DeciderVT

Yeah. Someone from the US sent me a DM last week and thankfully I still had three months left on a Mullvad sub so I was able to reply. Felt absolutely absurd.

Resident Evil 3 ~ バイオハザード3 (1999)

Developed by Capcom.

The day I received a counterfeit copy of this game from eBay is the day I realised that no DS game was too obscure to be pirated.

If you see this, post a title screen that is iconic to you.

Policenauts Office Ambient ASMR

Agreed!

Street Fighter Alpha 3
Arcade, 1998
Capcom
(pictured: Saturn port)

Happy Fighting Game Friday.

Finishing out the trilogy. I had the PS1 version in the day and played it a lot, very fond memories. It added a ton of new characters but the most important is, of course, Karin!

#crt #retrogaming #fgc

Nice! Really looking forward to reading this one.

Was playing this just yesterday. Quite a challenge with a drifting left stick.

Thanks, fingers crossed. Good luck with issue six!

Ordered one, thanks! Any more back issue bundles in the works for latecomers?

It's because you can't go through the ritual of reading the manual on that excited bus ride home from the shops if you've just bought the game on eBay.

Rounding out the week with adding support for playing physical audio CDs on SS1. It works in any core with audio CD support in the BIOS.

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

Added preliminary support for loading Sega Saturn games from disk without dumping on SuperStation.

It needs some additional work to make it more seamless. PC-Engine CD is next.

Way back when we visited I couldn't believe that we were in a games shop that was playing the SNES Sim City OST over the in-store stereo while kids came in to mod their arcade sticks downstairs. Felt like we were in a parallel universe.

Very nice, didn't know SFZ3 had a PocketStation game as well. The shops on Boulevard Voltaire are stunning, I wish we had streets like that up and down the UK.

Really need to get around to playing this! Absolutely fell in love with the look of it when it was briefly featured on Cybernet and never forgot about it.

i love playing games on my Politically Correct Engine

Now showing at E3 1997: a glimpse into the Resident Evil 2 that never was and now exists out in the wild in playable prototype form as 'Resident Evil 1.5'.

#VideoBytes

More than the first?

Character Renders 'Klonoa: Door To Phantomile' PlayStation

Character Renders 'Klonoa: Door To Phantomile' PlayStation

Character Renders 'Klonoa: Door To Phantomile' PlayStation

Character Renders
'Klonoa: Door To Phantomile'
PlayStation

It's interesting how broad of a spectrum this 'HD-2D' label covers. The original HD-2D games all focused on non-filtered textures lending the whole game a pixelated, 2D aesthetic but DQ basically just uses normal 3D backgrounds with sprites which is very PS1-era and quite different next to Octopath

Looks so much better than the Octopath style. Still a lot of bloom in places but overall the effects are used far more tastefully.

Thanks! I'd been mulling over a DivMMC too but this is much cheaper!

A double page ad for the then-new Spectrum +2 with a variety of human and monstrous hands reaching for it.

Monster Memory, Monster Value - Get it before everyone else does!

This is the model of ZX Spectrum (one of the UK's homegrown microcomputers) I have the most personal nostalgia for. A couple of school friends were Speccy kids and they both had +2's.

📖: Sinclair User, Jan 1987

The +2A was my first home computer! My family had so much fun with ours. It's still under my desk with a faulty tape drive but I can't bear to part with it.

#LetsGetShenmue4

A close-up shot of SC3000's isometric city streets with a construction yard, police station, and small suburban houses and gardens in view. All in a painterly style.

Up-close-and-personal with the 800x600 streets of Santa Andrea. (My golden resolution for later 90s Win 95/98 games)

Just how pixelly it goes this zoomed up is very pleasing to my eye. 💜

📺: Sim City 3000, Maxis, 1999.

The maintenance this hobby requires for ageing hardware sometimes is a stark reminder of why I've gone with MiSTer for almost everything 32-bit and below now. I've probably spent 1/4 of my game playing time dissembling older systems and replacing parts instead of playing the actual games.