Fallingshadow

This is just going to be very bare package of the games in an emulator. Same goes for Alien breed. I guessing they need to do this at the Ant stream Arcade is not bringing in that much money.They not been adding many new games of late and a lot of games have been removed. The neo geo games where some of the more recent removals.

@JackGYarwood

As someone that worked on Armada of the Damned it was quite middle of the road so to speak. We had alpha builds of the game so it was only a few months away from completion.

Pirates of the Caribbean armada of the damned also got cancelled for internal politics reasons as well.

@Kingmike lockout's on the megadrive are quite a bit rarer than people think and a lot of the time It was due to the fact the games. Would not play correctly at the different speeds.

@mjparker77 it's only in the arcade front menu but it does include sound effects from a number of other games. it's more obvious in the combine packs they did as you move between games.

@Firehawke The Arcade Anniversary Collection does not include Contra in it.
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Anniversary_Collection_Arcade_Classics
list is here
The Contra Anniversary Collection did but that was by M2.

@PKDuckman it's available on antstream at present but you are correct about the tubro arcade version being delisted. Given that contained sound effects from street fighter 2 and time crisis the turbo arcade version where pretty dodgy.

Given you can already get the arcade version this seems pretty pointless. Why not do a complete collection better yet just release a PS4 version and not a PS5 as you will get more sales that way.

@AnonUser I also have an old digital watch from the 90's which I still use replaced the strap once and the battery twice. It's still going strong!

@AxioMaxiM their was never any official announcement about SteamWorld Dig 3. The last steam world game was heist 2 which under performed. Which was a real shame.

I suspect the €64,095 raised was not enough to cover the cost of manufacture when you minus the 8.2% kicker starter take that leaves you with €58,840 and that’s before you factor in dropped backers.

The list of victims just keeps getting longer.

Front Mission 1,2,3
Panzer dragoon 1, 2
Night Slashers
House of the dead 1, 2

Please someone stop Forever Entertainment's and their awful remakes.

The original games play better in every case. Even sega PS2 remake of panzer dragoon was better than FE version.

Sadly the ps4 masterworks collection was only released in Japan. It also has no physical release making it a pain to get hold of.

Physical games needed to change as at present most games don't even work from disc and require updates before they run correctly. Case and point the physical version of street fighter 5 was only ever the first version of the game on disc later complete versions just came with DLC codes. Not to mention the Call of duty games that don't work from disc and require 40GB+ downloads. So many physical versions from the PS4 era on would will be useless in 100 years time Where as a Snes you will still be able to play.

Physical games I think should be the last thing the company produces now. They need to be a sort of complete package that has all the DLC and patches on it. This would safe guard the games for years to come.

Like many have said this is a cost cutting exercise by Sony.

Sony support with Digital media is also very bad. I having an issue with GRID the complete edition at the moment where I can't download the season passes for my game at the moment. As the DLC has now been delisted. Even though the season passes where included in the complete edition. The problem is you had to download then via a link in the game which now no longer works as the sony store page is broken.

As many of you may be aware when you buy a season pass on playstation it does not add the DLC to your account it just makes it free in the store which you then need to download. Only then will it be added to your account.

The problem is getting sony to fix this for me feels like it's an uphill battle as the support just don't seem to understand what I am telling them. I had another issue with Goat Simulator 3 where the DLC I bought for that game does not work with the Digital version of the game I own! I have contacted both the Dev and Sony about that but neither have fixed that issues.

it was called as Hard Edge in Europe as well.

@StyrofoamCup given if they just released this for switch and PS4. It will run on PS5, Switch 2 it just makes no sense and means you are losing sales. Given the likes of mina the hollower looks like a nes game. Really find it strange they are pushing games like this next gen when they are not and a PS2 could run them... Given both the PS5 and switch 2 are unlikely to match the previous gen consoles in sales developers are only losing sales and given the tight market we are now in due to the amount of games in store every sale counts.

@Firehawke true but only after hamster did it first. Most likely they reverse engineered the Arcade Archive version. AA do fresh rom dumps

@Kev711 I am well aware of the difference between 50hz and 60hz. That's not the issues often amiga games are not clocked so won't run at the correct speed

@gmar hamster has some of the best emulation in fact their version of contra fixes issues which have never been fixed in mame. Their emulation is far better than every one else in most cases. Case and point the contra collection by m2 included the mame issues and missing sound effects in super contra. The AA version had no issues. My only issues with them is the added censorship they have added to a few games.

Most of the games are for the A500. I know this is a amiga emulator in a shell so like the A500 mini. Wil play amiga games form all sorts of different amigas.The main issue with the a500 was they did not update the emulator. So outside the games that where bundled with many others don't run quite correctly. Evercade also has this problem as their amiga emulator is too fast and they have not fixed it. So games run slightly faster than they should.

Sad to read. I have the Talking Miniatures book as well it's a good read. https://www.youtube.com/@Filmdegminiatures/videos the guy who runs this youtube channel does interviews with blanche and a number of the old games workshop staff from the 90's. Their a interview about the Talking Miniatures book as well.

Sega did run a saturn advert campaign in the daily star in the UK I believe which did feature page 3 girls dressed as sega characters. Sega Saturn Magazine did have a few of the pictures in it.

Sadly the version in Capcom Arcade Stadium does not have the playable hidden characters like the saturn version.

given most of the original star wars puppet are now lost to time due to the way rubber deteriorates. This is sadly of no surprise. Given all lucasfilm have left of jabba the hutt from return of the jedi is the eyes now.

No just No! which metal slug fan wants this?

@slider1983

Just want to mention that gremlins was only the publisher of lotus turbo challenge not the developer that was magnetic fields.
Zool was developed by gremiln graphics so they have the same publisher not the same developer.

@Robocod Sly Spy was reissued on switch under the johnny turbo arcade now removed though. It is on evercade and antstream at present.

Zool Redimensioned removed all the Chupa Chups references I was hoping zool 2 would get the same treatment as it had very few console ports.

I don't care about the outfits, As I would never use them it's not how tomb raider was designed to be played. Why is every site bringing them up when the game has had many bugs reintroduced to it that where previously fixed. That what news sites should be bring up that this patch makes the game far worse I had to block this update on my PS4.

This has been known for years. Sega saturn magzine at the time ran a story about a saturn version of vf3 using the upgraded cart. It was mention at the time that the cost of said cart was what stopped it.

The lack of a restart option it's greyed out and the credit limit. You don't seem to be able to unlock addtion credits to me are also problems.

I for one am just glad the game has gotten a european console release. As this is the first time it's had a european console release.

@Gravyc the UK version is the better one as all the character from shining force 2 who appear in shining wisdom have their correct names. In the USA version they had different names as the translation was done by working design who did not have the copyright for the Shining Force 2 names.

Shining wisdom is a great game but the start of the game is not sign posted very well. So it is tricky to get started once you get to the second dungeon onwards then it starts to flow better. Also want to point out the USA and UK versions have different translations as well. Given shining force 3 is 3 different games plus the premium disc they need to be treated like that as the 3rd part really up the graphics and gameplay. the saturn has 2 of the best rpg's of all time in shining force 3 and panzer dragoon saga. SF3 was the reason I got my saturn modded to play imports in 1999. It was so good

Am I one of the few people that does not like wireless pads the battery on them always fail over time. Often their a small amount of lag as well from a wired controller.

@norwichred I tend to agree as I also own the arcade archives on PS4 but have no plans too buy the PS1 emulation version. It might be better for timeextenstion to do a user poll of the perfered version users would want to take part in.

@JackGYarwood if your using real hardware you will need to ask the users to say which version of the game they are using eg PAL or NTSC as the timer often works very differently based on the version of the game. This was to counter the slower PAL speed. even thing like the platnium release may have had minor changes.

Never liked the ODM it always felt like a wannabe lads mag. The offical Sega Saturn magzines was so much better. The unoffical dreamcast magzine which lasted much longer was a lot better.

@Guru_Larry Below the Root on C64 is often described as the first example of this type of game and that's from 1984. Castlevania 2 is also the first in that series to use this gameplay type and that was also from 1987 the same year as metroid. You could argue that the dizzy games also used a simlair design. As you mention Adventure, platformer is probably a better genre name.

I don't normally want to be critcal of a review but as you are using the 360 as the main target. You could point out this is missing the port on the bottom of the controller.

Which the 360 pad used for the mic and chatpad extras. So they won't work with it. It is something I found seems to happen alot as I still use my 360 a lot and have a newer pad which does not support the mic.

Which does not help when playing 360 games online which are not available via backcat

hopefully this will get a western release

Argos only seem to have the £200 edition. Given they have said that this is a stand alone product which cannot be upgraded that quite a steep price. That said I do want to play time crisis.

Played this on the DS and did enjoy it. So look forward to having a big screen version shame it not both versions. This can get quite tense in places when your infection level starts to rise.

@Guru_Larry

Ment to post the same thing last night about space invaders. Also from what I have read. Some games also had enchanced audio. Battle arena toshindon and some other games let you play 2 player with the snes pads

@slider1983 Not a stock A1200 as they had 2mb of ram by default.

This defeats the point of releasing it the original settlers has scaling spec.

So it would work on the A500 with 1mb but if you wanted more animation you need 2mb etc. It scaled up to about 4mb.

I found it hard to call this an amiga game if it only works on the most maxed out machince. Which are basically pc's.

The market here I suspect will be very niche.

As standard A500 and A1200 owner are ruled out.

Did they say if this will go on general sale at retail?

As I do not back kickstarters.

As this really looks like it could plug the gap. The fact they are ports is really interesting as this is custom hardware and not some cheap emulator in a box. That said Time crisis does not run that well on mame.

https://www.arcadearchives.com/en/title/aca-368/

Macross 2 is listed with USA price tag in the coming soon so looks like this will come to the USA. Not sure about europe

1,000 for the European market. please don't print this rubbish given how often this show up on ebay this is simpley not the case. if their where only 1000 copies that would mean only 23 copies per country in europe. This figure comes from a old ap interview and given they won't know te exact figure. My local game got 8 copies in the first print run. So if only 1000 copies where printed in the UK that would mean it got a quarter of the UK copies. It not the case at least 10,000,

As an example some warhammer models got a limited 1000 print run they show up on ebay once or twice a year. So this number is rubbish. Their are 10 copies on ebay at present.

The problem is the MAME emulation for the games has never been perfect. This collection was just MAME.

@Slider1983 Metal Slug 2 is the better version as X features a number of unwelcome and uneeded changes.

Just tried Gruntz Unityverse by downloading it from git but the developer has not include a readme on how to set the thing up so it's pretty useless. Does it need the orignal game will it run with out it? None of this is explained