@Chamver unfortunately I can totally see how crunch exists. If they budget a team to work for 10 months but it takes 20 months, that project now cost twice as much for the same expected revenue.
Now the company thinks, if they can get developers to do 20 months work in 10 months with unpaid overtime the project will still be profitable. It sucks.
The Kickstarter is now the only way to contribute. The reason this wasn't their at first was because Kickstarter wasn't originally available to Precursor because they were not in the US.
The amount raised directly in the first few days, around $150,000, has been deducted from their original target for their Kickstarter target, leaving $1,350,000.
They managed to get a Kickstarter, because they felt they could reach more people, with better trust in the KS platform.
They waited for their pledgers to vote on what we wanted doing with our pledge money via the dev forum that pledges are give access to.
Posting this kind of article just adds to the confusion to potential backers.
These SD Updates are pretty meaningless when your internal memory gets used up by greedy games such as Smash Bros Brawl, taking up 128 free blocks of memory and which CANNOT be copied to an SD card. Nice one Nintendo, now I don't have enough memory for new Wii game saves, let alone Wii Ware or VC.
I'd imagine it'd be pretty easy to rewire an original classic controller into a megadrive / snes / turbo grafx etc controller. Could just get old ones from ebay. Then the button configs can be set up for each contoller for maximum authenitcity.
Speaking of Mega CD games Here's a few I recommend or would like to see re-released somehow.
Recommend:-
Shining Force CD Snatcher Sonic CD Night Trap Dune Final Fight CD Mickey Mania Mortal Kombat Keio Flying Squadron Puggsy Prince of Persia Earthworm Jim: Special Edition
Would like to see:-
Adventures of Willy Beamish Secret of Monkey Island Flashback Fatal Fury Special Rise of the Dragon Dracula Unleashed Popful Mail
Turbografx is awesome. Great to see the CD games too, considering the scarcity of the add ons / Duo systems. It would be great if they localized Snatcher, who knows?
Yeah, the US can't really complain about Megaman, considering they can get Megaman anniversary and Megaman X Collection for the Gamecube, probably about the same price as a VC download.
Both are worth import for Freeloaders or Importers!
"All right, EU, now can we stop hearing your whining? No offence, but I've run out of sympathy at this point."
As long as I can stop hearing whining from the US about paying $50 for new Wii games. There's loads of countries that would like to be able to get games that cheap, the UK being one of them.
For certain games they'd have to emulate the RAM back up carts, like Shining Force CD, so I don't see it being that simple. Great system though, well some of the games, and would be a cheap alternative to eBay. But I don't think thinning out the game pool is a good idea, unless we start getting 10 games a week.
How much did C64 games go for back in the day? I used to have a Spectrum, and if that came to the VC 500 points would make a lot of the games as expensive as they were back then, I remember being able to get Speccy games for about £3.00 from Newsagents (of all places!) at least if memory serves me correctly. (Werewolves Of London & Gregory Loses His Clock FTW!)
Of course wether they would successfully load when you got them home was a bit of a sore point.
"you know... Nintendo could just not give us any vc games. we should be thankful, not picky."
Nintendo gives you VC games? Crap, I paid for mine.
Yes Nintendo doesn't have to give us a decent VC selection. Just how I don't have to give Nintendo my cash. BUT if they want it out of my wallet, they'll have to try to tempt me, won't they
Though I doubt we'll see a SegaCD Channel before the release of some sort of HDD, I'd also love to get one. Even if it just let you play your original Sega CD discs on Wii.
MSX is good news. I how we get the proper Metal Gear 2! And Snatcher of course, even though it'd have to be translated?
I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo loses interest in the Virtual Console altogether, especially if their lack of new content effects profitability, which it must be doing.
Most carts are only expensive on ebay if you want them in the original box with instructions. Otherwise you can pick most carts up for around £5. The main benefit of doing it this way is you get to choose what games you get each week! Ebay is a neccessary evil where I live. In Greater London its quite hard to buy retro anymore as the high street game stores don't bother. Even my local Gamestation has sent their retro collection to a bigger branch (i.e. further away). Shame that, as I used to rinse their Gamecube aisle every other week and bought a few rare MegaCD and Dreamcast titles from their too.
Time to hook up your SNES and start giving your cash to the second hand market on eBay rather than Nintendo. That'll show them! Playing the carts is better anyway! I expect when SSMB and No More Heroes comes out that we'll have dry weeks anyway to tempt us to buy those.
"The Mario Bros were arrested today after an ongoing feud drove them to castrate long-time rival Bowser in his sleep. The two Brooklyn plumbers were caught fleeing the scene with the Koopa King's testicles still in their possession. Their attorney claimed non compos mentis on behalf of his clients stating years of magic mushroom abuse had altered their perception of reality. Other symptoms of prolonged mushroom abuse are known to include stunted growth, localised hair-loss and an almost obsessive compulsion for collecting stars."
Bass X > I imagine Square don't release their bigger franchines (i.e Final Fantasy) because of all the FF ports and remakes on DS and PSP. They'll probably release their better RPG catalogue once their hand held sales dwindle.
I'm betting Nintendo won't start releasing the most requested games until sales in Wiis and Wii games begin to decline. They'd rather have you pay for a full price Wii game. Shame that all the big name titles for Wii were SOLD OUT pratically everywhere in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
This is a complete kick in the stones to EU Wii owners. Note to Nintendo: if you are going to release just one game a week make sure it's must buy game like mario 3. Sod this, I'm playing SEGA this week!
When you complete the game and get the end screen do you have to reset the console? I wanted to save after I'd beaten the last boss so I could go back and do all the mini quests but it didn't budge from the "the end" screen. If this is so it's a pain! Don't know if I can be bothered to backtrack all the way from the last save point in the game!
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Re: Review: Disco Elysium: The Final Cut (Switch) - Still An Absolute Triumph On Switch
Performance isn't as big a problem as stability. It crashes for me once per play session at least. Other than that amazing game.
Re: Metroid Prime Remastered Switch Box Art Unveiled, Here's A Look
The Japanese box art is really nice, but the other version suits the tone and atmosphere of the game better imo.
Re: Best Visual Novels For Nintendo Switch
This article should be called "Most mainstream Visual Novels on Switch"
There are some serious omissions!
Re: Former Mario Movie Star John Leguizamo Isn't Happy With The Casting On The New Film
@ManInTheChair sort of proves his point about a lack of diversity in Hollywood?
But you can't always judge a person's
acting career by how many high profile movies they've been in.
Re: Nintendo Changed The Culture At Retro Studios Following Metroid Prime Crunch
@Chamver unfortunately I can totally see how crunch exists. If they budget a team to work for 10 months but it takes 20 months, that project now cost twice as much for the same expected revenue.
Now the company thinks, if they can get developers to do 20 months work in 10 months with unpaid overtime the project will still be profitable. It sucks.
Re: Exclusive: Project CARS "Simply Too Much For Wii U", Developer Now Waiting On New Nintendo Hardware
@Quorthon poppycock mate. You are defending shady corporate bull whip just to have a dig at Wii U owners. That doesn't make sense.
Re: Shadow of the Eternals Developer Double-Dips With Kickstarter Campaign
This article is missing a lot of information.
The Kickstarter is now the only way to contribute. The reason this wasn't their at first was because Kickstarter wasn't originally available to Precursor because they were not in the US.
The amount raised directly in the first few days, around $150,000, has been deducted from their original target for their Kickstarter target, leaving $1,350,000.
They managed to get a Kickstarter, because they felt they could reach more people, with better trust in the KS platform.
They waited for their pledgers to vote on what we wanted doing with our pledge money via the dev forum that pledges are give access to.
Posting this kind of article just adds to the confusion to potential backers.
Re: Review: Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (Virtual Console / Sega Mega Drive)
I have this on Atari Jaguar :0)
Re: Wii Firmware Update Makes Transferring to SD Faster
These SD Updates are pretty meaningless when your internal memory gets used up by greedy games such as Smash Bros Brawl, taking up 128 free blocks of memory and which CANNOT be copied to an SD card. Nice one Nintendo, now I don't have enough memory for new Wii game saves, let alone Wii Ware or VC.
Re: Hands On With SnakeByte's Wireless Retro Controller
I'd imagine it'd be pretty easy to rewire an original classic controller into a megadrive / snes / turbo grafx etc controller. Could just get old ones from ebay. Then the button configs can be set up for each contoller for maximum authenitcity.
Re: EU VC Releases: Earthworm Jim and Shining Force II
Speaking of Mega CD games Here's a few I recommend or would like to see re-released somehow.
Recommend:-
Shining Force CD
Snatcher
Sonic CD
Night Trap
Dune
Final Fight CD
Mickey Mania
Mortal Kombat
Keio Flying Squadron
Puggsy
Prince of Persia
Earthworm Jim: Special Edition
Would like to see:-
Adventures of Willy Beamish
Secret of Monkey Island
Flashback
Fatal Fury Special
Rise of the Dragon
Dracula Unleashed
Popful Mail
Re: Virtual Console games to be directly downloadable to SD cards
This storage solution is poo.
Re: Ys Book I & II
Turbografx is awesome. Great to see the CD games too, considering the scarcity of the add ons / Duo systems. It would be great if they localized Snatcher, who knows?
Re: The Mascott speaks about the Virtual Console!
Why would Nintendo release Smash Bros at the same time as Brawl? They'd rather you buy the more expensive Wii game!
Re: Mega Man 1 & 2 Coming To North America Soon?
Yeah, the US can't really complain about Megaman, considering they can get Megaman anniversary and Megaman X Collection for the Gamecube, probably about the same price as a VC download.
Both are worth import for Freeloaders or Importers!
Re: EU - 6th June - No Virtual Console Games!
Wii is half way through its second year! Get it right, NintenD'oh!
Re: EU - 6th June - No Virtual Console Games!
Epic Phail. Guess I'll have to play a game from Sony or Microsoft instead. Blau!
Re: Alex Kidd in Miracle World
I have the original cartridge of this, excellent news, great game for its day and still hugely playable!
Re: EU VC Release - 18th April - Sega Week - Phantasy Star III
Where's the love?
Re: EU VC Releases - 11th April - C64 And Master System Madness
"All right, EU, now can we stop hearing your whining? No offence, but I've run out of sympathy at this point."
As long as I can stop hearing whining from the US about paying $50 for new Wii games. There's loads of countries that would like to be able to get games that cheap, the UK being one of them.
Re: Will Sega CD Support Ever Come To The Virtual Console?
For certain games they'd have to emulate the RAM back up carts, like Shining Force CD, so I don't see it being that simple. Great system though, well some of the games, and would be a cheap alternative to eBay. But I don't think thinning out the game pool is a good idea, unless we start getting 10 games a week.
Re: EU VC Release - 4th April - Yoshi's Cookie
Well with a big game like Mario Kart Wii I'm sure they'd rather us spend our money on that so it doesn't come as that big of a surprise to me.
Re: WiiWare vs Xbox Live Arcade - Fight!
Screw Wii Ware, I want Virtual Console games. If the VC is poo now are they gonna use WiiWare as an excuse to release even fewer games?
Re: EU VC Release - March 7th - Kirby 64
Is Ninteno finding it hard to get the licenses for games on the VC or what?
Re: Hardware Focus - Commodore 64
How much did C64 games go for back in the day? I used to have a Spectrum, and if that came to the VC 500 points would make a lot of the games as expensive as they were back then, I remember being able to get Speccy games for about £3.00 from Newsagents (of all places!) at least if memory serves me correctly. (Werewolves Of London & Gregory Loses His Clock FTW!)
Of course wether they would successfully load when you got them home was a bit of a sore point.
Re: US VC Release - March 3rd - Super Turrican
"you know... Nintendo could just not give us any vc games. we should be thankful, not picky."
Nintendo gives you VC games? Crap, I paid for mine.
Yes Nintendo doesn't have to give us a decent VC selection. Just how I don't have to give Nintendo my cash. BUT if they want it out of my wallet, they'll have to try to tempt me, won't they
Re: WayForward Developing Exclusive Horror Puzzle Title for WiiWare
The premise sounds similar to ObsCure
Re: MSX to Hit Japanese Virtual Console in May
@Jogurt
Though I doubt we'll see a SegaCD Channel before the release of some sort of HDD, I'd also love to get one. Even if it just let you play your original Sega CD discs on Wii.
MSX is good news. I how we get the proper Metal Gear 2! And Snatcher of course, even though it'd have to be translated?
Re: EU VC Release - 8th February - Lords of Thunder
I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo loses interest in the Virtual Console altogether, especially if their lack of new content effects profitability, which it must be doing.
Re: Are Virtual Console games good value for money?
Most carts are only expensive on ebay if you want them in the original box with instructions. Otherwise you can pick most carts up for around £5. The main benefit of doing it this way is you get to choose what games you get each week! Ebay is a neccessary evil where I live. In Greater London its quite hard to buy retro anymore as the high street game stores don't bother. Even my local Gamestation has sent their retro collection to a bigger branch (i.e. further away). Shame that, as I used to rinse their Gamecube aisle every other week and bought a few rare MegaCD and Dreamcast titles from their too.
Re: EU VC Releases - 1st February - Adventures of Lolo 2
Time to hook up your SNES and start giving your cash to the second hand market on eBay rather than Nintendo. That'll show them! Playing the carts is better anyway! I expect when SSMB and No More Heroes comes out that we'll have dry weeks anyway to tempt us to buy those.
Re: Win a Classic Controller! - Caption competition
"The Mario Bros were arrested today after an ongoing feud drove them to castrate long-time rival Bowser in his sleep. The two Brooklyn plumbers were caught fleeing the scene with the Koopa King's testicles still in their possession. Their attorney claimed non compos mentis on behalf of his clients stating years of magic mushroom abuse had altered their perception of reality. Other symptoms of prolonged mushroom abuse are known to include stunted growth, localised hair-loss and an almost obsessive compulsion for collecting stars."
Re: US VC Releases - 14th January - Pac-Attack
Bass X > I imagine Square don't release their bigger franchines (i.e Final Fantasy) because of all the FF ports and remakes on DS and PSP. They'll probably release their better RPG catalogue once their hand held sales dwindle.
Re: EU VC Release - 4th January - Harvest Moon
I'm betting Nintendo won't start releasing the most requested games until sales in Wiis and Wii games begin to decline. They'd rather have you pay for a full price Wii game. Shame that all the big name titles for Wii were SOLD OUT pratically everywhere in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
Re: Surprise EU VC Release - Pokemon Snap + worldwide Photo Channel update
You can covert MP3 to AAC in the iTunes software.
Re: EU VC Releases - 16th November - Double Dribble
This is a complete kick in the stones to EU Wii owners. Note to Nintendo: if you are going to release just one game a week make sure it's must buy game like mario 3. Sod this, I'm playing SEGA this week!
Re: Paper Mario
When you complete the game and get the end screen do you have to reset the console? I wanted to save after I'd beaten the last boss so I could go back and do all the mini quests but it didn't budge from the "the end" screen. If this is so it's a pain! Don't know if I can be bothered to backtrack all the way from the last save point in the game!