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@16bitGeneration

oh, yes! I love trash! 😃

I recently found Johnny Mnemonic on vhs at the thrift 😎 that's some good bad stuff.

PS - personally, I would never say "turn your brain off" about a movie. If I actually need to turn my brain off, that means I need to turn the movie off. (and my phone, and steamdeck, et al.)

that's my philosophy. ✌️ YMMV

I own a couple japanese carts but I didn't "import them," per se.

"turn-your-brain-off, goofy fun", which has fast become 2020s [always been] cinematic shorthand for "Not very good, but let's agree not to say it"

ftfy.

☝️I'm proud you could will yourself into existence 34 mins ago just to referee my comments. that must've been a strain.

@Bot_Bot_69

sorry about that! I fat fingered the delete button and it didn't seem worth retyping 😅✌️

I love the story of the "two fingered solute," and wish the american "bird" had such a good one.

(though I must say, "flipping the bird" is a wonderful and catchy turn of phrase, itself.)

@CookieByte

you know that's a bot, right?

ps - I sometimes get characterized as being "upset" when someone chronically lacks the ability to refute what I've said on substance. occasionally I get superfans that can't seem to quit replying to (or subtweeting) me even though they have nothing cogent or even comprehensible to offer in kind.

anyway why am I telling you this?

still going with the incorrect aspect ratio, I see.

@Kotonete

good for you! if there weren't people on the wrong side of the issue, there wouldn't be an issue. 👍

"Controlled via keyboard"

if you have any interest in pico 8 at all, the Anbernic RG Cube XX is money very well spent 🤌

"Anyway, the student's eventual apprehension would lead to an investigation of FairyTale,"

this is the most interesting part of the story, in part because of the lack of context. How did one lead to the other? what was illegal about the game the kid stole? did officials simply look at a legal but risque game and say "yeah I'll bet this guy has some nasty stuff" and is that probable cause for an investigation, there?

"FairyTale, looking to lay low while the heat died down, decided to make the natural transition from sex games to horror games"

is this tongue in cheek? I fail to see the connection.

"In North America, Japanese art styles like that just won't be accepted."

I'm going to call this kind of thing, "narcissistic racist projection."

ironically, I had some notion that "Japanese games = less likely to suck" in the SNES era so I generally sought out the anime looking games, but certain boomers in charge like this idiot actively made that harder for me.

I would love to see this evolved into full on pocketstation emulation but this is amazing!

a fix to a problem I got over in 5 seconds when i was like 6 years old.

the game worked perfectly before and the mod looks completely wrong.

as the above user said, the bottom half of the screen displayed useful info in real time.

"If I Didn't Have These Powerful Tools, I Wouldn't Do It at All"

Don't threaten us with a good time!

@Sketcz

"We need to stop conflating using AI as tools and using AI to generate content. These are two vastly different implementations of AI, and we need to start thinking about it with more nuance."

how does the environmental impact compare between these two vastly different implementations?

@Damo

that comports with experience as I havent even seen a resistive touchscreen in a long while, come to think of it 👍

I agree that it's probably an overall upgrade, besides the chunky stylus ✌️

@Kotonete

Piracy is when you copy the game files, not when you play them.

This is an emulation device. 👍

are resistive touch screens just not a thing anymore?

I don't really understand why, as both kinds of touch screens seem to have their advantages. certainly I'd prefer resistive for a DS emulation device, I think.

Device looks good, I'm loving the same size 4:3 screens, top and bottom 👍

Great review! thanks Damo.

@Krambo42

I like your attitude. 👍 I really really tried to enjoy it, for my 40 bucks. oh well!

anybody play this and liked it?

I'm a long time fan since the first game (one of the NES games I actually had before SNES came out) and from my perspective, the controls, gameplay, graphics, and audio do not live up to the series, or the 40 dollar price tag.

I really wish I'd waited for a sale but at the time I still wanted to pay full price for companies like Taito. If the eShop allowed returns I'd have returned it, 100%.

4/10.

@Echtzeit

I don't want to speak for him, but I "know" him well enough to know he realizes the differences between the devices. 😅✌️

anyway this thing is cool, no? I want one too but I have like four gameboy carts and they arent getting any cheaper 😂

I mentioned it to another user here, but if you have an android phone I strongly recommend ZXTUNE for listening to legacy game music. it's FOSS and "comes with" all the music you'd likely ever need.

Artists: please learn how highlights work or don't use them at all.

@Echtzeit

I suspect Mr. McBucket was being a bit tongue in cheek there 😅

@bjm

if you have an android phone, check out ZXTUNE at your nearest convenience ✌️👍❤️

PS don't sleep on Smurf's Nightmare! 😀

https://youtu.be/z6QZQJv9wpc?is=8w6rxObIho2kF5Zr
(this one reminds me of my 25 yr old faded memory Robbie Williams' "Millennium." I refuse to revisit that song and find out im wrong 😂)

https://youtu.be/UnzHTkRLcE4?is=RmHrDJ5Tbh38OZa_

oh, to have enough Gameboy carts to justify having this thingy. 🥲 Very cool!

good lord, that's bad artwork.

(not even) pro tip: if you dont know where highlights are supposed to go, just don't use them. 👍

EDIT - even the bubbles have them in random places 😂

"the final assets are fully human-authored, with algorithms used only for intermediate visualisation."

Why does everyone think this is a valid explanation?

this is like saying "yes this product was manufactured using forced child labor, but we cleaned all the blood off and you wont see any children or parts of children in the final product."

to use another accurate but perhaps less hyperbolic analogy: "yes, the story was written by AI, but our writers wrote out every word on their own paper, by hand."

@notreallyhere

do you remember the heavy gear games?

I bought heavy gear 2 based on hype but my family's computer wasnt as up to the task as id hoped so to this day I still never really played it, and NEVER hear anyone talk about it for how much praise and hype it got at the time.

✌️

I love just about everything Stuart Gordon made! "Dagon" is a personal favorite that never gets mentioned.

@Deway

my order:

Castlevania
Castlevania 3
Super 4
Bloodlines
Symphony of the Night

All wonderful and perfectly playable games but if you go backwards they will feel stiff and awkward. They are an excellent progression from game to game and if you play in order you'll appreciate the evolution. ✌️

EDIT - play 4 and bloodlines in whatever order imo just don't skip them! GREAT 16 bit games.

"At least she was until Koji Igarashi became the producer of the series and the game's story became non-canon."

I believe, at most, a new producer can SUGGEST new canon and changes, but ultimately it's "once canon, always canon" if the beholder so chooses.

One wonders how misinformation gets spread around, with multiple blogs copy pasting each others' conclusions based on unfounded claims made by random discord users. 🤔

RESIDENT EVIL WHO

@RiskyClient

https://fightboxarcade.com/products/fightbox-r10-pro-arcade-fight-stick-with-trackball-spinner-retro-game-controller-for-pc-ps3-switch

this looks at a glance to be a much better option, imo.

or theres that new Hori device

that bead blasted anodized alloy is not a grippy enough surface for my fingertips.

Hail Saudi Arabia!

I thought they were unrepentant human rights abusers, but now I see they just want to help me to play my favorite childhood arcade games at home.

Looks a bit like Eric Stoltz was my first thought.

"We all need!
To shine on! To see!
How far,
We've come on our journey!"

....sorry wrong game ☺️

(this looks far more appealing to me than the "real" Castlevania game coming up)

@Razieluigi

BTW I mustve rented Megaman X a dozen times before I finally asked and received it for my birthday. Passwords were so underrated for the rental era!

This was the game* that really taught me to "get good" in order to beat it... and I did! ☺️✌️ I do wish I still had my cart but you can't save em all! I probably traded it for some PSX game in 1997 that I also no longer have. 😅

*well and SMB, but that game was so formative for me that I didn't even really think about it.

@Razieluigi

totally agree 👍 I have my personal collection which is not impressive for the internet but it's insane or ridiculous to regular people. I like having the physical games, the authentic hardware, yada yada.

But also emulation is SOO GOOD now, and so very practical! I'm lucky to have both and I have no need for this thingy lol.

@Razieluigi

A portable device that is also a fully functional SNES, makes a kind of sense to me ✌️

But yeah I'm getting a RP Nova 😂👍

MY GOD the nomad is so cool. 🤩 I need to power mine on and make sure it still works.

with retroid discontinuing the pocket classic, I'm hoping that something like a pocket Nomad replaces it (horizontal pocket sized handheld with 1:1 screen and six face buttons 🤤)

I rented Zool as a kid a few times and liked it just fine ☺️✌️

@Glassneedles

"No such thing as too picky when it comes to me."

I see I'm in good company 🤗

I'm very happy overall with the 8bitdo, and it is "close enough" with the face buttons basically, but I still wonder why they didnt just copy 1:1 when they are so close!

I do notice it with games where c left and c down basically form a "cluster" with A and B that my thumb sits in the middle of. theres just a bit too much space between.

It does seem like people including those designing these new controllers think of the A+B as being "somewhere down and to the left" of the c buttons, which doesn't really describe it when you are looking at the real thing.

anyway! having remapped the right trigger to "R" I'm very pleased with the 8bitdo64 controller! 👍 so comfortable to use, looks great, and psychologically pleasing to use a controller that lacks a right stick, for the games that dont need one.

I wish theyd make a dreamcast controller with this same design, no shoulder buttons, analog triggers, and six face buttons! 🤞

@Razieluigi

"I just don't understand the allure of products like this when the handheld space is overflowing with excellent options that can do so much more."

I'm not exactly rushing to get one either, but how many other handhelds out there can play SNES carts? Or use OG snes pads?

@Damo

I'm sure it is fine, as you say.

I'm more just curious why these companies make the decisions they do!

I will say that when I'm playing Smash, the extra distance between the A button and C down (what I use for jump) is extremely... "appreciated" on my 8bitdo controller vs the OG 😂 but it feels great for Ocarina which we are currently working through ☺️✌️

@Glassneedles

I'm probably being a bit picky but this is the third controller of this kind in the last few years to "do the n64 layout" but not actually put the buttons in quite the right places.

OG brawler 64 was the worst offender ive seen so I'll use that as an example:

@Damo

I guess its a matter of preference, then, but who wants to play goldeneye or ocarina with a squishy Z button? Or, Fzero X with an analogue Z trigger on the left and a digital R shoulder button on the right? 😕 It shows a lack of faith in the purpose of the product, in my opinion, and again like they aren't expecting people to play actual N64 games with this thing.

The face button layout is just slightly wrong every time. Specifically, the A+B buttons and their relationship to each other and the C buttons. Even the 8bitdo controller isn't quite right and I'm wondering why. It's a minor detail but it keeps happening! 😅✌️ probably just a "me thing" since no one else seems to be able to even tell.

@Zeldork

How would you propose doing this? I've thought about this a lot, and Ironically I usually just end up with what Nintendo did the first time, with the handles 😂 underrated controller!

Yet another N64 controller iteration that does not get the face button layout right. Why is this so hard? Why does no one ever mention it in the reviews? Isn't this a basic thing? It is literally the first thing I see.

The second thing I check for is if they mirror "Z" on the right, as though they put ZERO thought into actually playing N64 games with this controller. Of course they did, here.

After reviewing the 8bitdo 64 controller and covering it many times on this site, I really expected at least some direct comparison between the two, especially given the price difference.

PS what the hell are analogue triggers doing on this controller? 🙄