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This is a good version and the brand new game is well done but some of the other ones like the super famicom version are pretty bad ports. (Arcade Archivee one is good also).

I wish I had kept my crt (Basically for all the tg16 virtual console stuff I have on it.) I have the mini console but the Wii with rgb scart played better on the crt and there are some games I just don’t have on the mini console like final soldier. (And it’s very difficult to find a 4:3 crt of similar quality as most people had gone widescreen at that time.)

There was another rarer pc engine (LT ?) that looked as if it was significantly better.

I enjoyed the stories in the Armies books more than any other part of Warhammer.

I wonder if it makes any difference sales wise it doesn’t look like a bad game (Not that I buy these type of carts)

I just don’t enjoy side scrolling shmups. With the exception of Lords of Thunder and. Gate of Thunder.

The Neo Geo flash cartridge hope enfd up open source like DS pico. (I have never really think people should be doing this for obey.

@AllieKitsune I think the problem was deeper than that. It applied to Nintendo as well.

I worked with quite a few people with that reputation but usually got on with them well. To the point where in some cases they specifically asked for me when they needed something doing (I think the only thing I did differently was listen very carefully and do exactly what was asked.) I prefer people like that to people with a. social media presence that hides what they are really like and underhanded behaviour. (That seems to be how people with similar social problems handle things these days.) I don’t like that underhanded behaviour.

I worked with someone with a similar sort of reputation to Naka but he was always great with me.

It is because they have switched the factories that were making normal ddr5 to HBM because it’s far far more profitable for them. On a £20000 AI GPU there is much more for them than a £500 PC.

The problem with these devices is even if you do get the ones with rom's the sdcards are absolute garbage so it won't work within about a week.

I made the mistake of using a massive supposedly perfect pack with my trimui smart pro s and loads of the Arcade games are broken including ones I actually do want to play. So I think I am just going to use a fbneo fullest the ntsc ones set done by.byuu and maybe a few select pc engine games.

(I am not against paying for stuff I have the Neo Geo evercade carts and the Neo Geo Super Pocket but I sure as hell won't be paying £90 a game when I pick up the AES+)

There is an open source cart ripper it’s not cheap but it looks well done https://www.cartreader.net/

I like the MD (And Neo Geo which is slightly superior) sound for chiptunes. I think xhipzel uses 2 gameboy’s to compose and that really was trash in the wrong hands.

@StyrofoamCup I would definitely take both Raiden 2 and Raiden dx. Don’t see the issue now there is mame support for both.

@AtomB It is copyright infringement even if they are still on sale that is the law that’s been broken in both cases it doesn’t differentiate.

A universal cart dumper should be possible to make cheaply cheese days. (Talking £30 AliExpress type cost the microcontroller probably £5)

I am not that interested in early 3D games I want the 2D games from around the same time (When they were pulling out all the stops to compete).

I have enjoyed the 30 minutes I spent messing with one although it’s owner sold it a profit and they are not that easy to acquire (Or were not). There is lots of this sort of hardware where they want your money in advance and I just don’t do that. (To be fair I haven’t recently looked at availability). I think the time for me to buy one may have passed.

@Brambles It depends if they steal code from the official console sdk then that really is a problem. (That is why Marcan removed quite a bit of his Wii stuff.) The way the bios is reverse engineered can also have some issues if it’s not done really carefully. (Presuming you don’t have to provide your own which is generally a process nobody undertakes themselves. The first few generations of emulators are generally quite risky legally until the bios is clean room reimplemented. (There is a mainframe emulator that ibm did sue over but they went through a seriously thorough process to make sure it was. I don’t think many console emulators would be able to handle that level of scrutiny.) How many people using emulators actually dump their own bios ?

These Android handhelds really need to work out some kind of bypass for the default input system. But I guess that would require patching the emulators and maintaining them (Or god forbid cooperating). Otherwise only the super high end ones (Which can use other hacks) are going to be worthwhile. The native Linux versions of most of the emulators are generally better as it is. I haven’t tried one of the really high end Android based ones but I would probably go for an Analog Pocket given the option anyway. (I love my Trimui smart pro s my Romset is not perfect but for the most part it’s great).

I hope they switch to a more powerful fpga at some point. (Is there not something fully compatible but just with more gates)

@PXAbstracftion Yeah I can imagine I accept the few losses as they are massively offset by the wins. (Redmi Pad 2 £110 / Trimui smart pro s £50) but yeah I wouldn’t risk it for something super expensive.

@Martin_H I guess I would probably agree. (I was fairly into JRPG’s at the time. (I am not new everything is a cut scene that used to engage your imagination.) But making games that are great from the first second you play it is a skill as well. (I tried some Avater game and it was an hour before I was actually playing it recently.)

@PXAbstracftion I haven’t done badly from AliExpress but I usually use the official store from whatever I am buying. I have ended up with some weird stuff when buying Esp32 stuff. (Like coming with no battery when I ordered the battery version) but for 8bitdo I have saved loads by using Ali (Probably hundreds).

@PXAbstracftion I do have one that was recommended but the case never fit right and it did work to rip the back to the future 4k which is the only 4k disc I have. But I only got it for the sake of it and it needs 2 usb a s for power. And they need to be next to each other which is a pita for many modern laptops. (If it works for that I can’t imagine it would introduce problems for this but it might).

@PXAbstracftion The lg slimline ones like I have are not that insane in cost but they need very specific usb chipsets to be used externally. (I have what is necessary but the case doesn’t fit properly it all works but it isn’t neat).

The case wasn’t cheap either it had to be imported.

@no_donatello Depends whether the key is the same for all the same disks or not I think it varies between systems.

Is model 2 etc completely out of reach for Mister ? (I guess if Saturn works Titan is theoretically possible but model X was a serious step up)

I have the slimline lg that is supposed to work. If someone wanted to do a fullset for archive.org like byuu did for snes I would probably give the drive away (I got it for ripping 4k Blu-ray but I never have yet. (I have a suitable usb thing for it but it doesn’t look too nice or close properly..) Otherwise I guess I will get the iceybox enclosure and sell it when the price goes through the roof. (It’s quite picky about usb chipsets ).

@BionicDodo But that’s only one person I know that the rest of treasure changed but the name meant something. Why not release it it as treasure presumably because other people were not interested. I don’t rate M2’s original content that highly unlike Treasure.

I think if a sequel was going to be done it should have been Treasure anyway. (Treasure was never like a full time thing afaik). M2 are great at many things but I don’t think their originals are all that great. (From the ones I have played. I suppose the system 16 fantasy zone 2 is pretty well done but mostly I have been disappointed.

@Martin_H If you actually go for a one credit clear the Neo Geo library is much more fun. Like the first Metal Slug it is doable the way the weapons and tanks exist to do it. Some of them get a bit unplayable towards the end. (Or are much more playable if you drop the difficulty to 3 I.e AES difficulty). Credit munching and spending most of the game with the worst gun is really boring for such as Metal Slug.

I have so much money in paid downloads on my 3DD no matter how small I don’t want to risk the mod. If there was a way to keep the stuff I have paid for 100% separate and untouched I would try a flash card that could do that for 3DS content. Mainly translations I want to try. But mixing questionable stuff with so much money worth of paid content I still won’t risk.

@ihaveallthecoins Its the mister fpga core made into an asic. (That is the traditional use of fpga's in chip making for testing before risking the money on making an asic.)
Personally I would have preferred the original vhdl/verilog with fixes for modern processes and hdmi etc. But that would be much more expensive. (The Mister core is already pretty well tested).

It’s probably financially not a bad move to try and sell to the people who are really into Neo Geo but it doesn’t look good enough for me to justify the cost.

One thing I would pay the £90 for though would be a version of Metal Slig 2 where the slowdown was properly fixed (Not by overclocking) Doing as they did with Metal Slug X but keeping the enemy layouts etc the same. I would for original games as well but I am fairly picky for Neo Geo games. A really good vertical shmup or platformer or just something I really like. (And if it was on Series X for 1/3 of the price I probably wouldn’t get it. I actually don’t like changing carts. (To the point where I let Cex have my version of cotton because I get it digitally and I have played it far more. I play the x68000 version. (Still not sure whether I should have just continued with the Arcade Archives version.)

I don’t know if the orymasters for the mask roms degrade or were just destroyed does anybody know ?

I spent a lot of time/money in namcostation (Think it was SEGA World at one point). That’s how I know the joysticks in Arcade Club are not completely up to scratch. They work but in Namvostation they were immaculate. (They seem to care about whether the stick matches the cabinet more than how the game plays.

@Relikk I don’t really feel for anybody in that situation. Legally he is in exactly the same position as that guy involved with Switch mod chips. Open Source Open Hardware is the way forward for this stuff.

I have got 3 not actually used one yet though. Just always seems to be a use of AliExpress coins that makes it a no brainer. (%50 off so like £5)

@Damo What about people just looking for the optimal way to play rom's they already bought i.e evercade carts super pocket. I would love that case to go to court.

@KingMike I want one just based on the unattainable for me as a kid. But fully intend to use my evercade roms on it.

As far as I am concerned Ipaid for the evercade roms. (Aes and mvs use the same roms). So what I do with them is both legally and ethically sound. I would prefer an open source flasshcart but I am not that fussy. I would buy a device to make extraction of the evercade roms easier also. I will probably still get the white metal slug cart however.

As far as I am concerned I paid evercade for the Tom’s. (And they are the exact same Roms) So if I dump them and use them on one of these I shave no ethical or legal problems)

I think the Amiga and PC versions were significantly better why rerelease thid ?

@kirby2000 Thanks.

@kirby2000 I know about those methods. Just thinking it might be an easy one to start an open source project. (Potentially extending it to do what those gu operator and such devices do,) I don’t want to deal with Microsoft Driver Signing (Or forcing people to disable driver signature verification) but I don’t think even doing a device that does all of the carts using a pico or pico 2 would be beyond me. (I would expect a £15-£20 version on AliExpress quickly.) I might just order all the cart connectors from AliExpress and give it a shot on a breadboard. I think I would have to use a serial connection (Genuine chip though) but I think that’s a project within my capabilities. (Even supporting the rest of the real retro carts). I know there will be a few with weird copy protection stuff I probably have no chance with but I do properly believe in open source since about 1996 but it’s only recently that cheap micro controllers with good docs have made these sort of projects possible. I think I might look into it. (I don’t expect the circuit part of it to be much good. But the joys of open source I expect someone will help bet that bit really is a joke for suitably qualified people.) Thanks for the idea I will have a look at the price of the bare cart connectors on AliExpress might as well make it suppose everything.

@Gs69 I wish the emulation was good as Hamsters and ot was possible to plsy the games on the pocket in aes mode.

I want an evercade cart dumper like the ones for other systems often advertised here. (I know there is a custom firmware related hack).

@pomegran Thanks I might do but doubling the price ea bit excessive.