Strange. In his twitter feed he mentions something about this being made 20 years ago, and I'm pretty sure I remember this guy buying a bunch of prototypes. Maybe something is lost in translation or he's trying to cover his butt legally?

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Posted by bluefour on December 20, 2022 at 18:57:28 EST in reply to So apparently at the bottom of the videos it says they are fake. If so, they did a hell of a job making them! (n/t) from TMHC.

Strange. In his twitter feed he mentions something about this being made 20 years ago, and I'm pretty sure I remember this guy buying a bunch of prototypes. Maybe something is lost in translation or he's trying to cover his butt legally?

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It includes notes on stuff like missing sound and crashes. I wonder if by "fake" it means they're videos of a homebrew or something, rather than the videos themselves being faked up.

(Paleface)

(20:35:51 12/20/22 EST)

Or that it's playing in an emulator? Although that would be fairly obvious anyhow.

(Paleface)

(20:41:18 12/20/22 EST)

Okay, here's what I found going through their tweets. It might be that they initially got some blowback, and so started putting disclaimers on things to be able to avoid some bother.

(Paleface)

(22:10:03 12/20/22 EST)

An interesting NGPC shot from their TGS '99 video:

(Paleface)

(22:22:35 12/20/22 EST)

Strange. These do make it seem like they are trying to avoid blowback since they never really say how or why they are “fake.” Interesting stuff. Thanks for doing the legwork!

(TMHC)

(02:39:41 12/21/22 EST)

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