General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition
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Decided to play some MSX games today and decided to play Knightmare. Then I spent an hour getting annoyed that bluemsx wouldn't play the game with the SCC cartridge and everything I did to change it didn't work.
Turns out the original cartridge didn't have SCC support but a later disk compilation updated the game to SCC so the emulator was working perfectly...
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More msx malarkey. There seems to be an issue with the emulation for knightmare. The second boss just moves side to side and I kept randomly dying.
I looked up some videos. Seems the bosses projectiles don't render properly. So I tried the disk release of the game on the Konami collection release and this seemed to fix the issue. Very weird.
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I thought it was like all illumination movies, grand and played it totally safe. I think that's the worst possible outcome. It's just kind of bland apparent from picking out the references in the first 15 minutes and most of those are just the game name checking nintendo franchises like a F-zero sticker in the background. I'd have rather this was really good pixar level stuff or a complete trainwreck like the first film. None of the jokes really hit either. The princess in another castle joke was lame and they had a joke about the DK Rap but instead of doing the rap which would have been fun so only retrogame weirdos like me know the true horror.
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Two things I hate in modern kids films - pop references to other films and modern pop music being used. Basically things that won't really stand the test of time and kids of future generations won't 'get' it. The best, most timeless animated films tend not to do either of the above.
I remember the first time the pop reference thing really annoyed me in a big kids film was a Matrix bullet time moment in the original Shrek movie. Subsequently I started noticing more and more of that thing in lower quality animated films.
This film is somewhere smack bang in the middle between that kind of rubbish and top tier Pixar films.
Basically do as I did, go in with zero expectations and it's good popcorn for your mind.
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Well I did enjoy it in a turn your brain off kind of way. It's just the sonic movies were way more enjoyable since they were more interesting and it's a crime that something sonic can be better than Mario.
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Super Mario Odyssey as well. Nintendo really has some talented composers.
Actually I was thinking recently how bad western developed games have gotten with regards to soundtracks. They are all following the modern movie trend of having soundtracks that are basically just orchestrated mood pieces that you barely notice. I'd much rather a bit of John Williams - esque bombast with a running light motif through the soundtrack, Uncharted is a good example of this done right. It's been a long time since I've been blown away by a videogame soundtrack to the point that I just stop and listen to the track for a while. The last time that happened was probably Shin Megami Tensei 4. The boss music when I got to Minotaur was epic but the one that really got me was the tokyo world map music, it's still one of my all time favourite pieces of music.
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I'd really love if modern movies went back to that john williams style. I mean when was the last time a movie had an earwig soundtrack that you were humming as you left the theatre? I mean I'd probably be shocked if you told me the current crop of marvel movies had actual soundtracks. I can only dream about what could have been done there with each character having their own light motif for each movie and then the composer having fun blending them together for the cross over movies.
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SMT5 has the same composer as SMT4. I think he is even better than the already amazing shoji meguro. Listen to smt4 Tokyo theme and tell me it's not the best overworld map theme ever.
As for indies, they tend to knock it out of the park in terms of soundtracks. Some great stuff coming from the indie space. I also love how all the classic game composers are getting jobs in the indie space. I found it equally amused and upsetting when at the start of the indie movement and they were approached by indie devs they were surprised anyone wanted them to work on a game soundtrack and surprised how people still liked their music.
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