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Even if there was region or copyright protection, those things only delay the onset of -pira- _freedom,_ pretty much every non-current gen console's protection has been defeated

@@Just.Kidding And rightly so. The abused and inflated cost of games for dead and abandoned systems is a true crime. No one's making money accept huckster and scalper sellers. Poor Nintendo, they aren't making enough money! CD-R back ups are a way for hobbyists like me who just want to play the games and not sell or collect them to fight back against corperate greed and inequities.

@@MitchellAzevedo-e3x And also devices like the Evercade. I'm considering getting one for the TG if only to help with beta testing new homebrew games for it.

Kinda missed the point with that last one M8

@ No. i just think you used footage of the wrong game there. Luckily mini systems are unaffected

That's really interesting to hear that, I'm definitely going to have to look into checking out Habit, I love a good homebrew! I'm going to add those others to my list too if I can ever afford them, this console is entirely a blindspot for me, but I'm looking forward to being able to explore more of it, if I'm able.

There's a lot of great games on it, especially on the Japanese side of things since they got far more games. There are a few that only came out in North America, but not many. My opinion of the best western only released game is Beyond Shadowgate(not the modern one, that's a different game). It's a great point & click type adventure, but with an actual attack button. And the graphics are all hand painted, it's quite nice looking. Only thing I wish they had done before releasing it is making the player just a tad faster when walking. But yeah, at this point, a lot of pricey games. Though I think generally speaking, the Japanese release of a game is usually cheaper then the western release.

I'm certainly not afraid to import, half of my decades worth of videos are on them. Right now I've got five big cd releases I want to focus on, Last Alert, Rondo of Blood, Kaze Kiri, Winds of Thunder, and Sapphire (But I'll also need an expansion to play it so its a lesser priority). It's a shame about most of the releases being in japan though as an RPG fan, it limits my domestic options to Y's, Cosmic fantasy 2, and Exile i think? I've been looking for ones that communicate with pictographs as another option though I haven't gotten far in that regard. I'm going to need to do a lot more research though, this was literally the start of my PC Engine experience, before this I thought most of the games based on what I saw were super jank platformers like Bravoman or Tatsunoko fighter. So hearing about the strengths and finding like actually good games has been a bit of a surprise to me, but I love discovering all of this history.

@@SoloWingFury ironically, it's actually the TG that got me into RPGs in the first place! Cosmic Fantasy 2 was my first, and these days is definitely on the basic side as far as combat, but that game that opened up an entire genre to me. There's actually quite a few RPGs on the system, just not a lot of them got translated. Depending on your definition of rpg,, in English, there's also Legend of Heroes Dragon's Slayer(sadly the second game never got translated), Neutopia 1 & 2, D&D: Order of the Griffon, Might & Magic 3, Beyond Shadowgate(point & click type), Loom(point & click), Dynastic Hero, Dragon's Curse, Dungeon Explorer 1 & 2, Dungeon Master Theron's Quest, Final Lap Twin(has an RPG mode), World Court Tennis(has an RPG mode), Mysterious Song(homebrew that I helped on), Shapeshifter & Cadash. Not to mention Ys 1-3 & CF 2 obviously. The first 4 Wizardry games are mostly in English, but the 5th game has less English. Fan translations are Ys 4, Startling Odyssey 2, Legend of Valkyrie, War of the Dead, Xak 3, Tengai Makyou Ziria(the first CD RPG ever??), Makai Hakkenden Shada, Bikkuri Man World, Cyber Knight, Out Live, Private Eyedol. Sorcery Saga(Madou Monogatari). There's maybe one or two in here that I might be mistaken about them being fully translated. Then Cosmic Fantasy 1, 3, & 4 are all in English on the Switch. Also, Necromancer has a partial translation. Might & Magic 1 is apparently translated, however, it requires a system card 2.0 that's been hacked to run properly. I'm hoping somebody will get around to hacking that game further so we can just run it with a standard system card. And there's a variety of other RPGs that are in the works as far as fan translations go, Legend of Xanadu 1 & 2 have had a lot of work done on them but are on hiatus. Emerald Dragon, Sindibad, Benkei Gaiden, Anearth Fantasy Stories among others have had work done on them.

I am DEFINITELY gonna need to get Dragon Slayer, I thought it wasn't translated, that's super good to know! Neutopias are actually like the only hucards I've really known I wanted, I've played the latter three sequels before that unfortunately got their name scrubbed and were left on nintendo handhelds like a decade later, but I loved those games! I've actually already covered Dynastic hero on this channel, though with a slightly different coat of paint, but I'm a huge fan of Wonder Boy, and I have a deep personal history with Cadash, so yeah I'm going to need to get a hold of that for sure! I recognise some of those names too from my import saturn collection, and any time i get to think of my saturn is a huge bonus. I am going to have to add all of those on to my list. I knew there was a Cosmic Fantasy Collection on the switch, but I didn't realize it was in English, that is VERY useful to know. I'm really curious about that Mysterious Song, hearing about homebrew stuff is always super interesting, and to hear it from a person who directly worked on it is very cool. I'm going to have to make a point in finding it!

Same design team. T's Music, they also did Sapphire & Hyper Wars which have a similar sound.

Ah, that makes lots of sense! Thanks!

@@bjornh1527 T's Music did a lot of stuff back then. I don't recall seeing any individual employee names, so it's hard to nail down who does what. But there's times when you can hear similarities between soundtracks, like the ones mentioned above. Two more that T's Music did that have similarities to each other (but not to the above games)are Cotton and Dungeon Explorer 2. The style of both of them is identical, but definitely has a different sound than Lords of Thunder Etc. Those two games also use some live guitars and maybe other live instruments, but there's definitely a distinctive sound that connects the two of them.

@@ParanoiaDragonA few names you are looking for is Takeshi Sato, Chamy, and Satoshi Miyashita, they aren't the only music staff members though. T's music was involved in some very obscure games so information and credits can be hard to find but it's a large company of staff that seemed to change constantly, ___ lists all the composers that had worked with them The games worked on by T's music are not well documented I have found Monster Maker 4, Wachenroder, Shutoko battle, Gungriffon II, Motor Raid, Evil Zone, and Willy Wombat had the company or some of it's members in the credits, and many more that I don't recall off-hand

@@ParanoiaDragon And, searching either of those names on youtube should lead to some more examples of their work (it looks like my other comment was deleted) the names are out there but I guess I cant name anything without getting this taken down just check T's music and find some databases, putting the names in youtube search may bring up other games too, some of them worked on Evil Zone, Willy Wombat, Monster Maker 4, and a lot more that isn't well documented

There were two of pretty much every game made, with the exceptions of the parts collection games, the ps1 game, the card game, and the ps1 game. IF you are getting into the english ones there were translations of the originals, the third game, as well as the ps1 game too, and I've got videos on a good number in the series as I was a huge fan of Rokusho.

I appreciate your kind words, currently I'm dealing with two losses in my family, and struggling to get help from the mental health industry, but on the upswing it probably can't get worse, so things will only get more amazing! And there will always be awesome games, it might just be entirely from 30 years ago, but they are there and I intend to do my best to show as many off as I can because it's what I love more than anything!

@@SoloWingFury that's a whole lot to deal with all at once. it feels like bad fortune likes to compound on itself, huh? but ur right that it doesn't last forever. proud of u for staying strong, never lose the fighting spirit brother

I'm doing my best, I appreciate t hat you enjoyed it.

Interesting, I'm going to block out some time to look at it, maybe make it part of my birthday stream!

@@SoloWingFury You're probably going to be bored playing it since there's not much to see and it's very slow

Absolutely, it hurts to have to say it about a sequel to such a special game though.

In the long term that's actually not a great plan, which is why I specifically didn't do that. If you create lists by X console or Y genre you pigeonhole yourself, and every list you make afterwards will have to be predicated on the previous lists you've made if only to be consistent and not confusing to the viewer. This in turn limits what meaningful content your lists can actually contain as you'll simply be regurgitating your previous stuff, if only to be consistent with you message. e.g. If I made a list on the best xbox 360 games period, it would be largely redundant to make a best of ps3 list because cross platform stuff would likely dominate it, as well as a list for the generation. Whereas with how I've done things I can now make a list on ps3 exclusives, and cross platform games for the generation, with zero chance of tripping on previous lists In addition, if you go with broad concepts like that, you can very easily run out of things you can do for the exact same reason, there are countless websites and channels that start by making lists based on consoles and immediately run out of steam, or ideas, or simply repeat what they've already done. that's why I've always felt it was wiser in the long term to go in with topics as specific as you possibly would make, so as to not end up running out of ideas, or basically making the same thing over and over ad Infinitum. Besides, the whole goal of why I made this in the first place, was that I wanted people to see the things they could only get from this console and why they should care.

@@SoloWingFury i'm not reading all that.

That's it exactly, you should love kid chameleon, but I just can't for whatever reason. I've never really liked the Dragon Age games fullstop. The first one had a great world, but terrible gameplay. The sequel had the inverse problem. The third game was kind of average at both, but was a horrible buggy mess that wasn't properly tested, I have footage of me killing a high level optional dragon at level 1 because no one tested its detection boundaries, or its range vs yours, and your range is further than its fireball iirc, or the time I got to the final room in a DLC by sliding down a wall from the start, it's just bad. I've always wanted to geet into front mission and mechwarrior, it's a shame they're both pretty bland sounding. I never liked Alex Kidd to begin with, and I don't have the nostalgia to meet it on its terms because my SMS had Hang On preinstalled. I can't imagine a mighty max game being good, though I did enjoy the one toy of the series I had as a kid, i think it was a volcano? I don't really get Prince of Persia myself, though I am trying to get into PC Engine CD games, I guess I can cross that one off my list? I always thought the N64 Conker's game was a pretty big pile myself, but I also ran into bunch of softlocks while trying to play it. I only vaguely know that there was a gbc game, though I didn't think it ever got released. There's a few Aladdin bootlegs out there I don't think any of them are all that good, but I only know one company that made really good bootleg games. Same boat, unless the sport is basically removed from the sports game, like that baseball thing i recently made a video on, I just don't get it. I liked Sea of Stars myself, it was on my good list last year, but I can see how people would bounce off it. I really appreciate hearing your picks, it's got me interested in a few things!

I'll do my best to hang on, thank you for the kind words.

I appreciate that, I'm just going to keep going as best I ca, it's all I can do. But thank you for being there, and I hope you have a great new year!

I hope you enjoy its a great game of exploration and speculation, it meant a lot to me, finally getting to play it.

Yeah there don't appear to be many copies of this out here. I was looking it up a couple years back and only one copy was available online at the time for like $1800. It may very well be my rarest game, but its one of my all time favourites for the system.

@@SoloWingFury I agree, I like this type of game and style. In a way, it's like an early Splatoon. I'd have bought it for around $30 but not $500+ lol. As a kid I would have really liked it too but it never came out in the US.

Lagoon, and I have a complicated connection, but I liked it enough to make an award out of it, and its music could be very goo.

I do like it too. I know the sword is tiny and the original version used bump-combat, but I still enjoyed it. As a youth I reached the end boss, but I’m way worse at it now. Music is a masterpiece anyway!

I like stuff like that, and I've tried to get into games like rimworld before but I find their controls and systems to be overwhelming. But I would love to find more games like Kenshi!

I've played a few of those. I think the first Mass Effecxt is very clunky, and I absolutely hate the vehicle sections. Its sequel was much better. I've played Paradise Killer as you well know, that game is amazing! Freedom Planet is great, I'm still not sure how I feel about the sequel though. Episode 1 Racer, really was a great game for its time, even though I'm only familiar with the worst version of it, it's surprising there aren't a million sequels to it, just sort of two-ish? I've always wanted to try the MediEvil games, i remember seeing a game in a magazine a long time ago I always wanted to play, but never knew what it was, but I think it might have been that. Dread Delusions was great, I'm glad I found it last year, even though my saves have been wiped so many times I never lost interest in exploring the macabre world! Tinykin was a fun mix of Pikmin and like Banjo Kazooie, it was a fun experience. I played a bunch of Prodigal, I really want to try the dev's next game, they seem to know how to make a solid retro style game.

I think the only game on there i'm familiar with is Harold's Walk, I liked that game myself, though not as much as Automaton Lung. The only issue I had with it was that triple jump they don't tell you about and one of the last levels needs it. I'll keep an eye out for the rest though, and that dragon squadron game could be something i might enjoy.

iirc it was a game genie code.