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I love the ‘classic platformer’ genre, or as I’ve seen elsewhere, kill-em-ups. Some did go beyond a single screen too. Anyone ever play Irem’s Yoyo’s Puzzle Park?

@KitsuneNight lol well I’m never out of the GB scene for too long, so chances good 👍

I have a couple of the original still in the basement. I did fire it up a few years ago and wasn’t feeling it at the time. I might just dust it off as I’ve had a hankering to play Balloon Kid

I am indeed firmly in the ‘classicvania’ camp. Something looking to gently pull away from that sounds neat for sure.

@Damo that’s fantastic. Will definitely look those patches up 👍

Lawyers have ensured that corporations have a lot of rights. We don’t have any lawyers ensuring that we have a lot of ROMs. Well, game publishers, including Nintendo, don’t have much use for the wealth of ROMs that exists. In fact, the trend in the industry for a while now is that more money has to be made from fewer games than ever. So, what’s happening? Well, if you’re an old video game, rightfully nothing.

I feel like the language barrier has stopped me from exploring these games in the past

Should’ve called it Mr. Pikiddy..

Really neat. Would be very interested in the GBA conversion for play on 3DS

@RetroGames i think for those of us who still run original hardware, this fulfills that feeling that NES support would have felt like a natural move with SNES but didn’t happen. I’ve added these conversions to my SD2Snes and it’s just cool running it on the hardware. It keeps the OG hardware scene active and that’s a good enough reason

@amongtheworms sometimes it’s a break, sometimes it’s a blast..

The hardware design is familiar but refreshing

Cool. I’ll look out for the genesis version demo

I wish I could be around old arcade cabinets but I live in a small town that did away with that type of thing years ago. Now I just read about arcade cabinets on sites like this..

@KitsuneNight their idea is narrow the marketplace to their own channels. They care infinitely more about google search results than preserving old creations. That’s why preservation can never be left to business. They would let all that creative history fade away even if it only magnifies their SEO. It’s crazy, but to their business, their handful of old games for official subscription, is all the public needs to know about old games. And again, that’s crazy. And that’s business.

That’s a lot of ultimate, indeed. Intrigued.

Anbernic really needs to spend more on their button design

Also, I love M2’s Sega themes, especially that Genesis one

I still take my 3DS everywhere, rain or shine, but it’s a dead console. 5 years ago random youngsters were telling me how they used to game on 3DS when they were yet little. I don’t know how many years it’s been since it could connect to public WiFi, but it’s totally alien to the 3DS’ internals at this point. There are many things you can’t take from the 3DS, including how much more pocketable it is compared to Nintendo’s modern range, but the small novelty of that blinking green light isn’t something that’s renewable for me in this day

I would take a rounded screen on a 4:3 display but that’s unhelpful for widescreen content

It has a certain appeal. Look out for reviews maybe in the future on a good sale if it pans out nicely

I wonder how much of an actual archive Namco has over there. Either way, preservation isn’t an agenda to these companies so the next link might be to find a former employee that could shed some light

The FPGA product news is starting to sound really enticing. Once the offerings are not only budget-friendly, feature-rich and simple, but stylish to boot, that’ll be the time!

@Gamelore treating a video game like an immutable ritual that shall not be augmented in any way by what comes after it, is not a perspective that even original publishers and authors of old games share.

The philosophy about a video game weakening a person if the challenge or time commitment is altered sounds like you’re attaching worthiness and credential to personal entertainment and hobby.

I’ve not got into FPGA yet but I do play a lot of the classics on original hardware. As much as I love gaming on old stuff, emulation is a big convenience that I also really value. Definitely appreciative of those that keep old games working in a modern setting, it’s no small thing

Will they move on to the DS form factor?

Would be a nice display piece for a streamer

Interesting the control tactics of these businesses at the time. But I guess back then, the money in gaming was Japan’s to lose.

Millions in the dirt and I had to settle for a weird off brand version, lol

Nice that it hews to the game title and not a hollywood-isation that takes itself too seriously

These iOS emus have really given me a bunch to tinker with

I’ve heard that type of ‘guidance’ from the corporate world of children’s literature. I think it’s stupid and hopefully outmoded these days

It would be super nice if Konami did more (almost anything) for the Hudson back catalog

I’m feeling like it’s groundhogs day with these GBC Zelda clones. I also get the sense that they don’t impress when it comes to the game feel. At the same time I’m looking forward to YCG’s take, which is looking like it’ll make the rest look like sleepy toadstools..

Very nice find. I guess the key to following yamauchi was to not actually follow yamauchi, like Alice and the waistcoated rabbit..

@N64-ROX the picture of MD model 2 shows an A/V out port, not an RF. I’d be surprised to learn of any RF only Mega Drive model 2 considering the model 1 was composite.

Edit: You must have had only the Sega-supplied RF modulator unit attached and not an A/V cable.

@N64-ROX those are nice consoles, but I don’t envy the RF only element of them. Also don’t really understand why I need the evidence of the existence of RF, because it doesn’t have much bearing on the fact that composite was standard in addition to RF (a photo of my SMS and Genny model 1 would show composite out). Most 8 and 16-bit consoles after the NES were made with both. I don’t believe there was any RF only SNES, all had multi A/V out in addition to the RF.

@DestructoDisk I’m not sure what you’re aiming to convince me of here. I’ve personally a collection of 8 or 9 various CRTs and all popular consoles between NES and Wii. All the consoles and TV sets are composite compliant, even the black and white TV set. If you’re trying to tell me I’m living in some reality where composite isn’t actually a standard console to TV connection, I don’t think there’s much discussion left here..

Also PS1 and Saturn released only with A/V on the console. So that should suggest something about composite capability among the gaming population

@KingMike @DestructoDisk I appreciate the replies. All consoles at least from the 8-bit generation (NES, SMS, Turbo Grafx) were composite compliant. So I don’t know about the general population and RF only TV’s, but composite technology predates game consoles and every “retro” console I’ve owned from 8-bit gen and up have been composite. So as far as popular game consoles goes, it’s been standard. Now those consoles are being emulated with great accuracy and composite is anything but standard

If I was an insurance investigator I’d have some questions based on the claim and the look of the photos.. if I was an insurance investigator

Is composite an option? It’s always been odd that these artisanal game consoles aim for all this accuracy but can’t easily do the one thing all old consoles were made to do (connect to any TV)

Very nice to get these classics on apple hardware. I’ve had my iPad Pro for years but it never played a classic video game until today.. lol

So I just fired up 19XX on this app for my iPad Pro in portrait orientation, and I think that’s the best way I’ve played an arcade shootemup in emulator. Very nice.

I’ve only got my iPad to tinker with these iOS emulators and with Delta not yet having full iPad support I’ve not really taken the concept for a whirl. But now I’ve just fired up Abadox on the NES core with my M30 pad and quite enjoyed myself. I might just do more of my retro gaming on iPad via Retroarch despite having all the original hardware readily available for my classic gaming

@Poodlestargenerica ahh ok

Did they show a version with analog sticks?

I love the Vita form factor. Clearly plenty of others do too

Purchased the PSIO back in 2017 from Cybdyn. Been pretty happy with it for years now. It does need solder connections to the motherboard to work. I’ll have to look into the new update

Well I shall give it a whirl on iPad even though I have the PSIO hooked up for when I need a fix of PS1