The_Nintend_Pedant

@bring_on_branstons

"The original Area 88/UN Squadron is my all time favourite SNES shmup and I still play it regularly to this day."

me too! and one of the few games I've been playing since childhood and STILL havent beaten (and I generally beat shmups!) though i dont at all consider it unfair!

also, GREAT example of an arcade port that just dusts the original in terms of content 👍 this is one of my favorite phenomena of the golden era, the self conscious over-selling of expanded arcade ports on "inferior" home hardware. ✌️

@KingMike

very interesting! definitely hadnt ever considered the gameboy printer in the mix, but the thought of a SNES with a sticker printer makes me very happy haha.

side note, I did not realize that Sega/Atlus' relationship went back that far! 🤔

thanks 👍✌️

@Poodlestargenerica

i understand the distinction, truly. my point is that for most people "owning the game" means "having a copy," and in those terms a physical copy is a "stronger" or more satisfying form of (what they are calling) ownership. 👍

@Razieluigi

No worries, I felt the exact same way in the Soul Reaver days. Blood Omen was one of those "early psx" games that I glossed over thousands of times (hello, philosoma, jupiter strike, kileak...)

@Razieluigi

"The gameplay felt like the mature take on Zelda that so many of us were craving at the time."

You are SO right! 😊☝️

Btw do you have an opinion of the original LoK game? I've suddenly become curious about it lately and I might have to check it out while I'm revisiting Reaver. ✌️ cheers

OMG - I just realized this collection has Blood Omen where I thought it was Reaver 2. 😱

I must get an evercade.

• (it's worth noting that the Evercade version of Soul Reaver is the base PS1 original, and isn't remastered).*

I must get an Evercade.

it just occurred to me that the point of the link cable on the sgb2 is for linking a gameboy to it, not necessarily 2 sgb2s together 😂 like for trading Pokemon, most likely. pretty rad ✌️

id always been a bit curious as to the need, since they added 2p and even 4p multitap same-screen to some games exclusively for super game boy (and how cool is that?! I like this approach to "hybrid" gaming loads more than Switch personally, to the degree that I wish the new console were a console with Switch backwards compatibility, and continue switch support as the "handheld" part of the equation. a boy can dream!)

@NinChocolate

Nerds of the Soil, I like that! 😆👍

it's a misnomer that you dont "own" digital games, as some kind of natural order. its all about the licensing agreement: they could easily sell you drm free files that you are free to make backups of, etc.

(also, you [yes, you] can totally sell a digital game if it's on a piece of hardware you are selling.)

perhaps this kind of law will make them reconsider the shady practice of "selling" essentially rentals, leading them to a fairer agreement that grants them the use of the "selling/buying" language again.

can someone please clarify for me if/whether Nintendo or anyone else can actually make my eshop purchased/downloaded switch games stop working without my consent?

because otherwise the only distinction for "ownership" is the idea that:
a)I can make backups of "my" games, and barring that,
b) I'm entitled to a lifetime of free "redownloads," which just doesnt seem realistic.

PS - @Poodlestargenerica
"You don't own physical games either, just the cartridge."

I think what we have here is a distinction without a difference ✌️

@NinChocolate

indeed! the sgb was always an excellent experience, and one of my favorite toys as a kid (i wonder what ever happened to that thing?!)

personally I never had a clue of any problems until nerds yelling about it on the internet years later. and im a nerd so. 🤓

@RetroGames

"I'd personally rather people just made actual new games for these systems, especially the SNES, rather than all this random extremely niche stuff,"

i get what you are saying and of course I like new games too, but I just dont think thats what this modder would be doing if not for this 👍

@nocdaes

"Now that's a water bottle, key ring, t shirt, fridge magnet and pencil case I NEED!"

...and this ashtray!

i owned 6 or 7 WD games in my day, and played several more, and I never would have played most of those or even heard of them if it weren't for those localizations, so I'm not going to start hating them now!

this is really cool. I still have my copies on lunar 1 and 2 in psx and I'll be keeping them forever, thanks. 🥳

"There are workarounds available – such as the excellent Sinden Light Gun – but for most people, this classic has remained frustratingly unobtainable for years.

It looks like that's all about to change, however,"

how is this gun more obtainable that the already available "Sinden" gun? what has actually changed?

@sdelfin

whoops! i meant ill finally be trying dead cells, but crazy taxi, sotn and huntdown are all favorites that i havent played much on android yet, that I do own. 👍 CT and SOTN in particular have been elusive for me since I had them in their own day, way back.

I doubled down on Huntdown because I enjoyed it so much on switch! isn't it great?! seriously one of my favorite games, ever.

haha playing cuphead while ill sounds like a real PITA, but I have a hard time playing anything at all if im genuinely very sick tbh. ✌️

@Blast16

"Did yours come with the SD cards or did you make your own image?"

It came with cards but my friend got one for himself too, and he put ArkOS on there and a chise games he thought we'd like. Here's the thing, though: he just got into emulation, and he's practically computer illiterate and he acted like it was super easy to do 👍

"Something like this is very tempting, but… we all have so many options for retro games I don’t really need this 😜🤔"

You know, I felt the same way, but if you dont have a pocket device to knockaround with, I think It's worth it. Mine fits in my tiny sling bag i carry around, and I intend to build a kit for it containing charger, mini hdmi cord, and 2-4 compact bluetooth controllers, for the tiniest retro multiplayer setup ever. 😎

Dont forget, the "V" model (not "VS") like I have runs android, too. so theres some opportunity to play modern mobile games, too (I will be finally trying Dead Cells on there soon, and SOTN, Huntdown, crazy taxi, and a number of other mobile games I own but never found a great way to play before.)

(btw ive done very little tweaking so far and it plays ps1 beautifully, and lots of the dreamcast and psp games I tried ran well also. 👍 so between those and the android stuff, the "modern" control set is justified in my opinion.)

anyway, thats my 2 cents! ✌️

@Blast16

i had ongoing decision paralysis with these for years, and i still had yet to own one until a good friend recently gave me an Anbernic RG383V, and I'm very pleased with it! It's probably not the one I'd have picked, but I'm having such a good time with it that any complaints would be nitpicking 👍

also you can get it with a clear plastic front panel 😂

@WhensDinner

completely agree. a+ commenter. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

i mean... just wait 3 days to play it then.

I don't like how it makes a face. feel me?

@KingMike

lol dont worry, I only ever get my hopes up about Playstation world in very short periods, usually under false pretenses. 😆✌️

@heligo

"It irritates me every single time i see the name MiSTer Pi. It’s a great project but to name it such is just going to unnecessarily confuse people… it’s idiotic."

My first ever electric guitar fx pedal was called a "Big Muff Pi." 😂 it can always be worse.

"UNOFFICIAL FPGA PS1 Teased Ahead Of PlayStation's 30th Anniversary"

when you affix the anniversary to the end like that, it makes it seem like an official, first party project. at least to me. ✌️

I got really excited 😕

@Blofse

i truly admire your restraint if you actually do as you say! I have definitely been feasting on the roms of whatever consoles my feeble machine could handle, since about 98. ✌️

@Bonggon5

GENUINE LOL! 👍 cheers for finding my funny bone, ya dork. 😂

remember subscribing to print magazines, back in the day? remember how when you eventually cancelled, or the magazine went under, they didn't come to your house and confiscate the magazines youd been enjoying (and paying for) over the months and years?

it's true. if they insist on this model, game "subscriptions" should be like that. 👍

Worse than nothing.

@JonathanChapman

it's obvious to everyone (else) that this is deliberately going for the same general look. when you have to point out that the function buttons are slightly different, you arent making a great case. 👍

we can fight this kind of organized crime by teaching folks how to buy legal devices and download the roms on their own. ✌️

to be fair, 3D0 actually has games on it I'm interested in playing.

@carlos82

whoops! haha i didnt see that youd basically said the same thing already 😂 cheers!

@_NetNomad

"i've wanted to make a motorcycle "wheel" like this for a while now"

I can't believe I never thought of this!

a custom motorcycle controller made with low-end mountain bike bars, stem, levers, and grips would be so sick!

cheers! ✌️

it's weird to me to call Worms Armageddon a "PS1 Classic" when it was originally a Windows exclusive and also that wasnt the best or only console port eventually released.

I'm still curious what the draw of Worms Armageddon on switch is when i already have a similar looking Worms game on there (though I'm a fan since the first game and I'm open to the idea.)

the last word in the title looks like

R:M
ROM
and lastly ROOM

in that order.

call me ppl I'll probably work for less than whoever youve currently hired 😆

@iVirtual

"Storing it in a shed is no different than just putting your valuable stuff outside. Especially here in the UK where it's windy and rainy."

strange, in the US, we put things in a shed specifically to keep them out of the wind and rain 😆✌️ what a country!

"We were told that, if properly cared for, these shiny pieces of plastic would last forever,

However, in more recent times, it has become apparent that this isn't the case and that CDs have a finite lifespan, and it's perhaps shorter than we imagined – although the actual time is massively dependent on how a CD is stored,"

It appears then that appropriate storage is part of proper care, who knew? 😂

seriously though i feel for this person. That's a tough hit even if they kind of set themselves up for it. ✌️

No mention in the article if this product is licensed, or just blatantly ripping off Sega's trademarks. I think I know the answer, but in my opinion this is one of the first things to mention.

"We'd hazard to guess that anyone who still plays their Dreamcast in 2024 will be dedicated enough to feel that the price tag is more than justified, however"

'There's no denying that the VM2 is must-have device for every self-respecting Dreamcast owner"

Yeah, I don't think every Dreamcast owner even believes the VMU itself is a "must have device," let alone justifies the cost of this thing.

Then again, I've learned from the article that I'm poor and I lack self respect, so what do I know? 👎😮‍💨

tbh, I "hadn't completely understood" that people cared about this game at all, but I love to see it 😊

i have this possibly slightly wrong memory that croc is one of the two games I can remember having dual analog controller compatibility, in that special little sliver of time before ape escape and dual shock. I mustve rented it or something because I have a direct sense memory connecting croc's movement to that particular convex plastic stick. ✌️

"Given that the AYANEO Pocket S does a much better job in terms of high-level emulation, it's a little disappointing that the Pocket Micro can't quite keep up – but not entirely shocking when you consider that it's a smaller, cheaper device with a weaker chipset inside."

I feel like sentences like these are evidence that there are too many handheld devices being reviewed, and you might be running out of ways to mince the same words. ✌️

besides the general proportions and "micro" in the title, I fail to see any connection between this and the GB micro.

You mentioned it in the review, but I think you actually undersold how much larger this device is than the GB Micro.

Doing some quick numbers, the ayaneo is well over twice the size (while being only a mm thicker, no less,) very nearly thrice the weight, and the screen is somewhere close to 4 times the size.

is it documented anywhere that this is indeed a "tribute" to the real Micro, or are we extrapolating all of that from the name?

I agree with others here that I have burned through my share of n64 sticks, but AFAIK never due to storage and transport damage. 🤔

even if i were that worried about this id probably just wrap a scrunchie around there tbh 😂

@Darthmoogle

Now, there's a rare sighting! Good to see you 😊

"The biggest issue with the HANDHELD DEVICE is that SOME MANUFACTURER already has an improved version on the horizon"

pretty much sums it all up for me, over the last handful of years.

and, I STILL havent bought even one 😅

@SillyG

i miss scholastic book club. I cherished my Mighty Morphin Power Rangers episode 1 tape I got through them. ✌️

@RoboJ1M

I agree that the console could have been more successful commercially if it had been DVD-rom instead of GD-rom! so in that way, yes, that change would have been preferable!

OTOH, I think DVD playback is feature creep, and I like when game consoles are purpose built for playing games, period. 👍 even playing cds and showing photos is like "why?" though ill admit that i was a privileged kid who already had a DVD player when dreamcast came out. ✌️

EDIT - though, I do have fun thinking about an alternate history, in which n64 used CDs, and DC and Cube played DVDs!

it would have been more competitive and possibly better, but I think it's actually more interesting the way it worked out. in a way, it would have been a quicker route to what we eventually got: homogenization.

@_NetNomad

"i honestly miss when controllers only had one stick. people complain about the cameras in early 3D games but i'd take them over modern games that force you to control the camera manually any day. oh well!"

thank you! i cant stand how every game essentially controls like an fps: it makes them a labor to play, and jarring and ugly to watch passively 👍✌️ I hear this echoed rarely, so I really appreciate it!

@Damo

I agree with your summary, and sometimes people conflate or obscure the "they" when speaking publicly, for a convenient double-answer.

when he says "there was a lot of demand to... change the Dreamcast controller to have just four face buttons," he knows that the readers (us) hear "demand from consumers" (also us,) but I suspect what he really means is a non-gaming shiny executive man in a room somewhere said "less sega, more psx because money" so we got 4 buttons.

in fact, I feel the EXACT same way about Nintendo in the Switch generation. ✌️

i love the dreamcast, and the people who made it, and i wouldnt change A THING. ...

"In fact, after the Saturn, which had six face buttons, there was a lot of demand to have less, and change the Dreamcast controller to have just four face buttons."

But, this is delusional, and I don't believe it even for a second. ✌️

24/25! I got hasty and clicked DS before I saw the 3DS option! 😆

good quiz! 👍

@KitsuneNight

HA! i laughed randomly around ppl at work 😅👍

the official theme song of handhelds in 2024:

https://youtu.be/iUxkFCBPgx4?si=SytV1y_0JX25Yw-N