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Limited Run Games is the physical manifestation of the "a sucker is born every minute" saying, and having shopped with five such limited-press-release sellers in the years (LRG included) I can state that with upmost confidence. Never again.

@NoirConceit Nothing more true than that last statement of yours; more than often, if you browse the website and see any comment section of a game's main achievement listing page, you're going to get bombarded by other users relaying how they have competed every single achievement on that set, often times going with a "Mastery no.X" incipit to signal how many games they've fully-decked-out overall.

I myself use the service as an okay addition, but if I ever wanted to have the globe know whatever vidya accolades I'm going through in real time, I'd have walked the livestreamer route instead.

Can't help but notice a -severe- lack of a certain fanart on the subject, starring Sanae Kochiya from the Touhou games...

Nice concept, reminds me of My Life as a Darklord, a Wiiware Final Fantasy spinoff running under a similar premise of setting up floors of your tower to defeat adventurers coming for your guts.

@Prollo You should be seeing the warzone that is the recent comment section for the Myrient website's closure; a lot of bad faith actors in there, but that person sure worked overtime for that one.

It's semantics at this point, but "immersive sim" as a game genre definition feels as redundant as it's useless. The 'sim' part of the term already stands for 'simulation', something that inherently strives to immerse people in its authenticity in relation to the real deal being simulated.

@Sn0w Look for GammaOS Next, it's a LineageOS-based system made to remove bloat to select Android-based gaming handhelds as well as any Google-related services. It's mostly for Anbernic devices, but the dev has planned a version tailor-fit for deviced of other manufacturers as well, including some AYANEO devices.

I personally go with some of the website's reoccurring/themed events of sorts when I get to some sort of "choice paralysis" on what game I've never played before I should go for next and less for the whole dopamine fuel cycle achievements revel in.

A shame that since the end-2025 drama-y situation, any and all games with achievement sets (including commercial releases) can potentially be wiped off from the website overnight... but oh well, it is what it is.

Oh no, the founder of a company run by (and for) scalpers is stepping out. One individual with in-company, anonymous-testimonial stories of retracted SNS statements about select item details, attending business meetings while COVID-positive and generally fostering a pressuring workplace climate based on colleagues snitching each other under peer pressure and abrasive higher-up behaviours always getting a green card among those.

Oh the agony, I'm literally shaking for realsie reals.

Nice to see Team Cornersoft people stil in action (and on SM64coop too), they've already dug into the Warioware mod action with a SM64 romhack that won one of Simpleflips's past romhacking contests, a few years back.

Good on them and the cart-buying userbase en large; the DS flashcart scene in particular has seen most hardware-makers turn their latest flashcarts into timegated bombs to make them unuseable after a year or two, even for "historic" brands like R4 and such.

Kind of an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan of all these Android/Linux/FPGA companies making full-glass-front handheld surfaces lately. Sure, it may make a lot of these devices look more sleak and refined, but after a while using them these become a bit grimy and oily where you hold 'em; it's a bit noticeable at first sight too if you're using a black or darker-tint device.

Pro-tip: always be on the lookout for Asian-version limited editions of games with LRG partnerships on Amazon Japan or similar; same language support and the limited edition's contents are often times the same across versions. This is true for Snow Bros Special 1 and 2, and you might even fetch one of these at far more reasonable pricesm now that they've been out for a while.

@no_donatello If memory serves me right, moon's "Premium Edition" was released by 8-4, a company that afterwards formed the SUPERDELUXE GAMES label in overseas partnership with... Limited Run Games.

So, yeah.

Between projects like this and Ryemanni's fanworks alone (Rayman Redemption, Rayman Redesigner), it's clear how select fans are the only ones willing to put solid effort on the series these days.

I'm surprised the Resident Alice movie series has lasted for as long as it did.

@TW1TCHYGAM3R This might be a blessing in disguise for the patient ones, as people can just wait for months until its price goes down a bit when custom driver support is made. Until then, big spenders for Android gizmos might eye their AYN Thor instead, considering both supported chipsets are already well covered for Turnip driver support.

@N00BiSH I indeed did not, all I needed to see back then were the Steam forum discussions of the Season 1 remaster from other people, commenting post-release about the few lines that were either altered or downright removed. Nothing that a cross-reference between the original season and one or two online-shared playthroughs can also attest, right?

Good for those SBC handheld makers that there's enough of a community-driven push for other more flexible solutions like LineageOS or Linux-based systems like the many Batocera forks out here. Still, what a pity.

At this point, it'd be better if they released an arcade port of Bubble Memories for a change, it rarely gets ported over in comparison to Symphony (last it was featured was in the Egret II Mini's starting games lineup).

@N00BiSH "Wow, that’s a lot. What didn’t you change?"
"The gameplay, the story, the puzzles, the jokes—they’re all as you remember them. (Maybe even better than you remember!)"

Straight out of the horse's mouth, their website's FAQ. Check the Wayback Machine links from 2020 as these lines from their own FAQ was removed. Unless you're trying to distort the facts like them, of course.

Kind of unrelated to the news at hand, but Taito going from Strictly Limited to LRG for limited physical releases feels like going out of the frying pan and into an even larger frying pan...

After how the Skunkape studio's Sam&Max Telltale series remasters had dialog alterations from the originals in spite of them telling over and over that wasn't the case on the first remaster's website, I'm Jack's lack of confidence on a new game for the series becoming a reality. Let alone one that's faithful to the source material.

@Guru_Larry They stated in their Kickstarter that the game drives coming with it are non-upgradable, whether it's the basic Time Crisis or the 4-games one. Plans for more gun color options were discussed as a later release, but no other game plans yet.

I wonder if those will be plug-and-play-ready with Win/Linux PCs though, or even if MiSTer support development will be in the cards from someone else. If not, getting a Sinden gun might be the better alternative for the already-developed scene, even with the jacked-up prices for a pedal and the gun recoil attachment.