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Zeenbor (30345823)

- Waverace 64 - Pilotwings 64 - Mischief Makers

Zeenbor (30346225)

SNES version is the way to go; the GBA version has terrible music quality due to lack of dedicated sound chip and a blown out color palette due to the dim screen.

Zeenbor (30138090)

I think you'd be surprised with how productive game teams can be working remote, providing you have accountability. After all, games are made on individual workstations with collaboration with other developers - that translates pretty easily to a work-from-home scenario. Developers will assuredly have distractions at home that will impact productivity and I think most managers will take that into consideration and not expect the same throughput you'd have working in an office environment.

Zeenbor (30115143)

I find it interesting that id is using forward rendering instead of deferred for this game. Does this mean Doom Eternal VR is coming soon?

Zeenbor (28727799)

Amazing trailer kind of ruined by the English VO. I'm sure I can get used to it, but I rather have the Japanese VO if it's available. The trailer is way better in Japanese, IMO.

Zeenbor (27436046)

Great day as a Hawks fan! Let's hope Russ and crew can rally and keep that #1 seed. Nothing is easy in the NFL...

Zeenbor (26125080)

I wasn't much interested in game development until the 3D era began. Magazines like Next Generation went into detail with features like bilinear filtering and trilinear mipmapping, talking about how many polygons per second the new machines could pull off. Going from just a person who was passionate about games to knowing a bit about how the new generation of games would work really fascinated me, especially as I was just coming of age then (13 or 14?). But what really pulled me into the fray was emulation. Once I saw zSNES and UltraHLE, I was amazed you could do something like this just with software. I could play Chrono Trigger or FF6 on my PC and disable/enable BG layers to see how tile-based games worked - simply amazing! When UltraHLE came out (shortly after OoT), it was truly mind blowing to see my favorite game of all time running on my Voodoo. I somehow immediately bought UltraHLE.com and started to post about ini hacks and eventually became the de-facto source for news on the emulator. Thanks to my UltraHLE connection, I was able to procure a Z64 (N64 backup device) and AR Replay flashed with Caetla (PS1 modchip cartridge) by serving ads to the site and that truly began the development journey for me. I shockingly got my hands on the N64 and PS1 SDKs from the dark corners of EFNet IRC and started modifying PS1 and N64 homebrew samples from dev scene to run on actual hardware. In essence, I learned C on N64 and PS1 in High School and skipped most of my senior year to cut my teeth with real world conditions. It was probably the hardest way to learn programming, especially back then since the Internet was still new, but super rewarding because I could only count on myself and a few like-minded friends on IRC. By the time I was 19, I had enough skills to get hired by an indie developer and begin professionally making games, skipping college in the process. Here we are almost 20 years later and I've been successfully running my own game dev shop for nearly 10 years.

Zeenbor (24822467)

I've been missing this thread recently. Love your new additions! Since you're doing bosses, how about a lil' Zombor with a dash o' Nizbel?

Zeenbor (24646797)

They really need more VR missions.

Zeenbor (23949572)

You could totally compress the 16:9 aspect into 4:3 signal and have it stretch back when viewed on a widescreen TV. IIRC, this was how anamorphic widescreen worked.

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Zeenbor (23950236)

It's pretty bare bones - mostly a rudimentary memory map of functions and some parts of the game reverse engineered. This new project is light years ahead.

Zeenbor (23916719)

Very interesting to look at. This seems like you could completely rebuild the game + assets and run on hardware - a monumental achievement if that's the case! They even decompiled libultra (N64 SDK)... These are some talented folks. There was an old Mario 64 decompilation from Nagra in #n64dev back in the late 90s. I wonder if that was at all used as reference.

Zeenbor (23017461)

Dan and Morgan are pros and know how to make great games. Sucks to hear.

Zeenbor (22890575)

Great interviews. It makes sense two powerhouses like Miyamoto and Kojima admire Matsuno. C'mon Square, give Matsuno a new mainline FF title!

Zeenbor (22052613)

If these screenshots aren't bullshots, best looking game ever. I'm genuinely wowed.

Zeenbor (22028591)

Yep, it's great, although what the game really needs is Chrono Trigger.

Zeenbor (21170324)

Hmm, I put on Xenogears OST 10 seconds ago and then found this thread? Funny timing! (Obviously Xenogears is my choice and I say that as a huge Chrono and Vagrant fan.)

Zeenbor (21082042)

This is great stuff! Where's m'boy Johnny?

Zeenbor (20597340)

I was just about to post this! Mat Valente has been doing faithful recreations since the late 90s. I remember when he did this mashup in .it format. Epic stuff!

Zeenbor (19061593)

I just watched this - GREAT documentary!. How do you throw an extravagant release party for a game in France and then not release it and continue to scam your customers? If anyone got scammed by Watermelon, you can try to file a petition with the FTC .

Zeenbor (18459136)

Dear god, this game - PTSD! "LET IT .... RIIIIIIIP!" "What a WEAK LAUNCH!" "What a GREAT LAUNCH" "Well" "Well" "Well" "Well" "UNBELIEVABLE!" (I ported the Japanese version of this game to PAL territories.)

Zeenbor (7046987)

I have full brightness with all the TV filter modes enabled on my Sony OLED. Game looks best under 100 brightness and 0 contrast, oddly enough!

Zeenbor (5076457)

Haha, ouch. Rest assured, I still have the source and assets.

Zeenbor (5042300)

They should of given the port to people who actually care about Chrono Trigger *hint*

Zeenbor (9991040)

Seems utterly useless. No thanks.