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@kitestar

Yep, so a tiny bit of lag, but playable for most of us.

@kitestar

We're getting MMP / Pink Sweets later this year, finally.

They had me until the price. What a joke.

A proper classic, but the dribbling was almost too accurate at times, made it very hard to tackle without fouling in 2P.

This dick again? I hope he gets burned to the ground.

Looks like typical Euro jank. Mercs and Shock Troopers perfected this genre 39 years ago and it's never really hit those heights since.

Hmmm. £300 Neo carts are going to be a tough sell with the AES+ on the horizon.

@CookieByte

Didn't Ace Driver add in split-screen multiplayer?
The '1 car, 1 track, no music' is a coin-op problem, not a Hamster one.
Yep, Sega added in some lovely extras, and lasted maybe 10 tities before realising it isn't a large enough market to recoup those costs - especially if people are just going to emulated for free.

@gmar

Man, it's every week. We get it, you've got a mad hate bone for Hamster. The rest of us are enjoying properly emulated arcade tities ranging from the well-known to the properly obscure, with a decent set of options and minimal input lag.

Funny you should refer to SNK - the 49th Anniversary collection has a bug where the second stick freezes on rotary games, which is known, and remains unpatched.

Giving money to any business, ever, means some if it will end up somewhere unsavoury, fact of life, sadly. If that's your concern, give up gaming, movies, and any music other that completely independent.

@Damo

I'd seen a couple of stories about 'bands', and could only read so much before I hit incredibly angry.

Seems to be the human condition to take something that could potentially benefit us in many ways, and instead use it to try and replace stuff that actual, real humans, with all their flaws, talents, influences, experiences, create. It's beyond depressing

The NG Resonance character from Deus Ex: Invisible War comes to mind.

Great news. Now take back Deus Ex and sort that with the respect it deserves!

@MSaturn

You've got FAR more faith in the human race than me. Myself, I think AI will be used to replace everything with a human connection - why pay an artist / songwriter / band if you can pump out AI slop and 90% of folk are fine with it? - while we get stuck with the crap.

That's a really neat touch.

@RossoftheRobots

It is a bad thing, when they've such a vast amount of arcade titles yet to see official releases.

That's a headline that only makes sense to people above 40 🤣

@Guru_Larry

That's the one!

@Guru_Larry

I remember a guide in one issue showing how he drew them, the multiple layers etc....

One of the great mags, up there with Your Sinclair, Zzap!, Amiga Power and Mean Machines.

I loved this on the Amiga, never knew there was a SNES version. Might be up for a purchase depending on price.

@-wc-

I've just found their LCD screens, both on the original and EXP, very poor quality - way, way behind the various Anbernic devices i've owned.

@Gs69
Oh I love the Switch 2, I was definitely surprised by that, but I don't trust Blaze to deliver that quality.

@slider1983
I'm fine thanks?
You're not reading the room very well are you?

@Bot_Bot_69

The MS versions are definitely better platform games, but lose a lot of the spectacle if the MD games.

No OLED is a hard pass.

@slider1983
You are STILL doing this? My god that's some dedication.
Would you like a full list of products that launched, successfully, while team Amico lied about 'chip shortages'?
What sort of idiot saw a console with two touch screen controllers and thought it sounded legit?

@RetroBro

I'm assuming the only reason they're persisting with the 'road map' nonsense is that it keeps any legal action at bay.

@slider1983

They lied about it's capabilities.
They lied about what was in development for it.
They lied about non-existent licences they'd secured.
They lied about the front end being finished.
They lied about it being in production.
They lied about the console being 'on the launch pad'
They lied about securing orders from major retailers for an unfinished console.

Essentially, they claimed to have a finished console, front end, and ten games.

It never got any further than some proto's and a couple of almost finished games.

If you don't construe that as fraud, I give up 🤣

The rest of the gaming community, however, does.

And the guy that's launched several successful consoles now 'doesn't means ****'.

Right........

@Martin_H

Same! 40 quid from Rumbelow's with six games at a fiver each. I got my money's worth with Doom, Theme Park and Cybermorph alone. Got several hundred quid a few years back but it appears they're going up and up weirdly.

@Quick_Man

A full 55 seconds! 🤣

@Deuteros

Tiertex had the worst reputation it was possible to have over here in the 8/16 bit days. They were mostly garbage shovelware, though they got tasked with converting some things to 8-bit that was just silly - Strider as an example.

@PKDuckman
And what a conversion it is!

@gmar
Again?
Your two minutes of gameplay might be very different indeed to someone else.

'Classic' doing some HEAVY lifting there.....

So we finally know it absolutely was fraud for the final few years now.

@Damo it's the plane switching, just always felt a bit gimmicky to me. Probably why Garou is my fave.

I mean they were fun, but not a patch on SF up until the Real Bout games, so thank god they were headhunted.

@NoirConceit
Erm, yeah? Obviously I want the hardware to go with my CRT, but I'm looking forward to collecting the carts as part of it.

Kind of defeats the point for me. I already have access to pretty much the entire Neo library via a number of sources. I'm buying the AES+ because I miss having those mighty snap cases lined up on my shelf.
Hell, I bought a SNES one and have since amassed 30+ games!

I'm puzzled - what does this do that my modded 3DS doesn't?

@Teksette

Couldn't agree more. Without the ACA project some of these games would NEVER have had an official home release, some would have been lost to time completely. I think Hamster are doing some incredible work.

@Teksette
Do! Run! Run! Is incredible. You have a mostly open field that you can draw a trail on, Qix style, and every fruit you capture ranks up to the next value - but the enemies keep increasing. It's a brilliant trade off of greed and difficulty.

@PKDuckman
They later became UPL of Atomic Robo-Kid among others.

And 'Dig Dug clone' does this a massive disservice, it's a better game in every respect.

Absolutely pointless. Anyone desperate for the M2 treatment already grabbed the JP release. Everyone else bought the compilations. Some did both.
Just bizarre at this point.

@Sylamp

I'd forgotten that was even a thing! May well pick this up then, cheers

@AllieKitsune I nev r managed to get that feeling quite right before I sold mine.

Cool, but it controls like ass without a spinner or mouse.

They're nice, but my spending money this year is going to the AES+ and A1200.

Nice. I'll pick it up closer to the time if there's no release over here.

@JoeYabuki

Yep, it certainly didn't feel as premium as the price tag suggested, though I love the carts.

@SP1SCM

Yeah i would need about the carts, the originals are very weighty. Be a bit disappointing if these are just SD holders.

@SP1SCM

I think we're getting crossed wires here.
I owned the SNES and MD, and when I bought a Neo, looking at the size of the base unit I was expecting something hefty feeling. It weighed less than the MD, and the SNES probably weighed twice as much. I'm stating that others might others may assume the same I did back in the day, and be pretty surprised. Not sure how that would get me blocked from a comment section?

@SP1SCM

Nah, I owned the original and the SNES and MS were both heavier, which given the size differences felt wild. If they go for accuracy I think some people won't actually realise this.