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@slider1983 it emulates both variants. The reason it looks like the 48k model is more simple. It’s an iconic design. Easily the most recognisable British computer of all time. Also, the 128K from an aesthetic standpoint was an Amstrad designed and built abomination.

@PinballBuzzbro you must be the first person I’ve heard refer to Gradius III as crap. Not everyone’s favourite, but c’mon!

Such a shame they are using the inferior American soundtrack, but props for porting this.

The western logo is awful. We all know they should use the astro city font.

@Damo small typo, ‘ It emulates both the 46 and 128 models of Sinclair's famous home micro’

@RetroGames
@Azuris Quote from Azuris Fri, 11:32am
‘You can't use it with the original Satallaview, but with the original Super Nintendo and SD2SNES, Emulation and i guess more of that kind.’

This is incorrect, you can only use the service with the above mentioned Windows emulators. Flash carts on original hardware are not supported as of yet.

If you haven’t heard Midnight Resistance and Verytex on Mega Drive you should do so right now. Sakimoto San created his own sound drivers for the hardware. The results are staggering.

These are two superlative soundtracks.

Ps. Mega Drive Gauntlet is also amazing.

@ColecoOfficial appreciate the official response.

Can I ask if there is any chance you could use a 26" 1:1 ratio screen for this? It would mirror the aspect ratio of the target systems far more closely and would certainly be appreciated by the core market you're looking to entice.

That was some blue blue skies thinking right there 🌽

@Popetherev28 What blows my mind most Is we're still talking about active game development, both homebrew and commercial on a 36 year old game system.

16:9 LED monitors in an arcade cabinet make me cry.

Ps. I've seen better builds in people's garages than this. Truly awful.

@PopetheRev28 points for anime pope Francis!

This looks stunning, but could take years to complete such an accurate port by such a small team.

......we've waited 30 years so what's another few.

Ps. The sound arrangement is absolutely awesome.

We may get some ports or emulated versions of ps2 games on the switch 2..........hopefully

@PopetheRev28 I wish I could rewind the last 30 years

Ps. This is looking a far more faithful port than the castlevania iv one.

This game always deserved a genuine sequel, but this will more than do. Great work from the devs.

Anything written by Jaz is a 100% must read.

Do whatever it takes to buy this book, even if it means selling your granny.

@Anarchist_Tai_50 they made and fulfilled all first batch orders and are currently taking orders for Q4 delivery this year.

Always good to hear Bully being mentioned.

Such a shame that Rockstar don't make games other than GTA or RDR anymore.

This just screams of being a con job.

What an awesome arcade game, along with the later F3 board sequels. Spent a lot on this and Taito Cup Finals back in the day.

Hope the female streaker makes a return!

Can we get Saturn and Mega Drive ports too please!

@helbertpina it plays perfectly. The model 3 emulator runs perfectly too if you want to play scud race or daytona USA 2.

@helbertpina it plays brilliantly on the steam deck.

I'm using the white label cd rerelease

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The whole ‘project’ stinks of BS to me.

That Intellivision dud will launch before this.

Have they eradicated the immense slowdown?

That was always a dealbreaker for me. Not as bad as MS2 but still annoying.

The toaplan cart is amazing value for money considering the games you're getting your hands on would cost you thousands to buy legitimately on other older physical media.

As others have said, midnight resistance will be a difficult game to play with the lack of analogue or rotary controls. Intrigued to see how they map the controls though 🤔

The jump physics look way off. Seems to jump too high then drops like a stone. Definitely needs more time in the oven. Also, the enemy and platform placements are different.

So what screen size and screen res does this have?

The stick should have been dropped all together. It just gets in the way of the D Pad. Boo stick.

I've barely used mine despite it mimicking (in my view) the ultimate joypad, so no faults as of yet.

I've found the initial firmware niggles and lack of useful updates a disappointment. It's a pain (for me) to tinker with compared to the Steamdeck and even though it's made to play whatever you wish, it feels almost locked down at times.

Now over £57000 (fifty seven thousand pounds)

The cartridge slot, the joypad ports and the av connector are all slightly different, leaving this as a museum piece only.

It’s a shame it didn’t have a prototype red button controller and one of those generic press sfc carts to go with it.

Ps. Price is now approaching £4000.

Taki is well placed with a background in electronics engineering. I'd be reluctant to believe the claims if it was anyone else, but he is a stand up guy and I'll take him at his word.

These were effectively first party titles as Epyx were the developers of the hardware and were originally going to release it themselves as the Epyx Advantage.

This is great news, I have the 12.9” iPad Pro with a 4:3 ratio screen. Perfect for retro games.

@isitafox it’s all down to their willingness to accept anything as part exchange against their goods.

@RetroGames with SEGA handing distribution to Virgin Mastertronic in this market, they created their own ads.......thankfully!

@RetroGames I don't think anyone outside of the US had any clue as to what blast processing was about. It seems to have been an American marketing tool.

Who is this YOSHIRO guy?

EDIT: I’ve checked and he has a producer credit only.

Didn’t he also direct the recent Goemon spiritual successor, Otogi Katsugeki Mameda no Bakeru?

I need to check the end credits again, but I’m sure he has a director credit for that too.

I cannot believe that such a gnarly collection had such a bogus licensing agreement in Japan.

Wait til master splinter hears about this.

Jacques made some of the cringiest music during the Saturn era. He’s no miss and I’d probably avoid his calls if I were SEGA.

@Peteykins he should have been jailed for said crimes but was let off with a suspended sentence.

Naughty Naka 🙄

What a strange choice. The arcade version was average at best and the MD port was one of the worst conversions on the system.

Great article Damien! 👏

I'm still hooking the Saturn up to a 28" CRT broadcast monitor, but have invested in a MODE purely for convenience. The Satiator seemed to be in development for years...couldn't believe it when it actually began shipping.

Going to give that patched Silhouette Mirage trial disc a try tomorrow....thanks for the heads up 👍

Ps. Would love to see the 3D analogue controller reproduced. The analogue triggers where fantastic for Sega Rally Plus.

I'll have to give this a try. Love Silhouette Mirage, but don't always want to play through the first couple of levels.

4th Master System
3rd Dreamcast
2nd MD
1st Saturn

The main reason for preserving laserdisc based games now is to rip them in their original state before laser rot becomes a problem.

Many discs, especially pressed by DADC (Sony) suffer from video and sound noise caused through defects in their manufacture which only worsens through time.

My 41 year old copy of Astron Belt by SEGA has video issues and is unsuitable for archival. I just hope that better examples are still out there.

@RootsGenoa I’m a mean person then 😱

Onexplayer cannot make a working dpad. They are a massive let down.

@RetroGames the SNES really isn't more suited than the MD.

It's a pain and difficult to work with in ASM compared to the sega genesis development kit c compiler on the MD.

The 68000 cpu is far quicker than what the snes offers and the RAM is easier to access too.

There are legitimate reasons behind the snes lack of homebrew.