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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.

Pretty sure someone said that someone said that they heard that someone told someone else that they got them, they just haven't submitted the paperwork yet or something silly like that. But they're as good as got.

How many you think we'll end up with? I'm the opposite... I'm interested based on the developer's history, and think it looks like it'll be a solid game, but the "Yars" title doesn't add anything for me. I loved the original game, of course, but this seems pretty far from it. Looks like she may play a "Yars game" as for a mini game or something. Which could be funny... imagine having to play some iteration of your race's traumatizing war experience just to open a door or something. Like they haven't figured out lock + key yet?

Had some choice words for their other work too, like River City, Contra, etc, too, before you edited 😔 Oh... I read it as "8 or 10 if not higher" 😁 Thought we were shootin' for a Spinal Tap "it goes to 11" kind of vibe

I'm excited to see what they do with it too, but I'm a pretty big WayForward fan, so they usually have me at hello. You do know it's WayForward, right? You had some pretty negative crap talking going on about them when I brought them up recently in a different topic. You quickly edited your comments and make it much softer, but yeah, I got the impression you didn't think much of them at all -- slapping Atari on there change that for some reason? 🤣 I wouldn't count on it. I figure that's gonna be a "what we see is what we get" kind of thing. I don't mind it though, but I can see how it would be poorly received by some of the OG fans since it seems to cater to a different demographic, I think. Yeah, I hope it rocks. But... higher than a 10?

Saw this on my phone... hm... wonder what game it could be? So I clicked it to read more, and saw this --- Cool, I can see Sonic making a neat comedy series. But wait... what... Well, alright.... Love me some Golden Axe, but it's not the first thing I think of when I think "this belongs on Comedy Central."

wow... so WayForward -- we have this game made that's pretty cool. Not sure what to do with it, though. Atari -- can you stick Yars in the title somewhere? WayForward -- Done! Atari -- "We're pleased to announce a new game based on the beloved classic "Yars' Revenge" Oh well, it's WayForward so I'm still confident it'll be a cool game.

WayForward is one of those developers that I get excited about with pretty much every product announced. Gonna be interesting to see how they work in "Yars."

Sounds like your "art to it" was the same as mine. Toss that original shit out the window and install BLW. 😁 I've tried replacements, boiling, cleaning, bending, etc, and nothing really seemed as much like a proper fix the way BLW did.

Chocolate Peanut Butter is my favorite, followed by Vanilla. Cookies n Cream SHOULD be top dawg, but it just tastes a bit off.

I forgot about this one. Did it sell a LOT? A quick glance on google seems to show it was pretty well received.

I think it's a good idea, but sadly the poor execution of it just hurts the image of retro games as a whole. I would love to see older consoles being remade and performing 100% like they should. But not many of these mini gadgets do that. People who are newly introduced to older games though these things often come away with a "how the hell did you play this garbage" first impression and move on.

Yes, current script best of my knowledge I'd have to revisit and check for sure, but 3 that come to mind immediately were Aliens, Blade Master, and Bosconian