KitsuneNight

I'd grab all these games in an instant.

Except the Transformers games.
Already own multiple copies of those.

@AG_Awesome

It gets even worse.
He plays nothing but Battle For Bikini Bottom.
He streams 10 hours a day scoweling because he is anticipating a reset flips his ***** when it happens ( usually with in 5 minutes )
And then starts all over again
Grinding the same 44 min run in to paste, shaving off a single second.

I got way too many games to play as well, ( 1200 on steam 800 on gog ) speed running is not for me.
But its fascinating to peek in that world and see what they can do.

@AG_Awesome

If you want to see the real dark side of speed running look up SHiFT ( spelled like that ) or @shiftposting on twitch
He is a Spongebob Squarepants speedrunning.

And that's all he does
He has spend the last 8 years and 20,000 hours grinding that game in to powder.
And has held the world record since 2016.
But thats all he does.
He boot the game grinds and flips his ***** when things go wrong.
He has an extremely short temper, and it take s little to set him off.
It's honestly a bit of a sad state of affairs.

Same goes for Cosmo Wright.

Personally I dont have the patience to speedrun, the grind puts me off.
I already dislike grinding in JRPG's , and that eventually yields results.
The weathertenko for example is literally driving in to a wall and executing just the right inputs to make it over the wall and not get grabbed by Lakitu.

My controller would go flying after half an hour.

@Deuteros

In no particular others
Smash Bros Melee
Mario Kart Double Dash
All the Cube Resident evil games not just the garbage 0 and 4*
All the Cube Zelda games.
Luigi mansion

( * I hate 4 for the way umbrella is dispatched in a cutscene the game never recovered from that for me )

@X68000

Disagree.
It takes insane amounts of time and skill to pull these glitches and speed runs off.
You don't just sit down and do one in an afternoon.

By that definition combo's in beat em ups are cheating as well. They started off as a glitch in SF II Championship Edition.

@AG_Awesome
TAS runs are often used to perform either a theoretical perfect run.
Or perform a glitch or trick, that's theoretically possible or on the edge of possible.
A proof of concept

Like the weathertenko trick in Mario Kart 64 in this Summoning Salt video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y99Wj-NStok

A real person has to put in thousands of hours and attempts to do anything
They don't just rush through a game
Each speedrun is the result of insane grinds, pixel perfect execution, memorization, glitches and skill.

Summoning Salt has extensive videos on the subject
16 stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_wscUcbynk

any percent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ePi38LnrA&t

120 stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2etSAWJKTs&t

And if those vids aught me one thing it's that speed running will see this a challenge to rally under, and do something even more insane.

@jesse_dylan

Or maybe after decades of gaming we are just jaded.

I do get more excited for older games though with out all the "accoutrements" of modern gaming.

( micro transactions day one patched predatory dlc all the rest)

Scalpers, scalpers never change.

@RootsGenoa
Would be better off course if they just had a dedicated download page, with standalone installers for these games anybody could download.
What with Rockstar once did with some of their older games.

But with the state of industry, the way it is these days . ( you own nothing and wil be happy ! ) We take what we can get .

Cool.
I'll stick with my GOG versions though.

QUICK !
download it now !

@Sketcz
Bit of both I think.
These days we all have such enormous backlogs to wade through that the excitement for a cool new game just isn't there anymore.

If only because of the sheer inertia of our collections.
I finished 70 games this year and that's way more games I ever owned combined as a kid let alone beat.

When you have less you appreciate it more.

Edit: and these days games need to be installed.
Then download a massive day one patch, usually bigger then the game and by the time its all said and done you are 3 to 4 hours along and all the interest has kinda evaporated.

As opposed to chucking in a disc or plugging in a cart turning the machine on and away you go.

I'll be going all nerdy here,
Well nerdier, but that PowerMac in the office photo, looks like a Quicksilver.
Which was released in mid 2001 and the first Powermac G4 to have a DVD burner
As wel as coming in 733 mhz or dual 800 mhz configurations.
They were monstrously powerfull for 2001.
With a pricetag to match ( 3500 for the dual cpu Quicksilver)

@BlaizeV
Sleeping Dogs is set in Hong Kong.
And really is too much of an excellent game to be called a copy cat.

Yeeheeeessssssss.
Now I want one of these
Just in time for 2026 no doubt.

They need that money for the lambo down payments.

Maybe it's some sort of deranged performance art ?
Analog has nothing to fear from them and they got nothing Analog wants either.

@Thwipp

They could be planning to release this trashfire in December 2025.

@JJtheTexan
Credit where credit is due is something Tallarico should remember himself as well.

@RetroGames
The fact that you paint everybody who disagrees with you as "spoiled children and sheep", does not exactly engender people to your point of view.

If anything it will cause people to disagree with you more on principle, because you implicitly insult them.

Being an adult also means knowing when to fold in an argument.
Not to talk down to others or use ad hominems.

Tallarico made a spectacle of himself on the internet and people will have strong opinions about that.

@KingMike
Maybe he should "team up" with the SuperSega guys.

@LowDefAl

That's a lot of 9 pin controller ports then.
This thing is a mess.
A dodgy mess.

Can't wait to see what happens when Sega stop rolling over the floor laughing and takes legal action against these clowns.

Stil pretty dubious as far as I am concerned.
Why doe si thave so many VGA connectors ?
What's it doing with a cf card connector instead of micro sd ?

The jump cuts are dodgy as well, we don't see the games loading.
Or even starting.
They are just there right away.

Even IF this thing works as advertised Sega will still come down on them like a ton of bricks for the use of their brand name.

This is a piece of performance art to get people to invest and ignore the numerous red flags going off.

Take my money damn it !

That's alright.
I had no intention of buying their over priced fomo products.
And now I am even less inclined.

@slider1983
No worries.

@slider1983
My comment was made when the video wasn't up yet.
Just a blurry photo.

@MysticX

Well it is 30 years old this was before immoral wombat ,er Mortal Kombat, it's bound to be tame.

Maybe they wil include a few exploding heads, and deliver on that violent promise.

Lousy quality video.
Nothing in there dispels the notion that this is a scam.

@LowDefAl
The CF card suggest to me that this is a clone board of an Amiga or the like.
Whatever it is though it is not a prototype of their vaporware scam.

Looks very violent indeed.

Yes i had to take the piss out of its silly title.

Le shock , le horreur.
Who would have thought that they cant even produce a decent photo of their or so legit machine.

If there werent enough red flags about this thing, this certainly must set off the alarm bells.

Now nobody can check if this isnt just a random PCB with a heat sink 4 VGA ports and 2 cartridges placed on top posing like they are supposed to be there.

Not dodgy at all !

Just a social media flex.
So they can show it off on social media for updoots and can say they spend this much on this thing.

Like all those funko flop collectors soy facing in front of their collection of sealed dead eyed soul less monstrosities.

This reminds me of how expensive the Neo Geo X has become.

I just want the damn thing to be affordable, available, and easy to buy.
If I want an mp3 player ill get a ipod or a nugget.

@LowDefAl

It's complicated ...ish
Remember this is a series where one of the games is called Syd Of Valis in english
There is no Syd, that's Valis II

Anyway the original game was released on several Japanese only computers, in 1986
The MSX version is the original.
The PC 8801 and X1 versions are ports.

This got a remake for the Megadrive

And then it got remade again, for the PC Engine, in 1992.
That's the one with the cutscenes and voice acting.

Karma level has increased by 25 points.

Anyway, while this is the right way to deal this situation.
I am more interested in having these things easily available.
When i can go to the likes of ZEDlabs and order one, instead of having to snipe one form some obscure website and pay in bitcoins*

( * exaggeration)

@wiiware

Good point.
A modded PSP it is then.

Wise fwom youw grawe !

I remember Bleem, mostly from that beta that leaked on the internet.

Once almost bought two of the three official Bleemcast discs but never did.
Still regretting that decision.

( MGS and GT 2 if anybody was wondering)

@Gryffin
This is just a cheap ( and ugly ) 3d printed shell.
Nothing more.
It taps on the screen, its as cheap as it is nasty.
You might as well use a dedicated gaming machine.

DS lites are cheap.

@smoreon
Yeah the improved graphics on Duckstation are a huge plus as well.
The graphics look cleaner the draw distance is improved .
The graphics are less pixelated and jagged.
Its a showcase of what the ps1 is capable off when not constrained.

While I don't really notice the difference between 30 and 60 FPS.
I do notice the drop in speed between 50 and 60 hertz.
And I cant play RR4 in 50 hertz mode anymore.
It's like playing in molasses.

@Badboykilla187

I honestly never knew Toshinden was on the GB.
I always figured that the series had no more then 4 entries on the PS1 and 2 ports to the Saturn.
(which are diabolical )

@Tasuki

Thats Tekken 5.
It comes with the full arcade versions of Tekken 1 2 and 3.

Which shows how bare bones an Arcade game is compared to the home ports
Even the ps1 version of Tekken 1 has more going for it.
While ps1 Tekken 2 and 3 are absolutely stuffed to the gills with extra's modes and features.

PS 2 Tekken 5 is still cool to have though.

The fact that they think they wont get a legal challenger form Sega shows they are complete and utter incompetent buffoons.
They can't even grift right, its that laughable and moronic.

The moment they start asking money for this is the moment Sega will surface like blue shark.

This entire thing is a travesty even the SMACHZ come soff looking better.
Cause they had a ( manky) "prototype" that showed something.
Al this lot has is a lot of hot air, delusions and a fugly design.

And the usual vague interviews where they fail to provide concrete info.
Mustn't forget that.

@Blast16

I'd love to see the Sega ages 2500 line getting a western release.
Doubt that will ever happen though.
A Mini Saturn from Sega would be way more likely to happen.

@DaveD

I looked at the Odin 2 but thats more a PS Portal or Switch Lite kind of device
With a pretty hefty pricetag too
Not as hefty as the Flip Ds but still Steamdeck levels.

I'm not really in to handheld gaming so anything over 200, makes me lose my interest.

I dont even use the Supaboy I got very much.

@Tobiaku
Indeed it is
It sadly also has a nearly 2 grand pricetag and costs more then my Ryzen gaming pc and a oled Steamdeck combined.

Oh well, thanks for the info at least.

@PopetheRev28
Rip your discs with IMGBURN and use an emulator.
I play my ps1 games via Duckstation instead of actual hardware.

I like the games but not the 30 year old limitations that come with with the hardware
IE: read errors
Corrupt or unreadable memory cards.
Fixed save points.
Manky controllers.
CD drives that do bog all.
Damaged discs.
Region lock outs.

Ridge Racer Type 4 looks fantastic on Duckstation, and plays equally fantastic with a Xbox One controller.

@MikeP
I would like to point out that the PS1 hardware is extremely limited now.
But back in the 90's it was cutting edge.

@PinballBuzzbro

Or aren't broken up in to predatory DLC and micro Transactions.
And don't need 60 gig day one patches to even boot
Nope not at all.

How to look like Star Wars without being Star Wars.

@Serpenterror
Tomb Raider was sold to Embracer 2 years or so ago if I recall.

The Tekken games are not like battle arena Toshinden which are all flash and no substance.
The early Tekkens still hold up.
The weakest of the lot is Tekken 1
But the others have aged pretty well, and are a product of their time.

Not all the 2D games are golden either
Street Fighter 1 is a turd
And SF II has so many versions its hard to pick one ( Turbo always Turbo)