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  1. Posted

    Definitely like the idea of cross-play through gameplay! Sounds very cool. 

     

    Will there be a 'wipe' feature for new playthroughs? 

     

    Also, is areas 'endless'? A lot of these games have a set number of floors (was it 25 on fatal labyrinth? 40 on azure dreams) which is fine for story gameplay - but an endless mode (or extended) with increasingly difficult monsters is always fun for increasing replay ability. 

  2. Posted

    1 minute ago, batari said:

    When you connect USB, it uses a bootloader that's burned in a mask ROM on the die of one of the chips, so it would be really tough to do with only software!

    You've thought of everything!

  4. Posted

    18 hours ago, batari said:

    Just letting everyone know that the delay with shipping Concertos was due to my desire to get the firmware built with a new compiler.

    I would have happily waited for the new firmware, but appreciate you don't want to delay releasing those already paid for. 

     

    Update firmware via menu will be highly appreciated though, I'm far less likely to brick it by accident this way XD. 

  5. Posted

    Received mine today! Oh its so great to play golf on the fairchild channel f on a real console. I'm still absolutely rubbish at golf, but there is something about playing it with the channel F controller. The other two games are cool too. My son enjoyed Kevin vs Tomatoes and Killer heads of lettuce was enjoyed too. 

     

    Ps: has anyone worked out how to get the easter egg yet. I tried a few things but got no luck! PM me it if someone worked it out? 

  6. Posted

    On 12/8/2020 at 4:43 AM, XtraSmiley said:

    While I agree with you, I think there are a couple of things that happen. 1. Not everyone derives pleasure at the same things. For many, social interaction is uncomfortable or difficult. I've noticed this with many collector types, not just games.

    That's because most of us are Autistic. Social communication difficulties and fixed interests come with the territory. They are manageable aspects and often don't require any skill that challenges the difficulties that come with the condition. Collections of things is manageable, predictable, and ordered. This is probably my true answer to why I collect. Its one thing I never have to be good at in order to succeed, I just need to pump all my disposable income on it. At some point, we all find our limit, and then it's about whether we slow down, stop, or start reducing. I'd say most users on this forum is at some stage or another of this process. I'm definitely still in the slowing down phase. Not everyone will go to reducing their current collections to tailor it, but many will. Various YouTuber game collectors have gone through this process, making it more visible. For some, game collecting becomes like bonsai, clipping out the unwanted and tailoring your own aesthetics. 

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  7. Posted

    6 hours ago, Keatah said:

    You said it kid.. Unless a collector's real hobby is playing "retail manager" by creating shelving with colorful cartridge boxes..? Maybe they have a simulator for that?

    I genuinely laughed out loud when I first saw PC builder simulator, but hey, this isn't much more of a stretch. If we make it now it can still be a VCS release exclusive. 

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  8. Posted

    While this thread has been revived I would say there is a group mentality of modern gamers looking less favourable at the nes games compared to the msx games. However, if like me you never knew what an msx was at the time and you had the nes metal gear games, it looked absolutely awesome. Nes has a select number of decent games, that we often forget about the trash that also came with it. I wouldn't regard the nes metal gear games as trashy, when you compare it with other nes games. 

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    49 minutes ago, Shaggy the Atarian said:

    As for games, at least Atari announced something new for it recently, although it's also going to be available for PC/PS4/XB1 so who gives a crap that it will be on the VCS unless you have a VCS and need a reason to justify the purchase: 

     

     

    Although confirmed in the comments, it wasn't deemed important enough to be mentioned in the announcement trailer

     

     

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  11. Posted

    Klarna is just like getting a bank loan to do home improvements, except its for tens to hundreds of pounds and not thousands, and not for massive projects but for buying fast fashion and adult sex toys, for the people who just need things they don't require to live but seemingly can't wait till the end of the month. 

     

    It has made me wonder whether if the VCS was a fancy Win XP / 98 emulator with a cd/dvd drive and just made out to be a retro device whether more of us would be on board with it. To remove the pain of configuring old games (why does X1 beyond the frontier not work on my windows 10 laptop!) I'd pay money for a system that fits nicely in my living room, it can sit next to my amstrad CPC emulator GX4000. 

     

     

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  12. Posted

    Because I was fortunate enough to get a Concerto I'll probably hold back on grabbing one of these until everyone else has had a chance to get one (and fill my coffers back up), but did have one question:

     

    What would be the suggested power cable for a UK user, I'm not too technical but noticed it shares the same port as a mega drive 2 / 32x, would those power cables work or should I be looking for a different cable? 

     

    But other than that, congrats on the release of the dragonfly! It looks super cool, I'll grab one when I can. 

  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, SainT said:

     

    All will receive stock in a couple of weeks (I'm waiting on parts to come in myself, once they arrive it will be a couple of days turnaround). More stock will follow toward the end of January. The 1st quarter of next year should see everyone who wants one with one regardless of where they purchase.

    Yayy, just enough time to get paid so I don't get in the red! 

  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, alortegac said:

    Cranky this morning? 

    It's nothing personal to you, but 80% of this thread is literally about the lack of people reading previous posts. 

     

    Even in the last post or two by Batari not too far in the distant past, he mentions a hope of outsourcing some of the work to create more quickly, understanding there is a high demand for something like this given the lack of adoption from bigger romcart producers (even saint is hoping to look into it in the future, kritzz probably doesn't have anything coaxial based in the radar ever). 

     

    He said he would have some up Sunday night, he got some up Sunday night. Because I'm stupid, I literally stayed up all night in the hopes of grabbing one 3rd time lucky. Others can't do this, which is understandable, and Batari recognises this and is trying to do something about it. 

     

    You can use the search function inside topics to find posts from other users. Batari is the only person you need to read from, the rest of us might be just making jokes at your expensive (CPUWIZ makes some great corker posts, BTW). 

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  17. Posted · Edited by Mikebloke

    I decided a long time ago that I would only ever try and go for UK releases, which makes the prospect of collecting sets a lot easier as its almost always less than US and Japan lists. This comes with the fact that many consoles can't play these games due to region lock/picture variation anyway. 

     

    I have a few complete UK sets, but not many. And they are all small libraries. A few years ago I bulked and started to buy romcarts. Having a R4 card for DS given by in Laws a few years before ruined me, as I had virtually an entire library of games at my fingertips. I had largely given up emulation on pc because it didn't 'feel the same'. Looking at NES prices (2nd console I owned after 2600) made me realise it was impractical for me to own entire sets of the larger, more popular console libraries so romcarts it is. 

     

    I still buy though, some consoles have games not easily run on a romcart or multicart, some are small libraries that I would like to have 100% in (some include non UK releases too because libraries is so small). 

     

    My buying is more specific now, and I'm starting to buy homebrew which is something I never used to do before. My tastes is changing, and so is my collecting. As some parts of collecting is now prohibitive to those of low earning backgrounds, I'm choosing to not engage.

     

    Edit: to answer the question properly: UK physical releases, any version (including foreign that work), no variation doubles. I collect to play, getting a set is a bonus. 

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  20. Posted · Edited by Mikebloke

    Plays nicely on a real console, sorry I didn't last long enough for fireball in this one, but I did do before!

     

     

    Edit: I also tried your fly swatting game, it is much harder on a real console than on emulator!

  21. Posted

    16 minutes ago, Chopsus said:

    Nup ...FArtari will mess this up on the try line so bad that they will be blaming the shipping company for delays in picking them up.

    The excuses is starting to run out, but perhaps they have one last surprise up their sleeve! 

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    2 weeks to get into US. 

    Assuming no customs issues several days to a week to get to their warehouse. 

    A day minimum for product testing / confirmation. - we probably skipped this one to be fair

    Rest of the week to package orders to ship out. 

    Week to arrive if it wasn't covid Christmas, so perhaps two. 

     

    2nd or 3rd week of December for first units in backers hands.

    Don't you just hate being right. Yep we are still on the second step as they are still waiting for some, but hey, at least they are doing some of the order prep now. Perhaps next week actual shipping... for a 3rd week of December earliest delivery?  Looks like some kids might get these by the 17th of December after all!

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