One for star control 2 fans but the PC remake that was made by the original Dev team and has all the 3DO niceties is now free on steam. It was always available to download free but nice to have it on a modern platform for a price you can't turn your nose up at:
To follow on on this I think I found another sprite scaled NGP game. The version of Pac man can be played either zoomed in or out and when it zooms out it just scales the sprites and maze.
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For that price you have me half thinking of picking one up. Shipping looks to be free?
Just watched a video, that's actually really impressive. Just looking at the Gameboy Color version, check out how smooth it is once the train gets a bit of speed going.
Something I didn't realise about the neo geo pocket until recently is that is supports sprite scaling. No games really use it at all but the recent retrocore video on the Densha de go 2 ports shows it off clearly. The neo geo pocket is pumping out a tonne of scaling sprites and it's super smooth. I actually own the game and played it a good bit but it was hard to see on the neo geo pocket screen and I just thought they were really nicely animated. It's a bit crazy the effect isn't used in any other game I know of.
I must have been living under a rock in the world of synthesizers the last month, as a commercial non-DIY Sega Mega Dive Synth you can buy has released!
It's from the Japanese manufacture Sonicware and it only costs €239:
And what's cool is that Yuzo Koshiro has officially contributed some sound banks from his soundtracks for the system.
I'm still going to plow ahead with the one I'm building, painting the case tomorrow so wish me luck!
You can search online for 'sprite sheets' for the game you are looking for, and then resize with 'nearest neighbor' - so yea get all the sprite goodness but large
Mike Dailly of GTA and Lemmings fame is fairly involved with The Spectrum Next, no Lemmings Spectrum Next yet though...........
Retro Games revival in the land it all came from! As covered on NHK News
https://youtu.be/lVyckz5FVSk?si=B1Vhls-263ylMPY7
Anyone know of a site for high res sprite images? Someone I know is looking to print out some stickers for a wall.
Lemmings is 33 years old ! Madness
True, though the Captain Rainbow guys are still going (just updated last week after panic set in the project was shelved) and are hopeful of 2024 release per below. God willing we'll be helping Little Mac lose weight at some stage this year.
Just tracking the updates it looks like an absolute hell of a job.
It just depends on the team making these translations. I've not heard anything about either game in a long time so it could well be that the teams are inactive or disbanded.
I learned long ago not to get excited about fan translations and just be glad when one arrives. There's no way to predict when one will be finished but it's also not fair to expect a team of amateurs doing this out of passion to hit deadlines either.
Must be a nightmare given the level of references, wordplay et al. Suspect the Captain Rainbow fanslation must be facing similar difficulties, given it pretty much goes to town on Nintendo's lore, history and reputation.
Makes what Mato and his lads achieved with the Mother 3 translation all the more impressive.
And yet still no Segagaga translation...
I see death crimson 2 has been fan translated. A Dreamcast sequel to what was considered the worst Saturn game. It only got made because the first game was so popular as a kusoge.
That's the same guy that's making the new Metal Slug style game Black Finger Jet.
Hopefully the development process is a bit less punishing 😁
So...
More like, Metal Slog?
I'll get my coat...
Anyone read the recent tweet from an ex SNK developer about how bad it was there in the 90s?
Apparently for metal slug they were crunching 30 hours non stop before getting sleep. They were all exhausted by the end of the day.
The two coders in question were told that as they had put the final touches to the game together they were allowed to sleep in on their Saturday morning and he was send QA to go to the metal slug location test instead.
Saturday morning comes, QA aren't out location testing, the boss goes insane and sends the developer and his mate to the location test when neither has had any sleep in 2 days.
So at the location test the developers friend drops his pen and as he bends down to pick it up he collapses due to sleep exhaustion and faceplants against the metal railing and falls asleep. The poster said he looked like the T-1000 oozing through the railing and everyone in the arcade was having a great time laughing at him.
Edit: found the tweet, it's by one of the snk artists.
No surprise there as Heritage and WATA have essentially been running a scam to inflate graded game prices. Jim Halperin, the owner of Heritage, has previous form doing this with coins. Halperin was also one of the founders of WATA btw.
You know what, I was thinking the artwork would be the most highly priced items in that videogame auction but check out this insanity:https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/playstation/tekken-wata-98-a-sealed-jewel-longbox-early-production-ps1-namco-1995-usa/a/7359-28126.s
Edit - hang on, it gets far FAR worse!
https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/the-legend-of-zelda-cgc-80-a-sealed-nes-tm-no-rev-a-first-production-nes-nintendo-1987-usa/a/7359-28025.s
Is the highest bidder WATA Games by any chance?
Come back to me when they have awesome possum.
Great piece up on Heritage Auctions at the moment, original box art to Gex. Currently sitting at $7,750!
https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/nintendo/peter-bollinger-gex-panasonic-3do-video-game-original-box-art-crystal-dynamics-1995-/a/7359-28134.s?ic16=ViewItem-Auction-Open-AlsoViewed-Thumbnail-081514&table=BrowseAlsoViewed-012417
Yeah I've downloaded a couple of games and it worked for both..
Seems to work well, phew! It's my go to for a lot of stuff these day as I've been sticking ODEs and other disc based loading solutions into consoles.
Ffs, that was a super handy way to grab pre patched stuff.
@Tom Mann Centuria cheers for that, wonder how long it'll last.
Just go to cdromance.org and paste the cdr ticket number of the game you want.
The cdr ticket will be listed in whatever game you want on the original cdromance website.
CD romance just got DMCA'ed and all their co tent has been pulled off line.
Kind of annoying as it was by far the best place to go for old games and had games with fan translations and mods pre patched.
