Jeremy Parish
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Bionic Commando Direct Feed
🕑 Added 2015-08-01 11:22:38 +0000 UTC I mentioned recently that I'd like to capture new screens for the next Anatomy book, which will be time-consuming but not exactly a burden since the novelty of RGB-modded NES hardware still feels so fresh and fun. Here's the first step in that process: A full play through of Bionic Commando. It was pretty interesting playing this on real hardware for the first time in god knows how long — I had forgotten just how much slowdown and flicker were part of the actual game. Capcom really pushed that poor little MMC1 chip to the breaking point with this one.This is a warts-and-all run through the game, with a game over and a few tricky grapples that I missed a few times... along with an awkward pause to look up how to exit a level. Still, I aimed to be as thorough as possible for the sake of the book. I've also put this under a creative commons license, so anyone is free to use this footage (presumably the graceful parts, not the game over) for their own needs. It's meant to be reference-quality, aside from my clumsy screwups, so hopefully it lives up to that aim!
I'll try and make a habit of posting video footage as I go from now on, so you can follow along with my video and book production processes. If you want, I mean. It's optional. If you don't want to see what things look like down on the factory floor, you can just ignore production-level posts and wait for the final results!
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Jeremy Parish
I'm in talks to have it made into the official novelization!
Stephen Finley (JohnnyBlazeGWS)
I loved your Retronauts episode on this back in the day. Any truth to the rumor that your fanfic will be published under the pseudonym FX Nine for a relaunch of the Worlds Of Power series?
Mark Paterson
'Good Nintentions'. I always approve of a pun!
Jeremy Parish
Nah, that's only the case for the first few seconds — i adjusted the cable once I noticed and the color balanced out properly. But now it looks like YouTube's auto-white-balancing has shifted everything to blue. Ugh.
EOD
The blue color channel in this video is missing, so everything ends up being pink/magenta!
