Aetherbyte

@SoloForgeDev @Mad__Overlord Oh absolutely. I play all the ultimas again frequently and 6 is s corny story, esp. When you realize Lord British is the villain of the series lol.

@Aetherbyte @Mad__Overlord It was great. The 'valley of the dinosaurs' setting was perfect for an RPG. I was about 14 when I played 6, so I don't think I was too critical about the story tbh. The graphics, engine and world made it pretty incredible at the time.

No one asked but here are my top 5 video games of all time. 1. Ultima 5. 2. Dune 2000 3. Evil Genius 4. Dungeon Keeper 5 Thief: The Dark Project.

@turboxray @drhelius Cosmic Fantasy may be a good one to check. Its got a massive chip ost.

The only one I know is what Kitao posted (Ys chiptune music). I haven't had a chance to look at anything else. If we have some HES music rips for CD games with chip music, especially very early release titles -that would be a great way to test... but we'd need a tool that hacks the HES to use newer and older rip sound driver

So this is a real interesting find. Basically, there's something different in the way the Sound driver works in the original system card VS the later ones. That is, for a few early games that targeted V1.0 Sound Engine. I would not have suspected Ys to be affected by this.. but I guess it makes sense. I suspect either one of two things happened: there was a bug in the sound driver and it was fixed.. or they improved the capabilities and it caused backwards compatibility issues. I'm thinking probably bug fixes. But it would be nice to get a real answer on it (sys card rom disassembles and comparisons). We never got the 1.0 cards in North America, so unclear if the US localization of Ys 1&2 fixes the sound/music. #pcengine #turbografx #PCエンジン

@turboxray Might just have a different preset wave bank than what came later. Is Cosmic Fantasy 1 affected? Im not near any of my stuff to play around and see.

@SoloForgeDev @Mad__Overlord Savage Empire ruled. My issue with six was the story was a bit corny. The engine itself was great though

@Aetherbyte @Mad__Overlord Ultima 6 was my first main-series Ultima (I played Savage Empire and Martian Dreams first). I loved it then and still do today, it's a great game.

@Liathestitcher @Lailaren 捨てたポーチとか箱とかの中に、レアアイテムがあったかもしれない。。。！！飾り物とか！

うぇっ！４つで6万ポイント？？私は一体何を入れたんだ！ （動揺） what did i throw away? it says 60000point for 4items. #UO #ウルティマオンライン #UltimaOnline

Every game dev giving in to the allure of AI is bad. Youre undermining your peers, and acting like its a good thing. "Oh I had it write my music, and my art, and this music editor" You shafted a musician, artist, and technical dev. Loser energy.

@sebastiansohn @re_skob No it wont. Its all regurgitation. Also this idea was completely feasible before AI. Be serious.

AI coding will allow game developers to explore previously infeasible ideas, perhaps entire new genres will be born.

@Mad__Overlord The combat in 7 ruined the game for me. I also didnt care about Batlin. The Guardian seems ok lol.

@Aetherbyte I liked 7 a lot... well. Except for the combat. Ultima Underworld was a lot of fun also.

@wesleytypes @bethesda @Obsidian @CDPROJEKTRED @larianstudios @WarhorseStudios Bethesda led no charge. Origin, Sirtech, and New World Computing did. Bethesda tripped on their own shoelaces the whole time.

Those of us who grew up with Bethesda, Bioware, and Obsidian leading the charge on western RPGs eventually found ourselves wowed by the works of CD Projekt Red, Larian, and Warhorse. We kept the light on hoping those former studios would return to their place at the top, but instead they feel replaced by the latter. All good things come to an end I suppose.

さてはプログラミングの楽しさ知らんな？

“AI writes better code than I do” is a strange thing to say when you think about it. AI was trained on a vast corpus of published code. It reflects the average of all that code. So what you’re really saying is: “My code is below average.”

Dear video games, Stop treating every experience as if it’s the player’s first time playing a video game. It’s annoying as shit & your opening hours are suffering because of it. We don’t need another by the numbers opening level telling us how to crouch & jump. Sincerely, EVERYBODY!

@JoeVol @YoshischizoSTG @masterlinkueibr @arena What truly sucks is your AI icon. Atari 2600 got a fix in the form of Ms Pacman. I think your take on why the game wasnt good is flawed. It was late 1981. bad judgment calls in a fledgling industry plus hardware limitations. To quote the dev a bit: Whatd you expect?

@Aetherbyte @YoshischizoSTG @masterlinkueibr @arena It truly sucked. Got it the day it came out. Made me believe that 2600 was done. The people didn’t come to their senses and decide not release it. Atari valued money over everything else and the product suffered.

Sorry AI haters, but this is beyond cool! Check it out this WIP Pac-Man port for the SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis that i did with just some lines of prompt at @arena:

@EllipticalMan @LuciaLobosvilla I read entire programming books as a child. Win3.1 era QBASIC and C++ books and such. Lol

Yes. I read it as a child. Because it’s a children’s book. We keep lowering standards for children’s media and then wonder why kids can’t read or grasp complex concepts. Running into words you don’t know is part of the learning experience. Not an insurmountable obstacle.

@spacebruce The only AI involved in Aetherbyte titles is the AI I personally program into the enemies lol. Using some shitbox to generate 6502 assembly is an insult to everyone involved.

@Aetherbyte You saw my 32X post, you could probably order an AI to fix the absolute pile of shit that my linker/toolchain setup has become and make it produce a working binary again, but then I wouldn't have authorship or understanding of it, would faster just cancel than lose that.

However bad it may be for image arts, there's at least a general pushback against AI usage. If you consider software an art (as creative expression, I believe it is) it's so much worse, you're surrounded on all sides by husks and it's totally normal. Depressing beyond words.

@spacebruce Social media has damaged peoples brains. They just want the dopamine from lowtier interaction from strangers, and now they can do so while pretending to be gamedevs.

@Aetherbyte I mentioned in another thread, but to me it's kinda like in indie game spheres you're always trying to stand out, show off, which before was the result of having a good idea or a clever trick, and taking a shortcut to that brings the social approval without the work.

@MuseumCommodore GATEWAY TO APSHAIIIIIIIIII

What’s the first game you ever loaded on a C64?

@CRDINOTE_Author The hobbit was in my elementary school library, and I read it when I was 8 lol. What is this person saying.

If you find The Hobbit difficult to read, you're functionally illiterate and your parents and your schools failed you.

@inouma1972 MINDWALKERって言うゲームやった事あるの？とても不思議なゲームだけど、とても楽しい。。！

やっとAMIGA用のマウスが見つかったので、AMIGA A1200 2号機の動作確認ができた👍

@sega_city No. They should kill PSO and make an actual 5th game.

SEGA remade the first two 'Phantasy Star' games for the PlayStation 2, but never released them in the west. Should they take these games and port them to modern consoles?