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@Dazman crow is a delicious platter to see eaten by people with a superiority complex

@BandeeOfTheStars what kind of hat, that’s important, must be a nutritious meal

@Serpenterror wait, so this got a patch that now includes the ability to play the games in 4:3 aspect ratio? I guess no scanlines/filters/integer scaling options but that would still make me get. Can someone confirm, and if it got any other patch (or what else was included with this update)? Emulation/audio was pretty mediocre, is it still the same?

Edit: found a post on Game Faqs (still exist!) saying the audio is still horrible and also it has bad input lag. How bad are we talking for the former? First wave of Saturn Tribute games/Psikyo collection level of lag (8+ frames, basically unplayable) where it’s like ice-skating when moving your character?

Audio is horrible means crackling/out of sync/? Or more like low-output and wrong audio levels?

@Chlocean @Lizuka Blooper had nothing to do with this game’s development all. They are just publishing it under their new label Black Mirror Games. It’s fully and solely developed by Rock Square Thunder.

This just got a new DLC and it’s the original arcade game! Finally! I wish it was simply Arcade Archives Snow Bros or a separate release instead of DLC, but I’ll take it. I don’t like the new gfx and artstyle at all, they’re 10x worse than the original pixel art for my taste, so I I’ve very little of the main game (believe me I tried). That said, this must be one of the worst if not the worst review I’ve read on NL. Boggles my mind that the reviewer is on Retronauts. I also prefer Bubble Bobble, incidentally one of my fav games of all time, but Snow Bros. is still a classic, and even if you don’t like it this is review has zero analysis. Anyway, didn’t buy the DLC yet because I fear it won’t let you apply scanlines or have options/dip switches… screenshots on eShop look really bad. I’m looking around for info but I’ll probably cave in later today and buy it anyway if I don’t find someone talking about this DLC.

Between ACA, ACA NeoGeo, and imports (such as ACA Macross), I’m closing in on my 200th titles.

Much prefer individual releases Vs. collections, unless you get 1 app for all the games. But we never do. It sucks having to remember which is on Stadium Arcade 1, 2, beat em up collection, fighting collection etc. etc

Currently own 192! Absolutely adore them, every week I can’t wait to know which game they’ll release. Without a doubt the number 1 reason I play my Switch(es) daily!

This is on sale for just 5 bucks on eShop!

Kicking myself because it was 35%off before launch! Looks incredible! Will wait for the next sale because backlog… or go physical if Super Deluxe Games gets one out that is cool. Hopefully game has a performance patch planned soon!

Please G.Rev now Border Down!

@0_Cassiel_0

I own over 250 between ACA and Neo-Geo’s. No point asking for Atari Games, Sega’s (Congo Bongo!!), Activision’s (Pitfall 2!!!) etc. or spinner, trackball, wheel, light-gun based games. Or high-cost license releases, Alien, Marvel, WWF/WWE etc. Unfortunately. I wonder if Popeye coud get a release since it’s public domain now.

I would kill for HORI to make trackball/spinner “joycon” modules like they did on Nintendo DS, loved playing Arkanoid DS and Space Invaders Extreme 1&2 with the spinner, amazing experience.

However, please release Chequered Flag (can be played with digital controls/analog stick much better than Final Lap), Amidar, Roc ‘n Rope, a proper ACA of Wonderboy (stuck on PS4 and JPN-only iirc), Tetris arcade.

It hasn’t been eased at all as far as I’m concerned the Switch version is still awful with its headache-inducing constant stuttering. This is especially infuriating because I feel duped by Summitsphere’s social media”60fps” announcement and equally so by the smooth demo not being representative at all of the full game’s performance.

@N00BiSH I didn’t call your comment anything other than what it is. Btw, word of advice for the future: Sp311inG!! won’t make your comments look as smart as you think, quite the contrary. Also, being sensitive to a game’s smoothness doesn’t make us “nuts” either.

@Sylamp commented on what the real performance was even post-patch, because the devs’ announcement on X was very misleading. You @ him saying how the game was “running at 60 with rare dips” instead. If you had simply said “runs fine enough for me” nobody would have rebutted. So it was the other way around, you were the one who intervened. Straight up misinformation, and when called out your reply was “I’m not big on numbers”… really? ‘K. Anyway, I think people are aware of what the real performance is now, there are videos around, and they can make an informed decision if they want to buy it or not: that was all I wanted to contribute.

@Pally356 lol your wish as already been granted merry Christmas;)

@N00BiSH if you don’t pay attention to framerate good for you, but why go one step further and spread misinformation for people who do care about performance and are waiting for improvements before putting down hard-earned cash? It’s not 60 fps. “it's been running at 60 frames for me, with only the rare bit of slowdown.” no it doesn’t, and no it’s not “rare” slowdowns. Game NEVER runs at 60fps, never goes higher than 53fps and it’s all over the place with constant dips. Again, it’s fine if you don’t care but shouldn’t correct on others reporting on real-world performance.

Btw, don’t know if anybody cares but I’ve noticed that DDP Resurrection (physical, digital has been delisted) is on sale for 23€ on Amazon.it, worth it if you’re in EU!

@The_Trooper49 yeah X360 version had a full on Tutorial mode that was super helpful and it’s a shame they got rid of if. However, eggs on my face because that was City Connection and not Livewire 😅

btw Futari is probably my favorite Cave game of all time, I still fork out my X360 to play it, I’m sure it will come in the future! But I’m glad they’ve prioritized Mushi HD because I had never played that one since on X360 it was region-locked to JPN. I’m thankful for Livewire but it’s bittersweet when I think how they’ve cut all of the tutorials from their Akai Katana release, and that in the end they never did enable online leaderboards on Mushi, etc. etc.

@The_Trooper49 are you me? I’m also 100% digital for STGs on Switch but Cave games are the exception! However, I’ve double dipped on all of them (bar Blissful Death) because digital is just too convenient for me to give up, haha. Having a score-based/arcade/shmup game there at all times makes it so I’ll play it much more than if I had it (only) on cart. Also most of them were dirt cheap on sale! Well, not SDOJ tho, 35 bucks is a bit too steep to double dip later for anything that doesn’t get the ShotTriggers treatment…

@Ralizah good then, because Balatro has nothing to do with poker. It only uses poker hands (high card, pair, double-pair, three of a kind…), that’s it. It’s a deck builder.

This game just won EDGE’s Nintendo (Switch) GOTY! Beating Zelda EOTW (not that anybody cares but mine was Balatro)! Also came 9/10 in their GOTY/runner ups list, above Helldivers II. High praise, I’m going to look for a physical copy tomorrow! I didn’t before because I still didn’t “complete” Shiren 4. Also wasn’t convinced by the switch to 3D gfx but they’ve since grown on me.

Awesome! Still wish it got optional touchscreen controls patched in tho

This was a great read! Thanks!

Has performance/framerate also been improved with this new patch on Switch?

I’m 95% all digital on Switch, but for “special releases” I like to have the odd physical release in my collection (I do collect retro CiB for Nintendo’s handhelds) it’s really too bad that DE’s Gold Master series hasn’t had a single physical release so far, and I’m not holding my breath that when they will do them they won’t simply hand them out to boutique publishers like Limited Run, and similar, meaning I won’t get them. Sigh.

“Moss made THREE excellent entries”.
Lies, lies, lies! 😅 Raiden V is the worst game in the series (well besides this spin-off, lol) and quite frankly all in all a mediocre shmup with awful direction with intrusive story and systems, diluted gameplay, and bog-standard art direction. I don’t know if they can ever salvage it with an Overkill-like revision cutting all that nonsense (and giving it a proper TATE/vertical view mode!).

Just please give us (or Hamster as Arcade
Archives releases) Raiden DX (Raiden 2) and Raiden Fighters 1&2, those masterpieces are still stuck on Xbox 360 or even PSX…

Weird that there’s no Lollipop Chainsaw review

Love the game, glad that they prioritized framerate, but I’m a bit disappointed the resolution in handheld mode is so low that pixel and jaggies transform the game’s artstyle, and it’s too bad because the clean look helped with visibility, so for me it directly impacts gameplay. I hope the game gets a Switch “2” patch in the future… again, the game is great but if like me you play 99% portable it’s better to know what to expect. But unless you watch 4k videos in action you might think it’s almost an artstyle choice, giving it a pixel-y look. Hey, I know it’s frowned upon in here to make any kind of comment on performance or technical merits because you get the horde of “back in the old days” snark (not knowing that back in the days the vast majority of games were locked to 60fps until the approach of 3D on home consoles… yeah, I’m 46yo.)

@Not_Soos your heart is in the right place, but you’re just really uninformed, more than naive. If you’d like to correct that, you can.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/06/executions-saudi-arabia-record-high-crown-prince-mohammed/

Also, this has barely anything to do with making money, it’s about having more and more control on culture and their public image. It’s even more dangerous.

With how many great games don’t get a review these days at NL, it’s a bummer one was wasted for this. Ugh.

@Tom-Massey truly fantastic review! One question, since even tho I was around since SF1, I never gelled with the Vs. series besides Tatsunoko on Wii, is there an how-to-play tutorial section for the games in the collection? Anything at all to learn besides going online to look for guides ourselves?

He was given a loss, not disqualified. He got off easy since they ruled “unsporting conduct” but it could easily fall under “severe Unsporting conduct”.

Pokemon Tournament Rules:
https://www.pokemon.com/static-asse...mon-tournament-rules-handbook-03092020-en.pdf

Unsporting conduct infractions are caused when poor personal conduct on behalf of a tournament attendee results in a detraction from the experience of others.

a. Minor Unsporting Conduct is characterized by mild lapses in judgement that result in a contained incident, or the annoyance of a small group of attendees.
Examples may include:

• A player swears mildly in annoyance, or in conversation with a friend.
• A player disturbs a match in progress.
• A player leaves food wrappers or other detritus in the play area after their match is over.

b. Major Unsporting Conduct is characterized by behavior that displays a lack of respect or consideration for fair play, or for the enjoyment of others in attendance.
Examples may include:

• A player attempts to distract or intimidate their opponent into misplay.
• Refusal to cooperate with a tournament policy, such as signing a match slip.
• During a match, a player makes legal plays that have no effect on the game in progress, or plays unreasonably slowly, in order to manipulate the time remaining in that match (TCG).
• Attempting to view the opponent's screen to gain an advantage (screen peeking) (VG).

c. Severe Unsporting Conduct demonstrates a blatant disregard for the Play! Pokémon Standards of Conduct, and actively contributes toward the disruption of a safe and family-friendly environment.
Examples may include:

• The use of profanity, slurs, physical threats, or insults toward any other attendee.
• Assault, theft, or other criminal activity.
• Wilfully lying to tournament staff, such as during an investigation.
• Determining the outcome of a match by random means, through the use of bribery or coercion, or via other disallowed methods.

@RubyCarbuncle he wasn’t disqualified, the article is flat out wrong, he was given a loss for that turn.
It’s all in the tournament’s rules, and honestly they were pretty lax since he could’ve been outright disqualified, he’s own fault he knew well what a dumbaxx gesture he was doing and you don’t mess with those things at a freakin Pokemon World Tournament.

Expected. But still good to hear, game is middling, and Blow’s absolutely toxic and harmful behavior means even I was interested I’d choose to spend my hard-earned money for something else, it’s not like there’s a shortage of much better indie games.

Wait a second, it’s not 60fps period, or just when playing in local mp with 8 other players?
No 60fps for a game like this would be a deal breaker for me.

Also, the ghosts of other players mentioned in the review are pulled from where, online?

@Sakaixx PS4 also has physical, EU-exclusive. Although vg+ is selling it as an import. Beware that MHS2 is included as just a voucher dlc code like the Switch physical

That’s too bad they didn’t improve on the mediocre performance of the original, at all. :/ I’ll wait for Switch 2 to play it then (I only enjoy/have time for long jrpgs on portable systems), assuming it’ll get an automatic boost in performance if not a real patch to take advantage of the new hardware.

@gcunit I mean your “suspicion” didn’t make sense in the first place. It’s simply marketing, an opportunity to get more eyes, and hopefully more sales, on your product. Which something pretty important in any market. They’d be stupid not too match it with the Euros if they can, and that doesn’t have anything to do with the ability to “stand on its own”. It’s not like they put the ready-to-go PC version in the freezer either waiting till now, since that one came out half-a-year ago…

@locky-mavo Nah. Garry’s Mod situation and emulation/recompiling is apple and oranges, Nintendo can’t do anything here and there’s nothing illegal.

Team Ladybug does great work (and fantastic Switch ports), loved everything from them, especially RoLW Deelit and Stranius. This looks awesome!

Sucks to hear it’s in such bad state on Switch I usually use my GPU sub to “demo” games and If I like them enough I’ll grab them on Switch because 90% of my gaming time is with portable-mode and don’t have a Deck, but I’ll stick with the GPU version on my humble Series S then! Maybe down the line on a deep sale if it’ll be patched accordingly. Nice review Kate!

@scully1888 since it’s mentioned in the review and cons section, do you know if this was ever patched to fix the framerate issues?

@CammyUnofficial there’s a demo for Bahnsen Knights on the eShop!

3 great games, and all 3 walkthroughs make for a single medium-sized game since their length is less than 10 hours combined (between 6 and 9 hours). If they price it right (30€) I’ll double dip on the physical collection (have them digital already).

@BulbasaurusRex De gustibus, a lot of people including me think it looks great. You must be one of those people looking at modern art/paintings and saying “my 3y old son could’ve done that!”. Also your visual novels < books < tv series comparison is pure nonsense. Different mediums for different experiences, it sounds like VNs aren’t for you (and that you also have a very limited view on what they offer) and you should leave it a that. It’s ok to not like every genre. I don’t care for Farm games but don’t go around saying that those games are boring and also useless since real farming exists.

@Hanchen Grendizer’s collab was announced for X (trailer released etc.) but never released afaik, hopefully it’s coming down the line for Wired because it’s my most wanted robot together with Kotetsu Jeeg.

Anyway, enjoying the game A LOT and looks and runs great on Switch. No reason to pick up the Deluxe Edition honestly, you’re better off going with the much cheaper standard edition.

@Mando44646 digital only worldwide

@nuff64 because the Switch, like the PS4/X1 and contrary to Xbox Series and PS5, doesn’t support variable refresh rate output nor 120Hz (40x3), so it’d look like a stuttery mess.

Honestly don’t buy it in its current state if you plan to play in handheld mode. Wait for patches, you’ll likely pay less and get, hopefully, a fully functioning game. This ain’t it, or at least right now it isn’t.

Bought! Loved what little I’ve played on Game Pass, stopped playing it there hoping it would come to Switch and it seems that the port is looking great and mostly running (to the right, lol) at 60fps!

How’s performance (framerate/rez, especially in portable mode) now?

Great review! I’ll consider it but only if it adds a way to write down notes in an update, because I’m used to take (long) hiatus when playing games and 100% I won’t remember a thing next time I pick it up again lol (and no, I don’t like writing down my own notes because I might do it but I know it’ll deter me from playing it as much as I’d want since I play NSW exclusively in portable mode). Does it support the touchscreen btw?