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All's well that ends well - I'm happy Daniel got his channel back and also happy he's going to stop covering Alejandro. As he said in his thank you video, the guy is a mess and needs help, and putting a spotlight and attention on him for every crazy thing he says or does only gives him what he wants. SuperSega or SuperFPGA or whatever he calls it these days is never going to happen.

@mjparker77 Funny thing about AtariAge - I've known Al since way back and I contacted him privately about some of the wildly inaccurate and straight up slanderous things Tallarico was saying in the forums. Eventually it did get cleaned up but I think he too was trying to give Tommy the benefit of the doubt. The only good thing to come from that whole mess was the "gaming racists" meme — easily the funniest in a long string of dumb things Tommy said!

PS: Actually now that I think about it HBomberguy's "oof" documentary is TRULY the best thing to come out of the Amico. Still funny even today!

@mjparker77 Still a decent channel. His follow up videos about the Amico saga exposed the grift for what it was, and he admitted his own fault in giving Tommy the benefit of the doubt. Honestly any of us of a certain age did. I meet him at a con back in the 00's and he autographed a CD. These days I look at the thing and it makes me laugh but none of us knew how big of a con man Tommy would become. Even the guys who would turn out to be his biggest critics, Pat and Ian, were cautiously optimistic about the idea of a home console for the modern era with Intellivision's legacy. He burned a lot of people and a lot of content creators, not just DJ Slope.

I love that he gave it a go but it's incredibly hard for any arcade to stay open. One of my favorites in Aberdeen (South Dakota not Scotland) shutters for the summer months because they don't have enough people coming in. I can't blame them as the cost of electricity let alone rent would eat you alive. I patronize them every chance I get though as they have a working Baby Pac-Man and that's so rare to see!

I just got a new pad in the mail last week - no issues with it. I have replaced the battery on one of my older units though.

Has anybody done a video tutorial for how to set this up on a Steam Deck for a numbn**ts dumba** like me? I suck at doing anything in Linux that's not powered by a proprietary OS laid on top.

@SegaAges Indeed it is! If we want to go even further down the alternate history rabbit hole consider this — what if Atari had accepted Nintendo's offer to be their distributor for the Famicom? Atari might be the biggest video game company in the world now instead of a serious of divestitures, rebrands, spinoffs, sales, and now something so far removed from Sunnyvale they can't really be called Atari any more — except that they sell us back that childhood nostalgia any way they can (which I don't mind - it's better than them running cryptocoin scams and sleazy hotels).

The sales of these reissues have been horribly botched. Amazon sells out instantly each time they get stock and the only listings you can find are resellers who tripled the price. PlayAsia oversold their allotment and cancelled orders. VideoGamesPlus are my last, best, and only hope to not get reamed.

My favorite twist of video game history is that Nintendo's greatest rival was Sega, Nintendo screwed over Sony, and out of spite Sony launched their own console... which destroyed Nintendo's greatest rival Sega. Okay — it nearly destroyed them too... and Microsoft piled on to make the situation even more dire, then the DS and the Wii rocketed them right back to juggernaut status. Gaming history is wild.

In the words of Thomas Griffin, "Whyyyyyy?"

Even bad games in the 80's or 90's felt like they had an auteur with a vision. Sometimes their ambitions exceeded their talents and/or what a console could do but you'd at least get a sense this was their idea. When you play a game today and the first thing you see is "checking for DLC content" you know it's not an artistic choice, it's a corporate/management choice. It doesn't automatically mean old games are great and new games are *****, but it does suck the soul out of the experience.

@smoreon Well, that answers my question.

Isn't a decompilation of an incomplete game putting the cart ahead of the horse? Perhaps that's a lack of knowledge about what this would achieve on my part.

Where and how do we play the store's game? I'd go to York and ask in person... but I live nowhere near York... or even NEW York. (Nebraska. The flyover state.)

I always love when games expire due to "various circumstances" that actually amount to "we can't make infinite profit from it so we're shelving this."

@GravyThief Because if you don't live in the US, it's not going through San Diego to you. It's going through whatever shipping service is in your country. It's not going China > San Diego > Melbourne. It's going China > Sydney > Melbourne. Nobody outside the US is getting hit with the tariffs.

@StanSpam That all depends on what the board and the shareholders want.

@GravyThief If it went from China directly to me, either the company selling it to me would have to pay the tariff, or I would have to pay it as a surcharge to cover them being charged for it. So yeah if you buy anything electronic made in China right now it's automatically 145% more no matter what.

@StanSpam Mike Chi has them assembled overseas, and I know because each time I've bought one, DHL has to clear it through customs and it shows on my tracking before it gets routed to me. So yes - China to San Diego - then to the customer. If Mike is paying 145% more to bring them in, I can't blame him if he has to charge 145% more to keep his margin. He's not going to sell his product at a huge loss to keep us happy. I think he wants to suspend orders until the tariff issue is resolved so he doesn't have to raise prices on an already premium item.

@GravyThief Because the tariff is levied based on where the item is coming from and where it is going to. If you live in Australia and you don't have a stupid orange goon in charge, their country isn't going to slap a tariff on a Switch 2 or a RetroTINK manufactured in China. This is also why we can't game the system by assembling these things in the United States, because the tariff would still apply to the PARTS used to manufacture these things, so if you import the parts you're still paying 145% more for them.

If anybody harasses a retro game developer who published through ModRetro because of their issues with Palmer, politely kiss my backside, because you're going after the wrong people and doing all retro enthusiasts a disservice. Harassing people isn't cool period. We can talk about Palmer's problematic history, beliefs and actions without throwing people making good games under the bus anyway.

Amazing. No other words, just amazing.

Given its April 1st I'm always inclined to be skeptical but with only a cursory knowledge of how a CPU works that schematic in the link looked solid and was last updated well before April's foolishness, so here's hoping FPGA can indeed be a viable replacement for old SNES CPUs that have gone tits up.

If the person who had that prototype a decade or more ago ever sold it, the buyer should do the community a solid and dump it. If not the original owner should at the very least let a trusted preservation source do it so we don't lose it to bitrot and it can be made available at a later date of their choosing.

Arthrimus is absolutely right. This also goes out to people who harass FPGA core developers and emulator authors as well - you are doing a disservice to us all. You are ruining the scene and killing the very thing you think you love. Stop it.

Funnily I have a copy of A-VCS-tec Challenge that I've never opened, which I can only assume from the similarity of the cover art, is a port of the game seen here.

I love everything about this except having to wait until August to play III/3.

Okay... no. I don't care if it looks cool (to me it doesn't) the artwork isn't worth a $220 markup. The whole point of a Miyoo Mini is to put it in your pocket and take it with you. For $300 are you even willing to do that knowing all that fancy art you paid for could get scratched up? No. Just NO. This is for people with too much money and not enough brain cells.

I'm a fan of history in general, and video game history in particular, and in either case it bothers me if the story being told is incomplete or inaccurate. It bothers me MORE when that botched history is widely disseminated and something that's incorrect seemingly becomes commonplace knowledge. I can do better, we all can do better, and every scene that had a computer/console with someone to program it has a part in the story no matter where on the globe they were.

@PZT lol no Time Extension didn't do it. I was just playing it safe like Zaphod.

If they finished this game I'd actually buy it - but then again if they finished this game it wouldn't be an infamous meme. Catch 22!

@city952 I suppose we'd have to know who Timothy is to get that reference, but I've been watching Daniel for years and I don't find him grating at all.

@PZT These days you never know who would ban you for using the H word, so I was erring on the side of caution. After all I like it around here.

Heck yeah dude. I loved this video and really appreciated you shouting out the other content creators who have been keeping tabs on Alejandro. Well done!

@slider1983 I concur. It was entirely our own phenomenon but I'm entirely happy to bash our own media for making us think "the crash" was something that almost killed the market globally. Example - we've been told many times that the market was so sour on gaming that Japan "had to disguise Nintendo as an electronic toy" by packing it with Rob the Robot, without bothering to explain that Famicom was already successful there and Rob was an existing add-on for a well received product. (Coincidentally this is why many NES copies of Gyromite are Famicom carts with an adapter inside.)

That's now the third one that I know of — I was shown a prototype at Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas a quarter century ago. The Sony employee told me had literally saved it from a scrap pile meant to be recycled. It's possible though that's the same unit that eventually ended up in Ben Heck's video.

30 years ago I would have been guilty of the sin of thinking "our" video game market crash was the worldwide standard. Thankfully though the rise of the internet while I was in college expanded my knowledge and made me aware that Japan never imploded and Europe had affordable tape media compared to the expensive carts and consoles I was familiar with. Once you learn to say "zed ex" there's no going back to thinking the US crash reflects anything other than one solitary oversaturated market.

@djslope Even better! Let's go.

If you h*** a PS3 you can play it for free, but anyway, I prefer Space Invaders Extreme myself.

I really enjoy Slope's Game Room and Daniel (from only a surface level of interaction on "X" fka Twitter) seems like a really nice guy, so I look forward to seeing him blow the lid off Alejandro and the SuperSega in a nice hour long video.

I gotta admit if this had been on Genesis back in the day people would've been pumped. Excellent work!

I would definitely get Time Gal on Steam. It's probably better than the Sega CD version and certainly less expensive ($150 last time I looked).

If anybody from the original AKI decides to challenge (or in legal terms "oppose") their trademark registrations, it's dead in the water. I've seen this kind of thing happen before and it isn't accidental. Many people tried to use the Commodore brand name by claiming Commodore was dead and their trademark to a product with the Commodore brand on it was proof of their "ownership" but that didn't amount to a hill of beans in the end and most were just cheap dropship garbage.

So as someone who follows/covers pro wrestling, having Jeff Jarrett on your advisory board only makes sense if you're hoping for a tiny iota of name recognition. MJF once quipped "Jeff Jarrett is the last face you see before your company dies" and while it was a line to get heat there's a kernel of truth to it. WCW wasn't on him, but TNA was and if Panda Energy hadn't thrown him a lifeline it was doomed, and Global Force Wrestling was such a joke he actually started hawking GLOBAL FORCE GOLD with late night infomercials. He could advise them what +not+ to do to run a business. Maybe.

Sourcing roms should always be left to the end user. When it's provided at the manufacturer level (via SD card or a firmware plug-in) the seller is removing any doubt the contents are backups of software you own and flipping a double bird in the face of IP holders. Bold move, but dangerous.

It seems like these sort of lazy mistakes are becoming endemic with publishers like LRG and Retro Bit, and when they get called on the carpet for it they always say "We trusted someone we shouldn't have and we apologize." Okay, but... a little time and effort to QA things and make sure you did it right in the first place would've prevented having to apologize (or manufacture replacement items) later.

@romanista No way to go wrong then! Just need to pull the trigger (or turn the crank).

@HoyeBoye Might finally be time to get one then. The homebrew community has made some really nice games and at this point I think that value exceeds the initial investment. I was skeptical about the non-backlit screen too but the reviews I've seen suggest it's brighter than you'd think.

What's it like getting a Playdate these days? Every time I've thought about ordering one through the website, I've heard horror stories of people waiting 6 months to a year for fulfillment. Judging by the way people bid on "in hand available" units on eBay, I fear this is true.

This is exactly the kind of niche I'm in! I can't wait to buy some new cards for this old thing to swipe.