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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!