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Neito posted:A quick google reveals it's likely an extended commercial/ARG video for Soviet Jump Game, the next game from their studio (they also did Dream Daddy). Pretty scummy, but also pretty smart for advertisement these days. If you can nail that "LORE LORE LORE" button in people's brains, and string them along, they'll buy any garbage game since it gives them another hit.
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I doubt it’s Sega making them but Tectoy has a legit relationship with Sega so it’s not like some Polystation situation.
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Black August posted:Pretty scummy, but also pretty smart for advertisement these days. If you can nail that "LORE LORE LORE" button in people's brains, and string them along, they'll buy any garbage game since it gives them another hit. No scummier than "Found footage" films, IMO. Funnier, though, are the people trying to start a panic that somehow  THE GAME PRESERVATION COMMUNITY IS IRREPARABLY HARMED BY THIS. (To head off any discussion, I agree that game preservation is an important thing, but I highly dobt that anyone doing anything other than being a game preservation fanboy was fooled by this)
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Dec 4, 2019 22:19
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Neito posted:No scummier than "Found footage" films, IMO. Agreed, but there's an extra level of skeevy in going "We found a never before seen game. We're going to go over an episode of this lost and mysterious content, even if it means someone is DEAD..." "....DEAD SERIOUS about our brand new IP, coming Summer 2020, pre-order the DLC TODAY!!!"
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SeANMcBAY posted:Does Sega themselves still produce consoles or is it like clone systems? As mentioned, Tectoy was officially licensed to sell, and then manufacture (after Sega had otherwise let it die) it in Brazil. There are even a few models that were released exclusively in Brazil by them, including ones that are pretty much what the NES Classic is (preloaded games, no cartridge support). So, they're legit, but not...from Sega legit, if that makes sense. I know they were still manufacturing them as of a few years ago, but I don't know if they still are.
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Black August posted:Agreed, but there's an extra level of skeevy in going "We found a never before seen game. We're going to go over an episode of this lost and mysterious content, even if it means someone is DEAD..." To be fair, it was part of a multi-episode series, most of which focused on "Genuine bootleg" Famiclone/Dendy carts. The "BUY MY BOOK. BUY. MY. BOOK" part wasn't a significant part of the whole series. But yeah. I don't totally disagree with you, I guess.
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Neito posted:(To head off any discussion, I agree that game preservation is an important thing, but I highly dobt that anyone doing anything other than being a game preservation fanboy was fooled by this) Hell they're not even the first people to talk about the Dendy in any sort of detail. There's a Russian YouTuber that did an entire series on it roughly a decade ago, with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kne6AKyYUuM A console like this/multigame carts in general definitely have some sort of creepypasta potential in them though. Surprised nobody's tried to capitalize on that sooner tbh
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"BUY MY BOOK" Can pretty accurately describe Arin Hansons entire life though. From Newgrounds to where he is right now, he's been pretty open about the fact that everything he makes is a creative attempt at gaining fame/influence. And after the Dream Daddy community tore into Ding Dong for saying anything bad about it, I just can't even stand to watch him anymore. That's when I couldn't just be like "Well almost all entertainers are like that so..." yeah most entertainers somehow manage to not make gaysploitation games that have communities that attack gay game developers lol
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Blood Nightmaster posted:Hell they're not even the first people to talk about the Dendy in any sort of detail. There's a Russian YouTuber that did an entire series on it roughly a decade ago, with English subtitles: Don't forget the hit show "Денди — Новая реальность" or the Dendy's very own magazine: 
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SeANMcBAY posted:Does Sega themselves still produce consoles or is it like clone systems? Brazil had (has?) Absurd tariffs that made getting foreign consoles impossible for the average person so Sega made a deal with a company called Tec Toy who produced the Master System totally in country to bypass that. Since there was no real competition it continued to receive support long after it died in other regions and Tec Toy is still making them.
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Neito posted:To be fair, it was part of a multi-episode series, most of which focused on "Genuine bootleg" Famiclone/Dendy carts. The "BUY MY BOOK. BUY. MY. BOOK" part wasn't a significant part of the whole series. It's a bit of a clever approach, honestly. Soviet Jump Game is rooted in a real but niche bit of gaming history, even if it probably won't be entirely reliant on that. So why not embed the announcement in videos about that sort of game, to give the audience a bit kf the context it's rooted in?
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Neito posted:To be fair, it was part of a multi-episode series, most of which focused on "Genuine bootleg" Famiclone/Dendy carts. The "BUY MY BOOK. BUY. MY. BOOK" part wasn't a significant part of the whole series. Yeah. It sincerely isn't a bad marketing idea, people who take advantage of it now while it's still a strong tool will benefit and profit. The problem is going too hard and fast with it, which burns goodwill and gets people irritated. Imagine if Petscop was all to sell something in the end. Now, in the same breath - imagine if Petscop was not selling something, but instead was the preface to a FREE game. That right there is a great way to build community interest and loyalty! "Oh wow they did this entire ARG thing and released a free game to end it / build on it" would go a long ways towards "They're gonna do it again with a paid game, and I want to support that after I saw what content they did for free without funding"
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PinheadSlim posted:And after the Dream Daddy community tore into Ding Dong for saying anything bad about it, I just can't even stand to watch him anymore. That's when I couldn't just be like "Well almost all entertainers are like that so..." I must have missed this drama, so now I'm curious. But I'm not about to google "dream daddy ding dong" at work.
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BobTheJanitor posted:I must have missed this drama, so now I'm curious. But I'm not about to google "dream daddy ding dong" at work. Oney Plays, another Youtube Lets Play channel connected to the Grumps featured a gay couple, Ding Dong and Julian. They were the only actual gay people in the office at the time and after seeing Dream Daddys beta, they pretty vocally voiced their opinions that the game was shallow and just pandering. Suzy and Brian went to Twitter to attack them and tell them they had no idea what they were talking about. The Grump fans harassed them for a bit, and faced with a lot of other challenges DD and Julian just gave up and moved away from LA. Oney denies it and Arin doesn't talk about it at all, but this is likely the reason that Oney Plays hasn't done anything with the Grumps or Supermega since then. In fact Oney has been subtly hostile to the Grumps on Twitter ever since. I know this is just Let's Play drama but it's so hard to see Arin and Suzy as remotely nice/genuine people. Especially with Suzys massively lovely Tweet history. 
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Neito posted:No scummier than "Found footage" films, IMO. What irks me is that my sole interest in watching the video was the old/obscure electronics angle, along with video game history. No prior familiarity with the channel means I didn't know the were developers, not just history enthusiasts with high production values. I've got a head full of lies now and I have to remember that the cool things I learned earlier are, in fact, fake. It's irritating. Otherwise I don't have that strong an opinion, y'know?
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Pretty happy I didn't bother to follow 99% of the popular personalities like the Grumps, nearly every single one of them has turned out to be hyper shitheads or total losers who are 200% burned out Vinny, thank christ has stayed ok, and his corruption stockpile stuff is pretty fun to watch keeping this thread in mind
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Yeah every time I happen across a likeable, quality LPer or youtube personality I'm always kind of afraid that I'm going to find out that they're actually a horrible racist/sexist/homophobe/transphobe/etc. I'm almost tempted to never check up on them and leave it a mystery. Let them be Schrödinger's youtube cat, simultaneously both woke and racist until you open the box and collapse the wave function. But yeah I never got into the grumps anyway so I guess I didn't miss too much.
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Vavrek posted:I've got a head full of lies now and I have to remember that the cool things I learned earlier are, in fact, fake. Would you say it was all a... hoax?
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It's why the only people I watch are mostly obscure, and don't loving talk about their lives or politics The new 'don't show me this lovely, garbage channel ever again' button is saving youtube for me in that regard, because beforehand it would smother Jontron feces all over my recs anytime I watched a single game video remotely adjacent to his genocideboy bile
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Chev posted:Would you say it was all a... hoax? Nah more like an urban legend, we should make a thread for those so we can stop annoying this one full of people who seem to hate them
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BobTheJanitor posted:Yeah every time I happen across a likeable, quality LPer or youtube personality ... YouTube stuff I follow is either goons (Kuvo, illectro), the Drawfee folks (astonishingly wholesome), or the channels are purely music compilations. This has kept me safe. Chev posted:Would you say it was all a... hoax? Sometimes I forget what thread I'm in, okay? (That didn't really happen here: I've just thought of this as the video game creepypasta thread for years now, and never expect new hoaxes.)
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What "game preservationist" would believe that a random bootlegger for a knockoff Nintendo managed to make an online battle royale in the 80s
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Oh so the current gamegrumps people are also nazis like Jontron or am I misunderstanding this? Also Vinny Vinesauce is about as wholesome of a video game guy as you can get and Penny Parker is a newer, equally wholesome video game video maker and streamer lady who has similar humor style to the McElroys. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCYIwBA7mwDWnrckXs7gt76Q/videos
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Cartoon Violence posted:Oh so the current gamegrumps people are also nazis like Jontron or am I misunderstanding this? Penny Parker also https://youtu.be/NGe79n-jcHk I don't think any of the other grumps are Nazis but lots of these youtube stars make the mistake of exploiting their cults of personality for profit
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MysticalMachineGun posted:I agree that her tweets make her come off as real terrible but this image looks like it was made by an insane person with red twine connecting photos of YouTubers on their walls They put as much thought into the photo as she did the ideology behind those tweets
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There definitely are people out there who are rabid anti fans and will go to insane lengths to justify their actual hatred of these people. Entire subreddits dedicated to uncovering every bit of unflattering information and to spread wild conspiracies. I think it spawned for the Grumps and not other Lets Play channels because there's a grain or two of truth to it, but it definitely attracts crazies.
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Yo http://www.retromancers.com/retro/ Make your own fake game creepypasta, get to work https://imgur.com/a/QWoXJGK instant bullshitted background art for some vague NES/SNES/90s PC looking deal, messing with the sliders for an image helps, and some images convert way better than others
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Black August posted:Yo  and then Cameron Mitchell came out of my TV and drank all my booze!!!! D:
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Black August posted:Yo Some of these are inspiring. Are they low enough resolution to input into an actual NES? I wanna make a spooky NES game.
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Gloomy Rube posted:Some of these are inspiring. Are they low enough resolution to input into an actual NES? I wanna make a spooky NES game. Resolution might be doable, or could be with some cropping, but the color palettes I'm pretty sure are impossible.
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Gloomy Rube posted:Some of these are inspiring. Are they low enough resolution to input into an actual NES? I wanna make a spooky NES game. Dunno. I THINK the idea is that clicking the Atari/NES/SNES sliders sets the pixel density and color palette limits to match the system as best as possible. I can make a lot of 90s-era CRPG style graphics with color slider all the way to the left (most color info possible), and the pixelation one or two clicks to the right of the leftmost setting. It likes drawings more than photographs, obviously, and most real photos will often convert to looking like the Gameboy Camera with a wretched upgrade. But some things convert real clean. https://imgur.com/a/rQ1S4wq
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Unreal_One posted:Resolution might be doable, or could be with some cropping, but the color palettes I'm pretty sure are impossible. Seems like it does actually match. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_palettes The problem is that the pixel density was used it much cleaner, more limited and distinct ways than 99% of images actually are. You can NES-fy things pretty well, but it's still way too detailed looking for a majority of what was being designed and played back then. This still easily allows you to bullshit a lost PC game or 'look I found a lost NES game with a build-in graphics chip' which is a real thing.
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It might be in the color palette of the console as a whole, but at any given time you can only use 4 in a 8x8 square (when using an advanced graphics chip in the cartridge, natively only every 16x16). Here's the relevant pictures from that link: What it would look like if you could cheat and use the full palette  What the NES is natively capable of. It does work very well for faking VGA or SNES, I think. Unreal_One fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Dec 5, 2019 |
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It does SNES level best, yeah NES you could do with some editing and careful image use
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RagnarokAngel posted:Brazil had (has?) Absurd tariffs that made getting foreign consoles impossible for the average person so Sega made a deal with a company called Tec Toy who produced the Master System totally in country to bypass that. Since there was no real competition it continued to receive support long after it died in other regions and Tec Toy is still making them. At this point the new ones are just locked down android boxes with an emulator on them. There's even a version with the Sims and some kind of guitar hero knock off that runs natively. They definitely have more in common with unlicensed clones now than they do with anything Sega has ever actually made.
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Black August posted:Vinny, thank christ has stayed ok, and his corruption stockpile stuff is pretty fun to watch keeping this thread in mind That latest video is loving fantastic, jesus.
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