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I have only tried the Neo Geo Super Pocket so far but from the way people rave abthese things I was expecting much better emulation quality. (I have tried the Neo Geo Arcade 1-3 carts as well). Hamsters emulation on Switch is much better (And there are significant problems that have to be worked around on Switch).

So are they using proper 68000 and z80 CPU’s with the rest of the logic as their own asic or is the whole thing just an asic version of the mister fpga core ?

So does that mean that the video hardware has been done as a proper asic ? (No crappy fpga emulator here) ?

I find the Evercade emulator pretty disappointing. (I am pretty happy with hamster).

I think I would be very happy with one of these and Metal Slug / Magician Lord / Metal Slug X / Shock Troopers / Neo Turf Masters.

Luckily this time around I can afford it.

(People look down on the owners of such projects but this is ideal I think. I have no issues with modretro either. Even though their methods of making money are not exactly ideal the fact is they have the resources to do things properly.)

It is a breath of fresh air something like this exists. ASICS are better than fpafs. I think I will pick one up if a MVS to AES converterscv work. Looose MVS carts are still not too astronomical. (and will plat identically.

Is it just me or have the games workshop games been really dumbed down over the years. (I played the one with Warhammer Battle Magic and the different colleges but once looked at the edition before and that was an order of magnitude more complicated still.)

The carts should be remade if it is only an update digitally and Limited Run Games have shipped that. (Just to serve as a lesson.). There are a whole load of credits in the Seitch 3.

I used to love Shadow of the Horned Rat but I don’t use anything but GOG for games of this age.

And it’s already there…….

I like that it’s quite a good representation of Warhammer at the time I tried to play it. (My painting skills were horrendous so I never fully got into it.)

I fancied picking ACA Neo Geo Turf Masters up but it looks like I already own it on Switch. I think it might come up as another name on the home screen. I have an EU (UK) Switch. (Bit annoying Ninja Commando is still not back I could get it for Xbox but nearly all my ACA NEOGEO is on Switch and I would rather keep it that way because I have generally no issues with hamster Switch quality.)

I really do prefer to play Neo Geo games in AES mode with the 5 credit setup. I don’t mind playing with the MVS difficulty (Which in e.g Metal Slug just seems to affect bosses health I think I prefer the AI in fighting games at level 3 as well it sucks that my Super Pocket doesn’t have those options yet (Main evercades do.) I would really appreciate AES mode on ACA Neo Geo. (Emulaton is better than Evercade.)

With the next Steam deck apu being none custom the market for compatible devices should open up a bit maybe installing Steam OS directly might be allowed without it having to be certified hardware. (Might make no difference though because of Valves economies of scale.)

I was quite pleased to pick up a trim ui smart s pro for £50 recently. When I finally bother setting it up I think I will use it more than my Myoo mini or NEOGEO Evercade. Just because of the screen size.

I don’t see why it should be necessary to have loads of RAM in these anyway. (If the full Rom or disk image can fit in RAM that should be enough.)

The Mister Clones don’t seem easy to get hold of.

There is a Qualcomm based raspberry pi like board that is pretty cheap even the most expensive 12GB model so I don’t really get why it is such a problem unless it is subsidised. (Edit it’s gone up in cost by £25 for the cheapest one since I last looked £75 for 4GB £150 for 12GB) but even at those prices I can’t see why it is a big problem for the sort of prices they sell these premium devices for. Dragon Q6A is the board.)

@kitestar Mame is a bit unique in that if they can make something more accurate they will do even if it no longer can run at full speed. I think its credentials when it comes to preservation are actually genuine. (Loads of projects claim it is for preservation but I don’t think many really actually are MAME I honestly believe are trying for that.)

@pocketmoon I don’t have a problem at all. I think we have progress.

@pocketmoon I dunno why people even care the assets are the least important thing in a game for me.the mechanics are far more important. Nice art and music are just nice to have. I don’t get why you have a problem with stuff that otherwise wouldn’t exist being done by people in their free time and not even being charged for. It’s just a tool some people hated DAW”s but they enabled more people to do what they enjoy it’s the same here. Just because something is done by a machine doesn’t make it any different from a human making an inspired by game.

@Onthejazz It specifically isn’t supporting the team. They don’t even accept donations. More than likely they are exactly the same as the coloured ones on AliExpress.. (If the whole thing was done in the west it would either have to be done by hand or the price would be much higher.)

They have been on AliExpress for a while and are half that price. (Injection Molded case that seems to fit fine.). The n64 open source one is similarly available.
(I wouldn’t get the clone other flash carts that are reverse engineered but for open source stuff I think it is fine. 8bitdo stuff from the official store is significantly cheaper as well along with all the emulation handhelds I got a trim up smart pro s for about £50).

@Bakamoichigei I used to be against AliExpress but recently I have been using them more than Amazon not for repro carts but misc tech from the creators official store (8bitdo / Xiaomi etc) and a DsPico (Locally all I could find was really crappy 3D Printed cases but the AliExpress one I got was quite decent.) Even if I do lose at some point with one item I will still be up financially overall. (I don’t think I would buy a clone of a none open source flashcart from them unless it had been out of stock for ages and it was the only option.)

@Thad I understand I am expecting similar problems to that with my old Steam games on Project Helix. (Quite a few of the best ones are delisted though so I am not too hopeful unless it has Steam in some unrestricted part. I did get most of the Loki Software Linux games but I guess expecting ongoing maintenance was never realistic for Linux games and it needs it for the same reason iOS/ipadOS stuff does or it just breaks.)

Were they ever legendary ? I enjoyed the Neo Geo sports games in the Arcades but nothing more primitive than that really. (I had some Master System sports games but the only one I kept was Super Kick Off the rest I traded with a friend who had loads of really good but less available stuff like Phantasy Star and Psycho Fox). I guess NES Ice Hockey wasn’t too bad. Never played the SNK NES baseball game.

@gojiguy Sometimes there is no choice apparently there is no drm on Hades or Hades 2 but for whatever reason they won’t add it to GoG. (There is no DRM because the devs explicitly suggest just copying the directory.) I do buy the odd thing from GoG because I find Steam so spammy. But mostly I am happy I can get 60fps console versions now. (I did use Steam when it was PC or crappy 30fps 360/Xbone versions.)

@Thad I have games that have a proper native Linux version on GoG. I don’t even keep Steam installed anyone because it is so spammy. (I did use it when it was the only way to get 60fps versions of games in the 360/Xbone era.) I have over 1000 games on it but I prefer consoles as long as I can get 60fps and no slowdown.

@Moroboshi876 Maybe lost money with SEGA Ages (Perhaps M2 are really expensive or they want too much for it to make sense for hamster to take the risk.) It seems a waste when hamster could probably do the best job for a Naomi/atomiswave emulator (Which SEGA themselves could likely get cheap access to to rerelease the DC catalog.) I think model 1,2,3 and Titan emulation is far more difficult.

Does anyone know any decent none commercial sites ? (I used to love Zophers Domain). I suspect there are but due to not bothering with seo or clickbait they are probably hard to find. The PC Engine Bible was another interesting site.

IGN is trash. Look at what has happened to the Humble Bundle after they took over. There has been nothing that has replaced it in terms of a well curated selection of indie games across genres. Win/Mac/Native Linux. If something was good enough to get in that chances are it would succeed. There is nothing like that now. It’s very difficult to get the information to make a judgment which causes people to be more conservative. The widely praised ones these days probably just pay IGN for ad’s.

If games media became entirely non commercial I would be happy with that.

I get the impression Hookshot puts in less effort than it used to. (Thomas Whitehead used to mention that getting 50 hrs in to do a proper review was sometimes a struggle. I have read loads of reviews recently where it seems the reviewer can’t even play it properly.)

I am not sure what my opinion is about Evercade. I do want to play the Neo Geo Carts in AES mode (I prefer hamsters emulation but prefer the 5 credits setup.) The screen is too small for me on the Neo Geo super pocket for me I don’t like the fact that Metal Slug X is only on that either. The Rom selection on the Evercade Alpha seems very tight. (I might have gotten the Tatio one if it had the selection of games on the Tatio Super Pocket.) If I ever see the Capcom exp new I would pick that up straight away. I am not as anti digital as some Evercade supporters.

Incase anybody has been waiting for it cotton reboot on Switch is finally back on sale (70% off). I have the cart but haven’t played it much due to only wanting one credit. (Been playing the arcade archives version but the X68000 version is nicer visually.)

@gingerbeardman It has a 60 tops not so it is 50% faster in theory than the raspberry pi AI Hat 2+ the difference is the AI has 8Gb of separate DRAM but this uses system RAM (But can have up to 32GB). Looks like it is designed for people messing around with open claw and stuff like that. It depends on its cost whether it will be useful. You can fit a decent model in 32GB.

Is selling Neo Geo homebrew quite a safe bet due to the nature of collectors for those systems ? I have yet to see even a mediocre title not be sold out when I have seen it after the fact. (At £400;a copy you need a lot less sales or ? I got the Dreamcast ports of a few when that was a thing but I didn’t find any of them all that great.)

@OneArmedGiant Have they stated that already ? I am not bothered about digital only for new games but they have put a lot in to backwards compatibility and quite a bit of that is currently disk only. Xbox is the system that I have the least issues with is at the moment. (The lowest input lag and the best VRR implementation are more important than anything else to me. )

I am still looking for something to play my Evercade Neo Geo carts on (My Super Pocket’s screen is too small and doesn’t allow AES mode at the moment.) I nearly got the Tatio Bartop cabinet but there wasn’t enough built in I liked the look of. (They all seem very tight with games compared to the Super Pockets).

Be interested in how the scaling effects will be done I think the pce Arcade cdrom used a resolution change to sort of approximate it for some Neo Geo ports.

I wish when rewind was added the effort was put in to improve performance with it disabled.

The 3DS version got 6/10 at Nintendolife (It wasn’t that bad. The 3DS Sonic Generations and 3DS Lost World were bad.) I would rather SEGA make stuff for a single platform than trying to make everything portable. I enjoyed the Wii U Sonic Lost World. (And the Apple Arcade one.)

The bar is very high for me to get involved with something via crowdfunding. (So far it has always been niche hardware that I really wanted and not fpga proper asics.) For other stuff I would rather spend more once it exists rather than gamble on it. I would consider backing a few Riscv things if the IP was going to be open source. (The best performing Riscv stuff is proprietary.) Even then to do it justice it would have to be on a modern process node. I would prefer the whole thing integrated like Apples M chips but I would take a mini itx board. I am not paying for some companies r&d for a proprietary design though.

I have one of these, I haven’t opened it yet though.

@Tenore It would be okay if they only trained on mit/bsd etc licensed code. It was licensed with the intent that it could be used however someone wanted. When it just uses what it finds online it has the same issues as anything else (art or text etc). GPL gave us quite some good but it is becoming less and less useful.

@mariteaux It is no different training closed models on GPL code than training models on anything else publicly available online. You can only use that code if your code is also under a compatible license. There are plenty of quite big projects that are available under GPL or a commercial license. Either AI’s should respect copyright or they shouldn’t but the exact same laws that govern art put on some random website are the same ones that govern software unless there is a specific license that gives you certain rights. The source code is available for Unresl but if someone used it to recreate a permissively licensed version that would be a joke and that is the sort of thing that is starting to happen at the moment.

@BulkSlash People releasing free software (Copyleft) have some legitimate concerns. They gave away their code with conditions attached that are ending up being made a mockery of.

I have never bothered with them when I looked at it the total cost was going to be obscene to the UK. I would not want to wait a year or more to play something either. Life is too short for me to buy this sort of stuff to sell on.

My Myoo mini dpad is not quite right already. The only better quality replacement costs pretty much the same as I paid for the full device for me if I want to import it.

@NatiaAdamo In practice it wasn’t used that differently. Only the megadrive 68k could access the video hardware directly. The megacd sprite hardware came with significant limitations for that reason. Hopefully we get some homebrew that really gets the best possible out of it. (Don’t think it will be as much as you would expect from e.g a dual 68k Arcade board though.)

@Thad What do you suggest instead ? If you are good enough at something it is already possible to get royalties from stuff. But if you are doing something that many people can do I don’t see the reason for it. I don’t see how giving everyone a stake in everything they create as part of a job is workable.

@GordonBennet Because it can quickly work out what you are bothered about without having to read 30 reviews or whatever. There are certain things that happen often with Switch games that are not mentioned that frequently by reviewers. (But are generally mentioned somewhere throughout metacritic). It’s pretty easy and it only has to be done once setting the preferences. (The old methods of downloading pages and searching the text have become increasingly less practical over time.)

I am not that bothered about stuff being work for hire. Most work done in any field is work for hire. I guess he is comparing to Actors/ Directors who get royalties but those type of situations are few and far between. There is probably a few people who manage that in games. Out of the things wrong with IP laws it’s not high up in terms of what bothers me. The implementation is what makes a game good or not.

I am more bothered about the way that one company gets the full rights to something originally developed using public money I think that is really unfair.

I care more about people who invent games changing scientific advances but I still don’t know how it would be workable if they had to be given royalties for that.

In case anybody is interested there is a selection of Tatio Arcade Archives titles on sale at the moment (I bought 4).

@Sketcz Those had really bad aliasing and low framerates though. For me if there are jagged lines it is just horrible. It’s like a painting with someone scrawling all over it with a marker pen.

The combination of Perplexity Pro with Gemini 3.1 with thinking does a better job scraping Metacritic for me and pulling out the information I care about into a summary and it also actually reads much better cites its sources. (It has a better grasp of writing than any reviewers I have encountered.) It is better than using a score because it actually goes through the whole review and has learned what I care about. (I prefer any kind of news written like the Financial Times does. I don’t know whether it is lack of ability to write clearly with proper explanations or just choosing a certain style that cares more about filling an article with as many keywords as possible.)

@willstancilfan That is the worst decrying something then doing that.

Saying something is vibe coded now is kind of ambiguous because it could be something built from a really vague prompt or something built with codex or Claude code from a really detailed specification. Getting the spec right has always been the most difficult thing anyway.

If you use Photoshop in ChatGPT I wonder if that relies on the AI features that photoshop has (Like being trained on stuff that Adobe has licensed or not ?)

I really do enjoy anything that involves exploration much more when there is a permanent map. (I would even be willing to buy a second Switch 2 if it could be used like a Wiii U gamepad.)

Might give this a shot if it ever gets added to the main code base of anything. I prefer to not use forks if possible.