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So essentially you can just put the roms on an SD card yourself and play them? Just like any other retro device out there? It really does show that retro game collectors are now doing it for social status just to say they had to pay huge amounts to own something.

A lot of older system could find ways to do pseudo mode 7 style effects even the Mega Drive it just takes a lot more rom space to program it all in and doing anything like that in software is a much slower process and takes more CPU power to pull it off often coming across slow in comparison. It does look good though and it's good to see new developers trying new stuff like this on old systems.

I don't think there is any bad nostalgia because if you have fond memories of something regardless of if it was to good or bad subjectively it's the memories of the time and situation you are remembering and not necessarily the quality of something.

That being said I find in the years since people have created a nostalgia that they never experienced first had on how good things were that they claim to remember more from hearing other peoples experiences or in the early days of the internet from what they heard from friends on things and they will often have false recollections of how much they liked something or how big of a deal something was despite not directly experiencing it.

Although I have often seen people call old games that were even considered average at the time as classics and think they were considered great at the time by many others. There was also no real way to see how the majority of not only the public near you thought of something but all over the world as there was a time when we only had reviews in games magazines as a way to tell us if something was good and if you're favourite said it was then it had to be true. This is despite the fact that some magazines gave drastically different scores back then on average and terrible games.

Then we come to games then get remastered like Croc in the modern age and even at the time it was considered average and no one who brought it probably considered it great and the reason it sold as well as it did was many games did on the PS1 regardless of quality especially if the got rereleased on a budget label for half the price. Yet you would think people were crying out for it from some of the articles written about it since it's announcement. I think some people are trying to now cash in on nostalgia now with things just because they are old and are hoping people have false memories of a product thinking they loved it more than they actually did just because they owned it.

Ah yes Square and Enix two companies in the past well know for their support of Sega consoles. What an odd choice of publishers to make these.

@flibblesan That is exactly what I thought. How can one be amazing and the other be bad? That system also cut down and discarded much of the internals and the case in order to cut down the size and make it smaller but that got praised and this is considered bad for simply removing the CD drive.

You can pre-order a discount? The price also seems way too low for a niche FPGA system that will only have small amounts manufactured at any one time. Also not a fan of having a disc drive being on the side as it effectively means you would have to have a lot. Whoever designed the mock up just didn't think it through and it really should be a something with a lip and top loading like the majority of Sega systems if it does turn out to be real then it needs to be redesigned to not look so cheap and nasty looking.

There is going to be a point where systems like this are just going to become waste. It gets even worse when the same manufacturers are the ones releasing several systems a year very close in what they aim to do that all look different. I personally think it would be better if they had two or three systems that aimed to do different consoles as their highest point and then updated them yearly but kept a similar design each time. If you at times are creating your own competition you are only confusing your own potential customers.

@nocdaes at that point if you want something dedicated to just playing retro games there are many handhelds for a similar price point and easier to navigate that probably having to remove it each time you want to navigate through apps.

The price seems a bit too much to me as I can't seem how it costs so much to produce to warrant that kind of price especially seeing as the internal memory is the same as the original and in order to boost that you have to supply your own Micro SD card. I appreciate it is being hand made essentially by one person and you are paying for they time it takes him to make each one but it still seems twice as much of what it is actually worth at most.

Saying that though the backlight and rechargeable battery are certainly a good feature for long term use and something that was probably way too expensive for Sega to have ever introduced it 25 years ago to keep them affordable.

How fancy this guy has a garden and a shed. On a serious not though this is one of the reasons I have stopped collecting older physical discs because of lack of storage space and don't really want to store stuff up in my loft where I know it is cold and damp and a couple of years ago I had two separate leaks just 6 months apart so I wouldn't trust storing anything up there. If I don't have shelf space in the limited space I do have then I either sell some stuff to make room or don't buy it as I also don't want my flat to be overrun with stacks of games or other physical media.

@KitsuneNight I would imagine after 25 years since the original patent went in it has also long since expired so Sega probably doesn't have any kind of rights to a similar designed system for a console they no longer produce. If it had Sega and Dreamcast branding all over it then that would be a different matter.

@KingMike They did I have the official CD they released. It would have been good if they added some other stuff on the CD other than just music an all in one system probably would have taken advantage of it more if it sold well enough. But I do understand why publishers at the time would have dismissed a game that used both at the same time but for optional enhanced sound tracks I think it may have been fairly popular as it would double up as a regular audio CD for those without a Mega CD.

@KingMike The easiest way to look at it as the cartridge slot cant do two functions at once so it can be used for either being a rom. cartridge, ram or as you suggested as a memory card. One feature that was never used during the Mega Drive's commercial life was that you could have had a lot of data on a cartridge to load in faster while also having stuff at the same time on CD that loaded a bit slower to make games load faster in general and store any music, cutscenes and voice acting on CD. The Saturn did a similar thing with KOF '95. It was probably down to the cost and how few people would but games that were on both a cartridge and CD that would only function together.

@KingMike it's a ram expansion for the Mega CD not for the Mega Drive so the cartridge port since it says it's a cartridge. Its pretty much the exact same concept as the Sega Saturn ram expansion since you cant use the port to do anything else at the same time.

Here I thought the announcement a while back of the Golden Axe cartoon was a strange choice but this is just very random to even be considered to be made.

So they have no prototype and it is simply a concept of what they think they can do? Unless you have something to prove you are doing it then many people will be doubtful especially as more and more things like this pop up on crowdfunding sites and never appear now.

The opening theme for this game is second only to Soul Blade for me. The crazy Japaneseness of the plot was so refreshing at the time as many games when translating them to English tried to tone down how crazy they were. Still have the same copy I got brand new back then and my original save file all these years later that I backed up first on a Datel shockwave as it had flash memory and then later on a more modern memory card. in a way it's a shame the sequel didn't expand on this game even though it is a good game itself it felt less ambitious than the first one.

@Kuruwin thanks for proving my point about entitlement. Also it doesn't say they ever purchased it it the first place just who play tested it and once old office building get shut down these things often get left behind or even the person that play tested it was never asked to return it and they just gave it to some one. You are making a hypothetical situation up yourself that it was sold illegal all those years ago. It says nothing about the person who had it in their possession being any kind of collector and just because you personally not caring about their possible situation doesn't mean that isn't the reason behind it. You seem to have really wanted to go out your way to prove you feel more entitled to it being preserved though once again thank you for proving my point.

Not sure why everyone feels so entitled that they should have dumped the rom before selling it. They aren't under any obligation to do so and may not have had the means to do so. Also going out of their way to get it dumped would incur some kind of cost that they probable didn't want as they simply wanted to sell something they owned for the highest price. People are also saying that if the value dropped after the rom was dumped isn't important it's about preserving it. How do you know how important that money is to the seller and what it was needed for? Once again entitlement thinking a hobby of yours is possibly more important than something that could be happening in the sellers real life.

Admittedly it makes it sound like the Gameboy screen itself possibly was a cause for cancer rather than that many people who owned one when it first game out are probably in their 40s or close. They really could have made that more clear as I am sure some will tell their friends upon seeing it that Gameboys caused cancer as evidence games are bad for you or something like that.

@Darknyht I know all that and you are pretty much agreeing with my thoughts that Microsoft would be more interested in concentrating on the stuff they do own rather than licences to expired stuff.

I am aware Deadpool also didn't cost anywhere near that much just that if it did then the outcome would have been disappointing. The fact that even yearly COD games weren't close to that figure at the time would make it impossible to believe people thought they would put anything even close to that into a movie tie-in.

@xanderten50 the thing is regardless of if it is for preservation or not they would effectively have to keep renewing the licence in order for anything like this to make long term sense. That is why some Xbox 360 compatible games required you had the disc and were never relisted. At that point you are just making a regular emulator that can play anything from that system and in the console world both publishers and rights holders don't like that and it's a similar reason why from the last generation consoles lost the ability to import music. In an ideal world it would be great but the modern business model for video games no longer makes it easy.

@xanderten50 All you have to do is look back at near enough all licenced games and that once they have finished their initial commercial run they get delisted and rarely if ever get republished after that. Saying that did republish it briefly on the PS4 and Xbox one when the second movie came out but that was again only for a brief time and it is possible the sales weren't all that good the second time around and it won't make as much money as you seem to thing just because the new movie is out and if anything people would have wanted a new game to tie in with the movie rather than am 11 year old one.

I would be more disappointed if it did cost that much to develop and it didn't turn out much better especially spending that much over a decade ago. At that cost it should have been up there with the best games of the generation.

@xanderten50 I would imagine it wouldn't be a simple case of renewing a licence but having to negotiate a new one since any Marvel licence they had expired 10 years ago. Also with they whole thing of being acquired by Microsoft over the past year or so I don't think they were in any position to start trying to negotiate deals and Microsoft only seems to have purchased them for the COD games as well as the Crash/Spyro stuff that they know they can milk dry annually. I wouldn't say Microsoft is too interested in trying to negotiate a contract with Marvel and Disney for the rights for Deadpool at this point in time after all the spending they have done.

@PopetheRev28 just because I know what something is doesn't mean the vast majority of people do hence my point about that being the reason so few have ever played it outside of Japan, my point is nothing to do with just what I am aware of. That paired with it never getting a modern release is why it is not accessible for many to even try.

The exact reason why more people haven't played it is that it's never been officially released out of Japan so that pretty much gives an answer to why since the majority of people that play games still don't go looking for fan translations for 30 year old games they probably didn't know existed in the first place let a long want to deal with patching said games.

As others have said putting the Nintendo log on this and selling it is pretty much asking for trouble. is there also really much of a market for a Wii cut down to this size in 2024? outside of the novelty of using it once or twice. Also having a separate dock means it's pretty much useless in functionality without it and actually twice the size it just come it two parts.

I tried to access Lemon64 when it went down and honestly thought nothing of it just assumed they were updating some software. Then I went on last night to be greeted by that message. It seems like it's under control but do they store much information on the accounts anyway other than email address and possibly the persons name? It could have been worse if it was a site that stored payment details. Although some of these automated attacks don't always know what information the site is storing until they get it and are hoping it's in some way valuable.

Well I have to say I love the artwork and kind of wish it was used for a different game now.

@KitsuneNight yeah that's what I was referencing when I said they wrecked it before it even started. It seemed to be the thought from the media at the time in some places that because Microsoft had more money than Sony that they could just simply throw money around and eventually become the top dog. Well they keep trying that now with even more money and it has yet to work.

24 years later they still haven't managed it and any momentum they had in the one generation with the 360 they could have managed it they lost steam and then managed to end the next one before it even started. Although it is interesting that the only metric of success in some peoples eyes in terms of the gaming industry in terms of consoles seems to be if you are the one that sells the most systems rather than if you managed to turn a profit

As someone who has only played the first N64 game I can't really comment on the rest but I was dragged in by the theme song and how crazy the actual story was.

@Sketcz It really does surprise me how they go out doing these things they essentially have 40 years of coding knowledge to now use to come up with new techniques that no one back then could have conceived. As someone who follows C64 homebrew stuff I have been seeing so many things thought technically impossible. It also helps a new generation are coming in and coding for older systems with new approaches. It also doesn't hurt that these games normally don't have a deadline and can have every aspect have as much time as possible to try and get right.

What kind of modern voodoo is this? It looks amazing I just know I will suck at it like I have with near enough all shmups ever. I still want to play it though.

Seen some one playing this yesterday as I was scrolling through Youtube and I have to say I am very impressed. This is something I could have imagined on the 64DD had it actually been released earlier and had a chance at some form of success like the F-Zero X track editor that came out.

I watched this video earlier and I was always shocked how long Mad Catz lasted and even in their dying days the still managed to produce a load of licenced controllers and fight sticks which were poor quality. Although before the PS3/360 era there were a shocking amount of cheap crappy controllers it just most didn't last long the following generation because the cost of production meant their profit margin would have been non-existent if they tried to keep the prices low. For the most part now the majority of third party controllers are useable unless we are talking about those cheap knockoffs you can get with no branding.

I would have probably loved this at the time I always loved that games like Final Fight and Streets of Rage had enemies inspired by wrestlers and being a wrestling fan I would have got a lot of enjoyment from this.

People shouldn't get their hopes up that this will progress past being a proof of concept since the same guy also did proof of concepts of Final Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid and I imagine porting the full games would probably not go well not only with the publishers of the games but it would take one person a long time to finish one of those games let alone all of them.

The sight of these makes me sad inside. Personally I would have just swapped the shells on the cartridges if I didn't have a passthrough device.

@RetroGames Sega weren't exactly the best at thinking about how sustainable all those systems were long term for them. At one point they had 6 separate systems active on the market by 1995 in various regions so they really didn't think it through and it didn't help that their Japanese and American braches were essentially making business decisions that the other side had no say in so it's a wonder they ever got as far as the did as a hardware manufacturer. Although saying that it is a similar story to how companies like Atari and Commodore failed by not having a clear vision of what they wanted hardware wise just with less fighting amongst themselves.

@RetroGames while I agree that would have been a good all in one system and the best way to get the most out of the combined three systems at the same time. The problem with that is it would have essentially launched after the Saturn which would have really killed what little market the Saturn had in the west. It is probably what Sega of America would have wanted for a couple of years but having two separate 32-bit CD consoles on the market would have definitely have caused chaos when it came to marketing and parents buying for their children.

@SuntannedDuck2 no offense but that is a lot of incoherent rambling that makes little sense all because someone said he likes the social aspect of games.

@Kulhy it definitely had that cheap plastic look to it and for that kind of price it should have a much more premium look at the very least.

I am incredibly impressed that they were able to remove that much of a Wii and it to still function.

@RetroGames I would imagine having any kind of optical drive would increase the power draw of it as well as increased size since the optical drive alone would be bigger than the system currently is.

Seems like such an odd choice to get an animated show that's a comedy. Part of me wonders if this ties into the new game Sega has in development?

While it looks impressive it seems like it would be a pain to maintain with that wiring inside and with such a short battery life it's only portable in a sense that you have to be close to somewhere that you can charge at all times.

Quite funny how the first emulator on there was stolen and just put up by someone trying to make money as fast as possible.

I remember the first one for the Freddie Mercury looking character but when I seen the game in action it looked very wooden and seemed to lack polish for the characters animation which kind of put me off. Everything else looked pretty good with the exception of how the main character seems to move around.

@Diogmites don't get me wrong I see them but they often sit there for several months with the price going up as it sits there. There may be quite a love from a small group of people now but the games that are popular tend to be expensive so even used the system isn't all that in demand. My local retro game store is more like a museum because most of the expensive stuff has been sitting there for years in glass cabinets. I would be surprised in the area that I lived when the console was on the market that very few people owned it. Going back to when I was at school I knew one person who owned one and he was trying to find someone else to trade games with for a while and not one other person seemed to have one. Mind you I now live in the City that I used to live near and not the town so I would imagine that is why all these years later they show up in the wild more.

I am sure if you ask someone from Sega of America at the time they would blame someone in Japan neither side could agree on anything then and I imagine many that were involved won't take responsibility either and much rather blame the other side. it was the lack of a single person in charge for better or worse. it then essential became two separate entities within Sega that wanted completely different things for their markets and not one shared global vision.

@Diogmites it's interesting you mention you never seen a Saturn on sale at the time it was out where you lived. It was the same for me where I lived here in England both in the town I lived in and in the city near by. I actually see more these days sitting in the windows of retro game stores than I ever expected.