AllieKitsune

Something, Something, Americans are Barbarians who can't appreciate the ZX Spectrum! And what's worse, they keep trying to say "ZEE ex" instead of "ZED ex!"

Though, seriously, I'm not even sure that Nintendo Bias is an inherently American thing. We're not the ones calling them "Ninty".

I think it's mostly just the outsized influence that the Zelda series has, and the absoultely gargantuan popularity that Link has as a character, combined with internet osmosis, that keeps it going.

Would be nice if they'd one-time-only bring back ACA NEO-GEO so we could finally have Viewpoint.

But I'm guessing Sega (through Sammy) owns the rights to Viewpoint currently...

Mmmmf, that Naofumi Hataya soundtrack...

@GhaleonUnlimited YouTubers tend to take big offense whenever anyone blames them for prices going up.

Of course the counter to that is : "Two Words : Hidden Gems".

A Youtuber says the cursed words "Hidden Gem", and a price instantly skyrockets.

@GhaleonUnlimited I'd say the biggest one we're still waiting on is Princess Crown. Tengai Makyou The IV Apocalypse after that.

LRG used to be even worse (especially back in the Vita days), printing severely small print runs, and reserving like half of that print run for influencers.

As far as ININ/Strictly Limited, yeah, they do have a bad habit of putting out a "Normal Retail" version of a collection under the ININ label (Wonder Boy, Ray Series), and then also putting out a version under the Strictly Limited label with much more on it (which can be frustrating to those of us in NA).

I mostly prefer FPGA for anything up to the PS1/Saturn era, and it doesn't really bother me that the shell doesn't evoke any sort of console nostalgia. At the time I got my MiSTer, it wasn't as expensive as it is now, and it made for a nice substitute for systems I was never going to be able to afford games for (PC Engine and Neo-Geo, primarily).

Wasn't Rare "Rare Coin-It" for a while?

That always sounded somewhat odd, too.

@BulkSlash Because players invest part of their own identities into stories and characters, and that's where RPGs live and breathe.

@-wc- I was stupid and sold my original Saturn to a (then-)friend in 2002. I finally bought another in 2016 and have slowly rebuilt my library, having most of what I had the first time around (with a couple exceptions), and some things I didn't have back then.

Needless to say, I wish I never had to go through that.

@-wc- The SNES SPC-700 was bottlenecked by how much ROM space that the sound samples took up.

I'm a fan of FM synthesis, myself, and generally prefer the MD over the SNES overall, but everything about the SNES was bottlenecks, bottlenecks, bottlenecks.

I suggest EXCLUSIVELY calling it the "Mega Drive", and completely retiring the "Genesis" name.

Americans need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around them.

Unfortunately, it doesn't run on the PSX MiSTer core (the untranslated version didn't either).

Still, this is one I didn't think anyone would ever translate.

That probably kills off any chance of actually getting Geograph Seal ported to modern systems...

(I might be just a tiny bit obsessed, my phone's ringtone is the Stage 1 theme from it)

Typo alert : "Koshrio" was used multiple times instead of "Koshiro".

Not the first time for Image Fight 2.

It was on the Wii U Virtual Console.

@doctorhino It was an exploit tied to the Broadband Adapter that allowed pirates to rip the data, though some had to be excised or compressed to get it down to fit on a CD.

@Yorumi That doesn't even take into account the cost of a PVM and all the relevant cables/mods to make sure an NTSC-U system outputs RGB.

Dirty pool reviewing this when most of us probably aren't ever going to get it.

No thanks. Dude's still a massive d-bag, he has ALWAYS been a massive d-bag.

Sounds like they don't have approval for the NBA Jam one just yet.

@Azikira Uhhh, Ohayo?

@sdelfin I know there's at least one game that had timing issues on a Model 1 (I think it was one of the Earthworm Jim games).

I suppose it's possible both chips could be reproduced in the FPGA and it will know which one to load if an affected game is loaded. I don't really have the experience with that to say for sure, though.

@ShadJV Actually buying cartridges shouldn't be a big deal, at least on the Genesis side (I can't speak to Master System or SG-1000).

At least in the US (I can't speak for Europe), Genesis games tend to run cheaper than SNES games do (except for, say, MUSHA). Especially if one is fine with buying loose cartridges and isn't worried about having the packaging.

Will the sound be based on a Model 1 or Model 2?

Because the timing differences mean certain games won't play properly (most infamously, "Hellfire" on a Model 2, which plays the music at half speed)