Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20190926131619

A ¥ sign might be on their mind. Frankly I welcome NES games without sprite flicker and mass slowdown, Megaman being the worst example of this. Generally happens with 4 sprites on the same line. As long as the removal of slowdown doesn't break anything it should be fine. Otherwise you can go for cycle accurate emulation, but the SNES (HIGAN) already requires a 3 Ghz CPU just for that.

I really should check out Zork at some point. If you are planning on playing Wizardy completely fair, maybe allow yourself to do save backups. I'm pretty sure everyone copied their save disk just so they wouldn't have to deal with permadeath. Otherwise pretty nice hardcore experiences, Wiz 4 is more like a puzzle though. Figured I'd be off, everything is so much smaller over here. They have plenty of meat as well, but if I had to live there it'd be relatively rural or small town. Japanese cities are too suffocating for my tastes.

Should maybe make a note of it, but I recently saw a huge amount of good racing games from the 90's. I'd be playing racing games till I reach retirement if I noted 'em all down. Atleast with PC you can allow yourself to cheat, as long as you don't modify the wrong ram values. Video games are a big deal now, wouldn't want to get rid of potential customers. Luckily more people are getting interested in some challenge, with everything being called the "darks souls of X".

I assume you want PAL then? Dragon quest 4 has an official USA release as Dragon Warrior 4 on NES. The DS port is good enough as well, but obviously looks too modern. I did play both of them with those patches and I didn't have any issues, it has been years though. Sure, but the big interest in them came after the crash anyway. Governments would start pushing for normalizing computers in the household from the mid 80's to 90's, remember getting a government subsidized computer. Those types of peripherals (or cart expansions) might be the only real reason for me to go out of my way for physical, but they'll die as well. Hope people can reverse engineer the systems to work digitally for emulators atleast.

I can't really blame them. It's probably easier for them to just look at it like that, Western European nations have completely different sensibilities to say, the Balkans. And the US goes into a panic when anything in gaming is sexually themed, which Japan tends to do quite a lot with anything. 1 size fits all probably saves costs as well. Besides even a big game like DQ 11 sells most copies in just Japan (3.2 million) vs rest of world (800K), granted DQ is a cultural phenomenon over there. It seems to me that it's also just more "surface level" people getting into gaming, you see the same thing with movies and music as well. Just grab anything that's popular, it should be good. They tend to not really see it as a hobby, but more a fun timewaster. It's a shame that the idea of a local game dev disappeared, I know Germany had a huge amount and over here people we had Davilex (you probably recognize some of their shovelware), Guerilla/Lost Boys Games, Triumph (Age of wonders and overlord). Any of them that still exist lost their local flavour and are essentially just making WW games. Also Zylom is our fault.

Information seems easier to get, so people don't bother making it available for others I guess. I generally just find them randomly through a search engine. It's a shame as well, because so much effort goes into it and it's only really known to people who are deeply interested in that stuff.