@gsk ohoho, I didn’t make the connection that you were the same gsk! Thanks for writing those roundups! I read them every week and really appreciate the info!
Also really glad that rRootage will release outside Europe!
Glad to be of service!
(That's also my twitter acct in that Gynoug post, as it happens.)
@gsk lol somehow i didn’t put it together either, apologies!
Hamster filed a trademark for Console Archives. Pure wild speculation upon speculation here, but pretty exciting. Would expect from that they stick to their normal roster of Jaleco, NMK, and Nichibutsu with some occasional Sunsoft/Konami/Namco stuff. Perhaps we may see a Pinball Quest port?
I‘m also extremely excited about Gynoug coming to Switch! It’s another one of those games that I own but can‘t reliably play (my Genesis doesn’t want to start anymore D:) and plus it will be nice to play it on a handheld!
I'll be really curious to see what Hamster does with Console Archives! I'm always torn with their Arcade Archive stuff, since I of course want everything to get the M2 treatment, but that's never realistic. There are plenty of great console games with their licenses in limbo that would be great on Switch.
@TracyDMcGrath oh dang, that looks reeeaaaally nice!
@gsk Gynoug
By the way, do we know which developer is behind these ports? I played Gley Lancer to completion (not that I had to force myself) to find out and the “new” credits are very coy about this.
I understand that Extreme still has the rights (like seemingly every NCS/Masaya game) and simply licenses both games, like they did with Dracue and the PS4 Leynos remake. I also understand the connection between Shinyuden and Ratalaika, respectively a Japanese company founded by a former Spanish translator that handles local business, and a Spanish(?) publisher that handles overseas. But I don’t think either team has an in-house developer. I also wonder which emulator they used. Should be pretty simple to find out with these specific CRT filters, maybe?
My blind guess would be Suncrest Games as they tick several boxes: good at emulation, not too expensive and mostly Spanish devs.
I believe it is Ratalaika in house devs. They worked on the Turrican port and the CRT options are basically identical. Either that or they have a consistent outside team they're working with
My understanding, just based on Turrican Flashback, is that Ratalaika's utilising a combination of existing software: Kega Fusion (or something very close to it from the same author), shaders from hunterk & Timothy Lotte, etc.
I suspect Ratalaika might be working specifically with Extreme as part of a broader deal with SLG/ININ to roll out cartridge reissues and boutique console versions and so on, but Ratalaika might simply be striking out on their own with easy licenses, who knows.
It should also be noted that we don't know precisely who's working on the Clockwork Aquario restoration for SLG/ININ, either...
Happy Birthday to the home release of Toaplan’s swan song, and the game that invented Bullet Hell, Batsugun.
To celebrate I’m going to be going through the whole dang process on Friday to spend too much money on M2’s port of 1 game I love (Kyuukyoku Tiger) 1 game I don’t love (Tiger Heli) and 1 game I’m curious about (Get Star). Hopefully M2 will soon get around to the heavier hitters in the Toaplan catalog between these two poles soon. Toaplan’s library is about 90% stone cold classics and 10% interesting misses and all would benefit greatly from the full ShotTriggers treatment.
@TracyDMcGrath It’s me, a person who gets altogether too choked up to think about Toaplan shooters! Ah, Batsugun… you were never really my favourite but I love you all the same.
Are you getting the physical version, or eShop? I’m really trying to both talk myself into AND out of buying the collection, and I wonder if I might be able to have a happy medium (?!?!?!?!?) of getting the eShop version. Hmm.
@Karasu I‘m going the eShop route. Buying a Japan eShop gift card and then getting it and the dlc through there. Which I’m not sure is even the cheaper option but I’m far too good at losing physical copies of games for me to be trusted with an import haha
@TracyDMcGrath I went through the extremely painful process of selling/trading a bunch of my physical games a few years back when I moved countries, so I rarely get physical copies anymore, unless it‘s something really important or exciting (like this collection). Plus, I’ve yet to try and import a Japanese game into Canada and given how occasionally weird, complicated, and expensive it is to import, say, a few items of clothing from a US store, I‘m not sure I really want to find out what it’s like. I‘m sure there are Canadian import shops, but I just don’t know about them.
Hishozame and Same! Same! Same! are next in line for Toaplan Arcade Garage
Two very very very very very good games.
Also if they keep doing this next shooter in chronological order plus its sequel release format going next in line would be Tatsujin and Tatsujin Ou!
I sure do wish these would get western releases! I wonder if for some reason the problem with them is Nintendo, since most of the ShotTrigger games for Playstation 4 got localized releases in North America. The best bet at this: I should drop the cash to import them, guaranteeing that they'll get cheap NA versions instantaneously.
Anyone else getting Zombie Nation/Abarenbou Tengu tomorrow? I'm oddly excited about it, since it was a rental favourite of me and my roommates at the time!
Excited about it but waiting a week after the Cotton debacle
Also I did that import them and regret it when they get localized thing with the Darius collections so you're welcome everyone haha