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I've tried a few speedruns for the hell of a number of years ago. Nothing too drastic (no long RPGs or anything), but just seeing how fast I could get through Shadow of the Beast, The Terminator, and games like that, which are generally short to begin with. Yeah, no records were smashed, but I still did pretty well in getting both games beaten in under 15 minutes (Terminator), and a little over that (SotB).

The results come back, and it consists of only a link to this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qsTRq_tQSE

Because it's human nature to want to know how things work. And when you see something that makes you wonder how it was done, you scrutinize it to get a better understanding. Figuring out how it was done doesn't suddenly make it shit. It simply puts it in better perspective. He still did a lot of work to put the songs together, but it's not quite what it looks like at first glance.

Neat videos. It's obvious he's making loops of his voice for various drums (perfect cymbal sounds constantly in the MegaMan video naturally? I don't think so...), instruments that never give him a chance to breathe (like bass lines), and splicing sections together before creating the videos to go with each track (funny how his head moves around, yet the sound never gets louder and quieter), but it's still cool looking and sounding.

I laughed, I cried, I broke wind in fifteen different states (and got fined for it in three). THANKS OCR!

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Is there more than one type of executable in there? The first game in the Royal Collection should still use DOS, but it might also have a Windows executable to go with the DOS one. I will say this though; if there's only one executable that actually starts the game, and it's giving you the "win" error, then it's a Windows executable that won't run under DOS, or in DOSBox, at all.

Try running the setup.exe file in DOSBox, not Windows. You'll get soundcard options that way (pick one of the Soundblasters, as they work well).

Another port that bugged me was Shadow of the Beast for the Genesis. The Amiga original had great graphics, tough gameplay, and spectacular music. The Genesis got the graphics mostly right, and the gameplay was basically there, but the game was sped up because of poor optimizing for U.S. systems, and the music was absolutely butchered. Maybe the Genesis couldn't have done an exact port, but it could have done a lot better than what we ended up with.

Not really sure, since I've never played this game. But, I downloaded it through nefarious means, and if you pick Soundblaster from the setup program, you'll get some music (the opening when the trumpeters are on screen, during various still graphics when they pop up during gameplay, etc.). Do you get that?

That's where our opinions differ the most I believe. If he's doing it, he knows he's doing it and why. Something like that doesn't happen in an "oops" moment of forgetfulness in my opinion (which seems to be in the minority at the moment). The coach? No doubt. The "damsel" trope? Well, as before, that's something we'll just have to agree to disagree about, that way we don't wind up going in circles so much, that we wear a rut into the virtual floor (assuming we haven't already ).

It's a possibility, but here's the thing. To me, sexism is discriminatory by its very definition and nature. It suggests that the one being treated differently is inferior based on their gender. It's not an "oops" moment, like grabbing unsweetened iced-tea instead of sweetened, it's a purposeful action. But these days, the term's getting broader in unwarranted directions IMO, which brings me to... That bolded part right there, is something I've encountered. I held a door open for a women who was walking behind me, and she called me a pig, saying she didn't need a man to hold the door for her. Somehow, my being polite became sexist, even though I hold the door for anyone who's close by when I go in or out one. At that moment, I discovered that the term "sexism" had jumped the proverbial fence. This eventually got me wondering, How can something be sexist, when there's no sexist intent within it?, as I realized that the term was now encompassing some things that had no reason to be included under its banner. Perhaps what I've written is too black and white a stance to take on it to some. Maybe I'm just not being sensitive enough. But when coupled with the idea of looking into the details of something before calling it sexist (like what I did regarding Mario/Peach), I don't think either of those is an issue for me. And in the case of the "damsel" trope... well, I've already explained my stance on that.

So the parallel here, if I'm reading your example right, is that even if there was no sexism involved in choosing a woman to be in need of rescuing, it's still sexist to have used it because it happened repeatedly (which I believe MC Final Sigma also put forth). If that's the case, then, again, I'm not seeing eye to eye with that assertion. It's putting sexism where none was intended or implied, and pointing at someone while saying "YOU'RE A BAD PERSON!" when no ill intent was present. Now, I know what at least a few are thinking. You're thinking, "It doesn't make them a bad person, it just says what they did was bad," or something similar. But there's no positive or gentle spin to put on the term "sexism" when it's thrown out there, as its stigma carries a lot of injustice and anger with it due to the history behind it. So the accusation still puts them in a rather bad light unfairly, kind of like how someone accused of rape can be proven to be 100% innocent, but the stigma of that accusation follows them anyway. As such, it's not a word to be thrown about lightly, and to me, calling the "damsel" trope sexist is really stretching what falls under that term. Here's the problem; Peach wasn't Mario's. The story goes, Koopas invaded, turned the Mushroom Kingdom people into various objects using black magic, and Peach is the only one who can undo the spell that was used. She's captured by Bowser, and Mario goes off to try and save her. There's no "she's mine" involved on the hero's part, and Bowser likely locked her away to stop her (it's implied that she can't undo the magic as a prisoner, but not flat out stated). So you're analogy (and MC Final Sigma's) doesn't work to me, because the story is in place, even if it's only in the manual. The gameplay may not differ, but the reasoning behind the gameplay does, and that makes a world of difference... again, to me.

What? The tale of a father eating his children is a perfect bedtime story. And it'll help keep your kids in line when you tell it to them while holding a knife and fork

Earlier models of the DS are, but Nintendo later removed that option from newer revisions.