@Por-E-Gone I agree that this isn't super exciting, per se, but I do think it's super cool. I think any Gen I or Gen II Pokemon pre-release stuff is cool.

I'm not holding my breath. This is almost as perfect an example of vaporware as Starcraft: Ghost.

The console itself was pretty good in my opinion. I preordered one when it was announced. The biggest problem was a lack of support and no real draw as most everything was available on other platforms that featured tons of games the VCS didn't and often had sales making them cheaper there. I'm sad to see it go having never realized its potential to be more, though. It'll go up there with my Ouya as systems I thought had potential and just dropped the ball consistently.

RIP to my beloved but largely useless 21st Century Atari console

I hate AI as a general rule, personally. That said, it has its uses. If it's used as a tool and not a replacement for human creativity, I'm fine with it. Using AI for things like DLSS-style upscaling, or example, or if a developer used AI to compress a game's file size more efficiently (idk if that's possible or not as I don't know any specifics about AI use in game development). What I can't excuse, however, is AI art, AI written scripts, or games that are outright made by AI. AI should enhance and streamline the work of humans, not replace it. It's a tool, and like any tool, there are proper and improper ways to utilize it.

I've already got an Xstation in mine, but I'd definitely have gone this route if it had been available when my PS1's disc drive died. Krikzz does amazing work, so this is sure to be a fantastic ODE option.

@Lanmanna I've got around 50 or so

I have dozens of imports on my shelves as old as NES and as recent as PS5

I would have liked the PSP a lot more if they hadn't used optical media (the idea of running an optical disc drive off of a battery just seems crazy to me) and if they had used a better screen not in terms of resolution but in terms of material. That plastic screen just seemed too prone to scuffs. I also wasn't a big fan of the control nub, but that was a minor gripe for me.

All that said, the software library was stellar and more than made up for any complaints I had about the system's design.

@RejectedAng3L ...yes, I'm aware. "Would have been" refers to something that didn't happen, thus making clear that I know that AI wasn't used.

I hate AI used for translation...but this game, I think, would have been an acceptable use of AI translation rather than waste manhours that could have been used to translate a good game.

@Exerion76 Exactly. I read that and thought "Then don't do it."

Seems like I'm the only one not super upset about this. I mean, yeah, I'm disappointed, but I was a little concerned about the risk of screen burn when they first announced OLED because of how high the contrast is and how static some of the images can be. Personally, I'm okay. I understand why many are upset, though.

A wireless device...that requires a USB-C wire. I'm not sure I'd call that wireless. Semantics aside, though, this is frigging awesome, and I will definitely be buying one when it's available. Hopefully they can patch in support for Ruby and Sapphire when their inevitable Switch releases happen.

I think Namco will be amenable to this. If he cares as little about potential money as he says, Namco would have a product that cost them nothing to make but would still generate profit even if sold cheap as dirt. Even if he did take a (rightfully deserved) cut of the profits, it would probably still be cheaper than if Namco had done it in-house.

Regardless of how this ends up, I have to applaud him for his dedication to doing things the legal way because he's absolutely right about people stealing the work of others to sell on AliExpress. It's FULL of Pokemon and Fire Emblem ROM hacks.

Honestly, it looks pretty good already. Definitely got some work to do on the tracks' not flickering like a strobe light at a rave, but I'm impressed with how smooth is runs already.

@Jet_Set_William tbh that's the impression I got both here and on their comments on the Ghost Hunters article. I hope I'm wrong, and I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but it definitely read like AI to me, and as a high school teacher, I read a LOT of stuff "written" by AI. That's not to say I'm fully confident this was AI written - some people really do just write in a similar way to most generative AI - but it felt that way to me reading it.

I hope I'm wrong about this as I genuinely try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but those comments from Philip read like something my students would use ChatGPT to generate and then turn in hoping I'll think they actually took the time write it. I hope I'm wrong, but it seemed to me like reading an AI-generated defense of using AI.

What makes stuff like this cool isn't that a game is running on hardware that should be too weak for it; it's that people had the technical ingenuity to make the hardware do something that it, by conventional wisdom, shouldn't be able to do. Using AI takes away that entire aspect. No one, I imagine, should choose to play a Super Nintendo version of Goldeneye over the actual N64 game (or the Xbox and Switch options). The reason I love the Duke Nukem 3D port to Genesis, for example, isn't that I would rather play it on Genesis instead of Saturn or Switch; it's that someone figured out how to get that game running on a Sega Genesis. It's not impressive when AI makes it work; it's awesome when a person figures out how to do that. That's my two cents, anyway. Absolutely not discrediting the opinions of those disagree with me. I can understand the other side's point of view.

At least they're being transparent. Gotta give them props for that.

Everyone who voted yes is lying lmao

River Raid and Chopper Command are two games I still play on my 2600 to this day. Such awesome games.

The only fitting punishment is interment in an iron maiden.

I have Terraonion's flash cartridge for my CMVS, but I'd love an option that supports a Ukrainian instead of someone critical of Ukraine.

Mike Chi is a god, I swear. He's incredible and an absolute blessing to the retro gaming community.

I would love to see Fast Fusion get a physical release

This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Who needs good games or a comfortable controller when you have boobs on the magazine ads?

Better than the Retrotink 5X? I'll believe it when I see it.

I despite the Saudi government and the inhuman monster running the kingdom...but I do love me some Metal Slug...

Of course it will be better than emulation; it runs on actual hardware instead of a purely software solution or an FPGA replica.

@Tasuki NeoGeo is just the coolest thing to me. Not only some of the best 2D arcade games around but arcade hardware on a home console? In the early 90s? Mind blowing.

This is reprehensible.

@Tasuki And with Arcade Works's no longer making them, they're obscenely expensive on eBay. I got mine last year as a housewarming gift to myself when I moved into my new house, and it cost me about $900. Unfortunately for me, I'm a big enough Neo Geo fan to have been willing to pay that grotesque amount.

If I didn't already have an Omega CMVS and an MVS flash cartridge, I would totally jump on this in a heartbeat.

People have spent 25 years underestimating the Dreamcast. I always believed in you!

It looks GORGEOUS! I thought Super Mario Bros 3 on NES was a beautiful 8-bit game, but dadgum, this blows it out of the water in my opinion. I'd love to see them do the entire game like this.

I think they fact that they're admitted that they're at fault is a positive sign; that never would have happened when Josh was still running the show. There's a LOT of trust to be regained, much of which can't be, but I see this is as a small step in the right direction.

I love how we're all calling her "ex-WWE CEO" instead of "current Secretary of Education." It's so much less depressing if we let ourselves forget she's in charge of the nation's education system.

Linda McMahon is an idiot. Even if we don't count the Game Boy as making gaming portable - which would be a stupid thing to discount - the Game Boy Advance and DS absolutely did, and they were out before the PSP. I'm not knocking the PSP - it has some great games - but it definitely wasn't "the beginning of life on the go."

Oh my god I can't wait to play this. I've never heard of it before this article, but it sounds like the kind of thing I would adore. Definitely a day one download for me (I'm assuming no physical release on Switch). I normally don't like games that use emulation at all, but for retro games where the source code is lost, I'm all for it in order to maintain authenticity and a faithful presentation of the game as originally intended.

Porting old games to different old consoles and especially "demakes" are my absolute FAVORITE part of the homebrew scene. Even if it's not "better" in any way or even inferior in some way, it's just cool to play Grand Theft Auto III on a Dreamcast. Even if Doom 64 is way more accessible on modern consoles digitally, it's just cool to see it running on a Dreamcast. And just like when choosing armor or weapons in an RPG, the Rule of Cool is always a correct way to make a decision.

I still play everything on original hardware if possible (although I admit to using an Everdrive for the software), so this is amazing to me. I love seeing how many unnecessary but awesome and helpful upgrades and additions people can make for these old consoles.

I'm VERY cautiously optimistic. I've been a LRG customer since Breach and Clear on Vita, but I haven't considered myself a LRG "fan" in several years. Josh was like 90% of the problem, though, so I'm hoping that with him gone, they really will be able to turn things around and restore their reputation in the limited print market. That said, I've heard that these two guys aren't exactly angels themselves, so only time will tell.

The movie was definitely not good. It's also a really fun campy pew pew movie that I love.

A - Gamestop sucks, and no one should care what they say

B - I coincidentally agree with them. I've always said a console is retro once there is a generation between it and the current consoles. The Xbox One sits between the Xbox 360 and the current Series X, so the 360 is retro. The PS4 sits between the PS3 and the current PS5, so the PS3 is retro. The Switch sits between the Wii U and the Switch 2, so the Wii U is retro.

C - The above paragraph hurt my soul (and my back) to type.

I'm not gonna lie, the composite output makes this a hard no for me. It's super cool, and I hope it's a smash hit, but I want the best video output possible, even in my chunky 8-bit games.

I'm excited top play this on Genesis!

The texture flickering would drive me insane, but I can't deny that the performance is quite impressive.

Any homebrew for Saturn is rad in my book. I'll definitely be buying this next time I get paid.

I love LRG and have been a customer since their first Vita game released back in 2015. It's a deeply flawed company that has made a lot of very bad choices, most seemingly tied to Fairhurst, but they've also done some stuff I think is super cool - like helping to resurrect so-bad-they're-good Sega CD FMV games - that are also largely tied to Fairhurst. I know my love for them is a deeply unpopular opinion here that will get me heavily flamed, but Josh's shady decisions aside, there are a lot of games I love that wouldn't have a physical release on my shelf were it not for LRG. I'm hopeful that new leadership will see the company correct a lot of the issues they currently have and take some more pro-consumer actions.

For the record, I love Mighty Rabbit, too; Breach and Clear is unironically fun even if generic, and I absolutely adore Saturday Morning RPG.