Red Metal wrote:
I will try to get my project in, however I am new with programming and my time is very limited. 🙁 But I will try to get some sort of demo in! 🙂
This is one of those topics that I will try to find in a year and never be able to track it down..any way we can copy the info and start another post under development ?
Lot’s of stuff has happened since my last update…so let’s get started.
We’ve released and English translated Gundam a bit ago. Lot’s of mixed feelings on this one. When I was collecting and I picked up the Japanese version (which is very hard to get)..I put it in and played it right away. Couldn’t really get into it. I didn’t know if it was because of the Japanese…or that I couldn’t get into the close combat or 3-d playing boards. Despite this version being in English..still just isn’t an enjoyable game for me. Maybe for others..but isn’t my cup-o-tea. Funny thing is. I don’t think we’ll make any more CIB’s of this. So in a collecting standpoint..might be the one to get 😛 Kinda ironic.
And then the auctions started. People are selling these Gundam’s for huge amounts of money. I’m fine with people selling our stuff. Hey, you bought it ..it’s yours. But, it just bothers me when people don’t list it as a reproduction. I don’t want people ripped off on something we created. Now, I really didn’t think it would be a problem. The games we are releasing..haven’t been released. Nintendo never released ‘Bound High’…”Blox”. But, I guess an English translation of an expensive game is different. I don’t think this will be a problem again. We will release an English translation of Space Squash (great game btw..if you haven’t played it)..but the cost isn’t nearly as high as Gundam. Also, I’ve talked to Tusk..and on other games who’s boxes haven’t been designed already..I think we’ll make a logo or something to make it easier to identify the CIB games as reproductions. That’s the steps we’re taking..and if anyone see’s an auction that doesn’t identify these as reproductions..please report it. Help other people out that..just might not know.
Hyper Fighter: Been getting a bunch of questions on this. Amazing demo wasn’t it ? Now..will we make a CIB ? I don’t know. Honest. How big will the game be ? Will we need to design new boards ? Do the coders want one made ? If we compensate the coders for the game..will the game be too expensive for people to buy ? Lot’s of questions need to be answered about this before we can say we will have a release.
Vboy coding compo: We’re supporting this as fully as we can 🙂 There’s currently a vboy compo going on at planetvb. We’re donating carts/boards/boxes to the winner. Can’t wait to see what people turn in. For all those homebrew gods out there…try it out 🙂
Now…where we are at:
Gundams out. The next release will be Faceball: remastered. I’ve just finished carting up 100 copies and they will be on the way to Tusk this weekend. We’ll still wait a month or so to release it. We want to space these releases out 🙂
Next will be Space Squash. The plan was going to be fishbone next..but the order got messed up somehow. Some boards were already started on Space Squash..so we’ll just go with it. I’m sending mindstorm 144 more connectors this weekend..so we can get a great start on finishing up that release and move on to the next one…fishbone 🙂
What’s after that ? not sure yet..we’re talking 5-6 months from now. Maybe Blox II (if the saving feature gets fixed)…gamehero…Hyper fighter ????…a game from the coding compo ? We’ll have to see 🙂
I’m ordering another 6 cases (288 games) of baseball. So, we’ll have plenty of parts for quite awhile 🙂
As always…all of this is subject to change. Nothing is set in stone.
You use the donor cart for the connector to the vboy itself. Your not reusing the board or chip (maybe the ram u can). You connect your own board and flashed chip.
He released it coded not to run on an emulator..not sure if we should a changed rom without his consent…he prob did it because the music won’t play correctly…
