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Best option of all takes a little searching, but doubles the color of the Super Game Boy, and allows you to use the Game boy player. It's called the Brain Boy/Monster Brain, and though it claims to be a Pokemon cheat device, it's color enhancement works with other games as well. What the hell is this? You hook it up to your telly? Does it plug into the gameboy? Plugs into the cartridge slot, I believe. I haven't seen one in years, but there should be more information floating around the net.

And that's the Jag being pushed to the limit ? Errrrr, okay..... I think I'll toddle back off to the 7800 and see if I can't make it do exactly what I've just seen... Oh, hey, you're that guy who put the polygon on the 7800! Or was that two? Anyways, I'm a big fan of your work, and can't wait to see what you have in mind for that crystal you made. Smart money's on a skipping stones kind of game play, or one of those "Lose weight fast" commercials, if you have enough space left for the physics to make it swing back and forth. Anyways, it's cool, and thanks for sharing your expert opinion here with us tiny folk.

Dumb question: Would donations help? You can pm if it's a sensitive subject.

"Mommy, don't buy it, he wants to eat us!"

Do I make it in the club this time?

Beware of skunk!

It's terrible, this creature is a thief, who steals rings and other shiny "precious" objects. Don't hurt it's "precious"!

Imagine a world exactly like ours, with two differences - The 2600 has just been released. People are still willing to pay good money for conversions of popular titles. If your brain hasn't exploded from the logic of the 2600 being taken seriously as a competitor to the X-Box 360 and PS3 - What modern games (16 bit and up) should be converted? Assume two sprites and a missile, with whatever programming tricks you want, but it has to have been a popular game, and the conversion has to be reasonably fun to play. Can you meet the challenge?

Best option of all takes a little searching, but doubles the color of the Super Game Boy, and allows you to use the Game boy player. It's called the Brain Boy/Monster Brain, and though it claims to be a Pokemon cheat device, it's color enhancement works with other games as well.

Really? I always kind of liked the first Castlevania, from its utterly compelling opening cinema (Dracula playing the violin - hauntingly, I might add) to the sombre settings and interesting new ways of controlling the heroes. Konami knew that the Castlevania 3D-road would be paved with boobytraps and naysayers, but I actually feel they did an okay job of it. I got hooked on the director's cut (Legacy of Darkness). Great music, and a great story - Okay, give you guys who haven't played it an example.. The guy hiding his eyes behind the mirrored shades is a demon. He tells you this. What he won't tell you, is that if you're a good customer, you may be selling him something too... Or, another example? There are women in this game who haven't been kidnapped. I know - blasphemy. Don't worry, one is still kidnapped, so it's all good. But careful, this game first tells you why she's been kidnapped... And then later, confesses to the lie...

ShadowMan 64 uses the exact same so bad they're surreal polygon models, good voice acting, and uniquely disturbing level design as the Dreamcast version. Giving it's textures a higher resolution and adding a barely noticeable bit of tightening to the controls does not new game make. I first owned the Dreamcast version - I keep the N64 version around because it reminds me of the Dreamcast version. If it's good enough for my misty-eyed nostalgia, it's good enough for a first time player.

Contrary to popular belief, Pac-Man is one of the best games for the 2600. Don't believe me? Go over to the hacks, find Hack-Em, or any one of the other repair jobs - it's amazing what a little TLC can do. How hard would it be to do the same for the 7800? Double Dragon: Interrupt enemy AI when an attack connects, creating a small window of opportunity to deliver a combo. Karateka: Remap the controls. Two small changes, and two mediocre games become two more reasons to collect for the 7800. Who knows what else is possible?

I haven't tried the C64 emulator. The free remakes of those two games are fun, but Bubble Bobble is incomplete. In commercial release, Bubble Bobble New and Old is the same game with an altered graphics mode. I highly recommend Boulderdash EX - it's actually an official sequel. containing new gameplay techniques like rotating the entire screen to alter the effects of gravity.

Because people have doubts? Imagine where we'd be now, if all inventors were so fragile. *laughs* Gorf, look over my posts - I'm one of the few who believes in you, and is looking foward to the day when you prove the skeptics wrong. Don't give up.

How many shooters are out there?

Gorf - you're going to face skepticism, it's how people keep from being burned. It'd be a different story if your work was all public domain and the source code was released, but you're planning on selling this. The proof will be in the results, one way or another. Until then, this conversation is a kerosene soaked rag, and you guys are playing "Hot Potato".

Oh! I have Tourette's! I mean, ideas! Can you make variations, like a tournament mode where winner gets to put their symbol on another grid, loser goes first next game, and the first person to get three of their symbols in a row on the scoring grid wins? Or, an action mode where there are no turns, and both players race as fast as they can to place X's and O's?

Yeah, but I think both of you are forgetting the true king of 2D. Marvel vs. Capcom vs. SNK. 4 Player simultaneous tag - no ram cart needed. And it's got werewolves. Welcome to the future. Carried to you by the power of Blast Processing.

This is retarded, so here's the last comparison pic - Everyone make of it what you will, my role as devil's advocate is done. Spiffyone, it was fun to debate you, as one retard to another.

Depends. Don't expect much, and you may have fun. I've only played it long enough to make stage 11, 4 stages away from changing the very first backdrop...every stage played exactly like the original, except easier.

Ah. Apologies. I'm new to music - Bible belt upbringing. I was assured it was all the devil's candy, offered from his car... Thank God I at least was able to sound like I had something worth saying underneath it all - then again, that was probably because Palmer Eldritch translated for me.

Redeeming qualities: 1. It boots up. 2. It plays. 3. It dramatically enhances the visuals of every other polygon game ever made. Minuses 1. It makes your Jag cry.

Saturn without the ram cart, was my point. How does the Saturn handle the game, frames of animation wise, on it's own? Don't forget also, there are better 2D games on the PSone, in motion, when the sprites aren't as large as a fighting game requires. With two game systems who's games look near identical in screenshots, and who trade the lead back and forth in animation, it's fair to say the two systems are similiar - those disappointed by the Playstation's gutted X-men vs. Streetfighter fan fic are matched by those who missed out on three of the best 2D shooters done right on the PSX, when the Saturn was supposed to be the better system for 2D. Everything else you said, however, is gospel truth, including the Neo pocket love.

Some great shots, thank you. I needed a close up of the road textures to get around the art department's technique. They're some of the best. Left to right - real life, X-box, and PS2.

My opinion has technical reality to back it up you screen shots are jsut that...an illusion to what is really going on. screenshots? how about owning both systems and comparing them. most people on the forum would agree with me that the n64 games look better than the jag. maybe if you ever owned an n64 you'd understand what i mean. I own the N64, have seen the Jag in action vicariously. Let me offer you a story - You're given two CDs. One is of a band hitting a few notes, joking, bits and pieces of potential heard, but they sound suspiciously like someone put a cassette tape to their TV's mono speaker for a home movie warm-up session. They could be anyone, really. They really need to hire a new agent. The other is a series of tracks of all the latest mixes from all the best ever in the industry. Of course you're going to go with the second as being the superior listening experience...but what of that first band? Who were they? What songs could they have presented to the industry, with the right management? Assume the people presenting this CD to you, really didn't give a damn what happened to the band. A wedding gig is as good as a contract. This is what happened to the Jaguar. You can't tell what it can do, based on what you've heard. Gorf's admitted even with it's potential, it'll be limited to the polycount of early Saturn games - but texture-wise, it's ahead of the competition already. Look at what textures did for Virtua Fighter vs. Remix, and you'll get an idea of how big of a potential the cat in the toilet was hiding all this time. being in the music biz, this is really not a good analogy. i understand the point though. as a producer, i listen to the song first regardless of the recording. many great bands and artists with great music have crappy recordings. on the other hand, there's a lot of "garbage" pop music that have some amazing recordings. if i had to make analogy to music, the jag had a couple of great songs with great recordings for the time, and the rest were either mediocre or junk. could we say that the jag could write better songs and play technically better? you could, but that has not been proven yet. until then, the jag is what it is. Fair enough, but in defense of my analogy, you missed the key point - I didn't say you got a crappy recording of great music, I said you got a crappy recording of talented guys goofing off. Looking over the records of who actually tried to do anything like their best effort, even given the lack of support Atari offered, I see Alien vs. Predator, BattleSphere, Tempest 2000, and Rayman, with Protector SE being a nice retro back-up. All were first generation software, made without real developer tools. Perhaps a better analogy would be for an artist to spend a few minutes figuring out how to use the midi potential of their new software, hammer out a decent remix of their best work, and rush it out as a complete album in order to satisfy a penny pinching studio head, who still reads all the stories written on him a decade before. Read how Carmack tossed together Doom, and tell me we're seeing anything close to what the hardware can do. Even 3DO, with lower specs, was able to knock out Need for Speed. i didn't miss your point, i was explaining how i see the jag (a few great songs and recordings everything else mediocore or poor). i'm not getting this point, "Perhaps a better analogy would be for an artist to spend a few minutes figuring out how to use the midi potential of their new software, hammer out a decent remix of their best work, and rush it out as a complete album in order to satisfy a penny pinching studio head, who still reads all the stories written on him a decade before. Read how Carmack tossed together Doom, and tell me we're seeing anything close to what the hardware can do. " maybe you could clarify it. midi potential? most artists, unless they're a keyboardist or computer music guru, don't deal with midi. maybe i'm lookin to deep into this quote.... Midi = 68k. Once a standard, now obsolete, and only lives on in obscure corners, for nostalgia and novelty. The Jaguar offered the 68k as a way to get started, but too many programmers never moved on to see what else was available, for sound business reasons. A good game takes several years to develop, and without software tools, manufacturer support, or a large fan base, what's the point? These people have families to feed. If Gorf didn't go insane when you tell him something can't be done, chances are this forum would be next to dead - no offense to the other Jag developers, but he's the only one who's spelled it out in language stupid skin monkeys like me can follow....over...and...over... Gorf, how the hell are you finding the time to do all this? Are you freelance?