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Haggle Man and Demon cameos in Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 (skip to 2:52 - 3:06)!!! Okay, this video/indie project is so rad for dozens of reasons, but I can’t believe these two little-known heroes from Game Center CX and Retro Game Challenge’s fake retro titles made it into this thing! We’re told that they’re only alternate costumes for other characters right now, but they may become playable characters eventually.

Developer Jay Pavlina will release this as a Flash game some time during the first quarter of 2012 — why Nintendo hasn’t hired this man yet to design an official Super Mario Bros. remix for its consoles is beyond me. You can play the original version of Super Mario Bros. Crossover, which is amazing in its own right, over here.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX posts

[Thanks, Zach R!]

tags / super mario crossover / game center cx / game center cx 2 / indie / gaming / pc / homebrew / haggle man / demon returns / retro game challenge / exploding rabbit / ec

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Pushmo level editor for your PC released →

GBATemp user elisherer has put together a program that allows you to design Pushmo levels outside of the 3DS, then generate a QR code to import it! It’s still early in development, but the downloadable program already lets you open puzzles from QR codes, and somehow import them from pictures. Super clever!

You can download the current version of the app here, and get started making unnecessarily complex puzzles!

Buy: Nintendo 3DS console (Flame Red, Black, & Blue)

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

tags / eshop / gaming / jc / nintendo 3ds / pushmo / 3ds / homebrew / pc

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Win a copy of Cave Story+ for Mac

Nicalis has offered us five codes for Cave Story+, its updated Mac release of Cave Story based on the WiiWare version. Would you like to welcome fall with a nostalgic trip through Pixel’s masterpiece? Doesn’t that sound comforting, like a cool breeze coming in on a warm day? (Not that I’d know, we haven’t really had “cool” anything here in Austin in months…)

We’re giving away five copies of Cave Story+ this week, from now until Friday at 11:59PM EDT. All you have to do to win, is go into the comments section of this post, and … describe Balrog. We’ll pick our favorites and dispense codes. Good luck, and thanks to Nicalis for the generosity!

Preorder: Cave Story 3D

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More Cave Story posts

tags / cave story / contest / gaming / jc / nicalis / daisuke amaya / pc / indie

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'Indie 2D Bundle' on sale today on Steam →

It’s not often that we post about Steam deals or PC games, but this week’s “Midweek Madness” deal is something that will likely be of interest to a lot of you dudes. The “Indie 2D Bundle” collects Bit.Trip Runner, NightSky, NyxQuest, Swords and Soldiers, and World of Goo — all cool indie games that are, were going to be, or will be on WiiWare — for ten damn dollars.

All of them except NightSky are Mac/PC compatible (NightSky is currently PC only), and all of them normally sell for ten bucks each. You’d have to be a fool or someone with an old computer to pass this up! It expires at 4PM Pacific.

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: More of our Bit.Trip posts

tags / steam / deals / jc / pc / indie / gaming / bit trip / nightsky / nyxquest / swords and soldiers / world of goo

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Surprise! Cave Story+ out for Mac

Out of nowhere, Nicalis has released Cave Story+, an enhanced port of last year’s WiiWare remake, to the Mac App Store (Windows release on Steam forthcoming).

Along with the upgraded “HD” graphics, remastered soundtrack, official re-translation, and bonus modes, Cave Story+ adds the Wind Fortress level, the first original area designed from scratch by Daisuke ‘Pixel’ Amaya since the original PC release. This version also has USB gamepad support, and will receive future content updates.

I wonder if Wind Fortress will make it into the upcoming 3DS remake? Anyway, you can download Cave Story+ right now for $9.99 — more screenshots after the break!

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tags / cave story / nicalis / daisuke amaya / pc / mac / indie / gaming / ec

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Debut trailer for Wizorb, the 16-bit-style RPG/Breakout hybrid from Jonathan Lavigne (Ninja Senki), Jean-François Major (Extra Heroes), Justin Cyr, Jean Chan, and Paul Robertson — most of these names also appeared in the credits for the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World game.

While this will be an Xbox Live Indie Games and PC release, there’s a bit of DS in here, in the form of a special cameo that you’ll see around the 00:38 mark. We are tremendously honored that anything of ours could appear in the work of these exceptionally talented people.

Just this one time, we’re thrilled to see our work destroyed by a magical ball. We <3 all you dudes.

Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more

See also: Ninja Senki, Tiny cameo in Ninja Senki

[Thanks to our many readers who sent this in!]

tags / wizorb / xbox liv indie games / xbox live arcade / pc / indie / pixeltao / gaming / ec

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Minitroid demo available for download →

Hey, remember Minitroid, Tokinsom’s scaled-down, pixelated Metroid game? If not, watch the video. If so, watch the video! (It’s a new one).

Okay, now that we’re all just kind of staring at the screen in awe, here’s the rad news: you can download a playable tech demo now! The not so rad news (for certain people typing this post out right now) is that you’re going to need Windows to play it.

Buy: Metroid: Other M

See also: Lots more Metroid posts

[Via It’s Dangerous to Go Alone]

tags / jc / metroid / minitroid / tokinsom / gaming / indie / pc

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New trailer for Super Smash Land, the Game Boy-style demake for Super Smash Bros. The developer behind this fan project, Dan Fornace, has posted a new PC demo that doubles the number of playable fighters to… four.

Along with Mario and Kirby, you can now play as or fight against Pikachu and Link. The release also adds two arenas (Saffron City, and a “mysterious unlockable stage”, custom controls, an Arcade Mode, and team matches. You can download the demo at Piki Geek.

Buy: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

See also: More demakes

[Thanks, Mike D.!]

tags / super smash land / game boy / super smash bros / dan fornace / homebrew / pc / ec / demake / gaming

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NyxQuest for $2 →

Here’s a chance to try one of the best-received games on WiiWare without having to admit to your hardcore gamer-dude friends that you used WiiWare. For Valentine’s week, Over the Top Games has discounted the PC and Mac versions of its Greek mythology-themed side-scroller, NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits, to just $1.99. You can download the game DRM-free from the dev’s site. I believe the deal ends in a few hours, so act quick!

I’ll be taking advantage of this deal myself, having played the WiiWare demo and liked it, but never having picked it up because I’m a jerk/overloaded with games.

tags / deals / jc / nyxquest / wiiware / pc / over the top

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Card Sagas Wars: Castlevania’s Soma vs Crono and the whole Chrono Trigger crew at times — the team attack at the 1:23 mark is pretty wild!

For those of you wondering when Ahruon and Orkimedes will get around to finally releasing a playable version of this fanmade, M.U.G.E.N.-powered PC project, the Spanish developers explain, “We do what we can when we want and without hurry, so we can only advise you to try to enjoy our development a bit more, even it it’s slow.”

So, yeah, you’ll just have to just settle for these clips we post every few months for now. If you want, you can hold a controller while the video runs and pretend you’re playing — you’ll be amazed by all the moves you can pull off!

Buy: Chrono Trigger DS ($14.99), Castlevania games

[Via Dreavus]

tags / castlevania / chrono trigger / card sagas wars / soma / cronos / ec / ahruoun / orkimedes / mugen / pc

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Ninja Senki “boxart” by Jonathan Lavigne (click for a larger image). A better site would have prepared some holiday-appropriate posts for today, but since we’re Tiny Cartridge, all we can offer for you to be thankful about are Amazon sales, Ni no Kuni commercials, and this awesome cover for a downloadable game that won’t actually have a box.

Do you remember Ninja Senki, the GBC-style platformer from one of the artist/coders behind Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game and TMNT (for GBA)? If not, then watch this trailer and check out the tanooki’s bozack.

Lavigne says he plans to put up a Ninja Senki site “in a couple of weeks” with a download link for the PC game. Something to be thankful for in advance!

Buy: Retro Game Challenge

See also: Ninja Karakuri Den, Haggleman

[Via Pixeltao]

tags / ninja senki / jonathan lavigne / boxart / indie / pc / ec

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Blaster Master’s Sophia the Third in Super Mario Bros. Crossover! This addition makes the game look much easier, what with the ability to hang from the ceiling and shoot Bowser in the face, but, oh, the novelty of wrecking enemies with a hovering tank and its multi-warhead missiles!

Coder Jay Pavlina intends to release the Blaster Master update for Super Mario Bros. Crossover later this month. Someone turn this into a DS game already!

Preorder: Super Mario All-Stars

[Via Exploding Rabbit]

tags / super mario bros crossover / blaster master / homebrew / pc / exploding rabbit / sunsoft / ec / jay pavlina / super mario bros

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