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@slider1983 Only if you take the narrow view of Sega as a game developer and publisher.

In reality that has only ever been one aspect of their business and one of the others is toy and figure production, primarily but not always for game centre prizes. They often handle other people’s IP just like Bandai who are Sega main competition in that space alongside Taito (effectively Square)

Capcom don’t seem to have much internal merchandise production, their premium Resident Evil and Devil May Cry figures were made by Square.

The problem here is people that have no idea complaining about something they don't understand. These sorts of chips exist just as much for convenience as anything else. I'm sure whatever is being done could be reproduced onto a dedicated single purpose chip (or even a SA-1 if they were available) and no one would complain, but that's time consuming and expensive for literally no reason. No one makes things that way anymore and they shouldn't be doing so.

Whatever is being done on the chip still needs to be passed to the console so it can only be used to do so much, regardless of the available potential of the chip, which I doubt is being tested too much.

@N00BiSH Hard? I don’t know. It probably wouldn’t be very cost effective however.

@Serpenterror if anything the solution is dual labelling the buttons, because simply using the NG labels would cause issues for non-SNK carts.

Given the crazy time these take to be fulfilled it’s probably worth considering buying one on eBay. The prices aren’t too bad these days compared to a few years ago.

@Andee This was standard practice in the 80s and early 90s.

FFVIII also suffered from lost source code and not that incorrect rumour about music rights that gained so much traction

Idea Factory? Checks out.

@slider1983 The full title list has not been revealed yet.

@romanista early MK gets revived basically once a generation (sometimes on its own sometimes bundled into another game), but the versions are usually pretty bad or just lacking.

PSA’s like this always annoy me.

Don’t just check device X, check ALL your devices. You should inspect anything with a battery every couple of years if not more so if it’s over a certain age, even internal non-user replaceable ones. It’s the same with capacitors, they can let go anytime and let loose pcb corroding materials.just because you don’t have say a game gear or Mac from the period does not mean you shouldn’t be checking everything else.

If you decide to keep or aquire old tech you should be willing to do or get someone else to do the checks and maintenance that go with owning something beyond it’s expected life expectancy and keeping it working.

It’s also why you should be careful about not sticking things in the loft or garage for years because you are exposing batteries to conditions that will accelerate the issue.

@smoreon what became Sega was started in 1940, with the Japanese business opening in the 50s. I believe that’s the date they are referring to, before the buyout of Rosen Enterprises in the early 60s that led to them becoming Sega.

You are correct in that they were being slightly dishonest about calling it the video game industry but on the other hand they were certainly in the industry that evolved into the video game industry.

It’s far from the biggest misleading statement on the copy

The problem is that the casual shmup player market started drying up, so developers catered to the people who stuck around.

Now we have concessions to more casual players, more lives, auto bomb on hit, easier modes etc.

"Final Zone II is more akin to Capcom's Commando and has very little in common with its predecessor, "

Both of which are sequels to Final Zone Wolf, which is much more in the Commando vein.

In other news Capcom still likes free money.

They are one of the better companies for keeping old games in circulation, at least their arcade games although I’m sure they could also do more.

@845H @Daniel36 Conversely I'm more of a "arcade racer" guy too but I've put 51 hours into GT7. If you are playing for fun rather than challenge or online you can do quite a lot without getting into the sim aspects very much.

@Hastor oh yes I see now!

@Hastor 3 games were announced:

• Slap Fight MD
• Grind Stormer aka V-V
• Twin Cobra

Only Twin Cobra is being removed from the pack and is also not being sold separately. The pack contains the other two games, which can both be bought individually.

@Coalescence I'm not sure Nintendo are a good example of how to make a hinge given that they tended to come loose within a few months. GBA, DS, 3DS, all got very floppy very quickly.

"Psycho Soldier, meanwhile, is considered a distant sequel to Athena and features Athena's ancestor Athena Asamiya. It was released in 1987, initially for arcades, and was later given conversions for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64. Similar to Athena, it is also available as part of Arcade Archives."

No mention of it being the first game to have an in-game vocal song?

@Zeebor15 It certainly does, although how many I couldn’t tell you. I think visual novels are probably the bulk of them and then Doujin stuff

I’m not sure D4 has put out any physical games since 23, when they did packages for Madou Monogatari, Sorcerian, Dragon Slayer and Exact’s X68000 games.

“ Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn't always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s.”

Yet is certainly happened. Fujitsu had an entire imprint for the FM Towns selling ports of western games, many of the games offered dual language support. Imagineer basically existed to sell ports of western games.

You had to have the right type of game, “thinking” games did better than action games because the tastes were similar. whereas action games were mostly going to struggle against the established Japanese norms.

I got a book of sheet music for a Japanese band recently and one of the members talks about playing/watching someone else play Sim City on a Mac in the studio in downtime

@smoreon This isn’t even new for Xbox. They also blocked the release of Galgun Returns. A game that was previously a 360 exclusive.

@cdog555 This isn't a Nintendo issue, it was industry standard for electrical items to dissuade imports for warranty, safety, regulatory and legal reasons. Sure NoA didn't want you buying an imported console for selfish reasons, but they were also covering themselves.

If you imported an item from Japan and it was involved in an electrical fire and burnt down your house so you sued Nintendo of America, how do you think that would go? Now I'm not saying that would happen, but there is a non-zero chance and Nintendo were taking steps necessary to tackle nuisance lawsuits/bad press.

Portable devices were expected to operate worldwide (to a degree) , mains powered items weren't. It was only when companies effectively made every device universal voltage that they stopped trying to dissuade such things.

@heligo I'm not going to lie, I sing it every time I see anything about this game

@romanista Worldwide warranty’s were absolutely not the standard at the time.

You may have gotten one on say the Gameboy, but worldwide warranty’s tended to be only on portable devices that the company would reasonably expect you to move between countries while travelling like laptops or portable music for example. Not consoles.

@WheresWaveRace 10% is not that big a deal. There is plenty of tolerance as you are never guaranteed to get the exact voltage anyway, it’s going to be a little above or a little below in some places. Not only in the power brick but also in the voltage regulator that is fed by the power supply

Plenty of people running PC98s etc connected straight to US mains without issues.

Open the door,
Get on the floor,
Everybody let’s play Dinosaur.

Given LRG's previous efforts, the Will it Run Doom version probably won't actually run Doom.

They’ve absolutely nailed the look and also the interpretation of the original scenes

Er no, especially given the inclusion of SMB and Doom on the list(amongst others). Neither were the first games of their type, but they defined their genre's for decades.

But hey, this is a list that includes Baldur's Gate 3. A successful and I understand very good game, but why was it even on the list, what has it had chance to influence since 2023?

@firenze "KOF 2000 was a strong and unexpected pick too - '98 and '02 always get more buzz, and sometimes we see compliations start with the first entry from a series"

On the other hand this is only going to cause problems going forward, because I can't see the not putting out another 4+ KOF's over time.

@Jarl76 "I mean, it called ORIGINS, not COMPLETE collection. Some people are just clueless...'

I don't know where to start with responding to this one.

• There is an established precedent for including home versions of games alongside their arcade versions. So the complaint of home ports being omitted when their arcade parent is included , is a valid complaint.
• As you say it's called Origins, which doesn't explain the presence of a completely new game. Just because this is called origins does not mean there will be further packs, it can either mean the Origin of the series or it can also mean its the first "volume", but we won't know about the latter until they announce it. This may or may not be a one off. So again this is a valid question to ask why a brand new game is on the "Origin" collection but existing games aren't.

Now you are right about latter games like Gradius III, but I would suggest that calling out other people as being clueless while at the same time showing your own lack of clue is not a good look.

@snk2d4life To be fair this and deadly drops of water are very valid criticisms we will accept.

@avcrypt The Storytelling for both Japan and Europe is well established and not hard to find, but Grubb is being overly defensive about people criticising his narrow minded outlook. A complete lack of engagement on his part and a doubling down on his own lack of understanding instead of educating himself.

What Grub has highlighted is that even in the modern age of ease of information and a wealth of material about the subject is that there is a heavy American influence on how the history of video games is told, and this constant suggestion that the Atari caused US crash was a worldwide issue when it simply was not the case (Famicom launched in June 83 for the record). Luckily Wikipedia is very clear in its opening sentence on the dedicated article that it was a US specific issue so that's something.

@AllieKitsune We don't expect anyone to understand what it was like, just to acknowledge that we did our own thing and that we were unaffected by Atari's incompetence. Same for Japan.

@Yesterzine Yes it is always flabbergasting when someone tries to make amends…. By doubling down

@RootsGenoa I remember seeing something about this a few months ago. The Nes was effectively dead in the Uk until TMNT, which was the first Nes game to get into the top 10 I believe, Four years after launch. Which shows you how up against it Nintendo was. It did improve but it was still dominated by the Master System.

The problem was largely because of the cost of the games. By the time the Mega Drive came out in Europe and started getting games that showed the power off the home computer market was ready to switch.

Grub should go back to taking credit for things other people have told him. He clearly can’t do research of his own

@IceClimbersMain It seems there are a lot of settings so if in doubt, try changing them. You should probably make sure you are using the CNN DLS4 model and not the Transformer model which will look better but might have too much overhead,

@Daniel36 It's difficult for any VN/ADV , eroge or not to qualify as an objectively bad game. Bad story and/or bad art yes but an actually bad game, less so.

@Bod2019 to be fair someone being filmed while having an elaborate make up application doesn’t seem that out of the ordinary if it’s someone you know.

It’s not like those TV programmes where the presenter has an awkward introduction with someone who clearly met them minutes ago when the tv film crew turned up to set up inside the house/whatever

That money spent grifting over trademarks and logos with lawyers was probably better spent coming up with different ones and putting that money into the actual game.

@avcrypt They learnt it from politicians

@firenze The lack of Japanese region selection on the Toaplan games is particularly noticeable. The Japanese versions of some of these games (Like Fire Shark) use a respawn system rather than the checkpoint system the overseas versions use which rather changes how you play the game.

Another pointless attempt to copy a device that's already available cheaply and does the job perfectly.

Just hack an original machine guys.

No, but only because I’m lucky enough to have a real one

@BionicDodo NISA bought two Trails series translations from the group that fan translated them.

Where s my non-reverse Thunderbird bass or a Firebird at? Gibson? CRKD? Hello?

Ah yes, the "well yes I was a dick but its not my fault even though it clearly is" excuse.

Also if you are selling something and you have paid an external person to work on the project, check their work!