The_Nintendo_Expat

@gojiguy

Galloping Ghost is amazing! My only regret was that their Fzero AX cab was down! 😆

@Digglerdig

i suppose they could have called it "clam"

or "hinge" 😂

@h3s

i feel very much the same. I'm playing through SOTN for the first time in probably 20 years (oh no im actually not exaggerating 💀) and i'm realizing concretely that it's better than every game of type made sense. which is kind of melancholy for sure.

OTOH i just got to the flipped castle, and im having such a good time with it! 👍 and I can always replay it again in another 10 or 20. ✌️

i wonder what ever became of this? 🤔

"sticks in my memory, even all these years later."

i have played probably hundreds of hours of super monkey ball since GameCube's launch, and i STILL think of Roll Away* every single time i play it, and I STILL have never played Roll Away.

*no, i do not prefer it

✌️❤️👍

cool article! thanks for cluing us in!

@SlangWon

there was a 2DS so it's not really a stretch tbh. I never even owned a "3"DS personally ✌️👍

@JJtheTexan

thinking more on this, i am almost positive that rage racer was accepted as an expanded home port of rave racer at the time, the name change being Namco's contemporaneous style. like soul edge- blade, not to mention air-ace combat.

i have an apparently false memory of this being ported to PSX at the time 🤔

side note, screenshots of this game looked pretty incredible in its day 👍👍

EDIT - i guess Rage Racer doesn't count as an expanded home port but i always thought it did ✌️

@johndoe89

i appreciate the info! and, i have a few thoughts.

1) when it comes to input latency, I tend to "go by feel" rather than relying on numbers. of course i have noticed that my many different bluetooth controllers have varying amounts of lag and prefer the faster performance generally.

2) some games need very snappy response, others dont. this controller (like most bluetooth controllers in my experience,) is good enough imo for the games that dont.

3) if I really need to play a high performance game, I can and will wire a controller in. I love that feature and I do take advantage of it from time to time.

PS - thanks for the link! that is a useful resource, very handy ✌️

besides the latency, this controller is excellent! really great for just about any action game, the joystick has a great "8 way, short throw" feel if that makes sense. snappy and arcadey.

@WileyDragonfly

highly recommend getting the 8bitdo controller from this package for your setup. it is wonderful if not perfect 👍

@norwichred

im gonna! 😅👍

EDIT - tbh I've never emulated an arcade game or used mame and for some reason I've always been intimidated 😆

i love this game but none of the home versions ive tried give me the feeling of playing the arcade version. which, granted, was a time long ago, when even playing a 3D game at all was pretty much magical (and evanescent, obv, given that i could only really even see them in the arcade.)

as an experiment, id like to try emulating the arcade version and see if the difference wasnt mostly the machine and atmosphere of being in am arcade in the early 90s. 🙂

im wondering if they'll screw this up, and i should get the current version while i can.

UPDATE - i went ahead and bought it on sale, and fook's sake I have to SIGN IN (aka create an account in my case) just to play. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

i have to have an account to play a nearly 30 year old game. 😐

TLDR they tricked me I tricked myself into buying ffvii again 😅

🚨 SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET! 🚨

@Martin_H

"Is Bob's art less valid, due to the tools he uses?"

does Bob's new tool use other artist's work, uncredited?

i dont want to be cruel to Bob, or take anything away from him. I get where you are coming from, and I love that episode of TNG 👍

we don't have to discuss what this guy says as though it matters.

i really do not like how they put a bandpass filter on the original music, to make it sound wimpy compared to the new music. 🙄

everybody does it though, and i guess most people dont even notice.

IMO when fairly represented, the OG ost kicks ass and punches way harder than the slick new cheese. 👍

the new graphics don't really live up to the old either, but I do appreciate that they at least tried to do something. the more abstract 2d graphics look grander to me than the 3d models, which usually end up looking like miniatures.

If you like sometimes grindy "extreme" music with videogame themes, Gonemage is pretty cool 👍

https://youtu.be/Aitrmr-389g?si=nONc7GCFTvgF0WYQ

if you like heavy music with putrid vocals:

https://youtu.be/dYuHBDnaH14?si=ZcQUUQE_B4MhNwg6

https://youtu.be/HTlIP3fmxyI?si=JraHkBYGONpYr1LK

@Johnny_Arthur

well, I have no idea what your problem is, then. 👍

2DS was the last gasp of the old Nintendo. I still have mine, lovely console 👍

ive been playing this again and it's still good! even in it's "heyday" we had a strong feeling this gem was being overlooked in real time.

it'd be cool to see it rereleased but emulation has gotten so good, and rereleases so compromised, lazy, or redundant, that I think I'm getting off that particular train. Tomba was kind of the last straw for me tbh but it's been a thousand cuts as they say.

@Johnny_Arthur

the article specifically mentions "more traditional formats" as well, genius.

NSFW 😂

"split pea soup" vocals are not my favorite but It's always great to see some Death Metal related videogame news 🥳👍

admittedly im an ADHD fueled chronic novelty seeker, but i just don't understand how whole populations of people can want the same thing over and over, for years.

bigger eyes, they shout! tiny bodies, they cry out! draw it like the other anime we've seen, they snarl!

i helped a friend's son acquire and set up a pocket 5 over the holidays, and holy WOW was that an impressive little device! he got the black one and its like a tiny steamdeck.

honestly, im sure im wrong on this but it feels like the 5 JUST came out, and its so sleek and impressive, im not sure why they are forcing it so much with this successor.

i appreciate his candor, but i think his attitude sucked at the time, and it seems he hasn't really evolved from that unfortunate state of mind since.

(i mean, by his description he was struggling desperately financially, and his music career was going nowhere, yet he's still too "good" to actually try to land the Smurfs job? 🙄 and he seems proud of it, idk.)

anyway, if he had done a Smurfs ost, then he would be rubbing elbows with such greats as Alberto José González 🤩

https://youtu.be/d_Ly5LiTSqo?si=Mq5nMIZgd9qYk3e1

https://youtu.be/0N7AmdksQe8?si=ATbi-bLp2ObLyBFJ

i played OG GC AC at friends' houses and appreciated it, but then got into City Folk with my own copy.

played it for a couple months, had a good time, never looked back! to this day i think that's my fill of Animal Crossing ✌️

OK, do wipeE'out" next 😁

PS - love this stuff, seriously cant get enough of it! I could read an article a day about different game logos! ✌️

hang on, isn't he supposed to say "it's inevitable?" 🤔

@nocdaes

"Also, I feel sorry for people who emulate games. They never seem to play anything."

Can strawmen even play games with those "stuffed work glove" hands?

EXTRA, EXTRA!

Nintendo Invents Emulation!

Scalpers Flummoxed!

@Honkshot

if someone made a Bluetooth adapter that plugged into the 2nd vmu slot that would be so cool 😍

@PopetheRev28

lol it's a fair point 😂👍

@Hexapus

yes exactly! and, the genesis layout matches your index/middle/ring fingers, has a "nub" on the middle button for locating like a qwerty keyboard, and they specifically labelled them "triggers" which may or may not imply anything at all.

also, just my opinion (and i love sega controllers) but six buttons is kinda too many for one thumb, if all the buttons are used and all for different functions. ✌️

I have my two OG DC pads, one packed in, the other supplemental, and they have very different dpads. one is very flat, close to the face of the controller, and the other tall, stands off at least twice as far. no other detectable differences. I never hear anyone talk about this ✌️

btw I had a strong preference for one over the other, but i cant remember which now 😅 time to play some Dreamcast!

PS i also cant remember which controller was the pack-in 😆

@PopetheRev28

i have a couple thoughts 👍

1) "knowing better," in my esteem, is not really a factor when making the flat, unqualified statement "worst ______ ever." (of course the qualifications came later)

2) different hands are different, and some people like the Dreamcast controller. what makes your hands more "correct" than my hands? 🤔 it's an odd argument to make tbh.

3) it's one of the most important controllers ever made, as essentially the long established "pro con" template is a blend of super nintendo (diamond pattern buttons and bumpers) dualshock 1 (two clickable sticks and built in force feedback) and dreamcast (hall effect stick in primary position, analog triggers) features.

PS - I've not claimed that the 5200 is the 'worst controller ever made' but the list of controllers worse than the DC controller is not particularly short. ✌️

@Hexapus

this is interesting to me, as ive long wondered if sega intended its controllers (pre dreamcast im sayin) to be used with the fingers on the buttons 🤔

@PopetheRev28

i'm guessing you are a huge 5200 fan.

"Why don't they just make the whole game out of the plastic box?!"

@metaphysician

great comment! I completely agree.

"but its like they hate the idea of people buying their old games."

this was never a problem for Namco before Bandai entered the picture, IMO. 😮‍💨

(i remember playing galaxian while ridge racer loaded on psx for example, and then when I saw galaxian/galaga for gameboy a bit later i jumped on it)

FWIW, there was a time that id have jumped on a soulblade/soulcal 1+2, Tekken Trilogy, or Ridge/Rev/Rage comp, but that time has passed and ive grown to enjoy the methods i consequently use to play these games over the years. Sorry guys it's a tiny flame you have to actually try to keep alive! ✌️

you and me both, igs

seems like this company could've done a lot more with what they had going for them. speaking as a non-customer.

@Zendar

thanks for the clarification! and, I really meant it: the game is looking great!

i was addicted to Shattered Pixel Dungeon for months or years in the early 2010s, so this is right up my street and giving me some specific nostalgia. congratulations on what looks like some good, passionate work! I will look forward to playing this game in some form or other ✌️

if any of those shots in the trailer are from the GBC version...

color me impressed. 😎

does anyone know if a device like this can take save files from emulators and load them onto original carts?

@Przemyslaw

the point for me would be that i could access my save data trapped on the carts in my collection, in order to continue my games on other hardware, and also not always choosing either/or when deciding where and how and on what hardware to start a game.

I was gonna play this game, but it was "non-dopamine" so I did something else.

@Guru_Larry

"The most recent genre title I've heard is for games like Bubble Bobble/Snow Bros. Etc. Arena Platformers."

I have always called those games "single screen platformers" since forever, and I utterly reject "arena platformers," not sure even why but that's what i'm doin. 👍✌️no sir i dont like it.

(single screen games are great, arent they? super sprint? pacman? donkey kong? galaga?these are some of the greatest games ever made. an NES smash bros demake as a single screen game in the style of mario bros might be pretty cool!)

@Blast16

"I wish for YouTube embeds instead of X."

second the notion.

"I’ll get over it"

aye.

(the best Road Rash is the PSX port of the 3DO version. reason being it's the one i had when i was a kid. 😂👍)

i wish i could remember the name of the MS-DOS F1 sim that my great uncle gave me for Christmas when i was a kid. ❤️ (thanks Paul, RIP)