Steel76

Cool, but I'll stick with my famicom carts.

One thing is for sure, they don't need to deal with Windows, and worry about hackers 😁

I used to work in a videostore, 20 years ago, and the computer we used, had been in service since the 80:s. The program we used was flawless, and über easy to work with. Then the boss upgraded to a Windows PC, and suddenly, we were stuck with a ***** program, that often crashed, and was way more annoying to use.

No point in upgrading, if the stuff you got, no matter how old, still works flawlessly.

There are an endless supply of emulator consoles, that can play Saturn and Dreamcast now. Both Saturn (which I love) and Dreamcast flopped hard, and I doubt that mini consoles would sell well, outside of our niche retro community.
NES and SNES mini was huge sellers, but those are WAY more popular and mainstream. Except for people like us, noone knows about the Saturn and Dreamcast today.
Even Playstation mini was a flop.

Why spend money, to manufacture something, that will only sell to a small group of hardcore SEGA retro fans? They would only end up loosing money.
They should just release collections of the games, on modern systems and PC.

I wish it was the PS2 era, all over again, when the game industry wasn't a complete mess.
When games were released in a finished state. Sure still some bugs from time to time, but nothing major as today, when most big titles are beta/broken on release.
Getting multiple GTA games, in one generation, instead of one game 15 years apart.
Even AAA games still had fun artstyle, instead of boring realism. And most important of all, we didn't drown in remasters and remakes.

Still today, I find games on the PS2 (got one modded with a HDD), that I've never knew about, or had the chance to play back then, that I often end up having more fun with, compared to modern AAA and indie games.

Buy maybe I'll feel the same way about the PS5, during the PS8 era, when things have gotten WAY worse 😂

Glad they saved the franchise with this one, after the terrible second game.

I'm done with FPGA consoles.
I have owned Mega SG and Super NT, but there was graphical/sound issues on a couple of games, that will never get fixed, due to them not updating them anymore.
So I went back to original consoles. Much cheaper, and if you don't have a scaler, you can just get a Rad2X cable instead, to easily connect and get good PQ on a modern TV.

I bet the OG consoles, will outlive the FPGA hardware.

Oh no, not Limited Run...

I wish the ST port of Outrun, ran like this, instead of the slideshows we got, when an arcade game was ported.
Prime example, that the hardware wasn't the problem, but a mix of talentless programmers, and greedy companies, that only gave them like two weeks (probably more, but you get my point) to finish the games.

If people stopped writing articles about emulation, romsites, fangames etc. Then a lot of these websites would still have been available.
Keep these things below the radar, or Nintendo etc, will sue or force them to shut down.

This isn't helping in reducing the exposure...

Wow, been a long time since we got a new handheld........................last week maybe?

Looks like yet another shovelware VR shooter.
Some game franchises (most?), don't work at all, moving into VR.

So basically a cross between Spy Hunter and Bump n Jump. Yeah, I'm definitely getting that one.😁👍

Why re-release crappy games?
Plenty of great games, that are hard to find and über expensive to buy on ebay, that deserves a re-release instead.

This is just a waste of plastic, but I bet the FOMO crowd, will throw themselves over this...

Low bitrate voices, and slowdowns, is part of the 16 bit experience. Wouldn't want it any other way

Why do I get the feeling, that the reviewers got a gun pointed at them, from behind the camera? 🤣

And is that the fans in the system, that we hear?
Damn it's loud 😱

I loved following the Amico scam.
And I was sad, when it ended, as I got plenty of laughs and entertainment, from all the drama, on Atariage etc.

This feels like a hilarious followup, to that disaster. And I can't wait to get my daily dose of comedy from all of this🤣

I don't feel a bit sorry, for the fools who gave money, to this obvious scam.
When will people learn?

I'm more disappointed in the look of the game.
The new mode, looks like a cheap flash game.

If they actually had put some effort in it, they should have gone for the same voxel style, as Resogun and Nex Machina.
Or remade it in the style that was used for Hyper Sentinel.

This is just lazy, for a 40th anniversary game, of such a classic.

He supports the movie, so I doubt he's mad about it. But internet needs to find drama, where there is none.

Didn't expect it to include the sprite scaling.
Pretty damn impressive for an old mobile port.

Cool. I hope it includes the original arcade music as well.

I never had a Spectrum back in the day (I only used C64 and Atari XE), so I bought a refurbished ZX Spectrum 2+ on Ebay, which started to fail after just two days. Returned it, and found another one, same thing happened. And after hearing how unreliable old Speccy's are, I just gave up.
So this is exactly what I needed.
My girlfriend's gonna give me one for christmas. 😁👍👍

@Bod2019
Yeah, that would have been a much better choice.

Too bad Limited Run handles the physical release...

Too bad the Crash magazine is only included in UK.

And it's already been plenty of youtube unboxing videos.

Yes!! One of my favorite games on Saturn.
I would love to see M2 make a new Elevator Action game, in the same style as Return.
And I wouldn't say no to a new Chase HQ either.
Plenty of Taito IP:s, they could make new games from.

I miss early youtube, around the late 00:s to early 10:s...
Before you had to walk on eggshells, and censor everything.

@hste
Yeah, I know what ypu mean, as I also prefer to see new games, working around the limits of original hardware, without "cheating" with modern expansion chips. Same even with most new homebrew games for Atari 2600, which uses new chips and memory, to make it do things, which was impossible with original cartridges. Now it's even possible to show FMV on the 2600.
If you add a Ferrari engine, to an old Fiat, is it really a Fiat anymore? 😂

What a waste of time that was...

I'm just getting a "404 Page can't be found" message, when I click on something on that page. And it doesn't load any of the images on the front page. Same for everyone else?

Owned a 32x for a while, 12 years ago. But compared to the Mega CD, that got plenty of great games, like Snatcher, Robo Aleste, Lord of Thunder etc. , the tiny 32x library is just not worth the insane amount of money it goes for these days. Still, Afterburner and Space Harrier, was the best ports available, at the time. Very impressive.

Why the hell are people even pre-ordering this thing???

Just what the retro community needed, the next "Tallarico" styled scumbag.

The guy looks like he brought a box of cocaine.

Button layout might work for Street Fighter, but it sucks for everything else.

Also, no way to rotate the screen, for vertical games, also sucks. It's something even the tiny Egret II mini could do. The screen is so small, that it will be difficult to see the bullets, when you can only play it, in horizontal mode, with borders. My old eyes, just can't survive that 😂

It's so easy to find these SEGA systems in the wild.
And with cheap solutions, like a Rad2X cable, you can hook it up to a modern TV, without any problems. Plus you get the real systems, compared to FPGA, which still isn't perfect.
I got sound issues with my Mega SG, on games like Rastan and the new Darius arcade port, that will never be fixed by Analogue, as they have moved on to the newer systems.
I got so frustrated, that I went back to original hardware instead.
Same with my Super NT, which has graphical glitches on Pocky and Rocky.

FPGA is great, but it's still not 100 procent perfect all the time.

My 1-chip looks much better than my blurry 2-chip. But there are so many variant of the 2-chip, and I think you can mod 2-chips now, to get the sharper image.

Once again AI upscaling ***** things up...

@Bod2019
Yeah, Retro-Bit would have done a great job, with a Earthion release. Why do these companies STILL team up with Limited Run??? Been waiting a long time for the game, and this news, just killed any plans to buy it physically. I'll just buy the rom.
But hopefully, someone else makes a physical cart of it, in the future. I would rather just buy a bootleg cart, than support LRG.

They are cool. But I wish they were double the size.

Imagine if this port was released, at the same time as the SNES version 😱
The SNES version was a bit of disappointment, but still, way better than the horrible computer ports.

I hope it improves the framerates, so it can stay locked at 30 or 60fps.
I've been emulating N64 games, and they run much better, than original hardware.
The framerates on N64 games, are even worse than I remembered, on the console.
The worst I have encountered, was below 10 fps.
So I quickly gave up on real hardware, and emulated again.

But this might be a great alternative now.

Oh *****. Been looking for this game, but couldn't remember the title. Haven't played it since the early 90:s.

Just buy a used Mega Drive, add a Rad2X cable,

https://www.timeextension.com/reviews/rad2x-is-the-only-hdmi-cable-you-need-for-your-retro-consoles

and you have much cheaper option, with original hardware.

And yeah, this FPGA console, smells like a scam.

I got so tired of dealing with the prices on the original discs.
Hope this helps to burst that bubble.

I want the original Lara to return.
The one in the reboot, just turned into a drama queen, especially in the last one.

Problem is, when people are stuck with nostalgia glasses on.
Yeah, the 80:s was fun, but there was just as many problems back then, as today. Everyone remembers the era, they grew up in, as the best decade ever. Sadly some get so brutally stuck in that childhood nostalgia, that they didn't evolve beyond that.
And the "Retro" companies, knows how to feed upon those.

It's really hard to go back to most of these PS1 3D platformers, even when they make remasters/remakes. Spyro and Crash remakes, had much better graphics, but still suffered from janky gameplay.

2D side scrollers though, is pretty much timeless.

Still got my old Vectrex. Except for fixing the controller, it's been working perfect, for 40 years now. Love collecting new homebrew for it.

IK++ looks terrible.
Especially the character designs.

I haven't lost one single digital game.
Been buying digital on PC for 17 years now.
And I can still redownload games that you can't buy anymore, on PS3 and the 360.
And I got so many digital games for older system, backed up on harddrives.
I buy both digital and physical on console, mostly digital for indie games. Though I'm starting to get tired of all the physical clutter. It takes up so much space. But I still hope that physical stays, for the next couple of console generations.
And I hope that we'll get the option, to trade or sell our digital games, in the future.

Gonna pick up the upcoming Soul Reaver remaster instead.
Hope they make on of Legacy of Kain as well.