“I'd like to assure you, in good faith, that my words do not stem from bias or political disagreement. In the year 2025, I am honestly just exhausted from more than a decade of everything being politicised.”
Yes I agree, I’m pretty dismayed by Nintendo’s recent aggressive approach on the legal side. I totally support them protecting their revenue streams + ensuring anything they’re still selling isn’t pirated, but going in to battle for stuff that’s no longer commercially available is a step too far IMO. I’ve been an enormous Nintendo fan most of my life - but recently they’ve changed from being all about great, creative new games to being more business-focused and “normal”. In my book Switch 2 is basically a spec bump on the Switch, compare that with the Iwata era of bat-sh*t-crazy ingenuity. That was my favourite Nintendo period.
So you disagree with his politics and don’t want to give him your money. I get that. I don’t agree with your stance politically but I get where you’re coming from. The problem is that if factors like those are only called out selectively, and in line with a certain political viewpoint, it leads to a politically neutral subject - retro gaming - getting dragged into the political / cultural battles that are prevalent at the moment. I personally think the best approach is to keep the gaming space neutral and focused on gaming + keep the politics out. Gaming has been like that for most of its history, until fairly recently, and was a whole lot less divided as a result.
I think the point is - singling a single person out for their political views and deciding not to buy their games because of those views is an extreme position. You could apply that approach to everything you buy - somewhere up the chain in the companies you buy from there are going to be people with different political views to your own, some of which you will disagree with. Are we now at the stage where we must report on the political views of everyone in the hierarchy of games companies in each games review to ensure it’s ok to buy? To make sure our money is only going to people who share our own political views?
Never heard of this guy until now. Followed some of the links in the article for 5 mins to understand what the fuss was about. Read some of his “provocative” comments. Thought “meh”.
Well the devices are clearly breaking copyright laws if they’re pre-loaded with games. And making YouTube videos about them is basically advertising the fact you own illegal copies of the games. So aggressive tactics, presumably initiated by Nintendo?, but it is illegal.
It’s actually refreshing to play a game or watch an anime from a time where many of the cultural guardrails that are now present in society were absent. It feels like a blast of fresh air.
It’s not until you do that that you realise how restricted current entertainment is by all of the different cultural rules and sensitivities that now exist, and that were comparatively absent until recently.
The ethics departments, platform holder content guidelines, legislative requirements combating hateful content, etc… it’s all very very stifling for any adult who just wants to get lost and be entertained in a fictional world.
We need to get to a point where an adult is actually treated as an adult and can pretty much experience whatever they want in a fictional world. The whole concept of applying real-world morality to fictional worlds is just ridiculous, and it’s why many of the entertainment media that have been successful in the past are struggling today.
I subscribe to this guy’s YouTube channel and actually watched this linked video yesterday. Lots of interesting insights about the economics of running an arcade in it and his other videos.
I’d love to set something like this up myself but I think the bottom line is it’s never going to make mega money and it needs to be run very well to even stay afloat. The guy talks about holding down other jobs to cover costs when demand drops.
I recently went to one of the arcades where you pay to enter and it’s freeplay on all machines in Liverpool a few months back. Spent the day there with my family and it felt like 5 minutes. Absolutely fantastic.
“Boundless' website is now functional, with visitors able to place orders for many of the books previously published through Unbound.”
Disgraceful.
I get that limited liability protection offered to investors in businesses is generally a “good thing”. But it sounds like there’s potentially a strong argument in this case that the company’s actions were designed to intentionally defraud its creditors. If so, the individuals involved should be held personally liable.
Very much in favour of being able to use my Switch as a GamePad alternative. It has all the functionality - although the lack of a stylus may be a challenge in some games.
My launch day GamePad is struggling. I replaced the WiFi unit in it a few days ago which has made it much better but the display still chugs at times.
Great console though. Spent a few days on it this week. Still magical.
I think the situation is that the censorship on the PlayStation and Nintendo platforms is now bad and Xbox is even worse.
I can understand that developers want to just release one version of a game across multiple platforms (in terms of game content). It makes sense. In practice however this will result in game content being watered down to meet the requirements of the platform with the most strict censorship.
From that perspective it’s good that City Connection has decided to release a separate, more censored version for Xbox.
But… that still leaves anyone interested in buying this game with a choice between playing the original versions or spending money on a watered down version.
The censorship of the platform holders therefore puts developers in a difficult situation, particularly with retro releases like this where comparisons to the original releases can be made.
In fact it’s these retro releases that are shining the light on how bad the current censorship policies of the platform holders are.
I’d love to play modern games that genuinely challenge and shock me with their content. There’s so much scope to do this with modern games technology.
It’s utter madness as, handled in the right way (i.e. clearly labelled as adult) it would sell very well. It’s totally possible to have adult and child-friendly games on the same platform.
Same applies to all other forms of entertainment - music, films, TV, anime. Remove the content filters and label stuff properly as adult.
We’ve absolutely gone backwards on this over the last 20-30 years.
“While there are various standards for each platform, we have repeatedly adjusted the content of the content.
We have come to the realization that some significant changes to the content of the Xbox version are necessary.”
That’s a Google translation of an extract from the City Connection announcement.
I think what they’re saying is they’ve had to tone the games down for all platforms for the re-release due to the censorship standards of the modern platform holders. They were trying to get a consistent approach to the censorship across all of the platforms but the Xbox censorship pushed them too far so they need to delay the Xbox release to give them time for the extra censorship…
UGGGHHH!!!
Any censorship of the original content is bad enough, particularly as the Saturn versions were censored from the original PC-98 releases in the first place!…
I’ve played the games on Saturn and it’s all pretty mild… The thought the we’ve regressed from then due to platform censorship standards is just depressing.
Which ones have you been playing? The one I really noticed as OTT was SaiDaiOuJou which I’ve been playing a bit recently but I’ve actually started to find their constant chuntering endearing.
Whilst I’m p*ssed off I can’t play these games (easily) I’m really pleased with the good stuff exA-Arcadia is doing to bring life back to the arcade scene.
“…it's clearly inspired by Nintendo's machine, but copies the SP's design even more closely; in terms of overall size, it's almost exactly the same as the GBA SP“
I thought it **was** a GBA SP on first glance when scrolling my X feed… Maybe crossing a line with copyright here?
Yes think it’s just a matter of time. Trying to be patient waiting for it…
Video Game Esoterica posted a video about it a couple of hours ago, looks like he has it running in RPCS3. I’m keeping an eye on the comments there too in case anyone figures it out (nothing yet, just some people saying they can’t get it to work).
No idea on the OS question. I tried Scetoolgui on Win 11 last night but don’t think the OS was a factor, more that I didn’t know what I was doing! Scetoolgui is in Aldostool’s PS3 tools collection.
Ok, I’m going to admit defeat on this. At least for now. I’ve downloaded scetool and tried to take the DRM protection off of the EBOOT.BIN file. But no luck and TBH I’m not really sure what I’m doing - it’s going beyond my (fairly limited) PS3 tech experience.
I’ve messaged again to see if the person who offered the advice above can help but no response yet. If I hear back I’ll update.
Hopefully someone posts a version that can just be copied across and work - it looks like a fun game.
@Sketcz Yeah! this is going to test my PS3 abilities, not had to do anything like it before either. Will take a look late tonight. Thanks for the luck.
Don’t agree. Konami outsourced the translation to a third party. They’re giving credit to the company that provided the service to them. They likely had no direct control over who actually worked on the translation, and probably limited visibility.
I’d like to see how it fares in real world tests before buying. The ad blurb looks carefully worded “8BitDo, 8Speed delivers an exceptionally stable 2.4G connection with ultra-low latency as low as 1ms”. It doesn’t say straight that it delivers a stable 1ms latency.
And the feel of the controller is also really important as others have noted.
If it can actually deliver a stable, reliable 1ms latency over wireless then that’s very good indeed.
For reference, the best I have over wireless at the moment is the DualSense which is tested at 6.3ms or the 8BitDo NeoGeo controller at 4.5ms.
If I was playing a game that relied on very fast responses on Windows my first choice would always be a wired arcade stick with about 1ms response via the Brook Universal Fusion board. It also has the advantage of wide compatibility, it works well on PS2-5, Switch and Xbox 360 and later Xbox.
But if a standard modern controller layout is required I’d go with the DualSense and a wired connection which is tested at 1.8ms. I very much like the feel and weight of the DualSense.
Video Game Esoterica was talking about this in his 0.274 update video (YouTube). Apparently getting the analogue right for arcade driving games is really difficult as they’re bespoke implementations for each game. It can involve taking measurements of the cabinet… I can understand why it’s the hardest part to emulate accurately. Also - some of the games were just jerky to control in the first place.
MAME really is awesome and well worth the effort to set up well. So much goodness available in it. Last night I was mucking about with Muchi Muchi Pork!, Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara, Ibara Kuro: Black Label, XII Stag and Demon Front. None of that available in FPGA yet, all played really well. Gonna do more tonight.
I personally think it would have been better with far less text. Some of the pixel art on the GBA is utterly fantastic and the book presents it beautifully. It does a great job of stitching some of the artwork together from different screenshots to show large scenes all together. This part is amazing.
I just wish the art had been given more room to breathe… I mean I would have been happy to just have pages and pages of pixel art with minimal words.
@pomegran Yes. Hopefully there’s recourse for people who’ve preordered through payment protection schemes like those offered by the credit card companies and PayPal. Sega’s demand that the project is cancelled should help anyone who’s looking to do this as it strengthens the argument that the company behind SuperSega is unable to deliver what it promised.
For anyone who’s given their credit card details for this - I’d check your credit card company’s dispute resolution period. I think you generally get 6 months after a transaction hits your card to dispute it. In that 6 month period you can reclaim any charge against it if what has been promised hasn’t been delivered.
@Razieluigi I’m not going to watch the video but pulling up in a Lamborghini like that is expert level trolling.
It’s getting quite entertaining. What’s next? Can he do a video from a private jet dressed like James Bond whilst being waited on by some hot flight attendants?
Oh right, perhaps I should calm my expectations down a bit then! Both SuperSega and MARS have suggested DC is possible in the near future which I think is where my optimism comes from but… well… nothing here yet. We’ll see.
TBH I’m happy playing all the stuff beyond MiSTer on original hardware at the moment. The move to FPGA for the formats you’ve listed would be great but it’s not like the MiSTer where there’s the convenience of playing about 30 formats in one small box.
The main thing I’d love to see on FPGA is new arcade stuff, beyond what the MiSTer / Pocket can do. There’s a lot I’m using software emulation for at the moment and FPGA versions would be awesome.
@pomegran I’m not sure the next generation of FPGAs is 3-5 years off - is that what you meant? The Analogue 3D looks like a big step forward on MiSTer in terms of its FPGA and that’s releasing early next year.
Dreamcast was kind of mid-generation but I guess it was still a big step up on what came before. I’ve no idea how much work is involved, how long it would take, who’s working on it and how far they’ve got. I suppose my point was that the common consensus about what’s possible and the timing of cores has been proven wrong before. Hopefully someone’s far enough along the process and a powerful enough FPGA is close enough to bring that timeline forward. I wouldn’t be surprised.
So I just re-watched the video and you’re right - there’s a jump edit when starting each game. I hadn’t picked up on that before.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it may be stuff he wants to keep hidden in the boot sequence or something. Or it may be a scam.
I’m going to temper my enthusiasm until this is proven to be genuine. Certainly not parting with any money! But will be keeping an eye on it in case it pans out.
@pomegran In terms of scepticism about getting Dreamcast FPGA in the near future - people said the same about the PS1 and N64 you know. N64 was deemed a step too far and boom - there it was.
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Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color
From @Sketcz
“I'd like to assure you, in good faith, that my words do not stem from bias or political disagreement. In the year 2025, I am honestly just exhausted from more than a decade of everything being politicised.”
This.
Re: YouTuber Raided For Reviewing Handheld Emulation Consoles Pre-Loaded With Sony And Nintendo Games
@KingMike
Yes I agree, I’m pretty dismayed by Nintendo’s recent aggressive approach on the legal side. I totally support them protecting their revenue streams + ensuring anything they’re still selling isn’t pirated, but going in to battle for stuff that’s no longer commercially available is a step too far IMO. I’ve been an enormous Nintendo fan most of my life - but recently they’ve changed from being all about great, creative new games to being more business-focused and “normal”. In my book Switch 2 is basically a spec bump on the Switch, compare that with the Iwata era of bat-sh*t-crazy ingenuity. That was my favourite Nintendo period.
Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color
@PKDuckman
So you disagree with his politics and don’t want to give him your money. I get that. I don’t agree with your stance politically but I get where you’re coming from. The problem is that if factors like those are only called out selectively, and in line with a certain political viewpoint, it leads to a politically neutral subject - retro gaming - getting dragged into the political / cultural battles that are prevalent at the moment. I personally think the best approach is to keep the gaming space neutral and focused on gaming + keep the politics out. Gaming has been like that for most of its history, until fairly recently, and was a whole lot less divided as a result.
Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color
@Razieluigi
I think the point is - singling a single person out for their political views and deciding not to buy their games because of those views is an extreme position. You could apply that approach to everything you buy - somewhere up the chain in the companies you buy from there are going to be people with different political views to your own, some of which you will disagree with. Are we now at the stage where we must report on the political views of everyone in the hierarchy of games companies in each games review to ensure it’s ok to buy? To make sure our money is only going to people who share our own political views?
Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color
Never heard of this guy until now. Followed some of the links in the article for 5 mins to understand what the fuss was about. Read some of his “provocative” comments. Thought “meh”.
I just don’t care. Keep politics out of gaming.
Re: YouTuber Raided For Reviewing Handheld Emulation Consoles Pre-Loaded With Sony And Nintendo Games
Well the devices are clearly breaking copyright laws if they’re pre-loaded with games. And making YouTube videos about them is basically advertising the fact you own illegal copies of the games. So aggressive tactics, presumably initiated by Nintendo?, but it is illegal.
Re: BBC Recently Covered The Rise Of Retro Gaming - See If You Can Spot The Problem
@Sketcz
@xenobladexfan
@Jackburton1985
It’s actually refreshing to play a game or watch an anime from a time where many of the cultural guardrails that are now present in society were absent. It feels like a blast of fresh air.
It’s not until you do that that you realise how restricted current entertainment is by all of the different cultural rules and sensitivities that now exist, and that were comparatively absent until recently.
The ethics departments, platform holder content guidelines, legislative requirements combating hateful content, etc… it’s all very very stifling for any adult who just wants to get lost and be entertained in a fictional world.
We need to get to a point where an adult is actually treated as an adult and can pretty much experience whatever they want in a fictional world. The whole concept of applying real-world morality to fictional worlds is just ridiculous, and it’s why many of the entertainment media that have been successful in the past are struggling today.
Entertainment is meant to be an escape.
Re: BBC Recently Covered The Rise Of Retro Gaming - See If You Can Spot The Problem
Historic British institution taken down by gamer backlash when it stuck a NES cart in a SNES.
Re: BBC Recently Covered The Rise Of Retro Gaming - See If You Can Spot The Problem
Defund the BBC.
Re: Arcade Enters "Survival Mode" As It Seeks To Avoid Closure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZuCTKCnm8M
I subscribe to this guy’s YouTube channel and actually watched this linked video yesterday. Lots of interesting insights about the economics of running an arcade in it and his other videos.
I’d love to set something like this up myself but I think the bottom line is it’s never going to make mega money and it needs to be run very well to even stay afloat. The guy talks about holding down other jobs to cover costs when demand drops.
I recently went to one of the arcades where you pay to enter and it’s freeplay on all machines in Liverpool a few months back. Spent the day there with my family and it felt like 5 minutes. Absolutely fantastic.
Re: Writers Of 'Did You Know Gaming' Book Published By Unbound "Received £79 Each For Over 7 Years Of Work"
From the PrintWeek article linked above:
“Boundless' website is now functional, with visitors able to place orders for many of the books previously published through Unbound.”
Disgraceful.
I get that limited liability protection offered to investors in businesses is generally a “good thing”. But it sounds like there’s potentially a strong argument in this case that the company’s actions were designed to intentionally defraud its creditors. If so, the individuals involved should be held personally liable.
Re: Nintendo Locking A Screen Filter Behind A Console Upgrade Hasn't Gone Down Well With Everyone
Upgrade to Switch 2 and benefit from old display effects in retro games <— not a system-seller.
Re: You Can Use Your Steam Deck, Smartphone Or Nintendo Switch As A Wii U GamePad Replacement
Very much in favour of being able to use my Switch as a GamePad alternative. It has all the functionality - although the lack of a stylus may be a challenge in some games.
My launch day GamePad is struggling. I replaced the WiFi unit in it a few days ago which has made it much better but the display still chugs at times.
Great console though. Spent a few days on it this week. Still magical.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@smoreon
I think the situation is that the censorship on the PlayStation and Nintendo platforms is now bad and Xbox is even worse.
I can understand that developers want to just release one version of a game across multiple platforms (in terms of game content). It makes sense. In practice however this will result in game content being watered down to meet the requirements of the platform with the most strict censorship.
From that perspective it’s good that City Connection has decided to release a separate, more censored version for Xbox.
But… that still leaves anyone interested in buying this game with a choice between playing the original versions or spending money on a watered down version.
The censorship of the platform holders therefore puts developers in a difficult situation, particularly with retro releases like this where comparisons to the original releases can be made.
In fact it’s these retro releases that are shining the light on how bad the current censorship policies of the platform holders are.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
@Sketcz
“Enough is enough with this puritanical crap.”
Hallelujah.
I’d love to play modern games that genuinely challenge and shock me with their content. There’s so much scope to do this with modern games technology.
It’s utter madness as, handled in the right way (i.e. clearly labelled as adult) it would sell very well. It’s totally possible to have adult and child-friendly games on the same platform.
Same applies to all other forms of entertainment - music, films, TV, anime. Remove the content filters and label stuff properly as adult.
We’ve absolutely gone backwards on this over the last 20-30 years.
Re: Upcoming Saturn Tribute Reissue To Skip Xbox Due To "Provocative Expressions"
“While there are various standards for each platform, we have repeatedly adjusted the content of the content.
We have come to the realization that some significant changes to the content of the Xbox version are necessary.”
That’s a Google translation of an extract from the City Connection announcement.
I think what they’re saying is they’ve had to tone the games down for all platforms for the re-release due to the censorship standards of the modern platform holders. They were trying to get a consistent approach to the censorship across all of the platforms but the Xbox censorship pushed them too far so they need to delay the Xbox release to give them time for the extra censorship…
UGGGHHH!!!
Any censorship of the original content is bad enough, particularly as the Saturn versions were censored from the original PC-98 releases in the first place!…
I’ve played the games on Saturn and it’s all pretty mild… The thought the we’ve regressed from then due to platform censorship standards is just depressing.
Re: Cult Shmup Air Gallet's Remake Hits Arcades This Month
@Vectrex
Which ones have you been playing? The one I really noticed as OTT was SaiDaiOuJou which I’ve been playing a bit recently but I’ve actually started to find their constant chuntering endearing.
Re: Cult Shmup Air Gallet's Remake Hits Arcades This Month
“exAclusive”
Whilst I’m p*ssed off I can’t play these games (easily) I’m really pleased with the good stuff exA-Arcadia is doing to bring life back to the arcade scene.
Re: Review: Miyoo Flip (V2) - Another Great Imitation Of Nintendo's Iconic GBA SP
“…it's clearly inspired by Nintendo's machine, but copies the SP's design even more closely; in terms of overall size, it's almost exactly the same as the GBA SP“
I thought it **was** a GBA SP on first glance when scrolling my X feed… Maybe crossing a line with copyright here?
Re: Interview: "I Have All The Freedom & No Power" - Astro Boy & Segagaga Director Tez Okano On His Greatest Hits & Going Indie
Great interview.
Re: You Can Now Play Namco's Controversial Cancelled PS3 Remake 'Dancing Eyes'
@Sketcz
Yes think it’s just a matter of time. Trying to be patient waiting for it…
Video Game Esoterica posted a video about it a couple of hours ago, looks like he has it running in RPCS3. I’m keeping an eye on the comments there too in case anyone figures it out (nothing yet, just some people saying they can’t get it to work).
No idea on the OS question. I tried Scetoolgui on Win 11 last night but don’t think the OS was a factor, more that I didn’t know what I was doing! Scetoolgui is in Aldostool’s PS3 tools collection.
Re: You Can Now Play Namco's Controversial Cancelled PS3 Remake 'Dancing Eyes'
Ok, I’m going to admit defeat on this. At least for now. I’ve downloaded scetool and tried to take the DRM protection off of the EBOOT.BIN file. But no luck and TBH I’m not really sure what I’m doing - it’s going beyond my (fairly limited) PS3 tech experience.
I’ve messaged again to see if the person who offered the advice above can help but no response yet. If I hear back I’ll update.
Hopefully someone posts a version that can just be copied across and work - it looks like a fun game.
Re: You Can Now Play Namco's Controversial Cancelled PS3 Remake 'Dancing Eyes'
@Sketcz Yeah! this is going to test my PS3 abilities, not had to do anything like it before either. Will take a look late tonight. Thanks for the luck.
Re: You Can Now Play Namco's Controversial Cancelled PS3 Remake 'Dancing Eyes'
Reply from the guy who dumped it in response to me asking how to get it to work. Going to try it later.
“The EBOOT.BIN is a FSELF. It requires to be resigned as npDRM free retail SELF (EBOOT.BIN) using scetool.
It also works on CFW DPEX or PEX with DEX patches to allow FSELF.”
Re: You Can Now Play Namco's Controversial Cancelled PS3 Remake 'Dancing Eyes'
@axelhander LOL
Re: Review: P-47 II MD (Mega Drive) - 35 Years Later, Jaleco's Shmup Finally Takes To The Skies
Thanks for the review Damien.
I’m very interested in this - also the exA-Arcadia version but not spending that kind of money!
Any chance they’ll sell a ROM version?
Re: You Can Now Play Namco's Controversial Cancelled PS3 Remake 'Dancing Eyes'
Just tried it on my jailbroken PS3 and getting a message that it’s corrupted when I run it. If anyone gets it working please share how.
Re: 30 Years Later, Konami Has Repeated The Same Mistake With Its Suikoden Remasters
Don’t agree. Konami outsourced the translation to a third party. They’re giving credit to the company that provided the service to them. They likely had no direct control over who actually worked on the translation, and probably limited visibility.
Re: SuperSega Boss Is Now Trying To Block People Getting Refunds
So the product he took money for isn’t going to happen and he’s not issued the refunds he said he has. I don’t think he’s going to win this dispute!
Re: 8BitDo Has Announced The Successor To Its Ultimate Wireless Controller
I’d like to see how it fares in real world tests before buying. The ad blurb looks carefully worded “8BitDo, 8Speed delivers an exceptionally stable 2.4G connection with ultra-low latency as low as 1ms”. It doesn’t say straight that it delivers a stable 1ms latency.
And the feel of the controller is also really important as others have noted.
If it can actually deliver a stable, reliable 1ms latency over wireless then that’s very good indeed.
For reference, the best I have over wireless at the moment is the DualSense which is tested at 6.3ms or the 8BitDo NeoGeo controller at 4.5ms.
If I was playing a game that relied on very fast responses on Windows my first choice would always be a wired arcade stick with about 1ms response via the Brook Universal Fusion board. It also has the advantage of wide compatibility, it works well on PS2-5, Switch and Xbox 360 and later Xbox.
But if a standard modern controller layout is required I’d go with the DualSense and a wired connection which is tested at 1.8ms. I very much like the feel and weight of the DualSense.
Re: 8BitDo Has Announced The Successor To Its Ultimate Wireless Controller
1ms latency over wireless? Big news if true.
Re: Random: Miyamoto Was "Surprised" At The Similarities Between Ocarina Of Time & Princess Mononoke
A unicorn would’ve been cool.
Not sure about a moose. Although if Nintendo had leaned into it and maxed the moose-ness it might have been cool too.
Re: MAME 0.274 Is Out Now, Bringing With It A Ton Of New Features & Fixes
@BulkSlash
Video Game Esoterica was talking about this in his 0.274 update video (YouTube). Apparently getting the analogue right for arcade driving games is really difficult as they’re bespoke implementations for each game. It can involve taking measurements of the cabinet… I can understand why it’s the hardest part to emulate accurately. Also - some of the games were just jerky to control in the first place.
VGE is well worth a watch if you’re not already.
Re: MAME 0.274 Is Out Now, Bringing With It A Ton Of New Features & Fixes
MAME really is awesome and well worth the effort to set up well. So much goodness available in it. Last night I was mucking about with Muchi Muchi Pork!, Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara, Ibara Kuro: Black Label, XII Stag and Demon Front. None of that available in FPGA yet, all played really well. Gonna do more tonight.
Re: IP Owners, Hamster Wants To Release Your Classic Games To "Future Generations"
Hamster is doing good work.
Re: Mario 64 Modder Explains Why N64 Has More RAM Than You Think
The 9th bit - like the discovery of the 9th planet.
Re: Review: The GBA Pixel Book - A Gorgeous Tribute To The Last Great 2D Console
It’s a great book. But!
I personally think it would have been better with far less text. Some of the pixel art on the GBA is utterly fantastic and the book presents it beautifully. It does a great job of stitching some of the artwork together from different screenshots to show large scenes all together. This part is amazing.
I just wish the art had been given more room to breathe… I mean I would have been happy to just have pages and pages of pixel art with minimal words.
Re: To The Shock Of Absolutely Nobody, Sega Is Trying To Shut Down The SuperSega FPGA Project
@pomegran Yes. Hopefully there’s recourse for people who’ve preordered through payment protection schemes like those offered by the credit card companies and PayPal. Sega’s demand that the project is cancelled should help anyone who’s looking to do this as it strengthens the argument that the company behind SuperSega is unable to deliver what it promised.
Re: To The Shock Of Absolutely Nobody, Sega Is Trying To Shut Down The SuperSega FPGA Project
Sega will argue that the SuperSega project generated a bunch of cash on the back of their brand name and IP. A strong argument IMO.
They can also argue that this venture is bringing their name into disrepute - another strong argument IMO.
I think these guys are well and truly screwed. A name change won’t save them.
TBH I’m glad - they’re clearly scammers and they deserve this.
Re: SuperSega Explains Why It Produces Such "Crappy" Videos, Says It's Afraid Analogue Will Steal Its Ideas
In terms of the Dreamcast core - the useful quotes:
“Over the last 2 years we got a running DC core”
“The videos showing DC games (Crazy Taxi etc..) were using a 3000 euros evo board”.
So they’re saying they have a working DC core on a EUR 3,000 FPGA evo board.
Assuming this is true - any views on this + the challenges of getting it into a board they can sell for less than EUR 500?
Re: Confusion Reigns As SuperSega Pre-Orders Get Charged For The Full Amount
For anyone who’s given their credit card details for this - I’d check your credit card company’s dispute resolution period. I think you generally get 6 months after a transaction hits your card to dispute it. In that 6 month period you can reclaim any charge against it if what has been promised hasn’t been delivered.
Re: SuperSega Boss Rocks Up In His Lamborghini To Beg For Your Pre-Order Cash
@Razieluigi I’m not going to watch the video but pulling up in a Lamborghini like that is expert level trolling.
It’s getting quite entertaining. What’s next? Can he do a video from a private jet dressed like James Bond whilst being waited on by some hot flight attendants?
Re: Review: Data East Arcade 2 (Evercade) - A Weird And Wonderful Selection Of Coin-Ops
My first impression of “The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy” was - holy crap I’ve stumbled across one of the best hidden gems ever.
It looks fantastic and there’s a bat-sh*t crazy level of stuff going on.
But a few more minutes of play time later and - no - definitely not one of the best games ever.
Well worth a play through though.
Re: The US Copyright Office Doesn't Want To Give You Access To Video Game History
Video game industry - “You can only play what we sell. And you don’t own that, we’re just letting you use it for a bit”.
Erm, no thanks!
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@pomegran Yeah not taking up too much space and keeping the wife happy is an important factor in all this too.
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@Stegosaur1589 Interesting.
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@pomegran
Oh right, perhaps I should calm my expectations down a bit then! Both SuperSega and MARS have suggested DC is possible in the near future which I think is where my optimism comes from but… well… nothing here yet. We’ll see.
TBH I’m happy playing all the stuff beyond MiSTer on original hardware at the moment. The move to FPGA for the formats you’ve listed would be great but it’s not like the MiSTer where there’s the convenience of playing about 30 formats in one small box.
The main thing I’d love to see on FPGA is new arcade stuff, beyond what the MiSTer / Pocket can do. There’s a lot I’m using software emulation for at the moment and FPGA versions would be awesome.
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@pomegran I’m not sure the next generation of FPGAs is 3-5 years off - is that what you meant? The Analogue 3D looks like a big step forward on MiSTer in terms of its FPGA and that’s releasing early next year.
Dreamcast was kind of mid-generation but I guess it was still a big step up on what came before. I’ve no idea how much work is involved, how long it would take, who’s working on it and how far they’ve got. I suppose my point was that the common consensus about what’s possible and the timing of cores has been proven wrong before. Hopefully someone’s far enough along the process and a powerful enough FPGA is close enough to bring that timeline forward. I wouldn’t be surprised.
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@Razieluigi
So I just re-watched the video and you’re right - there’s a jump edit when starting each game. I hadn’t picked up on that before.
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, it may be stuff he wants to keep hidden in the boot sequence or something. Or it may be a scam.
I’m going to temper my enthusiasm until this is proven to be genuine. Certainly not parting with any money! But will be keeping an eye on it in case it pans out.
Re: SuperSega FPGA Console Shown Running Master System, Genesis And Saturn Games
@pomegran In terms of scepticism about getting Dreamcast FPGA in the near future - people said the same about the PS1 and N64 you know. N64 was deemed a step too far and boom - there it was.