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#Megaman 2 password generator Ps4#

Many of them are beautiful, tiny little 64圆4 pixel animations to convey the game is saving. Which, WTF? Like can't you do some transactionally-safe game saving so you don't delete my last save until the new one commits? And then most games take at most 1 second to save why even bother popping up the icon for that brief a moment? Particularly in games with frequent autosaves.Īnyway what I really want is some obsessive game nerd's collection of these little saving icons.

#Megaman 2 password generator Ps4#

Always amazes me a bit the games work this way, they don't have memory leaks or whatever that necessitate restarting the engine.Ĭan we talk about those little "game saving" indicators? The superfluous animation that pops up in the corner of the screen? Every PS4 game comes with an explanation the first time you play, "do not turn your console off when saving or you may lose your saved progress". I've played whole games through in 2-3 weeks without ever exiting them. By which I mean I put it in Power Saving Mode, which is roughly like the sleep mode on a laptop when you close it. So anyway, what's the oldest game save file you have? Why do you keep it? Why is it special?” posted by Fizz (50 comments total) But it always made me smile to think of a video game living for a decade, instantly ready, there to play if only someone would pick up the controller. Modern consoles, with suspended states and cloud uploads, may moot the possibility of such a thing happening, or needing to happen, again.

It could have been a power surge at some point, but it won't turn on any more, and the disc has a big black spot," the reader said. This answer absolutely floored me: A PS1, game unspecified, disc in the tray still spinning.

What is your oldest game save? “Years ago on another site, we asked readers the longest they had left a game on pause.

No sooner have I tried to start one old game than I remember an abandoned save somewhere else, something I really do need to get around to finishing… someday.” Lately I've been trying to clear out my gaming backlog, but as I do so I keep finding the remnants of previous failed attempts to do so. Every time I think about returning to Geralt, I think about that swamp and feel a wave of fatigue wash over me. The save has been transferred between three different computers, and never loaded. In the time since I took that contract in The Witcher 3, I moved house, changed jobs, moved to Los Angeles, changed jobs again, and moved back to Boston. He's also got to find his missing daughter at some point, but for now there's this swamp thing.

Where Save Games Go to Die “The last time I saw Geralt of Rivia, he was standing somewhere in a marsh-though come think of it, that doesn't even narrow-down which game I'm referring to-haggling with a peat farmer about the price for killing some kind of swamp monster.

In the right kind of setting, a save point can create anticipation as well as perform a function.” But even its basic form in Final Fantasy was always a welcoming sight after a tough slog of random battles, with some also well-placed to telegraph a major boss battle - becoming almost markers for you, a clue from the developer that was always heeded. I’m probably coming off as a romanticising nostalgist and, to be fair, there’s plenty of save systems that have earned their place in history’s dustbin. No one’s got the patience for that anymore, and why should we. We’ve all had those soul-destroying moments of forgetting to save over an hour ago in the last village, and a nasty ambush wiping out your party - and all that precious time and progress.

The Lost Art of Saving “The modern videogame has rendered the save point a relic of the past, and many would say for good reason.

GitHub user Kevin Shekleton managed to figure out the MM2 password grid, and devised a method for generating working passwords even if you haven’t actually played the game.”

#Megaman 2 password generator generator#

Some of you might remember the password generator and entry from Mega Man 2, as it was a grid into which you placed orbs, rather than something like the password entry in Metroid, which required four lines of jibberish. Coder figures out, explains, and implements Mega Man 2 password generator “Back in the early days of console gaming, we didn’t have enormous built-in hard drives or cloud saves, so the way we saved our progress was either via a battery on the cartridge, or complex passwords that didn’t really save data, but generated a game state that included all of the stuff you had and progress you made.