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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.

It was also much more useful on the VB HyperFlash32. Since that device had capacitive buttons on the back, you could use the eInk label as a display to show a menu and select the game.

Still, this is a neat idea which I hope gets expanded upon.

Naisu. Haven't been updating mine lately. Still on 1.2. Heh.

Time to update!

Edit: I regret updating. Sure, it's nice that you can set individual overclock and filter settings per ROM, but now memory pak file management from the convenience of my flash cart menu is completely broken. Analogue really needs to implement a file manager for mem pak images in their firmware, stat.

@gojiguy Mee too.

Anyway, I'm glad Taito and ININ didn't let Spica fall through the SLG cracks. I totally forgot they were announced in... 2024. Sheesh.

Nice. Whatever it turns out to be, I hope it gets translated for all fans.

You'd think translation would be a solved problem at this stage in our civilization's development. Should be an effortless skill/technology by now. Man we suck.

Speaking of... Where's that Lady Stalker translation, Gideon?

Glad I held off. Suppose that MOSS should have given the Fighters games to Hamster Corporation. Since they did such a good job with Raiden I.

God forbid they somehow find a way to give us Raiden II & DX, and it, too, is butchered like this.

@MARl0 I hope they're happy knowing they brought about the Cookie's Bustle renaissance instead. XD

@GodlessPreservation You're a hypocrite. You flip from anti-preservation to pro from article to article. Make it make sense.

If they didn't demagnetize the disc, the data could still be recovered. Is US customs stupid?

They didn't destroy the art, so I wonder what they were looking for in the floppy that couldn't be inspected with tweezers and a flashlight? Real ham-handed work.

Must be a common item smugglers use, and US custom's total lack of computer literacy training has left their dropouts unprepared.

Note to self: don't ship floppies right now.

Awesome. Runs great on my TED Pro. No sync issues. Wonderfully low-fi, crunchy audio. Which was the style at the time. If my hearing didn't suck, I might actually come close to understanding the game.

No joy on my jailbroken Analogue Duo. Man, what an incompatible hunk of junk that thing is. I hope they are ashamed of their work. Not very Popful of them.

Steam got the update a couple of days ago. I'm glad they haven't forgotten us. It's hard when you only have 60-70% of a game to work with.

I don't think they care. They'll vibe code slop for cheap.

I, too, recall when gaming wasn't infested with opportunists and speculators with gold fever.

Omega Boost is peak. I'll never forget when Sony brought their promotional trailers to my school's student union and let us play it. Bought it as soon as it was out. Good times.

"Legendary".
Yeah, legendarily *****.

It was pretty good for SubLogic's Flight Simulator, and that's it.

I've always imagined what those unused spots on the map would have been. This is cool.

Oh boy. Can't wait for the same games to be re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-released again later.

How about porting some of your lesser ported stuff, yeah SEGA?

I'm getting big "The Vagrant but in pixel art form" vibes. We must go indie-er.

I mean, ReShade exists for the not-lazy. Don't know why anyone is complaining about how Belmont's Curse looks. It's fine, pixels or not.

Wishlisting that Silent Planet, tho. Hope it's got good controls. Lots of 'vania fangames ignore that part.

@MARl0 Personally, I love the more realistic floaty AG. I think it feels great, especially at higher speeds. It completely transforms the lines you take through a course once you actually learn to apply yourself with the game's mechanics. And the zen that comes from swooping around in a zippy float boat like that suits the music far better than being weirdly magnetized at one height level relative to the track surface (which looks comically silly).
BallisticNG nails it.

I'd honestly rather have more mature and feature-complete firmware, thanks.

So there's a chance for Einhänder to show up in Console Archives.

Who cares, as long as it's fun.

We need a method to reverse-engineer IA generated content. That'll put the fear of copyright lawsuits in their single-celled skulls.

Nice. One of the most content-rich home ports. I own them all and always find myself coming back to this one.

The Replay tune is one of the sickest chiptune jams out there.

I hope this leads to an x86 recomp for some QoL additions.

It wasn't a failure back then either. It was so successful, in fact, that It spawned a successor. A successor which Sony hated and kicked into the bin, repeatedly, as if trying to kill it.

I hope they're able to patch it up to how it should be, despite only working with a partial codebase.

I wonder if Live Wire ever fixed DDP DFK on Switch after they broke it with their last patch.

All that money and they resort to cheap tricks? I got a trick, too. It's called pirating CotW.

Skipping Evo again, too. I miss when it was independent and not a boring corpo ***** show. Now it's simply a commodity passed around by sociopaths to appeal to slop guzzlers.