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@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

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.