@NicolausCamp Street Fighter EX games were made by Arika, they've always been one of the "little to no chance" options. Surpassed maybe only by Tatsunoko vs Capcom. That game is NEVER getting rereleased and I accepted that years ago.
GT1 arcade mode had completely different, more simplified handling compared to the career mode. I think this carried over to GT2, although I don't quite remember fully. By GT3, that was no longer the case - arcade mode was just quick race with the regular handling.
This is like a boat being too unstable out in the open sea so you shoot a hole in it with a shotgun and then go "uhm smart guy I didn't see YOU coming up with a genius solution like me"
As a huge rhythm game nut I often struggled with Samba de Amigo due to the feeling I had of a lack of tactile feedback. I like me some buttons. I know when I'm pressing a panel in DDR, I know when I'm strumming in Guitar Hero, I know when I'm hitting buttons in IIDX, I know when I'm twisting knobs in Sound Voltex... Samba de Amigo often was hard to get used to with the idea of just having to trust you were doing it right and it would be registered. Still, it's a game with legendary art direction, and I appreciate it for that alone.
Games even as recent as then did typically have the burden of "the female character needs to basically just be there to be the male character's shadow", I'd kinda be interested to see some of the wilder concepts of Amiga.
At least when the character is a sister and not a love interest or something, it gives an excuse for them looking similar and "just do the male character in a dress with a bow".
@PKDuckman For some reason whenever their "team" [let's face it, they see politics as merely a team sport] flops they just transition into this fantasy land where actually the opposite happened.
Nah, nah, mate, trust me, the tarrifs have got the Chinese SHOOK, they're BEGGING for us, the alpha Americans, to stop winning so hard, trust me bro trust me.
This is cool. Outrun on Game Gear was a pretty solid conversion but it looks like this person definitely has the talent to do it well on Game Boy. I like seeing these super-scaler style games on the more primitive handheld systems.
@MG4M3R I will say when he mentions the PC-98 version of this game featuring rape, he means completely uncensored and explicit rape scenes played for sexualization. I don't know where the hell you got this whole "touching someone but for the good of the world!" thing from. That's not what happens, lmao. False equivalence helps nobody here and dilutes the conversation. This is not, like, Silent Hill type storytelling here.
Again, I'm not to censor art, if that's your thing, I will leave you to your thing... buuuut I'm completely okay with that kind of tripe staying in the obscure home computer scene where it belongs and generally has stayed since the 80s.
@Norsaken This is just wrong. Art you don't like still deserves to be preserved. I don't particularly care for so many of these anime games that quite clearly are just pretty bad games stapled onto the main attraction - anime tiddies - either, but c'mon. You being formerly addicted to something does not mean it should be banned. I'm a recovered alcoholic, I don't slap beers out of people's hands.
@-wc- Well said. "Censorship" just became yet another word that the internet silently turned into a simile for "I don't like it". I saw many of these big "PRO FREE SPEECH! ANTI CENSORSHIP! GAMERS RISE UP!" accounts with six figure followings who spend their life making money off people's desire to always have something to be big about... actively celebrate things like Middle Eastern versions of games censoring any LGBT topics. It was "based" so it's a Win For Gamers[TM], right? A lot of this is just performative.
@PKDuckman The PC-98 original is not the one getting released, though, which is why the cancellation is confusing. If it was actually the version where the plot literally has "the loser gets sexually assaulted" written into the plot [no, I'm not kidding.], I'd understand a bit more. No way would that have made it onto consoles neither back in the 90s nor now - it's just not happening.
If you want eroge, and look - fine, maybe you do, I guess. Not my cup of tea, but then again games of those type are a bit dry when it comes to those aimed at my gender and sexuality of person - it's historically always been "go PC". We are not getting those games on consoles any time soon and basically never did unless they were unlicensed garbo like Divine Sealing on the Mega Drive. But, yeah, Saturn Advanced Variable Geo is just "lewd" at worst. There's no porn in it. So I don't understand. There's honestly more titilating games available to buy on all current consoles than this so I'm not going to do the Capital G Gamer thing of going "pshhh censorship amirite gamers rise up", I'm just wondering what exactly happened.
@smoreon Don't fall for narratives that people peddle on the internet exclusively because getting gamers to have a Boogeyman Of The Week is how they make a living lol. I was literally going to make a joke about "but The Last True Gamer on YouTube told me it was SONY coming for all my anime tiddies, now I don't know what to believe! Mods! MODS!"
I understand that they can't just show full blown sex or bare breasts, but the Saturn version of Advanced Variable Geo was never an eroge game anyway - I'm pretty sure the only Variable Geo game with flat out porn was the very original game on PC. Advanced Variable Geo on Saturn and Playstation is essentially a sequel, and doesn't contain any R-18 stuff. The most you'll get some clothing damage, which is no more explicit than, say, when King's shirt rips off in Art Of Fighting and reveals her bra. What exactly did they want altered at this point? At least it's coming to the other platforms so 98% of people who would actually care about this game can still play it, but how bizarre.
As a fighting game, the game is pretty bad, but, like... bad games still deserve te be preserved properly.
The fact that after all this time we still have very good super smart geniuses going "wahhh stop talking about politics" or "just make it in the US" proves that there are definitely multiple alternate universes and they clearly don't live in the same one as us humans.
DJ Hero 2 genuinely has one of the best rhythm game soundtracks ever, I'll always love it. Shame this happened. Bigger shame some wooden spoons will blame this extremely hypercapitalist consequence on the "wokes" or whatever they're saying in 2025 now. DEI? I dunno.
I have no idea who Salvatore is so I can just pretend he's a brand new character and I actually kinda like him, he's amusing and I like the idea of a DJ character.
Billy is a complete cheater and compulsive liar, Karl cost him at least one appearance at an event due to claiming he was why Apollo Legend took his own life.
Only one of these are crimes - and it's not cheating in a video game.
Hate them both, frankly, but what a jackarse Karl was by purposefully never mentioning that he was being sued for this in particular and trying to frame it as "cheater doesn't like that I said he cheated" - he ABSOLUTELY knew he wouldn't have gotten the support he did if he was 100% honest about what he was being sued for, because it's completely open-and-shut.
I would've liked the home console versions, but the only one that's really arguable as an improvement is the SNES version of Gradius III. The rest are just the best versions of them. Hard to get upset.
It is a bit of a shame we won't be getting some of the console versions too like the TMNT collection [everyone who only knows Gradius III on the SNES is in for a rough time when they try the frankly unfair arcade version lol] but this is still a day one purchase for me. Konami have been killing it lately. Maybe we'll get a Gradius Origins 2 with Gaiden, Rebirth, 4 and 5.
I refuse to accept the "well we weren't there" excuse. It is very easy to learn new things in 2025. It is also very easy to not act informed and then when challenged say "we're just not informed".
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Thing is you get what you pay for. If you want something like the PSP library emulated fully or at least mostly, you're unlikely to find it for this price point.
@slider1983 It is okay to see bad things happening and call thm bad without being intentionally obtuse and sarcastic. This is a gaming forum, not r/Conservative.
I do love people just completely outing themselves as brainwashed by going "this isn't happening, and also if it is happening, you deserve it, but it's not happening, but it is happening although it's not the fault of the guy who did it". Like all the people who actually know what they're talking about because they work in the industry are just lying for kicks.
You can tell who voted for who when their opinion and attitude is more pre-determined than pro wrestling.
I hate to say it but maybe if you directly follow in the article a particuarly nasty quote with "by the way this might not be right because we just used Google Translate lmao", don't go ahead and then use that quote as the TITLE OF THE ARTICLE? Seems a bit deliberately done to paint this guy in the worst possible light and make it seem like his entire response was "why should I care"
Most of my IRL friends do not play video games and the few that do aren't really interested in my genres of choice being rhythm and fighting games.
Online is the only way to go for me unless it's attending a specific event dedicated for these games. Nostalgia might be a hell of a drug, but none of us get a year younger each go around the sun.
There's no legal way to claim a fan translation, really, considering it's an illegal modification of a game that is also most likely downloaded illegally.
That being said, it's objectively ***** to use someone else's hard work that they made entirely for free and start selling it while claiming it was actually your own original work all along. Thankfully, the response is understandable - if the translator guilty of the stealing was known for doing honest work over the years, it's easy to see how this could've slipped through. As long as they refine their quality control, I don't think there's anything further to get angry about. It's just a shame when talented people take cheap and unethical shortcuts when they're so clearly capable of doing it the right way.
I'll take any excuse to get to see more of my boy Reno. Finally decided to check out Remake, Crisis Core and Rebirth at the beginning of the year and have been obsessed with FF7 ever since.
It's not biased to state facts like "the only differences are objective wins for the Everdrive Pro, and it is also significantly cheaper". That's just how reality is.
Comments 54
Re: Capcom Is Keen To Make More Of Its Fighting Games Available On Modern Systems
@NicolausCamp Street Fighter EX games were made by Arika, they've always been one of the "little to no chance" options. Surpassed maybe only by Tatsunoko vs Capcom. That game is NEVER getting rereleased and I accepted that years ago.
Re: Ex-PlayStation President Claims To Have "Partly Saved" Gran Turismo From Failure
GT1 arcade mode had completely different, more simplified handling compared to the career mode. I think this carried over to GT2, although I don't quite remember fully. By GT3, that was no longer the case - arcade mode was just quick race with the regular handling.
Re: Trump's Tariffs Are Also Impacting Evercade Stock In The US
@Scollurio "At least someone's trying something!"
This is like a boat being too unstable out in the open sea so you shoot a hole in it with a shotgun and then go "uhm smart guy I didn't see YOU coming up with a genius solution like me"
Re: This Indie Dev Seems Pretty Serious About Making A Spiritual Successor To Ridge Racer
Maybe only use games like London Racer or 007 Racing as lessons on what not to do lol. Those were... rough.
Ridge Racer Type 4 is the peak of the series in my eyes - I would like to see its style return.
Re: Trump's Tariffs Are Also Impacting Evercade Stock In The US
@PopetheRev28 Correct, everyone is just making this up as a conspiracy to make the poor widdle Supreme God Emperor look bad. You nailed it
Re: Trump's Tariffs Are Also Impacting Evercade Stock In The US
Here before the inevitable "stop making it political!" comments
Re: The Making Of: Samba De Amigo, Sega's Rhythm Action Classic That Nintendo Fell In Love With
As a huge rhythm game nut I often struggled with Samba de Amigo due to the feeling I had of a lack of tactile feedback. I like me some buttons. I know when I'm pressing a panel in DDR, I know when I'm strumming in Guitar Hero, I know when I'm hitting buttons in IIDX, I know when I'm twisting knobs in Sound Voltex... Samba de Amigo often was hard to get used to with the idea of just having to trust you were doing it right and it would be registered. Still, it's a game with legendary art direction, and I appreciate it for that alone.
Re: "Men Want To Give Their Opinions On Female Characters" - Samba De Amigo Artist On The Toughest Character To Design
Games even as recent as then did typically have the burden of "the female character needs to basically just be there to be the male character's shadow", I'd kinda be interested to see some of the wilder concepts of Amiga.
At least when the character is a sister and not a love interest or something, it gives an excuse for them looking similar and "just do the male character in a dress with a bow".
Re: Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement"
Removed
Re: Random: Keiji Inafune Believed "Arrogance" & Overconfidence Led To Mega Man Legends' Poor Sales
@somnambulance I really don't think that counts in what he's saying. The games weren't successful when they released.
Re: Emulation Handheld Maker Anbernic Suspends All Shipments To The US
@Craftylover "This isn't happening" to "who cares that it's happening" pipeline speedrun
Re: Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments
@RetroMasters Would you rather be told when video game stuff gets cancelled that it was because of magical space fairies or get the actual truth?
Re: Emulation Handheld Maker Anbernic Suspends All Shipments To The US
@PKDuckman For some reason whenever their "team" [let's face it, they see politics as merely a team sport] flops they just transition into this fantasy land where actually the opposite happened.
Nah, nah, mate, trust me, the tarrifs have got the Chinese SHOOK, they're BEGGING for us, the alpha Americans, to stop winning so hard, trust me bro trust me.
Re: Emulation Handheld Maker Anbernic Suspends All Shipments To The US
Removed
Re: 'Hero GP' Is Basically Super Hang-On For The Game Boy Color - And Its Creator Wants To Tackle OutRun Next
This is cool. Outrun on Game Gear was a pretty solid conversion but it looks like this person definitely has the talent to do it well on Game Boy. I like seeing these super-scaler style games on the more primitive handheld systems.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@MG4M3R I will say when he mentions the PC-98 version of this game featuring rape, he means completely uncensored and explicit rape scenes played for sexualization. I don't know where the hell you got this whole "touching someone but for the good of the world!" thing from. That's not what happens, lmao. False equivalence helps nobody here and dilutes the conversation. This is not, like, Silent Hill type storytelling here.
Again, I'm not to censor art, if that's your thing, I will leave you to your thing... buuuut I'm completely okay with that kind of tripe staying in the obscure home computer scene where it belongs and generally has stayed since the 80s.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@Norsaken This is just wrong. Art you don't like still deserves to be preserved. I don't particularly care for so many of these anime games that quite clearly are just pretty bad games stapled onto the main attraction - anime tiddies - either, but c'mon. You being formerly addicted to something does not mean it should be banned. I'm a recovered alcoholic, I don't slap beers out of people's hands.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@PopetheRev28 Given that half the Switch's e-Shop is just shovelware softcore hentai... yeah, doubt it.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@-wc- Well said. "Censorship" just became yet another word that the internet silently turned into a simile for "I don't like it". I saw many of these big "PRO FREE SPEECH! ANTI CENSORSHIP! GAMERS RISE UP!" accounts with six figure followings who spend their life making money off people's desire to always have something to be big about... actively celebrate things like Middle Eastern versions of games censoring any LGBT topics. It was "based" so it's a Win For Gamers[TM], right? A lot of this is just performative.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@PKDuckman The PC-98 original is not the one getting released, though, which is why the cancellation is confusing. If it was actually the version where the plot literally has "the loser gets sexually assaulted" written into the plot [no, I'm not kidding.], I'd understand a bit more. No way would that have made it onto consoles neither back in the 90s nor now - it's just not happening.
If you want eroge, and look - fine, maybe you do, I guess. Not my cup of tea, but then again games of those type are a bit dry when it comes to those aimed at my gender and sexuality of person - it's historically always been "go PC". We are not getting those games on consoles any time soon and basically never did unless they were unlicensed garbo like Divine Sealing on the Mega Drive. But, yeah, Saturn Advanced Variable Geo is just "lewd" at worst. There's no porn in it. So I don't understand. There's honestly more titilating games available to buy on all current consoles than this so I'm not going to do the Capital G Gamer thing of going "pshhh censorship amirite gamers rise up", I'm just wondering what exactly happened.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@smoreon Don't fall for narratives that people peddle on the internet exclusively because getting gamers to have a Boogeyman Of The Week is how they make a living lol. I was literally going to make a joke about "but The Last True Gamer on YouTube told me it was SONY coming for all my anime tiddies, now I don't know what to believe! Mods! MODS!"
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
I understand that they can't just show full blown sex or bare breasts, but the Saturn version of Advanced Variable Geo was never an eroge game anyway - I'm pretty sure the only Variable Geo game with flat out porn was the very original game on PC. Advanced Variable Geo on Saturn and Playstation is essentially a sequel, and doesn't contain any R-18 stuff. The most you'll get some clothing damage, which is no more explicit than, say, when King's shirt rips off in Art Of Fighting and reveals her bra. What exactly did they want altered at this point? At least it's coming to the other platforms so 98% of people who would actually care about this game can still play it, but how bizarre.
As a fighting game, the game is pretty bad, but, like... bad games still deserve te be preserved properly.
Re: US Tariffs Likely To Cause "Significant Difficulties" And Render Some Devices "Uneconomical", Says RetroTink Creator
The fact that after all this time we still have very good super smart geniuses going "wahhh stop talking about politics" or "just make it in the US" proves that there are definitely multiple alternate universes and they clearly don't live in the same one as us humans.
Re: "Free SNK From The Saudi Royal Family" - Fans Aren't Pleased About Fatal Fury's Celebrity Fighters
@Zeebor15 Shun'ei, Meitenkun and Tung were a cool hero team, at least. Kukri [the sand guy] is African.
Re: Ubisoft Leamington Has Officially Closed Its Doors, Ending Its 22-Year History
DJ Hero 2 genuinely has one of the best rhythm game soundtracks ever, I'll always love it. Shame this happened. Bigger shame some wooden spoons will blame this extremely hypercapitalist consequence on the "wokes" or whatever they're saying in 2025 now. DEI? I dunno.
Re: Sega Almost Sued Atari Over A Terrible Virtua Fighter Clone But Decided It Would Be "Embarrassing"
There's something really funny about a rip-off being so bad that they went "well it'd just be bullying if we sued at this point..."
Re: "Free SNK From The Saudi Royal Family" - Fans Aren't Pleased About Fatal Fury's Celebrity Fighters
I have no idea who Salvatore is so I can just pretend he's a brand new character and I actually kinda like him, he's amusing and I like the idea of a DJ character.
Re: An Obscure Taiwanese Fighting Game For DOS Is Being Reborn On Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
Wacker.
That is all.
Re: Billy Mitchell Has Won His Defamation Lawsuit Against The YouTuber Karl Jobst
Billy is a complete cheater and compulsive liar, Karl cost him at least one appearance at an event due to claiming he was why Apollo Legend took his own life.
Only one of these are crimes - and it's not cheating in a video game.
Hate them both, frankly, but what a jackarse Karl was by purposefully never mentioning that he was being sued for this in particular and trying to frame it as "cheater doesn't like that I said he cheated" - he ABSOLUTELY knew he wouldn't have gotten the support he did if he was 100% honest about what he was being sued for, because it's completely open-and-shut.
Re: Some Fans Have Issues With Gradius Origins, And They Have A Point
I would've liked the home console versions, but the only one that's really arguable as an improvement is the SNES version of Gradius III. The rest are just the best versions of them. Hard to get upset.
Re: Konami Announces A New Gradius Collection Featuring An All-New Sequel To Salamander
It is a bit of a shame we won't be getting some of the console versions too like the TMNT collection [everyone who only knows Gradius III on the SNES is in for a rough time when they try the frankly unfair arcade version lol] but this is still a day one purchase for me. Konami have been killing it lately. Maybe we'll get a Gradius Origins 2 with Gaiden, Rebirth, 4 and 5.
Re: One Of The Worst Games Of All Time Is Coming To Steam
We are so back, gamers.
Re: "Poorly Analyzed US-Centric Garbage" - Why Do Americans Keep Ignoring European Gaming History?
I refuse to accept the "well we weren't there" excuse. It is very easy to learn new things in 2025. It is also very easy to not act informed and then when challenged say "we're just not informed".
Re: Review: Game Kiddy Bubble - The Game Gear Tribute Act We've All Been Waiting For
@DanijoEX-the-Pierrot Thing is you get what you pay for. If you want something like the PSP library emulated fully or at least mostly, you're unlikely to find it for this price point.
Re: "Might Be Time To Go Back To A Corporate Job" - Trump's Tariffs Come Into Effect
Removed
Re: "Might Be Time To Go Back To A Corporate Job" - Trump's Tariffs Come Into Effect
@slider1983 It is okay to see bad things happening and call thm bad without being intentionally obtuse and sarcastic. This is a gaming forum, not r/Conservative.
Re: "Might Be Time To Go Back To A Corporate Job" - Trump's Tariffs Come Into Effect
I do love people just completely outing themselves as brainwashed by going "this isn't happening, and also if it is happening, you deserve it, but it's not happening, but it is happening although it's not the fault of the guy who did it". Like all the people who actually know what they're talking about because they work in the industry are just lying for kicks.
You can tell who voted for who when their opinion and attitude is more pre-determined than pro wrestling.
Re: "Might Be Time To Go Back To A Corporate Job" - Trump's Tariffs Come Into Effect
@slider1983 yes actually
Re: Bandai Namco Is Launching A New Initiative To License Out IP Like Ridge Racer & Soul Calibur
Hopes should not be raised too high - this is just for merch.
Re: SuperSega Back-Pedals With MiSTer FPGA, Aims For Lower Price
There's nothing to be said about the product that hasn't already be said - the purest essence of scam.
What I do want to say is, isn't it really really funny how this guy seems to be more unkempt and dishevelled every single time?
Re: Terminator 2D: No Fate Is "The T2 Game We Should Have Had Back In Our Youth"
Looks great, sounds great, and being a Bitmap Bureau game I expect a good challenge. One to check out.
Re: "These Short Games Mean Nothing To Me" - Retro-Bit Translator Denies Wrongdoing In "Baffling" Rant
I hate to say it but maybe if you directly follow in the article a particuarly nasty quote with "by the way this might not be right because we just used Google Translate lmao", don't go ahead and then use that quote as the TITLE OF THE ARTICLE? Seems a bit deliberately done to paint this guy in the worst possible light and make it seem like his entire response was "why should I care"
Re: King Of Fighters '98 Is The First 'Arcade Archives 2 Neo Geo' Coming To PS5 & Xbox Series X|S
Depends on the online. KOF 13 Global Match promoted itself entirely on its rolllback netcode... and it's garbage.
Re: Please, Please, Please Treasure Your Offline Multiplayer Buddy
Most of my IRL friends do not play video games and the few that do aren't really interested in my genres of choice being rhythm and fighting games.
Online is the only way to go for me unless it's attending a specific event dedicated for these games. Nostalgia might be a hell of a drug, but none of us get a year younger each go around the sun.
Re: Retro-Bit Apologises For Using Fan-Translations Without Permission
There's no legal way to claim a fan translation, really, considering it's an illegal modification of a game that is also most likely downloaded illegally.
That being said, it's objectively ***** to use someone else's hard work that they made entirely for free and start selling it while claiming it was actually your own original work all along. Thankfully, the response is understandable - if the translator guilty of the stealing was known for doing honest work over the years, it's easy to see how this could've slipped through. As long as they refine their quality control, I don't think there's anything further to get angry about. It's just a shame when talented people take cheap and unethical shortcuts when they're so clearly capable of doing it the right way.
Re: Lewd N64-Powered 'Super Real Mahjong VS' Gets English-Language Patch
These types of games were even popular in arcades, in case you wanted to be playing this type of thing in public. With pride, I assume.
Re: Feature: The Tale Of Final Fantasy VII's Lost Prequel, And The Fans That Are Trying To Save It
I'll take any excuse to get to see more of my boy Reno. Finally decided to check out Remake, Crisis Core and Rebirth at the beginning of the year and have been obsessed with FF7 ever since.
Re: Legendary's Live-Action Street Fighter Movie Has Found Its Director
@HoyeBoye I heard it was pretty good, too. Had Samoa Joe in it so it's obviously peak media.
Re: Review: Mega Everdrive Pro - The Best Flash Cart For Your Genesis / Mega Drive
It's not biased to state facts like "the only differences are objective wins for the Everdrive Pro, and it is also significantly cheaper". That's just how reality is.
Re: Legendary's Live-Action Street Fighter Movie Has Found Its Director
Directed by the director of the Eric Andre Show.
This is the timeline I didn't know I needed until now. Give me all of this.