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@KitsuneNight As mentioned, it was probably to capitalize on the 20th anniversary of the film (I don't remember if it got a theatrical re-release but you can sure bet there was a DVD release).

Good thing that this before "Hot Coffee" otherwise this screen alone would've forced the game to be re-rated "T" for this (I'm pretty sure E-10 didn't exist in 2002, which I'd guess now is about the minimum for games with "mild language".)

@Cronodoug Because she is EVIL, as I understand. Of course also censored in the English SNES version, because no way was '90s NoA going to let that fly.

Looks like Argus but it isn't, since that was released many years ago.

@HoyeBoye There could be some intended usage of that. I do recall from playing the games released on 3DS (which had an option to emulate the blur) that for example in the Shinobi games, you'd only be able to see the flicker that indicates you're damaging an opponent with the blur feature enabled.

Though I am more familiar with Game Boy games, a platform for which I know a few games used the blur as a technical display effect.

Not supporting flashcarts nor CDs really limits the market potential of this.
There's probably far fewer people with libraries of HuCards (let alone TurboChips) sitting around to use with this, compared to the other consoles of the era.

@FPGAguru Watching an old documentary video some months ago realizes just how much of a hastily slapped together product, the IBM PC with Microsoft OSes, we as a human society have allowed to become a dominant force in the industry and our lives.

Unfortunately, the time to stop them was 40 years ago, we must accept we have to live with Windows and the rest of Microsoft's PC slop.

But which version of NES Battletoads? I'm guessing they won't give the option of the famous ball-busting English version or the more sensible Japanese version.

This is far from the first game in history to be found tracing art.

As long as there has been games, there has been, yes, even professionals, who have done this.

@Damo Is this article suggesting it's time to blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire?

I was first thinking Battle Master, but it is actually Battle Tycoon that has the distinction of being probably the only SNES fighting game to utilize a RAM save-capable cartridge. For something. I'm not familiar enough with that one to say what but it's in the number of SNES fighting games I have sitting around waiting to play at some point.

@smoreon You'd have to pay a real high price for that power, though.

Indeed, retro shops have been using ebay as a price gauge for like two decades now.

@JackGYarwood Hearing complaints about using an old character name of questionable authenticity, for game on a console that 30 years later people still call "PSX", sounds like a bit of irony to me.

"Romford" sounds like a good place for video games.

@Wezlypipz That is why I said "actual selling value" meaning to find the "Sold items" checkbox and refer to that.
Though to be fair, it only sort of gives a record of what people actually paid when the buyer accepted the seller's asking price as it only reports "Best Offer Accepted" when that option is used and doesn't disclose what the accepted offer was.

@Wezlypipz I can only imagine this isn't the sort of item you'd see sell frequently enough on ebay to get an estimate of actual selling value (not just whatever wishful amount sellers ask).
That is, items sold within the last three months.

@Sketcz I'm not familiar with the game but that sounds like "why even have a save feature if it's going to quickly delete itself?"
Even more of a bizarre decision than games like Bionic Commando 1992 which had limited continues and a password save (which among the data saved the number of Continues).

I suppose it's more notorious for the SNES and Genesis games which were developed but not commercially released, but have since been leaked by the developers.

Particularly, there's a long story about the development of the SNES game. Apparently they went through three separate versions of the game after the publisher Viacom insisted on what they'd see as a sure-selling game rather than a particularly thoughtfully developed game, so the dev was increasingly pressured to push out something that'd get them paid, and then the game still got withheld after the film bombed.

Indeed by the mid 2000s, if there was a pizza place in America that still had arcade machines, you could be sure one of the hunting games would be there.

Given that prototype ownership is a very gray area legally, it probably was a bad idea to bring public attention to this since so many of the items are Sega games, there is a chance Sega could claim the lot is legally still their property since they were used for development purposes of Sega IP and not sold to consumers.

@RextheSheep I wasn't too surprised when I learned the SNES game was a port from MS-DOS (which explains why they called the game "Volume 1" even the SNES game never did well enough to get a Volume 2. Indeed, as I remember renting it and it was sure no Secret of Mana, a game that was released the better part of a year earlier despite Interplay's LotR marketing claiming they had made "The First Action Adventure RPG with Multiplayer Real Time Combat".

That Edward Randy game isn't just called that now? It would be nice if they did but oh well.

DE liked to reuse names and the first "Cliffhanger" game they made was a FMV game which used footage from a Lupin the Third movie, so it'll get DMCA struck if you stream or upload videos about the game.

Does WayForward not have any ownership stake in the game in order to object?
The IP isn't theirs of course but what about the programming and other elements not directly the property of the IP holder?

@jamess How about Nintendo spend their efforts against Anbernic and whoever else? They won't because it's notoriously hard to sue Chinese companies.
Though I read Italy has historically been tolerant of piracy as well, I guess they still thought it was an easier avenue to feel like they've "done something" and still easier to confront that individual since being an EU member I've read made Italian authorities more obligated to investigate such issues. Still, that's putting great effort into suing a customer rather than the actual offender.

Nintendo lawyers have reached a pathetic low.
They can't go after the manufacturer that made the device and committed the infringement, so they go after someone who bought the device and made a video about it.

This is the game where we are presumably adults and start out by dunking on a middle school team.

@Andee I haven't tried doing but there's no doubt Nintendo thought that someone would try many years ago.

I don't see the problem. I absolutely enjoyed playing Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on my SNES as a child.

Will have to see how good it is. All I know about running games on C64 was that antipiracy on a lot of disk games was depending on the OS in the disk drive (yes, I've read the floppy drive effectively contained ITS OWN computer, minus a display).

That is the sort of thing we'd hear out of the Super Mario 64 community. (I've heard there's one sound effect you can hear completely exactly once, if you leave the game running for like two weeks or something. May not be an exact amount but the SM64 "speedrunning" community has some strange expections of time. )

@Ben12345 That would have to have multiple licensing issues.

Having a title screen, especially a graphical one, seems oddly advanced for a 1979 game. Didn't they need to spare every kilobyte they could get back then?

Spinmaster is a pretty good game though. Certainly one of the better games in the DE catalog.
Is Joe & Mac the arcade version? The SNES version was largely its own thing (definitely a platform emphasis), while I think the rest of the ports were based on the arcade original (which I recall had more of an emphasis on combat).

"Fixed crash issue in King of Fighters 95 (SAT) and Ultraman: Hikari no Kyojin Densetsu (SAT)."

Aren't those the two games in the Saturn library which used a ROM cartridge as a secondary data medium in addition to the primary CD to run the game? How would those work on Polymega?

@Zedecks The only thing I can say is that when I opened up my Pier Solar Genesis cart, the PCB had some art but also some text like "64 megs, that's so awesome, it's better than women".
Imagine saying that on a PCB dated July 2010!
Like gee, how many decades behind is that opinion?
https://imgur.com/a/LDMUVEZ

@mjparker77 I thought Second Samurai console version was a Genesis game. But I could be wrong, since I don't know that as well since I think the port was also a Europe exclusive.
A bit besides the port, as I think the only relation between these games is they are all games Piko bought the copyrights to.

@h3s I'll say there is some charm in Game Boy demakes of arcade games. How far can they strip down a game to its bare essence of a game?

@Nintega_Is_Eternal The Displaced Gamers YouTube channel did a video a little while ago where he questions if the intended cartridge hardware for the canceled Japanese original would've made a difference.
He did make an comparison example of Tiny Toon Adventures, showing that game ran a little more optimal on Konami's proprietary Famicom cartridge than it did when transplanted to Nintendo hardware for the western versions. Though I suspect TTA is probably a less demanding game that is less affected by a bit of lag.

Dragon's Lair is a good example of what a cartridge hardware difference, not even necessarily needing a custom CPU, can make. The USA version of NES Dragon's Lair is famous garbage and it deserves to be. Sony just needing to not be ***** cheapskates and spend like another dollar on an extra ROM chip and we could have had the more playable European version. (yes, it was Sony, I'm not letting them hide behind the "CSG Imagesoft" label)

Probably shouldn't be asking why a nearly 40 year old game has a spaceship named AFX-6502 when it is running on a Z80-based console/computer?
(To my understanding, the 6502 was an EXTREMELY obscure CPU in Japan at the time, with the Famicom being the one major Japanese game hardware based around it. Iwata got the gig from being one of the few to import Commodore hardware to Japan as a young person, with games for them being some of HAL's earliest work.)

I remember reading some old reviews on retro gaming saying the game itself was kind of meh and it was carried by the anime girl on the cover.
Well, at least it's being made available.

@Serpenterror Most people into playing this sort of thing will figure it out.
At least they put the buttons in the right spot to at least match the original NeoGeo CD controller (unlike the NeoGeo Mini's extra controller which rotated the layout 90 degrees).

@N00BiSH Yes, I'm surprised they didn't go with a homage to the NeoGeo Pocket with this (then again, people might then expect NGP games to be included) rather than the Game Boy-looking design.

So this isn't really a "lost" commercial at all, but a fan video?
That's a misleading headline, makes it sound like something official.

It's hard to imagine playing any of those games on a phone. How does one do it?

I only now this for the magazine ad that only needed to say "NIGEL BEATS MARIO!" in giant letters, then in tiny letters "the driver, not the plumber." Even though that WAS after the latter had already done both. (driver Andretti did get his own game, though)

@JackGYarwood I imagine at this point, Urban Strike is probably known for having a particular scene that has been turned from fiction to fact, making rerelease a little difficult.

@JackGYarwood I think this game (or at least its franchise) got one console appearance and out of all the consoles one could choose to port this to, someone chose the Game Gear (where it's not surprising I think it became one of the rarer games).

@Damo The lack of Metroid carts is explained that I don't think Metroid is nearly as popular with Japanese gamers. Certainly not as much as Zelda and Mario.
I do recall it has been said that Kid Icarus is also a lot more popular with western gamers than Japanese.

I do have both versions of Fusion, as I have read about the Japanese version containing more content (also released like three months later) but I hear Nintendo didn't sell nearly as many copies over there.

Judging by the HUD, this is a port of the western (NES) version.
I've heard the Japanese (Famicom) version had some content difference.

I can only imagine we'll hear an impression from Clint Bassinger at some point.