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December 1st, 2011, 00:17 Posted By: wraggster
Controversial video game hero Duke Nukem is a playable character in upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game Choplifter HD.Originally slated for an autumn launch, Choplifter HD will be released on XBLA this winter, publisher Konami announced today.Choplifter HD will also launch "soon" on PlayStation Network and PC.Developed by Hunted: The Demon's Forge creators inXile Entertainment, the game is an update of the eighties original and features side-scrolling helicopter rescues, with zombies.At least one other well known guest character will also cameo, Eurogamer understands.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...r-hd-xbla-game
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November 30th, 2011, 23:56 Posted By: wraggster
Vita schmita. This red mushroom-themed portable NES is the latest gaming tribute from modderLovableChevy, combining the original Entertainment System's innards with a 3.5-inch LCD screen, built-in controls and a rechargeable battery. The tinkerer has taken the time to include an AV out, headphone jack and an extra USB port for either a light gun or a second controller. However, the old tech involved takes its toll: the whole thing weighs in at around one pound (sans game) and offers up only three hoursof play from a single charge. Think you can handle this portable heavyweight? Then check out the video after the break.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/29/h...like-light-ca/
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November 23rd, 2011, 23:22 Posted By: wraggster
The Doom 3 source code has been released after initially being delayed by legal issues.
Its release had been stalled after developer John Carmack was advised to re-write some lines of code.
Doom 3 had employed a stencil shadowing technique, knows as “Carmack’s Reverse”, that was co-written yet fully patented by Creative Labs, causing legal issues in regards to making the code open source.
These problems appear to have been settled and the source code can now be downloaded free of charge.
No game data has been includeded in the release.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/3...legal-troubles
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November 23rd, 2011, 01:07 Posted By: wraggster
 A mysterious website, "eggcitingnews.com," popped up overnight, featuring an egg carton bearing the vintage Codemasters logo, and something inside with big cartoon eyes and a red mitten. "Guess who's back?" the caption reads. The domain is owned by Codemasters.
This all appears to be leading up to the return of Codemasters' one-time franchise character, Dizzy. While Dizzy was most prominent in America as the star of a few unlicensed NES games published by Camerica, including two for the Aladdin Deck Enhancer, the walking egg was genuinely popular in Europe. His games are essentially adventure games, involving wandering around 2D landscapes, solving puzzles, and saving the "Yolkfolk."
It's unclear from this teaser site exactly what Codies has planned. It could be as simple as a GOG-style re-release, or it could be an HD remake of a Dizzy game, or even a completely new game. We just can't glean much information from a picture of an egg carton.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/22/co...opean-friends/
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November 21st, 2011, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/[/URL]
Virtual Jaguar SVN r401 is released. Virtual Jaguar is an open source emulator based on Jagem (Virtual Jaguar) for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows. The source also compiles on BeOS. Virtual Jaguar is an awesome Atari Jaguar emulator with great compatibility.
Virtual Jaguar SVN Changelog：
r401
Video rendering now has correct timing per frame, in both NTSC and PAL mode.
http://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/
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November 20th, 2011, 21:55 Posted By: wraggster
Jason Brockert is traditionally a landscape painter, but one day he noticed a Star Wars Stormtrooper figurine sitting on his shelf, and decided to try painting it. "The first one came out terrible," he says. "A week later, I was like I'll try again. The second one, I was like oh, that's kind of cool. And it was a lot of fun, too. I had more fun doing that then I'd had in six months."
He finished the Stormtrooper painting a little while after that, and then decided to do more figures, and then old game consoles and cartridges, collecting them on eBay and then painting them in his elaborate, almost idealistic way. "Those were the two things I loved as a kid," says Brockert, "and the things I wanted to recollect, that my mother had thrown away I don't know how long ago."
Brockert's work is currently on display in a show called "American Icons" at the iam8bit gallery in Los Angeles' Echo Park. All of his works and prints are available for purchase, and the Exhibition (most of which you can see below) runs through December 18.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/19/ia...s-of-toys-and/
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November 19th, 2011, 00:30 Posted By: wraggster
[Entropia] is just putting the final touches on his bar-top MAME cabinet (translated). The project started out as a 3D model to get the case dimensions just right. An old laptop is being, so the enclosure was designed to fit the bare LCD assembly and hide the rest of the computer. [Entropia] had access to a CNC mill through an education program and used it to cut most of the parts for the case out of MDF.
From there the build proceeds as normal. Mounting holes for the controls were cut with a drill and hole saws. We think it’s a bit easier to lay this design out once you have the control panel itself milled, rather than try to get it right in the 3D model. The image above is part way through the build. Since it was taken the case has been painted and a sound system was added but it looks like it’s still waiting for a bezel over the LCD and a marquee for the masthead.
You can see a demo of the game selection UI after the break.
http://hackaday.com/2011/11/18/mame-...nd-cnc-milled/
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November 18th, 2011, 11:36 Posted By: wraggster
Id Software co-founder John Carmack has admitted that the planned release of the Doom 3 source code will be delayed amid fears of a patent violation.
Earlier this month Carmack said the source code was "packaged and tested" and would be released once it had been cleared by the developer's legal team. That was taken as a sign that its release was imminent.
However, Carmack tweeted yesterday to say: "Lawyers are still skittish about the patent issue around 'Carmack's Reverse', so I am going to write some new code for the Doom 3 release."
Carmack's Reverse is a shadow stencilling technique first devised in 1997. Carmack discovered the algorithm during development ofDoom 3, but a patent had already been applied for, and was granted to Creative Labs in 2002.
Shacknews reports that Id struck a deal with Creative to use the technique in Doom 3 without requiring payment, but there are fears that the company would not be so happy about its patented technology being released as open source.
The planned release of the Doom 3 source code continues an Id tradition of giving away its old engines when it releases a game on a new one, in this case Rage, which was released in October and runs on Id Tech 5.
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/carmack...-3-source-code
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November 16th, 2011, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster
Unmodified 1977-era Apple II solid by collector for $6,100 on eBay.
The Apple II is described as in full working condition and the auction photos show the vintage 8-bit computer is in excellent cosmetic condition.
Based on a revision 0 board and with a serial number of #2812, the seller in Lebanon, US, described the computer as for serious collectors.
The Apple II first went on sale in June of 1977, armed with a 1MHz 6502 processor and 4kB of RAM. Apple's logo was presented with coloured stripes representing the colour capability but the revision 0 board sold at auction was capable of just four colours.
Interestingly the auctioned example was fitted with the original Apple Integer BASIC ROMs and not the latter Applesoft ROMs which would have been an essential upgrade for any computer used past 1979.
The listing didn't say how much memory the model was fitted with. The original 4kB model went for $1298 while a model fitted with the maximum 48kB of RAM would have set you back $2638.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...auction/027532
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November 15th, 2011, 13:10 Posted By: wraggster
There has been a surprisingly copious amount of videogaming zines released in the past few months, ranging from average to good. Thankfully, Yesterday’s Gamer falls into the latter category. However, this is intended as a one-off production.
Produced entirely by Joshua Croft over the course of 18 months, Yesterday’s Gamer covers everything from the true classics right up to the recent “future” classics. Taking centre stage on the fine understated front cover is Shadow of the Colossus (Yesterday’s Gamer’s favourite game), while older classic coverage is given to Sega’s Mega Drive, Metal Slug, Tekken 3, Silent Hill 2 and more.
Of course, with a solo production of this magnitude, minor niggles have crept into the writing, but the excellent content, design, layout and enthusiasm shown throughout more than make up for any slight mishaps. A superb effort all round and proof once more that the magazine format has more allure than any website; if these articles were published on a blog, I would never have read them. There’s something enthralling about reading a new collection of articles in a magazine format. Let’s hope this isn’t the one-off as stated.
Yesterday’s Gamer issue 1 can be downloaded for free with the option to donate funds through PayPal.
http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...terdays-gamer/
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November 13th, 2011, 21:19 Posted By: wraggster
We head back to the birth of the console gaming boom with issue 6 of Mean Machines from March 1991, courtesy of meppi from Out-of-Print Archive, who has lovingly digitally restored the magazine to its former glory. This was a time when the classic multi-format console magazine covered the Sega Master System, Mega Drive, NES, Game Boy and the ill-fated GX4000.
As usual, four articles were chosen as online preview material to accompany the release of the magazine archive. These include the Mega Drive shmups reviews of Gynoug and Aero Fighters, along with the cover featured review of Duck Tales on the NES and rounding things off with the NES conversion of the arcade classic Gauntlet II.
Visit the Mean Machines issue 6 catalogue page to find the download links (iDevice and full resolution versions), along with full issue contents, editorial info, links to those online articles and more…
http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...ally-archived/
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November 13th, 2011, 21:18 Posted By: wraggster
Whether you love it or hate it, the Final Fantasy series has proven to be the world’s most popular Role Playing Games ever and Retro Gamer looks at, arguably, the best of the whole lot with a Making Of… article. Other big articles include The Story of Monty Mole, The Making Of… The Revenge Of Shinobi and Top 25 Commodore 64 games.
In amongst the many other articles are Cheap As Chips: Dino Crisis, The Making Of… Radiant Silvergun, From The Archives: Domark, Classic Game: Toobin’, The History Of Jetman, The Making Of… Kid Chameleon, Obscura Machina: Sharp X68000, A Moment With Eric Chahi, Desert Island Disks: David Leitch. Then there are the other regulars such as Back to the Eighties/Nineties, The Unconverted, Future Classic, Retro Rated, a revamped Homebrew and more.
Retro Gamer issue 96 is on sale across the UK now and can also be purchased online at the Imagine eShop where it can also be found in digital form for your preferred portable device. Also, check out Darran Jones’ (RG Editor) video preview of the issue.
http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...amer-issue-96/
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November 13th, 2011, 21:16 Posted By: wraggster
MIJET has released a very extensive enhancement hack for Shinobi III. On top of that he has also announced an upcoming fork of a Sharp X68000 emulator that will focus on the user-interface and debugging features. He has encouraged emails for whether it be comments, requests, flames, threats, etc. See the website for more details.
RHDN Project Page
Relevant Link: (http://mijet.eludevisibility.org/)
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November 13th, 2011, 21:16 Posted By: wraggster
After one and-a-half years, the fan translation for the Korean DOS RPG Mangguk Jeon’gi (망국전기), or Romance of the Forgotten Kingdom, is finally released. This is the first ever fully playable fan translation of a Korean game!
The current version 0.9 is not 100% complete because of some hacking issues, but the whole story with both optional paths is fully playable in English.
While it is hard to find information on the game in English, a google search for the original Korean title (망국전기) should bring up some useful results.
RHDN Project Page
Relevant Link: (http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2011/11...romance-of-forgotten-kingdom-english.html)
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