Tipa – Page 103 – Chasing Dings!

Ogre Battle: Curse your sudden, but inevitable, betrayal

July 13, 2022 by Tipa

Now that I’ve gotten the game so that it works and looks decent, it’s time to ask the big question: How do I get Deneb in my battalion? Hey, that screenshot isn’t from Ogre Battle 64! It’s from Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen for the Super Nintendo, and as far as I know, … Read more

Streaming from the Nintendo 64

July 12, 2022 by Tipa

It’s not pretty and it could be better, but I’m able to stream from my unmodified Nintendo 64 at an acceptable resolution using about $50 of hardware.

Short, satisfying, occasionally sweet: Developing a taste for Deimos.

July 11, 2022 by Tipa

It’s pronounced DAY-moss. I always feel I need to point that out when someone plays the card in Terraforming Mars that sends Mars’ smaller, outer moon crashing to the ground purely to just raise the temperature by a couple degrees C. It’s actually the closer moon, Phobos (FOE-buss), that’s in danger of crashing to Mars … Read more

Is playing on the original hardware worth the trouble?

July 11, 2022 by Tipa

I went through a lot of trouble to be able to play Ogre Battle 64 on the original hardware with today’s high resolution, digital monitors. Was it worth it?

When to say goodbye to a game?

July 9, 2022 by Tipa

Some games will last forever, if you let them. You expect that in an MMO, but with mobile gacha games — when do you just decide it’s time to move on?