NoirConceit

Beautiful.

(When I went to post this I was told my comment was too short. Although I understand why one word comments are generally disallowed, let this serve as mere padding, this post should only have been that one word).

@Arcadia_Official Not for $10.

But that's fine as long as it does what it says on the tin (functions as a PS1 memory card).

@GravyThief You didn't originally say "make a game", you said "make any sort of unique game". Those are two different things.

But in this case, GB Studio uses a WYSIWYG editor, which is fairly intuitive and easy to use.

@GravyThief Define "unique".

You'll find that when it comes to games, unique is typically defined by the design of the gameplay mechanics, or the art style.

Not every game has to be pushing the technological boundaries of the hardware in some ill-fated attempt to be labelled "unique".

But there again, as you quoted yourself, it is aimed to "to enable users with minimal or no programming knowledge to make games", I didn't see the word "unique" there.

@AllieKitsune Such an odd comment, stating that those things don't already exist.

Why are people allergic to saying "customers" now? Why does everything have to be about non-existent "community"?

@ElkinFencer10 Indeed, pedantry is more than welcome when it comes to this kind of thing.

This looks damned good. Looking forward to playing this.

Anyone else remember when these guys were trying to peddle NFTs?

@zenprism I don't care for the vinyl release, CD all the way for the full audio fidelity on that one (or rather, two, with the remix album as well).

One of my favourite games of all time.

Also had a killer soundtrack.

And a killer remix album of the killer soundtrack.

There was also a strategy guide only released in Japan which has a load of awesome concept art from the game too.

@N00BiSH You may wish to work on your reading comprehension because you'll find I never said it was trash BECAUSE of the fact that he worked for x or y company. I also never said it was detailed critique by any means, I said I voiced criticism, which is true as basic was it was, and it is also fine. I'm calling it trash because that is my opinion of it. I'm also saying that nobody should feel indebted to give it attention because of the person's previous workplaces, and I guess I am also saying that if the album were so good then it could stand on it's own feet without mentioning those workplaces. We see it all the time on the internet, the idea that someone's work should carry more reverence solely because of someone having worked for some big games industry companies in the past, and yet they're just another human being who should be treated as equally as anyone else.

Using stock internet responses such as "who hurt you", is just straight to trying to insult someone because you disagree with an opinion, and that's just being a jerk.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant The comment wasn't hateful, cynical maybe, but certainly not hateful. However, I don't wish I could make stuff like it because, frankly, why would I want to wish to make an end product which I would not enjoy myself? Flawed logic on your part, but also common of things we see on the internet where people attempt to label others by implying they're jealous because they dare to voice criticism.

There's some pretty awesome R4 fan stuff out there, but this is not it. It also being sold to an audience off the back of "this person worked for x and y company" comes across as almost expectant that people should give it their time because this person has had a job in the industry.

@N00BiSH Nobody, has anyone hurt you? If so you need to contact the police and tell them so they can sort it for you 😂

@ArcadeRacingCENTRAL It is a take. I don't see your point.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant Dude what? Please explain.

No, listening to this album will not make a new Ridge Racer Type 4 game appear out of nowhere.

I love the game as much as anyone, but the industry has (sadly) moved on, and this trying to ride the game's coattails is the definition of fan trash. I don't care if they have had roles at some big company or another either.

The thing I love about retro gaming is that there isn't all of this blinking stuff constantly bombarding the player, such as achievements.

I can play a game and be absolutely fine with completing it or not without feeling the need to show it off to others.

But this is a wider subject, people feeling that everything must be broadcast, that quiet enjoyment of hobbies is something to be looked down upon.

In the terms and conditions, once you have finished with a Dev Kit or Test Kit you need to send it back, complete with all of the original cables (and especially in the case of Nintendo, who expect the ORIGINAL video cables, so no swapping out for third party ones). As noted in the article, the Dev and Test Kits remain the property of Nintendo.

So Sega will have messed up if they had send these consoles to a digital shredding service. However, if they had, then it still does not excuse the shredding service for having sold them on. And if they had just been thrown in the bin and recovered by a company they hired to clear the office then Sega have still messed up.

This is an absolute shambles. Ten officers to do a raid to recover some consoles on behalf of a corporation? Yeah, that's not heavy handed in the slightest... Except it totally is. I can't recall off the top of my head who did this previously, but the "approach target with private investigator followed by involving the police" was a tactic deployed in the USA by either Microsoft or Sony (can't remember which) when someone was able to acquire Dev Kits from their developer website and sell them online.

Either way this is a shambles. The police handling the investigation should be investigated for their very obvious mishandling of the case so far.

Totally bonkers project that will never happen but I would love to do if I have unlimited time, money, and resources; Paying David Hayter to re-record all of the Snake likes from Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain, then mod them into the game. But this is sheer fantasy land, it'll never happen.

@Forgotten_Worlds Sorry to disappoint you, but it is not a genre mash-up. It is a strategy game using the R-Type IP. There's no element of shoot-em-up gameplay in this at all.

@slider1983 That's not what you said. You asked me to name the accounts in question, not what I meant by what I said.

@slider1983 I have no interest in discussing nor debating my opinion on it, thank you.

@Kushan I'm not ignorant, I just hadn't seen that additional context until you pointed it out, which is completely fair. I should not be required to watch someone's videos because someone says so, but simultaneously I thank you for bringing that additional context to my attention.

@Kushan I won't watch any of his videos, nor any of the other bigger name UK people (who almost all seem to reside in the South, weird that) who get pushed on viewers by YouTube's suggestion algorithm. And that's perfectly fine.

@PXAbstracftion Fair play, if the claims were false then I retract what I said fully.

Barcadia went under only recently with reports of staff not being paid, and yet he has the money to be spending on a brand new studio space. Priorities, right?

Oh look, another Kickstarter which wants its customers to shoulder the risk for the developer's passion.

Oh look, another crowdfunded shambles.

At this point may as well just report on the announcement itself and cut out the middle man, otherwise we get announcements of announcements, waste of time.

@retrosumus The headline claims: "You Still Have A Week To Make This Promising New Dreamcast Game A Reality".

In the article there is the following quote "We don’t really have a budget or a publisher behind us. We did it all by ourselves, sometimes by hand, quite literally. A backup plan could be finding a publisher that believes in the project and is willing to at least partially fund the rest of the development. Or simply wait for a few months, reconsider things, and come back (or not) with a different strategy."

The headline is saying that it can only be a reality if people back the Kickstarter. The article states that if people don't back it then there is a plan B of finding alternative ways to fund it, which contradicts the headline.

In addition, I've seen far too many of these crowdfunding campaigns which didn't meet their target only to find a publisher, or sometimes when they did meet their crowdfunding target still get a publisher and all of the additional funding which comes from it. I'm not going to sit here and pretend that doesn't happen, and having worked in the industry I am very much of the opinion that crowdfunding is expecting people to make non-secured pre-orders for a title which may never be delivered, which is just wrong. I am also not ignorant towards how crowdfunding campaigns are primarily run in the modern day as a promotional exercise rather than to acquire vital funds without which the game will never be made.

And to be frank, if you didn't sell enough with your previous project to fund your next project then your business model is clearly not working. Nothing personal there, I'm just telling it how it is.

It looks like the headline is a lie. If they don't meet their crowdfunding goal then it'll likely still be released anyway.

Let's also mention that many titles which do meet their crowdfunding goal will find a publisher anyway, and that the crowdfunding campaign was merely a promotional pre-order exercise.

No thank you.

@slider1983 Sure he might have them feature in his videos, but to essentially blame them for pushing him into using Generative AI possibly trained upon stolen datasets is pretty shambolic.

This new Commodore trademarks owner guy using his wife and kid as an excuse to use AI with possibly stolen datasets for their output reminds me of a developer a few years ago who would spam his game in places where it wasn't warranted, and when called out for it blamed his mother having cancer for his spamming. Like, eh? How does one get from "mother has cancer" to "that means I feel like I need to spam by game everywhere"? Or in this case, "I have a busy life because I have a family" to "I'll use possibly stolen datasets for my AI output"?

Only yanks start with the "Ah". To everyone else it starts with "Am".

But that's yanks trying to rewrite video game history. Again.

Coming up next: Why can't yanks read the word "Mario" and keep reading it as "Morio"?

I can't tell if their use of AI images for the promotion is leaning into the AI theme of the title, or if they're just lazy skinflints who cannot be bothered to actually produce their own key art.

That being said, it is shoddy how Sorrel has been treated.

Reading further it is sad that System 3 is now also one of the AI lot. Oh well.

That's dodgy if the staff didn't get paid. Hospitality staff are generally low-paid as it is. That would make it especially cheeky since they mentioned, "the margins in hospitality which were already incredibly tight, were just getting tighter and tighter, meaning something had to give".

They can romanticise it however they want, but I really hope that it is not being done whilst having screwed their staff out of pay.

@beltmenot I was referring to the author of the strategy guide in that last comment, for clarification. I've edited it to reflect that.

@GeneJacket And still the author of that strategy guide didn't bother to check with Capcom, very clearly. Yeah except all of those are licenced media, or in the case of RE Resistance was a nickname given to the character by another character done as a nod to fans, not as an official naming, otherwise you're also saying that the same character is officially named "Trenchy" too for the same reason.

In RE2 Remake the enemy is listed in the model viewer as "Tyrant".

The question of who cares is answered easily, evidently yourself given your reply.

This is a brilliant idea, pretty much a remake of the RE2 parts of Umbrella: The Darkside Chronicles, but with the assets of the RE2 remake!

Just a shame the article's author referenced a character who doesn't exist. There's a character called Tyrant, but they've never had the name "Mr. X", that was some fake name given by a US strategy guide because the author couldn't be bothered to look up the character's actual name, and has been falsely parroted as their official name ever since.

@KingMike What would the other two owners have done? Have a cry about it?

@jamess So what you're actually saying there is that it's fine to have an AI spewing racist lies as proclaimed "facts"?

That's one hell of a self-tell.

@jamess Was Grok doing that in-between claiming it is MechaHitler (which it was literally doing not too long ago) and making all kinds of other racist claims?

I don't get why people making that kind of post always announce at the start "I had a chat with <insert AI name here>". Frankly, we don't care.

"After Months & Months Of Chokes"

Sounds like they were in dire need of someone doing the Heimlich Manoeuvre on them, what took them this long?!

What they call a "fun YouTube channel" is a business at heart.

He got the money to buy Commodore from his YouTube videos. Those videos contain Generative AI.

Let's not be giving free passes here.

@JackGYarwood The Amiga port of Desert Strike was the best, but we seldom see Amiga ports in retro collections.

A small reminder that the MiSTer has a ZX Spectrum Next core, so if you don't get one of these you can still just get a MiSTer and use that instead.

@Sketcz There's always flash carts too.

And this is why nobody should touch crowdfunding with a bargepole.