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DF Retro: Cooly Skunk - The Lost SNES Platformer
- Thread starter Tizoc
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Cool episode, in that it's not really about the tech behind the game itself per se, and more about what extra time can grant to game's design even beyond the hardware change. That said, there's never not a good opportunity to talk about how forward thinking Satellaview was for its time, and Dark1x making explicit mention of that was a keen observation.
That tease at the end, though... oh man, I can't wait to see that comparison, as it was one hell of a playground argument back in the day for the great 16-bit wars.
That tease at the end, though... oh man, I can't wait to see that comparison, as it was one hell of a playground argument back in the day for the great 16-bit wars.
Yes, it's fascinating to learn the details of how an obscure and presumably "lost" game was fortunately rescued and now preserved.
It was also interesting to learn details of this game's development, and its transition from Super Famicom to PlayStation.
Great episode.
I actually really love the SFC version's aesthetic too. I'd never actually heard of this game, I guess the PSX version was never released in Europe. I do love Skyblazer though, always been one of my fave SNES games (which annoyingly has never had a soundtrack release).
Really thankful to those hunting for the remaining undumped satellaview games. Hopefully the remaining Kirby Toy Box games still exist on a pak somewhere and will show up some day.
I wonder if that tease at the end is for a specific title or a look at all the mainline 2D entries. Latter would be a mammoth task though!
I actually really love the SFC version's aesthetic too. I'd never actually heard of this game, I guess the PSX version was never released in Europe. I do love Skyblazer though, always been one of my fave SNES games (which annoyingly has never had a soundtrack release).
Really thankful to those hunting for the remaining undumped satellaview games. Hopefully the remaining Kirby Toy Box games still exist on a pak somewhere and will show up some day.
I wonder if that tease at the end is for a specific title or a look at all the mainline 2D entries. Latter would be a mammoth task though!
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What a super interesting video.
Like John I also thought Skyblazer was one of the SNES's most underrated/overlooked games. I was fortunate to play it back in the day since my local rental place had it. I had always wondered if the team behind it had made anything else. Somehow, I remember seeing those Punky Skunk adverts in game magazines too lol.
Like John I also thought Skyblazer was one of the SNES's most underrated/overlooked games. I was fortunate to play it back in the day since my local rental place had it. I had always wondered if the team behind it had made anything else. Somehow, I remember seeing those Punky Skunk adverts in game magazines too lol.
For the sake of the mental health of Dark1x , I should only hope that it's just the first game, as there are so many different versions to cover of just the original game before going off into the sequels. There's honestly enough content for that particular title for a 40-minute episode as it is.
Absolutely, it's a fantastic game. Bosses are super cool too.
That's true. It doesn't quite reach Prince of Persia or Doom levels but it's a very sizeable number of ports, and some pretty different.
That was a fascinating story. I wonder if this sort of thing makes devs more gunshy about releasing demos of in-development games. I remember wishing that I could play the Breath of the Wild E3 demos on my Wii U, but people pointed out at the time that spoilers for the full game would get datamined.
The Satellaview in general is just such a neat, weird piece of hardware. The idea of having the whole menu behind an Earthbound-esque town layout... and it gave us so many weird games that might not otherwise have been released, like the Radical Dreamers followup to Chrono Trigger. A little bit like the weird stuff you got on XBLIG, but actually supported by some big-name devs! I'd love a whole Satellaview focused DF Retro someday.
Also, Skyblazer looks cool and I want to give it a try. In some ways I'd say it looks more polished and interesting than Cooly Skunk, which was clearly trying to chase the mascot platformer fad a few years after it hit its peak.
The Satellaview in general is just such a neat, weird piece of hardware. The idea of having the whole menu behind an Earthbound-esque town layout... and it gave us so many weird games that might not otherwise have been released, like the Radical Dreamers followup to Chrono Trigger. A little bit like the weird stuff you got on XBLIG, but actually supported by some big-name devs! I'd love a whole Satellaview focused DF Retro someday.
Also, Skyblazer looks cool and I want to give it a try. In some ways I'd say it looks more polished and interesting than Cooly Skunk, which was clearly trying to chase the mascot platformer fad a few years after it hit its peak.
That's the same game. Named Cooly Skunk in Japan and Punky Skunk in NA if I got this right.
It's a hell of a task all the same, so your work there is greatly appreciated. Mortal Kombat and its console differences was such a fun topic among my friends back in grade school, and we were at least thankful enough to live by a mall that had a huge arcade so that we could play that game to our heart's content without compromises, albeit a quarter at a time.
are you saying you were too good for all the beautiful sweat dripping off the characters in the snes version???
Funny enough, I didn't even have a SNES at the time of MK1's release and didn't get one until after MK2 was already out. At least as far as I was concerned, the arcade was my avenue for playing video games of any kind at the time.
Yes. Very fun game. It's short and has a lot of variation and challenge.
One of many games me and my friends would rent and beat over the weekend.
I didn't have any arcades nearby, (though a bit later a local newsagents got a X-men COTA cabinet in, and then followed that with a Marvel Super Heroes one), so I ended up using blockbusters a ton.
Sounds decent. I like classic jump and run games. Thanks for the feedback :)
never heard of satellaview, that's a super cool piece of tech
japan got so many cool addons in the 90s
japan got so many cool addons in the 90s
Yeah, it's a really neat idea. Surprisingly forward looking for Nintendo.
Ukiyotei's website is still up!
Also according to GDRI they lasted until at least the late 00s as they worked on some PS2 and one DS game (and maybe more).
Also according to GDRI they lasted until at least the late 00s as they worked on some PS2 and one DS game (and maybe more).
For those curious about the cited Metamor Kid Goomin you can find some screenshots here:
A long long time ago, I dig out a bunch of screenshots of cancelled games from old gaming mags.
A long long time ago, I dig out a bunch of screenshots of cancelled games from old gaming mags.
Now we know who was to blame for the Samurai Shodown 3 PS1 port :)
That's quite a tall order, though. The Saturn version requires the ram cart.
You can blame Sony for that paltry 2MB of RAM.
Funny though that SNK didn't do any of their PS1 or Saturn ports inhouse. It wasn't until Dreamcast that changed really.
Just tried loading other BS-X titles and they seemed to work fine, huh. Will give other non-retroarch versions of the emulators a go with it later!
It's shameful how terribly a lot of the SNK stuff runs on Saturn :( MS1 should have been perfect.
Just use the header-corrected .sfc by MasterF0x. Even works on the SNES Mini's native emulator, Canoe.
Worked like a charm, thank you!!
Blimey Dark1x wasn't kidding, first level is weirdly tough ._.
BS-X version has been translated already!
Translation has been updated and also has a proper RHDN page now: