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You Seriously Need To Check Out This Fan-Made Remake Of Dragon Quest

Time Extension about 9 days ago

Orchestrated OST! Remixed monsters! New items! New dungeons!Enix's Dragon Quest is one of the most important JRPGs ever made and can be credited (alongside Final Fantasy) with turning the genre into the huge commercial proposition it is in Japan today.Howe …
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Visions Of Mana's New Japanese Trailer Goes Heavy On Nostalgia

Time Extension about 1 month ago

The next entry in the Seiken Densetsu series.Square Enix has just released a new Japanese trailer for the upcoming Visions of Mana, and it's a wonderfully nostalgic ride through the history of the series.The trailer begins back in 1991, with a young boy wa …
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Flashback: The Fallout Ad Which Mocked JRPGs Like Final Fantasy And Dragon Quest

Time Extension about 2 months ago

"A game that follows a scenario is like life on rails".There's been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not the term 'JRPG' is derogatory, triggered by Final Fantasy XVI's Director Naoki Yoshida's revelation that, at one point during his career, …
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Dreamcast Is Getting A New (And Unofficial) Star Wars Game

Time Extension about 2 months ago

Inspired by Rogue Squadron.Homebrew developer Frogbull – the same person who got Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy running on the Saturn – has announced that he is making a new Star Wars game for the Dreamcast, entitled Star Wars: Dream Of The Rebelli …
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Ex-Sega Staffer Confirms "Secret" Dragon Quest Demo For Saturn

Time Extension about 2 months ago

"It was said to be a top secret within the company".There's a line of thought that suggests RPGs were a key part of Sony's success with the PS1, and that's certainly true when you think of the Japanese market.The fact that Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest we …
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Feature: Meet The Company Bringing Classic Games To Switch, PS5 And Xbox "By Mistake"

Time Extension about 2 months ago

"We reached out to Sony to start an experiment".Robin Lavallée has been in the game industry for a long time but traces his love for gaming back to when his father bought him a TRS-80 computer when he was nine."I started programming and never stopped,” …
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JRPG 'Breath Of Thunder' Could Come To The Jaguar, Saturn, N64 And (Reads Notes) Virtual Boy

Time Extension about 2 months ago

Update: First footage revealed.Update : The first footage of the game has been released:Original Story : Sungrand's Jerrel Dulay, the Australian indie developer behind the seemingly unstoppable Silver Falls series, has just launched a Kickstarter for a new …
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Kickstarter launches for Ambitious Multi-Platform RPG “Breath of Thunder” - includes Dreamcast stretch goal!

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 2 months ago

Update (11/03/2024): Due to online feedback, the creator of this Kickstarter has pulled all the stretch goals for retro systems, including Dreamcast.It must be Dreamcast Kickstarter launch fever recently, as another new Kickstarter campaign was brought to …
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Final Fantasy Boss On Why He Stayed At Square After Hironobu Sakaguchi's Departure

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"It was a very sombre time for me".Yoshinori Kitase has worked on some of the most famous JRPGs ever made, including Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy X, and is currently head of Square Enix's Creativ …
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Final Fantasy 7 Took Metal Slug Artist "To The Point Of Death"

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"I got so addicted to that I almost died".Final Fantasy VII is making headlines again thanks to the arrival of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and former Irem artist Akio has been reminiscing about his time with the game when it originally launched back in 1997 …

The Best 90s Video Game Remakes and Sequels

Retromash about 4 months ago

The past decade has seen a huge number of video game studios go down the road of remakes, remasters and sequels of classic franchises, and many have been hugely successful as nostalgia hits hard for many gamers looking to recapture that excitement felt whe …
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The Making Of: Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within, Square's Groundbreaking Box Office Bomb

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"There was no template. No one had done this before.".Whenever Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is brought up today, it's usually as a punchline to a joke or as a cautionary tale about a film production spiraling out of control and going way over budget. …

Annual purge sale

Neo Geo Forums about 4 months ago

As per usual when we move, selling some stuff that is never used or was ported over to switch/PS4. Prices are shipped CONUS, games are priced based off of pricecharting minus some $$$. Make offers if you want to bundle some stuff together. Payment via PP, …
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The Making Of: The Black Onyx, The Game That Hooked Japan On RPGs

Time Extension about 5 months ago

How Henk Rogers, the man who bought Tetris, introduced the RPG to Japan.On Wednesday, 10th February 1988, Japanese police arrested nearly four hundred schoolchildren involved in a mass breakout of truancy in what a National Police Agency spokesperson late …
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The PlayStation Portable is 19 and still going strong

Portable Gaming Roundup about 5 months ago

This blog's URL is PSP2Roundup. I started it in 2010 ahead of the Vita's (then NGP, hopefully PSP2) launch, well into the original's lifespan. I wish I'd started it earlier to ride the phenomenal success of Sony's first portable as it swept the world, topp …
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Did You Know The NES Had A Much Cooler Name In India?

Time Extension about 6 months ago

What a shodown!The Nintendo Entertainment System – or 'NES' for short – may not have sold as many units as the PlayStation or Wii, but it remains one of the most influential consoles of all time.Not only did it resurrect the console sector in North Ame …
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Final Fantasy Tactics Director Shoots Down Possibility Of A Remaster

Time Extension about 6 months ago

"Currently, there are no plans for remastering".Over the last couple of years, ever since the Nvidia leak in 2021, rumours have circulated about the possibility of a remaster of Final Fantasy Tactics — the beloved PS1 strategy game that first introduced …
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Guide: Best PS1 Emulators - PlayStation Emulation Made Easy

Time Extension about 7 months ago

The best emulators for Sony's 32-bit wonder.Sony's 32-bit PlayStation is the console that began decades of dominance in the world of games for the Japanese tech giant and is home to some of the most famous franchises in interactive entertainment. Gran Turi …
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Lost In Cult's Premium Gaming Journal 'Lock-On' Now Funding A Sixth Volume

Time Extension about 7 months ago

And you can pre-order it now!The latest installment in Lost in Cult's ongoing series of premium gaming journals 'Lock-on' is now accepting pre-orders online.'Lock-On Vol.006' will feature over 400 pages of essays, concept galleries, and artwork and will pa …
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Random: New Game Boy Color Game Turns Frasier Into A Turn-Based RPG

Time Extension about 7 months ago

Explore the city of Seattle as everyone's favourite radio therapist.A few years back the illustrator Stephen Maurice Graham (also known as @400facts) created some joke packaging and a logo design for a fictional game called Frasier Fantasy.The gag was simp …

General Discussions • The “Cycle Accurate” Conundrum and Is There a List of Cores That Are?

MISTerFPGA about 8 months ago

Hi, (the eventual question is : "is there a list of cores, both console and computers, that are deemed "cycle-accurate" and what exactly is meant by that denomination in this case)i cant say im the greatest expert on FPGA and its programming languages but …
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Sony PSP Hub

How To Retro about 8 months ago

Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) The Sony PlayStation Portable is commonly known as the PSP. It made its debut in Japan in December 2004 and subsequently reached global markets in 2005. Boasting a sleek, premium design, the PSP also features a widesc …
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Sony PSP Hub

How To Retro about 8 months ago

Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) The Sony PlayStation Portable is commonly known as the PSP. It made its debut in Japan in December 2004 and subsequently reached global markets in 2005. Boasting a sleek, premium design, the PSP also features a widesc …
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All PSP Special Editions Ever Released

Retro Dodo about 8 months ago

With the recent announcement of Sony’s latest “handheld”, the Playstation Portal, many are left reminiscing of the days of the glorious PSP. It got us thinking about all of the PSP special editions on offer, and it just so happens that we’ …
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Guide: Best SNES RPGs Of All Time

Time Extension about 9 months ago

The RPG lover's console?While it's certainly true to say that RPGs flourished on consoles like the NES and PC Engine, the SNES is perhaps the machine with which many gamers will forever associate the genre.Franchises such as Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and …