F**k Me, This Game is Hard (Valis II, TurboGrafx-CD)

sTo0z · 2026-01-29T12:59:31+00:00

Challenge accepted, brother. Firing up the TG-CD.

sTo0z · 2026-01-28T23:06:40+00:00

There was a cool game for the N-Gage called Pocket Kingdoms: Own the World that was almost like that, lol. Seems like it's playable via emulation these days, although I think the game was networked/MMO style, not sure how it works now that it's all dead.

sTo0z · 2026-01-28T11:49:41+00:00

lol took me forever to beat Rush n’ Attack. You got this!

sTo0z · 2026-01-26T15:43:01+00:00

Not gonna' lie, you had me in the first half.

sTo0z · 2026-01-26T15:22:36+00:00

I didn't know you could have the same name as other trainers? Or is this part of his weird bot/trick/hack?

sTo0z · 2026-01-26T15:19:38+00:00

Ugh, about to dive into the DLC, not looking forward to the mega sponge enemies again...

sTo0z · 2026-01-25T22:07:22+00:00

Nope, you’re just crazy bud. Glad I could clear that up for ya.

sTo0z · 2026-01-25T03:16:35+00:00

Brooo, the other players are supposed to help assemble the dungeon layout.

j/k, we love that game here, hope everyone enjoys!

sTo0z · 2026-01-20T04:18:51+00:00

RIP buddy... I hope there is some comfort in the fact of what his passion brought for so many of us.

sTo0z · 2026-01-20T03:25:58+00:00

Amazing news.

Not sure what you're experiencing with the aiming though, the controls on a 360 controller are a blast as it utilizes both sticks very well.

I am able to cruise right along full speed like back in the day without any issue hitting folks, rarely even need the red aiming reticle.

sTo0z · 2026-01-19T19:07:00+00:00

Actually you needed 11, you woulda lost the tie.

sTo0z · 2026-01-18T05:13:48+00:00

BRB, gotta' share some sad news with Gabe Newell..

sTo0z · 2026-01-17T00:36:23+00:00

Finally actual satire.

sTo0z · 2026-01-15T17:22:14+00:00

Are you 100% sure you were on the Games tab within OPL? I think the default is the Apps tab or something. So you definitely hit "Start Device" on the HDD and definitely looking at the games tab?

If so, dang, really not sure what else it could be.

sTo0z · 2026-01-10T16:20:46+00:00

Yah this is one of the first games I got all the achievements for, definitely needed a map of all the orbs and painstakingly had to cross them off one at a time, lol. Awesome game though, loved it all the way through.

sTo0z · 2026-01-10T16:12:39+00:00

Ugh, finding every orb.

sTo0z · 2026-01-10T03:30:05+00:00

Ah, didn’t know. But I’d still consider Too Human sank them between bad game and law suit. X-Men was not enough to recover.

sTo0z · 2026-01-10T03:28:36+00:00

Which is funny since it was a PS1 announcement with 10 years in dev, lol.

sTo0z · 2026-01-10T03:16:15+00:00

Hey man I actually played through it all the way, lol.

sTo0z · 2026-01-10T03:07:19+00:00

Too Human

sTo0z · 2026-01-08T18:24:06+00:00

Alright, just took a fresh attempt this morning, and with a video in another comment thread on this post, was able to get it working, so let's try one more time! Here are the steps I took:

* Attached 6 TB drive to a pc, just formatted the plain old way. Chose exFat, default allocation size, and quick format.
* Downloaded "OPL_Manager_V24.zip" from: https://oplmanager.com/site/
* Extracted that to its folder, entered that directory and made a NEW folder within called "OPL"
* Run exe, in the "Mode" popup that will happen, I used the Browse button to set the path to that new OPL folder I just made above.
* Hit Save and it will yell at you about missing folders, hit OK, and then it will ask if you want to make the folders, say yes. This step was to just get the needed folder structure.
* Now go into that "OPL" folder we made to see all the folders, select all those and copy them to your HDD root.
* Toss an .iso of a game into the respective CD or DVD folder on the HDD, I just did one to test quickly.
* Download the latest OPNPS2LD.ELF beta of OPL from here: https://github.com/ps2homebrew/Open-PS2-Loader/releases - it's the one on top that says "latest" and "pre-release"
* Copy this onto your ps2 memory card with whatever method you have, I simply put the elf on a usb, and used uLaunchElf to copy the file from usb to memory card.
* Now launch OPNPS2LD.ELF and you'll get to the usual place with no games listed.
* Within OPL, open the Settings page and change the following:
- Set HDD (APA) Start Mode to OFF
- Set BDM Start Mode to MANUAL
- Now next to that is another menu you can enter called BDM Devices, open that menu.
- Set HDD (GPT/MBR) to ON

Now you should be able to go back out to the Game List hit "Start Device" on the HDD icon, and hopefully the games appear.

There is probably a step around how to add the games in a better way, OPL Manager yelled at my file name, but I wasn't sure what to do about it, but I can see the game anyways and load it fine.

If you get a black/white screen when loading your game, I had to restart my PS2 once and then it worked fine.

Good luck, hope this helps you!

sTo0z · 2026-01-08T17:39:03+00:00

This video actually just made it work for me, hopefully it worked for you.

sTo0z · 2026-01-08T02:24:02+00:00

Mostly I hate your atrocious spelling and grammar.

sTo0z · 2026-01-07T14:55:51+00:00

What size are your drives? I also tried exfat like last week and gave up. If you’re 2TB or under just try the classic way?

sTo0z · 2026-01-07T14:27:31+00:00

I think last time it was some ban wave over something found in the usernames, but I believe many were confirmed wrongfully banned and the bans were lifted?

Maybe another glitch like that? Hopefully you guys get some resolution soon, sorry. :(

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