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6502 assembler is very unpleasant.

The Cex near me is the only store selling games. (Used to be Gamestation (After it was acquired by game and it wasn’t really that good anymore.) / Grainger Games / Blockbuster (Which was actually pretty good I managed to get all the DS Dragon Quests from there 4 and 5 were used.) I sometimes get games from Argos (Trying to avoid Amazon because it is flooded with garbage when I look for tech stuff and it is annoying me. They make it too difficult to find sold by Amazon.co.uk. I have been sold imports from random 3rd party sellers too many times.)

I think Cex is now a franchise that is run much differently to what it used to be. The original Gamestation was like what Cex used to be. (The SNES RPG’s like ff3 / Chrono Trigger were like £30 used when to import them it was more like at least £70) I have never found any weird and wonderful stuff in my local Cex. You can’t even order online and pick up at the local shop which is something I probably would do.

I wish it worked with iPadOS I use a series x controller or a Bluetooth m30 at the moment. I have other controllers that work but they are often a pita and come with significant drawbacks. (Like show PlayStation button types.)

The CeX near me won’t touch imports at all for the most part. (It once had some jpg virtual boy stuff however.). I think the way they currently operate is like a parasite I think their existence causes real harm and they share quite a big responsibility for the increased price of e.g Nintendo games. (I shudder to think how much money has been leeched by them from developers and publishers.)

I bet they stop working under a future iOS update. I am quite happy with the Netflix version of Mania for Sonic on iPad (Or the 3d one on Apple Arcade). But after what happened with Hades I don’t trust Netflix Games at all. (I think it was a brilliant version much better than the Switch one. It was really annoying starting again on Xbox.)

For these if buying from Ali Express apparently the max ones are the ones with a proper injection molded shell. (I would still wait until they specifically state 0.9 compatibility though with open hardware you never know how closely the specs have been followed. With the clones of other stuff like ode’s it’s very difficult to tell .)

@metaphysician I I don’t mind games having a story but I really don’t like the story being just a load of boring cutscenes. (There again if there is a bad story I think that is much worse than no story at all. I can’t get on with modern jrpgs I was only interested in the stories but the old ones used to engage me like reading a book but I just don’t seem to get into them properly in the modern format. )
If the game mechanics are not that good. (But the story is great but all cutscene I would rather it be a film / tvshow or anime.)

I am getting a bit burnt out by procedural generation. I think it is good as an option to keep replayability but I prefer the first play through to be manually designed.

@ludotaku Thanks

I think a complete new Saturn port. (The existing one is a lost cause.) Would be the only retro port of this I would be interested in.
(I play the iOS port on an m2 iPad and it is genuinely great and so cheap at £2.99 the 360 port was quite disappointing and £18 or something.)

It’s very hard to get a game in this genre I like. (I don’t like excessive backtracking. Repetition, Having to use the map all the time (Due to everywhere looking almost identical.) I think I just don’t care for what other people must want.

The most important thing is that it plays like a good action platformer. (I think infernax is probably my favourite recent one it’s not perfect like SoTN or Super Metroid but it isn’t boring and samey.)

It’s not really a Metroidvania but at least something like the messenger you actually have to use the upgrades. (In lots of Metroidvanias you don’t really need to master the new techniques that you get or even need them more than a handful of times.)

@NoirConceit It is not that they don’t work but they are not in perfect condition. The joysticks feel loose. Namco Station never had that problem. (It would have been easier for them to get the exact parts). I don’t know what it is but it is common to lots of machines there. How well they play should be the most important thing.

I like the idea of everything being in tip top shape. (I don’t get why Arcade Club is so bothered about what the cabs look like more than how they play).

They could easily replace the joysticks on e.g the Astro City cabs and in doing so the games would play much better. (Even if the boards were just in Generic Cabs that wouldn’t bother me. Arcade Club is the first time I have come across a Neo Geo cab with the red MVS artwork.) Some of the shmups are really difficult to play with a duff joystick.

I don’t really like achievements I usually do them in Super Giant games because I tend to like them enough to want to keep playing at harder settings (Can’t understand why there is no achievement for doing the last Skelly statue (Heat 32) in Hades though.) I don’t like collectibles at all and that seems all too common. (Much rather have to complete a speedrun like Super Meat Boy as an alternative.) I have all the achievements for All Stars Racing Transformed as well. (There was only the time trials left and if I am going to play something online I might as well learn the tracks properly. I don’t think many people did the burning rangers one judging by how much better I did on that track online.)
For Neo Geo Games I go for 5 credit clear and then one credit clear. (I would probably prefer to start with AES mode but recently I have been just using MVS mode because it’s the default on ACA Neo Geo)

I don’t think most of the achievements should exist at all as they are anything but.

I don’t think I will be going for any retro hardware without open source software. (Open Hardware matters less to me). I am willing to accept accept a higher initial cost or less initial features in exchange for the possibility of improvements later. (I have had good experience so far.) From what I have seen any DRM the closers can break anyway )

That screen is the one that is in the revision of the Miyoo mini (I think v4). There are some onion is problems still with that screen.The original was 640x480

I don’t like the NES version at all. I didn’t play it until 3DS (I had the Arcade version on my Wii).

Still need a wheel to play this. Which ones have they tested it with ? I might try one of the cheap hori switch ones. (I don’t want to play it with a pad). I want pedals. (Force feedback takes the price to £300 which is too much for the use it will likely get.)

Still looking for a half decent Wheel setup for either Xbox or Switch 2 before I will consider any of these driving games. (I have found something for about £300 but is not worth that to me.)

Bring back first party wheel setups.

The article makes it sound as if fuzzy logic is not actually useful for anything anymore. A washing machine being able to estimate roughly how full it is and adjust the cycle accordingly is pretty useful. (If I had a combination washer/ dryer I would want it to refuse to start drying if it is too full- which is normally at 50% of the load for washing.) I don’t know why he would rather have a washer that operates identically with a tiny quantity of stuff compared to a full load.

@MarkyVigoroth The situation with that is significantly different to this in that you can buy it for £9 on current Xboxes. They have done a really good job with the upscaling on series x but if you just want to play it then an Xbox one is really dirt cheap. I am not sure a PC re compilation will ever be as good as it is on series X going by the other games I have tried that have gone that route. (This might be better than current Saturn emulation).

I am sure I had to get some DLC for the original version on the Switch version of special.

I am sick of Unreal and Unity indie games that feel similar to each other. (I think gen ai might get me more stuff like VVVVV but with it looking a bit nicer.) The people using frameworks tend to produce stuff that doesn’t just feel exactly the same as everything else so I have started trying to pick up more of those games.

@Axelay71 How can it be at 50hz ?

I am pretty sure I had this on bbc micro. I don’t remember the cover though (Definitely do remember the game though looking at YouTube)

If a person or group of people puts any amount of effort into showing how elite they are then they are usually not anything of the sort.

The people who really are elite don’t try to show it (And sometimes actively try to hide it.)

Maybe it’s a good way to make money though appealing to some people like that. (As long as they don’t actually believe it.)

Did this use a paddle in the Arcades ?

I think Hamster should collaborate with someone on a range of suitable controllers for some of these games. (Getting a £300 wheel for ridge racer is not worth it to me. Sucks there is not first party wheels anymore. I had the DC and 360 first party ones but they were at the upper end of what I would pay. I would pay quite a bit for an aes joystick because it looks like it doesn’t need a table but I might be wrong on that.)

What was the attach rate of the various consoles that is far more important than the amount of consoles sold. (I guess the DS attach rate was lower than it could have been due to the R4 but it it wasn’t sold at a loss like the PSP).

The art quality of a game doesn’t really bother me. (I appreciate really good pixel art like Metal Slug but I have yet to find an indie game up to that level.) If the mechanics are interesting then I like it. I think that overall before long I will get a load of stuff that I wouldn’t otherwise have got.

The big difference between what has happened to the working class forever and this is that it affects the middle classes (Who I have zero sympathy for despite being part of them.)

It will probably affect my source of income but I don’t mind that much. There will always be something interesting to do.

I had this and Shadow Dancer on sms but I don’t think either was really all that great. (I enjoyed both MD Shinobi games and MD Shadow Dancer). Master System Ninja Gaiden looks good but I never bought it due to my experiences with those two.

I would be much more interested in the hamster driving games if there was a standard wheel that was recommended for them. (Most of the wheels seem to be designed for sim racing and an overkill in terms of cost for me.)

There are many things there I don’t consider playing properly. Especially the respawning bits. As a child I would have used those sort of things but I don’t consider doing that learning the game.

@shgamer I never really liked fable but previously to that he either made new genres or significantly raised the bar in them. Populous (Especially) / Magic Carpet and Black or White stand out much more more to me probably Theme Park as well. (Dungeon Keeper ?). Those are the reason he became hot property (I think fable was not good and how he got his more recent reputation for over promising and under delivering.)

I am always on the look out for new controllers but I prefer single platform (or a switch not button combinations). I wish there was a proper switch version of the m30 (With all the buttons like the wired Xbox version of it). That controller really is a game changer for certain types of games.

Are the ININ releases better on Xbox (or PS5 ? ) I have a few on Switch and they really are bad. (I expect them to be poor everywhere due to just how bad they are but I could be wrong).

Nintendo gets vastly less money from me these days.

I have wasted too much money on indies that there is no reason it shouldn’t be absolutely fine along with collections from various publishers that are just broken.

The coop bug in DKCR is a travesty it’s not fixed. (Should never have put the mode in the game with it like it is.)

With Arcade Archives I haven’t had any issues other than with Rainbow Islands so the problems are just not doing stuff properly. In the old days there was often one junk version and one decent version for 3rd party games with the hardware we have for what they are doing it shouldn’t be a case of the Nintendo version being a waste of time but it is.

I know my Xbox is not the best it could possibly be but the VRR and whatever controller tech they use basically means I have had no problems with it.

I have only got 3 Switch 2 games. (And MKW I only got because it was bundled wouldn’t have paid full price for it. I don’t want inferior ports rather have 1 3rd party exclusive than 10 junk ports).

What other mods exist that are as good as newer supergiant stuff Mario bros Wii (That are as easy to use on real hardware).

I would have probably picked up Hades 1&2 on gog if they were available. (Older supergiant stuff is on it.) I don’t play much on my mac so my Steam account is not even installed/logged in anymore. (I do have crossover and I will almost certainly rebuy BG3 at some point can’t get on with the controller for Xbox)

@Eocene84 Could be that the 3 big creators involved have either a high monetary cost or a veto on certain things. It’s an unusual situation for games to not be fully owned by the company but I think this may be one of the very rare exceptions.

I don’t begrudge the digital price but I wish it was flac or alac. The cd price is too high for me to want it. (If I do want to listen to it then I want it out of hifi speakers.)

I can see why people wouldn’t want a junk product but by all accounts the content is pretty good. (To make the best advertising relies on things best avoided. If a friend used the same techniques then you would know something is wrong with them. (Maybe not immediately but the constant manipulation to do things not in your best interest). Wouldn’t bother me one bit if all the money drained out of advertising. (Even if my own livelihood becomes unviable that wouldn’t bother me that much I have had a reasonable run and I think during a PHD in something quite different would be more enjoyable. Probably using some form of machine learning as part of it.) It seems kind of fair that AI is causing more problems for the middle classes than the working classes as it’s usually the other way around. (But they don’t complain as much).

I have only actually played the original and new leaf properly.

I am not that impressed with Nightdive (I was impressed with the Lizardcube Wonderboy 3 and some of the ray tracing/path tracing versions of the old I’d games).

Does it need to be decompiled ? I thought that someone with the skill to do this could more easily just patch it to work on modern Windows. (I can see why decompilation is done from e.g
PPC or MIPS to x86).

It looks nice. Even though the PS2 has theoretically more power I can’t stand the jagged lines on it. This is a good example of what I like.

I want to replay DQ IV-VI (I have the DS carts EU 4&6 and USA 5) I lent someone my DSi XL though so I don’t know how I will do it. I might just play them on my iPad. I don’t really like DS games on my new 3DS XL. (Both the hold select method and the default annoy me for different reasons). The SFC version is not an option I did try that years ago but it is not complete.

I am a bit disappointed by the emulation quality on Evercade I was expecting it to be as good as Arcade Archives at least. I don’t really care for it with the disadvantages of physical media. (The MVSx is apparently not that good either but I think it is a waste for Evercade splitting everything into so many carts. Don’t see why there can’t be say a £100 Evercade Neo Geo cart with everything that the MSXx has on it.) It’s annoying that the Capcom EXP is not available I started with the Hyper Mega Tech NEOGEO then got the 3 carts then the Tomb Raider EXP-R but I can’t play my favourite games which are stuck on the Hyper Mega Tech (Screen is too small for me) and I really don’t like Tomb Raider at all.

I might pick one of these up. Hopefully the patches are clean and exist. (Not always a given with Chinese companies but if they don’t provide it then they are breaking copyright.) It’s a pity we will never get a Broadcom based emulation handheld (Due to the volume being too low) because due to the raspberry pi the emulators are well tested and the hardware specific stuff is generally pretty good.

Is possible to run in full new 3ds mode older games with a superior framerate ? I don’t know if such patches exist. I might try modding if that is the case. Thing is I have a gigantic library of retail games on mine that I bought.

(Not very easily by the looks of it - Only via cheat codes.)

If there a way to run patched versions I am interested. (Think I would just use a separate micro sd)

@Martin_H Thanks that makes sense.

What annoyed me about the 3DS is they didn’t offer a 60fps mode when the 3D was off. There is loads of games I would still play were that the case. (And it could definitely have handled it because the 3D requires twice the rendering.)