This is kind of sad. Indeed there are common issues about Kickstarter projects here, mainly financial and technical ones.
But here, there's an human issue too.

We started falling so far behind...running out of funds...lost our publisher due to the delays...personal and health issues started...stress mounted up to unbelievable levels...team relationships started deteriorating...depression mounted up...misery all around.

Absolutely nobody wants that sort of situation, but the game is available on Steam, that's sort of a miracle IMO.
I particularly hate the issue about the publisher, like "faster = better"... this has to stop (but yeah it's capitalism isn't it?).

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It looks great!
I tried a bit the GOG demo and the game runs perfectly well and have a multi monitors support, but takes more than 3Go of my RAM. :woot:
I didn't play Warcraft II but Warcraft III yes and this game reminds me a lot of it.
I think it has the Warcraft II graphics and the gameplay of the third (heroes and their items, levels...) and be able to chose where to spend some attributes points is really nice.

A multiplayer mode would be really cool for sure!

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As a backer I of course hope they succeed!

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Quoting: XpanderRelease the GOG Galaxy client for linux

not gonna buy anything from them before we are getting treated equally to other platforms

I understand your point, and even if I wouldn't use Galaxy, I can't really disagree with you.
But IMO, we would be treated (more) equally if we had all linux releases of games that have it anywhere else.
For me that's the first and more important step. And even if for some cases it's cause of the lack of Galaxy on Linux (we know which ones), but this doesn't concern all games (unfortunately?).

I said again on the last Blood news, about the lack of Linux/macOS release on GOG, even if Galaxy is available on macOS!

So clearly, I don't think Galaxy on Linux would surprisingly resolve this issue, it's not the holy grail...

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I'm not optimistic... and still no Linux/macOS release of Turok 2 on GOG.com.
Some games get it and some not, it's like randomly.

NBlood is maybe nice but this is completely different...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSo I forgot an important step in getting the game to the computer. You have to decrypt it, and while it SAYS the ps3-disc-dumper supports Linux, I don't really see how to compile it, or use it at all.

Plus the appimage of RPCS3 uses an outdated version of OpenSSL so a lot of features don't work. It should upgrade to 1.1.0.

And what about this other tool mentioned?
https://notabug.org/necklace/libray [External Link]

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I never tested a Dreamcast emulator yet...
This is great news indeed but why they did forked it in the first place?

As mentioned on the Github's Reicast page:

If you are interested into further porting/adapting/whatever, please do not fork off.
We hate that. Really.

Let's try to keep everything under a single project :)

So it seems among the many DC emulators, Flycast is the best Linux open source solution right now?

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: slaapliedjeI actually bought one of the listed Blu-ray drives so that I could rip my own PS3 games. It's a long process and I'd only recommend doing it for those PS3 exclusive titles out there. Like I ripped Red Dead Redemption so I could play it on my PC. Then again it was random how it'd load with the version of RPCS3 that I was using, so decided to just fix the laser in my fat PS3 :P

It would be interesting to have your feedback about the process, what softwares did you use, difficulties you encountered etc.
Sadly my Blu-ray drive is apparently not compatible to dumping PS3 discs.

For now I only did one mitigated test with a pirated game but of course I intend to buy a compatible drive and some PS3 discs to dumping them myself in the future.
I'm particularly waiting for this goal/feature "Support booting from original game discs." will be quite useful IMHO.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DWFPDJI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 [External Link] is the drive I'm using. I'll rip a game tonight and write up a howto.

Yeah, even if that option of booting from an original is there, you'd still need a drive that can read the disks. But it would certainly save the time and hard disk space if you could run it straight from the drive.

Load times might be slower though.

Not necessarily a howto, simply having your detailed feedback.
But thanks though! :)

A bit off topic but speaking of dumping games, I tried to do it with my PS1 CDs and it failed (the resulting image didn't run on my emulator). I was thinking of retry that... It seems the majority of tools to do it are on Windows.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI actually bought one of the listed Blu-ray drives so that I could rip my own PS3 games. It's a long process and I'd only recommend doing it for those PS3 exclusive titles out there. Like I ripped Red Dead Redemption so I could play it on my PC. Then again it was random how it'd load with the version of RPCS3 that I was using, so decided to just fix the laser in my fat PS3 :P

It would be interesting to have your feedback about the process, what softwares did you use, difficulties you encountered etc.
Sadly my Blu-ray drive is apparently not compatible to dumping PS3 discs.

For now I only did one mitigated test with a pirated game but of course I intend to buy a compatible drive and some PS3 discs to dumping them myself in the future.
I'm particularly waiting for this goal/feature "Support booting from original game discs." will be quite useful IMHO.

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Available on itch.io too with demos:

https://misougames.itch.io/towertale [External Link]

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