SmaMan

"Homebrew release proves 8-bit city managment was feasable"

Actually, Nintendo already proved this with their NES prototype of SimCity.

Hooray! More stuff only scalpers will be able to get!

2 minutes? That's quick... too quick.

While yes, in a perfect world, Nintendo would be able to produce enough to meet demand, (I still fault them for not adequately warning us of this random pre-order time window) I say the fault lies with the retailers for not bot-proofing their websites, and/or limiting the quantity that people could buy. In a way, these retailers have welcomed the scalpers in with open arms. Nintendo has little control on their product allotment once it gets handed over to the retailers.

@Nagi_Nagisa
You're not wrong. I just can't quite get past the whole "bosses don't blink when damaged" thing, which is kind of needed in this game as it's not always clear when you're hitting their weak points. That, and mid-level loading screens can just jump into a lake and get eaten by an orca... the same one that ate the classic controller support.

@MetalKingShield
Just my personal opinion, and I'm having a hard time putting it into words, but I kind of like that Metal Slug 2 has its own unique, grounded feel to it. In contrast, Metal Slug X is a crazy, at times silly, beast that doesn't always know when to calm down. In X, the bosses are all in a different order. Different enemies that appear later in the game show up sooner, and vice versa. In that sense, X almost assumes you've played 2 to get its crazy humor and onscreen references.

A good way to think of it is that MSX is the "remix" of MS2. Like any remix of a song, there's going to be some that like the original, and some who think the remix improved on it in every conceivable way. Me? I like both. It's a shame 2 has the slowdown issues that it has, because that's honestly the one and only thing I think that puts X in higher favor with me.

Ooh... no lock on will be quite difficult to get used to.

But damn! I still want this! I was a fan of the prototype and the fan-"completion" patch, but this really does look like a more complete version. I'm salivating at what little I heard of the now complete soundtrack too!

Now wire in a Genesis-on-a-chip and restore its full functionality!!

Despite all the coverage Chicken Wiggle has been getting on this site, it just doesn't seem all that appealing to me. It's like, maybe a $5 game, but $15? Heck no.

The Sonic 2 multiplayer that this is trying to be like was cool in that it pushed the Genesis to output a sort of primitive 480i... which was pretty cool at the time.

But today, it looks all stretched thin and weird.

@sp_initiate-001
Yes, but in those cases it was open to people all over the world. As the contest page states, this is only open to residents of the US and Canada.

@Fooligan I'd say start with either '98 or '97. Maybe even 2002. Those are considered some of the hallmarks of the series.

I love how all the polygons have that Sega Saturn look to them. It's just... wow... they thought of everything, then turned it up to 11.

@Mando44646
It continues the NEST saga from KOF'99, which concludes in KOF2001.
But said story is rather poorly translated as most SNK games are. :/

Ah, KOF 2000. The game where "Shinkiro Face" truly came into form.

Seriously. Look at all the faces in the image above. They're all eerily the same, no?

So, Capcom is testing the Switch's ability to move units on two things:

1. A phoned-in port/remake of a game that's almost 30 years old.
2. A long-awaited installment of a long running franchise... that's only releasing in Japan... where Switch consoles are notoriously in short supply.

Call me crazy, but shouldn't Capcom be looking at what successful companies are doing on the Switch?

So many great titles this week... so little cash. And I'm on a budget (that I already broke last month with Spla2n).

Can we at least allow voice chat between less than 4 people, and allow it to stay running if your phone locks/goes to sleep? Seriously, what were they thinking on that limitation? It's like they want us to just use Discord/Skype instead.

@KingMike @Ralizah
Not to mention, Atlus games are almost perpetually on sale in the 3DS eShop.

Honestly, after I've picked up my Switch, my 3DS just feels redundant at this point.

Like, why are they releasing Pokemon Ultra Sun&Moon on 3DS and not Switch? After playing on the Switch's big screen it's hard to go back to even the 3DS XL screen.

I'm hearing from multiple sources that in fact ALL Walmart's pre-orders have been cancelled. (Or at least will be as soon as the system corrects itself.)

That looks really cool! But is that a Saturn-era polygonal Sonic amidst the 2D scaled sprites? Could be a neat touch, but I'd like to see it in motion.

Hmm... perhaps Walmart was merely doing a test run to see just how quickly their site would crash into oblivion when they actually do get the pre-orders.

And what did we learn? We're just as screwed as last time.

@RupeeClock @Joeynator3000
If you've downloaded Niantic's other, similar game, Ingress, they will periodically ask players to submit new portal locations. Once those get added to that game, they appear in PoGo as new PokeStops/gyms not long after.

You really can't blame anyone for calling this project lost. This is the first we'd ever heard from this project in about a year, and that was the game's original developer saying they were moving on to other projects.

@SmallFryUnify
I'd get in touch with them ASAP. I did some voice overs for another "indie" game that went through a similar troubled development cycle, only to find out as part of the project's "revival" they held new auditions and recast someone else without telling me. Lessons learned...

Surely they've got to also update Mario Maker to function without it right?
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It's kinda cool to see that everyone has different experiences with each of these games. Tee KO is usually the one that gets the most fun out of my family/friend gatherings (mainly because my sister's a graphic designer for a living) The only real dud for us out of Pack 3 seems to be Trivia Murder Party (which I happen to enjoy myself) since the dark sense of humor doesn't seem to get over too well.

@RupeeClock
I'll never forget my save file for Ocarina of Time that had a grand total of 109 Gold Skultulas collected! XD

Believe it or not, I don't have a copy of Fatal Fury Special for my own. Now's the time!

@Bengals76
It "shouldn't never launched" with these apps? Then why are you angry? Because that's exactly what it did.

#doublenegatives

Finally! This is the one we should've gotten in the first place!

Which probably means we're getting Metal Slug X soon after, as it's a similar situation with Metal Slug 2.

#BringBackDafoeverse

I really hope Hamster starts releasing other arcade games on Switch and not just Neo Geo. I mean, I love Neo Geo, but there's so much out there arcade-wise that I'd like a good portable port of.

I guess we gotta have Metal Slug 2 for completionists' sake. Even though it crawls (and I mean that literally, the game is slow) in the shadow of the vastly superior update known as Metal Slug X.

I've seen fan art of this game/anime series all over, and I still have no idea what it's about. Fans of the series, is this a good place to start?

...I don't get it.

I mean they just made the snake's head more prominent. Why are people just now crying "UGLY"? I never found the character too appealing myself, but is this really something to to get outraged over?

I think I might actually agree with the others who say "slow news day" for once.

It should be duly noted that this isn't exactly leaked protoype ROM.

The one in this video has been patched with a fan-made English translation that also took out a lot of the debug functions like preventing all damage to Corneria. It also fixed a lot of bugs/incomplete bits. Not to mention they redesigned the logo.

It's a fan-made "spit and polish" to "complete" the game as they saw fit at the time. The actual leaked prototype is in Japanese and a whole lot buggier.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
I'd say the Neo Geo library has the highest ratio of quality titles to crap titles of any console. Often, certain games are not worth playing because a superior version of it was released later. (Example: Fatal Fury 2 and Fatal Fury Special) Even the "bad" ones usually have some redeeming qualities.

@PlywoodStick
It's the major consensus (strongly evidenced by the new logo/box art) anyway that this is going to be the real deal retail-ish version, but we really won't know until it's out.

It'll be worth a ton for that reason, that is, until hackers extract the rom and start sacrificing Doom and Yoshi's Island carts to make repros of it en masse.

@PlywoodStick
Dylan Cuthbert has said that any of the prototypes around the web are still lacking some features. He mentioned there were some rogue-like elements that make each playthrough different. I wouldn't be surprised if the music, graphics and more weren't completely finalized in that build either.

@RyanSilberman
It's really more to do with the fact that Nintendo wasn't happy with the emulation of it on VC. Yes, some people have made StarFox work on the Wii through SNES9xGX and the like, but it's not 100% accurate by any means. Nintendo had high standards for the service.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
It's 2017, a time when retro enthusiasm is at an all time high. People are buying clone consoles and plug n' play devices, as well as newly produced games for old systems, including the SNES. The retro market is a lucrative one right now.

That's not to mention we're hot off the heels of the NES Classic Edition, a success hindered (greatly) only by Nintendo's ability and decisions to produce enough supply to meet demand. (And expiring distribution licenses on games, as some have pointed out.)

Up on Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001KVZ6FW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_AjTuzbYVV3VYA
XD

The main takeaway from this video is that Alex desperately needs one of these since he seems to suck at most of these games.

@Waninoko
It's the bots, man. They've already got them trained on the pages where pre-orders will happen. And when they open, they fire that buy button and take as much stock as they can get...

Got notifications set for both sites! Hopefully this will at least go better than my experience trying to pre-order the Switch.

...But who am I kidding? Everybody's sniper bots are probably all set up and ready to do.

If I understand this correctly, this sounds like it could be a lot of backtracking. You have to go to the egg first to register for the raid, then walk back and fight the thing, and either hang around until the hour is up, or come back if you won to have just a chance of catching the thing.

This is gonna be rough in the hotter parts of summer.

Sounds like they got the Super FX patent issues sorted out, and in the process got Dylan to release his "complete" version of SF2 finally.

Gaaaaah! This is incredible!

@mikegamer
Thing is, Sega already released a crap-ton of Genesis games on iOS and Android already, and the emulation was top-notch. The games played perfectly.

So we know they're capable... they're just being lazy and going the Unity route.

Sheesh, just like in Capcom's case with the mobile Mega Man collections they already had these games on the iOS and Android stores years ago... and they worked just fine.

How do companies keep screwing up what didn't need fixing?

Fatal Fury 2 is an excellent fighting game, and I'd wholeheartedly recommend it... if Fatal Fury Special (basically a vastly improved "Champion Edition") didn't exist and will most likely end up in the ACA collection soon.