not a fan of the n64, but i am intrigued as to how powerful the hardware is and the possibilities that may bring. once analogue makes an fpga that can run all games (including sideloading) from the 5th gen and down, i may jump at the opportunity to own one. seeing as a mister will cost you hundreds of dollars nowadays and will top out at the ps1, getting a slightly more powerful fpga that can also get saturn running would be the icing on the cake. such a device would kill 3 birds with one stone as you would not require: 1. the original hardware any longer 2. an external upscaler of any kind seeing as it will render up to 4k and 3. hdmi modifications of any kind on original hardware. exciting times ahead!
the two best console generations in history for jrpgs was either the SNES or the PS1 in my opinion. it is up for debate as to which is the winner, but i would go with the ps1 since the narrative and storytelling elements really took off during that era and generally reached higher levels of sophistication and maturity. in either case, the golden age for the genre began with the SNES and ended with the PS1. only recently have people been able to play many of the hevy hitters on the SNES due to english fan translations. otherwise, so many great games would have been lost to time and obscurity (particularily much of the squaresfot catalogue which is incredibly impressive for this time). i mean, you could literally spend the rest of your life trying to get though all the jrpgs that the SNES and PS1 have to offer and you likely wouldn't even get through half of them unless you prioritized that above all else in your life haha. you have to be selective and find the gems. you also have the psp, ds and 3ds to contend with which have great jrpg libraries as well. SNES jrpgs are a bit more foreign to me since i got my start with xenogears and FF7 on the PS1, but i would like to get through the breath of fire, fire emblem and a bunch of the more obscure squaresoft games at the very least. currently i have beaten: chrono trigger, mario RPG, front mission and final fantasy 6 from the SNES era.
wow! the bundle that includes the cyberstick + volume 2 cart costs a whopping $325.95(CAD), including shipping. for some reason, they are pricing this bundle significantly more than the actual egret hardware itself + volume 2 which is kind of crazy.
so this device will actually accept old carts and has emution software inside the box to emulate them... i have a feeling emulation quality will be subpar. can't see a large market for this era of gaming. this will be dead on arrival if i had to guess, especially at those prices.
the wildfires in hawaii remain a mystery as to how and why it happened in the way it did, but do homeowners there not have insurance to cover the rebuilding and displacement costs? all the best to those affected by this.
isn't that ALL of the jrpgs on the 3ds? haha. the 3ds was a beast for jrpg's no doubt. almost on par with the psp and ds but each console has its unique, exclusive gems at any rate. i think i'll be playing these games for the next couple decades — there is just so much to get through!
@mjparker77 that's news to me. thanks for the info. compard to the nes/snes/ps1 classic this doesn't sound very user friendly... hopefully someone will make the process easier. as it stands, i wouldn't want to mess with it either haha.
yea, the first volume costs over $100CAD (including shipping) just for 10 games on amazon japan. i have been watching for a price drop and still nothing of note. these expansion carts should have been priced at $40CAD. hopefully they will slash the price of volume 1 in the near future and then i'll consider it. unfortunate that the egret II never got hacked by the community to allow us to add more roms to it either.
@Tobunari the good news is ps1 games are fully backwards compatible with the ps3 — physical discs on stock ps3's or in bin/cue format (if you mod your ps3). the emulation of ps1 games on ps3 is quite good as well. you don't necessarily need a memcard pro2 in that case and will have ample storage on the ps3 hdd for ps1 save files. as for ps2, you likely don't have the ps3 model that runs ps2 games natively since they are hard to come by (if you do have one, that is great). but to answer your question: there are literally hundreds of notable ps1 and ps2 games that never got remastered and cannot be streamed on ps4/ps5. that is not hyperbole, either. the ps1/ps2 is an absolutely treasure trove of obscure/interesting/hidden gems that have no equal in the modern era of gaming. however, if you are intolerant of the quirks and lack of polish some games from this era are known to have, relative to AAA modern gaming and do not fancy retro gaming in general, then you might not need to fall down this rabbit hole
excellent! been holding out on the pro 1 for this inevitable release. this will be the one memory card to rule them all without question. the flash memory of the official sony cards will eventually fail, not to mention fills up quite quickly with ps2 games, so this is certainly a must-have item for retro gaming enthusiasts.
there is nothing wrong with piracy so long as the games are legacy or the publisher has already made its revenue back 3 times over. i will never understand people who live by the highest level of self ritious, ethical nonsense just so that they can say "you are stealing!" or "it is morally wrong!". you know what is wrong? allowing classic games to die and be forgotten just because the publishers themselves didn't care enough to provide a reasonable means of purchasing their content in the modern era. i can assure you that those who created the games would be happy to know that 15, 20, 30 years later, people are still enjoying their art, whether they paid for it or not. the market has proven time and time again that if you provide a classics collection release of some kind on modern platforms, people will buy it... now, how do you think those same people were aware and exposed to many of those titles to begin with, making the re-release viable? oh, right, through "piracy"... see how it all works?
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umm, not for me, but the swan is nice. so when is fantasian hitting ps4/ps5?
Re: Analogue 3D Is An FPGA-Based N64 With 4K Output
not a fan of the n64, but i am intrigued as to how powerful the hardware is and the possibilities that may bring. once analogue makes an fpga that can run all games (including sideloading) from the 5th gen and down, i may jump at the opportunity to own one. seeing as a mister will cost you hundreds of dollars nowadays and will top out at the ps1, getting a slightly more powerful fpga that can also get saturn running would be the icing on the cake. such a device would kill 3 birds with one stone as you would not require: 1. the original hardware any longer 2. an external upscaler of any kind seeing as it will render up to 4k and 3. hdmi modifications of any kind on original hardware. exciting times ahead!
Re: Here Are The 10 Games Included In Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories Vol. 2
@Teksetter yea. the $60CAD shipping fee does not help matters at all sadly
Re: Best SNES RPGs Of All Time
the two best console generations in history for jrpgs was either the SNES or the PS1 in my opinion. it is up for debate as to which is the winner, but i would go with the ps1 since the narrative and storytelling elements really took off during that era and generally reached higher levels of sophistication and maturity. in either case, the golden age for the genre began with the SNES and ended with the PS1. only recently have people been able to play many of the hevy hitters on the SNES due to english fan translations. otherwise, so many great games would have been lost to time and obscurity (particularily much of the squaresfot catalogue which is incredibly impressive for this time). i mean, you could literally spend the rest of your life trying to get though all the jrpgs that the SNES and PS1 have to offer and you likely wouldn't even get through half of them unless you prioritized that above all else in your life haha. you have to be selective and find the gems. you also have the psp, ds and 3ds to contend with which have great jrpg libraries as well. SNES jrpgs are a bit more foreign to me since i got my start with xenogears and FF7 on the PS1, but i would like to get through the breath of fire, fire emblem and a bunch of the more obscure squaresoft games at the very least. currently i have beaten: chrono trigger, mario RPG, front mission and final fantasy 6 from the SNES era.
Re: Here Are The 10 Games Included In Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories Vol. 2
wow! the bundle that includes the cyberstick + volume 2 cart costs a whopping $325.95(CAD), including shipping. for some reason, they are pricing this bundle significantly more than the actual egret hardware itself + volume 2 which is kind of crazy.
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so this device will actually accept old carts and has emution software inside the box to emulate them... i have a feeling emulation quality will be subpar. can't see a large market for this era of gaming. this will be dead on arrival if i had to guess, especially at those prices.
Re: ToeJam & Earl Creator Greg Johnson Needs Your Help To Rebuild His Home
the wildfires in hawaii remain a mystery as to how and why it happened in the way it did, but do homeowners there not have insurance to cover the rebuilding and displacement costs? all the best to those affected by this.
Re: Best Nintendo 3DS RPGs Of All Time
isn't that ALL of the jrpgs on the 3ds? haha. the 3ds was a beast for jrpg's no doubt. almost on par with the psp and ds but each console has its unique, exclusive gems at any rate. i think i'll be playing these games for the next couple decades — there is just so much to get through!
Re: Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories Vol. 2 Coming This December
@mjparker77 that's news to me. thanks for the info. compard to the nes/snes/ps1 classic this doesn't sound very user friendly... hopefully someone will make the process easier. as it stands, i wouldn't want to mess with it either haha.
Re: Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories Vol. 2 Coming This December
yea, the first volume costs over $100CAD (including shipping) just for 10 games on amazon japan. i have been watching for a price drop and still nothing of note. these expansion carts should have been priced at $40CAD. hopefully they will slash the price of volume 1 in the near future and then i'll consider it. unfortunate that the egret II never got hacked by the community to allow us to add more roms to it either.
Re: New 8BitMods MemCard Pro2 Works With Both PS One And PlayStation 2
@Tobunari the good news is ps1 games are fully backwards compatible with the ps3 — physical discs on stock ps3's or in bin/cue format (if you mod your ps3). the emulation of ps1 games on ps3 is quite good as well. you don't necessarily need a memcard pro2 in that case and will have ample storage on the ps3 hdd for ps1 save files. as for ps2, you likely don't have the ps3 model that runs ps2 games natively since they are hard to come by (if you do have one, that is great). but to answer your question: there are literally hundreds of notable ps1 and ps2 games that never got remastered and cannot be streamed on ps4/ps5. that is not hyperbole, either. the ps1/ps2 is an absolutely treasure trove of obscure/interesting/hidden gems that have no equal in the modern era of gaming. however, if you are intolerant of the quirks and lack of polish some games from this era are known to have, relative to AAA modern gaming and do not fancy retro gaming in general, then you might not need to fall down this rabbit hole
Re: New 8BitMods MemCard Pro2 Works With Both PS One And PlayStation 2
excellent! been holding out on the pro 1 for this inevitable release. this will be the one memory card to rule them all without question. the flash memory of the official sony cards will eventually fail, not to mention fills up quite quickly with ps2 games, so this is certainly a must-have item for retro gaming enthusiasts.
Re: Shocking Study Reveals 87% Of Classic Games Are "Critically Endangered"
there is nothing wrong with piracy so long as the games are legacy or the publisher has already made its revenue back 3 times over. i will never understand people who live by the highest level of self ritious, ethical nonsense just so that they can say "you are stealing!" or "it is morally wrong!". you know what is wrong? allowing classic games to die and be forgotten just because the publishers themselves didn't care enough to provide a reasonable means of purchasing their content in the modern era. i can assure you that those who created the games would be happy to know that 15, 20, 30 years later, people are still enjoying their art, whether they paid for it or not. the market has proven time and time again that if you provide a classics collection release of some kind on modern platforms, people will buy it... now, how do you think those same people were aware and exposed to many of those titles to begin with, making the re-release viable? oh, right, through "piracy"... see how it all works?