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A bit late of a response, and unrelated to the original topic as well. (I don't really have an holy grail, at least at the top of my head.) But in the NESDev Discord server, there were discussions on how a NES port of 'Bosconian' would be done. (The bloke who started the conversation did a couple of art mockups of English and Japanese designs of the logo.) Unfortunately, the vertical HUD in the original would have to be horizontal instead as the NES can only do Y-axis scanline IRQs even with the advanced mappers available. (MMC5 doesn't count, that's a whole can of worms to discuss.) For the audio department, I'd like to (and even be open creating audio to) hear a limit pushing 2a03 version of the legendary soundtrack from the X68k port of the game, along with keeping the original voice samples play out as DPCM/PCM. I've made a rushed, sloppily made mockup myself on how the HUD would work in the NES port, if it ever comes becoming a reality.

Seconding to what guitarzombie said, I can't believe I forget the beauty that is this game's track. It's like it was made as a shitpost.

For NES, easily the second level of Rocky and Bullwinkle for me, especially with the bombs that corrupts the audio to make it actually ear-piercingly high in pitch at some points. If we're counting FDS as well, I'm going for a very obscure title that was given attention by a veteran NES audio ripper in the NESDev Discord server called "Titanic Mystery: Ao No Senritsu". That title theme and other music in the game is pure pain to listen.

Like Brickman, I'm not an expert with DS cartridge hardware stuff, but I've looked into the issue others like you have encountered, suggestions include cleaning or re-inserting the cart which you seem to have already done immensely. It seems to be indeed a flash memory corruption issue from the sounds of it and reports I've heard from other DS games, If that's the case (and I hate to say this), then unless there's a way to re-flash the memory chip or it just somehow works again by sheer complete luck, I'm afraid there's nothing that can be done to fix it and your cartridge is just bricked..

Ah yes, Kirby's Adventure. A game that's on my top three of favourite NES games, a game with very high replayability with the only issue being slowdown in some heavy areas. So much fun to play. I've seen GTV's content for years and even interacted with the bloke on some occasions (I've helped him out lending some music I've done in the past, which got used in his Startropics video.), he's a solid dude, his work and effort is very high quality and I'm glad he's been getting more attention in recent years. (He's also responsible for getting me into a yuru-chara addiction from his video on it. :P)

Definitely dibs on my International Cricket Umpire suggestion. (8)

Thank you for these threads, It's always an absolute joy seeing your artistic takes on the suggestions the community has made here.

That is beautiful, your grouchy design of the umpire (that's what these guys are called in Cricket) makes it more appropriate for the voice sample he yells out in the actual game, I love it. CricketEmpireOut.mp3 By the way, it's a funny coincidence that my submission was done on the eighth day like my last years submission with Nightshade.

Iam8bit's Twitter post shows some screenshots of the game, it looks like to be using an identical platforming engine to their Haunted Halloween games. Personally, I'm so far not that impressed with the video trailer they showed off, pretending that it's some kind of mystery "long lost" game that "caused controversy" while also not showing any footage of the game itself as well, but whatever, good luck to the developers behind the project, the graphics does look rather nice.

Hell yeah Ink-tober, the only event worth that month for me. Okay, let's see.. 8-bit, obscure, not already a toon.. This may be a boring choice, but how about this bloke from the PAL exclusive, International Cricket? (Yeah yeah, another Beam Software game.) This guy was a meme for me and a friend years ago whenever we play this game, all the laughs we got each time our players gets an out and he screams that line, all in that NES's audio PCM sample glory, I'd love to see your toony take on him. Hope this one meets your standards for what your looking for this Ink-tober, if it doesn't in some form, don't hesitate to point it out. Regardless, very anticipated and excited for the art you'll do this year.

My first exposure to Mario was from the cartoons, so even though I got the hang of design from the 3D games with Martinet's voice, I always find the extra appeal with its cartoony design from Super Show with Lou Albano's voice, despite the quality. These Mario styles are so good that it actually motivated me to do my own style from another artist. I grew up loving European comics so I did a quickie attempt of a Hergé drawn Mario encountering a shellcreeper for the first time, it was an idea that was playing in my mind for a while actually. I don't often draw, so I did the best I could despite the skills, plus It was also getting really late here so I couldn't finish it, maybe later on.

Excited to see how it'll turn out! Gonna give Beam Software some love by suggesting one of their well known games, Nightshade. Sprites of the protagonist himself along the main villain, Sutekh if it's not too much to ask. (Sheets from The Spriters Resource)

Bump, still selling the items in that moving box.

Like what the others said, great interview! I did get a bit of chuckle with the shameless image of me posting your blog to SD's server, haha. It's worth mentioning that since writing the answers for the interview, I have indeed completed the mentioned NES Sound Engine (Harrison), released a demo ROM out of it and now messing around developing stuff on the FDS.

As a guy with some speech problems and grew up with a disability, A lot of my accent is picked up from watching cartoons that come from the US or Canada. I never really picked up an Aussie accent as everyone else within my area or lost it over the years because of it, only it's slangs is what I have left of it. When I had this discussion with one of my friends who also picked up an accent from cartoons, she described my accent as New York-ish at best.