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Stakindoe said:
I'll give £500 if anyone can port Twilight Princess or Total Overdose
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I will gladly add your wage to the list but can you specify? 500 for both or each? And Total Overdose you mean this project? https://github.com/Michael0ne/TOD_tools . Otherwise I think anything that is not reverse engineered is outside of scope for devs - porting already possible stuff is enough. Same goes for Marc Ecko which I assume was not reverse engineered (yet). My suggestion is put one or both Zeldas as Twilight Princess is almost ready atm and will definitely be possible
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M7L7NK7 said:
The Banjo port will happen eventually
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Good. I will pay out or donate to the devs after that happens
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Stakindoe said:
Yeah, that's the one I mean, who is in charge of the Twilight Princess Port?
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There is nobody working on Switch port yet. PC comes first. Can you please specify your bounty offer so I can edit first post with your offerings? 500 TP and 500 Total Overdose?
 
Taffer said:
Hello gentlemen,

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I've been often thinking about doing this too. Not for Switch homebrews in particular but in general for projects I would love to see getting done, like this one (probably my "most wanted" currently):

lordelan

PS1/2  Thread '[REQUEST] English patch for "Dragon Quest Monsters 1 & 2" (PSX)'

There's not even a real subforum for PSX games except this small one so I don't know if this gets any attention but since I'm talking about a PS1 game this has to be the right (and only) place to ask for this.

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Let's get this straight:
Many people (me included) not only loved but even adored the first two instalments of the Dragon Quest spin-off series that would be "Dragon Quest Monsters" ("Dragon Warrior Monsters" in the US back then). They are pure 2D RPG happiness for the GBC and (without comparing them too much here) the better Pokémon...
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However I'm not under the illusion such a thing would be done by someone because I offer 20 bucks or so.
Instead it would make sense to start a crowdfunding bounty. I throw in my 20 bucks. It probably wouldn't change much. But then someone wants to have that done too and throws their 15 bucks on top.
If that adds to something like 100 or 200 bucks, it's still not "worth" the time of a dev but at least a motivition if someone wanted to do it anyway and might push it forward on their priority list.

There's no good platform for these software request bounties. At least I didn't find one yet.
 
lordelan said:
I've been often thinking about doing this too. Not for Switch homebrews in particular but in general for projects I would love to see getting done, like this one (probably my "most wanted" currently):

lordelan

PS1/2  Thread '[REQUEST] English patch for "Dragon Quest Monsters 1 & 2" (PSX)'

There's not even a real subforum for PSX games except this small one so I don't know if this gets any attention but since I'm talking about a PS1 game this has to be the right (and only) place to ask for this.

aL1hGg7.jpg


Let's get this straight:
Many people (me included) not only loved but even adored the first two instalments of the Dragon Quest spin-off series that would be "Dragon Quest Monsters" ("Dragon Warrior Monsters" in the US back then). They are pure 2D RPG happiness for the GBC and (without comparing them too much here) the better Pokémon...
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However I'm not under the illusion such a thing would be done by someone because I offer 20 bucks or so.
Instead it would make sense to start a crowdfunding bounty. I throw in my 20 bucks. It probably wouldn't change much. But then someone wants to have that done too and throws their 15 bucks on top.
If that adds to something like 100 or 200 bucks, it's still not "worth" the time of a dev but at least a motivition if someone wanted to do it anyway and might push it forward on their priority list.

There's no good platform for these software request bounties. At least I didn't find one yet.
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I am open to suggestions. I guess your request does not apply to Switch?
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ikynx said:
a bully port would be great indeed
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Throw some money towards it then :-)
 
Taffer said:
I am open to suggestions. I guess your request does not apply to Switch?
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Throw some money towards it then :-)
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Currently not in a financial position to do so, but will in the future undoubtedly.
A quick question though: how does the bounty system work ? by that I mean: if I for instance say I'll add 50 bucks to the pot for Bully, I'm not actually paying anything now, just promising. How and when do donation promises get inforced? Is there some sort of intermediate / escrow ? does the dev get payed to do the job, or once the job is done ?
 
Taffer said:
I am open to suggestions. I guess your request does not apply to Switch?
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This particular request is for a translation hack of a PSX game but there's also stuff I'd like to see on the Switch so we still need some generic kind of crowd bounty site for that. I dunno any though.
 
ikynx said:
Currently not in a financial position to do so, but will in the future undoubtedly.
A quick question though: how does the bounty system work ? by that I mean: if I for instance say I'll add 50 bucks to the pot for Bully, I'm not actually paying anything now, just promising. How and when do donation promises get inforced? Is there some sort of intermediate / escrow ? does the dev get payed to do the job, or once the job is done ?
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Thats a great question, so far its a thing of honour - you promise, you will be asked once we get there, meaning it is released and working as said in OP. Hopefully we get bounties working via some donation site but maybe N will want to shut it down.
 
I mean, I guess crowdfunding platforms do actually exist. But I imagine anyone creating a kickstarter for delivering a port of Twilight Princess to Switch is likely to get an unlikely visit from a ninja. Maybe this sort of honour system is the best.

Not sure about bounty sites, bug bounties are usually offered by companies.
 
Yep, thats what I think basically as well. If you come up with a solution, just ping me. And if you want to add to bounty just post in thread :-)
 
Chellarina said:
I mean, I guess crowdfunding platforms do actually exist. But I imagine anyone creating a kickstarter for delivering a port of Twilight Princess to Switch is likely to get an unlikely visit from a ninja. Maybe this sort of honour system is the best.

Not sure about bounty sites, bug bounties are usually offered by companies.
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Not Kickstarter, but there is an app called "spoil me" which is invite-only, designed for friends to donate or crowd fund for gifts for people's birthdays, could be less hot as only people with a link shared from the user that created the wishlist can see what they are raising money for. maybe could be repurposed for crowdfunding for these bounties?
 
SK91 said:
There was a media player some years ago I used for a while that was made for a bounty, I forgot what exactly it was called
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Bounty was not for media player, but video decoder supporting NVDEC for hardware acceleration. Such decoder was made and put to working video player. Iirc bounty was somewhere around 500$ before decoder was made.
 
masagrator said:
Bounty was not for media player, but for video decoder supporting NVDEC for hardware acceleration. Such decoder was made and put to working video player. Iirc bounty was somewhere around 500$ before decoder was made.
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I figured they were talking about pplay. This also wasn't made for a bounty (nothing ever has).
 
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