Tanooki

So I was wondering, I know for many and still I'm kind of on the fence about it because it's on iOS (or Android) but has anyone here dug into the various classics ported to these devices? Sadly enough of them seem to only support touch, not an external choice. That aside though, I decided to grab a few that were either FREE (Sega stuff w/add removal being $2) or $2 (a trio of capcom classics.) I was curious how you all feel about those Sega Forever games and perhaps the old Capcom stuff (GnG, GnG 2, 1942?) So far the GnG's are a bit nasty, but 1942 works well. I tried out so far Golden Axe on the Sega side and it played remarkably well to my surprise. Has anyone popped down the $2 for the ad removal on the Sega stuff or picked up some others? I know the Megaman 1-6 are bad from Capcom but the others work. And I do have various SNK arcade(Neo Geo) games and they work quite nicely too. Perhaps some of you have a few suggestions?

That's an interesting way to put it, it feels shallow. (doesn't feel that deep.) I think maybe that is the problem with it. The game has a quite extended game pausing tutorial of sorts you're forced to muddle through over and over on a loop until it is done. Then the other stuff you are tasked to do, you must do it, no deviation, or the game just blows you to bits in single player. It's almost like a rail flight game, but just doesn't look like one. You must go from A B C or death, kind of like a rail shooter (such as starfox) following each point like connect the dots. If you're someone who has played anything from the old DOS X-Wing through Alliance which was in windows 9x/xp era the game feels very thin with no depth at all other than the cooked up story which isn't bad. If you go back to what was in the realm of the old stand alone X-Wing and TIE Fighter games, they were less story driven between stages as far as depth of prattling on about stuff goes, but it kept a line of thought and story progression on with the agent/solder you'd check in, then the bridge over amazing sprite work clips they'd run between campaigns too. Within each stage you could do the straight and narrow playing it safe, but it didn't use kid gloves or the immediate threat of death either as you could tackle secondary and in cases tertiary objectives to rank up more military level and medals too. It created a game with a lot more fulfillment and enjoyment that sucked you in, didn't ever feel like just doing the motions on the straight and narrow. I've rarely gone back to it and have probably dropped 2/3 of the story mode, but my mood isn't there for how it works. I've been actually contemplating since flightstick is out firing up TIE Fighter for the first time in at least a decade.

Given that he didn't wisely block him from buying off his account. 4chan would be a potential disaster for ebay given their behavior. I'd deal with the local police to where the buyer lives, your version being canada, of the FBI too, and if possible find a way where you can put their asses on tv not just with the national/local media but also TV based small claims court like the US has. In the US for civil matters you can go after a person or business for up to $5000USD. Given the paperwork, correspondence, and the rest, there's no conceivable way if you have similar laws that ebay (and or the buyer) could worm out of returning the item as it was shipped or the money.

Not sure if it was sunsoft or not, but there were more sega games such as Shinobi and Alien Syndrome on those Tengen carts too. Famicom had also Altered Beast but it was legit. Since we're on Sega sending their goods off their hardware, let's not ignore the PC Engine as it got some stunning pieces of work there. Afterburner, Altered Beast (hucard and cd), Columns, Fantasy Zone, Outrun, Power Drift, Shinobi, Space Harrier, and Thunderblade. Not all of them were excellent, THunderblade was fairly bad, but others were handled very well. I own a few such as Afterburner, Outrun and Shinobi, but I did at one point also have Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone.

Not really I've picked off for some years now a lot of bonehead BIN prices as they went live. A few years back nailed down a complete copy of Lufia 2 complete for the price of a loose cart. I didn't even think, I just clicked, then checked the images after I paid because waiting any longer would have been a loss. It's that when you see it, strike moment, and there's no time for nitpicking and pissing around with the zoom feature on a picture/phone or worse playing a game of twenty questions with the seller and waiting around. When you see a $50 item up for $30-40, you buy it after a very fast cursory look at the image just to make sure it lines up with the title of the auction. You can request to cancel or refund right after if you smell bs. Worst that happens, the seller gets pissed off, mails it, then you send it back at their expense and then block you from buying again. It's the sellers fault for not making it clear about any issues.

See that second option there, sd card being used as a storage puppet basically by forming its own file is exactly what I was hoping perhaps krikzz could end up doing on an everdrive update. I'd buy into that to avoid passwords.

I may have to give it a try, but I really don't think it's going to make Sunshine feel any less problematic or broken. There's a reason it's the 3D black sheep, it was just badly done with some real design problems that broke or made things overly challenging due to bad response, not the environment itself. The camera hadn't bothered me on 64/Galaxy.

Now that's interesting, if they don't foul it up.

Those games Nintendo did post-NES they're almost universally educational stuff. Mario Teaches Typing 1 and 2, that Pokemon educational package above, pokemon print shop stuff which mario had too, pretty sure Mario's edutainment stuff on SNES was on the PC too. The only time it really went off that track up until the era of mobile gaming on phones/tablets would have been the philips license for Hotel Mario and the 3 Zelda games, most of then weird CGI cartoon bits aside are good, only one a broken pure turd (zelda's adventure) but all not made by Nintendo. Sega though, despite having their own hardware, through back channel stuff either hands off or even on in some levels, they did it. Tengen had multiple SMS/arcade games on the NES, the PC got all sorts of Sega games too in the 90s in particular, hell they did some phenomenally great Saturn titles for Windows (I used to have some of them) and also even emulators with the sega smash packs. Only after the DC imploded they really then had no choice and it ended up all over with selective releasing of this or that around. But Sega had no problem putting many of their quality franchise games off their own console hardware because they didn't care about exclusivity vs making more profit. They didn't like Nintendo have to be in utter control or else on their release stance on stuff.

Having been able to get a hold onto what is not considered the current best effort in GBA bootleg carts within the last about 5 years now, they're disturbingly well done, and in some cases, in specific ways at times better. A few years back I bought what ended up being a crappy boot online from a UK seller of Alien Hominid, and this one is supposed to use a battery save. The guy had good images, and even those online, just weren't enough, and wouldn't have been short of some massively zoomed in bit as it was just that close. The sticker was almost perfect, the difference literally was one dot matrix print pixel of width off on some of the finest text and line printing on those parts over an original label. The plastic, it did not have the off cut molding or spacing, no sharper edges most have either. I only knew it was BS because I always clean a game I take in before it goes into my systems. Upon opening it, modern board, modern chips, one glop top because the chips were better than the GBA would be so it had to basically take the data from a more pins to less pins situation to work. The better part, actual save chip that retains the data without a battery. That was a shock to me, game worked flawlessly, looked flawless until I really zoomed in on some picture assist from a legit copy to see the fine bits off, and that was years ago now. It wouldn't be hard to believe someone would have tweaked the print problems on the highest quality fakes because even the sticker itself was the right level of thickness, cut, and shiny laminate like surface too. So yeah, some ebay repros are just that good, and they work as nice if not in weird ways better like with that save data. I also have had a few original SNK board MVS carts where new or replacement chips were swapped in to have a different game work than the original that was pulled off, and they're absolutely rock solid. Most often, you'll get worse off, perhaps pure crap given where it came from and if it's more than so many years old, but you can find stuff that is just sadly right (or right enough.)

Not necessarily. If something is a solid deal, perhaps even by appearances accidentally marked low, you hit fast because some actual flipper or collector nails it. ebay doesn't lock down stuff while you're trying to buy it unless you have that 'commit to pay' choice that's an option. I'm just saying I could see someone who just wants a decent looking complete copy of a game to overlook something on the image like that as it's not obviously pointed out or described at all.

Got this sweet little gem at a goodwill for $2 on the weekend. Some affectionately seem to call it the penguinstation, probably since later models used PSX controller molds or something. This is a famiclone, and not just your usual garbage one with the games built in, this version came with a slot in the rear and its own 111in1 cart too. This is shockingly well done, right down to the demonic 2 glowing red power LED eyes it has when on. It handles famicom games like a dream, even the high complexity extended mapper stuff like from Konami and Namco. It has every thing the box came with originally other than maybe some bags if it did, but the ties are there, the original manual, and the strangely unique game list foldout for the cartridge too which surprised me. I gave it a test drive the other night and was shocked how nicely it worked, even that strange controller which doesn't miss a beat. Sadly can't use the wired one, it goes into a port on the wireless pad instead, the port on the bird is for the light gun that'll definitely get ya shot by a cop the way it looks. I was thinking of only keeping the cart out of this, but it's too cool to let go of. The sticker on the side says subor, heard of that before, but would love to know more. All I dig up so far is just regurgitated fluff on features and the games it has included, not on the builder, build quality or other useful info if anyone has a clue.

Well that's your problem right there. You didn't think it was a big deal. I'm not a nitpicky collector, haven't been in over a decade by any means, but I do have minimum standards. If I had missed that rip and being honest here, if your price was so good I'd be quick to click buy it now, I would have, 100% sure of that if I were on my iphone vs my computer due to the smaller viewing space. I would have been pissed if that came that way and it clearly wasn't the post office that caused it. That's not regular wear, that's something that got jammed hard along some sharp edge that utterly shanked the side right away from it causing that cut and scrunch. It's good you wont let that slide next time, it'll save you because if someone tries it again you'll have clear image/description to fight it with at least. People will say you can't fight, it's crap, it's not easy, but you can and I do and win when people rarely try it on me. As far as that other guy goes, I'd report it with a call in and see if you can cancel it because it looks like a setup. If they say you can't, at least they'll note your worries in case it turns up bad.

Fascinating, don't think I'd buy it, but part of that is due to having the SOTN release and controlling it is a bit tricky without a game pad, it's just not designed for it.

Ugh another supervision missed. IT's so bad it looks good.

What are you on about? Nintendo doesn't run out of a budget for Mario games. That was just bad design by design, and they just didn't see it. At best I could throw them under the bus to shove the game out if they were looking at a holiday or end of their fiscal year(Mar 31) but it came out in July. There really isn't much of an excuse I can think of other what I said, bad design, it's sloppy but they just didn't see it.

I'm watching, that's where I am on it. I have an everdrive that I got direct from SAG so it is called the PC everdrive. Only one I ever bought new off them, but I'd replace it if they could cleanly run all that nice CD level stuff, bonus if they got the game saving routines down on games that would have used the ten no koe device or something similar (or the internal battery of the duo.)

Good points. I forgot about the live patch thing they've been applying lately to a select few games. It would be fantastic if they just blanket did this to many more such as those on the Switch SNES/NES apps. Picross on the SFC has some annoying unreadable menus for most that would make it far more friendly and far easier than doing an adventure or RPG.

I'm curious what they did to expand a sub 1MB NES game into a 30MB file. Must be one pretty bloated emulator.

Honestly that makes almost no sense to me. I may just have to look at it again sometime. I remember it had charged shots, and I didn't know you could bank them. I just kind of charged until it would stop charging and let go with it, that or just spray some bullets so I wouldn't get hit by enemies or flak. I'm not much into puzzles, tetris and some columns like are fine, but eh...

Your quote is all messed up into some linkage so I'll just write this direct. I remember the same story as I've followed the TG/Duo since the mid-later 90s solidly into the mid 00s, and only again in recent times. I've seen that about the HuCard slot, and it's not a new story either so I'd lend to the fact it's still peddled to likely be true or it would have been shot down, debunked and buried by now. SO maybe he can make it work using the SD card contents or on board memory on his flash kit to fire up some CD stuff in mono audio without additional parts. Or maybe a new kit would be made with the added memory etc ot handle this short comings too. It would be interesting.

You've kind of got a bitchy attitude thing going there from the get go. There's no harm in mailing out a free magazine if you register a Nintendo, kind of snotty calling it unsolicited propaganda. I do think Sega did something similar with their Vision magazine as well as I recall my brother getting it free from them as he had the Genesis. I have no clue what you're talking about with Nintendo gloating about added chips to handle processing. They were very misleading about using enhancement chips until sometime during the NP run when they did a few page spread on what the MMC1-5 chips were, and before that just that pak-watch contents thing for a time did write like MMC in the box on top of the PRG/CHR sizes a game used but it didn't last long. And can you show me wher ethey claimed the Nintendo could run a 32x game? Same with the radio shack bit. I've got issues 1-74 and maybe 10 more over that on a shelf here, quote me some pages and volumes. I had every issue of that magazine until it was corrupted by Future One, and I don't recall any of this ever being printed. Just how far into the Sega weeds were you? Or was this maybe EGM that was a huge fanboy screen for Sega and then Sony in that day. I want some print outs because right now you just are coming off kind of angry and defensive lashing out with fantasy I don't remember in the least bit. This sounds like some Quarterman level rumor and slander mill bullshit that EGM published monthly. DKC was touted as revolutionary because they did ACM not because they used 256 colors, that was a stock normal thing the SNES did and nothing to brag about, and when was FF3 ever played up as some special coded game either? I do remember the congressional hit job on Sega with MK1, that was a magnficiently messed up bus tossing event over the pre-ESRB era stuff. I can see how that one would make a Sega fan pretty angry, but then again Sega had been slamming Nintendo in print for being a kids toy, the same crap Sony pulled with N64 calling it the kiddie box. That was some straight up well earned tit for tat. And I think we can all agree, Yamauchi was an asshole. Nintendo didn't take the high road, they had their times of going low, but they never crossed the line that Sega did in the day with those scamming obnoxious loud and insulting TV and print ads.

Yeah they lost me at pay $50 for shelf queen crap and no actual physical game which is such a crime. I may get it, the cheap download, if it's like $5. I can go with or without really given I have Shadow Dragon on DS with the guide for it too.

I have this game now, I can't make much sense of how not to get killed in the thing pretty quickly. I thought it was more shooter than puzzle, but I think something is up as that first chick just slaughters me. I can shoot down stuff, but always seems to send and send back a lot more. I tend to like to use charged shots to get clusters of kills but it doesn't seem to help.

Hmm krikzz with that comment about turbo cds on the everdrive. I'd like to know how that would work out and when/if it does. I would have to imagine a new card with more memory on it and stuff would be required.