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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:06 pm |
Also, why was the seemingly finished English version of the WBIML arcade left unreleased? Who made that decision? | |
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:39 pm |
There was some artwork on the old westone site that showed a possible new wonderboy game, i can't really find the picture i had it mind but was there a wonderboy game in progress after the last megadrive game ? and don't forget to say, wonderboy 1 is running on saturn !! |
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 12:01 am |
Wow, I had forgotten about that GIF already! I remember waiting eagerly for that game to be announced... | |
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:14 am |
In case anybody missed Bock's presentation at bitsummit, here it is:
https://www.twitch.tv/bitsummit/v/77206989 Skip to around 1h20m mark Looking great |
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 9:50 am |
Was so exciting to see gameplay footage from the game, and I have to say I'm really, really impressed! This was just as good as I had hoped it would be! Looking even more forward to the game now! | |
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:28 am |
To save me watching hours of footage on twitch, can someone tell me are the Q&A stuff (about the old games) with Ryuichi Nishizawa included in this video?
I'm guessing not but just checking as I'm keen to find the answer to my question about the Wonderboy name and how they came up with it |
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:53 pm |
This looks beautiful! I did notice some screen tearing, but hopefully that will be fixed before release. Otherwise, bravo! The affection and respect you have for Wonder Boy is apparent. | |
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 4:43 am |
It is not, no. |
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:19 am Last edited by Bock on Tue Jul 12, 2016 2:55 pm; edited 1 time in total |
I don't know where that tearing is coming from but I had to run the game on a computer that not's mine and I don't know about their capture setup. Moreover I couldn't get it working fullscreen there so it is weirdly bordered and not full resolution. There's no tearing that I know of on regular computers. |
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Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:44 pm |
OK thanks |
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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:01 pm |
I'm biased since I think that the original is one of the best games ever. But with this remake, the levels, the paralax scrolling, the animation, the backgrounds just look delicious. And that wind mill in the old town. omg. Would a Dreamcast port be possible? It would be great to have it running on the most powerful Sega console. |
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Famitsu interview
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 10:23 am
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We briefly talked to Famitsu. My colleague Ben started telling them about my collection and they published the pictures (I believe it'll be in the paper edition?). The interviewer said he was into SG/SC stuff.
Somehow they mixed up each other's answers a few times (no big deal). http://www.famitsu.com/news/201607/20111262.html We build a custom box and cartridge of an hypothetical Mark III release, which Ichigobankai designed with great care and talent. We gave one to Ryuichi Nishizawa, and a spare box was at the Bitsummit event so Famitsu took a picture of that. |
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:13 pm |
That's really cool, Bock.
And it's nice to see pics of your mighty collection. |
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 5:15 pm |
Just seen another video of it in action and I can't stress enough how much I love the looks in this game.... However!
If I had to pick something to change in what I've seen so far, it would be the squiggle speed of the drawn outlines while inside the shops. Right now, they're more "Dr. Katz stressful" than "Yoshi's island" doodle-y, which seems a little odd in such a calm scene. |
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Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:52 pm |
That video ICEknight refer you what extracted from the twitch stream: I'm not pushing that video too much because I think the build is a little early (we really didn't footage for bitsummit to be public, but when asked to do a twitch on official twitch channel we couldn't really refuse the opportunity). Back to the squiggling, yeah, that's possible. At least one person said the same thing as you did, but when we first tried it felt better at this speed. We'll revisit that when we put more work to the interfaces. Thanks for the feedback :) and everyone thanks for sharing info about the game around, it is really helpful. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 3:06 am |
This looks fantastic. I can't wait to play it.
The amount of love and quality is astonishing. :) |
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:41 am |
Ichigo rocks the town again! =D
So much to see on the photos - I´m one of the guys who love collector´s cards (in postcard size) =P And these cards look damn good, I would love it to get my hands on these. I wish you guys the best of success; this is what today´s mainstream should be. Thanks for sharing Bock! |
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Two new screenshots & blog opening
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 8:30 pm
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Thanks for the kind comments, tibone, gordman!
Started a simple blog now: http://www.thedragonstrap.com/blog/ And we released 2 new high-def screenshots. About the cards (they are business cards), I'm sure I can hold on a pile to share at some point if you want them :) |
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2016 10:56 pm |
Good idea to use a blog to share informations. The screenshots are outstanding. The hanami tree, the pirate ship, the cloud with the sunglasses 8) and the Lizardman are so great. The Lizardman looks so angry now. In the original game, he is something like a coward =D I would be very thankful to get some of the business cards =) They could be a nice addition to physical releases as well. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 1:41 pm |
Are you at the Gamescom in Cologne tomorrow? | |
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 2:00 pm |
I was but I just left week and went back to Paris this morning, sorry :( |
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 2:17 pm |
No problem dude, thanks for the answer =) |
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 7:00 pm |
Blog post (bit of a general thing)
http://www.thedragonstrap.com/blog/post/201609_ReverseEngineering If you are on twitter and want to RT: https://twitter.com/lizardcube/status/773899043080658944 |
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 9:22 pm |
Bock any update on that Q&A with Ryuichi Nishizawa you mentioned a few months ago?
I'd still love to hear the story behind the name "Wonder Boy", how they came up with it, what were the inspirations, etc if you had chance to ask |
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:09 am |
We ran out of time as shooting preparation took much longer than expected, so didn't get to ask all questions (I missing asking this specific question, sorry..) though I may e-mail Mr Nishizawa with some followups.
We've been working through the footage but it isn't as good as we hoped - sound is meh, lack of preparation, and we were super jet-lagged. That said, we are still working out to release some of that contents, perhaps in different segments. |
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 12:18 pm |
Ah that's a shame, yeh if you could email him to ask that would be great. I wonder if perhaps other names were considered for the character or game before they settled on Wonder Boy? Or perhaps just other names used in development like how Sonic was "Mr. Needlemouse" and Streets of Rage was "D-Swat" etc |
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 1:38 am |
Sonic was never called Mr. Needlemouse. The early sketch said "Mr. Harinezumi", which translates as "Mr. Hedgehog", not "Mr. Needlemouse". Somebody at an old TV program didn't know his Japanese and the rest is made up history. |
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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:09 am |
Ah right, that makes more sense, cheers. I find this kind of stuff fascinating, how characters developed and evolved before being seen by the public |
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:56 am |
The thing is that many of the interesting new questions I asked, the answers were along the line of "I don't remember" "I'm not sure".
What already filtered from existing (better) interviews (e.g. the Untold Story of Japanese Gamedev and HG101 interviews) covers a lot of the publishable stuff. |
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2016 7:42 pm |
Mini-video:
https://twitter.com/lizardcube/status/778240040916946944 http://www.thedragonstrap.com/blog/post/201609_TheLizardMan/ |
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Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2016 9:47 pm |
Many thanks, the Lizardman looks amazing! =D It all looks so well done, holy cow. |
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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2016 3:54 am |
Good god, this game is frickin' EYE CANDY. Such a nice looking art style.
Hope it plays just as good, or even better than the Master System original!! I can't wait for the release. |
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:26 pm |
This is a very special up close and personal look at the game with Ryuichi Nishizawa and the team. A must watch!
http://www.thedragonstrap.com/blog/post/201609_DevDiary1/ |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 5:54 am |
I have a great idea; SMSPower members should have a priority opportunity to be BETA testers :) | |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 11:17 am |
Also, the more posts, the higher chance. :D |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:39 pm |
A tasteful and stylish arrangement of "Side-Crawler's Dance" (often incorrectly called "Mind of Hero"). A tango in latino/french style :) |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:27 am |
According to the official OST it is called Adventure Zone! |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:25 am |
This song has two names: Side-Crawler's Dance (in the game) Adventure Zone (official OST) |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:21 pm |
Thanks for the info, I thought it was "Mind of Hero" which was youtube leading me astray. | |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:31 pm |
How do you know that Adventure Zone == Side-Crawler's Dance (in the game)? What is the reasoning for it?
There's 3 tracks for which I haven't yet mapped the OST names with the in-game names: OST: Desert Zone Adventure Zone (mouse zone, jungle, lion rocky underground) Take It Easy (dungeon) Game Credits: ?? Side-Crawler's Dance ?? The Monster's Lair ?? The Danger Zone And I don't know which one maps to which one. One could be tempted to say that "The Monster's Lair" == Dungeon Music, however: a) note the mismatching order b) in the original game code the dungeons are refered as "dan"/"danger" So I'm stuck there with those 3 names. It's probably all quite wrong on Youtube, most probably because of us: when we (what it me?) named the WBIII VGM package we had to guess a few of those names. |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:55 pm |
There's a thread somewhere on here with Shinichi Sakamoto telling us we got two mixed up. | |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:13 pm |
The other threads are:
http://www.smspower.org/forums/9740-SongTitlesForWonderboy http://www.smspower.org/forums/11958-VGMPackWonderBoyIII http://www.smspower.org/forums/549-ShinichiSakamotoReleasesSheetMusic Can't really find what you refer to. Sakamoto posted a few times under his name or Shintan but I don't remember that info. Will search again.. |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 7:32 pm |
It seems the order from the game credits is actually:
Side-Crawler's Dance The Danger Zone The Monster's Lair In fact the whole order of the soundtrack matches similarly with the credits which would mean: Side-Crawler's Dance = Desert Zone ( 砂漠 Desert ) The Danger Zone = Adventure Zone ( 森 Forest ) The Monster's Lair = Take It Easy ( 沈没船 Sunken Ship ) |
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 8:08 pm |
Order wise it doesn't really fully match. What are you comparing it with? - OST 23 Title (title) 24 Monsterland Revenge (John rust Don) 25 VS.Dragon (boss game) 26 Opening (opening) 27 Marine (town) ... 28 Shop (store) 29 ROOMs BGM (room) 30 Mind of Hero (sea) 31 Item (item procurement) 32 Desert Zone (desert) 33 Adventure Zone (forest) 34 Monsterland? (Don John falling) 35 Take It Easy (sinking boat) 36 Staff Roll (staff roll) 37 Ending (ending) 38 Game Over (game over) 39 Test BGM (sound source test) [* unused tune] - SMS Credits IN ORDER The Last Dungeon Vs. Dragon And now... Monster-Town ... Mind of Hero Side-Crawler's Dance The Danger Zone It's a Treasure Box The Monster's Lair Endless War The Dragon's Trap |
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Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 4:38 am |
Yeah, I only meant there were some similarities between the lists, which doesn't prove anything conclusively.
Side-Crawler's Dance could be a reference to the side-crawlers in the under water section of the Desert. The name sounds like the music for a water level. Danger Zone and Adventure Zone have a similar meaning. The Monster's Lair sounds like an appropriate title for a boss dungeon. |
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 9:26 am |
Just copying Bock's recent Pirate Dragon gif for those who aren't social mediaphiles
http://www.lizardcube.com/presskit/TheDragonsTrap/gifs/Boss_Captain01.gif |
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 10:35 pm |
this looks so good! crazy this is my first time seeing it, but man, between this & Monster Boy next year, things are finally looking up for the classic series! | |
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2016 7:28 pm |
Thanks so much :)
It's been tough handling all of it but we are starting to see the end of the tunnel! Just posted a third mini video: https://twitter.com/lizardcube/status/803989102643257344 |
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:07 am |
It's coming along looking so incredible! Do you have an ETA on the Music DevDiary? | |
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 3:10 am |
Also Ben needs the biggest pat on the back possible. The artwork is unbelievable to me. Especially Pirate Dragon. It's just perfect, I cannot believe how much you guys are nailing it. | |
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