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Keitai Wiki is making the daily news at this point.

As much as it hurts me to say this, since I once wrote a Lunar 3 fanfic, I do not think it would be wise to go any further with the series. It is so rooted in 90s shonen anime, that to do it right would feel impossibly dated (it would be a flop), and to do it with commercial success would require sacrificing the tone and feel of the originals. It's best to just stay where it is.

Trying to do a followup to a super-popular game is not trying to replace it. if you have fans of puzzle games who have bought into a console, you invest in puzzle games. Tetris and Dr. Mario are different games, and I enjoy both.

I love the work that keitai wiki is doing! Those 2 Gradius titles have been fairly sought-after by preservationists.

The hard part about Karl Jobst is that he uncovers legitimate things, and is able to prove them. However, his style is specifically tuned to drum people up into a firestorm of rage, and he's VERY good at it. Nobody wins with his style, and I can easily see how he would lose a defamation suit, even if what he said was true.

I was honored to be part of the preservation team for this. A couple of notes, to add more depth to the story. The rom was not found by a collector, but by an anonymous preservationist who has dedicated years to searching out old BSX memory packs. This was their 300th dump. The bounty didn't even fully offset the costs they've incurred over the years. In the 2 weeks that we had the file, preparing patches to make it playable, that person sent 17 more dumps. That person is the true hero of the story.

The work being done by the Ketai Wiki community is incredible.

And yet, an extremely successful early Kickstarter was "The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers", which is filled with hundreds of pages detailing non-Nintendo, non-American games. Hydelide and Druaga are both featured prominently, as are Yuji Horii's eroge. Perhaps what this author meant to say is that "Youtubers focus on the American side". That's because Youtube is entertainment. If you step outside of that sphere for a minute, there is a wealth of information.

@HylianFox good suggestions! My ideal would be Super Mario Bros + The Lost Levels, as there are repros of the cartridge conversion of the TLL available.

There were other combos I would do too, but it would break up too many trilogies. Like, Castlevania 1 & 3 would be a great combo, but it feels odd to not include 2.

I love this idea. I was always jealous of the Famicom Disk System users being able to create their own combo by writing to the opposite side of the disk. There are so many good NES duologies that this would fit with.

Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers 1 & 2 would be a perfect companion to this, but there is also:
Contra & Super C
Star Tropics 1 & 2
TMNT Arcade & Manhattan Project
Among others

I remember when this came out. Video games were struggling to be taken seriously as an art form, and then this showed up. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to touch it.

Those are 1bpp graphics. If I had photographs, I could recreate those in png format. I would probably be willing to too. I did the graphics restoration for BS F-Zero Deluxe, and could do something this simple in my sleep.

@Deuteros A lot of the people who participated in the community challenge got their start with the F-Zero Climax track edtior. My favorite game in the series is GP Legend.

So glad to see this finally getting off the ground. I wonder how VGHF got the legal rights for this. I know they wouldn't launch without answering that question.

I think the answer is even simpler: it cost way too much to develop a Vita game. You were essentially using a console-level budget to make handheld-level profit.

Makes me wonder if they just chose the wrong currency, because 350,000 Yen (about $2200) is still high, but a lot more reasonable.

@retrogamer1 @Twilite9 I tried this years ago. They never responded.

@poyo_pie there have been a lot of good video game Kickstarters. Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight, The Messenger, and Sea of Stars are standouts.

Maybe now the Kickstarter will allow me to change my pledge from 3DS to PC so I can finally get the copy of the game that I payed for? I mean, at this point, I purchased the game on clearance and already played it, but it's the principle.

This would have caused whichever system it released on to become a hit. 32X, Saturn, it wouldn't matter. A game like this could have saved Sega.