Fucking hell, that was just a mind numbingly experience.
If you get it in your cart, just refresh on that screen, even if you get errors! Best Buy will eventually unfuck itself (hopefully) and have you re-login or verify your account via email code NUMEROUS times. Even if it craps out as you enter your CC verification code, KEEP ON TRUCKING!
ThreadOn This Day in 1997 The first ever Gran Turismo was released
This game was THE showcase for the PS1. They squeezed every drop of power from that console and made a landmark title that, IMO, was PS1's biggest success. Even more than FF7, Tekken, MGS, and Resident Evil.
Hmm, this screams like it uses Crystal Tools. The lighting needs quite a bit of work IMO. I am a huge FF fan and I can't help but feel a bit disappointed with the fidelity.
Here's hoping the gameplay and story are great!
ThreadGame Developers (Indie, Hobbyists, Professional), how do you balance game development and playing games without getting burnt out?
I've been in game dev for almost 20 years. I don't play games at home anymore and as I often work late into the night when the wife goes to bed. There might be a big game that I might binge once or twice a year for short periods, but I try to avoid addictive games with a heavy reward loop. I try to play at least 5 hours a week during my lunch at work and most of that is research. Otherwise, I keep up with games by watching streams and reading industry news.
ThreadPS5/XSX 21:9 UltraWide Support Confirmed? Phillips 34” UltraWide Momentum Teases
I would love to see 21:9 or 32:9 support for consoles but I don't see it happening. Too expensive to render all of those extra pixels unless you have a super minimalist game.
ThreadShould EPIC eat the rest of Unity's lunch and just support C#?
Still doesn't solve being able to work in the same script at the same time as other developers - you have to move to C++ to gain this basic necessity. This is a major UE4 flaw IMO.
ThreadShould EPIC eat the rest of Unity's lunch and just support C#?
I use UE4 and Unity daily on different projects and have years of professional experience working on many different types of projects and platforms. They both have their advantages. I personally prefer UE4 because it's a performant engine and is mostly complete out of the box, whereas Unity is very much in flux and uses many marketplace solutions to round out its feature set.
That being said, UE4 would definitely benefit from a C# wrapper simply for the ability to cooperatively work on the same script asset. Right now, a single developer has exclusive access to a BP script because it's binary and can't be merged via P4, SVN, Git, etc.
ThreadThis is the best Final Fantasy tune. Fight me!
I used to carry a TSSF .it version of this song and a MOD player around on a floppy disk during high school so could play it anywhere I went.
It still gets me pumped!!
As a hardcore Chrono Trigger fan and as a super huge fan of FF6, I'm a little jealous you got to experience these games for the first time recently.
FF6 brought storytelling and presentation to a new level. Chrono Trigger was the complete package with new mechanics like no random battles, party techs, time travel implications, and new game+,
BTW, the DS version of Chrono Trigger strips way any of the charm the original translation had.
You should definitely play Xenogears next. That team was originally supposed to work on Chrono Trigger 2 and then the game became it's own thing. Plus, It's got that sweet, sweet Mitsuda sound and has Kato as the scenario writer / planner.
ThreadBest way to play Final Fantasy VI for the first time?
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.
ThreadDEVS: Can Games Be Made as Quickly via Remote Work; GAMERS: Are You Willing to Wait for Next Gen Consoles and/or Games
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.
ThreadFinal Fantasy VII Remake - theme song trailer
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.
ThreadGame devs: What was your break into the industry?
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.
ThreadThe full decompilation of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 is now released on GitHub (Unlicensed)
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.
ThreadThe full decompilation of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 is now released on GitHub (Unlicensed)
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.
ThreadThe full decompilation of Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 is now released on GitHub (Unlicensed)
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.
ThreadSaga Frontier vs. Xenogears vs. Parasite Eve vs. Brave Fencer Musashi vs. Legend of Mana vs. Chrono Cross vs. Vagrant Story
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.)
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!
ThreadWhat Happened to Paprium? [Video Documentary] (St1ka's Retro Corner)
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 .
ThreadWhat old PlayStation games still aren’t available on PS4?
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.)