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Then they would have succeeded, to keep with the whole "failing at every friggin' point" theme

OP is like "you've seen the posts... I'm not gonna attempt to read that nonsense and try to figure it out"

Watching that on loop, it seems like the girl is an addict looking for a fix

Dude... they said Christmas for release, right? So they probably don't feel they have to tell anyone "our new date is..." until at least 12/24. So plenty of time. And that whole "manufacturing" thing by Summer can easily be explained by "formal, informal, fictional, etc" so no reason to worry over that either. It's been proven that the faithful will still lap it up.

Yeah, from what I've heard it's pretty amazing. I'm a fan of that type of game and it's certainly on my "to do" list, but I know it's gonna be a good chunk of time invested when I do start it.

Hmm... it could be "neat," and a fun approach to things, but would surely feel a bit tongue -n-cheek to be playing as Mario and have to play an old school Mario mini game. 😁 I dunno, it sounds silly, but something about the idea of it makes me smile a bit and thinking it could work. I think adding something like that is a simple thing, of course, especially with today's development tools -- but the difficult part is finding that balance with making it fun but not taking away from the core game. Sly Cooper series comes to mind for me -- now this is a series that I absolutely ADORE, but -- but they had these hacking mini games where you'd play a simple, retro feeling "top down shooter" and it was fun and it seemed to fit. But as you got deeper into the game, those increased in length and complexity to where at some point, some players (myself included) were just like "not another one of these..." They had gotten a bit too involved and became more of a chore than a fun part of the game. So that's the hard part, in my opinion at least. They could do it easily, they could make it fit easily, but finding that sweet spot is gonna be the hard part.

Something like that is actually very simple to "slap" on any sort of generic game. But even so, I'm looking forward to this one more than anything Atari related in a long time, so I really hope it turns out to be up there with the "better" part of WayForward's work.

Probably a good battle strategy, if you think about it. I'm about to engage in battle against a warrior decked out in full metal armor, alright, I've done this a thousand times, I got this. But I'm about to have a one-on-one with some nekkid dude with a tie-dye ball sack, well, I'm man enough to admit he's got the psychological advantage already. I've not played BG3 yet, so any opinion of mine has a bit of ignorance in there... but having played all the other BG games, plus Icewind, Tormet, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc (all the "kinda the same type" of games) I'm pretty sure all that stuff is only a part of your playthrough if you want it to be. Someone who knows better can correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're getting all anal probed by your halfling cleric or something, probably because you chose that. I don't think it's has any mandatory "lets bang a bear" scenes or anything like that.

My issue wasn't really "missing cores," but for some reason multiple arcade games stopped working and gave a "missing roms" error. Not sure if that's related at all.

I know. I was joking/kidding really, but apologies if that didn't come out that way.

I'm so embarrassed for you right now. 😌

I'm a slow mover 😁 I just picked up a bunch of SNACs recently and PS1 was part of them, so its on my "to do" list. But I dove into the N64 one first and spent quite a bit of time with that. May load some PS1 this weekend and give it a shot. Yeah, I had a similar problem after using update_all. I mentioned it about 6 awbacon videos ago. That's a bit of a bummer.

I'm be pretty interested in seeing a video game that's playable if both audio and video are disabled. That'd have to be something unique, I think. I agree. I'm interested in the game and hope its awesome, but I do agree that it seems like they just slapped the Yars stuff in there to make it fit. Hopefully wrong, though, and it all fits nicely once released.

Anything think the N64 may represent the "ceiling" for MiSTer? I haven't tried PS1 or Saturn yet, all earlier consoles I've played on here felt virtually flawless. N64, though... just feels a bit off. I did some reading to see if there's some combo of settings I can play around with, but nothing stuck out. I did see a couple of references to the developer saying something like "nothing more I can do given the limitations" but not sure if that's accurate, out of context, etc.