I bought Rayman 2 on GOG a few years ago, and it had a hard time recognizing controllers. I even tried launching it through Steam, which usually fixes all controller problems, but it still didn’t work. The Dreamcast version still looks good enough, and your controller will definitely work.

Due to licensing issues, Crazy Taxi 2 has a different soundtrack on the PC from the original Dreamcast version. The Dreamcast version is the one with The Offspring.

Sonic 3 has also had music licensing issues, so the version included in Sonic Origins has a different soundtrack. Sonic Origins was also buggy at launch, but I hear that’s fixed now. Sonic Origins also adds a bunch of new features though, so this one may be a tossup.

Question for y’all: did anyone buy the recent PC port of Metal Gear Solid 2? It seems to have both a lot of praise and a lot of complaints.

Me too; in fact I have two games for it on the way right now! Games made in the last few years! Intrepid Izzy and Postal.

Seaman is one of those games that I’m intentionally not replaying, because it absolutely blew my mind when I was ten years old, and I just want to leave it that way. I’m guessing the tricks they used to mimic conversation would be very obvious to me now, but back then it seemed completely real. That game turned your CRT TV into a fish tank with an honest to god talking fish inside of it… and Spock gave you updates about how he was doing when you checked on him after school.

Very cool. I’m also really curious about how the author ended up looking at Blazblue when working on this, haha.

copy-pasting what I posted on !pcgaming for some that are $5 or less:

A few super cheap, not-new games I’ve played that aren’t on the main promo banner:

• Aragami - $3 - Pretty challenging stealth game. The sequel is also on sale, but I hear it’s more action-oriented, less stealth-oriented than the original.
• Anomaly: Warzone Earth - $2 - Strategy game.
• Bastion - $3 - Same developer that made Hades.
• Mount & Blade: Warband - $5 - Sid Meier’s Pirates, but with horses. (This is not the newest game, Bannerlord)
• Sid Meier’s Pirates - $2.50 - Mount & Blade, but with ships.
• X3: Reunion - $2 - Sid Meier’s Mount & Blade, but in spaaaaaaace. (I’ve only played the sequel, X4. But this one looks kind of similar, and is two dollars.)
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six - $2.50 - Tactical FPS. Been a while since I’ve played it. Was definitely cool when it came out.
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon - $3 - Ditto. This one probably holds up better.
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell - $2.50 - Who do you think would win in a fight, Tom Clancy or Sid Meier? I think Sid Meier.
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - $1.50 - Fighting game. Combos are not as timing-sensitive as games like Street Fighter or Tekken.
• Rayman 2 - $1.50 - 3D platformer.

And if you do run into any problems, the Steam overlay should solve any compatibility problems, if you’re OK with launching your games through Steam. I end up doing that with all of my games (including the ones I didn’t buy on Steam) since I think its controller mapping UI is the best.

This may not work out the way I want it to, but I’m actually a little excited about these tech companies making a bunch of anti-consumer decisions all at once. So many mainstream users will be looking for alternatives, and it’s going to provide a great opportunity for non-profit open source projects. It’s already happening with the fediverse suddenly becoming a viable place for discussion in the last 1.5 years. After Windows Recall was announced, I’ve seen more people talking about switching to Linux than ever before. Part of me can’t wait for unskippable Youtube ads.

That’s Metal Gear Solid Y for those who are more familiar with the Xbox layout.

This post made me realize just how few consoles had a CD flap. Is it just the Playstation, Dreamcast, Saturn, and Gamecube? Kind of weird how that was the default for CD players pretty much forever, but not many consoles went with that. PS2, Xbox, and everything after those had some kind of tray or slot. Maybe it was because they could visually stand apart from their competitors more that way.

Come to think of it, there are probably still people playing CS 1.6 today.

Whoa, turns out to be a lot of them. 14,400 as of a few minutes ago! https://steamcharts.com/app/10

That’s as many as the two most recent Battlefield games have combined right now. Battlefield 2042 currently around 8,000 and Battlefield V at 6,000. I’m sure console players would boost the Battlefield numbers quite a bit, but still. That’s pretty cool.

Bleh, yeah I really hate to side with Google, especially when releasing this documentation benefits users and hiding it benefits Google.

It seems weird for this new license to be legally binding. If someone committed this to the wrong repo, and that person didn’t have legal authority over the original content, then how can they have legally relicensed it? I would think that it would be necessary for them to have ownership of the content in the first place.

I downloaded an ISO of it a while ago and played through maybe third of the game. I found it to be very playable. People always mention the long load times, but it’s worth mentioning that long load times were much more common back then. (Although Half-Life on DC was even longer than usual.)

Also, I hate to be nit picky, but the blog post linked here manages to be weirdly wrong about two things and it’s barely one paragraph long, lol.

Half-Life is one of the most successful video games of the early 2000s.

Ahhh, 1998. One of the best years of the early 2000s.

Half-Life was everywhere… except one notable place: Sega’s Dreamcast. It has been a mystery as to what happened with a game destined to have a port on every possible platform.

Half-Life was a PC exclusive until the PS2 port in November 2001, ten months after the Dreamcast was discontinued. The PC and PS2 versions are still the only official versions to this day. Half-Life is not known for being on every platform. Was the author thinking of Doom, one of the best games of the mid 70s?

I think the the previous post was sarcasm. :)

Unfortunately, this seems to be the only option, besides using your own domain so that you control forwarding yourself. Basically, pay someone like Firefox Relay to do forwarding, or do your own forwarding. Firefox Relay does give you five email addresses for free, which is cool. (https://relay.firefox.com/#pricing)

I’ve noticed that the “+” sign trick with Gmail just doesn’t work at all anymore. Anyone that wants to maliciously send you emails knows to remove what comes after the + sign, so that you can’t tell which of your sub-addresses was originally used. And anyone that hacks a database to steal email addresses knows to remove it as well, to cover their tracks.

I know that Telegram has a lot of users, so I’m not describing all of them here. But I’ve noticed that it seems especially popular among people who kind of like to “play pretend” as underground hackers. You know, the kind of person who likes to imagine that the government would be after them.

This mudslinging feels like more of a marketing campaign than anything else. An info op that will work well on the Telegram users who like to imagine that they have outmaneuvered all the info ops.

GN also asked him for advice as part of their video – they mention him a few times in it.

Or “things you possess,” either. I remember being told (maybe in a college class, but I don’t remember exactly) that you can be compelled to give up the key to a lock, but not the combination to a lock.

I’ve heard this argument before, but I’m not sure that the numbers support it. Despite the Dreamcast having a head start, the PS2 started eclipsing the DC’s sales almost immediately, and that’s even with the PS2 having some supply problems early on.

If piracy was the main problem, I would expect to see huge system sales and small game sales. Instead, the DC just didn’t sell very well outside of its initial launch.

I’m not saying piracy didn’t exist, but Sega had lost so much support from customers and developers with the 32X, Sega CD, and Saturn, I suspect those are more to blame. They’d have been able to handle the problem of game copying better if they didn’t have a dozen other problems at the same time. Heck, it was the first console with built-in online services, and that’s the industry’s main way of dealing with piracy now.

I suppose they only did it now due to some license agreement expiring?

Yep, if I understand it right, Denuvo charges an annual fee to be used. That’s why you always see it getting removed after the game loses relevance, when sales aren’t enough to justify paying for Denuvo anymore.

Kind of weird how, because Bethesda (and other publishers) are Denuvo’s consumer, this particular anti-consumer license agreement is actually benefiting the players, haha.

I’m late to the party with Hades, but am enjoying the first game right now.

Also, wow, there’s a familiar face in that video! I remember watching Greg Kasavin do reviews for Gamespot back when video reviews were still a pretty new thing. (found one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhb9ZpfU-mQ)