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1 hour ago, Tanooki said:
people thought of it as largely a monochrome NES that just had a little less view area and weren't that far off the mark. Developers felt as much too given some of the NES ports and conversions it has
I didn’t realize that the Gameboy was a Z80 variant rather than a 6502 until well after it went off the market. That was mostly because I wasn’t interested in handheld gaming until the GBA Advanced came out (speaking of which, many people mistake the GBA as a miniature SNES, but it’s a ARMv4 variant).
The developers did an amazing job converting these games from the NES/SNES (although, the hardware was actually more impressive, other than the screen resolution). Other than the lack of colors and smaller resolution, they get the look and feel down perfectly.
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Not sure what type of games I would like on Genesis, but I would like to see a return to whomever ran the marketing department for Atari in the 90’s.
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Most of the best carts for the Gameboy ORG/Pock are fairly cheap (except Pokémon, or if you want CIB), even more so than NES games these days.
1. Tetris ($15) - Might as well have been a packin, since everyone owned it.
2. LoZ: Links Awakening ($40) - so good they had to rerelease it on modern hardware.
3. Donkey Kong ($18) - Lots of new level layouts.
4. Kirby’s Dreamland ($18)
5. Wario Land SML3 ($20)
6. Final Fantasy Adventure ($32) - Really Secret of Mana 2.
7. Super Mario Land 2 ($20)
8. Metroid II: Return Samus ($32)
9. Mega Man 2 ($22)
10. Harvest Moon ($32)
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If you have hundreds of dollars, you can get one of those Ben Heck one-of-a-kind handhelds. Then the sky’s the limit on what a “handheld” is.
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GoG is giving away The Knight of the Rabbit. A Point-n-Clink from the same developers as Deponia
https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_night_of_the_rabbit
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3 hours ago, 82-T/A said:On 9/13/2023 at 9:11 AM, CapitanClassic said:
Don't know if I could wade through the archaic interface of these old Gold Box games these days.
I'm sorry, we can no longer be friends.
Quality of life improvements are a must these days with the plethora of options to choose from for entertainment.I love old games like this or XCom, but after playing a game like Xcom with XComUtility where it automatically equips your troops based upon naming conventions, it is hard to go back to the clunkier interface.
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I performed the infamous Pole Vault cheat In Decathlon. I think I remember sending in a photo to Activision, I never received a patch though.
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9 hours ago, Jimhearne said:
They don't seem to leak as much but they certainly bulge.
My wife says she’s happy I have that problem.
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9 hours ago, CapitanClassic said:15 hours ago, Wildstar said:
Technically, you can not legally make even backup copies unless permission was explicitly granted in written form.
Another correction, you absolutely can make a backup copy, no permission needs to be explicitly granted, because it is implied.
It does say, “special conditions have been put in place by the copyright owner that might affect your ability or right under section 117 to make a backup copy,” so it might be possible to prevent a backup from being made, but you have it reversed. They have to explicitly forbid it in the license. (Not the other way around)
Your response is regarding ROM sites that are distributing the copyrighted material. You could just admit you are wrong instead of changing the subject to make it look like you were right. But this is the internet, you can continuously be wrong if you like. Everything before the — I added was regarding ROM sites, but after that was regarding personal use of software you own a copy of.QuoteTechnically, if you don't own the copyrights, you do not have any legal distribution rights. All these download sites for game roms and disk images are technically engaged in copyright infringement. — Technically, you can not legally make even backup copies unless permission was explicitly granted in written form. Even then, when you sell your copy, you must destroy the backup copies except one working copy and you must give it to whoever bought your original copy. You may not legally retain any copy of it on any media because you only paid for that game once. (Unless you bought multiple times the same game). That's the law.
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6 hours ago, Wildstar said:
Technically, you can not legally make even backup copies unless permission was explicitly granted in written form.
Another correction, you absolutely can make a backup copy, no permission needs to be explicitly granted, because it is implied.
It does say, “special conditions have been put in place by the copyright owner that might affect your ability or right under section 117 to make a backup copy,” so it might be possible to prevent a backup from being made, but you have it reversed. They have to explicitly forbid it in the license. (Not the other way around)
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I don’t know if they sell it by itself, but it is part of the Forgotten Realms - Collection 2
GOG has it for $10 (is there a price tracker like for steam?)
Steam says it has been as cheap as $6.
Always wanted to own these bitd. The combat scenes looked amazing and I loved the closeness to the Adv. D&D rules. Eventually the closest thing I got was Realms of Arcana: Star Trail and Heroes of Might & Magic 1&2 (as well as renting Kings Bounty [Gen].Don't know if I could wade through the archaic interface of these old Gold Box games these days.
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I almost never buy games now. With all the weekly free games that Epic gives out 52+ per year, plus 20+ for the pre-Christmas giveaway (although I only think I have played 3-4 of those), and the weekly Prime Games giveaway (probably only played about 7-10 of these) and the random GoG giveaways, and the free games through Netflix (only just barely staring playing Into the Breach after beating TMNT) who has time to play anything else?
I did buy a couple of Humble Bundles, but even those I have cut back on.
As for buying games I already own, I have almost done it a few times (seriously considered it with HoMM2 / HoMM3), because they have done some work with wrapping the code to run on modern machines. The cost of $1-$3 isn’t much when it is on sale, and it saves me from having to find space for a Win98 / WinXP machine on a desk.
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11 hours ago, thanatos said:
Well, that was really the joke.
Sadly I missed your reply four days ago, I've been at VCFMW, but now there are 30+ more pages?? Holy crap I'm never going to catch up!
You are just adding to the problem. Damn, now I’m doing it.
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1 hour ago, azure said:
Regardless, Pat the NES Punk had valid points. I would have lined up to order the 2600+ if it had built-in support for 2600 bankswitching and thus full support for modern homebrews.
He also is woefully uninformed and spreading misinformation. He stated that the 2600+ doesn’t support bank switching, where it obviously does (it plays Asteroids for example F8 bank switching method).
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Killer Satellites- G50 - 1010
Suicide Mission - Hard - 12530
Escape Mastermind - G1 - 102
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1 hour ago, bent_pin said:
I have 4 students learning 2600 ASM twice a week right now. Working on expanding that.
Wouldn’t Pico-8, Scratch, or a multitude of other languages be a better starting point? (Just surprised)
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Not complaining. Thanks for running the HSC for so long. I guess I will hold back my suggestion to award Triangular Number bonus, based upon the difference between your own Week 19th place, and the highest rank person you beat this week.
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1 hour ago, WAVE 1 GAMES said:
Hasbro Interactive announced today it has released all rights that it may have to the vintage Atari hardware platform, the Jaguar.
Hasbro Interactive acquired rights to many Atari properties, including the legendary Centipede, Missile Command, and Pong games, in a March 1998 acquisition from JTS Corporation.
This announcement will allow software developers to create and publish software for the Jaguar system without having to obtain a licensing agreement with Hasbro Interactive for such platform development. Hasbro Interactive cautioned, however, that the developers should not use the Atari trademark or logo in connection with their games or present the games as authorized or approved by Hasbro Interactive.
The 1st bold would mean that you could recreate the hardware, regardless of whether Atari/Hasbro owned a patent on the hardware.
The 2nd I suppose relates to some hardware lockout chip and Atari’s requirement to obtain a license to make games for their system. Likely the Atari/Jaguar logo (and growl) would have to be displayed for “authorized “ software to run. Technically speaking you could bypass boot up sequences as decided in Sega v Allocade.
The 3rd warns against using the Atari logo and name, protecting Hasbro from having the brand diluted with unapproved and poor software.I don’t see where Hasbro released the Jaguar logo into the public domain. That being said, Trademark, unlike copyright and be abandoned if it isn’t enforced. The fact that others have used to Jaguar’s logo and Hasbro/Atari hasn’t actively sent cease and desists means that they might likely lose if it went to court. (Although Trademark lawsuits are +$half-million expenses, so who really wants to find out?). ROM copyrights on the other hand last forever (basically), and don’t actively need to be enforced. Atari could start at any point telling websites to take down ROMs and it doesn’t matter that they took no action for the last 20+ years.
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Received today. Well packed and was promptly sent. +1 Seller.
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1 hour ago, WAVE 1 GAMES said:
My girlfriends mom is convinced that the government is watching in on her through her laptop camera and they are evil. I told my girlfriend "Honey the government doesn't want to see your mom naked, nobody wants to see that."
well???….Tesla…NSA. They are evil too (mostly incompetent, but also evil).
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I believe the trademark applications are in reference to the new Super Mario World in Universal Studio.
Specifically to sell merchandise (like T-Shirts) like these. Pretty sure their trademark doesn’t extend to video game representations of additional lives earned.