This is small pharma if anything.

Yeah I was concerned about that video description too. It's probably worth mentioning their JagRacer game has some generative AI assets (presumably as a joke). However they're doing impressive work with their 3D "The Need for Speed" racing game engine on the humble Jag.

Having support for Remix is huge!

Their priorities are, clearly, for choosing games that appeal to the Japanese audience. Which is fine, that's just how it is, but it feels so wasteful to cover games that have already been done. I'm not asking for the world, heck I've always liked the weirder games that Hamster brings back, but doing a game that already has an (often better) port very much does feel like "well, see you next week, then."

Unless you really wanted these games on PS5, I suppose, but whatever.

Antstream have been destroying any good will they had in a such short amount of time lately, and this was the nuke.

Yep. Importing games not just from Asia but from North America too.

I expect the proportion will be a lot different if you polled Americans and non-Americans separately. Maybe age is also a factor.

This is the Evercade I've been waiting for. I had no idea they were bundling the Banjo-Kazooie double pack though. That's quite tempting!

Meanwhile on Console Archives, we're getting Ripple World, which has a few people disappointed as the game had already gotten a re-release not long ago.

I'm not saying Hamster has dropped the ball, but just that the ball has landed in the parking lot.

I still don't know what to make of this one. It's certainly cool. It kind of has the air of a janky bootleg at the moment, but I mean, the game's not done, so it remains to be seen how polished it'll be by the end.

Beyond the AI issue (which I have some difficult feelings on), there's a couple of things bothering me about this. One is that the real hardware tests have shown a much lower level of performance vs the game running in the PicoDrive emulator. And is that necessarily the best emulator to use for development? The game is shown crashing in the earliest tests, suggesting that PicoDrive isn't very accurate for 32X.

Second is just the idea of building this game directly on top of Virtua Racing Deluxe, which isn't what the original devs would have done. I don't know if that itself is a reasonable criticism since this is a solo hobbyist effort, but I worry it'll be a limiting factor on making this feel truly authentic. Although it seems like barely any of the original game is left at this point.

The guy working on this seems to have a lot of confidence in his ability to deliver and is already thinking about other games to do next. I would say the same thing I say about all of these projects, and especially when agentic AI coding is involved: what matters is the end result, and like I said, that remains to be seen. I'm not confident right now, but I'm looking forward to being proven wrong.

Stika's a real one so he likely already knew the Master System was big in the UK. But those are some staggering numbers even if you already knew.

Definitely the kind of game that emulation was already handling perfectly fine. Projects like this that offer no real benefit have no reason to exist, and I have no idea why people are so obsessed with "recompiling" 2D sprite games that don't need it.

BlastEm emulator just had a major update btw if you haven't already covered it.

Just as I've been finding myself tempted by the Capcom edition Super Pocket. But alas, I'm not in the US.

@X68000 You'll never take me alive! Not you or your 100 MEGASHOCK!!

Say Magical Drop and I appear. I remember how expensive this all is and I disappear.

Genuinely huge.

The authentic M2 Shot Triggers HUD is a nice touch.

This is so cool!

The trailer's cute, I'll give them that. The new artwork is still incredibly weird looking.

Also perhaps less consequential but not helping; they forgot the "The" in the video title.

It's a good day to play some kusoge.

My, my, it looks so janky. But I've always found these releases really cool, and I love that G-MODE are archiving the Namco games. There been a few other hidden gems among these releases including some mobile exclusives from Namco's back catalog.

@FR4M3 No I lied for clout sorry. (Yes, for Windows 3.1 and 9x)

Looks like it's based on the PC version, which is actually really good and features higher quality audio. Something went wrong with the music here though.

Can we just acknowledge that posting an obviously fake progress pic as "proof" of no generative AI being used is not only dishonest, it actually makes this whole project cross over into the realm of "disingenuous scam".

Sees headline: "but why"
Sees pictures, reads article: "oh that's actually cool!"

So, is PS3/Wii retro yet? I'll continue to dodge the question.

You'd be Nutz 2 skip this!

God that trailer is so ugly and amateurish.

Close enough, welcome back Game Boy Color Tommy Hilfiger Special Edition.

Yes! Finally!

Am I weird for actually dreaming that this would happen? Maybe.

This image really should not have escaped from internal use.

@smoreon Yes.

SM64 DS is a total remake so all the graphics were pretty much redone entirely. It has a different art style from the original too with many areas such as Bob-Omb Battlefield looking quite different.

Thing about Super Mario 64 is that the way its worlds are built is so different from the way that Sega Saturn (or PlayStation for that matter) is comfortable rendering 3D. Both the size of the worlds and the polygon structure would necessitate a fair amount of re-architecting to accommodate the Saturn hardware, not unlike the differences seen in Super Mario 64 DS.

@CookieByte You'd be surprised just how antsy people can get if you give any sort of an indication of a release window. Or even just not showing updates for a while. It can be quite annoying when people get impatient, when these are free projects developed by people in their spare time.

Yeah it's pretty funny tbh.

Absolutely astounding to see this platform on MiSTer. Nice work!

That was a damn good article from PC Gamer. I was linking it around the PC port communities I'm in when it first dropped.

@GameManAdvance Dude, that's awesome!

Tate mode!!! Slightly awkward resolution in terms of pixel scaling when it's in that orientation though, yeah. The size of the screen is likely a consideration with what resolutions are available to them, though.

I think for tate mode gaming specifically it'll probably be fine. Plus hey, 768 is a 3x integer multiple of 256.

"Playable first, accuracy whatever" doesn't even make sense for the MiSTer project. There are definitely cores that aren't 100% accurate, sure, but rushing to make games playable with no intent of maintaining the cores long term just feels wrong.

My stance will always be the same whether it's this or whether it's vibe coded N64-to-PC ports. What matters is how good the result is, not that you got a result at all. People are growing impatient with basic projects that do bugger all to actually improve on existing solutions.

Interesting.

I have actually heard good things about this game and that you can pretty much ignore all the mobile game-ness about it. Although apparently it has pretty nasty anticheat on PC.

Awesome news! I can definitely see a ton of interest in this from the circles I'm in.

With not a whole lot to go off of as to what this revived brand will be used for, I'm definitely on the same boat as you on not knowing what to make of this.

Will it be a Devolver Digital-esque indie publisher? Will they be making hardware or accessories? I think you could do interesting things with this brand, but all I'm currently seeing is bluster.

And that's why nobody wants to touch leaked source code for fan projects.

How is their emulation quality these days? Their collections do seem to be improving, but it's been a good while since I've tried anything of theirs.

Looking forward to these announcments!

Called it! Pun not intended.

Very much in the realm of "not Doom, but a version of Doom". Though super impressive all the same!

@N64-ROX Honestly Alex Kidd in Miracle World is just a game that shipped on a small ROM and doesn't dedicate much space to unique tiles. There were shipping games on Master System that squeezed out a lot more graphical detail. Modern homebrew developers are also quite skilled with the hardware.

I bet it'll be a modern PC running Linux. Or knowing Perifractic it could be a feature phone maybe.

Obvious caveat that this is a pre-production unit aside… yowza.

Oh, no way! These are some good picks for real.

Someone leaves a lazy and repetitive comment that adds nothing of value to the community. And gets an article that's more about that comment than the project.