TwistedPear

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Hopefully it won't take five or six years between showing a prototype and production as it was with the Saturn Pro controller.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I don't know if it ever stopped. Seems like every other month there's a port or a homebrew that eventually goes retail.

The Atomiswave arcade ports are great.

Dreamcast Junkyard is the typical forum for all things that are "still thinking"

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Short answer, absolutely not.

The Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGA boards are $10,000 AND UP.

If you look up why Mister will not move up to more powerful FPGA chips, this is why.

Would it be cool? Yes. Definitely.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now imagine that, but on a keyboard. No mouse. That's pc controls for ZT

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Extreme G 2 on pc loses the analog steering from N64, which turns out is a big deal. Throwback Entertainment made a port-of-a-port and introduced a speed hack in the launcher menu where you can slow down the game a bit, which helps, but doesn't fix the issue.

In some other cases like Hexen, there were alterations on console that I find generally more appealing, like an ost remaster or lighting effects.

The Genesis game Zero Tolerance and Dreamcast version of Expendable are games I prefer on console simply because of the control schemes on pc.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, the Doom 64 projects are a bit different in scope, so I figured they deserve separate listings. Anywho:

D64-RE is a decomp that you recompile yourself. There are some minor features like additional cheats, but it's a pretty raw "here is all the code" project that you can mess with yourself.

Doom64 EX + is a fork of the original work by SVKaiser, called Doom 64 EX.

Doom 64 EX is a mish-mash of reverse engineering and source port conversion. Famously, Kaiser now works at NightDive Studios and brought his proprietary KEX engine with him.

EX+ basically rips out Kaiser's KEX engine, while keeping the improvements of the modern commercial release like loads of bug fixes, performance increases, and aims to be faithful to the original game.

In addition, EX+ is able to be played on other platforms besides Windows, and can accept DeHacked64 patches. This allows for tweaks to values throughout the game (monster health, damage, weapons, etc), while bringing in support for a number of existing map packs.

Strangely, EX+ does not have controller support - at all. It is mandatory mouse/keyboard.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The Sonic 1,2 and CD projects are cool since they are decomps of the remastered Android versions with proper widescreen plus modding support on 1 & 2 built in.

The Sonic Mania decomp allows you to choose your renderer (DX11 / DX12, and Vulkan), among bug fixes and mod support. Did you know the official release doesn't let you use more than one controller in Competition Mode? The decomp lets you fix that. Plus mod support, of course. Most of the mods for Mania are cosmetic, but occasionally you get some cool stuff like more abilities or extending movesets to other characters.

Gamebanana.com is a good resource on all counts of classic Sonic modding

 

The Rez version is great, and this remix is even better.

This gets into the realm of licensed music, but it's made for the game, so I count it 😉

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@TheAgeofSuperboredom:

Do you celebrate relentlessness?

Are you also better than the best, megalomanical, and harder than the rest?

 

pokes head out from behind a flood of posts

...is it....is it safe to come out now?

Anywho, Savaged Regime has been doing YM2612 arrangements for a whiles now, and has been tapped to do new Genesis games like this one and Astebros.

 

If you search "Godzilla NES remix" it's about impossible to find actual music and not creepypasta stuff.

 

I think this song benefits from having modern samples. Live instrument versions also generally sound good.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

He's mostly known for his stuff while at Tri-Ace: Star Ocean and the like, but has also done a few sports games for Nintendo - namely Mario Golf and Tennis.

In so far as works outside of games, I think you pretty much got it. He has a rock album called Gikyokuonsou.

 

I need to actually finish this game. 😅

 

Apart from just a cool remix, it's a nice glitch demonstration / behind the scenes compilation.

Alternatively, a megamix of all this guy's MKII tracks are here. The channel is worth deep-diving, too. Lots of MK remixes.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Such a great ost overall, despite having a few artists involved.

I appreciate Mick's approach to legacy games. He shows lots of respect to the original tracks while adding his own touch.

 

In honor of Toriyama.

 

Too bad the game tried to push people toward a multiplayer that nobody wanted or liked to unlock single player content.

Dope orchestral soundtrack, though. Turns out blaring brass sounds good when you know what you're doing.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Still have mine!

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This roguelite Metroidvania surprised me with how well the randomized mechanics blended with exploration, and this track gives plenty of atmosphere to the third biome.

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