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all digital art just looks like slop to me now. thanks a lot, f*ckers.

Personally I hope there's a backlash against overly polished "digital" looking art, and that more stylish, angular, iconoclastic, upsetting, gritty, personal, what we used to call ARTISTIC work gets a renaissance.

That smooth wizard just isnt doing it for me 😂✌️

PS - BIG fan of Hitoshi Sakimoto, and I'd never even heard of this game! so thanks 😊👍

btw I don't really consider it having "a foot in each camp" to buy both physical and digital media. more like, having both feet in THE camp, and Sony is here trying to cut one of your legs off.

in my thinking there arent really two sides to this argument. there's the side that is pissed that Sony is killing physical, and there's the side that doesn't care.

Sony is fully siding with the people who don't care, which you should keep in mind when you are thinking of giving them any more of your money.

they'd have to make interesting games on compelling hardware again for me to GAF about physical on their platform.

still, as Dennis Reynolds famously put it: "It's the implication..."

@Martin_H

plug, sure, if you're into the whole "brevity" thing...

tbh I'm not really satisfied with "plug" but it's a lot better than "power prongs" and I can't top it. 😄

@jygsaw

OH MY GOD you are the first person I've ever come across that remembers those! 🥳 people looked at me like I was crazy, And I was even starting to believe it myself 😂✌️

This was one of the last toy lines I fully bought into. I was 7 or 8. I remember being excited to get them but then when I did, I just didn't feel the "magic."

@jygsaw do you remember the one that was 4 mutant snails, and they had removable armor, rockin bods, and each was named after a canonically significant US president? 😂✌️

I have the smaller INIU bank with the built in usb-c cable and flip out ...power prongs (am I having a stroke? wtf do you call this? 😂) and it has changed my life in a tiny but not insignificant way. it hasnt left my bag since day 1, and besides charging my phone overnight all my devices get charged inside my bag as needed, and if I ever need a power supply it functions that way too.

thanks for the review! I think this company is a winner, and If I ever need a larger bank I'll be looking probably to this one! ✌️

minor detail, but depicting a naked VMU without its cover is an odd move. you dont see nintendo commemorating the GameBoy with no battery door, or N64 with the jumper pak removed.

No 'Freeway?' Denied!

@Lanmanna

It's actually wishful thinking, as (IMO) they've already destroyed their legacy years ago, before they were already doing so directly with AI, of all things. The hole just gets deeper and deeper, and they can't even make the return of Crazy Taxi feel like a good thing on the balance.

SEGA, please go out of business and preserve what's left of your legacy before it's too late.

signed, a fan.

@KingMike

in all seriousness, most of my all time favorite games use like, two buttons mostly. even stuff on, say, PS2 and Gamecube.

I didn't play the new Contra, but I did recently try that 3D Bionic Commando game from like 2010 and was so turned off by all the BS it had going on, and explaining sh*, and extra crap I gotta do.

in general, I know I'm in videogaming Hell when the game continuously prompts me stuff like "∆ to open" "X to talk" etc and the buttons and verbs always change but its still just pressing a button to do a thing. like, A is do it, B is don't do it, we figured this out in probably 1983, why do companies keep trying to reinvent the wheel?

Anyway. PS vita, I hardly know her.

btw does anyone know how relatively popular Steam/PC gaming is in Japan? I simply hadn't ever considered it somehow 😅

PS - has anyone tried making a "japanese" Steam acct for playing region locked games?

Minor typo:

"Just as a reminder, if you're considering the Steam version of Ganbare Goemon! Daishuugou[, it] is unfortunately region-locked."

✌️

@Serpenterror

I think the Switch has too many buttons and analog sticks because when I play Gameboy games on there I hardly use any of them!

not to mention the touch screen, gyro, and IR sensor!

over engineered and overpriced. 😂✌️

""And if you were bringing a game from Game Boy, let's say, onto Vita, all of that back touch input was meaningless. I don't know why that was true. And that added cost."

wtf is he talking about? 😂

please don't bother.

looks legitimate! 👍

hard to go back to a barebones arcade port when the home port was so good, especially for that price 😬

I've owned these games enough times in my life that I feel zero regerts just emulating as I see fit. 👍

@everythingiscool

that's kinda cool! screen name checks out. ✌️

@gojiguy

I came to say the same thing. It looks like about as much effort as theyd put into a sonic themed box of cheerios.

@N00BiSH

For what it's worth, I was intending to be more observational than hostile. I guess my sense of humor is a bit meaner than some (though I think I'm a sensitive, gentle and thoughtful person where it counts.✌️)

wording is very important, but is/ought is a lot more than wording, incidentally.

@N00BiSH

"The difference between 'is' and 'ought.'"

very cute that anyone would think Spyro is for "a new generation."

I'm sure plenty of kids are dying to break from Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite to play Spyro. 👍

Copeland is a musical genius and this game will be worse off for his absence.

I have everything BUT the box 😫😅 wonderful package! it's like one of those gilded Bibles from ages ago, before they realized they really didnt need to go that hard 😂

BTW Damo, did you put the demo disc in the Lunar sleeve or leave it in the vanguard box? either way, you are left with am empty space for a disc 🫨

(i put mine in the lunar 2 sleeve 😁)

@Deuteros

if you REALLY like the Cube xx form, and square screen, (and I love both very much,) but need something that plays cube and DC, you might look into the original RG Cube which looks almost the same but is far more powerful, has analog triggers, runs android, and apparently runs those consoles much better than the XX.

I havent played with one personally, and it is a bit more expensive, but I thought you might want to know it's out there! ✌️

PS - the ergonomics on the Cube are close to what I'd consider perfect. it really is like a tiny little steamdeck, in looks and feel.

@Martin_H

Great suggestions, in fact I did both of those just about a week ago! Both great. I'm so glad to finally have "a Pico!" 😁

now I'm working on getting gameboy and gbc games running properly, of all things ><

the bad news: I felt I needed to slay 15 puppies in order to make this game.

the good news: there are no dead puppies in the final product.

I can't dream up worse way to play Banjo than emulated on a vertical handheld with no analog and a GBA sized lcd. different strokes!

On an unrelated note, I got an Anbernic RG Cube XX the other day and it's fantastic! it's black with white accents on the stick and buttons, so it looks like my Steamdeck has a mini me 😊

Damo, have you tried this device? it looks right up your alley, with its rolling dpad, and 1:1 4" 720p screen being perfect for handhelds, and even integer scales GBA at full width. 3:4 even comes to about 3.6" with black bars, so plenty large.

@N00BiSH

"apparently they're compromised of former Vicarious Visions devs."

i do love spotting a Freudian slip in the wild 😁👍

it's a nice sentiment, but you really only get to "pass the baton" once, guys 😂

so, Yu Suzuki liked the idea he had 30 years ago. 👍

@Gs69

Oh, man. I want one of those NeoGeos! it looks like they even did a particularly good job with it. I'm not going to get one personally, but I'm not judging anyone for getting one, and I don't think doing so is anywhere near tantamount to performing at the Riyadh Comedy fest and then going on a media disinformation tour in support of the crown prince. to pick a random example. ✌️

Personally I'm really happy with Neogeo emulation on my current hardware, but if they rerelease the bean joystick on the new NG I'll be very envious!

@Martin_H

good tips! I had a similar learning experience, and I'm correcting it this time with my steamdeck and retrodeck.

Tech Dweeb recently made a video about making little SD card based compilation "carts" that I really enjoyed, and may do something similar. ✌️

@Gs69

I would never want to take Evercade away from you! I do get the appeal.

I would gently suggest that if "you are in control of what you download" but "[you've] done that [yourself] and just ended up staring at dull menus and being overwhelmed be the sheer amount of games available to [you]" then maybe... you didn't? ✌️

the whole idea is that you don't end up with an overwhelming sheer amount of games available to you, but instead, a curated list, just like what Evercade et al offers only you curated it yourself. which, admittedly, may or may not be an attractive proposition.

somewhere in the world there's a box that has my Saturn, 32X, and Master system in it.

I miss that box 😢

I dont understand the "emulation is bad because the number of games is overwhelming" argument.

You are in control of how many games you download, and which games, specifically! 😊👍

I've thought about getting into Evercade many times, but ultimately I just don't like their hardware as much as I do my Steamdeck or Anbernic, or the many other linux/android handhelds that I could add to my collection and play the same roms on.

@mjparker77

what is it about OLED that makes it a "must have" for you?

personally, I have/have had a few OLED devices, and while I can appreciate the high contrast, crisp motion, inky black, and possible battery savings, I can't think of another feature more in the "nice-to-have" category, for me personally. especially in lower cost devices
(let's say under 200 dollars MSRP) where you know you are going to have to sacrifice somewhere to make that price point.

I have a couple devices (steamdeck and Anbernic thingy) with LCD screens that I literally never have a single problem with, on any level. if I could snap my fingers and change them to OLED I guess I would, but its a non issue in actual practice for me.

anyway, I'm curious! "no oled" and "black bars" are two of the bigger "gamer phobias" that puzzle me so i thought I'd ask!

party on.

the wider a controller is, the less flare you want on the handles. imagine the wii U or steamdeck with big flared handles. think of how your elbows would be positioned, trying to hold this with straight wrists. 😵‍💫

they didnt call it "Giant Eggs" because "laying a big egg" means failure, but they still put "giant egg" in the title? 🤔

anyway it's not like they were calling it "SEGA lays a big egg."

incidentally I'm American and I've never heard anyone outside of like a gotham city character or JJJ say "laid a big egg." 😂

@N00BiSH

they were an american company for at least the first few decades AFAIK.

@Hexapus

even the use of the term "piracy" imo is propaganda, to equate downloading or copying digital files with violent crime.

might as well call it "terrorism."

ah, the old, "how'd those get there?" defense.

Damo, you used to be open to 2 way conversation about the website itself, what happened?

I simply don't believe you actually found my feedback unconstructive, unfair, or even impolite.

See y'all. ✌️

looks DSpicoble

"Fix: 8BitDo 64 BT controllers unable to press C-Left/Right or C-Up/Down simultaneously"

was this the problem, or is this the fix? are there games in the N64 library that require C UP+DN or C L+R as commands?

how were there not more lightgun games that let you also navigate as well? like Prime 3 but with an actual light gun. (actually I haven't played Prime 3 since it was new, but I think it was like, move with the chuk, aim with the mote)

as an aside id play a goldeneye on rails lightgun romhack if they could somehow make it 👍👍

PS - I think N64 could've been the ultimate lightgun game console if theyd just made a lightgun for it 😆 imagine 4p Zapper 64s all in different colors

@Razieluigi

yes! I agree with all your points.

one idea for faster changes is that you could maybe have motors spinning coaxially in opposite directions, constantly, so that they are always defeating each other until one slows or stops. that seems like "sudden" changes could be more possible.

driving, flying, and swimming/"boating(?)" were the applications i thought of. I agree that the really limiting factor would be the size and weight of the elements necessary to pull off the effect. 👍 but, it's fun to think about 😁

This looks like a realization of the gyroscopic feedback controller ive been dreaming about for many years 👍👍

unless that really is just a rumble motor 😂 what i fully imagine is two motorized gyros, that spin on orthogonal axes, to make it the controller feel like it (gently) wants to sort of "twist" in your hands, to simulate the pull of gravity, or balance.