Hi hi, I'm VAdaPEGA, a Freelance artist for all kinds of Digital Art, specialized in Pixel-Art. As a hobby, I modify vintage video games in various fun ways.
https://vadapega.carrd.co
The topic of RetroAchievements came up, we browsed the list of games out of curiosity.
While none of my ROM hacks are supported, plenty I've been involved in are there.
Technically S3 & Amy counts but that was just a small Hardware compatability related hotfix.
As for why my works aren't there? Probably because they aren't noteworthy enough to have an interested party dedicated to make achievements for them (or noteworthy enough to even be aknowledged on the site, there's more games listed then there are achievements for them).
Hell, even Retro doesn't have any of them, just small footnotes for misc. credits on more noteworthy projects.
I really like VAdaPEGA's work in general, not only their serious stuff, but also what im going to define as "serious shitposts". I unironically enjoy stuff like SIivagunner or Rave Story (a cave story mod) that start start off as a joke and never really loses the joke, but is so high effort and good that is suprising. Some might see it as a "waste of potential" but that kind of stuff really tickles a really specific part of my brain, maybe its because I watched SIivagunner when I didnt even know what Vinesauce was and just did it because of funy Flintstones theme and videogame OST mashups. Btw shoutouts to SIivagunner for showing me the existence of Vargskelethor Joel he is like one of my top streamers.
Btw Btw I also really love games that really selfish in the best way possible, maybe I should make a Huge Ass Post™ to explain what I mean by that, but to try and condense it, I enjoy the "Here's my OC that used/still represents me as the main character, btw here's a bunch of inside jokes, people you probably dont know and crystal clear inspirations from popular media, deal with it" I 100% explained that wrong and I should really gather my toughts about that kind of games, but the work of Unlimited Trees, VAdaPEGA and to some degree Patricia Taxxon are the only ones so far that that managed to hit that part of my brain and I REALLY love it.
One thing I do when porting or composing music is to hide the PSG channels since I'd rather the FM take precedence, here's what this song sounds like when split between FM, PSG and the DAC & Noise tracks:
In my works, PSG is most useful for normalizing channel panning, since the YM2612 can only do full panning, no partials! It can also work as a good echo.
Sound Effects are also a big factoid so to avoid sudden stops in music channels, redundancy is necessary. In other words : despite the fact we have 5/6 FM and 2/3 PSG channels, in reality we only have about 3-4 channel polyphony.
Usually I don't talk about serious stuff but Ross Scott's recent video on his current crusade against the destruction of games got me needing to speak my mind!!!
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As someone who is very for right to repair as well as consumer protections in the gaming industry this shit matters a lot to me!!!!