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The Making Of: Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham's Origin Story

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"We were doing so many things that had never been done before".Sometimes, a change of pace can be a good thing – and that was certainly the case for Martyn Chudley, founder of Raising Hell Software. Responsible for Combat Crazy, The Killing Game Show / F …
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PlayStation And Dreamcast Veteran Shuji Utsumi Is Now Sega's Western Big Boss

Time Extension about 4 months ago

He's also worked at Disney and Q Entertainment.Sega has announced that Shuji Utsumi has been appointed President/COO and CEO of Sega America and Europe this week (thanks, VGC).Utsumi – whose most recent title in the company was Co-COO, President of Consu …
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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Coming To PS Plus Premium This Month

Time Extension about 4 months ago

Will be joined by Rally Cross and three other titles.Update : Now it's official! According to the latest PlayStation blog, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace will be made available to new and existing PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers on January 16 …
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The Making Of: Witchwood, Team17's Abandoned Zelda Rival

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"We were trying to be better than Zelda with the little things".In 1994, the Wakefield-based developer and publisher Team17 revealed that it was working on a Legend of Zelda-style RPG called Witchwood. The game, which followed a young adventurer battling a …
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Vanishing Point: The Dreamcast's Secret Ridge Racer

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 4 months ago

In early January 2001, while most were still nursing hangovers and recovering from eating too many mince pies, Vanishing Point released on both the Dreamcast and PlayStation to little fanfare in what was an already overcrowded genre. As such, it unfor …
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Random: Modder Creates Frankenstein 'Nintendo PlayStation'

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"Now I own a Nintendo PlayStation!".We all know that the PlayStation was originally supposed to be a fusion of the SNES with a CD-ROM drive, and that Sony actually got as far as creating a working prototype, which resurfaced a few years ago.However, YouTub …
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The Making Of: Music, The PlayStation Audio Creation Tool From WipEout's Tim Wright

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"The deepest crunch development I've ever done".'Creative' software has a long and proud history in the world of computers and gaming. From the popular Protracker software on the Amiga to the silly fun of Mario Paint on SNES, there have always been options …

Playing Retro Games on Your Phone

Retromash about 5 months ago

In the world of gaming, improvements in graphics and gameplay seem to happen almost daily. This can mean that a hunger for the next game full of the latest features can eclipse all others, and older titles tend to fall by the wayside. This can be a great s …
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Japanese Vita hit Gnosia finally arrives on western PlayStation

Portable Gaming Roundup about 5 months ago

At the end of the Vita's Japanese official life (2019), Gnosia, a social RPG cum visual novel - see "Gnosia tells takes of fake humans in space", did pretty good business and attracted lots of attention with its vibrant visuals and space-faring ladies.&nbs …
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Guide: Best WipEout Games, Ranked By You

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Which of Sony's anti-grav racers is best?While many people associate Ridge Racer or Tekken with the early years of PlayStation, for others, it's WipEout that really sums up the incredible impact Sony's 32-bit console had on the gaming landscape.Not only di …
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6 Games that Scratch the Shenmue Itch

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

There really isn't anything quite like Shenmue. As most Dreamcast fans know by now, the gameplay of Yu Suzuki's magnum opus, which juxtaposed snail's pace sleuthing around Japanese suburbia with frantic Virtua Fighter ass kicking, was polarising back when …
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Sonic Heroes PS2 Prototype Discovered 20 Years Later

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Take a look at the development of Sonic's first PlayStation game.The video game preservationists Hidden Palace have shared an early PS2 build of Sonic Heroes online, giving a closer look at the development of Sonic's first-ever game on a PlayStation consol …
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Here's Why The Designers Republic Stopped Working On WipEout

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"No thank you. Mission complete. Game over".It's hard to think of WipEout without also thinking about The Designers Republic, the Sheffield-based agency that built the franchise's look and helped it become one of the trailblazers of the 32-bit era.What you …
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Review: A To Z Of The Designers Republic - The Design Rulebook For A Generation

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Work. Buy. Consume. Die.Founded in the '80s by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips, The Designers Republic will be most famous to gamers for its amazing branding and iconography work on the WipEout series, but, as a design agency, its influence and impact goes …
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This Resident Evil 2 Remake Reimagines The Game As A First-Person Shooter

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Get up close and personal.Resident Evil 2 is considered by many to be one of the high points of Capcom's zombie-slaying franchise, and the recent remake went down a storm on modern systems.However, homebrew developer PerroAutonamo has taken a different rou …
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The Making Of: PS2, The World's Most Successful Video Game Console

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"By the end of the process, I'm almost hallucinating with jet lag".Sony had a record-breaking year in 1998, raking in over $51 billion in sales and operating revenue. Profits from television sales had spiked in 1997 and continued climbing. Having recently …
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Saturn Fans Can Now Play The Ultimate Version Of Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"The most complete and advanced version".Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of the jewels of the PlayStation catalogue. Released in 1997, it took the core gameplay of the Castlevania series and skillfully combined it with the non-linear exploration …
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Feature: The PlayStation Performance Analyser, Ken Kutaragi's Secret Weapon In The 32-bit War

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"You could understand almost everything about what the system was doing".When Sony published Polyphony's Gran Turismo in 1997, it wasn't just the amazing handling, realistic physics and wealth of real-world cars that so impressed critics and players alike …

Sony PlayStation (PSX) • How to Install the 2X PlayStation Core?

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Hello,I really want to try out the PSX 2x core. I figure for games with low uncapped framerates it can make for a nice diversion on a title by title basis. I always just get my cores via update all and now I never take the SD card out of my mister because …
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The Dreamcast Junkyard's choicest cuts and hottest takes of 2023

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

Well, here we are again. A whole 12 months since the last time we did one of these yearly roundup articles, and 10 months since I decided to retire from the Junkyard for the sake of my fragile sanity. Going against my better judgement, I thought it would b …
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The Making Of: Croc, 3D Platforming's Unsung Hero

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"How can we make a 3D platform game?".Banjo-Kazooie. Crash Bandicoot. Spyro the Dragon. And yes, Super Mario 64. These names are synonymous with defining the 3D platformer, exploring the uncharted territories of the third dimension and taking players on a …
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Feature: Playing The CeX Retro Lottery

Time Extension about 5 months ago

You never know what you're gonna get?Buying retro games today usually involves hitting eBay, trawling Facebook Marketplace or visiting one of the tiny handful of dedicated vintage gaming stores around the world – but, if you're in one of the regions wher …
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Review: Sinden Light Gun - Old-School Arcade Blasting On Your Modern-Day TV

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Let there be light (gun).Light gun games aren't a new invention – in fact, some of the earliest games consoles came with their own guns – but in recent years, this unique aspect of video gaming has taken something of a backseat, and that's arguably dow …
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Dreamcastic Christmas 2023: Heart-warming Tales from DreamPod Listeners

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 5 months ago

Ahead of recording episode 125 of the DreamPod, which first aired as part of RadioSEGA’s illustrious Winterfest and is now available in all the regular places, we appealed to our listener base to send us their festive Dreamcast-related ideas, memories an …

Input Devices • SNAC With Bluetooth Controller

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Hello friends, I have a retrocastle snac adapter; this adapter supports the controller and memory card. However, I would like to use a Bluetooth controller and memory cards. When the snac adapter is active, I can't use the Bluetooth controller to play. Is …