Someone seriously needs to hire him a brand manager, because holy moly are the names of his products bad marketing. Which is a crying shame considering how good the products are. This feels like cognitive dissonance when he says that he wants to remove barriers, while also putting up barriers on the marketing side of things.
I did a play through of Final Fight 2 not long ago, and never really got the impression that it needed something like this. Nice for those who want to try it though.
Is it seriously called the SS One? Or am I reading that wrong? Great products, but he desperately needs a brand manager to create names for his products.
A bit of a shame that he didn't use the Japanese version of Ninja Gaiden 3, since the western release was so busted with its limited continues, increased damage, and cruel item placement.
Still, this version of the Trilogy blows away the official one from Tecmo. That version had ear piercing audio, missing effects like parallax scrolling, horrendous button mapping with no option to fix it, etc. etc.
Devil Blade Reboot is my game of the year (tied with Unicorn Overlord). Easily shmup of the year, and I've been singing its praises ever since it released!
Not surprising at all. Sega is usually pretty hands off with stuff like this, but when your project is an obvious scam, even Sega will pounce on you, and rightfully so. You do not want your brand associated with scamming people.
I've noticed the lag myself. Punch-Out is always a good test for it. On MiSTer (and on my NES back in the day), I had no problem beating Mike Tyson. On Switch though? It's waaayy harder. I've done it, but it's insane just how much more difficult it really is, and how much more you need to rely on memorization rather than reaction.
There is no saving this one. It's vaporware, and even if it does actually materialize at some point, the damage is already done. Nobody will trust them enough to actually buy in on it. I sure as heck won't.
This just keeps getting worse and worse. Genuinely stunning how bad the "marketing" has been for this disaster. I can't even tell if it's serious or not.
This game's visual style is incredible. That said, I do think it's less the game running on NES hardware, and more the game running on the modern custom cartridge and just using the NES as a pass through though. Still a really cool trick, but something like this never would have been possible on the NES back in the day with the mapper chips of the time. Which kind of makes me feel that they should have just made it for the SNES or Genesis instead to show what those console's could do. Still looks amazing regardless, and I'll definitely get it when it releases.
"ours will be the translation worth playing...No, we aren't releasing a beta now, and no, we can't make promises about when we'll finish."
This just make them sound super petty honestly. They abandoned the project for a decade. It's not surprising that someone else jumped in to get the ball rolling again, and now they're all upset about it when the other person had every right to do so, and even fully credited them for their work on the project.
Tried it out, and it's sadly pretty disappointing. The physics are wayyyy off in the game. It gets so much wrong. If you've played the original SMB a lot over the years, it's immediately off putting. Hopefully they can improve it over time.
Simply put. It was open source code. The new dev gave full credit to the original dev and translator. The original devs were silent for, and didn't update the GitHub, for a decade. There is no problem here.
I will always remember when I asked for Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse for Christmas back in the day. And then my parents mistakenly got me Final Fantasy Mystic Quest instead! Luckily we were able to return it to the store and exchange it for Magical Quest.
@ChaseIQ I wouldn't say that "many" games do not run. I can't even think of any at this point that don't? There are a few games with minor issues that remain, but outside of lightgun support, the core is indeed the best way to play Saturn at this point outside of original hardware.
I can't speak to the gameplay, but visually, I 100% agree with him. This is not Double Dragon. At all. I'll stick with the recent Double Dragon Gaiden. Now that game is awesome.
I have to say that this did not give me a good first impression. When you can die or get stuck in the mandatory tutorial stage, that's not good design. It also, probably unreasonably, bothers me that you don't squish goombas when jumping on them! They just...explode? Blasphemy!
@845H Seems like broken logic to me honestly. There are plenty of systems that can't run all emulation as well, and yet you're okay with that, but not with FPGA? My Steam Deck can't run a lot of emulation. Does that mean you should skip emulation? Of course not.
The camera work looks super awkward when going around corners in the game. It cuts off way too much of the screen in the direction of the curve, basically making it like driving blind. Definitely needs work on that front.
@Blast16 Asking for your money back would be all well and good if they actually allowed it. But they don't in most cases, and even when they do, they charge you a 15% restocking fee. The whole point of this story is that literally nobody has heard back from them for two months since this whole fiasco started. No returns. No refunds. No replacements. No news or updates on the progress (if any) on any of those things.
I'll repeat what I said on VGE's channel about this: What a lot of companies and PR teams don't understand, is that sometimes no news is still news. Just communicate. If there aren't any updates yet, then just tell us that. It's better than complete radio silence. It at least tells people that you care enough to not ghost them.
Bought my MiSTer a little more than two years ago, and it is the best retro gaming device that I have ever purchased. Easily worth every penny for me. It is rare that I go even a single day without playing something on it.
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Re: Your Next Retro Emulation Handheld Could Cost You 35% More Than Usual
That idiot is going to bury us. And every person who voted for him will deserve it.
Re: Fan-Made 3DO Port Of Mortal Kombat II Is Now Available
This turned out so well that it's literally the best home port ever made of Mortal Kombat II.
Re: Dino Crisis Spiritual Successor Code Violet Will Be Console Exclusive To Avoid "Vulgar" PC Modding
They 100% just ensured that someone will do this now by ripping the game to their PC.
Re: Nasir Gebelli, The Elusive Programming Genius Behind Final Fantasy, Thinks Coding The Games Was "Simple"
Simple for him, but the current programmers weren't able to pull off what he did. His version had smooth scrolling. The Pixel Remasters do not.
Re: Interview: Taki Udon Explains How His FPGA PS1 Aims To "Remove Barriers" To FPGA Gaming
Someone seriously needs to hire him a brand manager, because holy moly are the names of his products bad marketing. Which is a crying shame considering how good the products are. This feels like cognitive dissonance when he says that he wants to remove barriers, while also putting up barriers on the marketing side of things.
Re: This New Final Fight 2 Strength Hack Rebalances The SNES Beat 'Em Up
I did a play through of Final Fight 2 not long ago, and never really got the impression that it needed something like this. Nice for those who want to try it though.
Re: Taki Udon's Groundbreaking FPGA PS1 Gets Detailed, Pricing Starts At $149
Is it seriously called the SS One? Or am I reading that wrong? Great products, but he desperately needs a brand manager to create names for his products.
Re: Super Dimension Fortress Macross II Is Coming To Arcade Archives On Switch And PS4
Such a shame that you need a Japanese account for them. Which is something I am not willing to do.
Re: It's A Christmas Miracle, SuperSega Now Claims Sega Is Totally OK With Its FPGA Console
Christmas miracle? More like Christmas MiraLAX, because he's so full of crap.
Re: You Can Now Play SNES Batman Returns On Your Sega Genesis, For Free
So just how much of the game is actually here? Only the first stage? Half the game? Most of it?
Re: The NES Ninja Gaiden Trilogy Gets Natively Ported To SNES
A bit of a shame that he didn't use the Japanese version of Ninja Gaiden 3, since the western release was so busted with its limited continues, increased damage, and cruel item placement.
Still, this version of the Trilogy blows away the official one from Tecmo. That version had ear piercing audio, missing effects like parallax scrolling, horrendous button mapping with no option to fix it, etc. etc.
Re: Game Of The Year: UFO 50 Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Devil Blade Reboot is my game of the year (tied with Unicorn Overlord). Easily shmup of the year, and I've been singing its praises ever since it released!
Re: Review: Retro Fighters BattlerGC Pro - Time To Finally Retire Your GameCube's WaveBird
Yep, I have one of these, and it is fantastic. Easily the best wireless GCN controller I have tried out. Way better than the NYXI Warrior.
Re: Virtua Fighter 2 Is Getting A Physical Release On Xbox
Right after they pulled it from the digital storefront. Pretty scummy.
Re: Raiden Spin-Off 'Viper Phase 1' Is Finally Getting An Official Release On Consoles
When do these usually go up on PSN? It's up on Switch already, but not PSN.
Re: 'Faster' Is A Seriously Smooth New Racing Game For The Atari STE
I was able to get this running on my MiSTer a couple days ago, and it's shockingly good! Very fun little high score racer.
Re: Fan-Made Doom 64 Dreamcast Port Now The "Definitive" Version Of The Game
I'll still play the new remaster over this version any day. If only because you can actually see the game.
Re: Japanese Gamers Just Picked The 30 Best PlayStation Games Of All Time
Nice to see Shadow Hearts on the list! Also a little shocked that the Dragon Quest games aren't higher on the list.
Re: To The Shock Of Absolutely Nobody, Sega Is Trying To Shut Down The SuperSega FPGA Project
Not surprising at all. Sega is usually pretty hands off with stuff like this, but when your project is an obvious scam, even Sega will pounce on you, and rightfully so. You do not want your brand associated with scamming people.
Re: "Absolutely Horrid" - Is Nintendo Switch Online's Emulation Really That Bad?
I've noticed the lag myself. Punch-Out is always a good test for it. On MiSTer (and on my NES back in the day), I had no problem beating Mike Tyson. On Switch though? It's waaayy harder. I've done it, but it's insane just how much more difficult it really is, and how much more you need to rely on memorization rather than reaction.
Re: Yuzo Koshiro's Stunning Genesis Shmup Earthion Delayed Until 2025
It's on track, but it's taking longer than planned. XD
Anyway, the game looks beyond incredible, so no worries on the delay! Can't wait to get my hands on the game.
Re: SuperSega Explains Why It Produces Such "Crappy" Videos, Says It's Afraid Analogue Will Steal Its Ideas
There is no saving this one. It's vaporware, and even if it does actually materialize at some point, the damage is already done. Nobody will trust them enough to actually buy in on it. I sure as heck won't.
Re: SuperSega Boss Rocks Up In His Lamborghini To Beg For Your Pre-Order Cash
This just keeps getting worse and worse. Genuinely stunning how bad the "marketing" has been for this disaster. I can't even tell if it's serious or not.
Re: We Can't Quite Believe That Former Dawn Is Running On Real NES Hardware
This game's visual style is incredible. That said, I do think it's less the game running on NES hardware, and more the game running on the modern custom cartridge and just using the NES as a pass through though. Still a really cool trick, but something like this never would have been possible on the NES back in the day with the mapper chips of the time. Which kind of makes me feel that they should have just made it for the SNES or Genesis instead to show what those console's could do. Still looks amazing regardless, and I'll definitely get it when it releases.
Re: "Ours Will Be The Translation Worth Playing" - Team Behind Decade-Old Princess Crown Localisation Speak Out
"ours will be the translation worth playing...No, we aren't releasing a beta now, and no, we can't make promises about when we'll finish."
This just make them sound super petty honestly. They abandoned the project for a decade. It's not surprising that someone else jumped in to get the ball rolling again, and now they're all upset about it when the other person had every right to do so, and even fully credited them for their work on the project.
Re: Original Super Mario Bros. Gets Upgraded Game Boy Color Port, Complete With Yoshi And Wario
@Bonggon5 Of course I have. But trying to compare the differences in that game to what this project is doing is just outright disingenuous.
Re: Original Super Mario Bros. Gets Upgraded Game Boy Color Port, Complete With Yoshi And Wario
Tried it out, and it's sadly pretty disappointing. The physics are wayyyy off in the game. It gets so much wrong. If you've played the original SMB a lot over the years, it's immediately off putting. Hopefully they can improve it over time.
Re: There's Some Drama Surrounding The New Princess Crown English Patch
Simply put. It was open source code. The new dev gave full credit to the original dev and translator. The original devs were silent for, and didn't update the GitHub, for a decade. There is no problem here.
Re: Limited Run Co-Founder Claims Selling CD-Rs To Customers Was Always The Idea
Sounds a lot like some of the experiences I had at my old job. A toxic work environment like that is suffocating.
Re: The Making Of: The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, Capcom's SNES Classic
I will always remember when I asked for Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse for Christmas back in the day. And then my parents mistakenly got me Final Fantasy Mystic Quest instead! Luckily we were able to return it to the store and exchange it for Magical Quest.
Re: Dungeon Antiqua Is A New Steam RPG Inspired By Final Fantasy & Wizardry
Damn, I may have to give this one a shot! It looks awesome!
Re: Pre-Orders For FPGA N64 'Analogue 3D' Open Next Week, Will Cost $250
Looks really cool, and I have a huge N64 collection, but these days I just play N64 games on my MiSTer. It's way too convenient.
Re: MiSTer FPGA Saturn Core Now The "Most Accurate" Way To Play Outside Of Real Hardware
@ChaseIQ I wouldn't say that "many" games do not run. I can't even think of any at this point that don't? There are a few games with minor issues that remain, but outside of lightgun support, the core is indeed the best way to play Saturn at this point outside of original hardware.
Re: Visegunne Is A Gorgeous-Looking Mecha Shmup That's Coming To Steam Soon
A little worried about the size of the player character in this game? That's really huge for a shmup. What is the hitbox on it?
Re: Anniversary: The Best Burnout Turns 20 This Month
Nah man, Burnout Revenge will always be the best Burnout game. Especially the Xbox 360 version. That game is absolutely perfect!
Re: Double Dragon Artist Says Double Dragon Revive Is "Cheap" And "Shows No Respect" To The Series
I can't speak to the gameplay, but visually, I 100% agree with him. This is not Double Dragon. At all. I'll stick with the recent Double Dragon Gaiden. Now that game is awesome.
Re: 20 Years In The Making, Mario Adventure 3 Is The Ultimate Mario 3 ROM Hack
I have to say that this did not give me a good first impression. When you can die or get stuck in the mandatory tutorial stage, that's not good design. It also, probably unreasonably, bothers me that you don't squish goombas when jumping on them! They just...explode? Blasphemy!
Re: "I Am Tired Of Receiving Death Threats Over A Video Game" - FPGA Dev Explains Why Mortal Kombat Is Skipping MiSTer
@845H Seems like broken logic to me honestly. There are plenty of systems that can't run all emulation as well, and yet you're okay with that, but not with FPGA? My Steam Deck can't run a lot of emulation. Does that mean you should skip emulation? Of course not.
Re: 'Utopia Must Fall' Is A Stylish Vector-Based Shooter Inspired By Missile Command
I need to wait for controller support on this one. I cannot play games with a keyboard and mouse due to disability issues. But man, it looks so good!
Re: Think PS5 Pro Is Too Much At $700? The 3DO Would Like A Word
@carlos82 You're not wrong! Exactly one game at launch! Good old Crash'n Burn.
Re: Random: Some People Don't Seem To Realise Ryu And Terry Bogard Share The Same Creator
Terry has always been the face of SNK in my opinion. I like Kyo, but he never replaced Terry for me.
Re: Sonic CD Has Been Ported To The Sega Genesis
Always loved this game. One of my favorite games in the series.
Beyond Sonic CD, I also always loved Snatcher and the two Lunar games on Sega CD!
Re: The SNES Has Just Got Its Own (Unofficial) Super Mario Bros. Maker
Sadly, it doesn't work on MiSTer. It just glitches out when booting it up.
Re: Interview: "Wizardry Just Had A Kind Of Soul" - How Digital Eclipse Brought The RPG Classic Into The Modern-Age
I had a ton of fun playing through this earlier this year.
Re: The Ill-Fated Philips CD-i Is Getting Its Own MiSTer FPGA Core
But what about my beloved 3DO!? ;_;
Re: Interview: "A Relic From A Past That Never Was" - How Stories From Sol - The Gun-Dog Emulates The Golden Days Of The PC-98
Pretty bummed by the GB green color pallet. That's not what I think of when I think of PC-98. If it had full color, I'd jump on this one immediately.
Re: Final Fight MD Dev Working On 'Driftin' Rage', A New 16-Bit Racer For Mega Drive/Genesis
The camera work looks super awkward when going around corners in the game. It cuts off way too much of the screen in the direction of the curve, basically making it like driving blind. Definitely needs work on that front.
Re: Two Months After Shipping CD-Rs To Customers, Limited Run Games Still Hasn't Issued Replacements
@Blast16 Asking for your money back would be all well and good if they actually allowed it. But they don't in most cases, and even when they do, they charge you a 15% restocking fee. The whole point of this story is that literally nobody has heard back from them for two months since this whole fiasco started. No returns. No refunds. No replacements. No news or updates on the progress (if any) on any of those things.
I'll repeat what I said on VGE's channel about this:
What a lot of companies and PR teams don't understand, is that sometimes no news is still news. Just communicate. If there aren't any updates yet, then just tell us that. It's better than complete radio silence. It at least tells people that you care enough to not ghost them.
Re: Review: MiSTer FPGA - Still The Best Option For Hardcore Retro Gamers In 2024?
Bought my MiSTer a little more than two years ago, and it is the best retro gaming device that I have ever purchased. Easily worth every penny for me. It is rare that I go even a single day without playing something on it.
Re: HD Remake Of Genesis Zelda Rival 'Soleil / Crusader Of Centy' Gets A Demo This Month
I hate to be one of those people, but honestly I think the original looks better.