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We Play Windjammers with DotEmu

The Windrumors are true! The wizards at DotEmu have brought flying power discs to the people.

Feb. 24 2017

Cast: Jeff, Brad

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Windjammers

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Can you tell me about zee multiplayerrr?

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Welp, can't do unlimited and the main dude really likes scanlines. Looks like I'll have to stick with GGPO or FightCade or whatever it's called nowadays.

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After all those years of hearing how awesome the game is and simultaneously how impossible it is to actually get and play I'm glad we can finally put it behind us and everyone can enjoy it. Even if it's just local and online sucks or whatever it's still a huge step forward for people being able to readily enjoy the game after all the hype.

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People who say CRTs and Scanlines on old games made for them are bad, need to put the controller down and never play another video game in their life. Bad Scanlines that do a poor job I understand, but dissing the classic, makes you unable to be a true gamer. Quit now.

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@craftxiii said:

Tell DotEmu to fix their shitty port of Raiden Legacy on Steam and I'll consider buying this game.

Ok.

Hey DotEmu! Fix your shitty port of Raiden Legacy on Steam!

Are you going to consider buying this game now?

That depends. Did you tell DotEmu? Or just this comments thread?

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@toggery: I did Qualify it with "in the 20 mins of video" Her competitiveness came off as Dan like in the short time we had in the video. IMO

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2014 seems so long ago where people didn't believe in dreams

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Giant Bomb got weird.

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Simulated scanlines are like over dependency on bad CGI in a movie, it takes me out of the experience and destroys my immersion.

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Man this version of windjammers seems great, but boy do I not need these corporate hype men and women that game companies send to QLEXs these days. Just have some devs talk about and leave the entertaining banter to the Giant Bomb staff.

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I got a feeling the woman is the new hire :)

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This is esport! Do you copy? This is esport!

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That awkward moment where the developer chooses the play in CRT mode.

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Hope this comes to PC but will be picking up on PS4, is there AI in local games?

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@gimbal_lock: how the fuck did you come to any of that conclusion?! She just seemed like a normal human being to me!

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Is this the us version ? I have the neogeo version and it says b. Yoo and he says eat a poker chip

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@av_gamer said:

People who say CRTs and Scanlines on old games made for them are bad, need to put the controller down and never play another video game in their life. Bad Scanlines that do a poor job I understand, but dissing the classic, makes you unable to be a true gamer. Quit now.

I have an old CRT that I sometimes use for NES and the like, and I think it looks great. Most CRT filters, on the other hand, look TERRIBLE - the screen warp is exaggerated, fake scanlines don't look a great deal like a real CRT, none that I've used seem to emulate a CRT's image persistence, and having an unwarpped/scanlined border image just highlights that.

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I ... really... don't like any marketing people, ever ;_;

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@stordoff said:
@av_gamer said:

People who say CRTs and Scanlines on old games made for them are bad, need to put the controller down and never play another video game in their life. Bad Scanlines that do a poor job I understand, but dissing the classic, makes you unable to be a true gamer. Quit now.

I have an old CRT that I sometimes use for NES and the like, and I think it looks great. Most CRT filters, on the other hand, look TERRIBLE - the screen warp is exaggerated, fake scanlines don't look a great deal like a real CRT, none that I've used seem to emulate a CRT's image persistence, and having an unwarpped/scanlined border image just highlights that.

I agree. Like I said, the bad scanlined imitations are crappy. Fortunately, there are good filters out there like HLSL, and GEOM. Both proved very realistic scanlines, shadow mask, bloom, etc compared to real CRTs: Not perfect, but really close. My point was the people who shun CRTs in general when classic games were made and in a lot of cases look best on them.

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Damn, I wish we could like comments, also that guy in the very beginning really is an intense blinker, he blinks with his whole face as he holds that impossible pose until they select an option. So weird.

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Looks good, glad it's still Windjammers at the core.

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@zabant said:

Half the video runtime is sat at the main menu, reminded me of old times with Ryan QL's :'(

Oh gosh, you're right.

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did GB stopped labeling Quicklook-EX

EDIT: Jeff met his match

EDIT 2: also Day 1

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For all those calling for Stephanie Tinsley to get the Giant Bomb job -- she's probably slightly out of their price range considering she's basically the top hired gun in games PR.

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God hate the CRT filter, and yes this would be cool on the PC.

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@bathala said:

did GB stopped labeling Quicklook-EX

EDIT: Jeff met his match

EDIT 2: also Day 1

Yeah, Jeff said elsewhere that they're changing what it's called to make it more clear that it's different from a regular Quick Look. Also because EXs are usually unfinished games, so really they should be Unfinished EX, but that just makes the branding even more confusing.