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Some deets about the upcoming Analogue 3D from the horse's mouth... https://www.pastemagazine.com/games/analogue/analogues-next-retro-game-console-is-a-4k-nintendo-64 TLDR? Taber also confirms that they're using all new and much higher specced FPGA hardware, as expected (I bet they're using the Efinix Ti180; the same FPGA chip as what the upcoming MARS FPGA system is supposed to be using). Transfer Pak support, Overclocking and Save States are some pretty dang lofty promises for an N64 FPGA solution... But Analogue do tend to deliver on their promises (even if after lengthy delays), so I do believe him. This hardware gonna be expensive!

They always do. Officially, the systems only run original carts and not ROMs, but every single Analogue system has eventually gotten some sort of "unofficial" jailbreak from an un-named source (who totally isn't Kevtris; Analogue's main engineer ). Basically they don't want to get themselves into trouble with the likes of Nintendo, but they always end up releasing some sort of backdoor method on the sly. Speaking of which... Analogue Pocket's Open FPGA will get the display modes at the end of the year I'd be very interested to see what FPGA hardware they're using for the Analogue 3D here, considering that the MiSTer's DE10 nano (which has more than twice the FPGA logic capacity of Analogue's past products, and where complete systems retail for a much higher price) is only just barely able to handle Robert's currently in-development N64 core...

Holy shit! https://www.analogue.co/3d The madmen are actually attempting a full-on FPGA N64!! Edit: Seems that 8bitdo are also cooking up an N64 controller to go along with it...

Well it seems that we're getting this part at least, because Acer just announced a 27' version of the Pro model to come out early next year! https://www.acer.com/us-en/monitors/spatiallabs/acer-spatiallabs-view-pro-27 The Pro series is the one designed for professional/industry users, so this definitely isn't going to be coming out at consumer grade pricing, but hopefully the inevitable non-Pro version ends up being at least somewhat reasonably priced (it won't). Still happy to see more strides being made. I love my current Spatiallabs View!

New trailer! Looks good

Is it sad that I can tell exactly how both James Bond Jr games play purely from the screenshots? God bless the Euro Platformer.

ABK has been so poorly run that this is nothing but a good thing for everyone involved. When your employee union is celebrating that you're being acquired? You know that the company was in seriously dire straits. This acquisition actually gives hope that we might see ABK's studios finally be released from the COD dungeon, and gives hope that the likes of THPS and Crash Bandicoot might yet live again. It also means that Nintendo platforms will finally stop being left out of major ABK releases like COD. This is a good thing... and the fact that it's taken a $70 billion acquisition for Kotick's head to get out of his company's arse is the real travesty here.

That's really cool. Crazy that it's only his 7th ever role! Nintendo seem to have a bit of a knack for finding up & coming talent... he joins the likes of Xander Mobus and Adam Howden in that regard; and if their post-Nintendo discovery careers are anything to go by? Afghani has a hell of a future lined up for him

Well that decides it then. The 27th it is

I’d suggest going on without me, I’m working next Friday as well, so if you guys wanted to wait for me, you’d be waiting all the way until the 27th… It’s fine, I’d rather you guys enjoy yourselves

Name changes are in-bound!!! Is nothing sacred? (Neosquid is definitely not long for this world... and that's fair enough, because that's almost certainly a 1996 Microsoft Excel incorrect character name swap related gaff). I wonder who's gonna replace Bruce Lee... Little Mac perhaps?

Agreed. Does smack a bit of Dreamworks... and the SMB Movie... It's nice to see Peach be a bit more expressive in general though, and to see Nintendo allow their characters to continue going a bit more off-model. But they had better not start letting the SMB Movie designs bleed over into the actual games...

So Kamiya has done the in-thing and has started a Youtube channel... Right now, he's under a non-compete contract clause that prevents him from working in the games industry for the next 12 months... So he's currently spending his time bumming around and making homemade curry, while driving his Lambo to the job centre. He won't say explicitly why he quit Platinum, but it basically sounds like he doesn't like where the company is heading with its push for GAAS and wants to carry on making traditional single player action games. He's planning on continuing to make games after those 12 months are up, so he's not retiring (unlike Sakurai), and wants a company to pay him a totally reasonable $670,000 yearly salary for him to join. He will also still block you on Twitter. Sounds like he'll be alright

Oh shit!! Okami's gonna look SICK in S3D!!! Whelp! Guess I'm playing through Okami again now

The Stealth Affair definitely sounds like a Delphine Software game. Massively ambitious, but the execution just doesn't match up to the vision. Shame really. Also wow, there are a lot more micro computer Bond games than I thought there would be! Would've figured the license to be too expensive for developers/publishers of the 80s, but I guess I was wrong!

Still every bit as ugly as the original

Pretty scummy that they killed Pac-man 99 for this. It looks like decent fun, but there's no way that I'm playing it, just out of pure principle.

Just unlocked the Astral Stair and got the relics within... The amount of new mechanics that the game is still throwing at me after all these hours is nuts!

Also worth keeping in mind that the Steam Deck has a bespoke OS that has native support for things like sleep/wake, hardware level FPS caps (that work perfectly with no microstuttering), brightness etc. It feels like an actual handheld device, rather than a Windows/Linux PC shoved uncomfortably into a handheld form factor. That makes a big difference to the end-user experience. You can just use it as if it were a console.

Very sad news. We knew this day would be coming soon enough, especially with hackers screwing around with Nintendo's Wii U/3DS servers, but it's still sad to see happen. Hope we can get a few NE nights in for some Wii U and 3DS multiplayer fun before the doors close.

Nah, clearly he means the Wii game... or maybe the PS3/360 version?

That was some sick Simon gameplay from @RedShell at the end there! (not from you though Simon ). Fun times as always

Update inbound! https://x.com/HolyWowStudios/status/1707111454413889606?s=20

Very interesting… Wonder if this means that Sony Japan might now have a chance to wrestle back a bit of power…