@JohnnyMind Yeah agreed - it seems so obvious doesn't it! One of the nice things about the GBA Mario Advance 4 (SMB 3) on NSO is the inclusion of the Card Reader only levels which I don't believe were ever released over here at the time? (I think people who bought a 3DS early on might have got them as a sweetener when Nintendo dropped the price so soon after launch?) I recently played through them and had a blast and it was a great inclusion and extra incentive to check the title out - otherwise I'm just playing OG SMB3 on the NES which I prefer to the All Stars version. Quite why they're not making these extra features available for all games is a mystery and classic Ninty sitting on cool things but doing nothing about it despite having the perfect platform to do so...!
@JohnnyMind THIS! I own a load of bootleg cartridges and have the Satalleview Zelda and BS F Zero Grand Prix 1 carts and they're great fun. (Also have a fan made English language translation of Marvelous Another Treasure Island which is simply wonderful and a crime it never got an official Western release!) Surely it's so easy with today's digital market places and Switch Online to release these games to the masses. They did it with the first Mother so there's always hope? And why stop at Satalleview games - 64DD as well. Yes I'm looking at you F-Zero X Expansion Pack...
Mean Machines 1-24 are video game magazine royalty. The GOAT. Along with CVG Paul Davies era and Super Play, I had the best time reading each issue and seeing what delights were within. Pre internet it was amazing how comparatively we got by on so little - and it was grand. You can stick your YouTube trailers and play throughs which show too much (if you watch em) - having slightly blurred CRT images, even ones pasted in upside down, and letting your imagination wonder how the game played was ironically far better and made getting the game far more fun. The anticipation was off the scale by seeing less. But yeah - NMS and MMS were also great but lacked that je ne sais quoi MM had. Something special was lost when they split the mag and the team up. Sure I moved over and bought one or sometimes both of NMS and MMS and enjoyed them, but it was never as good. Halcyon days for sure, what a great time to be into games.
My God I want one of these. It seems custom made for me as I have a massive collection of physical retro games.
However despite the positive press I've read on here (it sounds SO good), all the incredibly bad stories about Playmaji being unable to fulfil orders made years ago is a joke and despite really wanting one I'm left in a situation where I don't really know what to do. Do I take a risk and order one now and be prepared to wait ages to get my system with little to no updates from Playmaji (and considering how long it takes them to despatch orders better to get in earlier than later?) or wait till they sort their crap out and actually run things like a professional business and follow through on what they say and get orders out in a respectable time? Also any chance of an official UK release? I think I had more chance of seeing Santa on my rooftop last week than this happening the way things are going.
Yet amazingly, whilst Playmaji cannot sort out their existing orders, they CAN send out a preview unit of their new module for review?! Why not sort out the existing orders rather than developing a new module which might as well be vapour based on what I've read from people waiting to get their orders from years ago.
Bad form. Who is running this company so badly?
I'm actually not trying to dump on Playmaji - but man oh man do you guys have a bad rep from everything I've read over numerous comments on the NL and TE websites. Yes yes there was the pandemic and problems making your system - but geez how long are you going to use this as an excuse.
I ordered an Analogue Pocket in November - ordered it FRIDAY, it arrived in the UK from the USofA MONDAY.
Dang now that's service and how you do things.
And the thing is - despite all this crap I'm reading I still REALLY want your product. Get it together guys as you have a killer system many of us want you to succeed at selling and supporting! PLEASE!!!!!
Man - I REALLY want one of these things. It's such a cool product and exactly what I want to play my back catalogue, but all these delays and problems have put me off ordering one... Crying shame. I was hoping for a European release, wanted to avoid the import duty... seems like the way they are running things there's little chance of that happening. Are they even serious about this?! Seeing combywomby's comment above suggests otherwise. Would love an update in the coming months to see if they follow through on this and to hear from other people about their experiences - if they do sort this I might just take the plunge.
@Spider-Kev IKR! But ofc in Japan MarioWorld was subtitled (on the box at least) Super Mario Bros 4, and I still call it that in my head as the UK press at the time all referred to it that way. I think it's a shame they didn't carry that through for the Western releases and one of the reasons I love my SFC copies of the game.
Didn't NCL make a new copyright for Super Mario Bros 4 a few years ago? I have vague memories of reading a rumour about that... Quite what they would then call whatever game that might have become in Japan Lord only knows...!
The first image I ever saw of this was in a free book on an issue of CVG (had Robocop on the front) and they had stickers of upcoming games to put in. It was of world 1-2 with it's green sloping hills. I only had Mario 1 at that point and that single screenshot Blew. My. Mind.
One of my all time faves I still regularly play through it - this and MarioWorld haven't been bettered by anyone as per 2D platformers IMO. I've seen Wonder might be the closest we've had to this style of game since... but I haven't played it yet cos I'm getting it for my Birthday start of November...
...which neatly brings me to this EU release date I constantly see; August 29th? We certainly didn't get it that soon in the UK - we got it later. I'm assuming it was probably released on mainland Europe before us as I see this earlier release date everywhere.
It wasn't reviewed in the UK press till the October 1991 issues (man that review and cover on Mean Machines #13...) and as my Birthday was early November, I have very fond and firm memories of me and my Dad going into our local Dixons and purchasing it on Saturday 2nd November. I knew it had just been released and we weren't even sure they'd have it in stock, such was the way back then. But have it they did and I actually got the last copy. It had literally just been released.
So the UK release date was late October/early November '91. Not in August. Anyone else remember it this way?!
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Re: Fans Rebuild Two Forgotten F-Zero SNES Games Previously Lost To Time
@JohnnyMind Yeah agreed - it seems so obvious doesn't it!
One of the nice things about the GBA Mario Advance 4 (SMB 3) on NSO is the inclusion of the Card Reader only levels which I don't believe were ever released over here at the time?
(I think people who bought a 3DS early on might have got them as a sweetener when Nintendo dropped the price so soon after launch?)
I recently played through them and had a blast and it was a great inclusion and extra incentive to check the title out - otherwise I'm just playing OG SMB3 on the NES which I prefer to the All Stars version.
Quite why they're not making these extra features available for all games is a mystery and classic Ninty sitting on cool things but doing nothing about it despite having the perfect platform to do so...!
Re: Fans Rebuild Two Forgotten F-Zero SNES Games Previously Lost To Time
@JohnnyMind THIS! I own a load of bootleg cartridges and have the Satalleview Zelda and BS F Zero Grand Prix 1 carts and they're great fun. (Also have a fan made English language translation of Marvelous Another Treasure Island which is simply wonderful and a crime it never got an official Western release!)
Surely it's so easy with today's digital market places and Switch Online to release these games to the masses. They did it with the first Mother so there's always hope? And why stop at Satalleview games - 64DD as well. Yes I'm looking at you F-Zero X Expansion Pack...
Re: 'Super Mario Collection' Is A New Fanmade Book Documenting Over 9000+ Items
Be amazed if that name sticks considering it's the same as the Japanese Super Mario All Stars game on SFC...!
Re: Iconic Issues: Nintendo Magazine System #1 And Mean Machines Sega #1
Mean Machines 1-24 are video game magazine royalty. The GOAT. Along with CVG Paul Davies era and Super Play, I had the best time reading each issue and seeing what delights were within. Pre internet it was amazing how comparatively we got by on so little - and it was grand. You can stick your YouTube trailers and play throughs which show too much (if you watch em) - having slightly blurred CRT images, even ones pasted in upside down, and letting your imagination wonder how the game played was ironically far better and made getting the game far more fun. The anticipation was off the scale by seeing less.
But yeah - NMS and MMS were also great but lacked that je ne sais quoi MM had. Something special was lost when they split the mag and the team up. Sure I moved over and bought one or sometimes both of NMS and MMS and enjoyed them, but it was never as good.
Halcyon days for sure, what a great time to be into games.
Re: Review: Polymega - Now With N64 Support, But Is It Still Worth A Look In 2024?
My God I want one of these. It seems custom made for me as I have a massive collection of physical retro games.
However despite the positive press I've read on here (it sounds SO good), all the incredibly bad stories about Playmaji being unable to fulfil orders made years ago is a joke and despite really wanting one I'm left in a situation where I don't really know what to do. Do I take a risk and order one now and be prepared to wait ages to get my system with little to no updates from Playmaji (and considering how long it takes them to despatch orders better to get in earlier than later?) or wait till they sort their crap out and actually run things like a professional business and follow through on what they say and get orders out in a respectable time? Also any chance of an official UK release? I think I had more chance of seeing Santa on my rooftop last week than this happening the way things are going.
Yet amazingly, whilst Playmaji cannot sort out their existing orders, they CAN send out a preview unit of their new module for review?! Why not sort out the existing orders rather than developing a new module which might as well be vapour based on what I've read from people waiting to get their orders from years ago.
Bad form. Who is running this company so badly?
I'm actually not trying to dump on Playmaji - but man oh man do you guys have a bad rep from everything I've read over numerous comments on the NL and TE websites. Yes yes there was the pandemic and problems making your system - but geez how long are you going to use this as an excuse.
I ordered an Analogue Pocket in November - ordered it FRIDAY, it arrived in the UK from the USofA MONDAY.
Dang now that's service and how you do things.
And the thing is - despite all this crap I'm reading I still REALLY want your product. Get it together guys as you have a killer system many of us want you to succeed at selling and supporting! PLEASE!!!!!
Re: Atari Owns Almost Half Of Polymega Maker Playmaji
@Axelay71 ^THIS! Fingers crossed...
Re: All Outstanding Polymega Pre-Orders Will Ship This Year, Says Playmaji
Man - I REALLY want one of these things.
It's such a cool product and exactly what I want to play my back catalogue, but all these delays and problems have put me off ordering one...
Crying shame. I was hoping for a European release, wanted to avoid the import duty... seems like the way they are running things there's little chance of that happening.
Are they even serious about this?! Seeing combywomby's comment above suggests otherwise.
Would love an update in the coming months to see if they follow through on this and to hear from other people about their experiences - if they do sort this I might just take the plunge.
Re: Anniversary: Super Mario Bros. 3 Is Now 35 Years Old
@Spider-Kev IKR! But ofc in Japan MarioWorld was subtitled (on the box at least) Super Mario Bros 4, and I still call it that in my head as the UK press at the time all referred to it that way. I think it's a shame they didn't carry that through for the Western releases and one of the reasons I love my SFC copies of the game.
Didn't NCL make a new copyright for Super Mario Bros 4 a few years ago? I have vague memories of reading a rumour about that... Quite what they would then call whatever game that might have become in Japan Lord only knows...!
Re: Anniversary: Super Mario Bros. 3 Is Now 35 Years Old
The first image I ever saw of this was in a free book on an issue of CVG (had Robocop on the front) and they had stickers of upcoming games to put in. It was of world 1-2 with it's green sloping hills. I only had Mario 1 at that point and that single screenshot Blew. My. Mind.
One of my all time faves I still regularly play through it - this and MarioWorld haven't been bettered by anyone as per 2D platformers IMO. I've seen Wonder might be the closest we've had to this style of game since... but I haven't played it yet cos I'm getting it for my Birthday start of November...
...which neatly brings me to this EU release date I constantly see; August 29th? We certainly didn't get it that soon in the UK - we got it later. I'm assuming it was probably released on mainland Europe before us as I see this earlier release date everywhere.
It wasn't reviewed in the UK press till the October 1991 issues (man that review and cover on Mean Machines #13...) and as my Birthday was early November, I have very fond and firm memories of me and my Dad going into our local Dixons and purchasing it on Saturday 2nd November. I knew it had just been released and we weren't even sure they'd have it in stock, such was the way back then. But have it they did and I actually got the last copy. It had literally just been released.
So the UK release date was late October/early November '91. Not in August. Anyone else remember it this way?!