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@Missingno128 RP2350B is about 1.50 a piece if i buy a single one as a consumer. Buying the thing in bulk is even far cheaper than that. What do you mean an fpga is far cheaper? Even if altera would give you fpga's for free you're saving next to nothing. And i'm not even factoring in your suggestion of paying someone to implement a chip in fpga.

Why are their carts always ugly as sin though? Makes it look really cheap and tacky imho.

That's definitely the case. You don't even really need to play it to see it if you look at the gameplay. The most glaring example for me being the way the enemies fly and bounce on the ground when hit. This isn't the smooth capcom or SoR type. Paprium is "just ok" but definitely not a very good game.

@SlangWon it probably is mostly, they are basically waiting for bugs coming out of the currentgen version they can patch in the megadrive rom before manufacturing and shipping out carts that cannot be patched anymore.

An estimated shipping date of december 2026 (so, estimated 1.5 years from now) ? Hard pass.

@Sketcz "rom" is a bit too generic of a term. Eprom or eeprom are also roms and so are maskroms while they are very different. I think all modern cartridges use some form of flashmemory nowadays. Physical != preservation.

@PopetheRev28 ok i'll bite. Why not?

@SlangWon what an incredibly pessimistic view. The tweet above describes what the reason is, you're basically saving "yeah whatever dudes you're talking out of your ass". Its also slightly entitled. Btw the physical copies from LRG will also ship 2026.

He's a great coder, but judging from the kickstarter it would better to make a skilled musician do the music

Admittedly i only read this article and nothing more, but what more than the right to use the commodore name and logo does this bring? And what's in it for me? I just don't see the point i guess.

I wonder what percentage of buyers will actually be able to read the manual

Its a good and beautiful game, but the framerate is a bit of a bummer. With so many ways to play these games i kindof fail to see the use of these kind of ports, but if someone enjoys doing them i guess they should.

I tend to think people are overthinking stuff like this. Plug in whatever you have, turn on your console and you'll have a blast.

"Interplay had issues with people leaving the firm, and if you quit, they got… testy. I was a founder"

Not sure how to interpret this. Since she herself was a founder, was she (part of) the cause herself? And she did what she told others not to do?

So this doesnt even include Buckethead's sigil track(s?) or does it?
Also it seems there are 666 editions available per platform? For the price they're asking i would have expected them to chuck in a disc/cart for all platforms tbh.

@Wezlypipz maybe if you don't use the dpad? It's quite horrible on the 360 controllers

Lol, seeing the likes of Voultar of all people react and whine about abuse is a bit rich. I don't think i've ever witnessed a bigger d*ckhead and getting into abuse regularly himself

@profkross i have absolute no idea what you mean. It has basically perfect compatibility with md snes nes gb ps1 etcetcetc.

"For years, those who own a physical copy of the game have only been able to play this fairly limited offline portion"

How was that different for those that didn't have the physical version but played it on an ODE ?

The actual Sanwa parts are 50, so that's a very expensive box to put the parts in. I get there is some electronics involved for the various systems etc, but 450 really is a mental price for a box and some artwork.

Nothing wrong with the retrotink but it doesn't hurt to do some research and consider the pixelfx morph and OSSC pro. I guess if you're in the market for a scaler you're already well aware of the options.

Krikzz makes excellent stuff!

PS f**k terraonion

@BulkSlash i'm still pissed off at bioshock's securom ***** on the original pc release, what a complete ***** show that was.

A dump/emulated version would be best, as it usually is. Even if you do have the game its not unusual for the chip in the cart to become detached leaving you with a cartridge that does nothing apart from rattle as you shake it.

I'm a bit skeptical at making so many different versions at once, there is no way he can focus on all these at once.
Does anyone on the team have any experience making (adventure?) games? I'm definitely buying this when it turns out to be good, but i'm not backing it in advance.

Well this seems rather strange and random? I'd like the c64 one with nordic layout, but no dice.

@Tasuki thats bs, if i would have to vote for a party or candidate i would 100% agree on i would never be able to vote.
(Btw i'm euro)

@cyxceven you can still preorder it now, its just that the founders was 30,- cheaper. Kindof like an earlybird kickstarter pledge i guess.

@jesse_dylan Well it does have built-in bluetooth. You could also connect one of those 8bitdo psx-shaped receivers. In short you don't even need to touch the psx controller or memorycard ports but they are there.
To me this is a very neat tidy way to run a mister setup. To get everything that's here with my mister stack i have a huge stack of boards for io, usb, analog output, snac etc and still have a bunch of wires stick out for NFC and something else i'm forgetting.

Since the last update the definitive edition is pretty solid, i happened to play through vice city over xmas on the switch and it was a better experience than the PS2 original provides imho.

@PopetheRev28 it's a tinkerer linux-enthusiast device that happens to have a dpad input option.
Did you check the Doom port running on it? My 486 probably had a similar framerate.

The fact that a beefed up a1200 doesn't quite run something that a proverbial toaster has no issues with really shows how much processing power has increased over the years (and continues to baffle me)

@Daniel36 videogame museum in Zoetermeer is probably the biggest arcade of the country though?

I personally thought the stage2 song was the best of the bunch, so i hope he doesn't plan on altering it too much

The moment it went mainstream and the talk went over to "investment" and "deals" is the moment i lost interest and switched over to flashcarts for gaming. Something was lost along the way when money came involved in what is currently called "retro gaming" and i'm not joining for the ride.

I think i prefer Gearbox (you know, an actual developer) having the rights over giving a voiceactor (with i presume zero actually development skills/experience) a truckload of money for said rights.
What's he going to do with it, other than instantly open a second kickstarter?

@RetroGames This release has absolutely nothing to do with supporting homebrew developers with limited tooling and whatnot. This is a ~30 year old rom that's being put on a new flashchip (contrary to the old maskroms). Most of the effort here went in designing new packaging.

If that was an undumped unreleased game it seems like quite a good deal for todays market.

I hope he and Fonzie meet up

@WhensDinner the ultimate mister pi kit from taki that contains everything is 180usd. It's a great deal.

@WhensDinner what kind of bespoke parts do you mean? The mister io boards and cases are pretty standard and generally available. And if you still have to start buy a bundle from taki's mister pi and you're done.

Whatever your stance on digital vs physical it seems a bit weird to devote a lengthy newsarticle to a shady key site's social media advertisement post

I'm always surprised to see people make these long lists, personally I could probably make a top 3 but beyond that I have trouble ordering 30 or more games in any consistent manner.

So it's an emulation handheld and not a clone.

Asking a one-time fee and promising unending support until the end of times will turn out to be unsustainable at some point in the future.

What is the big white/gray bar at the top of the screen anyway? And in some cases a small one at the bottom too.

@JJtheTexan it won't be the same, the whole point of the exa releases is that they offer "something" to differentiate it from the home release. What the specific thing is that differentiates it for this title might or might not be something you care about, but we'll have to wait for the details for that.

Even with easier to hear voices i still don't know what half of them say.
Judging from other exa kits this version will set you back at least 4k+ if you get the software kit and the custom PC mainboard to play it on. On the plusside it's not from limitedrun! So that makes it quite appealing too.

I'm unlikely to ever want to play these but "for sake of preservation" this is pretty cool.
Also refreshing to see a link to a bluesky post instead of the typical links to Elon's cesspool.

Am i correct in assuming this display will be superior over analogue pocket ans funnyplaying etc in direct sunlight?