Steven Pendleton

The first one I ever bought was a VA4. Walked into a store, flipped it over to get a date estimate, bought it, took it home, opened it, and saw the VA4 on the motherboard. Bought a few others (and a Japanese 60GB PS3 and a Framemeister) from a friend who was getting rid of all of his consoles, but the other Mega Drives aren't as good as my original VA4.

Mega Jet completely outclasses the VA4 in literally every way, though. If you ever see one, buy it without hesitation.

Japanese Mega Drive has the best box art in the entire history of everything that ever had box art.

Definitely go read Iron Coffins and The Forgotten Soldier. I have been meaning to read Das Boot as well; maybe I will do that next.

He might. New Day For Me is Tomizawa, though.

It is one of the best, at least until Out Zone comes in February.

https://shmuplations.com/toaplan-yuge/

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Believe me, they know about it lol. Uemura-san signed my Zero Wing with AYB, too.

@GoldLeaderYeah I use Japanese at work and stuff. No choice, as there are only like 6 people in the entire company that can do English, including myself. I am far from fluent, and there are frequently instances of things that I can understand but not actually read since I don't know the meanings, but this happens to Japanese people as well, so it is actually somewhat normal. I can't talk about like science stuff or political stuff or most other technical things, but I was able to talk about game development stuff with Uemura-san from Toaplan when I met him earlier this year, so I guess I might not be all that bad.

Best way to do it is to go to university or language school classes. 2.5 years in university got me to the point where I can comfortably play games in Japanese with no external translation tools at all and understand 80%~90% of everything, and my proficiency increases every time I play something new.

Kyuukyoku Tiger is an incredible game that literally changed shooting games forever with its introduction of the cycling red/green/blue/yellow powerup icon, as it was the first shooter to ever have that, and now that cycling powerup is common in many shooting games. Twin Cobra, the international version of Kyuukyoku Tiger, is significantly different from Kyuukyoku Tiger, as well, so definitely consider checking out the differences. Kyuukyoku Tiger is way more difficult than Twin Cobra is, though...

X-Wing

TIE Fighter

X-Wing Alliance

Total Annihilation

Command & Conquer

Unreal

Unreal Tournament

StarCraft

They deserve a bit more credit than that; sometimes they copy and paste it from Reddit, too!

Wait until you see the final stage. No rings lol. Metropolis Zone has some awesome music, though. You're making me want to play this game again! Drop dash on Switch Sonic 1 and 2 is amazing, by the way. After Mania, I keep forgetting that drop dash didn't exist aside from in the Sonic 3 beta before it got cut, and I am very glad that they put it in Sonic 1 and 2 on Switch.

You know how the game's physics engine works? If you don't, take a look into it, as the way it works is really cool. Sonic's gameplay, in Sonic 1, 2, CD, 3&K, and Mania, is extremely heavily reliant on the physics engine, which was something perhaps revolutionary at the time in a home console game. Sonic is defined by slopes, and these are the most important parts of the level design, as they are what affect your jump height to a massive degree. With enough speed, which you get from practice, and an upwards slope, you can jump insanely high and far. This is how you master Sonic. Speed is your reward for being good, not something that is or should be given to the player without earning it, and this is why the 2D games have a relatively high skill ceiling for platformers.

Practice. Alternatively, Super Sonic, which you can get as early as Emerald Hill Act 2.

My XE-1AP is in a similar situation, if it makes you feel better. The right analog stick/slider thingy doesn't work. Absolutely no idea how I'd go about fixing it, or if it's even possible.

Does it have something to do with the amazing SG-1000 version of Choplifter? It should...

I believe it is also not on the Dreamcast VMU and I know it's not on the SuperGrafx.

Super jealous. I miss having 4~6 feet of snow on the ground in October. It only snows like once every 2 years in Tokyo, sadly.

I tried that once. It runs way worse than just running MAME on my PC to the point where games are basically unplayable and I'm using that legendary ultra-fast Japanese internet. Better to just download MAME.

Yeah, I have to do some research on the X68000. I do definitely know that the ones with the 3.5 inch floppy drives are best avoided since I believe a lot of the games were not released on 3.5 inch floppy and that the PSUs like to die... although that's not really an issue with the disk drive lol

Actually, there is basically an internal drive thingy that you can use to run games from like an SD card or some other modern storage device, as well, so I guess that's a way to "fix" a faulty disk drive.

Yeah, I was looking at them in Akiba yesterday. Found an X68000 PRO for 118000 yen. The problem really isn't the money, it's the space, as I literally do not have room for an X68000 in my tiny 1 room apartment!

3.5 inch, 5.25 inch, or 8 inch? lol I suppose the 8 inch might be a bit big, though... I'm guessing 3.5 inch.

I only have 1 game on floppy right now: Cotton for X68000 on 5.25 inch floppy and I sadly do not have an X68000 yet.

lol I have a picture of the codes that are on both revisions of the Japanese Saturn version of Out Run so I can easily identify which ones do and do not work on the later motherboard revisions. Does that count? I hope so since that's the only picture I have.

Somehow, seeing you here has made my already great day become even better. 多分このサイトで日本語をわかるユーザーが少ないと思いますがこれからよろしくお願いします。