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VMU saves for Hotel Mario is not a sentence I expected to read today. love that people still do stuff like this
Thus preserving it on a future-proof platform for generations to come.
I see it from the perspective of emulation, that more people are able to play this game. Dreamcast emulators are more common than CD-i emulators.
I know its a nitpick with an "acktually" flair to it, but Hotel Mario is acktually not "Nintendo's" game. Its not developed or published by Nintendo and is not even on a Nintendo console. The game is not acknowledged or listed on Nintendo listings ever.
I wonder if the developers will do more changes or additions to the port.
Yeah, to clarify Hotel Mario and the CD-i Zeldas are technically born from Nintendo's "fuck you" to Sony in the 90s.
They had plans with them for a CD version and/or extension of the SNES, but they ended their partnership with Sony when Sony announced the thing publicly before Nintendo agreed on the licencing points.
To officialise that Nintendo quickly got a contract with Philips instead, because that was the other company that developed the CD. Nintendo ended up not using optic discs anyway in their console nor the next one, but the contract gave Philips free rein to use Mario and Zelda licences for 4 games, so they contracted a studio to make those on their CD-i.
They had plans with them for a CD version and/or extension of the SNES, but they ended their partnership with Sony when Sony announced the thing publicly before Nintendo agreed on the licencing points.
All documentations I watched and read report it the other way; Nintendo had plans with Sony to create a CD addon for the Super Nintendo, called Nintendo PlayStation. But there was a problem for Nintendo, as they realized the contract was not in favor for Nintendo. All or most money for all sold games on the CD addon would go to Sony. This also meant Nintendo was helping to create a market competitor and to prevent that they changed plans without notifying Sony.
Then on the public show Nintendo suddenly announced the partnership with Phillips. Sony couldn't showcase their CD addon later in the show and was hit with a punch by Nintendo. That was a very bad position for Sony to be in. Sony created their standalone console Sony PlayStation out of this misery, started big campaigns and snatched even Final Fantasy as an exclusive. Meanwhile the Philips deal didn't workout well and the licensed games were trash. And the rest is history.
This is the story about the Nintendo-Sony breakup I know of.
Nintendo had probably planned to ditch them for a while, since they could not have reacted that fast otherwise. Chances are they would have announced the Philips thing when they did anyway, or maybe slightly later...
But in every report I've seen, Sony did showcase publicly first, and presumably without Nintendo's agreement, on CES 1991. Nintendo's partnership with Philips was announced literally the day after.
Must have been quite confusing for people attending CES in any case.