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No love for the original Bionic Commando on NES?

Excellent Work. You could have have had fun passing it off as a old prototype and claiming that the Jag controller was stolen from Coleco...

Good Job! Look forward to your next videos.

No, but that is an interesting idea. First step is going to be re-creating Adventure's game play in 3D. I'm sure that many of you realize that this will be far from easy, requiring some major tricks for things like the bridge, spatially irrational mazes, etc. Not to mention dragons emerging through walls from behind you. I should have an on-line playable walk-through of the world in primitive form in a few days, then I'll start tweaking it, etc. I'll start by doing a straight forward 2600 style graphics meet 3D at first, and then 'doll it up' to be realistic or whatever weirdness I decide upon.

I'm throw'n in for Super Mario Bros. 3... Many a day that I will never get back...

I think we'll shortly see something like this, but from a different perspective and in a far more finished state...

What a shame. All they really needed to do is look at the first and second games in the series and say "This is our blueprint". Fact of the matter is that this game studio has only used the Turok name, and has no actual connection to the original developers which made the early games.

If Atari had made the game a straight-forward space shooter or something else which was easier to get a grasp on and took full advantage of the 3D capabilities, they would have had a possibly-legendary hit on their hands. As it is, the game can make a bad first impression in that the rules and goals are not clear and can be seen as less than exciting to little kids in the arcade. I wonder why they went for such a non-traditional concept? Extremely slow screen updates with too few polygons for a StarFox-type game?

I was really into F-Zero on the SNES and loved every minute of it (Even though it once made me so mad that I reflexively threw my controller at the screen. Luckily, nothing was damaged except my sense of self-control...) One thing I always wondered about the original was- What's the deal with those closed off side roads? I know that a few are opened in different versions of the same track but some never are. I guess they were made while testing different track designs to see which played the best, etc., or perhaps they just wanted to give the player the feeling of roads having been closed off as sometimes happens in actual street races, etc. Only Mario and some Japanese programmers know for sure...

It looks like they just processed NES SMB game-play through a 'mosaic' video filter. A very quick process compared to the work needed to make it look like it was an actual 2600 game. They didn't even try to get equivalent music and sound fx...

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Huh? Do you honestly think it's going to sell? Obviously a joke of sorts. I thought it was a real auction with a retarded "Buy It Now"... So it's just a joke? I guess that's what you get when eBay drops listing fees...

Ah, so that was what ACTUALLY became of it... I would have sold it here and keep the eBay fees, but maybe he'll make more doing this.

Wow, this is a blast from the past... I had the ECS and that game a VERY long time ago and no, it will not work at all without the module.

The problem stems from your use of the phrase "True Surround" which has no agreed on technical definition. It also implies that the Jag has "False Surround" whatever that is. The truth of the matter is that independent signals for more than two channels are output from both methods so they are both "surround" by definition. Does the Jag output support Surround? Yes. Is Discrete Surround preferable from an audio quality perspective? Yes.

You guys are actually arguing over the difference between "Discrete Surround" and "Matrix Surround", not "real" and "fake" surround" or some-such. Discrete Surround keeps all of the channels independent of one another when stored on the delivery media and the playback unit would normally feature separate outputs for each surround channel (Example- Dolby Digital 5.1). The Jaguar does not feature this and couldn't unless someone built some kind of audio convertor/break out box and coded special software for it. Matrix Surround has all of the various surround channels encoded into a two-channel pair of tracks. These can be broken out into the multiple channels needed to feed a multi-speaker system during playback/decoding (Example-Dolby Pro Logic). THIS is what is coming out of the Jag during IS2. Discrete Surround is the superior system sound quality-wise as that the encoding/decoding process used by Matrix Surround significantly degrades overall signal quality, especially that of the additional "Folded-in" surround channels.

I get a lot of replay value out of the arcade game Juno First, which many dismiss as a perspective-modified Defender clone. It soon becomes a truly angry, vengeful game after just a few waves are cleared...

Defining the term "Art" is the big problem here... How about- "The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic mediums" I would say Yes, they can be under that definition, even though it seems to be biased against anything which is intentionally ugly or displeasing being "art".

It's pretty impresive that the Jag could afford to dedicate processor cycles to real-time Q-sound encoding. I guess that's one of the values of having an on-board DSP. It's too bad that most Jag games don't feature music or use the DSP for realtime synthesis since it could obviously handle filtering, etc. Instead they rely on simple sample playback, ala' the distorted bell tones in CyberMorph. (BTW- a very similar sound to CM's selection tone is used on some current day cell phones. Every time I hear it I think "Avoid The Ground..." )

Sadly, you really can't trust any game reviewing publication which features ads from the game companies whose products it reviews. The monetary relationship is just too strong to not bias coverage. I used to write in the music technology magazine field and that was, and is, also totally poisoned by such corruption. Thanks to downloadable demo and rentals, at least we can make up our own minds for many of these games.

Ah, 'close but no cigar' would go to the Apple IIc+ from 1984. It was also a true single piece console machine with a 3.5 drive...

I personally feel that 64 is too many bits. With a 63-bit system you would have less processing strain from the etra bit and could use that extra throughput for some really cool zapping sounds or something.

Mario and Princess Peach certainly have some sort of relationship. Though, for all we know, Mario could just be a 'sucker', used for 'rescue' time and time again, with no true emotional fulfillment.

I never understood why Atari decided to ship non-centering joysticks with the 5200. It's not like any hot arcade games of the time had one. A working solution, in my mind, would have been to include a switch that made them self-center. Yes, yes, just another thing to break on already fragile controllers, I know...

Almost no consumers really had any idea what 'bit depth' was all about anyway. They just thought more was better.