I encourage more of these books if it means less comments like "I could never get into those euro-platformers" as though they're that "thing" I never grew up to appreciate and validate next to platformers outside of Europe. 🙄
@Exerion76 I maintain GZT isn't just the best FMV game for Mega CD but one of its best games. Good story and for an FMV game there's a lot of gameplay.
@Exerion76 Yeah that one hurts as it's one of my favourite FMV games and one of the best Mega CD games. At least Corpse Killer still exists but admittedly not great compared to GZT.
@kitestar All of these games should be remastered for future generations, good or bad.
@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. 👍
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Re: The Studio Behind Simon the Sorcerer's Prequel Is Reportedly Remaking The Amiga Classic
I would rather they remake 3-5. The original needs a remaster, not a remake.
Re: Sega Technical Institute's Cancelled Mega Drive RTS 'Dark Empires' Has Just Been Dumped Online
Always interested in learning about cancelled Mega Drive games, thanks! 😊
Re: "You Needed Guns" - Rockstar Co-Founder Weighs In On Why 'GTA London' Ended Up Being A One-Off
That's a shame. I think they're missing a trick there.
Re: This Indie Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Title Takes A Leaf Out Of Sonic's Book To Unlock A Bonus Game
I had no idea. The more you know.
Re: The Vectrex Mini Kickstarter Is Now Live
I hope this works out for them.
Re: Sorry Nintendo, But It Doesn't Look Like Switch Will Overtake PS2 As The Best-Selling Console Of All Time
@Guru_Larry I still don't get the love for the Switch. It's an underpowered gaming console/overpowered handheld with poor controls.
Re: Retroid Confirms Rapper Soulja Boy "Does Not Have Permission" To Rebrand And Sell Its Handhelds
His consoles emulate terribly as well. 😆
Re: Tired Of "The Usual North American Perspectives", This New Book Aims To Offer A Global View Of Game History
@profkross Absolutely! Considering the team's behind these games would have been three people, not a massive studio I think they did a damn good job.
Also, yes Zool is my favourite game of all time. I love that little fella. 😊
Re: James Pond Is Getting His Own Collection On PC, PS5, Xbox And Switch 2
@Exerion76 Every region makes bad games. Every region makes good games. 👍
Re: MicroProse's Desert Strike Homage 'Cleared Hot' Takes Flight This November
@hste Looking at their new catalogue of games they're heading in the correct direction so they're very much the old Microprose in my opinion.
Re: Tired Of "The Usual North American Perspectives", This New Book Aims To Offer A Global View Of Game History
I encourage more of these books if it means less comments like "I could never get into those euro-platformers" as though they're that "thing" I never grew up to appreciate and validate next to platformers outside of Europe. 🙄
Re: James Pond Is Getting His Own Collection On PC, PS5, Xbox And Switch 2
(sighs) Yet again Master System gets shafted. 🙄
@Leahi84 Fans that's why.
@Exerion76 I feel the same about Japanese platformers. 😉
@Guru_Larry From my understanding the PS1 version has been changed a bit for each new port, for the worse.
Re: Ubisoft's Mario Kart Clone 'Street Racer' Is Coming To Modern Consoles & Steam This November
A shame to see the various ports missing. It's half a collection.
@MARl0 Nope.
Re: The Oliver Twins Are Reviving Ghost Hunters Using (Shudder) Generative AI
Odd to see the Oliver Twins go this route. It's not what I expect from them at all.
@flojomojo They've done more since the 80's and early 90's but yeah, nothing that's surpassed Dizzy.
Re: Castlevania's Enhanced Fan Remake For Amiga Gets A CD32 Version In Time For Halloween
This looks pretty awesome, probably superior to the original.
Re: 'The Last Ninja Collection' Sneaks Out Of The Shadows Onto Steam Next Month
It's probably the best solution they could come up with.
Re: MicroProse's Desert Strike Homage 'Cleared Hot' Takes Flight This November
I love the fact MicroProse was revived but this isn't the type of game I'd associate with them. I think they're best at handling simulations. 🤔
Re: Limited Run Games Is Resurrecting Two More Games From The Night Trap Developer, Digital Pictures
@Exerion76 I maintain GZT isn't just the best FMV game for Mega CD but one of its best games. Good story and for an FMV game there's a lot of gameplay.
Re: Limited Run Games Is Resurrecting Two More Games From The Night Trap Developer, Digital Pictures
@Exerion76 Yeah that one hurts as it's one of my favourite FMV games and one of the best Mega CD games. At least Corpse Killer still exists but admittedly not great compared to GZT.
@kitestar All of these games should be remastered for future generations, good or bad.
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'.