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Thank goodness that god-awful World of Warcraft ad was taken down. It kept crashing my mobile browser.

I remember seeing this in EGM and I couldn’t really get hyped since it didn’t do 3D. They really went all in on FMV for this. Surprised not even any 2D fighter arcade ports were released.

@Right_Said_Brett I’ve always wondered if it could run a decent Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo port, ala 3DO.

September 28th? That’s a long wait for a plain-looking controller.

I’ll always dream of the reality where Mana/SD and Chrono Trigger were sorta gonna be the same game on CD 😆

Sad news. Condolences to his family. Losing our heroes

Oh awesome! I had hoped that GN would get involved. His advocacy in the tech space is incredible.

This is pretty dang impressive!

A man with an immense legacy. A tremendous loss. Condolences to his family. His mark on the industry will be felt forever.

Tobal 2 was one of those games I wanted to import so badly. Never did get around to playing it in the emulation age, even now.

@PopetheRev28 Ah you're right. For some reason I thought it was throughout the whole series.

But yeah, I thought they were decent beat em' ups. Great for a weekend rental!

I dunno why I was expecting something more like Earthion.

It’s kinda cool that in those Jaleco beat em ups, there were codes to unlock the Japanese versions. Made ya feel like you were playing an import. Huge for the EGM nerd I was haha.

Only funky thing I can remember about the PSP was the whole “all I want for Christmas is a PSP” thing.

One of those games that I wish I could’ve played in its heyday, on a CRT TV and all. I cast my lot with the PS1 though (no regrets, though I do wish I could’ve played the Capcom Saturn ports as well haha).

I wish I was one of those dudes who could reengineer tech like this. Was never good at messing with internals. I fried a friend’s PS1 trying to install a mod chip 😆

@Guru_Larry this gave me a good morning chortle

Puzzle Instinct would’ve been crazy work.

@Xerox1919 a spell… for a map… that’s wild

I’ve never dealt with the company, but their products seem cool (albeit, they crank out a new one seemingly every 3 months). Hoping this is an honest effort at better customer service.

One of the games I wished to import back then! Granted, I didn’t own an N64 (was jealous of my friend who did and had a converter 😂).

I have an oddly specific Ridge Racer memory. When my friends and I first played it on PS, we popped out the disc and popped in the soundtrack to the Street Fighter 2 anime movie. Racing to the song that played during the final battle was peak 90s high-energy lol.

That’s a chonker of a device, though a much younger me would’ve eaten this up.

I imported this one back in day. I was a bit underwhelmed.

It’s a Festivus miracle! The annoying video ads and data consent message have FINALLY disappeared!

@The_Nintendo_Expat I read that as “god damn ROM cover”.

me, a 1990s teen at 3am, hearing that jingle, knowing full well that Gradius III is about to kick my butt

That’s really too bad. While novel (I definitely have no space for em, anyhoo), they played nicely. CAPCOM ones were fun for a quick go.

I don’t think this about most people, but I wish he’d trip and fall into a ditch after which a donkey relieves itself on him.

Something about the design harkens back to the 16-bit era for me. Kinda cool.

Love the keyboards, but not for that price.

@cyxceven saw that on a bathroom wall once. They must’ve really loved Sega.

Such an iconic voice. Heck, during the Alpha/Zero-era, my friend and I would often taunt each other with Bison and Akuma win quotes, IRL. Condolences to his family.

The NES port was the only version I knew of the game. I thought it was immaculate.

Are you a bad enough dude to have a burger with Ronnie?

Noooooo, legitimately one of my favorite actors 😢 he will be sorely missed. Condolences to good family.

Can’t wait to dig into this!

Much too young to go. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

@Deuteros USA! USA!

Huh. Turbo with scaling would’ve been something.

@Sketcz Interestingly, from what I’ve read over the years, Secret of Mana sprang out of the cancellation of the SNES CD. Chrono Trigger was supposed to an action RPG for the CD platform, but once that fell apart, it became the SNES game we know and love. The action RPG elements were used to create SoM. It’s my own theory that that’s why Chrono and Marle sorta resemble Randi and Primm. But yeah, imagine that. A world where Chrono Trigger played a lot like Secret of Mana.

Game Gear was an increasing duck. I once borrowed it from my friend who had long stopped playing it. The only way I could really play it was with the AC adapter in a well lit room. So most of my gameplay was in my family’s small apartment, in the kitchen. It was nowhere near as fun as my Game Boy, in the long run.

There’s a difference between making AI slop for a good laugh and keeping it to yourself vs releasing out to the public, hoping people will love it.

Perhaps they could create an update with a “Classic Mode” that reintroduces the PS1 lag and difficulty tweak?

People keep mentioning “the people involved” and how it’s not surprising. Can anyone elaborate? I’m in the dark here :

@Sketcz heck, how about the Game Shark or Pro Action Replay?

@Deuteros The long short of it is that the GBA is nowhere near as powerful as the consoles you mentioned. You could think of the GBA as a kind of SNES+. Outperforms 16-bit consoles, yes. But the rest of the 32-bit systems (and 1 64-bit in the N64, as well as 24-bit in the case of the Neo Geo) are more powerful.

@h3s That’s technically true, but I knew not one person with those consoles. Heck, the rich kid at my school who had most of the consoles (Ryan Sykes, what a guy!) had everything from an Atari 2600 up to a Neo Geo, but not those two.

This port is INCREDIBLE. A harken back to an era of just good old fashioned fun. I hope that homebrew devs keep at it. I would love to continue to see “new” ports drop in the consoles I have so much love for.

There was something about imports, back in the 90s. I remember a small shop opened in my town, the only one to ever carry import games. It was an experience to actually hold Japanese game boxes. I sure do miss that feeling.