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Does Sonic Labyrinth count?

I mean, don't get me wrong, it's Sonic Boom slow before Sonic Boom made a Sonic Boom-boom in Sega's big-boy pants. At the least, it had its gameplay centralized and wasn't nightmarishly mind-numbing for the story. Maybe it was more mind-numbing for its gameplay. But I have a fondness for Sonic 3D Blast and Segasonic, so Labyrinth drug me in with a familiar perspective. It spun me for a loop with the difference in gameplay. I was so not used to being SLOW as Sonic. Yet, that sort of helped. Spindashing is the essential to survival in most situations of the Sonic universe, so a game HINGING on spindashing for progression made it seem like more of a gimmick, I think.

Still, it was an interesting take on Sonic and wasn't crushingly awful.

Overlord, on 08 June 2015 - 02:28 PM, said:

What are you talking about?

Clearly BioWare's music engineering is too superior for your feeble mind!

Turbohog, on 13 June 2015 - 11:57 PM, said:

Try Borderless Gaming. I have no experience with Sonic Adventure 2 in windowed mode, but most if not all games seem to work with Borderless Gaming. You basically run it, sit it in the taskbar, and whenever a game can do windowed at your monitor resolution, you tell Borderless Gaming to attach it fullscreen.

I personally use the WINkey + F6 combo for it. It's an extra step compared to the program's ability to set games for automatic borderless, but I prefer the combo because some games behave weirdly and can cause temporal loops that warrant a CAD to stop.

I've not been displeased by it, though games like UT2004 refuse to work with it, and the temporal loops, like I said, on games like Minecraft. Not mentioning other older titles like TF2 which don't offer borderless mode, Borderless Gaming takes care of all that.

Discoveries show a few interesting things. The Model 1 is absolutely borked, possible capacitor issue. Plugging it in, it gets power, but doesn't show video to the A/V out, and even with the RF out, which does seem to work, cartridges just don't work.

The Model 2, by contrast, shows better things. It turns on, it plays games, and we have a cable that outputs the proprietary display cable to A/V, so we can assume sound mods aren't necessary.

The Model 2 DOES have an interesting... issue. Considering how interlacing works, some lines are seeming off? My brother wants to call this vertical banding, but isn't that exclusive to LCD displays? I'm trying to get images, but getting a capture isn't easy and the only way to show genuine quality is with a phone camera. How sad...

Covarr, on 05 February 2015 - 06:29 PM, said:

That's my argument, except it's "I make money, or I hide the video so you have a wasted claim.

Covarr, on 05 February 2015 - 06:29 PM, said:

Except with all the fees eventually calculated, the theory is you only get a potential 1/5 of the cut you worked on in a single video, and in Nintendo's stupid case, you must present the game in a positive light, and it must be one of the predetermed titles.

I'd be fine with it except for, again, 1/5. Without Nintendo's involvement, just keeping Google's chopping, your possible MCN overlord, and Paypal fees, you get about 1/3. Personally, I'm more acquainted to 1/3 over 1/5. You can argue that's negligible, but work solely on YouTube, doing a lot of Nintendo, and that costs you REAL quick.

Nintendo does say they take less for Nintendo predicated channels, but that's what, 1/4? The channels already taking on that Nintendo dedication are making a lot less so suddenly. I pity guys like Dazran303 and cobanermani456 who get most of their profits from Nintendo games and Sonic (and this Nintendo exclusivity deal that brought our last two Sonic games). I know Dazran got his community just for being the only Machinima Respawn producer on the Call of Duty Wii market. He really cornered that.

I don't think we'll see a perfect network any time soon. I know newcomers to the MCNs like Seananners' new JETPAK or The Big Moustache are on the scene, but I don't know how they are. They offer higher CPM, but I need analytics and it's too early to see that yet.