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A cart with several versions... That's a first on Evercade. Good.

They should've done the same with James Pond, but I'm afraid they're Mega Drive versions only. The infamous Legacy does that better, we have to give them that.

Anyway, isn't System 3 behind the James Pond IP (also The Last Ninja) too?

I wanted to like it. Hell, I wanted a James Pond Collection and the contents themselves are good enough. But AI inside the software (and on the cover art), not only in the trailer, is a deal-breaker.

@PinballAficionado Wow. So whatever the issue it was solved a couple years ago...

@KingMike I believe you. But I wonder how did the arcade game release with the name unchanged back in 1993. In fact, there wasn't any reference to Batman in the original Japanese title. It was a risky decision for the international release.

@gmar Interesting facts, thanks. The "Bat Man" (in two words, which would avoid the issue in my opinion and in fact the game was released in 1993 without problems) part could have been changed for "League Man" in order to rerelease it just like this time with the remaster, but Maniscalco owned the rights to the characters and Irem to the game itself, that's at least what has always been said, and it has to have something to do with the 33 year absence of the game. Now two separate releases which seem to not have known about each other smells like the unblocking of the complex situation.

Anyway, this is an obscure console, yes, but not for us. And it wouldn't surprise me if the game starts appearing on Arcade Archives, Evercade, etc.

This one I like better than the previous one, mostly because I don't have any of these games anywhere else. Last time I had a lot of repetition, but wanted Boogie Wings so bad... I guessed Irem right!

But it's going to be a long wait until March. They used to release these in December.

Anyway, now I don't know what to do. As I said in a previous comment, I preordered Arcade Collection Part 1 and the reissues of Arcade Memories vol. 2 & 3 in order to not miss them, but they ended up discounted, Arcade Collection permanently even. That hurts. And I felt stupid.

What do I do this time?

@sbeng135 I understand there were rights issues with this game. Everybody would kill for being able to re-release it, so twice in a few months must be due to the license being available at long last.

So they're not at odds anymore. This means a new DLC for the Atari 50 is coming, I guess. When are they going to release the final physical version of that great collection? T_T I can't keep up.

Again, what about the game itself? Trailer is lazy, but the game is the real product. And the cover.

I've asked them a couple times on X if the game will be included in the cart once the physical version comes out, which would be better than a download, and I think the question makes sense because the physical version has been delayed, but they never answer.

Non Hall Effect sticks are sadly common in current systems, Switch 2 being an example (and reports of drifting are starting to arise), so I can't blame them.

I wonder if the dongle works with other wireless controllers, though.

I admit that I rarely turn the VS on, especially after the arrival of the Alpha, but I'd like to have a second controller and, given that I couldn't get one for a good price, now the analog controller will be the way to go.

@PinballBuzzbro Sorry, I meant the collection itself, because I didn't even know it was planned.

Great news, it was lost in the arcades for convoluted rights issues (and with the new title I guess they didn't want any problem with DC Comics either). Glad it got sorted out. But I would love if the original graphics (or the rom itself) are included, because this is a remake/remaster with added content. I want both versions in this kind of release, and with Snow Bros. 2 Special (only with that entry) we had them.

Now I wish whoever brings it to the West releases it with a CD soundtrack too.

Great news!

I'm a sucker for this type of collections, regardless of the quality of the games.

But I wonder if the Robocop song will be a problem.

Anyway, it's great that it comes with all those versions, a shame that they're not all that exist, but it looks great anyway, with all the archive contents on top.

I'll be picking some, but it will have to be on the Japanese eShop, because Ridge Racer is still pretty expensive after the 30% discount.

Whatever happened to the days when Arcade Archives discounts were 50%...

I don't judge the prices for the age of the games, but this line of digital games would benefit from more frequent discounts and not only of Namco and Neo Geo games. I don't see other companies' games on sale anymore.

@PKDuckman That's interesting. So there are different collections! Well, I hope they finish one already and make it physical or at least digitally collected!

I believe they said the collection would have 10 titles, and with the recent three titles announced that would be it.

Now it's time to honor the name and make it a real collection, so please put them together and release it physically! I would be very happy, seeing all these B-tier games -as they describe them in the website- in a nice compilation.

EDIT: with Shatterhand I see it's 11 now. They said they would be 10, but again they also said they would release consecutively yet 2 full years have passed.

@Teksette Well, it usually worked as you say, but last time they reissued volumes 2 and 3, and even the Arcade Collection Part 1 (which is third-party actually), and they didn't sell out, so ended up on frequent discounts. It made me angry.

Now with the new expansion (which I hope is third-party too, so Arcade Collection Part 2) that I also wish it's Irem if only for selfish reasons (it's a company which would overlap very little with games in my collection), I don't know what to do.

It's possible that is sells so poorly that it ends up on a sale like the last ones... but it's also possible that precisely for that reason Taito produces less copies and this time goes out of stock fast and is never rereleased like all the other volumes were.

I guess not all the initial Egret II Mini adopters bought the first expansion, not all the volume 1 buyers bought the second and so on. It's only natural. There is even people that wanted volumes 2 and 3 and didn't know that they were rereleased and are still available. So I guess the numbers are going to be smaller with each release.

P.S.: I also would kill for Chase H.Q., a glaring omission in this product, also in all other systems where Taito's legacy is present nowadays.

Not overly excited because all this we already have on modern systems, albeit digitally. Plus the new price increase.

I was expecting something different, something exclusive.

A couple extra games (not WADs) such as Wolfenstein wouldn't have hurt.

@gojiguy Amazon Japan. It's getting impossible due to increasing shipping costs, plus the new EU import tax, but other import online stores are more expensive.

Arcade Collection Part 1 was really appealing to me, due to the previously never emulated Boogie Wings and the opportunity to play Renegade and Double Dragon on a mini cabinet, but it hurts that it's been on a heavy sale since, especially when there was massive overlapping with Evercade collections and I bought it mainly for those three games.

Now I have to continue, after all I'm all about discovering games, so I don't mind if they're not even B-tier.

@Shiryu As I said in the first comment, unfortunately for me, an early adopter, the reissues of vols 2 and 3 plus the Arcade Collection Part 1 have been consistently on sale.

@RootsGenoa I guess if last release was Arcade Collection Part 1, the next one should be Part 2, excited to know what companies are involved this time.

I hope they're worth it. I've been buying all previous expansions, so I'm at 90 games currently.

But I've been out of luck moneywise with Egret II Mini. I grabbed Vol. 1 on a sale, decided to hold when vols. 2 and 3 came out, but then the sale didn't happen and they went out of stock. When Taito reissued them, I pre-ordered for peace of mind, yet those rereleases and Arcade Collection Part 1 have been regularly on big sales.

What do I do this time?

If all the hype they've been building for months comes to this, it's a huge disappointment. People in the Evercade community was hoping for something different, like a native port (they did it with Duke Nukem), because it has been re-released multiple times and with enhanced versions in the last couple of years indeed.

It should have been a more comprehensive collection, with companions like Quake, Commander Keen, etc.

If it involves hacking the console it's a no for me. And I guess it does.

So is this going to be included in the cart in time or it will require a download?

Big fan of Evercade here, not a fanboy, and I gotta say the timing is bad. What a couple weeks we've lived with bad gaming news...

With the new price the carts won't cost less than the standard physical retro collection on Switch for instance. Time to be more selective...

Great to see this preview, because the relase date is approaching and I wanted to know if my 80 euros (for the absolutely worthy collector's edition) would go into a game that actually measured up to the expectations. Looks like it will.

If the RAM problem persists just put the development of new systems on hold.

Not sure if it's something to be proud of. It's almost scalping, probably downright scalping.

Great!

But what about the weekly Arcade Archives 1 release?

When Ridge Racer and others were released they were announced for Switch and PS4 too, but not this time.

Nice! I've been missing retro announcements in Nintendo Directs and other showcases, despite the multiple retro releases through the year.

The duplication is what kills these devices for me, there's always the odd game that remains in "Super Pocket prison" whatever the edition, but Banjo cart with both games will be available soon enough as you said, not only with the Nexus (I hope they also sell the cart alone and the new handheld alone too at some point), but there is also an analog controller coming that will make the Evercade VS a great option, maybe the best, to enjoy these classics.

Honestly, this made my year Evercade-wise. For me it's not being the hyped "best year ever" that they've been announcing.

I've been hoping they would bring Visco, so I can avoid having to cram the Visco bartop in my already full house, or Pixel Heart to finally release the promised Visco Collection physically.

This is better: more games than the Bartop, of course more than the 7 that come in the for now digital only Switch collection, and I'll be able to play them in my Evercade Alpha.

Since I discovered the Super A'Can a few months ago, I was wishing their games came to the Evercade at some point. Given the strong relationship between Blaze and Piko Interactive and the mentioned acquisition of Super A'Can games by them, my wish could come true! Fingers crossed

I also would love to see games that aren't the ones that we saw re-released dozens of times, but let's face it: they'll try to get the most money they can, naturally, and the fact that Metal Slug is the Top 1 seller shows that the average consumer wants the big names, especially if they are the rarest to find in their original form.

Personally, I would buy Windjammers, Nightmare in the Dark (unreleased digitally or otherwise), Double Dragon, Neo Bomberman and several games that I know are almost impossible for licensing reasons.

Konami GT looks amazing!

Thank you both, it makes sense now!

I don't understand why this one is treated as an indie game, Duke Nukem 1+2 wasn't.

Plus, there are more Apogee games to release if they wanted to, but including this one in an Indie Heroes 5... I don't know. I haven't bought any of the previous four, I would rather have BioMenace in an Apogee Collection.

I've suffered with SLG before, and decided not again. They released a statement saying the waiting times would improve, yet they have worsened. Usually their games end up on Amazon Japan for everyone to get anyway.

Available on the Evercade (Renovation Collection cartridge), just for information purposes.

I struggle to keep up with the versions and re-releases. Anyway, I would love to delve into the series from the beginning, but no one seems interested in emulating or remastering the first two entries, three if you count Dodonpachi II.

Even if it's in Japanese only these games are playable, so as long as they're available on Western Steam it's better than nothing.

But I still hope it comes to the Switch, physically if my wish can be granted. And the re-release of the rest of the series would be the cherry on top.

I got Fighting Simulator 2-in-1 (aka Hiryū no Ken Gaiden) on Game Boy as a kid, and weird as the game was, I found it very fun.

I don't know why, but the main theme of the series is one of my favourite video game songs.

It feels like these collections should be put together by sports and not be divided in several volumes within the same sport.

@OorWullie Yeah. When asked about releasing individually arcade games playable inside Yakuza games they said it's just too risky for them, that they wouldn't be profitable.

And seeing how people complains about Hamster prices "for a game this old" I can't totally blame them.

@CrispNCrunch Sure. Anyway, I love Jaleco and wish to see its games collected physically. I hope the JaleColle line will become a collection once the 10 games have been released. I mean... it's in the very name!

Nice! Now that it seems that Blaze has lost interest in more Jaleco carts for the Evercade I hope this comes one day to Switch and physically. I'll take the overlapping.

For those wondering, Blaze has heavily hinted that there will be a cart with more Rare games this year, and other Super Pocket editions have seen their games re-released on carts before, no worries.

As for Banjo-Kazooie working on this thing, they said it's a native port, that's why. And they also announced an analog controller due in September, so we're definitely seeing the game out of the Super Pocket before the end of the year.

Mega Cat 3 has been a letdown for me, I was hoping they would include bigger games in it, owning the likes of ZDF and Project Blue. I don't think I'm gonna buy this one. Activision 2 I will, after all both Activision carts have games that aren't on the Atari 50 Collection and aren't expected to be in it as a DLC either.

If I had gotten the Turrican Anthology vol. II for Switch from Amazon Japan to complement the barebones Turrican Flashback release, like I was planning to, I would be angry, would've spent too much money and would definitely skip this cart.

But I didn't, so this is a collection that solves the problem, will definitely buy it and I guess I'll keep Turrican Flashback for Switch in my collection because it was dirt cheap and I don't mind having it if I fancy some Turrican and don't have the Evercade with me.

It looks great, I hope it's not text heavy.

It took 84 years, nobody expected it at this point. And everything is already on Evercade and the Toaplan Collections. The overlapping on Switch and Playstation seems a litlle odd.

At this point the main attraction for me at least will be the console ports.

I'm an achievement fan as long as they're not things that feel like a chore or are insanely difficult to perform, and sorely miss them on Nintendo consoles to the point of purchasing some games elsewhere for that reason.

But I don't really know how it works. I mean, can I use Retro Achievements on a BatleXP G350? On a Raspberry perhaps? It would be really cool on Evercade, by the way.