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i feel like we jumped too fast from 2D to 3D polygons in the 90s. we should have had a longer billboard phase

me: back pain. dog: let me flex on these humans

ooh very cool! feel free to make posts about anything you spot

this looks amazing! i love sprites with 3D backgrounds

nice rig!

ABraCaDaBra - CAD i was thinking if they abbreviated by syllable but yeah it leaves the CAD. otherwise it could be them just typing ABCD,ABCD but even in that case the DCAB is odd.

so someone tried the name on a save with the other names completed already, they couldn’t find any difference sadly. it’s possible the extra name has been disabled in the game logic while remaining in the list

i'm guessing ABCDBCAD is an abbreviation of Abracadabra

(…) multiple times for it to take effect. that’s how it is with the other names where if you start with a blank file you can’t just skip immediately to any special name. if anyone’s got the game beaten on all the other special names, please try the new name as well to see if it does anything new

Example image of the gameplay in Castlevania Circle of the Moon with a Zombie to left and right with a graveyard background

Hex edit view of the Circle of the Moon rom with 64 decimal added to every byte to reveal the special player names the game developers are checking for that enable special modes, with CROSSBOW, FIREBALL, GRADIUS, and DAGGER being the publicly known ones except ABCDBCAD

Example of the publicly known special Player names, which are revealed from beating the game multiple times

So check this out,if you add 64 dec to every byte of the Castlevania Circle of the Moon ROM,you can see the special player names the devs are checking for to enable special game modes. All are publicly known except ABCDBCAD. i don’t know what it does atm, but also one might need to beat the game (…)

and the background art itself looks all noodly and weird in certain parts. i try not to think about it, cause i just get mad at the lack of love and care. 😂 they could have went all out, dug up, rescanned things, brought out the details that were lost to low rez then, rerender CGI aspects in HD 😭

ooh pixel art isometric too? damn shame to hear it fell short

YouTube video by ZeaLitY Square / Squaresoft 5.1ch Movie Collection DVD Promo

10 minutes in is the Chrono Cross part: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wRq...

same. i was hoping for the remake that they’d get the original assets but sadly they had to resort to AI upscaling (which is bewildering because Square even had a snippet of Chrono Cross footage in DVD quality for a showcase DVD). such a shame how much data Square lost pertaining to their 90s games

ooh love the art style

“oh boy, can’t wait to work on my creative projects now that the weekend is here!” * sound of power shutting down * “umm, nevermind”. i’ve had to deal with this like a month ago, so i know the pain 😣

i love the graphics. i feel like we went from 2D to 3D too fast. we should have experimented more with hybrid combinations of sprites and polygons

i love the reflection of the incoming missile on the water

and it gets better, Missile Toss:

Numan Athletics - where you take on a battle ship. oh video games, never change (the music is a bop)

and not to be confused with SEGA’s AM2

i didn’t realize how much love developer M2 would put into ports. oh wow. we need more devs like them

first one cause it looks cooler

cross your eyes. the clouds should appear 3D. made this a while back from Kojima’s own video just haven’t posted it till now

very cool find!

same! i like mouse and keyboard with VR but sadly devs think VR must be first person. astrobot VR was amazing for this reason

play astrobot VR. VR isn’t just seeing things from a first person perspective. seeing things like table top pieces is also an amazing feeling

just saw the Apple UI change announcement. they have lost their damn minds

ooh this hits close to home. was reading up on this topic, didn’t get far. how are you creating the dark spots?

love the spritework