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by gryson 3mo ago
Huh? Those are the original MIDI versions of the music, which is how Bobby Prince composed them on a Roland SC-55. There is no more authentic sound. I doubt anyone in 1993 thought the OPL2 version of the music sounded better. General MIDI
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by gryson 3mo ago
Candid does not mean "secretive and very guarded", though. People misunderstand the meaning of candid camera and assume it means "secret camera" and so use it that way, but that hasn't reached a level of misuse to r
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by gryson 3mo ago
What does any of that have to do with the article, which is about the branding and logo of JR?
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by gryson 4mo ago
You're greatly misunderstanding that second link: that's the breakdown of what happens to collected municipal waste within each country (notice they all add up to 100% for each country). That says nothing about total amounts of pl
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by gryson 4mo ago
Yes, if the resulting energy is captured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy
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by gryson 4mo ago
Japan burns about half of its collected plastic via thermal recycling (recovering the energy) and recycles about a third into new products. The key point is that Japan recycles 85% of its plastic waste, which is excellent compared with a co
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by gryson 4mo ago
Japan is nowhere near the worst for plastic waste per capita, and it has very high recycling rates. Rely more on statistics and less on personal observation.
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by gryson 4mo ago
You make it sound like he's some young'un, but Fabien has been programming since 1983. https://fabiensanglard.net/40/
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by gryson 4mo ago
If it's a hardware limitation, there are no exceptions. Which is it?
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by gryson 4mo ago
Don't you know - everyone's an expert because they saw a YouTube video about how modern pixel art isn't authentic... Seriously, this game is a miracle, and the amount of love Ancient put into it is unlike anything we've
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by gryson 4mo ago
Doesn't that mean it's not the hardware's color limitations, but rather how color is used by the artists? There are plenty of gorgeous games on the Mega Drive in terms of color. 61 colors on screen at once is more than enough
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by gryson 4mo ago
Are you referring to Earthion specifically or just making some grandiose comment about pixel art in the good old days? What are "CRT bloom and blending"? Are you referring to artifacts caused by composite video output? That is not
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by gryson 4mo ago
I suspect the developers had enough foresight to not include text outside the display window.
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by gryson 4mo ago
The game makes good use of dithering throughout. Pixel bleeding? Are you referring to color distortion caused by the use of composite video? Why would you expect to see that in a screenshot viewed on your LCD screen? You'd have to actu
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by gryson 7mo ago
Correction: Hideki Sato didn't directly design all Sega's consoles, but rather oversaw their development as head of the R&D department. He was only directly involved in designing the earlier consoles. The Saturn hardware, for
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by gryson 8mo ago
Oops! Fixed.
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by gryson 8mo ago
In Rosen's last Sega-related interview with Keith Stuart for the book Mega Drive Collected Works, he disagrees with the Sega internal conflict narrative as presented in Console Wars and says it was just Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske
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by gryson 9mo ago
And if you keep reading (at whatever speed), you get to the actual point of the article: >So I tried slowing down even more, and discovered something. I slowed to a pace that felt almost absurd, treating each sentence as though it might
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by gryson 10mo ago
Good to hear. Thanks for replying.
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by gryson 10mo ago
How does the PicoIDE compare with the ZuluIDE? Are they direct competitors or are there different use cases? I've been on the fence about getting a ZuluIDE for a while because of the price and because I don't exactly need one... I
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by gryson 10mo ago
Sony of America essentially tried to do the same with the PlayStation. SCE in Japan fought back and eventually positioned themselves within the company to be able to fire nearly all of the upper management in the US in order to promote thei
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by gryson 2y ago
Thank you for posting this!
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by gryson 3y ago
What an odd comment. Dragon Ball, which is absolutely huge in Japan, is an original creation of Akira Toriyama. I mean, the top-earning Japanese film of 2018 was Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which sold 3 million+ tickets in Japan. Dragon Ball
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by gryson 3y ago
Yes, the article is more about the (often incorrect) Western perception of the PC-98 than what it existed as in Japan.
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by gryson 3y ago
A good source for such photos are the ads in old Japanese computer magazines, such as Micom Basic. Archive.org has the entire run (I think) from the 80s and 90s. Here's April 1985: https://archive.org/details/basic
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by gryson 3y ago
The Hitachi product site for this is still online (from 1995; Japanese): https://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/9512/1201.html It was intended as an in-car game console / GPS navigation combo unit. One of t
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by gryson 3y ago
PCem and 86box are focused on accurate hardware emulation.
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by gryson 3y ago
There's a solution to all of your problems: kashikiri (private / reserved) onsen. These are smaller, private onsen designed for families or couples (or, I suppose, the shy foreigner). They're fairly common.
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by gryson 3y ago
Small correction: the example of "Mode-7 like effects" in Batman and Robin on the Mega Drive is not done in software (where "software" implies the CPU is drawing the pixels). The Mega Drive's VDP is capable of both
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by gryson 3y ago
The argument is that Sega's global success with the Genesis came from its products - not the marketing (despite what the marketers say). One piece of support for that is that the console succeeded against Nintendo in most territories,

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