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Also Stardew Valley and Dicey Dungeons I believe have official Irish language options. And why not, I say! If you're not letting the language die then why not let it live!

@neufel I meant, the Funkey S has no headphone functionality. That's a device that I own and absolutely love except for that one issue which effectively turns it into a paperweight. So this RG Nano has that over it.

The Funkey S can play PS1 games, so that's a win for that camp. On the other hand, it doesn't have any kind of headphone functionality at all so unless you're cosy in a completely private and isolated place you'll pretty much never actually be game enough to use it. At least that's how it is for me. So this baby would actually be pretty cool.

@dre8472 plus most games would have been overwritten with another one pretty quickly... Like a VCR where you only have one tape. It's a miracle that much has survived at all!
Unless Nintendo has kept everything in a vault somewhere and we get another gigaleak...

I know it's childish, but I can't help but chuckle whenever I read titles like "Super Mario BS". It looks like something that Mad magazine would come up with as a parody during the DS era.

@OldManHermit yep, it's been a while but that was the first thing I thought of when reading this too. Time it right and hug the left.
I've finished Ocarina about 8 times but I don't think I've ever used the ice arrows for anything. I have great memories of them in Majora's Mask though; the one room in that one's water temple where you had to freeze a chu and use it as a step blew my mind back then.

Don Mattrick was right on this one. It's a little known fact but most rappers have no interest in guns, it's all just been imagined by the press. "Piece" means piece of cake, "gat" means baseball bat, "steel" means steel pipe, "heater" is obviously referring to a normal space heater, "AK" is slang for "always kidding", "mac 10" is good old McDonald's, "glock" means a glockenspiel (they are musicians after all), "beretta" is hip hop for "better"... It's all just a big misunderstanding.

It's not quite as retro as shown here, but Rare's website circa 2001 was the best of its kind I've ever seen, even to this day. They had this "ask Uncle Tusk" section which pretty much turned their corporate website into a cross between a magazine letters section and a legitimate online community. Rare were at the peak of their powers and popularity, and they were really giving back. I'd check that site every day - how many corporate sites could you say that about?

I love how the standard mode is to make it harder for you if you're already stressed. Such a 90s game design mentality!

I don't understand the point of this controller. So it's a gamecube controller that's missing the sticks? How is this in any way better than using the normal gamecube controller?

This doesn't make me think about Sonic, it makes me think about Sega of America and how crazily resentful and disrespectful they seem to have been to their parent company Sega of Japan.
32X, Mega CD, Saturn, Dreamcast... All these fumbled launches weren't bad luck, they were SoA saying "we don't care what you guys are planning, we'll design our own machine and we'll take yours only when we're ready. The market will be diluted and confusing, hype windows will be missed, developers won't know which platforms to target... But at least we won't be doing things your way, SoJ!"

Why doesn't Nintendo make furniture anymore, they've forgotten their roots

256 Kb should be enough for anyone.

/- Bill Gates

I have to forsake my namesake and go with the PS1 dual shock. Once they added dual analogues and rumble, Sony perfected the controller so completely that they have effectively never needed to change it since. With a split d-pad for precision and beautiful symmetry, the dual shock is literally iconic for gaming in general; it's everything a controller should be.

@Damo I think @MarioBrickLayer was saying: perhaps interview a legal expert for an article, to speculate on why Sega might have an issue with this MD project as opposed to that SMS project...

I wouldn't call this a scam; you have to promise people something good for it to be a scam. This was a sad, misguided mistake from day one. Nobody wanted this silly product, nobody was ever going to want it, and the years that Tommy & Co. spent clinging to such an obviously dead concept makes me believe that this was honest foolishness as opposed to malicious deception.

@Papichulo I have had lots of very good times emulating the N64 on PC. Mario 64, Banjo, the 2 Zeldas, Wave Race, Wayne Gretzky's Hockey, WWF... All of these I've fully completed multiple times on emulator, and loved every minute of it. Even with a playstation style controller where you have to get creative with the mapping of the C buttons (but not completely shuffle everything around like the **** NSO expansion pack) it works fine, and has been fine for about 15-20 years now.
If you can't stand a single pixel being out of place though then there's really not much point thinking about emulation at all.

My "piracy machine" of choice is still the Funkey S.
It's ridiculously tiny but kind of perfect for the novelty factor, which is what handheld retro gaming ends up being for me in practice. It plays everything up to and including PS1 games... If I want to dig deep into Final Fantasy 7, I can do that on my Switch, but if I want to dally around with random old roms then a key chain-sized joke device is almost the perfect way to do it.

@bryce951 nah I'm all about this cup and ball now. You never know which way that crazy ball is gonna go!
(Just kidding, thanks for the heads up! Is it Christmas already?!)

What, don't you people have phones?

@smashboy2000 nice, thanks! I didn't mean to be cynical, I'd love to play PSX and N64 on FPGA.
Haven't been following the scene properly but I always got the impression that the N64 was "too hard"?
As in, emulating behaviour is one thing but once you try to reproduce actual hardware this complicated, you'd need exponentially more power and time?

Wake me up when it can play N64 and PSX games. At this point I can pretty much play SNES and NES games on my toaster.

On a tangent, I picked up a raspberry pi 4 for xmas with the hope of turning it into an N64 box via retropie. All hopes were soon dashed when I discovered that it can only emulate at about half speed and the audio is excruciating.
If a mature system such as retropie can't get N64 running then I wouldn't hold out much hope for random Chinese boxes such as this.
Of course the ideal machine would be the Switch but Nintendo keep holding out on N64 games there...

And then there's Hyperdimension Neptunia of course

Why is there not a single screenshot of killer instinct in this article, aside from the 2013 one?

@hitherehello I believe the term is "Schadenfreude"

When I was a lad my favourite Australian football team's iconic jumper had only one logo on it: "Speed Kills" from the government agency trying to prevent traffic accidents.
I always thought it was ironic because they were the fastest team in the league.

Before N64 rocked my world, I was all about Psycho Fox on the Master System. There was just something about it that was mysterious and awesome.

Bennett Foddy didn't make VVVVVV. That was Terry Cavanagh. I highly doubt he made Ape Out as well - he's the QWOP guy; the Getting Over It guy.
That crank though... I first thought it would be some gimmick where it's the only way to charge the battery. Hence you really have to make a "play date" with yourself and commit to it.
Not sure whether I'm disappointed or relieved now...
Edit: so I bought Ape Out on the weekend and I have to admit I was wrong about that one - Bennett Foddy is listed in the opening credits. Don't give him Terry Cavanagh's stuff though!