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Post by recap on Jun 17, 2006 21:53:04 GMT -5
Somewhat shocking, I suppose, but that's how it is, despite popular belief - The MD version of After Burner II is not a Sega game. And I mean that Sega not only did not develope the game, it didn't publish it either.
It's a Dempa Micomsoft product, which had already released the X 68000 version too. I suppose that given that Sega USA/Europe published the game in the West led to the current state of confusion, especially when the original arcade game was made by Sega and that the target console was a Sega system, which makes of this a quite sweet case for game archaeology purposes.
Similarly, After Burner III for the MCD is not a Sega product, but a CRI one, though, in this case it's not that relevant since that was the company which owned Sega itself those days.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jun 17, 2006 23:14:46 GMT -5
Yeah, who the heck is CRI? I saw it in the opening credits. Whoever they are, they did a really shitty job.
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Post by Weasel on Jun 18, 2006 1:18:01 GMT -5
I'm not sure who CRI is either, but I do know that they were involved with the Shenmue games...
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Post by YourAverageJoe on Jun 18, 2006 5:46:48 GMT -5
Also, if I remember correctly, the original After Burner was more of an After Burner 2 beta version, and arcade cabinets of After Burner were very rare.
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Post by aggroger on Jun 18, 2006 9:09:08 GMT -5
Some corrections about the Commodore 64 version.Actually,two versions of the game were released on the C64 : the playable US version (the one you posted in the article;as for the "no music" part,it lacks in game music,but it has several tunes,and the intro music is nothing short of awesome),and the awful Europe version,complete of (crappy) in game music.
Anyway,excellent article.
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Post by Drawesome(Dale) on Jun 18, 2006 18:56:39 GMT -5
CRI apparently did the Genesis port of Galaxy Force2 which also was'nt so great.
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Post by recap on Jun 19, 2006 7:06:23 GMT -5
Essentially, CRI ('CSK Research Institute') was the company which bought Sega in the 80's and 'sold' it to Sammy a few years ago. It was thanks to CRI that Sega didn't die after the DC failure. His president is said to be a fanboy or something.
Edit:
That's true.
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Post by CRV on Jun 21, 2006 18:54:12 GMT -5
Somewhat shocking, I suppose, but that's how it is, despite popular belief - The MD version of After Burner II is not a Sega game. And I mean that Sega not only did not develope the game, it didn't publish it either. And while we're at it, MD G-LOC was done by Probe in the UK and the SMS version was done by Sanritsu (who also did MD and GG Out Run).
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Post by crithit5000 on Dec 22, 2007 1:32:23 GMT -5
All right, I'm going to try and get through the already published stuff alphabetically...so here goes:
Page 1, paragraph two, merged words:
Page 1, paragraph three, uncapitalized proper noun:
Page 1, paragraph four, uncapitalized proper noun:
Page 1, paragraph eleven, uncapitalized proper noun:
Page 1, paragraph fourteen, repeated word:
Page 2, paragraph three, unnecessary plural:
Page 2, paragraph three, merged words:
[/color] music are remixes of classic After Burner songs.[/quote]
Also wrong in the above sentence is 'music are'. Music is a singularity and in American English would be properly followed by 'is', which would make the sentence sound slightly retarded. I would suggest:
Page 2, paragraph five, missing comma:
Page 3, paragraph four, misspelled word:
Page 3, paragraph five, Vulcan rears its ugly head again and one misspelled word:
Whew, I think I'll let Kurt catch up and wait a little before I dive into Alien Syndrome ;D
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Post by zzz on Dec 22, 2007 2:38:52 GMT -5
Are you not being a tad excessive? Grammar and spelling are not so important that you really need to do this. I'm pretty much positive that nobody really cares about such trivial details. Also, keep in mind that you're making a lot of work for people who have plenty of other things to do as it is.
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Post by crithit5000 on Dec 22, 2007 3:17:07 GMT -5
Probably.
Kurt and a couple other posters have given thanks on actually taking the time to do this, so obviously somebody cares.
On a single page, it would probably take someone a whopping three minutes tops to fix the errors I have pointed out, save the document, and upload it to a server. And that would be without using a find and replace tool that every text editor features which would make it even quicker. On my end, it takes approximately thirty minutes to an hour to check and correct an article.
Like I said in the other thread, I enjoy the site a lot and wish to help on this aspect of it simply because I enjoy the content it presents. It's utterly 100% voluntary on my part, and 100% voluntary on HG101's part to actually correct the errors I've pointed out. If somebody feels like it's a massive shitstorm of work to fix a few things, then I am sure they just won't do it. I don't plan on deluging the forums daily with this stuff, just a few here and there when I get a little free time so I wouldn't fret over that, either.
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Post by Discoalucard on Dec 22, 2007 9:42:19 GMT -5
Yeah I do like the articles to be as clean as possible, so I definitely do appreciate it, and will be correcting this bits when I get the chance.
EDIT:
Done. I didn't even know Vulcan was a proper noun. However, a few words like "framerate" and "ingame" are, as far as I understand, acceptable compound words, even if the dictionary doesn't seem to like them. I know I've used them pretty consistently. "In-game" may need to be hyphenated to be more proper, but I think both are acceptable.
Thanks again!
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Post by zzz on Dec 23, 2007 12:48:29 GMT -5
It's all fine and good. Just keep in mind that while nobody is going to argue against correcting spelling, "correcting" people's choices of words is another matter entirely. If you do that, then it's going to come off like you're telling people that their writing is "wrong" and it needs to be "fixed". I doubt that anybody is going to appreciate that. Myself, I put a great deal of work into these, and am VERY specific about wording, so I would prefer that you stick to just correcting spelling. There are several other people who have written for this site, and it's just fair to let the authors have their own wording preferences.
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Post by Discoalucard on Dec 23, 2007 13:12:13 GMT -5
I appreciate it. Some of writing/spelling IS wrong, and I'd prefer it to be fixed, especially by someone who's much better at it than I am.
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Post by zzz on Dec 23, 2007 13:17:52 GMT -5
That's cool, but I'd prefer that when it comes to what I have written that he stick to just correcting spelling. Excluding, or course, where things are spelled wrong on purpose (like quotes from the games).
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