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Spinmaster is a pretty good game though. Certainly one of the better games in the DE catalog.
Is Joe & Mac the arcade version? The SNES version was largely its own thing (definitely a platform emphasis), while I think the rest of the ports were based on the arcade original (which I recall had more of an emphasis on combat).

"Fixed crash issue in King of Fighters 95 (SAT) and Ultraman: Hikari no Kyojin Densetsu (SAT)."

Aren't those the two games in the Saturn library which used a ROM cartridge as a secondary data medium in addition to the primary CD to run the game? How would those work on Polymega?

@Zedecks The only thing I can say is that when I opened up my Pier Solar Genesis cart, the PCB had some art but also some text like "64 megs, that's so awesome, it's better than women".
Imagine saying that on a PCB dated July 2010!
Like gee, how many decades behind is that opinion?
https://imgur.com/a/LDMUVEZ

@mjparker77 I thought Second Samurai console version was a Genesis game. But I could be wrong, since I don't know that as well since I think the port was also a Europe exclusive.
A bit besides the port, as I think the only relation between these games is they are all games Piko bought the copyrights to.

@h3s I'll say there is some charm in Game Boy demakes of arcade games. How far can they strip down a game to its bare essence of a game?

@Nintega_Is_Eternal The Displaced Gamers YouTube channel did a video a little while ago where he questions if the intended cartridge hardware for the canceled Japanese original would've made a difference.
He did make an comparison example of Tiny Toon Adventures, showing that game ran a little more optimal on Konami's proprietary Famicom cartridge than it did when transplanted to Nintendo hardware for the western versions. Though I suspect TTA is probably a less demanding game that is less affected by a bit of lag.

Dragon's Lair is a good example of what a cartridge hardware difference, not even necessarily needing a custom CPU, can make. The USA version of NES Dragon's Lair is famous garbage and it deserves to be. Sony just needing to not be ***** cheapskates and spend like another dollar on an extra ROM chip and we could have had the more playable European version. (yes, it was Sony, I'm not letting them hide behind the "CSG Imagesoft" label)

Probably shouldn't be asking why a nearly 40 year old game has a spaceship named AFX-6502 when it is running on a Z80-based console/computer?
(To my understanding, the 6502 was an EXTREMELY obscure CPU in Japan at the time, with the Famicom being the one major Japanese game hardware based around it. Iwata got the gig from being one of the few to import Commodore hardware to Japan as a young person, with games for them being some of HAL's earliest work.)

I remember reading some old reviews on retro gaming saying the game itself was kind of meh and it was carried by the anime girl on the cover.
Well, at least it's being made available.

@Serpenterror Most people into playing this sort of thing will figure it out.
At least they put the buttons in the right spot to at least match the original NeoGeo CD controller (unlike the NeoGeo Mini's extra controller which rotated the layout 90 degrees).

@N00BiSH Yes, I'm surprised they didn't go with a homage to the NeoGeo Pocket with this (then again, people might then expect NGP games to be included) rather than the Game Boy-looking design.

So this isn't really a "lost" commercial at all, but a fan video?
That's a misleading headline, makes it sound like something official.

It's hard to imagine playing any of those games on a phone. How does one do it?

I only now this for the magazine ad that only needed to say "NIGEL BEATS MARIO!" in giant letters, then in tiny letters "the driver, not the plumber." Even though that WAS after the latter had already done both. (driver Andretti did get his own game, though)

@JackGYarwood I imagine at this point, Urban Strike is probably known for having a particular scene that has been turned from fiction to fact, making rerelease a little difficult.

@JackGYarwood I think this game (or at least its franchise) got one console appearance and out of all the consoles one could choose to port this to, someone chose the Game Gear (where it's not surprising I think it became one of the rarer games).

@Damo The lack of Metroid carts is explained that I don't think Metroid is nearly as popular with Japanese gamers. Certainly not as much as Zelda and Mario.
I do recall it has been said that Kid Icarus is also a lot more popular with western gamers than Japanese.

I do have both versions of Fusion, as I have read about the Japanese version containing more content (also released like three months later) but I hear Nintendo didn't sell nearly as many copies over there.

Judging by the HUD, this is a port of the western (NES) version.
I've heard the Japanese (Famicom) version had some content difference.

I can only imagine we'll hear an impression from Clint Bassinger at some point.

@bring_on_branstons I can only imagine someone has made a mod to put Kamek back in the game (was seen in early screenshots under its development name Super Mario Kart R then cut from the final game).

@Lowdefal Reportedly Chocobo's Dungeon 1 was denied a western release because of lost source code.

@Blofse Original source code would've surely had developer comments and/or meaningful code labels. Those can't be reconstructed, and there will certainly be parts of code you can only guess at what the programmer wanted to do.

@PinballBuzzbro "-All they ever make nowadays is lazy licensed slop based on the same 5 shonen anime over and over again"
I'm pretty sure that's just the Bandai part of the company.
It occurred to me that Bandai is approaching 40 years of holding the Dragon Ball game license. Quoting AVGN "Can't someone else have a try?" No.

I remember watching one disc's worth of the anime and the only thing I remember is SOIL! IS MY POWER!

I'm not really familiar but I've been told that Whomp 'Em's localization is not as socially tasteful in 2025 than it was in 1991.

For a moment I thought it said SoulBlader.

Still bad news though.

@Damo Is that title a tease? Is the video not about the 32X of Sega's Virtua Fighter?

From what I've been told the Amiga CD32 was withheld from the US market due to some legal issue. (I hear the NTSC version did ship to Canada.)
I mean, I know by that point Commodore was, despite being an American company, far more successful with the European market anyways but that does sound like a notable point in its collapse.

One of my favorite Laws in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is the one prohibiting attacking Monsters. Moreso thinking about what kind of morals is it teaching us?
How are you even supposed to win an encounter when it comes up?
I'm guessing you are supposed to use Anti-Law cards. Or Escape. Reroll the RNG.
But what I found is better: Get a Beastmaster to control the enemies to attack each other. Then for the last one get it to attack a player character with auto-counterattack abilities. Forgiveness mechanic abuse!

@slider1983 I just watched Ashens' review of this from like a decade ago. He complained he only had one US game to review on the unit (Ecco the Dolphin) but surely he must have a number of PAL games (such as his Sonic he had in the background) that would play just fine on the device (or in Sonic's case, better than on his UK hardware, since Sonic 1 had no PAL optimization).
But it's possible that maybe he didn't want to show Sonic running on the device since the Green Hill Zone music at least will be copyright claimed by the composer on YouTube.

I mean, it does make sense if they left out the other Bond actors since surely Nintendo would've had to pay each of the former actors for likeness rights.

@The_Nintend_Pedant I only heard of that later, from I think Game Informer, who reported that the missing Bond photos were present in the ROM data and there were GameShark codes to view the portraits but that was all that actually existed in the game (or at least the final released version).

That wasn't even the first EGM April Fools joke to attract a lot of attention.
What about Sheng Long from a decade earlier?

@JeongersGaming That was the first thing I thought too. How excited is Mark going to be?

I wonder if that is just the European price.
In North America, the New 3DS XL and 2DS were pretty much the only models sold for a few years, so it has to be a more common unit.
I only have a standard size New 3DS because it's a Japanese import.

"This trial-and-error action adventure requires precise control" I'm recalling the AVGN originally (angrily, of course) gave up battling the hit detection trying to jump on a boat.
My friend had shown me that in more recent years he came back a more patient video game nerd to sit and figure out what the game wanted out of him to complete it.

Was the sport I know as football like the one sport Jaleco didn't attempt?

@101Force Still, it takes a lot to keep an online and physical market up. Hard to stay a "budget brand" when you have that. Do you know Ouya? Zeebo? (I think it was called that, a Brazilian console from like 2008.)
Atari would also have to remember to not shoot themselves like when the one exec commented you'd be able to play Pac-Man "in sandbox mode".

@Damo I do remember reading reports even when it was new, of another major flaw of the Nomad: they say the cartridge port was a little shaky and movement of the console could freeze the game. It was reported that stick some folded up paper or something inside the cart slot helped, but that sounds like an issue.
If only it had the stability of a recent Nintendo console!

"Want some MORE? Have some more!"

@101Force "Budget" brand? Are Taiwanese Famiclone-based plug-n-plays still a thing? I would be interested if devs on that would be bother to turn out good games but sadly those only seem to attract the likes of Nice Code who turns out consoles with like 300 games of sub-2600 quality gameplay.

@Norintha I do know when I was a kid my arcade had a 1995 Konami ticket redemption video game called Pirate Ship, so I assume Konami had also made other games in the '90s.

@PinballBuzzbro Well, these ports I'm guessing are reusing as much of the original NES code as possible. Whereas The Wiley Wars runs on a console with a completely different CPU so those had to be reprogrammed from scratch (and still had slowdown, and I mean even in the Japanese version, not even getting into the PAL version where that was expected).

@Sketcz There's one person dedicated to emulating the strangest peripherals for Nintendo handhelds. Things most people have never heard of (perhaps not the least become most of them were Japanese exclusives).
https://shonumi.github.io/articles.html

Raimais is going to be just the American/Overseas version, isn't it?
LordBBH has repeatedly praised that game, but only for the Japanese version. Something about the English versions patch out the level warping function which I suppose makes the game a little lengthy but there's some secret stuff that becomes broken in that process?

I do remember when the canceled (and barely if ever even announced) Famicom port of The Fairyland Story just turned up a year or two ago among a typical ebay lot of resale Famicom cartridges. Thankfully a preservationist spotted and purchased the lot.

It didn't solve the worse problem that, like other handhelds of its time, the screen (on my WSC) is very difficult to see. I got my system, a used Final Fantasy 1 edition console bundled with a copy of FF2. Text is really difficult to read on the actual hardware (though I suppose that is only partly the hardware's fault)

@Damo Technically, Master Quest was planned as an expansion disk on the N64DD. It was going to be like F-Zero X Expansion Kit in that you still needed the base game cartridge to play it.

He's charging per hour?
That sounds like something that would create a lot more work to monitor. How would you track that?

@Damo There's a story that this thing caused sellouts of a certain soup product in Japan.

Surely better than the PS2 game from whichever of the two UK budget publishers it was that is now rather famous among retro fans for its bottom effort games with licenses nobody was asking for.

The Super Famicom version title screen gives the Vikings an anime makeover that sadly probably wasn't carried over to the actual game.