mariteaux

@antdickens Working fine now, thank you.

I seem to be unable to submit answers. Normally I use Vivaldi with uBlock, but even on a new install of Firefox with no adblocker and no addons at all actually, the submit buttons just seem to get stuck on "please wait".

I think this is exactly what I want from Atari. Maybe the excessive merchandising is a little tacky, but I'd rather Atari be all in on the iconography of their heyday than try to be a serious console developer now. The 2600+ was such a smart move, hats off to them for it. And they do still make modern reimaginings of their old games, which I'm told are pretty damn good, so really, there's something for everyone.

@JackGYarwood I guess we have different definitions of fascinating.

@Damo It's not about it being niche, it's about it being substanceless. There's no actual news here other than some guy starting up a vanity publishing company and intending to make a game at some point in the future. This is fluff. Not every article has to be heavy-hitting or anything, but y'know, what's the actual story here? Not a hardware mod, a homebrew project, or a fan translation. A vanity company with his channel name on it and no product to sell. Cool for him I guess.

With all due respect, is a YouTuber with 13k subs launching a vanity game publishing company with basically no information about their first game out really newsworthy? Did he pay for this article?

You always love to see it. Release all the source code, especially stuff for consoles.

A YouTuber will do what benefits a YouTuber. "New Commodore" is a vanity thing marketing nostalgia and platitudes to a growing population of older people who feel more and more dread for the world every single year. I am not impressed with a single thing I've seen out of this "revival" and I don't trust the guy puppeting it.

My friends and I found Pac-Man World 3 really bizarrely amusing when we played it together on stream. I don't expect the level of sassy writing to be quite as high in this remake, I do hope for just a bit of that. Honestly, we loved Marvel character Pac-Man. It was just such a funny and strange juxtaposition and for a character that's normally a blank sheet of paper, that's kinda what we wanted.

@Lanmanna A NAS is a storage box. That's all it is. You can host backed up Web pages anywhere, both locally and on servers. wget is a functional, if kinda rudimentary, way to do it. Browsers can save pages, either just the HTML or as MHTML archives that include page assets like CSS (though usually not images). Archive Team has tools that are built for backing up sites in what's called WARC format, which is much more thorough in what it saves. You can use page archival sites like archive.today and its numerous other domain clones. The tools are numerous, but there's many people have a vested interest in making sure you don't know they exist.

Daily reminder that, while the Wayback Machine is invaluable, it is a single point of failure for millions of man hours of work on websites that people trust too much. Saving Web pages is dead simple in 2025. Always keep your own copies if you're concerned about stuff disappearing.

@Quick_Man "No no, see, it's only those people at fault, not me, despite the fact that I am also a party in every single piece of drama that surrounds me." Sure thing, Jan.

Look, stenzek is hugely talented and I don't wanna talk bad about the guy, but him getting into drama with people on the Internet and threatening to [x] with Duckstation? Must be a day ending in y.

@Damo Correct, a few specific runs of badly manufactured discs are aging badly. I never said disc rot "wasn't a thing", I said it's overblown. This is not affecting your average DVD, music CD, or console CD.

> The perils of 'disc rot' have been well documented, with poorly pressed CDs and DVDs eventually becoming unplayable over time.

And is extremely extremely exaggerated. Long term data loss from non-volatile memory is a thing, sure, and that's what the article is mostly about, but disc rot is basically exclusive to a handful of badly manufactured discs. Your average PS1 game is going to outlive you.

I think this is fair. As long as they do everything they can to remedy things with the people who gave them money, all is fine.

It doesn't get mentioned in the article, but CRKD is run by some of the same people who worked at RedOctane, manufacturing the original GH peripherals. It's nice to see that it's coming from the people who made the original ones so good.

@RetroGames This company put this person's stolen work out there, charging for it, with their name on it--that's not "oh hey what a simple mistake, we'll blame the guy who did it". That's a company being sketchy. Companies are not your friends and they are here to sell you products. Hold them to the standard they hold their own employees to.

I also find the "just give them credit" thing pretty laughable. Translations are not some trivial task, they're a lot of work. Being put out for free is nice until they're not being put out for free. If someone went and made money off my work and then went "well, we'll credit you ", I'd find that to be in poor taste, to put it politely. I'm the reason your game is playable by anyone who can't speak Japanese, and I get a thanks in the credits? Nah.

With all the stories I've read of LRG's quality control issues, I am amazed anyone trusts them with anything, devs or players.

@winlundn I expect a slightly less inaccurate headline. I've heard this from a few people now--you can't have it both ways. Either this is something noteworthy worth writing an article about or it's not that serious and we can let a tiny, insignificant, non-representative sample size slip. If it's one, I expect better data. If it's the other, it doesn't need to be an article, either from CR or from Time Extension.

I wouldn't go too crazy extrapolating anything out from these numbers. It's a sample size of about 2,000 people for two "interviews" each, but the results don't say how those interviews were actually conducted. I'd assume through phone, in which case you have a sampling bias towards people who would willingly do a phone interview right there.

I say this as someone who majority listens to CDs and majority plays PS2 these days. I really don't think that 14% number is accurate. 4,000 people versus the 335 million in the US as of the most recent survey.

Edit: methodology at the top of the PDF. Yeah, I don't think you can actually take anything from these numbers.

> The survey was administered by NORC at the University of Chicago through its AmeriSpeak Panel to a nationally representative sample. Interviews were administered both online and by phone.
>
> 51% female; median age of 47 years old; 61% white, non-Hispanic; 36% 4-year college graduates; and 60% have a household income of $50,000 or more.

Who said I owned one in the first place? lol

Bold idea that someone won't manage to make porn mods for one of the console versions.

@lordlad I don't expect anything--but the fact that they can shows you that it's not some out there idea. There's other examples of companies releasing patches for old games. The platform holder bit is irrelevant--this is a rerelease of the same game from the same codebase. It would take no effort at all to patch the game to include modern networking niceties, because it's already been done. It's been paywalled that's the issue.

I would be completely unsurprised if a gigantic company used cheap faulty parts because they thought it would make them more money.

> Given the time that has elapsed since its original launch, it might seem a little optimisitc to expect SNK to patch it in.

Valve is still patching their games to this day. Some of those are a lot older than 2013.

Greed, and pretty hilarious greed at that. Paying to get more functional multiplayer, we sure do live in 2025.

@Daniel36 Thanks for your contribution to the conversation by voicing your complete disinterest in the topic, I guess.

Cool article. Immediately sent it to my girlfriend, who is big into Okami.

Cool! I think it's worth mentioning somewhere that this is not a recent update. The article (and the hacky video) makes it sound like this is some recent update, but it's actually from April 2023, with a few more updates since then. I was wondering why this was being reported on like it's a new thing when it's actually something that slipped under everyone's radar, apparently.

Thank you Sega, very cool!

@RupeeClock And what about the millions of people who have played the game and have zero experience with SM64 speedrunning? It's absolutely good context to have in the article, explaining the three different completely unintentional run types along with the intended two and what makes them more or less challenging than each other.

@romanista The runs are very very different. Shorter categories mean you can use riskier and more optimized strategies for each star, because if you fail, the barrier to restart is much lower. Longer categories require more in the way of nerves management--if you're an hour into a 120 star run and you're on world record pace, the stakes are going to be a lot higher than if you're playing 0 star and you're only three minutes into the run on WR pace.

@Spider-Kev Different skips. You can use glitches and collision bugs to skip all the stars in the game, so the different categories just skip more or fewer of the stars. 120 is all of them, 0 star is obviously none of them.

@smoreon In general, and not to knock any homebrew project because they are all minor miracles in of themselves, I don't find myself especially into them if they're not up to the standard of your average game for that console. New GB/NES/Genesis stuff, feels right, is super impressive, but right around the time of the PS1, it sorta just becomes "emulators and Tetris" (Minecraft clones have also become popular on retro consoles, I've noticed). I understand why, because making 3D games is hard, but it definitely does disappoint me that it's moreso a hobbyist playground than actually making great games I'd wanna support. The Dreamcast scene is better than most in that regard, so hopefully folks keep pushing it, and maybe bring some of that genius to us PS1 peasants someday.

@GhaleonUnlimited Many people I talk to now say Doom 64 is one of the best in the series. I've never played it still.

Bumpmapping is cool and all, but I can't really make it out in the grainy, low bitrate Twitter video they posted. Not really the best demonstration of something so impressive.

Personally, "$400,000 and Gun Found in Australian Daytona Machine" makes for a way better and more honest headline. I would love to know if the machine was still operational.

@KitsuneNight "Not their fault the game and its cutscenes are uhm "speshul" nobody sets out to make something awfull." Very well said. Ironic appreciation is an absolute plague on the Internet.

Very good milestone, but it's worth noting that basically no one recommends you use PCSX2 stable because of how ancient it winds up being. The headline makes it sound like it's a gigantic instantaneous leap ahead, but really, it's a culmination of years of work being pushed to a branch that only gets updated every few years that no one recommends people actually use. Not a particularly accurate headline, I must say.

@Coalescence Tell us how you really feel.

@Pastellioli Yeah like I said, I like them because it gives me something to do with both games that didn't work with me before and also games I already liked a lot. Basically every RA set I've done, I've walked away appreciating the game more (aside from Tetris GB, what a terrible version of that game).

@slider1983 I just don't see the appeal of cheapening masteries to let people who can't get them still feel like they're getting them. It's a website about completing objectives in games. Get good or accept that you can't do it.

@slider1983 I don't really see the point in trivializing mastery like that, especially since there's a good few sets that only have a few achievements or mostly completion achievements. You've either mastered a set or you haven't. There's no shame in not being able to master a set, but I don't think you should get rewarded for not being able to master it either.

I think it's pretty self-explanatory that cheats wouldn't allowed for achievements unless explicitly stated. Wouldn't be much of an achievement if you could just cheat your way to getting it. Save states are allowed in softcore but not hardcore.

@slider1983 I think that's roughly implemented with the completion/mastery system. Completion is either beating the game or getting all achievements in softcore (I don't recall because I don't play in softcore mode), and mastery is all achievements in hardcore.

@slider1983 I did look into making a set of my own at some point, for Lock n Chase for the 2600, but I lost interest. It was fascinating stuff, peeking at memory addresses on the Atari, punching in values and seeing what would happen. I still have all my address notes, and I'd still like to make that set happen someday.

@Summer235 That's the thing--I don't NEED achievements to enjoy a game, but they have made me appreciate games I've never cared about before (Pole Position is a great example, I'd never beaten it and never learned how to beat it before going for the Namcomuseum 64 set) and given new life to games that went stale for me years ago. It appeals to me to look at a list of games I've mastered on RA and go "I spent time in all of these clearing them out and now I appreciate them more", or remembering the grind for some of the really annoying ones.

Achievements are unique in video game culture in that the people who don't like them seem to get more enjoyment out of telling everyone they don't like them and find them stupid than the people who do like achievements get out of actually playing the games and getting the achievements. I find it fascinating.

Only in a comments section on the Internet could people take the announcement of a new feature as an opportunity to tell everyone they are not a fan of that feature and find it a complete waste of time. Thanks for contributing to the conversation folks 👍

For the record, anyone who finds achievements a waste of time clearly has never perused an RA set. They have some bonkers difficult ones. Space Invaders 2600 has an achievement for clearing only the top line of aliens without hitting any underneath. Hardly the most mundane task. Took me an hour of attempts.

@RetroGames It's not a gigantic jump to assume readers of an enthusiast publication might be more in tune with how those things work than the common person. Would you go to someone who wrote an article about how a car works for a car magazine and say "how dare you assume I can figure out how a car works?" No, it's not dead simple, any idiot can do it--but with time, it's perfectly possible to learn these things. It's not voodoo, it's step by step instructions for a glorified calculator.

@27celsius I stopped playing new versions of Java when 1.9 unnecessarily redid the combat. Apparently they've also added a ton of mobs that don't change anything about the game and redid all the textures for no reason other than they have to make the game look like it's still a going concern. No thanks, I'll just stick with the infinitely lighter r1.8 and earlier. All the mods I like are for those versions anyway.