Nice to have some mystery again and something exclusive japanese..
alrthough i would love a ps5/switch port ofcourse...
And it would be great in M2 released the GG rom of aleste 3 fro mtheir collection.. i would happily pay for it to play it on the analogue pocket.. (it seems to be impossible to extract until now)
Spend a nice afternoon putting all my GBA/GC/GB titles in and out to fill the library.. nice little touch to look at your collection.. (on the site it showed that it would be like a wii-style diary too, but it's isn't yet alas)..
and i ended up playing bugs bunny GB for the rest of the afternoon... looks beautiful on it..
@TheSilverFalcon I still use it every year for the world cup of sensible soccer (this year in berlin), and have an usb adapter for it to use it for emulaton purposes...
(and did vote for the zipstick as well for the same reason, although i do like my wavebird)
Nice article, I remember reading about this game back in the day; but let's not forget that team 17 often was technical impressive, but without understanding how a genre really ticket, leaving things like (Amiga: Overdrive which was no patch on super skid marks, Body blows which looks nice, but shadow fighter playing that much better)
In Amsterdam, there was one shop specialised in importing jap games, Musitapes.. remember getting Japanese gameboy games from them, that felt so special..
Could somebody who actually has a polymega explainss how those modules actually work in practice? do you remove one to add another? and are you then basically replacing half the console?
good amiga days this week, playing mcgeezers games on my analogue pocket .... will try this one too (although i always thought turrican felt empty on the amiga)
Lovely they gave it so much love.. hopefully they we'll sell enough to make it wortth it (even thoguh they probably did it because it was so cool).. i'll check out the game digitally
Ah nice.. since analogue pocket now has a sms core i might start to look into the card… since it was a long time hit in brazil might dig up some brazilian exclusives
@calbeau Good question, had the same with the information on the sega mini 2... apparantly all retro inspired life is now nintendo life......
This was dead from the start i'm afraid.. the intellivision itself was too small for a dedicated revamp, and the new games were clones of flash or phone casual games.....
What would a 'true' succesor to the RG351 mean then?.. I have a GPD XD from 2017, and until PSX it works nice, and dreamcast is ok.. When I see that this one still has problems with saturn emulation, I really start to wonder when the true succesor to my GPD will arrive, with everything to the gamecube without a problem.. all these hundreds of devices have slightly better screens etc, but don't see to be game changing..or a reason to upgrade. (I had hoped my analogue pocket - when it will arrive in 6 months time would do that with the fpga cores, but it's so quiet out there)
Lovely little niche product, and since my 3ds and switch were getting a bit old I ordered it last year.. am in batch 4.. The 3ds offered for a while new ways of of gaming, but this little crank really trickled me..
Only thing i fear is that because of all the delays it won’t feel that fresh anymore when it finally arrives… this whole season thing is different when other people already are playing i presume….
The whole ‘hipster’ comment is rather funny… it’s been used as a way to call out people trying to be more the authentic then others, and people just following that quest for authenticity just because their friends do it, but don’t forget the people who started making ‘real’ sausages or herd bees (guity as charged) did that for a reason, and that search by itself is something we need in gaming too, in this world of endless freemium misery…
@TJM i think you mean Grafity Force II, the best best duel game ever.. it actually got a remake , but the original (or the gravity power extended version) remains the best
Nice review, the selection is a bit too focussed on Team 17 for my liking, and just got a retrocade for the bitmap stuff..
Big missing software house is ofcourse sensible software... megalomania, sensible soccer and cannon fodder Top 5 games in my opinion... but i can add them... although, my android tv with retroarch on it emulates sensi just fine, and actually suppords my The Arcade Joystick from back in the day...
@EarthboundBenjy Thanx for this info, and @Damien @Damo for the article.. since emulating gameboys (early 200-s?) I was missing the Castlevania I remembered from early 90's, and now I realise I was emulating the wrong game... just one second of this music and I was back in my old high school..playing Castlevania, borrowed from a friend.. (I still have his burai fighter, come to think of it)
@charliegirl, which time are you referring too, I remember e.g. that the gameboy robocop sound track was quite immediately used in a commercial, and in the amiga times ( 91-94 where the use of samples in computer games really started) Rob Hubbard of c64 chiptune fame was already a god (admittedly ,the chiptune concerts started 5 years later, but still)
@SalvorHardin indeed, me hoping yesterday when I saw the pre-order news it would be sort of quiet and I could slip in for a Q1 2022 pre-order.. and then saw youtube exploding when fnishing work.. Now just hoping there was some great american football game yesterday night so that america is still sleeping at 8 am pacific,,
@Specter_of-the_OLED I'm just happy finally that nice vertical design is back... (but I hope you get yours.. I've got my micro here for my horizontal needs)..
Think I missed the first pre-order round by a few minutes, so will be sitting ready tomorrow..
@nessisonett I recently installed retroarch on my androidTV, and this retroachievement felt likem such a present.. making me replay games and giving me a clear target in a retrogame (since often just playing retrogames feels a bit'' yes i can play it again , buty what shall i do'.. Since retroarch for android supports is, at least retroid should support is as well..
(and so happy my android tv supports my xbox 360 hori joystick and my 8-bit do switch pad)
From niche this is now picked up by big game sites. Those 20k will sell out in 2 mins.
Will preorder though. Know one of the game developers and seeing him work on his game (daily driver with the crank as a sterring device) makes me fall in love with game once again.. more excited for this than for the switch pro..
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Re: Hands On: We Went To Japan To Play M2's Amazing 'SenXin Aleste'
Nice to have some mystery again and something exclusive japanese..
alrthough i would love a ps5/switch port ofcourse...
And it would be great in M2 released the GG rom of aleste 3 fro mtheir collection.. i would happily pay for it to play it on the analogue pocket.. (it seems to be impossible to extract until now)
Re: Random: Analogue Pocket Makes Unexpected Cameo During Netflix Show
interesting the the daughter (/) of the family could just order one with mom's credit card... no queue required,,
Re: Analogue Pocket Update Adds New Library Function
Spend a nice afternoon putting all my GBA/GC/GB titles in and out to fill the library.. nice little touch to look at your collection.. (on the site it showed that it would be like a wii-style diary too, but it's isn't yet alas)..
and i ended up playing bugs bunny GB for the rest of the afternoon... looks beautiful on it..
Re: Have You Spotted What's Wrong With The Genesis / Mega Drive Mini 2 Yet?
Still switches are better than buttons anyway!
(my md2 still works luckily.. and since i now have an analogue pocket my lust for mini consoles is over)
Re: Random: Grandchild Discovers 26 Copies Of Wario Game In Late Grandmother's Collection
Since she left notes for her grandchildren, isn't it that she wanted to gift ithe gba's to them to have fun like grandma?
Re: Poll: So, What's Your Favourite Controller Of All Time?
@TheSilverFalcon I still use it every year for the world cup of sensible soccer (this year in berlin), and have an usb adapter for it to use it for emulaton purposes...
(and did vote for the zipstick as well for the same reason, although i do like my wavebird)
Re: Poll: So, What's Your Favourite Controller Of All Time?
The Arcade joystick (dutch 9 pin joystick for c64; amiga etc) all the way
Re: The Tale Of Witchwood, Team17's Abandoned Zelda Rival
Nice article, I remember reading about this game back in the day; but let's not forget that team 17 often was technical impressive, but without understanding how a genre really ticket, leaving things like (Amiga: Overdrive which was no patch on super skid marks, Body blows which looks nice, but shadow fighter playing that much better)
Re: Full Of Eastern Promise: The Rise And Fall Of Grey Importing
In Amsterdam, there was one shop specialised in importing jap games, Musitapes.. remember getting Japanese gameboy games from them, that felt so special..
Re: Ultimate Guide: Atari Jaguar - The Death Rattle Of A Pioneer
Maybe good to note , now it is republished that the emulation of the jaguar is finally get there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7E3EErUMuU
I bought a cheap jag 10 years ago for tempest 2k, such a brilliant game, feels even better than the vita or ps4 version
Re: Gallery: Let's Look At Your Gaming Photos From The Past
Great pictures, oldes i can easily access are the first sensidays i went to, the sensible soccer world championship from 2012 https://flickr.com/photos/romanista/albums/72157630607401780
Re: Pre-Orders Open For Polymega's N64 Module Ahead Of Spring 2023 Release
Could somebody who actually has a polymega explainss how those modules actually work in practice? do you remove one to add another? and are you then basically replacing half the console?
Re: Turrican II MS-DOS Gets A Fancy New Amiga AGA Conversion
good amiga days this week, playing mcgeezers games on my analogue pocket .... will try this one too (although i always thought turrican felt empty on the amiga)
Re: Gunstream Is A New Game Gear Shmup From Former Aleste Devs
yup, would pay for it and put on my pocket
Re: Analogue Pocket Now Has Amiga 500 Support
Got Swos 1.0 running now, for some reason not the 96/97 versions.. use kickstart 2.0, 1 mb chip, 2 mb fast..
Re: Unlock The True Potential Of Your A500 Mini With The AMiNIMiga Workbench
I would still love DirectoryOpus for my mac at times.. such a good util
Re: CIBSunday: Andro Dunos 2 MVS Edition (Nintendo Switch)
Lovely they gave it so much love.. hopefully they we'll sell enough to make it wortth it (even thoguh they probably did it because it was so cool).. i'll check out the game digitally
Re: Evercade EXP Shipment Worth Half A Million Pounds Has Been Stolen
Reminds as my local apple dealer, a small store was raided twice in two weeks wheni ordered my current macbook... nasty practices..
Re: The Worst Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Games Of All Time
Hot take: golden axe belongs on this list
Re: A Ton Of Old PalmPilot Games Can Now Be Emulated Online
You know there's only one game people want.. .DopeWars !
Re: TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine Support Is Next For Analogue Pocket
@hordak for that analogue has just annouced they will release an adaptor.
Re: Hands On: Evercade EXP - Now Packed With Capcom Goodness
Damn. I really do’t want to buy it but you’re making it so difficult. Maybe i should sell my original evercade
Re: Sega Master System Celebrates 35th Anniversary In The UK
Ah nice.. since analogue pocket now has a sms core i might start to look into the card… since it was a long time hit in brazil might dig up some brazilian exclusives
Re: Intellivision Amico Trademark Is Live Once Again
@calbeau Good question, had the same with the information on the sega mini 2... apparantly all retro inspired life is now nintendo life......
This was dead from the start i'm afraid.. the intellivision itself was too small for a dedicated revamp, and the new games were clones of flash or phone casual games.....
(and now hoping my playdate will arrive soon)
Re: Hands On: Anbernic RG353P - Shamelessly Inspired By Nintendo
What would a 'true' succesor to the RG351 mean then?.. I have a GPD XD from 2017, and until PSX it works nice, and dreamcast is ok.. When I see that this one still has problems with saturn emulation, I really start to wonder when the true succesor to my GPD will arrive, with everything to the gamecube without a problem.. all these hundreds of devices have slightly better screens etc, but don't see to be game changing..or a reason to upgrade. (I had hoped my analogue pocket - when it will arrive in 6 months time would do that with the fpga cores, but it's so quiet out there)
Re: Evercade Is Getting An "EXP" Upgrade, Complete With Irem And Toaplan Collections
Nice presentation from a small company.. professional.. got me tempted, nut not really playing enough of my Evercade to upgrade..
Will be getting the toaplan collection though,, nice manual with interviews with the makers..
Re: Review: Analogue Pocket - Potent FPGA Power In Portable Form
Finally .. firmware 1.1 announced https://www.analogue.co/announcements/pocket-os-v1-1beta-coming-in-july
Re: Review: Anbernic RG503 - Now Packing OLED Goodness, But Is That Enough?
My
Gpd xd ‘s saturn emu lation improved
After new firmware so there is hope.
(Still no reason to upgrade i think. My gpd works fine.)
Re: Review: Playdate - Picking Things Up Where The Game Boy Left Off?
Lovely little niche product, and since my 3ds and switch were getting a bit old I ordered it last year.. am in batch 4.. The 3ds offered for a while new ways of of gaming, but this little crank really trickled me..
Only thing i fear is that because of all the delays it won’t feel that fresh anymore when it finally arrives… this whole season thing is different when other people already are playing i presume….
The whole ‘hipster’ comment is rather funny… it’s been used as a way to call out people trying to be more the authentic then others, and people just following that quest for authenticity just because their friends do it, but don’t forget the people who started making ‘real’ sausages or herd bees (guity as charged) did that for a reason, and that search by itself is something we need in gaming too, in this world of endless freemium misery…
Re: Review: A500 Mini - A Refreshing Alternative To The NES And SNES Classic Editions
@TJM i think you mean Grafity Force II, the best best duel game ever.. it actually got a remake , but the original (or the gravity power extended version) remains the best
Re: Review: A500 Mini - A Refreshing Alternative To The NES And SNES Classic Editions
Nice review, the selection is a bit too focussed on Team 17 for my liking, and just got a retrocade for the bitmap stuff..
Big missing software house is ofcourse sensible software... megalomania, sensible soccer and cannon fodder Top 5 games in my opinion... but i can add them... although, my android tv with retroarch on it emulates sensi just fine, and actually suppords my The Arcade Joystick from back in the day...
Re: Review: A500 Mini - A Refreshing Alternative To The NES And SNES Classic Editions
@Ooyah for some there is a legal way..Sensible world of soccer now has a 'legal'updat eif you own an earlier version for example..
Re: Feature: Hidehiro Funauchi Mastered The Game Boy's Sound Chip, Then Seemingly Disappeared
@EarthboundBenjy Thanx for this info, and @Damien @Damo for the article.. since emulating gameboys (early 200-s?) I was missing the Castlevania I remembered from early 90's, and now I realise I was emulating the wrong game... just one second of this music and I was back in my old high school..playing Castlevania, borrowed from a friend.. (I still have his burai fighter, come to think of it)
@charliegirl, which time are you referring too, I remember e.g. that the gameboy robocop sound track was quite immediately used in a commercial, and in the amiga times ( 91-94 where the use of samples in computer games really started) Rob Hubbard of c64 chiptune fame was already a god (admittedly ,the chiptune concerts started 5 years later, but still)
Re: Random: Game Boy WiFi Cartridge Lets You Browse Wikipedia On A Pea-Soup Screen
Does it work on the analogue pocket;)
Re: Hardware Review: Analogue Pocket - Potent FPGA Power In Portable Form
@SalvorHardin indeed, me hoping yesterday when I saw the pre-order news it would be sort of quiet and I could slip in for a
Q1 2022 pre-order.. and then saw youtube exploding when fnishing work.. Now just hoping there was some great american football game yesterday night so that america is still sleeping at 8 am pacific,,
Re: Hardware Review: Analogue Pocket - Potent FPGA Power In Portable Form
@StuTwo You should watch the digital foundry video... John lineman talks about it.. probably, but with a little plastic cutting
Re: Hardware Review: Analogue Pocket - Potent FPGA Power In Portable Form
@Specter_of-the_OLED I'm just happy finally that nice vertical design is back... (but I hope you get yours.. I've got my micro here for my horizontal needs)..
Think I missed the first pre-order round by a few minutes, so will be sitting ready tomorrow..
Re: Hands On: Retro Handheld Face-Off - Anbernic R351 Vs Retroid Pocket 2
@ian for saturn sanshiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99HncW0GUk0
Re: Hands On: Retro Handheld Face-Off - Anbernic R351 Vs Retroid Pocket 2
@ian_beale i have the gpd xd, and it does 'ok ' radiant silvergun (after chanigng the os a bit), so it's succesors should do as well
Re: Hands On: Retro Handheld Face-Off - Anbernic R351 Vs Retroid Pocket 2
@nessisonett I recently installed retroarch on my androidTV, and this retroachievement felt likem such a present.. making me replay games and giving me a clear target in a retrogame (since often just playing retrogames feels a bit'' yes i can play it again , buty what shall i do'.. Since retroarch for android supports is, at least retroid should support is as well..
(and so happy my android tv supports my xbox 360 hori joystick and my 8-bit do switch pad)
Re: Panic's Cool Little Handheld, Playdate, Gets New Details On Pre-Orders And More
From niche this is now picked up by big game sites. Those 20k will sell out in 2 mins.
Will preorder though. Know one of the game developers and seeing him work on his game (daily driver with the crank as a sterring device) makes me fall in love with game once again.. more excited for this than for the switch pro..