gingerbeardman

Seems pretty cool.

I'm guessing the colours look a little less garish on a real GBC?

So the Formula 3 game that was mentioned, turned into nothing or is it REVS?

Typo x2: Grammond

I asked on twitter and it's AMOLED at 600x800 and they promise you can't see pixels. https://twitter.com/VectrexOn/status/1958423078020510050

The article states that the white edition is limited to 200 units, founders edition limited to 200 units, which hopefully means a load of regular price units for the latecomers (most people).

Great stuff. More like this please

@DemonKow the Macintosh eventually got PC Exchange with System 7 in 1992, allowing it to read PC floppies and map file extensions of certain common file types to their Macintosh equivalent type/creator code. There were also apps that could convert certain file formats to Macintosh equivalents. But these were limited luxuries!

His solution is very clever. He created his own encoding system.

Text encoding was a nightmare before Unicode became popular in the early 2000s. Especially Japanese, which in 1992 could be any of the following encodings: JIS, Shift-JIS, EUC, ISO, or MacJapanese. And that's before we try to figure out how to transfer it to people in a different country using different languages and computer systems. With no internet you couldn't just Google it or ask Siri/Alexa/etc.

One of my ongoing personal projects (buying and archiving hundreds of Japanese Macintosh Magazine CD-ROMs and making their file listings searchable) involves converting period encoding to Unicode. It's a minefield, but was fun to figure out: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2022/03/31/working-with-classic-macintosh-text-encodings-in-the-age-of-unicode/

...next week? Did they suddenly realise it's GAMESCOM but still need a week to get their act together?

Typo: Simpon's

@Damo I think it's a useful service you're providing with this coverage. It's good to understand both sides to form a rounded opinion of many shades not just black and white. And it is surprising that even in the niche retro games scene there is a lot of ai related news. It must be tricky to keep journalism and personal opinion separate and I thank you for that.

That's great to have confirmed.

From now on I'm going to comment on every ai article, apologies if/when I gets annoying @damo

@HammyHavoc I refuse to give LRG a penny

They could set up a donation link. The game looks and sounds great, but is not something I would ever play myself. Though as an indie game developer that has had my share of difficult game releases, I would donate to these guys because I enjoyed their development updates so much.

Is it just me or does anybody else see Walter from The Big Lebowski when they see photos of Christian with his 80s glasses and goatee?

Can't wait to dive into this when I decide which version to buy.

@Damo nothing personal at all in my mild objection. It's the quantity of ai coverage (for and against) that I find tiresome, across Time Extension and elsewhere. I'd feel the same if I was seeing the same quantity of any one thing, even something I have more time for. Though I still haven't set up my RSS to filter out ai, so it's evidently not that high on my list of annoyances.

I need to set up an ai filter on my time extension rss feed.

Hop the paywall https://archive.is/www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/arts/video-games-artificial-intelligence.html

This all gives me bad vibes. I'm relieved to not be Commodore fan.

@Jamesarson you could just plug in a single everdrive cartridge containing all your legally owned games. The point is that this is running real hardware, even closer than FPGA.

@MSaturn really interesting to read about how you're using it! Sounds genuinely useful. Well done.

I find this kind of soapbox article full of opinions, rather than facts, a bit tiresome. Almost as much as the relentless ai talk.

Great interview. Was it conducted back and forth by email? I'm intrigued how these things come together.

I used to live in a seaside town and the guy that ran the arcade there said that each machine had its own revenue line in the accounting books. As soon as it dropped below a certain amount it was swapped out for something else. Doesn't matter if it is an old classic, or the newest game, if it's not making money it's a waste of space. In fact the old classics were the worst performing games. That way of doing business—maximising revenue per square foot—is sort of the opposite of being passionate about video games: I'm sure it is easier to be absolutely ruthless and optimise earnings if you don't have any attachment to the games/machines.

It's very rare to see a thriving arcade in this day and age, even in tourist destination seaside towns. Most faded away for good reason. And tastes and pastimes change, so they're very difficult to make work when you're competing with home consoles and more.

Arcade Club proves that it is possible. But it is certainly not easy! By the way, my arcade cab (Sega's Flicky from 1984) is on loan at Arcade Club in Bury.

@BionicDodo check out https://udm14.com for how you can stop Google showing you those things.

eye-watering!

Missing out on working with Moebius would have also scarred me for life. Damn.

Typo: "play with up to friends"

Wonderful. I wonder if Monkey stars in this interpretation of Journey to the West.

That's so cool!

I'm relived they're not in danger of closing.

@slider1983 by “talking” I meant publishing online, sorry. An instance is mentioned in this very article! GPS had to take some content down at the request of the government

@slider1983 Japanese gamers are interested in preservation but the strict Japanese copyright laws prevent them from sharing things, pretty much

I was just thinking, Patreon would take this to the next level. They'd blast past their 2000 member target in no time at all.

They could set up a Patreon and use whatever English content they're preparing to onboard backers. Or even just republish the existing newsletter content to spoon feed Patreon backers.

Great news! I'd welcome occasional updates here on Time Extension

If this is anything like their SNES game Smash Tennis (aka Super Family Tennis) I'm looking forward to playing it! It seems to be cut from the same cloth.

@Razieluigi there's still lots of places for entry because bullet hell is a subset of shmups, and even then most do offer concessions for novice playars. I would argue that well-designed bullet hell are just as technical as Radiant Silvergun or Ikaruga.

@smoreon apparently the game was decompiled ages ago. This week's milestone is byte for byte match which proves the exactness of the project. It doesn't guarantee or make ports any more likely. I'm not sure what the blog post that went with the tweet said exactly as its gone. https://twitter.com/alejand56879654/status/1922362895397970193

The featured tweet has been taken down, and a other one is in its place saying it was an error. @damo

@Damo touché! There's the attract mode footage, but also another very low quality recording of the same level shown in this "new" footage. https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/1517996355268059136

Anyway, yes, fingers crossed we can play it one day.

@Daniel36 what did you play from 1997 when GT was released until 2001 when Burnout was released?

@MysticWangForce @-wc- iirc and GT2 introduced Arcade disc.

There was also a hidden GT mode in Motor Toon Grand Prix 2.

@Vectrex my thoughts exactly!

It's also worth noting that footage of this game has existed online for decades, this is simply a higher quality recording.

The attract mode is well worth a watch. https://youtu.be/4XLQ9ds5PeM

Such a cool looking game.

Typo: The appeal of Resivour Dogs

Should be: Reservoir

I'm struggling to think of a part of the LRG business that is run well.

@Blofse @Zuljaras Lost in Cult announcing their physical label on 20th May so watch this space

Rumoured to have a great line up of games, the type you didn't know you wanted physically until they were announced.

@Stwert they're only starting to rub you up the wrong way? After all they've done? You have a high tolerance for pain!

This is a really tricky one. I'd give GPS money, but only if I got something in return. Selfish, I know.

But what would, or could, I get in return? They can't give access to their 35,000 disks because Japanese copyright law prevents it. Even in Japan you can only get access in person. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Giving GPS money to know they are preserving things but that I'll never be able to access is a much harder sell. I donate to many Patreon, Wikipedia, Internet Archive and more.

I've contacted GPS in the past and tried to get some things to read. The only information I could get was a confusing email reply from Joseph. Everything that I wanted to see was confirmed as existing and available, but off limits. Japanese copyright law is the issue. Maybe it'll change at some point.

I think GPS are their own enemy in a number of ways. They do everything in a slightly odd, esoteric, old-fashioned way. No patreon? Downloadable newsletters? Awkward website? It feels that they are making everything more difficult than it need be. Modernisation is required. You mention that they don't communicate certain things well. That is the core problem. They need marketing help above all else.

I remember going there for a meeting about me helping automate the creation of digital manuals for Wii games. Must have been between 2007 and 2010.

For those unfamiliar with the meme (perhaps folks outside the USA?) it's a couple of clicks away on one of the links on this page. So, to save you the time: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-playstation-can-produce-mind-boggling-effects

@Damo cheers!

It's curious that the infractions were known about for so long—decades—but didn't make the news. I guess something happened to cause Marcin to speak up about it in 2025. But what?

@pigpennn it's all smoke and mirrors in any demo scene production. For example the ST can't do hardware sprites, but they make it seem like it can.

So, I expect the Neo Geo is capable of much more but simply hasn't been pushed as much or had as much attention.

Fairhurst was able to confirm with Time Extension that the repository is now fully up to date

Can you please link to this repo? I can't find it.

And no coverage of LRG doing multiple reprints of their "limited run" games? https://youtu.be/MvkZkgmpg2w