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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 2h

Famitsu Xbox was a spinoff magazine for, well, Famitsu, that focused on the, well, Xbox.

And if you look at all the covers one after the other, and the contents of the magazines, you would swear that the Xbox was a console created by Tecmo.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 2h

That same person jumped into my mentions about it. I don't know who they are, and that was my first interaction with them, and based on how that interaction went, my last.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

But also, regarding these charts, I've always like digging through platform-centric Japanese game magazines that do those sort of "what games do you wanna see on this platform" surveys because it's a real timestamp into what is popular among fans.

Even if most of them are like "Dragon Quest please"

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

I do find it interesting how Sega decided to divide up their output on all the various platforms, partially because they presumably didn't really have the resources at the time to do multiplatform titles, and partially because they had to decide which platforms get which IPs and why.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

For all the bluster about Sega's exclusive output on the Xbox, like Panzer Dragoon Orta and Jet Set Radio Future, as well as a port of Shenmue II, the PS2 ended up getting two revisions of Virtua Fighter 4 and some Sakura Taisen titles, games those few Xbox fans wanted to see on there.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

Looking back at this post I made and this chart. I know in the US, some folks were looking at the original Xbox as the "Dreamcast 2" or whatever (even though Sega did split up their properties across all platforms). Didn't realize what few Japanese Xbox fans they had also kind of wanted that.

MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · Jan 25

The January 2003 issue of Famitsu Xbox had a Top 10 ranking for what games readers want ported to the Xbox. Of that list, I'm pretty sure Guilty Gear XX was the only game to actually release on the Xbox in the form of #Reload. I'm surprised Resident Evil (as a series) is number one.

Top 10 Xbox port requests by readers from the January 2003 issue of Famitsu Xbox:
1. Resident Evil (series)
2. Final Fantasy (series)
3. Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
4. Dragon Quest (series)
5 (tie). Sakura Taisen (presumably series)
5 (tie). Guilty Gear X2
7. Shenmue (first chapter)
8. Super Robot Taisen (series)
9. Devil May Cry
10. Final Fantasy X

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · Jan 25

The January 2003 issue of Famitsu Xbox had a Top 10 ranking for what games readers want ported to the Xbox. Of that list, I'm pretty sure Guilty Gear XX was the only game to actually release on the Xbox in the form of #Reload. I'm surprised Resident Evil (as a series) is number one.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · Jan 24

Looking at some issues of Famitsu Xbox. This Top 20 reader survey chart from the October 2005 issue is interesting. Top four are Tecmo games followed by, surprisingly, some Microsoft first-party titles. Actually a lot of Microsoft first-party titles on the chart.

Xbox reader top 20 chart for October 2005 issue of Famitsu Xbox. Rankings are:
1. Ninja Gaiden
2. Dead or Alive Ultimate
3. Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
4. Dead or Alive 3
5. Halo 2
6. Halo
7. Fable
8. Forza Motorsport
9. Grand Theft Auto Double Pack
10. Panzer Dragoon Orta
11. Jet Set Radio Future
12. Project Gotham Racing 2
13. OutRun 2
14. RalliSport Challenge 2
15. Phantom Dust
16. Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
17. SoulCalibur II
18 (tied). Conker: Live & Reloaded
18 (tied). Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
20. Metal Wolf Chaos

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

I've been told by some random person that the courts found Itagaki innocent which is odd because I assume courts do a "not guilty" verdict rather than an "innocent" verdict which is two completely different things but I am not a lawyer or sex pest defender.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

It's not really a thing nowadays due to a variety of factors. Diminishing returns on graphics, developers can actually optimize and scale things to hardware, etc. Kind of a shame, I always liked hardware limitations pushing devs into trying to make things that shouldn't work on the device work.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

I always liked back then when a game was released on hardware that probably shouldn't have been able to be ran on it at all. Kirby's Adventure on the Famicom/NES is one of the first games where I thought, this game shouldn't be possible on hardware this old and dated. And it's cool for that.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

It was a later release Game Boy game where they crammed way to much into something that felt like it could barely handle it. That it works at all is a miracle. The idea that you can get a game of this scale and complexity running on a 1989 handheld device that only output four shades.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 3h

This is too many hands, anyway Dead or Alive and the 3D Ninja Gaiden games were pretty fun but him being a skeezy sex pest makes looking back at his legacy rough

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 4h

Itagaki was a complicated guy because on the one hand he was a sexual harassment menace at Tecmo but on the other hand he was involved some pretty cool games but on the other hand he was involved in Devil's Third but on the other hand he was a sexual harassment menace at Tecmo

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 4h

The PC Engine CD-ROM got its own disk based magazine with Ultra Box. The first issue is an interesting mixture of animated stories, informative pieces on the PCE, not so good games, and a few console firsts that you'd never expect.

youtu.be/cj5Y6adjVDg

Ultra Box Soukangou/Ultra Box Premier Issue (ウルトラボックス創刊号) - PC Engine Power 145

YouTube video by RndStranger

youtu.be

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

Side note: If you got an Nvidia GPU, it'll kinda suck to get running on Linux, you might have to do more work to figure that out. If you got an AMD GPU, it'll most likely just work without issue. I got an AMD card so I don't have to think about it. Your mileage may vary.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

Look, I listed to weirdo Linux guys for decades and didn't think much about that whole side of the computing world, I get it. I figured I'd just use Windows forever, because that's where you get the video games and shit just works.

I had to want to use Linux. I had to hate Microsoft enough.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

Ultimately, you gotta want it. Saying you want to jump into Linux is fine, but if you can't deal with it, I dunno what to tell you. We're stuck in a world where everyone decided one major company, maybe two, should control everything, and folks got complacent enough that Microsoft can do whatever.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

I made the jump earlier this year, and I spent at least a month making sure all my important files were backed up and all my logins/passwords were squared away. I was also expunging as much of my Microsoft account shit as possible. Then I spent some time testing some OS distros before settling.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

Thankfully, if you can sort of troubleshoot or work with one flavor of Linux, you can carry that knowledge over to others.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

To anybody that wants to jump into Linux, or any other OS really, all I can say is this:

Don't jump right into it. You should back up everything important (if you haven't done that regularly already) and, ideally, you should probably test whatever OS you want to try on a spare drive, if you can.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 9h

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

I've heard good things about that as well.

Ultimately, Linux is pretty flexible and its mostly a matter of finding a distro that does the things you want it to do in the way you want to do it. I assume that's the big thing that stumps folks is that there are Too Many Options.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

If you have a spare hard drive, I recommend using that to test whether you want to move to any distro before committing regardless of what you decide.

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MercuryCDX @mercurycdx.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve been using Fedora KDE Plasma. You can mostly get away with treating it like a weird Windows. At some point it will help to learn a bit of command line stuff but for the most part you can GUI your way through it.

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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 1d

new BlueSky users check this out:

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