A German hardware hacker, KittenLabs, has successfully managed to run GTA: Vice City on a TP-Link TL-WDR4900 Wi-Fi router. The hack involved installing Debian Linux on the router, connecting an AMD Radeon HD 7470 as an eGPU, and overcoming several hurdles to get the game running....
With the help of a community mod, the iconic duo Jak and Daxter have made a triumphant return to gaming with the introduction of online and local multiplayer infrastructure. The original game has been natively ported to PC, featuring new additions such as demo playback files, spectating options with various camera angles, and...
P'tain, mais le #retrogaming ça a une cote de ouf aujourd'hui...
Il y a un peu moins de 20 ans, j'ai acheté une #SuperNintendo avec 3 manettes, une souris et 13 jeux (ISS Deluxe, Super Tennis, NBA Jam, #DonkeyKongCountry, #SuperMario All Stars, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Mario Paint, Mortal Kombat 3, MK3 Ultimate, Street Fighter II Alpha, Mystic Quest Legend et #Zelda : A Link to the Past)
Console 70€
ISS Deluxe 10€
Super Tennis 5€
NBA Jam 15€
Donkey Kong Country 20€
Super Mario All Stars 15€
Super Mario World 15€
Super Mario Kart 30€
Mario Paint 30-40€
Mortal Kombat 3 15€
MK 3 Ultimate 55€ !!!!
Street Fighter Alpha 2 60€ !!!!
Mystic Quest Legend 30€
The Legend of Zelda : 55€ !!!!
On rajoute quelques achats perso : Killer Instinct (10€), Pilotwings (10€) et MicroMachines (30€) et on arrive à presque 450 EUROS.
Même si ça fait des ronds, je garde ces trésors 🤩🎮 !!!
I've been looking for Mega Man reviews on the Game Boy, as they were all added to the Nintendo Switch Online service this weekend.
But besides the first 3, I'm having a hard time finding any.
Review for Mega Man 1 on Game Boy from Club Nintendo Volume 4 Issue 4 - 1992 (UK)
@scribblemacher
That's one thing I adore about the NSO service.
The ability to use your Japanese account and go to the apps and not only play the Japanese versions, but also look at the gorgeous box art.
@OutofPrintArchive I find it interesting where esteem for this game seems to have gone down since it was released. I think contemporary reviews give it something of a pass simply being on Game Boy. Like, the music is literally programmed incorrectly and plays incorrect pitches. It's a pretty messy game (but I secretly still like it).
@scribblemacher While the games were definitely scaled down for the Game Boy, I loved all of them as they released.
Sadly, I wasn't able to find reviews for 4 or 5 in the magazines I've scanned.
Well, not on Game Boy at least.
But if anyone knows of reviews for them in UK magazines, let me know. I might have them.
A little extra for today.
The brand new rescan of Club Nintendo Volume 5 Issue 1 - 1993 (UK) has just been added to the magazine catalogue.
As always with these rescans of magazines I did more than a decade ago, this one has much more accurate colour levels as well as extra shadow detail and overall sharpness.
@Dennis5891
I love when they were written like this.
Or with lots of personality and passion, no matter how silly they could get at times.
Much more so than the overly serious magazines like the Official Dreamcast Magazine for instance.
That one, despite adoring the console, never gelled with me.
They took themselves way too serious and felt way too critical to the point of being mean at times.
Personally that's why I don't enjoy EDGE as well. Feels to cynical and harsh for me.
Also, I never understood the controversy behind the water temple, it seemed no more difficult than any other temple, or any other challenge in other games.
Not trying to flex, promise.
@Dennis5891 Me neither.
Sure you had to look around a bit, bit it never stood out to me back in the day.
Perhaps it's another one of those things that started leading its own life when the internet became a big thing.
Strange. I don't remember this one on N64. It seems familiar, and I remember a good amount of games from the N64 era, but this one escapes me despite being slightly familiar.
I did just get a Switch, I might have to check it out.
@Dennis5891 I got it when it came out. People hated on the game since it wasn't a direct sequel to Yoshi's Island.
But if you take it on it's own, I really liked it and had a blast with it.
You know, Resident Evil 2 was the one I missed. I played 1 and 3, 4, 5, 7.
I kinda want to play the original, tank controls and all, but I also think I should just get the remake.
I mean, I know what you would tell me to do, lol.
@apzpins
After Pin.Bot, High Speed was such a disappointment for me.
While it’s probably even more impressive technically speaking, for some reason, I just don’t get along with the table.
I was playing it last night in Pinball FX as well and it still doesn’t flow for me like it should.
I don’t enjoy any of the shots.
Not a fan of the theme either, but that’s the least of the issues I have.
Really weird as I tend to find something I really like in most tables.
@OutofPrintArchive For me, both of them hit hard as those both were in my favorite arcade's lineup at the time and when I ran out of pocket money, I still kinda got to play those even when when in lo-fi.
Highspeed's NES version struggles to bring the same kind of Steve Ritchie loop flow as the real thing does tho.
CVG 149 - April 1994 (UK) has just been added to the magazine catalogue.
I really dislike this cover.
I don't like sports covers in general, but to put American Football on a European video game magazine cover, sure is a choice... 👀
But there's quite a bit of great content in the magazine itself.
@OutofPrintArchive the Madden games were/are really popular over here, possibly more so than the sport itself. I remember playing the 95 version or something, despite never having seen a game.
It’s certainly one of the most popular US sports in the UK, along with basketball probably.
Continuing on my dive into pinball yet again, I just found out that the Zaccaria collection has been delisted in Europe.
So I grabbed $60 in US PSN cards at play Asia and bought the full set with my American account just to make sure I got them before those get delisted one day.
Such a damn shame this keeps happening with digital pinball. 😒
Talking about pinball and the old days of me growing up in a little café in the later 70's, that my mom had, after my deadbeat father left her while she was pregnant with me, brought back so many memories.
So I went looking for the pictures I knew I had somewhere.
Finally found them again.
The only table there that I know is Trident. All the others, I can't identify myself, but I'm sure others will without much trouble . 😊
Feature on Colin McRae Rally 2 on Dreamcast, including an interview with Guy Wilday from Codemasters.
Taken from Dreamcast Magazine 11 - July 2000 (UK)
I missed out on this series back in the day as I wasn't into sim racing at all.
Still adore arcade racing games above all, but I can get sucked into a great simulation these days as well, so I kinda want to return to finally gave these a try.
Bought V-Rally last year for example and was blown away by how great the handling felt in that one.
It was my first game in the series.
one of my most cherished and irreplaceable retrocomputing devices is my peerless Roland SC-55.
while the MT-32 has been emulated quite well, the SC-55 always lagged behind in emulation - most attempts at it sounded pretty terrible, even using good soundfonts.
(and hauling around my SC-55 + midi & 3.5mm & usb cables just to play games in dosbox was painful)
in comes Nuked-SC55: it is a chip-level emulation project that just nails it.
it took about 30 seconds to build with cmake. i'm now going to try integrating it with dosbox, so i can finally play 90s DOS general midi games! (ultima viii pagan, here i come)
happy to confirm that the SC-55 emulation with Nuked-SC55 is perfect. i don't mean "pretty close" or "99%" ... it is the same sound coming out of my physical hardware. 👏 incredible work by the author and their team
track: Ethereal Void, by neno vugrinec (Ultima VIII: Pagan)
@OutofPrintArchive Typically you don't mod a high value game like Star Wars into something like this for no reason. It's more than likely that this used to be a game with heavily damaged cabinet or if you just happen to find the populated playfield from a parted out machine.
@apzpins
Ah yeah. That didn’t cross my mind.
Makes a lot more sense in such a case to try and rescue what is left and create something beautiful from the parts that are salvageable.
@vga256 I actually think Caesar II is where Impressions started to hit their stride. Caesar I? Not for me. I'm sure there's a game in there, but I couldn't make it work. But Caesar II is a genuinely good one.
Swapped the reset cap on my Mark III, so now I can use the (knockoff) EverDrive on it. 10µF to 0.1µF is all it takes. Thanks to Neto from SMSPower for figuring this out. #retrogaming#sega#mastersystem
@ChartreuseK I was also surprised. the cartridge pinout doesn't offer a reset line on the Mark III (it does on the US SMS,) the everdrives in general seem to be really picky about it. You'll see similar weird behaviour when trying to take a knockoff EverDrive N8 to a real NES or a knockoff Famiclone to a real EverDrive for a similar reason.
@leadedsolder@ChartreuseK what about original Krikzz carts? I try to buy those if I can afford it, to support him and UA.
Right now I have only the three games for the SMS.
@OutofPrintArchive Wish to god I had the reflexes for this game. I love the vibe, feel and tension but I spend 60% of each race grinding along the walls
@HangFireBooks
I got pretty good at the game back in the day. But yeah, it’s a bit too brutal for me.
I never was able to unlock the AX tracks as one of those last challenges was just too hard for me.
It’s brilliant, but I kinda prefer X if I’m honest.
The original remains my favourite though.
