Daric

Ooo that’s cool
This game was great if you had the steering wheel. Otherwise it’s too twitchy

@Noone2025 cmon man it’s right on the title: it’s the arcade version

The SNES’s architecture often relied on expansion chips (like the Super FX) to achieve better performance.

The Megadrive’s “blast processing” (in reality, the amazing clock speed) meant developers could push the base hardware further through new programming techniques alone.

The Megadrive was the faster (potentially more powerful?) stock hardware. But the add-on chips gave the SNES some of the best looking games at the time, also more colours.

@VirtuaDireStraits yeah, like most AAA games

I’d rather have a (good) AI assisted translation than a bad one.

Good article, Jack.

I think it’s exciting that AI gives so many projects the chance to get off the ground. But in the end, assisted or not, good code only comes from good developers. You can’t vibecode your way to a polished result.

The cat’s out of the bag, and we need to accept that instead of punishing good devs who want to engage with a powerful toolset. There’s no point debating how the sausage gets made anymore. Highlight the good results, call out the bad ones.

This is awesome news!
Can’t wait to play all these games

@Bot_Bot_69 you’re right: a CRAZY TAXI air freshener.

You guys get the articles you deserve

@Bot_Bot_69 it’s an article on a social media post of an air freshener. It is rage bait.

I would appreciate articles on AI if they were nuanced and had something to say. This is garbage.

@Bot_Bot_69 i have to admit i’m flooded with morbid curiosity every time one of these articles pops up here, especially because they are becoming more and more insane.

But if your argument is that engagement is a metric of value, i don’t agree.
This is not an anti-ai blog. Nor an air freshener blog. It’s focused on retro gaming, and the link here is beyond tenuous.

In effect what’s developing here is an anti-ai audience. Which is fine. It’s just not what this blog’s supposed to be about. The shift in editorial direction is noticeable enough for me to comment on.

“ Why did you read it at all? Your click confirms that the article was worth displaying.”
There are a lot of topics that would make me click, but they would feel equally out of place

@RupeeClock you may very well be right. At the same time, it is complete nonsense to report on the great crime of….. AI modified social media post about an air freshener.

I can’t understand the point behind this article

The obsession over anything AI in Time Extension is becoming a living meme. Damien is a master at AI-outrage engagement bait at this point (this is a compliment)

This is a new low for this blog.
You’re on ai air freshener watch

Love this era of football games

@smoreon oh yeah! I didn’t make that connection initially

Damien, please, stop using this beautiful website as a personal mouthpiece against ai.
We get it, you hate it. Please move on because it’s getting annoying.
We will never go back to an ai-less world (unfortunately imo) just move on, don’t shoehorn it into every single article

I’m convinced. Buying another Sega Saturn.

Tragic. Rest in peace, ninja

@The_Nintendo_Pedant some dude said “only ai can do this” about some ai generated pixel art. And these devs took inspiration and made a game that looks like the original post, but better

It’s sold out atm

That’s a lot of handhelds for one day
I would only consider budget handhelds under 100 bucks

Very cool. Really happy for them and hope it works out

@DestructoDisk I’ve been following and commenting this situation since the initial report. You can see my comments on the article explaining the warrant and police situation.

I’m skeptical of the whole thing because the whole story is coming from a single point of view. And the more comes out the less logical it seems.

@VGPM is there a need to claim I’m confused, haven’t read it all, haven’t made research ?

You’re very obviously fishing for a reaction - you won’t get it from me.

@The_Nintendo_Pedant You’ve made me laugh with the idea of goons wearing Sega hats knocking at someone’s door 😂
Fair enough bro, let’s see how it pans out

@The_Nintendo_Pedant
"hearing about this happening to this person is upsetting for me"
what is happening to the person.......according to the person. Because all reports are coming in form the same source.

Not only is it clear we don't know half the facts, it is also clear that we only know selective information coming from one person. The same one who has already asked for pity money in the mean time.

And who exactly from Sega themselves would raid a house? lol

@The_Nintendo_Pedant it would be extremely upseting for you, sure. But it would just be contraband of stolen materials for all of us.

This quote:
"SEGA’s position amounts to accusing a charity of theft"
is implying a charity wouldn't steal, or that accusing a charity of wrongdoing is beyond reasonable. But if the materials are indeed stolen, the police very much has the right of returning them.

Charity or not, it's clear the middleman is the one in the wrong here. Not Sega, nor the buyer. Even if the buyer got burned a significant amount of money.

Other companies flops: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING IDIOTS"
Nintendo flops: "poor ninty was just so ahead of its time"

The more details that come out the clearer it gets that Sega used services to destroy the items, but they were selling them instead.
The source being one of the disgruntled buyers of the illicit materials, using Sega's involvement to stirr up controversy for some donation money.

Such a huge nothingburger

@gingerbeardman Sega won’t make money back from these items. As per previous reports these items aren’t Sega’s either, they were supposed to be returned to Nintendo. They were thrown out by accident when moving to the new office
(allegedly)

“preservation disaster” = not having access to material they didn’t even know existed before

and of course they want money :/

@Arcadia_Official because as many pointed out already, at the time of the NES the rest of Europe was playing computers: Spectrum, Commodore, Amiga. The shift towards consoles came with the Mega Drive.

Again, even if everyone in Finland bought 4 NES consoles, for a total of 20 million sold….it would still just be serving a population of 5 million. That’s like saying “everyone in Barcelona had an Atari Lynx”

@Polvasti with all respect, but Finland, Sweden, etc are very low population countries. I’m saying this coming from a low population country myself (Portugal).
Would you see anyone going “humm actually the Ngage was pretty successful, everyone in Estonia had one”?

Nintendo did not hold a candle to Sega’s distribution network in most of Europe at the time. You are the exception

Understand his frustration, but he’s somehow trying to blame it on Sega based on….suspicion. Of course Sega wouldn’t reply to his letters

Never played Nintendo as a kid. Nobody i know owned a Nintendo home console until the Gamecube. It’s not unusual, the online american revisionism is strong in this topic

While this piece is relevant to the website, it boils down to one idiot insulting another idiot for liking a videogame.

I feel it’s hardly political, just happens to be about a two politically obsessed persons

I own this game, it’s pretty cool

The most impressive bit is people actually buying this junk

Amiga is a portuguese/spanish word. Ah-mee-gah

@The_Nintend_Pedant hopefully we’ll get an RG 477F…

I hate being online

Didn’t even know there was a PS2 version. To me this is a Dreamcast game

@Gryffin yes. A common example: a parking fine can be rationalised into a mere “parking fee”. If you have enough money, the fine is just tax/price for a privilege (to park where others don’t)

New features on the new console?? How DARE they

Thank you for this interview. One of my all time favourite videogames

We can only speculate how much games would improve in the later stages of the Dreamcast's natural lifecycle.
But it is clear we only got a small taste of what the machine was capable of.

@845H definitely arcadey, but plays nothing like Ridge Racer. It's more like a "highway racer rpg"

Classic Ken moment, love the guy

@CO_Andy i have no problem with respecting anyone. This isn’t about respect. I simply expressed my opinion, and you insist on being rude.

I think you’re wrong. If you can’t deal with that it’s on you

@CO_Andy thanks for your opinion, please be more respectful next time. You don’t know me

@Daniel36 “what would be better?” The original, definitely. The idea that a localiser can “improve” the game is poison. At most they can make the translation unobtrusive.