romanista

@NinChocolate my first thougts exactly… just put it into retirement since i now have an analogue pocket..

I have a soft spot for the 3ds version sf4.. and the xbox 360 version , mainly because I bought that one in Madrid

Oh and battle chess amiga with the local dixons, since during one lunch break i just brough 2 3,5" disks and copied it over ...

I will always remember when i was on holiday in italy seeing a beautful women playing Tetris in the sun somewhere in Tuscany.... thinking of the game makes me think of her...

Your five ideas make me think of scuba diving, breat control is important for your depth as well.. not sure how it would work though..

if your stressed you use more oxygen so maybe it can give you less downtime in endless ocean..

@tom-massey thanx for the article.. maybe good to add that M2 is porting a special shottriggers edition of DOJ to ps4 this year..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqbXhVGOsE

And on the Ikaruga thing.. it might just be that Treasure was already legendary here for gunstar heroes (and radiant silvergun), and Ikaruga was ported directly to GC and DC.. (being on a Naomi board the latter was easy, more so than a specialised board like cave's)

Great, something to play on my pocklet until the rerelease comes out... i forgot how horrible the cover was https://satoshimatrix.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/famicom-wars-review-fc/

This looks lovely, my playdate will arrive somewhere in early 2023, so this could be right in time

Nice photo's but you did fail to explain the exact relation between the mark 3 and the master system.. (it's a m3 in a different box)

• why make the MS then in the first place, or is it more a different sku?
• do the cartridges interchange?

(edit wiki helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_System )

Jtego game some hints on an ngpc core for the pocket. So this list is hopefully just a bit early.

My two cents,

1. For the legal compilations companies are leaning a lot on emulators developed by volunteers, partly because they still wanted a play a game (see the nintendo example cited above, when nintendo even used a rom ripped for such an emulator.

2. The people who like classic games are both the target group for those emulators and for well done classic compilations, and most of them thefore own lots of them, as well as some of those classic games themselves, as well as maybe having some roms.. I think this is a healthy diet to keep interest in classic games alive... (we would otherwise maybe never have those compilations in the first place)

3. Don't forget the role of game discovery.. I bought fire emblem engage partly because I experienced the gba games..

Thanx for giving attention to this, site really proves its worth.. and for the lovers of the game: we still hold a yearly world cup, this year in germany.. visit sensible soccer.de for more details

It makes me think about early 80s dutch radio programme hoppyscoop which broadcasted programmes for home computers via de airwanss and teletext.

(We still have teletext in the neterlands btw

Lovely)

Nice to have some mystery again and something exclusive japanese..

alrthough i would love a ps5/switch port ofcourse...

And it would be great in M2 released the GG rom of aleste 3 fro mtheir collection.. i would happily pay for it to play it on the analogue pocket.. (it seems to be impossible to extract until now)

interesting the the daughter (/) of the family could just order one with mom's credit card... no queue required,,

Spend a nice afternoon putting all my GBA/GC/GB titles in and out to fill the library.. nice little touch to look at your collection.. (on the site it showed that it would be like a wii-style diary too, but it's isn't yet alas)..

and i ended up playing bugs bunny GB for the rest of the afternoon... looks beautiful on it..

Still switches are better than buttons anyway!

(my md2 still works luckily.. and since i now have an analogue pocket my lust for mini consoles is over)

Since she left notes for her grandchildren, isn't it that she wanted to gift ithe gba's to them to have fun like grandma?

@TheSilverFalcon I still use it every year for the world cup of sensible soccer (this year in berlin), and have an usb adapter for it to use it for emulaton purposes...

(and did vote for the zipstick as well for the same reason, although i do like my wavebird)

The Arcade joystick (dutch 9 pin joystick for c64; amiga etc) all the way

Nice article, I remember reading about this game back in the day; but let's not forget that team 17 often was technical impressive, but without understanding how a genre really ticket, leaving things like (Amiga: Overdrive which was no patch on super skid marks, Body blows which looks nice, but shadow fighter playing that much better)

In Amsterdam, there was one shop specialised in importing jap games, Musitapes.. remember getting Japanese gameboy games from them, that felt so special..

Maybe good to note , now it is republished that the emulation of the jaguar is finally get there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7E3EErUMuU

I bought a cheap jag 10 years ago for tempest 2k, such a brilliant game, feels even better than the vita or ps4 version

Great pictures, oldes i can easily access are the first sensidays i went to, the sensible soccer world championship from 2012 https://flickr.com/photos/romanista/albums/72157630607401780

Could somebody who actually has a polymega explainss how those modules actually work in practice? do you remove one to add another? and are you then basically replacing half the console?

good amiga days this week, playing mcgeezers games on my analogue pocket .... will try this one too (although i always thought turrican felt empty on the amiga)

yup, would pay for it and put on my pocket

Got Swos 1.0 running now, for some reason not the 96/97 versions.. use kickstart 2.0, 1 mb chip, 2 mb fast..

I would still love DirectoryOpus for my mac at times.. such a good util

Lovely they gave it so much love.. hopefully they we'll sell enough to make it wortth it (even thoguh they probably did it because it was so cool).. i'll check out the game digitally

Reminds as my local apple dealer, a small store was raided twice in two weeks wheni ordered my current macbook... nasty practices..

Hot take: golden axe belongs on this list

You know there's only one game people want.. .DopeWars !

@hordak for that analogue has just annouced they will release an adaptor.

Damn. I really do’t want to buy it but you’re making it so difficult. Maybe i should sell my original evercade

Ah nice.. since analogue pocket now has a sms core i might start to look into the card… since it was a long time hit in brazil might dig up some brazilian exclusives

@calbeau Good question, had the same with the information on the sega mini 2... apparantly all retro inspired life is now nintendo life......

This was dead from the start i'm afraid.. the intellivision itself was too small for a dedicated revamp, and the new games were clones of flash or phone casual games.....

(and now hoping my playdate will arrive soon)

What would a 'true' succesor to the RG351 mean then?.. I have a GPD XD from 2017, and until PSX it works nice, and dreamcast is ok.. When I see that this one still has problems with saturn emulation, I really start to wonder when the true succesor to my GPD will arrive, with everything to the gamecube without a problem.. all these hundreds of devices have slightly better screens etc, but don't see to be game changing..or a reason to upgrade. (I had hoped my analogue pocket - when it will arrive in 6 months time would do that with the fpga cores, but it's so quiet out there)

Nice presentation from a small company.. professional.. got me tempted, nut not really playing enough of my Evercade to upgrade..

Will be getting the toaplan collection though,, nice manual with interviews with the makers..

Finally .. firmware 1.1 announced https://www.analogue.co/announcements/pocket-os-v1-1beta-coming-in-july

My
Gpd xd ‘s saturn emu lation improved
After new firmware so there is hope.

(Still no reason to upgrade i think. My gpd works fine.)

Lovely little niche product, and since my 3ds and switch were getting a bit old I ordered it last year.. am in batch 4.. The 3ds offered for a while new ways of of gaming, but this little crank really trickled me..

Only thing i fear is that because of all the delays it won’t feel that fresh anymore when it finally arrives… this whole season thing is different when other people already are playing i presume….

The whole ‘hipster’ comment is rather funny… it’s been used as a way to call out people trying to be more the authentic then others, and people just following that quest for authenticity just because their friends do it, but don’t forget the people who started making ‘real’ sausages or herd bees (guity as charged) did that for a reason, and that search by itself is something we need in gaming too, in this world of endless freemium misery…

@TJM i think you mean Grafity Force II, the best best duel game ever.. it actually got a remake , but the original (or the gravity power extended version) remains the best

Nice review, the selection is a bit too focussed on Team 17 for my liking, and just got a retrocade for the bitmap stuff..

Big missing software house is ofcourse sensible software... megalomania, sensible soccer and cannon fodder Top 5 games in my opinion... but i can add them... although, my android tv with retroarch on it emulates sensi just fine, and actually suppords my The Arcade Joystick from back in the day...

@Ooyah for some there is a legal way..Sensible world of soccer now has a 'legal'updat eif you own an earlier version for example..

@EarthboundBenjy Thanx for this info, and @Damien @Damo for the article.. since emulating gameboys (early 200-s?) I was missing the Castlevania I remembered from early 90's, and now I realise I was emulating the wrong game... just one second of this music and I was back in my old high school..playing Castlevania, borrowed from a friend.. (I still have his burai fighter, come to think of it)

@charliegirl, which time are you referring too, I remember e.g. that the gameboy robocop sound track was quite immediately used in a commercial, and in the amiga times ( 91-94 where the use of samples in computer games really started) Rob Hubbard of c64 chiptune fame was already a god (admittedly ,the chiptune concerts started 5 years later, but still)

Does it work on the analogue pocket;)

@SalvorHardin indeed, me hoping yesterday when I saw the pre-order news it would be sort of quiet and I could slip in for a
Q1 2022 pre-order.. and then saw youtube exploding when fnishing work.. Now just hoping there was some great american football game yesterday night so that america is still sleeping at 8 am pacific,,

@StuTwo You should watch the digital foundry video... John lineman talks about it.. probably, but with a little plastic cutting

@Specter_of-the_OLED I'm just happy finally that nice vertical design is back... (but I hope you get yours.. I've got my micro here for my horizontal needs)..

Think I missed the first pre-order round by a few minutes, so will be sitting ready tomorrow..