It does. But I fear Advance Wars itself would be too static for Retro, hence its RTS spinoff.

anyone remember james pond?

Nope. Not even necessarily any of the specific gameplay mechanics. Just the general concept of a story heavy game set in a spacefaring civilization that lets the main character explore the galaxy, rather than just fly over it while shooting enemy spaceships. There could still be space battles, but it wouldn't be the only thing, nor would it be "space battles plus a couple of on foot missions in a handful of tiny battlefield stages". I just mean a game that takes a break from the level-by-level, hyper-linear, on-rails non-stop action main games to try a more at-your-own-pace, go-your-own-way sort of spin-off. Like maybe the game takes place sometime in between major wars across the whole system involving Andross, and it has you prowling the galaxy looking for jobs to keep your ragtag mercenary group in business. Maybe not all of the missions are totally above board? Sometimes they do what they gotta do to stay in business. Kind of like Cowboy Bebop or Firefly I guess, but with mercenaries that specialize in space dog-fights.

Same, I actually have a soft spot for that era of 3D graphics, a lot of people say that they have aged much worse than any other generation but I can't agree. Perhaps the texture warping on PS1 is a bit odd but then again so were disappearing sprites and all the glitchiness with 8 bit systems. The graphics themselves are fine, to me at least. 

I remember James Pond but never played it. It was one of those Mega Drive games that I really wanted though, I'll have to try it. 

Hence why I called it a spin-off. We were talking about potential Star Fox spin-offs.

Me too, prefer the PS1 graphics over GameCube, Xbox and the PS2.

I'm not sure how important this is in a retro thread, but the thread creator is supposedly "gone" now. So, no updates basically.

Had never played it before, dug out Mame and got it going... dear god, that looks like a Rom hack of Tumblepop more than it does a successor to the game. Some of the enemies are just directly ripped from TP but they have just bizarre non intuitive patterns of movement.

Also the characters movements and attacks are far less precise than in TP from my hour or so of playing Diet Go Go, it's like they were going to try to rip off bubble bobble and their own games.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention that the game exists though, very strange to see something like that after all these years, so similar but so far off Tumblepop imo.

I don't think there will be much news for this thread.