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@smoreon apparently the game was decompiled ages ago. This week's milestone is byte for byte match which proves the exactness of the project. It doesn't guarantee or make ports any more likely. I'm not sure what the blog post that went with the tweet said exactly as its gone. https://twitter.com/alejand56879654/status/1922362895397970193

The featured tweet has been taken down, and a other one is in its place saying it was an error. @damo

@Damo touché! There's the attract mode footage, but also another very low quality recording of the same level shown in this "new" footage. https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/1517996355268059136

Anyway, yes, fingers crossed we can play it one day.

@Daniel36 what did you play from 1997 when GT was released until 2001 when Burnout was released?

@MysticWangForce @-wc- iirc and GT2 introduced Arcade disc.

There was also a hidden GT mode in Motor Toon Grand Prix 2.

@Vectrex my thoughts exactly!

It's also worth noting that footage of this game has existed online for decades, this is simply a higher quality recording.

The attract mode is well worth a watch. https://youtu.be/4XLQ9ds5PeM

Such a cool looking game.

Typo: The appeal of Resivour Dogs

Should be: Reservoir

I'm struggling to think of a part of the LRG business that is run well.

@Blofse @Zuljaras Lost in Cult announcing their physical label on 20th May so watch this space

Rumoured to have a great line up of games, the type you didn't know you wanted physically until they were announced.

@Stwert they're only starting to rub you up the wrong way? After all they've done? You have a high tolerance for pain!

This is a really tricky one. I'd give GPS money, but only if I got something in return. Selfish, I know.

But what would, or could, I get in return? They can't give access to their 35,000 disks because Japanese copyright law prevents it. Even in Japan you can only get access in person. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Giving GPS money to know they are preserving things but that I'll never be able to access is a much harder sell. I donate to many Patreon, Wikipedia, Internet Archive and more.

I've contacted GPS in the past and tried to get some things to read. The only information I could get was a confusing email reply from Joseph. Everything that I wanted to see was confirmed as existing and available, but off limits. Japanese copyright law is the issue. Maybe it'll change at some point.

I think GPS are their own enemy in a number of ways. They do everything in a slightly odd, esoteric, old-fashioned way. No patreon? Downloadable newsletters? Awkward website? It feels that they are making everything more difficult than it need be. Modernisation is required. You mention that they don't communicate certain things well. That is the core problem. They need marketing help above all else.

I remember going there for a meeting about me helping automate the creation of digital manuals for Wii games. Must have been between 2007 and 2010.

For those unfamiliar with the meme (perhaps folks outside the USA?) it's a couple of clicks away on one of the links on this page. So, to save you the time: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-playstation-can-produce-mind-boggling-effects

@Damo cheers!

It's curious that the infractions were known about for so long—decades—but didn't make the news. I guess something happened to cause Marcin to speak up about it in 2025. But what?

@pigpennn it's all smoke and mirrors in any demo scene production. For example the ST can't do hardware sprites, but they make it seem like it can.

So, I expect the Neo Geo is capable of much more but simply hasn't been pushed as much or had as much attention.

Fairhurst was able to confirm with Time Extension that the repository is now fully up to date

Can you please link to this repo? I can't find it.

And no coverage of LRG doing multiple reprints of their "limited run" games? https://youtu.be/MvkZkgmpg2w

This is pretty cool, but far below the state of the art of demo scene on the arguably less powerful Amiga or Atari STE.

Top work preserving this!

Great interview. He's a true intellectual. I'd have liked him to open up a little more.

I was shocked to see my old tweet of a print ad for Seven Colors half way down the page!

So Masaya thinks music should be distributed as a fluid program, rather than the fixed output. Which is a really interesting thought, mostly because it's nothing new and it had already been done years before his first game. No need for AI.

Speaking of which, I recently stumbled across such alternative distribution back in 1989, where some music was distributed as MIDI files on a CD so that the listener could adjust the playback to their taste, using their own stack of equipment.

I even found recording of one of the albums, but naturally not as MIDI. It was an interesting listen.

https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/1908277494400040990

Or (same content)
https://bsky.app/profile/gingerbeardman.com/post/3llzfvsuht22b

Avoid. Avoid. Avoid.

Urgh. Not good.

This was released 31 March.

So we're looking for NES and GB Jaleco releases that are attractive to French publisher. Hmm.

Jack, you forgot to hyphenate Bullet-Proof Software in the paragraph after mentioning it should be hyphenated.

What is the USP of this? What does it do that I can't do with one other devices?

@GameBuoyGames agreed. The point I took away from the article is that it's all one interconnected industry and we need to be more empathetic and curious about things outside of our own bubbles

Really enjoyed this, thanks. Hopefully it will give people pause before they make a sweeping generalisation in future. Probably not though.

The best example of US-über-alles approach to gaming history is English language Wikipedia: every game article is named for the USA version, rather than the original or most popular version of the game (which is what the say it is supposed to be). So you'll need to look for Buster Bros. (the US-only name used for few versions of the game) to find Pang (the name used in the rest of the world for many versions of the game; provably more popular).

@NinChocolate that's exactly when the owner will pounce

We gotta believe!

Their industrial design is always fun and interesting, but it's another solution looking for a problem. They would surely benefit from some guidance.

Is this using the open source reimplementation of Wipeout? I think so. Same code that was being ported to Playdate, etc.

I don't believe any other games in the Wipeout series have been reverse engineered like that. But great that Dreamcast will have this one.

Game looks like it has a million colours! Amazing work by the artist and devs.

Absolute classic. Was lucky enough to play it at an arcade a few times.

I want one of these, would be perfect for my recent Dreamcast game. That's a very low requirement kind of game and runs fine on my GameForce Chi. But this device looks nicer.

I suppose it's referring to the mono sound game setting? As the game/PlayStation has no way of knowing the capabilities of the connected display/speakers

Love this. I'm making a tate mode shmup at the moment—would love to get it released on the Evercade.

Wow. That's all I have to say.

Every time they're caught out they say "oh, we'll change - it won't happen again" yet time after time it has happened, again and again. The fact that they're not learning from mistakes means that the problem is systemic within the company. The good will for LRG was burned long ago, and I don't see anything that rebuilds it. Even this sort of interview (that is perhaps damage control) is essentially worthless if they keep making mistakes. Given their track record you can bet that we'll be able to count in weeks until the next one.

@Damo of course, it's in the comments on the linked HyperPlay RPG YouTube video, I confirmed by going to https://win.anbernic.com/download/448.html

Looking at timings I think it had already been taken down before your article went up. Version 1.0.6 is no longer there.

I read that the firmware containing this app had been pulled and is no longer available.

@FPGAguru Amiga Rod•Land (and all home versions) are missing the second scenario "new game plus" with different graphics and stages that the arcade game features.

@FPGAguru what about rewind?

@KingMike ok so i did some sleuthing! (watched a demo of the device on youtube) and the "12-frames" is just some had copywriting on their part.

What it actually features several seconds of rewind, with 12 little thumbnail images (they refer to them as "frames", d'oh) that you can scroll back through and choose one.

I would have said "12 seconds" or if they can't guarantee seconds then simply "12 rewind points"

https://youtu.be/li8KpjUv3cM?t=401

At 60fps 12-frames would be 0.2 seconds of rewind?

Love the Pang series. Shout out to the DS version which is so good I'm almost weeping thinking about its glory.

Also the graphics on the device in the photos are surely ai generated. Easy to tell due to the nonsensical uneven sizing of repeated elements such as the chain links, gate/window bars, bricks, rope.

Reminds me of the time spent playing text adventure games on my Sony PRS-650 Reader with Zork-Edition custom firmware.

@TenEighty don't believe every MVG video you watch. Many of the N64 emulation "issues" mentioned in that video have been solved years ago: tri point textures, Pilotwings shadow. And blaming it on plugins is odd because that's still how RetroArch and even MiSTer work.

@nocdaes sadly, Japanese copyright laws prevent digital distribution of scans by internet to your browser or email. Snail-mailing photocopies is OK though! See the blog link in my earlier comment. Photos are also OK. The key is that the total content shared by the OK methods is no more than a certain (I forget exactly how much) percentage of the item total.

So whilst it's technically possible for the publisher to do it, they'd be breaking Japanese law by doing it and would be at least fined and probably worse. The National DIET Library in Tokyo has everything scanned but most scans can only be viewed in person on site for the same reasons as above.

@tektite_captain indeed, if you search in Japanese for "name of the magazine 519 ocarina of time 40" or ファミコン通信 519 ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ 40 ...a photo of the review is amongst the first handful of image results. Thanks to this kind blogger: http://obotukasan.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2011/06/40-c4b5.html

And DIET library in Tokyo would post you a photocopy of the page in question from their complete collection of Famitsu: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/05/24/ordering-photocopies-from-japans-national-library/

The second half of the article is the truth. The first half is very odd, heresay, sensationalist drama, not really indicative of the situation.

@Guru_Larry I've seen this often repeated, but Blur is nowhere near the depth of any 3D Mario Kart game. The phrase might explain the concept, but it sets way too high expectations. (I thought Blur was not great.)