MegaManFan

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!

And so close to Palmer you can smell the stank coming off it.

Free is free and they're both classics so good on ya Epic. You already have kajillions in the bank so it's not hurting your margins one bit to do something nice. In fact keep it up because this sort of thing generates goodwill. It wouldn't completely absolve you of Commander Sterling-esque "Triple AYYYY" sins but if it makes us happy it can't be that bad...

So cool they have been publicly released. Not the most exciting games imaginable but hey I'm in favor of ANYTHING from the Sega Channel that can be preserved and/or made playable since I never had a chance to in its own time.

So... Metal Gear anyone?

It would be interesting to see Nintendo officially license this, but the more likely scenario is they shut it down and it disappears, which is a shame for everyone.

I'm at a crossroads on this one. I own a Nuon and I actually want to buy it but the one Nuon adapter that gives me any hope of playing it wirelessly (Nuon to SNES) has been sold out and not restocked. I haven't bought the game because I can't buy the adapter.

Surprised this hasn't happened to Retro Game Corps too.

You say to visit the Le Monde article to see a picture from the game, but that picture is paywalled and inaccessible.

Drives a Lamborghini to show off a fake prototype in a poorly shot video, but also they're "not rich people." Scammers, 100%. They already billed people and took their money.

Remember when you could pre-order a Polymega from Walmart? And then it got delayed? And delayed again? And delayed a third time? And then it all got cancelled and they told you to pre-order from them directly? And then got delayed, and got ... you get the idea. I got my money back and left them alone a long time ago. The preview consoles that were sent to influencers looked good, and the features seemed nice, but you're better off building a MiSTer for less money than they charge IMHO.

@Azuris I do have an 8BitDo with a dongle I use with my Steam Deck, so I'll give that one a go. Thanks!

I pre-ordered the Mega Man version (you're shocked, I know) and my only real concern is whether or not I'll be able to set this on a table and sit a comfortable distance away with a wireless controller. Despite advertising "compatibility" as a feature, I've found that never worked out on the Evercade Vs, as no USB A controller other than theirs ever functioned for me (dongle/wireless OR wired).

The Follins made some of my favorite video game music of all time. So great to see this has been preserved!

Watching the execution of the skip was a bit mind boggling. You have to constantly force the game to load new areas of the map, then glitch those maps by getting off your Chocobo in the ocean, then rotate clockwise or counter clockwise 360 degrees, and you have to do all of these things in a very specific order. And... it's a hacked copy of the game with encounters turned off... so it's not even a viable skip unless somebody finds a way to glitch encounters too.

It's not just the algorithm that's changed - it's the financial viability of having an entire team of people working for one channel. Unless you have a secondary source of Patreon sponsorship that's quite large (see Second Wind) you can't afford a team by relying on Google ad money. That's why a lot of video game channels are just one person doing everything - like GameSack.

Sure, if I had $35,000, I'd be all over it. Unfortunately, I do not. I own exactly one animation cel from a video game (it won't be hard to guess which one) because the owner was actually willing to part out the lot and sell a few individually.

The Boys From the Dwarf (and smegheads like me) approve!

Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor!