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@NoirConceit In what ways are they "more than a little dodgy", from my POV they've done a great job over the years?
What would doing things right look like, in your words?

asymmetrical sticks booo!! not superior symmetry? smh my head

Don't just leave us hanging, which games are on the prototype?
He ought to pass this to VGHF to see what they could do to bring it back to life

idk if the quality is up to snuff because I haven't tried the cores, but Gaelco's back catalogue is too great and important to die imo
just glad their games are getting more recognition in general

fellow Crocheads....the future is so bright we must wear shades

BigSharkZ! I see you! Excellent work contributing to this, my old friend <3

What an incredible resume! I don't think it's a stretch to say her music was the heart, soul and voice of these games. They were so driven by sound in terms of setting the table for their atmosphere to the point that they wouldn't have been the same if not for her contributions. I hope she keeps composing!

the lord of "edge"
an edgelord, if you will

when I go to an arcade to play some nostalgic classics, I of course want to be bombarded with uncanny valley "artwork" created by a hypermodern technology

Red Earthjoyers....we won

Hey hey hey time to make some LAZY money

Something like this lives and dies on the back of its library, they should go bigger than Evercade and do stuff like getting Mina the Hollower as a launch title

@Damo yeah well I'd argue you're demoralizing the people who work on these projects with unneeded anxiety and are having a chilling effect on people making cool new things for the community
it's myopic and it poisons the well that people come to this site to drink from
for crying out loud think about how it feels from the perspective of the people working on these projects, it's not exactly like we're all confident outgoing people, could very well grind this project and/or others to a halt

toxic angle for this article, we're all sick of "Nintendo Ninjas" talk for every single fan project ever made
it's boilerplate that pollutes the internet and damages our communities

What's with that V-Watch on your arm, man? You some kind of Mega Man or something?

just give us the 360 release but without the ugly-ass filter on the sprites, at least

3DO!
3DO!
3DO!
please

I misread this for a second and thought the unreleased Neo-Geo NG2 was finally coming out
NG3 (NES) is an incredible game but it's really annoying they're selling them piecemeal so nobody will buy them and realize how great the NES NG games still are

So many Kunio vets dying lately, it hurts my heart
now we'll never see Shin Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun: Kowloon no Tsume

Naughty Dog's last truly great game
I hope they can get back to these highs one day

SEND ME AN ANGEL
SEND ME AN ANGEL
RIGHT NOW
RIGHT NOOOOOOOW

finally....Game Boy-as-a-service

If you'll allow me to be opinionated for a second, RetroDodo is absolutely an SEO slop content farm that has historically prized quantity over quality, unless they've changed lately there is a reason they have been usurped by literally every other creator in the "retro handheld" space
You know....going the way of the dodo
They have an article that was "ranking all the Croc games" and it's just every Croc game in no particular order with descriptions making it clear he's played none of them, and by the end of the article it's listing off J2ME games he openly admits he hasn't played because he's scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill space lmao
There are simply not enough Croc games to fill an article about ranking them (which the article doesn't even try to do), it became impossible for me to take RD seriously after that
Besides, anybody who has actually played Croc would rank 2 higher than 1....

Blazers and/or Bladers....we won

@Daniel36 I think I might take a whack at that localization and if someone with higher Japanese proficiency comes along they could iterate on it later (no promises)
Might need to be cut down for text character limits but here's an example, old version and new version respectively:

Old version:

Title: Bear Fist (kanji: Kumaten, pretty obviously trying to make people think of Tekken)

Target Audience: All Ages

Genre: Fighting

The balance is already broken, but...

That's what makes it appealing, according to reviews.

Additionally, for beginners to fighting games or those that struggle with them,

it offers an approach for those who find fighting games difficult.

Auto-adjustment with learning functionality is included.

Although the balance is broken,

the system that ensures satisfying wins and losses is highly praised.

My version:

Title: Soulcalibear II

Rated E for Everyone

Genre: 3D Fighter

Featuring an innovative "Quest of the Claw" mode, unlocks are drip-fed until the roster reaches a record breaking 128 playable characters.

It only took a couple days for players to bust the balance wide open, but...

...that’s what makes it appealing, according to critics and players alike.

Additionally, for newcomers to the FGC, or "cubs" as the game calls them, it makes sure not to send them out to hunt on the first day,

as its "modern controls" option ups accessibility for those who struggle with traditional inputs. A brawl minus the challenge.

With an optional auto-adjusting handicap, extensive on-boarding learns from player mistakes to educate them going forward.

Despite the tier lists being in shambles from day one,

this impressive release has been lauded for systems that ensured that whether casual or seasoned vet, its matches were satisfying, win, lose or draw.

@JayJ 🤓☝️

@JayJ 🤓

@Coalescence
they killed a hundred children on day one and people like you are still talking in "lol internet troll" speak
good luck explaining this to your irradiated grandkids
future generations will never let your kind forget what you've done

Are they even testing these before release? another L for people who insist on exclusively buying new-release legal versions of old games

this article is missing some pretty important context that the award was a user-voted award by consumer advocacy website The Consumerist that had a campaign on 4chan to make EA the #1

@Sketcz Ain't nobody on this planet able to hack and translate Shadowrun for Sega CD in 90 days flat, not even as a team working full-time, it sounds like you don't fully grasp how difficult a task this can be

Make a game about playing the other games, walking through a virtual arcade, and forming bonds with the people who work there

Like a Yakuza game without combat that boils down to a single location where the verb is playing the arcade games instead of the combat/minigames
The main character would be a create-a-character self-insert as a first on their engine, and the overarching walking around the arcade and sidequest stuff (similar to the arcade sidequest in Yakuza 0 but denser and with social link mechanics like 7) would be in the Dragon Engine

This writes itself

in hindsight it's probably a miracle this came out considering the absolute graveyard of early 3DS Konami/Hudson cancelations

sounds like a real hoot

@GodlessPreservation don't copy! don't copy that floppy!!

@Sketcz with what you say about it being satire of the game industry requiring nuance, I ought to re-edit it like I did for the script of Starnaut (2025)
which is available now on Steam, the true successor to both El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron and Segagaga at the same time, and also it's a Vampire Survivors
but the satire is almost all gone unless you get the mod I released for it in the Steam community, in which case it goes crazy and there are things I wrote in that roast the industry so well you'd never imagine reading it from another game
iirc there's a bit in there parodying the arcade machine smashing you covered in one of your books? and also Peter Gabriel, in the same lore entry
only in the mod though
c-c-c-check it out

@AndorV zooming-out seems like a solid idea, considering the original game had its fair share of "wtf even hit me" moments that would be eased with more screen space!

babe it's 4 PM time for another recomp article full of breathless hype over stuff that hasn't happened yet with your side-dish of port-begging in the comments

if Mighty the Armadillo isn't listed in the cast he has to be the perpetrator

the people demand an NES version in a red and blue cartridge, front shell red, back shell blue, maybe paint the stripe yellow for the beak if you're getting real fancy

I could see how an argument could be made for something slightly wider considering the internal resolution of the Genesis, but such a stretched aspect ratio is unacceptable
It needs good input lag response above all else, it needs to feel as instant as possible. And it's not enough for it to not have tearing, it needs to have a refresh rate synced to the screen
The dogshit game-feel of the Retron5 is unacceptable in 2026

also WATA has rebranded to PSA so you need to rebrand your hoofbeatold proclamations
(I made up that word)

@Sketcz you ought to be stripping the ?si= trackers from your YouTube links, as the tracker is used to create data on webs of relation between those who click it, which jeopardizes privacy

what's next, fixing Dead Rising by removing the timer? 😩

Uh, sell me a Game Boy Color version instead of a port to modern systems?

@Daniel36 seize Castle Lexington, ascend to the top of the ink cartridge, vanquish Lord Lexmark and his army of sentient printers

@JJtheTexan fyi: the reason Requiem specifically never came to anything else is that it's the Dracula X Chronicles versions running in Sony's internal PSP emulator
so they'd have to find another method of running them
I'm sure M2 could figure something out, port the 360/mobile version for Symphony and put together a PC-Engine CD emulator for Rondo and idk why they didn't in the first place

Unlike the original maybe I'll want to use this one for more than 5 minutes

@Sn0w I disagree with the assertion that simply reporting on it is wrong when TE has done a fine effort of also reporting on people's grievances, but the assertion that he's a warmonger fascist has largely bore out to be correct.
You sound like yet another politically-uneducated person who thinks any attempt to bring nuance and outside context into our hobby is some kind of intolerable intrusion of the Lacanian real, and so you recoil in avoidance, to keep your world feeling small and comfortable.
Those who hold water for the concept that to be nostalgic is to cocoon ourselves in a safe little bubble, who think that keeping the past alive means to escape into it completely, do us all a disservice. Nothing exists in a vacuum.