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@Guru_Larry I couldn’t tolerate the input lag so sold it really cheap to a friend of a friend but I think you are right. (Not sure whether what I got from funstock differed from the LRG release either. (Wish I had kept the control pads they are worth more even at Cex than I paid for them).

@Guru_Larry I got an English one fairly easily. In the UK.

@RZ-Atom Yeah I don’t even know if it’s the best thing to do what is happening here in terms of Google but linking to primary sources is 101 in decent journalism.

I really like Final Vendetta. (Got to the level 3 boss on the default hard mode first try (you only get one credit). I can’t understand why Nintendo Life prefer another beat em up I got very close to it for switch that was scored. I was bored completely the whole t I was playing that one. Noway it’s worth $650 however.

Does it have a proper gdm driver that is the most performant way to run Linux for emulation.

I used to read SEGA Pro (I don’t think it was as popular as Mean Machines). I liked the fact that every game from every system had a star rating (I tried to get all the. games had a star rating- I wish there was an Arcade Archives one with all of them in it somewhere).

I had the link cable (Think it was bundled in the UK) but I don't think I used it once (Think my much younger brother did use it with Pokemon years later).

I don’t like people taking the easy route and just slapping Android on everything.. (Native Linux or a BSD would be preferable for me). If they want to fight the other people cloning their work a bad is a good choice (Sony uses it for example obviously it’s more engineering work and it would have to be really good.)

it should have a more suitable screen to be worth buying. (Maybe an oscilloscope one ?)

@retrosumus The features listed for the Neo Geo for me are much more desirable. (It is implied that they don’t carry over to the DC version to me but I might be wrong). I might consider it if it is cleared up. Can’t see why a ported DC version shouldn’t be able to do anything that the Neo Geo can. (But it seems like a deliberately gated feature which I am totally against).

I don’t see why the Dreamcast version has to be inferior. I don’t think this has been an issue before. I am not in the market for £300 neo geo games. I think I will either get it on modern consoles if that ever happens or not at all. I guess if it uses some tricks that still can’t be emulated that could be a problem but I thought Neo Geo emulation was pretty much a done thing. (If it comes to modern consoles a few years later I will be fine with that but I have been known to buy Dreamcast homebrew games..)

I would much prefer Astro City/Atomiswave/Naomi/Model 2/Model 3 Sega stuf.

For me I am not really bothered about Arcade games like this without the correct controls. Not sure how much I would be willing to drop on a wheel and pedals either. (If there was a gun that supported house of the dead and Time Crisis on Switch I would probably get it for up to about £100. (Think my Arcade Stick was £150 but it is too heavy to go on my lap. (It is a good comparison to how the controls should be at Arcade Club though they always feel too loose for me).

@KingMike archive.org with the Mame CHD full set is pretty easy to get. I can’t imagine once this is completed it will be not available in the same way. (Or is there something that makes these different to the Arcade Laserdisc titles Mame already has ?). Personally I find things much easier than they used to be generally because getting a known good set (Regardless of emulator) is that much easier.

I would buy a Tate mode optimized device but I don’t want Android.

@Auto2112 I have only been to the Leeds Arcade Cub but I don’t find the machines are well maintained. (They seem to care more about the aesthetics than how well the games play. I would much rather play something with brand new joysticks. Most games in the UK were in generic cabinets when they were a current thing). There is not that many weird imports. It’s definitely better than most but I don’t know whether it is the best.

Hopefully there is some way of using a proper Saturn pad.

This is much worse value than Arcade Club or Heart of Gaming. (Adult pricing of £18 or £20 for all day - Children £10 or £15) loads more machines in both locations.

(I didn’t know Heart of Gaming had moved from Acton to Croydon but intend to go with my cousins daughter (Not sure what that makes her in relation to me) soon.)

Arcade Club you can stay for 12 hours if you want. (Heart of Gaming 7 hours). I usually stay about 4 hours at Arcade Club. (Usually because people I am with want to leave).

@smoreon Yeah but it is capable of running perfectly on modern consoles/pc. I bet it is less work getting that version working on windows/series x than the custom drm / emulator. (More work for PS due to not being Windows).

System specs:
CPU: Intel Core i3-9100F 3.60GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 with 4GB of RAM
RAM: 8GB DDR4-2400
OS: Windows 10
PSU: 350W 100-240V (autoswitching)
Security: Gemalto Sentinel
Vidéo output: DVI-D/HDMI
I/O: JVS
From
https://www.arcadebelgium.net/t5955-exa-arcadia

Intel Core i3 8100 (4 cores 4 threads, 3.6 Ghz) or 9100F (4 cores 4 threads, 3.6 Ghz (That system is destroyed by PS5/Series X cpu wise). Unknown GeForce gpu but it seems unlikely to be better than ps5/series X. (Gunlord X is a good example of how this sort of project should be undertaken).

@SlangWon Yeah I agree totally. I am not interested in any other version.

If I was to use this app I would just use the developer provided binaries.

Al lot of the people making modern Linux software don’t make it easy for packagers. Especially people using rust crates / go GitHub modules / npm for node.js etc etc. I am fine with using upstream stuff directly installed to /opt but I do feel for the maintainers for such as Debias because the work necessary for security on those type of apps seems like an absolute nightmare. (I don’t know why developers choose to use so many of the new shiny bits added to the latest and greatest. Especially if they expect it to be packaged. It would be different if they helped back porting security fixes but for the most part they leave all that work to distro security teams (Who in the case of Debian are volunteers).

It’s getting old all these anti AI articles. (Maybe it’s true but more time is spent on saying AI is bad than explaining what it does that is so undesirable). https://www.showrunner.xyz/ Is pretty impressive from my limited experience of it (But it’s only for animation).

The proportion of properly optimised I.e 50hz PAL with no black bars was far superior with the MS than I experienced with the PAL SNES. (But for me the PC Engine/TG16 these days solves all the issues I have with other 8 bit systems. They also had the best way of dealing with the PAL problem- that nobody else saw fit to use)

@Zeebor15 The current Namco Arcades are not as good as the old Namco Station that used to be near the London Eye. (Arcade Club is good for what it is but they don’t replace the sticks / buttons when I think they need to be).

The Namco Station near the London Eye had a similar selection of games (Of the age I am most interested in) but everything was always in immaculate condition.

Wonder if it could run on the Neo. Geo (Anything on that seems to get snapped up immediately at £250-300).

@MegaManFan I like to believe that Iawata or Myamoto would have rebuilt Mario Kart and DK from scratch if necessary to properly for Switch 2 (e.g using VRR / DLSS properly not FSR1). I definitely think they were more honourable in the past. (Now I find Nintendo not significantly different to anyone else). So it’s not impossible I think but I certainly agree it’s not common anymore.

@BausRifle I don’t think it is always as clear cut as that. Like for instance the DVD encryption was considered so terrible that it is treated differently to e.g the blue ray one. I think the former applies to the Wii Master Key as well which is hardcoded into Dolphin (But not the RetroArch dolphin core that is on Steam).

@BausRifle I think even Hamsters Metal Slug X bypasses the encryption board. (Same way Mame does.)

Even this site often says that they received review devices full of roms.

Gearbox took all their money and spent it on borderlands apparently. (I haven’t bought one of their games since) scummy move imo.

I really want Raiden 2 or ideally Raiden DX from these guys. Probably even begrudgingly pay £13.49 for DX. (I love the never ending war setting of DX)

I am very pleased with the native VVVVVV port to the Myoo Mini . (I have bought it in at least 2 places and got it in a Steam indie bundle in the days they were any good.)

I still think they should have delayed until they had it working with the native switch 2 upscaling tech. I perhaps think in the past that would have happened for such an important game. (They have been known to start again for some games in the pursuit of quality.)

@Daniel36 Me too I wish they would do a similar site for Arcade Archives. (It seemed to be more passionate). A lot of people seem to be against AI search but I think if it made sites like that the only ones visible it would certainly suit me. (Clickbait and Ad’s masquerading as content can rot in hell).

I think the humour that was in some of those magazines was some of the best part of it. (Sort of the opposite of what Polygon was like a few years ago).

I have only been to Arcade Club and that one in Acton. (Used to love Namco Station near the London Eye when I was in London around the millennium though).

I would rather have new sticks / buttons at Arcade Club than what they do though. (A lot are in bad condition don’t care at all about the artwork etc. When I was a kid most of the games were in generic jamma cabs but the controls were never so loose which makes some games much more difficult than they would be otherwise.)

Netflix pulling most of the decent mobile games they had definitely makes it less appealing to me.

I might give the modern version a shot presuming it is based on the Neo Geo version. (Mega drive is a strange choice for a Neo Geo port I have a few modern ones but they are all on Dreamcast). Or is the Neo Geo version exactly the same as this ?

Looks like it requires a PC version of the game (I own it on Switch and Xbox).

I like the FF6 Piano Collection. Seems quite generic this one (And likely expensive to import)

@mjparker77 I don’t understand porting to lesser hardware in this day and age if it is not powerful enough to run the best version I don’t want it.

I am pretty happy with my series x (Pretty sure I am in the minority). I did used to get all my indie games on Nintendo but got fed up with them not working properly. Sony is hardly knocking it out of the park with exclusives. At the moment most of the games I want are on the Xbox. (And the VRR is better than Sonys implementation and my soundbar really works better when systems output Atmos). I don’t know whether I will bother with Gamepass when mine expires in December. (It’s a good deal if you are playing the big Day One releases but I am not).

I suppose I am locked in to the ecosystem but I could Switch to Steam. If Valve releases a powerful Home Console I might go for that. There is quite a few Steam only games I want.

If there is still a fixed platform for Xbox then I am not so bothered. (Windows Phone was good in that respect it got upgraded every so often but everything worked well like Apple. If it ends up like PC or Android I don’t want it).

I very much disliked CVG and Nintendo Magazine Systems. Don’t know if I even read Mean Machines. I read Sega Pro and Super Play. I did think Julian Riggnal was the best person on GamesMaster.

@KingMike The series X Controller works pretty well with iOS/Android. I wouldn’t play on a phone but on a tablet my iPad is much nicer to use than a Switch (Handheld). There is quite a few games I have ended up playing there despite originally buying on Switch. (And the £2.99 modern Symphony of the Night port/the Netflix games etc). I have never used a backbone controller I suppose that is an option for phones).

@The_Nintend_Pedant It was basically one of the only JRPG’s that were available period in PAL territories even more so early on.
(After using a converter for the main SNES JRPG’s. I went for a USA N64 but it didn’t have the JRPG’s I wanted so I didn’t end up with many games and importing everything was costly).

Is there a reason to not just play the Arcade version for this ? (I tried the Arcade version of Gradius 3 on a real machine and I found it unplayably difficult). I remember it being more playable on my 50hz snes).

What is the best version of this to play ?

@Jrs1 At least it will probably work properly on Switch in this case. Doesn’t make sense the games selling loads more on Switch but being broken. (I now almost exclusively get ports/multiplatform on Xbox but I can understand why people with limited resources spend them on where they get the most sales).