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@Martin_H SoA wanted what would later be both the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. If they had had their way, they would have copied Nintendo and waited until late-1996 to release a Genesis successor.

I'm looking forward to GF1. It should fill the niche left behind following the discontinuation of the Analogue Mega Sg. I do wonder how difficult it will be to get one outside of Brazil though.

@Damo The same could be said about ModRetro.

Either cover SNK, ModRetro and SuperSega or don't cover any of them at all. This double standard can no longer be ignored.

He's not even a good grifter, that's the worst thing about all this.

I shall definitely be getting both of these and selling my C64 Maxi.

@pomegran the Mega Drive 1 & 2 look more stylish than the Mega Sg. Heck the Super Nt looks like a Mega Drive designed by Nintendo.

If it is a Mega Drive+, what will the launch line up look like? I'm hoping for Strider, Gunstar Heroes and Sonic 3 Complete.

@pomegran got one already (and a Duo), but I would still like a Mega Drive + with reverse engineered ASIC chips based on FPGA cores.

PLAION, please do the Mega Drive or PC Engine next?

I've been waiting for this. Very tempting!

@WaveBoy depends on whether you use a CRT, or what kind of HDTV you use. I don't think it'll be too big of an issue though, since the ASIC chips are based on reversed engineered components and the MiSTER core.

@Johnny_Arthur Playtonic are nothing like Rare. Just because a few people from Rare's glory days are working there doesn't make it Rare 2.0. Their games are third-rate slop parodying Rare's late 90s output. I'll also never forgive them for what they did to JonTron and how they treated people who wanted refunds when they canned him. I go out of my way to boycott them. Rare had more class.

@Edd-O Well I'm glad someone's enjoying themselves.

This article reminds me of the one Gawker did where they justified invading Hulk Hogan's privacy, but not Jennifer Lawrence's private photo collection on her compromised cloud account. This piece is already aging like sour milk.

While I appreciate that there is a difference between how ModRetro and SNK conduct their PR, this is Hookshot once again playing favourites for ideological purposes. The disinfo about Gaza in this article has me spitting blood with fury.

P.S. While what happened to Jamal Khashoggi was horrific, the man had some 'dodgy' attitudes and politics himself.

@Guru_Larry I believe it was Hyperkin's Retron 5. That was almost ten years ago now. How time flies.

I'd love to see Wario Land 1 upgraded for the GBA.

Another April Fools article?

At least this year's ones are more plausible.

A bit early for an April Fools article.

@Amm Speaking of Time Extension getting brown paper bags full of cash, I don't think that it's a coincidence that just days after Time Extension blacklist Luckey Palmer and ModRetro (and wrongfully so) that the Chinese Communist Party impose sanctions against Mr. Palmer for selling defence technology to Taiwan in order for that democratic island nation to protect themselves from their tyrannical neighbour on the mainland. Does the name Kai-Fu Lee mean anything to you Mr. McFerran? It does to me.

Like the song goes; 'I see your true colours shining through...' Checkmate!

Poor guy! Shocking, but not surprising. I rather liked him. I hope he gets the extended tribute that he deserves in the next issue (or the one following that) of Retro Gamer. His love of gaming (and Sonic in particular) was infectious. My thoughts go out to all his family, especially his parents who are going through the pain of outliving one of their children.

@turboxray I find the home console ports of both Forgotten Worlds and Ghouls 'n Ghosts/Daimakaimura rather interesting.

Forgotten Worlds bombed in the arcades, so Capcom were happy to license them out to both NEC and Sega for them to develop and release home ports on capable hardware.

I am of the belief that Capcom originally intended Ghouls 'n Ghosts/Daimakaimura as a launch window port to the Super Famicom in 1989. When the SFC got delayed, Capcom must have realised that a direct port would have missed the boat, so they repurposed the project into Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts/Choumakimura instead. When Sega (and later NEC) came knocking for the rights to home ports of Arthur's second adventure, Capcom were happy to grant them to keep the brand fresh for the future SFC title and earn some royalties in the process.

I would take this with a huge pinch of salt because TTI said the same thing about Mortal Kombat, despite the fact that the only Midway game on the TG16 was Hit The Ice via Taito. Acclaim also had first refusal on all Midway home console ports and never released a game on the TG16 anyway.

Capcom and NEC/Hudson might have had some conversations about a SF2 port to the TG16 in late 1990-early 1991 due to the fact that SF1 had been a launch title for the CD-ROM2. Yet I doubt Capcom were interested in licensing a TG16 release at the time. Capcom licensed SF1 to NEC/Hudson for development and publishing because the NES wasn't powerful enough to do it justice, while Sega were still also-rans focusing on the Mega Drive's launch. By 1991, the situation had changed. The SNES had launched and was powerful enough to port SF2 to the machine. Capcom enjoyed a good relationship with Nintendo and Sega were picking up steam in the West, whereas the TG16 had bombed stateside. SF2 was always heading to the SNES first.

When SF2 became more successful than Capcom's wildest dreams, combined with greater competition in the console space leading to more favourable terms for third parties, it then made good business sense to port SF2 to the TG16 and MD.

@Damo I imagine that this will be resolved in one of two ways; a firmware update from Analogue for the console (along with a corresponding jailbreak version) or a final run Rev 3-and-Doom-themed limited edition of the Super Nt.

Kiaidan 00 is worth the price of this alone on the basis of its theme music.

Needs more Rene Abuberjonois.

The original Edgelord. I'm surprised he didn't sue Vince McMahon and Adam Copeland too.

Looking forward to Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound.

I might pick up this since the prices for the Retro-Bit and original versions are crazy.

I love the PSP. It's the closet thing to a portable Dreamcast and I started collecting for it back in 2011. A unfairly underrated little handheld. If only I could get my hands on Outrun 2006 for it?

That's actually really good. Well done and keep it up I would say.

Waiting for my Game Boy copy.

If I had one early, I would choose to go along with RGL's request as an act of courtesy and sign of respect.

I'm more interested in the story that one DQ fanboy stabbed another DQ fanboy because the latter claimed that VII or VIII was better than VI.

Stunning! What format is this for?

I have these on my Mega Sg. I hope we got a Life on Earth/Legend of the Four Winds dual cart next.

We also all know another certain influrence on the original F-Zero, especially Captain Falcon and his Falcon Punch in particular. A certain dead man (no, not THAT one) that has countless 'issues', notably with costumed vigilantes and deadly ETs.

@JonathanChapman Why do you assume that he's being a jerk? He's already doing us all a favour by creating DuckStation and allowing other to contribute towards it. If anything, it's others behaving like jerks that have forced him into this stance. This is why we can't have nice things and why the world is in the absolute state that it is currently in.

About time that Analogue had some competition.

This could be a Mega Sg killer in the making, especially as Analogue no longer manufactures them. Definitely a machine to keep an eye on.

I've received no word yet on the copy I pre-ordered from Strictly Limited Games.

Finally! I'm looking forward to this.

What a stupid name. This will only confuse people and harm the FPGA niche and sour people on Pis.

This WILL backfire on Nintendo eventually.

Why was there no version for the TurboGrafx/PC Engine back in the day? This would have been a perfect fit for the console and likely one of it's best Hu Cards. Someone needs to do a homebrew port of Rod Land for the TG16/PCE. Combine the 6502 code from the NES version with the graphics of the Amiga release and have it run at 7MHz instead or 1.80Mhz mode.

Yes, I realise it's easier said than done...

Yet more proof that video game giants like Microsoft do not have the best interests of their customer base and gamers in general at heart. No wondering the industry is currently crashing.

No wonder Bret "Hit Man" Hart was so randy behing his first wife Juile's back!

I prefer FPGA hardware emulation, but there is definitely a firm place for software emulation. If anything the growth of FPGA usage will only compel greater (cycle) accuracy from software emulators.

@Przemyslaw How do you know that Kana-chan (Asuka) hasn't already made a significant donation of one kind or another? Don't be a twit.

I'm looking forward to receiving this soon.