Of course, when it comes to Japanese game history there's also a language and cultural barrier to contend with. Things have been "uncovered" by westerners that could have been common knowledge in Japan this entire time. But that's not always the case – plenty of media is at risk of being lost to time as well.

@HammerGalladeBro No, you're absolutely right. There is a real issue where much of gaming history is only told from an English-speaking and often USA-specific perspective.

I'm from Australia and it's even similar for us – we also had our own computer/gaming history and our own magazines that are difficult to find today. So I totally sympathize.

Yeah I'm very much in agreement here. Software-based emulation and FPGA (which you could consider "hardware emulation") are simply good at different things in my view.

There's nothing to be gained for us by pitting the two technologies against each other. – There is, however, a marketing incentive for Analogue to brand their products as "zero emulation". Which is, yeah, misleading, and by design.

Yeah that's definitely based on the existing arcade version.

I have often wondered how that supposed 32X version would have looked though. It always seemed like a huge ask.

It's cute! Gonna keep an eye on this one.

Perhaps I'm biased since I can personally vouch for some of the people behind this project, but this is definitely one to watch.

@Serpenterror Well, good news. There does actually happen to be an unrelated port of classic Shinobi to the Sega Genesis in development too.

As someone whose been a part of the SRB2 community for nearly two decades, this is HUGE. I'm glad that this game and it's developers can still surprise me all these years later.

I adore these releases, but I super regret not importing the triple pack for the collection when it was brand new. All I have is the one volume we did get, and some of the individual titles digitally.

I don't know if I should be disappointed or grateful. I think I'm simultaneously both.

"If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send one dollar to Sorry Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield."

I'm usually really sensitive to input latency and there's some absolutely shocking examples of it on Switch, even in new games, but I honestly never felt like the NES and SNES NSO apps were all that bad. – and I do play on a real SNES on a CRT too, so I have experience with both and can tell the difference. Particularly in something like Mega Man vs the legacy collections.

That said I do trust Voultar's judgement on things like that. Perhaps my own tolerance is a bit more lenient.

The Polymega perhaps still isn't for me, but this honestly pretty cool!

Awesome! I've been loving these ports already, but I love seeing new features like this! I do indeed remember these backgrounds from the 3D Classics version.

Far from me to downplay the importance of these unique games being preserved, but I've also always been endlessly fascinated by the keitai version of Rockman X. 👀