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Fantastic article Time Extension, this is the sort of real work that games journalism needs where you can learn something instead of turning into referral link farms like GameSpot. It's amazing how close the GBA and NDS versions of the soundtrack sound given they were led by different people across different hardware generations. A truly legendary soundtrack!

Btw, there's an error in the link for "Murder by Numbers", the Numbers part is a different URL compared to the first 2 words.

@GideonZhi Hi, I've followed you and your team's work with interest for several decades at this point and wasn't aware you were involved in what unfolded on RHDN some time back. I can understand your position given you were banned from the site but I also hope whatever was the issue and whoever it came from, everyone can sort it out peaceably and openly. Seeing legends fight like this is just sad.

Also, the unauthorised uploads on RHDN really should be stopped as they break the site's own rules, I've reported the upload.

For the interested, this article seems to cover the situation and responses at the time:
https://retrohandhelds.gg/romhacking-net-shuts-down-after-20-years/

Great work! The puzzling question that always comes up with Dreams: how come it hasn't been released to PC yet? That and Demon Souls remake are very odd omissions from Sony's PC catalogue given the fitness for the platform.

Nice release but really not cool to specifically forbid romhacking.net from hosting the patch in the readme. Someone apparently uploaded it anyway which is another issue but Aeon really should reconsider the ban.

The very whiff of AI "art" on anything usually means incompetence and there's no point paying for incompetence, as the market is repeatedly proving.

Speaking of manuals, Virtua Cop Elite Edition for PS2 has several undiscovered cheat codes to unlock mirror mode, etc which a manual would be helpful to find. I just wish these manuals were all archived digitally with support from publishers and developers themselves.

Any developer falling into the trap of generative AI means they've gone creatively bankrupt. No buy from me.

That rollback implementation was simply genius, by a very young talented programmer too. Passion may be important, but talent also counts for actually achieving things. This funnily enough reminds me of Nightdive vs Forever Entertainment where the latter keeps butchering Panzer Dragoon games and Sega should take the license away from them.

They think AI saves money. Sure, that of the ex-customer.

If instead of concerts they celebrated by releasing a "legacy collection" of Ridge Racer games, I'm sure more people would be appreciative.

@MARl0 Why not use a compatibility layer to run it? There must be one even for Mac and there definitely are ones for Linux and Android.

LBP is filled with so much joy and creates so much of it. Learning about this project continues that legacy.

Hopefully this drives interest in a way where the original show gets a proper remaster rather than the messy cropped one currently available.

Very technically impressive game. As with any game, it's all smoke and mirrors but what it achieves is an amazing experience completely unexpected for its target hardware.

@Babybahamut It's a unique show but calling it stark and bleak is doing it a disservice. It's about natural flows, sometimes things just go on but rarely if ever do chapters end badly.

Great figure, the Kotobukiya model kits are also great. Patiently waiting for the next game now.

Removing access to download a version that was paid for should be strictly illegal and states need to crack down on this. Anyway, yet another reason to support stopkillinggames.com although this is a case of even single player games having download access removed.

This mod has Mugen energy, mixing everything up beautifully but in 3D this time.

It'd be great if they officially added English localisations to their titles but even having these titles rescued is great work. Hopefully they get to the rest of the Persona mobile catalogue too, they've done a good bunch of them already.

Great channel, thanks for promoting it! They've been producing these super high quality documentaries for years and amply deserve the praise.

@Peteykins This particular series seems to hold nostalgic value with the people who played it although it isn't my cup of tea either. The nostalgia factor seems to be what they're banking on. When they get around to remastering I-Ninja though, that's a great game worth replaying.

@montrayjak This kind of thing is why I wish we'd have proper benchmarking numbers available at least for popular filters and hardware targets. That way users would have guidance on what to expect and developers would have data to help optimise.

@gb_nes_gamer Yeah I agree those versions should be included. It's a common theme in all discussions about the game's content so far. Hopefully these are in the final complete game listing as that doesn't seem to have been announced yet.

Yeah, all the merch but no Jet Set Radio Future ports. Why not both Sega?

Yes please, I love this game! We might even get the cancelled sequel too!

@kirby2000 CRT filters are cheap to run from what I've seen, it isn't like xBR and other heavy upscaling shaders.

Maybe this type of work will eventually result in the 3DS remasters getting native ports, would be really amazing to see.

@Razieluigi What's also funny is they released a proper PC port of House of the Dead Overkill but called it Typing of the Dead Overkill. That must have tanked sales as without closer inspection the fact a full PC port of the original game is included isn't obvious from the title and screenshots. A strange decision.

Given that romhacking.net is still up and allows new submissions properly, it would be great if it became the hub of new hacks again. The fragmentation of the scene after some people tried attacking it and caused it to be news-only for a while did no favours for visibility and none of the alternatives are as good.

@Peteykins Even by WWW release standards 1995 was around the time it got popular worldwide.

@Daniel36 It's worth playing so make some time instead of trying to find it (very elusive thing to find).

@RZ-Atom Specifying YouTuber is still useful and valuable, you can immediately check out his channel and know what to expect from him as a creator relative to "mainstream" outlets. It isn't a derogatory term in the least, more of a badge of honour these days.

Excellent work by GOG, restoration is the sort of real work a true preservation effort should have and they're doing it. Hopefully they restore the missing console exclusive DLC on Alpha Protocol too (it's also in the preservation program)!

@bkd777 Indeed, the Xbox version was such a great game, would be phenomenal on PC with higher res visuals.

@JoeYabuki Yeah, that version was the best. That music was so catchy and the art style was great. This remake doesn't live up to that standard for me personally.

Why do these projects insist on pre-announcing their release knowing how trigger-happy Take Two's lawyers are? They should have just dropped it then announced it so people can at least play the game before the insane publisher tries to shut them down (which I hope doesn't happen but they even attacked legal reverse engineering projects).

@Twilite9 You may be able to get another system's version if you contact them.

This site may have been useful for less technically savvy users but is still a danger to the romhacking scene as a whole since it literally offers illegal prepatched games instead of simply the legal patches that can be applied to legally obtained game dumps. This exact attitude of not caring about legality is what got Yuzu taken offline and hurt the Switch emulation scene as a whole.

I never found Funko products to be interesting, now they're definitely off any future purchasing options, as is iwantmyname, the domain registrar itch.io used, which took the domain offline without providing notice and awaiting a customer response as would have been the proper way to handle cases like this.

@Guru_Larry Wishing you a smooth recovery Larry, looking forward to what's next!

@Guru_Larry What a pleasant surprise seeing you here, love your YouTube channel and excellent Fact Hunt series! One of the few channels where I actually actively went through it to watch almost everything (still watching).

@JackGYarwood The mod uses the low quality audio from the original release and has animation timing issues last I checked. History shouldn't be erased even though any problems or misinterpretations as mores evolve should be contextualised properly for newer audiences IMGO. That's part of what makes retro gaming great, playing great games while exploring the past to learn lessons and make a better future.

@N00BiSH I wasn't aware of the controversy regarding Bosco's original VA which lines up with the first remaster's release around 2019. That would have been a much better explanation than a black character should be played by a black VA which most people simply didn't buy. Thanks for pointing it out and although that is problematic, the circumstances around that controversy still point to some possible exaggeration by the media given the mores of the time where those recordings come from.

The time after the release doesn't matter, new people are going to check out the release all the time and the history shouldn't be buried just because of convenience. An option to let the audience think for itself would be respectful of the audience but I understand not everyone would necessarily agree with that. Censorship isn't something I regard as acceptable personally although the need to call out misbehaviour and changing the defaults if necessary makes sense.

@N00BiSH They did provide what was a very weak explanation IMHO and modders restored the low quality audio from the OG releases with some caveats into the remasters. There is definitely more the devs can still do however and they have resolutely refused so far: release the high quality original voice recordings from the OG voice actor. This would largely resolve the matter as modders can add them back in and the devs don't need to provide it in their own remaster if they bizarrely still don't want to.

Solid interview but it's really a pity there doesn't seem to be any mention of the censoring of Bosco in the remasters. There could at least have been an option to have the original audio and lines for those who wanted it.

I sincerely hope they bring back I-Ninja next, the plans for its unreleased sequel looked fun too!