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My speculation: Saturn wouldve been king of 2D fighters with or without the extra RAM.

great article! I've been fascinated with this topic since i was a psx owning kid.

@sdelfin

good questions! it seems like youre probably on the right track, with your thinking.

this is a weird project! i like weird. 👍

@artisticshenanigans

hey, GREAT work this game looks awesome!

thanks for speaking up, I was assuming this was simply character assassination. 👍 looks like I was right.

EDIT - i found a review for this game on youtube, and the top comment is this:

"programmer & game designer (superfunc) here

thanks so much for playing and the kind words! I've passed it along to the others from the team."

what a monster! 😂

@Poodlestargenerica

I like your attitude. ✌️

@gingerbeardman

good point! i didnt even realize that. ✌️

now im wondering why they didnt port the ps1 version, though 🤔

@playdatefan3000

do you mind being a little more specific? your allegation is that you or anyone should think twice before buying their game, and also that whatever it is, is SO bad that it should affect the review score by as much as almost half 😬

PS - also it appears that you made an account here JUST to say this. so what's the deal?

@gingerbeardman

"The lack of analog stick is surely the greatest and I'm not familiar enough with the game to know how much the gameplay was based on analog movement."

just being on N64 is a huge clue. 👍

i can count on... no hands the number of n64 games ive personally played that used the dpad instead of the stick.

PS - I too was curious who this Maximilian wedell fella is. 🤔

@Damo

much appreciated and I will look forward to their response! thanks. ☺️

@Poodlestargenerica

so it WON'T be "the speed and performance I remember." 👍 thanks!

im a little confused:

"They built the game's code using modern techniques to speed up the execution of the game and make the experience much better..."

"Could you explain exactly how you've improved Glover in this particular iteration?"

"There are lots of things going on under the hood to keep everything working at the speed and performance you remember."

"It’s given us the ability to maintain as much of the original game as possible but with the performance that you’d expect from a retro game released 26 years ago."

so is it better than it was before? or not? 🤔

something absent from this discussion is actually pretty glaring: there's no analog stick. 🤔

@farrgazer

"It was either a Pocket or commissioning someone to make a souped-up GBA (IPS screen, audio mod, etc), and that more or less came to the same price."

that makes sense!

I can see how if i had many more gb/a carts, or i was a lot more motivated to play the ones i have, that the pocket would be a much better value proposition. 👍

as it is, I do have my old SP in working order, so when i get the bug it's there for me 😊 but it's showing its age these days, especially the screen brightness (it's a "front lit" model, whatever that model's called.)

thanks!

"Feels Like 2000 Again!" - Father Of Xbox Wades In On Microsoft's Multiplatform Hoo-Ha

this is one of those instances where apparently the word means something different in British English than it does American.

@Gryzor

thanks for the feedback! This is something I'm very interested in but it would take ALOT of convincing to get me to drop that kind of cash personally.

Taito + SNK, you clearly know whats up 😎

how many TE users actually have a mister or analogue pocket? im asking y'all.✌️

personally id like one of each but i dont spend that kind of money on gaming. no judgement or envy, here, just thinking out loud!

@no_donatello

Sounds like you need a content warning screen warning screen before the content warning screen 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Ristar24

yeah, i dont really see the big deal about one extra opening screen to click through (you know, if you're not racist 😂)

@Steel76

if heavy metal got popular again like it was in the 80s, youd better believe these same a-holes and their a-hole kids and grandkids would be on social media AND the news all over the place complaining again 🙄

"pre-order..."

I get why there needs to be a word for it, but that's one of those terms that doesnt quite make sense, when you think about it. you're not ordering the game before you order it, right? youre just "ordering the game."

it's like "preheat" the oven. youre "heating" the oven, not doing a thing before you heat the oven. more accurately, you'd be "pre-pizza-ing" the oven.

🤔

oh p.s. this game looks cool. 😀👍

@Ristar24

"It seems to only display the first time you play the game."

thanks! this answers the question i hadnt even asked yet. makes a huge difference, imo.

As an aside, I remember years ago, watching Tom + Jerry DVDs with my kid sister (im 16 years older, she was adopted) that had some... lets just say "straight up racist" content, involving a "nanny" character with a rolling pin.

The beginning of each disc had a short clip of Whoopi Goldberg soberly explaining "hey there's racist shh in here, but come on its Tom and Jerry," basically.

I thought it was a decent compromise at the time, and I still do. I don't see why videogames should be any different. 👍

I personally think there should be a fourth option: "I can handle a brief warning, if it means I get to play the game as I remember it." ✌️

EDIT - i didnt vote because i dont see my feelings represented by the poll, but i see that 56% of users voted straight up "No." 😬

I can't really understand that perspective, and to be frank I'm pretty disappointed. 😟

To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, "If youuuu can't handle clicking through a content warning about racist content..."

@Steel76

they were probably offended, but no one was listening.

Not to mention, Evangelicals were offended CONSTANTLY back then, about dumb stuff imo, and got a LOT of attention for it.

thank god for emulation. they are their remasters, they can do what they want with them.

@Poodlestargenerica

i still wouldnt have probably, but im also "that guy" in other situations. i feel you ✌️

i feel like when some playdate "killer app" surfaces that ppl wont stop talking about, and i come across it organically, thats when ill get interested.

until then, im happy to not put another FOMO on my plate 👍

@smoreon

haha! 😂

yeah I became familiar with the "look" of parallax probably a while before i had a term for it. it looked so cool back then (still does!) i totally get what you are saying 👍

as an aside, doesnt passing by the "tiny castle in the foreground layer" evoke a bit of the "Spinal Tap Stonehenge" feeling? 😂 is it just me?

PS - for some insanely impossi-cool 8 bit parallax effect, have you played Metal Storm on NES? Check it out if not! 😎

@AllieKitsune

hey! feel like i haven't seen you on here in a while! welcome back if thats the case. 😊

yeah, i feel you, I regret selling just about every game i ever sold... i had good taste! and not many games I sold were actual losers.

still, I WISH i'd sold my saturn on purpose! as opposed to just losing it!! wtf? 😂

have a good one 👍

@MSaturn

I see what you are saying, and must agree... its a bit of a fugly little castle 😂

but, it also seems to be utterly unique in the frame, its definitely not a rock tile like the others.. I'm not sure what to think! its like an intern started drawing a castle on a sunday and on Monday they just moved on 😆

I'm so glad we live in an age which I can talk this stuff out with strangers all over the world 😊

@MSaturn

lol oh, i follow up. im that lame 😅

for my money, it's not even the same color as the rocks, and it's very castle shaped for a straight up non castley object, no? 😂

i love this conversation lol.

@Damo

i feel as though ive gotten under your skin, i apologize!✌️

i do think "random" is a better tag but hey who cares! it can be "news," here! its our little world ☺️

@Damo

lol damo! it says "NEWS" right before this "headline," thus, "treated as headline news." 😅

im just poking a little fun, i love this site! i must, im here like 50 times a day 😂 👍

@Steel76

'Never knew this was such a mystery 😂'

only on this site is it treated like headline news. 😆

@Diogmites

i chuckled 😊 thanks

@smoreon

"or there's some technical limitation nonsense that forced their hand"
this is what i think 👍

yeah, i knew about mode 7 and parallax when i was 5, but im under no illusions that everyone did, especially compared to now. 😅

(we mightve been nerds, you and i 🤫)

its definitely meant to be the castle in the distant background, and the game was made well far in advance of the "we gamers know wtf a 'background layer' is" era in which we currently exist, so they thought we wouldn't notice.

my guess. ✌️

i miss my saturn. i dont know whatever happened to it 😟 but i have nearly every other console ive ever had in my life.

@Tasuki

licensing, is my wild guess.

@Hexapus

ive edited my comments to remove the unnecessary snark, as i do see your point and i am sensitive to such things. i don't want to make anyone feel bad, honestly.

i appreciate your thoughtful response, and you have added context that i didnt comprehend before (about the game, I did know the bit about the Mona Lisa as you had reckoned.) you've given me something to think about. 👍 I was unaware of the promises made on Reddit and wherever else prior to this conversation. so, that's my bad. ✌️

@Hexapus

sorry you didnt like my joke, but that doesnt mean it doesnt make sense. it does 👍

🤔 im not sure how combative ive been, really. i wasnt even picking on him to begin with, and his argument about the mona lisa being available to view by anyone is historically false, as ive demonstrated.

it must be my tone. im trying to be light with it, if ive come off overly combative, i apologize. ✌️

@PinballBuzzbro

"Leonardo da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa, the world's most famous, recognizable, and copied artwork, has a storied history. Painted between 1503 and 1519, it was owned by French royalty for centuries. Liberated by Revolutionary forces, the painting briefly adorned Napoleon's bedroom, then was installed in the Louvre."

PS - love your avatar 👍 i thought i was the only one who remembered that show 😊

Remember when DaVinci painted just ONE mona lisa? 😂 what a butthole.

the negative feelings this project is generating here are fascinating! 🍿

i was hyped for the followup to 7, but this is the beginning of the "haunted mannequin" look that has dominated FF (sans 9) and the rest of the "AAA" videogame world ever since. I found it somehow embarrassing at the time, and i still do.

EDIT - as "impressive" as the cgi was, i felt that cgi was a bit passe, and much much preferred the seamless "real time" approach of MGS, ocarina, and dreamcast titles i was looking forward to at that time.

@Poodlestargenerica im an avid music lover, gamer, and musician, and i agree with what you are saying....

but where are these "music visualizer" rhythm games you speak of? i must have them lol.

EDIT - i also have ADHD, so... 😆

🤔 it really doesn't look that much like an NES though.

("dead ringer" means it looks exactly like the thing, for example if this were a dead ringer for an NES, you wouldnt be able to tell them apart if you had one in your hands. 👍)

is this really "quarter size?" am i missing something?

i was expecting something 1/4 the size of a full size cabinet.

handhelds and "handhelds that play 'full console games'" are completely different things in my opinion.

GBA is the peak of "handheld gaming."

gameboy / color is close second, but obsolesced by GBA backwards compatibility.

I never fell quite in love with DS because they never felt comfortable to hold to me, and i dont love playing with a touch screen or multiple screens personally.

@Poodlestargenerica

nothing was going to take me off my "dc owner" cloud in 2000 though! i loved every SECOND with this controller in my hand 😊

as the review alludes, Saturn dpad and buttons, and youve got the ultimate sega controller going, here. too bad!

still looks like a good upgrade on the DC pad though 👍

always wanted a wonderswan, but im not really the importing type. or even the ordering games delivered to me by mail type. 😅

i do however have an IRL friend with a (srsly) world class collection so ive played em all 😁 i do wish that nintendo had done something like what gunpei did here, with the joycon "dpad" situation.

(or that they did in fact themselves with the n64 c buttons, come to think of it 🤔)

great to see darius gaiden in the top ten! really didnt expect that as i never realized this game was very popular. def one of my faves, particularly the branching paths and incredible music 🤘

recently played some 7p saturn bomberman, and let me just say, it holds up! definitely in my Saturn top 10 personally.

that thing looks chonky.

im a bit surprised that nintendo hasnt put the kibosh on their use of "DS" in the name, also.

@RossoftheRobots

i don't possess any xboxen, but i appreciate the info! ✌️