SlangWon

AI tools for visuals, music, voice work, translations are here to stay and help lower costs. In many cases using AI in the concept stage speeds up development considerably. In some cases it allows very small teams to get a game done even if they can't afford a professional graphic artist or musician.
The hate is a knee jerk reaction and will soon die out.

Wow, the new color palette is beautiful! I love the arcade original but this looks even better. The remixed music sounds great. I so hope this gets finished!

This looks so slick! I'm seriously looking forward to the cool stuff that will be possible on the good ol MD with the much larger size of modern cartridges.

@knight0fdragon They are taking what they can get for a low price. Mainly defective ones, especially ones with a defective or broken disc drive. Of course they are raising them from the dead because these drive-less Saturns are doing exactly the same thing as the original ones - they play Saturn games on real hardware. The only thing this is truly killing are the obscenely overpriced second-hand game discs. And this I welcome.

@knight0fdragon "Supplies of the system are high"? How does that work? Given the facts that Sega stopped producing consoles long time ago and the circulating hardware dies eventually, supplies go down, not up. I can tell you from experience that the drive usually dies first. So if you can play games without it, get rid of it. Anybody who repairs used Saturns and sells them is raising the system from the dead. Whether it's an individual or AliExpress.

@duffmmann The issue is that collectors jacked up prices for second hand copies in order to resell with profit in the future. Consoles without drives hurt their "business-tactics".

Hehe, yeah sure. My guess is, that it has more to do with the jacked up prices of the disc based games that will surely plummet once people get rid of their drives or start out with no drive at all. Poor "collectors"

Apples and oranges. The 3DO in 1993 was always positioned as a high-end machine for enthusiasts and some rental stores, way outside of the mainstream market. The playstation brand is supposed to be just that - mainstream.
The price is not even the biggest problem. Launching a Pro model without disc drive is like selling Mercedes-Benz S-class without doors and a trunk.
Sony lost touch with their core market.

This looks great! Pretty wild trailer too:-)

@nilcam I just wish we could go back to a less politicized industry. It used to be all about cool and innovative products.

@LioKizer Thank the Gods of endless tolerance for people like you who won't get tired of telling others who to hate and who to tolerate. Even when no one asked...
Back to topic, this truly looks like a labor of love. Not very common in todays industry.

Over the decades I've played many horizontal shmups on many systems - Thunder Force IV, Gradius Gaiden, G-Darius, Border Down...all classics, very playable to this day.
However, Gradius V is in a league of its own. To me, Gradius V is the best horizontal shooter ever created. The pinnacle of a design that strarted with Scramble in 1981. It looks even more beautiful today when upscaled in PCSX2.
I would absolutely pay for a proper remaster of this timeless gem.

@RobertPayne556 Steamboat Wilie was published in 1928 and entered public domain in 2024. What are you trying to say?

You can't just push intellectual property into public domain after 10 (!) years only because the rightful owner who paid for it hasn't done anything with it that resulted in a finished product. That's why Emulation - though often not completely legal - is ultimately saving more games from obscurity than companies like Nintendo are willing to admit.

Pyron is a cool and skilled dude! His Street Fighter 2 Remastered edition is basically the best SF2 you can get on the Mega. He also had a beautiful looking Sunset Riders port in the works. Hopefully, he can someday finish one of his many projects...

Dead Or Alive 4 is still the best one.

@OldManHermit
Pretty sure Okamoto mentioned that his game was somehow inspired by Walter Hill's Streets of Fire. So in a certain way, this film already exists.