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[Radiant]

Supposing the rumor's true, there's one fun consequence:

Speed runs.

If it runs on a console in 2D, it'll run in an emulator. If it runs in an emulator (and has enough cult classic factor, which Doukutsu certainly does!) then people will speedrun it. And I don't just mean the hell level, I mean all of it. That'd be fun to watch. I don't think there's any sequence breaking in the game, but there might be...

[Golds]

*head explode*

it'd be nice to have a real story, with a studio attached, though.

[Powergloved Andy]

I just wish people would leave Cave Story alone. It's an epic game. I don't know, console rumors have been around for like two years. I just wish it'd stay the way it is now, and not end up with enhanced HD graphics, or addons that pixel has no authority over.

[Dragonmaw]

Doesn't need a port.  It perfect already in every way 

[Annabelle Kennedy]

I just wish people would leave Cave Story alone. It's an epic game. I don't know, console rumors have been around for like two years. I just wish it'd stay the way it is now, and not end up with enhanced HD graphics, or addons that pixel has no authority over.

what the..? why would get this 'treatment'  i think it will just be a port.  and it'd be nice to play it on a console..  i trust pixel wouldn't allow for any of that garbage.

[Melly]

Hopefully.

[Annabelle Kennedy]

no hesitation.

[Yigguth]

What's the difference between playing it on a console and playing it on a computer anyways? Some people say it's because they want to play it with a controller, but if you're like me you've already bought one of the many usb controllers available (which is what I used to play Cave Story in the first place)

[kyn]

What's the difference between playing it on a console and playing it on a computer anyways? Some people say it's because they want to play it with a controller, but if you're like me you've already bought one of the many usb controllers available (which is what I used to play Cave Story in the first place)

I would love to answer this to you but I have no idea why I prefer playing on a console, and yes I have a controller and sometimes I play PC games in a TV screen but the feeling is still not the same. It's just a feeling of displacement, like we're not supposed to be playing on the PC, maybe I'm just crazy, maybe consoles have some special chemicals that triggers endorphins into our brain, maybe I just need to take off my nostalgia glasses.

[Hideous]

It's just the same as playing old NES games with emulators - You don't get that same feeling, for example because you don't get the blur that a good old CRT-screen brings you.

[Türbo Bröther]

I've played Cave Story on a computer that was hooked up to a telly. I felt like I had achieved an experience that was close to playing the game on a console. So maybe instead of pining for a console port of Cave Story we should all just buy small form factor PCs instead.

[muku]

It's just the same as playing old NES games with emulators - You don't get that same feeling, for example because you don't get the blur that a good old CRT-screen brings you.

There are blur filters which emulate this very well though, and good NES emulators have them built in. Usually you have to enable them though.

[Cymon]

It's just the same as playing old NES games with emulators - You don't get that same feeling, for example because you don't get the blur that a good old CRT-screen brings you.

Unless you route your monitor to your TV. Which I do. My PC is my console. Got the wireless controllers and I play on the couch. Just beat Lego Indiana Jones with my wife that way.

[Hideous]

It's just the same as playing old NES games with emulators - You don't get that same feeling, for example because you don't get the blur that a good old CRT-screen brings you.

There are blur filters which emulate this very well though, and good NES emulators have them built in. Usually you have to enable them though.

But blur filters aren't the same thing at ALL. Really.

[muku]

It's just the same as playing old NES games with emulators - You don't get that same feeling, for example because you don't get the blur that a good old CRT-screen brings you.

There are blur filters which emulate this very well though, and good NES emulators have them built in. Usually you have to enable them though.

But blur filters aren't the same thing at ALL. Really.

I don't know, I recently saw a page comparing one of those filters with the real thing, and it looked pretty much indistinguishable. Can't find the page right now, unfortunately. A lot of it is probably psychology. I guess I'm much less affected by nostalgia myself because I never had a console as a child, the only thing I had was a Gameboy.

[moi]

Indeed it's not the same as you'd have to emulate interlacing also and I don't think any of the filters can do that ATM (although I don't rule it out in the future).
I personally just use the 3D filtering that makes everything blurry. It's very satisfactory. It will never replpace a real console with the games, but I can stack the whole videogame history of the 80s/90s on a USB key.

[Shambrook]

The diffrence is I have a console, why would I spend 100's of bucks on extras for my PC to hook it up to a TV and get a controller set up and everything when... you know I could just turn on my x-box?

Also I've never had to search for a .dll file on a console -_-

[Dacke]

The diffrence is I have a console, why would I spend 100's of bucks on extras for my PC to hook it up to a TV and get a controller set up and everything when... you know I could just turn on my x-box?

Also I've never had to search for a .dll file on a console -_-

And where did you get that xbox from? Santa Clause?

[Shambrook]

JB Hi-fi for $350 bucks.

I uh don't really see why that's relevent.

[Lucaz]

Sometimes, reading this forum, I feel like the only guy who prefers computers over consoles.

Never noticed that CRT blur you are all talking about. Of course, the last time I played on a TV, was a long time ago with my Sega Genesis.