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News about Project X aka Nuon, a combo game system/DVD player you almost definitely never played (Next Generation #35, Nov. 1997).

[blisscast]

[Llamasoft ✨] More at my blog blisscast.wordpress.com, link in bio. ℹ Journal Page 27 about the Jdrama Grand Maison Tokyo is out NOW! Link in bio. 🇮🇹Disponibile anche in italiano! . Some more Jeff Minter and Llamasoft goodness, for our love and joy! For some odd reason, I find Batalyx extremely fascinating XD only Jeff Minter could come up with such weird games. I found the black ad you see randomly on ebay, while I was looking for Llamasoft games. And of course, where will I find something like that again? So I got it as well ( ˙꒳​˙ ). Had to wait a bit for all the packages to arrive (UK postage to Italy is now slower because of Brexit), and today's the day I show these to you! And up in the right corner, the DOS version of Tempest 2000, because yes. Can never have enough Tempest 😌. . Talking about obscure games, on Sunday I'll be able to try a special game for the first time: Tempest 3000! You might be saying, ha, yet another Tempest! Even though it is another version of that, this one only came out on the Nuon, an entertainment system that is so rare that it's really something to see it in real life. And it can't be really emulated either, so even owners of the original machine have to risk using it to play the games. Tempest 3000 is even rarer XD. But thanks to @magnum_cdi, my dreams of playing the game are going to become reality! 🤣Can't bring it back home, though. I'll see if it will be possible to snap an aesthetic pic of it! . #llamasoft #jeffminter #yak #ivanzorzin #ps4 #playstation4 #commodore64 #commodore64games #batalyx #gridrunner #tempest3000 #tempest2000 #nuon #samsungnuon #obscureconsoles #rareconsole #retrocomputer #retrogaming #retrogamer #gamergirls #gamergirl #c64 #atari800 #polybius #polybiusarcade #atari #atari50 https://www.instagram.com/p/ClZa_CjoKtm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gosulsel]

Paw Rumble Sabet Penghargaan di Ajang Google Play Best of 2023 Awards - Gosulsel

JAKARTA, GOSULSEL.COM – Nuon Digital Indonesia (Nuon) meraih penghargaan prestisius dari ajang Google Play Best of 2023 kategori “Best Made In Indonesia” untuk gim Paw Rumble, gim arcade casual karya anak bangsa, di Singapura (12/12/2023). Pencapaiani ini menjadi wujud komitmen Nuon selaku anak...

http://gosulsel.com/2023/12/21/paw-rumble-sabet-penghargaan-di-ajang-google-play-best-of-2023-awards/

#Nuon #NuonDigitalIndonesia #PTTelkomIndonesiaPerseroTbkTelkom

[gurindammedia]

Nuon Games, unit bisnis dari PT Nuon Digital Indonesia (NUON) yang berfokus pada Games Publishing Business, mengumumkan telah merilis gim

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Emulating Tempest 3000: A Personal Experience

Despite my posting of anime GIFs and misfired commentary on RWBY, one of my all time favourite series to consoom is the Tempest franchise. When I was a child, my mom bought me some cereal, and inside the cereal box was a game called "Atari: The 80 Classic Games." This, by the way, was back when games were on CD-ROMs and you had to have a CD player to play games on the PC. At the time, I had no idea that Atari was a legendary video game company that made some of the most important video game consoles. This was a compilation of the best games Atari ever made. Naturally, Tempest would be on there, and I clicked on the game, not knowing what I would expect.

I was immediately blown away. Dave Theurer's evolution of the ideas that Space Invaders brought on the world showed several monsters crawling out of a technical hole. At first, the monsters are immobile and don't pose much of a threat. Then, the flipper starts flipping. Then, canisters containing the abforementioned monsters start appearing. Then, spikes that have the effect of killing you when you have progressed from the level appear. Then, fuseballs, which are about as bound to the lane as Lain Ikawura is to the real world from Serial Experiments Lain appear, which can destroy you by contact. Finally, the pulsars appear, which when reaching it's mature form, will electrocute you harder than Lum did to the clumsy main character from Urusei Yatsura. And not in the fun kind either.

A GIF of a session of Tempest. Source: Tumblr

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The game was really tough and unbelievably addictive, and the people who played in arcades unwisely wasting to the point of entire college tuitions I bet thought the same.

Tempest was popular enough for Atari to make a port for the 2600 that never got past the beta stage of development, as well as countless ports onto computers, and consoles. Eventually, a sequel was made called Tempest 2000, by video game developer Jeff Minter, for the Atari Jaguar. Unfortunatley, the Jaguar was a complete misfire by the parent company, as it was panned for a poor selection of games as well as a complete disaster of a add-on that had major technical issues.

The Angry Video Game Nerd (James Rolfe) reviewing the Atari Jaguar, as well as Tempest 2000. Despite panning the console, Rolfe praised the game as "very addictive and fun to play." Credit: YouTube

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The developers of the console, especially Richard Miller would eventually form VM Labs with the goal of trying again. This time, they would try to emulate the 3DO formula of having multiple manufacturers trying to back their new console, which was to turn DVD players into consoles. The NUON, which launched in 1999, lasted until 2002 when VM Labs went bankrupt, got bought by Genesis Microchip, and then promptly shut down months later. (Genesis would later be acquired by STMicroelectronics in 2007.)

One of the developers for the NUON was Jeff Minter. His rotten luck of producing great video games for obscure or mediocre consoles continued with him developing Tempest 3000 for the system. The game in my view is my personal favourite in the series, as it looks far more modern than 2000, as well as including new spins on the monsters such as the Frank Zapper and the Thombosis/Coronary Thombosis.

Frank Zappers in action in one of my recordings of Tempest 3000. They start off on Level 81, after the green levels are finished. Source: YouTube

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However, playing it is very difficult. This is because unlike Tempest 2000, it never recieved any ports to any other system, including the PC. This is in contrast to Iron Soldier 3, another game on the system that recieved a port to the PlayStation, and in contrast to how 2000 had a port to the Saturn, the PC (on MS-DOS), and eventually a competent remake in Tempest X3 for the PlayStation. Second, getting your hands on a NUON is very difficult due to the obscurity of the system. Expect, if you are lucky, to pay $800 for the system. For years, the game itself was easy to obtain, but recently, it went out of print as well.

NUON did, quite unbelievably, spawn a community of diehard fans who tried to recreate the NUON on a emulator right from the beginning. One of the developers was Mike "Riff" Perry, who dedicated several hours in perfecting the system. Unfortunatley, cranium aneurysm would take his life in 2007, leaving the project stalled for years. I first came to knowledge of NUON while doing some autistic research onto Tempest, and used footage from 3000 in some school projects I did, despite never actually playing the game due to feasability issues. (Side note: a friend said he had a NUON, but I kindof do not believe him and he didn't show any actual proofs that he had the console to begin with, let alone Tempest 3000).

Very recently, I have had a nostalgia boost when it came to the game, and I found something that I never thought I would see: the NUON emulator had a new developer who had previous experience making a decent game based off Tempest. Even more stunning, he got Tempest 3000 to run on the emulator, which I had long assumed impossible.

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A session of Tempest 3000 by Carsten Waechter, played on NUANCE. The game semi-crashes, I presume at the end of the video. Credit: YouTube

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In one of the most blatant and unbelievable moments in my life, I was somehow able to get Tempest 3000 working on the PC thanks to the efforts of Nuance. So how was it?

Well, it's not bad, but there are issues that I hope can be resolved. First, NUANCE can be quite difficult to change. You have to go into the main exported folder and open the .cfg document as a notepad. Next, if you want to change settings, you need to delete the word "Disabled" and add the word "Enabled" in it's place and vice versa. Why was that not on NUANCE's UI? The explanation given by NUANCE's developers is that it is still in beta, which is more than reasonable. (If you had the bad luck of installing it on your Program Files on your C drive, then have fun with your own computer locking you out of editing the document, which is what happened to me!) Second, is the game itself and how it is emulated.

The game has two big issues: for one, the framerates. While in the original NUON, the game was criticised for a drop in framerates, it could be relatively fixed by disabling the 1960s esque psychedelic background. However, in the NUANCE emulator, the bad framerate is very apparent and does not go away. When I played the game, I found that the game would slow down when it came to a lot of vector renderings.

Here's another one of my recordings: the Algo levels, which are accessed only if you beat all 128 levels of Tempest 3000. Credit: YouTube

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But the framerate issues are not just the only problem: NUANCE is unable to actually render the vector graphics properly unless you first use Tempest 3000's vector test feature. If you do not do that, your game risks crashing.

And speaking of crashing? The most egregious flaw of the NUANCE emulator is the fact that you cannot play Tempest 3000 without disabling the audio. This is because NUANCE, for some reason, does not recognize audio track changes. When I tried to change the audio track from T[NT]'s Intimidation to anything else, the game crashed. When I put in a password to access the higher levels and tried to access one of them with audio enabled, the game crashed. There is currently, no workaround this, meaning you have to play the game with the audio disabled. I've made up for it by listening to YouTube videos, but the experience is just not the same at all.

In NUANCE's defense, they have stated that they are working on all of those issues, and it is still in beta, so when the full version of NUANCE comes out, it is likely that a lot of the issues would be fixed. Evenso, I still think it is necessary to point out those issues so that NUANCE knows what is going on with Tempest 3000 and make the necessary fixes.

Still, it is a very playable game and, finally, I am able to fufill my own childhood desires realistically without breaking the bank. However, it still needs a lot of work before it can be done.

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[cav-core]

Corvus and Konrad exchanged Alastor Rushal and Kasati Nuon in a Denny's parking lot like divorced parents.

[cannibalise]

i keep being like 'i need to draw more raven guard/night lord yaoi' and somehow totally forgetting i have been drawing nothing But that

[nanoyoru]

Yugioh OC Week - Day 1: Introductions

Hi everyone! I know this one is a little late but I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time for this but here she is! This is my Arc V OC Botum Nuon <3 She's a turbo duelist from the Synchro Dimension!

Initially born to refugees of a neighboring country, she becomes the adopted daughter of a former underground dueling queen and her mechanic husband. Along with Yugo and Rin, they're the only family she has and with that, she would protect them with her life.

After being found by Reiji in the Standard Dimension, she joins his Lancers to protect Dennis (her mentor) and Shun (her rival).

After seeing how the Lancers were mostly guys except for Serena and how there were no original Synchro characters that weren't Yugo or Rin, I ended up making her to fil in that void. She's kind of like my 'fix it' character for Arc V gdfjshhgfdssdg

A few notes about her here (Arc V Spoilers in here and please don't make fun of me for saying this) <3

Based off the song Switched on Lotus by Susumu Hirasawa and of course Lotus Flowers themselves!

Lives in the Satellite with her adoptive parents, in a small portion populated by other Southeast Asians.

Her hobbies include drawing, daydreaming, taking long walks/rides and writing card lore.

She wants to become a card designer someday.

A lot of people who know me would assume that she was made to be shipped with Dennis but no she's Reiji's girlfriend hgdsffdg

She's Cambodian because I am and you know Yugioh could use more dark skinned girls (Shoutout to Masumi and Asana btw)

The words Rebirth and Ascension are in reference to the story about the creation of Lotus flowers I made specifically for this. They're also a theme with her.

She goes to XYZ months before the invasion due to Zarc.

Her and Dennis are Zarc's Envoys, created to protect and guide their Yu boys with love and kindness.

She ends up falling in love with Reiji, one of Ray's Envoys.

She claims that she's Shun's rival because Shun taught her how to XYZ summon and, knowing that he always wants a good challenge, acts as his rival to return his kindness.

She loves snacks, she's almost always have one on hand.

Her bangs are covering a marker. When she was arrested as a child, they gave her one that, since she was too young for it, did damage to her face. Seeing the marker scares her because it reminds her of those memories.

Uses plants decks. Her plants are meant to highlight the lack of nature in the Satellite.

She can talk to Duel Spirits bc of Zarc, same with Dennis

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*gives u the genderbender button*

"Oh? What's this?"

"That's it? I don't feel any different nonny..."

"Oh....OH. Well that's new..."

"..."

"How do you pee like this?"

[famousdeaths]

Nuon Chea, also known as Long Bunruot or Rungloet Laodi, was a Cambodian communist politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge....

Link: Nuon Chea

[aryomengrande]

[blisscast]

[Tempest 3000 💕] More at my blog blisscast.wordpress.com, link in bio. ℹ You can find Journal Page 13 about TxK (another Tempest version) at the link in bio! . First of all, this game isn't mine XD it belongs to the awesome @magnum_cdi who was so kind to let me try it at #firenzevintagebit2022! It's very similar to Tempest 2000, but has more vector-looking graphics and smokey effects. Also, it's slightly "epilepsy-warning", just like Polybius 👀. Jeff Minter really does love making games like these, doesn't he? I'd like to own this game too one day! You can play this on a device called Nuon, a dvd player that also plays games! The model I tried was specifically the Samsung Nuon DVD N-505, with the HPI Stealth pad. . Also, I tried Tempest 4000 on the new Atari VCS (that is not the Atari 2600 you're thinking about, sadly), and it's practically the same as the other versions, but this one supports a special controller: a "classic" joystick that also has a paddle included! I tried it to see if it would feel similar to the original arcade game, but that wasn't the case, sadly. Too bad, but I'm glad they tried to include it! It would be an amazing selling point if it worked XD. . After that, I picked up the regular controller and played a few levels, and soon enough I was surrounded by various people and friends XD. They were all taking pictures and videos of me playing. I'm glad that I could make them smile ( ˙꒳​˙ ). . #tempest4000 #tempest2000 #txk #atarivcs #atari #samsungnuon #nuon #llamasoft #tempest3000 #jeffminter #crtgaming #crt #retrogaming #retrogamer #obscureconsoles #obscuregames #gamergirl #gamergirls #galaxyaesthetic (at Spedale Sant’antonio a Lastra a Signa) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClhNgyZoXCD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Nuon Experience Sukses Meriahkan Gelaran Indonesia Comic Con X DG Con 2023 - Gosulsel

JAKARTA, GOSULSEL.COM - Perkembangan dunia digital telah menjadi bagian dari industri kreatif di Indonesia dengan mengadopsi teknologi digital kontemporer, dan Indonesia telah menempatkan diri sebagai salah satu pemain utama dalam dunia ekonomi kreatif dan digital. Sejalan dengan hal tersebut,...

http://gosulsel.com/2023/11/13/nuon-experience-sukses-meriahkan-gelaran-indonesia-comic-con-x-dg-con-2023/

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another kara (picrew)

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A teaser for what I have planned soon.