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So he was trying to profit from this as well? Yeah, that's a good plan there bud!

And that last tweet seems to indicate that he will continue on after all that?
I hope he like lawyers then. Not smart at all.

sigh... Saw the Ridge Racer thumbnail and my first thought went to a Ridge Racer collection for Switch or a collaboration between Namco and Hamster to release them as Arcade Archive games.
I'm sad now...

Love the idea, but the end product is just too low quality for me personally. Looks really flimsy and messy.
With some better quality materials and different techniques it could be something worthwhile though.

@trip241 And exactly where would you know where to aim at?

Sheesh. I already have a 3DS XL, new 3DS XL and LL, 2DS.
But it looks like I'll be adding this one to the collection as well.
Just can't resist...

Hey Nintendo is popular again and making lots of money!
Quick! Let's sue them with some flimsy "proof" cause the crap we made isn't selling jack!

Now that's a name I haven't hear in a while.

@Axlroselm
Would love to finally see Space Bomber get a home port after all those years. It's such a fun little game.
Never held any realistic hope out for that one though, but now, after seeing Gunbarich suddenly appear, I'd love to finally be able to play Space Bomber again as well.

Shame Dragon Blaze never seems to get any recognition.

Grabbed them both, love them both!

Still remember as it was yesterday when I picked up the Japanese retail release for Stikers 2945 on Sega Saturn.
Hope we'll get the sequel as well!

@Nintendoforlife
It's the track "Life in Ruins"
Starts at 13 seconds in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrm1NdqCHl0

Goes to show just how much Breath of the Wild has already impacted my 40 year old self.
The moment the first 4 notes sounded, a whole rush of emotions washed over me like a wave in the same way that this happens with the original Zelda, ALTTP or Majora's Mask do.
Didn't even think this was possible anymore after the thousands of games I played over the years and how I'd gotten used to just about everything. At least I thought.

No Xevious, no Sale.

Certainly not at this price and it being digital only.

I don't get the comments about the game costing 60€.
I have it preordered for 30€ for a while now... :-/

Planned on playing the testifire for an hour and ended up playing 4 hours straight till my old *ss started getting a severe headache. lol
Can't wait for Friday.

It's no Mr. Resetti but it'll do.

Well I've bought all of them so there's that.

Talk about blatant...
What is this poo?

@xxAcesHighxx Nice! I just sent him a tweet.

Ended up playing Gonner till 1am last night, so that's a very good sign.
So far it's not grabbing me as hard as Nuclear Throne did, but then again I'm a sucker for overhead shooters, not to mention vertical scrolling ones.
Only was able to get to stage 2 so far, so it's still early days.
Can't wait to get back home from work tonight and play some more.
So glad Enter the Gungeon is making it over. I'm hoping we see a physical release as well as I'd buy it in a heartbeat along with a digital release for convenience.
Really liked what I played of Risk of Rain. Just got the LRG Vita release last week as well in fact. Need to put more time into it though.

@xxAcesHighxx
Well you just sold the game to me.
I was wondering what the game actually was like as it's still not 100% clear for me.
Linking it up to Nuclear Throne which was one of the biggest surprises of the year for me along with Enter the Gungeon last year means that I'll have to check out Gonner now.
Really hope Nuclear Throne gets a Switch release one day as well.
Love it on the Vita, but I'm ready to move on tbh.

Holy crap! That's a huge surprise!
I didn't even dare to wish for this to get a Switch port as I somehow thought it wasn't even in the realm of posibility, yet here we are.
I'm loving all this great indie support the system is getting.
Hopefully we'll see ghost blade show up one day as well.

I know it's unrealistic, but I'd love to see Sega Saturn and Dreamcast show up as Virtual Console systems.
Just having NiGHTS, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Sega Rally, Crazy Taxi, Power Stone and Mars Matrix to name a few on a portable system would make me not ever want to put it back down again.

The demographics are totally different anyway.
It's literally east vs west when comparing the software catalogue for each system so those tastes not always overlap.

Damnit, I thought there was some actual news on it.
Been waiting for it ever since the retail listing disappeared shortly after launch.

@gatorboi352 actually what this says is that Konami is goat making video games ever since all the talented people left the company.

That's a pretty meagre collection. let's hope it's just Vol.1 and they do a bunch more.

I want Xevious, Super Xevious, Xevious: Fardraut Saga, Xevious Arrangement and Xevious Resurrection would be nice as well.
Not to mentions Galaxian, Gaplus and Assault just for starters.

Another ADK game huh? So the chances of us getting Twinkle Star Sprites are pretty damn good.

Honestly, I'd like to see all of them ported.
But I selected Bayonetta, Wonderful 101 and Xenoblade especially.

Ooh, I was looking forward to this one since the indie Direct, but I had no idea it would score this highly!
Gonna grab it right away along with ASO II.
I'm actually having a bit of trouble keeping up with all these games even though Switch supposedly only has Zelda to play and nothing else according to the haters.
And in a couple of weeks we'll have Puyo Puyo Tetris and Mario Kart.
I wonder when we'll get a date for Enter the Gungeon as that's another brilliant release waiting in the wings.

@JHDK Wow that's a long time.
I bought the game and downloaded it in portable mode and it took no longer than 20 minutes. Still long enough for only 4GB, but not too bad.

@popey1980 I went with Videogamesplus.ca like I usually do for North American import.
Not sure if they still have stock though.

With Monster Hunter XX out of the way we will most likely be getting some Switch Monster Hunter news in the next couple of months.

Got this on my Super Famicom.
Even if it doesn't get a release over here, I'll gladly pick it up off the Japanese eshop just to be able to play it anywhere.

Fantastic news. In an ideal world we should have the choice between physical and digital games for everything that's released.

Physical compilation release please!

I love my Switch and it's quickly becoming my favourite current gen system even though I have hundreds of games for both my PS4 and Vita, yet only a few for the Switch right now.
But I do have the disconnect problem, at least with my left Joycon.
The right one never seems to act up, but when I try to play games in docked mode on the couch (not even 3 meters away from the system), the left one loses synch constantly.
So much so that I'm not able to play anymore with this setup.
Luckily I bought a pro controller at launch, which is simply perfect.
But there certainly is an issue with some joy cons. That much is for sure.

@ThomasBW84
Yeah, something is certainly up. :-/
None of my other systems do this. Although I do remember the PS4 having issues when it launched where it didn't correctly set RGB full range when the system was set to Automatic. Only when you set it to full range only did it work. That seems fixed now though.
Just checked again with my Switch and when I set the system to Full Range I get the following:
TV in auto or full range = washed out colours.
TV in normal/limited = certainly darker and crisper image but possible crunched blacks.

When I put the Switch in Normal mode:
TV in normal/limited or auto mode = Beautiful sharp picture with crisp colours
TV in full range = washed out picture

So it looks my Switch doesn't output a full range RGB image at all.
I'm keeping it in normal range now and my TV in auto mode which seems fine, but I'm hoping for a fix in the future to get and even better picture.

Oh and yes, even in this setting, the Hamster games still look desaturated compared to a normal NeoGeo.

@manu0 I've been testing it out this evening and it certainly doesn't work correctly on my end.
Even when using the exact same settings that I use for my PS4,PS3,WiiU and 360, only the Switch looks washed out.
Yet when I manually put the system on limited and keep the tv on either Auto or limited, everything shows up correctly.
When the Switch is set to full and the TV to auto or full, the screen is washed out. Very strange.
It's the final top of the line Panasonic Plasma, so it certainly has all the bells and whistles needed.

To get the colours looking a lot better, set the RGB range to limited instead of full in system settings.
Somehow the full setting isn't working like it should and bleaches the whole image, turning black into grey and mutes all the other colours as well.

I'll be grabbing it the moment it goes live at midnight, just like the 5 NeoGeo games at launch!
I'm just hoping that hamster will patch them so that the colours don't look so washed out.

edit Hmm, just figured out that the games themselves are fine.
It seems to be the RGB Full Range setting that's messed up on the system itself and thus the screen looks washed out.
When setting it to limited range, everything is a colourful and crisp as it should be.

Wow, never heard of this game before.
Now I'm in the mood for Snake Rattle 'N Roll!

First thing that came to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMOiwA0yytc

This is pretty damn incredible!
But I want a Switch version even more!

@Tru80zGamer
Then again, no one should be urged to go and read Polygon.
They are the Fox News of videogame websites after all.
Misinformation and biased articles galore.

Bought the digital version last week alongside their Taito special.
And I'll be grabbing a physical copy soon as well.
Brilliant book.
I really hope we get a part 2 to this with a Cave catalogue special this time.

@WilliamCalley I wish...

Never thought it would come to this...

@OorWullie
You're welcome.

There has been a problem with our file hosting site last year, so if any magazine that you're trying to download is offline or corrupted, just let me know on our forums and I'll re-up them the same day if possible.
I'm also working on redoing all the old scans I've done over the past 8 years so that they are picture perfect with exact colour calibrations and everything. I've started doing this at the beginning of this year, so the magazines you'll find on the 2016 new page are the best ones so far. All the older ones will be redone if time permits. A single 100 page issue takes close to 50 hours to complete, from scanning to restoring and getting everything just right. If you'd like to see some examples of the work that goes into certain pages, take a look at this special: http://www.outofprintarchive.com/articles/features/out-of-print/the_restoration_process.html
The last 5 examples are clickable and are animated gifs, comparing the untouched scans compared to the finished ones.

You do know that there's another little site that focusses on pixel perfect restorations of UK classic videogame magazines, right.

http://www.outofprintarchive.com

Well they are at their best when they go back and take inspiration from their Game & Watch line, so I'm totally fine with this news.