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3 months ago

New review is up, looking at Marble Blast Gold on Mac OS 9, er, I mean Mac OS X. https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/marbleblast/

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overclockworked 3 months ago

Only just released that the site update link on the front page still linked to Revenge of Shinobi instead of Marble Blast, oops. Fixed now.

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3 months ago

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4 months ago

New review is up, looking at The Revenge of Shinobi on Mega Drive: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/roshinobi/

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overclockworked 4 months ago

This might be the last update for a while as burn-out is kicking in again. The problem with reviewing Mega Drive games is that they often take just a couple of hours to play through and then I spent an entire day or two writing and coding the review page which gets exhausting fast ahaha. See you all when inspiration next hits!

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cartridgeconfidential 4 months ago

I love Shinobi! Shinobi X is the game I used to test my saturn with the OSSC

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@cartridgeconfidential I'm intending to play through the entire series for Overclockworked up to Shinobi X and I'm really excited to get to that one. The cutscenes are so fun, I don't even consider them "so bad they're good", they're just fun.

overclockworked 4 months ago

Also yes, playing the entire series up to Shinobi X also includes the weird Master System exclusive titles, Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, the Game Gear Shinobi games, and hell, probably also the Amiga conversions. Ninjas are cool, they're worth it.

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cartridgeconfidential 4 months ago

Alex Kidd in Shinobi world is so good!

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p7uen 4 months ago

I feel like I know so much about Joe Mushashi now. Also unsolicitied advice: I had a go with some of your gifs and if you're willing to sacrifice a little quality, the easiest reduction was to half the size on ezgif and then optimise (use the default setting but bump it up to 50) and they go from 6mb to 1mb. Then we can enjoy 6x more of your gifs!

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@p7uen If I can have the gifs be 50% size but then get scaled up by the html code on the website, that would likely work! I'll have to try it out later

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4 months ago

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overclockworked

4 months ago

My site is currently 583MB and the very likely reality that I'm going to run out of storage space soon unless I stop using excessive gifs of gameplay footage in my reviews is killing me hfhdghfjhkj

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skep 4 months ago

Art is being stifled over here smh

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miela583 4 months ago

583MB is actually the best amount of MB to have.

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p7uen 4 months ago

Don't stop the signal! I use https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif as a really quick and dirty way to resize and reduce quality and file size.

jerryscoolpage 4 months ago

Host your images somewhere else. I've been sing imgbb. Back in the day anytime I ran out of space on geocities I would just register a new account. Alternatively I think you could get away with using archive.org to host images for free. I use archive.org to host a ton of mp3 files for my purposes.

pixelglade 4 months ago

If you want an offline option for GIF optimisation (might be hard to do since it's footage), I recommend gifsicle. For editing the video before turning it into a GIF (like reducing the frame rate or something else) ffmpeg can do that (also offline). Also as jerryscoolpage mentioned, you can host videos on another platform and link to them (YouTube, PeerTube, somewhere else)

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overclockworked 4 months ago

Thanks for suggestions everyone! I'm hesitant to host elsewhere since I don't want to run into issues if the image hosting platform goes down or changes hotlinking policies, but I'lll see what options are available if it comes to that. I actually use ezgif already @p7uen!

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overclockworked cartridgeconfidential

4 months ago

The magazine-inspired style you have going on here is super cool and unique!

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cartridgeconfidential 4 months ago

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

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overclockworked

4 months ago

New review is up, looking at Cave Story on Mega Drive https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/cavestory/

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p7uen 4 months ago

I don't know how this happened but I always thought I knew what Cave Story was, it turns out I was thinking of a game called Knytt this whole time. Great review!

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overclockworked 4 months ago

Knytt is very much of that same era of freeware indies, so makes sense! It's something I need to play through myself some time.

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4 months ago

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overclockworked

4 months ago

New review is up, looking at the Master System port of Shinobi: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/shinobi/

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p7uen 4 months ago

Casually changing contact damage for an entire game seems like a crazy decision to make.

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@p7uen Yeah, that summarises why Master System Shinobi feels so odd to me. Level design and enemy design clearly tailored for mechanics that this version of the game doesn't have feels... odd.

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overclockworked

4 months ago

New review is up, looking at the amazingly bluntly titled The Ninja on Master System: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/theninja/

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pirahxcx 4 months ago

woah, I haven't explored much of the Master System, this game looks great

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p7uen 4 months ago

I would hazard a guess that the rice paddies were removed because they were too unfamiliar for western audiences, especially in those days.

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4 months ago

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goose-of-many-trades overclockworked

4 months ago

this is such a cool site wowzah thank you so much for the follow i don't know if/when i would have found you otherwise!

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overclockworked 4 months ago

Thank you! I found you through Jaggiescrapper, another Neocities user I follow, commenting on your page, and I agree with much of their sentiments ahaha

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overclockworked mushroom32x

4 months ago

Found you through the Willy Wombat page. Looking at the rest of your site, looks like we share quite a few gaming favourites too! (Klonoa, Sonic, Treasure, etc) Your collections are really impressive

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overclockworked

4 months ago

I only just realised that the screenshots I took for Toejam & Earl and Wonder Boy in Monster World through OBS had the video source resolution incorrectly set to 720x576 INSTEAD of the correct 640x480 and that's why the screenshots for those two reviews are so garbage and low quality, because they're badly scaled up to 576p by OBS and scaled back down to 480p, I am so sorry and so mad at myself jhgfkjhgkhjgfuj

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overclockworked 4 months ago

Next time I play through both of those games on my own time I'll grab new screenshots to replace the crappy ones (but the gifs will remain untouched)

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4 months ago