gingerbeardman

Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.

Urgh. Not good.

This was released 31 March.

So we're looking for NES and GB Jaleco releases that are attractive to French publisher. Hmm.

Jack, you forgot to hyphenate Bullet-Proof Software in the paragraph after mentioning it should be hyphenated.

What is the USP of this? What does it do that I can't do with one other devices?

@GameBuoyGames agreed. The point I took away from the article is that it's all one interconnected industry and we need to be more empathetic and curious about things outside of our own bubbles

Really enjoyed this, thanks. Hopefully it will give people pause before they make a sweeping generalisation in future. Probably not though.

The best example of US-über-alles approach to gaming history is English language Wikipedia: every game article is named for the USA version, rather than the original or most popular version of the game (which is what the say it is supposed to be). So you'll need to look for Buster Bros. (the US-only name used for few versions of the game) to find Pang (the name used in the rest of the world for many versions of the game; provably more popular).

@NinChocolate that's exactly when the owner will pounce

We gotta believe!

Their industrial design is always fun and interesting, but it's another solution looking for a problem. They would surely benefit from some guidance.

Is this using the open source reimplementation of Wipeout? I think so. Same code that was being ported to Playdate, etc.

I don't believe any other games in the Wipeout series have been reverse engineered like that. But great that Dreamcast will have this one.

Game looks like it has a million colours! Amazing work by the artist and devs.

Absolute classic. Was lucky enough to play it at an arcade a few times.

I want one of these, would be perfect for my recent Dreamcast game. That's a very low requirement kind of game and runs fine on my GameForce Chi. But this device looks nicer.

I suppose it's referring to the mono sound game setting? As the game/PlayStation has no way of knowing the capabilities of the connected display/speakers

Love this. I'm making a tate mode shmup at the moment—would love to get it released on the Evercade.

Wow. That's all I have to say.

Every time they're caught out they say "oh, we'll change - it won't happen again" yet time after time it has happened, again and again. The fact that they're not learning from mistakes means that the problem is systemic within the company. The good will for LRG was burned long ago, and I don't see anything that rebuilds it. Even this sort of interview (that is perhaps damage control) is essentially worthless if they keep making mistakes. Given their track record you can bet that we'll be able to count in weeks until the next one.

@Damo of course, it's in the comments on the linked HyperPlay RPG YouTube video, I confirmed by going to https://win.anbernic.com/download/448.html

Looking at timings I think it had already been taken down before your article went up. Version 1.0.6 is no longer there.

I read that the firmware containing this app had been pulled and is no longer available.

@FPGAguru Amiga Rod•Land (and all home versions) are missing the second scenario "new game plus" with different graphics and stages that the arcade game features.

@FPGAguru what about rewind?

@KingMike ok so i did some sleuthing! (watched a demo of the device on youtube) and the "12-frames" is just some had copywriting on their part.

What it actually features several seconds of rewind, with 12 little thumbnail images (they refer to them as "frames", d'oh) that you can scroll back through and choose one.

I would have said "12 seconds" or if they can't guarantee seconds then simply "12 rewind points"

https://youtu.be/li8KpjUv3cM?t=401

At 60fps 12-frames would be 0.2 seconds of rewind?

Love the Pang series. Shout out to the DS version which is so good I'm almost weeping thinking about its glory.

Also the graphics on the device in the photos are surely ai generated. Easy to tell due to the nonsensical uneven sizing of repeated elements such as the chain links, gate/window bars, bricks, rope.

Reminds me of the time spent playing text adventure games on my Sony PRS-650 Reader with Zork-Edition custom firmware.

@TenEighty don't believe every MVG video you watch. Many of the N64 emulation "issues" mentioned in that video have been solved years ago: tri point textures, Pilotwings shadow. And blaming it on plugins is odd because that's still how RetroArch and even MiSTer work.

@nocdaes sadly, Japanese copyright laws prevent digital distribution of scans by internet to your browser or email. Snail-mailing photocopies is OK though! See the blog link in my earlier comment. Photos are also OK. The key is that the total content shared by the OK methods is no more than a certain (I forget exactly how much) percentage of the item total.

So whilst it's technically possible for the publisher to do it, they'd be breaking Japanese law by doing it and would be at least fined and probably worse. The National DIET Library in Tokyo has everything scanned but most scans can only be viewed in person on site for the same reasons as above.

@tektite_captain indeed, if you search in Japanese for "name of the magazine 519 ocarina of time 40" or ファミコン通信 519 ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ 40 ...a photo of the review is amongst the first handful of image results. Thanks to this kind blogger: http://obotukasan.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/06/40-c4b5.html

And DIET library in Tokyo would post you a photocopy of the page in question from their complete collection of Famitsu: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/05/24/ordering-photocopies-from-japans-national-library/

The second half of the article is the truth. The first half is very odd, heresay, sensationalist drama, not really indicative of the situation.

@Guru_Larry I've seen this often repeated, but Blur is nowhere near the depth of any 3D Mario Kart game. The phrase might explain the concept, but it sets way too high expectations. (I thought Blur was not great.)

@Sketcz I honestly, seriously love the Wii version. Motion aiming adds so much to the game! Twitch gameplay fine accuracy.

We used to play 4 player split screen ( one quarter of 480p each!) and all became so good we would invent our own rules like having to wear white and pick a snow level so it became more difficult. The game also has a ton of it's own rule modifiers that you can use to setup the game.

And it can still be played online today. IIRC there was a test server URL left in the game and it was patched to point to a fan server. I think they've even created their own maps.

In the body text you say Adventures, plural, many times.

It should be singular, Adventure, as in the article title.

@AJB83 same! I still play the Wii version online occasionally

So happy that Genki are still making great racers.

I'll just drop a mention for GTiClub Supermini Festa here (Wii/PSP) one of their best. Starts almost too easy and then ends up Dark Souls level difficult.

@KitsuneNight I was thinking of the game aspect, so Saroo etc.

but for saves, something like Saturn Gamer's Cartridge

@KitsuneNight Saturn already has a ton of options similar to this

@combywomby you have to use a PC with optical drive to rip them and then copy to microSD memory card and then put it in this device.

Great to see compatibility mentioned. I find it interesting that the official OPL compatibility list says Gradius V should work, so I wonder what is going on?

https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/page/opl-game-compatibility-list-G

I generally play using OPL with my games stored on a tiny little network device with Samba share of a USB disk. But the memory card would surely be simpler.

I've been watching YouTube Shorts from a guy who has been building cores for this series of FPGA. I believe Atari ST core is also available.

@MysticWangForce I guess cost. I'd bet the majority of people won't be using discs.

Regarding the forked software, and reading between the lines that there's resistance from the MiSTer Devs (understandable, if they add code for this device the flood gates are open for more) all sounds like a ticking time bomb.

Typo: that a new gen-made remaster

Should be: fan-made

So, where has all the crowdfunding money gone?

It's a port of SDLPoP which is a rewrite of the DOS version. This is confirmed in the GitHub repo description.

Also, error: "the creator of the Davis"

Great game. Especially playing against other humans!

@Guru_Larry maybe Turbo Toons (1994) was inspired by Escape Kids (1991)?

There's a similar game on PS1 called Granew-tou! Daibouken (1998) http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/2023/02/granew-tou-daibouken-playstation.html

I'm unconvinced by the arguments presented in the MVG video. Feels like half-hearted and incomplete reasons, with some hand-waving and trust-me going on. A lot of things are repeated and badly worded, and none of it is quite convincing enough IMHO.

Plugins alone don't explain the poor standard of N64 emulation. They were just a way of dividing the work/complexity and allowing multiple people to tackle it in their own way to see what approach worked best/better. Like shaders in today's emulation scene.

The original N64 hardware and software setup is very complicated—RSP, microcode, RDRAM, floating point behaviour, weird timings—and the effort has yet to be put in to cover it all with sufficient detail. The 3 point texture sampling/filtering has long been solved but MVG words things as if it hasn't been.

Whether N64 emulation can be done well—performantly—on modern systems remains unanswered.

Somebody at My Arcade is really doing well with their partnerships!

Surprising they'd attempt this after the Out Run arcade game engine Cannonball was recently ported to Amiga https://youtu.be/CLaedlbr4wg

Coming after an arcade port seems like a difficult act to follow.