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Never heard of the Loading Bar before, but I can certainly appreciate the punny name.

Netflix should do a "The Office" style mockumentary of this.

That screen grab is golden...

But this absolutely sucks for all the poor folks who have been scammed out of their money. I would be furious.

One thing though, I suppose fpga's are a greyish area to begin with, but isn't what they are doing pretty much illegal? Like showing all that boxart of all those games, that doesn't look like it is okay.

Politicizing a popular character...

Sigh...

I am 42, and this is the first time I ever heard of the medium. Guess the Nethelands didn't care for thematt all, or I would've heard of them.

@slider1983 If the Super Nes would be released again, but with proper current tv connections, and original and new releases would be sold again, I would be all over it.

So, who here is gonna be "On the Spectrum"?

This guy at least doesn't sound too salty. Shame though, his style is very unique and specific. They should've inclued him.

This was a good read.

@Null2 Hmm... that's unfortunate.

Well, I don't know the inner workings of kickstarters, but if it were me, I'd be happy to oblige to fans... but it is what it is...

Time has extended once again!!

Anyways, I wouldn't call it irony that it has aged better than 3D contemporaries. Pixel art just ages better in general.

@Null2 I am willing to bet you could get in if you ask them nicely.

@LowDefAl Licensing is such a mess, isn't it?

@Damo Fair enough. If he spent his own resources on even getting these games to the West, he deserves credit for that.

That said, how many remasters and remakes have kept the original localisations? Even FF6 received an update when it was released again on GBA. And I don't think Ted Woolsey would mind. However, those were obviously different situations.

Anyways, I can't fault the man for being passionate. He is definitely passionate.

He is honestly talking like he made and owns the games.

I mean, I am grateful all those games, several of which I thoroughly enjoyed, were brought to the West, but I HIGHLY doubt he is the guy they have to call if they want to put Alundra on PS+.

I could be wrong, obviously, and maybe he made deals of ownership, but from all the things I am reading here about the guy...

@axelhander I will not fight you.

You are wrong though.

Just kidding. You can like what you like, and prefer one thing over the other.

Uhmm... He sounded a little butthurt in the Lunar article earlier, but I noted how I could be mistaken.

Now, I am not so sure I am mistaken. This makes absolutely zero sense. This just makes him sound incredibly full of himself.

That is cool. Also, the lettered buttons are mirrored commands to the directional ones, which I like.

@N64-ROX I mean...
WHY THIS PROJECT LOOKS NOT SO WELL AT ALL ?"
Obviously somebody set them up the bomb.

That is the only logical explanation.

But they really have no excuse for the crappy vidoes. There are sooo many free resources out there. I have made really good videos with nothing but mobile phone footage, and there's some high profile examples of that too. Free software galore.

But at least they got to drive a Lambo through a parking garage for a moment.

Mehh... I don't remember enough about the WD localisation, but the era wasn't particularly known for their stellar localisation work. And if I am not mistaken the WD work is well known for all the wrong reasons.

And voice acting, I always turn it off by default. I don't need my faux-medieval heroes to sound like whiney American or Japanese teenagers, I can squarely do without. So personally, I don't care.

And this sounds a bit like he is a little butthurt. Not sure if that is the case, but that is what it sounds like to me, in any case.

Curiosity killed me.

What in the WORLD was happening in that short vid? I can't even... it was horrid.

And... the Lambo thing... at least throw in some color correction to make your video a little shinier. Not that it would do much for the quality...

@MikeP I would preorder from the Novi Got guys immediately, but these guys?

No.

These guys:
Step 1: ???
Step 2: Profit?

Spain... this isn't the first horror story I hear coming from Spain. The tabletop game HeroQuest is another fun story.

But I guess that controversy did light the flame for the actual HQ to release, which has since exploded in popularity. So not all bad...

My goodness, why do they keep giving him game franchises? We all KNOW it's not going to have anything to do with the original story, bar some superficial similarities. The game studios have to know this too. Nothing good will come of this.

Extremely petty.

I once helped in a translation project, and some of my localization efforts were, dare I say, extremely poetic.

The person responsible for the project ended up not using those parts. I'll admit, I was butthurt. I also fiercely disagreed with some choices made. I didn't make a fuss though, because nobody owed me anything.

But... I guess this is generating buzz, which.. I guess... no such thing as bad publicity?

@-wc- Don't forget the ibuprofen, for your back.

@-wc- Bomberman '94, if memory serves me right on the title, is also untranslated.

I was like, that looks familiar though, but I've actually seen the movie.

In fact, I am almost positive I actually owned a DVD of it. Can't say why I did though, it wasn't very memorable.

@Daggot Do it! If the price is alright you will support a small dev team, which is always awesome, even if you end up playing little of it.

Oh no, guys!! EDGE editors and they are calling this mag ON? This is code guys. These guys are ON EDGE!! We must rescue them!

Jokes aside, this is awesome. It's not for me, but I hope this format will thrive!

@PopetheRev28 I cannot agree with you on that, in this instance.

Ripping a ROM off of a cartridge, especially from a game that will never see the light of day again, is one thing. Sure, those ROMs are preserved, and while not currently actively pursuing, I am glad I could still enjoy games like Terranigma, because of emulation. So sure, I could be part of THAT problem. I do not fully condone this type of behaviour, but I would be lying if I said I never perused ROMs.

I'd say, morally grey, erring on the lighter side.

This, however, was stealing from the company server. Stealing personal data. Stealing things that are still works in progress. Stealing things that were never meant to see the light of day for whatever reason. It could be that a game is cancelled because it is utter garbage. Stealing things that were not meant for the general public.

This instance has nothing to do with preservation. This was theft of personal items.

@Mommar Thanks for the clarification. They look like early Windows backgrounds. Not a great look, haha. Glad to hear it looked better in the 3DS version.

I do not understand why people would go to such lengths as to hack developers and just throw their stuff on the street, basically.

It's not for you. It's scummy to do so. I guess it is sort of fun for us readers to read about unreleased stuff, but if we don't know, we don't know.

Hacking is a skill that can be used for good and bad. Please just use it for good.

This? This isn't very nice.

I remember drawing SO MANY Worms in my notebooks when I was in high school. I had my own style but they did sort of resemble the ones shown here in the art.

I still draw them sometimes.

I LOVED Worms. I can't get into it anymore though. I bought a newer one a while back on GOG, and it just no longer clicked with me. I tried playing it with my sons, and one of them liked it well enough, but it seems there are far less hours in a day than what I used to have... Time has become my most precious and RARE commodity.

That said, fond memories of the first one. My worms Shadow, Locke, Sabin and Edgar will live on in my thoughts forevermore.

Never knew there was a version with backgrounds and my goodness are some of those backgrounds ugly!! Why did they make those?

Bad nostalgia can't exist. That's like asking for hot ice cream.

I have deep love for some bad games too, I am sure. None I can name off the top of my head, but surely some games I love are considered bad by most.

Would I play them again now? Probably not, but probably more for lack of time than anything else.

@Cyber_Akuma Not even. If I am reading it correctly, and I might not mi d you, but it seems you basically burn a simple "play this game" executable on the CD ROM, like those cards mentioned, and it plays the game off of the hard drive.

Wow. Sim City had such an amazing soundtrack. I loved it so much.

@KingMike I did not know that. Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense.

I will always regret that I didn't buy an import copy, which I saw at a market stall. I had a modded NES.

I made up for it when I got an imported FF III (SNES) years later.

That game was life changing for me.

Love little stories like these.

How does a metal buying company get this stuff, and where have these things been all this time?

So he needs 300K, and hoped to get that from backers paying 3 bucks.

That means a 100,000 people will need to back it before production can even start, and they are offered 30% off, which I imagine means a break-even for them.

I don't think you are going to find many more people to then pay full price. I'd be surprised if there are a 100k enthusiasts already, though I could be mistaken on that front. And even if there are a million, they will all be paying 30% less.

So unless that still nets them a profit, this seems a fool's errand.

Not to mention the name. Just because Sega appreciates Sonic fan games doesn't mean they are going to accept this blatant banking on name recognition.

@Blast16 That's just the pre-order admission fee.

Last Ninja is one of those games I've seen and even played very shortly several times when they were new, that have a nostalgic grip on me for the exact reason they were just beyond my grasp to really play.

I might bite once it's released.

Great game, awful translation. I actually booted it up a few months ago and well... it definitely had issues with putting everything English in the same amount of text boxes as the Japanese script, I can tell you that.

GREAT game though.

That is awesome and way too expensive for me. Also, I can't ride one anyways... even if I had the cash.

You mention three titles, but there is a fourth one in that picture, the something something Dan game.

Which, coincidentally, I read an article about just two days ago, which was pretty funny,. But I can't remember the full name of the title any more. It was an interesting story though, with the game almost being localised but ending up not being released, and the US name was hillarious.

Edit: I can see an article about it in one of the related links... So I guess I am being dumb. Bio Senshi Dan.

At a glance, this sounds a bit like a nothing burger.

It seems to merely mean that buyers (yes) need to be aware that there won't be a (re)download link available in perpetuity for most storefronts. Looking at GOG, that doesn't seem to be an issue there, and even if at one point GOG is shut down, having the digital files is no more or less prone to deterioration as is physical media.

We can't buy NES games anymore in store, we can't even buy some current gen games because they are sold out. It really is more or less the same problem. Buy now, you might not be able to buy tomorrow. And once broken/deleted, it is gone.

Csn I just voice my appreciation for the sub header being perfect for the title of the game?

Anakin meme insert : Ooh, this "Collection" has all the games in one collection, right? Right?

No, just the first two.

Call it Origins instead then, or something. Calling it a collection is just not right.

Wow, a Japanese dude being rude. That's a first... outside of animé at least.

I mean, I get that it looks nothing like DD, so fair point, but delivery, man. Delivery...

It looks really nice and awesome of Team17 to give their blessing.

Because Sonic lore is so consistent, lol.

I could never do this job. I am way too autistic to have to deal with the MYRIAD of inconsistencies within its "lore".

Same for Mario, Zelda and many more franchises, mind you. Maybe that's why I love Suikoden so much.