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@Sketcz I appreciate your sincere response and the ability for us to have an actual conversation on this comments thread - a rarity in this day and age. In that spirit, I'd like to add that I also oppose the use of generative AI in translation works and just about any project (especially creative) as it is almost always of unacceptable quality and dissuades professional grade work and training for new human artists/developers on top of environmental and other deep issues.

In order to make our communities better and fight things like this, we need to work together and a big part of that is holding the people together while respectfully disagreeing in a supportive atmosphere. To point to a specific case, Iwakura had issues with their translator who ghosted them and do plan to eventually open source all the work they did so it is really unfair to insult them by calling it vaporware after they produced great works (like the Fate/Extra CCC translation) and faced genuine issues (https://iwakuraproductions.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/an-uncertain-future/#comments). I'm all for being passionate, it's just that we're better working together hence my ask to you as a strong voice in the community.

@Sketcz Hi, I've enjoyed many of the articles on this site based on your excellent work around the retro gaming community but was really taken aback at how aggressively negative you often are in the comments. Even bearing in mind possible cultural differences and agreeing with some of your takes in the comments, as someone with a stronger than the norm voice in the community could you please be more respectful to the community as a whole?

Even the few trolls around here aren't actively hating on fan works the way you've been doing. I'm also frustrated at the issues but taking it out on people working for free isn't helping or making others sympathetic to your position.

Well, Sega allowed Forever Entertainment to make remakes worse than the original Panzer Dragoon and House of the Dead games from 30 years ago and now this. They need to fire whoever is in charge of their licensing branch and bury this nonsense.

@N00BiSH Could you please detail this more or share a reference? If it's a pattern then it's quite concerning and would make me rethink supporting his work going forward.

As much as I appreciate Favreau's work, burying the past and attempting to rewrite history to falsely promote a new project is not right from any angle. I hope he fixes this and whoever thought this was a good idea at Disney gets disciplined.

@PXAbstraction Yeah, Raven was one of the greats.

It's hilarious how Nintendo had to remove patents to protect its business but is now using similar legal (but morally unjust) means to prevent others from competing with it.

@paulojr_mam They probably let a few too many (or only have) MBA types into their boardroom.

Cool idea, looking forward to seeing the finished product!

I-Ninja is a great game, hoping the original gets a remaster and this sequel finally gets made. There's an appetite for classic collectathon action platformers and few studios making good ones these days.

@slider1983 It is as far as I can see but as it doesn't seem to have been directly addressed actual status is up in the air. The DLC expands the original endings and changes an important detail so the DLC is recommended. My original comment is about the secret scene which was always there.

@slider1983 The extended cut DLC expanded on endings and added a new one. I'm referring to the secret scene that plays if you get the assets above a certain amount and make certain choices (being vague so as not to spoil). That one, as far as I remember, was always there from the beginning.

@slider1983 I don't think so, it wasn't in the list of new endings I saw.

The hope for Sin Episodes Emergence Episode 2 lives on if this remaster does well.

@slider1983 Well, there is a secret ending too that he hasn't spoiled so you still have that to experience!

@JohnSummers1025 The code was legally reverse engineered and the port is not distributed with any proprietary assets. What people do with their legally acquired ROMs is up to them so that would be tough to defend in court.

@nocdaes I agree but the original can be played in a Java emulator and would likely have taken a lot of effort to recreate beat for beat on Gameboy on top of remaking it.

Another lovely article covering properly researched retro hardware. This is exactly the sort of real journalism the games industry needs, please keep em coming!

Great, maybe they'll be able to get the full rights to DeathSpank back from EA and make a proper DeathSpank 3 with Ron Gilbert instead of whatever The Baconing ended up being.

Typo in the subtitle "Putting to bed decades of information" - it's missing a "mis".

Posting this after the latest update: "Every location, battle and interaction is more or less custom and requires manual implementation." Woah, that's crazy from a programming standpoint. No wonder the game had such a tough dev time.

@Martin_H One thing to bear in mind is that although Heart of China is supported, not all of the game has been reimplemented and ScummVM skips over the tank minigames as a result: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Heart_of_China

Always important to check what issues the games might have before going for ScummVM as supported and fully playable aren't always the same.

Awesome work, hopefully it reaches maturation soon - more people must play this masterpiece. Seeing the polygons properly upscaled is a treat, current emulators can't do that fully due to the way the Saturn's rendering works although the game is completely playable.

@Sindayl I'm wondering the same thing. Apparently the Xbox version comes with some gameplay improvements but I have yet to see a port to port comparison (as this is so new).

@MisterStu Yeah, that's how I discovered it too. I seriously hope someone figures out a way to fix this once and for all, maintaining these PS3 boards is super important for game preservation.

I'd rather they release tools and the extracted+machine-translated script to allow others to make a proper translation and gauge the MTL version themselves via proper diffing. MTL lacks character from my experience so not a fan of that but at least with the research done others can help polish it up or properly translate it.

Awesome news! I hope someone figures out how to fix the faulty Bluetooth modules on these things as well. They're known to fail and unlike the Slim, they're integrated into the board itself so maybe this mod can address it by using the Pi's module instead.

Interestingly, Sega the game developer's name (a contraction of Service Games) is independently also the name of a traditional dance form from Mauritius.

It would be interesting if the Japanese version of Clockwork Knight was translated. It features a story that was completely cut from English releases.

@PinballBuzzbro Ah yes, that one was well implemented. That game was so ahead of its time. The in-world interactive UI screens are still some of the best in the medium.

@PinballBuzzbro I only vaguely remember that, could you detail it please?

Fantastic article Time Extension, this is the sort of real work that games journalism needs where you can learn something instead of turning into referral link farms like GameSpot. It's amazing how close the GBA and NDS versions of the soundtrack sound given they were led by different people across different hardware generations. A truly legendary soundtrack!

Btw, there's an error in the link for "Murder by Numbers", the Numbers part is a different URL compared to the first 2 words.

@GideonZhi Hi, I've followed you and your team's work with interest for several decades at this point and wasn't aware you were involved in what unfolded on RHDN some time back. I can understand your position given you were banned from the site but I also hope whatever was the issue and whoever it came from, everyone can sort it out peaceably and openly. Seeing legends fight like this is just sad.

Also, the unauthorised uploads on RHDN really should be stopped as they break the site's own rules, I've reported the upload.

For the interested, this article seems to cover the situation and responses at the time:
https://retrohandhelds.gg/romhacking-net-shuts-down-after-20-years/

Great work! The puzzling question that always comes up with Dreams: how come it hasn't been released to PC yet? That and Demon Souls remake are very odd omissions from Sony's PC catalogue given the fitness for the platform.

Nice release but really not cool to specifically forbid romhacking.net from hosting the patch in the readme. Someone apparently uploaded it anyway which is another issue but Aeon really should reconsider the ban.

The very whiff of AI "art" on anything usually means incompetence and there's no point paying for incompetence, as the market is repeatedly proving.

Speaking of manuals, Virtua Cop Elite Edition for PS2 has several undiscovered cheat codes to unlock mirror mode, etc which a manual would be helpful to find. I just wish these manuals were all archived digitally with support from publishers and developers themselves.

Any developer falling into the trap of generative AI means they've gone creatively bankrupt. No buy from me.

That rollback implementation was simply genius, by a very young talented programmer too. Passion may be important, but talent also counts for actually achieving things. This funnily enough reminds me of Nightdive vs Forever Entertainment where the latter keeps butchering Panzer Dragoon games and Sega should take the license away from them.

They think AI saves money. Sure, that of the ex-customer.

If instead of concerts they celebrated by releasing a "legacy collection" of Ridge Racer games, I'm sure more people would be appreciative.

@MARl0 Why not use a compatibility layer to run it? There must be one even for Mac and there definitely are ones for Linux and Android.

LBP is filled with so much joy and creates so much of it. Learning about this project continues that legacy.

Hopefully this drives interest in a way where the original show gets a proper remaster rather than the messy cropped one currently available.

Very technically impressive game. As with any game, it's all smoke and mirrors but what it achieves is an amazing experience completely unexpected for its target hardware.

@Babybahamut It's a unique show but calling it stark and bleak is doing it a disservice. It's about natural flows, sometimes things just go on but rarely if ever do chapters end badly.

Great figure, the Kotobukiya model kits are also great. Patiently waiting for the next game now.

Removing access to download a version that was paid for should be strictly illegal and states need to crack down on this. Anyway, yet another reason to support stopkillinggames.com although this is a case of even single player games having download access removed.

This mod has Mugen energy, mixing everything up beautifully but in 3D this time.

It'd be great if they officially added English localisations to their titles but even having these titles rescued is great work. Hopefully they get to the rest of the Persona mobile catalogue too, they've done a good bunch of them already.