I'll be spending two hours playing Worms: The Director's Cut, taking questions, talking about the history of the game and demonstrating some of the awesome customization features that this 15 year-old rarity had to offer back in the day. Full details for the stream can be found here.

I still really, really want to make this show, by the way. I just wish I could afford to.

That’s right Ports Fans, we’re going to be at Wonder-Con this year… selling our bodies. Crikey.

Still Hellbent on raising the $4,000 we need to produce a full season of 13 episodes, I’ll be doing whatever it takes to get us closer to our goal. That includes providing certain, erm, services at Wonder-Con this year.

Hey, don’t judge me. I’m just doing what needs to be done, and if someone gets to feel good as a result of my fundraising efforts then, well, I count that as a positive too.

I’ll be posting a Wonder-Con videoblog next week to show you how everything went down, too. So you’ve got that to look forward to.

Unless an astounding and improbable miracle happens within the next ten hours, it looks like we won't be hitting our target for this season. Bit of an embuggerance, but there we are.

We're not giving up yet - for every person who has pledged to this show there are dozens who have told me how much they've enjoyed it, and how they wish they were in a position to chip in. I suppose launching this Kickstarter in the run-up to Christmas probably wasn't the smartest idea we've had, eh readers?

The current plan is to reassess the budget, see if we can trim the fat a little to bring our target amount down, then produce a second pilot and retry this whole Kickstarter lark in the new year. 

I want to thank everybody who has pledged. Keep an eye on your inboxes, because when we remount our Kickstarter we'll be posting another update here.

Happy holidays, everybody. :)
~Team PortsCenter

Here's a little slice of forgotten gaming history: Back in the early 00s, a team of Capcom developers began working on porting the seminal survival-horror game Resident Evil to the Game Boy Color. The title was covered in a number of magazines at the time, but towards the end of development Capcom pulled the plug over concerns that it didn't meet their standards of quality.

Years later, they released Resident Evil 5, which was shit. But that's neither here nor there.

The game was practically finished, and a playable beta exists. Now someone is trying to raise the money to make a ROM of the beta publicly available.

This would be incredibly useful for me, as one of the planned episodes of PortsCenter is going to look at two ports of Resident Evil - the Sega Saturn version, and the Game Boy Color version. Having a playable copy of the GBC port would obviously make that a lot easier.

Head on over to Unseen64 for more details and to chip in, if you're able.

Happy holidays!
Team PortsCenter