h3s

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.

Is this for the PC version ? I guess it is (I think I do actually have it on Steam) don’t think I would ever pay for a mod though unless it was available officially as part of the original product.

I am surprised that they wouldn’t pay for a decent AI upscaler. A friend of mine has one think it was about £500 lifetime it worked really well for the few things of mine I have sent him. (Not sure whether it requires skill to use because he does have the ability to do it the old way but based on the results I was very happy with it).

@Atariboy I think the price is ok considering the price of the X68000Z don't know if there is a quality difference though. (e.g a new emulator vs just using an existing one).

I have never even noticed it (And I go to the piece hall at least once a month). Not often at weekends however. There is another bar/arcade in Halifax but that has also never been open when I have passed it. Called Retro Station. (Looks similar to Arcade Club in that it doesn’t have time limits.) doesn’t have a list of games sadly but there are some decent ones in the background of the website. (Looks much better in terms of the value for money and quantity of games.)

Has anyone been how does it compare to Arcade Club? Any decent IPA’s on draught ?

@AllieKitsune Or use AI. Human artists have a different mindset to programmers. (Hopefully AI should allow better user interfaces for open source software a traditional weak point).

Is there not a better file format than disc,juggler’s after all this time ?

Is this superior to SSF ? That is the only one I had much luck with. (Didn’t try medafan)

What is the difference between European and US AES games? I thought they would be the same. (I know the US MVS bios is different- the only losers use drugs thing etc but I didn’t think the roms were different.) Nobody in their right mind would have ever gone for a PAL Neo Geo. (You would have thought it would have been implemented the same way as the PAL Tg16 but I don’t think it was).

It is the better port but it is much harder than the MD version because of the checkpoints being the same as the coin op.

All these anti AI articles are getting boring. Using some extremely expensive photoshop plugins never required much skill either. I suppose Adobe’s AI is pretty good being in that it is trained on stock artwork.

At least perplexity lists its sources. (Be much better if people linked to the original source and didn’t try to pass off stuff from elsewhere as original work).

I still think Super Play was the best.

What does this company actually do ? Just licensing or does it develop its own games ? (I think the Tetris license is badly managed it certainly doesn’t stand for quality). The way it has been dealt with on mobile is even worse than when it was EA.

Looks like that company really doesn’t do anything of value whatsoever. (In fact it seems like much of their activity is actively against the goal of creating better video games. The license seems to go to the worst developers more often than not. I wouldn’t hold a company like this as a good thing to be involved with regardless of whether it was a man or a woman.) The world would be better off without nearly all versions of Tetris. (Then people actually trying to innovate would get more exposure).

Is the Apollo built as an asic ? (Would hope so for that price but I suspect it is running on an fpga).

@mariteaux Is the 2000’s not when they actually last had serious competition ? That seems to make a difference. Those Dreamcast sports games were apparently better received than the PS1 EA games. Konami was competitive in Soccer with 2 separate series.

@Guru_Larry Lizardcube seem pretty good from the ones I have tried.