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I'm not surprised at all. One of his previous games used mostly assets from Mercs and nobody seemed to care...

Edit: Reading what I wrote on Discord when I tackled that game on my site, I also mentioned the possible use of AI.

It's really weird to brag these days about a 90-minute runtime, even though classic games are usually short.

@ch37x If you had read my exchange with someone else slightly lower, you would know that's what I meant. They're made illegal because they include ROMs on an SD card (which would be quite easy to fix). Any computer can play a ROM, not just phones btw. And of course not all computers are illegal.

My guess is since the police can't reach the companies behind them, they scare content creators so they stop publicizing those handhelds, which in the end can hurt the makers and encourage them to stop bundling them with SD cards full of ROMs. Which would be very easy for them to do...

@FrostoftheStars Of course, that's what I mean. But people are not aware of that (and don't tell me everyone only plays backups of their owned games on them).

It's not cool for him given there are hundreds of other people doing the same thing, but it's nice to remind people from time to time that these devices are illegal.

@Moroboshi876 Yeah you didn't miss much with volume 3... When the highlighted game is a weird plane simulator, you know they're going for deep cuts.

@PKDuckman You misunderstood me. I precisely meant Arcade Archives games I'd like to see on the Egret II Mini.

There are still Taito games in the Arcade Archives series I'd like to see, particularly Dead Connection and Warrior Blade (although the latter is less probable given its use of two screens).

That's happening with a lot of websites unfortunately. You are probably aware of that, at Time Extension. Now imagine how it is for non-English websites.

I didn't notice but Swery is clearly a big fan of Twin Peaks... That being said, that price is indeed scary, even for 5 episodes.

Unfortunately, most people don't realize it was quite common for Japanese developers at that time to throw away the source code...

Funnily, the link of the video on the Indiegogo page is "https://www.youtube.com/embed/tBAzmYcK6Cs[...]&aoriginsup=0&gporigin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeextension.com%2F&vf=6" which means it was taken from this website!

Retirement age is 64 (for men) and 62 (for women) in Japan, though.

Wow, how relevant to embed the tweet of someone who's probably a Nintendo hater (a guy named after a SEGA console that doesn't plan to get the Switch 2 anyway)...

@drypaphmrbro because of the new pope.

"Leo, the name that resonates in the world of demolition" It's ironic this was posted TODAY.

You should thank Saberman, not Indie Retro News...

The problem is, to fight that kind of historical inaccuracies, people tend to go the opposition direction, which is not necessarily true either. For instance, the crash didn't happen in Europe, sure, but the US crash had an effect on Europe since Europe didn't have consoles anyway (so it pushed computers even more).
Also I've seen a British YTer claim that the NES was a complete failure in the UK, which is very exaggerated as well, but like in other European countries, it really caught on in 1990 (probably helped by the TMHT game). And btw, the NES wasn't an instant success in the US either. Its launch in 1985 was limited anyway, and from what I gathered it became successful in 1987-1988.

OK, thanks for clarifying, the article probably made it sound stranger than it really is. I thought it could happen in that game as easily as a draw in a fighting game for instance...
Also, I guess it must have happened sometimes but it wasn't recorded for posterity.

But... is that a problem to have the same rank when you've got the same score? I'm not sure I see what's incredible here.

"the standard Blu-ray costing $79.99" That's really expensive for a Blu-ray, even though it's a mini-series rather than a single film.

I know you sometimes like to write "next month" for a game that is actually released the following week, but writing "later this year" for a game that gets released in 2 days is really bold imho.

btw Hamster has overhauled its Arcade Archives website, but unfortunately the links have completely changed and they aren't any redirections. So all of the past links are basically broken... -_-

@KernCasey Then maybe it's just France. It's weird anyway.

btw Viper Phase 1 has arrived on PS4 today, since it was initially only available on Switch for some reason.

@axelhander It's absolutely the Amico game, which was made by Choice Provisions as well.

@Ekkobelli Thanks, that's exactly the name of the AI I was talking about (but I didn't remember the name).

I'm pretty sure this song was generated by AI. The only AI-generated song I heard was extremely similar.

He's one of my favorite game developers, since Die Hard Arcade is one of my favorite games ever (and I love Altered Beast, fight me). I'd really like to interview him like I interviewed Yutaka Sugano.

I'm still mad at Viture for their stupid "3D-compatible" pro Dock. Neither their stupid chatbot or their employees were able to explain what is its purpose, which is kinda sad.

Mortal Kombat wasn't even the right game to promote that controller imho. What I liked about Genesis' MK is it was way easier to perform a kameha than in Street Fighter; you just had to hold the button, then press down then forward.

PS1 MISTer core can't read a CD-ROM in real time, though, so the CDs will probably be dumped a la Polymega. It's cute but it's not what people will expect it to be unfortunately.

@QuarterSwede The first demo was released in October 2020, and the game had already been in development for three years back then... So yeah, it's impressive, but it's not <that> surprising given the time that has been spent on it.

I find the "Think Scream versus I Know What You Did Last Summer" description funny since the latter is already a Scream ripoff. They might as well have said "Think Scream". ^^

And U2's guitar player too...

@MARl0 Usually before the Switch version. It never happened before afaik, it's weird.

Doesn't seem to be available...

It's of course very nice of them, but I can't help but feel that almost nobody will play these games since there are better, more recent versions of them, except for research and a little bit of nostalgia of course. So it's not something a publisher would do for a more evergreen game for instance.
That being said, I just wish a law would prevent right owners from suing someone distributing their games as long as they're not currently sold.

@Sketcz It gets even weirder. The guy the itch.io page belongs to is not the actual developer, and they're selling at least another port from them. I hope they transfer the money but still, it's very unusual.

I remember finding also similarities in some backgrounds of Moonfleet.

@Grackler Same, I can't find it.

I like shmups, but unfortunately I suck at them.

@slider1983 Have you tried to clean your carts? Do you know anyone else whose carts don't work?

@slider1983 Then it's not updated.

@slider1983 The Mega Sg is compatible with the SMS Codemasters games. What are you talking about?

No mention of their skits with Tommy Tallarico ?

Damn I'm rich! XD

@axelhander Frankly, I read my post again and I don't get your problem. I was making a suggestion to avoid legal problems while supporting the homebrew scene. What is wrong with that?

@axelhander I don't care about my look.

This YT channel may be great but it tackles systems that are designed to use illegal content by definition, whether we like it or not. To avoid copyright strikes, they could review these systems by showing homebrew games for instance. It would be a great opportunity to showcase the work of developers at the same time, instead of whining.