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@Sketcz I think the biggest difference now online is that when people used to argue online, they were more being facetious than actually angry, or maybe debating about stuff online in part cos we were just bored.

Now people are actually serious about like "If you wear a Harry Potter shirt you are a piece of ***** in real life." Regardless if that person with that HP shirt hates trans people for real, or if they just like a fairy tale that will get their kids to enjoy reading. Like my mom has no idea what a TERF is or what JK has said on this issue.

I think it's good we were all passionate about our causes and stuff but yeah, you're right that we're tossing actual discourse out the window.

We don't do a very good job of "I care about this issue, so my choice to support XYZ product should extend to EVERYone else and I need to tell everyone else about it AND they should do what I do, or they're dumb/ignorant/*****."

I wish we could be more comfortable with "yeah, I don't like this guy, I'm not buying this game" or whatever and just leave it at that. We are not going to convince everyone else to match our buying decisions.

I was a diehard Cleveland Browns fan, until the owner broke up a good team, is MOVING the team, conned our state out of $1 billion for his new stadium, and gave a known rapsist $230 million and got more sexual assault cases than TD passes out of it.

If I lived my life telling everyone with a Browns shirt that they are woman-hating dumbfucks I'd be ***** miserable and no one would want to talk to me lol. But I'm fine to tell people why I don't support the team, and maybe people will think for themselves why I feel that way, even if they probably won't.

I think there are better ways to make change in the world than "don't buy this entertainment product" and like yell at people over it.

Nobody likes being told what to do or what to think lol.

I don't blame you for seeking connection over games online but man I can't do it anymore :/ I have a few email penpals and that's mostly it

I also think it's good when you have to interact with people with different views than your own, but only in real life, haha, cos people are way less mean to each other's faces.

Personally I think Luckey is a rich soulless dick who seems like they never had to become an adult and think critically about how their actions might affect other people. I also think people like this tend to MAKE terrible things because they ATTRACT terrible people, so I'm wary of the quality of product people like this produce in the first place. I think that's reason alone to stay away from him. I feel bad for WayForward getting themselves embroiled in indirectly being involved with him. I'm sure they just want to manufacture some ***** gameboy carts.

@Aloe if there are in bed with LRG I don't think it's any secret why some nebulous "coming 2026" change has occurred. It's basically "coming someday" as well with LRG.

My friend who is a sucker for these things said it's been a year since his Sonic X Shadow statue was supposed to be here, they said they wouldn't refund him because "parts have started shipping" whatever that means, and then announced a formal delay a few weeks after his request. But he's now like oh I'll just wait, lol.

The FOMO is so strong with this ***** people have no issues giving them money. To each their own.

I feel like if people gave more of a ***** what they're willing to spend top dollar on the gaming industry would be very different

I'll also ask, has anyone seen how to pre-order a JP version Mega Drive cart?

I know Super deluxe is minority owned by LRG but for me at least it's not wholly owned. The SDG nor Amazon.jp don't seem to have a mega drive link

Idk, even if I were on live TV I might have to do something about that or else everyone would assume I'm an idiot too

So what is the point of this project then?

Everyone knows Nintendo games had custom chips that did the "heavy lifting" since the Famicom, but putting a Pi inside a cart to essentially provide a new console configuration just seems silly in this day and age.

Much more interesting is Doom Resurrection, a new version of Doom for 32X that runs on real hardware, has optional SEGA CD sound, and is a free passion project that is ongoing

SEGA's constant innovation and focus on fun still leaves a glaring hole in theindustry.

Nintendo does a nice job with their core properties, but SEGA in the '90s was ridiculous with making "weird" or even "boring" ideas into AAA game experiences.

I don't think that time can ever be returned to but if SEGA is at least updating their old ideas, it's something

I for one am glad to see Sol-Feace hailed as a classic! The OST is really great at least

I didn't even know an X68K ver existed till I tried it on Mister last year. Even better, and the chip tune OST is different but still ready great!

@Gryffin I've never understood anything that happened in FFT at all. I really enjoyed playing it though lol

The 64 Switch emu has a lot of problems , right ? (I've not used it myself ).

It could be a technical problem .

For all the ***** Nintendo gets about things like this , they've never had my passwords get hacked by pirates , try to kill/cheapen 2D gaming , make exploring batteries and electronics that catch on fire , make hardware they know will break in that console's lifetime , etc

@EarthboundBenjy it used to be very bad, not I'm not sure about modern ones. With checking into

@slider1983 MK2 and UMK3 are legit great, competitive games, esp UMK3. Different than SF but great in a totally different way , and def has its advantages over SF .

I set up both at my events and MK2 gets both asked for and played way way way more than any SF games . It nailed being a good competitive game with just being easy for anyone to put up and do cool ***** that looks cool and hits hard , with less skill needed at a base level .

Esp now that I've played a lot other competitive games from the era I really appreciate MK from a design perspective

I hope some folks who didn't play these initially try them and really enjoy them ! Good writing and characters are timeless.

I do wish the SEGA CD versions were included. I've read some Japanese publications declared TSS the best RPG yet made when it came out , and EB is peak 16-bit RPGing.

The remakes add much but lose plenty as well, and really weren't as impressive next to their peers comparatively when they finally came out in the West.

Regardless , if you like RPGs and good characters and dialog , give Lunar a go! TSS and EB are still my fav games ever along with MGS1 lol.

@Futureshark oh I guess so , last I read about these III never got ported. I guess pretty much every shooter is on PSN/steam/switch now

@NicolausCamp thx very much!

Nice, Strikers III has never been ported so unless you owned the board there was no legal way to play it .

Does anyone know if a physical release for Genesis/MD can be bought bypassing LRG? Like maybe a Japanese copy or something ?

@slider1983 Are you a hacker yourself and specifically know this would be an easy project to transfer the text into the game ?

I'm guessing not till but I try never to assume .

If you aren't , I guess you might not know that the "simplest" of script transfers can range from dozens of hours to hundreds of hours to nearly impossible .

@slider1983 no idea, I just hit reply . Apologies !

@slider1983 Are you saying that as an experienced Saturn hacker?

@RupeeClock @slider1983 Sony just made all that ***** about Lik-Sang. Sony employees used Lik-Sang themselves until they decided they just wanted to shut them down by burying them in legal fees , just like they did with bleem . They knew they weren't legally in the right .

You know it's an alternate-world dystopia when someone has a Jaguar poster on their wall

As usual SEGA innovated but found a way to get screwed. In this case it was not knowing that the license they had purchased for Tetris wasn't actually real, lol ;( think of Tetris on Game Gear and not Game Boy. Man.

But the rules for Tetris Grandmaster I guess originate from arcade SEGA Tetris so hey they contributed to the legacy of Tetris we have today still.

Great eduction here, thanks for the piece!

The Lynx is amazing hardware if you haven't tried one! Yeah, not a ton of top-tier games but most aren't terrible or anything. Some are extremely impressive technically. Chip's Challenge is a GREAT puzzle game.

The Jag is a pile of ass. Very appropriate to be paired up a toilet of a CD player. I always figured every major system would have at least 1 game every gamer should play. I got a free Jag last year and bought a Game Drive, and AvP is just a choppy Doom clone that looks like it was made specifically to be shown in screenshots for magazines, lol.

This all explains their games libraries very well. Lynx deserved much better.

This is a great interview, thank you for putting it together! Of course it's easy to say "I told you so" but this guy sounds like he had the right idea. Awesome to learn his story

I am NOT favor of what's happening in my country in any way but, I see a headline and I have to say 4K Retrotinks are not economical in normal times, haha.

This is awesome! Dead custom chips seem to be the biggest hurdle for console longevity. Most other stuff that goes bad can be repaired.

While most people will go to emulation, keeping the actual systems alive for future generations to see the real thing will be huge for the hobby and the medium.

I know emulators themselves are legal obviously, but does it change anything if you're making an emulator specifically just for one game?

@slider1983 I think the SNES port is great. A little chunkier/choppier to play but the gameplay of MK1 sucks even on the arcade version. MK1 was/is really all spectacle. SNES ver looks/sounds better. I love how colorful it is. (I liked the Genesis fatalities better obviously lol.)

It seems we ll need SEGA themselves to translate SEGA GAGA into English because it's such a pain to romhack.

I started learning Japanese years ago and I think it's faster for me to become fluent-ish in my spare time than wait for or contribute to a fan translation ;/

Maybe SEGA will continue to be powered by nostalgia and will eventually find it financially viable to translate it into EN!

Man, this would have been awesome. Even as a Genesis owner, I always was more impressed with the SNES port.

@mjparker77 I don't use emulators honestly, and as stated above there are perma downsides to emulators. It's great that 360 emulation is good then though!

@mjparker77 don't you have to pay to access their stuff? I have Sindem lightguns and was disappointed by that

Just popping in to say if you like MGS play Ghost Babel and MG2! They're amazing!

I've played MGS dozens of times through, trying to find every obscure codec conversation I could in every scenario. Never seen this cos I never had to play in mono!

MGS1 is as famous as it is and yet I feel like it's actually underrated! Cool to see this story and remind people of the depth of what they thought of when making this game.

I wonder if the JP version has a line about the mono TV as well?

I completed a Phantasy Star IV retranslation and used the same boilerplate "don't use this without permission or for commercial use" but I was acutely aware I was working on a company copyrighted IP and there's nothing I can do if someone stole my writing or programming for commercial use.

IMO most of the carpet bagger, overpriced retro industry is BS lol.

Not surprised by this news at all but really what can you do about it if you did the work ;( I think you must have to resign yourself that you did it for the passion and people who actually will really appreciate it, and the work is available for free for anyone who wants to play it or make their own cartridge.

I really appreciate when companies license their repros though or do the work to credit people who did the real work though.

The FOMO ***** of LRE and the like is crap but licensing and rel releasing a super expensive game like Gley Lancer and owning it legally is pretty cool. I hope the backlash forces retro bit and others to pay more attention and not be lazy, money-grubbing dicks but I doubt the speculating ***** that but these up to sell them once they're sold out really care

@slider1983 All translations are all a series of choices. Great translations can and should read differently, simply because different people worked on them, especially with such wildly different languages as English and Japanese.

Really, it's only bad/basic translations that should read more closely because it'll mean the translator couldn't understand the nuances of the text.

I'm shocked, shocked to find these companies care much more about making a quick buck than a quality product that will last as long as these consoles have

I don't support any of these repro companies because their ***** is ridiculously expensive and pray upon FOMO addicts, but in fairness I think it's fair to ask what is the real-world chance of these damaging a console, and what might happen.

Like I know you shouldn't use AC adapters that have a much lower amperage than the OG power bricks, but I also don't know what the actual danger is

This is great news for retrogame fans. It's a dream that companies will localize games that never were released originally in English.

I hope it s written better than the description, though!

It's really academic because I don't think the average kid or parent can tell the difference.

I only play on real hardware but honestly when I play hardware or software emulation I'm hard-pressed to tell the difference in 99% of situations. People are welcome to argue and I'm all for best accuracy but to me it's kinda like people arguing about the resolution in Switch games or something.

I m not saying it's unimportant just because I don't get it. It's just my observation

Definitely whatever gets you to play a game instead of talking about them or watching someone else play them I think is good!

I needed to buy an MSX Turbo R and do a sound cap replacement because I just want to know what MSX Konami games most accurately play and sound like. Most people don't need to go to such lengths as we make them out to be.

Looks interesting!

I wish we got way more of these 2-D PSX games in the West. I will never forget that SoA tried to cheapen and kill 2-D gaming. ;p

@KingMike I put the EN ROM, corrected for NTSC, on my JP cart. Recommended!

I got an additional JP CIB copy for about $65 a year or two ago being patient on ebay so it's not ridiculously priced. Certainly would have preferred to get it for $10 tho lol.

My very longterm goal is to play it in JP eventually and tweak the EN script accordingly, but I might be doing that from the old folks' home at this rate.

@jesse_dylan I think he only did one track on PoR, the remix of Crucifix Held Close from Haunted Castle (happy to be corrected).

Terranigma is IMO the best SNES RPG and maybe SNES game period, so if this introduces you to Terranigma or reminds you of it, please play it through and see what you think of it! (A HG101 writer made this claim years ago, and I was skeptical, but then I played it and became a believer.)

Baruga's theme is kind of in a SoR style now that this connection had been made by the man himself. It's a really badass "villain lab/castle" theme.

@RetroGames only nerds still use Twitter or whatever it's called

@Cyber_Akuma for an extra price, on top of the way higher price of the unit itself

@slider1983 compatible with Mister cores, doesn't it say that? Pretty amazing if that's the deal

The SEGA 3D classics are one of the best, if not the best, reasons to have a 3DS! CFW your system if you haven't and take care of business!

You know what, I have bad news for anyone looking for real 16-bit music and that's your criteria.

The SNES still sounds like videogame music guys. It is not a live orchestra machine, even for the great ones. No one is listening to the SNES and thinking "Oh that's a real guitar on FFVI Epitaph."

I was honestly kind of disappointed hearing a lot of SNES games when I could get a system in 2001 because the chip had been built up for so many years.

If realism and max instruments playing at once is what you're after then SEGA CD/PCE CD/PC CD is the pinnacle of music from the era. The SNES does not sound real. Cmon guys.

"But that's not fair". OK, then why compare systems at all in the first place like you designed the things yourself?

No one is ever like "The NES sounds like crap compared to the Genesis or FM Sound on the SMS". Because you're comparing stuff instead of just enjoying them lol

@N64-ROX Just like with everything retrogaming, it's more like people decide to change increasing amounts for something and people keep paying it, regardless of how plentiful it is.

@Coalescence I had one of thee 3rd-party ones, and I didn't really realize the top weird grate thing was a heat sync. I removed it for asthetics and then the 64's picture gets randomly scrambled for a half-second, then rights itself, and seems ruined. RGB-modded too ;p

@GravyThief that's awesome!

I am not into the 3D Zeldas myself besides WW and BotW/TotK but there is something about all of them that's esp magical for kids.

My kids (5 and 2) are not super into playing or watching, but my younger randomly were interested in the 64 ones cos of the boxes apparently, and asked me to play them lol. I hope too theyll enjoy playing through some games with me as they get older!

@Sketcz someday :/

I still have a feeling in going to be fluent-ish in JP before a fan translation is done!