Son Of General Retro Discussion

valleyoftheunos

fired up MacMame and DarwiinRemote for the first time in ages, great craic of cold wednesday night.

DinoRex

Sparks43

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It makes you sound important and intelligent even when what you are talking about is complete and utter scutter.

You wouldnt know what a scutter is m8:D

DinoRex

Oh... Miyamoto is stepping down...

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/miyamoto-interview/

I think it's good news... I want to see what he can come up with now and see where younger developers can take the popular franchises without him.

But I can't imagine it will do Nintendo's beleaguered stocks much good...

Mr.Saturn

DinoRex wrote: »

Oh... Miyamoto is stepping down...

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/miyamoto-interview/

I think it's good news... I want to see what he can come up with now and see where younger developers can take the popular franchises without him.

But I can't imagine it will do Nintendo's beleaguered stocks much good...

I imagine the translator could've saved themselves a day's work and simply titled the article 'Pikmin 3 imminent'.

CiDeRmAn

Well, given Mario Kart 7 was done without much input from him and it turned out to be one of the best of the series, I'm not sure it's such a bad thing.
Nintendo should be like Disney, regardless whether Walt is in charge, or dead, or frozen in some storage facility in California it rumbles on, producing quality products, some of which turn out to be best in show.


Unless it's the early to mid 80's Disney....
And we get Black Cauldron or Basil the mouse detective

Retr0gamer

Seems Nintendo are saying it's BS now.

Would like to see him out of his management position and back as a director.

Anyway Nintendo have more than enough talent to keep going.

DinoRex

Black Cauldron was one of the few Disney films I liked as a kid. It didn't have a fecking songs in it!

I've never understood why they think children should be big fans of musicals.

OwaynOTT

Basil the Great Mouse Detective is brilliant!

DinoRex

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

I imagine the translator could've saved themselves a day's work and simply titled the article 'Pikmin 3 imminent'.

I'm hoping for Wii Music 2: Electric Boogaloo.

pdbhp

Those real life legends at Cave are the best aren't they?
Lookey below for shmuppy goodness all on PS Vita:D

Yahey roll on next year!!

Source of all sources

Cave has announced that it will be porting its Xbox 360 shoot ‘em up Akai Katana Shin to the PlayStation Vita. The director of the game, Hiroyuki Kimura, also been revealed, in an interview with Spong, that the port will utilise the PS Vita’s dual analogue sticks and also expressed his interest in the system’s touch controls.

There is a gameplay video of the Xbox 360 version of Akai Katana Shin after the break which you can watch for an idea of how it will look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRrVTR0GbgM

CiDeRmAn

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Basil the Great Mouse Detective is brilliant!

There's people who think Mario Kart 64 is the best of the series as well, doesn't make them any less wrong!

Retr0gamer

There's people how like Halo....

Sparks43

Retr0gamer wrote: »

There's people how like Halo....

And there are people who like Cho Aniki;)

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

There's people how like Halo....

Retr0gamer

Looks like Gamepro has gone down the ****ter. No big loss except that means Kat Baileys excellent Roleplayers Realm podcast is no more Hope she finds a way to continue it.

megaten

She's said on twitter that there's a possibility of it continuing. I hope so. She's very clam and not as stupidly excitable as most video game podcast hosts.

Retr0gamer

I actually contemplated joining twitter just to ask her

Steve X2

Batman Arkham City: Lockdown just hit the app store if anyone with an iPad or iPhone is interested.

Just grabbed it myself and it looks pretty well on the iPad 2.
Plays kind of like Infinity Blade but apparently there are other sections with different gameplay I've not got to yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAda134dqNQ

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Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG0DT23PQBc

one of the lads on FB sent me on this, looked up the plot on wiki

While innocently reaching for some half-priced bento, Yō Satō finds himself beaten up on the floor of a supermarket. He soon learns that getting half-priced bento is an all-out brawl between students. Yō is invited to the Half-Priced Food Lovers Club by one of the top fighters, Sen Yarizui, in order to train to compete in these battles.

Doge

While innocently reaching for some half-priced bento, Yō Satō finds himself beaten up on the floor of a supermarket. He soon learns that getting half-priced bento is an all-out brawl between students. Yō is invited to the Half-Priced Food Lovers Club by one of the top fighters, Sen Yarizui, in order to train to compete in these battles.

We could easily create an Irish version of that cartoon using a similar plot.

Except instead of half price Bento,

It would be the LIDL specials!

Retr0gamer

If it was Penneys specials it would be too violent for TV.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I used to go to lunch just like you, one day I went to the canteen and took an arrow to the knee while criminal scum got all the sweet rolls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ux1wVHji8

Retr0gamer wrote: »

If it was Penneys specials it would be too violent for TV.

and I would be their Queen.

johnny_ultimate

Oh **** just dropped the box of floppy discs!

Wait.

Why the **** do we have a box of floppy discs?

Steve X2

Spotted this online today and thought it might interest some here.


Dizzy interview - Philip & Andrew Oliver.

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/884296-dizzy-interview-philip-andrew-olivers-eggcellent-adventure


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Professey Chin

Steve SI wrote: »

Spotted this online today and thought it might interest some here.


Dizzy interview - Philip & Andrew Oliver.

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/884296-dizzy-interview-philip-andrew-olivers-eggcellent-adventure


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Thats out tomorrow actually.
Yays \o/

DinoRex

Chronotrigger is out as well now:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrono-trigger/id479431697?ls=1&mt=8

Retr0gamer

Chrono Trigger looks really cheap and nasty. The filtering is horrible and those menus are... ew

DinoRex

He actually said he was retiling... his bathroom...

Professey Chin

Downloaded me some HD Dizzy

Dodododododoooo....thats my day anyway. Touch screen controls take a tiny bit getting used to but jumping isnt as unforgiving

Steve X2

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Downloaded me some HD Dizzy

Dodododododoooo....thats my day anyway. Touch screen controls take a tiny bit getting used to but jumping isnt as unforgiving

Sweet, just gonna grab it now myself.

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DinoRex

Played it a tiny bit.

€2.99 is a bit steep.

It feels like they haven't played enough iOS games as research. There are better ways to do what they're doing.

Also the music gets very annoying very quickly and there's zero sound effects if you turn it off.

Scrolling is lovely though and works well I guess...

Steve X2

DinoRex wrote: »

Played it a tiny bit.

€2.99 is a bit steep.

It feels like they haven't played enough iOS games as research. There are better ways to do what they're doing.

Also the music gets very annoying very quickly and there's zero sound effects if you turn it off.

Scrolling is lovely though and works well I guess...

Yeah, the arrows on the screen are a bit meh.
Still, its Dizzy and I'm glad he's back. Buy the game support the devs etc etc.

Professey Chin

Its 1.75 on android. Plays really well on my GS2. Ill install it on my tablet later and see how it scales up. And I just picked up an mp3 player :pac:

Pyongyang

Dizzy HD looks like it's been 'Taito Memoried'. Bring back the old style.

Steve X2

Good few games out on ios yesterday and today that I want to play.
Dizzy, Batman and Defenders of Ardania and a few others.

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DinoRex

Did you know there's a Nintendo Monopoly? Did you also know it's also rage inducing (even by Monopoly standards)

Professey Chin

I fail to see the problem........

o1s1n

Feck sake, I noticed a weird smell off my hands and forearms today. Not sure what it was. Actually looked at them - they look like they spent a week the Sahara.

Then I remembered, last night my girlfriend put on a bit of fake tan for her work party. Nothing orange, just a little glow so she won't look like a pasty Irish lass.

Problem is, I AM a pasty Irish dude.

It seems that a 'bit' of fake tan on me looks like I cut off Ray Charles arms and took them as my own.

Pyongyang

o1s1n wrote: »

Then I remembered, last night I put on a bit of fake tan for my work party. Nothing orange, just a little glow so I won't look like a pasty Irish lad.

FYP.

DinoRex

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

I fail to see the problem........

It should clearly be Samus's Helmet!

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Feck sake, I noticed a weird smell off my hands and forearms today. Not sure what it was. Actually looked at them - they look like they spent a week the Sahara.

Then I remembered, last night my girlfriend put on a bit of fake tan for her work party. Nothing orange, just a little glow so she won't look like a pasty Irish lass.

Problem is, I AM a pasty Irish dude.

It seems that a 'bit' of fake tan on me looks like I cut off Ray Charles arms and took them as my own.

Um, did you mean to post that on a public forum? :pac:

So basically you had a roll around with the gf while she had the tan on and forgot to wash it off.

DinoRex

But that still doesn't explain why I smell of Indian food this morning...

Pyongyang

o1s1n (Library Photograph):

Steve X2

I see Theme Park came out on ios this morning as well.

It's freemium to play but some of the in app purchases are pricey to say the least(60 dollars for one of the rides :eek:)

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o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

Um, did you mean to post that on a public forum? :pac:

So basically you had a roll around with the gf while she had the tan on and forgot to wash it off.

If only. Then I'd be wearing this tan as a badge of honour.

No, it was more along the lines of 'Hey, can you help me apply this fake tan?' - hands glove.

'Sure! I mean, I'm wearing a glove, I won't end up looking like Snooki from Jersey shore, right?'



/leaves for Jersey Shore, never to return.

Pyongyang

DinoRex wrote: »

It should clearly be Samus's Helmet!

I thought Samus was a girl? :pac:

pdbhp

Good news. Vita will support more than one PSN account just have to swap out memory cards.

Sourcey

"Your PSN ID is bonded to your memory card and your memory card is bonded to your Vita." That's the official line from Sony America reps regarding the PlayStation Vita's claimed one console, one PSN account situation. SCEA associate brand marketing manager Crystal MacKenzie clarified to Wired's Game|Life blog that, yes, you can have multiple PSN accounts, each tied to a memory card. Should you choose to move any of those accounts from one card to another, however, things get a bit more laborious.

"If you wanted to change different PSN users but use the same memory card, you would need to go factory reset," MacKenzie said, which sounds to us like a memory card reformat would be required before swapping accounts from one card to another. As far as having multiple PSN accounts on one console, though, Vita users are apparently limited by their ability to purchase more memory cards. And if one memory card isn't enough for your PSN account, it can be spread across multiple cards.

To recap, you can employ multiple PSN accounts on a single Vita using multiple memory cards, but will have to reformat the memory card should you choose to migrate a PSN account from one to another. Still bizarre? Yes, for sure, but it sure beats only being able to use a single PSN account.

Pyongyang

Price of the cards though is ridiculous. I'm still getting a Vita though regardless.

They had me at "Cave".

DinoRex

How on earth do you save in Dizzy? Are you supposed to complete the entire game in a single sitting and not use your phone or tablet for anything else?