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The past-tense of slay is actually slew. Slay/slain/slew. “Slayed” is like when someone tells a funny joke. “Oh, you slayed me!”

@Westone32bit Some definitely did! Final Fantasy VII did, for instance. But by the time of FF X, they were definitely localizing that, too; I don't remember which had that switched between those two release dates, though.

I remember Suikoden did have it localized, but they didn't just swap X and O; they swapped square and triangle as well! I remember that being pretty confusing.

Of course, these days, Nintendo games use A to confirm and B to cancel. Xbox is the same, but the A and B have their positions swapped (and X and Y)..., and meanwhile, of course, Playstation is X confirm and O cancel... so no matter what you do, your brain is always having to convert stuff around, unless you only play in one place...

@LowDefAl Woops yeah you’re right 😭 Altho now that that’s finally clear, I’m wondering why red means accept and blue means cancel?? Is that a Japanese thing I’m unaware of? Or did I get that wrong now? 😂

This seems like a ret-con to me. Originally, didn't the O mean true/yes, and the X meant false/no? That's why you used O to select and X to cancel in a lot of games, before Sony USA swapped. And now, officially X is "yes" and O is "no", which always seemed backwards from the Japanese maru/batsu (yes/no, true/false, circle/square), as Japanese is read from right to left (circle, X), not left to right.

But now they're saying Blue X meant yes and Red O meant no? That would have been back-ass-wards to a Japanese speaker.

@DestructoDisk This is true... All our pasts began a long tamago!

@DestructoDisk Yep, you got it, but you're missing the Japanese word for egg, Tamago (which is of course where "tamagotchi" comes from), and of course "tamago" sounds a little like the English phrase "time ago" Although I suppose if a person knows "Tamagotchi," then I guess they don't really need to know that "tamago" means egg, now that I think about it...

Hm. I have a few types of game boy (including one original) and several gba versions. And I’m broke. Too bad I can’t cash in.

Yay. Hope this isn’t like that Steam demo where they added AI that didn’t even work.

That title is brilliant for the twelve people who get it.

Console release plz

I don’t really understand the appeal of video game soundtracks on vinyl. Is it just because there are no longer any other physical media to play game soundtracks off of since cds are dead?

@Sketcz PS, thought that was you… thanks for your books! Looking at one of them on my shelf as I tap this. I’m grateful they exist. I know it wasn’t easy!

@Sketcz you’re doing gods work, as they say. I’m sure you’re aware there are some YouTube videos about it as well, which is how I first found out about it… I think???

I wish Nintendo didn’t suck, so that they’d translate this and release it worldwide. Hey, it might actually make NSO worth having.

@Spookles oh Mercutio. Methinks thou doth protestest overmuch.

I’m not normally a furry, but wowa wee wa, I’m in for the shooting action and cute cat girl. Consoles or it didn’t happen tho

Oh my god. How did I not know about this til now? Day one purchase for me. I was still busy hoping for a maniac mansion remaster. I daresay this is maybe even better.

@norwichred ugh that’s crazy. Definitely do remember the series, yep, and the reboot as well.

@norwichred wait what? Fred savage was like 11 in this movie.

I watched it recently, fully expecting it to not live up to my childhood memories and be terrible. Just the opposite. It was actually so much better as an adult than I remembered as a kid. Also, yay for Autistic gamer kid before that kind of thing was cool in movies. Represent.

@RetroGames This version appears to be based visually on the super famicom version of DQ3, not the sfc dq1+2.

Don’t suppose there’s much chance of DQ2 getting this treatment as well… Underrated!

Jane Jensen (Gabriel knight) deserves a lot of credit for her work on KQ6…

There was an NES version of KQ5, too. I agree about 4-6 being the good ones!

They do koshiro a lot I guess! Underrated musical genius

I wish sega would do this for their own games. It’s too bad it’s left to fans to do it. But bless them for doing so and making old treasures like this accessible.

The last Ancient game available in the US as far as I know was Gotta Protectors on switch. It’s hilarious and, of course, has great and authentic music.

Ancient needs to release some kind of compilation in the US. I feel like we’ve missed a lot. I want this and have no idea about Wada’s other games.

For the record tho her belly isn’t that plump!

It’s clearly yuji naka in the suit.

I butchered my American SNES to get it to play super famicom carts tho.

Hmm. But 1987 USA version 1.0 differs from the original Japanese release, which was a famicom disk system title. They had to basically invent bank switching and battery backup to cram Zelda into a cart for the US 1.0.

@smoreon apparently is a sharp LR35902 core based around a Zylog Z80… 4.19 MHz!

You know, he talks about the short loops on the lunar: silver star sega cd soundtrack. The problem with that is they were redbook audio cd tracks, so every time they looped, it would pause as the track went back to the beginning. It was not a good effect. I think he has some selective memory going on.

@Soupbones yes, the same! And in the game gear, of course, and the game boy.

I’m trying to remember if it was used in any other systems…

In my opinion it’s more important for powering the Nintendo game boy, the best selling system of the entire 20th century.

Or was pac-man its first video game use or something?

@DestructoDisk the sad thing is the sonic games sell, whether they’re a critical success or not, so sega never really gets it. Depressing. Meanwhile soul hackers 2 (which I really enjoyed, tho needed improvements for sure) has disappeared without a trace, and it’ll be just persona and mainline smt forevermore (which is fine, just like the more obscure stuff too)

Sonic fans are long storied for being abused and coming back, over and over… but what I didn’t understand is they seem to like the abuse! (To be fair I think Sonic frontiers had the skeleton of a decent game, despite being hilariously… uh… not great…)

That slime world game is not great. Doesn’t inspire much hope for the rest.

Hoping for English

I had a lunar: eternal blue soundtrack cd in the 90s, Japanese but probably a bootleg. Man I loved that cd. I listened to it almost as much as the lunar: the silver star sega cd redbook audio tracks.

@Poodlestargenerica did people use 3rd party controllers? I remember the 3do controller being kinda iffy in my limited exposure. You could always try out the free version of sc2 free stars on Steam, based on the 3do version; you can plug in a controller.

Hey, maybe you could use your 3do controller? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa………

I’d rather have a golden axe game that isn’t a 3D polygonal crapfest

@Poodlestargenerica I think the pc version of sc2 is plenty more beloved than the 3do version. The 3do version is cool, but one reason it stands out is cause there aren’t many good games on 3do. That said, I would really prefer to play this on console (and I did play sc1 and 2 on pc!)

I hope they hit the goal for console versions.

Well that didn’t last long. Not cool using other people’s work…

Hope it holds up! Seiken Densetsu 1 and 2 nostalgia goes a long way with me. I’m still sore we never got 3. But anything after that doesn’t really do it much for me. So we’ll see.

Hmm. The dates listed for what the books cover sure are all over the place! Maybe that’s because it’s by topic rather than chronological? I mostly only care about famicom, game boy, and super famicom, personally.

I like his music. But sheesh he does some kinda odd stuff. :/

Put it on consoles for $40 and we’ll talk

I feel like a lot of segas reboots are going to be not so great. It’s hard to be excited.

@Daniel36 I really liked it in dungeon encounters (design by the guy who did the original active time battle in ffiv, its first appearance). It’s aged well! I liked how it would pause in dungeon encounters and had a timeline.