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March 30th, 2015, 22:05 Posted By: wraggster
This week we are releasing the second remastered edition of one of our past releases. Every page has been re-examined and every one of the original PSD files has been run through the latest settings algorithm so that the colour values are much more representative of the physical magazine. This isn't easy to accomplish when dealing with digital representations of print. So if you're looking for more details on what all of this means, you can do so by clicking the following link.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/cat...aximum001.html
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March 30th, 2015, 21:36 Posted By: wraggster
The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
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March 17th, 2015, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster
I remember it like it was yesterday. I'm sitting there, in my parent's lounge, as my dad comes down the stairs with what looks like a black box. He peels back the paper sleeve to reveal a polystyrene insert that houses a small black keyboard with stubby rubberized keys, a huge power brick and a handful of cassette tapes. I quickly learn that the keyboard is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an 8-bit personal home computer that relies on a cassette deck to load and save games. I played it off and on for a year, getting to grips with games like the The Hobbit and Horace Goes Skiing, but my interest waned when I finally got a Sega Master System and immersed myself in the world of Sonic and friends. The Spectrum was returned to its polystyrene home and placed back in the attic, where it remains to this day.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/16/r...trum-hands-on/
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March 9th, 2015, 20:21 Posted By: wraggster
Today we have finished our translation of Gun-Dec, the Japanese version of Vice: Project Doom. This game has always been on our radar out of simple curiosity to see whether or not the translation was ever any good. As it turns out, it wasn’t. In addition to the usual censorship, there are parts of the translation that are completely made up and don’t follow the original text at all. Sure there are parts where the translation is relatively faithful, but taken as a whole, the official is not very good. Surprise, surprise.
This release is about a month’s worth of work starting about a month ago and was designed to get us back on the groove for future projects. From a technical perspective, all that needed to be done was expand the ROM and relocate part of the text into the expanded area to provide us with almost unlimited space (for the purposes of this translation) for our translation. Then we began text revision phase and now release!
By the way, we are almost ready to start testing The Legend of the Double Moon for the NES. It’s an excellent DQ clone and probably rivals that of DQ itself. If you’ve offered to help before or would like to help testing, please let us know!
P.S. If anyone can explain the title Gun-Dec, we’d love to know what it could possibly mean. The current thinking is that Dec is some sort of weird Japanese abbreviation for detective.
P.P.S. The title Vice: Project Doom wasn’t completely made up. When you boot up the game and get the title in an 8×16 font, VICE is stored with GUN-DEC in the same CHR section.
http://yojimbo.eludevisibility.org/
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March 9th, 2015, 20:20 Posted By: wraggster
The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
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February 26th, 2015, 00:08 Posted By: wraggster
Steve Bristow, who Nolan Bushnell called one of the world's most powerful gaming pioneers, has died, according to Atari historian Marty Goldberg. Bristow was an early Atari employee who helped birth the Atari 2600 (originally called the Atari Video computer System, or VCS) back in 1977. The pioneering home console was one of the first to use a microprocessor and game cartridges, and sold over 10 million copies by 1982. Bristow also headed Atari's coin-op arcade division during its heyday and helped develop classic games like Tank and Breakout. If you enjoyed the original games or remakes, why not hoist a drink to the man who built them (and his magnificent muttonchops)?
http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/24/a...w-passes-away/
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February 17th, 2015, 00:06 Posted By: wraggster
Retro is in - it seems - even when it comes to computing.
One old school computer has sold for $23,000 (around £15,000) in an auction on eBay.
The Commodore 65 is second only to the Apple 1 in desirability for collectors, with only 50 to 200 still in existence.
Brian Benchoff from Hackaday said that the prototype, developed way back in 1990, was ‘intended to be the last great 8-bit system’.
It was originally priced under $499, a far cry from its auction price today, and followed its popular older brother, the Commodore 64, but also delivered Amiga-level features around at the time.
The outside of the device has a 1565 external hardrive port, composite video DIN, future 3-4 switch, future port, left audio, right audio, CBM user port, CBM serial, and a C65 expansion port. It seems quite the mouthful compared to some of the devices available today.
Even though the company had high hopes for this computer, production was ended not long after launch, and Commodore was liquidated in the mid '90s.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171673209321...rue&rmvSB=true
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February 16th, 2015, 00:30 Posted By: wraggster
The following Translations have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
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February 16th, 2015, 00:27 Posted By: wraggster
The following Utilities have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):
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February 5th, 2015, 20:48 Posted By: wraggster
A new subscription service for retro gamers that follows the successful Loot Crate formula has been unveiled.
It’s called My Retro Game Box. Subscribers will each receive a random selection of retro games that are theirs to keep. The supported formats are NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy, Game Boy Colour, GBA, Master System and Mega Drive/Genesis.
Both PAL and NTSC titles are available, and the service ships worldwide. Users can also specify genre likes or dislikes – such as no sports games. All games are guaranteed to be working. And clean.
Membership costs $35 a month, $100 for three months, $190 for six months or $350 for a year. There are no contracts, with long-term memberships paid in advance. Shipping to the UK is free.
“We want you to help us make good choices for you, but we draw the line at giving us a wish-list, otherwise it just isn't a surprise,” the site said. “It will also be important to find out if you're a fun loving collector, who won't be bothered with a scuff or a faded label here and there. That kind of thing can greatly effect the value of the games, so you'll be missing out on gaming fun if you need your games to be in mint condition.
“We have a budget to spend on you every month and we'll try to get the balance of great games/number of games right. The more consoles you have the better - if we're not limited then you're likely to receive more.”
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/my-re...-games/0144822
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January 25th, 2015, 21:54 Posted By: wraggster
When using any CNC machine the system has to understand where the part to be machined is physically located. This is most commonly done by jogging the tool to a position relative to the part and then indicating to the controller that the tool is indeed at that position. Hobby CNC enthusiasts [Jeremy] and [Yakob] wanted an easy, convenient (and even fun) way to zero their plasma cutter. They decided to make a wireless jog pendant capable of moving and zeroing their machine….. and it’s built into a retro game controller!
The housing is a wireless Atari 2600 controller. Most of the innards were taken out and replaced with a BlueFruit EZ-Key module that takes input signals from the stock joystick and button switches and, in turn, emulates a Bluetooth keyboard signal that is understood by a PC. Most PC-based CNC Control Software’s have keyboard shortcuts for certain functions. This project takes advantage by using those available keyboard shortcuts by mapping individual pin inputs to specific keyboard key presses.
The X and Y axes are controlled by pushing the joystick in the appropriate direction. Pressing the ‘fire’ button zeros the axis. Even though the remote is working now, these two guys want to add a rotary encoder so that they can make minor Z axis height adjustments on the fly since sometimes the metal they are plasma cutting isn’t completely flat.
If you’re interested in making CNC Pendants out of old tech, check out this once-was TV remote.
http://hackaday.com/2015/01/24/atari...plasma-cutter/
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January 19th, 2015, 23:32 Posted By: wraggster
This week we return to Mean Machines with issue number 10, which was releases during the summer of 1991.
We start of with a forgotten and highly underrated arcade gem that got ported to the Mega Drive: Wardner no Mori. Then we look at a shoot 'em up from one of the greatest developers the genre has ever seen: Zero Wing by Toaplan. Furthermore we have the original Sonic the Hedgehog for the Mega Drive by Sega's own Sonic Team.
And finally we delve into some good old 8-bit classics with GG Shinobi for the Game Gear and Shadow Warrior for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/cat...ines/MM10.html
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January 19th, 2015, 23:30 Posted By: wraggster
The all-in-one Final Fantasy 4 hacking utility, FF4kster, has received another significant update. It now features a “Tileset Editor” which allows you to change the properties of the tiles in the various tilesets (things like which tiles are on which layer, which tiles can trigger events or chests, warp you out, damage the party, cause random encounters, etc).
In addition, the program no longer relies on prepackaged image files for the tile images, instead reading them directly from the rom you’re editing. This way, if you change any of the in-game map tile graphics, those changes will be reflected by the editor. The overlays indicating which tiles trigger events or warps or can be walked behind are also now generated dynamically based on the tile settings.
Finally, as usual there are a few minor bug fixes and improvements, including many more safeguards against data bleeding. Adding data should now be a lot safer as it will now either warn you or explicitly prevent you from adding too much (in most cases, that is… there still may be some areas that allow bleeding so you should still be careful, but events, messages, spell sets, triggers, and NPCs should all be safe).
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/914/
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