The music player is a welcome feature! If this port were able to be modified to also include the amazing DC/N64 music into the mix, somehow, It'd be best-er.
I have little respect for LRG, but now I'm losing respect for some who have worked for them, some who have had their hands in writing the Carbon Engine. If that was ever even an original creation of theirs.
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?
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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Re: Nintendo Locking A Screen Filter Behind A Console Upgrade Hasn't Gone Down Well With Everyone
I'm not reading this ragebait. Not when I can spend that time making money, and using it to buy multiple Switch 2s.
Re: The Lost Vikings - Ragnarok Edition Could Be The Definitive Way To Play The Classic SNES Platformer
One billion times more fun than Whorld of Snorecraft.
Silicon & Synapse never missed.
Re: "It's Just Not Working" - FreePlay Arcade Will Close Its Doors Later This Month
Gimme that OutRun 2 cab.
Re: This $75 Nintendo DS-Focused Emulation Handheld Is Set To Launch Next Month
No thanks. My hands are cramping just looking at it, and the screen is obviously inadequate for proper scaling.
Re: This Rip Curl GBA SP Is Super Rare, And You Now Have The Chance To Own Six Of Them
@GravyThief
Real sealed collectors have an X-Ray machine. I think.
Re: This Little-Known Evangelion Fighting Game Has Been Preserved
Angels don't seem so dangerous. Give 'em the ol' Wake up DP!
Re: A Lost Mobile-Exclusive 'Mana' Game Has Just Been Partially Preserved
Wonderful! It's great to see these passionate people preserving!
Re: Star Fox 64's Unofficial PC Port Has Just Got An Exciting New Update
Looks like it's time to roll some barrels.
Re: One Of The Best Non-Sega Arcade Racers Just Got A Recompiled PC Port
The music player is a welcome feature! If this port were able to be modified to also include the amazing DC/N64 music into the mix, somehow, It'd be best-er.
Re: Namco's Unported Arcade Classic 'NebulasRay' Gets Its Console Debut And A Steep Price Point
Cool. Haven't seen this one. Released same year as RayForce, interesting.
Re: Yuzo Koshiro's Earthion Confirmed For Switch, PS4, PS5 And Xbox Series X/S
Paprium vapor-carts on LRG wen? I bet Fonzie could drive Josh up the wall.
Re: This Indie Dev Seems Pretty Serious About Making A Spiritual Successor To Ridge Racer
The timeless mind-boggling effects of the PlayStation. An aesthetic which holds up with the passage of time.
Re: Limited Run And Retro-Bit Under Fire For Using Recycled Chips In Shantae Advance
Et tu, RetroBit? Really strange.
And LRG helping game publishers destroy physical media by overcharging customers on used goods?
Might as well pirate everything not attached to a physical format. It's what corpos are asking for.
Re: Limited Run Refutes Accusation It Violated GPL In Tomba! Special Edition
I have little respect for LRG, but now I'm losing respect for some who have worked for them, some who have had their hands in writing the Carbon Engine. If that was ever even an original creation of theirs.
Re: Random: Keiji Inafune Believed "Arrogance" & Overconfidence Led To Mega Man Legends' Poor Sales
Talk about self-fulfilling prophecy.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
They will wonder why they don't succeed. Then they'll keep doing what they've always done. Don't do insanity, kids.
Re: Lunar Remastered Collection Uses The Working Designs Script
Perfect. Shame we couldn't also get the original VAs.
Re: Limited Run Games Is Releasing 'Doom + Doom II' In A Box That Can Run Doom
Meh. Another useless tchotchke box that will sit in a stack of other boxes, not unlike the opening area of E2M2. Pass.
Re: One Of The Worst Games Of All Time Has Arrived On Steam, And The Reviews Are Exactly What You'd Expect
Haha. I'm not paying for that.
Memes are free.
Re: Namco's 'Ridge Racer' Is Coming To Nintendo Switch 2 At Launch
Rave Racer, even. Hamster are the only other converters I trust besides M2.
Please Sega, give them Outrunners, Scud Race Plus and Planet Harriers.
Re: Ubisoft Leamington Has Officially Closed Its Doors, Ending Its 22-Year History
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?
Re: Some Fans Have Issues With Gradius Origins, And They Have A Point
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.
Re: Attacking Retro Modders Is Not Cool, And It Needs To Stop
This is why we can't have nice things.
Re: 23 Konami Mobile Games Have Just Been Saved, Including Gradius, Castlevania and Parodius Titles
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!
Re: Konami Announces A New Gradius Collection Featuring An All-New Sequel To Salamander
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!
Re: 'Tetris The Grandmaster 4' Lands On Steam This April & Gets New Video Detailing Its Modes
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.
Re: Taki Udon Shows Off The UI For His SuperStation One FPGA PS1
@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?
Re: "I'm Content To Take Any Complaints" - Thunder Force VI Designer Reflects On Why It Didn't Live Up To Expectations
No complaints from me. TFVI, and especially it's soundtrack, are peak.
Re: Ex-Acclaim Dev Gives Closer Look At The Cancelled SNES Title 'Mortal Kombat Nitro'
@Razieluigi It succinctly gets the point across. The original SNES cart feels terrible to play.
Re: M2's New 'Night Striker' Game Just Got Its First Trailer
M2 Co., Ltd. has posted a somewhat higher quality video on their Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWe02heDnyE
Re: "We Owe You An Apology" - Hyperkin Admits It Has "Overpromised And Under-Delivered"
Mega95 still looks dope. With Retroid dropping the ball, now is the time to strike.
Re: More Than 20 Years Later, Acclaim Is Back From The Dead, And WWE Legend Jeff Jarrett Is Involved
I loved their BMX series. Rest in Peace Dave Mirra. Gone too soon.
Re: "These Short Games Mean Nothing To Me" - Retro-Bit Translator Denies Wrongdoing In "Baffling" Rant
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.
Re: Retro-Bit Apologises For Using Fan-Translations Without Permission
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.
Re: Ex-Activision Boss Forgets Name Of "Bad Acquisition" Behind Project Gotham Racing, Blur And Geometry Wars
Skill issue, Bobby. Take your pills.
Re: Taki Udon's FPGA PS1 Is Called SuperStation One, Pre-Orders Start At $149 This Week
@hste Aha, thank you. Finally managed to order one. Now I play the waiting game.
Re: Hands On: Tokyo Xtreme Racer - The Welcome Return Of An Arcade Racing Classic
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.
Re: "There Is Only So Much I Can Take" - Creator Of Roland MT-32 Emulator MT32-Pi Calls It A Day
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.
Re: Taki Udon's FPGA PS1 Is Called SuperStation One, Pre-Orders Start At $149 This Week
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.
Re: Saturn Cult Classic Princess Crown Is Getting An Uncensored Translation
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.
Re: You Can Now Rediscover A Forgotten Piece Of PlayStation History, Thanks To Antstream Arcade
@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.
Re: We Now Have Our First Images Of M2's New 'Night Striker' Game
I am loving this little resurgence of sprite-scalers and rail shooters on Steam. It's become such an underappreciated genre. ToT
Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"
GungHo did the Grandia 1 "remaster" dirty, and lied to fans. No surprise they're going corpo-deaf here, too.
Re: "If You Were Threatened Before This, It's Going To Get Much Worse" - Taki Udon Takes Aim At MiSTer FPGA Rivals
I love it when an intractable establishment gets tracted.
Re: There's Some Drama Surrounding The New Princess Crown English Patch
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?
Re: Pre-Orders For FPGA N64 'Analogue 3D' Open Next Week, Will Cost $250
I'm sure there will be transparent and color models made available later. I might wait for the inevitable metal "Noir" version. Hehe.
Re: "You Don’t See Sega Enough" - Sega’s Transmedia Boss Wants To "Elevate" The Brand
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.
Re: The Director Behind Cult Dreamcast RPG SEGAGAGA Wants To Translate It Into English
Oh hell yes! I love seeing creators support their fans, and fan translations of their works.
Re: Irem Collection Volume 2 Gets Japanese Release This November
I've been waiting for too long for Ray'z Chronology physical. It's supposed to go to manufacturing next month. We'll see.
Re: GameStop Is Selling An Exclusive ModRetro Chromatic
I'd get one, but for years their site always throws an "access denied" error. Sucks for them.