Mickey Mania for Genesis / Mega Drive is region-locked. However, the lock screen will keep re-checking the console's region setting and will change its message if it detects that the console is changed to the correct region. It is only possible to see this on a hardware-modded console or emulator.

While it's true you can't fully trust player opinions on balance for this reason, devs in charge of game tuning must also realize that data lies too. Balance isnt real. Only the perception of balance is. It's all vibes. Balance isnt a viable OR desirable goal. You want fun, variety, and retention.

I like the US soundtrack for Sonic CD well enough, but when I see things like this my reflex is to ask "why did they bother?" If it was a case that their US musicians wanted to showcase their work but didn't have a US-made game to put it in, then the decision to replace the JP soundtrack makes sense

I only finally got around to completing the original Doom this year, and the single most surprising thing that stuck with me afterward was that this frequently-memed GamePro blurb came across significantly less stupid after finally playing through the game. The Cyberdemon takes a lot of hits.

the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix

When are we making one of these for EWC?

imo this is the frame that makes sense for understanding why, 3 years before a primary, there are ALREADY people yelling at you about supporting newsom. it’s not about supporting the eventual nominee. it’s about establishing right here and right now that the party won’t be an opposition to fascism

One obnoxious thing about game discussion is how little of it is about the games Remembering forums where there'd be more buzz around the trailers than any post-launch discussion, or the lamentation of lack of dev "support" (things to blow more money on) instead of just playing/discussing the games

I’ve been biting my nail at journalism as a whole because a large ratio of the space today is done by people who never took a class on infosec, ethics, writing, and/or general protocol, it’s a lot of amateurs cosplaying as journalists who just want to put low quality words/video out on the internet.

THIS is a placeholder asset. Placeholder assets are supposed to be obvious. Any studio claiming ai placeholder assets just slipped through is lying. They just hoped nobody would notice.

My favorite random fact about Super Metroid is that its in-game map is literally the only "negative" cited about the game in its EGM review.

Simply, an interactive medium needs to allow for experimentation, expression, and consequence. If your instinct as a designer is to reflexively sand off those edges then I'm not sure why you're making video games instead of movies.

One of my single biggest pet peeves in modern gaming discourse is seeing this act of exclusion framed as "accessibility."

Sonic Origins has a bonus mode that removes all the rings and items from S3&K, and I figured I'd finally knock it off the bucket list because I'm a masochist who can no longer feel anything from this game unless I play it in the most painful way ever imagined.

kinda crazy to realize I practiced better op sec as a teenager yahoo searching for "big boobs" on the family desktop than rich people did while doing actual sex crimes

The reason why the "30% cut!" quips against Valve (of which several replies to this post partake in) don't land with the general public is because consumers are not going to view it as a negative when that money is funneled back into products and services that are attractive to consumers.

Somebody once pointed out to me that Terminator 2 is shot in such a way that a blind viewer wouldn't actually know that Arnold is the good guy until he confronts the T-1000. In the work itself, this scene is treated like a twist. But few people go into that movie without knowing it ahead of time.

There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.

The average "games are art" person has traditionally put me off for the same reason the VGAs do: it comes across as an extremely hollow and insecure "please approve of my hobbies, dad" plea. And their understanding of the "art" of game design almost never extends to mechanics/systems.

None of these losers are up for reelection next year. That's how you know that it's a coordinated party-wide effort and not just "a few bad apples." Not the first time this sort of thing has happened for a major, unpopular Senate vote recently either. And they think you're too stupid to notice.

Spent the past few days putting together a video that showcases a bunch of cut content from Segagaga (below) and also fleshed out its TCRF page: tcrf.net/Segagaga

peoples beds broke like a week ago because the internet went out.

For any Dreamcast owner from 20+ years who needs to hear this: don't click the "defragment" option in VMU Tool / Dream Explorer. Pretty sure I just killed saves for Sonic Adventure and SouCalibur that I've had since 1999. Oof.

You can set the date further into the future on a Sega Saturn than on Windows.

Video game reviews that flat-out refuse to acknowledge, let alone understand, the material in question should be mocked just as much as movie reviews that do not understand symbolism or metaphor.

I honestly don't think there's a better way to demonstrate that the modern Democratic Party is an institution that believes in nothing.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

Five years ago you could search: "when did the saxophone become an indication of sexy times in film" and you'd get somebody's well-researched article. Now it's like "sex was invented by the ancient Sumerians as a way to fight ghosts, which they used to brew beer." (search instead for "saxophone?")

it is very funny how much new graphics card tech has become "the card kind of guesses what resolution you should be running things at and, if you want, will invent some frames for you" every time i go "no thank you i want to decide the game's resolution myself thanks" i feel disconnected from time

Much like "it's only cheating if you get caught," laws aren't actually real if nobody bothers to enforce them. Hoping that the nominally left-leaning party in this country comes to grips with the fact that institutionalists are of no use in the face of corrupt institutions.

This feels like the expression of a culture content to see videogames exist as a curio preserved in a museum and not a living art form to be engaged with

Digital Eclipse is a really funny dev because people into gaming history and behind-the-scenes looks and stuff see them as this excellent studio doing incredible work and then anybody who plays fighting games is like "UUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH" whenever they hear their name

The strength of Platner's fundraising and his polling even after all this came out should speak to the electoral potential of attacking billionaires and advocating for strong social programs. an unfortunate number of leftists have concluded "only this one guy can sell this platform to voters"

Trying not to be dulled to the horror of this headline

Tbh, a high % of other industry people, from developers to journalists, also refuse to acknowledge why consumers prefer Steam. You can see it every single time that the "30% cut" talking point crops up. Just an insanely delusional plea for the customer to vote for the sake of someone else's wallet.

I met literally one other kid circa 1991 who had 30 NES games and I just found that to be a preposterously large collection.

Pretty sure that my childhood TV looked almost exactly like this, and it's why pretty much every single emulator scanline filter baffled me.

Sports without a game clock are goofy.

Concerns around IP usages in fandom promotions feel made up when the US government is promoting joining Ice with generative AI Halo assets.

I literally bought two Dreamcast KB+M sets just to be able to offer the full Outtrigger experience in a mystery tournament once.

It's nice when a developer just straight-up says it.

This is the natural extension of Google Search getting worse by assuming, for some reason, that you just flat-out didn't mean to type what you typed. Modern Silicon Valley hates computers and the people who use them.

The recent thing that put a really fine point on this was when a bunch of indie devs and writers were flat out *offended* that Team Cherry dared to release Silksong at $20 and with little advance notice. Signs of a really healthy ecosystem, I'm sure.

If you're aiming for visual fidelity greater than Shenmue, you're overdoing it.

Saw two people QT this with a "pft, what does a 10-year-old know about frugality." I think the only thing that ever offended me when I was 10yo was adults assuming that I was stupider than I was. Not that I *wasn't* stupid, but I could at least process video games on a level beyond jangling keys.

thegamingbrit's video on silent hill 2 remake got him a lot of shit but he was 100% right when he said that constantly remaking classic games by destroying them completely to make them "look modern" is the creative impulse that leads to replacing everything with ai slop. same thing different degrees

Windows is the malware.