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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.

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.

@Bonggon5 Of course I have. But trying to compare the differences in that game to what this project is doing is just outright disingenuous.

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.

Sounds a lot like some of the experiences I had at my old job. A toxic work environment like that is suffocating.

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.

Damn, I may have to give this one a shot! It looks awesome!

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.

@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.

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?

Nah man, Burnout Revenge will always be the best Burnout game. Especially the Xbox 360 version. That game is absolutely perfect!

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.

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!

@carlos82 You're not wrong! Exactly one game at launch! Good old Crash'n Burn.

Terry has always been the face of SNK in my opinion. I like Kyo, but he never replaced Terry for me.

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!

Sadly, it doesn't work on MiSTer. It just glitches out when booting it up.

I had a ton of fun playing through this earlier this year.

But what about my beloved 3DO!? ;_;

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.

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.

I hate to be one of those people, but honestly I think the original looks better.

Copied? No. Inspired by? Maybe.

I'll never understand the desire to translate knowingly bad games over actual good games that still don't have translations. Like why on earth does something like Princess Crown still not have a translation, but then a dumpster fire like this game does? For me, there is no such thing as "so bad, it's good". If it's bad, it's just bad.

It continues to look incredible! Can't wait for this one.

Been following this one for a long time. The developer posts updates daily on Twitter. He definitely gets stressed out a lot, but his heart is in the right place with this one. Hope it turns out well (and hope it runs great on Steam Deck)!

Also tried the SNES demo, and the first thing I immediately noticed is that the attack and jumps buttons are mapped wrong. On SNES, those are always the Y and B buttons. But they're mapped to B and A here, which is absolutely bizarre and awkward.

I just wish that the map view wasn't so limited! You can barely see anything when looking at the map, and as far as I can tell, you can't scroll the map to see other parts of it that you've traversed. It's practically useless as it is.

I got my 3DS on launch day, and in all the years since, I never once received a legitimate random street pass. The only street pass I ever received was one that was intentional from a store kiosk I visited! I understand why the feature was removed since it was mostly only useful if you lived in a busy city area.

What are those giant button looking things? Are they spinners?

This is one of the few infamously bad games that actually deserves its reputation. It really is that bad!

Interesting, I've never heard of this one. I'll have to check it out!

This game is incredible! Bought it as soon as it went live on Steam. I've done 7 runs through the game so far, and I've loved every minute of it.

I remember playing the demo for this game on my 3DO back in the day. I was really looking forward to it at the time, but once I played it, my interest died almost immediately. It just didn't feel good to play. The jump physics in particular feel so busted!

I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid, and I looooved it at the time. Video games were my life back then, so seeing a movie all about them, and then seeing SMB3 at the end blew my mind!

The Saturn is my favorite console of its generation. I still have my original Saturn console and some of my favorite games of the generation on it (Dragon Force)!

If you have the money to spend on it, FPGA is absolutely the way to go for systems that are supported by it. If I want to play SNES games, my MiSTer or Analogue Pocket are always going to be my go–to devices for it. I will never play those games on Nintendo Switch Online for example.

But for later consoles like the Gamecube and PS2, software emulation is not only the way to go, but really the only option outside of original hardware! That said, it's not perfect either. I was trying to play Ace Combat 4 for example last year on software emulation, and while the game was playable, it had severe issues. But then you have stuff like F-Zero GX on the Gamecube that played perfectly on software emulation! It really all depends on the game.

I was worried for a moment there that it wasn't compatible with Switch! Should probably add that to the title!

I tried this out yesterday, and while it is very cool to see a translation for this game, I have to admit that in practice, much of it feels pointless. I can't read the translated subtitles when I need to focus on the notes at the bottom of the screen. The only real way to translate a game like this is to provide translated voice acting/music as well. It reminds me of the story mode DLC in Sol Cresta. It's entirely voiced in japanese, so you can't even read the subtitles when you're focused on actually playing a shmup.

The first arcade machine that they need to boot up and play when they reopen should be Altered Beast. Rise from your grave!

All I'll say is that I love all FPGA platforms, and that I love the work everyone is doing on them to preserve classic games and hardware. Love it!

I also just worked directly with srg320 to get Shining Force III working properly on the MiSTer Saturn core, and he was an absolute pleasure to work with. Amazing job by him and everyone else in the community who help make these platforms what they are.

@RetroGames Honestly, I think it's more that the game is already available on so many other retro platforms that it's been covered enough by now. It's just not that exciting that there's a SNES version of Xenocrisis at this point. Great game, but it's been covered plenty of times already.