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I'm wondering, if you started out playing these games in the day, but kept doing so, could you ever really have 'gone retro' or is this for the younger members born in the late 90s/00s? Or could one interpret it as you're so fed up with how the gaming industry treats the consumer these days you've basically told them to F off with your wallet and just bailed out and went backwards in time to find a more enjoyable harassment free type of gaming?

If you decide to break that up amongst people here I saw a couple interesting things in that list I wouldn't bother with being stuck in a total lot of (personally) useless things. Since you want to just do it all in one drop it'll get crazy. Probably best use Fedex as they have some solid prices on fairly large and heavier boxes where as the USPS rips you off hard going that route as they try and get people into those priority mail flat rate situations. I am surprised to see you list you kept all that but lacking a list of any games at all. Kind of surprised you don't have any of the overly common Nintendo and Sega games in the least bit.

Seen no, but these guys know their stuff, so yes it exits. I avoid AES the prices ugh, go buy a house and a car or something level crazy. http://www.neo-geo.com/reviews/neo-reviews/Overtop/overtop.html

I find it funny two games I really enjoy on the Neo Geo I actually learned to respect on the NGPC first (Neo Turf Masters and Last Blade) and then both are very faithful even cut down to size. I probably should read up a bit on both of them a bit more and you're right 1945 is unique in doing that and it caught me by surprise it didn't just end but I did think it odd each stage was 1-? so it was like a hint all along. Oh I have one more bit of great work left, cost me more than I'm comfortable with paying on games but I have to get into that mind set it is an arcade title after all. The up side is that crazy people recently have been escalating the games price alone on ebay so what I got it for could be seen as a very solid deal.

Each system was built off the core chips/memory of the one before it. The GBA for instance was a 32BIT ARM7 processor. When they moved up to the DS line they used that processor as a secondary to I believe a primary ARM11 processor and went with a larger amount of compatible system memory. And yet again when 3DS arrived it used an even more powerful ARM processor with compatible programming instructions. Because of them doing that, all based on the 'subset' of processors that started with the GBA all the systems can run the same general stuff as they designed it to be able to do so. Gamecube's IBM CPU and ATI GPU was retooled and beefed up twice as well once with the Wii and yet again on the WiiU with more advanced versions that still can run the same general code.

Yawn osgeld, boring you are. A piece of advice, bitching at me on how I post never will get you somewhere, especially if you're just doing it to be negative or troll. If that's all you care to do, and you can't stand how I write, feel free to use the ignore feature as I don't intend to change how i feel about the modern gaming world or how I write things to make you or anyone else happy. Kosmic - Clearly that's what I was getting at when I said "Nintendo also is famous" I was referring to them. Until and if they decide to do a Players Choice/Select line of games they don't cut prices except when a game bombs kind of like when Elite Beat Agents went from like $30 down to $10-20 in very short order. I know third party games are a whole other matter.

Well as promised I picked up 2 more games. Cost me a little over $100 for the pair, and one of those two usually sells for what I paid or a little over -- the other would obviously end up being free. I redid that picture with a stack of every cart I have (even the 2 that have kits for them - 8Man+NTM) and they're up top and top right. Strikers 1945 Plus and The Last Blade The first I have seen quite a bit, toyed with the android spinoff but never actually have played it before, it's brutal. I rolled the 8 stages, took me 14 credits though if they +1 each you continue right? The second, it was my favorite fighter pretty much for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, but I've never seen the arcade game before either but I had to get it, especially for free basically!

No a realist. I actually do think of both sides when I wrote that as I still hear enough of it from my brother game game producer. I just don't agree with it and distanced myself from a great deal of it. I'd love to see a lot of these die by the sword type companies to crater as a lesson to the rest. Clearly they can charge whatever the market will bare, and they do. $20 isn't a big deal depending how it it handled. Nintendo hasn't just done a la carte, look at Mario Golf on 3DS. They held back one of the courses and a few of the characters grayed out on the players menu so you can pay them $15 to get it all making a $30 game ultimately $45 ($5 over what 3DS retail games release for.) That to me started the ball in motion for them to do that again in the future. Zelda they may do it, or they may handle it more honorably like Witcher 3 did too. Or it could end up like some EA mess where you walk around, and then random characters try and sell something or ask you to do something, and the game prompts you to buy the DLC package or forget it. As it stands now I've made my choices on modern gaming. I'm going with the PC and the Switch. Switch will get what the PC (which PS4 more or less gets too) won't as Nintendo doesn't share their toys with anyone. Nintendo also is famous for never dropping a game price unless it outright bombs for years, so no worries a $30-60 game will be 25-50% off in a few months. It's a safer bet all around.

4 hours and $650 short, miracle aside that one is going down in flames unless they care to put up their own money to fund the finished product on the hopes (and likely would) in the back end selling it on GoG, Steam, etc they'd get paid back and then some.

I really like that. It's so simple and direct. Nothing to be confused about if you just click above or use left/right to slide between the panels and you can find whatever you care to mess with or transfer from one medium of storage to the other. I'm still shopping a NGPC. I've decided I'd rather have your card when it's done and a NGPC again than dick around with a NeoGeoX as I already have a shield tablet that kicks it's ass.

If anyone is interested I just threw up some stellar Genesis games, titles from most of Nintendo's line of handhelds, a few more Dreamcast and other little things.

I couldn't remember the name of the studio so I kept it vague but obvious. It was a total farce that even happened. It just felt for a discussion point to really hammer it home how far off the deep end the gaming industry has gone in relation to the crappy huge budgets with console games where you basically balance your company wellbeing essentially on top of a nice sharp masamune blade. Just one little thing goes wrong and it's financial seppuku and in that case of that putz it took the taxpayers with it. Games just shouldn't be designed until such flawed budgetary ideas when you can make a stellar title, even a visual eye candy feast still for far much less cash with a smaller team and get into the profit zone with less risk. This topic came up over at racketboy and I got ripped over it because I somehow do not get it. I do, I just don't like it and rarely if ever will support it so I put my money usually with more GoG/Steam level stuff and Nintendo which traditionally has been a solid rock on not so much just quality of their games but the fact they're jerks about price drops.

I wasn't registered, doesn't mean I wasn't passively reading that dramatic nightmare of a turd dance from Mike. The media was all over his hypocrisy, and a few suck ups also in denial trying to defend as well, both sides linking threads on this forum, as well as other forums picking up on the stupid behavior. I just didn't recall ever seeing that piece about the hater brigaders.

Times do change, and he is right, yet in a way also not. That gets into the argument of the damaged development model the industry clings to like fools now in particular since things went HD and added storage devices of measurable considerable size within a system. Sure you now have a game with a 100 people on it, but is that really necessary? Do games really need a hollywood budget to be a AAA game worth a million plus sales? Looking at what you can pick up off the online model at GoG or Steam I'd argue no. It's not a sustainable good model if you have to nickel people holding back part of a game to up-charge to $80, $100 or more in 'added' DLC. Ultimately it's withheld stuff to pad their pockets because their business model is a shakey one that teeters a lot of the businesses on collapse potentially over one stinker of a game. You look at all these small companies of a few people or a couple dozen who can plop out something as small as like Evertale or huge like No Man's Sky and they move mass quantities of those games and they rake it in quite nicely as they run from sensible teams with sensible budgets. Then you have huge bloat houses like the old guard of the 80s and 90s (EA, Capcom, Ubisoft, etc) and they have to spit out yearly franchise junk with major DLC charges on the side to keep their books comfortable. Then you get some fools who open companies trying to be more like that bad way to go about it, like that one game from that retired baseball pitchers team that cratered at the cost of state tax payers since the gov't got into backing the mess. Given the encroachment ever so growing of people who refuse to pay $60 for a game and another $60 for DLC in lieu of Android goodies for $1-25 (or the freemiums) and same goes with iOS it's going to make it harder for them to pull this garbage and be sustainable. Something will have to change or the console industry is going to bury itself under it's own budgetary stupidity because even if they move to the PC format (and a lot are this go around) with their titles they end up on Steam and Steam has 20-80% off sales many will sit around and wait for so that won't help bail them out either. Nintendo going down this road is likely going to piss off a lot of their not as rabid fanboy base and those who just bought the thing to have some fun and feel like they're getting taken for a ride depending how they handle DLC on this system.

Well yeah lots of dirty pool is going on with the marvel stuff no doubt there. And you're right Zen has had those tables for those 2 franchises. Sadly that doesn't bode well for Indy. What you'll end up with is likely nothing, but if they did, it would be some terrible Zen Pinball release with unrealistic physics and a wonky annoying table layout. Tried for a long while years ago to like their tables and they blow. If it's a choice between using bootlegged ROMS and VPINMAME (or just NOTHING) or taking a Zen table. I'd rather do without.

Sorry no can do. I got rid of my PSOne stuff probably 2-3 years ago now as part of my mass downsizing. Try something huge like the one of these reddits as they probably would have someone. https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/ Probably a Sony one like for Nintendo but most of those system specific ones have little travel.

I've owned the game twice over the years and run on a few systems (a couple PSOnes and a PS2) and never have I seen that happen. The game was always smooth to run, superior in my eyes with the game pad if you didn't mind the load screens into the over world or loaded up dungeons.

If you're paying through amazon the card works just fine. Think of it like a credit card that only works with one store front, no matter who may be peddling stuff at that store as long as it runs through that stores cash register.

That I do agree with as well. Of the three of these style of catch all devices yet to (or never will) hit the market stuff, this one here is the most believable. Also as you can see their support network at least has been pretty consistent and a bit more open about stuff as well.

As an amusing side effect could be worth watching to see if anyone of those scalpers panic and lower their price hoping to catch someone before they eventually do show up. A game of flipper chicken.

I like it, I really enjoyed it, and I wasn't harmed by it's so called eye damaging hell of red on black. The only reason I don't have my original one, or the other 2 I've had since, is I ran out of games to play that didn't cost like $100-1000 each to import so I got bored, it got dusty, then it got me some green for something that wouldn't be a dust bunny farm. Right now I have been self trolling myself over a local craigslist thing that has been up at least since last summer. There's a total VB setup inside one of those blockbuster cases with 8 games, most/all? have the manuals too. It started out at $400, only down to $325 now. I added it up and there's around $450-550 worth of stuff there if someone were to part it out, sell it and minus the ebay+PP fees. On one hand it's tempting because I know I could mess with a few games I never had, but not so much as I'd get bored again and I really don't care to try and flip it. it just would be nice to finally try out Panic Bomber (only played PCE CD and Neo Geo releases), Waterworld, and Nester's Funky Bowling on it. Problem is all my favorites (Mario Clash, Wario Land, and Red Alarm) are not in the lot. Guy has his phone # listed only, no email or other messaging. I tried to text it but it never reported back so it's a land line. I could call but I don't want to get into some pricing debate so I've left it for someone else to poach and yet it remains...9~ months later it remains. Perhaps if I could get a VB flash kit I'd change my mind as that would double the system library of games including that cool Street Fighter 2 conversion and the unreleased protos as well would be a blast to take a crack at (along with the $100-1000+ dollar JP titles.) Travistouchdown there is right, some of the games do feel like a Vectrex experience (Red Alarm in particular) which is a good thing. Damn it's limited library as i'd really love it. All the game downsizing I've done lately I've got the money for such a buy (which is a very rare thing.)

The only DLC I've technically paid for would be those larger than standard box sets. Uncharted 3 comes to mind with the extras. Or waiting out for a used copy with unclaimed goodies of The Taken King(Destiny PS4), and the cases of Game of the Year stuff. Beyond that, I'll throw what I consider an earned deferred payment or TIP to a company who had a free to play game of some sort with 'gems' some coining system and if I am really happy and put some good time into it I'll pay you for my happiness buying some in game currency which I've done a few times. The only Nintendo DLC I've liked came as a free setup so this kind of has me potentially annoyed. I can see it like I said going the hold back 20% of a game to up charge you over normal like Mario Golf 3DS did (so I sold it.) But as Atari Boy said, it could also just be added gravy that is just added fun and not impactful on the story or in some other way a detriment not buying it. Only time will tell once it rolls out through much of this year.

Phil: Funny how most the trolling you see online complains about the Genesis first like it was the worst and SNES9X second. I never dug much into it as I didn't care to get involved in the drama as the system just worked and suited many peoples needs well. I don't want to get into some huge moral debate, but yes i realize they can't afford lawyers, and knowing that I really still didn't care as I stayed out of that whole fight. It's just an unfortunate situation that happens when you put something like that out there public with no lock and key on it, people will use it as they see fit knowing they can get away with it. I used to work with a few emulator authors back in the 90s on some projects to help iron out bugs, one was the old SNES96 that was the first to add audio, FWNES which first did FDS as I knew Fanwen fairly well, same can be said with zsnes (zsknight) as I knew them all from efnet irc. I know to a decent length the level of dedication that went into such things and the hours of work and testing that work, it's not small task. I'm just at a point now I'm just over internet drama over stuff is where I was going with that 'sounds bad' bit you quoted. Bass: No actually I don't. I never kept up much with it except off and on as I kind of smelled bs early on and maybe every week or two I'd pop in *lurking then* to watch that nitwit try and defend his layers of stupidity and that failed project. I read here to fill in some of the lines around the slant stories of the gaming media trying to either buddy up to defend MK or set him on fire over it. Keatah: You got it. I originally got my first computer for Christmas 1990. I never learned to code, tried and failed as math and logical math problems are my undoing. I did learn a heap about general software and hardware IT, how to get into and around stuff. I didn't mind going through a book of stuff back when I was a kid or even in my 20s when I had more time for it, but now not so much. It just kind of depends. But that's me, and I'm posting that on a mass consumer level and most people are into that whole instant gratification garbage and being hipster cool and smart and that doesn't equal having to go through that old book and slap together band-aids to get a piece of hardware to work which is what I was pointing out. I do have an i7 DIY custom laptop with that nvidia gtx 980M 8GB backed video card in it with 16GB of ram so I'm in the same boat as you where I can run stuff like higan/bsnes, Dolphin, and other heavy hitters in silky smooth style. So I too have to wonder exactly how higan is going to plod along on a celeron/atom level chip. Sure you won't have a huge bloated mess of Windows and a hellish about of APIs, drivers, and various off the rack myriad of parts and their baggage to deal with but I can't imagine something so measily cutting it. The laptop I had before this is an i5 chip with a HD3000 intel chip in it and 6GB of RAM on that and I could get BSNES to run 60fps using the median or fast core, but not the dead pan accurate one except on stock games (chipped stuff would drop.) I would like to think an i5 with that video on a chip and level of RAM would top some piddly celeron even without all the roadblocks in the way. The i5 could run PS3 level stuff just at low/med level settings (because of the HD 3000 alone) and it couldn't cut it. This thing I have here now could do/outdo the PS4/One and their updates and it is a happy camper. I'd love to have that explanation how their core can run such things.

Ahh the elusive SNES Honeybee. I always wanted one of those along with the NES style. It was only in the last 5 years roughly I got the NES one and it's so so useful, well it was until I got the Retron5, but I keep it around as that's a cheap piece of junk that won't last like the old NES that keeps on trucking. It's odd really. I have the Honeybee for NES, a N64 bypass cart too for Bangaioh and Sin&Punishment, and even the Freeloader 1.06 for JP/PAL games on my Gamecube. Yet the SNES stands alone, probably since even the SFC games are getting ridiculous now unlike the FC stuff.

Ahh don't bother it's mostly a dead board. Other than celery over there almost no one contributes to new topics as it is really. It's a fantastic post about a really great game. It's got me right on the edge of maybe pondering getting another couple Famicom games to dink around with a bit as it has been well over a year since I bought my last legit cartridge and some of them have some real class and style. I'm contemplating making a Famicom thread on here just to see what suggestions may shake out. Maybe I'll do it in 5min, 5 hours, tomorrow or not but I've been thinking more about it between this post of yours and that other one with the 300+ games picked up as I even learned about one I didn't know of with that Valkyrie in it that looks cool.