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TIGSource ForumsPlayerGeneral*DO NOT* buy Dark Void Zero on Steam.
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« on: April 13, 2010, 11:33:01 AM »

It's got some SecuROM bullshit that's clogging up the works and crashing the game.  Also, the texture filtering is so awful, you might think vaseline is smeared all over your monitor.

Seriously, it's really *really* poorly ported.  I wish I could have my $5 back, honestly.
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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2010, 11:41:53 AM »

Shame, I was about to buy it.

If it's really that bad I'm pretty sure they'll whip up a patch though.
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« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2010, 12:36:48 PM »

I hope so.  Facepalm
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« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2010, 01:03:31 PM »

I was gonna buy it too. This game hits my Retro itch just like Mega Man 9. Thanks for the heads up  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2010, 01:29:46 PM »

I can't think up many worse ways of ruining a $5 port of a low-res pixelart game than SecuROM and texture filtering. That's mental.
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« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2010, 01:47:10 PM »

Why would you put texture filtering on pixel art.

Doesn't that... you know, defeat the point of pixel art?
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« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2010, 01:48:54 PM »

Superbrothers does it, and it looks delicious.
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« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2010, 01:54:59 PM »

Superbrothers does it, and it looks delicious.

They antialias manually but thats different from a linear/aniso texture filter, the latter will give a more smudged effect and take away the "blockiness" of the pixel art.

EDIT: Another way to describe it is that texture filtering is concerned with the resolution of the screen rather than that of the texture, so a 32x32 sprite at 4x zoom is treated as 128x128 pixels and will try to get individual colors for those pixels.  The Superbrothers antialiasing works at the sprite's 32x32 resolution.
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2010, 02:16:08 PM »

That sucks. I don't want to get it for iPod Touch and I don't want to buy a DSi now that the 3DS was announced ;_;
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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2010, 02:20:17 PM »

I already bought it Sad. Oh well, it's still playable.
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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2010, 02:58:20 PM »

Meh, I got it for iPhone instead. It's dirt cheap and the majority of Toucharcade forum members says the controls are workable. Have yet to try it though.
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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2010, 11:52:22 PM »

Securom on a Steam game?

Isn't that like locking a door with a combination lock and a key lock, when you know perfectly well that if someone really wants to get in, they'll use the window?
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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2010, 11:58:24 PM »

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NES-style game with SecuROM

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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2010, 12:13:20 AM »

Does it have scanlines option?
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« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2010, 01:23:11 AM »

They're going about it the wrong way, they should release it through Steam without SecuROM then later on release DLC with SecuROM.
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