When they say "new mapper", I have to wonder if it's an FPGA or something. (something FAR more powerful than the base console) It does like nice, but using hardware too technologically removed from the original hardware does take a bit from the feel of the original game.
One stream I watch, has now called Edward Randy as just that, after too many jokes about another problem Data East had: reusing game titles. Data East made a LaserDisc game called Cliffhanger that you'll get DMCA'd if you stream/upload gameplay because the game used footage from a Lupin III move. Similarly Data East released two games called Cobra Command. A FMW game and then a side-scrolling shmup.
So much feeling of entitlement in the comments here.
The translation team has lives and they do it for free. They don't owe us anything in any sort of timely manner. I recall CyberWarriorX was also one of the few people working to just emulate the Saturn correctly, that one fanatic driving the scene forward. I do recall Saturn being in an even worse state than N64 emulation at the time. The PS1 absolutely got most of the emu dev attention of that era of consoles. I do recall the Princess Crown translation even being one of their motivators for the former.
Twelve years is long enough anyone really desperate to play could've probably learned Japanese and played this and other games. I do know you could probably even played along using Google Translator.
@sdelfin People with such discourtesy to the original patch team are likely to produce an awful result anyways, so it doesn't really matter.
I've read some Discord discussions this new patch translator has far less Japanese literacy qualifications than the original translator ("Absolutely no censorship!" claims tend to be a sign of the former) including some comparisons.
@nocdaes Really. This isn't the '90s any more where incomplete demo patches helped drive interest to the games, when it was harder to find Japanese games and check out if they are any good. These days, incomplete patches only serve the most impatient of gamers. Only they'd be satisfied with a patch that is very likely to crash horribly or simply not translate anything after an hour's worth of gameplay. And they probably wouldn't even sit through an RPG-length (I don't know how long this game is) if it was. People who want to devote time and effort to fully play a game aren't going to want their experience abruptly ended.
If people are really desperate to play the game, they can seek out the unpatched game, or watch videos online. I have met many gamers on the Internet who have learned no Japanese beyond the kana charts. I've heard of Super Robot Wars fans who bothered to learn just the kanji needed for menu navigation. If it's really that important to play a game, people can make efforts to play them regardless of a patch. Buggy and incomplete patches do not have much more value for "playing" than just playing the original.
I'm not familiar with this game, but I have read above it is fairly playable without reading.
@Dr_Fresh Slap Fight it seems at least did get a remixed mode something more resemblent of a Genesis game (rather than just a port of the 1986 original which IMO graphically looked like 1982). Also, the remixed mode had Yuzo Koshiro tunes, which was probably enough for some people.
Twin Cobra for the Genesis is definitely cheaper to buy an original, especially if loose is good enough.
@RetroGames I haven't done so many things in my life, but conning 10,000 people out of 5 million bucks isn't something I've yet put on the to-do list.
I know sometimes game console plans don't work out, but no. I recall he had quite the mouth responding to his critics.
And his big launch game (Earthworm Jim 4) was something he announced without any sort of final licensing agreement. You just, don't do that kind of thing.
You can do many good things, but it all goes once you start scamming people.
@MARl0 @Cyber_Akuma Attempting to "finish" someone else's work is just asking for the result to be garbage anyways, on either the code or text side. I'd be worried about even reusing my own code from many years ago without relearning how the games work, let alone try to figure out someone else's. I mean, reprogramming a game is already a matter of trying to figure out how the original game programmer's brain work. It's like a game of telephone when you add other coders into the mix.
And on the translation side is much the same, the more people you have writing the text, the sloppier it's going to be. Aside from the original writer, different people are going to have different ideas of how the same things should be translated. There's probably a number of professional translations where you can it had different writers (inconsistent tone or even worse, things like the US version of Lufia II where even a few names were inconsistent between the dialogue and menus).
@slider1983 I'm fairly certain Virtua Racing on the Genesis was the only Sega cartridge to use a custom video chip.
It's been said by SMS Power forum that it's likely Codemaster tested/RE'd their games on a late model PAL SMS without realizing they were using a video mode only in certain consoles.
Checking GameFAQs, Codemasters' SMS games were all released in 1993! EXTREMELY late to enter that market! That would make sense.
I do believe limited emulated support would be because Codemasters were the only ones that mode. I'm going to guess it probably wasn't a documented feature, thus why it didn't get spread. These were the Game Genie people, breaking stuff is kind of what they did.
@bluemage1989 How are you going to play 3DS and Wii U eShop games if you haven't previously purchased them? Should every person that wants to play Dinosaur Peak being expected to pay $1,500 to experience it?
@N64-ROX I could go to a library and check out a book and make copies too. I would take a long time and I wouldn't do it but I could. Why hasn't the book industry shut down public libraries? (not like the book industry doesn't have its own evils: college textbooks are expensive because Wiley et all price them based on how much they think your country can afford to pay for them and would like that you not support gray market importers)
@slider1983 I don't know what is really different about Codemasters games other than using a video resolution only supported by certain PAL SMS video chips. Making them not even with all PAL SMS consoles at least.
@pomegran Simulate. Emulate. Potato. It's a different form of emulation. It's games that aren't running on the same (or even alike) hardware chips it was designed for, therefore it can't not be some form of emulation. Or whatever term you want to use for it.
The NES DuckTales producer Darlene Waddington, I believe her name was, revealed many years ago that there was a computer educational game that Disney had to ask the developer to alter, where Donald got electrocuted.
The GBA port of Magical Quest 3 I believe didn't arrive until 2005, which would explain how it remained in obscurity. That was fairly late in the GBA lifespan. I think the fan translation of the SNES version was released in like 2002, and I recall it was pretty distinctly written by a UK translator (might be a surprise for such a famous "American" IP).
Also, I recall trying the Hard difficulty in Magical Quest once, and I recall barely finishing stage 1. I remember on Hard the game definitely channeled Mega Man energy in its difficulty.
@JackGYarwood A Genesis port of The Magical Quest was announced in early 1994 (I'm quite positive the magazine previews I read were 1994, not a more timely 1992/1993). I can only imagine it went unreleased because it was too close to the the sequel The Great Circus Mystery (for which a port was released).
Early 1993 was when Capcom had entered the Sega publishing scene (or at least when their licensee status was publicly revealed), and of course Street Fighter II: Champion Edition HAD to be its big entry game.
SG-1000 at least makes sense to emulate because it is practically identical in hardware components to the MSX1 (legality of software distribution is another matter). SG-1000 doesn't utilize a BIOS so there is nothing really that Sega could copyright claim on, assuming the user is left to the matter of obtaining the game ROMs.
@Hexapus "Whatever happened to the SNES port?" I WAS JUST DESTINED TO DIE. I wonder how accurate it will be? Funny to learn that if the arcade machine is set to max (level 8) difficulty, one boss is apparently literally impossible to defeat without credit-feeding to eventually beat it with the i-frames on each new life.
@RejectedAng3L Not released in America despite those had to have been in the works as their plan to rework the hardware into a home computer.
They had to have thought was going to be a better entry going into the 1984 US gaming market.
That and also cartridge hardware very quickly caught up to much of the FDS' advantages (aside from cheaper game prices, which was understandably a very divisive point for game publishers).
Double Dragon II lacking the NES version sounds like a sore point for the Technos unit. I hear that version specifically was like the definitive DD experience. It sounds like the arcade wasn't as good, and the PCE-CD version at least had some wonderfully awful cutscenes to watch.
The title opinion was definitely from something not thinking very rationally. Sega was struggling against Nintendo and Sony for the latter part of the '90s. For various reasons of Sega's doing. Did the author think they could win making Microsoft's seemingly infinite cash another adversary? (despite that Microsoft I recall did have some involvement in the DC)
@nocdaes Analog is priced catering towards an enthusiast market who knows what they're doing with old games.
Nintendo or Sega releasing a console that plays thirty year old cartridges would have to be ready for a flood of questions from people who don't know the maintenance issues. It's why the Atari Flashback 2 released in like 2005 was designed to be modded to add a cartridge port to play 2600 carts. It was presumed one who had the technical knowledge to add a cartridge slot would know to deal with the old tech issues on their own (ie, they don't need to be told hold to clean their games). Users who don't would only be playing it stock with the onboard games.
@solarwolf07 A game can't be "based on the engine of" another game that wouldn't exist for another three years. That just doesn't make any logical sense.
Also, what about Platinum and HeartGold/SoulSilver? "Based on the engine of BW" is acting as if those weren't made in the meantime.
Do they mean Diamond and Pearl? How can a game believed to have been developed in 2007 believed to have been developed on the source code from a 2010 game?
It has to have been a decade ago I've seen someone do a NES tech demo of "the Axelay effect". Possibly there was even a ROM release. Solely a graphics demo, no actual gameplay.
Sadly I'm not expecting we'll ever see a rerelease of Smart Ball or its mostly- if not fully- completed sequel (credits music crashing bug aside) that went unreleased almost certainly due to its proximity to the PlayStation launch.
@BulkSlash Block 4-3 might've been completely forgettable gameplay-wise, but it was either Displaced Gamers or (more likely) Retro Game Mechanics who managed to do an entire video explaining just how its visuals were executed.
I remember when bsnes was in development, byuu held out on added savestates for a long time because he wasn't sure how to add them in a way that wouldn't jeopardize accuracy.
I do recall how very early emulators didn't keep a copy of cartridge RAM ("the save file") synced to the savestate and that broke some games (such as Torkeo's Mysterious Dungeon which constantly updated the save data so you couldn't savescum out of bad situations).
@Coolmusic I suppose the stranger characters were the dolphin or Rabio and Lepus (two rabbits from an earlier arcade horizontal shooter titled after them, I can only imagine my local rollerskating rink as a child was one of the few places to get the US version of that, Rabbit Punch).
@Daniel36 The market was big enough that many companies wanted in on the Famicom market. Vic Tokai is/was a Japanese cable TV provider that got into international video game distribution for awhile. Kemco is a subsidiary of a chemical company Kotobuki System.
I feel like that Silence II might have been the track seen in a video I watched many years ago of some Japanese player's recording of an original broadcast, and they managed to make just the most spectacular F-Zero car crash I've seen!
Streamer LordBBH has spent the last couple years playing every "obscure" arcade game he can in rough chronological order, starting with 1980 and is now up to 1985 games. Or has series "Push to Reject" is, the motto is something like "the games that failed to make an impact on the industry".
He's stated that couple failed companies named Orca and Crux (from like 1982 to 1984) were basically Toaplan predecessors.
So this is sort of the third translation of the game. There is an Enix America translation beta ROM out there (before the game was licensed to Nintendo) which had a pretty rough translation about in line with other Enix localizations.
@Whatareyouonabout Also, this man is producing a commodity for a global corporation. He should know what he's getting into. The corporation has decided they have a choice between crotch skin or a preferable rating. The corporation has chosen the rating.
Nobody is stopping these people from drawing all the crotch skin they want. They just can't sell it in this manner. These people want to have their cake and eat it too, and upset they can't. If they really don't like it that much, they can make their own companies and do whatever they want. Many game companies have been formed by employees who decided they weren't happy with their former employer.
Lots of video games get affected by ratings from different rating systems across the world. It's not just America, man. I'm more upset that a significant cutscene in Final Fantasy VI Advance got censored because of CERO. The fourth wall is broken the first time Celes appears when now the characters all look they're just actors rehearsing the lines. They can't animate anything they're saying because Celes getting punched unconscious was considered too violent for an "A" rating.
So, basically if America censors sex, Japan censors violence. Pretty sure there's been more than this example. And rip Pokemon game corner because Europe and Australia censor fake gambling. Every region (or at least their ratings boards) have their own thing they're worried about.
@gcunit Emulating a game doesn't change its value any more than buying a used copy or borrowing a friend's. Or rentals, if that is still an option anymore. In any of those situations, you are playing a game without paying Nintendo.
@Bakamoichigei When probably at least 15 different companies needed to put out a soccer game for World Cup '94, and whoever Mr. Zico is, his game was such the loser that even when it was new, it got discounted so cheap in stores that an unlicensed company bought them up in bulk to hack up into a porn game (despite Nintendo having considered that possibility when they designed the SFC cartridges).
@jamess That extra skin doesn't make any meaningful change to the character unless you play Dragon Quest III to get horny. In which case there's probably better choices for that satiation.
I don't see why it's necessary. It's already pretty T-rated to begin with? Well, I at least know the GBC port was rated T, I'm guessing for having "Hell" enemies. (though the E10+ rating didn't exist at that time, so I don't know if "mild four letter words" are considered E10+ or T material)
Is this the end of the "puff puff"s too?
I do agree though that if you REALLY need to see just a bit more female skin, Dragon Quest III probably isn't the place you should be looking.
@Deuteros Another thing surprising about the Collection of Mana is that, for Final Fantasy Adventure (the original Mana game for the Game Boy), it has a few color palette options. I noticed one of them that would seem rather unfitting to the game for most people, but I recognized as the default Super Game Boy palette for third-party games. That made me wonder if M2 had any plans to support editing the palette SGB-style. That doesn't seem to be an available feature but M2 is probably the retro port developer most likely to do such a thing.
@Razieluigi Feels crazy to hear Virtual Boy hardware has become so expensive, to one who can remember seeing Target trying to get rid of unsold consoles for $30 in 1997. Probably about as shocking to learn Best Buy had to go as low as $6 at some point trying to sell off EarthBounds. And I'm angry to learn I somehow missed that because EB was one of my favorite rental games as kid. How excited I'd have been as a teen to have finally owned an original copy with the book too!
@Deuteros Trials of Mana on Switch: that's two separate versions you're thinking of. Collection of Mana is an emulation of the original games, with some bonus features such as additional "music player" ROMs. The 3D remake was a separate game released like half a year after the international release of the collection.
@Bakamoichigei I've heard of them just throwing OG Famicoms in the trash. If they're basically garbage to the store, they should dump 'em on ebay to ship internationally for a deal. I'm sure they'd have enough foreigners willing to buy them up.
@Daniel36 Bio Warrior Dan was made by Atlus (possibly before they were an established game company), so while I recall it had some rough spots such as control, it's not too bad. Cool idea though. Also the music is by the same composer as the Megami Tensei games at least through the Saturn, so it sure has a similar sound to the original MT Famicom game (which released only a little over a week earlier).
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Re: We Can't Quite Believe That Former Dawn Is Running On Real NES Hardware
When they say "new mapper", I have to wonder if it's an FPGA or something. (something FAR more powerful than the base console)
It does like nice, but using hardware too technologically removed from the original hardware does take a bit from the feel of the original game.
Re: Review: Data East Arcade 2 (Evercade) - A Weird And Wonderful Selection Of Coin-Ops
One stream I watch, has now called Edward Randy as just that, after too many jokes about another problem Data East had: reusing game titles.
Data East made a LaserDisc game called Cliffhanger that you'll get DMCA'd if you stream/upload gameplay because the game used footage from a Lupin III move.
Similarly Data East released two games called Cobra Command. A FMW game and then a side-scrolling shmup.
Re: "Ours Will Be The Translation Worth Playing" - Team Behind Decade-Old Princess Crown Localisation Speak Out
So much feeling of entitlement in the comments here.
The translation team has lives and they do it for free. They don't owe us anything in any sort of timely manner.
I recall CyberWarriorX was also one of the few people working to just emulate the Saturn correctly, that one fanatic driving the scene forward. I do recall Saturn being in an even worse state than N64 emulation at the time. The PS1 absolutely got most of the emu dev attention of that era of consoles. I do recall the Princess Crown translation even being one of their motivators for the former.
Twelve years is long enough anyone really desperate to play could've probably learned Japanese and played this and other games.
I do know you could probably even played along using Google Translator.
Re: There's Some Drama Surrounding The New Princess Crown English Patch
@sdelfin People with such discourtesy to the original patch team are likely to produce an awful result anyways, so it doesn't really matter.
I've read some Discord discussions this new patch translator has far less Japanese literacy qualifications than the original translator ("Absolutely no censorship!" claims tend to be a sign of the former) including some comparisons.
Re: There's Some Drama Surrounding The New Princess Crown English Patch
@nocdaes Really. This isn't the '90s any more where incomplete demo patches helped drive interest to the games, when it was harder to find Japanese games and check out if they are any good.
These days, incomplete patches only serve the most impatient of gamers. Only they'd be satisfied with a patch that is very likely to crash horribly or simply not translate anything after an hour's worth of gameplay. And they probably wouldn't even sit through an RPG-length (I don't know how long this game is) if it was.
People who want to devote time and effort to fully play a game aren't going to want their experience abruptly ended.
If people are really desperate to play the game, they can seek out the unpatched game, or watch videos online.
I have met many gamers on the Internet who have learned no Japanese beyond the kana charts. I've heard of Super Robot Wars fans who bothered to learn just the kanji needed for menu navigation.
If it's really that important to play a game, people can make efforts to play them regardless of a patch.
Buggy and incomplete patches do not have much more value for "playing" than just playing the original.
I'm not familiar with this game, but I have read above it is fairly playable without reading.
Re: Three More Sought-After Toaplan Shmups Are Resurrected On Genesis / Mega Drive At Bargain Prices
@Dr_Fresh Slap Fight it seems at least did get a remixed mode something more resemblent of a Genesis game (rather than just a port of the 1986 original which IMO graphically looked like 1982). Also, the remixed mode had Yuzo Koshiro tunes, which was probably enough for some people.
Twin Cobra for the Genesis is definitely cheaper to buy an original, especially if loose is good enough.
Re: After The Epic Failure Of The Intellivision Amico, Tommy Tallarico's New Goal Is Becoming A Backgammon Legend
@RetroGames I haven't done so many things in my life, but conning 10,000 people out of 5 million bucks isn't something I've yet put on the to-do list.
I know sometimes game console plans don't work out, but no. I recall he had quite the mouth responding to his critics.
And his big launch game (Earthworm Jim 4) was something he announced without any sort of final licensing agreement. You just, don't do that kind of thing.
You can do many good things, but it all goes once you start scamming people.
Re: "The Project Is A Complete Scam" - The Internet Isn't Convinced By The SuperSega FPGA Console
@LowDefAl Maybe Sega themselves would like to see where this joke is going first?
Let it stew a bit then crush them when it's run its course.
Re: There's Some Drama Surrounding The New Princess Crown English Patch
@MARl0 @Cyber_Akuma Attempting to "finish" someone else's work is just asking for the result to be garbage anyways, on either the code or text side.
I'd be worried about even reusing my own code from many years ago without relearning how the games work, let alone try to figure out someone else's.
I mean, reprogramming a game is already a matter of trying to figure out how the original game programmer's brain work. It's like a game of telephone when you add other coders into the mix.
And on the translation side is much the same, the more people you have writing the text, the sloppier it's going to be. Aside from the original writer, different people are going to have different ideas of how the same things should be translated.
There's probably a number of professional translations where you can it had different writers (inconsistent tone or even worse, things like the US version of Lufia II where even a few names were inconsistent between the dialogue and menus).
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@slider1983 I'm fairly certain Virtua Racing on the Genesis was the only Sega cartridge to use a custom video chip.
It's been said by SMS Power forum that it's likely Codemaster tested/RE'd their games on a late model PAL SMS without realizing they were using a video mode only in certain consoles.
Checking GameFAQs, Codemasters' SMS games were all released in 1993! EXTREMELY late to enter that market! That would make sense.
I do believe limited emulated support would be because Codemasters were the only ones that mode. I'm going to guess it probably wasn't a documented feature, thus why it didn't get spread. These were the Game Genie people, breaking stuff is kind of what they did.
Re: The US Copyright Office Doesn't Want To Give You Access To Video Game History
@bluemage1989 How are you going to play 3DS and Wii U eShop games if you haven't previously purchased them?
Should every person that wants to play Dinosaur Peak being expected to pay $1,500 to experience it?
Re: The US Copyright Office Doesn't Want To Give You Access To Video Game History
@N64-ROX I could go to a library and check out a book and make copies too.
I would take a long time and I wouldn't do it but I could. Why hasn't the book industry shut down public libraries?
(not like the book industry doesn't have its own evils: college textbooks are expensive because Wiley et all price them based on how much they think your country can afford to pay for them and would like that you not support gray market importers)
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@slider1983 I don't know what is really different about Codemasters games other than using a video resolution only supported by certain PAL SMS video chips. Making them not even with all PAL SMS consoles at least.
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@pomegran Simulate. Emulate. Potato.
It's a different form of emulation.
It's games that aren't running on the same (or even alike) hardware chips it was designed for, therefore it can't not be some form of emulation. Or whatever term you want to use for it.
Re: Random: That Time Sega Got Donald Duck In Trouble With Disney For Animal Cruelty
The NES DuckTales producer Darlene Waddington, I believe her name was, revealed many years ago that there was a computer educational game that Disney had to ask the developer to alter, where Donald got electrocuted.
Re: The Making Of: The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, Capcom's SNES Classic
The GBA port of Magical Quest 3 I believe didn't arrive until 2005, which would explain how it remained in obscurity. That was fairly late in the GBA lifespan.
I think the fan translation of the SNES version was released in like 2002, and I recall it was pretty distinctly written by a UK translator (might be a surprise for such a famous "American" IP).
Also, I recall trying the Hard difficulty in Magical Quest once, and I recall barely finishing stage 1.
I remember on Hard the game definitely channeled Mega Man energy in its difficulty.
Re: The Making Of: The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, Capcom's SNES Classic
@JackGYarwood A Genesis port of The Magical Quest was announced in early 1994 (I'm quite positive the magazine previews I read were 1994, not a more timely 1992/1993). I can only imagine it went unreleased because it was too close to the the sequel The Great Circus Mystery (for which a port was released).
Early 1993 was when Capcom had entered the Sega publishing scene (or at least when their licensee status was publicly revealed), and of course Street Fighter II: Champion Edition HAD to be its big entry game.
Re: Evercade Reveals New Toaplan Arcade 4 Collection Featuring Six Classic Titles
I assume Pipi and Bibi has had the gratuitous and unnecessary sexually explicit cutscenes removed?
(I'm sure that's the game I'm thinking of.)
Re: The MSX0 May Be Getting Emulation Support For The Nintendo Famicom, PC Engine, And More
I've heard that loading cartridge ROMs through disk images is at least something period-accurate software pirates did.
Re: The MSX0 May Be Getting Emulation Support For The Nintendo Famicom, PC Engine, And More
SG-1000 at least makes sense to emulate because it is practically identical in hardware components to the MSX1 (legality of software distribution is another matter).
SG-1000 doesn't utilize a BIOS so there is nothing really that Sega could copyright claim on, assuming the user is left to the matter of obtaining the game ROMs.
Re: Neo Geo Classic Magician Lord Gets Tentative Fan Port To NEC SuperGrafx
@Hexapus "Whatever happened to the SNES port?" I WAS JUST DESTINED TO DIE.
I wonder how accurate it will be?
Funny to learn that if the arcade machine is set to max (level 8) difficulty, one boss is apparently literally impossible to defeat without credit-feeding to eventually beat it with the i-frames on each new life.
Re: "The Wrong Console Won" - Dreamcast Is Getting Its Own Rave Event "To Correct The Record"
@RejectedAng3L Not released in America despite those had to have been in the works as their plan to rework the hardware into a home computer.
They had to have thought was going to be a better entry going into the 1984 US gaming market.
That and also cartridge hardware very quickly caught up to much of the FDS' advantages (aside from cheaper game prices, which was understandably a very divisive point for game publishers).
Re: Hands On: HyperMegaTech Super Pocket Technōs And Atari Editions
Double Dragon II lacking the NES version sounds like a sore point for the Technos unit.
I hear that version specifically was like the definitive DD experience.
It sounds like the arcade wasn't as good, and the PCE-CD version at least had some wonderfully awful cutscenes to watch.
Re: "The Wrong Console Won" - Dreamcast Is Getting Its Own Rave Event "To Correct The Record"
The title opinion was definitely from something not thinking very rationally.
Sega was struggling against Nintendo and Sony for the latter part of the '90s. For various reasons of Sega's doing.
Did the author think they could win making Microsoft's seemingly infinite cash another adversary? (despite that Microsoft I recall did have some involvement in the DC)
Re: Pre-Orders For FPGA N64 'Analogue 3D' Open Next Week, Will Cost $250
@nocdaes Analog is priced catering towards an enthusiast market who knows what they're doing with old games.
Nintendo or Sega releasing a console that plays thirty year old cartridges would have to be ready for a flood of questions from people who don't know the maintenance issues.
It's why the Atari Flashback 2 released in like 2005 was designed to be modded to add a cartridge port to play 2600 carts. It was presumed one who had the technical knowledge to add a cartridge slot would know to deal with the old tech issues on their own (ie, they don't need to be told hold to clean their games). Users who don't would only be playing it stock with the onboard games.
Re: Unreleased Yoshi's Egg Remake For Nintendo DS Breaks Cover Online
@solarwolf07 A game can't be "based on the engine of" another game that wouldn't exist for another three years. That just doesn't make any logical sense.
Also, what about Platinum and HeartGold/SoulSilver? "Based on the engine of BW" is acting as if those weren't made in the meantime.
Re: Pre-Orders For FPGA N64 'Analogue 3D' Open Next Week, Will Cost $250
They're giving us all of that for under 250 bucks?
(I don't know how many people here will follow where I'm going with this?)
Re: Unreleased Yoshi's Egg Remake For Nintendo DS Breaks Cover Online
Do they mean Diamond and Pearl?
How can a game believed to have been developed in 2007 believed to have been developed on the source code from a 2010 game?
Re: Think The NES Can't Handle Mode 7? Think Again
It has to have been a decade ago I've seen someone do a NES tech demo of "the Axelay effect". Possibly there was even a ROM release. Solely a graphics demo, no actual gameplay.
Re: Unreleased SNES Remake Of Game Freak's Debut Quinty Leaks Online
Sadly I'm not expecting we'll ever see a rerelease of Smart Ball or its mostly- if not fully- completed sequel (credits music crashing bug aside) that went unreleased almost certainly due to its proximity to the PlayStation launch.
Re: Unreleased SNES Remake Of Game Freak's Debut Quinty Leaks Online
Its one thing to leak out unreleased games.
But doxxing the developers is not okay. The leaker should've taken the time to scrub that information.
Re: The New Snow Bros. 2 Remake Just Got Its First Steam Demo
The New Elves have been updated to look more hideous than they ever have!
Re: Fan-Made 'Mega Castlevania IV' Project Is Alive And Well In This New Footage
@BulkSlash Block 4-3 might've been completely forgettable gameplay-wise, but it was either Displaced Gamers or (more likely) Retro Game Mechanics who managed to do an entire video explaining just how its visuals were executed.
Re: MiSTer FPGA SNES Core Gets A Much-Requested Feature
I remember when bsnes was in development, byuu held out on added savestates for a long time because he wasn't sure how to add them in a way that wouldn't jeopardize accuracy.
I do recall how very early emulators didn't keep a copy of cartridge RAM ("the save file") synced to the savestate and that broke some games (such as Torkeo's Mysterious Dungeon which constantly updated the save data so you couldn't savescum out of bad situations).
Re: Classic Shmup Series Sonic Wings / Aero Fighters Is Getting A New Entry
@Coolmusic I suppose the stranger characters were the dolphin or Rabio and Lepus (two rabbits from an earlier arcade horizontal shooter titled after them, I can only imagine my local rollerskating rink as a child was one of the few places to get the US version of that, Rabbit Punch).
Re: An Undocumented Famicom Disk System Game Has Just Been Discovered
@Daniel36 The market was big enough that many companies wanted in on the Famicom market.
Vic Tokai is/was a Japanese cable TV provider that got into international video game distribution for awhile.
Kemco is a subsidiary of a chemical company Kotobuki System.
Re: Bringing "Lost In Time" Satellaview Tracks To F-ZERO 99 "Was A Treat," Says Nintendo Artist
How does "silence" get a sequel?
I feel like that Silence II might have been the track seen in a video I watched many years ago of some Japanese player's recording of an original broadcast, and they managed to make just the most spectacular F-Zero car crash I've seen!
Re: Switch 'Hokkaido Serial Murder Case' Remake Retains NSFW Easter Egg From Yuji Horii's 1984 Original
Wouldn't be the only Yuji Horii game with secret NSFW content.
I recall reading the MSX port of Dragon Quest II also had a dirty secret.
Re: Special Broadcast Being Held To Celebrate 40 Years Of Toaplan Games
Streamer LordBBH has spent the last couple years playing every "obscure" arcade game he can in rough chronological order, starting with 1980 and is now up to 1985 games. Or has series "Push to Reject" is, the motto is something like "the games that failed to make an impact on the industry".
He's stated that couple failed companies named Orca and Crux (from like 1982 to 1984) were basically Toaplan predecessors.
Re: Classic SNES RPG Illusion Of Gaia Gets Fresh Translation 30 Years After Its Western Release
So this is sort of the third translation of the game.
There is an Enix America translation beta ROM out there (before the game was licensed to Nintendo) which had a pretty rough translation about in line with other Enix localizations.
Re: "An Evil Disguised As Good" - Dragon Quest Vets Rail Against Censorship In Candid Interview
@Whatareyouonabout Also, this man is producing a commodity for a global corporation. He should know what he's getting into.
The corporation has decided they have a choice between crotch skin or a preferable rating. The corporation has chosen the rating.
Nobody is stopping these people from drawing all the crotch skin they want. They just can't sell it in this manner. These people want to have their cake and eat it too, and upset they can't.
If they really don't like it that much, they can make their own companies and do whatever they want. Many game companies have been formed by employees who decided they weren't happy with their former employer.
Re: "An Evil Disguised As Good" - Dragon Quest Vets Rail Against Censorship In Candid Interview
Lots of video games get affected by ratings from different rating systems across the world.
It's not just America, man. I'm more upset that a significant cutscene in Final Fantasy VI Advance got censored because of CERO. The fourth wall is broken the first time Celes appears when now the characters all look they're just actors rehearsing the lines. They can't animate anything they're saying because Celes getting punched unconscious was considered too violent for an "A" rating.
So, basically if America censors sex, Japan censors violence. Pretty sure there's been more than this example.
And rip Pokemon game corner because Europe and Australia censor fake gambling.
Every region (or at least their ratings boards) have their own thing they're worried about.
Re: Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated
@gcunit Emulating a game doesn't change its value any more than buying a used copy or borrowing a friend's. Or rentals, if that is still an option anymore. In any of those situations, you are playing a game without paying Nintendo.
Re: Super Game Boy Just Got The Ultimate Upgrade
@Bakamoichigei When probably at least 15 different companies needed to put out a soccer game for World Cup '94, and whoever Mr. Zico is, his game was such the loser that even when it was new, it got discounted so cheap in stores that an unlicensed company bought them up in bulk to hack up into a porn game (despite Nintendo having considered that possibility when they designed the SFC cartridges).
Re: "An Evil Disguised As Good" - Dragon Quest Vets Rail Against Censorship In Candid Interview
@jamess That extra skin doesn't make any meaningful change to the character unless you play Dragon Quest III to get horny. In which case there's probably better choices for that satiation.
Re: "An Evil Disguised As Good" - Dragon Quest Vets Rail Against Censorship In Candid Interview
I don't see why it's necessary. It's already pretty T-rated to begin with?
Well, I at least know the GBC port was rated T, I'm guessing for having "Hell" enemies. (though the E10+ rating didn't exist at that time, so I don't know if "mild four letter words" are considered E10+ or T material)
Is this the end of the "puff puff"s too?
I do agree though that if you REALLY need to see just a bit more female skin, Dragon Quest III probably isn't the place you should be looking.
Re: Super Game Boy Just Got The Ultimate Upgrade
@Deuteros Another thing surprising about the Collection of Mana is that, for Final Fantasy Adventure (the original Mana game for the Game Boy), it has a few color palette options. I noticed one of them that would seem rather unfitting to the game for most people, but I recognized as the default Super Game Boy palette for third-party games. That made me wonder if M2 had any plans to support editing the palette SGB-style. That doesn't seem to be an available feature but M2 is probably the retro port developer most likely to do such a thing.
Re: Yes, You Can Buy Virtual Boy Merch At The Nintendo Museum
@Razieluigi Feels crazy to hear Virtual Boy hardware has become so expensive, to one who can remember seeing Target trying to get rid of unsold consoles for $30 in 1997.
Probably about as shocking to learn Best Buy had to go as low as $6 at some point trying to sell off EarthBounds. And I'm angry to learn I somehow missed that because EB was one of my favorite rental games as kid. How excited I'd have been as a teen to have finally owned an original copy with the book too!
Re: Super Game Boy Just Got The Ultimate Upgrade
@Deuteros Trials of Mana on Switch: that's two separate versions you're thinking of.
Collection of Mana is an emulation of the original games, with some bonus features such as additional "music player" ROMs.
The 3D remake was a separate game released like half a year after the international release of the collection.
@Bakamoichigei I've heard of them just throwing OG Famicoms in the trash. If they're basically garbage to the store, they should dump 'em on ebay to ship internationally for a deal. I'm sure they'd have enough foreigners willing to buy them up.
Re: Jaleco's 'Saiyūki World', 'Magic John', & 'Pizza Pop!' Are Coming To Nintendo Switch
@Daniel36 Bio Warrior Dan was made by Atlus (possibly before they were an established game company), so while I recall it had some rough spots such as control, it's not too bad.
Cool idea though.
Also the music is by the same composer as the Megami Tensei games at least through the Saturn, so it sure has a similar sound to the original MT Famicom game (which released only a little over a week earlier).