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cool , and I appreciate the reply and understand the situation. I hope you find a way to achieve both. Best wishes and Merry Christmas 👍

Sell Tales of Monsterland   DX digital edition rom for your non-modretro community please.  We shouldn't have to become a collector to play these games. I bought Tales of Monsterland here, and would like to upgrade.

Any timescale for that please?

Sell the rom ffs. Physical only is anti-gamer.

Please don't go physical only for the final product - so we can always buy a rom.   Many gamers just want to pay for and play games on handhelds and are not all interested in physical collecting. Cartridge  only   releases are simply anti-gamer and I'm so tired of not being able to buy a digital copy, because of publishers policies. Just saying - please don't sell out your right to sell separately.

P8 carts, please and thank you :) Then you'll have more sales by the look of the comments section.

Why does this happen please? It's so anti-gamers not to sell a digital rom to those who wish to pay and play? Are you prevented from selling separately from MCS because of a contract or something? Please find a why to stop this Cartridge only nonsense.

thank you - great to know!

This is amazing! Can I ask how 'complete' the game is considered at this point. Is it essentially a  full experience at v1.4.8, and each update is bonus upon bonus. Or is it still somewhat of a demo? Genuine question from someone who'd like to get into the game.

EDIT: Sorry I put v1.4.6 instead of  v1.4.8

Are you working on anything new for Playdate atm?

Ok great - I'll let you know - just bought it on Catalog. Thank you for the reply.

great - thank you

Great and thank you.  Best wishes for the success of  Dig-Pit Runner.

You have my purchase as soon as it hits Catalog. Panic will be lucky to have this on Catalog.

What an amazing game! I love good dogfighting games. I have an idea - since you've already created the game-engine and great physics, what do you think of a 'sequel' but space-themed. I'd like a sci-fi themed expanded sequel even better. Maybe it could even have a bit of a Star Fox style campaign with branching paths and secret levels?

Hi, I love this game – and would like to buy it on Catalog - but I have a somewhat silly hesitation. I like using my Playdate in list mode, and many devs, even on Catalog are starting to neglect making list-mode icons, and so an eye-sore inducing crap one is used by panic. Loopsy currently does not have one - may I request if one could be made please? A game this polish-looking deserves that cherry-on-top. Thanks.

Hi, you're game looks amazing – I would like to buy on Catalog - but I have a somewhat silly hesitation. I like using my Playdate in list mode, and many devs, even on catalog are starting to neglect making list-mode icons, and so an eye-sore inducing crap one is used by panic. Can I check your game has that little icon before buying? And if not could one be made please? A game this polish-looking deserves that cherry-on-top. Thanks.

np and thanks. I just bought the game and expected to expand the .bin file and find a standard .md rom for my handheld. But it failed to unarchive. I'm I misunderstanding how to use this and can I get an .md?

Ah ok, I can see you've changed the description above that said it was a demo now. Thanks, that was the confusion.

Can I confirm with the devs please – so this is $10 for a Demo? So you still can't get the full game without buying a physical cart? Is that right please? Genuine question. If it is a demo as it says above, how much content is that (levels/playtime). I just want to have an informed purchase.

That's awesome. Thanks!

What gives?? – why no reply?

That's good to here. I can't store physical games much anymore, so I'm so glad we'll be able to buy roms.

thank you  – be looking forward to it.

Please reply – waiting to buy that rom.

Count me in as   another that wants to buy the rom. I wish these games would always release digital & physical at the same time. Some never release digital meaning only collectors and original hardware owners    can play the game! It's madness I think.

Hi. Please may I buy a rom of the other Rocket Panda game – I tried contacting Mega Cat Studios – and was told to contact you for a rom. I really want to play this game in particular. I don’t have any original hardware but wish to play the game. Please tell me how I can buy a rom of that game (the 'luna lander type game sold physically under Mega Cat Studios.

Hi Evan, and thank you for the reply. that sounds great! I guess I just wanted to really convey that there are some of us who really appreciate good rumble in a game, so I'm happy to hear it'll go on the list – and I'll be very much looking forward to it – both on OG hardware and the Miyoo (actually, now the RG28XX, which blows the Miyoo out the window, and is kinda the ultimate modern GB Micro! – for me anyway).

Best wish for all your projects.

Oh, that's a shame you feel that way. I find it adds a lot of extra immersion to a game – it's  an extra sense after all. Anyway, appreciate the reply. Wishing you the best with the game.

Hi - lovely game! Can I ask if you'd consider rumble support for GBA please? (Using EZ Flash Omega DE flashcart and mGBA)

Thanks for implementing rumble!

• Hi, Evan Bowman. Your game is amazing – your wonderfully stylised art and sound direction for this game is unmatched on the GBA. Even the Bitstream games didn't come close to innovating GBA look and feel to the level you've achieved with your games. And all this running on my humble Gameboy Micro too!
  
  I did however, want to find a way to get rumble working on Skyland using an EZ-Flash Omega DE though if you can help please? (doesn't seem to work atm). Whatever you implemented on BlindJump was the way – because that does work directly on device using the Omega DE.
  
  If this is possible it'd be very appreciated - rumble would fit this game so well, and I'm a little bit obsessed with getting rumble working on every GBA game I can. These days there are quite a few more than people might think and I'd LOVE to add Skyland to the list (probably works already but I'm doing something wrong - it already works on mGBA on a Miyoo Mini for instance):
  
  - Goodboy Galaxy
  - Drill Dozer
  - Pokemon Pinball
  - Warioland 4
  - Apotris
  - Final Fight One
  - BlindJump
  - Mario and Luigi SS
  - Warioware Twisted
  - Butano Fighter
  - Super Mario 3
  - Chessmaster
  - Summoner Story 3 (J)
  
  (this list is a little bit in the order of how well/much the rumble is implemented.
  
  Anyway thanks again for your kind work.

I'd also like to encourage you to keep going with this amazing game!

Fair enough - and I did see your more descriptive reply on Reddit. The game really sounds great!

This game looks very intriguing – BUT for all the long description, you've managed to not really tell us what type of game this is. I mean I can see it's a sort of rogue-like shumup (real-time?) – but I think you need to give us a bit of a clearer explanation of what to expect please. For example is that a puzzle element in the fifth screen. Does the Star Fox-like constellation-map suggest it has a tailored campaign as well as the rogue elements? Is that a trading aspect? etc...

Many thanks

On the latest Playdate firmware, you can view all the games as large banners to scroll through (as was before), or now with a name and a small icon (animated or not) in a new compact list-mode. Both modes are handy, but if a game is missing a list-mode icon, Playdate puts in a crap one that make the game look a bit broken, and definitely takes away from the charm of the list. Even though it's a small icon devs seems to be able to make some nice results – even with the existing assets of their in-game character for instance.

Hi - I'll play-test some more – maybe I misunderstood something – but it wasn't on a crocodile.

Edit - sorry it's working now :)

hmmm - the new list icon doesn't seem to have worked on Arena (tried twice) - they look really great on all the other Onebit games though!

Hi, I don't know if you've seen this potential Tex-em bug discussed over on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaydateConsole/comments/1c803yh/texem_bug/