@Exerion76 I did ask about GZT at the time of the remaster and was told only the video tapes existed so this might be the only quality available although it's odd considering it was treated as a film production with a film director.
Actually I asked them directly, Flash Film Works response:
"On GZT none of the dailies reels survived, and all that was available was a Betacam SP dub of the edited masters."
"Also does any film exist for any of the Digital Pictures games? Was sad when my favourite Ground Zero Texas only existed via video tape."
"The only film dailies that existed were for Corpse Killer, What's My Story and some of the model work on Maximum Surge. Most of the projects were shot on digital betacam."
"It was determined that no one could definitively claim ownership to the extent that they could license the game to us. Knowing this, we started the process with the Agency of Cultural Affairs to get a license through them. In this arrangement, the Agency of Cultural Affairs takes a standard licensing royalty from us and holds that money in the event that a clear owner comes forward."
I suppose Nightdive could do this to get the rights to remaster No One Lives Forever?
Peter Molyneux reminds me a fair bit of Charles Cecil. Hops onto the bandwagon of whatever is trendy and then gets bored when it isn't fashionable any more. 🤔
@N00BiSH You used two infamous high profile examples but as @SlangWon the tools can be used to do really useful work, it depends on time and whether the people working on something bother.
@Atariboy I do get the impression they weren't going to do much with it and I know people wanted something that allowed physical media to be used. The Amico anyway was trying to be an evolution of that. In hindsight it would have been better to merge both ideas.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant I mean I'm the type of person who doesn't always like things the populous find fantastic. My opinions don't always align with consensus but I don't try to be contrarian to rub people the wrong way. 👍
@The_Nintendo_Pedant You weren't being really rude towards me compared to a few other people here but saying it's endearing to someone who doesn't think I'm sane at all is I admit a little patronising. Anyway, thanks for the clarification. It's difficult to tell with people here since the mob mentality is quite strong about that console.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant I was talking about the collection. The games are mixed in quality. The first two are supposed to be the best. I don't think the original two are that bad. Just to note though I shouldn't be treated differently for having interest in something you don't. 👍
@Quick_Man "and Pat and Ian... aren't snubbing him online too?"
No they're complaining about him almost every week for eight years because he disrespected them.
"Tommy's words are somehow epic cool and based while Pat and Ian's words are mean and harmful and unfair?"
Epic and cool? Did I say that or are you projecting your assumptions?
"and they've been the best at covering the trainwreck lmao. They haven't gotten anything substantial wrong"
We are indeed living in different realities if you think they didn't get anything wrong. This is one of the main problems I have with their audience. They DON'T RESEARCH around the podcast. They want to hate something and because the CUPodcast's feelings were hurt they made it their mission to create a mob mentality. They love the attention though, I've noticed. 😂
"but if you actually BELIEVE Alvarado with no proof or evidence to his claim that the tech would be "updated" [jesus christ], then this conversation is pointless."
Don't shoot the messenger, just stating what he said. 👍
@Quick_Man "Acting like the CUPodcast haven't been attacked by Tommy tenfold"
They weren't. Tallarico snubbed them online and they got angry and spent the next eight years complaining about him and the console almost every week on the podcast, to this day.
"[and that Pat and Ian aren't COMPLETELY CORRECT] is really, really funny."
They weren't completely correct. They got things wrong but the mob would like to believe they got everything correct due to their bias.
"And "confirmed to have improved tech"? Confirmed by literally WHO?"
I asked John Alvarado on a stream and he said the tech was going to be updated when the console was released. It is not fan fiction. There is no official confirmation yet however.
Regardless if the system is bought and taken apart to be shown it's outdated tech. The eventual console has been confirmed to have improved tech so right now the Amico sold is very much a prototype. I'm more interested in the new specs.
I find it ironic however @damo continues using the CUPodcast as a source for Amico news when they have not only attacked him numerous times on their podcast but used his work without permission? 🤔
@Daniel36 The complete opposite. The detractors very much want this looked at internally. I think it's pointless but...
@HammerGalladeBro For backgammon she sure is! 😂
@PinballBuzzbro The system does have games and have been shown to work.
@mjparker77 Anyone interested in the console was being called a 'cultist' so that's the age mentality of people obsessed with it I guess. 🤷♂️
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Re: "Daunting" - Limited Run Explains How It Resurrected One Of The Most Expensive NES Games Of All Time
@Zeebor15 That's a shame.
Re: Limited Run Games Is Resurrecting Two More Games From The Night Trap Developer, Digital Pictures
@Exerion76 I did ask about GZT at the time of the remaster and was told only the video tapes existed so this might be the only quality available although it's odd considering it was treated as a film production with a film director.
Actually I asked them directly, Flash Film Works response:
"On GZT none of the dailies reels survived, and all that was available was a Betacam SP dub of the edited masters."
"Also does any film exist for any of the Digital Pictures games? Was sad when my favourite Ground Zero Texas only existed via video tape."
"The only film dailies that existed were for Corpse Killer, What's My Story and some of the model work on Maximum Surge. Most of the projects were shot on digital betacam."
Re: Limited Run Explains How It Resurrected One Of The Most Expensive NES Games Of All Time
"It was determined that no one could definitively claim ownership to the extent that they could license the game to us. Knowing this, we started the process with the Agency of Cultural Affairs to get a license through them. In this arrangement, the Agency of Cultural Affairs takes a standard licensing royalty from us and holds that money in the event that a clear owner comes forward."
I suppose Nightdive could do this to get the rights to remaster No One Lives Forever?
@Pally356 Bucky O'Hare.
Re: NESBook Is Your "Unofficial Coffee Table Companion" To Nintendo's Iconic 8-Bit Console
Got to be better than Pat Contri's book. 😆
Re: "I'm Genuinely Sorry" - Fan Account Devoted To Celebrating Sony's Design Legacy Apologises For Plagiarism
It shouldn't have happened and should never happen again, at least he bothered to apologise.
Re: Portuguese Sharpshooter Gildo Returns To The Game Boy In 'Alentejo: The Tinto And The Ugly'
The one Portuguese hidden object game I played made me proud of the country. A shame that developer went out of business. 😪
Re: "No One Ever Told Me Such A Conversation Had Taken Place" - Kojima Wasn't Aware Of The Wachowskis' Matrix Game Offer
@Grackler I feel the same way with BlueSky as I don't go there.
Re: Limited Run Games Is Resurrecting Two More Games From The Night Trap Developer, Digital Pictures
Will be cool to get these on PC. I'm glad they didn't do a Piko and remove the Scottie Pippen licence.
@Exerion76 "Sadly Ground Zero Texas, was shot on video."
Has this been confirmed? I thought it was shot on film?
"Why not re-release Road Avenger and Cobra Command instead. "
Those aren't Digital Pictures games.
Re: "Don't Steal Work. It's Not Hard" - Fan Account Devoted To Celebrating Sony's Design Legacy Accused Of Plagiarism
That's not nice at all. He could have at least asked permission to use the images.
Re: "You Are A Wizard" - This Fan-Made Mega Drive Port Of Final Fight Is Really Pushing Sega's Hardware To Its Limit
Speed is good. Even the original SNES port didn't manage that.
Re: Donkey Kong Country On The Sega Genesis? Not Quite, But Feel Free To Dream Regardless
It seems he used the same programming as Toy Story to make it work. Looks great!
@city952 But he did it already. 🙄
Re: Random: GameStop Drops A Clanger After Declaring The Console Wars "Over"
Ah yes, I remember that war between Sony and Microsoft... 🤔
@Quick_Man Are you alright?
@Daggot Probably the first one yeah.
Re: A Prototype For Destruction Derby 2 On Saturn Just Got Released
I do think the Saturn version could have been better. Surprised there was a sequel in the works for it.
Re: "The Whole Notion Of Crypto Gaming Was Flawed" - Peter Molyneux Denounces The Game That Raised $54 Million
Peter Molyneux reminds me a fair bit of Charles Cecil. Hops onto the bandwagon of whatever is trendy and then gets bored when it isn't fashionable any more. 🤔
Re: "They Were Big Fans Of Kojima" - The Wachowskis Once Asked The Metal Gear Creator To Make A Matrix Video Game
I imagine they'd be very long cutscenes and little interactivity if he'd been involved.
Re: Fans Are Working On A New Online Multiplayer Mod For The Rockstar Classic 'Bully'
Wait a second...isn't Rockstar known for taking down mods? 🤔
Re: Pricing And Release Date Revealed For Full-Size Amiga Replica 'THE A1200'
@Daggot A faster Amiga FPGA would be great with the ability to play old games physically or via USB.
Re: "You Wouldn't See Street Fighter Or Tekken Putting This Garbage Out" - Mortal Kombat Art Book Accused Of Using AI Upscaling
@N00BiSH You used two infamous high profile examples but as @SlangWon the tools can be used to do really useful work, it depends on time and whether the people working on something bother.
Re: Pricing And Release Date Revealed For Full-Size Amiga Replica 'THE A1200'
@MontyMole Skill! Got it correct! 😆
Re: Pricing And Release Date Revealed For Full-Size Amiga Replica 'THE A1200'
The ability to load the library on will sell this.
@Null2 They don't own anything Amiga related, just C64. They are working on it though but there's a lot of entities involved.
@gingerbeardman Koch Media I think.
Re: "You Wouldn't See Street Fighter Or Tekken Putting This Garbage Out" - Mortal Kombat Art Book Accused Of Using AI Upscaling
@SlangWon Agreed! I tried it with screenshots from the TMNT show. The results were very impressive as long as it's one frame at a time.
Re: "You Wouldn't See Street Fighter Or Tekken Putting This Garbage Out" - Mortal Kombat Art Book Accused Of Using AI Upscaling
@N64-ROX Good point! Nothing wrong with AI upscaling as long as you're checking what it's doing. For an art book though this is unforgivable.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant Eternal Champions is completely underrated, it deserves more praise.
Re: DOSBox Pure "Unleashed" As A Free Standalone App Available Outside Of RetroArch
I get the impression Retro Achievements are coming then.
Re: Feature: "This Is Where The Game Truly Begins" - The Secret Weapon Behind Nintendo's Most Iconic Box Art
@Sketcz I always preferred the western packaging although in some instances I prefer the Japanese artwork.
Re: It Looks Like That Bizarre Scarface PC Reissue Was Too Good To Be True, After All
@Sketcz I still have nightmares about the escort missions in Max Payne II. I was using cheats by the way. 😂
Re: 'Duke Nukem: Zero Hour' Is The Latest N64 Game To Be Decompiled, Raising Hopes Of A PC Port
I'd love to see remasters of the third person Duke Nukem games.
Re: "They Didn't Even Bother To Look At My Skills" - One Of Japan's RPG Pioneers Struggled To Find Work In His 50s Due To Ageism
This is a very common problem and it needs to stop!
Re: The Simpsons Hit & Run Modders Give The Classic GTA-Clone A Futurama-Style Makeover
Road Rage next. 😊
Re: "We Brought The Rivalry To An End" - Atari Reveals The Intellivision Sprint
@Atariboy I do get the impression they weren't going to do much with it and I know people wanted something that allowed physical media to be used. The Amico anyway was trying to be an evolution of that. In hindsight it would have been better to merge both ideas.
Re: "We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect The Barcode Battler
@The_Nintendo_Pedant I mean I'm the type of person who doesn't always like things the populous find fantastic. My opinions don't always align with consensus but I don't try to be contrarian to rub people the wrong way. 👍
Re: "Not Interested In Selling It To Haters" - An Intellivision Amico Just Sold On eBay For Over $2,200
@mjparker77 No I really don't. I'm a bit more grown up not to see interest or disinterest in a games console as 'haters' or 'cultists'.
Re: "We Brought The Rivalry To An End" - Atari Reveals The Intellivision Sprint
@mjparker77 I mean they tried. To say they did nothing at all is wrong.
Re: "We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect The Barcode Battler
@The_Nintendo_Pedant You weren't being really rude towards me compared to a few other people here but saying it's endearing to someone who doesn't think I'm sane at all is I admit a little patronising. Anyway, thanks for the clarification. It's difficult to tell with people here since the mob mentality is quite strong about that console.
Re: "Not Interested In Selling It To Haters" - An Intellivision Amico Just Sold On eBay For Over $2,200
@mjparker77 It's not set in stone the console will be released but it's always been in their plans. 👍
Re: "We Brought The Rivalry To An End" - Atari Reveals The Intellivision Sprint
@mjparker77 The original owners wanted to do something more than just repackage the old games.
Re: "We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect The Barcode Battler
@The_Nintendo_Pedant I was talking about the collection. The games are mixed in quality. The first two are supposed to be the best. I don't think the original two are that bad. Just to note though I shouldn't be treated differently for having interest in something you don't. 👍
Re: "Not Interested In Selling It To Haters" - An Intellivision Amico Just Sold On eBay For Over $2,200
@Quick_Man "and Pat and Ian... aren't snubbing him online too?"
No they're complaining about him almost every week for eight years because he disrespected them.
"Tommy's words are somehow epic cool and based while Pat and Ian's words are mean and harmful and unfair?"
Epic and cool? Did I say that or are you projecting your assumptions?
"and they've been the best at covering the trainwreck lmao. They haven't gotten anything substantial wrong"
We are indeed living in different realities if you think they didn't get anything wrong. This is one of the main problems I have with their audience. They DON'T RESEARCH around the podcast. They want to hate something and because the CUPodcast's feelings were hurt they made it their mission to create a mob mentality. They love the attention though, I've noticed. 😂
"but if you actually BELIEVE Alvarado with no proof or evidence to his claim that the tech would be "updated" [jesus christ], then this conversation is pointless."
Don't shoot the messenger, just stating what he said. 👍
Re: "We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect The Barcode Battler
@Quick_Man Me having an interest in the Amico doesn't mean I live in an alternate reality. I just don't have a mob mentality. 😉
@The_Nintendo_Pedant I'm looking at Steam and it's mostly positive reviews. What are the criticisms of the collection?
Re: "We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect The Barcode Battler
@The_Nintendo_Pedant Poorly received? 🤔
Re: "Not Interested In Selling It To Haters" - An Intellivision Amico Just Sold On eBay For Over $2,200
@Quick_Man "Acting like the CUPodcast haven't been attacked by Tommy tenfold"
They weren't. Tallarico snubbed them online and they got angry and spent the next eight years complaining about him and the console almost every week on the podcast, to this day.
"[and that Pat and Ian aren't COMPLETELY CORRECT] is really, really funny."
They weren't completely correct. They got things wrong but the mob would like to believe they got everything correct due to their bias.
"And "confirmed to have improved tech"? Confirmed by literally WHO?"
I asked John Alvarado on a stream and he said the tech was going to be updated when the console was released. It is not fan fiction. There is no official confirmation yet however.
Re: Nightdive Studios Has Just Released A "Definitive" New Update For This Cult Classic Horror Game
Wow, well I wasn't expecting the game to get an update like this. Nice! 👍
Re: "We Brought The Rivalry To An End" - Atari Reveals The Intellivision Sprint
This is a Intellivision Flashback guys. 🤔
Re: "We Live In An Age Where Even Bubsy Can Make A Comeback" - Meet The Developers Trying To Resurrect The Barcode Battler
I had no idea there was so much hype for this in the UK. Amazing. 😲
@Quick_Man The new game is doing pretty well as is the collection.
@The_Nintendo_Pedant Well it is.
Re: "Not A Funko Pop In Sight" - Step Back In Time With This Amazing '90s Electronics Boutique Footage
We need a UK equivalent now to drool over. 😉
Re: "We Appreciate Your Patience" - Analogue Insists Its FPGA N64 Is Still "On Target" After Numerous Delays
I think Palmer Lucky's will be out first so not a good look for them.
Re: Here's How The Sega Master System Got Its Name
I think it's a good name.
Re: 'Sacred Line III' Is The Latest Title In The Sega Mega Drive / Genesis "Choose-Your-Own Adventure" Horror Series
@JackGYarwood It's a little joke I like to make about this game whenever I hear about it. 😂
Re: "Not Interested In Selling It To Haters" - An Intellivision Amico Just Sold On eBay For Over $2,200
Regardless if the system is bought and taken apart to be shown it's outdated tech. The eventual console has been confirmed to have improved tech so right now the Amico sold is very much a prototype. I'm more interested in the new specs.
I find it ironic however @damo continues using the CUPodcast as a source for Amico news when they have not only attacked him numerous times on their podcast but used his work without permission? 🤔
@Daniel36 The complete opposite. The detractors very much want this looked at internally. I think it's pointless but...
@HammerGalladeBro For backgammon she sure is! 😂
@PinballBuzzbro The system does have games and have been shown to work.
@mjparker77 Anyone interested in the console was being called a 'cultist' so that's the age mentality of people obsessed with it I guess. 🤷♂️
Re: 'Sacred Line III' Is The Latest Title In The Sega Mega Drive / Genesis "Choose-Your-Own Adventure" Horror Series
Guys, guys, it's not called Sacred Line, it's called 'Sasha Darko's' Sacred Line. 😂
Re: Atari Appears To Be Counting Down To An "Exciting" New Retro Announcement, Taking Place This Week
Jaguar or Lynx probably.