This was "funded in 12 minutes". You're telling me they did nothing since Nov. 3rd, 2025 to ensure supply of a high-value part in this economy, where luxury options like OLED are shooting up in price? C'mon now. This is amateur hour.

They should have been on those displays as soon as the goal was hit, not pointlessly babysitting the KS and sitting idly.

If there was a properly written agreement with Antstream at all. Would be odd for a software project to go on this long with no contract milestones for two years.

Reminds a li'l bit of the Hiveswap situation.

It does AI coding no favors when script kiddies lie about the state of their "work". It all just makes folks more wary. Which is a good thing. More people should develop for themselves an "eye", so to speak, for distinguishing human vs AI made products.

Love me some classic Tamsoft kusoge fighters. Probably barebones, but if they also come with the OSTs... Mayhaps.

I hope they're saving Betop's Super/Gameboy version (yeah it had it's own unique SGB border, but does come on a grey cart) for a sequel collection.

Not getting the Soulja Boy endorsement is a glaringly huge miss. Pass.

Hori-san is responding positively to a tweet saying that he doesn't mean "don't port it", but rather "don't sell it or distribute it widely".

https://x.com/hor11/status/2100247072763158969

Expensive, to be sure. Yet worth it to me for the modularity, and if it also works on PC and MiSTer--even better.

Import costs are gonna suck though. So, overseas sales when?

I seriously doubt they were planning an MD port.
And the western releases are so slowly drip-fed that they might as well never exist on an accounting ledger.

@N64-ROX Never.

"Psychic Force - a anti0gravity"

This article could use a smidge of care.

Absorbing all of this "AI" translated stuff is great study for my future position in the JUNKER organization. I'll detect them by their sentence structure alone.

Keep it coming, nerds. My career in the field of heroism is now guaranteed forever.

Love it! GGA3 is a lot of fun. I keep feeling the compulsion to go back to it a little too often. There's a word for that, but I forgor.

The singular braincell behind the curtain, finally revealed.

They'd sue if it were a small creator using their IPs. Corporations (yes, including our gov't) sure do love going easy on each other while wrecking the economy for the rest of us.

@kirby2000 No, ChicagoGameCollector sockpuppet, the story is about a developer cutting ties with another.

Capcom feels threatened. Haha.
They've been good with fanworks before, but this one scares them.

There should be legal repercussions for unsolicited attribution. Oh wait, there is, but it costs the victim money to pursue.

AI allows the worst people to commit fraud at such ridiculous scale it's mind boggling.

It goes on the GoG wishlist, it does.

I don't see the point of making this a stand-up cab, when their target demo is older and fully saturated with these things. Money could be saved making these candy cab variants. Plus, they're driving games. Who here regularly stands up while driving? It's a holdover from actual arcades, to keep guests from loitering. An unneeded "feature" of modern homebound A1UP machines that I'd appreciate gets left in the 80s and 90s. "How can we sink this brand further? Says new owners of A1UP brand."

Video is gone. I hope nothing bad happened, and this is still being worked on.

It looks really flat and unfinished. Do they really want fifty European smackaroons for this?

I've never understood folks that make profit their entire personality. The gold-fevered need their rights revoked, because currently, we all are suffering under their type.

What a coincidence.

I just tried a fake "NTSC" 30fps patch I found on the web. Sure, the framerate cap was lifted, but the analog signal it put out was still PAL. Thus, the image got cut-off at the top and bottom on domestic consumer CRTs.

THIS patch actually does what it says on the tin!

Now, if only the one designed for the PSX2XCPU MiSTer core & 8MB were less prone to crashes.

Shucks, and I just got an x7 last year. Oh well. Patched 64DD images it is. XD

In my day we tested before release. This ThiagoLira is just another clout-chaser speedrunning towards failure. Like mstan and their busted, vibe-coded PS1 recomps.

I have a Daytona USA from Tiger Electronics which uses a combination of screen-facing LEDs and a holographic background to simulate depth. The physical nature of many of these games means it takes a lot more work to simulate/emulate them.

The Takeover surprised me. Wonder what's gonna happen to the Kickstarter, as there are still some disgruntled fans over there that haven't gotten their pledge's-worth.

Still, happy to see it return, and hope we someday get the full story of what happened.

It hasn't really moved from it's 4950 yen price since it launched digitally, where it is the most accessible to fans in other regions. It likely isn't projected to sell well enough to cover any related licensing and distribution costs. Hence, it sits there. Technically "available" if you want it.

I find their lack of language specific to the "glow" lottery hilariously vague, in legal terms.
I'm sure they could have still made a profit on $60 carts with LEDs in every single one.
Unless this is all mandated by SEGA, who are known for slowly transmogrifying into more of a merch corp in recent years.
How the speedy have fallen.

As long as their artist gets back to them, and the assets get replaced, I don't see the problem with placeholders. A tale as old as programmer art.

Though, AI disclosure would have been nice. We can't win people back if we crucify them. That just leads to a tiresome and predictable cycle of resentment.

I'll still support this dev if they follow through and ignore the weirdly un-self-aware "clone" discoursers splashing their impotent screeds on the social medias (demented).

Is this supposed arcade a real place, or merely a hallucination?

A quality, compatible SNES mouse replacement? Dude, I'd get it just for that.

Not exactly sure how different it is to have AI assist with BG element design, or drawing/tiling over the big collections of reference materials SEGA has amassed over the years. As long as the AI used isn't trained on other people's stuff that they don't own, it does not seem so bad.

Wrt the job loss due to AI, I dunno. Same thing happened to robots replacing assembly line workers, and we seem to have gotten past that. Surplus employees will overflow into new companies, and new companies form all the time. Evolution is great, but it also sucks. C'est la vie.

We'll see if the sales numbers reflect public opinion.

One of my favorite features coming from other companies, like Treasure, is having the ability to move the UI elements off to the sidebars. I'd love to see CAVE do that for this rerelease.

Edit: Scratch that. Demo is the same exact framework as the 360 port and old Steam PC port with some new PNGs. Still runs internally at 720p, no vsync, no QoL. Breaks if you alt+tab. Excessively loud main menu with no volume controls outside of the game itself. Same bad font scaling. Blurry bilinear filter with no FSR upscaling. Very disappointing.

Was hoping for a brand new port, but nope. Same slop.

I'll just ask Gabe for a tiny 1K loan. I'm good for it.

@gmar You act like others are doing the gatekeeping, while being fully in denial that those who refuse to git gud are the ones gatekeeping themselves from victory. No one is forcing you to play this ROM hack. It's all on you. Stay frosty.

As long as it isn't transformed into the dull 3D slop they've been churning out for classic Sonic lately. SEGA is playing it too SAFEga.

CD's special stages made me think Sega would have been cooking up a super scaler arcade game starring Sonic and co. back in the 90s, but they never really leveraged the Sonic IP as hard as they should have.

A prisoner and a degen. Yuji Naka is one of us.

This thing was first shown so long ago that I keep forgetting it exists. Every announcement feels like the very first one.

So far, it looks chunky and uncomfortable to hold, and that massive bezel with logo is gauche and ugly. If they wanted players to advertise their products outdoors, it would make a lot more sense to print the company name on the back or top of the unit, where other people can see it. The player already knows what it is.

It has to go up against the Anbernic RG ARC and the Retroid Pocket Classic 6, with the only advantage being that it has the MD/Gen cartridge slot. If it also happened to load Sega 32X carts or 32X ROMs from a flashcart, I mite bite.

There's no money left in this dead horse. Alvarado and Adams should just flee the country. They could team up with Alejandro Martin, and get the SuperSegAmico going.

Kickstarter? What is this, Fonzie's alt? He tryna triple-dip for some MegaWire money?

Love it!

Hope this lights a competitive fire in Krikzz to hopefully finish his 32X module for the Mega ED Pro.

This is why preservation is so important. So that the uncertain future does not rewrite the recorded past.

I'm cool with more GH. Love Treasure.

I've got merch coming out of my ears. Don't need more SEGA merch. You're a gall durn video game company, start acting like it.

How about re-releases with QoL features, i.e. more SEGA AGES? Games that haven't seen re-releases at all, like Skies of Arcadia, Guardian Heroes, and Segagagagagagagagagagaga? Don't give me the "lost the source code" malarkey. That doesn't fly at all in this day and age of decompilation. Get your own source back and write some more heckin' bling-blong code!

Take your tchotchkes and textiles and get outta here!

I was interested, but the fact that they still charge a "Tariff Tax" says they're still using them as an excuse to collect more money. Said tariffs aren't even legal anymore, so they aren't using that money to pay US customs, they're just keeping it. Scummy.

At least they've acknowledged it. Live Wire still owes us a DFK beam sprite layering fix. Total silence from them.

Embarrassing display.

Awesome. I spent way too much time rocketing around Little States in '96.

This is cool to see.

A few do have fan patches, like the two DoDonPachi games, as well as Magical Drop DX. I've been waiting years for the folks translating Persona 3 The First Mission to finally release something... anything.

I hope someone else picks up the translation torch for the Stella Deus & Armored Core G-MODE releases.

Alejandro Martín has wood, for you.