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Zwabber @lemmy.world

2y ago

remaster when?

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What is there to remaster?

For anyone on Android, you can get the game here
- There is also an open source version you can get on Github for android https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android
- ... and that was the end of my productivity for the day.

Are we going to have a community that is focused on gaming discussion and another focused on memes and low-effort posts? Or are they going to be combined?
- idk about you but this is a valid question that could be discussed if you werent so full of yourself
  
  🥇
- Agreed because I don’t like the OP for being a low effort meme, but also I feel like if there’s a community you’re interested in, just go make it.
  Especially as people migrate off of Reddit and Lemmy grows. Anyone coming from Reddit who was interested in games knows there is a demand for a discussion/news based community like r/games
  
  Honestly, a community like /r/games without the power mod approach to what articles can be posted would be really nice.
  It's definitely a valid question though, because Lemmy is going to be just as vulnerable as reddit to the problem of how much quicker low-effort memes accrue upvotes, which naturally results in them drowning out articles and discussion posts. The latter, despite being more interesting and generally "higher-quality", will always take more time per-user to engage with - so, in systems like this, they naturally fall behind in both pace and volume of upvote.
- ah yes the gaming v games debate continues on a new platform, very interesting

Twas remastered in 2021 in the Microsoft Store my dude. Have fun
- I just tried it, and wow, that is really bad actually. Genuinely much worse than finding a download of the original version.
  
  Do you happen to know where I could find an original download?
- Looks like that one is from 2013 and last updated in 2015, so what happened to 2021?

I'll let Dave explain: https://youtu.be/ThxdvEajK8g
- And here's the blog from the other guy - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=5803
  
  Hey, Dave!
- Best comment here, please remember to boost this post so people can see it!

Isn't there already a remaster? I came around this one from the KDE discovery.
- It's not really a remaster, it's an open-source re-implementation. But I guess it could be used as a base for a remaster
  
  Who needs a remaster? This is perfect.

It would be soo cool if they open-sourced this game at this point.
.. like why not?
- Well lucky for you someone has already done the work! SpaceCadetPinball
- Honestly I’m bored enough to open Unity and get to work, but someone’s probably already got a project on GitHub.

You can find several ports of pinball on GitHub. https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android is the android version I like to use.
- Wow, right in the nostalgia.

How about a web version?
https://alula.github.io/SpaceCadetPinball/

Speaking of windows 95, any nostalgia communities yet?
- https://lemmy.world/c/nostalgia
- Make one, I'll sub.

Careful what you wish for. 2024 EA announces remaster of Zen Pinball.

After they remaster this, they should remaster SkiFree!

No need to remaster perfection

Will it have paid day-one DLC? Online leaderboards and rankings? NFTs? Requires constant online connectivity? Battlepass with flipper cosmetics?
- Like the crap they slapped onto solitaire? That was ridiculous.
  
  Tell me your joking

I did play the hell out of this game back in the day, but there was an even older one that only worked in dos mode. I can't remember the name, but I loved that version.

So many hours spent playing this game when I was a kid.

I played a similar table on Virtual Pinball X. It was a lot of fun.

They made a remake for Windows store a while ago, and it was awful

I'm pretty sure I still have that on a 3.5" floppy somewhere. I also have a 3.5" drive that could read it, but I have nothing I could plug it into.

NGL - this is my 10 minute free time go-to on the SteamDeck
- Wait, what? It's on Steam? Why hasn't anybody told me this before?
  
  It's not on Steam, but you can add it as a non steam game and play it with Proton.
  
  It's not on steam, you need to get it from windows NT4/2000/ME/XP or Microsoft plus 95. But you can run it on a steam deck/Linux computer via proton

I have spent so much time on this!

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