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Not everyone is always nice to newcomers all the time, but this isn't a community that's out to ridicule the new guys. Far from it. Take another look around the forum, reconsider your rant... and chill. This is a great forum and it's very un-cliquey compared to lots of other internet communities. There are many great things that happen here! Why blow some trite negativity out of proportion?

I'm not sure I even understand what you have a problem with. I'm thinking the issues you've built up need some reassessing, because in the chip scene, people are always happy to see dedicated and talented newcomers. I'm saying this from a perspective that's familiar with 8static here in philly, and to a lesser extent, other chip shows in general. The whole "you're elitists and you want to keep the scene small" allegation is absurd and certainly speaks for almost no one here, let alone the community at large.

While it's relevant, I will share the cynicism I feel when I see certain chiptune artists / enthusiasts who can't distance themselves enough from video games. "I didn't get into this shit b/c of video games!" "Pokemon is diaper baby nonsense!". It's like, sure, all those gripes have their own validity, but that doesn't make them not silly (or completely embarrassing) to hear over and over. It's like, do we still need to be reminded of that disapproval? It starts to sound like a hang-up at a certain point...

Anyways, I just thought I'd point that out, at least for tacticalbread's sake and anyone else who may be confused. Any negativity here has everything to do with (somewhat justifiable) issues of relevance and a (less desirable) "I'm not here for games" mentality working in tandem. Don't fall victim to believing that 'the scene' actually has all these other weird issues you laid out, even if a poster or two somehow give you that impression.

Seriously, don't sweat it! You seem like a respectful poster interested in making conversation. It's good to understand why a thread like this will likely be considered out of place and garner negative attention by some, but you have the right intentions. Perhaps it's worth reevaluating if talking about games...
A) Should happen in the General forum.
B) Should happen in a new / revised subforum.
C) Shouldn't happen at all.

I'd prefer A or B. It's not like game discussion is ruining the integrity of the general forum, or anything, but I could understand why someone might want it separated.

/tldr, and good post from bit shifter.

That rules!

This doesn't help for sprites, but for text you could try scrollNES-
http://vimeo.com/8779990
http://www.no-carrier.com/index.php?/scrollnes/

lol

I haven't used it in years, so it's very likely it has been improved since then. I don't recall all the issues I had with it, but I remember that having to squish the graphics to 256x192 was kind of a pain in the butt. The solution for this is that you have a squished screen and a 'zoomed' screen (that looks fine but you can't see the whole screen as a result and have to slide around). You can switch which screen is which easily on the fly.

I think they handled the resolution of the DS as best as they could, so it's not their fault or anything. It's just... not very likable. Between having these games on the go at anytime or having to wait and play on a better version of scummvm (on my PC at home), the latter was preferable. The DS version was by no means horrible or anything, though. I'm not necessarily even recommending against using it, others may be perfectly content with it.

Also, after some more poking around I can see that you can't play The Dig or Full Throttle without ram expansion in the GBA slot.

Yeah, I played around with it a bit as well and wasn't very fond of it*. The DS probably isn't the best platform for it, in-spite of how awesome touch-screen interactivity should be. With any luck the 3DS will get hacked and there'll be a nicer scummvm for that, further down the road...

*Edit: I played a little Beneath a Steel Sky on it. I couldn't get The Secret of Monkey Island working, as I recall.

How hard is it to find this?

I'd rather have this than an American NES cart cut in half or something else kinda sloppy looking (I don't trust my own building skills). I never really hear much discussion on these.