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Right? I can't understand Fonzie's negative attitude toward the Mega Sg. No, it's not officially licensed by Sega, guess what neither is Paprium. Why shouldn't one indie developer support another, especially when all it does is increase the potential market for new games? Even a simple "Sorry, but I only support original hardware" would have been better than insulting the quality of the Mega Sg.Quote:
Originally Posted by ifkz
Also the irony in "PS: Better get a real MD2, megaSG wont last in time, uses new electronics!!!!". Paprium uses new electronics too :D
LOL!!! Good point. To make it authentic it should be using an Intel 286, not that FPGA.Quote:
Originally Posted by nihilblack
Pretty much any other response would have been better than that.
Even if he doesn't want to reach out to the Mega SD team to help them fix the issue, he could at least answer something along the lines of "I can guarantee we don't do anything special to prevent Paprium from working on the Mega SD, so it must be a problem on their side."
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Stifu again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stifu
Bang on. What a total dick.
Well, I finished the game in all modes and lost a few good hours on them.
In general I can say that the game is very good, it is easy to see the size of care and preciousness with the project.
Starting with arcade mode, this is what you expect from a traditional beat em up, a standard route with a selection of handpicked stages to give you a good gaming experience from start to finish. And she is really, really good.
But where the game really shines is in the original mode, where you can choose different routes and still discover secret routes within the stage leading you through unexpected areas of the game. And here's the strength of this title for me, the internships.
Practically every screen you are going to have has something different, each screen is a different tileset full of details and cool things on the stage, everything is very creative and cool to look at, the level of detail used is sickly.
There is a scenario that has a shop window, depending on where your character is, the game simulates a reflection in perspective as you approach or move away from it, it really is really cool.
In addition to the movement, the use of BG priorities always places several plans which give a great depth and immersion to the game.
The music is amazing, the gameplay is really cool too, most of the people I saw playing this game don't know how to play, making the gameplay repetitive and boring, but you can do a lot in the game, the screen is always full of enemies o which compensates for the basic AI of enemies.
The gameplay has its flaws, the attacks + run take little amount of damage and end up being more used to control the screen and to escape from dangers.
Your character remains the same from start to finish, and this was a disappointment to me, since you have nice strokes while using the pill that could have been added to your combo giving variety and progression to the game.
So you didnt has RPG evolution and elements here.
Negative points is that there is really a serious collision problem, sometimes I couldn't pick up items on the floor no matter how hard I tried,
I noticed that the big bosses often hit my inside without causing any damage, and what's more annoying is that the game sometimes pushes you automatically backwards when you put too much pressure on enemies, I don't know why,
but I have already lost several lives for this to throw me into holes or traps automatically since you lose control of the character.
Also, I found the animation of the characters and enemies very truncated, many animation frames are missing, everything has 2 or 3 frames at most, the key frames are not good so they do not interpolate well, you will see the enemies walking with 2 frames,
some they look like glitches, but even so, as the screen is always in chaos this is easy to overlook. And it doesn't harm your experience so much.
Paprium is an excellent game, it is easily on my top 3 beat em up of generation 16 bis consoles (excluding arcades titles), I would like to talk a lot more about the game and make a video about it, but it is very difficult to buy a capture card these days: D
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Judging from Fonzie's communication however it is apparent that Paprium doesn't fail to run on the Mega Sg due to lack of testing, but because Fonzie doesn't *want* it to run on modern clones.Quote:
Originally Posted by ifkz
Just read the pamphlet that he included with the game, which reads more like a Unabomber Manifesto than a careful, considered insight into what went on behind the scenes: https://imgbox.com/yjQWWWIM
Fonzie has an immense hatred of new technology and will do anything to force his ideal vision of '90s era 16-bit gaming onto people. His opinion of clone hardware is that they're "freshly molded turds" (which is true of AtGames clones but definitely not of the Mega Sg) and flat screens are "bad for real (2D) games" (wut?)
It seems to me that his head is entirely stuck in the '90s and he has never bothered to try the Mega Sg or any modern LCD or OLED TV's. If he did he would know that the Mega Sg provides a very faithful and accurate 16-bit experience, and that modern flatscreens have very good, highly responsive gaming modes. Combined with an OSSC the amount of added input lag is almost imperceptible. And what is this bullshit about "half, interlaced frame-rates"? There's not a single PS4 game that runs interlaced on a modern LCD or OLED. He doesn't even bother to try and understand how the technology works, he's just blurting out inane and poorly informed ramblings.
Some of his objections to flatscreens were true 10 years ago when Pier Solar was released and a lot of "HD Ready" TV's were smeary laggy affairs, plus quality upscalers like the OSSC weren't easily available so you'd be resigned to your TV's shoddy interpretation of 240p through a direct Composite connection. In that context some of his comments make sense, but this is *not* how the situation is today.
A thousand times this.Quote:
Sounds like Watermelon really needs a partner that can run the business while Fonzie can devote himself to the software side of things.
The problem is that Fonzie doesn't seem to trust anyone but himself (ironic since he is his own worst enemy by far), so he'll demand to be in control of everything at all times and will only reluctantly delegate tasks to others. Even then I suspect he's still micromanaging everything that his partners do. He's the kind of toxic leader who would rather drive his business into the ground than give up control in the best interest of the products they're making. It's a shame because he's clearly got so many talents and skills, but he's wasting them through his own fickleness and stubbornness.
I think it's risky business model to start locking out an audience that is likely to continue to grow in the future.
Might need to put a table on the front page with tallies.
I only had one MD to test but could be helpfull
Mega Drive Model 1 VA6 TMSS (JP) (with S-Video, Stereo and Region mods) - Works fine.
Aren't some models with hodgepodge parts (due to refurbishing and the like), so you'll never know what its actual model variant is?
I'm going to have to side with Fonzie on this. It's his project, so he can do what he wants with it, even if that means he's limiting the number of people who can enjoy his games.
There's a retro game shop about an hour away from me that only sells retro games and nothing Xbox One/PS4 to newer, and he's doing really well business-wise. This similarly holds true for Fonzie.
Me personally, I find it more interesting to buy a JVC X'Eye or Pioneer Laseractive over a PS5 or XSX. There's something about antiquated hardware that makes it more appealing to me than the shitboxes (like the clone consoles) produced for today's market. IMHO, you should already own the original hardware instead of them.
I also find the Switch to be better than the PS5/XSX (and PS4/XOX) because of its library catering to people like me. And I'm definitely buying the KFConsole for novelty reasons.
So Watermelon is catering to people like me and the company is still in business solely based on novelty. The only types of people complaining are the same ones who lambast Limited Run Games for re-releasing/reprinting rare games like Shantae for Game Boy Color. I can't wait until they are able to reprint Snatcher and Keio's Flying Squadron. The hoarder market is going to get so butthurt.
The problem isn't so much with Fonzie's puristic vision or his selective choice of target audience. I can get behind those, and in fact I am part of the intended target audience myself.
The problem is with the condescending and downright insulting manner in which he addresses his potential customers. What's worse, the justifications for his behavior are misinformed and show a complete lack of respect for anything or anyone that doesn't conform to his vision. Anyone who dares to question his methods or decisions is branded a "non-believer" and is to be shunned. This has driven away so many of his customers and collaborators, and his most recent messages show that he hasn't learned a single thing from everything that has happened and that he has no intention to make any changes to the way he approaches his business.
It's exactly the opposite.Quote:
Originally Posted by NinMicroSega
Making Paprium work on more machines, or re-releasing or reprinting rare games: making games playable by more people.
Making Paprium only work on original consoles, or shunning re-relases or reprints: elitist gate-keeping bullshit.
? We are already able to reprint this games. Get the iso, a blank CD and you are done!Quote:
Originally Posted by NinMicroSega