I misread this for a second and thought the unreleased Neo-Geo NG2 was finally coming out NG3 (NES) is an incredible game but it's really annoying they're selling them piecemeal so nobody will buy them and realize how great the NES NG games still are
If you'll allow me to be opinionated for a second, RetroDodo is absolutely an SEO slop content farm that has historically prized quantity over quality, unless they've changed lately there is a reason they have been usurped by literally every other creator in the "retro handheld" space
You know....going the way of the dodo
They have an article that was "ranking all the Croc games" and it's just every Croc game in no particular order with descriptions making it clear he's played none of them, and by the end of the article it's listing off J2ME games he openly admits he hasn't played because he's scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill space lmao
There are simply not enough Croc games to fill an article about ranking them (which the article doesn't even try to do), it became impossible for me to take RD seriously after that
Besides, anybody who has actually played Croc would rank 2 higher than 1....
@Daniel36 I think I might take a whack at that localization and if someone with higher Japanese proficiency comes along they could iterate on it later (no promises)
Might need to be cut down for text character limits but here's an example, old version and new version respectively:
Old version:
Title: Bear Fist (kanji: Kumaten, pretty obviously trying to make people think of Tekken)
Target Audience: All Ages
Genre: Fighting
The balance is already broken, but...
That's what makes it appealing, according to reviews.
Additionally, for beginners to fighting games or those that struggle with them,
it offers an approach for those who find fighting games difficult.
Auto-adjustment with learning functionality is included.
Although the balance is broken,
the system that ensures satisfying wins and losses is highly praised.
My version:
Title: Soulcalibear II
Rated E for Everyone
Genre: 3D Fighter
Featuring an innovative "Quest of the Claw" mode, unlocks are drip-fed until the roster reaches a record breaking 128 playable characters.
It only took a couple days for players to bust the balance wide open, but...
...that’s what makes it appealing, according to critics and players alike.
Additionally, for newcomers to the FGC, or "cubs" as the game calls them, it makes sure not to send them out to hunt on the first day,
as its "modern controls" option ups accessibility for those who struggle with traditional inputs. A brawl minus the challenge.
With an optional auto-adjusting handicap, extensive on-boarding learns from player mistakes to educate them going forward.
Despite the tier lists being in shambles from day one,
this impressive release has been lauded for systems that ensured that whether casual or seasoned vet, its matches were satisfying, win, lose or draw.
@Coalescence they killed a hundred children on day one and people like you are still talking in "lol internet troll" speak good luck explaining this to your irradiated grandkids future generations will never let your kind forget what you've done
this article is missing some pretty important context that the award was a user-voted award by consumer advocacy website The Consumerist that had a campaign on 4chan to make EA the #1
@Sketcz Ain't nobody on this planet able to hack and translate Shadowrun for Sega CD in 90 days flat, not even as a team working full-time, it sounds like you don't fully grasp how difficult a task this can be
Make a game about playing the other games, walking through a virtual arcade, and forming bonds with the people who work there
Like a Yakuza game without combat that boils down to a single location where the verb is playing the arcade games instead of the combat/minigames The main character would be a create-a-character self-insert as a first on their engine, and the overarching walking around the arcade and sidequest stuff (similar to the arcade sidequest in Yakuza 0 but denser and with social link mechanics like 7) would be in the Dragon Engine
@Sketcz with what you say about it being satire of the game industry requiring nuance, I ought to re-edit it like I did for the script of Starnaut (2025)
which is available now on Steam, the true successor to both El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and Segagaga at the same time, and also it's a Vampire Survivors
but the satire is almost all gone unless you get the mod I released for it in the Steam community, in which case it goes crazy and there are things I wrote in that roast the industry so well you'd never imagine reading it from another game
iirc there's a bit in there parodying the arcade machine smashing you covered in one of your books? and also Peter Gabriel, in the same lore entry
only in the mod though
c-c-c-check it out
@AndorV zooming-out seems like a solid idea, considering the original game had its fair share of "wtf even hit me" moments that would be eased with more screen space!
babe it's 4 PM time for another recomp article full of breathless hype over stuff that hasn't happened yet with your side-dish of port-begging in the comments
the people demand an NES version in a red and blue cartridge, front shell red, back shell blue, maybe paint the stripe yellow for the beak if you're getting real fancy
I could see how an argument could be made for something slightly wider considering the internal resolution of the Genesis, but such a stretched aspect ratio is unacceptable
It needs good input lag response above all else, it needs to feel as instant as possible. And it's not enough for it to not have tearing, it needs to have a refresh rate synced to the screen
The dogshit game-feel of the Retron5 is unacceptable in 2026
@Sketcz you ought to be stripping the ?si= trackers from your YouTube links, as the tracker is used to create data on webs of relation between those who click it, which jeopardizes privacy
@JJtheTexan fyi: the reason Requiem specifically never came to anything else is that it's the Dracula X Chronicles versions running in Sony's internal PSP emulator so they'd have to find another method of running them I'm sure M2 could figure something out, port the 360/mobile version for Symphony and put together a PC-Engine CD emulator for Rondo and idk why they didn't in the first place
@Sn0w I disagree with the assertion that simply reporting on it is wrong when TE has done a fine effort of also reporting on people's grievances, but the assertion that he's a warmonger fascist has largely bore out to be correct. You sound like yet another politically-uneducated person who thinks any attempt to bring nuance and outside context into our hobby is some kind of intolerable intrusion of the Lacanian real, and so you recoil in avoidance, to keep your world feeling small and comfortable. Those who hold water for the concept that to be nostalgic is to cocoon ourselves in a safe little bubble, who think that keeping the past alive means to escape into it completely, do us all a disservice. Nothing exists in a vacuum.
"word from the bottom of the ocean says James Pond is resurfacing this month" when was the last time you ever heard of something rising from the bottom of the ocean hello, Oceangate??? I rest my case
what a dumpsterfire idea, who has TG16 Hucards lying around but wouldn't also put money on a better way of playing them that doesn't have horrendous input lag the other Retron consoles are exclusively for normies who don't notice the input lag and horrendous lack of features, there is not a single TG16 fan who is a normie $100 and not at least being FPGA is inexcusable, the only valuable part is the controller having an original connector WHO IS THIS FOR???
to anyone who is wondering, in D-Input mode at least, ZL, ZR (both just marked as Z), and L3 are all mappable as their own separate buttons stick is presumably clickable because it would cost more to make it not clickable
@FR4M3 So? He's a billionaire who keeps saying over and over he's doing it for passion not money If that's really true he could at least give us something we haven't seen before
doing this with the N64 instead of like, the PS2 or Dreamcast or something that his resources would actually make a unique impact that would be hard to get development off the ground with any other way, is such a "normie billionaire trying to appear relatable" move
it's just retreading old ground, we have a MiSTer core, we have an Analogue console, wtf is the point
anybody who genuinely likes games, instead of pretending to like games (when really what he actually likes is the unconditional friendship he experienced as a kid with multiplayer Goldeneye when he had real friends and not just fake friends sucking up to him for money, which is why it's the N64), would definitely spend the money on better, more creative projects
why is money wasted on the most creatively bankrupt people
this is the exact same e-waste performativity as Musk and his flamethrowers and other similar nonsense
cringe vanity projects meant to further his image as an epic bacon redditor who is Just Like You because he too uses old game consoles as reactionary proxies to push a false schema of reality that things were universally better in the Good Old Days, screaming from his step-stool to anyone who will listen "remember what They took from you!!!" while refusing to specify who exactly "They" is
don't fall for it, he is a skinwalker
How could anybody think that VideoGameEsooooooterica was faking it, anybody saying that would have to be stupid and have no familiarity with the subject matter, he is literally the M2 guy
@Deuteros I hope it's better than DP2, it really lacked the verisimilitude of DP1, Greenvale felt like a living, breathing place compared to Le Carre which was super underbaked
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Re: You'll Soon Be Able To Play A Mega Man Classic On Your Wrist, Thanks To This New Gaming Watch
What's with that V-Watch on your arm, man? You some kind of Mega Man or something?
Re: "Sega's Gonna Be Mad At Me" - It Looks Like Treasure Is Teasing Something Guardian Heroes-Related
just give us the 360 release but without the ugly-ass filter on the sprites, at least
Re: Sounds Like Plaion Has Another Console In The Works Following The Neo Geo AES+
3DO!
3DO!
3DO!
please
Re: SNK's Street Smart And Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden III Come To Consoles This Week
I misread this for a second and thought the unreleased Neo-Geo NG2 was finally coming out
NG3 (NES) is an incredible game but it's really annoying they're selling them piecemeal so nobody will buy them and realize how great the NES NG games still are
Re: Double Dragon Creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto Has Passed Away
So many Kunio vets dying lately, it hurts my heart
now we'll never see Shin Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun: Kowloon no Tsume
Re: All Three Mainline Jak & Daxter PS2 Games Now Have Native PC Ports
Naughty Dog's last truly great game
I hope they can get back to these highs one day
Re: The Making Of: The Wizard - "I Couldn't Get A Job For 7 Months After That" - An Oral History Of Nintendo's Hollywood Debut
SEND ME AN ANGEL
SEND ME AN ANGEL
RIGHT NOW
RIGHT NOOOOOOOW
Re: This Game Boy Cart Uses ChatGPT To Create "Personalised Scenarios Tailored To Each Player"
finally....Game Boy-as-a-service
Re: Feature: It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites
If you'll allow me to be opinionated for a second, RetroDodo is absolutely an SEO slop content farm that has historically prized quantity over quality, unless they've changed lately there is a reason they have been usurped by literally every other creator in the "retro handheld" space
You know....going the way of the dodo
They have an article that was "ranking all the Croc games" and it's just every Croc game in no particular order with descriptions making it clear he's played none of them, and by the end of the article it's listing off J2ME games he openly admits he hasn't played because he's scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill space lmao
There are simply not enough Croc games to fill an article about ranking them (which the article doesn't even try to do), it became impossible for me to take RD seriously after that
Besides, anybody who has actually played Croc would rank 2 higher than 1....
Re: Feature: It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites
@PopetheRev28 slurping noises
Re: Japan-Only Sequel To "Crap In A Box" Action RPG 'Blaze & Blade: Eternal Quest' Is Now Playable In English
Blazers and/or Bladers....we won
Re: "It Does Not Save Time Or Offer Anything Of Value" - Translator Hilltop Isn't A Fan Of AI
@Daniel36 I think I might take a whack at that localization and if someone with higher Japanese proficiency comes along they could iterate on it later (no promises)
Might need to be cut down for text character limits but here's an example, old version and new version respectively:
Old version:
Title: Bear Fist (kanji: Kumaten, pretty obviously trying to make people think of Tekken)
Target Audience: All Ages
Genre: Fighting
The balance is already broken, but...
That's what makes it appealing, according to reviews.
Additionally, for beginners to fighting games or those that struggle with them,
it offers an approach for those who find fighting games difficult.
Auto-adjustment with learning functionality is included.
Although the balance is broken,
the system that ensures satisfying wins and losses is highly praised.
My version:
Title: Soulcalibear II
Rated E for Everyone
Genre: 3D Fighter
Featuring an innovative "Quest of the Claw" mode, unlocks are drip-fed until the roster reaches a record breaking 128 playable characters.
It only took a couple days for players to bust the balance wide open, but...
...that’s what makes it appealing, according to critics and players alike.
Additionally, for newcomers to the FGC, or "cubs" as the game calls them, it makes sure not to send them out to hunt on the first day,
as its "modern controls" option ups accessibility for those who struggle with traditional inputs. A brawl minus the challenge.
With an optional auto-adjusting handicap, extensive on-boarding learns from player mistakes to educate them going forward.
Despite the tier lists being in shambles from day one,
this impressive release has been lauded for systems that ensured that whether casual or seasoned vet, its matches were satisfying, win, lose or draw.
Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry
@JayJ 🤓☝️
Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry
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Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry
@JayJ 🤓
@Coalescence
they killed a hundred children on day one and people like you are still talking in "lol internet troll" speak
good luck explaining this to your irradiated grandkids
future generations will never let your kind forget what you've done
Re: Review: Polymega Collection Vol. 15 - Body Harvest - Comes Undone Thanks To A Poor Showing By DMA's N64 Classic
Are they even testing these before release? another L for people who insist on exclusively buying new-release legal versions of old games
Re: "At EA, We Were Voted The Worst Company In America Because Of The End Of Mass Effect"
this article is missing some pretty important context that the award was a user-voted award by consumer advocacy website The Consumerist that had a campaign on 4chan to make EA the #1
Re: "What A Terrible Waste Of Time All Of It Was" - Princess Crown's Original Translation Is Dead
@Sketcz Ain't nobody on this planet able to hack and translate Shadowrun for Sega CD in 90 days flat, not even as a team working full-time, it sounds like you don't fully grasp how difficult a task this can be
Re: "I Think It Would Be Extremely Difficult" - Don't Expect Sega To Sell Yakuza's Retro Games Individually
Make a game about playing the other games, walking through a virtual arcade, and forming bonds with the people who work there
Like a Yakuza game without combat that boils down to a single location where the verb is playing the arcade games instead of the combat/minigames
The main character would be a create-a-character self-insert as a first on their engine, and the overarching walking around the arcade and sidequest stuff (similar to the arcade sidequest in Yakuza 0 but denser and with social link mechanics like 7) would be in the Dragon Engine
This writes itself
Re: "Why I Don't Have A Copy In My Hand?" - Frogger 3D Producer Is Amazed 3DS Game Is Now Highly Collectable
in hindsight it's probably a miracle this came out considering the absolute graveyard of early 3DS Konami/Hudson cancelations
Re: "Nobody Approached Me To Obtain My Consent" - Revival Of "Abandoned" Jaguar RPG 'The Owl Project' Thrown Into Doubt
sounds like a real hoot
Re: "This Is What AI And Greed Does" - Video Game 'Preservation Service' Myrient Is Shutting Down
@GodlessPreservation don't copy! don't copy that floppy!!
Re: English Translation Of Cult Dreamcast RPG SEGAGAGA Is Complete, But There's A Catch
@Sketcz with what you say about it being satire of the game industry requiring nuance, I ought to re-edit it like I did for the script of Starnaut (2025)
which is available now on Steam, the true successor to both El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and Segagaga at the same time, and also it's a Vampire Survivors
but the satire is almost all gone unless you get the mod I released for it in the Steam community, in which case it goes crazy and there are things I wrote in that roast the industry so well you'd never imagine reading it from another game
iirc there's a bit in there parodying the arcade machine smashing you covered in one of your books? and also Peter Gabriel, in the same lore entry
only in the mod though
c-c-c-check it out
Re: Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon Is Being Unofficially Ported To Genesis / Mega Drive
@AndorV zooming-out seems like a solid idea, considering the original game had its fair share of "wtf even hit me" moments that would be eased with more screen space!
Re: Native PC Ports Of PS2 Games Could Be On The Way Thanks To New Recompilation "Experiment"
babe it's 4 PM time for another recomp article full of breathless hype over stuff that hasn't happened yet with your side-dish of port-begging in the comments
Re: Sega Announces New Hard-Boiled Sonic Audio Drama, Featuring Team Chaotix & "Lots Of Saxophone"
if Mighty the Armadillo isn't listed in the cast he has to be the perpetrator
Re: The Popular Arcade-Inspired Platformer 'Donut Dodo' Is Coming To The N64 & Sega Dreamcast
the people demand an NES version in a red and blue cartridge, front shell red, back shell blue, maybe paint the stripe yellow for the beak if you're getting real fancy
Re: "We're Not Okay Shipping It" - Hyperkin Explains Why Its Handheld Sega Genesis, The Mega95, Has Been Delayed
I could see how an argument could be made for something slightly wider considering the internal resolution of the Genesis, but such a stretched aspect ratio is unacceptable
It needs good input lag response above all else, it needs to feel as instant as possible. And it's not enough for it to not have tearing, it needs to have a refresh rate synced to the screen
The dogshit game-feel of the Retron5 is unacceptable in 2026
Re: "Beyond Incredibly Dumb" - The Internet Doesn't Like People Sealing Up Graded 3DS Consoles
also WATA has rebranded to PSA so you need to rebrand your hoofbeatold proclamations
(I made up that word)
Re: "Beyond Incredibly Dumb" - The Internet Doesn't Like People Sealing Up Graded 3DS Consoles
@Sketcz you ought to be stripping the ?si= trackers from your YouTube links, as the tracker is used to create data on webs of relation between those who click it, which jeopardizes privacy
Re: Here's How To "Fix" Knuckles' Chaotix, One Of The Most Divisive Sonic Games Of All Time
what's next, fixing Dead Rising by removing the timer? 😩
Re: City Connection Is Resurrecting A Classic R-Type Game Boy Color Game For Modern Platforms
Uh, sell me a Game Boy Color version instead of a port to modern systems?
Re: Indie Metroidvania 'Eternal Soul' Absolutely Nails That Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night Vibe
@Daniel36 seize Castle Lexington, ascend to the top of the ink cartridge, vanquish Lord Lexmark and his army of sentient printers
Re: You Can Now Grab Two Of The Best Castlevania Games For Less Than $5 On PS4/PS5
@JJtheTexan fyi: the reason Requiem specifically never came to anything else is that it's the Dracula X Chronicles versions running in Sony's internal PSP emulator
so they'd have to find another method of running them
I'm sure M2 could figure something out, port the 360/mobile version for Symphony and put together a PC-Engine CD emulator for Rondo and idk why they didn't in the first place
Re: Retro Fighters Has Gone Back To Where It Started With The Brawler64 Pro
Unlike the original maybe I'll want to use this one for more than 5 minutes
Re: ModRetro's FPGA N64 Uses FPGAzumSpass's MiSTer N64 Core
@Sn0w I disagree with the assertion that simply reporting on it is wrong when TE has done a fine effort of also reporting on people's grievances, but the assertion that he's a warmonger fascist has largely bore out to be correct.
You sound like yet another politically-uneducated person who thinks any attempt to bring nuance and outside context into our hobby is some kind of intolerable intrusion of the Lacanian real, and so you recoil in avoidance, to keep your world feeling small and comfortable.
Those who hold water for the concept that to be nostalgic is to cocoon ourselves in a safe little bubble, who think that keeping the past alive means to escape into it completely, do us all a disservice. Nothing exists in a vacuum.
Re: Sick Of Waiting For '90s Arcade Racer To Launch, A Music Label Has Released Part Of Its Vince DiCola-Penned Soundtrack
Tyrone Rodriguez's social media presence makes him look like a massive manchild
Re: Sick Of Waiting For '90s Arcade Racer To Launch, A Music Label Has Released Part Of Its Vince DiCola-Penned Soundtrack
they meant the 2090s not the 1990s
Re: "The Higher-Ups Did Their Pitch & It All Just Stopped" - Banjo Kazooie Almost Got A TV Show, Here's Why It Didn't
all rise for the 4kids national anthem
Re: "He Seems To Have Turned Blue" - Gameware Can't Even Get James Pond's Colour Right
"word from the bottom of the ocean says James Pond is resurfacing this month" when was the last time you ever heard of something rising from the bottom of the ocean
hello, Oceangate???
I rest my case
Re: Three Years Later, And Hyperkin's PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Clone Is Finally Coming Out
what a dumpsterfire idea, who has TG16 Hucards lying around but wouldn't also put money on a better way of playing them that doesn't have horrendous input lag
the other Retron consoles are exclusively for normies who don't notice the input lag and horrendous lack of features, there is not a single TG16 fan who is a normie
$100 and not at least being FPGA is inexcusable, the only valuable part is the controller having an original connector
WHO IS THIS FOR???
Re: RayForce's Phantom Sequel 'R-Gear' Just Got A Standalone Release In Japan
it's nuts the only way to play this prototype on a PC is through a Switch emulator
Re: "As CEO, My Mission Is Clear: Ensure Commodore Never Falls Again"
@Bizzy it's always been like this
Re: The Analogue 64 Might Be Delayed, But You Can Lovingly Fondle Its Controller Ahead Of Schedule
to anyone who is wondering, in D-Input mode at least, ZL, ZR (both just marked as Z), and L3 are all mappable as their own separate buttons
stick is presumably clickable because it would cost more to make it not clickable
Re: After 32 Years, This SNES Fighting Game Has Just Been Translated Into English For The Very First Time
looks cool but it's no Endless Waltz
Re: Palmer Luckey's Nintendo 64 Clone Will Cost $199 For Early Adopters
@The_Nintend_Pedant the M is for Manchild
Re: Palmer Luckey's Nintendo 64 Clone Will Cost $199 For Early Adopters
@FR4M3 So? He's a billionaire who keeps saying over and over he's doing it for passion not money
If that's really true he could at least give us something we haven't seen before
Re: Palmer Luckey's Nintendo 64 Clone Will Cost $199 For Early Adopters
doing this with the N64 instead of like, the PS2 or Dreamcast or something that his resources would actually make a unique impact that would be hard to get development off the ground with any other way, is such a "normie billionaire trying to appear relatable" move
it's just retreading old ground, we have a MiSTer core, we have an Analogue console, wtf is the point
anybody who genuinely likes games, instead of pretending to like games (when really what he actually likes is the unconditional friendship he experienced as a kid with multiplayer Goldeneye when he had real friends and not just fake friends sucking up to him for money, which is why it's the N64), would definitely spend the money on better, more creative projects
why is money wasted on the most creatively bankrupt people
this is the exact same e-waste performativity as Musk and his flamethrowers and other similar nonsense
cringe vanity projects meant to further his image as an epic bacon redditor who is Just Like You because he too uses old game consoles as reactionary proxies to push a false schema of reality that things were universally better in the Good Old Days, screaming from his step-stool to anyone who will listen "remember what They took from you!!!" while refusing to specify who exactly "They" is
don't fall for it, he is a skinwalker
Re: Super-Rare 3DO M2 Console Worth Over $20,000 Withdrawn From Sale Following Online Abuse
How could anybody think that VideoGameEsooooooterica was faking it, anybody saying that would have to be stupid and have no familiarity with the subject matter, he is literally the M2 guy
Re: "This Was A Somewhat Expected Event" - Paramount Shuts Down Promising Twin Peaks Fangame
@Deuteros I hope it's better than DP2, it really lacked the verisimilitude of DP1, Greenvale felt like a living, breathing place compared to Le Carre which was super underbaked