https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXKIddF6xZ0>Spearheaded by retro programmer Kan Naito and notorious JP retro Youtuber 4ST>Kan Naito is better known for his work at Chunsoft as a programmer on DQ3 & 4 before leaving and funding his own company, Climax Entertainment, who worked on Shining Force and Stalker series among others>The game is a spin-off of "Lady Stalker" which in itself was a spin-off of Landstalker>The original character designer for Lady Stalker, Yoshitaka Tamaki, passed away back in 2023, but the game will include a new never seen before character designed by him>The main gimmick of the game is the cartridge board itself, which had a previous successful crowdfunding campaign for its development>The two LEDs on the sides of the cartridge will react to the game in different ways, such as lighting up different colors in battle depending on the actions of the player, working as an item detector while exploring the field, used as a compass during dungeons, change color during some conversations depending on the mood, etc >Scale wise, Naito said he wants to make something at least on the level of DQ2, but may expand the game more or make a more ambitious sequel depending on reception>Since the cartridge board funding met its stretch goals, more features will be added like : WiFi & BT, large size ROM and RAM, chips for enhanced graphics and sound, and more>Apparently they're also working on a modern Famiclone console, so "more people can enjoy the game"Thoughts?
>>12459973vaporware, also>Wifi for a fucking nes cartridgepeople really throw money at shit like this huh
Hey if it's a turn based RPG, neat I might look into itIf it's not? Well hopefully it does well for them lmao
>>12459978Why the fuck not?If you're gonna make a gimmicky cartridge may as well go all the way. The main thing was the LEDs so we don't know anything about how WiFi may even be used, but would be cool if it could be used to update the ROM or even just to backup your saves, maybe even use the BT to let you use an external controller without an adapter instead of your crusty old original controllers and chink clones, I see no harm in including the technology unless it was for something retarded like DRM.
>>12459973>Yoshitaka Tamaki, passed away back in 2023It still hurts.
>>12459973>Thoughts?Sounds like instead of putting work into game design with the goal of making something compelling enough to that people would want to play, they put work into making it sound really gimmicky so that people will buy it to post pictures on social media.
>>12459973Sounds like a grift desu.
I saw 4ST was working on the game with led cart thing but didn't realize it was connected to Ladystalker, that's kind of interestingReally I have enough games already but I'm tempted to pick this up if the genre looks like my kind of thing
>>12460003yeah, it makes me think of Mighty no 9. they won't fulfill 50% of their promises assuming it gets released
>>12459989>update the ROM Cancer. If you are making a game for a retro console, i expect it to be a complete experience and not introduce lame ass modern dlc/drip feed patches BS.
what a dogshit fucking name
Didn't read but it looks like an RPG Maker hentai game
>>12459973id be interested unfortunately I dont have a top loading fc/nes so I wouldnt be able to play it to its full potential. Not interested in a famiclone either.
>>12459973It sounds like an early 90s Famicom gimmick with a modern twist. If they produce famiclones that are not only good but cheap then based but besides that I have no interest in this.
Sad to see westerners so cucked by shitty KS projects of hasbeen game celebs that they can't trust anything anymore.No, this is not a grift, if it was it's a fairly pitiful one not worth ruining either man's reputations. This is as low scale as it can be, there's no plans for any kind of international or digital release, no modern platforms either, it's squarely aimed at the JP market and at hardcore retro enthusiasts at that, that's a fairly small market if you're looking to pull a scam. Furthermore, 4ST has a good track record with retro crowd funding projects so far, he just recently fulfilled a previous project to produce physical copies of unreleased SNES game Cooly Skunk, worked with the devs and everything.I don't own a Famicom myself but the idea sounds pretty cool and I think the custom cartridge at least adds merit to using the cartridge format beyond "muh authenticity", I'm not holding my breath for this to ever get dumped or emulated. Also, if you know even a bit of Japanese check 4ST's channel, there's legit interesting stuff that I had never even heard of before on western channels and the man always goes the extra mile while researching stuff, not just a googler/wiki reader. He also has a background in TV showbiz so the editing and narration are pretty good.
Dragon Quest wasn't good enough to rip off.
>>12459973Cool but>female protagI play old games to get away from this garbage
>>12459978nintentoddlers deserve to have their money stolen>>12459989>update the romcringe>DRMgood luck with that. 6502 is one of the most well understood and documented CPUs of all time. any drm would last around 5 minutes before the protection is stripped out and patched
>>12460597calling someone a "nintentoddler" for being interested in an original game inspired by a non-nintendo property is some 20 IQ shitposting.
>>12460607>original gameit's yet another generic rpg with utterly generic graphics>is some 20 IQ shitposting.your iq is so dangerously low that it's like watching a switch flip between 0 and 1. you'd have to be clinically retarded and drooling in a wheelchair to conjure up the thought that this is "original". what is original about it, drooling retard? LEDs in the cart?! WOOOWWEEEE.
>>12460573The protagonist of this game is from a mid 90s game the oldfag working on it also worked on back then.
>>12460624The LED idea is unironically cool, sorry you're a jaded faggot with no sense of wonder, Anon.
>>12460637>LEDs are an original idea>you have no sense of wonder if you don't think LEDs are an original idea for a product
>>12460630So what is this, a Famicom demake?
>>12459973Crazy that AGTP has taken so long on his translation of Lady Stalker that a whole new Lady Stalker game will probably come out before the original ever gets translated.
>>12459973>>Apparently they're also working on a modern Famiclone console, so "more people can enjoy the game"Well now I'm thinking this is just a scam.
>>12460524>Those japanese famicom homebrew who have not been purchased outside of japan, cant be purchased outside of japan and cannot be dumped online............Why are japs this fucking stupid?
>>12460573fucking retard
>>12460638you're a boring, jaded faggot. just go buy a ps5.
>>12460687We almost didnt got Estique and another japanese Shump game dumped and when it did someone dump a meme anti piracy version with fucked up difficulty but some chinks actually fixed it.But at least Estique got an US limited release.
>>12460624you didnt refute my statement which means I was right
>>12460686Is it? Famiclones aren't exactly hard or expensive to make these days. Doesn't mean that it'll be good, mind you, just that it's not some unreachable barrier to entry that makes it an automatic scam.
>>12460046Not really, I heald that nickname for awhile.
God I hope this board never allows seventh gen, I can really feel how much worse the userbase has gotten ever since sixth gen was allowed in.
>>12460796take a breath unc
>>12459973It looks way too close to Dragon Quest. And I mean, not even the biggest "DQ clones" on Famicom look THAT close to DQ. All the overworld/town/character graphics look like they are basically traced.Then the art style of the character portrait at the shop looks anachronistic, it looks very modern.I'll play it when a ROM dumps.
>>12460804You dare call me unc on the retro board?
Look at those homebrew Famicom games that will NEVER be dumped https://x.com/HQ3ABFpTDinbQjo/status/2035251404957458629
>>12461593>breakout clone with loli in the background>some sort of VNain't missing much
Why remake one of your forgotten Landstalker spinoffs for the Famicom? If it's not isometric then what's the point?
>>12461593>Gradius clone>Generic rpg with big tittet women>UOOOOH RORI CANNY BANZAI NIPPONWow, we sure are missing out.
>>12460637Original famicom carts already did LEDs.
>>12461629shut up loser.
>>12461593Can you even buy them outside of komiket type events?
>>12459973Dunno.The name feels stupid.If you apply the 90's logic you may think this is a kind of a game about a man, who follows other woman.Seriously, what was they thinking with retarded naming like this?>WiFi & BT, large size ROM and RAM, chips for enhanced graphics and sound, and moreSounds nice! I wonder if the mapper is a cheap microcontroller like ESP32 inside?
>>12461646>said the 4chan user
>>12460691Yes, yes (you) are.
>>12461593Meds
wake me up once the ROM gets dumped
>>12461695It's obviously a pun you dolt.>Hahaha, it is actually a lady and that's her name or what she does you see?
>>12460687They don't understand the rest of the world. A Japanese artist (be it musician, game developer, mangaka, etc.) can live off the local audience and get rich without even learning a single word of English. Their mentality is basically "Why would American want to play/listen to/watch our stuff? Don't they already have comics, games and music made specially for them?"
>>12461781Isolationism is a hell of a disease.
>>12461730Fuck right off,
>>12461783isolationist mindset is why they have their own cultural identity rather than just relying on foreigners to entertain them.
>>12461841Everyone needs cultural enrichment anon, are you some kind of incel nazi chud?
>>12461593Most doujin games, Famicom or otherwise, never find their way online. That's just the nature of the medium.
>>12461865I agree, Ethiopia is way too homogenous and could really do with some European culture.
>>12461912How very antisemitic of you.
>>12461876Oh that makes it ok, I take it back, subservience and complacency are the biggest deceases.
>>12461929Jews cheer the destruction of the Islamic world.
>>12461876Im sure companies like Columbus Circle would have no problem manufacturing larger runs of them.
>>12459973bizarre
>>12461612The SNES Lady Stalker was also an RPG, unlike Landstalker there's not really much point to it being isometric. It's more in the vein of Time Stalkers for the Dreamcast which also abandoned the isometric angle.
But why not remake/make a sequel to landstalker? A lot more people would be interested
>>12462470Not the same devs.>Why is IGA making a new Castlevania game? Why doesn't he make a new Mario? A lot more people would be interestedThat's what you sound like
>>12461593>post says "homebrew">tweet says cancelled Sunsoft games>one of them's even Wing of Madoola 2/vr/ just falls for it without even running the tweet text through a machine translator
>>12462485>Not the same devs.Yes it is. Kan naito programmed landstalker what are you smoking
>>12460643No, it looks like a new game with some of the same characters but in a Dragon Quest turn-based rpg style rather than what the original Lady Stalker game was.
>>12462480embarrassing post
>>12461934You are mental.
>>12459973>WiFi & BT, large size ROM and RAM, chips for enhanced graphics and sound, and moreThe curse of every Kickstarter : They bite off more than they can chew with extra goals they have no way of actually reaching. You'd think that after so many years, they would have finally learned. I expect this to turn into a years long boondoggle/catastrophe.
>>12463505I was going to say. Let's see you guys try and code an RPG on an UNROM cart with 128k ROM like the original DQ2 and get back to me. See how well you handle the limitations developers actually had to work with back in the day.
>>12462470This is a small hobby project from Naito who just wanted an excuse to program a new Famicom RPG like in the old days but with his current accumulated experience over the years, not a large scale commercial release designed for mass appeal and profit.They didn't even announce that it was gonna be Lady Stalker related until recently, it likely turned this way because Naito already owns that property and it's easier than coming up with a brand new setting, so he can focus more on the programming part.
>>12461645Yeah but the damn thing only served the indicate that the console was on and nothing else. Is it that hard to imagine some jp kid owning one of those carts back then and thinking "man, it would be cool if the light actually did something" ? That's pretty much who this is appealing to.
why does he refuse to make something more like the best game he ever made?
ok, i know i'm not insane.a number of years ago, SOMEONE from the Landstalker team made a post that said>Landstalker and Shining are in the same universe!and then SOMEONE from the Shining team made a post that said>The fuck it is.was that Naito? was that Tamaki? i can't remember who said it anymore but i remember when it happened.trying to google it only gives me fucking obituaries for Tamaki.
>>12463517Try not to make it a crappy NesMaker tier slop.
>>12463705https://shining.wiki/wiki/Nothing_Is_Canon
programmers really do have extreme incurable autism
>>12463819so it was Yasuhiro Taguchi that denied it, not Yoshitaka Tamaki, but Tamaki sounds like he also held a grudge because of the drama at Climax. what a shame they couldn't get one more out as good as Landstalker.
>>12463843I'd be pissed off about "getting fired" and denied work on the series you filled with lots of Soul (pun intended) in too.He took it far more graceful than Camelot staff though.
>>12463771ha no, you're going to code in 6502 assembly language and like it
>>12460573
imagine if Sonic Team outlived Sonic and had to redesign their logo to remove Sonic.
>>12464175I don't think that Sonic Software Planning and Sonic Team were ever active at the same time.Not sure why you posted Climax logo though. I assume you meant to post Camelot.
>>12464246nvm, for some reason i thought they were related.the logo on the company website does indeed still have Friday.
>>12463926Kekerino
>>12464251Ooh. I thought you meant something completely different.Yeah, I think that the only reason they would've removed Friday is if they lived long enough to see the era of soulless logos with close to zero individuality.Also, I have also confused them with the Br*tish studio at some point in the past. Common mistake.
>>12459978>wifiAlways online DRM for an NES game :^)
>Features are just an excuse for people not to pirate it
>>12465121You're way overestimating these guys. They're not that smart.
This is actually brilliant. I want to see more modern cartridge games with crazy features.Yesterday I was thinking about a cart that actually opens up and gives you a prize when you beat the game.
>>12459973Looks like doujintrash that appeals to tumblr westerners.Cave Story is overrated.
>>12459973>WiFi & BT, large size ROM and RAM, chips for enhanced graphics and sound, and more>Apparently they're also working on a modern Famiclone consoleNot retro. Also the game sounds like you play as a sexual predator
>>12466170>Also the game sounds like you play as a sexual predatorFor me it's Bodycon Quest
>>12462480IGA should be working on Metroid or reviving Tails Adventure or be put as a consultant for that iffy new Castlevania game
>>12461647>komiketUnc, it's time to boot up that Tor Browser. Onionket is gonna be that new norm soon.
>>12466170Yeah, I’d never heard of the game until that recent thread, and at first I figured Lady Stalker was a /vr/-approved derogatory nickname for Landstalker.
>>12459973It'd be nice to know what the wifi is supposed to do.
>>12459978It's been done before.
>>12463926>the beginning of the end
>>12466185how is that gonna help?
bump
>>12460573You play games to get away from women?
>>12469783>written by a woman>final boss is Dark PhallusKek.
>>12459973Okay but can we get lady stalker in English already?!
>>12460637It is retarded af, if you want to indicate something, just indicate it on screen
>>12460691Imagine coming into a thread about Famicom games and not knowing how common female protags were on that platform since at least 1987
>>12470590lolis and hot ones don't count
>>12470662I know of very few loli protsgs on the NES.
>>12469908It's super effective!
>>12469783I'm good
>>12461943*christian world
>>12471572wasn't aware Iran was Christian.
>>12471582You think iran is their target?
>>12471782I fail to see how totally obliterating the Iranian ayatollah's regime harms anyone other than Iran
>>12459998Same with Itagaki-sama
>>12471802>video games
>>12473064you started it, not me.
>>12463697because that would require actual effort (aka corporate tardwrangling)
>>12473652^This. Let's see you make an RPG on the limited cart hardware devs had in 87. Prove how skilled you actually are.
>>12475597>necrobumping page 11 threadbruh
>>12459973>dude check out this homebrew!!!who the fuck cares? there are a million homebrew "games" out there
>>12475602Most aren't very good either.
>>12475602/vr/ related news, like it or not.More so than your 6th gen threads, zoomie
>>12475602This is from some of the og DQ devs. I care.
>>12475697Not really retro though
wish someone would translate the existing ladystalker game, the sequel to landstalker
>>12475962there's not even any jumping, dude. might as well play Time Stalkers.
>>12459973>NewNot retro. Read the Sticky.
>>12476095So it sucks? The screenshots I've seen look nice.
>>12476095According to Google's AI hallucination, the translation is out!
>>12476469
>>12476440as someone who made it through Time Stalkers, i say don't bother unless you didn't hate Time Stalkers.
>>12460573it's not >female protag :|it's>female protag, Japan :Dlearn the difference, it could save your life
>>12476691Even more trans-coded, ngl
