QuarterSwede

Not a fan of the full glass front designs coming out these days. They are fingerprint magnets. It’s bad enough to have to clean my phone all the time.

Love the display density and refresh rate.

Chip is a miss since it’s not well supported unfortunately. It has such held back potential. They’d have to really push drivers and compatibility for the community to take hold and flourish.

Talks about how it was bland (did we play the same game?) and doesn’t mention it’s absolutely BANGING soundtrack. I loved BAT.

Heck yeah OCRemix!

@boatie Same thought. The building we lease for our business is $9K/mo before utilities. £25K is nothing.

It’s certainly interesting. A little thin and must be using dome buttons and maybe a thin li-ion battery?

“Powered by a 64-bit Raspberry Pi® Zero 2W with a Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor (a heatsink radiator is included to dissipate heat, e.g when overclocking). GamerCard® delivers smooth retro gaming performance utilising 128GB of internal storage. The 1600mAh Li-Po rechargeable battery provides hours of gameplay. A built-in Qwiic® connector enables easy modification without opening the device and allows access to a wide plug-and-play ecosystem of sensors, displays, and modules from companies like SparkFun. Add other peripherals to USB-C® and HDMI™ ports to transform GamerCard® into a fully functioning Raspberry Pi-powered desktop PC.“

This is a lot more interesting than at first glance.

Hadn’t seen anyone mention this yet but don’t forget that there is a MASSIVE push of mobile gaming these days and Microsoft has no mobile competitor. Switch and Steam Deck changed everything. If you aren’t mobile or VR … you simply don’t exist to the younger generation.

Ahh, Murderbot. Gurathin.

Great game in the vain of Metal Slug but like on ultra all the time. Lot of fun with unlimited coins.

@N00BiSH It’s the most overrated controller in history. Personally I HATED it.

Love this type of atmospheric music. Great vibes.

Looks fantastic.

I agree with his sentiment. That looks incredible!

@smoreon I was wondering how they got it to run at 30fps on original hardware. Still impressive that it’s running at all.

This one is a lot of fun, like Celeste level once you’re further along. Very satisfying.

I watched the comparison video by Digital Foundry. It’s really good and faithful to the original and the texture art is incredible. The actual lighting is a bit too bright though and needs to be toned down to match the original spooky aesthetics of Ravenholm.

@Coalescence and they have brand recognition because their games are actually fun to play on that potato.

Hi, my name is QuarterSwede and I’m addicted to curating retro systems and games.

@RetroGames First thought I had was no shaders? Probably not the right first impression. Heck, even Balatro uses them for the nostalgia/clean up the jaggy edges of pixels. But, I haven’t even downloaded it to see so maybe it does?

@KingMike FFMQ music is excellent. Lots of bangers.

@tektite_captain Striking is more the term. It is a good piece.

Not sure how I missed the first demo but this looks outstanding! Can’t wait to play it tonight and this weekend!

@RetroGames No good way to play DS games as they were meant to be played on a horizontal screen. Slap the joycons on the top and bottom rotate 90° and now you have a vertical system great for NDS and Schmups.

You know, I wonder if that is why the Switch 2 is said to have magnetic joycons …

I’ve never thought about an ultrasonic bath for grimy parts but that’s brilliant. My wife already has a jewelry one …

I would LOVE to go to this. Excellent game and soundtrack. Hopefully they record it.

@Sketcz You aren’t wrong. The hill on the right goes up in the game image and the hill on the right in the photo does not go nearly as high. Even with the resolution change the computer wouldn’t have made that choice on interpolation. I live in a mountainous area and they don’t look at all similar to me.

Taki isn’t a marketing genius by any stretch. Good at hardware, bad at misleading people, more than likely unintentionally.

Love that Teal!

@Bunkerneath Ohhh, great question. This would be an excellent alt.