gingerbeardman

I recently interviewed Kenta Cho: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/02/10/interview-kenta-cho-indie-game-developer/

DS lite, all day every day.

And it plays GBA games!

...crowdfunding? Sounds far from being done.

It would be good if there was more than 3D renders.

Making things that look vaguely like old systems but that work totally differently is... bizarre.

@Razieluigi what would Nintendo be taking down exactly? All of this is done totally outside of their control. At best it's a game of cat and mouse.

There are equivalent stores on PSP/PS3/Vita and 3DS. None of them have been taken down.

@Poodlestargenerica WTF

@Razieluigi @DashKappei @Yoshif3 every download was preserved/backedup/etc prior to the shop closure. The whole catalogue has existed and been downloadable since 2019, if you knew where to look. Nintendo haven't taken it down in all that time.

So this is technically an easy to use piracy shop. 3DS has one too. Of course Nintendo no longer give us any way to but these old games. It's up to you how OK you are with the whole thing.

Anyway, check out MaBoShi WiiWare download! One of the greatest of all time.

All I have to say is: no comment.

I thought they had to change the swirl to blue in Europe because of a software publishing company called Tivola https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivola having an orange swirl.

I bought a US import Dreamcast, so my logo is red in all the various places.

Regarding the lack of Sega, that makes sense because I've always called it Dreamcast I never mention Sega.

@RetroGames "Settling a case" means ending a dispute before the end of a trial. when both sides think they might lose, they agree to end it before the verdict.

Also, from the link: "The terms of the settlement have not been made public."

...in other words, we're no wiser.

Another new one for me. A great read

"English-to-Japanese" should be "Japanese-to-English"

I was buying something retro, a controller or memory card, at CEX Truro one time. The girl behind the counter asked me what retro games I liked. In return I asked her the same question, and without a moment's hesitation she replied: Croc (and Spyro).

Marvelous, this was new to me. Thanks

Ah I see that as a result of my early comment the con has been edited from "Some games don't work properly" to "Compatibility isn't 100% across all systems" 🙈🙉🙊

@Damo oh, I have used one I don't own one but I have used one for a length of time over the summer. I also found it had a propensity to spit out discs mid-install (still mentioned in the review) and recognise some games as unsupported (also mentioned above) with no reasonable explanation as to why that might be. Just reading your review text it felt at odds with the pros/cons and score.

"Some games don't work properly." The whole issue of accuracy, compatibility, supported/unsupported, and the uneven user experience is my idea of a bad time. And then there's some hand-waving to explain it away as not really a problem and...9/10. Bizarre.

My own personal trust and opinion of any news outlet is in a constant state of flux/balance, some things improve its standing and others reduce it. This review for some reason leaves me with a bad taste, and so has had a large net-negative on my opinion of Time Extension.

This company has really mastered the art of promising things too early. Will they ever learn?

My game YOYOZO has received a GOTY (Game of the Year) accolade from long-standing technology publication Ars Technica! 🤯

They list my game alongside three masterpieces by my heroes Nintendo! To say I'm humbled to be mentioned in the same breath as Mario, Pikmin and Zelda is an understatement. And to then be compared with such timeless classics as Super Hexagon and Geometry Wars... well... I think I've got something in my eye 🥺

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/ars-technicas-best-video-games-of-2023/7

Brilliant. This is what all vg preservation will be measured against going forward.

Typo: Psynosis

I have my copy but at some point in my late teens I cut out a load of words and images from it (oops)

Trololol. Here we go again.

Best not to assume

@Poodlestargenerica I'm very used to it, I have a lot of time for AI art and AI in general, as a user and a creator.

My point was simply that the examples on the pre-order page are simply bad, regardless of its source.

I have no idea what you mean about Two and a Half Men, though.

More dodgy AI art on the pre-order page.

1. Wipeout 3 SE
2. Wipeout 2097 (don't call it XL)
3. Wipeout Pure (PSP)

This is the direction I'd have preferred to see from the new MSX.

Very cool. Mary!

At this point the "Limited" moniker is just dishonest.

TE should totally review this as if it was a new game.

Thanks for going to the trouble of buying and reviewing this. @Jellyscare

Does the mouse open up to turn into a Trackball?

As much as I'd like one of these, practically it makes no sense for me personally unless there's something exclusive that only the Z can provide. So at least for now I'll stick with an emulator on my Mac.

@AceGrace what does the dev kit add? And is there a community of otaku Devs like us?

RELICS has to be one of my favourite game logos. So cool and stylish.

It's still a buzz whenever I spot it whilst reading old video Japanese game/PC magazines.

@themightyant exactly. there's a right way to do a PWA.

@themightyant of course we don't need apps, we don't need mobile optimised websites. But the experience is better with them. If only to open it more quickly and prevent me browser tabs building up.

A compromise would be making the mobile site a PWA so it can be added as an icon to your home screen.

No app!? They could launch an app that is their mobile website in a wrapper and go from there. I mean, this is Lesson 1 of app making.

And they really need a way to do mass import from CSV or similar, so they can attract users or collections from competing services such as RFGeneration, GameEye, Price Charting, etc.

Basically, they're making it too difficult for new users.

It's not about people... it's about damage to the company that's marketing the game. Nintendo didn't delay Advance Wars because it was worried about you and me, perhaps not even because it was being compassionate, most likely because it didn't want any negative press.

But, yeah, happy to leave it there.

@wiiware I've never suggested banning the game, that was you. I had simply said that it's not a great time to market such a game all things considered.

There are many examples of such consideration, with the most recent example being the Switch Advance Wars remaster, and perhaps the most famous being Dreamcast game Propeller Arena.

Just to give a bit of context to the claims that RPGs were largely unknown in Japan at the time of The Black Onyx. The year before its release in the November 1983 issue of Japanese LOGiN magazine, starting on page 98, there's an article "What is an RPG?" by N. Ohnishi which (translating using Google or iOS) describes the concept of an RPG, includes some free games that readers could type in and play, and encourages readers to create their own RPG. https://archive.org/details/login-november-1983/LOGiN%20-%20November%201983/page/n99/mode/2up
I think Henk likes to paint a rose coloured picture of the past. He was featured in the same magazine im the 1984 April issue: https://archive.org/details/login-april-1984/LOGiN%20-%20April%201984/page/n117/mode/2up the feel no need to explain RPGs, but D&D does get some coverage, and they note the don't understand some of the made up terms used in The Black Onyx.

@wiiware old news? tell that to the people whose lives have been affected.

Their shipping costs are ridiculous. You could say that they don't really care about the buyer.

I've been told that their distributor ultimately controls the available shipping logistics options and related costs, which doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. Especially since shipping can be less expensive with other providers.

With the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the West Bank I can't help but feel this is not a great time to be releasing a war game.

I expected so much more from new MSX than rebadged existing products.

@Damo Fair point regarding the RGB30 comparison.

With the Super Pocket it's not just about resolution but also how pixel aspect ratio is honoured.

Bubble Bobble seems to be centred, which makes sense given it runs at 256×224. Though maybe it should be stretched slightly to maintain the correct aspect?

Street Fighter 2 runs at 384×224 (even though it's 4:3 aspect) so would need to be compressed horizontally to fit.

On high resolution displays these odd pixel aspect ratios can be honoured without much loss of visual clarity, but on a 320x240p this could only result in either blurring or missing pixels. At least they let you choose which.

So I'd still like to see some macro shots of the display!

The resolution of the screen means the games don't really fit. I find the lack of closeup screenshots a bit worrying. But from the shots above the screen seems pretty bad quite grainy. And only 4 hours on a charge? And 9/10? In the same breath as the RGB30? You're having a laugh.

Have Limited Run ever made any statements about their similar delays? It's such a bad way to do business, yet these companies are all doing it the same way! Even the UK outfit Lost In Cult is doing it.

@-wc- I posted a wayback link to the oldest archived post but i understand some UK mobile and broadband ISPs block internet archive unless you call them to enable access to all "unsafe" websites (i guess somebody found a picture of a cartoon boob on internet archive and reported them)

Currently live link is https://www.stereophile.com/cdplayers/708play/index.html

This has been happening for decades! Since 2008 at least https://web.archive.org/web/20080814043424/http://www.stereophile.com/cdplayers/708play/index.html

No system needs two of its logo on the case! Bleurgh.

In terms of FPGA I'm more interested in the Tang Nano 20K for a tiny device capable of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms.