Yuan
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Post by Yuan on Nov 16, 2009 19:31:04 GMT -5
Another "Ninja Ryuukenden IV" image! Does anybody have/know where to find Famicom NR Manual scans? I remember some really cool drawings about the "Demon" and "Dragon". I'd like to collect all the art I can to study the style.
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Nov 16, 2009 19:44:25 GMT -5
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Post by derboo on Nov 17, 2009 5:21:10 GMT -5
Another "Ninja Ryuukenden IV" image! Looks great. I think I can see a bit of your style from W&W battles shining through. Does anybody have/know where to find Famicom NR Manual scans? I remember some really cool drawings about the "Demon" and "Dragon". I'd like to collect all the art I can to study the style. I've got 6 pages from the NR3 manual, the drawings are identical to the US manual. I'd expect that for at least the whole of NG3. Thanks again, I'm gonna decorate the article with 1 or 2 more artworks from those...
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Post by splatter on Nov 18, 2009 6:44:34 GMT -5
Cool interview. It's interesting that being kicked back to stage 6-1 is just because of a bug and that the designer is not a raging sadist. ^_^
One question I would've liked asked, though, is how the NES game came to be based on Castlevania.
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Post by derboo on Nov 18, 2009 9:45:40 GMT -5
One question I would've liked asked, though, is how the NES game came to be based on Castlevania. Yeah, but that would be a question to Hideo Yoshizawa, the original creator of the series, as Katou was "only" doing graphics with the first game.
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Post by derboo on Nov 18, 2009 15:03:13 GMT -5
No more updates this year after this, I promise. For convenience, I just uploaded a zip with the changed/added files: www.derboo.de/files/update_ninjagaiden.zipChanges: - Prototype screenshots for the GB, Xbox 1 and DS games - A bit of decoration with Nintendo Power Scans and other images - Changed some parts to be more in accordance with what was learned from the interview - Revised the text to Sigma 2 a bit - New overall layout of page 7 (I've been unhappy with it for quite a while. This doesn't look quite as good in 800x resolutions, but then, few of the other pages do, so I gues it doesn't make much of a difference) - Changed the writing of Kato's name to what is used in the localized credits in his games - The usual mini tweaks
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Post by derboo on Aug 11, 2010 23:46:47 GMT -5
I just noticed the Wikipedia article on the series has a reference to Electronic Gaming Monthly for reviewing the cancelled Mega Drive game as "Ninja Gaiden IV".
The reference is Electronic Gaming Monthly (1992-08). "Ninja Gaiden IV review". Electronic Gaming Monthly. p. 48.
Does anyone have a scan of that review, or is able to make one?
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Post by CRV on Aug 13, 2010 7:55:49 GMT -5
I just noticed the Wikipedia article on the series has a reference to Electronic Gaming Monthly for reviewing the cancelled Mega Drive game as "Ninja Gaiden IV". The reference is Electronic Gaming Monthly (1992-08). "Ninja Gaiden IV review". Electronic Gaming Monthly. p. 48. Does anyone have a scan of that review, or is able to make one? I wonder if EGM's copy was complete. What's out there is definitely not.
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Post by loempiavreter on Aug 13, 2010 8:33:53 GMT -5
Could it be that the BETA of the Megadrive NG was released in the same way as Time Diver Eon Man? I've got a Taiwanese bootleg of the game, wonder if that was the source of the BETA?
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Post by CRV on Aug 13, 2010 9:02:13 GMT -5
Could it be that the BETA of the Megadrive NG was released in the same way as Time Diver Eon Man? I've got a Taiwanese bootleg of the game, wonder if that was the source of the BETA? I believe MD NG came from that. Time Diver: Avenger, which I assume you're referring to, is a probably a bootleg.
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Aug 13, 2010 9:37:28 GMT -5
If I recall correctly, EGM (and GameFAN to a lesser extent) always had a bad habit of making up names for games titles that were not yet finalized or had too much kanji for their staff to translate.
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Aug 13, 2010 10:14:54 GMT -5
Regarding the NES Ninja Gaiden that first showed up in Japanese magazines in the first quarter of 1988, I thought NES games typically took 6 months to make.
Also the arcade game first came out in October 1988, 2 months before the NES game.
BTW, that artwork that Nintendo Power drew (the one summing up the trilogy), is awesome.
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Post by derboo on Aug 13, 2010 16:07:49 GMT -5
I wonder if EGM's copy was complete. What's out there is definitely not. I guess we'll know if and when we read the review. Unless it's a quarterpager or something.
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Post by roushimsx on Aug 14, 2010 13:22:04 GMT -5
Does anyone have a scan of that review, or is able to make one? Looks like Retromags has the issue up for download. All hail Retromags! My download of it is going ridiculously slow, but I blame that on Steam since they have that stupid Quakecon sale going on right now and I totally just bought and started downloading Fallout 3 GOTY for $25.
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Post by derboo on Aug 14, 2010 19:27:25 GMT -5
Hail indeed, that's an awesome site.
Well, it turns out Wikipedia sports once again false information. It's not a review but a preview. And EGM were obviouly talking out of their asses, as well. "Spectacular parallax scrolling and smooth movement add up to the best version of this game yet!"
EDIT: Fixed the reference on Wikipedia.
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