Devil Blade Reboot is the best new shmup released in the last decade. It is that good. If you play on PC, I highly recommend just picking it up now and having the time of your life! Otherwise, jump on that console version as soon as it lands!

I imported my first Game Boy Advance with SMB2/USA back in the day. Also imported various DS games and a 3DS.

I played through this game a couple years ago, and it's a good time. Very much worth a play through.

I'm surprised they haven't added a stair climbing animation yet. It looks so off seeing Simon just keep walking forward while going up the stairs!

His Model 2 MiSTer core has also seen an early pre-beta release (can't emphasize enough that it's early!). A lot of work left to do, but it's awesome actually seeing arcade Daytona USA running at all on a MiSTer!

Dat Waffle House stage.

I just did a play through of Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes earlier this year. It's definitely a relic of its time, but I still enjoyed it. Will be really cool to play the sequel in English!

This game tends to get a bad rap among Wave Race fans. And I personally have always loved it. The weather system was brilliant and I enjoyed the new play mechanics like the turbo system. Hope it gets a fan-made PC port/recomp someday with high frame rate support.

I tested this out on my MiSTer yesterday, and it is indeed very impressive! Looking forward to seeing how it progresses since I love Virtua Racing.

Glad I held off on this one. I was burned twice recently by new versions of classic shmups (R-Type III Dimensions and Raiden Fighters), so never again. I will always wait going forward to see how other fans review a classic returning shmup series.

I really like this guy.

Really wish that Sega would allow Arcade Archives to bring their classic 3D racers to modern platforms. I hate that they only stick them into Like a Dragon games. I don't want to play those games. I want to play Daytona and Scud Race.

Anyway, they have my money for this game.

Going to be honest. I spent a fair amount of time with this game on Apple Arcade via my Apple TV. And it's really not very good. It always sucks for a game to become essentially lost media, no matter the quality of said game. But I won't personally pour one out for Grimoire of Souls. It's not worth remembering.

Very happy that this one seems to have turned out well. I love me some Truxton, and can't wait to play the full game this week.

Really shows just how massive the disconnect is between SquareEnix and what fans actually want. I don't want FF6 with 400% padding added to it. I just want FF6 remade as–is with current gen visuals. They could easily remake it with just one installment, but they want to milk it for all its worth and ruin what makes FF6 great.

I wish the Genesis/Mega Drive core itself would get fixed on the Pocket. It's in terrible shape with a lot of games that don't even run on it, as well as games that have weird scaling issues that ruin the look of them.

I honestly don't blame him. At the time, the game was very much outside of the typical game that would make it big. Nobody could have predicted that the series/genre would become as popular as it is now.

They 100% knew what they were doing when they accepted that sponsorship.

I feel like 99% of Kickstarters don't meet their timeline goals. Of course I just pulled that number out of my butt, but that's sure what it feels like.

@DoorToMundane This would be me. I'm a miser who never lends his games to anyone!

Would have bought it day one if it had released outside of Japan. They didn't care enough to even try to sell it to me, so they get no money from me.

Always had a bit of a love–hate relationship with this series. I loved the Genesis games back in the day (even though I think they are flawed)—enough that I even drew my own Sonic comics back in the early 90s. I loved Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 (even more flawed), but after that, I've struggled to get into nearly any new Sonic release outside of Mania.

The new IGS PGM core is far more exciting to me personally (and it's great so far!), but this is still fantastic. Especially once Third Strike becomes playable in the hopefully near future.

This is the best version of Daytona USA, so it's exciting to see a recomp for it! This one was tweaked to handle better with a standard controller (the handling sensitivity is dialed in for an analog stick). While also still supporting steering wheel controllers.

@Martin_H 100%. I've worked with several people like that over the years. No matter the industry, there is always at least one insufferable jackass to deal with in the work place.

@Damo You're definitely not wrong. Your article is absolutely correct that the reason for this is due to AI. Anyone trying to spin it to the contrary is arguing in bad faith and they know it. Even if someone likes generative AI, they can't deny it's the reason for all the recent price increases.

I don't think they remember how many units the Wii sold...

This was a very fun read. Would love more articles like this.

OMG he's here in the comments? Oh boy. 😬

I love how the usual suspects always show up in these articles to defend generative AI by writing a novel's worth of old debunked talking points over and over. Keep on digging that hole deeper and deeper bros!

Honestly, outside of the Genesis/Mega Drive and their older 2D arcade titles, I'd argue that Sega is one of the worst in the entire industry at preserving their classic games. They never do Saturn, Dreamcast, or 3D arcade titles outside of Yakuza games, which is a piss poor way to play them. Even Namco has finally started to allow Arcade Archives to release some of their classic 3D arcade titles. The only one in recent memory was Virtua Racing on Switch, and even that was released years ago. Where is Daytona? Scud Race? Burning Rangers? Instead they they'll give another dozen ways to play the original Sonic the Hedgehog. Thank goodness for PC emulation.

Glad to see articles like this discuss these types of issues that actually do relate to video games. For the people complaining about it, just...don't read said articles? It's not complicated.

I fully expect that they will roll this update out without VRR support, so it'll be a stuttering mess at 54fps. I just know they're going to mess it up.

So is the track record of this company good? I'd love to own one of these, but I was burned by the Neo Geo X back in the day, and don't want to fall into that rabbit hole again...

@Kev711 Then you're going to be awfully disappointed with FPGA, because almost no examples of 100% accuracy exist in FPGA. The Mega Drive core and the NES core are perhaps the only examples that have come close. The point of MiSTer and FPGA in general is to achieve a high rate of accuracy that's as close to the original experience as possible, not 100%. You're living in a fantasy world if you believe otherwise. And if you do, I have a bridge to sell you.

Someday my beloved Wave Race 64 will get a PC port!

@Synthatron_Prime Same. Best gaming investment I've made in ages. And yeah, 100% accuracy was never that important with MiSTer. The Saturn core isn't 100% accurate, and yet it's still the most accurate way to play Saturn games today outside of real hardware. I've had a ton of fun with it!

I love how Bald Bull just uppercuts in this. No punches. No hooks. Just uppercuts.

I still prefer the CD version simply because you can create a profile in that version that saves all your stats as you play through the game. And on MiSTer, the x4 CD speed option makes the loading times pretty negligible. But this is still very cool to see!

Zero interest in this one. For reasons that shall remain obvious.

Haha, talk about a lack of self awareness. If he really believes that, he is shockingly delusional.

I would just like to thank eadmaster once again for finishing this project up for everyone. Without you, this project would have never been completed. There is less than zero chance that SamIAm and CyberWarriorX would have finished it themselves, and their behavior throughout this has been pretty appalling.

Scummy as heck honestly. I have zero interest in the Yakuza franchise, but I would easily pay for home ports of stuff like Scud Race or Daytona USA 2. When Konami is doing a better job preserving their classic games than Sega, you know you screwed up.

Can confirm that this collection is dog crap. Wish I could get a refund on PS5 for it.

@Thad Could even be someone who has an unhealthy hatred for the game and wanted to erase its existence.

Absolutely insane uses of DMCA. Copyright trolls are scum.

"In the most egregious example, we received a takedown from Graceware pointing to a webpage describing that we own a copy of Cookie’s Bustle."

Automated DMCA takedown services seriously need to be more closely regulated.

@WileyDragonfly More shmups! I love 'em!

The pixel art looks great, but the screenshots are so blurry! Hopefully the game itself doesn't look like that.

Gotta be real, I've never been a fan of WipEout. I've tried several entries in the series over the years, but the super floaty handling just never feels good to actually play. I vastly prefer F-Zero's tight, super responsive handling in comparison.

@Gs69 Just checked, and for some reason I'm ranked number 98 now? Maybe somebody had their score removed? Either way, my time is 3:36.059.

The number one rank time is 11 seconds faster than that, and I have no clue how that's possible!