/vr/ - Retro Games

Pretty cool

>>6486443
He’s such a massive faggot.

>>6486443
>we dug through this dead developer's digital detrius to pull out some ancient unfinished crap that was shelved for another near-identical game using the same license that looked and played better

Bravo.

>>6486443
>wearing a covid mask in his profile pic
Lol, what a tard.

>>6486443
incredible disappointing

>>6486483
It's called a medical mask, idiot

Doesn't make Frank any less of a prick

>>6486489
There's a thread about this with almost 200 replies. Someone cares.

>>6486538
His paid bots...or very sad individuals

>>6486554
>His paid bots
The fact that you even entertained this as a thought.

>>6486443
I own the Days of Thunder NES cart. How exactly is this unreleased?

>>6486597
Read the article.

>>6486483
Gotta get them "woke" points somehow.

>it's a "here's an unreleased game, I might release it if I feel like" episode

So... Is the game good?

>>6486601
I did, I might be retarded but I saw nothing saying how it was a different game, just assets used in the retail one.

>>6486613
It's hot and it's ready.

>>6486443
We already had this thread.

It's a dogshit tie in

>>6486443
>Programmer and designer Chris Oberth had a long, diverse career in the video game industry before he passed away in 2012. I think for most of us, the definitive Chris Oberth game was Anteater, the arcade title he designed and engineered during his time at Stern (or perhaps you know the clone that Chris himself wrote for home computers – Ardy the Aardvark – or the one he didn’t – Oil’s Well). For others, it might be Winter Games for the Commodore 64, or perhaps his later arcade work at Incredible Technologies like Time Killers or World Class Bowling, or the handful of titles he developed on his Apple II in the late 70s and early 80s (on an Apple II with serial number 201, as he liked to brag).
Fucking LOL

>>6486624
Imagine having Time Killers in your resume.

>>6486602
>contracting a respiratory disease to own the libs

>>6486628
>>6486624
>Time Killers

>>6486628
>>6486637
He might be a cunt, but he officially achieved more than 99.9% of people on this board, me included.

>>6486624
I wish I had any games in my resume

>>6486518
>Doesn't make Frank any less of a prick
What's wrong with him, besides being friends with Zoe Quinn?

>>6486489
(You) cared enough to post in this thread.

>>6486616
>but fortunately Oberth conducted at least two interviews in his later years with early retro game enthusiast websites – one with Derek’s Basement Arcade and a three-parter in 2006 for Retrogaming Times (specifically in issues 21, 24, and 27 of “Retrogaming Times Monthly”). It was in the latter that Chris briefly mentioned an unreleased NES game – an unpublished version of Days of Thunder done for Mindscape (a separate attempt done by Beam Software was ultimately published in its place).

>>6486628
How many games do you have on your resume?

>>6486723
A few, but I don't want to out myself on /vr/.

>>6486726
>when he's not churning out asset flips on steam he shills his soulless work on twatter

>>6486723
I'm actually a localizer.

>>6486738
Meant for.>>6486730

I only made shitty game maker games no one played lol

>>6486480
spbp and /thread

>>6486538
No one cares about the rom he released, moron.

>>6486683
He's a manlet, light bulb head try hard that virute signals and thinks video games r srs business guyz. What's not to hate?

>>6486749
Maybe if he was a bit more humble about it, like other people in the industry

>>6486443
Cifaldi still hoardes the Aladdin source code.

>>6486749
>>6486757
He also delayed and effectively stole credit for the release of NES SimCity in order to use it to promote his then-new website (which previously only had a single article about stronk womxn gaymers).

>>6486769
That sounds unsurprising. Which version of it is this?

>>6486746
The existence of this thread proves otherwise.

>>6486796
Most of this thread is just bitching about Cifaldi.

>>6486443
where's the rom?
i'm not going to pay $70 for and old ass nes game lol

>>6486789
Virgin Interactive.
https://gamehistory.org/aladdin-source-code/

>>6486796
>Shitposting and autism proves otherwise.

>>6486749
More importantly, he's arrogant and presents himself as an expert when he constantly presents his opinions as facts

>>6486786
Evidence? Last I checked, he convinced his sugar daddy to buy one of the carts so he could dump it

>>6487135
>Evidence? Last I checked, he convinced his sugar daddy to buy one of the carts so he could dump it
In August-September 2017, he was given the cart by one of the guys who bought to dump and distribute it on the Internet. In December 2018, he released it in an article on his insecurely-named new website.

>>6487135
>Evidence? Last I checked, he convinced his sugar daddy to buy one of the carts so he could dump it
Mike Mika?

>With permission from Chris Oberth’s family, we will be publishing buildable source code on GitHub in the near future. In the mean time, a group of retro game enthusiasts has put together a small print run of Days of Thunder cartridges, compatible with the Nintendo Entertainment System, as a fundraiser for Oberth’s widow. It is available here.

So it was all a trick, after all.

>>6486518
It's called a surgical mask, friend

>>6487190
Steve Lin. Source to follow.

>>6487163
This is not true at all. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/see-the-long-lost-nes-prototype-of-simcity/
The shop owner who purchased the prototypes was negotiating to sell to the highest bidders in Portland during the expo. Frank convinced Steve Lin to step in and buy one of them, so that it could be dumped.

>>6486854
Words cannot express how awful this writing is. turn down the self-congratulatory faggotry and release the rom, jfc

>>6486443
I've seen this cuck shilled here several times recently and everything I've ever seen from him was wrong bullshit. Nice to finally see something that's not ridiculous stupidity from this guy. And am I wrong in assuming this isn't more of the same?

>>6487404
The company he used to work for made a native port for Aladdin.
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/disney-classic-games-aladdin-and-the-lion-king-switch/
He will never release it.

>>6486443
thanks for opening just another thread for this non-news, very based.

>>6486443

Fuck this faggotass nigger

"Black lives matter" "I'm so mad bros"

STFU faggotass bitch with your meaningless platitudes

>>6486480
/thred.

>>6486481
This. I think the folks involved are well intentioned but when you are in this hobby long enough, you gradually turn full autismo and lose sense of what's actually significant. People deep in the scene may view this as some incredible Indiana Jones stunt and great public service, but it will ultimately become virtually inconsequential. Outside of prototypes of culturally significant games, I think archiving lost games is not a resourceful use of time.

Frank compares the importance of his work to lost film recovery but that's an unfair comparison. Just about every game that was released and had any measurable impact on our world has already been archived. Compare that to films where 90% of silent films are lost. These are movies that were widely seen and reviewed. The remaining lost games are unfinished projects like this that may have only been seen by a handful of people, like trying to recover home movies from a stranger's basement.

>>6489315
>Frank compares the importance of his work to lost film recovery but that's an unfair comparison.
not really, film can be pretty worthless itself

but its still historical which is itself worth something

sort of

>>6489330
It depends on what kind of game or movie it is. Personally I think the recovery of Acuario of the Clockwork is more significant than whatever this was supposed to be.

>>6486786
Talk about ungrateful. Get free unreleased games and still complains.

>>6489330
I have to agree with the other anon. It's not like there are people digging through the basements of dead directors from the 40's hoping to find the assembly cut of some lame ass garbage he couldn't get released and no one wanted to see. They generally go after movies that were at least finished and released at some point in the past

What this situation is, is some weirdo literally finding a bunch of raw data in a dead programmers basement. Code for a shitty game that wasn't released and nobody wanted. It's totally worthless.

I mean, it's not like they found the original FFIV for NES, or Super Mario FX or something.

Preservation has a place and it's own variety of importance, but this has nothing to do with that.

Also, looking at other media; let's say you found reels of 2 inch tape in Elvis Presley's basement containing hours of unfinished, unmastered demos of unreleased songs. Well that would have great significance, because its fucking elvis.

Or let's say you find a personal notebook that belonged to JRR Tolkein detailing the plot outline of an unreleased LotR novel. Again, majorly significant because of the author.

This is just some code for a nothing game they found in a nobody's basement.

>>6489315
>Outside of prototypes of culturally significant games, I think archiving lost games is not a resourceful use of time.
You forgot to mention source code.
https://www.engadget.com/2012-04-17-original-source-code-for-prince-of-persia-posted-to-github.html

>>6486443
Can't wait for AVGN to rip into this shitload of fuck.