@KingMike I don't think the proprietary memory card was a factor why the Vita didn't become a success, PSP also had Memory Stick and Sony sold 70 million PSP's.
Sony wanted to do this all along, but never had the market share to get away with it. Gamers have given Sony that position, and now Sony can do whatever they please.
I'm a sucker for both Sonic and clear shells and I don't mind the price tag, but no PAL version and it's a lottery if you get the nice glowing cart or not, this is a hard pass.
I already have a VM2, I have ordered a VMU Pro but obviously I need to have one of those white shells. It's just a shame shipping is more than the cost of the product.
Two sites I regularly visit, that have yet to be mentioned here, are RetroRGB and The Dreamcast Junkyard.
And a YouTube channel that is pure feelgood is Sega Lord X. I really appreciate his very subjective takes on primarily old Sega games and stories from way back when he originally bought and played the games back in the 90's.
With today's consoles lasting seven + years on the market, it sure is crazy to think that in the 90's, console manufacturers had almost yearly releases of new consoles and addons.
@Thad USA has been mentioned several times. But it's an irrelevant comparison.
This is the Saudi state we're talking about which owns SNK. The US government does not own a game company. I'd be perfectly fine if SNK was owned by a Saudi individual with no ties to the government.
@Hairlesswookiee I agree it would be cool to see more love for the Jag, but considering the Jag had the Atari joystick port, they could theoretically support playing Jag CD games with Jag controllers thanks to the Mega Drive and the 2600/7800 module today with a software update.
But the again, very few games were released for the Jag CD add on...
Virtua Racing is a great example of how M2 takes a several decades old game and really makes the ultimate version of it, in ways fans never even dared to ask for.
They're truly doing the Lord's work. Making these games available to everyone is truly a great purpose, and I hope they know this.
I say everyone, but even I who have learned computers the hard way (being given one many years ago, at age 11 and immediately being expected to be the IT support for the entire extended family) get gray hairs trying to install it.
Still excited for future releases though, especially considering they've now begun to include more advanced 3D games. In their own pace, of course.
@Chocoburger it sounds impressive, because it is. Crunch is still a thing even today.
I know we're comparing apples to oranges, but I miss the days when a sequel took two years to make. Now, we're fifteen years after Skyrim and still years away from TES 6. Not like I have the time anyway...
I'm still amazed by how fast everything went in the 90's. This presentation happened in 96, and would possibly have lead to one the biggest releases of that generation, but it was canned. And yet, two years later (!) they released a AAA game for the Dreamcast!
So in two years time after this cancelation, they had managed to create a huge release from scratch for an entirely new next-generation platform. That's insane. And what's more insane, Sonic X-Treme and Sonic Adventure look like they were made a decade apart.
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Re: A New Way To Play Sega Rally Arcade On The PC, Xbox Series X, & Xbox 360 Has Been Released
Is this the N-Gage version or the GBA version?
Re: You Can Now Play Physical Discs On Your MiSTer FPGA
Ironic if people buy the Super dock just to use it with their regular Mister setup.
Re: I Turned My GBA Into A Switch To Better Enjoy Its Unsung Japanese Gems
@AxioMaxiM Dear Mother of God
Re: I Turned My GBA Into A Switch To Better Enjoy Its Unsung Japanese Gems
A Super Famicom controller with American paint scheme colours? That's odd.
Re: One Of The World's Most Obscure Consoles Just Got Its Own Version Of DOOM
@Ruka no it can't. Its SCREEN can, however.
Re: The Long-Lost 90's Arcade Racer Is Resurrected Within This Side-Scrolling Fighter
Pretty annoying to hide a game I want to play inside a game I have no interest in.
Sega did it with Yakuza, and I hated that too.
Re: Random: Evercade Pokes Fun At Sony Killing Physical Media On PlayStation
@KingMike I don't think the proprietary memory card was a factor why the Vita didn't become a success, PSP also had Memory Stick and Sony sold 70 million PSP's.
Re: Random: Evercade Pokes Fun At Sony Killing Physical Media On PlayStation
Sony wanted to do this all along, but never had the market share to get away with it. Gamers have given Sony that position, and now Sony can do whatever they please.
Re: "There Are A Hundred Things We Could Have Done Differently" - Quake's Creators Reflect On The "Grim Cost" Of The Classic FPS
Obviously Q2 was the best Quake game ever. It did away with the Gothic influence and laid the groundwork for what we think of as a Quake game today.
Re: "Embarrassing" - These $100 Sonic Re-Releases Aren't Going Down Well With Fans
I'm a sucker for both Sonic and clear shells and I don't mind the price tag, but no PAL version and it's a lottery if you get the nice glowing cart or not, this is a hard pass.
Re: Sonic Is Getting A New Pinball Table To Mark His 35th Birthday, Designed By The Legendary Steve Ritchie
No Ugly Sonic, no deal.
Re: "A Loss To The World" - Legendary Doom & Wolfenstein 3D Composer Bobby Prince Has Passed Away
I always thought the Doom OST was heavily inspired by Slayer.
Re: Commodore's Next Hardware Release Is Dumb, And Proud Of It
At 500 dollars, this is insane. I might be tempted to buy floppy-style SD cards though, if they don't charge a premium.
Re: Talking Point: Does The World Want (Or Even Need) Two Fatal Fury Live-Action Movies?
That's probably good for the gander.
Re: "This Is A One-Time Production Run" - Here's Your Chance To Celebrate 20 Years Of The Best Dreamcast Website
I already have a VM2, I have ordered a VMU Pro but obviously I need to have one of those white shells. It's just a shame shipping is more than the cost of the product.
Re: Exclusive: "It's Not About Putting An Old Game In A Nice Box For The Sake Of It" - Utopia Is Getting A New Physical Release On SNES
In other news, the M64 will be launched on July 28th. Too bad we won't see anything about that here.
Re: "I Am Not Making Up This Story" - You Won't Believe What Yuji Naka Wanted To Call Billy Hatcher And The Giant Egg
@_Ex_ the Gameboy game should've been called Little Cock.
Re: "The Most Miserable Person I Have Ever Worked With" - This Former Sega Exec Has A Dim View Of Yuji Naka
What games were ported to Playstation by that team of Chinese pirates?
Re: It's Tough Out There, So Check Out These Amazing Websites
Two sites I regularly visit, that have yet to be mentioned here, are RetroRGB and The Dreamcast Junkyard.
And a YouTube channel that is pure feelgood is Sega Lord X. I really appreciate his very subjective takes on primarily old Sega games and stories from way back when he originally bought and played the games back in the 90's.
Re: The Team Behind This Motion-Sensing Box Think It Can Match The Sales Of The Nintendo Wii
It might match the sales of Kinect and Playstation Move, though.
Re: Necro Pop Is A New Game "Built From The Ground Up" For Neo Geo
@Reechard please tell us more.
Re: Necro Pop Is A New Game "Built From The Ground Up" For Neo Geo
How come new homebrew games for the Neo Geo still cost an arm and a leg? Surely the cost for making a cart has gone down since the 90's.
Personally, I'd love if the Neo Geo finally got an Outrun / Chase HQ type of racing game, would love to see what that would've looked like.
Re: Sega Saturn Emulator Yaba Sanshiro Takes A "Major Step Forward"
What's the difference between the "Pro" and amateur versions of this app?
Re: "Greetings Straight From The 32-bit Era" - FPGA GF1 Neptune Console Shown Running Sega 32X Core
With today's consoles lasting seven + years on the market, it sure is crazy to think that in the 90's, console manufacturers had almost yearly releases of new consoles and addons.
Re: "An Unparalleled Experience No FPGA Console Could Come Close To" - SuperSega Is Back, And It's Even Crazier Than Last Time
@SUPERSEGA-V3 have you returned the money to all the people who pre-ordered the SuperSega?
Re: Review: SuperStation One - This $210 FPGA PlayStation Puts Sony's PS Classic To Shame
"The MiSTer interview isn't exactly eye-catching", you probably meant interface.
Re: Talking Point: "We, The Consumers, Need To Vote With Our Wallets" - The Moral Dilemma Of Supporting SNK In 2026
@Thad USA has been mentioned several times. But it's an irrelevant comparison.
This is the Saudi state we're talking about which owns SNK. The US government does not own a game company. I'd be perfectly fine if SNK was owned by a Saudi individual with no ties to the government.
Re: "No Old, Stay Gold" - It Looks Like Sega Is About To Revive More Of Its Classic Franchises
Sega Gaga was a surprise. Maybe they've started paying attention because of the translation efforts as of late?
Re: The Neo Geo+ AES Saves You Over $92,000 On The Real Deal
@Sketcz to be clear, I'd rather they write about SNK and ModRetro, but boycotting one while turning a blind eye to the other is dishonest.
Re: The Neo Geo+ AES Saves You Over $92,000 On The Real Deal
@slider1983 that's the point. Either start covering ModRetro again while also writing about SNK, or boycott both.
Re: The Neo Geo+ AES Saves You Over $92,000 On The Real Deal
@Sketcz You say this, but this website has taken a stand against ModRetro, and SNK's owners Saudia Arabia have far worse atrocities on their resume.
I don't mind TE writing about SNK, what I do mind is the hypocrisy.
Re: "Locked And Loaded" - Polymega Is Adding Support For Two New CD-Based Retro Consoles
@HoyeBoye Apple Pippin is the kind of system they'd release support for on April's fools, in a "yeah it's a joke but it actually works" kind of way.
Re: "No Emulation, No Compromise, No Comparison" - The $250 Neo Geo+ AES Aims To Be A 1:1 Replica Of SNK's Classic Console
So TE is boycotting ModRetro while promoting Saudi-owned SNK, when Saudia Arabia is committing literal war crimes in Yemen? Hypocritical!
Re: "Almost Completely Re-engineered" - Polymega Gets An Upgrade As 'Remix' Units Complete Mass Production
@Hairlesswookiee I agree it would be cool to see more love for the Jag, but considering the Jag had the Atari joystick port, they could theoretically support playing Jag CD games with Jag controllers thanks to the Mega Drive and the 2600/7800 module today with a software update.
But the again, very few games were released for the Jag CD add on...
Re: "Almost Completely Re-engineered" - Polymega Gets An Upgrade As 'Remix' Units Complete Mass Production
@KGRAMR No need for a Jag CD module, the Polymega comes with a CD module already.
Re: "Prepare For The PS2 Fanboy Meltdown" - Here's Resident Evil 4 Running On Dreamcast
The last five years have given us more DC goodness than the 20 years before it, which started just after the DC was canceled.
And it looks like there's no end in sight!
Re: "Sony Could Punish Them" - Former Xbox Publishing Boss Explains PlayStation 2's Vice-Like Grip On Japan
@Hexapus and there were repercussions for Microsoft. But not for Sony. So how is that fair?
Re: "Sony Could Punish Them" - Former Xbox Publishing Boss Explains PlayStation 2's Vice-Like Grip On Japan
In a functioning society, companies like that would get punished by heavy fines and sanctions, but not in Japan.
Re: Interview: "You're Always Facing The Risk Of It Coming To An End" - M2 Co., Ltd.'s Naoki Horii On Creating Retro Perfection
Virtua Racing is a great example of how M2 takes a several decades old game and really makes the ultimate version of it, in ways fans never even dared to ask for.
Too bad it was only released for the Switch.
Re: New 'Hang-On' Patch For The Sega Master System Brings The 8-Bit Racer Closer To The Arcade
Impressive work.
Re: Doshin The Giant Creator's PS1 Oddity, 'Aquanaut's Holiday' Arrives On Steam This Month, With "GenAI" Remastered Mode
Aquanaut sholiday?
Re: MAME Set To Introduce Changes To Its System Requirements & "The Frequency Of Releases"
They're truly doing the Lord's work. Making these games available to everyone is truly a great purpose, and I hope they know this.
I say everyone, but even I who have learned computers the hard way (being given one many years ago, at age 11 and immediately being expected to be the IT support for the entire extended family) get gray hairs trying to install it.
Still excited for future releases though, especially considering they've now begun to include more advanced 3D games. In their own pace, of course.
Re: More Classic Capcom Titles Have Arrived On Steam, But, Of Course, There's A Catch
@PopetheRev28 because consoles don't have DRM..?
Re: "This Is A Regret In My Life" - Sonic X-treme Designer On The "Fork In The Road" That Killed Saturn's Most Famous Unreleased Game
@Chocoburger it sounds impressive, because it is. Crunch is still a thing even today.
I know we're comparing apples to oranges, but I miss the days when a sequel took two years to make. Now, we're fifteen years after Skyrim and still years away from TES 6. Not like I have the time anyway...
Re: A Revolutionary Namco Racer & A Classic Nichibutsu Shoot 'Em Up Are Both Heading To Consoles This Week
I guess these games are too demanding for my Xbox One X.
Re: "The Darkness Is Coming" - A New 3D Survival Horror For Dreamcast Is On The Way
JoshProd is doing the Lord's work.
Re: "This Is A Regret In My Life" - Sonic X-treme Designer On The "Fork In The Road" That Killed Saturn's Most Famous Unreleased Game
@Sketcz Please do!
Re: "This Is A Regret In My Life" - Sonic X-treme Designer On The "Fork In The Road" That Killed Saturn's Most Famous Unreleased Game
I'm still amazed by how fast everything went in the 90's. This presentation happened in 96, and would possibly have lead to one the biggest releases of that generation, but it was canned. And yet, two years later (!) they released a AAA game for the Dreamcast!
So in two years time after this cancelation, they had managed to create a huge release from scratch for an entirely new next-generation platform. That's insane. And what's more insane, Sonic X-Treme and Sonic Adventure look like they were made a decade apart.
Re: Sega 32X Is Getting An Ambitious Elite-Style Space Exploration Game Called 'SignalFall'
Very cool to see Jenovi back! Missed him!
Re: Hands On: 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller – Now With Extra N64 Energy
@N64-ROX check out Retro Fighters Hunter.