Anonymous
6/15/2025, 1:59:46 AM No.11801315
What's /vr/ know about this game?
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Thread 11801315 - /vr/ [Archived: 1217 hours ago]
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:02:29 AM No.11801319
Rented it a lot as a kid, thought it was the coolest shit ever. Apparently it's rare as fuck and expensive, the level where you go after the chief bastard is hard due to the log platforming.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:08:19 AM No.11801325
>>11801315 (OP)
It's a reskin of the second Ganbare Goemon game. The actual developer (Pixel) was subcontracted by Konami to develop the game so they and not Konami owned the source code and simply re-published it with a different publisher and a graphics facelift for both the US and Japan.
It's a reskin of the second Ganbare Goemon game. The actual developer (Pixel) was subcontracted by Konami to develop the game so they and not Konami owned the source code and simply re-published it with a different publisher and a graphics facelift for both the US and Japan.
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:22:50 AM No.11801361
Oh yeah this is a emulate or Flash cart deal because you're not getting the real cartridge for any sane price.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 2:43:57 AM No.11801391
I love these NES hidden gems.
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 5:26:26 AM No.11801695
bump
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 6:24:49 AM No.11801747
>>11801325
intwesting
intwesting
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 8:26:14 AM No.11801894
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 6:28:46 PM No.11802429
>>11801325
Clever way to double-dip.
>do asset swap and release the game in NA and in Japan thus selling the latter the same game twice and make easy extra bucks in the process
Clever way to double-dip.
>do asset swap and release the game in NA and in Japan thus selling the latter the same game twice and make easy extra bucks in the process
Anonymous
6/15/2025, 6:36:24 PM No.11802443
>>11801894
It is a new game (the facts get messy because barely anyone has played both), but it shares basically identical physics, the same general flow and a lot of the same level design ideas, the enemies make the same face when you hit them, the games shared a lot of staff, etc. It's not really confirmed anywhere, I don't think, but its very easy to surmise what happened. If anything, this explanation is much more likely than the only feasible alternative, that a team of half the same devs accidentally made a nearly identical game
It is a new game (the facts get messy because barely anyone has played both), but it shares basically identical physics, the same general flow and a lot of the same level design ideas, the enemies make the same face when you hit them, the games shared a lot of staff, etc. It's not really confirmed anywhere, I don't think, but its very easy to surmise what happened. If anything, this explanation is much more likely than the only feasible alternative, that a team of half the same devs accidentally made a nearly identical game
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Anonymous
6/15/2025, 11:16:44 PM No.11802949
Famicom Goemon but western
Pretty cool concept actually
>>11801894
Yeah I don't fully buy the story, but it's absolutely very similar to original Goemon
Pretty cool concept actually
>>11801894
Yeah I don't fully buy the story, but it's absolutely very similar to original Goemon
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 1:31:33 AM No.11803232
>>11801325
It’s a ripoff(a well done one) not a reskin
It’s a ripoff(a well done one) not a reskin
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 6:35:18 AM No.11803859
good game but rare xpensive cart
Anonymous
6/16/2025, 7:58:45 AM No.11803953
>>11802443
> If anything, this explanation is much more likely than the only feasible alternative, that a team of half the same devs accidentally made a nearly identical game
Neither of these explanations are more likely.
What's more likely is that the Cowboy Kids devs used a tool to reverse engineer Goemon so they could rip it off without a sweat. Tools that let you dump all the assembly as you're playing existed back then (and many devs should have been able to build their own).
> If anything, this explanation is much more likely than the only feasible alternative, that a team of half the same devs accidentally made a nearly identical game
Neither of these explanations are more likely.
What's more likely is that the Cowboy Kids devs used a tool to reverse engineer Goemon so they could rip it off without a sweat. Tools that let you dump all the assembly as you're playing existed back then (and many devs should have been able to build their own).