Anybody who knows the drama around Paprium and how much the original developer stole from people (literally millions), might enjoy this upload.It had previously been posted to my itch io but was taken down subject to a malicious DMCA (not even by Fonzie but by the creator of the MiSTer core who seems awfully defensive of Fonzie).https://mega.nz/file/4z52VSrQ#bqhJYoHqNtayAW7jMhB-WCHtp88GiAxuAEaC5Pp7MFo
Was it even any good? I actually received my Mega Drive cart years ago and never played it.
It's mid (the AI is really not challenging, at all) and Fonzie sold people on hype alone. Even now there's still websites claiming the game has "CD quality audio" when it's really just glorified tracker music with a few more channels and instruments.I still wanted to preserve it and developing it is fun. I'm just flabbergasted by the braindead DMCA take-down I received. Either somebody is grasping at straws or I got "Vibe DMCA'd"He claimed this piece was copyrightedfor (u32 i = 0x1802; i < 0x1A00; i++) { mb8w(i, 0x80); }It's literally a generic for-loop and, yes, both our implementations use the same integers. I don't think you can copyright numbers and I'm not willing to worsen the code just because he thinks it resembles his.
That Fonzie guy is a fucking thief, he deserves this
>>12898279Only good use of slop AI, to port the slop eurojank megadrive game.
>>12898279>MISTer fags DMCA stuff just for the hell of itSo they are spammers AND copyright trolls too? Cool, time to go throw DMCA claims against MISTer cores for code stolen from emulators.>checks the NES core>still has the copyright info and claim from the guy who made the fpganes originalOh, this is gonna be easy.
Fonzie is a fucking idiot and deserves this. I would have paid to play the game on steam like their last release got but his super autism made him want to make it playable ONLY ON RETRO CONSOLES lolI hope he sees all the posts about his super secure game being cracked and played everywhere. fucking moron
>>12898279>Anybody who knows the drama around Paprium and how much the original developer stole from people (literally millions), might enjoy this upload.Quick rundown?
>>12898540> basically the game took forever and had a lot of bullshit stuff for backers (collectors edition thong)> Fonzie said game would not ever be emulated due to "Datenmeiter" chip or something, which people scrapped the epoxy off and found out its just over the counter chips.> Fonzie would rather spend dev time making a first-launch-troll-game instead of balancing> Game never got a steam port despite their last shitty JRPG getting a steam port> https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2021/02/22/watermelon-games-funds-have-been-seized-company-selling-off-valuable-ips/The sad thing is I am playing this for the first time and I honestly really like it. Why isn't this on modern platforms???
>>12898407Only some of the artwork is decent, the game itself is just meh
>>12898531I can absolutely respect him for wanting to only design a game for retro platforms, but all the anti piracy shit just to make sure you can only ever play it if you have the original cart and couldn't even extract the rom from it, was retarded, unnecessary work.
>>12898546The thing that sucks, is i like the intro troll game and would be a fun gag to show someone with no idea what the game will be like, and then you literally can never get it to start again after the first time. Frenchie should have made it start during boot up by holding down a button combination.
>>12898531I GUARANTEE you would have pirated it on steam. Who the fuck are you kidding bro.
>>12898540>>12898546He also crowdfunded development of the game and after get a few million in funds via PayPal, PayPal flagged it as suspicious as he's gotten 7 figures for a game on 30+ year old hardware.They froze his account and blocked access to the funds for like well over a year. ALLEGEDLY. That was his excuse but the guys a notorious liar so who knows. The Devs never got paid for months to years of wages due to this.
>>12898562Who the fuck you think you are, nigger?
>Papriumyawn, buggy unfinished eurojank>ported to PCalready emulated, pointless>, N64, DCthat's pointless and not news worthy>It's vibecoded, I wanna recoooompstill won't get you the participation award>It's preservation, I swearyeah yeah, morally-correct piracy, still no attention for you>you MUST care about this one, I have DRAMAnice try?>[insert Fonzie drama here]that's a refreshing change of pace from random 10 year old localization or Aeon Genesis mention in random recomp thread to convince me a tranny doesn't want me to play a broken port, so I must join the resistance against the big man by subjecting myself to whatever the jeet OP shat out that hour of the day and refuses to address its quality,but I can still tell you're a tourist who just copied the drama post summary from an old thread>I'm giving back justice to the people and the literal millions so that they enjoy itThose people paid for a game, didn't get it or couldn't play it.Years ago (NOT TODAY) they got someone who dumped the ROMthen someone else who developed a free modified emulatorthen someone else who ported the emulator everywhere and optimized it to run at full speedthen these players played the game, said it's pretty but wow does it suck, then forgot about it foreverThe company sold its assets, it won't get any more money from Paprium any time soonthe developer already got enough butthurt for a life time and already got over it back to gamesYOU have nothing to do with this outcome, it's the fruit of other people's effortsYou don't exactly get to repackage this and pretend YOU gave them justice>Fonzie is a scammer, game is shit and lacks featuresAgreed, but why are you even doing this>I got "Vibe DMCA'd"AI slop meets AI slop, why should I care>by MISTer fagsWho also do vibe coded buggy emulation cores and love AI just as much as you profess,but they hate YOUR guts specifically for stealing their emulator code to repackage their emulator as a "port"
>>12898524Do it. I wanna see some drama. :^)
>>12898591FPGA hardware emulation at this stage is a mere shadow of its former self.I still remember the time where FPGA consoles were about "cycle-accurate emulation",and when decomps and recomps were about "real PC port that runs faster than emulators"before BOTH became "vibe coded wrappers for already imperfect emulators but you should still support me"If it takes an angry AI plagiarist for both of them to mutually self-destruct, the world will be a slightly less shitty place.
>>12898583Hi Fonzie.
>>12898279Who says it's vibe coded? Have you seen the shit that's vibe coded? Their "recomps" are usually just repackaged emulators.It's retarded to accuse me of AI slop when you've clearly not even checked it out yourself.
>>12898604>the drama shows must goes onok schizo, insincere drama is the one place you're in your element, have fun reposting old /vr/ posts to defend your fartyou only wish you get to be the second scammer after Fonziewill still emulate or get computer STDs from other sources, not YOUR crypto wallet
>>12898610Hang yourself schizo
>>12898493it's been backed up over at retro game talk.>>12898553meh. I can't blame anyone for trying to stop piracy. Only a leftist commie faggot is too dumb and immature to pirate shit without the need ti lie to yourself about it.I pirate because I want to, I don't think I'm entitled to any of it.>>12898583holy shit cry baby nigger, ain't nobody reading your melty.
>>12898507>>12898597Thanks to AI I've gotten several of my dream romhacks in the span of a couple months:[x]Castlevania Bloodlines Co-Op[x]Castlevania 3 Co-Op[_]Castlevania 3 hack that replaces Trevor, Grant, Sypha, and Alucard with Mega Man, Protoman, Zero, and Bass.[_]Castlevania 3 hack that replaces them with any of the following: Ryu Hayabusa, Kickmaster, Getsufumaden, Bionic Commando, Shatterhand, Power Blade[_]Legacy of Darkness better camera[x]ZAMN toejam & earl style Co op camera[_]ZAMN Xenocrisis controls[_]Beyond Oasis Co-Op[_]Terranigma Redux Co-Op[x]Zero in Aria of Sorrow and SotN[_]Zero in Castlevania Chronicles[_]Alucard in Castlevania Chronicles[x]Zero with sword moveset for X1 & X3[_]Zero with sword moves in X2[_]Bass in MM7 & 8 with MM&B abilities[_]Hard Corps characters in Contra 3[x]Zelda Ages + Seasons combined[_]Battle Network 4 All Styles[x]More 3DS ports[_]FF7 4 Party Members[_]Link, Spawn, & Heihachi in Soul Calibur 2[x]Kingdom Hearts 2 combat in KH BBB[_]PS1 extras in Baroque Saturn[_]Vagrant Story improved weapon switching[x]Dino Crisis Modern Edition[_]Dino Crisis better Map[_]Rising Zan & Medievil analog camera[x]Paprium Dreamcastlumpenprole
>>12898279>PapriumWhere is SNES and GBA port?
>>12898279Oh no...https://itch.io/takedowns/5214413
>>12899078Wouldn't mind a PS1 and/or Saturn port. Those systems could use more beat em ups. Neo Geo too.
>>12898279I love how Street of Rage 4 made this shitty game irrelevant with it's archaic game design
>>12899169And that became irrelevant shit too
>>12899063Shut up smith!
>>12899063Your dream romhacks are retarded and you're probably autistic.
>>12899182It's literally the standard for beat'em ups now. if you can't juggle or have a combo meter, it's fucking slow and boring
>>12898583>no attention for you>he says while giving OP attention>extensive attention with a long post, evenDo you feel witty when you write things like that?
>>12899063>slopfag is a communist with awful tasteslollmao
Is this the same vibe coded trannyslop from before with no music?>>12899169Sengoku 3 already had that decades ago and mogs Shits of Reddit 4 into the ground
>Seething about AI out of nowhereHi fonize. You're still a scammer and worse than any jeet.
what about fixing the ROM dump?
>>12898279Port it to SNES too, then we'll come full circle.
>>12902063NTA, but I'm sure that can easily be done now that we're in an era where Primal Rage's protection is properly emulated.
>>12898524>Cool, time to go throw DMCA claims against MISTer cores for code stolen from emulators.Ironically enough, I've had Opus analyze MiSTer code so SAME_CDi could finally have DVC support. No idea if they caught on or not, but I doubt they can catch up with RA's rapid (AI assisted) progress.
this looks stupid, and i'm not interested in playing it
>>12898531>I would have paid to play the game on steam like their last release got but his super autism made him want to make it playable ONLY ON RETRO CONSOLES lolAncient had the right idea where they used digital releases first for beta testing, then release a fully-refined cartridge later on.
>>12898279Never heard of this game so I looked up some videos of it. I can't believe this is a Genesis game, it looks too good.
>>12902158>it looks too good.That's because it IS too good. It's cheating by using co-processors SNES-style.
I'd rather play those freshly baked ia arcade ports than any of fonzie's garbage
>>12898524good luck with that. mister core devs and emu devs have been sharing back and forth since the beginning.
>>12898493>tracker musicCool! The YM2612 already has a 6th FM channel reserved for software PCM playback, so it'd be cool to push it beyond its limit.
>>12903032WALK ALONG THE RAZOR'S EDGE
>>12903067Thing is, the SN76 itself is also capable of software PCM playback, so if the 6th channel is using up too many resources, there's always the other audio chip Genesis supports. Opus 5.5 recently made a 4-bit PCM player that essentially emulates other audio chips.https://voca.ro/1ioUwVkbSocL(Yes, this is SN76 audio.)
>>12899078>>12902089>>12902161Turn it into CiA with gameplay resemble X-Woman (canceled GEN)
paprium got a patch to remove the special chip requirement, converting it into a regular game that plays on normal genesis emulators.https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10232/
Any chance of Switch port? Don't want to play it on PC.
>>12904928Even on Wii U and 3DS VC?
>>12904928bro, your trimui brick? your anbernic?
>>12898279>It had previously been posted to my itch io but was taken down subject to a malicious DMCA (not even by Fonzie but by the creator of the MiSTer core who seems awfully defensive of Fonzie).I just got my mister today. it was a mister clone with a 64gb preloaded sd. the megadrive core had one game in it, and it was this one. never heard of it until today. looks like shit and shant be playing.
>>12898553Drop the rom in an out of date emulator like Gens+ and it will always run the troll version
The Linux version seems to run the copy protection thing.
>>12905880I opened it again and it ran the right version.
>>12905882>>12899153Gachi version on the Saturn and GameCube?
>>12898407>Was it even any good?I know its cool to shit on Paprium but it is actually decent overall. Great art direction, music, and fun enough gameplay(until you realize jump kick breaks the game).
>>12904957It's a completely average and mundane beatemup with admittedly nice graphics and sound.>>12905975That'd rule.>>12905994Yeah. Not bad, but nothing great either, it's preoccuppied with style, which makes it look and sound very good, but gameplay is just nothing special at all.
>>12898279I ordered it years and years ago, I even got an email saying it was on the way. I probably can't even bring myself to play it seeing how I was expecting this to be such a big release. Now you have Shadow Gangs 2 coming out, I think the scene has passed it by, its not rare for homebrew to be 8 MB now or stuff like using the Mega CD.>>12904957Even Fonzie doesn't care anymore.
>>12898279Most egregious thing about Sloprium was Fonzie prioritizing youtubers for the few hundred or so copies that exist so they can hype the game up for his second batch of preorders that came to be. It was a miracle I got mine but the game is just a curiosity at best there's way better homebrew out there.
It work for me on my Nintendo Wii with Genesis Plus GX, but i used the new version.https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10232/
To be honest. I'm not sure why Fonzie made it such a big deal at the timeIt's not even a bad game or anything. But like. That's it?
>>12899085>OP doesn't abide by the GPL >wtf why did it get taken down???????
