MegaManFan

You can't rage against the machine when you use it to design your own.

Let's see, I've got a Playdate coming in the mail... you're teasing me with a Sam & Max game for it... OF COURSE I WANT THIS TO HAPPEN. ^_^

@MontyCircus After all these years someone finally finished the joke for me. Mad respect! And yes I'm all up in the game n s**t, inebriated, strayed from Light's original plan, I deviated.

Should I have to say I can't wait to pre-order it?

As Pharoahe Monch once said, "Y'ALL KNOW THE NAME!"

@Guru_Larry My sentiments exactly. This is a dead IP and they're mining for a nostalgia that doesn't exist.

My one and only gripe about this system is that I wanted the translucent blue and it was sold out before I could place an order. Other than that every bit of news that drips out here or through Pixel Cherry Ninja makes me smile!

@avcrypt That's just plain foolish on their part then. I'd prefer to see people pay for the game, I think it's worth it, but they can't be surprised at this outcome. Perhaps they should have waited to sell it that way until the Genesis cart was out or secured it in a better way than this. **shrug**

I'm not saying it's right that the game got pirated — far from it — but if they left a unencrypted rom inside the Steam folder, and simply sold it with an emulation layer to use on Steam, exactly what did they expect would happen? Are they actually that naive?

I understand why some backers might be chuffed, but giving money to a Kickstarter is always a risk, and giving it to someone to run a barcade in the current economic climate is riskier still. I'm not excusing any lack of transparency on Peter's part, but I think some people assumed too much and reviewed the idea too little before handing money to someone they like on YouTube — then took it personally that it didn't work out. No matter how you feel about it attacking him or his family or threatening him over it is unacceptable and vile.

I'd be lying if I said this shocked me because this was in the back of my head from the beginning. At this point I'm happier buying things that are branded "C64" which carry the spiritual ethos of the platform without the messy trademark baggage.

I bought their last game and follow them on social media so suffice it to say I'm a fan and happy to see the progress on this release!

If I'm being honest the signal-to-noise ratio on anything Palmer is associated with has become tiresome. That's in no way an endorsement of his war profiteering, but I almost think it's a known quantity at this point, much like Elon Musk being a right wing fascist corpo schmuck. People who buy a Telsa know who they are dealing with. Same for ModRetro. There's no such thing as ethical capitalism in the end anyway, just less or more skin crawling, and they are both on the "give me hives" end but it is what it is they've gamed the algorithm to keep people talking good or bad.

Well this has gone places hasn't it? First we rally behind him for the Italian government overstepping their bounds, then we learn the guy was himself selling off his handhelds with roms loaded on them. Brother you're a lot closer to the doorstep of La Polizia than China is, so you brought that one on yourself. I don't think anybody should sell something pre-loaded with roms, but they clearly aren't going to China to haul Anbernic executives back to Italy to face charges, and good luck even trying. He made himself an easy target.

@ShawnsterOZ There's a custom core that you can run it on in Arch, and by Pixel Cherry Ninja's account, it is 100% complete-able even though it occasionally crashes. I'm sure those bugs can be ironed out with time.

Every seller other than Funstock was sold out when I read this, but I took the plunge despite having to pay for international shipping... and it already shipped so I think it's worth it. Perhaps the timing was good since I just got a Neo Geo CD console in the last month, so this is the right time to hit me in the feels.

I first learned of his passing this morning from DJ Slope and my heart broke. Hopefully there's a "legacy feature" on YouTube so his content can remain up without somebody hacking it and replacing it with crypto crap. There are a lot of great documentaries there to watch. RIP Pat.

I reviewed this game five years ago and confidently stated (due to the high resale price) "I will never own this one and you will never own this one." I'm glad there's now an affordable and quality made version!

"Secondhand market" is code for "I will never be able to afford these Metall figures at eBay scalper prices" which is why I hate SDCC exclusives.

I live in the Midwest where the game is played at every tailgate and even here someone will snicker when the word CORNHOLE is said just because of the anatomical implications. I realize "Bean Bag Toss" would sell nothing to no one but CORNHOLE is an objectively bad name for a game, especially given the "family friendly" pitch they made from the start.

I hope at some point there's an iPhone app for emulating keitai games as that seems like the perfect way to play them (though I'd settle for Android).

I'd shell out for a set and I don't even have a Barcode Battler — I just think they look cool AF. I know a certain video game author who would too.

I realize if I had a 3D printer I could "download" and recreate these toys, but I have neither the space nor the budget for one, and even if both were not a limitation I still wouldn't do it? It's not a rabbit hole I'd go down. Now if someone offered full printed sets for sale, that would be my jam, but I'm sure Nintendo ninjas would stomp that like a Goomba.

I never got to watch Bandersnatch before it was delisted, but I've seen the doc referenced here, and I'm glad it has been preserved for more people to watch. I don't blame Imagine for dreaming big (it's built into their name) but it's still unintentionally hilarious to see them gamble on something beyond their ability to deliver and double down despite rushing head long into a brick wall.

$80 for a Blu-Ray? No thanks, Samuel!

Arbitrary expiration dates on games **** me off. I would have happily kept playing Mario 35 offline against CPU opponents. Taking away something you enjoy for no reason other than "limited time only" is bull****.

All's well that ends well - I'm happy Daniel got his channel back and also happy he's going to stop covering Alejandro. As he said in his thank you video, the guy is a mess and needs help, and putting a spotlight and attention on him for every crazy thing he says or does only gives him what he wants. SuperSega or SuperFPGA or whatever he calls it these days is never going to happen.

@mjparker77 Funny thing about AtariAge - I've known Al since way back and I contacted him privately about some of the wildly inaccurate and straight up slanderous things Tallarico was saying in the forums. Eventually it did get cleaned up but I think he too was trying to give Tommy the benefit of the doubt. The only good thing to come from that whole mess was the "gaming racists" meme — easily the funniest in a long string of dumb things Tommy said!

PS: Actually now that I think about it HBomberguy's "oof" documentary is TRULY the best thing to come out of the Amico. Still funny even today!

@mjparker77 Still a decent channel. His follow up videos about the Amico saga exposed the grift for what it was, and he admitted his own fault in giving Tommy the benefit of the doubt. Honestly any of us of a certain age did. I meet him at a con back in the 00's and he autographed a CD. These days I look at the thing and it makes me laugh but none of us knew how big of a con man Tommy would become. Even the guys who would turn out to be his biggest critics, Pat and Ian, were cautiously optimistic about the idea of a home console for the modern era with Intellivision's legacy. He burned a lot of people and a lot of content creators, not just DJ Slope.

I love that he gave it a go but it's incredibly hard for any arcade to stay open. One of my favorites in Aberdeen (South Dakota not Scotland) shutters for the summer months because they don't have enough people coming in. I can't blame them as the cost of electricity let alone rent would eat you alive. I patronize them every chance I get though as they have a working Baby Pac-Man and that's so rare to see!

I just got a new pad in the mail last week - no issues with it. I have replaced the battery on one of my older units though.

Has anybody done a video tutorial for how to set this up on a Steam Deck for a numbn**ts dumba** like me? I suck at doing anything in Linux that's not powered by a proprietary OS laid on top.

@SegaAges Indeed it is! If we want to go even further down the alternate history rabbit hole consider this — what if Atari had accepted Nintendo's offer to be their distributor for the Famicom? Atari might be the biggest video game company in the world now instead of a serious of divestitures, rebrands, spinoffs, sales, and now something so far removed from Sunnyvale they can't really be called Atari any more — except that they sell us back that childhood nostalgia any way they can (which I don't mind - it's better than them running cryptocoin scams and sleazy hotels).

The sales of these reissues have been horribly botched. Amazon sells out instantly each time they get stock and the only listings you can find are resellers who tripled the price. PlayAsia oversold their allotment and cancelled orders. VideoGamesPlus are my last, best, and only hope to not get reamed.

My favorite twist of video game history is that Nintendo's greatest rival was Sega, Nintendo screwed over Sony, and out of spite Sony launched their own console... which destroyed Nintendo's greatest rival Sega. Okay — it nearly destroyed them too... and Microsoft piled on to make the situation even more dire, then the DS and the Wii rocketed them right back to juggernaut status. Gaming history is wild.

In the words of Thomas Griffin, "Whyyyyyy?"

Even bad games in the 80's or 90's felt like they had an auteur with a vision. Sometimes their ambitions exceeded their talents and/or what a console could do but you'd at least get a sense this was their idea. When you play a game today and the first thing you see is "checking for DLC content" you know it's not an artistic choice, it's a corporate/management choice. It doesn't automatically mean old games are great and new games are *****, but it does suck the soul out of the experience.

@smoreon Well, that answers my question.

Isn't a decompilation of an incomplete game putting the cart ahead of the horse? Perhaps that's a lack of knowledge about what this would achieve on my part.

Where and how do we play the store's game? I'd go to York and ask in person... but I live nowhere near York... or even NEW York. (Nebraska. The flyover state.)

I always love when games expire due to "various circumstances" that actually amount to "we can't make infinite profit from it so we're shelving this."

@GravyThief Because if you don't live in the US, it's not going through San Diego to you. It's going through whatever shipping service is in your country. It's not going China > San Diego > Melbourne. It's going China > Sydney > Melbourne. Nobody outside the US is getting hit with the tariffs.

@StanSpam That all depends on what the board and the shareholders want.

@GravyThief If it went from China directly to me, either the company selling it to me would have to pay the tariff, or I would have to pay it as a surcharge to cover them being charged for it. So yeah if you buy anything electronic made in China right now it's automatically 145% more no matter what.

@StanSpam Mike Chi has them assembled overseas, and I know because each time I've bought one, DHL has to clear it through customs and it shows on my tracking before it gets routed to me. So yes - China to San Diego - then to the customer. If Mike is paying 145% more to bring them in, I can't blame him if he has to charge 145% more to keep his margin. He's not going to sell his product at a huge loss to keep us happy. I think he wants to suspend orders until the tariff issue is resolved so he doesn't have to raise prices on an already premium item.

@GravyThief Because the tariff is levied based on where the item is coming from and where it is going to. If you live in Australia and you don't have a stupid orange goon in charge, their country isn't going to slap a tariff on a Switch 2 or a RetroTINK manufactured in China. This is also why we can't game the system by assembling these things in the United States, because the tariff would still apply to the PARTS used to manufacture these things, so if you import the parts you're still paying 145% more for them.

If anybody harasses a retro game developer who published through ModRetro because of their issues with Palmer, politely kiss my backside, because you're going after the wrong people and doing all retro enthusiasts a disservice. Harassing people isn't cool period. We can talk about Palmer's problematic history, beliefs and actions without throwing people making good games under the bus anyway.

Amazing. No other words, just amazing.

Given its April 1st I'm always inclined to be skeptical but with only a cursory knowledge of how a CPU works that schematic in the link looked solid and was last updated well before April's foolishness, so here's hoping FPGA can indeed be a viable replacement for old SNES CPUs that have gone tits up.

If the person who had that prototype a decade or more ago ever sold it, the buyer should do the community a solid and dump it. If not the original owner should at the very least let a trusted preservation source do it so we don't lose it to bitrot and it can be made available at a later date of their choosing.

Arthrimus is absolutely right. This also goes out to people who harass FPGA core developers and emulator authors as well - you are doing a disservice to us all. You are ruining the scene and killing the very thing you think you love. Stop it.