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In full 16:9 stretched glory 🥲

That's really how it works, the original IP holder cannot use the translated work without permission. It's not that they "don't have a say", they may have had input in the translation work, but they don't own the copyright of that translation unless an agreement had been done to transfer this copyright.

That's why some modern, digital re-released of games have some localisations missing, they need the copyright holders of the translation (the local publisher, most likely) to license them back.

Using the books example, the original rights holder cannot use the translation made by the publisher in Spain to make their own edition for Mexico...

I reconnected with one of my multiplayer buddies after more than a decade. We don't play together any more, but we exchange recommendations of games to play with our kids 🥲

It can still be both; I've read that one of the ways that stock photo companies are staying in business is licensing their portfolio for AI training...

@RolyTheBeerGeek that's actually an official accessory to simulate an analog stick using the touch screen, IIRC 😅

Thanks for doing this, writing it, and reposting it! It was an article I "saved for later" because I really wanted to read in detail, but never got around to do it 🙂

I wouldn't say it's "too easy" for people who are programmers, after all, anyone who learned how to code in the last 20 years mostly learned the high-level languages and tools we use today, and know nothing about assembly, other than it exists.

I always wanted to do a ROM hack, and I was considering translations, but who has the time? Maybe when I retire... 😂

The sources of the original Sonic The Hedgehog are said to be lost, too!

I can understand the chain of situations that leads to this happening... Right at the moment, you don't really know you are "making history", you've just delivered a project and need to start another one, you put the old project away in some disks and get back to work, then it's nobody's job to archive, classify and back up the old stuff so it doesn't get done, disks rot or get lost...

Imagine if the purpose of this whole operation was to publicize the sale of the car... 😂

The Raspberry Pi are among the most affordable, Linux-based ARM 64 devices that are not Android. If the Pi 5 is capable of running the emulator in any capacity, that makes it the ideal prototyping platform. That's probably a big reason 🙂

Ha! I bought Lara Croft Go earlier today. It was me, the 100 million customer!

I didn't know the books or the game, but I loved this story. Thanks for telling it!

@smoreon The soundtrack is awesome, I played the game a decade ago and it's still stuck with me. I enjoyed a lot all the 80s pop-culture references and the silly humor!

Hell, I'll have to purchase it again on Steam...

There's the "release early, release often" mantra in software development, which means it's better to have shorter release cycles and have features and fixes flowing to users frequently, which would provide earlier feedback and help catch issues faster.

Complementing this, timed releases help to achieve that: you release what you have done so far, and prevent the temptation of holding back a release until you have "enough work to justify it" or "something new" to show off.

Many open source projects follow similar version schemas based on the date of release, one recent example is LibreOffice who changed from incremental numbers to year.month earlier this year, jumping from version 7 to 24.

I recall reading that the Spanish SEGA office pushed for it to be priced 10000 pesetas (60€ without adjusting inflation) when they were mandated to sell it for 15000 pta (90€). Their argument was that nobody would be able to afford it, and that's very likely!

I've never dipped into the evercade systems because I know I would end up piling up carts for fear of missing one, instead of enjoying the games... But this entry price with a nice selection of games is tempting!

I had no idea you could treat the plastic like that, it looks like new! Also, the cleanness of the solder work... Lovely

I was wondering that, too, how does it make money these days? BD sales, digital downloads, streaming rights, merchandising maybe? Probably a combination of several, I'd guess...

I'd like to highlight the great work that the Retro Gamer Spanish edition is doing on investigating and cataloging the national history, beyond the beaten path of the "Golden age of Spanish software". And the Spanish edition of Florent Gorges' "History of Nintendo" comes with a fascinating chapter on the arrival of consoles and how multiple generations of hardware (8 bit computers, 8 and 16 bit consoles, even the 2600!) overlapped in the market in the early 90s.

Sadly neither I or my friends had a Game Boy, so I grew up with the version of Tetris that came in NES pirate carts (I believe it's by Atari?). The lack of two-player mode in the official version was disappointing, to be honest.

I was looking for an approachable Zelda-like to play with my daughter. Wishlisting!

I appreciate the ambition but I'd prefer they stuck to one retro platform and art style, and port that forward. I worry that working on so many different variations spreads the game too thin...

And I'm partial to the NES version, that demo looks great and sounds awesome! I admit it tickles my nostalgia brain cells, so much time spent playing NES Maniac Mansion as a child...

Interesting how all the prototypes shown follow that "white and grey with red accents" color code. Maybe an evolution of the Famicom colors, or an application of Nintendo's red logo?