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Minor housekeeping today. The game review index now lists what version of Mac OS I played any Mac game I reviewed on, and the reviews themselves now list what PowerPC Mac OS versions the game in question is compatible with.
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p7uen's avatar p7uen 2 days ago

Ok that looks fun, but I had no idea Super Monkey Ball was so crazy. I've only had the GameCube one and we only ever played the Super Monkey Flight minigame for literally thousands of hours, never touched single player.

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p7uen's avatar p7uen 2 days ago

But the real headline here is I never heard of Nanosaur or read your review and both are amazing. I feel like Nanosaur and El Fish plots have to be part of the same Games Cinematic Universe somehow. I am downloading it as I type!

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overclockworked's avatar overclockworked 1 day ago

@p7uen Completely justified, Monkey Flight is really just that addicting

Just caught up on your last two reviews. Creatures is another one that my GF and I have got on GOG and need to sink more time into. We're both into complex vpets that implement a-life, so it's up our alleys. Strong agree with the AI sentiments as well, and also absolutely agree that games in multiple windows you can rearrange are peak! Lord Monarch Online was one of the games that really sparked my love for that.
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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's avatar overclockworked 3 days 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.

New review is up, looking at The Revenge of Shinobi on Mega Drive: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/roshinobi/
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overclockworked's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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's avatar cartridgeconfidential 1 month ago

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

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overclockworked's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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's avatar cartridgeconfidential 1 month ago

Alex Kidd in Shinobi world is so good!

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p7uen's avatar p7uen 1 month 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's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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

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's avatar skep 1 month ago

Art is being stifled over here smh

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miela583's avatar miela583 1 month ago

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

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p7uen's avatar p7uen 1 month 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's avatar jerryscoolpage 1 month 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's avatar pixelglade 1 month 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's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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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The magazine-inspired style you have going on here is super cool and unique!
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cartridgeconfidential's avatar cartridgeconfidential 1 month ago

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

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New review is up, looking at Cave Story on Mega Drive https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/cavestory/
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p7uen's avatar p7uen 1 month 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's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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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New review is up, looking at the Master System port of Shinobi: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/shinobi/
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p7uen's avatar p7uen 1 month ago

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

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overclockworked's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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.

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's avatar pirahxcx 1 month ago

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

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p7uen's avatar p7uen 1 month 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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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's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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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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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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's avatar overclockworked 1 month 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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pirahxcx's avatar pirahxcx 1 month ago

great review, feeling like replaying the game

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p7uen's avatar p7uen 1 month ago

This game sounds great and your review is hilarious. The whole section and screenshot about pants really got me, made my day!

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