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General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition
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Absolutely cracking feature here on Crash Bandicoot by Ars Technica in which Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin is interviewed.
He gets into the technical details of how they managed to get the game to look so well whilst maintaining a decent frame rate, but he explains it in a way which is easy to understand.
And the video editing that supplements it is top notch also.
Its great to see someone so knowledgeable who remembers the techniques in detail like it was yesterday.
Some of his techniques were a revolutionary first and are used to this day in gaming.
Theres also the extended interview which was uploaded a week ago and is over 2 hours 10 mins long.0 -
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He's been talking about it in magazines and articles for a while now, first heard this stuff in retrogamer magazine. Great to see it in video form.
As much as I think the Crash Bandicoot games are second tier platformers, Christ they looked gorgeous at the time and the art as aged relatively well. Have to say, he is a genius programmer and weird to see them come from making utter scutter on PC and megadrive (rings of power is gross) to what they are today.
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I've been seriously thinking of getting a pc engine/core Grafx, but them I'm looking at some of the game prices and I don't know if it's hole I want to fall into!
But the amount of arcade ports on that system is seriously impressive, very cool.
I was looking at the ninja warriors (which is an arm and a leg for the arcade triplescreen), but it was only released on the pc engine in Japan. Looks like a decent port. Then I saw the port on the megacd, really good! And the title music, and prologue added in, neat
This prologue is the megacd in a nutshell, brilliantly mad, but if you want to skip to one of the best theme tunes evaaaar, go to 3.50 min mark
Basically I'm mixed up about getting into other formats
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I've been seriously thinking of getting a pc engine/core Grafx, but them I'm looking at some of the game prices and I don't know if it's hole I want to fall into!
But the amount of arcade ports on that system is seriously impressive, very cool.
I was looking at the ninja warriors (which is an arm and a leg for the arcade triplescreen), but it was only released on the pc engine in Japan. Looks like a decent port. Then I saw the port on the megacd, really good! And the title music, and prologue added in, neat
This prologue is the megacd in a nutshell, brilliantly mad, but if you want to skip to one of the best theme tunes evaaaar, go to 3.50 min mark
Basically I'm mixed up about getting into other formats
The arcade version is on PS4, possibly Switch.
It's not a great game.
What is a great game however is the stupidly expensive SNES version of the game. It's afar better and deeper game and is loads of fun.
But even better than that is the remake on PS4/Switch called The Ninja Saviors which enhances the already brilliant SNES original and makes it an even better game.
Honestly only really worth playing the SNES games and enhanced remake.
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Did anyone see the new Streets of Rage 4 trailer that came out yesterday?
You can play through it as the original characters and even with the Streets of Rage 1 & 2 soundtracks!
I've gone from vaguely interested to purchasing a physical copy from limited run games
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Did anyone see the new Streets of Rage 4 trailer that came out yesterday?
You can play through it as the original characters and even with the Streets of Rage 1 & 2 soundtracks!
I've gone from vaguely interested to purchasing a physical copy from limited run games
Same here. I get paid on the 25th so have to get a physical one now.
Really looking like it will be fantastic. Huge roster of playable characters.
Wonder were any of the devs also involved in the still pretty active modding scene for SOR?0 -
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Jack burton wrote: »Same here. I get paid on the 25th so have to get a physical one now.
Really looking like it will be fantastic. Huge roster of playable characters.
Wonder were any of the devs also involved in the still pretty active modding scene for SOR?
I'd say they have to at least playing some of the mods alright! I didn't know it was still active, that's this afternoons gaming sorted for me
Would love to see if I can get SOR4 going on a CRT, I wonder how difficult it is to downscale Switch's digital signal to 240p analogue?0 -
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I need my own place.
My dad showed me a box in the shed. Said it was sitting there for over a year. Wanted to know whats in it as my mam found it in the attic and wants to throw it out.
My Neo Geo MVS board and supergun and all my MVS games....
I'll have to test it later to see if it's even working.
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