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Fucking finally.

>> No.916547

>>916517
Care to elaborate?

>> No.916548

>>916547

Shantae is out on 3DS virtual console now.

>> No.916554

>>916548
Oh, well it took them long enough.

>> No.916625

Hopefully this lowers prices on the cart significantly. I'd much rather play a gbc game on my gba sp rather than my huge as fuck 3ds xl.

Ah who am I kidding

>> No.917520

>>916625
1. The 3DS resizes the screen with a black border so that it's not stretched out.
2. The cart price won't go down, as it's actually fairly rare, and a collector's item.

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>>916517
Here's hoping a new Shantae comes out for 3DS, at a proper length.

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917982

>>917520
I worked at Play N Trade and we always dropped the price on carts that got e-shopped. We'd start seeing more trades on them too. Same for games that get remastered editions

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918010

>tfw you found out about the borders
Feels much better playing this way.

>> No.918042

>>918010
>muh-muh nostalgia!

>> No.918142

She's such a qt.

This game is really awesome though.

>> No.918143

>>918042
>Playing a game at its proper resolution is a bad thing

>> No.918196

>>918010
I hate to be THAT guy, but, how do you get that on 3DS VC?

>> No.918194

>>918143
>mentioned borders, not resolution

>> No.918214

Does this mean we'll see more lewd pictures of her?

>> No.918220

>>918196
Hold start before it boots. Works with everything but NES games for some reason (Also works with DS games)

>> No.918221

>>918196
google.com

>> No.918236

Okay, so now no one as an excuse not to be caught up until the new entry comes out.

>> No.918979

>>916517
Thanks for reminding me. Going to download now.

>> No.919005

>>918214
fucking hope so.

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919026

>>918042
You fucking bet.

Nostalgia is the reason 80+% of us play old games. So GG on making an obvious point.

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919051

>>918214
>>919005

I faintly remember reading on /v/ something along the lines of: Apparently Zone was teasing a picture (!) that featured Shantae and Skyla. Something tells me this is bullshit, as that's quite a random selection of characters.

Then again, pic related.

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>>918214
From a VC rerelease? Probably not. You'll have to wait for the new game for the REAL resurgence in interest.

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919114

>>919051
I smell BS. Zone is fairly in touch and all, but Shantae strikes me as even below HIS radar. I'd love it to be true though.

Obligatory "Please vote for RR on Greenlight if you haven't."

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94588574

>> No.919132

>>919114
>below his radar
>constantly references music that LITERALLY no one has ever heard before and become popular thanks to him

To put this into /vr/ perspective, this would be akin to him referencing the NES port of SimCity and weeks later the prototype has been found and dumped. Seriously, where the fuck does he find these obscure as shit things? I bet he could make games like Sqoon or Go Go Tank popular.

>> No.919146

>>919132
Perhaps "below his radar" was a poor choice of words. Maybe I meant "not popular enough for him to care."

Music aside, he latches onto very trendy things. Shantae isn't exactly unpopular, but I remain skeptical.

>> No.919162

>>919146
Such as the "le epic meemes from yesteryear" he seems so fond of referencing almost every time. Fuck I should make a Zingo board based on tropes of his, if only I knew how to do those with the pictures for each "clue".

On topic, I'm quite surprised with how this game is designed on the GBC. Normally sprites can only have 3 colors + transparency, but she has many colors herself. Other enemies, like those pirate guys, only have 3 colors, so they likely layered sprites together for more color. Considering how there's very few enemies on screen at a time, to possibly prevent flicker, this seems logical.

Also, how was the music for this made? Was it written entirely in assembly, or did they use some sort of tools? Or alternatively, Kaufman merely wrote the music and he handed the song to be programmed to someone else?

>> No.919168

>>919162
Did virt make the music for the original? I know he's been on board Wayforward for recent games, but I wasn't aware his involvement went that far back.

>> No.919173

>>919168
His first work was the GBC port of Q*Bert, so I guess so. Programming music for older consoles, especially ones that rely exclusively on assembly, is a massive chore.

>> No.919178

I wish Wayforward's GBA game Sigma Star Saga had the kind of cult following Shantae does.

>> No.919179

>>919173
I have to imagine.

>> No.919192

>>919179
At least the GBC (and the original Game Boy) are a little faster, so they can handle some slightly inefficiently made music from a tracker. But on the NES, efficiency is an absolute must. Famitracker music, for example, cannot work on NES games due to how unoptimized they end up being. You're better off writing the music from scratch, which is especially annoying with the NES.

>> No.919195

>>919192
I already have incredible respect for companies like Sunsoft that made the NES sing.

>> No.919203

>>919195
Despite being inferior, the NES has one key advantage over the Game Boy. It can playback digital samples, such as drums or basslines, reliably without tying up the CPU resources. The Game Boy can't really do that, and the Game Boy works in a weird way where channel 4 can either be noise (or static) or a digitized sample. The NES has 5 dedicated channels, though the Square and Triangle waves are vastly inferior

>> No.919269

>>919026
That's pretty sad if you only like retro games for nostalgia, honestly.

I'm not saying nostalgia is a bad thing, but seriously.

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>>918220
Oh snap! I never knew that. Thanks anon!

Yeah I'm pretty new to the 3DS scene. Got it this past Spring.

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>>919178
And I wish sigma star saga was a better game.

>> No.919429

>>919320
Hell I've had mine since February and I didn't know that.

>> No.919440

Holy fuck this game is really nice for the GBC, and that music is great.

>> No.919451

>>917948
We're getting a third one sometime this year and I remember hearing it was going to be twice as long as Risky's Revenge.

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>>919451
>I remember hearing it was going to be twice as long as Risky's Revenge.
I remember hearing that too, and I hope it turns out to be true.

>> No.919492

>>919440
Yeah it's really impressive, although my favorite part is probably the rule 34.

>> No.919508

>>919192
>Famitracker music, for example, cannot work on NES games due to how unoptimized they end up being

Post sauce on that info, bruv.

You've never played Alter Ego, the Super Bat Puncher demo, or seen the few NES demos that exist have you?

>> No.919874

>>919384
It was a pretty decent game. A little annoying, sure.

>> No.919884

>>918010
Especially since on the XL, it ends up being almost exactly the same size as the original GBC screen when in the border.