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As I kid I adorn these vertical oriented handhelds but as an adult now these handhelds are just too squish for me to hold and enjoy. This is also the reason why I didn't buy into the PlayDate and the Analogue Pocket, the vertical oriented design just don't work with me anymore. Not sure why those same companies couldn't also make a landscape version so adult gamers like myself could also enjoy it.

@MarkyVigoroth The game being release on Virtual Console was a big deal cause it's not often a game originally exclusive to Japan had ever been made available on western digital shop. As you know Virtual Console on Wii only offer retro games from the platform and region those games originally release for so for a game like say Contra, in NA you get original Contra, in Japan you get easier Contra, and in PAL regions you get Probotector. Rondo of Blood unlike Contra doesn't had regional versions.

This, Symphony of the Night, the DS trilogy, and Adventure Rebirth needs to get out of their exclusive bubble and get on more platforms. These are old games now, there is no reason to continue locking them to lesser platforms.

While the Game Boy Color was a nice little upgrade to those who always wanted to play their Game Boy library in colors, Nintendo did fall back on the device a bit from the Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Light. For one the bigger screen had been downgrade to be much smaller, the internal light the GB Light had was not implemented and instead of using AAA batteries, it used two AA batteries instead keeping the system to a good 15-18 hours of game time. I do enjoy the system's few exclusives such as PowerQuest, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil Gaiden, Street Fighter Alpha, Shantae, Pokemon Gold and Silver, and the Zelda Oracle games.

I guess at one point they were gonna include them to the default roster but fear license violation so they locked those behind a code.

Betcha they rigged the Doki Doki Panic/Super Mario Bros. 2 slot game and the Super Mario World bonus game too. Both are games like the Super Mario Bros. 3 spade and slide games where you had to gamble for extra lives.

This would be a game I play if it was still the 90s when Frasier was more well-known and active.

@HexagonSun And now they had to make 4K versions of the Analogue Nt and Super Nt as HD consoles looks horrible in 4K TV. This is similar to how SD consoles look horrible in HDTV. The better evolve TV gets, the more horrible the older devices look. If you still had an HDTV then you don't have anything to worry about but I think the world is not ready for 4K just yet especially when most are still getting use to HD. Older games themselves will also had to be remastered to 4K if they are already in HD.

While this is nice I believe it would be years from now that we see any shipping from them if pre-orders are taken. Also I would had expected them to attempt PlayStation FPGA first since that hardware is simplest to implement before N64 but I guess the N64 library is much smaller and easier to support so I could see their point. Still if this works out and I could play Ocarina of Time, Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie, and Ogre Battle 64 in native HD (over upscale HD via NSO) then that's good enough to me.

As good as these handhelds are, I already got most of these games on Switch or my other emulation handhelds. Would had been nice if Blaze went to get some totally rare or exclusive titles from these developers for example instead of Street Fighter II and Mega Man, would had been better to get the Game Gear version of Mega Man and the arcade version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo. I would buy it just for the addition of those two titles.

It would be funny if it's just another version of the Pocket again. Maybe it'll be a metal version this time screwing over those who already pre-ordered the glow in the dark and clear see through versions of the system.

This handheld use emulation and is more in line to compete against Anbernic and AtGames handhelds, not Analogue. The Analogue Pocket is FPGA and support physical cartridges so both aren't really competing against one another.

Thank you for giving me chance to play this great rom hack without giving the creator any money for his hard work.

I betcha the people who bought the glow in the dark version are kicking themselves now for not waiting for these ones.

I'm glad this is a continuation of the series and not just a remake.

@Jacoby Even if one is made, it won't feature everything from the DS and 3DS capabilities such as a GBA slot for games like Guitar Hero, StreetPass, or NFC for Amiibo support.

Action 52 done right?

@Turbo857 Ha you say it can't when it clearly could. I know it's two years ago but what you just mention is laughable. You could buy a Switch and a copy of either of those game and start on playing multiplayer out of the box as the joycons it came with will both works as different controller.

@dmcc0 Not sure why you're complaining though, you could always cancelled your original pre-order for the glow in the dark one. It's just gonna be a bit longer wait and more expensive.

@belmont Bluetooth connection to your Steam Deck may be unstable or you're running the Deck on the Beta firmware. Make sure to go check your firmware to see if you're running the Stable firmware. Next make sure you're at the latest firmware update, Steam Deck update every once in a while so it's good to check when you got the chance. Also make sure to also check your bluetooth settings as well so that there's no other bluetooth devices also running on the Deck.

Having too many devices connecting to bluetooth also cause disconnection issue too as the signal may had difficulty trying to run all devices at once. Before you connect another controller to your Deck make sure the ones you are not using are disconnected and not running.

I wonder with Analogue now taking pre-orders for the Analogue Duo, will they also sell the 8BitDo Duo 30 controller too or do you had to buy the clone console to get one?

I never knew that jingle was only exclusive to the 16-Bit consoles. I don't recall ever seeing the Capcom logo jingle anywhere else but the 16-Bit systems. Nice to know.

Looks like a low budget Elder Scrolls game, if it's fun I may check it out.

If you're playing just the GameCube games you'll have a good time with Dolphin, it's the Wii games that are the most complicated to work around as most doesn't support traditional game pad so you'll have to use alternatives which makes it even worst. The thing is if you want to play Skyward Sword just play the HD version on Yuzu, if you want to play Twilight Princess, Wii U or the GameCube versions are your only go to. If you want to play a few third party ports but don't want to deal with the force motion controls such as the case with Bully, Okami, Metal Slug Anthology, and Speed Racer which are fantastic games but force motion control ruins them then just get the PC, PS2, or PSP versions of those games for PCSX2 or PPSSPP or Steam.

I'm glad emulation handhelds are starting to do this. Definitely a needed feature too especially for Pokémon since some creatures (such as Machoke and Kadabra) can't evolve to their final form unless you trade them over link cable.

This is why the Tetris movie originally should had been about the Tetris and not about the game of the Tetris. A story about the Tetris would had been fictional and legit but a documentary about Tetris will had similar story to other documentary materials out there such as Dan Ackerman's book and the Gaming Historian's video.

That's one expensive project, I remember the first time me and my friends play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Four Swords Adventures on GameCube, each one of us had to use our own GBA and connector cable. I'm the only one that had a GBA SP so they always wanted to take my control the most.

Nice, glad we finally got the arcade perfect version. Hopefully the Genesis version make it to NSO too.

As cool as this is why would anyone sacrifice a Super Game Boy for just one game? By sacrificing the Super Game Boy, you're basically limiting the availability of the SGB cartridge even more.

My guess is that the 5th Nintendo character to get ruin on CD-i would be either be Samus Aran or Kirby. My guess as to why a Metroid and Kirby garbage never happen was due to time and Philips inexperience with the gaming scene. They had no clue how to make a Metroid game and they probably knows jack nothing about Kirby. Thank goodness it never happen.

Nice, this is the version that makes the most sense as the twin sticks style gameplay fit the diamond layout control of this game.

@JJtheTexan The only difference between that and Clock Tower was that Clock Tower had one director which is Hifumi Kouno and is not a collaboration, Super Mario RPG had two directors cause it was a collaboration between two leaders: Chihiro Fujioka of Square and Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo. Since Fuijioka is no longer with Square, the other side of the lead team is Miyamoto who is still with Nintendo and as long as one leader is still handling the game it's a done deal as long as Square Enix and Nintendo are fine with it.

Seems like MVG and Limited Run Games talk their mind too soon and forgot that there's actually people who originally made these games possible. How do you miss someone as important as the Clock Tower creator himself and trying to counterfeit his game without him knowing? For someone who also respect the original creator and want to give them credits, I'm very disappointed on how they handle this.

Like Pat and Ian of the CUPodcast said, don't get attached to project from scummy companies or else you'll get your reputation ruin and at the end of the day it'll be you that the fans will throw the torches and pitchforks at and not the corporations, just look at Rerez with the ALL Controller, Gamester81 with the Coleco Chameleon, SmashJT with the Intellivision Amico, Jason Schrier of Kotaku who advertised for the scummy Kickstarter RPG Unsung Story which still had not been release for consoles yet, Christian Whitehead with Sonic Mania (even after they help with the game and the remakes they still get look down and disrespected by Sega), and MatPat from Game Theory who stand to represent Google Stadia only to get embarassed thereafter.

These people had their reputation ruin by scummy corps and scammers that I'm surprise most still had not learn from it yet. Hopefully for MVG sake he doesn't get bulldoze by customers when LRG leaves him in the dust. I'm not saying leave while you still can but do be careful cause now the attentions are on you and make one huge mistake and it'll all come crumbling down.

The thing about Panel de Pon and its puzzle concept was that Nintendo doesn't know how to evolve it beyond the anime characters and re-branding. I remember the GBA game was just a barebone block switching puzzle game with no contents what-so-ever, had it not got bundle with Dr. Mario I wouldn't had bought it. Tbh Nintendo should had continue making Panel de Pon using every one of their property (like Golden Sun, F-Zero, Donkey Kong, Fire Emblem, etc.), it would had sold like hotcake if it did. They did it with Picross so not sure why they couldn't do the same with Puzzle League. Heck they could even license other third party IP into the puzzle game as well. Can you imagine a Sonic Puzzle League, a Mega Man Puzzle League, a Street Fighter Puzzle League, a Disney Puzzle League, a Dragon Quest Puzzle League, a Final Fantasy Puzzle League, a Rayman Puzzle League, or heck even a Super Smash Bros. Puzzle League? I don't think these third party IP had any puzzle game using their property yet. Nintendo could easily make fast easy money with this IP and they choose not to embrace it.

Hate is such a strong word for games that are legendary for its music and corny voice actings.

@UK_Kev Still they could had kept the Sega CD support, either way the Sega 32X shouldn't had been made cause then they wasted millions of dollars just to advertised that failure.

By 1994, they should had focus on the Sega Saturn while still supporting the Sega Genesis. The Sega 32X shouldn't even be made. The Sega Saturn should had also be backwards compatible with both Sega Genesis and Sega CD games to keep loyal Genesis and Sega CD owners happy enough to make the jump. Sonic 3D Blast, Kolibri, Doom, and Vectorman should had been Sega Saturn launch titles alongside Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA while Sonic X-Treme is in the work. Had they gone this route they would still be able to come in second place even if they got beaten by Sony and the PlayStation.

@N00BiSH They got beat by CompactDisc (CD).

I was never a fan of GTA back then and still aren't now either since we got an awful Definitive Edition collection out of it but this GBA and the two PSP GTA games aren't bad. I find to enjoy this one more than the PSP ones.

While Anbernic are getting better with their handheld design and controls, they still need to do something about those microSD card ports. Yes having both at the bottom is okay but would be really helpful if they had a hatch to cover em (like on phones, PSP, 3DS, PS Vita, and Nintendo Switch but not Steam Deck) as both card could easily be unloose by accidental touch.

I play it once and it was garbage, way worst than even Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Constant crashes, can't download the title for a smooth experience, and the webpage that host it had malware ads on it. The game doesn't even had controller support and I don't think Nintendo was even involve with the game either. The fact that Flash kept updating and this Flash game couldn't keep up means it still remains a buggy mess. Better to just leave it alone, no need to preserve garbages.

@tektite_captain Sega's value share were dropping so it's likely Nintendo and Sony took note of that. Also many of Sony and Nintendo's employees were friends of some of Sega's employees too so when the downfall started to cracks, the words will get around.

The reason why Sega failed in Japan was because they not only make games for their consoles but for Nintendo and NEC as well. Why would anyone buy Fantasy Zone on the Mark III and Sega Mega Drive when the same game is also on the Famicom? Same thing for games like Golden Axe and Thunder Blade which also had PC Engine ports. It's not Sony or Nintendo that killed Sega, it's Sega who killed Sega.

My question is what happened to Dolphin Quest? That game was suppose to come to Switch and PC a long time ago.

Looks like a Wii game that missed the mark. Maybe at one point they may had plan this for the Wii and then saw the sales of Castlevania Judgment and backed out. The fact that it's not in HD should be obvious too.

Ha he wanted attentions and he got it. I still don't get why that prototype or beta of games can't be dump and archive online. Not like anyone hadn't play Ocarina of Time countless times already and it's a prototype version of a game that wasn't complete or had spoiler contents, all are just work in process contents and those works are long overdue and finish already. Just dump the rom and move on.

Why put the shoulder buttons that high up on the screen? Why not just make a few grips on the back and add them there? This thing looks like it's gonna be frustrating to play with some games.

This add-on was Sega's competition to the Sega Channel. They were hoping that by introducing the Sega Channel, that Nintendo will bring the Satellaview service overseas as well, it's too bad it never happen due to online not the standard yet at the time.

Definitely one of GBA's best entry in the franchise.

Though I like the prototype GameCube, I love the prototype N64 more. We were promise a sleek looking Ultra 64 console with a cool name and we got robbed out of it. The controller even had a better looking analog stick too and it looks like it could be press as well.