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You live in Japan Brush. This is very understandable. Consumerism is religion there. In ten months spent abroad I acquired some 20 7" giant monster figures. That's not even counting the miniatures.

I made that statement taking from my experience with copyright issues over public screenings. In dealing with anime distribution companies, the gist of what they relayed to me is that if you're a nonprofit org and you're not charging at all, they don't care cause there's not much they can do. You can do fund raising or request donations, but the screening is still considered free until some type of funding becomes a requirement for viewing. Then they can step in with paperwork. I don't see how a small group of people making a free game on their own free time is different from that scenario. If anything, they're more in the right because they've made their "product" from scratch, save for plot and Toriyama's conceptual designs. The code, the 3D models, the cinematics, and such were all theirs.

Considering the first gen came out in the US ten years ago this September, the upper end of the original target audience (like myself at 23) are in college now. All my friends play, as we always have this past decade. When D/P came out, Poke'mon actually swept the lower classmen and DS's were everywhere. Does the math... Out of complete curiosity, how'd you end up in the fandom, Damned?

That... would be the correct deduction, so Japan is getting this in September, and the translation will probably take all of an hour. Probably less.

I want to say September, but I can't remember where I heard that, so I'm none too confident about it.

But the Nonprofit in the thread title implies this isn't being done commercially. The rookies are making no money off of their effort, save from donations which is within bounds for nonprofit efforts. Nonprofit makes the entire mess very tricky and a legalese nightmare.

Holy shit, this is really happening! It brings joy to my heart.

He's got an excellent point. Don't tell me you actually think full priced titles like the latest Final Fantasies are made on the cheap?

Yeah, I remember when they were narrowing down their choices and Paul Bettany was still a likely choice for the role. Great actor, and I think he would have done a great job, voice, look, and all. Pretty disappointed when they gave the role to Ledger instead. It's got way too much to compete with to "rape" the box office. It will do well to be sure, but with Hellboy II hitting before, and X-Files 2 hitting after, Dark Knight won't be getting unheard of numbers. Frankly, I'm more excited to see Hellboy than I am for Batman.

I wouldn't trust anything the people who actually made the movie say about it. Keep in mind that Joel Schumacher thought Batman & Robin was good.

I think my favorite summary of fan reaction to Cross went as such: "It's not that Cross was a bad RPG, in fact, it was pretty good. But you tack Chrono on to it and have it try to fulfill the shoes of Chrono Trigger, and you have massive failure." On a side note, Bleck, had this been announced as the straight up original downloadable for the Virtual Console, Live Arcade or whatever PS3 uses, would you still be pissed off your rocker about it?

Since we're discussing nonprofit fanmade games, does anyone remember what happened with that project wherein Ocarina of Time was being redone into classic Link to the Past style gameplay. I remember seeing screens early on that looked promising, but I haven't heard of anything in a long time. Did Nintendo pull a Square and shut the project down?

"Some furry white dragon thing" is Nall from Lunar Silver Star Story. I think "Some girl with blonde hair and a simple, black dress. High heels. Looks a bit melancholy." is the main character from Parasite Eve.

If the upstart group gets a better following, no one will care about SquareEnix's official sequel and hope for the Nonprofit guys to try their hands at their own sequel. It's not likely but that's one train of thought that has to be going through SE's mind to pull such a move.

Holy... What region have you been poking around in?

Welcome to the life suffered through by Earthbound fans. Well... minus the shemale issue... Holy crap though, Chrono Trigger back on a cartridge based medium where it belongs. If they can compress the PS movies into the card while keeping it's awful loading time for battles: worth it (if only to reintroduce a new generation of players to pre FFVII glory).

Yoshi's Story may not be great music, but that does not make it bad. I think some people are just bitter Story didn't live up to Island's shoes. You want bad music, well to hear it, you're gonna need... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDR-sV2mN-4&feature=related I also wish to defend Krusty's Fun House, it didn't sound quite as bad on the Genesis. Again simple lack of greatness is not a measure of atrocity.

Dear God I hope this isn't cannon. The only way they could even make a halfway decent roster is by leeching from all across the timeline.

And you wouldn't have to worry about rot either, the one major flaw of discs. If the next medium is some form of memory stick, that, I would invest in. I never said market penetration isn't happening, nor did I compare Bluray to Laserdisc (it was an example of popularity in Japan doing nothing here). But if you want to compare, Bluray is probably just as popular here as it is in Japan. Video games there are all about the HD, but I didn't find much in the ways of HD movie sections. Market penetration is not instant success though, it takes a lot of penetration to "win", especially considering the $3 billion it's taking to get there. I like how you say if I buy a $1000 TV, which I will never do. There are people out there who aren't going to buy $1000 TVs. I swore I would never pay over $300 for a system, nor will I pay an outlandish price for a TV. There are plenty of TVs already under $500, but I can barely see the "HD" on TVs of those sizes at all. Such as? PC Engine (TurboGraphx 16) Neo Geo Disc reading add ons (Sega CD, Famicom DS, N64DD) Minidiscs. Photo booths. Mopeds. QR Codes (barcodes scanned with your cellphone, they're everywhere). Hell, it's unlikely the US will ever treat the cell phone as a viable gaming machine. Oh, and let's not forget Betamax itself. Sony had enough of a market to make the thing until six years ago. Not to mention arcades are still commonplace there, where as here they have to have a sports bar or something attached to it.

1998 Hollywood Video Chrono Trigger in box with instructions in usable condition. $10 My friends hated me.

That's no guarantee. Remember Laserdiscs? Japan loved them, yet they bombed here commercially. Just because technology takes off in Japan does not mean America will follow suit. Maybe, but I've stared down the SD and HD TVs at the stores when they have them side by side, and I really don't care about the difference. It's there, but it's not "Time to replace all my DVDs." significant. As long as I have the DVD alternative, and it's cheaper, I'm going with DVD. The extra detail is not worth the costs. And for all you guys saying 2012-2015 that this stuff will be accepted, for all we know, downloadable media could surplant physical mediums by then. The market at this point is still way up in the air.

I remember that thread, but they started trying to pitch some stupid ideas too. I believe their explanation for Lakitu was that he was a mad scientist, and not a part of the koopas or something really dumb.

You're missing an important part of the transition between DVD and VHS. How many videos do you have that are still in really good condition? DVDs, if kept properly, will last a very long time and play the same way they did when first bought. Videos could never pull that off. Over time we had VCRs that put less wear and tear on the tape when playing it, but it never changed the fact that videos lost their quality very quickly. DVDs are in no way immortal, but are a much better investment than a video. It made sense to double up those movies you had on video, because if they weren't dying all ready (as much of my family's library was) the would die in due time. The DVDs on the other hand I expect to hang onto for quite some time, save from freak accident or theft. I saw the need to get DVDs, and looked forward to their price drops, even in their infancy. Now, I don't give a crap about HDDVD or BluRay, even when they dropped into reasonable price range. DVDs are cheaper, the quality is fine, and they'll last just as long as the HD ones. I see no incentive to upgrade.

Every time I come home from college I hook up the SNES and I barrel through Mega Man X and X2. They're short and have the simplicity that the franchise began to drop with X3. Four armor parts Four tanks Eight hearts Eight Mavericks 90 minutes of fun. I also go through Turtles IV: Turtles in Time. It only takes a half hour, and kicking the shit out of The Foot is so much fun. Star Fox 64 is another quick play game where my friends and I continually tried to outdo our high scores.

I'd say the shared gameplay between the remake and 2 makes the two more compatible with one another. I finished Twin Snakes, popped in Sons of Liberty, and it felt like I never stopped playing. As for what Kojima envisioned and such, keep in mind MGS2 had arms taking over the brain, acrobatic vampires, and other not quite as feasible material. Super Soldier Snake falls much more in line with the craziness of Sons of Liberty. Not to mention he let a close friend, Ryuhei Kitamura (Kojima has cameoed in several of his films), do those cutscenes. Twin Snakes and Sons of Liberty both have a very epic "Hollywood blockbuster" feel to their cutscenes, something that the original Solid did not. I'm not saying Twin Snakes is the definitive version, just that you can't say the original is either. There's as much of an argument for as there is against.