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@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

The nes version of Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt. Was just a reskin of the orignal addams family game from the snes/amiga so the Lurch sitting at a piano room is the one from that game. in the original the family would all appear in that room as you saved them.

The snes version of Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt is a total different game.

Totally agree I prefer to have games like this on the PS4 as it saves space on the limited PS5 hard drive space. It not pushing the system either.

It worth pointing out the PS4 version does have some bugs with it still one of the trophies cannot be unlocked.

That said sony did reduce their Blu ray production capacity a while back. Which may have had a effect on this as the minimum order quantity may have increased. Quite a few ps4 releases of late where missing physical version. Why can't they just develop a print on demand system.

I suspect Ridge racer will have the same price point.

The PS4 version of tomba! Special is still missing in action as well they said it would come later but its has still not yet been released

Real shame to hear. Sadly I suspect riven sales where quite low due to the very high PC specs required for the game.

Adding dip switches is a big step forward and a good one. I also would like to see tha ability to change arcade rom set as well. This gives them an edge or ant stream as you can't select dip switches on that either.

"employees have been invited to take whatever they want"
No doubt coming to an ebay auction soon

Who is this for? The fact they don't just update the normal version is bad form. There are already 4 different versions of KOF98 on the PS4 which work on the PS5 one of which has online mp. You can buy kof 98 in the below versions

Arcade Archives King of fighter 98 (no online mp)
THE KING OF FIGHTERS '98 ULTIMATE MATCH (no online mp)
THE KING OF FIGHTERS '98 ULTIMATE MATCH FINAL EDITION (online MP)
THE KING OF FIGHTERS™ 'COLLECTION: THE OROCHI SAGA (no online mp)

I already have kof98 umfe so have no need of this.

Shame it does not include Night Striker S the saturn version which had some extra content

Forever Entertainment remakes have all been pretty poor. Sega own PS2 remake of panzer dragoon was better than the one they did.

House of the dead
Panzer dragoon
Night slasher
Front missions

All are worst than the original games.

@Djreisat the 360 version of guardaion heroes is still available on xbox via backcat for xbox one or X/S

Most of the games where ving or xing ports to the saturn

they did get burned with metal Black as they annouced it early. Then hamster released it as part of the arcade archives before they could. So they cancelled the tribute version on PS and switch

Panzer dragoon saga.... I joke but if city connection can do it I see no reason why sega can't release a few saturn games like this.

If I had to take a stab and they have mainly done shooters sonic wing special or Maybe Chase HQ as they have done taito games in the past.

@Fighting_Game_Loser

Might not be on PS4 but it will be a new version as they can't rerelease the 360 version now.

@Fighting_Game_Loser this is a new version of the game it was annouced in the VF direct you can see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVRktI34LfU it is also coming to PS4 along with a physical version of VF5 showdown. Which the story does not mention.

It also explains why the backcat version of VF2 was removed from sale.

You can burn most 360 arcade games to disk they will run and revert to the trial. They will act like the full game if you have previously bought it. it a handy way to back up some games you just need to have the correct file structure.

This is now out on switch in the UK but no sign of the PS4 version.

I have all 3 versions and the USA soundtrack is very out of place. Their is a lot of changes to the character art in the western versions as well. character are seen smoking and drinking in the japanese version.

@Guru_Larry on the 12th Nov it's showing as in stock now on amazon as well.

@Guru_Larry Got my Evercade VS-R with tomb raider last week from amazon and I bought it straight from the website.

Transformers: War for Cybertron and fall of cybertron got re-rated earlier in the year so guessing they are all getting a re-release. Some might be xbox 360 backcat. But other like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2 got native ps4 and xbox one versions which got removed from sale so hopefully all version will be back on sale

@mjparker77

Yes but they released Parasol Stars in such a poor state you could not even access the very final world as the game would crash. You still can't unlock all the achievements or trophies.

@cyxceven

Which version did you order my brother got the PS4 base version in August after waiting 14 months.

I notice their seems to be less PS4 retail versions of games now and their was some reports earlier in the year that sony where going to limit their blu ray production. Starting to wonder if this could have a big effect.

As all Playstation games must be mastered by Sony the same goes for Nintendo

it well known that the 1chip introduced a large number of graphics errors into games. Their a list here which details some of the games which have issues https://racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46303

@MegaManFan I have the taito one and even on PC it a real pain to update. As you have to repeatedly restart the thing to see if it will pick up the update.

Never do a system update with a evercade cartridge in as well their are a number of reports of people saying it can wipe the cart.

I do have a few issues the screen can be a bit small for some of the games given they where design to be played on arcade machines and not handhelds. Volfied really is not suited to the small screen.

Also their is no option to adjust the backlight which I find a bit too bright.

Some evercade games do have faults I had to report a issue with the chaos engine where one button was mapped wrong and the device has no way to remap buttons.

@N64-Rox I think the issue is time. I suspect for this collection they have just licensed out existing emulators. I suspect their are no Atari ST emulator for switch so they would need to port one across or build one from scratch. Which would be time and cost prohibitive. Given the niche market for this collection it won't be worth it.

Games workshop lawyers would be calling if characters from Bloodlust looked like that art. As they have copied a number of their figures in that. Here a link to the jes goodwin ogre model which has been copied.

http://www.sodemons.com/rhogres2/0485c23jgogres/r198610executioner/index.htm

Squaresoft as it was back then made a total of zero games. For sega so they are a bit late to the party now. (They did have saturn dev kit but never released a game)

Enix did about 3 game. Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari/Seven Wind Island Story is one of the most beatiful 2D games on saturn well worth a look for the animation in it.

As games tend to be released worldwide now. We will see more of this. I think this change might be to do with european censorship not USA. It's down to a law change in one of the scandinavian countries which prevents images of character who are below 18 being made more sexy.

I think one of the dead or alive games had to be recalled and the manual edited to remove the ages of characters in parts of europe.

Nope not in the UK on switch or PS4 looks like it's a japan only release.

ACA are known for having the best emulation in fact hamster do fresh dumps. So their emulation is better than mame.

@Damo I take it the offical demo's for Cadaver like the last supper are not included as they did 3 different ones and each was unique?

I also agree about the soundtracks playing speedball 2 without the amiga theme is a crime against gaming.

I do like the original project-x the speical edition version was quite a bit fairer in terms of gameplay. The opening theme is the music of legends. That said X2 on the PS1 was a bit of a let down for me.