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A regional thing I'd assume. I haven't checked many Eggconsole releases though I only did Mado Monagatari as was interested in it and it's sequel? Remake? Whichever it is the new one.

Five Hearts Under One Roof Season 2 is down in some regions but I don't know if it's because of my own survey saying it had 'playable' ways around it. Or they took it down for other reasons. All they had to do was fix it, they patched it and took it down for sale digitally. I have the game it's just weird they did so.

Oh well I'll get the PS version as well if possible and compare that since i had to use the Switch touch screen to get it to work in some areas and some videos were bit distracting and not rendered well. But otherwise it was a 99% playable game.

While cool to see, the official one may happen on PC for Xbox store though so I mean? A fan made version is cool but how will it fair or will Microsoft go hmm we will compete with this or request taking it down. Not great timing due to however far along 360 games will be on PC.

While 'sure I guess' IPs of choice it is still cool to see this done with them then just 'oh it's ported to this platform who cares' at least something interesting is being done with them.

AI wise is just an excuse for 'we don't want to program or were too lazy to learn how to code, fix the issues/nuances'. It's an excuse. I don't respect it at all. Regardless of the environmental impact too yes, vibe coding is an excuse.

It's like learning to code a website or clicking around an app, can they fix it, no. Or make a game in an engine by clicking then coding, they are too dumb and stupid to code and lazy to learn how.

This is why credit/copyright helps, or people that make the effort.

I struggle to code but i"m not going to let an AI do it because I can't fix it, I don't understand the code and I'm not relying on tech that's not there yet let alone I like to do things myself or face that I can't do things, improve or do what I can with what I already can.

I make wikis, that's good enough for me even if I can't code a game.

Most people are full of themselves and can't own up to it so AI it is to 'solve that'. Pure excuses.

IDEs have suggestions as it is, what further laziness do people need? A lot it seems.

If it's a fan project it has no deadline compared to a company project where I get it but still, so why vibe code? Vibe art? Excuses by people is all I see with AI. Dumb and stupid people, want 'something' apparently and to not think at all.

People are already clone happy, why not more AI cloning because of how dumb and lazy people are. It just says a lot about people. Not trustworthy and stupid.

@Ruka Good to know I'm not the only one I have this issue with many games as well.

What they bring to the table, being inspired too much and making money to fit in, is not good enough in my book either.

I'm researching many games to get an idea and still coming up with random ideas myself to fit the world/characters of their games, and many Indies, AAA, AA are all pathetically weak other then the stand out few. It's just annoying.

There is only few I respect, many may not interest me but if they get in my respect view/list then I will say so.

So it will be further nostalgia garbage, what inspirations, weak game design, what else is new. Easy pass.

Do better Indies your surface level inspirations are boring/tiring and the games aren't anywhere near as good as those IPs, let alone niche IPs with just as much good ideas left behind to take inspiration from (not to copy paste just understand ideas from, spin off their OWN but no one even spins off their own they can't even program, just make nice art, that's all most Indies are, bare minimum programming of gameplay, code blocks in engines by clicking, pathetic)

But what do I know, people eat up nostalgia, not quality or 'their own developer ideas' as they have no ideas of their own only borrowing 24/7, what a waste and bland design. I don't ask for unique, I ask for make it yourself not copy paste all the time.

My problem is none of these are ;'their ideas' don't exist and are just heavily inspired boring games I don't what to play or support. They don't deserve it. Their level design sucks, movesets are garbage, their art looks nice but that's not good enough and the music is forgettable too. That's not fun at all.

There is a reason I research and still come up randomly with ideas myself in the context of the world/characters I see, not borrow from other games. No one does that as they are too stupid to.

Ah yes watches, because Sega knows we all want merch for them to use those not a Genesis or modern gaming right? Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.

AI is not worth it. If people are too lazy to take their time to code they shouldn't code at all. Not speed things up, have bad code, fix it later and so on. Code it yourself or don't code at all. Simple as that.

It's like using a template for anything, even more so for websites, do you web design/program it yourself from scratch or use a template builder because it's easier and be an excuse.

Otherwise fair other hardware or software news I guess.

Though while the Mario Gameboy idea is fair, people could just use their time for more interesting ideas. They got used to the hardware and adapting the characters/artstyle to the Gameboy, while some fair ideas can come from this for a 1/2, 3/4, whatever, just put it towards something else but oh it's Mario so they have to. Who cares. Then again even if it was 'original' it would still be narrow view inspired, like everything else on this planet is. Sigh. People's reference points or inspirations are pathetically boring.

Random ideas from thin air barely happen and it's clear why people are that way and are more bland because of it. Sigh. What a waste of skills/socialising for bland recycling reference material for easy appeal, profit or 'coding' for fun. Yeah so much fun. Bland results. How are people so educated still so pathetically narrow minded creatively, it boggles the mind. Or normal people also are as well. Easy appeal stuff, sigh. Pass.

People in the past were referential or inspired too but some went this can be worked this way, I do more of that thinking then I do the former, I want more of the latter, but we see more of the former and it's so boring. Sigh.

@Sketcz Thanks for the recommendation I'll have to check those out.

Typical, using a brand name, a 'culture' and not following it at all. Says a lot. Always hilarious, always brands/nostalgia, and still using modern excuses. Companies never learn, staff never learn.

Modern era phones have authentication apps and more for a reason so some things are impossible to avoid for jobs or other things but the rest can be done on a dumb phone still. Snake or bubble breaker or just call/text, and the essentials no games even. It's not hard, but they have to have a 'gimmick' when the gimmick is no gimmicks. Sigh.

Some companies get the point of no smart features, that's it's gimmick, fair support of old cable ports too, sure no analogue tuning but that's understandable, but others that can still work and are being made which for amplifiers and others with the cables/connectors make sense, sure that can be offered on a modern dumb TV.

Missing the point of an era in time that's clear in magazines and movies/TV shows what they portrayed but what the reality was, was always different. That and people in these companies or not from that era mistaking it.

I wasn't from this era but even I have a brain and try to understand the context or people that do tell it how it is of clothes, tech, prices, availability and more not just movies/TV shows, magazine and more that showcase things or pushed the 'trends' and more, but weren't the reality. It's the people that experienced them or never did that know, not the companies or the media of the areas only getting some points.

Magazines are clear from question columns and clothing to whatever else versus what people actually did even. That's not hard to work out. It's not hard for me to work out people getting smartphones by 2012 or even late 2010s even. Not oh everyone got the iPhone in 2007, yeah no.

People that had dial up, or no computer at all, or cellphones or whatever.

The good quality stuff, the bad, the left behind, the well talked about, the reality of things.

If I can get that context, how the others of younger generations or older generations in companies even that should know better even from that era or older even, fail to and just go oh it's a nostalgia/culture to bring back as if it's a trend and 'we can fit in too', not understand it at all and be like 'look it's back and we put a modern twist on it'. Like what? XD

There was companies being like oh we can't have parodies or reflect ourselves as villains in media so we can't have that as storylines (well some do, but it's more rare now and audiences too also miss the context too at times as well and we get dumb comedy and call backs to things in the most not creative ways over time) yet they make fools out of themselves by missing the point of the brand, and using modern business excuses or missing the point of a culture.

People don't make a culture a thing to be 'part of it' those that do, do, but most people have it with a purpose in mind and those purposes make sense why they were that way.

If they want to detox and enjoy dumb TVs and phones it should be clear, not 'look we can be part of that movement too' many people don't get that at companies. It's always hilarious and not worth a purchase.

Offering snake or bubble breaker or whatever sure.

Or just being a dumb phone and that's it. Not some fancy gimmick or modern excuses on an older culture idea coming back because people want to be a part of it.

@Sketcz Very good points. Hopefully my tone wasn't confusing. Many people enjoy retro magazines and more no doubt. I was just meaning in particular way due to the AI and non interested types. Hopefully that context was clear. I have a long way to go on many retro stuff but I'm open to researching it, those others forget or aren't. Or don't have enough reference of what they were like.

Many people on this website are way more informed then I am.

I don't have experience with retro magazines but I totally get the appeal. I have a few modern retro/modern gaming magazines but not ones from the past.

Of course sources exist that reprint them as well, I am aware of that too.

Yes many magazines for adult audiences in Japan for different media (not meaning 'adult' I do mean yes manga, games, whatever else with news, updates, etc. things to showcase, assuming advertising for things) do feature models or whatever else on them. I've seen or heard that before.

Of course real adult stuff is behind other doors/rooms when selling that stuff. Or other floors for it if in a multi-floor buildings.

Looks fair Sega Rally on N64, a bit of a GT64 kind of look or Moto Racer on PS1 or others. Looks fair.

Still. Hyperkin SNES getting more models is cool. Some other fair retro news.

Never seen these till now as I don't look at retro magazine type stuff. I jump in and out of the retro scene. Mostly wikipedia or videos on games, sometimes collectors pickups but in terms of retro releases I mean I only come to Time Extension infrequently or other places even less so. So no these are new to me.

Not surprised they are even presented this way either these images.

There is a reason I don't care about nostalgia, I care about game quality. But most people are too emotional or the whatever 'play old platforms, better use your money, enjoy your nostalgia' and I'm like sigh. I enjoy old things for different reasons, not easily brainwashing or simple emotional reasons.

But I have a detection mindset for things so not surprised. Face value doesn't happen to me really.

I mean do people even re-read/read magazines from the past archived?

Or via retro services?

Or retro magazines or anything else? No. Clearly the designs are missed by people who don't remember magazines while the rest of us have a brain or a reference for it, why they presented the characters, consoles, whatever design for the era and what each issue looked like.

Not surprised that the ones who have no idea are those who don't.

I don't read them but even I have enough knowledge on how some covers are.

Did people forget even what motor vehicle magazines looked like or what many AI details are like or anything that isn't human/human form with enough details to compare what AI fails or doesn't or people look at actual references?

Let alone if any of these people may be modelled on anything, whether from gaming booths, to AV to anything out there. Or just random entirely.

Nuts and Bolts was a fair mix of ideas for sure. Vehicle games always have some great ideas many overlook or don't play/considered compared to human/anthropomorphic humanlike animal characters when to me anything can have a good movesets to aid in good level design ideas. Plenty of 90s/00s platformers have great ideas for animals movesets/level design, something that hasn't happen in years with modern uses of them as much, sigh.

I hate the whole 'oh they are experimenting' yeah because current era games or trends are that experimented well, regardless of IP.

It's what they DO with them, not the characters/worlds itself being reused or new ones. Mainline, spin off or new IP, who cares.

The game design sucks and that's why I'm not playing many modern games only cherry picking the few I think are actually creative. As most of them aren't.

I didn't dislike Nuts and Bolts it's just some parts were a bit awkward. I enjoy vehicle games, I enjoy platformers, but sometimes some objectives with vehicles can be awkward to do. The building was fair, the personality of the IP is there, the 'joke about platformers' is a bit hit and miss of execution landing or not as a joke. To me the Banjo brand didn't matter to me on that game it was still fair whether it was applied to it or not.

I've played licensed games and gone this has great gameplay and have no interest in the license it has. I am fine with IPs changing genre or mixing up ideas, it varies on the execution though, sometimes it works other times it doesn't. But that's with my playing other genres and understanding them, what they do right or not then a 'this isn't the way the IP usually is' kind of mindset.

Disagea Mayhem I'm not interested in as I've played Musou games but they vary, Senran Kagura sure but if it's more then that I'm not too sure I want to play a Dynasty Warriors scale, I don't care to play it really. I'd have gone for a different approach to branch out the IP besides a visual novel/tactics/2D platformer and more series of games/spin offs. I'd play a Disagea rail shooter or something else.

I play all genres, to learn them, understand the details in a genre, of a studio/publisher, what they were going for and sometimes have my own ideas for them or not. Especially modern games as many are so boring I have to come up with my own ideas. XD

Using old IPs or new, it's the game deign. Modern games suck and the experimentation went with them.

Sea of Theives is fair but to me it lacks a lot of depth.

Everwild may have been good.

I can't beat a single Rare game but they are very creatively done with ideas I find fascinating, same with any other gems left behind games I've beaten, or Nintendo titles.

I enjoyed many of the ZX Spectrum to 360 games in Rare Replay. The most fun I had on the Xbox One which is saying a lot, other then ReCore or Sunset Overdrive.

8th gen to me just disappointed and 9th gen has made games even worse.

So yeah 'experimentation'

I have tolerated very few Indies or AA and AAA is just a joke of story'/graphics with pathetic gameplay.

So yeah gaming is doing so good right now of 'experimentation'. XD

I keep forgetting the prototypes were just an X shape then they worked it to something more suitable. Still preservation for sure.

Very unfortunate. A great note, and great article.

Understandable. Then again Tecmo did go between Xbox for Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden yes.

Nintendo for Fatal Frame 4 and 5.

Seeing the teams/studio behind Steins;gate and others (Nitroplus, 5pb or Mages or whichever nowadays or back then) enjoyed the 360/Xbox One but had to move over to other platforms.

I assume others that did were certain Japanese or South Korean developers that were exclusive too during the OG Xbox/360 era.

Atelier I think was more for PlayStation or Nintendo systems besides things like the Dreamcast, maybe Saturn.

Dynasty Warriors has been on many things but well known with PlayStation or having ports or themed ones otherwise the notable ones for Nintendo themed ones of Zelda/Fire Emblem of course.

Monster Rancher I think is mostly well known on Playstation.

The IPs sort of go anywhere if were just talking Koei Tecmo.

Of course Capcom tried to talk with Xbox but did more so with Nintendo or Sony instead, but had their moments over time with many IPs.

Square is yeah particular and I can see why for sure.

Sega of course went everywhere after they moved on with their consoles (besides the 2003 to 2007 Dreamcast Japanese releases or Coleco Sonic or whatever else they were still doing then even if they had Saturn/PC and Neo Geo Pocket Sonic Pocket and other releases back then many people don't talk about or know about).

The audiences are clear where they go, companies get picky and the staff working on the software/hardware can say what they think but the rest is elsewhere in the company making clear their stances.

Fair to see fans off this.

In the mean time, like anything, I'll try and support the Splintercell remake if they do it right, otherwise I'll buy up the old ones like i have been (got the 2nd in the trilogy and whatever one of the PSP ones is probably the 3rd one on the handheld not the 2nd entry in the trilogy on the PSP). Activision didn't want to offer COD OG Xbox versions so I got the PS2 versions instead.

They didn't COD Classic but did COD1 on PC. Got Pitfall Lost Expedition on Wii, it isn't being offered on Xbox and I needed another copy compared to PS2.

Either way, with Forgotten Sands on Wii to finish and Prince of Persia 2008 yeah I'm good for now. Oh also Lost Crown if I get through it enough.

I'll keep finding old versions instead of the new ones if the companies won't provide them or cancel them when I was willing to support them.

Good article. But smartphones weren't just born with the iPhone, plenty of cellphones were smartphones. Or were they feature phones back then?

Touch screen smartphones are what I call the iPhone onwards ones and even then that isn't that accurate, because the PDAs, Pocket PCs, other cellphones and more likely had touch screens.

Surprised even by touch screen CRTs or tablets of the past too.

Some companies had the form factor angle and popularised it with marketing, but that's about it.

That aside cool to see covered and efforts to handle them compared to what we know of over here.

This gives off Sega Genesis VR/Atari Jaguar VR vibes but of course more powerful then that.

Otherwise it is cool to see, I don't care for the IP but even still like the cardboard for the PSP entry, or using whatever camera/equipment in universe it is cool to see. Or just offer the perspective still.

Sly Cooper/Racoon in VR or Splintercell in VR would be more fitting I think as well.

I don't know, any IPs with a focus on certain equipment. Regardless of how niche, but most will go for games that are 'recognisable' as it gets more attention or people care about those IPs more, while I couldn't care less I care for game design potential, not the IP itself.

Not the most ideal way to play, but still a cool experience.

Even the Ratchet 2 VR recreation is pretty cool too.

So whether just like a VorpX or others with VR support to offer or recreations in VR, it is still cool to see some of these projects come about.

@Martin_H Even if we aren't talking Laptops, Tablets, Pocket PCs, PDAs, the gaming handhelds that flopped, Tapwave Zodiac and Gizmondo, had Bluetooth, media players for video/music, photo/image viewers, GPS and camera BUILT IN not add ons like PSP.

They didn't have the music or comic services of PSP, but the rest hardware/software wise they did have. Just not as well known unless like me you look into failed tech.

Tapwave was ex Palm PDA staff. Gizmondo was well particular people but had Windows CE and fair hardware behind it.

Lazy Game Reviews or LGR has great videos on both these handhelds. I recommend watch both separate videos on them.

Tapwave Zodiac, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3nNKQRnNQ

and Gizmondo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv6UaHZxUys

Both 2003/2004/2005, aka before or around or after PSP or ended before PSP even started.

The stories behind them, the games, the emulators, specs and features are very interesting.

The Bluetooth for Zodiac makes even image sending not great, but possible with modern Bluetooth even due to backwards compatibility of Bluetooth.

The Gizmondo connectivity seemed to be more between Gizmondos but to me reminds me (not the same) of Eye Toy Chat or Wii U Chat, but is really more like a Cybiko (I know mentioning a random other device, LGR also covered) or any other phone type send contact thing.

So people can say it was only the DS/PSP, but like NGage and others, it like when people forget the Panasonic Jungle was going to happen around the time of 3DS/Vita, plenty of devices exist each gen.

Even the GP32 or Game Park handhelds of South Korea were a thing and many people emulated games on them but I think it was similar of capabilities too. I need to look into that more I can't remember what they really offer but the other 2 I can confirm they do have those features.

Even Wikipedia regardless of the info people contribute have generation categories with plenty of handhelds or consoles. It's that simple to read up on them.

Same as the HyperScan for 2006 or the Coleco Sonic (not related but came out around then for different goals).

Real, AI or not, any research is simple to do. I researched most of these devices view websites, videos, whatever years ago or go back to some of them.

Well since no one paid attention to the things the Tiger Gamecom could do with it's menus not just it's games or built in one.

Diamond Rio years before the iPod, plenty of tablets, laptops and other devices. Netbooks were a particular thing that weren't great and Chromebooks fit into nowadays.

PSP digital videos you could rescale via software or get films via disks. Or whatever the PSP eshop had. While music was way easier to work around on the PSP then video, same with pictures unless with the camera attachment, but I assume for slideshows/backgrounds or general photo/image storage sure it works fine for viewing.

Docks or cables to screens was done before PSP but PSP is great for the feature for sure.

Someone must have let the Walkman of the 21st Century or surface level devices be the only thing they can understand as it takes no time at all to know more capable out and failed or companies not around anymore with successful devices in the past.

The Gameboy Workboy addon, the NGage, Tapwave Zodiac, Gizmondo all a few years before PSP and similar features of media playback, Bluetooth, contacts, photos, GPS, camera and more built in not addons like PSP or software ones made sense such as, the comic/music services of PSP.

The yes 1970s handhelds, the Game and Watch/Gameboy, the plenty of competitors with cool ideas/button layouts and more like Wonderswan, Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, Atari Lynx and more.

Even the GP32 is an impressive device for the time of PSP.

Pocket PCs/PDAs of the era too pre-iPhone, even smartphones before the iPhone is the one that popularised the term for us nowadays.

Tablets before the iPad if people paid any attention to Windows XP Tablet Edition or Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing. Or any other CRTs with such features.

Plenty of devices, big name companies of the past like Palm, Blackberry and more to go on.

The Atari Profile even. Among plenty of other laptops, portables, handhelds and more. So many examples.

But like Playlink PS4 party games or smartphone second screen stuff DS or whatever. Windows 8 form of windows/app differences might as well have been a blink and it's gone yet I remember them so well and appreciated those features.

People know a QR code with their smartphone but anything else unless calls, social media, common websites and more might as well be a blur, never heard of, too far from them to be experienced because 2014, and whoever got their smartphones later or whatever.

People who were in offices or tech enthusiasts caring about Pocket PCs/PDAs, Pagers and more, most forget or couldn't care less as it never effected them.

There is plenty of software, hardware and more changes over the years recent to very old to point to of features and services and otherwise.

I've known this for years and did enough easy searches. But like I expect some people to do the 2 seconds of research (many like NGage, Gizmondo, Tapwave Zodiac are in the same generation search on Wikipedia as the PSP if people use the page and categories right).

With the research others have provided of course in videos, Wikipedia, or any other visual/written sources that were super easy to find nowadays. XD

Good write up. Yeah it's a weird game, a Sims but magazine sim but it's very limited (I mean in the social or magazine business sim systems, not the other, the other to tone down makes sense for sure for rating boards or console maker's requirements of course).

I'm not always one to comment on such articles (for the context, but the less common articles are fun to read too) but it was an interesting article so thought I'd comment on it.

(Apps not really a game more so a Idol videos like Megumi DVD put with PS2 branding on it, compared to the Music Player Apps or any other type of stuff are just as strange, then you get your Demolition Girl or Guy Game and all sorts of others and things just get weird. Even the Leisure Suit Larry for PS2 surprised me compared to it's Point n Click roots). So for insert brand name here or fan service angles in video games it is weird for sure.

That and well the PS Vita or any others of the AA Japanese games, or the PC-FX games or whatever else. To even the 'not Steam' type launchers on PC. But that's it's own other factor that I've heard of. Yeah the more to research (only the surface level, no interest in any of it) the weirder it gets.

Some people do want to play it for the business sim aspects I'd say besides a 'wish fulfillment' I'd assume just with how limiting or how to progress is a bit hmm for sure.

Maybe they didn't get Magazine Tycoon (no idea if something like that exists) on PC so they got this instead. Maybe some Fashion Tycoon or something. I mean Tycoon in front of everything was what they were worded as before Simulator took of nowadays.

Even Sims games of the time have more going on for sure which even reviewers of the time point out I think and I can agree on that.

It's yes like many other 'insert brand here for PS2 era' type games. Some are better then others and were just silly decisions but more options to expand awareness of the business, but they give a lot to talk about for sure.

I like how the 'getting in a brown paper bag' is worded there. Very funny but also not surprising they couldn't do that. It does still feel like it though for sure so it has that effect regardless of not the same extent in impact, presentation, content, etc., then you realise you see clothes with the logo on them to this day and go I don't know what to think anymore. Among other products every so often.

Whether they feel like insert this artist and people go, hey cool logo, but have no idea what it is or not type effect really. Whatever the people who do and get that welcomed or not conversation starter. XD

Other then those who may be into the brand of course.

So Sega Saturn vs PS1 and we got dithering instead. Interesting. The amount of things tried back then and what was possible. Blast Processing that wasn't a really used feature. FMVs and other effects with 2D games among 3D polygons and more.

PN03 with the reverse/alternative if we got the aiming/movement of that compared to what we have nowadays for 3rd person shooter movement with strafing or sticks to move and aim then tank controls and stick aiming.

To me PN03 and Lost Planet made me impressed with their aiming/controls, compared to other games going the usual way.

But like cover systems in Dead to Rights/Killswitch onwards to Gears/Uncharted popularising it.

Or Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano Tiger Effect rewind and RPG systems to Grid 2008 with 0 to 5 rewinds, to Forza Motorsport 3, changing rewind system and RPG to just a very much use infinitely and it picks points where, so rewind is very basic these days.

Plenty of ahead of their time features or popularised or other features left behind for sure, for sure and evolved into all sorts of things in hardware or mechanics, or anything else in consoles/games.

Even the homing bullets for the Wanted Weapons of Fate movie game was cool and had fair moving of the cover system.

Impressive, while I'd rather see other particular games on other platforms.

If they offer GTA on GameCube that would just be funny in itself. I wouldn't care for it, but showing what's possible on those disks or appearing on the platform.

Otherwise there is plenty of other IP gems on old consoles I'd be curious how they are then popular IPs. Despite how technical some games can be and impressive to see, or originally for or whatever the case.

Ah MilCDs. The way it's mentioned though makes me go but wait, CDI was for menus and other details but MilCDs were more for Karaoke and other things so for like menus, subtitles/closed captions and more? Fair. Besides I guess support for it like the JVC X Eye had Karaoke support. So offering other options.

But well many found out the MilCD thing and well Dreamcast homebrew is what it is today of course.

Bleem you could compare to either Atari games on Coleco/Intellivision.

Or you could emulation that was a product like Game Genie and others with a different purpose.

Or just companies fighting over competition/control and they made Bleem go under, same with Connectix as well.

It still makes clear what competition, emulation by 3rd parties besides 1st party official emulation studios and like Other OS for PS3/PS2 Linux Kit or PS1 Net Yaroze, among other things, the amount of offerings over the years is fascinating of what was the case legally and what was the case for just control, competition and technical or IP related or other factors.

Yep Eye Toy Kinectic before Wii Fit, Sony's Playlink brand (smartphone controller apps, people don't talk about as many do Eye Toy, Move, PSVR, but the delisted games/app are able to be used still just on archives or disks, I know I have a few), before Everybody 1 2 Switch smartphone support.

Ratchet 2 and 3 spherical worlds before Mario Galaxy.

Crush on PSP (3rd party) before Super Paper Mario.

I've had an Eye Toy camera for years, had he first Eye Toy Play and Singstar a few entries, but bought more Eye Toy related games over time. Or games that are Eye Toy compatible.

Very interesting, good write up/sources.

Seems interesting, not much to say, but may check it out.

Fair but like anything big IP inspired by Indies, I ignore it.

Cool but I prefer other projects not just ports of well known games.

It's impressive to see how textures, scale of world and more would have been but even still.

Fair I guess for the time. I prefer DMA's prior Space Station Silicon Valley or other game ideas but whatever. I get what scale and what GTA is/does well. I don't care. It fits into what many other casual appealing easy to understand games do, boring use of imagination and tech for locations, characters and movesets. Like most games today.

Saw the Hard 4 Games video and yeah very interesting.

I don't see an issue, it seems fine. Feel for it maybe, design wise I don't see an issue.

Modular design or just other little details sure but I don't find it that bad.

Pretty cool but knowing who did, it's understandable, they are very good.

Lack of original files sure but I mean the OG has been ported, it's not hard to like adapting a book, prior movie or others having a physical or digital source and LOOK AT IT.

Or prior material lost or not then backed up or ripped or whatever.

PR/marketers being useless then a dev response.

I get not everyone has their prior work but even still, it's like many did it on purpose or publishers didn't care. For niche titles it sucks but bigger titles it sounds like an excuse.

The literal Gran Turismo comment but for Capcom. They have the originals, they don't wipe out the remakes (or let alone anyone if they have the original source remove them as a basis if they are smart, whether games, film, book, etc.)

These people do realise in the same breath too they also say re-release your arcade games again too right? They aren't remaking all of those are they? Didn't think so. They don't think very quickly, smartly or about possibilities. This is why even scammers fail, they have 1 goal and that goal isn't strong enough of steps to fool people.

As if pretty graphics and 3rd person generic camera matters? Or as if only spectale matters, they do know people buy these PS1/Saturn versions via PC or the second hand market or emulate them right? Maybe the people that don't like the remakes would like to play the originals for details they have? Or people jsut wanting to play the original to see how it started? Or want a PS1/Saturn feel? They don't know they don't think for more then 2 seconds about possiiblities of audiences just money and 'as if everything is already improved' is it though?

It's different, it's a remake with differences, it may be good, but little things can matter to any one, just like anyone preferring different lighting, texture work, camera angles, gameplay, story, tone, voice acting, whatever, but it adds up for that person's preference.

But they don't think that far as it's too far for their brains to comprehend as usual.

They can't be that stupid. Oh wait they can. XD

These devs, pubs, execs don't think for more than 2 seconds about potential audiences preferences and think people only go for the remakes, may people hate the remakes compared to the many that enjoy the remakes, but they don't think do they?

Such hypocrites that seem to forget their potential audience, the audience's preferences (nostaglia, never experienced, want to compare differences, some things lost in the remakes, but nope, clearly not, too specific for their tiny little money sucking mentality only brains) buying things on the second hand market that they would also say later 'we need to get them to buy things on modern platforms how do we do that, we can't let these potential customers leave us and go backwards or be left behind and not give us money on new platforms as we don't get that pre owned money'

I swear it's so easy to pick apart this stupidity..

Understandable, if it had an adapator (3rd party sure), but otherwise yeah however it was on set it does get people noticing.

Also I saw an Australian news (I think it was ABC or another one) retro games report that was fairly short and it was ok.... not great.

Youtubers will always do a better job representing how gamers are, whether the big deal games prices, retro game stores, resellers, grading and other aspects of second hand market, first hand, news reports or other aspects etc. or us odd people that go for other games and aren't always focusing on the big games and the high prices but the 99% other games out there for reasonable prices that are still enjoyable.

This is about as bad as the Wall Street Journal did with saying stuff about Switch and I was like uh PSP, Nomad, plenty of other examples. But what you going to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNiIspelPlQ&pp=ygUbd2FsbCBzdHJlZXQgbmludGVuZG8gc3dpdGNo I think it was this video.

Interesting, I'll keep that in mind. I know flash storage read/write sure, I don't know enough about how SSDs or other flash storage completely works of course but even still.

But for it to work due to the data or other factors hmm. Not just I guess recognising it in the console or power or whatever but just working at all due to storage even in boxes or loose I'd say it has more of a chance to fail.

Whatever oxidiation, contact with other things or other factors sure.

Physical is more likely to be effected by things but digital licensing and moving or DRM is a challenge in itself anyway.

Rewriteable sure, but I mean as if Switch 2 virtual game cards weren't clear of just loaning for a period of time, or game keys and servers and other stuff.

The control is understandable for resale or whatever rules by companies but it's still a pain.

Even having blocked saves to whatever console ID or things like Gran Turismo PSP, GT5/6 or Forza Motorsport 3 and 4 on 360, or any others that you can't move saves or load them on the same hardware as different user or different console entirely or whatever. It's a pain. Let alone servers and cloud connections or reworkings of that.

If it's mostly arcade archives, sure, if it's other games, whether yeah light gun or any other random old IPs they actually want to support sure. But if it's the bare minimum I don't care.

I don't know a lot about Bandai Namco's library of IPs compared to the few Konami/Capcom ones that are niche I wanted revived/ported but never will be sigh.

But I mean, any Ridge Racer would be nice even besides the ones they have offered or started with arcade archives for that one.

I want some of their other consoles games to be offered but they probably won't and just go eh arcade ones. Which while may be cool I don't know enough about them or probably care that much for them.

I'd easily take even Bandai Pippon/Wonderswan games but that will never happen. Will we ever see any of those, let alone the Klonoa one even to a Klonoa collection with the GBA ones not just the console games we got in that duology collection? I doubt it.

It's a good game, but never heard of it being related to effecting other games. But whatever staff or others make connections to I guess. Pretty cool and more definitive first hand source, very cool.

But rebooting KI 2013 is also pretty fair.

Rygar The Legendary Adventure has elements not just setting or other things to compare. Apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjvjqNd_gPc or I guess Forgotten Realms Demon Stone. I don't know I would have to look around besides what people say in videos and pick details from in their research.

I haven't delved into this side as much of older character action games that are much older more the later era ones licensed or popular examples, more so platformers, shooters and racing games.

Any fighting game or game with combos/hack n slash elements could count really. Dynasty Warriors as a Musou had combos and it's own exploration/tons of enemies and structures or bosses. Yet I could make the connection of the tons of enemies to strategy games not just the replicating of tons of units in wars but putting it in a gaming comparative sense.

I mean it's not like cover based shooters couldn't have been compared to light gun/rail shooters or just 'ducking and shooting' or shooting galleries. Gaming side of things, or reality and converted, side of things compared to other shooters more lean left/lean right approach like 2000s era Medal of Honor did or even Bodycount for PS3/360 is a more later example that still had it which is weird as Black 2006 never had it.

I mean even Legend of Kay a platformer, or games with strafe or others have a dodge move way before God of War or Demon Souls did. I thought this when watching a video where someone mentioned it and I was like plenty have done this before those.

Obviously originators can be hard to pin point, or did or didn't do it as well, or niche games doing it or which devs looked or played others and picked it up and popularised it/refined but even still.

I mean there were plenty of pre God of War type games beside DMC, even some Roman/Greek ones or something. Maybe even some other licensed games.

Killswitch by Namco US to Gears/Uncharted sure or Alfa Romeo Racing Italiano or Evolution GT's tiger effect (both games have it by Milestone SRL) to Grid 2008/Forza Motorsport 3's rewind system (removed the RPG elements and just made it 1 to 5 or Pro mode as 0 to use or just infinite and pacing the use of it in Forza Motorsport 3).

Fair titles, can also get them anywhere these days of past consoles, or even cough Android archives.

I got PS4 Playlink apps on an Android 11 phone for testing, still works. Same with GT6 Track Editor app. None of these are accessible anymore unless on old firmwares.

Or maybe Android x86 or Bluestacks. Not ideal but that's the future was to access them if not the regular way.

If not Sony then Bandai Namco or someone else. But Sony doesn't really care so who knows.

I'd be fine with smaller scale titles or a medium scaled one but nope they always have to go big and it's annoying.

They can get it out but know publishers, execs and audiences won't do it even though many of us want smaller games and would be fine with the IP used that way to get out sooner.

Balance the budget and focus on it's strengths, it's mechanics, it's potential, it can offer then the biggest game it can be and not even worth the time, money and waste it can be as if EVERYTHING has to be this big thing.

Potential can be shown with a small scale and be the best experience. It's just most people go too far with it. There is a reason I like B grade platformers, their ideas were just as good if not better then the AAA ones back in the day. I seek the B grades out because they are so exciting not because they were niche, it's what they offered.

I hate how generic Indies are in their inspirations or emptiness. I get their skill level or amount of staff and all that but they still barely come close due to what they seek to offer or how lack modern games emptiness can be excused (I know I play all gens and see the differences and priorities it's disgusting) and to me it isn't excusable.

Skill level yes is understandable but potential to work around that in art and how much a mechanic appears or HOW it's used matters to me. Indie platformers are pathetically bad and 5/6th platformers of any scale are way better.

I don't care about large scale at all, but the percentage or mentality/motivation from staff or audiences is always clear and frustrating.

I have never played the Ape Escape series I need to get on that but even still.

Fair but at the same time I am sick and tired of revivals of old racing games being mechanically uninteresting, like many Indies.

So for recreating it or Saturn like experiences sure it's cool but at the same time eh. We will just see some uninteresting retro racing games with boring mechanics and too nostalgic and that's what I hate. I hate nostalgia as an excuse for devs inspirations and making boring games with barely any interesting ideas. Not that exciting.

Unfortunate.

I myself think the 3DS is a fine console but the library isn't as exciting, homebrew/emulators/Pretendo maybe.

I'd rather a DS or PSP or even others instead, handheld or console. 3DS is overrated by Youtubers pushing the narrative. I got one for what I wanted anyway not what Youtubers tell people about it.

But otherwise eh 3DS is an ok system to round out this side of gaming systems available as I make my way to acquiring the older ones not so accessible or researched heavy already.

I'm glad I bought a New 3DS XL (black inside orange outside) in Jan 2020 as I assumed 3DS software and hardware (even if still there) as well as Wii U, Vita, PS3, Wii, 360 would be phased out and they have,

Until EB Games brought back of PS2, PS3, Wii, 360 but not as much as the USA. Not in my town area but still I didn't expect it too either. The roll outs are always slow.

Some decent games are there but not as many of the gems I want as others so still emulating those I guess. But for the big games I can finally acquire many of them for a cheap price. YAY. Well availability was more my issue then price for those I seek that aren't what most people want so prices weren't really an issue if most barely know about them, care about them or fit my tastes that aren't most typical eyes on the same typical IPs.

Glad my prices I see in used games stores aren't as bad as this but could be.

Fair to offer. But what about the cellphone Java games?

I doubt a Croc compilation will be a thing.

But if just Croc 1, 2, the GBC ones and a new game or if we ever see other Argonaut IPs sure.

Whether original (platformer or any other genre/something different) or revivals of iNinja or Malice or anything else I'd be fine with that.

I am not big on Indie platformers missing what many 5/6th gen platformers had of magic in mechanics, level design and art design, many Indies feel empty and too focused on other things and lack the magic many veteran devs had when making platformers. They don't spin them off enough and it's really annoying how bland they are.

Bought Malice and 100%ed it but to support them sure I could buy it digitally besides my PS2 copy I was happy to acquire. Malice was like playing Scaler a breeze and worth my time. Never played iNinja.

Kya Dark Lineage by Eden Games however that one is taking me a while due to how it's structured. Kind of like Legend of Kay was, good games but take me more to understand and get through.

It's fair to not expect the way Windows or Android dual screen use could be with other apps to utilise so I shouldn't judge by that even if it's so disappointing in that area.

So to have another dual screen DS/3DS/Wii U or maybe PC multi window games (like Sim Tower or something) is fine, but eh.

But I do want more dual screen/multi screen apps or use case devices to be a thing.

Yes I have I checked both my Wii U 32GB Deluxe consoles work and my Gamepads work every few weeks/months.

I don't have any homebrew to test, but I know the coloured ports and disk drive sounds at this point.

One of my Android phones is over used and the battery/charging port is stuffed.

While my PSP/DS (DSi I have an OG DS for GBA only use on occasion) are a bit hmm of batteries yet worked fine when I left them alone compared to my extended use of them into the Vita/3DS gen as didn't have them till now with 2017/2022 Vita both models and 2020 New 3DS XL. So yeah both those are doing fine of batteries.

So besides my Nokia Lumia 520 Windows Phone battery or my Nokia/HMD Android 8.3 5G that battery is stuffed even more then my Nokia/HMD Android 5.1+ with a bend port I can still get around.

Not bothered with my Motorola or some old cameras either batteries.

Besides the marketing, yeah the project could have been better with how the voice recording and more were compared to them showing what was SUPPOSED to happen when tech wasn't there yet, the project wasn't that far along even if they tweaked it a bunch.

I don't think AI needs to go that far but at the same time some humans are just that fed up with people and I don't blame them.

So another to talk to if enough word count and enough time on the project then sure or a platform like PC/Phones that evolve differently then console to release something.

Kinect had it's moments of voice commands, motion and more, it was a fair upgrade to Eye Toy and Sony's cameras per console and better then Wii Speak but even then. Regardless of what AI ads I see for speak isolation it won't make a difference.

It's what they are trying to achieve and what sounds they can let out, ignore and more or have a quiet place and just make sure it can understand enough of speech patterns, commands, typing, a few motion gesture that isn't overly sensitivity or not tuned enough when Move/Wiimotes had it done way better then Kinect or Eye Toy hover over approach I always found too long and not picky on what it's going for.

Fair but if only more niche systems, whether the IPs are available, licensing, etc. Konami needs to get the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx Ips offered like they did the PC Engine.Turbo Grafx Classic.

If Amiga or any other PCs, consoles, etc. are available sure. But licensing/source code is such a pain, might as well do it one's self or emulate them.

But for what has been available on Evercade is very impressive so far.

Unless it has the more left behind one or two offs of PS3/360 or other odd titles of 5-7th gen then just the 'big ones' I don't care.

I like bad games or unknown gems, many have great ideas, many ideas of direction to learn from. Why not. I don't want big obvious overhyped/overtalked about titles as the only ones I don't care as much I can find the info anywhere.

Even if I don't buy online anyway. If dev info stuff sure for the big ones if easy enough to come by or research seeked out, if just general info no excuse for others to be offered in the book.

But otherwise so many FPS and very few get talked about and many do all the time I look elsewhere as they have interesting ideas in them too of note just didn't get the marketing/looks from people.

@obijuankanoobie Not so age just it's intended chips use.

Vita may be 2.4ghz but requires the modem, access point, router or otherwise to bounce off.

Portal is doing the same thing PSP, Vita and all the others do but has Wifi 5 then say maybe I don't know Wifi 3 or 4 maybe on Vita.

But whatever range intended chips.

This is what Steam Link, Xbox, current Sony remote play uses the same 'solution'. Sony has always done this solution yet used whatever tech they had at the time. Stadia even with Pixel (restricted to) or others likely even if cloud but some remote play like is in there a bit.

Wii U was never intended for that, so it's not AGE it's it's intended use of such a solution while the other chips were for the eshop and other networking services the other was for the Gamepad. So no it's not age at all. XD

GameCube/GBA was cabled, Dreamcast VMU was slotted into the controller. PSP and Nomad was cabled unless PSP or Vita/Vita TV casting besides TV connection too for HDMI.

DS was 2 screens cabled and whatever Wii/DS connection, Wiimotes could transfer Miis over for games with them supported so it had memory in it, or 2DS 1 with what it needs drawn on screen.

Things like Wii U Chat or Gizmondo bluetooth or whatever to like Eye Toy Chat, even those would be interesting but a Tapwave Zodiac does fair bluetooth that isn't locked like Gizmondo is between other GIzmondos.

I have used my weak Android phones with none of the tuning and a third party app and the connection is so noticeable of delay from games to screen rotation to next scenes in a tv show/movie, the Wii U/PS3 & 4 remote play casting is very well tuned you have no idea.

It's why the Gamepad connection was so good other then if out of range but strong otherwise, walls or 70 feet straight reach no obstacles, yet what 5Ghz and 480p image is really good then the Vita 360p/540p toggle (not even Portal, phone app or PS4 have this resolution toggle lazy Sony there) and more devices interrupting it.

The Vita and others had another device to bounce off of that's why the range was further but more could be interrupted too. I know I've used the others and Wii U has no issues because it's only talking to the Wii U console as it was designed.

So it may have had 2.4Ghz downloads for game updates, eshop, etc. and been long and annoying but they didn't want probably two of the same for cost, power draw or interference even if they could have gone with different channels or tweaked things they didn't and I respect them for that.

In some cases I prefer the Wii U local approach as it's less interference while the others ALL have interference through that method because that's how crowded a network can be then a local more centralised approach.

Age, not in the slightest. It's solution, not age.

Besides with the GPU and OS use. I mean even the PS4 or Switch have like under a 1GB of OS memory to like 800 or 900MB. No wonder games utilise so much and the PS4 screams I wouldn't even give it that much but sure whatever even besides the CPU and the chips to aid around that to push things through.

Wii U didn't have that the GPU maybe have been a Radeon something but even still the CPU and more had a lot to keep up with.

That's like saying NFC or Bluetooth range is so low when that's what they were designed for is their short range not to replace networking range the others use. Yet over time Bluetooth got to file sharing, that was from upgrades not from range.