MegaManFan

There's a few here I didn't know about, so thank you for doing this! I could actually try the "double cart" thing for a lol too since I pre-ordered a game that wound up also coming as a pack-in cart with the Versus.

Is there any bigger sign this thing is a scam than the fact they're trying to convince a million suckers to give them $3? If they succeed they never even have to release anything. They can pocket millions and walk away.

Looks like enough of a curiosity that I'm happy they properly localized it for international distribution after all this time!

@PopetheRev28 I like it for obvious reasons but it definitely doesn't belong with an R-Type game, especially when R-Type has such iconic music all its own.

The mate above looks like a pro wrestler (Pirate Paul Burchill perhaps) and I dig it. Anyway the rainbow of colors they keep offering, I don't dig that so much, but as long as they keep the standard edition in regular stock — good on 'em. People do tend to moan about the high prices, and the cost of shipping isn't the best, but the quality of their devices has never disappointed me.

Won't change the price of a US copy, sadly.

Deuteros already said exactly what I was thinking, but the PS2 is a worthy inclusion all the same.

I watched for a solid 20 minutes and it only once made it around the first two bends. A lot of times it immediately veered straight off the course at the start line.

If those are physical d-pads and buttons, they look horrendous to use.

Honestly as a Castlevania junkie (if Mega Man is no. 1, Castlevania is 1a) I would have taken any version of Haunted Castle, but an improved version by M2 is SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY time.

If it could be remade and offered with an English localization as standard (as opposed to buying an expensive physical copy, dumping it and patching it) then I'd be all for it. Licensing could be a b***h though as noted.

It seems like a decent option if you're not looking for excellent N64, Dreamcast, or PSP performance. Certainly a budget friendly one given even a decent Anbernic can cost you $20-$30 more.

I'm considering picking up a boxed NES copy in the future, but a digital option for Switch is a nice alternative in the meantime!

I've never seen a sealed copy for sale in person, so it wouldn't shock me. In fact on no less than two occasions I tried to buy a "new" game at GameStop, and they gave me one that had been opened for a store display, arguing that the game was behind the counter "unplayed." One time I went along with it but the other was a Mega Man game (surprise surprise) so I told them "if it's not shrink wrapped it's not new" and left.

Oh yes, buy your retro games from the chain that used to throw away the boxes for DS and 3DS games because they took up too much space, and pay eBay markup level prices to boot — that sounds great! </sarcasm>

Very sad news. He worked on a lot of things I enjoyed over the years, and I'm a little embarrassed that I didn't even know his name. Now that I do I offer my condolences to his family and fans and hope that he will be better remembered for his contributions going forward.

Imagine the possibilities - Castlevania Maker, Kid Icarus Maker, etc. or heck just SNES ports without the flicker and slowdown plus MSU-1 soundtrack options. Every port he's done to date has been stellar and he releases multiple revisions even after launch to iron out bugs. We need more people in the scene like Infidelity. If people want to see his catalogue just type @infidelity on the Internet Archive - it's all there.

Twin sticks would have been better, but it's still more comfortable than a N64 controller in almost every way, and I actually like that controller so **shrug**.

My favorite fact about the Vega+ is that Guru Larry and Octav1us King used the rough edges of their "blankety blank" unit to slice through cheese. That's all it was good for. As for this device well I'm a filthy Yank so I have no fond nostalgia for the Zed X, so it's not for me, but if you released the built in games as a Switch cart I'd buy it.

Now that's dedication to the source material!

Apparently the trailer for it you embedded has been made private.

Infidelity is a GD genius.

Now that's just cool. Well done, translators and modders!

I'm not saying anything Pixel Cherry Ninja didn't already here, but when you show something "running" on your platform and it's direct video capture, it's pretty hard to know you didn't just fire up an emulator and record footage - and then they make announcements after the fact they don't even have prototype boards yet? I mean come on. The cart got so far ahead of the horse that the equine doesn't even exist.

I'm a little mystified at times when games that were already a success in the arcades and ported to home consoles need a crowdfunding campaign to come to Steam. Shouldn't you already have the profits of your past success? Or if you're a dev studio living check to check but you have a good reputation, offer a pre-order that will come with a Steam code when it's released? I'm sure there's a good argument for crowdfunding but it often seems to me like "We don't trust people to buy it, so we have to use a campaign to make sure the demand for it is there, and they have to cover all our expenses for us up front before we do the thing we wanted to do anyway."

I thought I was doing pretty good with 30 hooked up to one TV, but forget it. I bow to my superior.

I think a remake of this game with updated graphics that works on PS4/5, Xbox and Switch would be lovely. Perhaps it could be bundled with a C64 emulator to play the original as well!

The similarities are too dead on to be dismissed as coincidental. Each song ultimately goes its own direction but for the first 40 seconds at least they sound like remixes of each other.

Perhaps it's too ambitious, but maybe the hack could have implied there was an unseen "player two" the whole time, and then he shows up and challenges you for the right to be the "right hand man." You win you get one ending, you lose and he gets it instead.

Just get the fan patch from romhacking dot... this has been a bad couple of weeks huh?

When the game comes out I'll do a video as well!

@RetroGames I shared it on Bluesky, Threads and Facebook

@RootsGenoa His mom must be so proud.

Every decision is sound, but the guy behind the company is... sus. I just can't give them my money.

The minute the trailer is hosted anywhere less Musk-y I'll share it.

That's a huge ripoff. Even at $300 it would be questionable given the unlicensed roms. Don't pay somebody else to play what a MiSTer or a Pocket can do for literally 10% of the price.

@Milk_ Thank you. I'll try it in RetroArch on the Steam Deck!

I finally got the download to work, but I don't see how to open it in an emulator? The file format doesn't match any Genesis emulator I've tried.