The marathon of games event is over and produced some great speedruns for many, many games. Aside from the laundry list of games being played to beaten quickly, there was a charity event attached to it. Visit their website for info on what you missed and how to donate to help prevent cancer and to further cancer detection research.
Past broadcasts can found on their Twitch channel, other highlights are belong.
One of the most beloved and perhaps overlooked entries in the Final Fantasy series will finally get a re-release on the Steam platform. This release is also partially upgraded with some features exclusive to Valve’s service like trading cards.
In addition to other Steam features, the port boasts a few upgrades according to the store page:
・Achievements
・Seven game boosters including high speed and no encounter modes.
・Autosave
・High-definition movies and character models.
The expected release for FFIX on Steam is “early 2016.”
Cartridges from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras of consoles had a battery to maintain the save data. Aside from passwords, this was pretty much the only way to keep your progress. But, like all batteries, they eventually loose power and can no longer retain the memory of the RAM.
Batteries on a chipset can be replaced in some cases, but once the console is turned off, the data would be lost without a viable way to save it internally. Twitter user Wanikun found the option of losing the save data to Umihara Kawase unacceptable and left the Super Famicom powered on for 20 years to do so.
Even after moving, it seems that the Famicom is again plugged in, the save data still intact.
The video itself is just the boot screen, but it appears to be working.
How will the legacy operating system work on the popular dual screen device? Not much else is known but the original forum post is teeming with ideas.
I thought this would never happen due to some complications cited in the past, but Mega Man Legends has made it to the PS3/Vita as a PS1 classic!
Is a digital US re-release of Legends 2 slated for PSN in the near future? Let’s cross our fingers…
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