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Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution


Anyone who was a fan of the first title when it came out probably remembers seeing screenshots of the GBA sequel in various magazines. But sadly, the game couldn't secure a publishing deal and it went unfinished for 20 years.

Similar to last year's Clockwork Aquario, this is an effort to complete the unfinished game on original hardware and release it via emulation. But unlike Clockwork Aquario, this one seems to be releasing on original hardware as well, in the form of an actual GBA cart.

I was always really interested in this title, and interestingly it seems to be canon even though it was canceled and may fill in some story gaps.

 

[Ikutachi]

Awesome. I'll finish the first game before diving into this one.

 

[Fess]

Awesome. I love stuff like this. And on original GBA cartridge, is that even possible, who manufacture those now?

 

[cireza]

Awesome. I love stuff like this. And on original GBA cartridge, is that even possible, who manufacture those now?

Of course it is possible. Master System, NES, MegaDrive, Game Gear etc... pretty much any system you want, have new physical games.

Good on them to actually dive into a REAL retro game, working on the original hardware. And not making a modern console only release by picking whatever constraint seems convenient enough for them.

When you make a proper retro game, to release on modern consoles, you simply have to make a good quality emulator with the right options. This works just fine.

 

[JimboJones]

Nice that they are giving the option for og hardware fans but I'll look forward to the emulated version on modern hardware.

 

[Holammer]

Legit more interested in this one than the recent games, I can't stand the clean vectors. It does not need to be pixel art, but it needs some texture.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Awesome. I love stuff like this. And on original GBA cartridge, is that even possible, who manufacture those now?

Ebay is full of replica's. Obviously it's still possible to make the cartridges and circuitry to be played on original hardware.

 

[deriks]

Awesome. I love stuff like this. And on original GBA cartridge, is that even possible, who manufacture those now?

They can put the hardware pieces together, or just buy a empty ROM cartdrige, put the ROM from a PC and there you go. Anyone can do

Gameboy LinkNLoad32 USB Flash Cart (4MB ROM, 128KB FRAM) – insideGadgets Shop

There's a few companies that do that, and one notorious for a lot of consoles, high prices and not so good in quality is https://limitedrungames.com/

 

[ReBurn]

Awesome. I love stuff like this. And on original GBA cartridge, is that even possible, who manufacture those now?

It's probably gonna be made like those eBay clones

 

[yurinka]

Good news

 

[Madonis]

I hope this will eventually be released on other platforms.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

neat

 

[01011001]

 

[FeralEcho]

Can't wait for this,Wayforward can do no wrong.

 

[SF Kosmo]

I hope this will eventually be released on other platforms.

I think that's the plan.

 

[Xellos]

These Shantae games are always pretty good. Hopefully they zazz up the inevitable console releases with high-resolution character portraits and better-than-GBA quality audio. Every time I boot up GBA on NSO I think my speakers die a little.

 

[Swagballs717]

Seeing this come to a real release is cool, not entirely sure I trust WayForward with handling the Clock Tower localization. Their "California Does Anime" art style doesn't really fit the tone and atmosphere of the original SNES game, IMO

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

I think that's the plan.

if they like money they will.

 

[Dacvak]

No way, this is so cool! I honestly wish more established developers would make new games for retro systems. It honestly seems like kind of an untapped market. But I’m also biased.

 

[CamHostage]

This was a great period for WayForward, their GBC and GBA games were amazing. (They still do good stuff now, but it's usually hidden under some license you would otherwise pass on and so miss out on something worth playing.)

WayForward have a couple of canceled projects, including at least 3 Shantaes. Supposedly they raid some of those old ideas for new projects, so this lost GBA game might be familiar in some spots today, but it's great that they can finally get this original project out there.

One crazy one for me as a fan of the franchise that didn't make it was their 32-bit (PS1/PC) SHantae projct. It might be a good thing that didn't happen, as they had radically redesigned the character art, but I kind of liked what they were trying to do with that as some kind of 2.5D game. (I remember there was also a "Shantae Wii" project being shopped around that some keyart leaked for, but I think that eventually became Shantae HGH.)

Beta + Cancelled shantae Video Games - Unseen64

A list of beta and cancelled shantae video games, with information, images and videos. Help us to preserve more games!

www.unseen64.net