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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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Shinya Arino’s Retro Game Master business card and signed Game Center CX instruction manual (click for larger image). I wonder if that card is a super collectible, since it’s an English version, unlike the ones that come in Japanese copies of GCCX/GCCX2.

The excess Tokyo Game Show news this week delayed all the GCCX stuff I wanted to post from last week:

Buy: Retro Game Challenge

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX posts

[Via Dakkuman]

tags / game center cx / shinya arino / retro game challenge / gaming / nintendo ds / ds / ec

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Game Center CX’s Shinya Arino visiting fans at Los Angeles’ Japan Arcade last night. If you skip to the 4:05 mark, you can see him receiving and reacting to the poster from Nina Matsumoto that we featured two days ago.

And after that, you’ll see a lady totally freaking out over meeting Arino. Not going to lie, had I been able to make it, that would’ve been me, except more high pitched.

You can see photos that fans took at the event on the Retro Game Master USA Facebook page. If you were there, make sure to post/link your own experiences in the comments!

Buy: Retro Game Challenge

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX 2 posts

tags / game center cx / retro game challenge / shinya arino / gaming / ec

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Retro Game Challenge 2 translation update!

Can you believe this is our 5000th post on this goofy site? I was worried we wouldn’t find a news post befitting this milestone, but news about the fan translation for Game Center CX 2 / Retro Game Challenge 2, one of our most anticipated tiny cartridges ever, is perfect for the occasion!

We haven’t heard much about the translation team’s efforts since its site launched in February, but they’ve now revamped the project page to make it easier to relay updates. It’s still light on content, but you can see a few new English screenshots from there. Make sure to click the sprites at the bottom, too, for some nice character art.

Ryuza, who maintains the site, tells us that we’ll likely get some new screenshots soon to show off the progress made from project lead Xvirus and his team. He adds, “From what I’ve seen, the translators have a lot of the text from the conversations with Arino translated, so things are going pretty well.” I’m just thrilled this isn’t dead!

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.81!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX 2 posts

tags / game center cx 2 / game center cx / retro game challenge / retro game challenge 2 / indies zero / xvirus / gaming / homebrew / translation / ec

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Game Center CX's first U.S. episode up! →

Despite some initial technical difficulties with the video stream, Kotaku has posted the first U.S. episode of Game Center CX/Retro Game Master — well, it’s actually the ninth episode from the Japanese show’s fourth season, but no matter, it’s subtitled and released!

I didn’t see if the video includes some of the show’s tangential bits (the Japanese airing included a trip to an arcade in Ebisu), but I can see why Kotaku would cut those scenes, as they don’t relate to Arino’s game challenge, which this time is beating Ninja Gaiden.

Anyway, you can stream the episode for free here so long as you’re in U.S. Sorry, Europe/Canada. :o(

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.58!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX posts

tags / game center cx / retro game master / retro game challenge / kotaku / gaming / ec / ninja gaiden

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Kotaku running Game Center CX in English next week →

What the … AllThingsD reports that Gawker Media has purchased the rights to the first 12 episodes of Game Center CX, dubbed them into English, and will be posting them on Kotaku starting next week. Apparently it was pretty cheap.

“Put it this way” says COO Gaby Darbyshire, “it was not an extravagant experiment to make. Surprisingly small.” Coulda made an even smaller investment and skipped the dub, real talk (if you want subs, Something Awful’s goons have been on that). This is the first step in an initiative to show more video on Gawker, etc., whatever, who cares, it’s officially licensed, translated Game Center CX.

Eric and I actually talked about trying to get the rights ourselves last year, but those talks stalled when we realized we don’t have any money.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.99!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX posts

[Image via Menma Daisuki na Akeda]

tags / game center cx / gaming / jc / retro game challenge / kotaku

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Game Center CX’s Arino playing Excitebike 3D. If the video here doesn’t load for you — Nico Nico Douga can be finicky like that, and it’s not too friendly with Tumblr’s dashboard — you can settle for a condensed commercial Nintendo posted on its Japanese site.

Want a new reason to hate 3DS region-locking (or region-specific content)? While we’re dicking around with Green Lantern movie trailers on the eShop, in Japan, 3DS owners are watching free episodes of Game Center CX.

Each year brings a new reason for Game Center CX fans in the West to feel slighted. :o(

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.99!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX posts

[Thanks, KJA!]

tags / shinya arino / game center cx / retro game challenge / arika / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / excitebike / excitebike 3d / ec

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Game Center CX 2 translation project page →

The Game Center CX 2 / Retro Game Challenge 2 fan translation project, possibly the most important work of our generation, is now underway and has a web site!

Modeled after the Japanese GCCX2 hub, the site doesn’t have much content yet other than a single shot of Triotos’ translated title screen and the videos we shared before.

It does, however, reveal that the project is seven strong — coder Xvirus (Shiren the Wanderer DS 2 translation), four translators, GCCX expert and SCROLL publisher Ray Barnholt serving as editor, and Tiny Cartridge reader Ryuza working on the graphics and web site.

Now, let us all pray this is one of the few DS translation projects that actually sees completion.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.99!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX 2 posts

tags / retro game challenge 2 / game center cx 2 / game center cx / retro game challenge / indies zero / xvirus / imports / homebrew / translation / ec

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Super Mario Bros. 1-1 recreated as a Demon Returns stage. This is only a slice of the full level Tiny Cartridge reader Zachary Robinson laid out — see it all right here.

Demon Returns, of course, is the Ghosts ‘n Goblins / Adventure Island-style platformer included in Game Center CX 2, an import-only game we’ve hyped so much that it will likely never meet your immense expectations.

Two things about Game Center CX 2:

  1. There might be a translation project in the works — it all depends on whether or not Japanese translators man up and volunteer their services. Like men.
  2. I popped in the used copy of GCCX 2 (perfect condition, even has Arino’s business card) that JC bought my the other day, and discovered the most amazing thing — the previous owner already unlocked all the games! I’m trying to collect every letter in Super Demon Returns now.

Things are looking up for GCCX2.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($16.32!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX 2 posts

tags / game center cx / zachary robinson / demon returns / indies zero / retro game challenge / fanart / super mario bros / ec

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Retro Game Challenge romhack ruse revealed

Okay dudes, bad news. The enigmatic “arino2011” who has been posting videos of a seemingly translated Retro Game Challenge 2, featuring references to our beloved mascot, has revealed that the project is not an official localization, but, indeed, a fan work.

Xvirus, who also worked on the translation patches Shiren the Wanderer DS 2 and Torneko no Daibouken Advance, told us that he is the one behind the mysterious videos, rather than any official DS publisher.

“Shiren and Torneko have been put on an indefinite hiatus as I don’t currently have a translator (they all seem to disappear on me),” Xvirus said. “After watching a video review on CX2, I thought I’d give it a go and, after a few hurdles, found out that it wasn’t too incredibly complicated.” So it is a fan translation project after all!

“Unfortunately,” Xvirus continued, “I can only do so much by myself and as like… 90 percent of the dialogue is in Kansai-ben, I’m at a bit of a loss.”

The potential good news here is that by revealing the project’s status as a (troubled) fan effort, we’re now able to put out a call for translators. If you know Game Center CX and have an eye for Kansai dialect, you could be part of something very important. 

VERY. IMPORTANT.

[Update: Xvirus’ contact info: baka_neko@comcast.net]

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.99!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX 2 posts

[Image: “Boys and Girls” by Imai]

tags / game center cx 2 / retro game challenge 2 / xvirus / jc / indies zero / retro game challenge / homebrew / translation / game center cx

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Retro Game Challenge 2 title screen video, a follow-up to yesterday’s mysterious clip, in which Evil Arino promised his return and gave our mascot Tiny a shout-out.

This is looking more and more like a ROMhack, what with the old copyright info, but who knows, maybe the U.S. publisher working on this hasn’t localized that part yet?

[Update: Maybe that doesn’t matter! Commentor Hobo points out, “The original RGC title screen was still dated 2007 even though it was released in the US in 2009.”]

Whichever the case, the entity posting these videos has demonstrated an ability to edit both the text and images in Game Center CX, which means shit just got real.

Whoever you are, Youtube user Arino2011, just tell us what you need us to do to make this happen. Much like Brandy, we wanna be down — we wanna be down with you. We wanna be down with what you’re going through.

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.99!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: More Game Center CX 2 posts

[Via Jesse, ryukage2007, @shauninman]

tags / game center cx / game center cx 2 / romhack / retro game challenge / retro game challenge 2 / homebrew / translation / indies zero

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Arino delivers a mysterious message to “that Tiny guy.” We received a link to this video of Game Center CX 2’s Games Master Arino teasing some kind of return appearance, posted by YouTube user “arino2011,” who currently has only this clip in the account.

I’d love to believe this video is a personal missive to us from XSEED, but I’m more inclined to think it’s a ROMhack — I don’t dare consider that anything as wonderful as an American release of GCCX2 is possible. Still, if you made this, we’d love to hear from you! Either you’re localizing GCCX2 or you’re just messing with the code — and either way that’s pretty cool. 

Buy: Retro Game Challenge ($13.99!)

Import: Game Center CX 2

See also: Our saddest tag: game_center_cx_2

tags / arino / game center cx 2 / jc / romhack / retro game challenge / indies zero / xseed

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