He's like the grandfather of all videogame music composers. A living legend next to masterpiece legends like Yuzo Koshiro, Koji Kondo, Ryuji Sasai, Yoko Shimomura, Yasuhiro Kawakami, David Wise, Tim Follin, Yasunori Mitsuda, Dan Fordan, Tommy Tallarico, Motoi Sakuraba, Manami Kiyota, Yatsumi Mitsuda, among many others.
Whoever came to rob him were probably there before and knew about the collection. It could even be someone he knew as well. I'm sadden to say sorry to this guy but yeah it doesn't look like those games are coming back. Whoever steal those probably already made good money off of those on second hand sites like Facebook Marketplace, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, Mercari or at a yard sale or convention somewhere.
Collecting games is a good hobby but the real hurt comes when the collection is loss or steal. I knew this cause I got my PS2 collection steal from me as well back around 2010. Luckily I only got 35 games on it and the best ones already got re-released nowadays on modern consoles so I didn't miss it as much plus I already mod my PS2 so I can still play those games at any time anyways.
While I'm glad they are re-releasing this game, I'm still wondering why they didn't choose to just release it as a collection along with Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia. From that trailer it doesn't look like the game is a remastered or a remake (no rework graphics, no true widescreen support, only in 4:3, no remix or rearrange soundtracks, no qol features, etc.) just a straight rom port of the Super Famicom/Super NES game. If that's the case they could easily fit two more games on there. Terranigma is only 4mb and the other two games (Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia) are only 2mb each.
I did found a nice English repro cartridge copy of this game which had the 60hz patch to it so that runs great on my Analogue Super Nt. I now had all the Quintet games with the only game left being the garbage that was the Granstream Saga which I will never get cause it's not a Quintet game and isn't even part of the Blazer series.
@Sadeness The Granstream Saga was not made by Quintet, it's made by some of the creator that use to be part of Quintet. There's a difference. It's similar to Playtonic of Yooka-Laylee who had people that use to work at Rare and help created Banjo-Kazooie, yes Yooka-Laylee was made by some of the same people but it's not part of Banjo-Kazooie or Rare just like this Granstream Saga is not part of Enix and the Blazer trilogy.
The game is just made by some of the same people but the game is not part of the Blazer series. It was its own game and a crappy one at that. The Blazer trilogy is made by Quintet but like ActRaiser 1 & 2 it's own by Enix, Granstream was not part of Enix or Quintet or even Square Enix at this point. Also ActRaiser 1 & 2 were made by Quintet and own by Enix and even those two games were not part of the Blazer series so the Granstream Saga is even more not part of the series since it's not even made by Quintet or own by Enix, it's made by a dev called Shade that had ex-Quintet workers working there.
The reason many people don't like Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is the same reason I don't like Double Dragon V. For one Shinobi is suppose to be a side-scrolling action game, people expect a new Shinobi to be just that but instead the new Art of Vengeance is a beat em up, a totally different take. For me Double Dragon is suppose to be a beat em up when a new Double Dragon game was to be release I expect it to be a beat em up but Double Dragon V is not a beat em up, it's a fighting game instead. Massive disappointment with that. It's like buying a Mario Kart game expecting a Mario Kart experience only to find out it's just an F1 racing game with Mario characters instead.
They should had gotten this mode out first before they shipped that disc drive dock. By shipping that early with the console, most users can't use the disc drive to test their disc games thus resulting in Taki Udon getting negative publicity from that. I'm interested in one but I will not be buying it if the disc drive is not part of the console.
If only they made a second one where it's an actual disc console like the original PS1 then maybe I would buy it but as it is now I feel that it's just a waste of money especially when you have to pay for both the console and the dock just to have the experience of the original.
@metaphysician It's simplicity sake really, the Game Boy platform were meant for simple gaming on the go so even if they are planning for GBA to be a portable Super NES, they had to keep the gameplay simple. Instead of introducing more buttons they crunch the performance into one simple progression for example in Super Mario World for Super NES, all 6 buttons were used, Y and X for grabbing and dashing, B for regular jumps, A for a spin-jump, and L and R for screen slide ahead, L for sliding to the left and R for sliding to the right.
In Super Mario World for GBA all those techniques are now crunch into a few buttons, B now does what Y and X use to do, A is for regular jumps, R is for spin-jump and L is use for sliding the screen but there's a twist, the screen will only slide to the direction Mario or Luigi is facing so still they manage to find ways to use all the techniques just in simple ways.
@metaphysician Yeah but considering Chinese emulation handhelds like the budget king R36S and RG-35XX H are able to get a good 4:3 screen, Hyperkin had no reason to not invest in one.
I don't get why Hyperkin even bother to go with a 16:9 screen, it's a Super NES clone handheld, not a PSP clone. Keep it at 4:3 please. On second thought add an option for 8:7 (the pixel perfect aspect ratio for the Super NES), that would had made more sense.
@-wc- Well there were Game Boy games on PS Vita like Adventure of Mana (remake of Final Fantasy Adventure) and Tetris both which doesn't use the touch pad. Also a majority of GBA ports (Final Fantasy 1 & 2, Riviera, Yggdra Union, Tales of Phantasia, etc.) from the PSP that were play on the PS Vita made the touch pad kinda useless.
@PKDuckman Dude the Switch 1 could handle PS2 emulation (Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3, and Devil May Cry Trilogy works great on it), I'm sure handling a PS1 game is a none issue for Switch.
Until Sega say something, this at best is just a gamer's wet dream. The thing I know about Sega is that they often knew how to hype up an announcement attempting to get fans excited only to fumble it the moment the execution of that announcement came to fruition. They hype it big only to disappoint once revealed.
Remember how they hype up the arcade service they were gonna get into during the pandemic, the release of Genesis Mini, and the announcement of Sega Forever which was suppose to deliver classic titles from their Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Saturn, Game Gear, and Dreamcast library for mobile yet all we got from that were mostly Genesis titles.
As much as I like a new Sega handheld, this new handheld if Sega is indeed making one could just be a Genesis, Game Gear, or Master System compatible portable. We all know it won't be disc based so Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast games are out of the picture.
As cool as this is, all these contents were not meant to be seen by the whole world anyways. SNK was banking these in just the Japanese audience, not sure why they would do that when bringing these worldwide would had help bring the Samurai Shodown games to more players. They even turn down Working Design when they came knocking for a localization in an attempt to secured an international release. I guess SNK wasn't too fond about making money back then. This RPG despite having three versions also didn't sell very well in Japan so maybe SNK saw that and choose not to release it internationally.
I never understand why Namco couldn't include this mode for that awful Soul Calibur II Remastered they released for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It would had been something special and made the game more worthwhile to play.
If Ys III: Wanderer From Ys could be remade into a main game (Oath in Felghana) like all the rest of the Ys titles then surely Nintendo could remake The Adventure of Link in similar ways too turning it to A Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time style gameplay.
For those who don't know Ys III plays in similar manner to the Adventure of Link as more of a side-scrolling action adventure game but its remake, Oath in Felghana, is done in the same style as Ys VI and Ys Seven using the bird's eye view again making it a much better game while keeping the story and elements the same.
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.
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Re: Feature: "He Is Truly One Of A Kind" - A Celebration Of Nobuo Uematsu, The Maestro Of Video Game Music
He's like the grandfather of all videogame music composers. A living legend next to masterpiece legends like Yuzo Koshiro, Koji Kondo, Ryuji Sasai, Yoko Shimomura, Yasuhiro Kawakami, David Wise, Tim Follin, Yasunori Mitsuda, Dan Fordan, Tommy Tallarico, Motoi Sakuraba, Manami Kiyota, Yatsumi Mitsuda, among many others.
Re: "I Don't Think I'll Collect Another Thing Again" - Prized NES Collection Of Over 860+ NES Games Stolen In Heartbreaking Burglary
Whoever came to rob him were probably there before and knew about the collection. It could even be someone he knew as well. I'm sadden to say sorry to this guy but yeah it doesn't look like those games are coming back. Whoever steal those probably already made good money off of those on second hand sites like Facebook Marketplace, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Craigslist, Mercari or at a yard sale or convention somewhere.
Collecting games is a good hobby but the real hurt comes when the collection is loss or steal. I knew this cause I got my PS2 collection steal from me as well back around 2010. Luckily I only got 35 games on it and the best ones already got re-released nowadays on modern consoles so I didn't miss it as much plus I already mod my PS2 so I can still play those games at any time anyways.
Re: "This Moment Has Been Long Awaited" - Terranigma Is Coming To Switch, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox And PC Early Next Year
While I'm glad they are re-releasing this game, I'm still wondering why they didn't choose to just release it as a collection along with Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia. From that trailer it doesn't look like the game is a remastered or a remake (no rework graphics, no true widescreen support, only in 4:3, no remix or rearrange soundtracks, no qol features, etc.) just a straight rom port of the Super Famicom/Super NES game. If that's the case they could easily fit two more games on there. Terranigma is only 4mb and the other two games (Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia) are only 2mb each.
Re: Random Game Saturday: Terranigma (SNES)
I did found a nice English repro cartridge copy of this game which had the 60hz patch to it so that runs great on my Analogue Super Nt. I now had all the Quintet games with the only game left being the garbage that was the Granstream Saga which I will never get cause it's not a Quintet game and isn't even part of the Blazer series.
Re: Wake Up, It Looks Like Terranigma Might Finally Be Getting A Re-Release
@Sadeness The Granstream Saga was not made by Quintet, it's made by some of the creator that use to be part of Quintet. There's a difference. It's similar to Playtonic of Yooka-Laylee who had people that use to work at Rare and help created Banjo-Kazooie, yes Yooka-Laylee was made by some of the same people but it's not part of Banjo-Kazooie or Rare just like this Granstream Saga is not part of Enix and the Blazer trilogy.
The game is just made by some of the same people but the game is not part of the Blazer series. It was its own game and a crappy one at that. The Blazer trilogy is made by Quintet but like ActRaiser 1 & 2 it's own by Enix, Granstream was not part of Enix or Quintet or even Square Enix at this point. Also ActRaiser 1 & 2 were made by Quintet and own by Enix and even those two games were not part of the Blazer series so the Granstream Saga is even more not part of the series since it's not even made by Quintet or own by Enix, it's made by a dev called Shade that had ex-Quintet workers working there.
Re: Wake Up, It Looks Like Terranigma Might Finally Be Getting A Re-Release
Nice, a remake or remastered of this game in any form release for Switch and Steam would be fantastic.
Re: This New Analogue Pocket Variant Is Designed To Give You Serious FOMO
At the very least make a landscape version of the handheld.
Re: "I Don't Understand This Hate Towards Arcade Game Design" - Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance Dev Comments Trigger Fresh Debate
The reason many people don't like Shinobi: Art of Vengeance is the same reason I don't like Double Dragon V. For one Shinobi is suppose to be a side-scrolling action game, people expect a new Shinobi to be just that but instead the new Art of Vengeance is a beat em up, a totally different take. For me Double Dragon is suppose to be a beat em up when a new Double Dragon game was to be release I expect it to be a beat em up but Double Dragon V is not a beat em up, it's a fighting game instead. Massive disappointment with that. It's like buying a Mario Kart game expecting a Mario Kart experience only to find out it's just an F1 racing game with Mario characters instead.
Re: SuperStation One's Delayed 'Console Mode' Is Available Now
They should had gotten this mode out first before they shipped that disc drive dock. By shipping that early with the console, most users can't use the disc drive to test their disc games thus resulting in Taki Udon getting negative publicity from that. I'm interested in one but I will not be buying it if the disc drive is not part of the console.
If only they made a second one where it's an actual disc console like the original PS1 then maybe I would buy it but as it is now I feel that it's just a waste of money especially when you have to pay for both the console and the dock just to have the experience of the original.
Re: Anniversary: 25 Years Ago, Nintendo Put SNES Games In The Palm Of Your Hand With The GBA
@metaphysician It's simplicity sake really, the Game Boy platform were meant for simple gaming on the go so even if they are planning for GBA to be a portable Super NES, they had to keep the gameplay simple. Instead of introducing more buttons they crunch the performance into one simple progression for example in Super Mario World for Super NES, all 6 buttons were used, Y and X for grabbing and dashing, B for regular jumps, A for a spin-jump, and L and R for screen slide ahead, L for sliding to the left and R for sliding to the right.
In Super Mario World for GBA all those techniques are now crunch into a few buttons, B now does what Y and X use to do, A is for regular jumps, R is for spin-jump and L is use for sliding the screen but there's a twist, the screen will only slide to the direction Mario or Luigi is facing so still they manage to find ways to use all the techniques just in simple ways.
Re: Random: "What In The Name Of Copyright Infringement Is This Madness?" - Intellivision Amico Box Showcasing Nintendo Art Surfaces Online
Goes to show that Tommy Tallarico is still a con artist and is never going to stop people from throwing money at his scam product.
Re: Hyperkin Is Re-Releasing Its 15-Year-Old Portable SNES In Two New Designs
@metaphysician Yeah but considering Chinese emulation handhelds like the budget king R36S and RG-35XX H are able to get a good 4:3 screen, Hyperkin had no reason to not invest in one.
Re: Hyperkin Is Re-Releasing Its 15-Year-Old Portable SNES In Two New Designs
I don't get why Hyperkin even bother to go with a 16:9 screen, it's a Super NES clone handheld, not a PSP clone. Keep it at 4:3 please. On second thought add an option for 8:7 (the pixel perfect aspect ratio for the Super NES), that would had made more sense.
Re: "Instead Of The Vita, We Should've Made PSP 2" - Shawn Layden Sticks It To Sony's Last Handheld
@-wc- Well there were Game Boy games on PS Vita like Adventure of Mana (remake of Final Fantasy Adventure) and Tetris both which doesn't use the touch pad. Also a majority of GBA ports (Final Fantasy 1 & 2, Riviera, Yggdra Union, Tales of Phantasia, etc.) from the PSP that were play on the PS Vita made the touch pad kinda useless.
Re: Namco's Legendary Arcade Fighting Game 'Tekken' Is Coming To Arcade Archives 2
@PKDuckman Dude the Switch 1 could handle PS2 emulation (Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3, and Devil May Cry Trilogy works great on it), I'm sure handling a PS1 game is a none issue for Switch.
Re: Rumour: Sega Might Be Releasing A Low-Cost Handheld With Removable Game Carts
Until Sega say something, this at best is just a gamer's wet dream. The thing I know about Sega is that they often knew how to hype up an announcement attempting to get fans excited only to fumble it the moment the execution of that announcement came to fruition. They hype it big only to disappoint once revealed.
Remember how they hype up the arcade service they were gonna get into during the pandemic, the release of Genesis Mini, and the announcement of Sega Forever which was suppose to deliver classic titles from their Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Saturn, Game Gear, and Dreamcast library for mobile yet all we got from that were mostly Genesis titles.
As much as I like a new Sega handheld, this new handheld if Sega is indeed making one could just be a Genesis, Game Gear, or Master System compatible portable. We all know it won't be disc based so Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, and Dreamcast games are out of the picture.
Re: Sega Saturn 'Samurai Spirits RPG' Has Been Hiding Content From The PS1 Version All This Time
As cool as this is, all these contents were not meant to be seen by the whole world anyways. SNK was banking these in just the Japanese audience, not sure why they would do that when bringing these worldwide would had help bring the Samurai Shodown games to more players. They even turn down Working Design when they came knocking for a localization in an attempt to secured an international release. I guess SNK wasn't too fond about making money back then. This RPG despite having three versions also didn't sell very well in Japan so maybe SNK saw that and choose not to release it internationally.
Re: This PS2 Emulator Unlocks A SoulCalibur II Mode "For The First Time Outside Of Real Arcade Hardware"
I never understand why Namco couldn't include this mode for that awful Soul Calibur II Remastered they released for the PS3 and Xbox 360. It would had been something special and made the game more worthwhile to play.
Re: Shigeru Miyamoto Considers This Zelda Sequel To Be "Sort Of A Failure"
If Ys III: Wanderer From Ys could be remade into a main game (Oath in Felghana) like all the rest of the Ys titles then surely Nintendo could remake The Adventure of Link in similar ways too turning it to A Link to the Past or Ocarina of Time style gameplay.
For those who don't know Ys III plays in similar manner to the Adventure of Link as more of a side-scrolling action adventure game but its remake, Oath in Felghana, is done in the same style as Ys VI and Ys Seven using the bird's eye view again making it a much better game while keeping the story and elements the same.
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 and not every Super NES game support all 6 buttons anyways.
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.