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Transformers Devastation can be bought on disc secondhand (as well as TMNT:MiM) for Xbox One, I have it installed on my Series X right now.

I'd love to see the other TF games mentioned get released though! Not sure how likely it would be with MS putting the brakes on their BC programme :/

Edit: looks like Dark Spark is available secondhand too:

https://uk.webuy.com/search?stext=Transformers%20Xbox%20one

Has anyone got this game to work accurately with emulation and one of those ergonomic trackball mice? I had a half hearted go at it a few years back and had middling results from what I remember

I feel like the removal GC lid disc and the eject button that literally says "Press Here" on it were pretty common knowledge at the time. Certainly the eject thing, I feel like I'd be scared the disc would snap if I didn't press it!

One thing I saw recently that surprised me that I knew at the time but toootally forgot in the interim was that the Wii remote had memory that save data could be transferred to. It was supported by very few games and you could also store Miis on it

Woah, had very little interest in the evercade before but that Duke Nukem system looks very cool and including both collections makes it a very maybe buy for me at that price!

But I don't know much about the evercade to be honest. Does it support 3rd party controllers that have analog sticks? And is there full button mapping available for such controllers like mapping buttons to stick movements?

I can't remember how the PS1 dukes controlled but I feel like this would be a useful feature anyway. I remember remapping Medal of Honour PS1 to dual analog (even if it wasn't true analog) in Retroarch and it just felt so much more familiar for me to be able to play.

Also, what resolution does the Evercade VS output at? Are the games displayed at original resolution or are they upscaled for TV or downscaled for the handheld at all?

@TransmitHim yep fair enough, but even what you listed there comes out to about a grand average and he did get at least 700 dollars.

Stuff is only worth what people are willing to pay. If those eBay listings are still up then nobody has bought them yet.

If this is legit then I don't blame this gentleman for trading in his goods. Sometimes it's less risk and effort than heading to eBay.

Even still, I probably would have tried eBay first 😅

The Switch probably will appreciate in value by a hundred quid or so I imagine, even used if well taken care of. I suspect the other items are more volatile and will go up and down over time.

I think what worries me slightly about this is the in development nature of it.

Will upgrades require new hardware and therefore a new fairly expensive purchase or will they be limited to firmware updates

Mushrooms are a hell of a drug

My favourite Mario Kart. Took me a while to get into but when I realised how much there was to unlock, this game became my life until it was 100% complete

I don't think I've played this one but man those graphics look awesome 😍

Will definitely pick this one up in a sale down the line! Can't wait!

I really wanted a CoreGrafx Mini and I was waiting for a decent-ish price drop.

Amazon UK had at least 30 in stock around Xmas 2022 but not long after, they just pulled all of them suddenly so they are no longer available.

Unless someone literally just spent 3 grand and bought them all up!

Wasn't 50 cent supposed to be involved with the majority of the soundtrack for san Andreas back in the day and it fell through for whatever reason and we ended up with 50 Cent Bulletproof?

I may have my timelines wrong, it was a long time ago!

Ahhh I realised the UK amazon prices are so high because it's coming as an import from Amazon US.

Anyone know if this is getting a proper UK release with a price point to match?

Wow that's awesome. Will almost definitely pick one (or two) of these up. Having said that, if only one then which colour? Awesome purple or black to match my GameCube?

I know a few super gameboy titles supported local 2 player when played on the SNES. Was there any similar functionality for any games on the GCN's game boy player? I am just wondering if I can justify buying 2 of these 😅

The added ability to switch the d-pad to be used as an analog stick sounds super useful as well. Just for getting through certain menus and stuff even if the bulk of the game could be just as easily played with a d pad.

Is there any build quality issues with this pad? I know retro bit had hiccups with the d-pads on their Saturn controllers a while back

Very nice write up. It's an interesting piece of tech!

I have a few of the MyCard games (had no idea they were called MyCards!) But I only have a Master System II which doesn't play them.

Luckily I have the Master System Converter for the Mega Drive (doesn't fit the Mega Drive II 😅) so I can actually play these MyCards

Another thing that's important is ease of access. I believe streaming is successful (in Britain at least where the market is less saturated than the US) because it's fairly cheap and easy to use. If it becomes either too expensive or too hard to use then piracy is the go to option.

Paramount+ in the UK is the perfect example of this, the app is rubbish, there wasn't a console app when I bought a month of it. All in all it was a ball ache to use and my experience of it led me to decide that I would just pirate the content in future and watch it how I want to. Unless of course they release it on blu ray.

Disney+ on the other hand offers superb value imo, the app is well made and on lots of platforms. I'm happy to pay the yearly fee for it despite having pirate copies and official blu rays of some the content because it's easy to use and fairly inexpensive.

Likewise, if a collection of games comes out and it doesn't break the bank, you can play it in glorious 4K on a massive TV and have a nice physical copy sitting on your shelf. Well who wouldn't pay for that kind of experience?

Value, ease of access and quality all have to be better than what piracy offers in my opinion. Forget the ethics of swindling conglomerate "IP holders" (though I do very much sympathise with smaller companies and one person developers and will support them with purchases if I want their game or want them to make more games in future)

I'm in the middle but it's not just a bit of both. It's all of both 😅

I have the no Intro collections downloaded so I basically have access to every single cartridge based game as well as other reasonable sized full sets of disc based consoles.

But.... I also have the majority of the big name classic consoles. I love, love, love collections of games on modern consoles. TMNT, SNK, Mega Drive, sonic mega collection, Street fighter collection, neo Geo pocket selection, samurai showdown collection etc etc.

I buy all these collections if they offer good value even though I could just play the pirate versions.

I'm a bit of a funny one like that. I like to have the stuff on my shelf but I also like to have the pirate stuff digitally.

Ultimately, I play the game in whatever format will give me the experience I want. An example of this was Uncharted Golden Abyss. I own it, I own a vita and I own a pstv. I wanted to play it on the big screen though but the pstv doesn't support this particular game so I hacked the pstv, I downloaded the game and I played it like that even though I already owned the game and the original console to play it on.

I don't buy games and collections because I feel indebted to "IP holders", I buy them because I like the physical product. But it's nice to also have the pirate versions as back ups or to dip my toes into a series without having the huge financial outlay and not actually liking what I've bought

I wish this was a Pick 4 vote!

SNES pad is a classic and great for everything 2D

PS1 is a SNES pad with handles so also great for everything 2D

GameCube is probably the most comfortable controller I ever had only let down by it's stiff mini d pad

The DS4 is very comfortable controller

The XBOne and Series controllers are both very comfortable, the loud clicky buttons are annoying though

The Wii mote was a "revolution" pardon the pun. Splitting the pads was an amazing idea and I love holding my hands comfortably to play.

The Joy Cons take this a step further but are way less comfortable than the Wii and nunchuck.

To summarise, my perfect controller would be a split pad with all the buttons, sticks, rumble, gyro etc in a one handed form factor somewhere between the Wii mote and joy cons. I'd say have GameCube or Series handles on them but I think the buttons would make it top heavy so the handles would have to be unique to a split controller.

DS HD sounds awesome

I think I've played this prototype as it was part of a romset. I've also played a prototype for resident evil 2 on the game boy advance. Now that was a trip!

I didn't know the film was so underappreciated at the time! It's such a good film and I really like how cleverly breaking the fourth wall is written into it.

Interesting, I had no idea about this back story. My preference for what I think are the best games in the series makes a little bit more sense now...

I always thought I just preferred the originals because I had a GameCube instead of a PS2 at release so I missed out on the zeitgeist of GTAIII, vice city and San Andreas. I played a bit of 4 and 5 but I didn't love them.

In fact the only post-GTA2 game from Rockstar that I thought was really good was Red Dead Redemption

But this adds a little more context for my love of GTA, GTA London and GTA2!

@antdickens was literally going to say this!

Mine should be arriving today 🤞

The DVD style box is really cool and interesting! Almost looks like a Switch game with the little red DC logo in the corner

I guess nobody can accuse them of not having two brain cells to rub together!

That's pretty funny and cool at the same time.

I'm sure there were still lots of games out but probably orders of magnitude less than today making that same task more feasible than it would be now.

Ahh I played Sparkle 2 when it was a PS Plus game. I enjoyed it to some extent but I really liked the music in it which is why I kept playing it

Brilliant article, guy sounds like a legend!

@dantootill no worries! Well it is what it is!

Funnily enough, I would 100% trade adult life to be back at school (preferably with the knowledge that I have now!)

I think what's more worrying for me is that I always thought the company was called Akklaim because those stylised C's look a lot like Ks 😳😂

It is definitely weird but I'm not too fussed about it really

I've got about 4 or 5 games on card. Of course I only have the Master System II which doesn't support the cards and only supports cartridges.

Luckily I have the Master System Converter for the Mega Drive 1 (not compatible with the Mega Drive 2) which supports the cards!

I remember my mate coming round my house in secondary school and choosing NBA Street Vol 2 on the GameCube to play. I asked him if he'd ever played it before and he said no.

Then he proceeded to whoop me for an hour. I asked if he was sure he never played it before. He said he had definitely never played it before.

The next week, I went round his house and what did I see on his shelf? NBA Street Vol. 2

@dantootill this was a brilliant read and kudos to you for braving the playground banter.

Whether the criticisms were rooted in truth or not, the only reason they were repeated with aplomb is because the other kids were jealous or bored.

I remember being on both sides of it as a kid and my painful self awareness as an adult leaves me laughing at how obvious it should have been at the time even though I couldn't see through my timid teenage brain fog!

@BloodNinja haha I think the emulator was the least shameful part of my admission 😂

If you like the 2D MGs (and clearly you don't mind them being non-canon) then check out MGS (Ghost Babel in the US) for Game Boy Color if you haven't already! I played that around the same time I played Snakes Revenge on the GameCube/Gameboy player combo and it was awesome. I think it was the second best 2D MG game after MG2:SS

@BloodNinja hey, it's actually a decent game! (With some adjustments at least 😅) I played it for the first time a couple years ago.

I will admit that I used an emulator, a guide, game genie codes and I was up to my earholes in save states but I damn well beat it and I actually really enjoyed it!

Not sure I agree with the ranking of this list but at least MG2:SS has made it in to the top 10!

The only games I've yet to play are Metal Gear Mobile (need to get around to sorting out that n-Gage 2.0 emulator!), MGS Touch (I have an iPhone 3GS I still need to hack), Ac!d and Ac!d 2

I also haven't played Social Ops but I'm not majorly fussed about playing that. If you are gonna include Social Ops then you should probably include the various iterations of Metal Gear Online. I know they were included with the mainline games but they sort of exist in that murky water separation that GTA online does with GTA V

Not sure if Portable Ops Plus should get its own entry because is not an expanded version of Portable Ops but its own game akin to MGS:VR Missions. Also Metal Gear Database for PS3 (very useful for filling in the gaps even if some of the info has since been retconned) and MGS: Digital Graphic Novel for PSP (I'll forgive the lack of the MGS2 Graphic Novel as it only got a blu ray release on the PS3 Legendary collection 😜)

I always used to play as Bubba! (Top left)

@KingMike you know what, just ignore my previous comment. I don't think I've played either Cobra Command or Sol Feace in almost 20 years lol. My memories of both are so vague and I feel like I may be combining memories of both games 😅

@KingMike oh really? I think the one I had was a side scrolling shmup with the helicopter but thinking about it now, I am sure there were some FMV elements like a clip of a grave stone with funeral music if you died. Kind of makes sense as it was on the Mega CD

Sol Feace? Awesome, I had the double pack on mega CD that came with a helicopter game called cobra command or something

@Anti-Matter yep, it's the song from the advert for it over here

Strangely, this article makes me want to shave my legs

My goodness! I will be digging out the N64 soon to try this out! I had no idea this an ep1 racer had twin controller support. I'm sure there were a few Wii games that used (or at least planned to use) two Wii remotes instead of Wii remote and nunchuck but I can't think of what specifically.

Any other games able to use two n74 controllers for one player?

@samuelvictor appreciate it, best wishes to you too!

@samuelvictor great stuff, cheers for the advice. Unfortunately I'm at the age now where I can't work for free a lot, though I'd be happy to on some things if the job/people were good. Also I'm a union man through and through (even though I'm not part of a union lol) so I'd hate to be taking jobs from people just because I'm willing to do it for free. It's a problem in my main occupation which is IT, you can have all the experience, knowledge and common sense in the world but if somebody will do the job for half the price and scrape by with average or no feedback then your up the creek.

I do know what you mean though, I'm just not really in the circles to get offered that type of stuff. I have a mate who makes movies not too far from where I am but by the time I get the low down on it I am usually booked on a long string of paid work.

Maybe when I come out of my hidey hole in a post covid world, I might start looking into it more. I'm always on the look out for opportunities but typically, at least pre covid, I was always just always busy and knackered from the job I do, or DIY or some other activity. I'm sure I got another 30-50 years in me so hopefully something comes in in the not too distant (but still post-vaccine) future!

@samuelvictor that's great stuff, you've certainly been busy! I sort of started around 2011 with the likes of war horse, Captain America and Jack the giant slayer. I've done a load of stuff since (some films and TV I am very visible in like Kingsman, EastEnders and the Benedict cumberbatch brexit film).

I'd have loved to get more into acting and voice acting but I never really found an "in" so to speak. SA work is great, especially if you're working with a good bunch or it's a project you're really interested in. Normally for me that's superhero stuff, EastEnders and projects where im a fan of the cast/crew involved but it's very demoralising when you are bottom rung and on countless projects (not everything by a long shot) just treated like children because of a few bad apples that "leak stuff"

I was going to say i'd love to know about the superhero film you're working on but I suspect you are sworn to secrecy on it (based on my own experience with superhero film) though it seems youve been quite candid about it in another post!

@samuelvictor that's brilliant, sounds about right! I watched a VGH video on it a while back. It does sometimes amaze me how these British companies (one based in Surrey, no less!) are known worldwide. I mainly like their micro machines games.to be fair.

I just clicked on the IMDb link on you're profile. I do SA work sometimes, I haven't worked on anything listed there but I'm sure it's not everything, I wonder if we've worked on the same thing before 🤔

@retro_player_77 makes sense, I believe the Aladdin deck enhancer was something to do with codemasters back in the day