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Let me save you some money DONT bother, unless this guys are actually thinking on a REMAKE of the original instead of a long arcade/platform/mini game session with name recognition, this game will be a waste of time not even a nude patch would save.
Seeing as how (1) it's free and (2) even the news blurb says "Modern remake of classic" and "almost identical to the original" I don't see what's being said here.
The basic story is this: Neo Demiforce (already well known in the romhacking scene) bought a prototype cartridge that was already mostly translated (the game WAS almost in stores when it was dropped), then finished it.
In order for this to be fake, someone would have had to go to the trouble to almost completely translate the game (a mammoth task for the small groups that do this unofficially, as opposed to large localization teams that have direct access to the original work's source), dump the game onto an NES cartridge, and then sell it for an amount of money not worth the time spent.
The only other possibility I see is that Neo Demiforce wouldn't want credit for all of the translation work, making up the story that Nintendo did it. That doesn't make sense either.
It's an interesting story, but were there people who actually thought this was a huge conspiracy?
(I'm going to ignore this article's request specifically for games that would objectively look better now than they did back then, believing that this is irrelevant to their enjoyment today. Rather, these look better subjectively, due to the fact that there have been few if any attempts to replicate them, or perhaps none sufficient to surpass them.)
Star Control 2
Nothing quite like it has been even attempted since. (Save a lousy, almost irrelevant sequel.) There's a sourceforge project to port it to modern systems(http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
System Shock 2.
It beat Half Life to the stores, yet actually did a lot of things better (well, besides sales). Still considered by many to be one of the scariest games ever made. There's a graphics patch out there called Rebirth.
(http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aubert/sshock/ssh ock_rebirth.htm)
Wizardry 8
These days, virtually all commercial computer RPGs are either D20 games (AD&D or otherwise), or Diablo clones. Both good and bad ones are starting to feel like generic clones of each other. Even after three years, Wizardry 8 was just about the last decent stat-heavy dungeon crawler. For something different.
And of course since I'm trying to recommend games that not everyone has played, I'll throw Planescape Torment in there. There's even a completely unknown unofficial patch for it that makes it seem better today: http://www.accesswave.ca/~cthorpe/
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Let me save you some money DONT bother, unless this guys are actually thinking on a REMAKE of the original instead of a long arcade/platform/mini game session with name recognition, this game will be a waste of time not even a nude patch would save. Seeing as how (1) it's free and (2) even the news blurb says "Modern remake of classic" and "almost identical to the original" I don't see what's being said here.
The basic story is this: Neo Demiforce (already well known in the romhacking scene) bought a prototype cartridge that was already mostly translated (the game WAS almost in stores when it was dropped), then finished it.
In order for this to be fake, someone would have had to go to the trouble to almost completely translate the game (a mammoth task for the small groups that do this unofficially, as opposed to large localization teams that have direct access to the original work's source), dump the game onto an NES cartridge, and then sell it for an amount of money not worth the time spent.
The only other possibility I see is that Neo Demiforce wouldn't want credit for all of the translation work, making up the story that Nintendo did it. That doesn't make sense either.
It's an interesting story, but were there people who actually thought this was a huge conspiracy?
(I'm going to ignore this article's request specifically for games that would objectively look better now than they did back then, believing that this is irrelevant to their enjoyment today. Rather, these look better subjectively, due to the fact that there have been few if any attempts to replicate them, or perhaps none sufficient to surpass them.)
1 .shtml gives an amusing overview), it looks even better.
h ock_rebirth.htm)
Master of Orion 2.
In fact, now that there's a lousy sequel (http://www.quartertothree.com/reviews/moo3/moo3-
Star Control 2
Nothing quite like it has been even attempted since. (Save a lousy, almost irrelevant sequel.) There's a sourceforge project to port it to modern systems(http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
System Shock 2.
It beat Half Life to the stores, yet actually did a lot of things better (well, besides sales). Still considered by many to be one of the scariest games ever made. There's a graphics patch out there called Rebirth. (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aubert/sshock/ss
Wizardry 8
These days, virtually all commercial computer RPGs are either D20 games (AD&D or otherwise), or Diablo clones. Both good and bad ones are starting to feel like generic clones of each other. Even after three years, Wizardry 8 was just about the last decent stat-heavy dungeon crawler. For something different.
And of course since I'm trying to recommend games that not everyone has played, I'll throw Planescape Torment in there. There's even a completely unknown unofficial patch for it that makes it seem better today:
http://www.accesswave.ca/~cthorpe/