@Meemoo Whenever a video or article like this appears, all I can think of is how obviously pandering to the company they're claiming to spite they are. "Hey Nintendo, here's all the information about this emulator, how it runs, how people are using it for illegal copies of games, where the developer lives, proof he has no lawyers, but please don't take it down :cirno_heh:." They do this shit with romhacks and the like too, sometimes even directly telling companies like Nintendo about the hack because it's "so cool." Grifting at its finest, say just enough to appeal to the average reader while still trying to keep on the good side of big corporate identities by selling out the projects to them.
@Ronnie21093@Immahnoob@beardalaxy Well worth the time if you like Final Fantasy or action RPGs. Sadly suffers the Squeenix curse of mediocre sale prices (you'd think they'd discount it more for a game that didn't really sell well and wasn't even developed by them, but 50% off all parts is still decent), but if you've got the money or are simply willing to sail the seas and ditch the multiplayer.
@Ronnie21093@Immahnoob@beardalaxy Yeah you can play almost the entire game 3 player co-op. You're mostly only forced out of the party very rarely for occasional cutscenes in the castle that last only a few minutes at most. Multiplayer can be really fun, it's how I played the whole game originally (using an exploit in epic games store that let pirated copies go online, though there's definitely 0 players still using the EGS version). Does a little damage to game balance though since you get some revives, but the difficulty kinda seems like it was made with coop in mind at times.
@Immahnoob So many good frames in this video, but this one is a favorite. The double entendre of chaos for this specific joke and the fact it's probably one of the easiest castlevania bosses ever.
@beardalaxy@Immahnoob Combat's good, but so is the plot and a good amount of the music. Hardly a one saving grace, the only big issues the game has are performance and some level design. Feels like a game from the PS2 era of games where devs would actually experiment and make things they loved and really wanted to make over modern day profit focus.
The edit itself since some time was spent on it. Originally was going to do Chaos GF for thematic reasons, but I do not have any artistic skill and drawing Garland's helmet would've been the death of me (I didn't even draw Princess Sarah's headdress).
@Kyonko802@Meemoo Thankfully Citra has been forked and people who actually care about it are working to get more games running on it, but yeah these guys were absolute assholes and retards. I'm amazed the team even lasted so long when they had paywalled and integrated an illegally obtained implementation of Nintendo's network functionality for the switch for an entire day into their emulator, without asking a single question from the guy about where it came from or how it worked. Same for many of their other decisions (discord paywall compatibility updates for leaked games), full of ideas that any passing idiot could say "that'll get you sued."
@Kyonko802@Meemoo This reminds me, this same shit was happening with grading and "collecting" VHS tapes recently. Headlines going around of "your disney VHS tapes could be the next goldmine." RedLetterMedia had a great take on this, which is to say most of these tapes are worthless garbage, especially with advancements in video quality and releases. https://invidious.varis.social/watch?v=Lbdij5Vi8oY
@Meemoo Ratings companies are horrid. They've been proven to never give real ratings, often just slapping a sticker on and calling it a day so a collector can jerk off to his cardboard box inside of some plastic that he'll never play. Some assholes even do this with prototypes or absurdly rare games with no ROM out there, grade it and never play it so they can be superior while acting like a supreme asshole to everyone who does want to play it. They'll then sell the game later for tens of thousands and act like they're doing the community "a service." I partially also blame Limited Run Games, a company that ""helps indies publish their games physically for archival by giving them a limited run release."" Really they're now scam artists, asking indie devs to only print 10000 copies of their game so half of them can be sold to their "devoted partner" ebay resellers who are already prepared to price hike by a couple hundred. Even Sega has partnered with them for recent releases instead of putting out their own physical copies in the west, so if you want a copy of the new Sonic Generations remaster, or a copy of any new Persona release, have fun dealing with the greedy bastards and their "limited releases."
@Meemoo Yeah over here the market for games has been devastated by price speculators and "collectors" looking to get the most bang for their buck. Using Amazon is a bad example though since Amazon isn't actually a reseller market, so the only people on there who do try to resell are scalpers. Can easily find fully functional consoles with extras on ebay and other reseller markets for under $100. You mostly see this digitally, but all of these inflated prices are from retards who really think they're going to be at the top of the speculative price market for an overly produced product. It causes a snowball effect of others seeing the inflated price, and assuming they can get that much out of theirs. A good much more recent example with no nostalgia excuse tied to it is the PS Vita, a system that barely anyone cared for and barely anyone wants to buy. Listings usually start at $130, and get more and more expensive from there. Thing is, you can find thousands of these things being listed at any given time and barely any of them are selling. The price never dips though since "it has to be worth something, I paid a lot for it," or "the collectors will eat this up regardless of price." Never mind this speculative market being unsustainable, and many of these people will die before they get all the sales they're looking for.