MegaManFan

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!

@Lorfarius I don't really trust FB Marketplace but I get your drift.

I'm a wh*re for Analogue products so naturally I pre-ordered. Nice to see there's still stock though over an hour later.

@El_Murcielago Unfortunately for me I'm in the Apple family tree. I have access to one Windows laptop but I've only used it one time to update anything (a RetroTINK) and it was so slow that it was a nightmare (it's like 10+ years old).

@N64-ROX Precisely!

I really think this is a bad idea. Not just because Japan is a legal quandary when it comes to emulation, not just because Nintendo is especially litigious right now, but because you made a niche product for a purpose - a MSX for MSX fans. I don't know how big that market base is, but if they wanted to play Famicom, Atari and PC Engine there are a zillion options for that already.

@Fallingshadow All in all it sounds like I"m better off not updating the firmware on the Capcom or the Taito one and just living with the fact some games don't work.

Did they ever release a way to update the firmware on the last two Super Pockets using MacOS? There were some incompatible games but last I knew you could only update them with Windows, which makes it a hard sell to buy any more.

I like the look of it so far. If the collision detection is good, the controls are nicely balanced, and there's a banger chiptune soundtrack, we have a winner here. That's a whole lot of "ifs" but he's got a good start from the demo footage.

I voted "I'm not sure" because you almost said how I feel but not quite. I don't take exception to people being nostalgic for things I am not; after all, I'm nostalgic for Red Dwarf and Doctor Who and that makes me an outlier to many other people. What I find bothersome is the tendency to remaster or re-release things that were million sellers at launch and still widely available in thrifts and retro stores today. Why buy a new copy for more? Why make more plastic than needs to exist? Nobody asked for the NES, GameBoy and N64 Star Wars games to get reprints from LRG, but they did anyway.

Translation or not, I like it when these obscure games get loving ports so they can be enjoyed by modern gamers who don't have the vintage hardware & software. That's a huge win!

Rockman Cosmo is a hero in my eyes. So many Capcom (and obviously for me Rockman) games would have been lost to time without his efforts!

This one seems ripe for a licensing deal to put the full expanded game on a cartridge. Retro Bit or LRG, get to work.

The gameplay looks intriguing. The flight patterns of the enemies in the alternating ways are just erratic enough to keep you on your toes!

If I had lottery money sure why not... but I don't and never will.

As much as I enjoy Nintendo's games, consoles and IPs, the way they treat content creators like Russ or Bob (Wulff Den) leaves an incredibly sour taste in my mouth. Whether they like it or not, emulators and emulation devices are not a crime, and throwing around YouTube copyright strikes won't make either of those things go away.

There aren't any satisfactory answers here. Unless you could buy back the rights to the IP from Square Enix to release it yourself, you have to live with (ridiculous) compromises, and even if you could would you have the money and resources to remaster it and release to the masses? They have to live with it, we have to live with it, and it's either that or just play the original un-remastered game. I'm pretty sure there were compromises even then though. You can say "Japan is more permissive" but there are limits there too and I'm sure there was plenty left on the cutting room floor for either being too expansive, too hard to fit in, or too salacious. The only way to make an artistically pure vision is to be a studio of one.

@StyrofoamCup Hopefully not for a boss that makes you go to the office store for paper clips. Just order them on Amazon, geez.

I don't mind waiting. Let the patrons sort out the bugs in beta, it's all good.

The only way we'll know for sure is if they issue a statement saying they did their own re-translation and didn't use the WD one. I'm okay with it if they didn't... but I'm more excited if they did.

Burnout Revenge is clearly the best one. It's the only one that's worth hanging out with your landlord, smoking weed and filling your belly with diet soda for.

TIL there was a Japanese exclusive sequel to Bosconian, and that it looks like a lot of fun, and that it's coming out tomorrow. Today IS a good day!!