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Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy.

They will wonder why they don't succeed. Then they'll keep doing what they've always done. Don't do insanity, kids.

Perfect. Shame we couldn't also get the original VAs.

Meh. Another useless tchotchke box that will sit in a stack of other boxes, not unlike the opening area of E2M2. Pass.

Haha. I'm not paying for that.
Memes are free.

Rave Racer, even. Hamster are the only other converters I trust besides M2.

Please Sega, give them Outrunners, Scud Race Plus and Planet Harriers.

Meanwhile, the leadership, having made poor decisions which led to this outcome, makes bank.

Is our "free" republic really so much better than those we fought before? Or simply a different flavor of evil?

Gradius III is the reason I got into SHMUPs. Salamander 2 has a soundtrack so incredible that I imported it. Of course I'm buying this.

If they find a way to incorporate the unused music from Salamander 2 into Salamander 3, I'll experience rapture on the spot.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Very good news! Getting ahold of Gradius NEO was nigh impossible for me back in the day. Glad we have such diligent preservationists working hard to keep history alive!

Haha, I thought they said available later today, but I misheard--it's just preorders. Very excited for Salamander III!
Oh yeah: I guess this is M2's second or third appearance on Steam, after Operation Night Strikers & Night Striker Gear? More M2 on Steam!

Wow! It's releasing so soon! And it has no monetization traps!

You know, I'm really thankful so many old development houses from Japan are still around. There are so few companies that aren't actively trying to send people into poverty through delusional MTX.

@profkross Got 25k usd burning a hole in your pocket? I'll make you a list for that much. Which specific device would you like a compatibility list for? I'm not doing them all, that would take me years, and all of your money.

Joking aside, this "retro gamer" finds FPGA compatibility with 2D PSX games to be virtually flawless. Are you having a specific issue?

No complaints from me. TFVI, and especially it's soundtrack, are peak.

@Razieluigi It succinctly gets the point across. The original SNES cart feels terrible to play.

M2 Co., Ltd. has posted a somewhat higher quality video on their Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWe02heDnyE

Mega95 still looks dope. With Retroid dropping the ball, now is the time to strike.

I loved their BMX series. Rest in Peace Dave Mirra. Gone too soon.

So he sold himself on the job market as having ROM hacking & translation skills. Now he says he couldn't do it. Instead of rising to the challenge: he stole. How is this a defense?
Dude is a fake. Retro-bit needs better due diligence when contracting or hiring. Otherwise they will end up in deep legal water. This likely means their future releases will increase in cost. And that's OK.

That's very disappointing.
I admit to having purchased Valken and Gleylancer, Metalstorm (x2), and Undercover Cops cartridges from Retro-Bit. Along with a few others.
I think the quality of their physical releases is excellent for the price, but... I can't recommend them any more if their work isn't really what they are claiming it to be.
I really do hope they do better in the future.

Skill issue, Bobby. Take your pills.

@hste Aha, thank you. Finally managed to order one. Now I play the waiting game.

It's a very pure game. Distilled to the core elements. I have been enjoying my time with it immensely. Realism doesn't always equal fun. In fact, the most fun games are the least realistic, and I'll die on that hill.

Did they report the harassers to forum admins? I understand if they don't want to deal with elitism and hair-ass-ment anymore.

I try not to post at neogaf, yakyak or vogons due to how many "two-faced" types there are. Whole industry would improve if they all got called out, and we policed ourselves better.

It's such a shame these things are impossible to get. Wanted a MiSTerPi and failed. Same deal here, only founders took all the stock. Guess I'll look elsewhere.

This is great. Censorship is abhorrent, and anathema to real progress. And having a translated PC (J) -> (En) is super.

If only we had some progress on the translation of Compile's version of Shadowrun on Sega CD.

@KingMike Relative to the full-fat PC-based devkit. Those went in the neighborhood of 12K usd per unit. Not counting whatever licensing costs the publisher paid to Sony for the opportunity to acquire one. This was back when the dollar was four times as strong as it is now. 750 usd was a small price to pay to write PSOne software.

I am loving this little resurgence of sprite-scalers and rail shooters on Steam. It's become such an underappreciated genre. ToT

GungHo did the Grandia 1 "remaster" dirty, and lied to fans. No surprise they're going corpo-deaf here, too.

I love it when an intractable establishment gets tracted.

There are people willing to work on and finish this today. New fixes are even being applied to this old hack.

CyberWarriorX and SamIAm shouldn't have dropped a GPL2 copy of their hack, if they didn't want anyone to fork it. Do they not know how OSS works?

I'm sure there will be transparent and color models made available later. I might wait for the inevitable metal "Noir" version. Hehe.

Sounds like corporate BS.

Like granhalcon mentioned, they didn't put the SEGA branding at the start of the flick. Huge missed opportunity that makes Scarpone here look like a flaming hypocrite.

Oh hell yes! I love seeing creators support their fans, and fan translations of their works.

I've been waiting for too long for Ray'z Chronology physical. It's supposed to go to manufacturing next month. We'll see.

I'd get one, but for years their site always throws an "access denied" error. Sucks for them.

Sad to see they haven't really changed. Sega needs real leaders.

Hype for this.

More DotEmu and Tencent garbage. Metal Slug deserves better.
Looks like the servers don't even work. Not surprised.

Gosh it looks better and better every time.

I hope they solved the d-pad diagonal issues.
I've seen lots of reports of hyper/hyposensitivity, and I personally had to open my launch Pocket to add thin strips of electrical tape to the underside of my d-pad just so the diagonals would register.
I wasn't willing to wait weeks/months for an out of warranty swap.

The Ferrari logo is also missing in-game on the A1Up cabs. Licensing cost must be insane.

I'm glad it's released. Also hoping Nintendo keeps looking the other way. Infidelity does really good work with these ports. I want to see him keep going with these as long as he still has the drive to.

Interesting. I'll wait for a finished product. Not interested in furthering support of crash-and-burn economics through Kickstarter.

Risky move. Better to not paywall something using an IP Nintendo owns. Their lawyers will sniff it out.

My favorite logo. I was sad to see it get sterilized by Konami.

Mr. Blister on my thumb. Accurate retrogaming for the masses!

It's really difficult to build a franchise around a character that doesn't resemble their past self in each new iteration. I get the feeling that they just don't really care about the characters or in keeping Perfect Dark as a viable property. But they needed to show SOMETHING at Xbox to complete that milestone. Something to keep up the appearance that Xbox gives a hoot about video games. But it's really just corpo key jingling. Having played a ton of the original on N64, this just screams generic future shooter which happens to have the PD IP plopped in. QUICK! Bust out the "things aren't what they seem" trope!, Oh! and make the protag have a head hurty scene! They'll chug that slop up!

Sorry, I'm tired of these uncreatives. The whole thing looks like trash. And her appearance is but a distraction.

In the 90s and Y2K, it was the scene, man.

It's been so long.