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Nickname: Nakano
Projet name: Company v1.0 - Story Edition
From: Nakano & Motuk
Division: Retro GAME
Platform: PSP
Original enter: YES
Support Motion: NO
In last NEO Compo this project have won in the top 10: NO

Project Description
Company is a card game where winning takes strategy and luck. Your goal is to open a company and earn more money than other players (cpu). Task is not simple as they try to prevent you from earning money by using threat cards or stealing your company incomes. It is important to protect the money and store it in your bank account! For more details how to play the game, see rules.doc.

Changelog
* Switched to LuaDEV.
* Dropped old primary graphics as new graphics would have been required.
* Bug fixes: Banker calculated wrongly if multiple players had the card. Some other bug fixes too.
* Improved cpu logic.
* Four new playable bonus cards.
* Added sound effects, music and analog support.
* Original story mode.
* Tweaked arcade mode:
- Shows bonus news flashes.
- Can see big images in Card List.
- Possibility to faster increase/decrease cards in Card List.

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If you followed the recent threads you knew that I was visiting a company today which would be a good candidate to produce Batch 2 (and hopefully many more later batches) of the Pandora.

Doing something like this is always exciting.

Can the company produce the boards?
Do they want to do the job?
Can they do it for a good price?
Will they help you with your project? Or simply do what you tell them to do?
Are they friendly, open and honest?

There's so many stuff swirling around in your head before visiting a company... the future of the Pandora depends on finding the right partner.

Well, I'm pretty sure you all want to know how it went today, right?

Right.

The company I paid a visit today is called Global Components and is located in Oberhaching, near Munich. It's about 90km away from me, so it's not too far and I can easily visit them whenever I need.
I arrived at about 11:10am.
Do you know the rare feeling when you enter a building and just know you've come to the right place?

Well, I had that feeling today. I had a real nice meeting and was greeted heartily.
Everyone I've seen there was motivated, they have a great working atmosphere in there.
For me, this is a very good and important sign. It's always a sign of high quality.

The meeting was very assuring.
First I was given a nice company tour. They got high-quality machines in every room, it looks very organized and tidy. I also saw some boards from current production runs and they use even smaller SMD parts than the Pandora.
From what I've seen, I'm pretty sure they can easily produce our boards, and that's one of the most important things!
I brought some pictures with me. Just a little insight into the whole company. I'm happy that i'm allowed to make a movie of the birth of a Pandora board as soon as production starts.

As I had a Pandora PCB with me, their main technician took a look at it. He explained me some things I always wanted to know (like how PoP is being done and how the full population process works, etc.).
He also suggested a solution to place the shoulder buttons way better so we won't have manually fix the plastic with some buttons.

All in all, things looked pretty good for me. They agreed that they want to produce the PCBs
I'm now awaiting a quotation from them (this will take a few weeks), then we'll need to check on the leadtime of the parts and while waiting for those, the production will be set up.
This surely will all take a while. There's no company that can just get the gerber files and start with the production the next day.
The PCBs will take a few weeks to produce, the parts have a certain leadtime and the machine also needs to be setup and programmed.
However, once this is done, PCBs will be finished very fast. I'll get the amount of Pandora PCBs they can produce per week within the next weeks.

Oh, on a side note they mentioned that they would try to help us fix boards with issues as well, in case CC doesn't really move forward here.
I'll send them a few ones of them over, so that they can check if a repair is possible and much it would cost. So if CC doesn't do much, we might move the repairs of the remaining boards of Batch 1 to Germany as well.

Parts, setup, etc. need to be paid upfront, so this is another issue we need to take care of. CC did cost us a lot of money, and we still don't know how fast they'll send us more boards - there still are 1000 missing!
The iControlPad helps us earning money as well, which is great, but the faster we have the total amount of needed money available, the faster the production can start.
That's why I'm also checking for additional solutions to raise money faster. I'll keep you informed on that!
If anyone knows someone who'd like to support us, get in contact with me! I'm sure we can make some good deal here.

Well, anyways, it seems we found a new company that can do the production!
I'm very happy about that, as you never can be sure before visiting them.

The next steps for now are:

* Get a quotation from them, check what parts are needed and how fast
* Make a proper new business plan (including total costs, estimated times, etc.)
* Make sure to have money ready when payments are due
* Try to squeeze as many working boards out of CC as possible

Oh, and of course (as soon as got the top priority things done):

* Continue to work on HotFix 6
* Update the website (REAAAALLY needed!)
* Fix the remaining RMAs
* Check the remaining PCBs I got here

I'll let you know any further steps that happen, as usual ...

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Have you ever heard of Game Expo '95? No? Well, that's not surprising given the fact that this one time event that was held in March 1995 in Tokyo was neither well announced, not well attended or even well visited. Since Nintendo was one of the few attending companies and featured a huge Virtual Boy booth, this odd little show should still of interest for Virtual Boy fans, so I have compiled a little article with all the known info about Game Expo '95. Be sure to also check out the additional material you can find on the report page like article scans or a two minute video from the show floor! ...

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The fine guys over at Retromags have released a new bunch of scans of old videogame magazines. I have gone through them and picked out anything related to the Virtual Boy.

- Videogames 3/95
- Videogames 8/95
- Videogames 11/95
- Videogames 2/96
- Edge 06/95
- Edge 07/96 ...

The PC has been the master of the FPS, adventure and strategy genres for over a decade with some genre defining games along the way, so it’s little wonder that this author values the gaming platform so highly. There’s also very little in the way of PC gaming magazines digitally archived around the globe, so we at Out-of-Print Archive try to address that problem with the first issue of PC Player. This is also an official Maverick Magazines release with the permission of the company’s publisher to release all the issues at OoPA.

PC Player is virtually unknown among retrogamers and was certainly an underdog in the PC magazines scene at the time, but don’t any of those facts get in the way of this fantastic publication. Publisher Hugh Gollner stated in his interview at OoPA that PC Player was “probably the best games magazine [he] was involved with. For serious gamers it was just perfect — big fat, thorough reviews of serious strategy, simulation and adventure games.” And I can’t agree with that statement more. Yes admittadly, the design is, as Hugh also pointed out, a bit of a rip-off from Edge, but with such great content, with up to six pages per review, it doesn’t matter a jot.



One of the more unique features of PC Player were the additional comments within the reviews. Nothing unique about that you may say, but these “Expert Opinions” were from idependent experts in their own field (i.e. for the RPG reviews, PC Player drafted in Dave Renton, the editor of Role Player Independent). Then there were Making Of…, game profiles and developer profiles integrated into some of the bigger reviews, something which definitely wasn’t the norm back in 1993.

That’s not even mentioning the superb design and layout, the use of five-star ratings, the in-depth articles, reviews, previews and players’ guides. PC Player was a magazine that certainly showed lots of potential and initiative when the PC gaming scene was just starting to explode. It was a shame then that the magazine seemed to fade out of existence when Maverick Magazines itself faded out. Or was that the case? There are some suspicious adverts for PC Gamer, Future Publishing’s then fledging PC gaming mag, adorning the latter issues of PC Player. Now that was something you didn’t see often.



The PC Player archive would never have existed without the generousity of Paul Mallinson. The deputy editor on PC Player very kindly donated his spare copies, including the very important first issue that is available now. Also thanks to John Davison (editor), Paul Mallinson (again), Jason Simmons (art editor), Alex Simmons, Keith Sloan (writers), all the contributors and, of course, Hugh Gollner (Publisher), who granted us permission to realease the back catalogue of PC Player at Out-of-Print Archive.

PC Player issue 1 can be found at Out-of-Print Archive, where you will find the full contents and editorial details of the issue, online material chosen from the magazine (reviews of Return to Zork and Privateer and previews of Alone in the Dark 2 and Beneath A Steel Sky) and the all important download links in both full PC resolution and portable device resolution

http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...gital-archive/ ...

Much like their most enduring games series and character, Phantomasa, The Mojon Twins are back releasing new games on the faithful ZX Spectrum with the third in the aforementioned game series: Phantomasa 3 – Fundamentally Loathsome. And it wouldn’t be a Mojon Twins’ game without a deliciously bizarre plot which involves a robot Phantomasa in an alternate Parallel Universe who is on a mission to resuce her father and creator, Julius Gepetus. This involves some classic gameplay as Phantomasa travels back and forth between the four dimensions, taking on all enemies with her rather unique weapon, and I quote, “breasty rainbows” (Bubby and Bobby from Rainbow Islands have nothing on Phantomasa). Being a robot, Phantomas has never been programmed with any modesty and wanders around the dimensions au naturel. Obviously, wearing no kind of clothing or armour while going into battle has its drawbacks as the enemy will close in to do damage. So be careful out there in those dimensions. The game is available as a free download along with the source code and cover artwork.

http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...n-zx-spectrum/ ...

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The following Utilities have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):

•Thunder Force 3 Compression tools (Miscellaneous)(GEN)
•SOALEditor (Game Specific)(GC)
•dsdecmp (Miscellaneous)(Multiple)
•NESCRC32 (Miscellaneous)(NES)
•N64 ROM Renamer (Miscellaneous)(N64)
•Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru Dialog Editor (Game Specific)(GB)
•DSLazy (Miscellaneous)(NDS)
•bass (Assembly Tools)(Multiple)
•header-magic (Miscellaneous)(SNES)
•Epic Edit (Level Editors)(SNES)
Relevant Link: (http://www.romhacking.net/utils/) ...

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I’m happy to announce the release of “Super Mario Bros Rebirth” a complete SMB1 level hack that features 8 new wonderful worlds:

•Mushroom Kingdom
•Battlefield
•Ice Land
•Cave World
•Water World
•Pipe Land
•Flying Fish World
•Sky Land
If you like SMB, why not give it a try! You can even play it online at smbr.remz.ca!

RHDN Project Page

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The fist working AntSnes build for Meego is ready and it’s running on my N950. AtnSnes is Snes emulator for Meego. It is actually based on DrPocketSNES version 6.4.4, which in turn is based on snes9x 1.39


I’ll add this to the public meego repository when I have some more time (build.pub.meego.com). In the mean while you can download it from here.

http://www.summeli.fi/?p=2682 ...