Honkshot

When I think back to Ren & Stimpy, sometimes I'm surprised that show didn't cause me more nightmares...

How'd they come up with the name Cameltry, anyway?

No thanks, my Amico should arrive any day now.

I've already got an R4i-Gold running YSMenu, and don't see any compelling reason to get a DSPico at the moment. It's good to see how inexpensive they are, but in terms of features like cheats, soft reset, etc, it seems to be lacking at the moment.

Cool I guess, but I don't imagine we'll see any meaningful developments beyond this.

This man is a genius.

Also, are there any other games like this? I recently played through the whole Wonder Boy series after seeing years of praise for it, and I finally get it - the games were a lot of fun!
If there's any similar games worth checking out that aren't officially part of that series, I'm all ears...

Atari ST... does this game require you to press "up" to jump?

Old McDonald had an algorithm.
AI, AI, bro...

@FR4M3 ...what?

Awesome... keep up the good work, Alejandro!

This is so silly, let the poor guy make his homebrew without forcing him to the frontlines of the AI debate.

Sounds pretty creative to me. I'd like to know more about whatever tech in this cart allows it to connect to modern Wi-Fi.

When I saw this title, I thought "...wasn't it brought back online years ago?" but I'm thinking of DreamPi:
https://dreamcastlive.net/games/

I didn't realize Flycast had its own "online" thing going on... how does it work? Do you have to connect peer-to-peer like previous emulators with netplay support? or is it a more modern setting, with lobbies and such?

@GordonBennet Yep, I've saved so much time (and honestly have become a better programmer) over the past 1-2 years by using Google/StackOverflow less, and ChatGPT more. It's like having a second set of eyes to look things over and find my silly mistakes when I'm stuck, or to bounce ideas off of.
I don't think the enshittification of Google gets mentioned enough in this topic of discussion. Every year it got a little worse at providing good results, and a letter "better" at serving up sponsored results and advertisements. Every so often we'd learn to adjust with "Google hacks," like people adding the term "reddit" to the end of search queries to help lead them to actual, human discussions in the results.
That's the only reason I finally tried the new-fangled ChatGPT thing in the first place - because Google wasn't working anymore.

nah I'll be waiting for Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement.

GZDoom can look like THAT? What?

Add a blood glucose meter, and you've got a deal.

oh, a Discord Mod quit??
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I skimmed the title and thought one of the game's developers quit or something.

It would be pretty funny if he did use GenAI for only "a single pixel" of the graphics, though. I imagine there'd be many heated debates over which pixel it was and why.

I'm more than happy with an original Sega-made DC controller + a cheap extension cable.

I was happy to see CGR reviewed this game about a decade ago, though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSlJ1XARBg

Cool, I appreciate the effort and hope there's someone out there who'll enjoy it.
That said, despite being super into the Dreamcast and all things related to it, there's been quite a few translations of games I see nothing interesting about- this being one of them. That's ok, they don't all have to be for me.

I followed the entire SuperSega saga start-to-finish, and I've never heard Alejandro sound as sober as he does in the video he just posted: https://youtu.be/1mR0w0OtK3s

Maybe he finally cleaned up his act (and his mustache).

Is this using Beats of Rage or no?

"When I stepped away, the atmosphere in the emulation community was pretty rough. It wasn’t a fun or safe place to be. It never really is."

Are there large groups of pitchwork-wielding, violent anti-emulation activists somewhere that I keep missing? What is this even referring to?

Acclaim owes me a refund for Showdown: Legends of Wrestling.

@Martin_H This?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XGameStation_series

I'm starting to think this author doesn't like GenAI.

I just noticed the "AI" part of this article was added on top of the original announcement of this game (Ctrl+F "Original Story"). I was confused why the earliest comments above made no mention of AI, and I now see it's because they were just commenting on the release of this game.
I don't care for that, this "AI" discussion is a separate topic and should be its own article - it shouldn't be cannibalizing the discussion of the game's release.

Lots of alarmist articles about AI on TimeExtension for some reason lately. Meh

@Santar There are some maniacs who play "overhand," similar to how you'd arrange your fingers over arcade buttons. Gamepads like the Dreamcast's ASCII Pad FT and Capcom's own Soldier Pad were designed with this in mind.
I suppose anyone who owned the Genesis version of NBA Jam had to play like that so they could hold turbo down while pressing shoot or pass.
You won't ever catch me holding a controller like that, though!

and the crowd cheers

@RootsGenoa Honk Honk

a game for little girls

I gotta be honest, it's a little hard to tell what's going on in the video.

Not just any balls... vomit balls.

I'm not sure how to feel about this. Most of the examples don't seem to be stolen wholesale and just copy/pasted into the games. Many were "heavily inspired by," traced over and edited, etc... obviously it's not a GREAT look for someone charging money for games - these aren't casual hobby projects with free downloads - it changes things when you start charging and putting out physical carts.
But many of these inspirations see like just that - heavy inspiration, with alterations made. Several other commenters above noticed parallels with other legitimate games from back in the day.

But my question, why are people noticing NOW? Haven't these games been out for a while now? Games like Metal Dragon etc...

I seem to recall the DS having frequent issues with its hinge, so perhaps Retroid did TOO GOOD a job with their design?

WHATTT, has Dragon Hopper finally seen the light of da-

oh.

Virtual League Baseball 2.....

I find it such a strange concept that people are making new "boomer shooters" as they're calling them. Because when I feel like playing this type of game, you know what I do? ...I fire up an actual 90's shooter.
They all have enough levels (spanning multiple episodes) that I'm fully-satisfied by the time I've beaten one, sometimes even completely burned out. So it usually takes a while before I feel like revisiting the genre to play another one. I'm not tearing through Wolf3D, SoD, Quake, Hexen, Heretic, Blood, Duke3D, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior, RotT, blahblahblah and dying for more.
Are there people out there marathoning these games or what?

"Happy Little Games"

Toad is a Turd.

@Guru_Larry I don't think it was "restored." From everything I saw, I think it's pretty clear that was a prototype we saw.

Firstly, it had several really weird bugs that wouldn't have existed if it was built off the released SNES game (Scorpion's harpoon crashes the game if it connects, Liu Kang's flying kick shoots off the screen, Sonya can do a fatality mid-match).
Then the "restored" Fatalities themselves... Johnny Cage kicks the opponents guts out. James Fink said Nintendo told them "no decapitations" so this seems like an attempt to sidestep that rule. But it must've been too much since in the final game, Cage kicks the opponent's midsection with no guts flying out - in fact I was always puzzled as to what it was meant to be. Now that I've seen the original disembowelment, it makes sense. The guts were 'removed' for the final game, not added afterwards.

Then there's Kano's Fatality where the heart was still red as normal. Nintendo must've had a problem with that, too (too much blood? it IS heart after all) so they just turned it black.

Not helping the confusion was the fact that James Fink also showed off some documents from the "Nitro" proposal, conflating those with the SNES prototype. The Nitro docs were very real, but I doubt any work was started on the game... it was merely a proposal.

Don't get me wrong, it's still super cool that we got to see a SNES Mortal Kombat prototype, and an early look at how the devs tried to sidestep Nintendo's rules! Some alternate Fatalities made it into the final games (Raiden turning opponent to dust, Sub-Zero's freeze + punch instead of the spine rip) whereas others did not (Johnny Cage kicking their guts out). It just wasn't a Nitro prototype.

I supported their previous game Xeno Cider from the start, and they fulfilled all their promises with it. Once I heard legendary DC homebrew dev Chui was on their team, I knew they'd be producing great software! I look forward to Soviet Borgs and whatever else their future brings.

They're hiding the mid-tier art behind a heavy CRT filter, from what I can tell.

When I started noticing mentions of "City Connection" like this online, I was puzzled why the arcade game was being mentioned out of context all of a sudden. Eventually I got curious to stop and Google it...
City Connection started out as a record label in 2005, then in 2014 Jaleco went bankrupt and they bought their back catalogue of games - including City Connection (the game).
More recently in 2019 they bought the rights to Psikyo's games- but those were all shmups which I've never been into, so that's less-interesting to me.
When I was a kid, I knew Jaleco as the company who decided to write "JALECO" on the end labels of their NES games (instead of the game's name!), much to my annoyance. Sure they stood out I guess, but I never knew if I was reaching for Bases Loaded or City Connection.
...now I feel like playing a few rounds of City Connection. Outta my way, I'm off to run over some cats!

BioMenace was my favorite DOS game back in the day.

Good thing Todd Rogers is too incompetent & broke to sue anybody... especially @heardtoddrogers on Twitter.

Was the title telling Barkley to shut up? or was he telling the player to shut up?
If the latter: Don't boss me around - I'll jam when I'm ready!!