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Posted February 14, 2023
Get ready for one-of-a-kind portion of classics from Bitwave – all-time arcade legends are now available on GOG!

If you’re in a retro mood, these titles will truly take you back in time – a good dose of action top-down shooters that all take original game features and enhance them to the PC experience. Let those classic Japanese arcade games flood you with nostalgia, alongside the sounds of old-school soundtracks by Masahiro Yuge, Tatsuya Uemura and Toshiyaki Tomizawa! Whether you’ll fight through a horde of aliens, blast battalions of tanks, or defend the galaxy from space pirates; you’ll surely feel like a child again.

Truxton, Twin Cobra, Out Zone and Zero Wing, now on GOG!
Posted February 14, 2023
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GOG.com: 4 amazing classics from Bitwave!
You're spoiling us this week, GOG.
Posted February 14, 2023
All your base are belong to us

(This is a direct quote from the European Megadrive version of Zero Wing.)
Posted February 14, 2023
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dtgreene: All your base are belong to us

(This is a direct quote from the European Megadrive version of Zero Wing.)
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB!

Does the GOG version even include that cut scene? Oh well, I prefer the Invasion of the Gabber Robots version anyway.
Post edited February 14, 2023 by W3irdN3rd
Posted February 14, 2023
Why do modern ports of old arcade games almost always have extremely annoying and immersion-breaking borders and/or black bars at the sides of the screen, which were definitely not present in the original versions?

That stuff drives me nuts and make such ports become unplayable for me. I really wish devs would stop doing that, and just make the games display in such a way that they take up the entire full screen, just like the original versions did.
Post edited February 14, 2023 by Ancient-Red-Dragon
Posted February 14, 2023
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Great to see these here.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Why do modern ports of old arcade games almost always have extremely annoying and immersion-breaking borders and/or black bars at the sides of the screen, which were definitely not present in the original versions?

That stuff drives me nuts and make such ports become unplayable for me. I really wish devs would stop doing that, and just make the games display in such a way that they take up the entire full screen, just like the original versions did.
I believe these games where designed for TATE style arcade cabinets (The monitor was rotated 90 degrees) so if you stretched the image on a non TATE display it would become very distorted.

Some PC Monitors allow you to rotate the display so can play in TATE mode but most people probably do not have these types of monitors.
Post edited February 14, 2023 by wolfsite
Posted February 14, 2023
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Why do modern ports of old arcade games almost always have extremely annoying and immersion-breaking borders and/or black bars at the sides of the screen, which were definitely not present in the original versions?

That stuff drives me nuts and make such ports become unplayable for me. I really wish devs would stop doing that, and just make the games display in such a way that they take up the entire full screen, just like the original versions did.
These games are designed for vertical resolutions, the alternative would be to stretch or crop the image.
Post edited February 14, 2023 by park_84
Posted February 14, 2023
Will be getting these when they are on sale.
Posted February 14, 2023
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Why do modern ports of old arcade games almost always have extremely annoying and immersion-breaking borders and/or black bars at the sides of the screen, which were definitely not present in the original versions?

That stuff drives me nuts and make such ports become unplayable for me. I really wish devs would stop doing that, and just make the games display in such a way that they take up the entire full screen, just like the original versions did.
Because these games originally displayed on tate mode. In fact, a lot of arcade shooters were this way.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Why do modern ports of old arcade games almost always have extremely annoying and immersion-breaking borders and/or black bars at the sides of the screen, which were definitely not present in the original versions?

That stuff drives me nuts and make such ports become unplayable for me. I really wish devs would stop doing that, and just make the games display in such a way that they take up the entire full screen, just like the original versions did.
Every of these four games mentions this on their store page:

- Pixel perfect or full-screen scaling in windowed or full-screen mode.
- Rotate the gameplay in 90-degree increments.

So, get yourself a monitor with pivot mode, and you're good to go.

Alternatively, rotate the gameplay 90° to the left or the right, and play while lying on your preferred side.
Posted February 14, 2023
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Why do modern ports of old arcade games almost always have extremely annoying and immersion-breaking borders and/or black bars at the sides of the screen, which were definitely not present in the original versions?

That stuff drives me nuts and make such ports become unplayable for me. I really wish devs would stop doing that, and just make the games display in such a way that they take up the entire full screen, just like the original versions did.
Because the aspect ration is different.

Having the image take up the entire screen would distort the image, making it look terrible and not at all like the original versions.
Posted February 14, 2023
They could just put a black background on the sides though, at least optionally, to avoid anything distracting...
Posted February 14, 2023
Finally some Shoot 'em Up games, I really needed them!

Also +1 for all the new features you added into all the games
Posted February 14, 2023
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In case anyone was wondering if there are any easily obtainable arcade ROMs in these releases, let me clear that up... there aren't.

Perhaps they can be extracted with some hex magic, who knows, we'll have to wait and see.

P.S.: As a bonus, none of the games seem to currently work in Wine (I don't use Galaxy, but the games do the below).

[TOAPLAN] Initializing Galaxy SDK
[TOAPLAN] Galaxy SDK initialized OK
[TOAPLAN] Attempting to sign in to Galaxy
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 00000000000002A0 at address 00000001400147F3 (thread 0114), starting debugger...
Post edited February 14, 2023 by WinterSnowfall
Posted February 14, 2023
How long for the 4-pack?

link??
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