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TalkBack / Re: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Fanboy Postmortem

« on: January 09, 2017, 03:32:00 PM »

The obliteration dance is useful against the ammo baron boss fight, as well as the second-last boss.
Meanwhile, the Dryad dance is used to break open the game and cause out of bounds glitches.

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TalkBack / Re: Yooka-Laylee Interview (E3 2016)

« on: June 20, 2016, 05:56:12 PM »

You really need to use Automatic Gain Control badly, the audio is unlistenable.

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TalkBack / RE: Ubisoft Announces PoP for DS

« on: July 22, 2005, 07:26:22 PM »

CARD BATTLING GAMES SUCK

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TalkBack / RE: Activision Touts Authenticism in True Crime

« on: July 14, 2005, 07:43:49 PM »

Amazing... Complete and unaltered press release drivel.

[non-hacker]

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TalkBack / RE:Band Bros. Expansion Pack Coming Soon

« on: July 05, 2005, 08:53:38 AM »

This marks the first non-hacker use of the GBA cartridge slot for DS software.  The DS was hacked a long time ago.

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TalkBack / RE: Namco Snags Peanuts License

« on: April 21, 2005, 09:14:29 AM »

I think we're missing the obvious... Earthbound!  Ness looks like he'd fit right in with Charlie Brown, being a clone of peanuts style characters and all.

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TalkBack / RE: GBAccelerator Speeds Up Handheld Gaming

« on: October 25, 2004, 01:34:58 PM »

The device also speeds up the music and increases the sound pitch as well.

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TalkBack / RE:Pokemon Good for Kids?

« on: September 07, 2004, 08:42:35 AM »

In other news, a study commissioned by the Tobacoo Industry says that 75% of parents think smoking is good for their kids.

All sponsored 'studies' are 100% BS, and just thinly veiled press releases.

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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo Drops GBA SP Price!

« on: September 02, 2004, 04:11:28 PM »

The GB/GBC does not have a real Z80, it has a different processor similar to the Z80.  It lacks some instructions that the Z80 has, and also has a few instructions that the Z80 does not have.

Also, there is no version number on the GBZ80.  A GBC game can tell if it's running on a GBA based on the bootup content of the B register (B=0 on gameboy, B=1 on gba).

The GBZ80 is just the CPU, the ppu is drawing all those 2-bit backgrounds and sprites.  The sound chip is doing all the sound.

The GBZ80 is inaccessable to any GBA games, but the GB sound chip is still accessable.  The old gb sound channels even have new features which not too many gba games have used.

It's still unclear whether the DS will support running the old gameboy games or not though.  Even if the DS doesn't support running GBC games, it's still possible to emulate some of the classic monochrome gameboy games in Goomba running on a gba flash cartridge.

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TalkBack / RE:Donkey Konga US Song List

« on: May 11, 2004, 08:20:37 PM »

Doesn't look like there's any cool Japanese music in there, damn localization.
At least you don't need to know the lyrics to Louie Louie in this game.

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TalkBack / RE:Chrono Trigger Comes to GameCube!

« on: May 10, 2004, 02:51:41 AM »

Copyrights on games become void after 95 years, not 5.