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@Pod They'll do precisely what the Mario 64 decompilations and Ocarina do. Require the person to own a ROM. Whether ripped from their own cart and legally backed up, or otherwise, is none of their business as long as they don't distribute it. All actual assets come from there. None of Nintendo's/Rare's code is used by what they release.
Emulation is legal without copyrighted code, also. This is precisely as legal.

Sitting in its box, waiting for them to finish the game before playing it.

Surely you could take it on the go with a powerbank?

Let's just be VERY clear here.
Don't Nod, the creators of the franchise and LiS 2, had nothing to do with this and do not even own the IP. This is ENTIRELY down to Deck Nine (BTS/TC). I tweeted about how terrible certain aspects of the "Remastered" game were from the lighting to the inexcusable changes of director intent (and this was noted by Michel Koch from Don't Nod in responses) and once again, all I can say is if you have the means to play the original, just do so - and for less money (the first episode is even free!)
It is a dreadful inferior version of a classic, from an entirely different developer, and no more than a cash grab. If you care at all about respect being shown to the people who /created/ that "strong narrative" part, avoid this "remaster" because Deck Nine just did not put the work in that it deserved.

(Disclosure: I am @lifeis2d on twitter, and have been slowly adapting Life is Strange to Gameboy (and web browsers), the first three COMPLETE episodes are available for free online or as .gb ROM files - which seem to have the respect of Michel Koch and Luc Baghadoust from Don't Nod so I must be doing something right. There are also small proof of concept demos of BTS and TC.)

@Sam_TSM I actually posted a very indepth comment to them on a video about the Wii Homebrew Channel, with a few corrections and additional facts (since I was there and a tester for it).

The errors were left in the video, and the comment with the additional trivia was deleted without response.

So if anyone wants to put any faith in DYKG - there you go. That's how interested they are in accuracy or truth.

How about the Louvre guide software? So much content and tied to the 3DS forever.

@somnambulance Thank you very much. Episode 4 may take a while but plenty to work through before then if you like it.

https://lifeis2d.itch.io/
My running playable complete adaptations of the first three episodes of Life is Strange aren't just some cute pixel art but actual games in GB ROM, browser and emulator friendly form.

Must be where I'm going wrong. Should've just made a bunch of pictures instead of actual games people can play.

@MetalMan well if you read the lovely words that follow the headline, you'll find out...

cough lifeis2d dot itch dot io cough free cough three episodes done, two demos of other LIS content...

Anyone know if GlaDOS's slightly awkward "adopted" "joke" from Portal 2 was cut out?

As is the Ocarina of Time port.

Also pretty sure the current cookies popup is in violation of the UK law by having everything set by default to accepted with no notice. Cookies have to be opt-in.

If there's no copyrighted code or assets, there is zero Nintendo can do about it.

"Collectors" who buy games to sit unplayed <----------------------------------------- Limited Run willingness to exploit -------------------------------------------> FOMO/mistaken belief of value

Emulators are no more encouraging of piracy than owning a knife would be of stabbing someone. It's what the user does with it that counts.

So avoid following jerks. Not that complicated.

Actually its more that being the case for background imagery.

Sprites on the other hand, you only have black, "white", and light green. And that's your lot apart from the super-bright-green "transparency" layer.

What's basically going on with the images above is "hey we can use dithering to cheat as a shading effect." No more, no less.

@nessisonett That's a NL mistake - the game is Celtic inspired but set in "Hibernia". Red hair is not an exclusively Scottish trait, tattoos are Celtic and not exclusively Scottish, and Clakshot also has red hair so...
Again - it's a Celtic theme blend. No more, no less. Not Scotland/England/Ireland/Wales.
The team behind this are lovely guys. I've talked to them in a few streams in the past, and it's a great little game too. Don't try to find a fight where there isn't one.

Smash Bros is an absolute ***** for this kind of thing. The Wii U one in particular I remember being utterly bombarded with characters and skins and songs and stages and a billion other unlocks on starting it up for the first time that I had to click through every single one. I have a feeling Hyrule Warriors or something was like that too.

@K1LLEGAL People say this, and yet... we have the Xbox. Do I mean the original Xbox, the Xbox 1? Not the Xbox One? Or the Xbox One X? Or the Xbox Series X. Or or or...

Sometimes a game should just be censored as a whole to save us from even hearing about it...

It actually wouldn't matter if this couldn't be patented in Europe - or indeed any particular territory - for one reason. It would prevent Sony/Microsoft using that algorithm in games, because if they were to use it in a game to be released in Europe, they would then have to release a separate version with a different implementation in whatever territories the patent DOES apply.

Actually quite clever and devious.

@RubyDevilNine You've uncovered their nefarious scheme! They deliberately didn't report on this to... um... annoy you personally, I guess? Because by reporting things late they... benefit... somehow..? HEY WAIT A MINUTE, THIS MAKES NO SENSE.

"We're blocking access to THESE SITES <FLASHING NEON ARROW>" might have been a bit more subtle.

"How could they ever catch a cloned Pokemon"?
Oh I don't know, maybe for a one-time legendary simply go "does more than one exist with this trainer id etc? Ban."
A check like that would take virtually less time than this comment did to write.

@PoliticallyIncorrect Apparently you care enough to comment, so...

Name checks out anyway. Welcome to 2021. You're a dinosaur.

Rockstar totally understanding the current 2021 climate with that boxart of three questionably clad women...

The story about Yokoi being blamed so heavily for the Virtual Boy (along with the legend that he was `fired` or left in shame over it) is not actually true. According to Nintendo Magic, Yokoi and Yamauchi were actually very close even outside of work ("like father and son") and nobody involved quoted seemed to place any blame on him.
He had also planned to leave the company soon anyway, and simply speeded up the process as he wanted to work on other things (as he did with Wonderswan).

I know everyone wants to point accusingly and keep the "Virtual Boy was so bad it caused xyz" stuff alive, but in this case it's a myth that affects a real person's legacy. It just isn't true.

I was starting to worry about my Gameboy saves on things like Link's Awakening recently. Then I found out that with an N64, ED64+ and the Gameboy Transfer Pak, it was not only possible to back up my own original carts, but that crucially important savedata too. So now after half an hour or so of cart/save backing up, my completed Pokemon Blue pokedex will be with me essentially forever along with the rest of my collection.

Even better... I was able to back up my GB Camera. And the photos can be extracted from that save to jpegs using a PC program. So I now have the lovely tiny photos I took back in the day, too.

Not /strictly/ true. They made a small prototype using the Legend of Zelda style to test out the game systems. No more, no less.

@Baart Take your racism elsewhere. Decent society no longer wants you in it, thanks.

One thing does make me suspicious. Mew was only added in very late in the production in secret so that the person responsible was certain they would have the space left for it to be squeezed in. And yet the "prototype" versions appear to have the sprite data for it...
Doesn't quite add up.

Particularly when fully voiced, too.

Protip: Languages and translation work, especially on something like an ARPG, take a LOT of time and testing.

Europe is not just "England".

"Free speech is one thing but this is just tasteless. And seriously, there needs to be some sort of quality control on the eShop. The Nintendo Seal of Quality needs to make a comeback..."

Right here we go again...
The "Seal of Quality" was put on games at a time where in Japan at least there were extremely poorly manufactured pirated carts available for the NES.

Literally all it meant was "this cart has been manufactured by Nintendo" and thus would not cause your console to potentially explode in a dramatic fireball, killing you, your family, and potentially ending life on Earth.

That is ALL it meant.

The LTTP glitch works just fine on the SNES Classic. I did it for the first time on that, and have done it several times since to demonstrate it to people.

"supposedly `investigated`"
You mean by the people set up to do this AND YOUR OWN HAND PICKED TECH, WITH YOUR OWN HARDWARE? Or are you saying that also wasn't an investigation now? Can't have both.

The debate was never about if he could do these scores. Not now, not then. It was about ALL of the available evidence and hours - HOURS - of taped gameplay /that categorically was not from an arcade Donkey Kong board/ and even his own tech using the same gear couldn't dispute it in the end.

Billy waffles and hopes nobody actually pays attention to the facts that matter. There's a reason his own supposed proof that he did it all has never appeared. It's hard to provide imaginary evidence.

Ah yes that artificial scarcity conspiracist nonsense once again.
Company makes too few of product for people to buy. So when they go to buy it... Er, they can't. So those people buy it secondhand and... Nintendo... lose out on that money and sale... HANG ON THIS MAKES NO SENSE WHEN LOGIC IS APPLIED...

OR... The demand is just higher than what they can manufacture in time. One of these two things.

@hakjie11 There ARE diamonds inside it - no, no really, honestly, there are! Go on, quick, preorder one and break it open before everyone else floods the market! Cash in and be rich!

(Shh, nobody say otherwise!)

Just think, they could add an option to turn off the music, or at least that damn song playing in the main hub area...

Nintendo has ALWAYS been an entertainment company. Anyone who took the time to learn the company philosophy or read something like Nintendo Magic would understand this. It's not some new development, they have always viewed their role as a `toymaker` or entertainer. They've said it for decades. It's why they make games and products for everyone and don't dedicate themselves to "Teh LeeT HArdC0RE".
No news here, move along.

"If he can prove his record who cares about Twin Galaxies?"
Among others, clearly trifarce and Billy Mitchell. Whoever he... was.

He brought it on himself at the expense of others who should have been credited for all that time. This is why by extension Steve Wiebe is now recognised as the first to 1M as officially as it gets. Billy can be the nicest guy in the world, and as talented as he clearly is - but he was banned for cheating and rode acclaim he didn't deserve for over a decade. Hell, he even took part in falsifying video of the board swap. Then passed it off as genuine. Knowingly. He claims footage isn't his, even though there is video of him standing in front of screens running that footage, that he provided.

A great gamer, sure. A nice guy to the public, sure. Remotely trustworthy though? Hell no.

He also can't "reclaim" the score anyway. Not in a way that will be officially recognised by either TG or Guiness. Banned means banned.

It makes no difference. Whether he can achieve repeated million point scores well over a decade after the tapes in question is irrelevant, regardless of what the frankly deranged triforce wants to be the case.

The score was not what caused him to be banned. The fact - which still hasn't been anything he's been able to dispute with a single shred of evidence and hours of video that shows it - is that the gameplay footage COULD NOT have come from a legitimate arcade DK board. COULD NOT. And happened to display artifacts utterly unique to versions of MAME that existed precisely when the tapes were recorded.

It was not recorded on an original DK arcade board. It was submitted and passed off as being from one. THAT is the problem. THAT is what he was banned for. And every moment of hours worth of tapes - shown and gone through live on a stream by Jace with no prior way of knowing what would be found - shows NO board transitions that are arcade. Only MAME.

Billy is undoubtedly a great DK player - at least now, over a decade on. But he submitted non-arcade footage and passed it off as being genuine. He just did. It's undisputable. It's why his own tech, with the exact equipment claimed came to the same conclusions. And if you actually watch his `defense` at the panels, he repeatedly barrels (irony) over giving anyone a chance to ask questions while saying how much he wishes people would ask them. It's what he does. Blathers away.

Ha, the t-shirt has worked a treat! Now you're all going to be genuinely surprised and thrilled when Nintendo announce Wii Music for Nintendo Switch is coming to eShop.

And yet the one game referenced directly multiple times, that one isn't in there.
(I love Gone Home but seriously, missed opportunity there...)

The timeline collapse idea would've been by far the most sane one to go with. Before launch Nintendo would always refer to "The Calamity Ganon", and what better fitting thing than to have "the calamity" refer to a crashing together of the timelines while also creating that strange disembodied version of Ganon with it. It's the only way to cover having Skyward-era `robotic` tech everywhere, the Koroks, the flood having receded (uncovering what is definitely a town layout based on Ocarina's Castle Town), Lon Lon Ranch further down, the Skyward era statues... Not to mention the fact that the outfits themselves all refer to the events of Wind Waker, Skyward, Ocarina etc as things from the past.