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@slider1983 I think we went in one shop once that we came across it wasn’t that it was just that the small independent game shops tended to stink of bo at that time. My Master System time was at Primary School those shops tended to be in parts of the city we never went to. (There was a Gamestation in the city centre that opened a few years later.) Obviously I would have wanted to have parents that would help me scour the city for what I wanted but having interacted with a guy in high school who did have that I don’t think expecting that was reasonable. I don’t know how I would have even known about those places really either. My Primary School was very middle class they were quite happy to go to Toys r Us / Argos / Curry’s / Tandy / Woolworths. (Game didn’t start until 1992 at all EB 1995 in the UK.) Did you have somewhere that stocked most stuff in the late 80’s for the Master System ?

@slider1983 Yeah MS was £29.99 NES was £49.99 usually (At least for such as Zelda 2 and SMB3) MD started at £34.99 SNES started at £39.99.

I never saw anywhere selling Master System card games (Or Fantasy Zone 2 or Power Strike 2). There was a cheap cart with stuff like The Ninja for £9.99 I guess they were originally card games.

I tried to get all the 4/5’s and 5/5’s from the back of SEGA pro regardless of genre but some I just never came across. I got my Master System 2 around the release date of Zelda 2 and at that point Toys R US definitely did a better job in terms of keeping NES games available. I wasn’t allowed in the shops where people had poor personal hygiene until I could go on my own. (Where I later started getting used SNES imports from I don’t really know if they existed.)

I think Nintendo stopped needing to try to the same extent with the Switch. 3DS/Wii U had quite a few smaller cheaper but still pretty good games made by Nintendo or Intelligent systems or HAL. I am not interested in free to start pay to win.

The 2 NES Remix games were done so much better than Nintendo World Championship.

@Gamecuber Not all a few of my friends had NES’s but the games were £50 vs £30 for Master System. If you went in to Toys r us there was pretty much a full isle of NES games (One side) but probably a tenth Master System games. I had a Master System II but it wasn’t easy to get many of the best games (e.g Phantasy Star I got a copy by swapping it for some crappy but fairly recent sports game but I never saw it in a shop. Probably it could have been mail ordered by sending a cheque but my parents would never have agreed to that.) Getting the decent games on NES was much easier.

@GravyThief Game Bub maybe (Just been delayed until May 2026 however.)

@Amm Yeah he might not be that likeable but he is not doing anything illegal as far as I know.. I think the involvement of Microsoft with assisting in Gaza with cloud services (Which I think they have stopped) that is worse. (There again Hitler depended massively on IBM who profited greatly from him in order to enable him to do what he did I think without any consequences.)

At least with modretro you pay and you get what you pay for no messing around.

@GodlessPreservation I am not sure that is it. doujin games are kind of tolerated by Japanese ip holders but there seems to be an assumption that professional creators don’t involve themselves with it. Or even acknowledge it.

The price increases to the raspberry pi have been relatively modest. I don’t think DDR4 and its low profile variants are affected as much as much. Probably there is more to converting a DDR4 plant to make HBM which is what they want.

All of NotebookLM/Claude Code and Perplexity are extremely useful to me. (Apparently Gemini is really good with web design but I don’t need that).

@PopetheRev28 The gpu part is quite different. It doesn’t have the background layers and it has hardware sprite stuff. Neo has separate vram. Stuff like the parallax in the megdrive Shinobi games or even something like Ghouls and Ghosts (CPS1) would be very difficult to port to the Neo Geo. Probably modern techniques exist but they will be similar to the work arounds the Megadrive needs. Something like Top Hunter the way it all mashes together I think shows it’s problems well.

I knew they were different. Remembered the SNES had pink.

I wish the modern X68000 was fpga (I could justify the price then. For me the cost is too high for emulation regardless of how good it is.) I would want the Roland stuff also so it is maybe better for my bank balance that it doesn’t exist.

Very has these (and the Capcom ones) at £161. I would really like a Neo Geo one with what games are on the Super Pocket but I might end up getting this.

What are the bar top Evercades like has anybody tried them ? (I bought a neo geo super pocket and the 1,2,3 Neo Carts but I don’t really like it. I wish I could have got the Capcom portable evercade I really don’t want Tomb Raider.)

Tempted by the Tatio Alpha bar top at £161 (Very who I normally try to Avoid due to the amount of spam they send if you get anything but 30% off seems worth it.)

I am still awaiting SEGAGAGA. Hope that happens eventually.

Is the change that JavaScript is now absolutely essential to do anything directly on Google?

Only game from them I find not quite right is Rainbow Islands but I didn’t play the Arcade version back in the day so I am not certain that is not just what it is like.

@N64-ROX I am not so bothered about the cost just glad they work properly.the collections on Switch have ended up being a massive waste of money for me on Switch due to not working well. My problem is finding the best games that are in genres other than shmup that are designed to have a possible 1 credit clear. (I am really only interested in 90’s games with very few exceptions.) I am happy with the cost for the games I like enough to want to eventually master. What none shmups are on your list ?

Icelandic Xbox Store is the cheapest (At least for EU and UK users who have the ability to choose the best price amongst those countries in the agreement.) £15 instead of £22.50 for me. Don’t need a vpn or to change the console region or anything that you are not allowed to do. (Most of the time it is cheaper if something is on there but sometimes they don’t put it on there - probably people there have to pay in euros in that case. If I use my debit card then I get about £1 in fees but my credit card is fine.)

@Gerald I hope you are right.

So it has a decent npu but the question is whether the emulators where it would be really useful work with it and I suspect they don’t. (For me it would be X68k JRPG’s). I would be willing to tolerate Android if there was a real time Japanese to English translation running on device. Seems unlikely to get native Linux support any time soon though. (Qualcomm is much better in that respect. I nearly got a mediatek Chromebook until I realised it had issues under load under the Linux subsystem. Which is not all together surprising given that they do the bare minimum.)

I am not too pleased with Capcom retro stuff at the moment. I have ended up having to rebuy quite a bit of it on Series X because they didn’t do a proper job on Switch versions. I think I would have preferred hamster or m2 to do them as their stuff works perfectly for the most part. It’s always some risk though because it so difficult to find reviews for this stuff on Xbox. (But there again the reviews that do exist for quite a bit of stuff I am not happy with say there are no problems on Nintendo).

I wonder if/when full Xbox backwards compatibility will come to Windows. I wonder if it will be unique to the next Xbox home console. I think the Xbox branded handhelds should have it but who knows. Are the things that can be done with a 360 emulator better than the Series X enhancements ? (I dont think I would rely on anything downloaded for 360 games but the patch situation seems like it could be an issue.) I doubt it is easy to get legitimate Xbox purchases into an emulator.

I am interested in stuff like this. (The Switch lite in a Wii U shell I would be probably willing to pay the sort of price required if I could use it like a PlayStation Portal with my Switch 2 it’s not worth it just for the game share feature).

I am wanting to replay DQV on my 3DS but I don’t know whether it will happen with my hands not being what they were.

At least perplexity provides its sources. There must be a reason why people don’t just link to the original source anymore. (Seems to be common in lots of online journalism.) Only linking internally makes any site seem less trustworthy to me.

I also find Notebook LM very useful.

I think they should have digitally deaged the characters. (Maybe they could only do the ones they have done on other things due to there being loads more footage I don’t know but I never remember it being this bad with other stuff).

It was a good model for me the shareware one. (The eshop / steam demos are terrible in comparison but I can’t think of any examples where I would prefer any of these games over SEGA/Nintendo ones now or at the time). Like Wacky Wheels which I did buy is not as good as Mario Kart.

@jygsaw They were mainly a publisher. They made a few but most were just published by them.

There is a hackathon in San Francisco that is constantly won by someone who is a project manager by trade. (It allows anything and it has some of the world’s best programmers competing).

Loads of people seem to have it in for AI but I think there is a big problem today with games made using Unity and Unreal that the ideas etc are for a game that would be good but they don’t work properly and the teams have no ability to fix it. Anything that assists in a better end product I am all for.

There has always been disruption but I don’t understand why there is so much slop articles just moaning about this sort of stuff. (The way epic and Unity behave is terrible but it is not reported on nearly as much).

At least if I put a time extension article into perplexity.ai then it can usually give me the original sources where the information came from. (That is the absolute minimum that a decent article on anything should always have).

It’s there now is it one of the best Arcade Beat ‘Em Ups ?

Not interested in Android handhelds. Maybe it makes the touchscreen easier for the creators but the end result won’t be as good as when it uses native Linux with a skilled implementator.

I never had a 360 but most of the big games I had on Steam. The only really bad port I can think of was Sonic Generations. (Probably there were others but the difference in power at a reasonable cost might have meant that it was less noticeable. I don’t like playing at less than 60fps whether 2D or 3D). I have probably bought more backwards compatible 360 games than any other generation on my Series X. I even now prefer indie games using XNA(Or fNA/monogame) at least on Switch because the end result seems to be if I like the look of it then it will play properly. (Unity/Unreal the opposite seems to be true although they seem better on series X with VRR). I am still hoping for a Midway equivalent to Atari 50. (The 360 Midway collection is not great but it has some decent games.)

@GravyThief I think that is a big problem. I would be willing to put money into a site that bought all their own stuff (Sites doing a good job more than likely would not be able to get free stuff for very long). Taking emulation mini consoles for example this site only reviews what it gets sent afaict. (I suppose that is part of the deal for the people sending stuff that this is the case.) I would like to know about the variants of the R63S because it has a full open source firmware but there are so many variants.

@OorWullie It’s amazing how good the Dreamcast ports managed with half the ram of the Arcade board. (Can’t imagine that being done on modern systems without a framerate halving or some noticeable change).

I don’t understand why the Nintendolife review of the switch version of the remake was poor as it was. (It’s pretty good for such as me who somewhat liked the original Arcade game makes it seem really broken which isn’t the case).

Is it Japanese only like usual for D4 ?

Best home version has to be CPS Changer. He could probably have got closer doing a new Mega CD version. There is also the X68000 version. (Think the X68000 version is Arcade perfect bar the music).
edit The resolution is lower on x680000 also but I suspect it also is on this.

@Blast16 Problem with that for me as I wouldn’t end up playing it then. (I have cotton reboot on cartridge but end up just playing the Arcade Archives version. Same thing applied to the Streetfighter games in that case I gave away the carts and rebought digital. It takes me ages to find anything- all my carts are just in a bag. Maybe I should get a cart holder like I used to use on 3ds but I am not sure whether I even want to be switching games all the time.)

I really like Ninja Commando I was a bit disappointed I couldn’t get it recently on the UK Switch eshop (Arcade Archives).

I think overclocking the emulator should be an option for Metal Slug 2 (In some ways I think it is more balanced than Metal Slug X).

@PopetheRev28 Just picked up battle axe. Thanks for the recommendation. (It’s good to have an indie dev that I know is going to be up to scratch on Switch. Finding indie games that I think work properly there has become quite an issue for me)

I love Final Vendetta don’t understand why so many reviewers seemed to hate it.

I don’t want Android on my emulation devices. (I guess it’s okay on a high end Snapdragon as RetroArch is on a m series iPad.) I don’t think building proper hardware support for RetroArch is too much to ask.

I think for £45 the emulsion should be perfect.

I wish there was an X68000 mini pc that was available at this sort of price or maybe a bit more. (The one available is just too expensive for me considering the amount of use it is likely to get)

Also mod’s use other people’s art. Even real artists take inspiration from other art. Newer Super Mario Bros Wii is amazing but relies on Nintendo IP.

Perplexity at least links to its sources properly. (Time Extension usually only links to itself which is really annoying.)

If the output wouldn’t be treated as copyright infringement looking at 2 pieces of art I think it should be fine.

I am not so bothered about how stuff looks due to generative AI. I am bothered about how the majority of 2D pixel art unity games don’t play properly at least on Switch. (Even when there are not frame rate drops it never seems to feel right. Graphics and sound I am less bothered about. If it is a case of without gen AI the game couldn’t exist I am okay with it.)

Does it just have the NES levels ? It says it uses the X68000 sprites (It is implied it is not a port of that version).

@mjparker77 I hope it is a good port for you then. (If it is the same board as viper phase one I dunno why they didn’t just let hamster have it given that work is already done.) Maybe I will give one of them another shot if I get the opportunity without messing around with other regions.

@mjparker77 The games are not good is what I thought I was saying. (No interest in a perfect version of a game that isn’t any good).

Raiden 2 and Raiden DX are great games these games are not.

These games are not even all that good. (They were part of the dotemu raiden collection). Wish we had Raiden 2 and Raiden DX (Be quite happy to pay £15 to Arcade Archives for either of those two). Mame has managed it now so it should be possible.

I don’t see why it should be more on later systems. It’s annoying me that so many of the Arcade Archives titles don’t respect the Switch setting to use the only present user account also be trivial to submit a new build. (I think that’s what is needed).

I wish there was a mini review of all the decent Arcade Archives games. (It’s difficult to find information about none shmup games from 1990+ I like other genres but other than Sunset Riders I haven’t found anything really great.)

I wish they started doing Naomi/Atomiswave games.