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I was about to ask about the SVP before remembering that was used in the Genesis version, not 32X.

However, now I'm recalling one thing I learned from a stream... WHICH version of the game does this equate to? The Japanese version had backup RAM support which was taken out from the western versions. That was particularly rude because the game had some unlockables you could thus only keep in the Japanese version but would lose when you turned the console off in the west.
Taking a look at the docs... it's the USA version which is expected to be used.

@JackGYarwood Funny thing that the NES and Game Boy versions made it to Japan somehow with a chocolate's bird mascot added on.

@h3s Yeah, Nintendo knew they could make Sony nervous about announcing the PSP's launch price.
But I suppose the UMD and music features of the PSP made more sense within the context of 2004, before the rise of smartphones.

@RZ-Atom Hard to call the PSP a failure in North America after having lived in the Game Gear era (probably the distant second in most successful portable rival Nintendo's ever had). But I at least saw them, can't see I remember ever seeing a Lynx or TurboExpress in person.
If Sony hadn't turned it around after those first couple years when UMD Movies were the most abundant software, we wouldn't have seen nearly as much third-party support as we did.

@Darknyht The X'eye was also released in America around that time. You could spend even more money on a hardware variant with a more ridiculous name.
(Its Japanese variant the Wondermega was two or three years old at that point and I suppose you could argue made more sense at the time of its original release)

@BulkSlash I can only wonder if that's what happened with some I can only imagine are scarcities now: Moo Mesa and Rabbit Punch probably didn't get spoken of much (the latter particularly since I've never seen anyone else mention its localized name, just Rabio-Lepus.)

@ghostwolves I recall the Genesis port of Galaxy Force somehow being more difficult to parse that Master System with what was going on without any knowledge of the arcade original.
Like I recall the Death Stars being just solid colors but maybe my memory is wrong.
It was only when I played the 3DS port I got an idea what the game was about.

@Damo That portability also cost like an extra hundred dollars over the retail price of the standard version of the hardware it was replacing, very likely another reason it didn't sell in the first place.

But did they add a button to simulate closing the system, for games like Phantom Hourglass where it was required for progression? Unless that was just the sleep button mention.

Was 6-player X-Men a rare cabinet? I know my arcade had one as a kid.
I don't imagine so, I've probably seen more than that one.

@Sketcz Nintendo of America's "Play It Loud!" marketing (1994-1996) is the first game-specific thing I can think of.
Some of the TV commercials I find videos of, someone reportedly they could identify the "grunge" music used in the ads and said it was very much not of the same child/family-friendly angle Nintendo wanted the game content itself presented. "Give the world a wedgie!" was a bizarre phrase I do recall printed in one of them.
The entire run of the ad campaign was filled with juvenile "humor" that was at its worst, a TV commercial with a large guy eating and then barfing to sell Yoshi's Island SNES. Magazine ads, both game ads in other magazines as well as Nintendo Power's own subscription ads had their own claims. Super Game Boy is "Game Boy on steroids", Stunt Race FX should be chosen because in "the other guy's game" (pretty clearly digging on Virtua Racing for the Genesis), it doesn't have nearly as many levels so "the only thing you get to pick is your nose".
That was the wild ideas Nintendo got after a few years of Sega having an attitude of their own with the Genesis and Game Gear marketing. We can't even say these days what SoA's marketing thought of you for choosing to play Game Boy (except that it was something of outdated sensibilities).
They were definitely near the level of political candidates in what those two former rival companies had to say of each other in their marketing.

I'm kind of burned out thinking about that to try to recall non-gaming "mad" marketing but I'm sure there was plenty.

@shiningpikablu252 It's splitting hairs to argue whether an MSX system was a computer or a game console.
As much as it is to stick to "'80s consoles" when talking about an unofficial part to console that was technically released in the 1980s in two major regions of the world but is mostly remembered as a '90s consoles. The game was ported to many other consoles then. You can also play it officially on, not the least, the PlayStation and all three evolutions of the Game Boy, and the DS.

Was the '90s UK mass media marketing as appalled by nice and cute things as the '90s US was?
Were they as angry and spiteful?

@Coalescence One of the earlier videos I remember watching on the Internet was a clip of a professional baseball game in like 2007 or so that asked for a fan vote for the music and Never Gonna Give You Up won.

I've only watched a bit of a gameplay video some years and it didn't look the worst game I've ever seen (something you can usually say about Disney's publishing standards).
Though the reason I even looked it up was after years of what that game perpetually sitting on the bargain shelf at Best Buy during the prime DS years was.
I'm too old to have watched those Disney Channel sitcoms (in my day, Disney Channel was one of those premium channels you had to pay an extra subscription for) but that guy on the cover (who I presume is Corey) just staring back at me every time I went to the store.

The same store that wanted 600,000 yen for a Rockman 4 Famicom cart (only eight copies made, given to the eight people who created the Robot Masters) and even Arino was told "no, it's not really for sale".

Though I've been told even a standard copy of Vampire Killer for the Mega Drive is a scarcity these days. (not like the western releases. Especially the US version, it's a pricey game despite that quite a number of copies were made.)

Sorry those Mega Drive games in the background distracted me. No way that's a real Tetris in the background.

@JackGYarwood "(without or without its MSU-1 audio)"

Was it this game or another Super Robot game on N64 that was supposedly one of the worst critically-reviewed game on the console?
Though against Superman, or I recall one of the Power Rangers games got rated in a UK magazine with a negative (lower than zero) score?

@Sketcz According to Google Translate, "saw".

So was that a country where they were introduced to Sega as "see-ga"?
I know really old AU/NZ marketing (like SC-3000-era from John Sands) pronounced it "see-ga" and Australian streamer Macaw45 still pronounces them that way.
(I just find it converse to some early '90s UK Sega promo I recall seeing which went to the effort to stress it's "say-ga")
Though being American, I definitely grew up in the '90s with the (someone or something always shouting) "SEGA!!!" marketing.

@sportymariosonicmixx It might take more than three years for the batteries to leak.
But I did make a couple videos casually playing a couple Tiger LCD Sonic games (I can't believe those are already coming close to a couple decades old) I had since I was a child and those still had the AA batteries left in for over a decade at that point (maybe closer to 15 years at that point) and I definitely had to clean battery crust out of those before filming.
Even in more recent years, I've thrown out some batteries I had bought for like my Wii remotes and old Game Boys and didn't play as much as I thought and so, yes, they did degrade. That would put in more in the 5+ year range, just three years isn't really that much of a longevity indicator.

@MSaturn Shrinkwrap eventually sticks, especially to cardboard. Also, stickers placed directly on cardboard will eventually become unremoveable without damage. So the "sealed" copy eventually becomes arguably worse than an opened copy.

@NintendoWife Oh, that's been going on as long as grading has. When I first saw graded games go on sale, I remember seeing an eBay listing asking $200 for a graded sealed Super Mario Galaxy 2, and at that time thinking "but I could just go to Best Buy and buy a sealed copy for $50".

Oh I know about exploded batteries. I can remember 15 years ago when I was at my height of retro game collecting (when they were much more affordable).
I can remember seeing a couple complete in box copies of Bandai's 1989 Famicom light gun game Space Shadow, complete with the machine-gun style gun itself. One was even complete with the crusty and leaked C batteries from 1989 intact. No, if I had been paying the price for that game, I'd have rather had the copy that left those out.

But does it have EMERADUDODORAGON!!? (the Japanese guy screaming the title on the SFC version)

@infostormerdotcom I'm not sure if the PCE-CD version is affected, but I have heard the original computer versions were a pretty challenging game. I just know the SFC version is really busted, making it one of the easiest RPGs I've ever played. Good though.
I've heard the SFC version was extra-busted if you got all the casino prizes, which was something I've heard was also an exclusive to that version.

@Porco I have a library of (original purchased) PS2 games I may not get the time to fully appreciate.
Among my previous generations.
It was with PS3, I had to say "after this generation, I'm out buying new PS and Xbox" (since it felt like they were still going the processing war Nintendo warned about after the GameCube) and stuck with Nintendo for its gimmicks but even then I might still be out after my Switch 1.

I'm old enough to feel shocked once it hit college graduates could have grown up with the PS2 as their first console.
Now the 3DS is old enough high school graduates could claim that.
Though I've already seen "Pokemon Black and White 2 was my childhood game." online before to mentally prepare me for that.

I got walled on Pushmo and didn't go back to finish it. I enjoyed it, though.
Downloaded Crashmo.
Unfortunately I didn't get the other games before the shops closed.

@sdelfin I remember the clearance shelf once running a "6 for $30" sale. I hope I'm not remember wrong that Dewey's Adventure on the Wii was the only game of interest, but that (many copies of) Dewey's Adventure on the Wii were nearly the only game on the shelf.

I do remember my copy of Gunstar Super Heroes being one of many sitting in the Best Buy clearance bin back in the day.
A few that you'd want to be bigger names but ended up resigned there.
Viewtiful Joe on GameCube as well.
(though how in the world did I miss EarthBound? I was absolutely upset when I wasn't able to convince my parents to buy it at the full retail price. If I had seen it for as low prices as BB apparently had to go to move it, I'd have been overjoyed to own a complete copy.)

@Jellyscare Yggdra Union was released on PSP as well. In fact, that is the version I own (North Amerian).

Super Robot Wars 30 is not the first SRW game to be officially released in English.
Atlus publish two "Original Generation" games (as in, they contained only Banpresto-created characters without license) on the GBA. However, they retained the Japanese title Super Robot Taisen 1 and 2 for trademark issue reason, and they were released in North America in 2006, so that probably didn't get much attention due to the late release.

@Jellyscare "the fan translation" of Bahamut Lagoon? There's two. The famous one by Tomato, Neill Corlett and the group whose name shouldn't be mentioned.
There is also another by Near (byuu). They started it at the same time as the other one and it took them about 20 years to finish it but they should still be praised for sticking to it.

@GodlessPreservation I can't imagine TT has nearly the same marketing strength as TMNT (or even Aladdin or Lion King) beyond the marketing appeal.
Even the later seasons of TT on DVD seem to be scarce perhaps because WB just kind of sat on them for a few years after S1 so fans like me just gave up waiting (and also that was probably around the time streaming services hit and lowered the appetite for TV on DVD from its 2000s height). It wouldn't have been the first TV show set to be abandoned by the IP owner (some shows where only completed by a budget third-party selling full box sets that no doubt had lower quality presentation).

@rosscjr I'm fairly certain that signing up (with financial commitment) is the point of people sharing things with their Patreon followers. Even then, just because they announce it and share a trailer doesn't mean they're finished and ready to release "the file".

@ihaveallthecoins Yeah, 9 times out of 10 "rebalanced difficulty" means someone's beaten the game a thousand times in the past 38 years and decided it needs to be even more difficult than the original, to make it to THEIR standards (an even bigger problem in Pokemon, most Pokemon ROM hacks I've seen are broken as hell for that reason).

@JumpingJackson I imagine the fact that the 8- and 16-bit TT games were made by Konami is a factor.
Convincing them to go deeper in the vault would probably be an effort.

@shiningpikablu252 I honestly don't know if the PAL console had an even stranger name.
A Multimega?

They weren't "just" recovered. As the video states, this is sort of data that took an expert years to sort and curate.

I would not call the SNES laser "purple".
It looks very pink or red to me.

@AllieKitsune I mean "small waves" is one possible reading of "konami", I think. But I don't think it's the intended meaning. Probably named after some founders, it usually is the case.

In 2396, Secretly developed VECTOR replaced SERD, which has been a capital weapon.
Now they restart war to find the secret.

I don't know what a "capital weapon" is.

@GamerGrandpa These days we'd have to emphasize the later for playing these aftermarket cartridges.

Having been through VGHF's hands, we can be sure they saved the game as it existed from the original programmer before any "improvements" were done by an external party.

I'm concerned as I known one unfinished game "Happy Camper" got "finished" by an unauthorized programmer and sold. I thought they said they were going to share the unaltered version but I don't know if they ever did.
Though being a Color Dreams game, the quality of the original game was probably dubious but still, it is the principle.

I'm not sure how much this has been previously rereleased other than on the DS Konami Arcade Hits.

Dreamcast had games released after the console discontinuation, I hear in part because it was so easy to make unauthorized discs (though at the expense of being incompatible with later consoles, I understand) that it's hard to tell what's "official" but I suppose if, regarding the original, the boxart does use the proper Dreamcast branding, then it is likely an official (Sega-approved) release.

@JackGYarwood Those are very limited explanations of two of the games exclusive to this collection (so far).

In Syvalion, you ARE the snake-dragon and your method of attack is to breath fire on enemies while navigating through the mazes (which is about as difficult as you'd imagine). It has a very unique soundtrack.
I swear I saw a cabinet ONCE as a child (you don't forget a game that looks like that) but I'm told the actual cabinet in the west was so elusive that the only USA and "World" ROMs in MAME are ripped from a compilation released on PS2 rather than dumped from an actual board. Infamously the English version of the SNES port (reportedly only sold in Spain) is only slightly less elusive.

Cameltry is a game where you navigate a ball through a maze, by rotating the maze itself. Naturally there are lots of hazards to steer around, including trap blocks that will drain your precious timer. This game also got a SNES port which was titled On The Ball in North America. I feel like it might've gotten a PAL release with the original title intact. But I'm not certain at all.
I can remember the first time I saw the game was running on a demo console at Software Etc. back in the day, and it looked like a cool game but I didn't play it until emulation.

With Arkanoid, I wonder if they'll make a spinner controller for it, as I don't think one existed for Switch. I know it is often considered necessary to play this game well, enough that Taito originally made an optional one for Arkanoid DS in Japan (though left unavailable with the North American release since Square-Enix published the game as a budget title).

@Damo Sounds like one big problem with Heavy Barrel: it's a rotary joystick game. Meaning the joystick is meant to be twisted as well as pushed. That usually is not emulated well.
(so was Midnight Resistance. I know the Genesis port had to come up with a different control scheme to compensate.)
I have heard the SNK 40th Anniversary collection went to the extent of modifying Ikari Warriors into a twin-stick game but that is an unusual effort. I had downloaded the PSP Minis version of Time Soldiers and that one used the L and R buttons to rotate the player which sounds a bit more like what emulation developers would come up with but it's definitely rather slow in practice.

@Damo I suppose the Neptune is more famous as EGM's April Fools 2000 prank. They set up a fake website claiming to have some warehouse stock of the console for sale, but when one tried to complete the purchase of a unit, they would be told of the prank.
It was against a couple other seeming contenders for their annual AFD joke, the Game Boy-powered sewing machine and the announcement that Conker had become a foul-mouthed game.

@hste But is it emulated properly? From what I've heard, analog controls in MAME have always been a nightmare so having a working machine somewhere the public can play it is better than not existing.

Though the attitude you have used to express your points doesn't give me confidence you are particularly concerned about SegaSonic the Hedgehog being properly functional in hardware or emulation.

@PopetheRev28 It was officially ported to Mega CD.