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Re: "I Thought I Was Going To Die" - Sounds Like Sega Staff Had It Rough Back In The '90s

Serpenterror

Sega of Japan back then has always had a track record of treating their workers bad and even treating their co-workers and partners like crap. Their entire western team that were working on Sonic X-Treme for Sega Saturn almost lose their breathe just making that one game and even the so call Sonic veteran Yuji Naka doesn't even want to help lend a hand. Sega is so toxic that when acquired Atlus that they turn them toxic as well. While Magic Knight Rayearth was not that good of a game, it was a good last hurrah 15 hour RPG for Saturn owners who wish they had their own taste of Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Cross, and Legend of Dragoon in the final year of the Saturn lifespan.

Re: Retroid's New Dual-Screen Add-On Won't Support The Retroid Pocket 4 Pro After All

Serpenterror

This second screen is just as garbage as their dock for the same system. It's unstable and the screen above is just a stream of the screen below, not an exact 1 to 1 implementation which is why it got the few seconds of latency. Also refresh rates and resolution are different.

Any resolution you set to the bottom screen (which is your main screen) only apply to that bottom screen, not the top screen meaning while the bottom screen of a game would look good with better graphics, the top screen will look super ugly with bad graphics cause the option of resolution can't be set to the top screen. Retroid's update only fix the latency issue, not the resolution issue.

If you try to play your games with higher resolution or picture quality on the bottom screen, the latency will return cause those same changes doesn't apply to the top screen thus it would lag behind the bottom one. For the latency to work the best on both screens, you will have to play the bottom screen in the exact same quality and resolution as the top screen meaning if the top screen already makes the game look ugly, the bottom screen needs to be ugly too for the latency to match which is something nobody likes.

Re: "We Should Do Something Like That" - Sega Seems Keen On A Virtua Fighter Collection

Serpenterror

Yes I had been wanting for them to do something like this for ages now. The Virtua Fighter Collection should include these games on it.

  • Virtua Fighter
  • Virtua Fighter Remix
  • Virtua Fighter Animation
  • Virtua Fighter Kids
  • Virtua Fighter 2
  • Virtua Fighter 3
  • Virtua Fighter 3tb
  • Virtua Fighter 4
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
  • Virtua Fighter Quest
  • Fighters Megamix
  • Fighting Vipers
  • Fighting Vipers 2
  • Last Bronx
  • Sonic the Fighters

Re: "We Are Well Aware That It Is Hardly Possible At This Point" - You Still Have A Week To Make This Promising New Dreamcast Game A Reality

Serpenterror

Maybe ummm... you know make the game for an actual active system (Switch 1 & 2, Steam, GOG, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox, Atari VCS, EverCade, etc.) and not just dead failed systems would had help. I'm sorry guys but all my old systems doesn't work like they should anymore, if y'all keep making new games for these dead systems, the only way I could play them is through emulation. I couldn't even play my new Shantae Advance on my old GBA SP anymore, them buttons and screen are losing their functions soon. Eventually my Dreamcast and Genesis are going to meet the same fate soon too as I already heard screeches in their sound system.

Re: Capcom Fighting Collection 2's Next Update Has A Cool Surprise For PSP & GBA Fans

Serpenterror

@PKDuckman Tbh a lot of stuffs they added to the collection were stuffs that were originally unlock via World Tour Mode so yeah kinda pointless to have that mode now if all its main unlockables (Guile, Evil Ryu, Shin Akuma, Mazi, Saikyo, Classic, Team Battle Mode, Dramatic Battle, etc.) are already there. Unless you just want to speed run the whole mode, I don't see any reason to have that mode, it's basically just a tutorial mode where you learn to build your fighter and use em for other mode.

Re: After Last Month's Leak, Anbernic Presents An Official "First Look" At The Anbernic RG477M

Serpenterror

I don't get why this company kept moving forward and then coming backwards again. Why not just make an all in one handheld that could play PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U games in addition to retro? Everytime they make a handheld that gets close to handling GameCube and PS2 capability they kept falling back to using outdated chips, screen, and buttons taking the performance back to PSP and Dreamcast level of mediocrity.

Re: More Amico Games Release On Switch & Steam, As The Company Still Insists Hardware Is The Goal

Serpenterror

The Amico console is NEVER coming out, the company itself already blame tariffs for this next delay. Basically here is a history of all the excuses on why the Amico console kept getting delay:

  • 2018: Tommy Tallarico says the console was delay so to work out manufacturing issue and to have more games at launch.
  • 2019: Console was delay due to a change of their manufacturing moving from China to Myanmar.
  • 2020: Console was delay again due to the worldwide pandemic.
  • 2021: Amico got delay again due to the global chip shortages.
  • 2022: Amico delay again due to the unrest of the military coop in Myanmar.
  • 2023: Amico delay again due to difficulty of moving manufacturing during the pandemic.
  • 2024: Amico delay again due to Atari buying the Intellivision brand.
  • 2025: Amico delay again due to Trump's tariff situation.

Re: Physical Collectors "Should Plug In" Switch, 3DS And Vita Game Cards "Every 5-10 Years" To Avoid Data Loss

Serpenterror

Meh in 5-10 years the game would had already been dump online anyways so no worries. Continue playing your legit games, if they stopped working many years from now then just play the dump version on a flash cartridge or through an emulator. Even the Chinese will make repros of those for cheap by that time anyways. C'mon we had a lot of options in 5-10 years from now, stop worrying about doom and gloom. Just live, play, and enjoy what you have.

Re: 'Sega's Switch' Lives On Thanks To This Absolutely Incredible Mod

Serpenterror

The idea of a hybrid console, one that would allow certain games to be play on the road and on the TV had been done by both Sega and Nintendo back then. While Sega took the handheld route and allow Sega Genesis home console games to be play on the road with worst battery life, Nintendo did the opposite and allow handheld games that could only be play while on the road the privilege of playing on the TV via the Super Game Boy and Super Game Boy 2. So while Sega took the handheld and tabletop route with their home games, Nintendo took the dock route with their handheld games. Both are essentially the idea behind the Nintendo Switch of today cause all the games on Switch are once either home console games or handheld games that now could be enjoy through both privilege.

Re: "It's Just Not Working" - FreePlay Arcade Will Close Its Doors Later This Month

Serpenterror

Many problems why it failed:

  • All arcade machines are set to freeplay when they should had follow the old model of one coin per play
  • Too many old games, these are games that customers could just easily download online to play on MAME. Get some Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6, Super Mario Kart Arcade GP3, etc., to get customers excited.
  • No other form of entertainment (crane, pinball, gatcha, poker, wrestling, dancing, singing, pool, etc.) or offerings (pizza, bar, restaurant, barber, etc.) other than playing the arcades.

Re: 30 Years Ago, Sega Took Its Biggest Gamble With Saturn And Failed

Serpenterror

At the time this console launch, I was still gaming on the Sega Genesis and was wondering wtf did they had to go to 32-Bit so soon. By the time I had enough money to buy the Sega Saturn, the Sega Dreamcast is already out and by the time I decided to go to the store to buy one, I saw the PlayStation 2 and bought that instead.

Re: Capcom Is Keen To Make More Of Its Fighting Games Available On Modern Systems

Serpenterror

Just confirm Capcom Fighting Collection 3 already, here's all the games that needs to be included:

  • Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold
  • Street Fighter III: Third Strike - Fight For the Future
  • Rival Schools: United by Fate
  • Star Gladiators: Episode 1 - Final Crusade
  • Saturday Night Slam Masters
  • Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters 2
  • Final Fight Revenge
  • Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
  • Tech Romancer
  • Sengoku Basara X

Re: A New Compilation Celebrating The 'Ys' Series Is Being Released In Japan Next Year

Serpenterror

All of these games (Ys 1-5) had remakes on PC, PSP, and PS2, why not just give us a collection of those instead? Heck we already got remakes of Ys 3 & 4 on Switch, all we really need are the ports of the Ys 1 & Ys 2 remakes and then the Ys 5 remake from the PS2 and all that's left is the porting of Ys 6 and Ys Seven and that would complete the series on Switch until Ys XI for Switch 2. C'mon Falcom finish em.

Re: This 16-Bit Spider-Man Game For The SNES / Genesis Just Got A New Fan Reimagining For PC & Android

Serpenterror

Kinda lose interest when it got to the part where it says some stuffs from the original were removed. Shouldn't had done that, also adding Marvel characters from outside the Spider-Man universe is kinda pointless here. Adding Green Goblin, Ock Doc, Sandman, the Punisher, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Captain America I could understand but c'mon Wolverine, Daredevil, Wildcats, you're just taking the spotlight away from oh Spidey and Venom here. I mean c'mon they are going after Carnage, not Thanos or Onslaught.

Re: "I Was P****d Off" - The Tetris Company's Henk Rogers On Nintendo's "Blatant Attempt" To Copy A Classic

Serpenterror

Dude those two games aren't even remotely similar or play the same. You're comparing a puzzler where all you do is clear lines (not blocks) to a puzzler where you had to match colors to another color enemy to eliminate it. With that mindset any color matching puzzler could be a Tetris ripoff. You could play Tetris even if it doesn't had colors whereas a Dr. Mario game you had to distinguish the colors or know what different color the pills are in able to eliminate color enemy on screen and get good at it. Not sure what Henk Rogers problem is but I don't see any similarities between Tetris and Dr. Mario. With Tetris I had to think fast and line up quick, with Dr. Mario I had to start connecting the colors and make the switch or else I risk building more stacks. The only guilty pleasure Nintendo did with the Tetris license was using its name to promote a totally different game in Panel de Pon (Puzzle League a.k.a. Tetris Attack) but other than that I don't think Nintendo was ripping off Tetris. Competing against Tetris would be the more correct answer just like Columns, Puyo Puyo, Hatris, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Panel de Pon, Puzzle Kombat, Pac-Attack, Kirby Super Star Stacker, Yoshi's Cookie, Yoshi's Egg, etc.

Re: Interview: "We’ve Come Full Circle!" - WayForward On Sigma Star Saga DX, And What's Next For The Shantae Developer

Serpenterror

@XiaoShao Yeah I wouldn't buy anything retro from LRG, those NES versions of Rugrats could fry your NES for good. I betcha that Shantae Advance release may also damage your GBA system too. My only hope is if someone buys those and just dump the rom online so we could play those on flash cartridge that doesn't fry our system. If only WayForward would sell the roms themselves, I would gladly pay to download a rom of this and Shantae Advance just so I could get a copy for my GBA flash cartridge. I did it for XenoCrisis so I don't had any issue if WayForward does it too.