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@Allahver_Fist

Yeah, you're selling CD Compilations, for a machine designed to rip old games and emulated them.....

I still sort of want one disc just because though, and I don't even have, or have any intention of owning, the machine.

The problem greed they've made already is mental. I was watching a YouTube vid the other night with three different approaches to running it, and it was fascinating.

@Axelay71 . I hear you, but to see people pushing a machine to do something literally thought impossible is quite something.

Ooh, I enjoyed this on the Egret Mini.

@N64-ROX
Value is a subjective thing. I've bought 150+ because I like not having to dick around with MAME.

@CookieByte
And therein lies the problem.

@OorWullie

They've altered soundtracks and visuals in past releases.

Sold. It looks amazing.

Sigh. People ARE that stupid after all.

Complete with limited numbers and a horrible scalpers market.

Hmm. Just freezes on the Sega screen for me.....

Still looks beautiful to this day.

I love a good arcade footy game, will give it a spin.

@slider1983
I'd love to get my hands one of the working models, but a bit pricey for a machine with no real use.

@slider1983
I'd have liked to have seen the C65. When first mooted, the C64 still had quite a few years left. Would have been another option as the Amiga still carried a hefty tag at that point. To can that, and launch the C64GS ..... Ouch.

@Ruka
There isn't at that price.

@slider1983
My word, we agree!
It was a weak Contra Spirits clone with poor pacing.

I'm waiting for my Ltd Impossible Mission 3 to land. Who's have thought I'd spend forty quid on a C64 game in 2026?

Your technologically advanced phone is buggered by it's form factor you tools.

Good man. There's a tonne of stuff we can use AI for, art isn't one of them.

The Gaelco carts were pretty good in Evervade, happy to see I can rebuy some titles for Switch, price depending. Too expensive and they'll get wish listed - my arcade library us hardly small as is.

@kitestar

Yep, so a tiny bit of lag, but playable for most of us.

@kitestar

We're getting MMP / Pink Sweets later this year, finally.

They had me until the price. What a joke.

A proper classic, but the dribbling was almost too accurate at times, made it very hard to tackle without fouling in 2P.

This dick again? I hope he gets burned to the ground.

Looks like typical Euro jank. Mercs and Shock Troopers perfected this genre 39 years ago and it's never really hit those heights since.

Hmmm. £300 Neo carts are going to be a tough sell with the AES+ on the horizon.

@CookieByte

Didn't Ace Driver add in split-screen multiplayer?
The '1 car, 1 track, no music' is a coin-op problem, not a Hamster one.
Yep, Sega added in some lovely extras, and lasted maybe 10 tities before realising it isn't a large enough market to recoup those costs - especially if people are just going to emulated for free.

@gmar

Man, it's every week. We get it, you've got a mad hate bone for Hamster. The rest of us are enjoying properly emulated arcade tities ranging from the well-known to the properly obscure, with a decent set of options and minimal input lag.

Funny you should refer to SNK - the 49th Anniversary collection has a bug where the second stick freezes on rotary games, which is known, and remains unpatched.

Giving money to any business, ever, means some if it will end up somewhere unsavoury, fact of life, sadly. If that's your concern, give up gaming, movies, and any music other that completely independent.

@Damo

I'd seen a couple of stories about 'bands', and could only read so much before I hit incredibly angry.

Seems to be the human condition to take something that could potentially benefit us in many ways, and instead use it to try and replace stuff that actual, real humans, with all their flaws, talents, influences, experiences, create. It's beyond depressing

The NG Resonance character from Deus Ex: Invisible War comes to mind.

Great news. Now take back Deus Ex and sort that with the respect it deserves!

@MSaturn

You've got FAR more faith in the human race than me. Myself, I think AI will be used to replace everything with a human connection - why pay an artist / songwriter / band if you can pump out AI slop and 90% of folk are fine with it? - while we get stuck with the crap.

That's a really neat touch.

@RossoftheRobots

It is a bad thing, when they've such a vast amount of arcade titles yet to see official releases.

That's a headline that only makes sense to people above 40 🤣

@Guru_Larry

That's the one!

@Guru_Larry

I remember a guide in one issue showing how he drew them, the multiple layers etc....

One of the great mags, up there with Your Sinclair, Zzap!, Amiga Power and Mean Machines.

I loved this on the Amiga, never knew there was a SNES version. Might be up for a purchase depending on price.

@-wc-

I've just found their LCD screens, both on the original and EXP, very poor quality - way, way behind the various Anbernic devices i've owned.

@Gs69
Oh I love the Switch 2, I was definitely surprised by that, but I don't trust Blaze to deliver that quality.

@slider1983
I'm fine thanks?
You're not reading the room very well are you?

@Bot_Bot_69

The MS versions are definitely better platform games, but lose a lot of the spectacle if the MD games.

No OLED is a hard pass.

@slider1983
You are STILL doing this? My god that's some dedication.
Would you like a full list of products that launched, successfully, while team Amico lied about 'chip shortages'?
What sort of idiot saw a console with two touch screen controllers and thought it sounded legit?

@RetroBro

I'm assuming the only reason they're persisting with the 'road map' nonsense is that it keeps any legal action at bay.

@slider1983

They lied about it's capabilities.
They lied about what was in development for it.
They lied about non-existent licences they'd secured.
They lied about the front end being finished.
They lied about it being in production.
They lied about the console being 'on the launch pad'
They lied about securing orders from major retailers for an unfinished console.

Essentially, they claimed to have a finished console, front end, and ten games.

It never got any further than some proto's and a couple of almost finished games.

If you don't construe that as fraud, I give up 🤣

The rest of the gaming community, however, does.

And the guy that's launched several successful consoles now 'doesn't means ****'.

Right........

@Martin_H

Same! 40 quid from Rumbelow's with six games at a fiver each. I got my money's worth with Doom, Theme Park and Cybermorph alone. Got several hundred quid a few years back but it appears they're going up and up weirdly.

@Quick_Man

A full 55 seconds! 🤣

@Deuteros

Tiertex had the worst reputation it was possible to have over here in the 8/16 bit days. They were mostly garbage shovelware, though they got tasked with converting some things to 8-bit that was just silly - Strider as an example.

@PKDuckman
And what a conversion it is!

@gmar
Again?
Your two minutes of gameplay might be very different indeed to someone else.