WileyDragonfly

Felt like a comparison to the NES version was a critical part of doing this review.

@MARl0 Have you considered a pi?

The ROM is bigger than 4MB. That means it needs a specialized cartridge with a mapper to work on a regular console. I will be very surprised if this ever happens as a physical Genesis release.

It's fine. I am very skeptical this will ever get a physical Genesis release. The ROM is 7.5MB, larger than any commercial release. The ROM header has 'SSF' so the emulators can deal with it. Maybe there's enough content they can strip out to get it down to 4MB, otherwise this is going to be a very expensive cartridge to manufacture.

@The_Nintend_Pedant His decimation of the written word continues unabated.

Is the ROM easily removed from Steam?

I mean, who are you gonna believe? Them or your lying eyes.

"This is a five figure kind of thing too fyi"

Cool story, bro.

I went to some "classic arcade game" pub in Glasgow and it was literally a disconnected Playstation Classic and a few fruit machines. Apparently the secret is fruit machines and cans of wife beater. Maybe this guy could try that.

Uh... this game kinda sucks. Actually, it really sucks. Wow. It was never going to live up to the hype, but... wow. Everything about it is so irritating.

Why not use Mike Tyson? Not like this turd is going to be any good anyway.

@Razieluigi Yes, through devastation of the written word, the meaning of decimate has drifted.

@donatj Why emulate? They're like $50 and have native RGB.

"decimate the written word"

SMH

20 years ago, I owned a weird Moon Cresta variant arcade cabinet. All the cabinet artwork and title screen did everything they could to pretend some random mortgage insurance company had made it. Gameplay was slightly different. I did not have the resources to dump the ROMs. I approached MAME devs and "game preservationists" and got mocked at even wanting the cost of shipping to send them the PCBs. I posted it for sale/trade as "not in MAME" and got mocked again. (for an astounding $100 IIRC) All I had was a crummy digital camera, so there's a few miscategorized pictures on KLOV. Whoever runs that website couldn't be bothered to read my emails asking him to put them under the correct entry.

Anyway, read this article with great amusement.

Color choices in the demo make the game literally unplayable.

@FPGAguru Have you considered a Pi?

Weird menus and you can't remap the controls...

He still won't admit it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFUm8YmyXU

There's enough demand that 4,000 modules wasn't enough? I have an extraordinarily hard time believing that. Apparently we're all in the wrong business.

Turrican? Lemmings? That's about it....

This reminds me of the heavy metal and Black Sabbath discussion. You can argue that heavy metal was invented before them, but it definitely wasn't invented ater.

Super Mario Bros was a revolution in game design, so that's my vote. Maybe various games had elements of its package before it came out, but you can trace thousands of games back to its influence.

They recently got rumbled on Twitter for stealing the whole thing from existing Detroit house music. Yuzo claimed he had never heard it, but the video comparison was pretty compelling.

@Hastor Give us an example of one single console that has been damaged. Should be easy, there's millions of cartridges out there with the lower voltage chips.

Oh look, it's this myth again. People will believe anything.

Have y'all considered a Pi?

I don't know, I think the whole thing is amusing. Keep sending him money!

$22 shipped on AliExpress....

Reminds me of the time the wealthy pinball collector gathered up the world's most valuable and rare games, and put them in a warehouse next to the river. He valiantly drove his Ferrari into the floodwaters in an attempt to "do something."

https://www.pinballnews.com/news/flood.html

Nice of you to drag up the sex abuse allegations and get the details wrong anyway. Wasn't charged?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Michael_Jackson

Ok, bro.

C'mon, now, the ET thing was that it was "millions of cartridges under a three foot slab of cement." The fact that there were actually a few bags of garbage out in the desert was amusing, but nowhere near the myth.

I can already do all that crap on the phone I already own.

I get that most of us are stuck in the past, but Victor Ireland is really, really, really stuck in the mid-90s. It's crazy I'm still seeing his name all the time 30 years ago.

Demo is incredible. Nice work, guys!

@GhaleonUnlimited Yep, if Voultar says it, it's instantly suspect for me lately.

Or get a bootleg from Aliexpress for $5. Or make your own with a 50 cent eprom, $2 repro board, and a shell from a $1 Joe Montana Football.

Like 90% of the assets in Metal Dragon are stolen from other games... Oh well, you love to see it.

Can't do much on SNES without custom chips on the cartridge PCB. That seems to cut into the homebrew scene a lot...

Even their YouTube video is aggressively blurry.

@Ravsieg Time to go replay Sega Touring Car Championship ;D

@Ravsieg Are you stuck in a window pane?

Always felt like a half baked Kirby ripoff to me.

3/4s of the fun of Mister is lording it over everyone that you spend $600 on a baby toy.

It would be nice if someone actually changed up the levels in this game. There are a billion hacks for it already.

Not understanding the point of this at all.

You can already buy reprogrammable PCBs for ~$5. The USB flasher is $30.

You can have reproduction PCBs printed for $1-2 each and use an EPROM or newer EEPROM.

There's already designs out there supporting 4MB games and saving functionality via FeRAM. The BOM on those is ~$10.

It'd be nice if they made their PCB available for people to put other games onto. Apparently making a reasonably priced AES PCB is literally the hardest thing in the retro world.

I was going to call BS on this myth, but I actually own Virtua Racing for both Genesis and Japanese Megadrive. So I opened them both up. The Genesis version has an RF shield that's been slapped inside and the Japanese copy doesn't.

Genesis doesn't need any more shooters.

Rocket Panda release is 2 months behind schedule, despite being "alright ready." I'm a little leery about this publisher.

No ROM option? Yeah, pass. $55 for a $5 cartridge is ridiculous.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY