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Never in a million years would I have thought Bob Monkhouse was a gamer.

I remember only ringing a few times. First memory was ringing and hearing the out of hours message.

It had the World 1 music to Super Mario Bros 3 in the background and mentioned it was going to be out soon.

One other memory was calling about The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I remember asking a question (I think it was about being a dungeon) and the solution was something to do with a statue. Anyway, they were able to answer right away and I was pretty impressed with their knowledge.

One thing to note was this wasn't a premium rate number either, it was just the cost of a national rate call which admirable, which is something very un-Nintendo like.

I remember seeing this on Bad Influence but don't remember ever seeing one in the wild. For some reason I thought it was some Russian clone lol.

Shame it's not 2.4GHz, my experience with Bluetooth controllers is a tiny bit of lag.

@Bot_Bot_69 The script gets updated regularly. There’s an option to select what you want installed, eg cores from certain developers, wallpapers etc.

I've been a Jotego Patreon supporter for years and the work he and his team have done has been amazing for the MiSTer project.

These AI built cores aren't going to go away, so how about this for an idea... You have a setting in the Update All script to either enable or disable AI Cores. Heck, even give it it's own submenu within MiSTer so there's a clear difference which cores are AI and which aren't. That way everyone has a choice.

@gmar There enough people out there that make content for content's sake, regardless of subject. So when something like this happens, they are on it since the Neo Geo AES Plus is newsworthy.

Reading this headline I had the original Sonic "Game Over" theme in my head.

With all the preorders sold so far exceeding Plaion’s expectations. I really hope they get this right. With this ASIC chips they are one and done, no firmware updating to fix issues afterwards. I own Plaion’s Atari 2600+ and it’s great, but it took a lot of firmware updates to get it to that state and it’s a very simple console.

I’ve never used an original AES but they’ll be a lot of people comparing the new controllers to the original.

I decided to go all in with the Ultimate pack and will happily continue to collect future released games if the accuracy is extremely close to the original.

@slider1983 “ It's quite a long list of companies by the way”

Absolutely, but by choosing not to cover one company and not others, it’s a bit selective isn’t it?

I mean SNK ownership is as follows:

“SNK Corporation is primarily owned by the Electronic Gaming Development Company (EGDC), a subsidiary of the Mohammed bin Salman Foundation (MiSK Foundation) from Saudi Arabia. As of April 2022, EGDC holds 96.18% of SNK's shares, effectively placing control under Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.“

So the top guy is MBS, who personally ordered the killing of a journalist and rules an autocratic regime with poor human rights record, but it’s ok for TE to cover SNK.

Meanwhile, Palmer Luckey, who founded “military contractor Anduril Industries, a military technology company focused on autonomous drones and sensors for military applications” owns Modretro.

Which of the two people is worse? I think it’s pretty obvious.

By making a statement saying you will no longer cover Modretro stuff, you drew a virtuous line in the sand.

By doing so you’ve left yourself open to criticism when covering other companies or products with controversial links to states or people.

This SNK NeoGeo AES+ news came right out of the blue and took the “retro” world by storm.

You could make a statement advising you won’t cover SNK stuff due to being owned by the Saudis, but you fully know you’d be shooting yourselves in the foot.

So the question is, do you stay virtuous and stick to your portrayed principles and not cover SNK anymore for moral reasons? Or do you swallow your pride and cover SNK news as to not do so would negatively affect traffic to this site.

My guess is you’ll keep posting articles about SNK because it’s in the site’s interest. I’m glad you referenced the hypocrisy in this article, but this all was a problem of your own making.

Judging from my experience of going to retro events, they should make one called "Le B.O."

Release a Time Crisis collection, release a Point Blank collection and a Ridge Racer collection. I would buy them all.

They work hard, they play hard.

Everybody Dance Now starts playing

@Guru_Larry Chase HQ would work especially well as I remember there being a dip switch setting for digital controls in MAME. So the game would be perfectly playable with a digital dpad.

It could be down to licensing when you consider all the unofficial sports cars in the game.

To be this bad takes AGES.