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Game Gear. And I'm waiting anxiously for it to jump in price so I can finally offload my collection which has been gathering dust as my poor GG died years ago due to the damn caps. I tried to repair it but the damage was unbelievable, those pieces of shit leaked and made a mess and even ate...

Puzzle Bobble Metal Slug Samurai Shodown 2 Aero Fighters 3 EDIT: and Twinkle Star Sprites

Io ci sono sempre, latente, ma ci sono. Purtroppo alla fine quello che prevedevo è successo e sta succedendo anche nel forum principale, solo che al posto dei social media ora c'è Discord perchè, ovviamente, anche un gruppo facebook è troppo "lento" per le nuove generazioni e hanno bisogno...

Yeah, this is a very personal thing and probably related to how you played whatever you had back then. For me arcade games were played in the arcade, which means giant cabs with huge monitors and my face right up to it. Console games were always played in my bedroom with a small 14-15" TV, and...

When I first got my MVS I used to play it on my Sony BVM monitor but somehow, even with a very precise replica arcade stick I made, it wasn't the same thing. Neo needs to be played on a giant 29" CRT monitor with your face just inches from it and a proper arcade control panel, otherwise, for me...

If you really have to go down the chinese bootleg multicart route, I'd personally advise non to go for the 161-in-1 as every single ROM has been modified to accomodate the in-game reset which means we'll never know if the games in it are legit dumps or bad dumps/hacks. In the 138-in-1 most of...

MS3 would have been an absolute masterpiece as a console game. As an arcade game, it is needlessly long. But if you play it at home without the stress that you need to finish it all in one go and use save states it's actually a great game. There are also some parts where, even if memorizing...

That was my first thought when I read about this yesterday.

Yeah, even if they remain some simple technical demo they are very impressive. I was always amazed at the SFA2 port on the SNES, I wonder if we'll ever be able to see that on the MD.

The reason for all of those new games/ports for the Mega Drive is the new SDK which has made programming for the MD much easier, it is called SGDK. Here's a nice recap of what's been done with it in 2021 (and earlier) and some stuff is mighty impressive:

Oh right I had KoF98 as well on the PS1! I don't remember playing it much for some reason, but I still definitely have it somewhere.

Discovering that Metal Slug X existed on PS1 completely blew my mind back then. I know it wasn't MS2 (2>X), but hey... metal slug on PS1! I played the hell out of the game.

This is awesome! I loved Breakers back in the day but never actually played it against someone else, I'll definitely pick this up and see how I far against other people (I'll lose 99% of the matches because I'm terrible).

Indeed. If you look hard enough, you'll find that there are tons of "tech demos" floating around with very few of them becoming actual fully working games. Metal Slug at least is looking promising, they are making progress and released a playable demo.

Looks like they implemented scrolling as well This is shaping up nicely, the scrolling is nice and smooth even with several sprites on screen.