The early handhelds (Lynx, Game Gear, Turbo Express, Sega Nomad, Supervision) failed to beat the Game Boy cause they are too expensive and eat batteries like crazy despite being much powerful systems while the later handhelds (Game.com, NeoGeo Pocket Color, Wonder Swan Crystal, Mega Duck, Cybiko) failed to beat the Game Boy Advance despite being more affordable and are weaker systems which didn't last long in the market. In a way Nintendo's Game Boy win the first war cause they play by the book of affordability and durability and then later they also win the second war cause they knew powerful specs are affordable by then and was able to get the Game Boy Advance out rendering any weaker systems outdated by that point.
In the history of the handheld market, only two handhelds had ever gave Nintendo some real competition for a short time and those handhelds are the Game Gear and the PSP. Had Sega kept the Game Gear brand running and constantly improve it they may have eventually top Nintendo, had Sony not screw up the PS Vita they could easily beat the 3DS on its early launch screw-up. Sony's issue with the PS Vita is that even though the 3DS screw-up its launch release, Sony didn't take advantage of the situation but instead made it worst for the PS Vita. Nintendo literally gave Sony the win and they didn't take it.
People tend to forget that SNK use to also make arcade games before the NeoGeo. Street Smart was one of those though I say the game would had fare much better had it release as a NeoGeo game instead. The game stars Takuma Sakazaki (Karate-Man) who later appeared in Art of Fighting and Terry Rogers (Crusher) who later appeared in 3 Count Bout and is just too choppy to play.
@MARl0 It's an aftermarket clone so the likely chance that it could be a low quality product is there. Remember the NeoGeo AES was a very expensive console back then cause it was the only console that had state of the art advanced parts, components, and chipset inside of it since it's basically an arcade machine in console form. Nowadays those same chipset are just clone versions of those older ones, there's no reason for this console to be that pricy but I guess they want to replicate what the NeoGeo originally was down to the expensive price as well and not doing what a clone console suppose to do like introducing NeoGeo to as many mainstream customers as possible. I think if you still own your old cartridge then this could be for you but if you're just starting to get into the NeoGeo library, then this clone console probably won't be the best place to start with EverCade, NeoGeo Mini, Steam, GOG, Switch, or PS4 the most logically affordable entry point to begin at.
So it's just a NeoGeo branded clone console, as long as it also support the NeoSD flash cartridge then it would be a sale. If it doesn't support the NeoSD flash cartridge then there's no point in getting it.
Cool but playing this on an original Game Boy just made it so much terrible. It's nice to know that a Tiger LCD game could be ported to Game Boy like this though.
Game is alright but compare to the high profile hits on Super NES this one is just a B-rated RPG. I guess if you enjoy games like Mana or Ys then this could be up your allie. It's a 16 hour RPG at best, even shorter than Chrono Trigger.
@Porco Some Dreamcast and Arcade games such as X-Men: The 6-Player Edition are in 16:9 so that aspect ratio is helpful. Also it would make it easy for some indie titles such as Animal Well, Axiom Verge, Shovel Knight, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, and Cuphead to be implemented for the system if one were to ever get ported.
@Alex79uk I believe the reason why they implement two sticks is that they may be planning to support PlayStation and Dreamcast games soon. There are some PS1 games that do support dual sticks such as Alien Resurrection, Ape Escape, and Resident Evil 2: Dual Shock Edition. Also the second stick could be use as alternative for the N64's C-buttons in some games.
@AtomB What other retro consoles had more than four face buttons? Every console controller nowadays comes with four face buttons plus you got 2 trigger buttons, 2 analog buttons (L3 & R3), and 2 shoulder buttons as well for a total of 10 buttons which is enough to control retro games up to PS1, Sega Saturn, N64, and Dreamcast. Also if you use the right analog stick as a C-stick then that's like having 4 extra buttons for a total of 14 buttons.
What if it was an aftermarket game cartridge such as Buck and the Curse Cartridge and Dragonyhm? Would it be able to tell if those are authentic or fake?
So this also means Ouya is retro now too since it launch one year after the Wii U. Ouya being the first ever Kickstarter console to came to market, a feat even the Coleco Chameleon, Intellivision Amico, KFConsole, SuperSega, Mad Box, and Polium One couldn't even achieve until the Atari Box (which became the Atari VCS PC).
Telling their own fans to wait and then just ran away is super lame, reminds me of those Kickstarter scammers except they wasted time and break promise instead of taking the money. In that case eadmaster's translation is the one to stick with, at least with him he doesn't abandon his ambition of this project like they do.
@slider1983 You could still technically download roms from EmuParadise but you must use a browser extension to do so. While EmuParadise block public download from their site, they didn't completely remove the roms and other than roms from Nintendo and Sega, most of the third party roms could still be download. It's the same deal with YouTube blocking dislikes and thumbs down comments as well as downloading user's video, while the general public doesn't see those anymore, using certain browser extension will restore them so only you can see them and be able to download certain video which were at the moment is block from the public downloading.
Kinda sad when modern dev took the cheap lazy way and took the charm out of a classic from its original heart and soul. Yeah best to just stick to Hamster's arcade version on Switch and PS4, it's too bad Hamster doesn't release their games on PC cause now PC owner get to live with the awful imitated version.
If Tempest 2000 wasn't already included in the Jeff Minter Story collection or the Atari 50 collection then this would had been a must buy but since you could already get Tempest 2000 along with 90 other games for Switch, PS4, and Steam already, there's really no reason to get this waterdown collection unless you only own a Polymega and nothing else or is a die-hard retro collector. Odd that they didn't include Tempest 3000, that game is the only game in the Tempest franchise that hasn't been included on any modern platform yet.
Next to EmuParadise and Vimm's Lair this is one of the other website I go to find playable demo and prototype of before I buy those classic/homebrew games from places such as the eShop and Steam. So sad to see it gone but it can't be help. Even if it were to survive, it would had been shutdown later on by one of the big four corporate (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Valve, etc ) anyways.
Putting stuff online for preservation was never going to last anyways as nothing online is free. People had to realize that just cause it's free to you doesn't mean it'll stay that way forever, it's free to you to use cause someone or something is paying for it. Youtube is free cause ads revenues and Google are paying for it, Steam is free cause Valve is paying to keep it running for as long as they could, and a preservation site can't survive unless the money is coming from somewhere or someone.
Meh I got apk backup of both games already so even if the games are delisted I could always use the apk versions to play on any Android Chinese emulation handhelds that I own.
I'm surprise Sony didn't sue them for using the name Vita. Also why is this one only had up to 4GB LPDDR4X ram? The RG Slide which is a PSP Go ripoff had 8GB LPDDR4X ram. This one felt like a step backwards. Having only 4GB of ram means it'll struggle with a majority of PSP emulations (Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and God of War: Chains of Olympus will lag and glitch) and probably won't even run PS Vita games unless you buy it to play just PS1 classics.
While it looks like a cool project, that dock for the disc tray looks cheap and used only off the shelf parts. The front open tray style nature of it will only cause issue over time similar to those laptops and old school PCs with open sliding disc tray which overtime will refuse to open at some point. Should had design it so that you could just insert the disc directly to its mouth like the Wii and PS3 disc drive did rather than having its disc drive sticking out.
Good that he's tackling Ninja Gaiden Shadow now, hopefully in the future he could make DX colorization of Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters too since that's the only GB game I'm interested to replay again if it had color that is.
These would had been great launch titles for the Dreamcast 2 had Sega not left the console business too soon. Still Sega could had easily port these to any home consoles during the HD era and they just choose not to. Sega ignored every opportunity to make easy money and they still do today. It's nice that these b-rated games are finally preserve and play for free but Sega should had really given us official home release of these whether through a collection or arcade archive like how M2 and HAMSTER did with the Sega Ages games and Archive Archive and NeoGeo titles.
At the very least turn the scanline filter off. We know it's an old game so it's suppose to look old but c'mon let the gameplay show itself instead of hiding it behind a fake filter.
While the console look nice the N64 library itself isn't exactly compelling with just around 360 games. Unless you do have a big collection of cartridge games to play it with, I don't see the value in this system especially with the lack of support for flash cartridges and trying to find the good N64 cartridge games in this time and age is a time consuming task with very expensive offerings.
@jobvd A majority of people who buy this are not technical, they just want a product that is affordable, will come and just works a.k.a. plug and play, and could play their cartridge on a modern display which is 10x better than a MiSTer. Yes a MiSTer is not a bad choice and is cheaper if you know what you're doing (a mentality 90% of people don't have unless train and most don't want to bother) but lots of tinkering, jumping through hoops, and finding cores and doing research about how to make crap works ain't something the normal consumers want to do not to mention if one wants a fully plug and play MiSTer it'll cost more than the Analogue 3D console anyways and without physical cartridge support.
Until it got jailbreak, that's when I'm getting one. Right now it only support cartridge games only, heck flash cartridge doesn't even work on it yet proving that Analogue is afraid Nintendo may come after them if they allow roms to work on the thing since 70% of games on the N64 library are from Nintendo or dev and companies (a.k.a Game Freak, Rare, Midway, Capcom, etc.) affiliate with Nintendo.
When it comes to these retro collection, anything from the Atari 2600, 7800, NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, NeoGeo, and Game Boy are very much a given at this point as those roms could run on even a potato. The only few platforms that probably won't be a given so easily are the Sega Master System and Game Gear games, Atari 5200, Lynx, and Jaguar, Turbo Grafx-16/PC Engine, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, PS1, NeoGeo CD, and N64 titles as those either had emulation issues, were not as popular a platform to get games from, had less popular games, or the majority of those system's games had better versions elsewhere.
Doesn't surprise me that they didn't include the PS1, Saturn, and Amiga versions, those are all disc based versions were just build from the DOS version anyways. Wouldn't surprise me if they release a third collection with the latter three games on there soon too probably for Switch 2 and PS6 likely. First it was the SNES and DOS versions, and now it's those plus the Genesis and Game Boy versions. They'll keep making different collection until all the games are on there. I say if you are still hesitate to buy these just keep waiting until the third collection is release if it'll release at all. as that third collection may likely had all the games.
I wonder if they could just add a feature that would turn this thing into a controller for modern consoles instead. As much as I like the emulation for this thing, a majority of those had way too many issue despite having unique controls for them.
These unique controls could had easily been use for playing these same retro games on modern consoles. Imagine playing Tempest 4000 or Ikari Warriors on Steam Deck or Switch with the spinner instead of it been trapped on these terrible versions of games or playing Breakout Beyond with the trackball. It's a miss opportunity if they won't allow it. I would never use these fantastic controls on these terribly emulated games on this thing.
Having a trackball controller could also opened the door to more emulated arcade games never before release on Steam or Switch such as the Sega Sonic the Hedgehog arcade game which starred the Sonic Mania Encore crew. A game Sega kept holding back due to no existence of a modern trackball controller in this life yet.
@kitestar Acclaim and Sculptured Software are not the same company anymore. The Acclaim today is just a name with a different owner and Sculptured Software is no longer an active studio hence why most of their contents are difficult to get since after they depart, different people got rights to different contents. For a company like Digital Eclipse to get rights to those contents, they not only had to seek the original creator like James Fink but also had to get permission from Ed Boon and John Tobias as well as the former (not the current) Acclaim owner to be able to get things working. If they failed to at least get in contact with one of those then the whole inclusion falls apart.
The game was basically just an alternate version of the Super NES original and nothing more. There were no blood or gores, they just change a few words and altered the sweat to red and that's it. It's nice that you can play as Goro, Shang Tsung, and Reptile but they are too buggy to control and were not that fun to play with just like MK Trilogy.
Basically if you own a Game Genie back then, everything in Mortal Kombat Nitro are just stuff they took from there. Like before, other than having better graphics and sounds, it still plays worst than the Sega Genesis version. If anything they may as well release that N64 prototype of MK Trilogy which was more a finish game than this one which had the unmasked Sub-Zero and the Kahn's Arena stage where Shao Kahn had a standing animation after shackling Rayden and Baraka.
If anything WipEout should had stay a third party franchise. Letting Sony got a hold of that franchise will just doom the series thereafter cause the series would had done better if it had other entries on other more powerful innovative consoles. Letting it been limited to Sony means Sony expect high sales from the franchise, if the series doesn't meet high sales then it would gone under or bury. Just imagine how awesome it would had been on GameCube against F-Zero GX or on Wii against Speed Racer or on Switch against Fast RMX.
I'm impressed that they choose to actually add their own colors and unique touches to the game instead of just lazily implement the Super Game Boy ones. Most DX hacks just add the SGB colors and features to the gb rom and call it a day without much modifications and improvements.
@KociolekDoSyta Nintendo is not responsible for putting the Rising Sun symbol in these games and they surely did not start World War II that cause this whole mess of the entire Eastern hemisphere to have controversial hatred for the Rising Sun. What System 3 should do is release the collection without Last Ninja 3 then remaster Last Ninja 3 exclusively for Switch and Steam with the Rising Sun symbol altered. It seems they are just making excuses for something they are too lazy to do, something a modder could easily do via a rom hack in less than 24 hours.
I always wonder what happen to Donkey Kong II, I never thought it was a Game and Watch exclusive considering DK1 and DK3 were both arcade and NES games. Instead what we got was DK Junior, a totally different game that is like DKII but not really DKII.
It's not a Megavania if you can't pick a level out of order from the norm. The best part about any Mega Man game is that it lets you pick a starting level your way (aside from the tutorial level and the final boss levels), it doesn't choose a set path of levels for you.
If Konami is too lazy to make a new 2D Castlevania game, they could easily get the rights to this game, slapped the Castlevania brand on it and people will still buy it.
@AlienX At the time they didn't really know if the game will find an audience on GBA which is why this game is just a test entry and not actually a main game. The ten characters chosen for this game were here simply because they were recognizable from the main entry version. Since the game did not sell well, it's obvious clear why Namco did not bring more Tekken games to the GBA or its successor.
This game originally was suppose to include at least 15 characters but 5 got cut cause the GBA simply had no space left for them. Those five characters are Lei Wulong, Julia Chang, Eddy Gordo, Ogre, and True Ogre. Both Ogre and Heihachi were suppose to be unlockable characters and once both are unlock and finish Arcade Mode with, then True Ogre would be unlock but since the 5 got cut, that never happen and Heihachi become the only unlockable.
I kept forgetting that Virtual Boy had a controller. Guess I was more into the visor part than the control. I do like that the controller is made for both left and right handed people in mind. The first time Nintendo ever design a product with both sides instead of always catering to the right handed.
For a bite size game, this game is super fun and is loaded with modes from both Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament. Interesting note was that this was the first ever Tekken game to be on a Nintendo system. Back in 2002 no gamers expected a PlayStation IP like Tekken to ever release on a Nintendo system.
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Re: Flashback: Almost 30 Years Ago, SNK And Bandai Made The Exact Same Mistake Trying To Take Down Nintendo
The early handhelds (Lynx, Game Gear, Turbo Express, Sega Nomad, Supervision) failed to beat the Game Boy cause they are too expensive and eat batteries like crazy despite being much powerful systems while the later handhelds (Game.com, NeoGeo Pocket Color, Wonder Swan Crystal, Mega Duck, Cybiko) failed to beat the Game Boy Advance despite being more affordable and are weaker systems which didn't last long in the market. In a way Nintendo's Game Boy win the first war cause they play by the book of affordability and durability and then later they also win the second war cause they knew powerful specs are affordable by then and was able to get the Game Boy Advance out rendering any weaker systems outdated by that point.
In the history of the handheld market, only two handhelds had ever gave Nintendo some real competition for a short time and those handhelds are the Game Gear and the PSP. Had Sega kept the Game Gear brand running and constantly improve it they may have eventually top Nintendo, had Sony not screw up the PS Vita they could easily beat the 3DS on its early launch screw-up. Sony's issue with the PS Vita is that even though the 3DS screw-up its launch release, Sony didn't take advantage of the situation but instead made it worst for the PS Vita. Nintendo literally gave Sony the win and they didn't take it.
Re: SNK's Street Smart And Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden III Come To Consoles This Week
People tend to forget that SNK use to also make arcade games before the NeoGeo. Street Smart was one of those though I say the game would had fare much better had it release as a NeoGeo game instead. The game stars Takuma Sakazaki (Karate-Man) who later appeared in Art of Fighting and Terry Rogers (Crusher) who later appeared in 3 Count Bout and is just too choppy to play.
Re: A Classic R-Type Game Boy Color Game Is Being Resurrected On Modern Platforms, Later This Month
Nice definitely would get this if the price is right.
Re: "No Emulation, No Compromise, No Comparison" - The $250 Neo Geo+ AES Aims To Be A 1:1 Replica Of SNK's Classic Console
@MARl0 It's an aftermarket clone so the likely chance that it could be a low quality product is there. Remember the NeoGeo AES was a very expensive console back then cause it was the only console that had state of the art advanced parts, components, and chipset inside of it since it's basically an arcade machine in console form. Nowadays those same chipset are just clone versions of those older ones, there's no reason for this console to be that pricy but I guess they want to replicate what the NeoGeo originally was down to the expensive price as well and not doing what a clone console suppose to do like introducing NeoGeo to as many mainstream customers as possible. I think if you still own your old cartridge then this could be for you but if you're just starting to get into the NeoGeo library, then this clone console probably won't be the best place to start with EverCade, NeoGeo Mini, Steam, GOG, Switch, or PS4 the most logically affordable entry point to begin at.
Re: "No Emulation, No Compromise, No Comparison" - The $250 Neo Geo+ AES Aims To Be A 1:1 Replica Of SNK's Classic Console
So it's just a NeoGeo branded clone console, as long as it also support the NeoSD flash cartridge then it would be a sale. If it doesn't support the NeoSD flash cartridge then there's no point in getting it.
Re: "I Don't Know Who Failed Due Diligence Here" - Sigma Star Saga DX Updated After Violating GBA Emulator's License
@Guru_Larry Hmmm Polymega or maybe it's the EverCade? I know it's not the SuperSega and the Intellivision Amico cause those don't exist yet.
Re: Obscure Mega Man Game Given The Game Boy Remake "Nobody Asked For"
Cool but playing this on an original Game Boy just made it so much terrible. It's nice to know that a Tiger LCD game could be ported to Game Boy like this though.
Re: One Of The Sega Genesis's Worst-Reviewed RPGs Is Making A Comeback On Modern Consoles
Game is alright but compare to the high profile hits on Super NES this one is just a B-rated RPG. I guess if you enjoy games like Mana or Ys then this could be up your allie. It's a 16 hour RPG at best, even shorter than Chrono Trigger.
Re: Evercade Nexus Has A Better Screen, Dual Analog, Banjo, And Nintendo's Most Consumer-Friendly Feature
@Porco Some Dreamcast and Arcade games such as X-Men: The 6-Player Edition are in 16:9 so that aspect ratio is helpful. Also it would make it easy for some indie titles such as Animal Well, Axiom Verge, Shovel Knight, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, and Cuphead to be implemented for the system if one were to ever get ported.
Re: Evercade Nexus Has A Better Screen, Dual Analog, Banjo, And Nintendo's Most Consumer-Friendly Feature
@Alex79uk I believe the reason why they implement two sticks is that they may be planning to support PlayStation and Dreamcast games soon. There are some PS1 games that do support dual sticks such as Alien Resurrection, Ape Escape, and Resident Evil 2: Dual Shock Edition. Also the second stick could be use as alternative for the N64's C-buttons in some games.
Re: Evercade Nexus Has A Better Screen, Dual Analog, Banjo, And Nintendo's Most Consumer-Friendly Feature
@AtomB What other retro consoles had more than four face buttons? Every console controller nowadays comes with four face buttons plus you got 2 trigger buttons, 2 analog buttons (L3 & R3), and 2 shoulder buttons as well for a total of 10 buttons which is enough to control retro games up to PS1, Sega Saturn, N64, and Dreamcast. Also if you use the right analog stick as a C-stick then that's like having 4 extra buttons for a total of 14 buttons.
Re: 37 Years After Its Release, Friday The 13th's Notorious NES Game Has Been Recreated For A Classic Nintendo Handheld
A cool game but I never understand why there are even zombies in a slasher game where you play as the victims.
Re: You Can Now Check If A Game Boy Cart Is Fake Using Your Smartphone And This Awesome Device
What if it was an aftermarket game cartridge such as Buck and the Curse Cartridge and Dragonyhm? Would it be able to tell if those are authentic or fake?
Re: Anniversary: 25 Years Ago, Nintendo Put SNES Games In The Palm Of Your Hand With The GBA
@MeloMan Only two buttons are missing.
Re: Review: AYANEO Pocket Air Mini - The Best Emulation Handheld For Under $100
Look tempting, if the price is somewhere around $90-$120 (not including tax and shipping) then I would definitely had to check it out.
Re: Xbox 360, PS3 And Nintendo Wii U Are "Officially Retro", Says GameStop
So this also means Ouya is retro now too since it launch one year after the Wii U. Ouya being the first ever Kickstarter console to came to market, a feat even the Coleco Chameleon, Intellivision Amico, KFConsole, SuperSega, Mad Box, and Polium One couldn't even achieve until the Atari Box (which became the Atari VCS PC).
Re: "What A Terrible Waste Of Time All Of It Was" - Princess Crown's Original Translation Is Dead
Telling their own fans to wait and then just ran away is super lame, reminds me of those Kickstarter scammers except they wasted time and break promise instead of taking the money. In that case eadmaster's translation is the one to stick with, at least with him he doesn't abandon his ambition of this project like they do.
Re: "We Need As Many Hands As Possible" - There's A New Volunteer-Driven Effort To "Preserve Myrient's Legacy"
@slider1983 You could still technically download roms from EmuParadise but you must use a browser extension to do so. While EmuParadise block public download from their site, they didn't completely remove the roms and other than roms from Nintendo and Sega, most of the third party roms could still be download. It's the same deal with YouTube blocking dislikes and thumbs down comments as well as downloading user's video, while the general public doesn't see those anymore, using certain browser extension will restore them so only you can see them and be able to download certain video which were at the moment is block from the public downloading.
Re: "This Remake Is Just Soulless" - Early Impressions Of The NewZealand Story Untold Adventure Aren't Looking Good
Kinda sad when modern dev took the cheap lazy way and took the charm out of a classic from its original heart and soul. Yeah best to just stick to Hamster's arcade version on Switch and PS4, it's too bad Hamster doesn't release their games on PC cause now PC owner get to live with the awful imitated version.
Re: Review: Polymega Collection Vol. 12 - Tempest - Includes The Atari Jaguar's Killer App
If Tempest 2000 wasn't already included in the Jeff Minter Story collection or the Atari 50 collection then this would had been a must buy but since you could already get Tempest 2000 along with 90 other games for Switch, PS4, and Steam already, there's really no reason to get this waterdown collection unless you only own a Polymega and nothing else or is a die-hard retro collector. Odd that they didn't include Tempest 3000, that game is the only game in the Tempest franchise that hasn't been included on any modern platform yet.
Re: SNES Exclusive Beat 'Em Up 'Triple Impact' Has Just Got Its Very First Trailer
Looks cool and quite fun. Reminds me of the Ninja Warriors, Final Fight, and Rival Turf games. Hope to see more updates of this.
Re: "A Forgotten Castlevania Is Reborn On Game Boy" - 2007's Order of Shadows Lives On
Nice hopefully a physical release happen soon.
Re: "This Is What AI And Greed Does" - Video Game 'Preservation Service' Myrient Is Shutting Down
Next to EmuParadise and Vimm's Lair this is one of the other website I go to find playable demo and prototype of before I buy those classic/homebrew games from places such as the eShop and Steam. So sad to see it gone but it can't be help. Even if it were to survive, it would had been shutdown later on by one of the big four corporate (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Valve, etc ) anyways.
Putting stuff online for preservation was never going to last anyways as nothing online is free. People had to realize that just cause it's free to you doesn't mean it'll stay that way forever, it's free to you to use cause someone or something is paying for it. Youtube is free cause ads revenues and Google are paying for it, Steam is free cause Valve is paying to keep it running for as long as they could, and a preservation site can't survive unless the money is coming from somewhere or someone.
Re: Another Set Of Sega Classics Are Being Discontinued On Mobile
Meh I got apk backup of both games already so even if the games are delisted I could always use the apk versions to play on any Android Chinese emulation handhelds that I own.
Re: This Is The Best Way To Play Fan Translations On Original Hardware We've Seen So Far
Nah I think I'm good with my SD2SNES and its already fan translated roms.
Re: Anbernic's PS Vita-Style Handheld Launches Next Month, Could Start At Less Than $100
I'm surprise Sony didn't sue them for using the name Vita. Also why is this one only had up to 4GB LPDDR4X ram? The RG Slide which is a PSP Go ripoff had 8GB LPDDR4X ram. This one felt like a step backwards. Having only 4GB of ram means it'll struggle with a majority of PSP emulations (Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and God of War: Chains of Olympus will lag and glitch) and probably won't even run PS Vita games unless you buy it to play just PS1 classics.
Re: "2025 Was The Most Stressful I've Ever Experienced" - Taki Udon Opens Up On Bringing FPGA SuperStation One To Market
While it looks like a cool project, that dock for the disc tray looks cheap and used only off the shelf parts. The front open tray style nature of it will only cause issue over time similar to those laptops and old school PCs with open sliding disc tray which overtime will refuse to open at some point. Should had design it so that you could just insert the disc directly to its mouth like the Wii and PS3 disc drive did rather than having its disc drive sticking out.
Re: Game Boy Title 'Ninja Gaiden Shadow' Is Getting The Unofficial DX Treatment
Good that he's tackling Ninja Gaiden Shadow now, hopefully in the future he could make DX colorization of Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters too since that's the only GB game I'm interested to replay again if it had color that is.
Re: "Lost" Space Harrier Sequel Planet Harriers Runs Great In This Updated Dreamcast Emulator
These would had been great launch titles for the Dreamcast 2 had Sega not left the console business too soon. Still Sega could had easily port these to any home consoles during the HD era and they just choose not to. Sega ignored every opportunity to make easy money and they still do today. It's nice that these b-rated games are finally preserve and play for free but Sega should had really given us official home release of these whether through a collection or arcade archive like how M2 and HAMSTER did with the Sega Ages games and Archive Archive and NeoGeo titles.
Re: No, You're Not Dreaming. Here's Spyro the Dragon Running On The N64
At the very least turn the scanline filter off. We know it's an old game so it's suppose to look old but c'mon let the gameplay show itself instead of hiding it behind a fake filter.
Re: Here's Why Marvel Vs. Capcom Swapped Out Iron Man For War Machine
A majority of the hidden characters in previous SNK/Marvel vs. Capcom games are basically other characters.
Re: All EverDrive 64 Flash Carts Now Work With The Analogue 3D
About time, now I we just need to see how the M64 is gonna deliver.
Re: Analogue 3D Goes Back Up For Pre-Order Next Week, But There's A Catch
While the console look nice the N64 library itself isn't exactly compelling with just around 360 games. Unless you do have a big collection of cartridge games to play it with, I don't see the value in this system especially with the lack of support for flash cartridges and trying to find the good N64 cartridge games in this time and age is a time consuming task with very expensive offerings.
Re: Did Somebody Say 'Nintendo 64 Pro'? Watch The Analogue 3D's Overclocked Mode In Action
@jobvd A majority of people who buy this are not technical, they just want a product that is affordable, will come and just works a.k.a. plug and play, and could play their cartridge on a modern display which is 10x better than a MiSTer. Yes a MiSTer is not a bad choice and is cheaper if you know what you're doing (a mentality 90% of people don't have unless train and most don't want to bother) but lots of tinkering, jumping through hoops, and finding cores and doing research about how to make crap works ain't something the normal consumers want to do not to mention if one wants a fully plug and play MiSTer it'll cost more than the Analogue 3D console anyways and without physical cartridge support.
Re: Did Somebody Say 'Nintendo 64 Pro'? Watch The Analogue 3D's Overclocked Mode In Action
Until it got jailbreak, that's when I'm getting one. Right now it only support cartridge games only, heck flash cartridge doesn't even work on it yet proving that Analogue is afraid Nintendo may come after them if they allow roms to work on the thing since 70% of games on the N64 library are from Nintendo or dev and companies (a.k.a Game Freak, Rare, Midway, Capcom, etc.) affiliate with Nintendo.
Re: Ubisoft's Mario Kart Clone 'Street Racer' Is Coming To Modern Consoles & Steam This November
When it comes to these retro collection, anything from the Atari 2600, 7800, NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, NeoGeo, and Game Boy are very much a given at this point as those roms could run on even a potato. The only few platforms that probably won't be a given so easily are the Sega Master System and Game Gear games, Atari 5200, Lynx, and Jaguar, Turbo Grafx-16/PC Engine, Sega Saturn and Dreamcast, PS1, NeoGeo CD, and N64 titles as those either had emulation issues, were not as popular a platform to get games from, had less popular games, or the majority of those system's games had better versions elsewhere.
Doesn't surprise me that they didn't include the PS1, Saturn, and Amiga versions, those are all disc based versions were just build from the DOS version anyways. Wouldn't surprise me if they release a third collection with the latter three games on there soon too probably for Switch 2 and PS6 likely. First it was the SNES and DOS versions, and now it's those plus the Genesis and Game Boy versions. They'll keep making different collection until all the games are on there. I say if you are still hesitate to buy these just keep waiting until the third collection is release if it'll release at all. as that third collection may likely had all the games.
Re: "You Wouldn't See Street Fighter Or Tekken Putting This Garbage Out" - Mortal Kombat Art Book Accused Of Using AI Upscaling
The book title should be change to Mortal Kombat: Flaw Victory.
Re: Review: Atari Gamestation Go - A Tour Of Atari's Legacy With One Too Many Bumps In The Road
I wonder if they could just add a feature that would turn this thing into a controller for modern consoles instead. As much as I like the emulation for this thing, a majority of those had way too many issue despite having unique controls for them.
These unique controls could had easily been use for playing these same retro games on modern consoles. Imagine playing Tempest 4000 or Ikari Warriors on Steam Deck or Switch with the spinner instead of it been trapped on these terrible versions of games or playing Breakout Beyond with the trackball. It's a miss opportunity if they won't allow it. I would never use these fantastic controls on these terribly emulated games on this thing.
Having a trackball controller could also opened the door to more emulated arcade games never before release on Steam or Switch such as the Sega Sonic the Hedgehog arcade game which starred the Sonic Mania Encore crew. A game Sega kept holding back due to no existence of a modern trackball controller in this life yet.
Re: Mortal Kombat Kollection Devs Still Won't Say If This SNES "Holy Grail" Is Included
@kitestar Acclaim and Sculptured Software are not the same company anymore. The Acclaim today is just a name with a different owner and Sculptured Software is no longer an active studio hence why most of their contents are difficult to get since after they depart, different people got rights to different contents. For a company like Digital Eclipse to get rights to those contents, they not only had to seek the original creator like James Fink but also had to get permission from Ed Boon and John Tobias as well as the former (not the current) Acclaim owner to be able to get things working. If they failed to at least get in contact with one of those then the whole inclusion falls apart.
Re: Mortal Kombat Kollection Devs Still Won't Say If This SNES "Holy Grail" Is Included
The game was basically just an alternate version of the Super NES original and nothing more. There were no blood or gores, they just change a few words and altered the sweat to red and that's it. It's nice that you can play as Goro, Shang Tsung, and Reptile but they are too buggy to control and were not that fun to play with just like MK Trilogy.
Basically if you own a Game Genie back then, everything in Mortal Kombat Nitro are just stuff they took from there. Like before, other than having better graphics and sounds, it still plays worst than the Sega Genesis version. If anything they may as well release that N64 prototype of MK Trilogy which was more a finish game than this one which had the unmasked Sub-Zero and the Kahn's Arena stage where Shao Kahn had a standing animation after shackling Rayden and Baraka.
Re: It Was "Helpful" That Nintendo Killed The SNES PlayStation - Otherwise Sony Would Have Been "Stuck", Says Shuhei Yoshida
I'm glad Nintendo help Sega help Sony help Microsoft get into the gaming market even though they didn't intend for them to.
Re: "What Was Psygnosis Doing On The N64? Traitors!" - Ex-Sony Staff On WipEout Coming To Nintendo
If anything WipEout should had stay a third party franchise. Letting Sony got a hold of that franchise will just doom the series thereafter cause the series would had done better if it had other entries on other more powerful innovative consoles. Letting it been limited to Sony means Sony expect high sales from the franchise, if the series doesn't meet high sales then it would gone under or bury. Just imagine how awesome it would had been on GameCube against F-Zero GX or on Wii against Speed Racer or on Switch against Fast RMX.
Re: Miyamoto's "Forgotten" Game Boy Masterpiece Mole Mania Gets The Unofficial 'DX' Treatment
I'm impressed that they choose to actually add their own colors and unique touches to the game instead of just lazily implement the Super Game Boy ones. Most DX hacks just add the SGB colors and features to the gb rom and call it a day without much modifications and improvements.
Re: "Nintendo Has Made Serious Objections" - Last Ninja Collection Delayed On Consoles
@KociolekDoSyta Nintendo is not responsible for putting the Rising Sun symbol in these games and they surely did not start World War II that cause this whole mess of the entire Eastern hemisphere to have controversial hatred for the Rising Sun. What System 3 should do is release the collection without Last Ninja 3 then remaster Last Ninja 3 exclusively for Switch and Steam with the Rising Sun symbol altered. It seems they are just making excuses for something they are too lazy to do, something a modder could easily do via a rom hack in less than 24 hours.
Re: Game Changer: Donkey Kong II Game & Watch - My First Ever Taste Of Video Games
I always wonder what happen to Donkey Kong II, I never thought it was a Game and Watch exclusive considering DK1 and DK3 were both arcade and NES games. Instead what we got was DK Junior, a totally different game that is like DKII but not really DKII.
Re: Castlevania-Inspired 'Spine Lasher' Is A "Megavania", Not A Metroidvania
It's not a Megavania if you can't pick a level out of order from the norm. The best part about any Mega Man game is that it lets you pick a starting level your way (aside from the tutorial level and the final boss levels), it doesn't choose a set path of levels for you.
Re: Indie Metroidvania 'Eternal Soul' Absolutely Nails That Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night Vibe
If Konami is too lazy to make a new 2D Castlevania game, they could easily get the rights to this game, slapped the Castlevania brand on it and people will still buy it.
Re: The Making Of: Tekken Advance, Namco's Unexpected GBA Conversion Of The Classic Fighting Game Series
@AlienX At the time they didn't really know if the game will find an audience on GBA which is why this game is just a test entry and not actually a main game. The ten characters chosen for this game were here simply because they were recognizable from the main entry version. Since the game did not sell well, it's obvious clear why Namco did not bring more Tekken games to the GBA or its successor.
This game originally was suppose to include at least 15 characters but 5 got cut cause the GBA simply had no space left for them. Those five characters are Lei Wulong, Julia Chang, Eddy Gordo, Ogre, and True Ogre. Both Ogre and Heihachi were suppose to be unlockable characters and once both are unlock and finish Arcade Mode with, then True Ogre would be unlock but since the 5 got cut, that never happen and Heihachi become the only unlockable.
Re: Switch Isn't Getting A Virtual Boy Controller, So This Modder Has Created The Next Best Thing
I kept forgetting that Virtual Boy had a controller. Guess I was more into the visor part than the control. I do like that the controller is made for both left and right handed people in mind. The first time Nintendo ever design a product with both sides instead of always catering to the right handed.
Re: The Making Of: Tekken Advance, Namco's Unexpected GBA Conversion Of The Classic Fighting Game Series
For a bite size game, this game is super fun and is loaded with modes from both Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament. Interesting note was that this was the first ever Tekken game to be on a Nintendo system. Back in 2002 no gamers expected a PlayStation IP like Tekken to ever release on a Nintendo system.