GravyThief

@KitsuneNight absolutely. Whenever I see a speed running video, I’m in absolute awe of their skills, whether they’re doing the level normally or trying to break the game. I’d love to see a speed runner go back in time and be a contestant on Games Master. See everyone’s reaction 🤣

I briefly owned a Virtual Boy in the early 2000s. I’m very glad I experienced it, unfortunately I never got to play the Wario game which looks to be the best one. I sold it soon after when I realised it would just be a novelty piece taking up space.

Nintendo really missed a trick not releasing VB games on the 3DS.

People who say speedrunners that don’t do 100% completion aren’t skilled and just cheat, need to watch this. If that isn’t skill then I don’t know what is.

Have they stated if this would work with the GB Everdrive?

@AceGrace ah dang. I was hoping the fact the site quoted the price in £ meant it was being distributed from the UK for UK customers.

It’s a shame because I like the look of this. I’d still want to wait for some real reviews though.

I’m glad this uses AA batteries. All these proprietary lithium batteries will hardly hold a charge in 10 years time and you won’t be able to buy decent replacements.

Still, I’ll wait to see real reviews before I buy one. I’m very interested though.

I love the soundtrack for Ridge Racer Type 4. They did a 20th anniversary remix of that soundtrack which is really good too.

What if there was a hotfix AND 7 commits in the same month? What then? I must know!

I don’t know what a commit is (I know what a comet is), nor a hotfix, and I’ve never used this emulator, but still, I must know how the version number convention works in this situation!

Awesome. I’ll use it for work calls and blame network issues.

This is precisely why I wrap myself in tin foil and wear a tin foil hat. Now I know I can play the Japanese version of Virtua Racing on the Mega Drive without fear of being harmed. Who’s laughing now, eh?

“ widely used to augment existing titles with better music”. Technically better, yes. But otherwise it’s subjective. Every MSU patch I’ve heard just doesn't sound right for a SNES game. It sounds like someone’s replaced the music with something different from somewhere else, which is literally what they’ve done. I also think the original SNES soundtrack sounds better compared with the snippet shown above.

The main thing here for me is that it includes circle strafing, and I’m sure it appears to run smoother and faster in the snippet above, but that could just be an illusion from it playing in a little window on a phone screen.

I don’t know if it’s a combination of my age, the fact we’ll never go through the technical shifts we had in the 90s and 00s, or that information is just so readily available to us in an instant, but I never get excited about games anymore like I did back then.

Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy my Switch, but I’m struggling to get excited about this new Zelda game. BotW and TotK have destroyed my enjoyment of 3D Zelda games. I was looking forward to there being a new 2D Zelda game that goes back to the traditional formula for the old guard like me. This doesn’t look like it will fill that role. It doesn’t help it uses the style of the Link’s Awakening remake that I found very ‘meh’.

Still, I’ll keep an open mind! 🤣

@WaveBoy I was replying to someone who said they wished they had the space for a CRT. I recommended a 14”/15” one as they’re reasonably sized (for a CRT) but you still get the CRT vibe from them so worth a punt if it’s only size that’s stopping you. I have one and have played PS2/GC games on them fine, they look great.

My main TV for playing retro games is a 20” Sony PVM which is fantastic. I think a 20” screen is more than adequate, but even by this point the size of the TV becomes an issue. A 14”/15” doesn’t look as good, but it still looks great, so I would always recommend this route for people who don’t have the space but really want a CRT.

@GameGear1991 if you can find space for 14”/15” CRT I highly recommend it for retro consoles. They don’t take up too much space, and they still look great, small screen and all. In some ways I prefer it to using a bigger CRT, it dials the nostalgia dial up to 11!

I’ve only had a Switch for a year, but I think it has to be their best console, regardless of this Zelda stat. Although A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time are the best Zelda games, and that doesn’t look like it will ever change, at least they’re both playable on Switch.

I loved SNES Doom back in the day. Despite its limitations it was the only way I could play Doom and I didn’t really mind anyway. I completed the whole thing, finding every secret (with the odd help from a guide). Even playing it today my muscle memory kicks in and I can play it no problem.

It was actually the most complete version of Doom 1 on console back then, having more of the maps than the other versions, even more than the PlayStation version as far as the first 3 episodes of Doom 1 are concerned. Obviously the PS1 version had more levels overall but that included episode 4 and Doom 2.

I’d love to try Doom 2 on the SNES. Does this play on real hardware via the SD2SNES?

This video should have a massive warning on it. There’s an extremely cool and hip middle aged exec skateboarding around an office in it. This could prove too radical for some viewers. You have been warned.

Goemon fan by any chance?

Looking forward to watching this. Although I must say, I prefer the original’s soundtrack. Tim Wright’s music was the best on there and better than what’s on the sequel, famous artists and all.

It wasn’t Brandon Block who went up on stage to get the award was it?. Oh wait, he only does that at the MTV awards.

What emulation handheld do you use? There seems to be a new one coming out every month.

I see both sides of this. If someone / a company spends time and effort developing a technique like this, why shouldn’t they be able to patent it to stop others just copying it and using it in their games? On the other hand, we as gamers definitely lose out when things like this are patented.

Tough one. Maybe limit the length of time the patent can last? I don’t know.

This sounds amazing. I can’t wait to get my hands on the R2PHAT DDR DE10 eMMC DDR4 ITX SDRAM A76 PCIe SSD MIPI RK3588 CM5 SDIO DB9 SNAC USB FGPA.

@MysticWangForce I too have never seen this film after my own 41 orbits. And yes, I am now going to refer to my time on this planet as orbits of sol, many thanks 🤣

I’m glad I’m now cured of the curse (illness?) that is collecting (hoarding?) and have absolutely no desire or need to buy tat from places like this anymore.

All it took to cure me was the need to clear my loft for a loft extension. It was suddenly laid bare in front of me the amount of absolute rubbish I’d hoarded over the years. I was embarrassed. I was never going to play most of it, and the thought of my poor daughters having to go through it all when I pass made me feel sick.

Thankfully selling a lot of it over the years has been cathartic and contributed a few thousand pounds towards the extension - win win!

Don’t get me wrong, I still a fair amount of stuff (much more than an average person) but what I’m left with is stuff I actually have some nostalgia for or do plan to play at some point. And I’ll no doubt sell more as time goes on.

@Sketcz from memory, didn’t the seller get offered $1m or something but they turned it down thinking they could get more… and they didn’t 🤣

He also did the voice of Codsworth in the recent Fallout TV show which I thought was great.

I recommend people search for ‘snuff box boyfriend’ on YouTube and watch Matt Berry doing the boyfriend sketches. They’re hilarious!

Closer each day…. Home and Away!

I’m not really sure that the buyers “hit the jackpot” at those ridiculous prices. The estate likely did, but certainly not the buyers.

Nice. Noticed the Saltaire Blonde and Yorkshire Tea and had to assume he’s from Yorkshire with those gifts (that or his colleagues have good taste). Just checked and it looks like he might be from my hometown of Leeds. Not that it makes a difference of course, his music is awesome regardless, but always nice to see.

I bought the previous ‘best screen ever’ mod for the GBC, the Q5 I think it is with touch controls on the top side of the unit. And I must say it was a complete waste of money.

I have turn it off and on numerous times to get games to load up, it’s especially worse with the Everdrive which barely works at all. Also the d-pad is funny so in some games it doesn’t register particular directions.

I’ve just ended up playing all GB and GBC games on my AGS-101 screen modded GBA. That is much older but still works a treat to this day. Probably because it uses a genuine stock screen rather than all these rubbish after market ones.

My experience has really put me off this modded console business. I’ve had similar bad experiences with modded Mega Drive and Master System consoles. The AV mod for the SMS2 just added purple lines when you look closely, and the 60hz PAL Mega Drive mod didn’t work properly, loads of games didn’t work with it. I just ended up buying a Genesis and using an Everdrive. Works as intended, because no amateur modders have got their greasy mitts on it.

@-wc- I still think Wonder Boy III Dragon’s Trap should get more recognition than it does for starting the genre. It was Metroidvaniaing long before Symphony of the Night vania’d on its turf.

Not sure it would create a catchy portmanteau though. MetroidBoy? Wonderoid? (That last one sounds uncomfortable).

Looks like my jam. I love that it actually looks like a PS1 game. I just wish it was coming out on PS4 or Switch, certainly looks like those consoles could handle it.

Most of these should be inducted. Why only one? Heck, most of them should already be in there!

I really like the idea of these collections, making it more like a documentary and timeline, introducing the games to you after you’ve read or watched about how it was made.

My only issue is that so far I haven’t been interested in any of the games they’ve covered. This is all a bit before my time and I’m not really interested in playing games from the early 80s.

Hopefully they get to do one of these releases for some later games I’d be interested in, although given those developers/publishers are doing their own collections now it seems unlikely.

Still, I think this format holds merit so I hope others follow.

"Believe me, nothing gets “snuck” onto a product like FIFA!“.

Nope, that only happens to their PGA Tour Golf games 🤣

That is amazing!

Hiding it in the spine makes me think of when I used to send numerous emails to my friends at their work in quick succession, with just one letter in the subject each time. When the emails landed in their inboxes one after the other, the subjects would spell a word as you read it down the inbox. Usually a naughty word, obviously. Fooled the filters!

Everyone moaning that the seller cancelled the sale. As someone who used to sell on eBay a lot, buyers cancel bids all the time. So I just see this as karma, good for him.

Any ideas what it sold for as the auction would have happened by now?

Sounds about standard having all the retro collecting vultures circling and messaging 🤣

According to the original trilogy of films, Indiana’s been with 3 women. Not sure that constitutes womanising. My mate Steve’s been with 4.

I’m no expert on emulation, but if they’ve rebuilt the code of Glover then is it really true N64 emulation if it’s not running the original game code? Would this ‘emulator’ play other N64 ROMs for example? Sounds more like a port to me, but as I say, I’m no expert.

I’ll have to check this out. I love this soundtrack and I’ve enjoyed Blake Robinson’s Synthetic Orchestra version of Chrono Trigger’s soundtrack, so I hope I enjoy this one as much.

I always remembered this game appearing as one of the challenges on Gamesmaster. Never got to own it or play it though, unfortunately.

Kojima is such a Talox. That’s a portmanteau of “talking” and “bollox”.

I have two memories of this game. The first was firing it up for the first time with my sister’s boyfriend. He was older than me, but was seriously disappointed, angry even, that you had to read the conversations and it wasn’t voiced. He then just walked out of my room. I can only surmise he couldn’t read.

The second is that I definitely didn’t enjoy it as much as FF7.

I literally can’t remember anything else about this game. I can’t even remember how far I got into it or even if I finished it. I’d like to replay it one day, but knowing how much time it takes up and what little I have these days to play, I doubt it will ever happen.

A compilation book consisting of just the game over paragraphs from all the Fighting Fantasy books would be a great idea!

This app was how I played this game. I enjoyed it very much so it certainly served me well. I also first experienced Phoenix Wright via its app around this time too. It was before I’d got back into gaming, so didn’t have any consoles. I thought they played really well, certainly on the iPhone 4 which is what I would have played them on.

I really need to play Illusion of Time, seen as I own it and I really like the look of it. Never played it back in the day. I should also play Terranigma. I did own that too but at £300 I thought I’d sell it and just play it on my SD2SNES, and at full screen 60hz too with the NTSC hack. Regardless, I’m not sure they need a remake do they? They still look great today. Maybe just re-release them as is, like they did with the Collection of Mana.

Is this charade still going? I can’t believe there are comments from people STILL waiting to get their machines. Didn’t this whole escapade start years ago?

So did the engineer get the sack? It doesn’t specify. I need to know if some guy I’ve never met got fired back in 1999.