Comments & Reviews
Reviewed Mega Man W★★★★★Being a Mega Man traditionalist, & semi-purist, I was reluctant to give W much of a chance mostly due to its use of custom sprites instead of the originals by Capcom. Due to the game's excellent design, I quickly let go of that bias. As far as production quality is concerned, I put it at the top of the list of Mega Man fan games. Just above Mega Man: Rock N Roll. It doesn't feel like a fan game, but rather a solid entry into one of the most popular game franchises in history. Every aspect of...
- Reviewed Mega Man W★★★★★
Being a Mega Man traditionalist, & semi-purist, I was reluctant to give W much of a chance mostly due to its use of custom sprites instead of the originals by Capcom. Due to the game's excellent design, I quickly let go of that bias. As far as production quality is concerned, I put it at the top of the list of Mega Man fan games. Just above Mega Man: Rock N Roll. It doesn't feel like a fan game, but rather a solid entry into one of the most popular game franchises in history. Every aspect of...
Reviewed GARbro★★★★★Recommended for obscure formats such as DxLib Game archive.
Reviewed wxMEdit★★★★★Supports wide range of encodings. Helped substantially in translating an application only available in Japanese. My new favorite hex editor.
Reviewed Captura★★★★★This was, & still is, my favorite desktop recorder for Windows. The only thing that would have made it even more amazing were it cross platform.
It breaks my heart that development stopped because of selfish individuals that take advantage of the hard work ot others.
Reviewed Gran Turismo★★★★★
Reviewed Tuning Club Online★★★★
Reviewed Fishing Elite★★★★
Reviewed Fishing Clash★★★
Reviewed Fishing Rival 3D★★★Fishing Rival is obviously inspired by Fishing Clash with near-identical gameplay mechanics. The graphics & sound have been stepped up though. The screen scrolls with movement of the fish & rod instead of a static background. It includes all the tropes of a free-to-play/pay-optional game with gems used as in-game currency for buying items & perks from the shop. Like Fishing Clash players can engage in solo & club events.
Sadly, player experience is degraded by an overwhelming number of bots,...
Reviewed Dolphin File Manager★★★★★
Reviewed Alacarte★Doesn't seem near as refined as MenuLibre. There are duplicate sub-menu entries. No tooltips for clarifying what options do. Can't open properties dialog for local menu entries. Very buggy. Tends to jump sporadically between the duplicate sub-menu entries.
This review is for Alacarte 3.44.1 on Lubuntu 22.04.1 x86_64 desktop.
Reviewed MenuLibre★★★★★In comparison to Alacarte, it is easier to understand what the app is doing. The status bar shows the file location of the selected menu item. Tooltips help clarify what options do.
Reviewed Geany★★★★An excellent cross-platform text editor with syntax highlighting support for code editing. If you are looking for something similar to Notepad++ for platforms other than Windows, this is probably the app you want. My only complaint is that it is not as lightweight on Windows as Notepad++, probably due to its dependency on Gtk+ libraries. Its configurations settings are also easier to navigate in my opinion.
Reviewed MSYS2★★★★It is a great free & open source environment providing a package manager with many command-line & GUI utilities. It also provides many packaged libraries for developing & building Windows applications. When compared to its origin counterparts on Unix/Posix systems, however, it is noticeably slower.
Reviewed CMake★★★★I wish I could say that CMake were easy to use. For the casual software developer, it's not. But it is quite versatile & cross-platform, supporting many different programming & scripting languages. And it is very customizable.
- Reviewed Geany★★★★
An excellent cross-platform text editor with syntax highlighting support for code editing. If you are looking for something similar to Notepad++ for platforms other than Windows, this is probably the app you want. My only complaint is that it is not as lightweight on Windows as Notepad++, probably due to its dependency on Gtk+ libraries. Its configurations settings are also easier to navigate in my opinion.
Reviewed Matroska★★★★★It is the most versatile media container that I am aware of & supports more media types than others such as MPEG4 & OGG.
Reviewed Autotracer.org★★★★Very easy to use.
Commented on Ext2Read (Ext2Explore)Sad to see that development for this has ceased.
Reviewed ImageGlass★★★★★Finally! A multi-format image viewer for Windows that supports SVG.
I have only been using ImageGlass for a few days now, but I am already so happy with it. For a long time I have wanted a simple image viewer that supports scalable vector graphics along with other popular raster & vector formats. ImageGlass has been the only free answer for Windows so far. It has a simple interface for browsing images in a very familiar manner. It can be customized to open images in external editors. There...
- Commented on Feature Request: Optiinal Link for Support Page
In addition to homepage, developer page, social media pages, & GitHub/source links, I think it would be a good idea to have an optional field to add a support page link. It would be useful for directing users to forums, mailing lists, bug trackers, etc.
- Commented on Comment/Review Markdown not Parsed in Forum View
Not an important issue, but wanted to report it.
In the forum view, comment/review threads use a number of characters from the beginning of the text body to create the title. If Markdown formatting is used within those characters, it is not parsed & the raw special characters are displayed in the title.
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Reviewed RPGBoss★★★(written for RPGBoss version 0.9.8)
I really like this app. It is a completely free alternative to RPG Maker. I haven't used RPG Maker that much, but from what I can tell, the style is similar. Currently, it even comes with some RPG Maker sprites & tilesets.
Unfortunately, development has not been very active recently & it needs many improvements & fixes. I commend the developers on an excellent job. The design is well done. But there is...
- Commented on Mobile Site: Gear Icon Encroaches on Name
Just want to report, on the mobile site, when my small device is in portrait mode, the gear menu icon is drawn over/under text on apps with longer names.
[Edited by AntumDeluge, December 07]
