mjparker77

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.

Good price, not pure emulation, and the sheer physicality of the carts make this a winner.
There are going to be a lot of people surprised at how light that base unit is though.

Dreadful game.

Yep, they're cheap.
I'm still picking up the AES.

If I didn't buy anything that wouldn't ultimately benefit some warmongering bunch of arseholes, I wouldn't buy anything, ever, sadly.

@sixrings
I think Shock Troopers was, so not out of the question.

Blazing Star
Neo Mr Do!
Top Hunters
Last Resort
Art of Fighting 3
Nightmare in the Dark
And though it'll never happen, Waku Waku 7

My internal dialogue:

OOHHHH a Neo Geo replica

**you have all these games for Swith Marc**

OOHHHH it’s bundled with a proper SNK Arcade Stock

**the stick was probably the worst bit about the AES, and you have a £100+ Hori Hayabusa to play these games that you already own. On Switch**

OOHHH it’s got CRT-out

**so does the Xbox you have Final Burn installed on**

But THAT doesn’t have an arcade stick

**you can get a £30 convertor to use the Hori stick**

OOHHH FULL-SIZE AES CARTS

**f**k it, I’m in**

So I’ve pre-orders totalling £400-odd……

Weirdly, though a frame rate increase is always welcome, the N64 still looks better on a CRT to me. Helps hide the texturing deficiencies, they're quite stark upscaled in HD.

@cawley1

Definitely, I initially ordered OS as a stand-alone, then cancelled after 18 months without update.

I love this game, but I am useless at it.

@Guru_Larry it was pretty poor though. Even the 'original' version they included front like old visuals over the new engine.
Anyways, a must buy for me.

Dreadful news. RIP to an absolute legend.

My god they're milking it now.
I got tired of the 'legacy' crap and bailed last year, sold my Founders VS and EXP with about 80% of the library at that point. Though looking at prices now, I wish I'd held on a bit.

I mean, I paid two quid for Redimensioned, which was OK in a Temu Sonic kind of way, but I doubt there's a demand for a 'premium' physical release.....

The altered / blanked out advertising boards on Final Lap look horrendous!

It looks great, but I'm happy with my CRT. Until it eventually blows.

If it's just tied into the same tired legacy environment, I'm not interested.