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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.

Funnily I have a copy of A-VCS-tec Challenge that I've never opened, which I can only assume from the similarity of the cover art, is a port of the game seen here.

I love everything about this except having to wait until August to play III/3.

Okay... no. I don't care if it looks cool (to me it doesn't) the artwork isn't worth a $220 markup. The whole point of a Miyoo Mini is to put it in your pocket and take it with you. For $300 are you even willing to do that knowing all that fancy art you paid for could get scratched up? No. Just NO. This is for people with too much money and not enough brain cells.

I'm a fan of history in general, and video game history in particular, and in either case it bothers me if the story being told is incomplete or inaccurate. It bothers me MORE when that botched history is widely disseminated and something that's incorrect seemingly becomes commonplace knowledge. I can do better, we all can do better, and every scene that had a computer/console with someone to program it has a part in the story no matter where on the globe they were.

@PZT lol no Time Extension didn't do it. I was just playing it safe like Zaphod.

If they finished this game I'd actually buy it - but then again if they finished this game it wouldn't be an infamous meme. Catch 22!

@city952 I suppose we'd have to know who Timothy is to get that reference, but I've been watching Daniel for years and I don't find him grating at all.

@PZT These days you never know who would ban you for using the H word, so I was erring on the side of caution. After all I like it around here.

Heck yeah dude. I loved this video and really appreciated you shouting out the other content creators who have been keeping tabs on Alejandro. Well done!

@slider1983 I concur. It was entirely our own phenomenon but I'm entirely happy to bash our own media for making us think "the crash" was something that almost killed the market globally. Example - we've been told many times that the market was so sour on gaming that Japan "had to disguise Nintendo as an electronic toy" by packing it with Rob the Robot, without bothering to explain that Famicom was already successful there and Rob was an existing add-on for a well received product. (Coincidentally this is why many NES copies of Gyromite are Famicom carts with an adapter inside.)

That's now the third one that I know of — I was shown a prototype at Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas a quarter century ago. The Sony employee told me had literally saved it from a scrap pile meant to be recycled. It's possible though that's the same unit that eventually ended up in Ben Heck's video.

30 years ago I would have been guilty of the sin of thinking "our" video game market crash was the worldwide standard. Thankfully though the rise of the internet while I was in college expanded my knowledge and made me aware that Japan never imploded and Europe had affordable tape media compared to the expensive carts and consoles I was familiar with. Once you learn to say "zed ex" there's no going back to thinking the US crash reflects anything other than one solitary oversaturated market.

@djslope Even better! Let's go.

If you h*** a PS3 you can play it for free, but anyway, I prefer Space Invaders Extreme myself.

I really enjoy Slope's Game Room and Daniel (from only a surface level of interaction on "X" fka Twitter) seems like a really nice guy, so I look forward to seeing him blow the lid off Alejandro and the SuperSega in a nice hour long video.

I gotta admit if this had been on Genesis back in the day people would've been pumped. Excellent work!

I would definitely get Time Gal on Steam. It's probably better than the Sega CD version and certainly less expensive ($150 last time I looked).

If anybody from the original AKI decides to challenge (or in legal terms "oppose") their trademark registrations, it's dead in the water. I've seen this kind of thing happen before and it isn't accidental. Many people tried to use the Commodore brand name by claiming Commodore was dead and their trademark to a product with the Commodore brand on it was proof of their "ownership" but that didn't amount to a hill of beans in the end and most were just cheap dropship garbage.

So as someone who follows/covers pro wrestling, having Jeff Jarrett on your advisory board only makes sense if you're hoping for a tiny iota of name recognition. MJF once quipped "Jeff Jarrett is the last face you see before your company dies" and while it was a line to get heat there's a kernel of truth to it. WCW wasn't on him, but TNA was and if Panda Energy hadn't thrown him a lifeline it was doomed, and Global Force Wrestling was such a joke he actually started hawking GLOBAL FORCE GOLD with late night infomercials. He could advise them what +not+ to do to run a business. Maybe.

Sourcing roms should always be left to the end user. When it's provided at the manufacturer level (via SD card or a firmware plug-in) the seller is removing any doubt the contents are backups of software you own and flipping a double bird in the face of IP holders. Bold move, but dangerous.

It seems like these sort of lazy mistakes are becoming endemic with publishers like LRG and Retro Bit, and when they get called on the carpet for it they always say "We trusted someone we shouldn't have and we apologize." Okay, but... a little time and effort to QA things and make sure you did it right in the first place would've prevented having to apologize (or manufacture replacement items) later.

@romanista No way to go wrong then! Just need to pull the trigger (or turn the crank).

@HoyeBoye Might finally be time to get one then. The homebrew community has made some really nice games and at this point I think that value exceeds the initial investment. I was skeptical about the non-backlit screen too but the reviews I've seen suggest it's brighter than you'd think.

What's it like getting a Playdate these days? Every time I've thought about ordering one through the website, I've heard horror stories of people waiting 6 months to a year for fulfillment. Judging by the way people bid on "in hand available" units on eBay, I fear this is true.

This is exactly the kind of niche I'm in! I can't wait to buy some new cards for this old thing to swipe.

This is a FANTASTIC modern update. Love it!

At first I thought I must be one of those unlucky sods with a "mixed mode" as I can't get an IP address even though I got ARK4 installed. Once I entered my IP and subnet mask manually along with some DNS servers (try Google, it's all 8's like Stanley Parable) it worked!

This is exactly what I was talking about in the comments of the "save state preservation" article. Entitled fans abuse developer, developer quits. At some point the toxic culture has to end or none of us will ever have nice things any more. Nobody will want to make anything when they just get harassed for it.

@manksalot True but the one seller I could find with SD2PSX units (linked in Macho Nacho's video) is out of stock and either doesn't respond to emails or his web form is broken and he doesn't get them. Either way MemCard Pro 2 is much easier to acquire at this point in time.

This actually got me to crack open my MemCard Pro 2, which had been gathering mothballs for a while, and holy smeg is this awesome. The only bad experience I had was setting it up, because a lot of the Free McBoot MCD files online were just pure garbage. It was easier for me to use a Free McBoot to make a Free McBoot (IYKYK) and put it directly onto my MCP2's first saved page. It was off to the races after that!

To steal a quote from Sean Seanson, "you love to see it."

This is a really good guy doing a really good thing, and I hope the community remembers that and doesn't harass him when (insert random thing) doesn't work the way they expect. Too many good people have been driven off that way.

Came to congratulate VGHF, leaving after seeing the conversation devolve into a debate about racism on social media. Oh well.

The more games that get localized, the better I say. Hear hear!

While this post does correctly state Voultar's point, it leaves out that he mentioned "bad faith" on the part of the person who claimed Nintendo's parts were defective. He's trying to sell something Voultar made by making Nintendo sound bad and make a profit from overstating the issue.

If anybody ever made an index of those three hour long credits, I'd like to look up what number I was as a backer. I'm not patient enough to sit through the whole thing and I've never found a full list anywhere. I got all the rewards I was promised, though they trickled in verrrrrrrry slowwwwwly, and for all the hype it had when the Kickstarter was launched the game is very "mid." The marketing was the nail in the coffin (see OldManHermit's comment) for this game.

I like them, I like what they are doing, and yet I still feel obligated to make a vaguely snarky remark. "Developers! Let us license your intellectual property and profit from it! We'll give you ten cents and keep 90 for ourselves!"

That is without a doubt the fakest, most BS letter I have ever seen. It's comedy to give oxygen to these con artists and dunk on them, but the mere act of talking about them keeps their grift going. As long as their name is still out there they can find more suckers to con. Will you stop covering them though? No.

@no_donatello It was only a few dollars up front, but when they announced the project was going ahead, everybody got billed for the full amount - which they always had the ability to do and everyone was warned they could do it.

I hope everybody gets those refunds but I have my doubts.

I'll say it if no one else will:

"OHHH EWE-BE-SOFT!!!"

This seems unnecessarily messy. I'm going to be honest — as a fan of Lunar (to the point I've bought it four times over now) I'm not chuffed if the original voice acting isn't in the modern version. 90% of the RPGs that I'm nostalgic for had no voice acting in them AT ALL and whatever voice you heard for the characters was entirely in your head. Put whoever on it saying whatever. If you like it buy it if you don't then don't.

The Shadow game will get more attention but the OutRun game is far more impressive.

I'm willing to support it just for Alien vs. Predator.

That order page makes no mention of a box, just a manual and cartridge sleeve. Also cheers to the Dalek above me!