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.
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).
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 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).
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)
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.)
@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.
@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 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.)
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.)
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.
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Re: "Built On Theft And Plagiarism" - A Growing Number Of Game Developers Are Sick To Death Of Generative AI
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.
Re: "They're Guaranteed Money" - When The PlayStation 'Raiden Project' Was In Doubt, Seibu Kaihatsu Turned To Strip Mahjong
@Axelay71 How can it be at 50hz ?
Re: The Massively Controversial Barbarian Is Getting A New Fan-Made Port For Atari Computers
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)
Re: "Yes, It Was Elitist, And No, That Wasn't A Bad Thing" - EDGE Alumni On Why The Mag Is Still Going Strong, Over 30 Years On
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.)
Re: "Annihilate All Enemies!" - Namco's Block-Breaking Arkanoid Rival 'Quester' Arrives On Consoles This Week
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.)
Re: Apparently, The PSP Counts As A Failure To Some People Now
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).
Re: "The Fine Arts Were Always A Massive Grift" - Controversial Earthworm Jim Creator Goes All-In On Generative AI
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.
Re: This Shinobi Hack Gives The Master System Port A Shot In The Arm
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.
Re: You Can Pre-Order The Rave Racer 30th Anniversary Remix Album Now
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.)
Re: Community Challenge: Can You Overcome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Deadly Technodrome Level?
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.
Re: Talking Point: What Are Your Favourite Fable Memories?
@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.)
Re: Anbernic's New Controller Has A Built-In HD Screen, Capacitive Sticks And (Gulp) A Heart Rate Alarm
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.
Re: ININ's 'R-Type III: The Third Lightning' Remake Has Got A New Trailer Ahead Of Its Release Later This Year
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).
Re: The Best Mistake Nintendo Ever Made? Why 2DS Is The Perfect Embodiment Of Gunpei Yokoi's Core Principles
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).
Re: A New Framework For Making Sonic Fangames Is Currently In The Works, From The Creator Of Sonic CDX
What other mods exist that are as good as newer supergiant stuff Mario bros Wii (That are as easy to use on real hardware).
Re: "It Feels Very Natural To Grow In That Direction" - The Newly Independent GOG On Potentially Following Nightdive's Example
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)
Re: A New Orchestral Album Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of Chrono Trigger Has Just Been Released
@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.
Re: A New Orchestral Album Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of Chrono Trigger Has Just Been Released
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.)
Re: "I Can't Promote A Product That I Don't Support" - SNK Mod Steps Down Over Fatal Fury "AI Slop" Trailer
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).
Re: Talking Point: What Was Your First Animal Crossing Game?
I have only actually played the original and new leaf properly.
Re: "It Feels Very Natural To Grow In That Direction" - The Newly Independent GOG On Potentially Following Nightdive's Example
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).
Re: A Decompilation Project Is Currently In The Works For Jet Set Radio Future
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).
Re: "Plays Like A AAA Native Release" - Super Mario 64 Gets A Dreamcast Port
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.
Re: Talking Point: What Are Your Retro Gaming Resolutions For The New Year?
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.
Re: Review: TrimUI Smart Pro S - A Massive Improvement Over The Original
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.
Re: Prices Of Second-Hand Nintendo 3DS Consoles Spike Online
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)
Re: How The NES "Defined The Home Video Game Industry As We Know It"
@Martin_H Thanks that makes sense.
Re: Prices Of Second-Hand Nintendo 3DS Consoles Spike Online
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.)
Re: How The NES "Defined The Home Video Game Industry As We Know It"
@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 ?
Re: How The NES "Defined The Home Video Game Industry As We Know It"
@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.)
Re: "The World Needs More Games Like This" - Atari CEO's Best Game Of 2025 Proves He Has Impeccable Taste
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.
Re: How The NES "Defined The Home Video Game Industry As We Know It"
@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.
Re: The Analogue 3D Is The Best Retro Hardware Of 2025
@GravyThief Game Bub maybe (Just been delayed until May 2026 however.)
Re: The Analogue 3D Is The Best Retro Hardware Of 2025
@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.
Re: Best Of 2025: "I Have All The Freedom & No Power" - Astro Boy & Segagaga Director Tez Okano On His Greatest Hits & Going Indie
@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.
Re: AI's Insatiable Hunger For RAM Is Going To Play Havoc With The Emulation Handheld Industry In 2026
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).
Re: "It's Alive" - Fanmade Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Port Of Windjammers Gets First Dev Update In Over A Year
@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.
Re: Random: I'm Kicking Myself That I Didn't Know This Fact About The Classic Konami Logo Screen
I knew they were different. Remembered the SNES had pink.
Re: Review: Commodore 64 Ultimate - The Gold Standard Of Retro Computer Revivals
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.
Re: Hands On: Evercade Alpha Taito Edition - A Bartop Behemoth Packed With Coin-Op History
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.
Re: Reports Suggest Arcade1Up Has Been Purchased By Basic Fun
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.)
Re: The Sega Dreamcast Visual Novel 'Di Gi Charat Fantasy' Is Now Available In English
I am still awaiting SEGAGAGA. Hope that happens eventually.
Re: After 25 Years, Google Has Finally Killed Dreamcast Web Browser Support
Is the change that JavaScript is now absolutely essential to do anything directly on Google?
Re: The Company Behind Arcade Archives Is Teasing Something Big For Its 500th Release
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.
Re: The Company Behind Arcade Archives Is Teasing Something Big For Its 500th Release
@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 ?
Re: After Multiple Delays, Bitmap Bureau's New Terminator Game Is Finally Out Across Consoles & PC
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.)
Re: The Company Behind Arcade Archives Is Teasing Something Big For Its 500th Release
@Gerald I hope you are right.
Re: The RG 477V Is Anbernic's "Strongest Vertical Retro Handheld" Yet
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.)
Re: Capcom President Teases "New Releases, Remakes, And Ports" Could Be On The Way For Mega Man & Two Other Classic IPs
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).
Re: The "2-In-1" OneXPlayer Super X Looks Like An Emulation Powerhouse
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.