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Seeing that costume in real life makes it seem even weirder that Kefka got away with wearing it in the military. Beautiful work though.

A few remarks to clarify why this is technically impressive:

The Genesis is well-suited for rendering roads with raster effects. This technique involves altering scrolling registers and palettes mid-frame in order to make something that looks like a road. It can be extended to simulate curves and hills. Examples include almost every commercial racing game such as Road Rash and the Genesis version of Outrun. See http://www.extentofthejam.com/pseudo/

The obvious way to port F-Zero to Genesis would be to rip F-Zero assets, but build the engine using raster effects just like most other Genesis racing games. However, this demo doesn't appear to be using raster effects. Rather, it is actually applying affine transforms to the background and performing real scaling and rotation. This is what Mode 7 on the SNES does--it performs hardware-accelerated affine transforms on a surface.

The Genesis does not have hardware-accelerated affine transforms. (The SegaCD actually does, but I presume this isn't using a SegaCD). Since the Genesis doesn't have hardware to help with this calculation, that means that the calculation is happening in software and utilizing only the CPU (possibly both CPUs, but probably just the 68000). Of course, you can use the CPU to calculate anything, but in order for the game to run at a good frame rate, the software must be optimized to run affine transforms very fast. I can't tell the frame rate just by looking at it, but it's smooth enough that it's maybe 15-30fps? That requires a lot of optimization, which isn't an easy feat.

Also, bonus points for the killer YM2612 cover of Port Town

I think it's great to keep random old games in print. That being said, I would never have guessed that somebody would reprint this one.

@snk2d4life Further, I'd like to congratulate myself for making the first battery life joke in the comments section. Good job, me.

If the battery lasts more than 2 hours, it's not the authentic Game Gear experience.

I can't read Arabic, but at least aesthetically it seems like a some strong font choices

@Razieluigi

Heiankyo Alien obviously.

I'm curious why this review is happening now. The Mega Everdrive Pro is several years old already.

But remember, Sega is not a retro company!

Finally, after years of waiting, fans can see Daffy Duck team up with Spawn

I remember seeing this in some magazine at the time and having no second thoughts about it. The remarkable thing is that, given the culture of video games at the time, this exploitative horror of a controller was actually quite believable.

@RetroGames I think development tools for SNES just haven't caught up with the excellent tools available for Mega Drive, NES, etc. I'm impressed when complete homebrew SNES games get released at all.

Looks like a game that Reddit built for sure

Exile would be a better choice. It's not perfect, but it's genuinely interesting.

"Unoffensive slide" is it?

I'm betting on instant Red Ring of Death if anybody tries to turn it on

I'd be curious which games specifically got takedown requests. I don't know if there's ever been a list of: "These are the games in particular that the ESA is interested in enforcing copyright for."

Black & White, but your god is a 20-meter tall Grimace. And in Grimace's own milkshake, the key ingredient is people.

WHAT IS A GAME? A miserable little PILE of TICKETS!

On the plus side, this suggests that you could license a Konami property for your own redemption game. Contra Skee Ball? Gradius Hoops?

It's a good time to start a business where you charge £50 to teach people how to use Retroarch

Is that robot bleeding?

By the way, the SMS Power competition was Amazing this year. There's always 1 or 2 new standout SMS/GG games, but this year there were at least 8. (Already linked in the article, but to emphasize it's really worth looking at I'll link again: https://www.smspower.org/Competitions/Coding-2024)

I was just checking in on that translation a few days ago! Really looking forward to playing Hybrid Front after my current attempt to get through Star Cruiser.

Also, holy cow is that a lot of text in a lot of places. Kudos to the translation team.

"Infogrames announces it will be wearing an Infogrames mask on top of the Atari mask that it was already wearing."

There's nothing funny about a dwarf on a dinosaur trying to ride around and whack gnomes

@romanista Thanks! Fixed

@Poodlestargenerica Yeah, from a technical standpoint they probably could put all the games on one cartridge

@Azuris I agree. I'm not trying to devalue the product; I just find the narrative entertaining

@Poodlestargenerica basically, yes http://retrotechr.blogspot.com/2020/06/evercade.html. For what it's worth, using commodity parts and putting them in a custom shell is exactly the right way to do this from a design perspective. Otherwise consumers would have to pay like £60 for a custom eprom chip or something

I find this marketing pretty funny. An Evercade cart is just an SD card adapted to a weird pin-out, so this press release amounts too : "We're going to start using bigger SD cards and they cost more." But since the bigger carts have a cute name I somehow feel better about it

This is possibly the slimiest product yet conceived in an industry that has done some pretty slimy things. Yuck

I, for one, could not tell "Shadowheart" apart from a random fantasy character. I do know what Lara Croft looks like.

My guess is 7 cartridges of cheaply-licensed microcomputer curiosities and then Irem 2.

The new hardware will, of course, be 4 Super Pockets, each fused to a collection of slightly more expensive IPs.

I would be embarrassed to show my friends a computer that has "Real gamers know gamers" engraved on it. Maybe I'd put a bit of tape over that part.