KitsuneNight

His nes in a nes cartridge video is even more unhinged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-vArvervA
Hilariously so.

Oddly enough as one magazine falls another one, wises fwom its gwave.
NAG a gaming magazine from South Africa of all places has risen from its ashes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/1e3sduc/nag_magazine_yes_that_one_is_back/

https://www.nag.co.za/
And they have an archive
https://www.nag.co.za/nag-magazine-archives/

And in my opinion its always cool to see gaming from a perspective that's not the UK or the USA.

@upsilandre
Are you sure ?
I did check it on Youtube to see if it was the game I know.
But I don't suppose it matters very much

@Bonggon5
Uh yeah so ?
Guys aren't allowed to show emotions then ?
They are supposed to be robots and keep everything bottled up ?

The stress was getting to him and he was venting.
Hardly a "weakness" .

@NotTheZeebo
The ps 1 had pack in bundles but they came pretty late
There is this
https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/sony-playstation-special-pack-bundle
With a second controller a memory card and Crash 3

and this
https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/sony-playstation-tomb-raider-iv-bundle

With Tombraider 4
No memory card.

as well as
https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/sony-playstation-atlantis-bundle
https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/sony-playstation-disney-bundle
https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/sony-playstation-spyro-coolboarder-3-bundle

But all these are very late in the lifespan of the machine most of them are the psONE redesign.
And appear to be EU only
But the ps1 did have pack in titles
Just not in the USA it seems

https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/sony-playstation-target-need-for-speed-bundle
Australia
It seems to be mostly a Europe thing.

@Sketcz
On to retromags !
Ahem.

As for the feature it has been ages since i last saw it it was an EGM EGM2 or a Gamepro from 1994, because they talked about Mortal Kombat II a lot.

It was partially a showcase, part walkthrough.
I remember them talking about how expressive the sprites were while showcasing Edgar.
And rafting section while getting confronted by Ultros.

Spike from Cdromance posted a reaction on his site.
https://cdromance.org/news/romhacking-net-to-stop-hosting-romhacks-rhdn-drama/

Seems they were involved in the behind the scenes drama.

@Sketcz
That explains why I never saw it.
I don't really read EGM or Gfan

However maybe you can help me out.
Ages ago I read a massive article about FF6/FF3
in A EGM, EGM 2 or Gamepro from 1994
Any idea which issue that was ?
Or what i'm even talking about ?

Wise fwom youw gwave.

I actually have one of these things, it's fine....
Lot bigger then you'd expect, even after seeing it can fit a Game Gear.

I mostly use it as decoration.

Can't that happen to the 32X and the Sega CDX ( Multimega) ?
New old stock just showing up
I can dream cant i ?

@Damo

THAT is a shame yes.
I looked in to Sega Forever when it was new , saw it was the usual suspects again, and ignored it ever since.
I thought they killed the entire thing years ago, but apparently not.

That tweet and other things seem to suggest there is something rotten in the kingdom of Sega Europe

@Sketcz Some google fu later and i didnt find anything about the controller.
But i did find a cool interview with Kenji Tosaki about the Saturn and DC controller design
https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2022/06/03/interview-kenji-tosaki-talks-saturn-dreamcast-peripheral-design/

Which explains why the 3D pad has a break away cable

An article about prototype DC controllers
https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2023/10/18/retro-bit-unveils-early-dreamcast-pad-prototypes/

But nothing about a mirrored Saturn controller.
Console Variations doesnt have it listed
https://consolevariations.com/database/sega-saturn?filters[type][0]=3&activeSortLabel=rarity_score&order=asc

It possible it was just a botched marketing mock up
Marketing firms aren't exactly on the ball especially not with consoles in the early days.
The infamous back cover of the NES box comes to mind.

Well it looks sharper at least.
It could have great potential IF Nintendo doesn't murderize it.

Which knowing them .....

Gee, who didn't see this coming ?
Sega Forever was always a low ball, low rent, low effort affair.
Dragging out most of the usual corpses around but this time on mobile.

It always reeked of bandwagon jumping and desperation.
If Sega cant be bothered to make an effort for it, why should we the consumers ?
Because it was free ?

@PKDuckman
Kinda glad I managed to grab the original Xbox version then.
Even if the game is piffle to begin with.

@LadyCharlie
I didn't write that mini essay just for the hell of it.
I am on @Sketcz 's side here, its the censorship I oppose too, because personally I don't give a toss about how much you can see of Mai's cleavage.

If this slides, what else will slide ?
What else is going to be censored ?
Where wil the line be drawn ?

They gonna tinker with the graphics and gameplay next ?

Or are they gonna get really dystopian and release a "sanitized"version and charge extra for the "adult" version ?

....god i hope i didn't just give them an idea.

@GravyThief
I have occasionally toyed with the idea of speedrunning.
But I couldnt do the grinding.
I don't have the patience for it.

@Tasuki @Sketcz

Social media was a mistake.

@LadyCharlie
That is not the point.
The point is that its nonsensical censorship
Ina game where two characters beat the hell out of each other which is un touched and the main Mai sprite is untouched as well.

The censorship is so small it makes you wonder what the point is, it nearly falls under the radar.

But, and this wil sound paranoid, if they are willing to censor this, what else wil they snip and nip and tuck ?
What other compromises will there be ?

That is the point, where will the line be drawn ?

( Cause personally I don't care about how much of Mai's cleavage we get to see but i do care about censorship and being silenced )

And a new Summoning Salt vid in 3 2 1.....

@GravyThief
Speedrunning is part luck, part RNG, part breaking the game , part extreme skills.
And a whole lot of grinding.

@Poodlestargenerica
Dude, rad !

@KingMike
The Amiga was massive in the UK and Germany.
Personally ive never so much as seen one, let alone used one.
They were a bit before my time.
My first console was the Megadrive II.

@Scollurio
More or less agree there.
I dont really like handheld gaming either the controls are cramped, or the screen is too small.
Or impossible to see in the case of the original GBA.

And I just prefer the console experience with screen and controller in hand.

So if they do make a GBA console I'd be interested

( that hyperkin monster doesnt count that thing is just fugly)

Honestly, I never noticed the game had frame rate issues.
But I was playing the french PAL version back in the day.

It's an uh quirky beat em up with an unusual button lay out ( up is not jump its mapped to a button)

Dunno how its reputation is but I always liked it.

As cool as they are , I am pretty sick of seeing these things.
There are so many it's hard to know what to go for.

I plan to play the fan translation on my Saturn Saroo ,err sometime this year.
Yes.

Clearly they are trying to fleece out of touch non techie boomer dads, who want some easy nostalgia and have more money then sense.

10/20
Most of that is luck, I'm not really up on my vania's

@Beetlebum91
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 used recently for the Xbox one.
After inserting the game and the xbox copying 441 mb of the contents of the disk it suddenly told me there was an update.

A 60 gig update, that replaced the entire contents of the disk .
That sort of thing is absolutely deranged.
The disc is nothing more than a dongle.

( i own the gog version of cp2077 i bougth the console version cause it was cheap and wanted to see how it did on last gen console hardware
not my ryzen 5 rtx gaming pc)

@Beetlebum91
Until you factor all the predatory DLC and micro transactions in.
It's a lot less great then.

Or that most AAA games are trashfires that need fixing day one, if they ever get fixed.

Yes, Gollum I see you slinking away !

@MetalKingShield
Sega only cares about Sonic and the Megadrive games.
It's like the rest of their legacy doesnt exist anymore.
They have gotten slightly better at it.
But Sega still has a heavy Megadrive bias.

And i am quite frankly really sick of seeing the same 16 bit corpses getting dragged around.

@845H
Yeah, I never got far either.
I can make it to the first boss and then kinda lose interest.

@BulkSlash
And thats most likely why it failed.
Whats the point in having a portable system if you can only use it on bats for half an hour ?

No matter what great games it may have had the abysmal battery life killed it

@BulkSlash
I did but it devoured them at a rate of 6 per 6 hours.
That's insane.
Eventually i got myself a power adapter but if you need to do that its not a portable anymore.

Outside of that it was alright.
But the battery issue was a big caveat though.

@Chlocean
Because it devoured batteries like nobodies business.
The best way to play for any period of time was tethering it to a power outlet negating any and all of its positives.

It could and would devour the price tag of a new game

I had Game Gear back in the day and didn't like it because it devoured batteries at a frightening rate.

@tektite_captain
Since the 90's the UK has been more of a Sega and Sony front.
More Sony Nowadays.

Disgustingly brainmeltingly wholesome.

@MondoWray
The cart slot is ....iffy, always has been.

@MondoWray
Excellent.
Happy Saturning

( i found that fighters megamix wont load though)

Cool.., i guess ?
It would be getting very cramped very fast, its like the mini Game Gears.
Cool but not very usable.

@Azuris
I meant I have the xbox retail edition.
If Limited Run is the alternative ill stick with my 20 year old retail copy.

4shared is also a pretty garbage host.

Looks like a very unhappy PII pc being forced to run the game.
But the massive leaps in quality are obvious.
This could actually be happening and not just a proof of concept.

Limited Run ?!!
There goes my interest in the physical copy.
That company glows in the dark its that toxic radioactive.

I'll stick with my 2001 Xbox copy.

@SuntannedDuck2
Genki moved in to mobile gaming.
Their last Console game was a Katamari game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Forever

If the ps1 could handle it there is no reason the DC can't.

@Azuris
More choice is never a bad thing right ?

@Angelus3K
He does adress that here
https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/docs/v30/#faq-scummvm

And DREAMM supports games that are not point and click
https://aarongiles.com/dreamm/docs/v30/

@Fallingshadow

That was 30 years ago.
Classifications and attitudes chance.

Anybody as thin skinned to get outraged over the campy opening movie is either a moral knight that decides what is right and wrong for other people.
Or somebody that doesn't get out much.

TLDR: there is much worse out there on Youtube or in modern gaming at a cursory glance.

@slider1983
I'm not picking on you or anything.

I'm just saying that somebody has to do it first and lead the pack.
And its GOG in this case.
Hopefully eventually other companies wil follow their lead.

Gog is also a subsidiary of CDprojektRED.
Whether that's reasssuring or not i leave up in the air
CDPR often feels one miss step away from collapse.
Especially after CP2077.

I'm a bit unclear about what the food talk was all about.

I don't care about a reboot or a VF6, I just want a NEW VF game.

Or better yet a Fighters Megamix 2 .

@slider1983

Somebody has to do it.
At least Gog is willing to show the rest of the industry that it can be done and hopefully others will follow there example.