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I can't find these guys or their company in any credits on Moby Games. Not their old games, like the Chicken Little one, or Hearthstone, or any of the recent conversions. Which is very weird.

Edit: their names are misspelled in the article. Should be Robin Lavallée and, to a lesser extent, Jake Stine. Those I can find in credits.

Dylan Cuthbert might have an unfinished game for this

The museum is the little white building that sort of looks like an ice cream.

This is a great game, it's a take on QIX by MTJ (the creator of Bubble Bobble). The original arcade version was portrait (and it's portrait on the Taito Super Pocket, but quite blurry given that it has to fit into 240 pixels of height) so I'm looking forward to playing it on Switch in tate mode.

In fact he says Second Mission enhancement isn't very good, because it removes content from the original Operation Tiger (which is the version he enthuses about)

it might not be the trad "puzzle platformer", but i think it's hard to argue against it as it contains both puzzle and platforming.

great game, too.

@GravyThief see my earlier reply. It's unfortunate wording from them, but what I believe is happening is they're modifying the original code, compiling it with modern tools to get more benefits, and building a new ROM. So, yes, would be emulation.

@Gravyc yikes. @damo any chance you can ask about this?

@-wc- right, but Glover was also released for PS1 and Windows so I'm assuming there was some non-analog (d-pad and perhaps even keyboard?) support somewhere.

Reading between the lines of the somewhat fuzzy answers, it seems they're compiling the original source code with modern tools and getting the benefits of 25 years of compiler technology improvements.

There are also likely some low hanging fruit tricks and optimisations that have been discovered since 1998 that can improve the game performance even further. So it's likely to be better/different in some regards, and worse/different in others. The lack of analog stick is surely the greatest and I'm not familiar enough with the game to know how much the gameplay was based on analog movement.

Finally, who is Maximilian Wedell? Name drop but no explanation of who he is.

@Sketcz they are. Indeed it has been mentioned that it's is a love letter to Cave Noire! https://dani-diez.itch.io/under-the-castle

I recently interviewed Kenta Cho: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/02/10/interview-kenta-cho-indie-game-developer/

DS lite, all day every day.

And it plays GBA games!

...crowdfunding? Sounds far from being done.

It would be good if there was more than 3D renders.

Making things that look vaguely like old systems but that work totally differently is... bizarre.

@Razieluigi what would Nintendo be taking down exactly? All of this is done totally outside of their control. At best it's a game of cat and mouse.

There are equivalent stores on PSP/PS3/Vita and 3DS. None of them have been taken down.

@Poodlestargenerica WTF

@Razieluigi @DashKappei @Yoshif3 every download was preserved/backedup/etc prior to the shop closure. The whole catalogue has existed and been downloadable since 2019, if you knew where to look. Nintendo haven't taken it down in all that time.

So this is technically an easy to use piracy shop. 3DS has one too. Of course Nintendo no longer give us any way to but these old games. It's up to you how OK you are with the whole thing.

Anyway, check out MaBoShi WiiWare download! One of the greatest of all time.

All I have to say is: no comment.

I thought they had to change the swirl to blue in Europe because of a software publishing company called Tivola https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivola having an orange swirl.

I bought a US import Dreamcast, so my logo is red in all the various places.

Regarding the lack of Sega, that makes sense because I've always called it Dreamcast I never mention Sega.

@RetroGames "Settling a case" means ending a dispute before the end of a trial. when both sides think they might lose, they agree to end it before the verdict.

Also, from the link: "The terms of the settlement have not been made public."

...in other words, we're no wiser.

Another new one for me. A great read

"English-to-Japanese" should be "Japanese-to-English"

I was buying something retro, a controller or memory card, at CEX Truro one time. The girl behind the counter asked me what retro games I liked. In return I asked her the same question, and without a moment's hesitation she replied: Croc (and Spyro).

Marvelous, this was new to me. Thanks

Ah I see that as a result of my early comment the con has been edited from "Some games don't work properly" to "Compatibility isn't 100% across all systems" 🙈🙉🙊

@Damo oh, I have used one I don't own one but I have used one for a length of time over the summer. I also found it had a propensity to spit out discs mid-install (still mentioned in the review) and recognise some games as unsupported (also mentioned above) with no reasonable explanation as to why that might be. Just reading your review text it felt at odds with the pros/cons and score.

"Some games don't work properly." The whole issue of accuracy, compatibility, supported/unsupported, and the uneven user experience is my idea of a bad time. And then there's some hand-waving to explain it away as not really a problem and...9/10. Bizarre.

My own personal trust and opinion of any news outlet is in a constant state of flux/balance, some things improve its standing and others reduce it. This review for some reason leaves me with a bad taste, and so has had a large net-negative on my opinion of Time Extension.

This company has really mastered the art of promising things too early. Will they ever learn?

My game YOYOZO has received a GOTY (Game of the Year) accolade from long-standing technology publication Ars Technica! 🤯

They list my game alongside three masterpieces by my heroes Nintendo! To say I'm humbled to be mentioned in the same breath as Mario, Pikmin and Zelda is an understatement. And to then be compared with such timeless classics as Super Hexagon and Geometry Wars... well... I think I've got something in my eye 🥺

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2023/7

Brilliant. This is what all vg preservation will be measured against going forward.

Typo: Psynosis

I have my copy but at some point in my late teens I cut out a load of words and images from it (oops)

Trololol. Here we go again.

Best not to assume

@Poodlestargenerica I'm very used to it, I have a lot of time for AI art and AI in general, as a user and a creator.

My point was simply that the examples on the pre-order page are simply bad, regardless of its source.

I have no idea what you mean about Two and a Half Men, though.

More dodgy AI art on the pre-order page.

1. Wipeout 3 SE
2. Wipeout 2097 (don't call it XL)
3. Wipeout Pure (PSP)

This is the direction I'd have preferred to see from the new MSX.

Very cool. Mary!

At this point the "Limited" moniker is just dishonest.

TE should totally review this as if it was a new game.

Thanks for going to the trouble of buying and reviewing this. @Jellyscare

Does the mouse open up to turn into a Trackball?

As much as I'd like one of these, practically it makes no sense for me personally unless there's something exclusive that only the Z can provide. So at least for now I'll stick with an emulator on my Mac.

@AceGrace what does the dev kit add? And is there a community of otaku Devs like us?

RELICS has to be one of my favourite game logos. So cool and stylish.

It's still a buzz whenever I spot it whilst reading old video Japanese game/PC magazines.

@themightyant exactly. there's a right way to do a PWA.

@themightyant of course we don't need apps, we don't need mobile optimised websites. But the experience is better with them. If only to open it more quickly and prevent me browser tabs building up.

A compromise would be making the mobile site a PWA so it can be added as an icon to your home screen.

No app!? They could launch an app that is their mobile website in a wrapper and go from there. I mean, this is Lesson 1 of app making.

And they really need a way to do mass import from CSV or similar, so they can attract users or collections from competing services such as RFGeneration, GameEye, Price Charting, etc.

Basically, they're making it too difficult for new users.

It's not about people... it's about damage to the company that's marketing the game. Nintendo didn't delay Advance Wars because it was worried about you and me, perhaps not even because it was being compassionate, most likely because it didn't want any negative press.

But, yeah, happy to leave it there.

@wiiware I've never suggested banning the game, that was you. I had simply said that it's not a great time to market such a game all things considered.

There are many examples of such consideration, with the most recent example being the Switch Advance Wars remaster, and perhaps the most famous being Dreamcast game Propeller Arena.

Just to give a bit of context to the claims that RPGs were largely unknown in Japan at the time of The Black Onyx. The year before its release in the November 1983 issue of Japanese LOGiN magazine, starting on page 98, there's an article "What is an RPG?" by N. Ohnishi which (translating using Google or iOS) describes the concept of an RPG, includes some free games that readers could type in and play, and encourages readers to create their own RPG. https://archive.org/details/login-november-1983/LOGiN%20-%20November%201983/page/n99/mode/2up
I think Henk likes to paint a rose coloured picture of the past. He was featured in the same magazine im the 1984 April issue: https://archive.org/details/login-april-1984/LOGiN%20-%20April%201984/page/n117/mode/2up the feel no need to explain RPGs, but D&D does get some coverage, and they note the don't understand some of the made up terms used in The Black Onyx.