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Re: Evercade's Gremlin Collection 2 Revives Four PS1 Classics, Including Loaded And Re-Loaded

PZT

Include an overclock setting! Both Loaded and Re-Loaded have wildly fluctuating unlocked framerates which make them the perfect candidate for such an improvement, as it does for basically any other game in a similar situation! (Jumping Flash 1 and 2, G-Police also being great examples)
Not doing stuff like this is always why going with unofficial solutions ends up being better

Re: Legendary's Street Fighter Film Could Be In Trouble (Again)

PZT

That director is an interesting choice, Bad Trip was great, it had the same spark of joy that Dumb & Dumber had in the early 90s, as is The Eric Andre Show which it descended from, I hope this guy's work wasn't ending up a little too subversive and goofy for Capcom/Legendary/Sony's tastes
It'd be a shame if it had, because the main reason people like the 94 movie is for being subversive and goofy, so they really ought to just lean into how absurd Street Fighter inherently is, especially stuff like how strange some of the more obscure cast members can be, it's time for Q to finally make his silver-screen debut

Re: ROM Hack 'Pokémon Mario Red & Luigi Green' Will Fuse Two Famous Nintendo Properties

PZT

Both players need to have beaten the game with all 150 Pokemon for this trick to work.The Blue version player trades the Red version player for a Dratini. The Blue version then evolves the Dratini to a Dragonite and trades it back to the Red version. The Red version should head to the basement level of the Unknown Dungeon and surf closest to where Mewtwo was. Then take a Fire Stone and use it on the Dragonite. The screen will glitch, and the Dragonite will evolve into "Yoshi". This Pokemon will still keep the stats of a Dragonite, however in the Stats Screen, it'll have Yoshi's pic with the ID No. of 999.

Re: Atari Is Bringing The Former Amico Exclusive 'Breakout Beyond' to PC & Modern Consoles

PZT

I was reading elsewhere apparently Intellivision told them they had the rights when they actually didn't but by the time they found out it was too late, so this has just been sitting on the shelf until Atari was like, you know what this game is pretty good and we have the rights let's put it out
It doesn't exactly feel like Breakout is that reliant on the name though, they could've renamed it to something else because block breakers are as old as time immemorial, but the real question is, is this game a worthy competitor to games like Shatter that appear to have far more going on visually and mechanically, or is it riding off the name? Guess we'll see in time
I do like the Mizuguchian synesthesia element with your actions crafting the music, it's reminiscent of Tetris Effect for sure but it's my understanding bit.trip did that sort of thing predating Tetris Effect

Re: Your Next Retro Emulation Handheld Could Cost You 35% More Than Usual

PZT

I think it sucks how people who are into this hobby often think that they have the right to live in the past forever and tend not to have a healthy relationship with the present, lashing out when the world outside intrudes on their nostalgia because they let everything else in their life atrophy in the meantime
Worse still is when they try to correct you on stuff, confidently wrong, because they want to pretend everything is okay all the time, when they don't even have the vocabulary to engage with the concepts on the same level as you because they've been gaming exclusively without doing stuff like reading, like I said, it's atrophy, the brain is a muscle, use it or lose it
"It's escapism! Can't you see? It's not healthy!" ~ that one ***** from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance who we all hated but he was kinda right

Re: Your Next Retro Emulation Handheld Could Cost You 35% More Than Usual

PZT

hmm, it seems even the people who are supposedly satisfied with these turns of events have to perform olympian-level mental gymnastics to rationalize away a tsunami of cruelty and desolation that dwarfs anything we've seen in our lifetimes by orders of magnitude (save for that painting at the Denver Airport with the dude who has a gas mask, an AK and a cutlass), lest they allow themselves to experience even a crumb of buyer's remorse!
oh well, maybe things will be different in our next life, gotta stay positive!