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Unused extremely small seal-like character found in development files for Yoshi’s Island. While…

Supper Mario Broth about 13 days ago

Unused extremely small seal-like character found in development files for Yoshi’s Island. While characters fitting into a standard 16x16 pixel square are common for other SNES games, Yoshi’s Island characters are usually larger, with even Shy G …
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The Making Of: Ride To Hell, The Open-World Epic That Became One Of The Worst Games Of All Time

Time Extension about 29 days ago

"I believe the potential was definitely there".You've probably heard of Ride to Hell: Retribution, released on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows back in 2013. It's regarded as one of the worst games ever. On our sister site, Push Square, it has a user r …
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Unreleased Mega drive shooter announced by Colombia Circle (I think)

Neo Geo Forums about 1 month ago

I know you homos don’t like twitter but deal with it: #Shu Grand Festival New Work Announcement 4 The software "P47 II" that was not released at that time It will be released as "P47 II MD"! Mr. Sankuro Kato, who is working on man …
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A Top Dragon Quest Producer Is Stepping Down After 32 Years

Time Extension about 1 month ago

Y? Miyake will now head up the company’s smartphone games.A top Dragon Quest producer who has worked on the series for 32 years will be stepping down from his position, according to a new report from Bloomberg.Y? Miyake has been at Enix/Square Enix since …
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10 Very British Games for the Sega Dreamcast

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 2 months ago

The British are an odd bunch. We're not really a country (look we're not, you have to admit it. It's like someone got a bunch of nations together who don't really like each other all that much, told them the same rich pricks are in charge of them all and e …

The Watara Supervison AKA / Quickshot seems kinda cool

Neo Geo Forums about 2 months ago

I've seen it pop up in my feeds for several decades. Maybe even saw it for sale here and there in person over the years. Always thought of it as a cheap knock off wannabe Gameboy. Downloaded the entire games catalog and they actually seem to have put some …
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Super Pang Kabuki Chip Repair

The Arcade Blogger about 2 months ago

You may have noticed that I don’t share many repairs here on the blog. Although useful (and I’m glad people do share their knowledge) I think they’re pretty dry to read and I don’t tend to tackle repairs – and when I do, they …
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Square Had Huge Plans For The N64 Before It Fell Out With Nintendo

Time Extension about 2 months ago

The company was ready to invest ¥350 Million into Nintendo's new console.As many will no doubt know already, prior to the release of Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation 1 in 1997, Square was initially planning to develop the game for the Nintendo 64, eve …
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World's First Museum Of Video Game Art Is Being Built In Japan

Time Extension about 2 months ago

Developed by Koyo, a Koei Tecmo Holdings subsidiary.Japan will get the world's first museum dedicated solely to video game art, it has been revealed.Developer Daiwa House Industry has recently broken ground on the site in Yokohama, and it's due to be compl …
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Final Fantasy Boss On Why He Stayed At Square After Hironobu Sakaguchi's Departure

Time Extension about 2 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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Repair Workshop/Hack-a-thon in Kennett Square, PA Sat. Feb. 17, 2024

VCFed about 3 months ago

The Vintage Computer Federation and Kennett Classic will be doing a joint repair workshop/hack-a-thon Sat. Feb. 17, 2024. Hours: 9AM to 8PM. Signup here if you are interested: https://www.kennettclassic.... care! …
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Anniversary: Final Fantasy VIII Is 25 Years Old

Time Extension about 3 months ago

1999's biggest JRPG.Square's Final Fantasy VIII turns 25 today.The game was released on the PlayStation in Japan on February 11th, 1999. It would come to North America in September of the same year before hitting Europe in October.Read the full article on …
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The Automatic Services Universal Arcade Cabinet

The Arcade Blogger about 3 months ago

A few weeks back I wrote about Automatic Services and the arcade cabinets that a group of us were able to acquire, after its owner Mark Shepherd passed away. If you missed that post, go here. This week, I wanted to follow up by taking a closer look at …
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Legendary Composer Yoko Shimomura To Be Given Lifetime Achievement Award

Time Extension about 3 months ago

The GDCA awards take place on March 20th.The Game Developers' Choice Awards has revealed that it will be honouring the legendary Capcom & Square composer Yoko Shimomura with a lifetime achievement award.Shimomura is a Japanese composer and pianist who …
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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 …
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Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is a 1997 game for the PlayStation (later released for the Nintendo Switch…

Supper Mario Broth about 3 months ago

Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is a 1997 game for the PlayStation (later released for the Nintendo Switch in 2020), developed by Love-de-Lic, a studio made up of former Square employees, including those who worked on Super Mario RPG. As such, it includes an ove …
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Batman Artist Calls Sonic The Hedgehog Casino Similarities A "Coincidence"

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"The Casino was an original idea from my imagination".Ever since the release of issue #4 of Legends of the Dark Knight Volume 2 in 2021, people have been drawing comparisons online between the design of the Riddler's Gotham Casino hideout and the casino ar …
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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. …
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Twilight Bastion Is A PS1-Style Metroidvania Inspired By Vagrant Story

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"Navigate through a dark and twisted castle in search of escape".One-man game studio Sunamii Games has just released a short clip from one of its future projects, Twilight Bastion.Described as a "PS1-Style 3D Metroidvania", the developer cites Square's cul …

Anyone ever hear of a "Florida Computer Graphics" computer?

VCFed about 4 months ago

Back in the day, early 80s ('83 or so), at the office we had a machine that, as I recall, was called "Florida Computer Graphics". It was notable for two reasons. First, it had a very nice, full color, square pixels screen. This was very novel f …

NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) • NES Core Adding Stereo Sound Like the RGB Mod

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

Hi I’d like to request a feature:My rgb modded nes has the ability to separate the sound channels into sudo stereo were it sends some of the voices off the cpu to one channel and the rest to the other.I very much prefer this sudo stereo sound vs the mon …
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Square Enix, Yuzo Koshiro Really Wants 'Illusion Of Gaia' And 'Terranigma' Remakes, Thanks

Time Extension about 5 months ago

"We’re eager to see remakes of these masterpieces".Actrasier Renaissance was one of 2021's more pleasant surprises, offering a new take on Quintet's 1990 SNES classic.Composer Yuzo Koshiro worked on both games and has taken to Twitter to voice his suppor …
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Final Fantasy Tactics Director Shoots Down Possibility Of A Remaster

Time Extension about 5 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 …

programming • Weekend coding challenge: Unruly rulers

Stardot about 5 months ago

Back to some kind of arithmetical explorations this time. Maybe tabular, maybe graphical, maybe even some kind of sieve. It's another weekend coding challenge - write some code, and share it here, but only after the deadline. An extremely informal chall …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • Another C128 black screen

Lemon64 about 5 months ago

Hello everyone,I purchased a C128 without a PSU. The C128 was advertised as functional with supporting images. Instead of buying a PSU, I opted to create one using the Ismet C64 PSU, retaining the transformer in a way that I connected the 9V AC line to t …