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The Capcom Digital blog has been running a long but fascinating series of articles from David Sirlin, detailing the changes they have made to the rebalanced mode of the new Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix project. Not only does it provide some interesting insight to what is going on behind-the-scenes, but it gives harcore fighitng geeks a bit more to think about the granddaddy of fighters.

As if the new 2D release of Bionic Commando on the XBox Live Arcade and PSN wasn’t amazing enough, new footage was released of the game’s multiplayer modes. 1UP had the exclusive and its looks pretty good. Nothing mind-blowing, but an added dimension to a wonderful classic is always appreciated.

Capcom definately seems to be one of the few big publishers that “gets it” when it comes to their old-school fans. 1942 is their classic shmup franchise that they are also bring back to life on the modern download services. This recently Capcom blog post gives us more insight into what to expect from the upcoming “Joint Strike”

You may have seen a few screenshots of the upcoming Commando game, but now you can see it in motion. Capcom just released a new trailer for the games that also happens to show some footage of SSF2THDR at the end. Enjoy!

If you want to stick with controllers that we can find outside of Japan, Racketboy contributer, Daniel Primed
takes a look at many of the conventional and unconventional play methods availible to Wii owners.

For the Wii hackers out there, Virtual Console games have been fully dumped, decrypted, and extracted. As expected, there are ROMS in the virtual console games and they are playable in existing PC emulators. Most of all, the documentation for a virtual console game that is viewable on the Nintendo Wii is just a bunch of HTML files.

A retrospective of Taito’s Conan the Barbarian style action game, popularized by the Master System game. Also includes a look at its dreadful sequel, the obscure beat-em-up Warrior Blade, and the awful pseudo-revival (in Japan, at least) Barbarian.

With the pending release of Metal Gear Solid 4 for the Playstation 3 and the recent release of the 20th Anniversary pack discussion has reignited about which version of Metal Gear Solid should players new to the series pick up. On one hand there is the original PSone classic and on the other hand there is the Gamecube remake; MGS: The Twin Snakes. Racketboy contributer, Daniel Primed compares the two on his own blog.

Another Sega game that actually began life on the MSX, Golvellius is an excellent Zelda-style game. Also includes a look at its obscure MSX2 follow-up, Super Cooks.

Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation might get all of attention for being an overly-opinionated reviewer, but Action Button is a nice lo-fi alternative. One of the latest reviews covers the new Bangio-O game on the Nintendo DS. As you can tell from the colorful verbage, the game should appeal to harcore gamers.

Taito’s 1985 arcade game about high-jumping ninjas has a bad rap amongst a lot of retro fans, but put in the right context, it’s actually a lot of fun. Also includes a look at its recent DS sequel.

I’m still running this on my Media Center PC and loving it!

Love Mario but need a challenge? Look no further.

The Hidden Gems series has been quite popular on this site, and while there weren’t a lot of true gems on the Gamecube, I ran down the best of the ones some people may have missed.