 2's economy? It's hard to see how they are different, reading reviews.
« Last Edit: March 24, 2009, 03:52:50 PM by AdmiralViscen »

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« Reply #98 on: March 24, 2009, 04:04:26 PM »
There are three types of houses: the most basic is just a room that lets you save, replay missions and manage your drug stash; second has a room and a garage; third is bigger and is considered "secluded," so when you do steal a van and want to check the supplies, you need to go to one of these.

Outside of the houses you get for story purposes, I only got one other that I won by scratching tickets.  I'm waiting until I have over 100,000 before I go out and buy a bunch of places to use.  I just made about 50k+ when I started focusing on the drug trading, so I don't expect that to be so difficult.

Drug trading is really simple.  The game tells you where the dealers who sell drugs cheap are and those who buy high; it's as simple as buying from A, selling to B and making a profit.  I usually don't bother with that since it's slow, but you still get emails every once in a while with people telling you about people selling at low and buying at high prices.  Sometimes it seems like spending 30 thousand on heroin isn't a good idea, wait a bit and find someone willing to pay much more than what you spent and make a huge profit.

I've found about five or six rampage missions so far.  I don't know exactly how much I've played so far and I'll check if it says in the stats next time I play.

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« Reply #99 on: March 24, 2009, 10:35:37 PM »
Got it, game rocks.

The game's economy is probably even more broken than Fable 2's, though. I don't think I've played more than an hour or two and I already have like $40k.

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« Reply #100 on: March 24, 2009, 11:32:28 PM »
Got it, game rocks.

The game's economy is probably even more broken than Fable 2's, though. I don't think I've played more than an hour or two and I already have like $40k.

Wait for the in game housing bubble to burst as a mid game plot twist.  I hope you didn't put all your drug money into A graded subprime mortgages. 

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« Reply #101 on: March 25, 2009, 01:23:40 AM »
Got it, game rocks.

The game's economy is probably even more broken than Fable 2's, though. I don't think I've played more than an hour or two and I already have like $40k.

Wait for the in game housing bubble to burst as a mid game plot twist.  I hope you didn't put all your drug money into A graded subprime mortgages. 

LOL.
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« Reply #102 on: March 25, 2009, 11:41:30 AM »
What are those little blue swirling tornado things you find in back alleys some times?

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« Reply #103 on: March 31, 2009, 12:26:21 PM »
They unlock postgame content, fyi


This game is fucking awesome, I'm surprised at the lack of love here

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« Reply #104 on: March 31, 2009, 04:04:46 PM »
For one reason or another, I put of buying Chinatown for a few weeks. Well, no more! I took the plunge and bought it.

I'll sum up my thoughts by saying this: Chinatown is the game that GTAIV should have been.
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« Reply #105 on: April 07, 2009, 09:41:37 PM »
I picked it up and am already enjoying it. The cartoon art style is already more in line with what I think of as "GTA" since I started with III.

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« Reply #106 on: April 10, 2009, 06:17:21 AM »
I am surprised at how much the music is decent, even though it's a bunch of generic MIDI-crap in each genre. I was worried about it, but so far I'm not missing licensed music, or the DJs, despite those having been a good part of what made III-era GTAs so rich for me.

Driving's a bit hard, and I'm constantly clipping cops by accident. At least the missions don't seem to be of the "lose your wanted level" variety yet. Actually, all the controls are decent, but they feel a bit forced in the "how do we scale back existing controls" way, rather than a re-thinking of the whole model.

Also, this was a bit lovely, though I think it's overly harsh:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/657-Grand-Theft-Auto-Chinatown-Wars

Probably my favorite DS game to-date. It would have been Advance Wars Dual Strike, if it weren't for that game-breaking tag-team mechanic Intelligent Systems put in.

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« Reply #107 on: April 10, 2009, 11:20:52 AM »
I like the music, it reminds me of Driver

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« Reply #108 on: April 15, 2009, 06:09:50 AM »
Anyone else finding that Taxi Driver side missions are crazy tightly timed? I can only clear about 1 in 3 fares. And DAMN there are a lot of cop cars around. Just tap one of those and suddenly you've got to get rid of a mess of them. Driving between lanes is easier in GTA IV, even with its sloppy driving physics.

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« Reply #109 on: April 15, 2009, 07:10:18 AM »
Can't manage to finish more than 1 of the taxi missions at a time. Better balance please, Rockstar...jeezus

How do I get infinite sprint?

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« Reply #110 on: April 15, 2009, 09:15:50 AM »
you need to do 5 complete ambulance missions.  So saving a total of 25 people, 5 per mission.

I tried doing it early on, but gave up and just did the constant tap thing to get near infinite run

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« Reply #111 on: April 15, 2009, 08:38:23 PM »
Does that mean "5 in a row" or "5 before the mission ends"?

I can prolly manage the former, but the latter is going to be DS-throwingly-hard.

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« Reply #112 on: April 15, 2009, 09:56:21 PM »
5 rescues in a row is one mission complete; you need 5 missions complete.  I only did one mission complete since I didn't think the reward matched the annoyance of driving a big vehicle on tight roads.

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« Reply #113 on: April 16, 2009, 01:39:27 AM »
Oddly, on the way in to work today I got a 5-in-a-Row (Bronze) for Taxi Driver, to my utter surprise.

I think I was playing it wrong; it isn't the same R3 mission as before. There's no timer countdown between fares, or while you work to repair your car, or lose your wanted level. Timing-out during a fare doesn't end the mission. You can now get out of a damaged taxi and steal a new one within 10 seconds, continuing the mission (a la old Vigilante missions).

And above all else: IN TIMED MISSIONS, the GPS is NOT YOUR FRIEND. My new routine is: get the fare, tap the GPS to summon the map, d-pad around (touch scrolling is stupid awkward) to see relative position and distance), tap Exit to go back to the game THEN DRIVE LIEK TEH WINDZ to get to as many major thoroughfares as possible. Life sucks a lot less now.

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« Reply #114 on: April 17, 2009, 06:26:20 PM »
This game is awesome. Nice to see a return to the top down gameplay, but I wish they had the point system. It was awesome in GTA1/2 to pull someone out of their car and then back over them for bonus points.
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