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4 hours ago, Tabonga said:
Oops.
https://news.yahoo.com/california-woman-bought-vacant-lot-175640970.html.
While the woman is being kinda weird about this "special" lot right next to another one a simple exchange is not a good answer. The company that build the house is totally in the wrong. They need to offer a pot of cash in addition to the lot exchange - what that amount is I don't know. But tearing down a new house is really stupid.
Tearing down a new house is stupid, but the company isn't concerned about the stupidity of it, rather they are just looking at it from the economical side. I'd love to see the company incur such costs. I've seen other stories where stuff like this happened, and I'd be pissed.
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1 hour ago, Tulpa said:
Well, yeah, I could say Reddit, Facebook, and any number of places that discuss homebrew games.
Any actual discussion you can link to?
Within the first two pages of the forum:
HABit Carnival Shooting (famicomworld.com)
Chouyoku Senki Estique, another impressive STG homebrew (famicomworld.com)
Over there basically the only homebrew or indie releases people are talking about are the shrimps, and before then it was when everyone was complaining about the format used for the music carts.
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58 minutes ago, Tulpa said:
Recca is a caravan shooter that also has a long format shooter form. So you can absolutely scale it up as Gloves has said.
Yeah man, I know about Recca as I own it.
My point still stands though. Gloves feels that Blade Buster is superior to the others, and he provides support for his feelings. He mentions (indirectly) the fact that the game is a caravan shooter, as opposed to a plain vanilla shooter. To pull it off well, you need to tightly craft the game, and that's what the author of Blade Buster did. It's similar to writing a short story or something even smaller than that. It has to be carefully crafted, every single word counts, every single punctuation mark, etc.
Can someone take a short story and scale it up to a novella or a novel? Sure. Could someone take a caravan shooter and scale it up to a regular shooter? Sure. Similarly could someone take a novella and trim it down to its essentials and turn it into a short story, or turn a shooter into a caravan shooter? Absolutely, someone could! But to do it well takes careful planning, and a lot of considerations. It would be interesting to see what the author of Blade Buster would have created if his, her or their objective was to create a regular shooter rather than a caravan shooter. Just something to think about.
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1 minute ago, Tulpa said:
Where's the link to this "tons of talk on other forums"?
Famicom World for one.
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9 minutes ago, Gloves said:
As though a longer form game couldn't implement similar trappings?
It's likely a similar situation as short stories, short short stories, novels, and novellas. There will be different conventions in how tightly the game (or story) is crafted. With short short stories, every word matters, whereas in a novel, not so much. So different scale comes into play here with caravan shooters versus regular shooters. That's why although they are similar in some ways, just as short stories and novels are both similar in many ways, there are also differences to consider.
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1 hour ago, Gloves said:
Blade Buster gives you a time limit and challenges you to master your knowledge of the game and that just takes the experience to a whole nother level that others don't seem to be bothering to replicate or work to go beyond.
That's because the game was designed as a caravan shooter. Were the others designed to be caravan shooters too or were they just designed to be technically and graphically impressive shooters?
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1 minute ago, JamesRobot said:
The fact that its a competition caravan shooter doesn't diminish the quality of the game. I'd put in on the level of Super Bat Puncher. It's not a full length LP. More of an EP.
...I'll throw in a vote for Super Bat Puncher while I'm at it.
Oh I never said that being a caravan shooter would diminish the quality of the game, rather my point was that it's like comparing guavas, pomelos, and oranges. They're all quite lovely fruit, but they're just quite different things. As such, Gloves might find pomelos and oranges to be inferior to guavas, if his personal preference isn't as keen towards citrus fruit, but that doesn't mean that pomelos and oranges are shit by any means, or should be seen as inferior, as they're kick ass in their own way.
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30 minutes ago, Seth said:
Ah, I see now that I misunderstood your question. It *does* have to be aftermarket (released 1996 or after), so I think at least MC&DH would be ineligible?
Ah I see, I guess some of the earlier homebrew that was done using Family Basic also wouldn't count then. I saw the vast majority of people voting on games released over a decade ago so I didn't realize that there would be a timeline cutoff point. I mean, neither indie nor homebrew have anything to do with the term "aftermarket" in terms of their meaning.
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15 minutes ago, JamesRobot said:
I can't agree more. Blade Buster is exceptional. The only criticism is probably its length, but that is certainly part of the charm for me.
Wasn't Blade Buster designed to be a caravan shooter though? Basically it's like a NWC cartridge, only as a shooter.
When reading Glove's assessment of the game compared to the other recent shmups coming out, I immediately thought to myself that some of the criticisms were likely because he was comparing his preference for caravan shooters to regular shooters. I mean, if I prefer the setup of the NWC cartridge, Super Mario or Rad Racer by themselves would pale in comparison...
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Here's my list of indie and homebrew game picks, in no particular order.
A Hole New World
Abbaye des Morts
Gruniozerca 3
Huang Di
Lin Baned the Opium
Master Chu & the Drunkard Hu
Skate Cat
Thunder Warrior
Thunderbolt II
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2 minutes ago, Gloves said:
I didn't like Battle Kid personally, but agreed - when the game came out is irrelevant. If other newer games can't keep up then that's tough noogies. Can anybody name a homebrew that's a better NES platformer than SMB3?
Can anyone name any game that is better than NES Super Mario Bros. 3? Nope.
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Also another question for @Seth : it's not clear, are we supposed to be voting on our favorite indie games or our favorite homebrew games? Or we can vote on either?
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50 minutes ago, Gloves said:
I play a LOT of homebrews. I also play a LOT of shmups.
Making a GOOD shmup is not that easy especially on the NES with sprite flickering and slow down, both of which are almost non existent in the game which is basically a miracle.
There's not a ton of shmups coming out and those that do aren't great. The other one on my nominations is the exception - Astro Ninja Man is excellent, it's just not my favourite type of shmup.
Again, you alluded to there being games out of Japan which are better. Name some.
That's quite strange as there's a ton of talk on other forums about the shmup offerings coming out. I'm not a shrimps guy personally (I prefer roaches), but surely some of the recent shump homebrews are worthy of a vote?
Never said or alluded to any game being better or worse than Blade Buster. You totally missed the point.
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22 minutes ago, Gloves said:
How is seeing Blade Buster sad? It's fucking phenomenal. Show me a better shmup on the NES.
The game was released in 2011 or whatever, as a ROM, though from my understanding the author did give people their blessing.
I feel it's sad that we've been doing homebrew this long yet in 2024 so many of the games being mentioned were around in the NA days. To me it demonstrates that either homebrew hasn't come that far since about 2014 or so, or that people aren't playing the new games. And that I feel to be quite sad.
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22 hours ago, Gloves said:
My joke response is ShmupSpeed, which I'm sad to say isn't on your list at all.
My actual response is Blade Buster.
Have you tried any of the homebrew, indie, or aftermarket shooters that have been released over the past few years, generally coming out of Japan? Seeing Blade Buster on the list is really sad, imo. Let's throw Battle Kid up on the list too along with Solar Wars and call them hidden gems.
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On a different note though, it would be nice to see votes for more recent games than Star Keeper and other old ones that have been around forever
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40 minutes ago, erac said:
fcgamer, isn't that your own game? The rule was not voting for something you made.
Oh I didn't see that rule, in that case please disregard my vote.
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Vote: Mr Lee's Alishan Tea Collector
Unique theme, fun gameplay reminiscent of early Famicom / NES games, with hints of Donkey Kong 94 thrown in.
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19 hours ago, Tyree_Cooper said:
Sadly Gettysburg isn't so interesting to me without Chinese on the box. The thing is, I grew up from around that area, hence why I was initially drawn to it. Still interested in Castlevania though.
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19 hours ago, Tyree_Cooper said:
no worries
just let me know whats available for trade
Ok maybe my inbox was full when you sent me a message, I just looked today and didn't see anything, sadly, though I still will apologize for the seemingly rudeness on my part, though it wasn't intentional.
Anyways, things on my site (www.maliscash.com) are for trade. If there was something else that you wanted, I have other unlisted things too, I'm sure you know my collection better than me
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I know I've shown these before, might as well show them again.
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51 minutes ago, SilverspoonGaming said:
I absolutely love the label!
There's a bootleg of this game that's been translated into Chinese. The box focuses on Hitler.
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I found this today in a bunch of scrap, bootleg Sega game. I guess it didn't have a battery as... well just look at the picture to decide for yourself what's going on.
Maybe @SNESNESCUBE64 would find this amusing.
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4 hours ago, Tyree_Cooper said:
Just reply mylast pm, the one that you completely ignored
I'll have to check my inbox, I don't recall seeing a message
Only 5 More Games to Complete your Collection
in General Collecting Discussion
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I own a ton of bootleg games, but to contrast it and put it into perspective a bit, I also own more or less a licensed Famicom full set, as well as over half of a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) full set. Yes, I will play my bootleg games and official versions interchangeably, Super Mario Bros. is Super Mario Bros. and I am not getting fussed whether I play a real one or a fake one when I own both, well I likely own ten or fifteen copies. That being said, it is a very rare occasion where I play a bootleg game of which I don't also own an original. That's part of the reason that I had the foresight to go for a complete Famicom full set back in 2014 or so, just to respect the developers and companies that made the games that I love so much.
But yeah, roms and emulation and stuff, I don't do that at all, despite having an everdrive.
For my top picks, it is really hard to say, but I would definitely put the NWC on the list.