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Microsoft leadership failed Xbox. And like the emotionally stunted corpos they are, they don't want to accept blame.

"The result is an Xbox that’s radically different to the one we’d all come to know. The new Xbox is the company behind Call of Duty, Candy Crush, Minecraft, Elder Scrolls, Halo, Diablo, Forza, Fallout, Warcraft…"

These are things they BOUGHT, not made. Except for Hola and Forza.

Western business is mentally ill at the highest echelons.

But will it run on non-garbage OSes? Like Windows Se7en or Ten?

"Those alien ***** are gonna pay $7.99 a month to watch my show." - Donk Bonkem

Good ol' FOMO. It informs you, the wise consumer, that the vendor is weak and unconfident in their work.

I say work, but this is actually market research aimed at kids.

Poor kids don't deserve this. Not after the Stygian horrors they've witnessed on the social medias.

More shmups, yes please and thank.

I'm not reading this ragebait. Not when I can spend that time making money, and using it to buy multiple Switch 2s.

One billion times more fun than Whorld of Snorecraft.
Silicon & Synapse never missed.

Gimme that OutRun 2 cab.

No thanks. My hands are cramping just looking at it, and the screen is obviously inadequate for proper scaling.

@GravyThief
Real sealed collectors have an X-Ray machine. I think.

Angels don't seem so dangerous. Give 'em the ol' Wake up DP!

Wonderful! It's great to see these passionate people preserving!

Looks like it's time to roll some barrels.

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.

Cool. Haven't seen this one. Released same year as RayForce, interesting.

Paprium vapor-carts on LRG wen? I bet Fonzie could drive Josh up the wall.

The timeless mind-boggling effects of the PlayStation. An aesthetic which holds up with the passage of time.

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.

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.

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?