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  1. So i missed the memo on this game because I’ve never heard of its existence. As itself a recent homebrew is there a rom available somewhere or is via purchase only?
  2. Not that I have anything NGP related, but pretty sure I've seen that issue with Turf Masters reported by various folks.
  3. Singing up for Facebook! :)

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    2. bent_pin

      bent_pin

      What song?

    3. doctorclu

      doctorclu

      Did you say singing up Facebook!?!

       

       

    4. Hydro Thunder

      Hydro Thunder

      NO!  @NE146, things can't really be that bad!  You have other options!  Tomorrow is a new day!  

      *disclaimer...NOT making fun of Suicide Prevention at All...making fun of FB*

  4. I got about 3600 but forgot on the lowest stage that the invaders invade on the very next step, and of course I got invaded I suspect at that point thought it's a crapshoot whether you can get across shooting all the lowest ones without getting hit before the furthest one on the right drops down.
  5. When it comes to video games I have always been an "I need it all" mindset. There is no benefit I see to limiting my options, so why should I? 😛 1. Emulation of ALL sorts whether via mini consoles, pc, raspberry pi, etc. etc. I too have been a fan of emulation since the mid 90s with Dave's Video Game classics etc. and of course I like to maintain a (nearly) full MAME setup on any PC I have. These days I mostly play emulated games on the Switch or Steam Deck. 2. Any and all original Hardware to CRT, which includes Flashcarts or ODEs as well as original carts & cds. 3. FPGA consoles by Analogue or the MiSTer.. either out to a modern display or CRT as needed. So I love and use it all.. HOWEVER the bells and whistles of emulation especially with easy save states and rewind functions make me use them quite often.. even moreso than original or FPGA consoles. Of course regarding lag, obviously it doesn't matter on a ton of games (e.g. Zelda, or Pokemon as mentioned by OP) But even on games that it sort of matters I still will often emulate. For example I like playing stuff on the TG16 Mini even though the lag (for both input & sound) is noticeable, but it doesn't matter because I use save states to finally finish a game like Dragon Spirits and have a ball, which is all I'm looking for. I do concede that for a games like Battletoads or Mike Tyson up to 1:30 definitely demand a situation of CRT + original or FPGA console. But how often do I play those? And for games like SMB, I'm simply not that expert of a player where a little bit of lag messes up my button pressing which is not pinpoint accurate anyway. That said, The Analogue Pocket + DOCK is an awesome thing.. to be able to play any game handheld, and whenever you get the feeling.. to pop it onto the dock and boom you're in TV mode. That's a great thing. Also the MiSTer out to a CRT is also a thing of beauty.. to have so many of the consoles I care about from the 5200 to the Genesis etc. looking and playing perfectly crystal clear on the CRT and being able to jump between them within seconds was the stuff of dreams not all that long ago. fwiw, there isn't much of a learning curve for the MiSTer.. the majority of the difficulty is the cost these days (which unfortunately has gone up), and assembling the hardware really. After that thought the scripts basically turnkey everything for you. Now the RASPBERRY PI on the other hand.. That has a big learning curve! I don't even try to update mine anymore once I got it set up for fear I'll mess it up and have to go through the ordeal of figuring it all out again.
  6. Wow man the speed and gameplay of this version looks awesome! Gotta say Really no need to worry about codecs anymore as VLC Media Player (which can play nearly everything) is multiplatform and has Android and Ubuntu versions as well. It's all I use on windows also.
  7. Yeah for the general consumer a car cd player doesn't make sense today when popping in a cheap (and tiny) thumb drive full of MP3s into one of the USB ports is the norm. But yeah even though I have a non-modded Saturn I almost never use it. Why bother popping in discs when the one with the MODE has every single game on it, with zero hassle. Just turn it on and there it is. There is no difference on screen and when playing, which is where it counts 😛
  8. I remember in college picking up a copy of GB Heiankyo Alien for whatever reason.. and at the time (this was circa 1989/90?) I thought it had to be the LAMEST premise for a game ever.. "DIGGING HOLES????" I could not believe it at the time how absolutely lame it was. It's funny though how as the decades have passed now I think it's 100% fine. At the time what we were looking for was stuff like the expansive worlds of Blaster Master, powering up your vehicle, or Zelda 2, etc. But now that that's all behind us.. now to me it's Heiankyo Alien.. a classic! lol
  9. 935,800 on Advanced single player and I think I got to wave 75 or so. Probably my best score of my entire life of playing this thing
  10. Whatever.. the ODE in my old busted Sega Saturn is the most action it's seen for decades
  11. To be fair, save states were never really a thing for most any Analogue products. It was only in the Pocket where all of a sudden they popped up for certain cores. However I do agree.. having save states finally for the TG16/PCE core is going to be sweet.. when and if it happens.. although I'd be looking for it on the Pocket. 😜
  12. It's kind of crazy how all of a sudden I keep seeing mentions of this game very recently.. It was such a huge part of my Junior year in college where it was played nearly daily for the entire year especially since the bald dude beared a uncanny resemblance of one of my 10 roommates at our party house. Everyone knew every nook and cranny of the game and would complete it multiple times. What's also funny was it was only this year I realized it was a port of an arcade game and I had zero clue all these decades.
  13. There's an ongoing magazine thread if you're interested:
  14. NE146

    7800 FPGA?

    I don't have any information at all. But my understanding was always all Kevtris' FPGA cores are his own work reverse engineering each console. i.e. all the NT-Mini cores he released (Colecovision, 2600, 7800, etc.) were the stuff he's been talking about on IRC as far as I recall as far back as 1999 when he'd talk about his experiments and FPGA console recreations. And all of us thinking we'd never get to see them outside of his personal workspace, until of course Analogue entered the picture years later and boom, he was able to share his work, which included the 7800 Core. So it's always a pretty tall order saying he'd adapt any type of work from someone else's code. And while it's relatively "hush hush", it's pretty much a given the cores from a certain author on the Pocket are more or less identical. Although I guess he can always be asked! 😛
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