RRT4 is darn good, but I actually enjoyed the series more starting in 2005 with the PSP release, the drifting became much easier to perform, nitro boosts were added, then later Ultimate Charge was added, and the gameplay was just perfection for me.
RR6 and RR7 are just pure bliss racing, but RRT4 still has something special about it. The music, the simple story moments, and the overall vibe is unique. I'd love to see RR8 take aspects of 4 and later sequels to make something new, interesting, and memorable.
Too bad the physical fanzine is sold out, or I may have bought it.
What a waste of plastic. Maybe if they put all those games onto a single device, you could possibly, barely squeeze out $30 worth of entertainment from it, otherwise, you can do a lot better for $30 somewhere else.
No black gun outside of Japan is stupid. I bought a black Sinden gun, shipped to the USA, so don't tell me its not possible.
I still have my SD CRTs (one of them died recently unfortunately, but I have a few spares). So I can play these games perfectly with zero lag and zero aiming issues, but I'd still like to own something like this.
Maybe in the future I'll go on ebay and import the Japanese version if its sold at the same price its going for now. Otherwise I can live without this.
Back then PC focused dev teams struggled a lot porting games to consoles. To me it feels like a lack of resources (time, budget, and experience), the PS2 has a ton of ambitious games with acceptable fidelity for the era, but these games came from console focused dev teams that dedicated all their time, and budget specifically for consoles, and knew how to get the most out of the hardware.
No One Lives Forever and its sequel deserve the Nightdive treatment on modern hardware!
Those idiots spending 1 million pounds on some machine learning AI garbage, knowing full well they had royalty payments to make is absolutely criminal.
The people in charge of making that decision should have all their money taken from them and distributed to the authors they scammed. Then they should be thrown in prison for 10,000 years.
I own 3DS XL, New 3DS XL (three of them), and a 2DS XL, so I clearly love the system, but that price is absurd, however I can sort of understand it. These devices have unique technology and functionality that you can't simply replicate exactly via emulation.
Yes 3DS can be emulated, but the experience is different than playing on original hardware. There's of course the top screen using stereoscopic 3D, but also the gyro, microphone, three cameras, bottom touch screen, and of course its portable.
That's a whole lot to replicate simultaneously, so original hardware is the best experience, and thus the price of it will continuously rise throughout the years.
The only real problem going forward are the batteries, even though I own multiple brand new spare batteries, most people out there do not, and so how are they going to replace it eventually when they wear down to nothing, or end up bulging and becoming unusable?
2 weeks ago I was at Round1 Arcade and saw employees building this arcade on top of the Bomberman arcade. I never heard of this game before, but I am a huge light gun fan, its the main reason why I go to the arcade these days (even though I do have SD CRT TVs, and Wii, and PS Move, and PSVR 2).
I don't own any Apple Arcade compatible devices, so I can't play this, but I did really enjoy Super Bomberman R Online, it was a lot of fun, and I miss it. Of course Konami has to shut down one of their few fun games. Stupid Konami.
I bought a Wavebird when it first came out, two of them in fact (one still sealed to this day!), and it was a complete waste of money. Nothing, and I mean nothing I did could reliably sync the controller to the adapter.
Best case scenario I could play with it for 10 minutes before it would start to go crazy on me, eventually I'd give up and just switch back to my wired controller. Yes I have tried spinning the channel wheels at the bottom of both the receiver and controller to change frequency, but still it didn't help.
If only I could get that damn controller to work correctly, alas.
@PZT How is that rumor thread even related to this article? I don't believe the gaming industry has un-experienced voice cast members directing video games, either. Most of those rumors makes no sense, why is Shenmue 4 even involved with Wanted: Dead in any fashion? I don't see a connection. A lot of it seems fake B.S.
Fortunately, being official doesn't mean squat when it comes to classic gaming these days. Hurray for fans that make online gaming possible on many devices using superior emulation.
First Sonic Dream Team, and now this. How annoying, at least put it on Android Play Store for other people to enjoy it! Damn all these stupid subscription services locking new games away.
"It will no longer cost $500 to play Path of Radiance!"
Shameful, to be excited over subscription nonsense. If they had sold a digital copy of the game for $15 - $20 that would be fine, but requiring repeated payments is just plain awful. The notion that people won't use GCN Swiss, Wii softmodding, Wii U softmodding, or Dolphin to play a game that they desire is embarrassing.
It has never cost $500 to play Path of Radiance, play the damn ISO and enjoy it.
I burned a disc of this game to try it out, since I'm a huge light gun shooter fan. It wasn't great, but its actually fun to play, assuming you're okay with the crappy visuals.
Light gun games are inherently fun to me, and I've played hundreds of worse games than Death Crimson, so no, its not even close, there's far worse than D.C.
@Honkshot Pro Wrestling X, damn that's a deep cut, I have 387 of their newsletters, starting with newsletter #7 dating back to May 3rd, 2002.
Dave was trying to make a crowd funded game before Kickstarter was even kickstarted. He was in some ways a pioneer, and deserves credit for not giving up on his dreams. But the game took so long to come out, that I forgot about it, and moved on.
I still play No Mercy and its fan mods (I even played No Mercy just a few hours ago), and they're still fun to me! PWX was supposed to be an AKI fan's dream game. It sounded so good, but here we are 23 years later, and PWX is on Steam, but in early access, and I have no idea if its worth the $5 to even try it out.
I started looking up reddit threads on PWX, posts from 11 years ago about people claiming it to be a scam, and "it will never come out", and even a website from a former programmer who used to work on the game.
"Part of revitalizing Acclaim is revitalizing its ethos of providing funding and support to development teams in order to help them make the best possible game"
Is that why all Acclaim games were rushed out, sloppy garbage? I, and millions of others have been burned by their endless glut of garbage they pushed out. From Simpsons games, to wrestling, to extreme sports. Each and every game released in what can only generously be described as "beta state".
I was actually happy to see Acclaim disappear, the industry, and gamers were better off without them. What a shame that they're back to trick more kids (and foolish adults who refuse to learn from the past), into giving them their money for their digital trash.
The sooner they die off a second time, the better.
Good to know, I'll avoid all Retroid products going forward now, which makes it easier to decide what I'm going to actually purchase among the massive glut of devices available.
I'd like to finally see something from Taki Udon's portable MiSTer.
Anyone who gave this idiot money was indeed a fool.
Maybe they learned their lesson, then again, maybe not. Supporting scammers only encourages more scammers to pop up and believe they can get away with their thieving ways scott free.
Hyperkin makes junk products. Stay the hell away from Dreamcast, and most certainly a "Dreamcast 2" which of course will never exist, but still stay the hell away from it.
You have always given these liars and scammers too much credit. Dec 31st is a placeholder (fake) date, don't call it a hint, its objective fact that Amico Entertainment has no money, their 'business operations address' is a UPS store next door to a frozen yogurt place.
They stole nearly $17,000,000 dollars from people, its okay to be honest and harsh towards these guys. They are deserving of nothing but our ire.
@BulkSlash A lot of good iOS and Android games have been lost to time because of the lack of updates, Metal Gear Solid: Touch, Mirror's Edge (the mobile game is actually great), and plenty more.
I bought an iPad 3 a few years ago, and hacked it in order to play those long delisted abandonware games. Its sad that it has to come to this even though iOS is still around. This should have never happened in the first place.
Good interview, but I'll say that Sega made the right choice, going with the lil' blue guy as their mascot. TJ & E are cool, but they wouldn't have helped the Genesis in the same way the blue blur did.
Wow, this guy is incredibly skilled. I love light gun games as well, but I'm not anywhere near his skill range. I'd like to see him do a perfect play of Time Crisis 3 (the hardest in the series I think).
Nice interview, I'm a huge THPS fan, and I also love the GBA, so this was a great read for me. I had no idea that they actually used PSone code on a GBA, I just assumed they built the game from scratch, but it makes sense now, seeing as how well the games control, compared to the awful Robomodo games which were built from scratch and played terribly.
THPS 2 was an amazing GBA launch game, and the main system seller for me, THPS 3 was also great, THPS 4 was good too, but it was starting to feel stale by then (not on consoles, but on GBA with its more limited game design).
Fortunately for me, at that point PSP had launched with THUG 2 Remix, now the GBA games had lost their luster and charm. I finally had a 'true 3D' THPS game to play on the go. So I stopped buying the GBA games from then on. However I recently went back to play them via emulation just to see what I had missed.
THUG GBA was horrible, they completely ruined it, THUG 2 GBA was okay, but that feeling of staleness was certainly increasing, THAW GBA is similar to THUG 2, but worse with some stupid goals that aren't well explained to the player. Overall the games were going downhill in quality after THPS 4.
The last game, Downhill Jam on GBA was extremely impressive for the hardware, can you imagine what it would have been like to see a game like that on GBA's launch? It would have been insane! Perhaps you should interview someone who worked on that game? Also Downhill Jam on DS is amazing, and is well worth a try.
Shenmue 1 and 2 really should have been multiplatform, the idea of keeping Shenmue 1 on Dreamcast and making the sequel an Xbox exclusive was flat out stupid.
The PS2 user base was massive, there is no reason not to port your games to that system! Sega is truly their own worst enemy. As for lisencing issues, they could just change the textures and words, which is something they already did for the Shenmue 1 port on Dreamcast outside of Japan. Seems like a flimsy excuse.
If you pre-ordered this obvious scam from the start then you are a fool who makes poor financial decisions. How could you support this moron knowing that he's using SEGA's name without permission, it was obvious lawyers were going to get involved. Stop blindly giving grifters your money, stop pre-order the next stupid thing some idiot is peddling.
Same thing with the Amico, why are people so willingly throwing their money away when the product doesn't even exist?
Wait for it to be finished, be patient, hold onto your money, watch video reviews then come to an informed decision. Or just give it to me instead of idiots like Tommy Tallerico and Alejandro Martín.
Just imagine the type of buffoon that actually pre-ordered this joke. Why give your money to a clearly incomplete product? Why didn't you wait until it was finished and reviewed? This thing isn't coming out, but if it does, then it'll never live up to any of its promises, and you lost your money over nothing.
Stop giving scammers your money. LEARN YOUR LESSON.
1) This is a scam, and they're cashing out on retro-fools, who don't care about wasting money on vaporware or junk, ASAP.
2) They're using the pre-order money to help complete their project. Which is not a good sign, it would mean they were never truly prepared to deliver this product without "crowd funding", and this was their idea of crowd funding, which of course is quite misleading.
There's also a chance that the money won't be enough, it'll run out, and the product never gets completed and shipped out.
Just like the Amico, which leads back to point #1, its a scam.
@Steel76 I always prefer original hardware when at home. Emulation or FPGA is okay when going for portable gaming.
Though there are some Genesis, SNES, and Saturn games that are bugged on certain hardware models. An example would be Super Turrican bugged on SNES 1 chip models, or Sega's initial print run of SEGA AGES for the Saturn, which won't work on model 2, until they later reprinted the games with a fix.
Translators do this work for free, and they don't owe us anything, but I don't like this attitude from them.
They gave us the silent treatment for too long, making us question if the translation was still going on or not, they knew this was the case but continued to remain silent. I suppose their plan was to "surprise us" when it was finally completed.
Instead it backfired and they ended up being surprised by someone else not remaining silent. Don't blame eadmaster for making this translation, blame yourselves for not making it clear that the translation process was still continuing.
I'll happily play CyberWarriorX's translation, but I'm glad that eadmaster lit a fire within him to actually be more vocal about it, that's all we really wanted from him.
@UK_Kev If you start asking for money, then it stops being a joke. Just like the Amico scam, they knew that they had no chance of releasing a system, but they kept doing crowd funding campaigns, stealing people's money. This is the same thing, on a much smaller scale.
I'm flabbergasted that there are buffoons still supporting Tommy even after all these years of lying, stealing, scamming, and overall being a bad person.
Tommy is the lowest of the low, he uses his father's death as a shield from criticism, and he's never apologized for his actions. He's a sociopath, and deserves zero leniency or compassion after what he's done.
I love my Dreamcast, it was the first time I ever got a console on launch day. I have so many memories playing it, and will keep playing it until I die, but this "wrong console won" narrative is complete nonsense.
Dreamcast deserved better, yes, but its not like PlayStation 2 cheated for a victory, it earned its place in history because it was absolutely amazing, packed with so many high quality masterpieces. Yeah it has its issues such as muddy video output, but it doesn't matter when the games are so good and plentiful.
Promoting, and loving the Dreamcast is awesome, but having to hate on another console to do so is ignorant and childish. It reminds me of people who insult one woman's appearance in order to praise another woman's appearance. Shameful and unnecessary.
(hugs his 5 SD CRT TVs) No modern at home technology comes close to the accuracy and responsiveness of out-dated tech from the 80's and 90's. Modern arcades work well because there's a lot of IR sensors all around the screen so accuracy isn't an issue. Of course having that potent recoil helps make it feel more exciting to play as well.
Burnout 1 - terrible
Burnout 2 - never played
Burnout Takedown - amazing
Burnout Revenge - amazing
Burnout Legends - never played
Burnout Dominator - its alright
Burnout Paradise - amazing
Burnout Crash Party - why does this exist
@obijuankanoobie Taki Udon is making a MiSTer handheld device, that's the one I'm interested in, especially if it has a dock with HDMI out. It was even reported on this site quite recently. Of course you can't use your original cartridges on it.
I remember renting this game back in 1996 and being blown away by the visuals. It looked very close to the arcade version. The sequel which I pre-ordered (before I even bought a PSone!), also blew me away. Then a third time with Tekken 3, a game I poured a lot of time into, and really enjoyed it. NAMCO really hit it out of the park 3 times in a row, and offered more content, and fun CGI endings that SEGA wasn't giving us on the Saturn unfortunately.
Hmm, I can see both sides to this. On one hand, its good if they're taking broken Saturns, and giving them second life, I like this. On the other hand, the issue is that hypothetically if this continues long term then eventually 'traditional Saturns' will be harder to come by in the future.
This doesn't affect me personally since I own 4 Saturns (2 US, 2 JP), and I have a Fenrir, so I'm set. But if you think of the worst case scenario, this could sort of be an issue. But then again, if they aren't making a lot of these, then it could be nothing in the end.
As the years go on, I can see many people using FPGA replacements instead of original hardware. I myself am heavily considering the upcoming portable MiSTer device, where I can play Saturn on the go.
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Re: 'One More Win' Is The Ultimate Love Letter To Ridge Racer Type 4
RRT4 is darn good, but I actually enjoyed the series more starting in 2005 with the PSP release, the drifting became much easier to perform, nitro boosts were added, then later Ultimate Charge was added, and the gameplay was just perfection for me.
RR6 and RR7 are just pure bliss racing, but RRT4 still has something special about it. The music, the simple story moments, and the overall vibe is unique. I'd love to see RR8 take aspects of 4 and later sequels to make something new, interesting, and memorable.
Too bad the physical fanzine is sold out, or I may have bought it.
Re: These $30 Keyring-Sized Arcade Hits Come From The Company Behind Evercade
What a waste of plastic. Maybe if they put all those games onto a single device, you could possibly, barely squeeze out $30 worth of entertainment from it, otherwise, you can do a lot better for $30 somewhere else.
Re: "We Know This Sucks" - Analogue Has Delayed Its FPGA-Powered N64 For The Third Time
@MARl0 You should read some of the dumb ***** Terraonion has said throughout the years.
Re: Hands On: G'AIM'E Light Gun - This AI-Powered Blaster Hits The Target
No black gun outside of Japan is stupid. I bought a black Sinden gun, shipped to the USA, so don't tell me its not possible.
I still have my SD CRTs (one of them died recently unfortunately, but I have a few spares). So I can play these games perfectly with zero lag and zero aiming issues, but I'd still like to own something like this.
Maybe in the future I'll go on ebay and import the Japanese version if its sold at the same price its going for now. Otherwise I can live without this.
Re: "I Wouldn't Wish That Version On My Worst Enemies" - No One Lives Forever Dev Shares Story Behind Its "Awful" PS2 Port
Back then PC focused dev teams struggled a lot porting games to consoles. To me it feels like a lack of resources (time, budget, and experience), the PS2 has a ton of ambitious games with acceptable fidelity for the era, but these games came from console focused dev teams that dedicated all their time, and budget specifically for consoles, and knew how to get the most out of the hardware.
No One Lives Forever and its sequel deserve the Nightdive treatment on modern hardware!
Re: Writers Of 'Did You Know Gaming' Book Published By Unbound "Received £79 Each For Over 7 Years Of Work"
Those idiots spending 1 million pounds on some machine learning AI garbage, knowing full well they had royalty payments to make is absolutely criminal.
The people in charge of making that decision should have all their money taken from them and distributed to the authors they scammed. Then they should be thrown in prison for 10,000 years.
Re: Random: This Decade-Old Nintendo Handheld Is Now Worth Almost As Much As A Switch 2
I own 3DS XL, New 3DS XL (three of them), and a 2DS XL, so I clearly love the system, but that price is absurd, however I can sort of understand it. These devices have unique technology and functionality that you can't simply replicate exactly via emulation.
Yes 3DS can be emulated, but the experience is different than playing on original hardware. There's of course the top screen using stereoscopic 3D, but also the gyro, microphone, three cameras, bottom touch screen, and of course its portable.
That's a whole lot to replicate simultaneously, so original hardware is the best experience, and thus the price of it will continuously rise throughout the years.
The only real problem going forward are the batteries, even though I own multiple brand new spare batteries, most people out there do not, and so how are they going to replace it eventually when they wear down to nothing, or end up bulging and becoming unusable?
Re: Konami Is Stealthily Rolling Out A New Contra Lightgun Game In US Arcades
2 weeks ago I was at Round1 Arcade and saw employees building this arcade on top of the Bomberman arcade. I never heard of this game before, but I am a huge light gun fan, its the main reason why I go to the arcade these days (even though I do have SD CRT TVs, and Wii, and PS Move, and PSVR 2).
Excited to play it when I go back.
Re: Apple Arcade Exclusive Amazing Bomberman Being Shut Down Later This Month
I don't own any Apple Arcade compatible devices, so I can't play this, but I did really enjoy Super Bomberman R Online, it was a lot of fun, and I miss it. Of course Konami has to shut down one of their few fun games. Stupid Konami.
Re: The WavePhoenix Brings Nintendo's Best Controller Back To Life For $5
I bought a Wavebird when it first came out, two of them in fact (one still sealed to this day!), and it was a complete waste of money. Nothing, and I mean nothing I did could reliably sync the controller to the adapter.
Best case scenario I could play with it for 10 minutes before it would start to go crazy on me, eventually I'd give up and just switch back to my wired controller. Yes I have tried spinning the channel wheels at the bottom of both the receiver and controller to change frequency, but still it didn't help.
If only I could get that damn controller to work correctly, alas.
Re: Metal Gear In Concert Set To Make Its UK Debut Later This Year
@PZT How is that rumor thread even related to this article? I don't believe the gaming industry has un-experienced voice cast members directing video games, either. Most of those rumors makes no sense, why is Shenmue 4 even involved with Wanted: Dead in any fashion? I don't see a connection. A lot of it seems fake B.S.
Re: Nintendo Switch Online Update Brings Netplay Back To One Of Sega's Best Brawlers
Fortunately, being official doesn't mean squat when it comes to classic gaming these days. Hurray for fans that make online gaming possible on many devices using superior emulation.
Re: Katamari Damacy Game Has Got Its First All-New Entry In 8 Years, But There's A Catch
First Sonic Dream Team, and now this. How annoying, at least put it on Android Play Store for other people to enjoy it! Damn all these stupid subscription services locking new games away.
Re: Nintendo Just Broke The Hearts Of GameCube Scalpers Everywhere With Switch 2
"It will no longer cost $500 to play Path of Radiance!"
Shameful, to be excited over subscription nonsense. If they had sold a digital copy of the game for $15 - $20 that would be fine, but requiring repeated payments is just plain awful. The notion that people won't use GCN Swiss, Wii softmodding, Wii U softmodding, or Dolphin to play a game that they desire is embarrassing.
It has never cost $500 to play Path of Radiance, play the damn ISO and enjoy it.
Re: Is This Really Japan's Worst Video Game?
I burned a disc of this game to try it out, since I'm a huge light gun shooter fan. It wasn't great, but its actually fun to play, assuming you're okay with the crappy visuals.
Light gun games are inherently fun to me, and I've played hundreds of worse games than Death Crimson, so no, its not even close, there's far worse than D.C.
Re: Ultra Pro Wrestling Studio Claims To Have Bought The Trademarks For No Mercy Dev AKI, And Some People Are Confused
@Honkshot Pro Wrestling X, damn that's a deep cut, I have 387 of their newsletters, starting with newsletter #7 dating back to May 3rd, 2002.
Dave was trying to make a crowd funded game before Kickstarter was even kickstarted. He was in some ways a pioneer, and deserves credit for not giving up on his dreams. But the game took so long to come out, that I forgot about it, and moved on.
I still play No Mercy and its fan mods (I even played No Mercy just a few hours ago), and they're still fun to me! PWX was supposed to be an AKI fan's dream game. It sounded so good, but here we are 23 years later, and PWX is on Steam, but in early access, and I have no idea if its worth the $5 to even try it out.
I started looking up reddit threads on PWX, posts from 11 years ago about people claiming it to be a scam, and "it will never come out", and even a website from a former programmer who used to work on the game.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201020192524/https://sites.google.com/site/pwxprogrammer/the-real-history-of-pro-wrestling-x
Re: Acclaim Skirts Around The Issue Of Which Of Its Classic IP It Actually Has Access To
"Part of revitalizing Acclaim is revitalizing its ethos of providing funding and support to development teams in order to help them make the best possible game"
Is that why all Acclaim games were rushed out, sloppy garbage? I, and millions of others have been burned by their endless glut of garbage they pushed out. From Simpsons games, to wrestling, to extreme sports. Each and every game released in what can only generously be described as "beta state".
I was actually happy to see Acclaim disappear, the industry, and gamers were better off without them. What a shame that they're back to trick more kids (and foolish adults who refuse to learn from the past), into giving them their money for their digital trash.
The sooner they die off a second time, the better.
Re: GoRetroid To Offer Limited Returns For The "Unfixable" Pocket Mini
Good to know, I'll avoid all Retroid products going forward now, which makes it easier to decide what I'm going to actually purchase among the massive glut of devices available.
I'd like to finally see something from Taki Udon's portable MiSTer.
Re: SuperSega Boss Is Now Trying To Block People Getting Refunds
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Anyone who gave this idiot money was indeed a fool.
Maybe they learned their lesson, then again, maybe not. Supporting scammers only encourages more scammers to pop up and believe they can get away with their thieving ways scott free.
Re: Random: Hyperkin Wants To Make The Sega Dreamcast 2
Hyperkin makes junk products. Stay the hell away from Dreamcast, and most certainly a "Dreamcast 2" which of course will never exist, but still stay the hell away from it.
Re: Three Years Later, And Hyperkin's PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Clone Is Finally Coming Out
Useless devices if it doesn't support Everdrives or play games from SD card / USB drive.
The games are too expensive, and anyone who has a collection would already own the original hardware. So who is this for?
People who want to get into the system for the first time? No.
Long time fans, with a large collection of HuCards / TurboChips? No.
Those that want to play CD games? No.
Those who want to play ROM dumps? No.
Those who want a perfect experience with zero gameplay errors, or input lag? No.
This is for practically no one, other than super fans that will buy anything TG-16 / PC-E branded and just have it sit on their shelf.
Re: Random: Distributor Koch Appears To Think The Intellivision Amico Is Still Coming
You have always given these liars and scammers too much credit. Dec 31st is a placeholder (fake) date, don't call it a hint, its objective fact that Amico Entertainment has no money, their 'business operations address' is a UPS store next door to a frozen yogurt place.
They stole nearly $17,000,000 dollars from people, its okay to be honest and harsh towards these guys. They are deserving of nothing but our ire.
Re: Hands On: Golden Axe Returns Is So Good, Sega Itself Probably Couldn't Do Any Better
Two years later, the game download page has been removed, Sega had the game taken down. But it can be downloaded on Gamebanana.
Re: This New Famicom Disk System Game Could Be A World's First
That's neat to see the first new FDS game in so long, but the sound effect while moving the rabbit is extremely grating and unnecessary.
Re: Square Enix Ends Support For Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles iOS Following Unfixable Bug
@BulkSlash A lot of good iOS and Android games have been lost to time because of the lack of updates, Metal Gear Solid: Touch, Mirror's Edge (the mobile game is actually great), and plenty more.
I bought an iPad 3 a few years ago, and hacked it in order to play those long delisted abandonware games. Its sad that it has to come to this even though iOS is still around. This should have never happened in the first place.
Re: Someone Is Making New Games For The GBA's Unpopular E-Reader Add-On
This is great, I have an e-Reader that I've barely used, and would like more reasons to actually enjoy it. Thanks for sharing.
Re: New Custom Firmware Update Allows You To Connect Your PSP To WPA2
Thanks for sharing this great news. I'll need to figure out how to switch custom firmware to ARK4.
Re: Interview: "We Were Actually In Line To Be Sega's Mascot Character" - ToeJam & Earl Co-Creator On The Origins Of Gaming's Funkiest Duo
Good interview, but I'll say that Sega made the right choice, going with the lil' blue guy as their mascot. TJ & E are cool, but they wouldn't have helped the Genesis in the same way the blue blur did.
Re: Face It, You'll Never Be As Good At Light Gun Games As This Dude
Wow, this guy is incredibly skilled. I love light gun games as well, but I'm not anywhere near his skill range. I'd like to see him do a perfect play of Time Crisis 3 (the hardest in the series I think).
Re: The Making Of: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2's Surprisingly Stellar GBA Port
Nice interview, I'm a huge THPS fan, and I also love the GBA, so this was a great read for me. I had no idea that they actually used PSone code on a GBA, I just assumed they built the game from scratch, but it makes sense now, seeing as how well the games control, compared to the awful Robomodo games which were built from scratch and played terribly.
THPS 2 was an amazing GBA launch game, and the main system seller for me, THPS 3 was also great, THPS 4 was good too, but it was starting to feel stale by then (not on consoles, but on GBA with its more limited game design).
Fortunately for me, at that point PSP had launched with THUG 2 Remix, now the GBA games had lost their luster and charm. I finally had a 'true 3D' THPS game to play on the go. So I stopped buying the GBA games from then on. However I recently went back to play them via emulation just to see what I had missed.
THUG GBA was horrible, they completely ruined it, THUG 2 GBA was okay, but that feeling of staleness was certainly increasing, THAW GBA is similar to THUG 2, but worse with some stupid goals that aren't well explained to the player. Overall the games were going downhill in quality after THPS 4.
The last game, Downhill Jam on GBA was extremely impressive for the hardware, can you imagine what it would have been like to see a game like that on GBA's launch? It would have been insane! Perhaps you should interview someone who worked on that game? Also Downhill Jam on DS is amazing, and is well worth a try.
Re: 25 Years After It Changed Gaming Forever, Sega Staff Reveal Shenmue Almost Came To PS2 And Xbox
Shenmue 1 and 2 really should have been multiplatform, the idea of keeping Shenmue 1 on Dreamcast and making the sequel an Xbox exclusive was flat out stupid.
The PS2 user base was massive, there is no reason not to port your games to that system! Sega is truly their own worst enemy. As for lisencing issues, they could just change the textures and words, which is something they already did for the Shenmue 1 port on Dreamcast outside of Japan. Seems like a flimsy excuse.
Re: It's A Christmas Miracle, SuperSega Now Claims Sega Is Totally OK With Its FPGA Console
"Please feel free to contact Sega’s offices for assistance if you need help regarding your SuperSega-SuperSPGA console development."
...Really? Oh yes, can anyone simply ask Sega for help in producing a product that's ultimately designed to pirate their own games all willy-nilly?
Please tell me no one is actually falling for more lies from this moron.
Re: To The Shock Of Absolutely Nobody, Sega Is Trying To Shut Down The SuperSega FPGA Project
If you pre-ordered this obvious scam from the start then you are a fool who makes poor financial decisions. How could you support this moron knowing that he's using SEGA's name without permission, it was obvious lawyers were going to get involved. Stop blindly giving grifters your money, stop pre-order the next stupid thing some idiot is peddling.
Same thing with the Amico, why are people so willingly throwing their money away when the product doesn't even exist?
Wait for it to be finished, be patient, hold onto your money, watch video reviews then come to an informed decision. Or just give it to me instead of idiots like Tommy Tallerico and Alejandro Martín.
Re: If Nothing Else, SuperSega's Latest "Review" Should Convince You To Keep Your Wallet Shut
Just imagine the type of buffoon that actually pre-ordered this joke. Why give your money to a clearly incomplete product? Why didn't you wait until it was finished and reviewed? This thing isn't coming out, but if it does, then it'll never live up to any of its promises, and you lost your money over nothing.
Stop giving scammers your money. LEARN YOUR LESSON.
Re: Confusion Reigns As SuperSega Pre-Orders Get Charged For The Full Amount
One of two things are happening here.
1) This is a scam, and they're cashing out on retro-fools, who don't care about wasting money on vaporware or junk, ASAP.
2) They're using the pre-order money to help complete their project. Which is not a good sign, it would mean they were never truly prepared to deliver this product without "crowd funding", and this was their idea of crowd funding, which of course is quite misleading.
There's also a chance that the money won't be enough, it'll run out, and the product never gets completed and shipped out.
Just like the Amico, which leads back to point #1, its a scam.
Re: "The Project Is A Complete Scam" - The Internet Isn't Convinced By The SuperSega FPGA Console
@Steel76 I always prefer original hardware when at home. Emulation or FPGA is okay when going for portable gaming.
Though there are some Genesis, SNES, and Saturn games that are bugged on certain hardware models. An example would be Super Turrican bugged on SNES 1 chip models, or Sega's initial print run of SEGA AGES for the Saturn, which won't work on model 2, until they later reprinted the games with a fix.
Re: "Ours Will Be The Translation Worth Playing" - Team Behind Decade-Old Princess Crown Localisation Speak Out
Translators do this work for free, and they don't owe us anything, but I don't like this attitude from them.
They gave us the silent treatment for too long, making us question if the translation was still going on or not, they knew this was the case but continued to remain silent. I suppose their plan was to "surprise us" when it was finally completed.
Instead it backfired and they ended up being surprised by someone else not remaining silent. Don't blame eadmaster for making this translation, blame yourselves for not making it clear that the translation process was still continuing.
I'll happily play CyberWarriorX's translation, but I'm glad that eadmaster lit a fire within him to actually be more vocal about it, that's all we really wanted from him.
Re: "The Project Is A Complete Scam" - The Internet Isn't Convinced By The SuperSega FPGA Console
@UK_Kev If you start asking for money, then it stops being a joke. Just like the Amico scam, they knew that they had no chance of releasing a system, but they kept doing crowd funding campaigns, stealing people's money. This is the same thing, on a much smaller scale.
Re: After The Epic Failure Of The Intellivision Amico, Tommy Tallarico's New Goal Is Becoming A Backgammon Legend
I'm flabbergasted that there are buffoons still supporting Tommy even after all these years of lying, stealing, scamming, and overall being a bad person.
Tommy is the lowest of the low, he uses his father's death as a shield from criticism, and he's never apologized for his actions. He's a sociopath, and deserves zero leniency or compassion after what he's done.
Re: "The Wrong Console Won" - Dreamcast Is Getting Its Own Rave Event "To Correct The Record"
I love my Dreamcast, it was the first time I ever got a console on launch day. I have so many memories playing it, and will keep playing it until I die, but this "wrong console won" narrative is complete nonsense.
Dreamcast deserved better, yes, but its not like PlayStation 2 cheated for a victory, it earned its place in history because it was absolutely amazing, packed with so many high quality masterpieces. Yeah it has its issues such as muddy video output, but it doesn't matter when the games are so good and plentiful.
Promoting, and loving the Dreamcast is awesome, but having to hate on another console to do so is ignorant and childish. It reminds me of people who insult one woman's appearance in order to praise another woman's appearance. Shameful and unnecessary.
Re: Switch 'Hokkaido Serial Murder Case' Remake Retains NSFW Easter Egg From Yuji Horii's 1984 Original
@Sketcz And let's not forget about Mario's penis in the officially licensed Super Mario manga! I'm shocked that it got approved.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/10/random_mario_inadvertently_exposed_himself_in_an_officially_licensed_80s_comic
Re: Yes, You Can Buy Virtual Boy Merch At The Nintendo Museum
I was pleasantly surprised to see Virtual Boy within 3DS Badge Arcade. They were a hard set of badges to collect!
This article reminds me to go back and play more VB on my 3DS, and finally beat Wario Land.
Also I wanted to point out that the "3DS StreetPass" link highlighted above does not work anymore. Can someone fix it?
Re: CIBSunday: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete (PlayStation)
@ShawnS Thanks for the info, I'll do that soon.
Re: Time Crisis Is Coming To Modern TVs Thanks To A Plug-And-Play, AI-Powered Light Gun
(hugs his 5 SD CRT TVs)
No modern at home technology comes close to the accuracy and responsiveness of out-dated tech from the 80's and 90's. Modern arcades work well because there's a lot of IR sensors all around the screen so accuracy isn't an issue. Of course having that potent recoil helps make it feel more exciting to play as well.
Re: Anniversary: The Best Burnout Turns 20 This Month
Burnout 1 - terrible
Burnout 2 - never played
Burnout Takedown - amazing
Burnout Revenge - amazing
Burnout Legends - never played
Burnout Dominator - its alright
Burnout Paradise - amazing
Burnout Crash Party - why does this exist
Re: Review: MiSTer Pi - A $99 Gateway To FPGA Retro Gaming
@obijuankanoobie Taki Udon is making a MiSTer handheld device, that's the one I'm interested in, especially if it has a dock with HDMI out. It was even reported on this site quite recently. Of course you can't use your original cartridges on it.
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/08/heres-another-look-at-taki-udons-game-changing-usd150-handheld-mister
Re: Anniversary: Tekken Is Now 30 Years Old
I remember renting this game back in 1996 and being blown away by the visuals. It looked very close to the arcade version. The sequel which I pre-ordered (before I even bought a PSone!), also blew me away. Then a third time with Tekken 3, a game I poured a lot of time into, and really enjoyed it. NAMCO really hit it out of the park 3 times in a row, and offered more content, and fun CGI endings that SEGA wasn't giving us on the Saturn unfortunately.
Re: Please Stop Buying Unofficial "Saturn Mini" Consoles
Hmm, I can see both sides to this. On one hand, its good if they're taking broken Saturns, and giving them second life, I like this. On the other hand, the issue is that hypothetically if this continues long term then eventually 'traditional Saturns' will be harder to come by in the future.
This doesn't affect me personally since I own 4 Saturns (2 US, 2 JP), and I have a Fenrir, so I'm set. But if you think of the worst case scenario, this could sort of be an issue. But then again, if they aren't making a lot of these, then it could be nothing in the end.
As the years go on, I can see many people using FPGA replacements instead of original hardware. I myself am heavily considering the upcoming portable MiSTer device, where I can play Saturn on the go.
Re: "He Was Going To Crash His Car Into Sunsoft’s Gates" - Gimmick! Designer Tomomi Sakai On Making A Nintendo Masterpiece
Good interview, thanks for reaching out to him, and sharing some long hidden behind the scenes details.
I only played Gimmick for a few minutes, it was hard to get a grasp on the movement, but I should give it another shot.
Re: Missing 'History Of Nintendo' Books On The Famicom & Game Boy Are Now Available In English
@city952 Interesting, thanks for sharing. I had forgotten all about these books after I made my comment, so now you've reminded me!