Storyboards for ads, canceled consoles, planned ports, emails, so much to go through. Here's a post of highlights I found:
Here's some highlights
Sega Pluto, which was just a Saturn with a built-in modem, would've retailed for 550 bucks
Sega seriously considered bringing Terra Phantastica to the west, but ended up bailing on it
Vectorman was supposed to get a PC port before VM2 was released
Sega of Japan was developing a Mickey Mouse game that got canned
Sega of America genuinely believed that Saturn Sonic could be released in late '96
Sony was spending double on marketing what SoA did
Heart of Darkness was supposed to come out in summer '96 for Saturn, ended up being a PlayStation exclusive in '98
Sega Sports was hilarously understaffed compared to its competition at Sony and EA
Elder Scrolls Arena was planned to get an exclusive Saturn port
And all of the following games were planned to get a '96 Saturn release
Grand Theft Auto
Rayman 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Voyeur
Wing Commander IV
Alien vs Predator
Cyber Sled by Namco
OG Soul caliber on dreamcast is one of my fondest memories. We used to play that all day. swapping controllers with those waiting on the side when we lost. Good times.
@BarrierWithAshes ummm.. I only know Digimon world 3, it's isometric rpg with turn based battle.
Other than that, I don't know any other isometric games (or maybe I just forgot).
That looks cool. Not what I'm looking for but interesting. Reminds me a bit of the MegamanEXE games.
Collectathons are just games (usually platformers) where you collect a bunch of stuff. Spyro you got the items in each level, gems, chests, sidequests (that give you items) and so on. There's a lot of stuff to collect. Banjo Kazooie is another collectathon.
The banjo game looks right up my alley. Idk, something about these kinda-jank and simple GBA games just appeals to me so much. Didn't know Conker had a GBC game. It looks about how I would expect it lol. Thanks.
@BarrierWithAshes Mobygames has a massive database of games with enough metadata to be a good trick for obscure queries like this. Not perfect (I guess cataloguing metadata on every game ever made is complicated?), but good enough to give some plausible leads if you want to dig a bit. For example I see that there's a Banjo Kazooie GBA game that looks like it might be up your alley.
Link to "isometric platformers", since it doesn't seem to have a collectathon genre tag:
Man, I've never actually used Mobygames aside from seeing it in Google search once in a while. Didn't know you could do those kinds of searches. Way better than trying to trawl through IGDB. Gonna check this out. Thanks! I already see a few that definitely fit the bill (and all GBA too!)
Many of the hardware problems I’ve seen people have with MiSTer setups stem from bad add-on boards bought cheap from AliExpress. Hopefully these DE10 Nano FPGA clone boards will be good quality and won’t cause a bunch of bug reports where there’s no problem with the code.
I never understood why you’d want to do this. An emulator will run at a fraction of the energy expense of the old chips in pretty much any console. Like it’s neat, but it’s sort of like that Futurama episode where Bender downgrades to wood.
No offense to the creators, but the art styles being employed here are wholly inconsistent. I'm certain that there is a load of hard work going into this, but it just seems like one of those Skyrim ENB packs where mods from all sorts of various sources have been thrown together and each of them has a different aesthetic ideal driving them so the end result is a presentation that has really high production quality, but it has like 60 really high production qualities and they don't congeal into a cohesive whole.
All the best regardless, but the DMCA fairy is probably going to leave a letter for them soon. The first rule of Nintendo Fan Remake Club is that you don't talk about Nintendo Fan Remake Club until after you've got a finished product up as a Torrent.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh! Be quiet! Don’t talk about it until it’s fully playable, then put er up on torrent sites so it can’t be fully extinguished by the big N!
That gameplay video looks much better than I imagine the Vic-20 could to for this game. It looks like there was a sacrifice in color palette, but it was well worth it for the fidelity to the original release.
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