I was reading a GameSetWatch post about an interview with the Panzer Dragoon creator and I thought to myself, “Shit, I still haven’t managed to play Panzer Dragoon Saga yet!” If you’re not familiar with the game, it was the last installment of the series on the Sega Saturn, a 4-disc epic RPG. It’s regarded as one of the greatest RPGs but the catch is that it was released in extremely limited quantities in North America. I’ve heard rumors of something like only 25,000 copies were created since it was the end of Saturn’s life-cycle. Copies run for about $120 to this day.

So I went to find out if it was emulated yet. I managed to find a torrent of not only Panzer Dragoon Saga but Radiant Silvergun as well. Regarded as one of the best shooters ever but never released stateside. The game was created by Treasure. I became a Treasure whore solely because of Guardian Heroes but I never imagined what could be so great about a shooter game. Copies of this game sell for up to $200. I finally understand what the hype was about. This is an amazing game.

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I purchased a new Lenovo desktop about a month ago to replace my poorly aged HP laptop. Yay! Windows Vista. Amazingly pretty isn’t it? In spite of the bugginess and the lagginess, I think the interface is a big improvement over XP. Anyway, I stumbled upon my Half-Life 2 disc in a random CD spindle and decided it’d be a good time to reinstall it cause I haven’t had it installed for a couple years.

It’s good that you don’t need a CD key for the game! Especially since I don’t have the box on hand. That’s all verified through your Steam account. Luckily I remembered mine. Unfortunately, you still require a net connection so it sucks for the fools still living in the 1800s without electricity and running water. It took about an hour 🙁 to get all the updates for HL2 and Counter-Strike: Source. But I’m happy now and that’s all that matters.

Steam is my new best friend.

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Everybody Votes!

This blog has more posts about the Wii on it than anything else, but that’s okay because it deserves the attention.

I was just putting the “Everybody Votes Channel” to use on my Wii and thinking about what a concept of genius it is. Look around for thoughts on the Wii voting channel and you see a lot of complaints about how mundane the questions are. A lot of gamers seemed disappointed when they tried it out and realized the questions were irrelevant to gaming and others seem to expect questions of, I don’t know, more scientific value. However, people seem to enjoy it.

Today I answered the following poll questions (I’ve included my answers, just to let you know I take a stand on the issues):

I wish peole would say this more often: A. Hello B. Thank You

My Answer: Hello.

Which language would you prefer to learn? A. Chinese B. Japanese

My Answer: Japanese

Where can you eat the best food? A. Mom’s house B. Restaurant

My Answer: Restaurant

My friends, these may seem mundane, but this information is of the utmost importance to Nintendo! And I’ll tell you why.

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Since it’s so much easier to post links to other peoples’ material…

Relating to an earlier post by Chris – A Day at the Wiicade – where he was exploring the possibilities of Wii & Flash, here is Wiiflash!! Wiiflash is what Chris was waiting for, actually this still won’t be enough for him… but apparently this software not only takes the data from the Wii controller but it passes it along to Flash so you can make things move by tilting and swinging and whatnot. This is possible by connecting Wii remote to a computer through Bluetooth. So no native Wii support still but this is better for sure!

It would be great if Nintendo would acknowledge the possibilities with Flash gaming on Wii, but it seems unlikely because they’d rather have you buy Virtual Console titles. They’re still selling out of hardware so there’s not a big incentive to make things easier for Flash game devs. But in a perfect world…

By the way.

I jacked this – verbatim – from another Flash game development blog, PhysicsDev. Check it out!

-Bryson