new games for old hardware that are actually good

LeFish

Don’t know if it’ll be good yet but this Mega Drive roguelite action game, Astebros, due to come out next year appears to be quite promising.

Funbil

Not sure if anyone here is interested in developing NES games, but this software to make designing graphics easier seems super cool (and it’s pay-what-you-want!)

https://nesrocks.itch.io/naw

exodus

◉◉maru I missed this earlier - this is real impressive and weird! 1997 no less!

treefroggy

After going through the entire family computer ROM library, organizing them, I’d realized I don’t have much of a family computer backlog. I’d already played or beaten everything I’d wanted to from 1983->1990, and it’s far from my favorite console.

But recent homebrew and ROMs made in recent years are so good that it warrants still having the console. While everyone else just takes a passing glance through emulators, these games are really, really cool on hardware connected to a CRT:

M1 developed GAPLUS.nes
Pacman Championship edition, made by one japanese fan and published by Namco
NEO Heiyankyo Alien, amazing soundtrack, also made professionally (idr who)

Now that NES maker has been out long enough, tons of stuff is happening
more I haven’t tried yet

Gardman
Blazing Rangers
Metroid Rogue Dawn

robinhoodie

I just beat Bobl on the Evercade. Amazing work for an NES game. Can’t believe I missed it as I love Super Bat Puncher and Space Gulls

hellomrkearns

Heck
Genesis

NES

exodus

Oh man, when they get that genesis one going!!

Also I will check out bobl - I’m massively behind on the NES scene.

hellomrkearns

another from the same developer. There’s a link to the demo in the description.

exodus

This person should finish up one project at a time in my opinion. Or maybe they just want to do bits of it and this is it!

rejj

exodus Or maybe they just want to do bits of it

My personal projects history is exactly like this. I usually love the first 80%, where I solve the interesting problems and build out the fun bits. I then hate the second 80% of work to pull everything together and finish something.

saddleblasters

rejj I’m a jerk and think finishing things is dumb (especially games, which relative to the size of the game, take an enormous amount of work to get to a point that can be called “done,” and even then can be polished and iterated upon infinitely)… unless you want to actually make money, in which case you have no choice but to live in the constant hell that is finishing things.

exodus

In the immortal words of the arcane kid himself:

andrewelmore

I’m sure I’m late on this, but it sure looks like someone done made a Metroid for the Mega Drive?

Saw this because carts are going up for pre-order and they’re not too pricey all things considered, but this gameplay demo gives me pause?

I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to work with the Genesis’ sound chip over the last year and this just sounds . . . Broken? Maybe it’s just me? It sounds like everything is being run through the sampler, which shouldn’t be able to handle this much polyphony, and I can’t imagine they’re adding additional chips to the carts themselves, so I have no idea what’s going on here.

Sound aside, I’m not sure I’m necessarily sold or not yet but the premise is cool? I love the MD dearly but there’s not a ton of longer form games on it, so I’m at least intrigued.

This was the pre-order page I saw on twitter a minute ago.

https://kai-magazine-software.fwscart.com/PRE-ORDER__Life_on_Mars_for_the_Sega_Genesis_(Japanese_cover)_COPY/p4398489_21781101.aspx#

Idk, could go either way. Thoughts?

gsk

andrewelmore I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to work with the Genesis’ sound chip over the last year and this just sounds . . . Broken? Maybe it’s just me? It sounds like everything is being run through the sampler, which shouldn’t be able to handle this much polyphony, and I can’t imagine they’re adding additional chips to the carts themselves, so I have no idea what’s going on here.

That’s exactly what they’re doing: it’s multiple PCM channels at a crazy low bitrate, a la all your favourite GBA shovelware. I don’t think there’s any particular reason for that approach, save for the fact that the devs are homebrew dorks who wanted to flex (and that the game’s derived from an old MSX game that also featured advanced PCM programming techniques).

exodus

andrewelmore ah, I hadn’t seen that this was up for preorder now (or maybe I did and I already pre-ordered it, let’s find out), but I wouldn’t expect huge things. Kai magazine did Metal Dragon recently which is full of 90s action man dialog from a not very ironic perspective and very samey gameplay. I asked them if they’d tone down the edgelord language in this game and they said there’s less of it lol.

I’ll play it because I play all of these but I wouldn’t be expecting this to be The One.

andrewelmore

gsk that seems like such a strange choice . . .

IrishNinja

damm, yeah xeno crisis was my pick too but thankfully its everywhere now

i have this one genesis one, something l’mort or the like, it’s good i think? but i die too early to get far enough to really say so?

also see: volgarr the viking

i got my investor LE copy over a year ago & it’s great but i’m still mystified that paprium actually happened after all that fuckery. should’ve gone for the arcade stick but no way was i sending more $ after all that radio silence mess

Syzygy

treefroggy

This person is working on porting Windjammers to Mega Drive

bankbank

plugging my very own Amshay, a genesis/mega drive game which is heavily inspired by Taito’s Cleopatra Fortune. works on real hardware. there’s 100 monsters to collect from within the gameplay, and it uses SRAM to save your progress. There’s no vs play, but there’s a 2-player co-op mode where you and a friend work together. And there’s 3 different board sizes, and there’s ragtime music.

it’s $5 on steam. here’s some download keys, with question marks representing letters described to the right, apparently bots will steam them keys if you just post them plainly:

4???2-54797-3LDPE “REE”
DDLI0-84CKE-??LC4 “AR”
YXKG0-???XI-2V7FX “ATY”
W43GC-GL06X-XP9?? “KR”
NQ??7-6MT56-5K523 “GK”
???3J-EQZYW-5XDMV “WRG”
LWB6R-26YFR-QD??? “MFA”
9WJ25-R79Y3-???74 “RET”

hellomrkearns

bankbank thank you very much. I grabbed the third one.

Shaneus

bankbank Hey, for what it’s worth I grabbed the fifth one of these codes. I guess that trick worked and the keys weren’t stolen!

Thank you, looking forward to trying it out :)

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