Spam Spam Spam Humbug 121 – Blimpo City Translation Heroes
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Another episode which Withstand the Fury Dragon is entirely absent from! This time around, Harmony Dragon and Draxenath sit down to chat about a variety of topics, beginning with the now-shuttered (but for how long?) fan-run City of Heroes server. Other NCSoft games — Tabula Rasa, in particular — also get mentioned, before the topic moves on to lesser-known titles like Blimpo Warrior and its sequel.
The difficulties of dealing with hard-coded serial IRQ settings in old Packard Bell computers also comes up for discussion, as does the complexities of manipulating graphics tiles in Nintendo Entertainment System game ROMs. This morphs into a broader discussion of the technology of tile graphics, and early forays into programming. The episode closes out, more or less, with a discussion of a truly excellent Final Fantasy V fan translation, and fan translation projects in general.
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Ultima VI Gates of Creation by OC ReMix
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