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Like a cutesy Turrican

@-wc- yes for many of us Japan has long been the Vatican of video games

@-wc- life force/salamander origins would have been a better package. Maybe throwing in the brand Gradius doubles the sales and sets up an easy collector’s edition. They could have made a pitch for a narrower focus, because whether it’s Gradius or something else the genre remains a niche

Will have to play Salamander 3 for sure, definitely at some point

Untraceable rights holder after passing through multiple corporate accounts.. sounds like it’s reasonable to consider any reproduction as fair use. Legal risk is probably extremely low

Wherever the true influence lies, I definitely bought it back then as a Final Fantasy clone and loved it for it, lol

I’m a bigger SoR1 fan myself but very much looking forward to the playthrough of a new Ancient title

Nice insights and commentary

Was happy to preorder this. It’s shaping up to be just a long held dream of mine as far as little game consoles go

I like the idea of this. I know popular opinion is that concave stick caps are better, but I very much prefer the concave style of the PS DS controllers. Even Nintendo since GameCube has gone with slight convex sticks

@aaronjmill dang. I never ended up buying the pocket but that converter was the main pull in my interest in analogue products. That’s a real frustration and terrible servicing from that business

Looks interesting but pretty busy with the effects occluding the action from what was shown

Now that’s an interesting looking sonic clone, at long last..

Crazy, looks like Christmas lights

Acclaim was known best for licensed/sport games, I feel? Do they even know what their notable original properties are? lol

Love the “imagine if” age of gaming we live in these days

If my SNES goes supernova I’m not replacing it. All these old consoles are on borrowed time now and while it’s nice to turn them on still, it’s now 10 years later from when I was first buying everdrives for them and I don’t have that sense of reliability about them any longer

Kind of like the 2DS but without the casing creating a divide

Like playing games on a giant tooth. Truxton can perform a root canal

I’m wondering if that chromatic one will get a second edition, maybe just a plastic budget version, would be nice

Algorithmic images have become an inescapable blight in every quarter. It’s really depressing on multiple fronts. Coming from well financed companies is no shocker but it’s also the least excusable

Nice to read the positive experiences in the industry

Pretty impressive and rare transfer within the games industry

There you go, it flips in more ways than one

Before a lot of these retro games businesses got going you had China-made bootleg reproductions that have been around for a long time, long enough that a good amount has found its way into a lot of places here overseas. With the retro collecting trend came the opportunity to meet old-stock demand by marketing a licensed product and reframe the value of a reproduction game through that marketing. But a lot of questionable business practices are putting these products in league with the quality-issues and sub-standards of the bootleg producers that came before.

I’ve nothing but praise for video game music composers and authors. I don’t listen to game music away from the games so I don’t keep track of many of those individual elements. Good if those creators can come forward with their works and credits being years removed from publishers’ constraints, find their fan base and keep these things apart of gaming today.

@-wc- I feel similarly about the PCECD, but then sometimes I get in a basic mood and fire up a HuCard title

@JJtheTexan @smoreon

For anyone that has missed some nice scrolling brawlers on the SFC:

https://youtu.be/dPKgO-xPH4k?si=Zetcvp5zDoTwpzOD

Awesome effort. I hope a Gradius comes to the system too one day, I’ve always felt it was an absence

Where is the warehouse?

The business will know to what extent they are getting original content. And like their translations, they are wholly unoriginal in testing to what extent they can save money and resources by considering lowest to no-standards options, which is common practice in the retro products industry, as we’ve seen in multiple instances for years now. And it won’t be the last we hear about shady practices in the retro products category, particularly from the businesses that sell themselves as a full notch above the Chinese bootleg market, but then inevitably adopt some of its practices

That’s some heavy background to the visual element of the game.

Have one of the very early everdrives where you had to cannibalize a cartridge to complete it. Would love to get this one day but it’s not been a priority so far

Games have done a lot of things since the days of early consoles, but the old classics retain all the pleasure they had back when they were new. Sure, many old games need to be understood with some context, some knowledge of what hadn’t yet been done at the time they were made. But for the amount of experimentation that was being done in those days, it’s amazing how much is still the best example of what a well made game should feel like, and the fundamentals that it should have.

Shaded kind of like an amiga game

Gives me flashbacks of my old GPD XD which I loved in its time for a short while

DS games probably coming to NSO with the next gen, but I won’t be renting from Nintendo again in order to play my beloved Spirit Tracks

Probably a decent few that have pinball and arcade hardware in the home as well

A classic addict’s game. The legend Yuji Naka will buy your first drop

Arcade Archives getting literal, I like it. More history bits and bites from them about Japanese arcade development and manufacturing would be just great

@sdelfin that’s true about directional inputs. The degree of rigidity hits different for different folks or for different styles of game. I’ve got a NES controller with a super tight d-pad, my cousin loves it where I go for one that’s mushier to the feel

Interesting to read the d-pad isn’t a joy as the first review I took in for this from YouTube’s Madlittlepixel gave it just heaps of praise for Street Fighters. Maybe the success is dependent on a person’s particular grip?

I see 2D isometric and I’m all in

Even the art of someone who considers themselves an unpracticed artist would be preferable to Gen AI’s vapid imagery

Nice when AA hits these Taito titles

@BionicDodo later eras of 3D are very suitable for expressive visual remakes, but the 32 bit era needs to be approached like 2D pixel art where the original geometry needs to be respected in order for the original gameplay to feel connected to it. Ocarina of Time 3D is a good example of how to do such an update. Or recent work by Nightdive Studios is an example of it

Documenting is a great service but I don’t know about demand for building more PS1. My original PS1 from my younger years is proudly still going, but when the day of failure comes I don’t feel like clone hardware will replace the original in my heart, which is all I would need it to do since simply playing PS1 games can be done in other forms

Made forever, by Forever..

Looks fantastic, especially that composite and component out ports, just swell. I made an order as soon as the site was open for business. I’m feeling like this is finally the FPGA device that gets me fully on board for the tech. Especially because if there’s one original controller I’d want to have wired into a new “clone” device, it’d be the PS1 dual shock controller, far and away. Looking forward to hooking it up to my tube TVs and retiring a few original consoles for now

Could be pretty good although if it’s a danmaku style it might not be for me

It was about 5-6 years ago Gematsu revealed Zerodiv was working on a Strikers 2020 game. Guess that’s long gone at this point, too bad