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@demadeefy

different strokes! Can't say I agree 👍

start with some good games.

i have zero familiarity with this song until now, but it could not sound more like "land," to me.

@Poodlestargenerica

I second this request!

PS - have you listened to the podcast Legacy Music Hour? They used to do some interview episodes, and they did David Wise, Tim Ferriss, Oka, Tanaka, and I want to say Alberto Jose Gonzales(?!) but I might be getting a little mixed up over time.

suffice to say its a great podcast and those episodes are really special ❤️👍✌️

@SakuraHaruka

hi ☺️

I love soyo oka too! among my favorite composers.

If I'm reading your comment correctly, you seem to be attributing SimCity 3000 to her, but it was actually the great Jerry Martin! one of my favorite game OSTs ever, SimCity 3000 is really elevated stuff and I love it!

anyway. ✌️

@Poodlestargenerica

jumping flash gave me the absolute creeps as a kid! 👍👍 great game.

"smooth modern analog controls with an improved camera"

so it looks like Croc, but it plays like every other generic warmed over 3d action game since the ps3 era.

@MisterStu

yeah, im skeptical that i couldnt spot the fake in this instance. ✌️

please, can we have just one comments section without breathless concern trolling about "piracy?"

Well get ready to "lose" these tracks all over again 😆

I so wish theyd made this a retail release, with a simple single player mode, survival mode, and tight, f-zero like controls. 😢 easy game of the decade if they had.

beethoven was deaf, yet wrote symphonies.

@Beauville

"So what this article completely and totally fails to mention is that his first strike was from a video just before this covering the MiG Switch cartridge copier - a device that lets you dump your switch games and play back up roms on real switch hardware.

Of course Nintendo isn't going to look kindly on someone telling 300k subscribers how to pirate games for their current console."

I believe what you are saying, and nintendo goes after people for much less, but to be fair, making a copy of a game you own and playing that copy on your switch is in no way piracy.

If they showed how to upload the files and make them available for download publicly, or how to sell them for profit, sure, but I doubt that was in the video.

its like saying showing someone how to make deposits and withdrawals is the same as showing them how to launder money, or how to shoot a gun is the same as murder. ✌️

PS-

https://www.riaa.com/resources-learning/about-piracy/

even the RIAA website seems confused about what piracy actually is:

"Common examples of online copyright infringement:

You download an app on your smartphone that allows you to ‘strip’ the audio from any YouTube music video and permanently keep that audio in your music collection."

downloading an app ITSELF is copyright infringement? and, there is NO audio on youtube that I could use this app to obtain, that isn't copyrighted?! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 plz

1) is the strike against the "emulation of the game" as the headline and body of the article suggest, or is it against the content itself being shown? I dont really see what copyright has to do with the very act of emulation, nor do I see so far where they are "going after" emulation of their games as opposed to the footage of the gameplay.

2) its a minor thing, but you don't emulate games, per se. you emulate the systems that play them. ✌️ more to my first point, you cant see "emulation happening" in a video, you can only see the end result which is just footage of the game.

this is the first LEGO thing I've gassed for since I was like 10 😅 i would definitely buy this and put it together, display it and cherish it.

btw it's absolutely grotesque to me that so many people including in the industry think that games only got good starting in the ps3 era. 😵

i couldn't care less about a single new 3d fighting game but id care a whole lot for a Tekken trilogy collection ❤️ ditto virtua fighter and soul edge/blade/Calibur.

@845H one person's "simplistic" is another's "fun/accessible/action-oriented/direct/etc." ✌️ for me the series peaked with two and three.

@AJB83

"I guess I own those, since they've travelled with me everywhere and nobody has taken them from me "

possession is nine tenths of the law 😆

@bring_on_branstons @bring_on_branstons

haha cheers! I think I've made it to the last stage before, and to my memory of the last time i tried (not too long ago) I could not beat the "cave" boss 💀 a real SOB lol

@AJB83

a thoughtful person gave me MGS collection (physically) on switch but I cant even play it because it wont even fit on my (admittedly aging and tiny) sd card 😆 and, because the port got such mixed reviews im not in a huge hurry to upgrade.

😕 i mean, how depressing is all of that?

(EDIT - can anyone tell me: if i go through the trouble of downloading these giant remasters to a new SD card, will I STILL have to put in the meaningless, token, insulting Cart every time I want to play those games? 😮‍💨)

PSA - "physical ownership" was always a bug of the old distribution system, not a feature. if "they" could've taken our physical copies 30 years ago (and still gotten our money,) they would have, and the only reason physical copies persist is that many of us got used to that model and dont see the value in /are skeptical of the change.

@slider1983

he is talking about ownership vs licensing, on a technical level. when you buy a copy of mario, you arent buying the software you are buying the right to play a copy of that software. you are right, and like i said for most people, it is a distinction without a difference. ✌️ IMO it's unhelpful in the context as theres a clear difference between a physical copy that can't be taken away and a digital pseudo purchase that possibly can which happens to be the conversation we are having. 👍

@bring_on_branstons

"The original Area 88/UN Squadron is my all time favourite SNES shmup and I still play it regularly to this day."

me too! and one of the few games I've been playing since childhood and STILL havent beaten (and I generally beat shmups!) though i dont at all consider it unfair!

also, GREAT example of an arcade port that just dusts the original in terms of content 👍 this is one of my favorite phenomena of the golden era, the self conscious over-selling of expanded arcade ports on "inferior" home hardware. ✌️

@KingMike

very interesting! definitely hadnt ever considered the gameboy printer in the mix, but the thought of a SNES with a sticker printer makes me very happy haha.

side note, I did not realize that Sega/Atlus' relationship went back that far! 🤔

thanks 👍✌️

@Poodlestargenerica

i understand the distinction, truly. my point is that for most people "owning the game" means "having a copy," and in those terms a physical copy is a "stronger" or more satisfying form of (what they are calling) ownership. 👍

@Razieluigi

No worries, I felt the exact same way in the Soul Reaver days. Blood Omen was one of those "early psx" games that I glossed over thousands of times (hello, philosoma, jupiter strike, kileak...)

@Razieluigi

"The gameplay felt like the mature take on Zelda that so many of us were craving at the time."

You are SO right! 😊☝️

Btw do you have an opinion of the original LoK game? I've suddenly become curious about it lately and I might have to check it out while I'm revisiting Reaver. ✌️ cheers

OMG - I just realized this collection has Blood Omen where I thought it was Reaver 2. 😱

I must get an evercade.

• (it's worth noting that the Evercade version of Soul Reaver is the base PS1 original, and isn't remastered).*

I must get an Evercade.

it just occurred to me that the point of the link cable on the sgb2 is for linking a gameboy to it, not necessarily 2 sgb2s together 😂 like for trading Pokemon, most likely. pretty rad ✌️

id always been a bit curious as to the need, since they added 2p and even 4p multitap same-screen to some games exclusively for super game boy (and how cool is that?! I like this approach to "hybrid" gaming loads more than Switch personally, to the degree that I wish the new console were a console with Switch backwards compatibility, and continue switch support as the "handheld" part of the equation. a boy can dream!)

@NinChocolate

Nerds of the Soil, I like that! 😆👍

it's a misnomer that you dont "own" digital games, as some kind of natural order. its all about the licensing agreement: they could easily sell you drm free files that you are free to make backups of, etc.

(also, you [yes, you] can totally sell a digital game if it's on a piece of hardware you are selling.)

perhaps this kind of law will make them reconsider the shady practice of "selling" essentially rentals, leading them to a fairer agreement that grants them the use of the "selling/buying" language again.

can someone please clarify for me if/whether Nintendo or anyone else can actually make my eshop purchased/downloaded switch games stop working without my consent?

because otherwise the only distinction for "ownership" is the idea that:
a)I can make backups of "my" games, and barring that,
b) I'm entitled to a lifetime of free "redownloads," which just doesnt seem realistic.

PS - @Poodlestargenerica
"You don't own physical games either, just the cartridge."

I think what we have here is a distinction without a difference ✌️

@NinChocolate

indeed! the sgb was always an excellent experience, and one of my favorite toys as a kid (i wonder what ever happened to that thing?!)

personally I never had a clue of any problems until nerds yelling about it on the internet years later. and im a nerd so. 🤓

@RetroGames

"I'd personally rather people just made actual new games for these systems, especially the SNES, rather than all this random extremely niche stuff,"

i get what you are saying and of course I like new games too, but I just dont think thats what this modder would be doing if not for this 👍

@nocdaes

"Now that's a water bottle, key ring, t shirt, fridge magnet and pencil case I NEED!"

...and this ashtray!

i owned 6 or 7 WD games in my day, and played several more, and I never would have played most of those or even heard of them if it weren't for those localizations, so I'm not going to start hating them now!

this is really cool. I still have my copies on lunar 1 and 2 in psx and I'll be keeping them forever, thanks. 🥳

"There are workarounds available – such as the excellent Sinden Light Gun – but for most people, this classic has remained frustratingly unobtainable for years.

It looks like that's all about to change, however,"

how is this gun more obtainable that the already available "Sinden" gun? what has actually changed?

@sdelfin

whoops! i meant ill finally be trying dead cells, but crazy taxi, sotn and huntdown are all favorites that i havent played much on android yet, that I do own. 👍 CT and SOTN in particular have been elusive for me since I had them in their own day, way back.

I doubled down on Huntdown because I enjoyed it so much on switch! isn't it great?! seriously one of my favorite games, ever.

haha playing cuphead while ill sounds like a real PITA, but I have a hard time playing anything at all if im genuinely very sick tbh. ✌️

@Blast16

"Did yours come with the SD cards or did you make your own image?"

It came with cards but my friend got one for himself too, and he put ArkOS on there and a chise games he thought we'd like. Here's the thing, though: he just got into emulation, and he's practically computer illiterate and he acted like it was super easy to do 👍

"Something like this is very tempting, but… we all have so many options for retro games I don’t really need this 😜🤔"

You know, I felt the same way, but if you dont have a pocket device to knockaround with, I think It's worth it. Mine fits in my tiny sling bag i carry around, and I intend to build a kit for it containing charger, mini hdmi cord, and 2-4 compact bluetooth controllers, for the tiniest retro multiplayer setup ever. 😎

Dont forget, the "V" model (not "VS") like I have runs android, too. so theres some opportunity to play modern mobile games, too (I will be finally trying Dead Cells on there soon, and SOTN, Huntdown, crazy taxi, and a number of other mobile games I own but never found a great way to play before.)

(btw ive done very little tweaking so far and it plays ps1 beautifully, and lots of the dreamcast and psp games I tried ran well also. 👍 so between those and the android stuff, the "modern" control set is justified in my opinion.)

anyway, thats my 2 cents! ✌️

@Blast16

i had ongoing decision paralysis with these for years, and i still had yet to own one until a good friend recently gave me an Anbernic RG383V, and I'm very pleased with it! It's probably not the one I'd have picked, but I'm having such a good time with it that any complaints would be nitpicking 👍

also you can get it with a clear plastic front panel 😂

@WhensDinner

completely agree. a+ commenter. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

i mean... just wait 3 days to play it then.

I don't like how it makes a face. feel me?

@KingMike

lol dont worry, I only ever get my hopes up about Playstation world in very short periods, usually under false pretenses. 😆✌️

@heligo

"It irritates me every single time i see the name MiSTer Pi. It’s a great project but to name it such is just going to unnecessarily confuse people… it’s idiotic."

My first ever electric guitar fx pedal was called a "Big Muff Pi." 😂 it can always be worse.

"UNOFFICIAL FPGA PS1 Teased Ahead Of PlayStation's 30th Anniversary"

when you affix the anniversary to the end like that, it makes it seem like an official, first party project. at least to me. ✌️

I got really excited 😕

@Blofse

i truly admire your restraint if you actually do as you say! I have definitely been feasting on the roms of whatever consoles my feeble machine could handle, since about 98. ✌️

@Bonggon5

GENUINE LOL! 👍 cheers for finding my funny bone, ya dork. 😂

remember subscribing to print magazines, back in the day? remember how when you eventually cancelled, or the magazine went under, they didn't come to your house and confiscate the magazines youd been enjoying (and paying for) over the months and years?

it's true. if they insist on this model, game "subscriptions" should be like that. 👍

Worse than nothing.

@JonathanChapman

it's obvious to everyone (else) that this is deliberately going for the same general look. when you have to point out that the function buttons are slightly different, you arent making a great case. 👍

we can fight this kind of organized crime by teaching folks how to buy legal devices and download the roms on their own. ✌️