AllieKitsune

It all depends on if it's going to go through an editing phase or not.

If it's just cut-and-paste, one time only, it's going to be dicey, especially with an RPG.

If it gets a look over to have someone fix up some of the rougher translations with something closer in meaning, it might be decent.

Though I think that generally if AI is going to be a thing in translations at all, it might be better suited to obscure games that aren't super text-heavy (but still have a lot of menus) and aren't telling a story, that otherwise there isn't a lot of interest in translating (eg : Kaneko's "Zen Nihon GT Senshuken" series of racing games)

Never played one.

Feels like too much of a continual commitment, plus the idea of being forever in debt in a game doesn't appeal to me.

@Damo The true maddening part is that the game did have automap (sort of).

It was just hidden behind an item and a spell, and only showed the small part of the map that you were in, and you could only look at it once per use.

In a way, that's worse than not having it at all.

@PlatinumTour Going by the artwork, probably Langrisser. That series has artwork from the same artist behind the Growlanser series.

One might assume that this "Power Wing" would be Slap Fight MD?

A GOG release would be nice, too...

First time I've ever heard someone call it "bacon strips".

I'm used to it being "Small Waves".

I'll risk embarrassment with a confidently wrong guess.

It's going to be Tekken.

The Ridge Racer crossover song deserves to be just as legendary.

"REEDGE RAY-SORE! ALL OF US!"

I mean, I'd rather have the vertical shooter than a visual novel, but that's just me...

@Sketcz You're overselling how much of a "secret" it was.

It was never remotely difficult to find.

You just had to be willing to sign up.

Cyber Commando next, please.

Oi! Got a loicense for that satire, bruv?

The DOS version is basically the same as the PS1 version, but with less pop-in.

Looks like the Switch version isn't getting a US release.

12:00 PM and still no sign of it on the eShop.

"No Programming Knowledge" is all well and good, but someone will eventually have to put out some royalty-free assets to make it accessible to people who can't draw their own art.

This is an interesting idea, and I kind of want one, but yeah, it's a bit overpriced.

$100 really seems like the maximum price point it should have been.

Just hoping that when they finally release a USB controller with a number pad on it, one will be able to use it with the MiSTer (even if one needs a USB-C to USB-A adapter), finally opening up the ColecoVision and Intellivision libraries to those who don't have SNAC adapters and original controllers.

I'd always heard that it was Ai Fukami from RRV where people thought her face was based on a man 's.

Isn't Ronde supposed to be terrible?

Earnest and his nightmarish 360-degree rotating limbs...

Hopefully it (MC64) distributes with a manual that could work as a way to teach people who can't code how to start coding.

I'd really like to see actual remakes of MSX Gradius 2 and 3.

ReBirth worked as a "Remix" version of the MSX Gradius series, but 2 and 3 deserve more widespread distribution.

I mean, heck, Konami kind of did their own remake of Gradius 2 on PSP (as part of Salamander Portable). They could have easily re-issued that.

Or, just maybe, since M2 worked on Gradius Origins, they could have put Nemesis '90 in it anyway!

I'm going to scream, really I am.

All we need now is Cyber Doll and Tengai Makyou The IV Apocalypse, and I won't feel like I missed out on anything.

Hopefully it'll be better than X2 : No Relief was.

@smoreon It's likely a licensing agreement with exA.

exA demands the games be unique in a way that can never be played at home.

Which is freaking annoying since next to nobody is ever going to see an exA cabinet.

@Axelay71 The PC-Engine is more for Vertical games.

And SNES had too many bottlenecks at the time its shooters were made. I know that now people can throw SA-1 and FastROM hacks on a flash cart and see the games running at full speed, but in the context of the games as they were at release? The SNES chugged.

Horizontal shooters really belong on the MD/Genesis more than maybe any other retro system.

@HammyHavoc I don't want Steam on my other laptop, period.

It's not worth it when I can't install every game I've paid for.

And this older one (which I don't play games on anymore because the monitor is screwed up) is the one that has Steam on it.

It's not about the size of Earthion.

It's about being done with Steam.

@AMAGON Maybe don't assume that all the people waiting have downloaded the pirated ROM.

Personally, I'm waiting because Steam is no longer really viable for me since I had to switch to a laptop that doesn't have an expansion slot for more storage.

I have to wait for the digital Switch release (which I have no problem doing) because I just don't have enough space for my old Steam games anymore.

@cawley1 I would guess that maybe it might be that the Steam version didn't have to go through LRG?

I plan on getting the Switch version when it eventually releases, but yeah, it would have been nice if it could have released the same day as on Steam.

@Kushan I don't think it's hate (at least not on this site, anyway) as much as pointing out that if someone is going to start a venture like this, they'd better know what they're doing.

And it sounds like NN didn't know what he was doing.

You're not going to last as a business only running two days a week, when you've got a lease that needs to be paid.

I'd prefer that AI devs work on upping its translation abilities (even if I'm resigned to that it will probably never be able to work out Japanese idioms).

@Moroboshi876 ININ (or their Strictly Limited label) really should have been publishing the Arcade Memories releases internationally, since they handled the distribution of the system itself, but they just never bothered.

@PKDuckman Gekirindan is probably the one I'd most like to see finally make its way to Arcade Archives...

Yeah, you can definitely tell that Shuzilow.HA is behind this one.

Now we just need them to do Chaos Legion.

Just looking at the thumb nail, you could tell that it was Terarin.

Can't wait for everybody to spam drop the exploding health packs again, oh boy.

As much as I have a fondness for Final Zone Axis, I've never been able to really get into FZII.

@SlangWon Rumble Fish 2 sitting out there as the lone exception.

exA-ArcadiA is the ultimate c-block.

Anything you hear announced for that is never getting a home version.

Which sucks, because that's where the next Chaos Code is going.

Yeah, that certainly looks like a Taito game, alright.

This is the one I'd been waiting for since the "Namco Month" announcement.

Whatever it is, at least one game will be guaranteed to be Japan only. Namco didn't give us Marvel Land or F/A over here in the west.

Which kinda sucks, I really wanted F/A.

@PowerPandaMods It takes a lot to demonstrably prove that someone is responsible for someone else's death.

Apparently the judge didn't think Karl and his lawyer were able to do that.

@Razieluigi TG-16 didn't hit the US market until 1989, anyway. The Genesis actually beat it to market by a few weeks in the US (technically. It was in NYC and Los Angeles before the TG-16 released, but took a little longer to get to the rest of the country).

Market Research ruins everything.

@Jellyscare I think I'd really only want the X68000's Nemesis 90 Kai.

The choppy MSX scrolling would be kind of rough to deal with these days.

Mostly just would have liked Gaiden included.

But it seems like they were attempting to even out the Gradius to Salamander ratio.