Limited Run, with iD software, are releasing a much more optimized version of Doom for the Super Nintendo of all things. I'm not sure how they're managing the Super FX part of such a cart, except emulating it with an FPGA chip or something.
Other than this, they've made yet another modern port of Doom and Doom 2, called "Doom + Doom 2". If you own Doom anywhere, on any modern platform, you already own this, so congratulations!
They're releasing a "Doom Anthology", but it's literally just a fancy box containing a download code, so I'll just skip it.
And lastly, they're updating Doom Eternal with the loooong delayed mod support and a development studio. About time!
Fortunately, this wasn't the result of some lawsuit, because if a site like Romhacking.net were to be taken down, then nexusmods would be next, as PC game mods and rom hacks are basically the same thing. No, no it's far stupider than that.
The original owner has posted an "explanation" of the shutdown, but what it amounts to is that they refused to step down as owner and pass things along to new ownership due to bad blood between this owner and some of the people wondering why the switchover was taking so long. There were disagreements about moving the site to newer tech and how best to achieve that, and some weird complaint about how to get the mods moved over to the new system that suggested the site owner wanted them physically mailed?
The collapse has one benefit, in that the whole site has been archived, so as long as that archive sticks around, the mods will still be available. What a disappointment. There's another person who's desperately trying to get THEIR mod hosting site to be the "replacement", but there are so very many things wrong with that replacement I won't even bother linking it. Suffice it to say it's hosted using BLOG software and THAT owner is also operating a ROM hosting site which would definitely put that new mod site in the crosshairs for a shutdown in the same way that Switch emulator was shut down due to the creators actively promoting and trading Switch ROM links.
This is astonishing, mainly because this doesn't involve the 32X or SVP addon chip at all. It's all being run directly off Sega Genesis original hardware. There's no sound effects, and the music is a scratchy recording of the original music done in a loop, AND the frame rate isn't any better than what you got off the SNES, but it's still impressive it's performing as well as it is. Near as I can tell, this is a port of the original reverse engineered code so it should control as well as that game. I'm sure down the line sound effects will be worked into it and the music will likely get converted to FM synthesis at some point, but it's amazing how well modern designers can make these old systems run.
This is from a month ago, but it's interesting so why not make a thread about it?
So, in a Japanese interview Miyamoto said that basically Nintendo needs to have one game sell 30 million copies every three to five years, they will be fine as a company. They are currently well over that marker. Meanwhile, 1 million sales is now not a huge hit anymore. Also, he says that nobody (in development) likes it if a game only breaks even financially; instead you want your game to be successful, not only financially neutral. "Miyamoto: Is that so? But if there's no profit and we're just breaking even, then it's just tiring, right? I'm sure the people who worked with me would think that that's not what we worked for . So, the reason why I don't praise my co-workers half-heartedly along the way is because, anyway, the reason I think it was good to work with them is because "we sell a lot."" How capitalist of him... I don't know, breaking even seems fine to me. But sure, being successful is better, if a game is successful it gives you revenues to make up for other projects that are less successful for example.
His concluding message is quite good, too. The idea is that Nintendo is a company that is always looking for the next big hit, and that he likes emphasizing to new employees that Nintendo's goal is to find that next hit game. " Miyamoto: That's right. For me the most dangerous thing is to overlook something that could turn into something big. I think the good thing about our company is that we have been able to nurture these kinds of buds." That makes sense.
It's interesting to see that this is how he and Nintendo think, but considering how successful Nintendo has been for a long time, obviously they are good at capitalism. Nintendo's focus on profits and rarely losing and never borrowing money is infamous, after all. 30 million every three to five years? The current Nintendo can easily cross that bar several times over. What we don't know is if Nintendo will continue being able to do that in the future, after Miyamoto retires... I hope they do, that they've set up a company that can last, but we'll see.
Remember Chibi-Robo and how heartfelt that game was? How the game was about a little robot cleaning up a house, but what it ACTUALLY was about was a crumbling marriage and how that affected the whole family, and how through the game you eventually resolved their marriage issues and gave the daughter pretending to be a frog a voice?
Remember the two sequels that had NOTHING to do with that heartfelt premise?
Well, turns out the original developers had nothing to do with the sequels, but have everything to do with this kickstarter!
For the longest time, I had no clue what the song from my ancient 3M branded CD Laser Lens Cleaner was using. Finally, modern "song recognition" algorithms have solved the problem. According to my various consoles, this is the most played song I have just because I like to keep that lens clean. So without further delay, Here's "Opening Up" in all it's synth glory by John Devereaux.
Not that prices haven't been going up, of course, but it looks like we have some concrete evidence it wasn't tied to anything natural, it was literally just CEOs jacking up prices to see what they could get away with until we, the public, finally squealed, and then suddenly it stopped.
It really was "greedflation".
Biden's "soft landing" plan actually worked to help end this nonsense. Credit where it's due.
