@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 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...
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???
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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…)
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………
@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!)
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.
@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.
@RetroGames yeah that’s a good point. The snes port really is sad when you think about it. The music would have been the biggest technical hurdle, and I thought it turned out pretty neat. My friend accused me of renting it because I liked the music. I swore the game play was ok… and I guess it was… but it was no rondo! Even the remixing could have been tolerated, but what a bummer overall.
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Re: Ever Wondered What The Symbols On The PlayStation Controller Really Mean?
@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? 😂
Re: Ever Wondered What The Symbols On The PlayStation Controller Really Mean?
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.
Re: Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago Is A Game Boy-Style RPG With Digital Pet Mechanics
@DestructoDisk This is true... All our pasts began a long tamago!
Re: Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago Is A Game Boy-Style RPG With Digital Pet Mechanics
@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...
Re: Nintendo's Game Boy Is A Hot Item In Japan Again
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.
Re: Switch Remake Of Yuji Horii's 'Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Ohotsuku ni Kiyu' Will Have English Language Support
Yay. Hope this isn’t like that Steam demo where they added AI that didn’t even work.
Re: Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamago Is A Game Boy-Style RPG With Digital Pet Mechanics
That title is brilliant for the twelve people who get it.
Re: Veritus Is A Game Boy-Style RPG Adventure With A Twist
Console release plz
Re: Limited Run Under Fire For "Horrible" Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vinyl Release
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?
Re: Game Boy Cult Classic With A Zelda Connection Joins Nintendo Switch Online, But There's A Catch
@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!
Re: Game Boy Cult Classic With A Zelda Connection Joins Nintendo Switch Online, But There's A Catch
@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???
Re: Game Boy Cult Classic With A Zelda Connection Joins Nintendo Switch Online, But There's A Catch
I wish Nintendo didn’t suck, so that they’d translate this and release it worldwide. Hey, it might actually make NSO worth having.
Re: On-Rails Shooter 'Bat Galaxy' Is A Colourful Take On Star Fox And Panzer Dragoon
@Spookles oh Mercutio. Methinks thou doth protestest overmuch.
Re: On-Rails Shooter 'Bat Galaxy' Is A Colourful Take On Star Fox And Panzer Dragoon
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
Re: Monkey Island Creator Ron Gilbert Is Working On A Zelda-Style RPG Adventure
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.
Re: The Making Of: The Wizard - An Oral History Of Nintendo's Hollywood Debut
@norwichred ugh that’s crazy. Definitely do remember the series, yep, and the reboot as well.
Re: The Making Of: The Wizard - An Oral History Of Nintendo's Hollywood Debut
@norwichred wait what? Fred savage was like 11 in this movie.
Re: The Making Of: The Wizard - An Oral History Of Nintendo's Hollywood Debut
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.
Re: You Seriously Need To Check Out This Fan-Made Remake Of Dragon Quest
@RetroGames This version appears to be based visually on the super famicom version of DQ3, not the sfc dq1+2.
Re: You Seriously Need To Check Out This Fan-Made Remake Of Dragon Quest
Don’t suppose there’s much chance of DQ2 getting this treatment as well… Underrated!
Re: Anniversary: The King's Quest Series Is Now 40 Years Old
Jane Jensen (Gabriel knight) deserves a lot of credit for her work on KQ6…
Re: Anniversary: The King's Quest Series Is Now 40 Years Old
There was an NES version of KQ5, too. I agree about 4-6 being the good ones!
Re: SNES Classic ActRaiser Is Getting A Jazz-Based Chillout Album
They do koshiro a lot I guess! Underrated musical genius
Re: Sega's Turn-Based Strategy Sim 'The Hybrid Front' Is Getting An English Fan Translation
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.
Re: Protect Me Knight And Royal Anapoko Academy Dev Is Working On A Mega Drive / Genesis JRPG
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.
Re: Protect Me Knight And Royal Anapoko Academy Dev Is Working On A Mega Drive / Genesis JRPG
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!
Re: Please Don't Ask Who's In The Sonic Costume In This Rare Rosie O'Donnell Clip
It’s clearly yuji naka in the suit.
Re: Did You Butcher Your Mega Drive / Genesis Carts To Overcome Sega's Physical Region Lock?
I butchered my American SNES to get it to play super famicom carts tho.
Re: Zelda Prototype Could Be Hiding Big Differences Compared To Retail Version
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.
Re: The Processor Used In Pac-Man Is Being Discontinued, 48 Years After It Launched
@smoreon apparently is a sharp LR35902 core based around a Zylog Z80… 4.19 MHz!
Re: "I Didn't Even Have A NES" Admits Lunar, Grandia And Langrisser Composer Noriyuki Iwadare
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.
Re: The Processor Used In Pac-Man Is Being Discontinued, 48 Years After It Launched
@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…
Re: The Processor Used In Pac-Man Is Being Discontinued, 48 Years After It Launched
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?
Re: Double Dragon Studio Wanted To Make A New 2D Golden Axe
@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…)
Re: 'The Epyx Collection: Handheld' Brings 6 Atari Lynx Games To Switch
That slime world game is not great. Doesn’t inspire much hope for the rest.
Re: Edia Announces Nintendo Switch Revival Of Telenet Japan's 'Tenshi no Uta' Series
Hoping for English
Re: "I Didn't Even Have A NES" Admits Lunar, Grandia And Langrisser Composer Noriyuki Iwadare
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.
Re: Kickstarter For Star Control Successor Free Stars: Children Of Infinity Funded In 3 Hours
@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………
Re: Golden Axe Is Getting A 10-Episode Animated TV Series From Comedy Central
I’d rather have a golden axe game that isn’t a 3D polygonal crapfest
Re: Kickstarter For Star Control Successor Free Stars: Children Of Infinity Funded In 3 Hours
@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!)
Re: Kickstarter For Star Control Successor Free Stars: Children Of Infinity Funded In 3 Hours
I hope they hit the goal for console versions.
Re: Game Boy Emulator That Topped iPhone App Store Gets Yanked For Copyright Infringement
Well that didn’t last long. Not cool using other people’s work…
Re: Visions Of Mana's New Japanese Trailer Goes Heavy On Nostalgia
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.
Re: Missing 'History Of Nintendo' Books Finally Being Published In English
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.
Re: Musician Behind VGL's Zelda Medley Hints That Tommy Tallarico Is Selling Arrangements He Doesn't Own
I like his music. But sheesh he does some kinda odd stuff. :/
Re: Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Ultimate Collection Includes 16 Games, Costs $70
Put it on consoles for $40 and we’ll talk
Re: Double Dragon Studio Wanted To Make A New 2D Golden Axe
I feel like a lot of segas reboots are going to be not so great. It’s hard to be excited.
Re: Former Dawn Is An Impressive-Looking NES RPG That's Also Coming To PC
@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.
Re: Flashback: The Lost 32X Castlevania That Led To Symphony Of The Night
@RetroGames yeah that’s a good point. The snes port really is sad when you think about it. The music would have been the biggest technical hurdle, and I thought it turned out pretty neat. My friend accused me of renting it because I liked the music. I swore the game play was ok… and I guess it was… but it was no rondo! Even the remixing could have been tolerated, but what a bummer overall.
Re: F-Zero Artist's New Switch Game 'Omega 6' Gets July Release Date in Japan
I don’t get how the interface works. Is it sort of like snatcher or phoenix wright?