The Grid Is Broke… Going Against The Grid.

So I’m on the verge of giving up on the Boom MMPR run.

Shattered Grid was pretty worthless and now you have this generic space opera featuring characters that I don’t care about while you have Power Rangers from random seasons stuck in the middle. They try to fashion this as some big epic, but honestly, it’s hard for me to get excited about something when you have big event after big event after big event and everything comes off as lame.

I like the Go Go Power Rangers run, though. Those are fun bits even with the dreary Matt stuff. But as far as the main book is concerned, I might give it one more issue to turn me over and then stop the subscription until the MMPR comic book goes back to being about the MMPR.

Beyond The Grid? More like Bottom Of The Grid.

Nintendo Dropping Their Creators Program From Youtube… A Good Thing?

Source: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/11/please_understand_nintendo_is_replacing_its_controversial_creators_program_with_new_guidelines

So Nintendo has decided to drop their Creator Program thing where Youtube folks had to send videos and channels for approval to be monetize and opted for more loose guidelines for people to follow. So I guess that means Nintendo reviews will be up and about, right?

I’ll take a wait and see approach on this one. Right now, the planned reviews for the final stretch are picked out, but who knows what comes forth next year?

Gameband Officially Cancelled…

Pretend that Steve Austin is the Gameband people and that Vinny Mac is the suckers who gave them money.

Source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Atari-Gameband-officially-cancelled-Kickstarter-backers-may-not-receive-refund.366656.0.html

More source: https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/gameband-killed-off-1203030711/?fbclid=IwAR32FzSZcbDNH8Cr3_HjmD5SaWuaJcsJNEzVYt-zwnmzhc_gUzEjboOF3I8

So, once upon a time, there was a thing called Atari Gameband that was kickstarted because people are stupid. A gaming watch? Sure, I’ll go with that. Somewhere along the way, Gameband lost its Atari branding because even the clueless putz running today’s shell of the former company had the sense to get away from that nonsense and focus on their Linux machine disguised as a video game system. Now Gameband is officially cancelled and all those suckers who donated money might not even get a refund.

You poor, deluded fools.

All failed mocking aside, I feel bad for the folks who donated money to this thing… well, almost. And it only serves to reinforce why I have a hard time putting my faith (and dollars) into these crowdfunding bits unless the people holding it have something of a track record behind them. I’ve contributed to a couple of these things and can say that I’m satisfied with what I’ve got… but only because they’ve delivered goods in the past and proven trustworthy as a result.

Atari started a Kickstarter for their gamewatch thing and then bailed on the people making it. And despite their so-called runaway success with Ataribox’s campaign, nigh a word was mentioned since then beyond a couple signings here and there. And then there was attempt to get investors to send them money so they can release a mobile version of Roller Coaster Tycoon onto Switch despite the mobile versions being reviewed poorly. Not quite a track record worthy of forking over money.

A shame, really. That would’ve been a neat gimmick for people to presumably mock and not actually buy.

Fortnite Racks 200 Million Players… And I'm Not One Of Them

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/27/fortnite-200-million-players/

What can I say? Modern FPS games or just mass multiplayer games in general don’t appeal to me in the slightest, so it’s been the easiest thing in the world to avoid Fortnite like the plague. Looks like a fun game, but honestly, never had the patience or time for that sort of thing. Still, nice to see it gain enough traction to gain that sizable player base.

Mega Man Maker Level: DTM12 – Small In Japan (with Protoman)

Playing through DTM12 – Small In Japan with Protoman.

Based on an old custom level that I whipped together for Mega Man Powered Up, the PSP remake of Mega Man 1. Obviously, some details have been altered due to differences in assets… and also, this MMM version is somewhat more playable than the PSP version.

Click the link to play the level:
https://megamanmaker.com/?level=277529

Mega Man Powered Up – Small In Japan

A bit of a treat… a video of my custom “Small In Japan” level from the PSP release, Mega Man Powered Up. Sadly, it’s not the original version as it’s seen some changes here and there to make it more playable, but it’s a nice little comparison between this and the more recent Mega Man Maker iteration, which you can sample a couple videos back.

Video was recorded off the PPSSPP emulator program, which does a far better job of capturing and rendering PSP footage than Sony’s crappy component TV cable thing does. But I don’t know; what do you folks think?