lmao
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This ticks to many yes boxes for me
thanks @Mikey 
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Itâs also kind of insane that they apparently shuttered the entire Forza Motorsport team. I guess half of Turn 10 is still around, but asâŠI dunno, would they just be support for Playground Games and the Horizon games?
Just kinda shameful cuts and closures, all around.
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I donât think a single person left at T10 understands what made the older Forza Motorsport games special.
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both things (layoffs/no new Forza Motorsport as well as indeed nobody having an idea what made these games great) make me so sad
Fujimi in FM8 is so good, itâs like they found a way back by accidentâŠ
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YOU CAN EMULATE PAPRIUM
itâs a random mediafire link so you know, caution.
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Timestamped.
Talk about cautious optimism! I guess she doesnât want to shit on the company she worked for so long too badly.
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Does not run on everdrive
Bollocks
Iâm actually shocked this runs in an emulator. My understanding of Paprium was it made unnecessary calls to the FPGA chip on the cart just to make sure it would never be dumped or emulated.
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fuck Watermelon Games forever, everyone pirate this please
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The emulation is pretty perfect, aside from a few minor hiccups. The soundtrack is really weird in that it sounds like it is all samples, and not even long ones, playing on loops. Very not Mega Drive sounds.
Ubisoft has in their blanket EULA that you are legally required to destroy all digital AND physical copies of a game you bought when they decide to âdiscontinue offering or supportingâ it.
https://www.ubisoft.com/legal/documents/eula/en-US
Unenforceable but extremely funny. Some people are saying this is newly added (which is why I posted about it here), but when I checked it goes back as far as April in Wayback, and the page says the EULA was last updated Jan 23 (but not that this language was the update), so I canât concretely confirm how long it has said this.
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rayman gonna lock me up if I donât burn my sands of time PS2 disc
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Apparently the soundtrack is the weak point of emulating this particular game as you are just streaming mp3 files instead of however sound was generated on the physical cart
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Yeah, that is what Rudie and I figured. So I guess I canât hold that against it until someone figures out a way to make that not a problem.
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Does the actual game have any value? At a glance it looks like a bog standard Bare Knucle clone with tryhard aesthetics.
While now anyone can play it and find out Iâd say -kind of-. As a disaster crowd-decided product (it is a belt scroller because of popular vote not because of artistic decision.) as this false claim that "we did the most the megadrive has ever done (by running all the music through the fpga doing stuff it canât do otherwise.) it also has Misguided French âjokeâ racism that will almost certainly make you feel icky (you uhâŠride a black guy.) it has this weird structure in the longer mode where you take different paths. The levels are just slightly too long to facitiate this because I run of the game is about 70 minutes. Thatâs a long time to single session a belt scroller!
What this emulated version is not capturing is the previously mentioned fpga music stuff which is actually pretty neat. It is made up of different loops and samples that actively change based off what is happening in the game they might go to half-time or double time or blown out bass or cut to just precussion. All that is very impressive. Which again is lost here because no one is going to bother to reverse engineer whatever nonsense the FPGA chip is doing.
It is even impressive someone figured out how to make the game work without fpga calls.
It is fascinating product not available to the public because the dude promised a kickstarter whatever 3 years ago for Modern ports and then had nothing to show even for a digital product. Iâve followed this since it was Project Y (undecided Megadrive Game).
I have a more complex opinion because he could have just taken the money and dissapeared like everyone said. I do believe Paypal stole the money. It had a disaster of a âlaunchâ where then it went radio dark for 18 (!) months until randomly some people got shipping notifcations. The dude really did try to fulfill orders. But he does not have good customer relations and the other people that were on the dev team have nothing kind to say about him now.
I could write another thousand words about this but Iâll just hit reply.
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This isnât ânewsâ but the URL for the Set game https://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle has been down for maintenance for 3 days now and Iâm mad
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is there any actual evidence for this outside of the words of a guy who seems to have severe and chronic main-character syndrome?
my take is it seems unlikely that a game would have been made, manufactured, and shipped out to people at all if it was purely a scam. and if it wasnât planned to be a scam, at what point did the idea become âah yeah, iâll just take peopleâs paypal money but instead of immediately disappearing, iâll keep providing updatesâ (?!) and also actually get the game shipped to more people (???).
also worth noting paypal is demonstrably capricious as fuck and claims made about them do seem to be things they do sometimes; i.e. the claims arenât particularly exceptional.
seems to me that if the goal was to take peopleâs money, there would not have been a finished game that (at least some) people actually received. that just seems counterproductive
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