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Yeah basically I felt the best way to really sum it up without going overkill into the details like you did there some was the EA Sports effect people have harped on about since the 32/64bit 90s era stuff and since. You get a new system out, hype the crap out of it, and a key title, and from there you try and continue to run the hype wave doing just marginal updates to the original game. Sonic 1 wouldn't qualify on that, it's unique as it lacks the elements #2 did, but Sonic 2 would fit that mold like when people really went to town on EAs greed on the PS2 era stuff where the early EA sports games looked little more advanced towards the later stuff, adding a new roster, maybe a new token feature, but nothing like where it's obvious they went back to do something large. Sonic had that. Sonic 3 was maybe a little more colorful, sounded slightly nicer, had a few newly titled but kind of samey feeling stages, and the other half of that game as Sonic and Knuckles was basically the same +knuckles being playable, another token gimme. They didn't do anything really huge. Sonic didn't go to totally new lands, didn't get a pile of new power ups, any new or moderate to largely modified moves, nothing. It was like they just kept tacking on stages to an existing game, like chapters in a book series or a trilogy of movies where the camera work improves but the players and mechanics are still about the same (think like Indy...Raiders vs Last Crusade years later.) Sega buried Sonic almost as a one trick pony and rode it so hard, that people just stopped caring so they tried to get new blood in doing weird junk after Advance 1+2 on DC like the black knight, werewolf sonic, that lame Rings waggle mechanic on wii, etc. They played and sold almost uniformly like crap for so long, once MANIA appeared people were blown away not because it was largely good, but it was largely an attempt to be what Sonic was lost on for so long but also as just a rebirth of the re-hash people missed.

It's a tricky one to call, some of those games up there were pack-ins and others were not. I find it a bit odd Sonic 1 shows so so much more than Sonic 2 as it was a huge pack-in, and at that rate the Genesis was flying compared to when the first came out. Maybe it's in error one reporting all copies, the other just what sold vs packed in with the console? Either way ignoring that, it's all a downward spiral though pack-in or not. Sega at the time was playing the mouthy in your face bully with advertising going as far as fabrication to move units over the competition and they made Sonic their equally arrogant and edgy mascot to peddle the 16bit hardware. But as time rolled along as you're pointing out (and I never thought of it to look before) it basically cratered. Across one system to go from 15M to just a few years later down to not even 3/4 of one million is traumatically sad. I think had it just been a first party game they just shoved out with their standard minimalist advertising where it's part of a spread of games blasted in an ad spot on TV or a panel or two in a mixed print ad in a magazine or pack-in cart/system poster it would have sold even worse. I know Sonic fans get kind of defensive of it, and love to point fingers back at Nintendo trying to smoke and mirror up some hypocrisy angle, but ultimately Sonic was largely a one trick pony with very very little diversity in how the levels played or were generally designed, with most usually in the time marveling how different and fun the bonus levels for the emeralds were. Sonic 1 from the rotating flat room then to Sonic 2 with the scaled faux 3D half pipe was huge. But if you go from Sonic 2 to 3 (or 3 part 2 Knuckles) very little changes in stage design, mechanics, the dash / spin dash are there, etc. If your first (or last) played sonic game didn't blow you away wanting more and more, having another come offering up everything about the same with little new going on, it wouldn't appeal for long. In a way they added so little but some window dressing Sonic is kind of like the EA sports of platform gaming. Sonic was always about the fast speeds before much else. Mario could have fell into the same trap, but they were smart about having a largely varied change of abilities for years back in the day, changes in the lands, changes in the enemies despite keeping many familiar roots too and it worked, the sales grew.

No their mistake (outside Japan) if anything would be not having Bonk the day it came out and relying on that average at best Keith Courage, and China Warrior is far from great and would have helped move nothing if that's what they'd want to feature as telling on how nice the system could be. Ultimately though the real mistake wasn't what their mascot or pack-in was, it was the sheer and utter incompetence of their US office scrapping/blocking so many fantastic games from ever coming out of Japan. So much of the PCE library already is in english entirely or down to a few intro lines or menu bits there was little to no excuse to not bring out so much. Quite a few arcade conversions which Nintendo and Sega were peddling at the time had infinitely superior releases on PCE/TG that it's a crime they stayed locked overseas. save2600 said it best, china warrior would have been damaging. A walk along brawler (he called fighter, in error?) is not something even at that time that had mass appeal. There were many who enjoyed that style, but in the back half of the 80s into the earlier half of the 90s the mascot platformer was king. Bonk had a great environment, approachable concepts, solid control, and great gameplay mechanics with some unique nice twists around the meats, etc. You really couldn't ask for much more out of a console mascot character and each game added a bit more to it, as did the spinoffs like Denjin (Air Zonk.) Sonic as a platformer was more of a one trick pony than Bonk was. NECs problem again was brainless operation outside of Japan at multiple levels of failure.

What I meant about a site was one illustrating a fix, not what the concept was about. I know some, just haven't had a need for it, but it seems the most successful ways are either salvaging it with a mix of canned air and deoxit to get things nice and amazing again. And if salvage fails in some of those cases, you can get a new one for like $10 online shipped. In that case another video if someone needed it would show how to pop the screws and using tweezers to deal with the tiny ribbon cables (and it's more complicated in the case of a Lite model.)

Seems nice, with the people after those very hard retro style games, it's good to see an original author dust one off and leave it both as is, or modernized in look, to make just a few bucks off their stuff so another generation (or an older) can appreciate it.

Which site/video would you suggest to take a peek at if someone wanted the most accessible easy way to understand this? Since it is an issue that can be corrected it is a shame it has come to this with the lame lawsuits.

It's a working app that does what it says it does, but it does a back end way about feeding you ads that don't do as they should being sneaky in the background is what I'm gathering from that. The article links to the source, down its page you get the full list of deceitful apps. Couldn't hurt to check.

Those already exist. They probably do have a similar sized or larger screen.

That in the US would require something the republicans for a long time have stumped for, but can't get the super majority of votes in the senate ever to get due to laywer lobbyists patting the back of some on the other side....tort reform. Sorry if that comes off political, don't want it to be, but unless there is tort reform which would (quoting wikipedia here) change in the civil justice system that effectively reduces the ability of victims to files lawsuits, or to reduce the amount in recovery that a victim can receive. If you remove the ability to push frivolous lawsuits, but also grossly limit in civil courts the ability to get laughably high payouts the motivation would be shot down to more legitimate claims. Tort reform would slam the door shut on a lot of those patent troll crap claims to people like this whining about a product and trying to get a grossly huge payout.

That or $10 I think with shipping to get a new OEM part and just usnig an over the counter basic screwdriver could fix in 10 minutes too for the few that legitimately have this issue in a vocal minority of asininity.

Basically a mom setting a poor example, two children filing a lawsuit over a frivolous matter all the systems to some point suffer. Another year, another dumb lawsuit from a money grubber private party or patent troll.

Get out your tweezers kids it's time to play!

Gameboy Neo Geo cut down arcade games despite the chibi art they used, which was a benefit for fast movement and retaining characters and movesets is overall surprisingly intact. That video has a game missing, given they decided to shove a non-NG game (Toshinden) on the list and that's the GBC hybrid(so it's a B&W game too) of Transformers Beast Wars which was their most advanced game of the lot. Huge roster too due to the fact if you transform you basically have a new character and move set doubling the games list.

So none of you have a good idea how to get this in the US considering B&N is a joke and the mail isn't any better overseas.

Huh got tired of kidnapping princesses and went into piracy and theft. Failed at both, not surprising.

Yeah I imagine the TIE/D would be a disaster as would be the missile boat. I think the B-Wing would have worked out, it's a slow large clunker like the Y-Wing, but it does have some better armor and shielding, which I think would have been well played off of having the assault gunboat included as a partner of troublesome ships to take out. I'm glad I dropped the $40 on it either way and didn't listen the worries that it wouldn't run at all from here and more than 1/2 the asinine so called 'can I run it on my specs' websites. I know which one of those places I'll be trusting going forward. Systemrequirementslab.com can kiss my ass, said it wouldn't run at all. PCgamebenchnmark.com was totally reliable and guessed it on the nose. This is the direct link: https://www.pcgamebenchmark.com/star-wars-squadrons-system-requirements for the game. It accurately put my processor right on the actual line for the requirement, GPU was a little bit above and ram at the max and that ended up being entirely correct and told me I could do medium settings on a deeper dive. I could select required and recommended to get a different rating. Under recommended it just fell in at 88% for CPU and GPU, 100% on RAM.

The GB I treat the same as the VB since it's very thin and flimsy, minimal setting which i think on a lot of irons is around 200F maybe a little lower. It takes time, but it's enough to soften the solder traces keeping it in motion while not bacon frying the plastic base of the ribbon the metal sits within.

Ok I have to ask what's the solution here if you're in the states and want this? Barnes & Noble is the domestic shelf carrier and they don't give a crap about even having it by the month, let alone consistently there either which is a joke. Yeah there's digital, not a fan of that since there's a print option. Funny I post in this the other day, then today I find one, the 2019 5th edition of the Retro Gamer Book of Arcade Classics and it looks awesome so I grabbed it.

Nothing major but I was really thrilled to find this on a shelf for $7. I thumbed a few pages and I didn't see a thing in there that looked uninteresting. This is the 2019 5th edition version so it looks like the latest/final edition of it perhaps.

If they did that I'd subscribe to it. I like reading the stuff, even the euro-centric stuff we never got here as it's new history in a way. But the high price of the magazine shipping it, and equally bad at retail doesn't help. Retail even before the virus which only got worse due to it had not been keeping up and at times even not getting some issues so I've just entirely written them off unless I get stuck in a Barnes & Noble and want something to flip through if there is one at this rate(mag, not store) anymore on the rack. I own one, took me MONTHS to find it no less, but the Neo Geo anniversary issue with the added mini-mag and stuff as it's excellent, also doubled in with a very well done GBC anniv/b'day part in the mag too.

Got this hell of a deal for $60 earlier. NFS. I've got plans, long overdue plans with some parts I've held onto for over a year due to a mishap then. I've got an HHL LED panel/wire setup still new, new glass lens, an immaculate Blue Game Gear shell, and I've got a 3d printed mount bracket for that LED and a cap kit coming hopefully in a week. Got this off the original owner, still works, just brightness is going. Inside inspection was pretty clean, nothing corroded at first glance. Amazingly that battery pack not only works but retains a solid lasting charge too. Can't wait to clean this up. Odds are 50/50 at this rate how I feel after about it, but may just keep and get an everdrive. Also picked up 3 games on the side at a friends shop for $20 who oddly was a 1/3mi away from pick up. Chicago Syndicate, Columns, and Psychic World. I already had another Sonic 2 and Pac-Attack.

Yeah I see it, it's just a general warning, the on ribbon chips are starting to fail too, or if it not the chip the little micro traces off the chip into the ribbon itself which just sucks. There is no fixing it.

I don't remember the AG so well, and I guess the Tie/D would be too powerful for the game in a way as I remember its raw power in TIE Fighter, but the fact that they left out at the least the missile boast, defender, and b-wing just seems kind of crappy but it's not the end of days either. I mean, maybe they aren't left out, but it like in the 90s will be in an expansion. I think you're misreading me on what I meant by the prompts. The normal ones where it will say for using a repair hit button 3 type stuff. It's when it comes up with a new command that first time, when it pauses action and doesn't tell you what the button is, just that you need to like 'do this' but they don't tell you what THIS is or what it's mapped to at all, then it's a guess, a stupid guess that shouldn't be there.

Umm you better hope it's a sold solder joint on that ribbon cable. Don't act like it's always an easy fix. Back in February I got a lead on a DMG all complete in the box that had some kind of screen issue. The owner of the store forgot they had it in the back for a few years carried between a few locations but the employee knew of it, and told me to come back and talk the owner up about it. It cost me all of $20 and I figured like you, easy fix. Yay cheap CIB original 1989 Gameboy. Yeah no. There is an increasing amount though slowly (not like game gear caps issues) problem not with the ribbon itself but the chip on the ribbon failing. When it goes, no amount of brushing your tip over the ribbon to re-heat the solder joint will fix it. Ultimately it required a new LCD and since they're attached directly to the board that both drives it but also has all the button contacts, the whole part had to go. I ended up getting yet another GB I had and swapping its board, then buying one of those 2019/2020 new backlight multi-color choice LCD panel/board setups and fixing the donor system with that to keep the 89 unit minty nice and working. Just a warning is all, if you do hit this problem, just get the new screen you won't regret it unless you have to have stock, then you'll need to kill another Gameboy to do it.

The B-Wing and Defender weren't included? Ugh, missile boat? I've actually taken some time during the day with this, all that worry about my so called old processor was bs. It's running at medium levels across the board on all features, nothing turned off, and it's fluid. I can only say I hate when it locks the game up demanding you do some new feature, but doesn't give you the button command for it, and you can't menu out to look up which button on the keyboard it is. I got pissed and just ran my palm over the entire keyboard until it hit the right key to un-freeze it. That's just bad design. So far I have it saved staring Mission 2 Yavin for the new republic side. The game is quite enjoyable outside of those jarring forced moments, wish they could just be shut off other than the always helpful reminder pop ups what button to push to do what's needed as it's hard to remember. Finally a good use for my old thrift store finds of the fighterstick USB with its 16 buttons, throttle wheel, and pov hat as I got all sorts of fun stuff mapped.