Post subject: Lack of PCE TASes
Sonia
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I hate having to start up a thread just to ask this, but I could not see any other place to fit it. Well, I noticed there's a severe lack of PCE/PCE-CD TASes on this site even after all those years. I was wondering if it's due to lack of interest or because the emulation is not good enough or some other reason. Not that I want to see more TASes for that platform, but I was just wondering.
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Lack of interest, mainly. You even said so yourself with that last line. The PCE library isn't exactly well-suited for TASing, at least from what I've seen of it.
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Sonia
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Perhaps you're right. The library contains a lot of ill-suited genres such as scrolling shooters, RPG's or digital comics, so yeah.
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I know this is an older thread but I have been making an effort to make more PCE tases and getting others interested in checking out the system. Imo it’s extremely underrated as a platform.
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This also happened to be posted just before I had made a couple of PCE and related system TASes - afterwards it seemed to have picked up a bit. In the years before, only like a few per year were made on average.
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I almost want to make one at least every year to keep it in the spotlight. I always seem to find interesting games for the system that aren’t just shoot em ups or rpgs
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Cadash, Bomberman '93 and Bomberman '94 are good games for me.
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Yep, and there’s even some really interesting games with unusual concepts. Like this one that Memory showed me just the other day: https://youtu.be/mruKBoC9lpQ
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