There's nothing wrong with porting games but with new homebrew games it often feels like a lazy excuse to bring the same game to different platforms without taking advantage of the hardware. This isn't what they're talking about as they're talking about whether porting existing commercial games is worth the time.
But yeah if you're going to do a multi-platform release of a 2D game make it take advantage of the hardware otherwise what's the point of having a 2D game on Dreamcast, a 3D format when it's the same game that appeared on Mega Drive?
If Pike had done research she might have realised she wasn't even supposed to exist in the movie! They made BS up like they normally do with these video game movies. 🤦♂️
@PKDuckman Honestly I don't see a difference. Video game movies today are just absolutely boring and STILL don't follow the video games they're based on.
"This loophole allowed not only the creation and release of Bleemcast on a standard CD, but also the Utopia bootdisk and self-booting CD-R copies of Dreamcast games."
Ah, that's why the Dreamcast ultimately failed... 😲
@Guru_Larry I wouldn't mind a collection of Bart vs the Space Mutants games but nothing these companies they'd probably leave out the Sega and Amiga versions. 😆
@PopetheRev28 Small sprites?
@RupeeClock Don't change anything and just add a trigger warning.
@Edd-O I imagine the only thing we'll hear from Damien in regards to the ModRetro is any controversies that's happening with their N64 console, the same as what TE's new found friends the CUPodcast have been doing.
Oh boy, watch what happens when the White House learn about Miiverse. Mario is not going to be happy! Insider reports suggest the Wii Fit trainers are also not happy with the President.😂
Seriously, is it in poor taste? Yes. Is this a reason to throw the baby out with the bath water when there are worse things going on in gaming? Nope!
@Arcadia_Official This is definitely the best response here.
This is nothing new. It's been going on for years with gaming websites. Will be interesting to see if the website can break into Google searches again.
"Morrowind, as it was created originally, is not going to hold up today. Like, literally go back and play Morrowind. The game's out there. Go play it and tell me that still holds up."
I reject this type of thinking. There will be some games that have aged badly but most don't. They just play differently according to when they were made.
@metaphysician Ah well that's different. I completely agree Sega should focus on remastering games from a variety of systems. Having said that, it was a big mistake keeping the Sega AGES line just to Switch. When I look at the PS2 and Switch stuff it's sad it wasn't made available in other places like PC.
""Incidentally, we often hear people say, "I want to sell retro games individually," but I think it would be extremely difficult to actually make that a viable business in this day and age."
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Re: "I Could Not Give Less Of A S**t If Anyone Else Plays Them" - Developers Behind 'Pointless' Homebrew Ports Defend Their Work
There's nothing wrong with porting games but with new homebrew games it often feels like a lazy excuse to bring the same game to different platforms without taking advantage of the hardware. This isn't what they're talking about as they're talking about whether porting existing commercial games is worth the time.
But yeah if you're going to do a multi-platform release of a 2D game make it take advantage of the hardware otherwise what's the point of having a 2D game on Dreamcast, a 3D format when it's the same game that appeared on Mega Drive?
Re: New Jaleco Arcade Collections Set To Bring 32 Games From The Legendary Japanese Developer To Steam
Extremely welcome. I completely forgot these existed since they weren't on Steam already.
Re: "Is This My NES' Final Form?" - Retro Gamer Shows Off The Most Pimped-Out Nintendo Entertainment System You've Ever Seen
@LowDefAl It does look like it's been locked away, yeah. 😂
Re: "AI-Coded Slop, No Thanks" - Animal Crossing's Native PC Port Was Made Using Claude Code
@BulkSlash Good points that I was unaware of, thanks. 👍
Re: Time To "Feed The Beast" Inside Your Body, Konami's "3D View" Run 'N Gun Shoot 'Em Up 'Devastators' Is Coming to Consoles
I miss models on arcade game covers... 😪
Re: Final Fantasy IX's Animated Series Is Alive, And Currently "In Production"
This could be very good.
Re: "It Does Not Save Time Or Offer Anything Of Value" - Translator Hilltop Isn't A Fan Of AI
I mean it is better than nothing however, saying that people won't do anything to improve upon the translation is very short sighted.
@gojiguy A couple of the guys there are fans of AI.
Re: "We Know People Love It. We Know They Want It" - The Simpsons Showrunner Doesn't Rule Out 'Hit & Run' Remake
@Guru_Larry Ooooo that could be good.
Re: "We Know Trust Is Something You Earn Over Time" - Limited Run Games Reveals "Renewed Fan-First Focus"
@Saki-Endo We can hope. They'll have to call it the 'Extreme Maximum' Collection. 😂
Re: "We Know Trust Is Something You Earn Over Time" - Limited Run Games Reveals "Renewed Fan-First Focus"
Well they aren't off to a good start with new management considering their new Marvel game collection is missing like half the games people want. 😆
Re: DOOM Star Says The Movie Was "Probably One Of The Worst Films Ever Made"
If Pike had done research she might have realised she wasn't even supposed to exist in the movie! They made BS up like they normally do with these video game movies. 🤦♂️
@PKDuckman Honestly I don't see a difference. Video game movies today are just absolutely boring and STILL don't follow the video games they're based on.
Re: Bleem Creator Says Sega Was "Thrilled" At PlayStation Games On Dreamcast, But Didn't Want "A Big Legal Battle With Sony"
"This loophole allowed not only the creation and release of Bleemcast on a standard CD, but also the Utopia bootdisk and self-booting CD-R copies of Dreamcast games."
Ah, that's why the Dreamcast ultimately failed... 😲
Re: "Crystal Dynamics Should Issue A Partial Refund For Forcing This On Us" - Tomb Raider Remastered's New Outfits Aren't Going Down Well
It's like they made these outfits for the PS1 original graphics, not the new graphics. 🤔
Re: Xbox 360, PS3 And Nintendo Wii U Are "Officially Retro", Says GameStop
@Anti-Matter Just wanted to say emulation is great, get over it. Sorry, always wanted to say that. 😂
Re: "It's Been A Long Time Coming" - Mega CD Homebrew Development Kit Hits Major Milestone
We get shovelware today with Sega homebrew, I'm wary that the Mega CD will just be used for similar stuff to the 90's.
Re: "We Know People Love It. We Know They Want It" - The Simpsons Showrunner Doesn't Rule Out 'Hit & Run' Remake
Yeah but what about Road Rage?
@Guru_Larry I wouldn't mind a collection of Bart vs the Space Mutants games but nothing these companies they'd probably leave out the Sega and Amiga versions. 😆
@PopetheRev28 Small sprites?
@RupeeClock Don't change anything and just add a trigger warning.
Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry
@mjparker77 'Peado'? Source?
Re: Analogue 3D Firmware Update v1.2.3 Now Available, And Here's What It Does
@Edd-O I imagine the only thing we'll hear from Damien in regards to the ModRetro is any controversies that's happening with their N64 console, the same as what TE's new found friends the CUPodcast have been doing.
Re: Bodice-Ripping Epic 'Defender Of The Crown' Is Getting Remastered For Its 40th Birthday
Nice to see it remastered.
@Damo "the game would inspire a sequel on the ill-fated CDTV in 1993"
You mean the CD32 right? The CDTV only received the original. 🤔
Re: Analogue 3D Firmware Update v1.2.3 Now Available, And Here's What It Does
Yeah but it can't do what ModRetro does. 🤔
Re: "You're Doing Nothing With It" - Crash Bandicoot's Co-Designer Asks "Where's the Movie? Where's The TV Series?"
I think it's too little, too late. An animated series should have come out in the late 90's.
Re: "War Is Not A Video Game" - White House Social Media Post Mixing Iran War Footage With Nintendo's 'Wii Sports' Triggers Outcry
Oh boy, watch what happens when the White House learn about Miiverse. Mario is not going to be happy! Insider reports suggest the Wii Fit trainers are also not happy with the President.😂
Seriously, is it in poor taste? Yes. Is this a reason to throw the baby out with the bath water when there are worse things going on in gaming? Nope!
@Arcadia_Official This is definitely the best response here.
@mjparker77 Good luck on that one! 😂
Re: "At EA, We Were Voted The Worst Company In America Because Of The End Of Mass Effect"
@retrogamer1 Thanks.
Re: "At EA, We Were Voted The Worst Company In America Because Of The End Of Mass Effect"
@retrogamer1 Is that ending canon though? Also, doesn't the DLC alter the original ending in a good way?
Re: "At EA, We Were Voted The Worst Company In America Because Of The End Of Mass Effect"
@retrogamer1 But isn't there DLC that's supposed to change the ending?
Re: Ex-Xbox Icon Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb Joins Commodore International
@Zenszulu What are you talking about? This is a Major victory. 😉
Re: The "Boosted" Version Of This 1995 Shoot 'Em Up Is Getting A New PC Big Box Release
Classic Edition, definitely, yep!
Now if only they'd give the same treatment or at least a DVD case for modern game releases.
Re: Video Game Preservation Archive Myrient Has Been "100% Backed Up" By The Community
Well done guys!
Re: This Long-Running Website Has Apparently Been Nuked From Google Thanks To AI-Written Resident Evil Review
This is nothing new. It's been going on for years with gaming websites. Will be interesting to see if the website can break into Google searches again.
Re: Croc Cheat Code Goes Undiscovered For Almost 30 Years
@no_donatello That's pretty awesome. I wasn't aware! 😂
Re: Interview: "I'm The Luckiest Son Of A B**ch In The Industry" - Skyrim's Bruce Nesmith On TSR, Elder Scrolls & Daggerfall's "Miserable" Crunch
"Morrowind, as it was created originally, is not going to hold up today. Like, literally go back and play Morrowind. The game's out there. Go play it and tell me that still holds up."
I reject this type of thinking. There will be some games that have aged badly but most don't. They just play differently according to when they were made.
Re: "Definitely Not Created By AI" - How An Innocent Conker Celebration Drew Rare Into A GenAI Debate
Witch hunting is not a good idea guys.🤔
Re: "At EA, We Were Voted The Worst Company In America Because Of The End Of Mass Effect"
@retrogamer1 I think they added that after due to the outrage? 🤔
Re: "I Think It Would Be Extremely Difficult" - Don't Expect Sega To Sell Yakuza's Retro Games Individually
@metaphysician Ah well that's different. I completely agree Sega should focus on remastering games from a variety of systems. Having said that, it was a big mistake keeping the Sega AGES line just to Switch. When I look at the PS2 and Switch stuff it's sad it wasn't made available in other places like PC.
Re: Nihon Falcom Announces Dragon Slayer 45th Anniversary Project
@metaphysician Interested to see what they do.
Re: "At EA, We Were Voted The Worst Company In America Because Of The End Of Mass Effect"
@smoreon Thanks for that info.
Re: 35 Years After Street Fighter II Changed Everything, The ZX Spectrum Finally Gets A Half-Decent Port
I have to partly disagree with Damien here. Say what you will about the original port's gameplay but the graphics are on point. 👍
Re: Nihon Falcom Announces Dragon Slayer 45th Anniversary Project
Why not do a collection of the Dragon Slayer games? People would buy it and they remaster the Legend of Heroes games.
Re: "At EA, We Were Voted The Worst Company In America Because Of The End Of Mass Effect"
Thanks for spoiling the end of Mass Effect 3 Peter. It was on my play list. 🙄
Re: Review: Polymega Collection Vol. 15 - Body Harvest - Comes Undone Thanks To A Poor Showing By DMA's N64 Classic
I wonder what happened with the emulation on Body Harvest? 🤔
Re: Nightdive's Remaster Of The 1998 "Diamond-In-The-Rough" FPS 'Sin' Is Still Alive, And Coming This Year
Would also be happy if they remastered and finished SiN Episodes.
Re: Z.E.N.E.K.O. Is A "High End" Run-And-Gun That Aims To Stand "Shoulder To Shoulder With Metal Slug"
@X68000 I agree. It doesn't look like 192 MEG at all. It looks good but not 192 MEG.
Re: "I Think It Would Be Extremely Difficult" - Don't Expect Sega To Sell Yakuza's Retro Games Individually
@gojiguy Which trash games? 🤔
Re: "I Think It Would Be Extremely Difficult" - Don't Expect Sega To Sell Yakuza's Retro Games Individually
""Incidentally, we often hear people say, "I want to sell retro games individually," but I think it would be extremely difficult to actually make that a viable business in this day and age."
Then release a collection? 🤦♂️
Re: This Sega Saturn 'Lupin the 3rd' Game From 1998 Just Got An English Fan Translation
Oh this looks cool, I didn't know this was made.
Re: "We Need As Many Hands As Possible" - There's A New Volunteer-Driven Effort To "Preserve Myrient's Legacy"
@Serpenterror Ah, I never knew you could do that. That's cool, thanks for that!
Re: FMV Western 'Mad Dog McCree' Now Playable In ScummVM, Alongside Six Other Titles
"You couldn't shoot the broad side of a barn!"
Whoops, wrong light gun game. 😂
Re: Sega Mania Celebrates Five Years With A Cover By Super Play And Rare Artist Wil Overton
The only place you'll see Lara Croft, Sonic and Street Racer together. 😂
Re: Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection To Restore Missing 'Lunar Knights' Crossover
We're getting into some really obscure Mega Man collections now. 😆
Re: The "Last And Greatest Mystery" Of The Sega Saturn Has Been Revealed
As others have said above the 32X was a lesson they eventually learned from.