go_straight
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I played metal slug 3 for the first time (at least in 15 years) yesterday and with my big surprise I'm not particularly feeling it. I much prefer X and the first one.
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Neo Geo games coming to Nintendo Switch
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'98. '98 is the pinnacle of older KOFs.
Ah lol. That's reassuring, I was shocked. Come on GB.
I wish Sega would do something similar with bringing their classics to Switch.
SmiteOfHand
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Many games are balanced around slowdown. Removing it can make some games literally impossible for a human to 1CC, or MUCH harder. You may not care about that but it is pretty important among arcade enthusiasts. I do think it is neat when the option to turn it off is available, but all it really does is demonstrate the above, not an actually enjoyable way to play.
Poop!
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Does it support screen rotating?
I have IV in my MVS and it's great! edit to say I was fresh into it too when I got my 4-slot, and it was the first Samurai Shodown game I played, and think it's a great entry point.
The Neo Geo used an horizontal screen. No Neo Geo game support Tate and the shmups are all designed around yoko screen.
The Arcade Archive releases offer a Tate screen mode so you can play the game that way if you want, but it won't natively support it.
Looking for an answer to this myself. I played the hell out of the first two back in the day, but none of the others.
Speaking of which I hope they port part 2 soon.
Edit: Thanks evanc!
smashballTaz
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I want Super Monkey Ball 1 on Switch. Kthanx
Poop!
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Sad face is sad considering the length of the Switch screen.
The Elite
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SNK made Super Monkey Ball?
Truth, one unofficial release Neo XYX does have a tate mode though. Which I doubt we will ever see on the switch since NGDEV hasnt been able to port to anything but dreamcast in the past.
When I got my MVS copy of Metal Slug 1 I thought maybe my motherboard was going because of all the slowdown lol. I just didnt remember it being that bad back in my arcade days, but it is.
thatJohann
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Has there been any confirmation of Samurai Shodown IV for US e-Shop? And when is it coming out?
SmiteOfHand
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Nothing in the coming soon, so far. Week from today is the most likely, at the earliest.
billmcdougal
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I bought a couple after being informed that the colors were fixed.
Agent Unknown
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That game is good.
Here's a powerup system guide someone on shmups made:
Awesome scans as always and I'm sure I'll be using that nifty power up guide.
Hamster would need to get a license but it shouldn't be difficult. They just need to get the license from G-mode who owns the magical drop games.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Mode
The Boom Camel
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Any word if Baseball Stars 2 is coming? I would pay full price to have that on the go.
Spukc
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Get that golf game
Metal Slug 6 is not a NeoGeo game. Would be interesting to see if Atomiswave ports also get released...
I hope so, Magical Drop III and Windjammers are the only games I really want to buy.
sixteen-bit
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And Rumble Fish Deuce
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
It's funny...
I used to think it was lazy devs or some other shit. I made a bit of a fuss about Mega Man X on N3DS having the same slowdown the console game had. But overtime, after playing more games with the "problem" and reading posts like yours, I've come to appreciate it. Emulation accuracy!
Who is everyones go to golfer on Neo Turf Masters? Been swapping between the USA, GB and Japan guy and all of them have weaknesses that tend to pop up over 18 holes for me
Being able to recover and putting seem way more important than driving, unless you're stupidly good at it of course
Being able to recover and putting seem way more important than driving, unless you're stupidly good at it of course
Relaxed Muscle
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If you are precise on the drive, the German guy is the best for me. Has awesome putting.
If they're going to release a new game every week, then I would imagine they will have to dip into other systems at some point. I guess we'll see as the weeks continue.
Snkfanatic
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Alpha Mission 2 is awesome, glad I picked it up.
Love these and I really hope they just keep rolling them out. Although now I want folders more than ever...would be great to have these all together.
Love these and I really hope they just keep rolling them out. Although now I want folders more than ever...would be great to have these all together.
I'll give the German guy a go, I think the Japanese one has better putting which is why I didn't try him
Nice! I'll grab some today.
Agent Unknown
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If only Nintendo could be as quick and efficient with the VC, Hamster is totally showing them up right now.
Capcom are way better at getting their stuff on VC than Nintendo as well
moltonasty
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Nintendo be like..oh shit you can actually release classic games people want to play on a consistent basis...?
Agent Unknown
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And Konami too, surprisingly. Just yesterday they released two more TG-16 games on Wii U VC, Super Star Soldier and World Sports Competition.
sixteen-bit
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I think NGDEV made a tate game for Neo Geo a few years ago
OrbitalBeard
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Uggggh, kind of regretting boxing up my Wii U. I hope TG-16 is part of the Switch Virtual Console.
professor denim
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Wish they keep pumping Neo games...
Would love Twinkle Stars, Bust a Move, Ninja Commando, Sengoku 3, Baseball Stars 2, Viewpoint and Last Resort on the go...
Would love Twinkle Stars, Bust a Move, Ninja Commando, Sengoku 3, Baseball Stars 2, Viewpoint and Last Resort on the go...
SmiteOfHand
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(Sorry for my old man video game essay. Hopefully it is of interest to anyone who may be coming to this stuff second hand..)
This has made it difficult to engage in any of the framerate debates because while I agree that I would love for everything to be 60FPS+ everywhere, and in many cases should be or at the very least should have a stable framerate, I understand the technical, and more importantly, psychological aspects are not so clear cut.
For example, there was not a single part of my circle of friends who viewed slowdown negatively. And that isn't because we didn't understand the technical aspects of video games. Flicker was always looked at negatively. If anything slowdown had some positive aspects to it, "this thing is really pushing this hardware to its limits." which may sound like some silly stockholm syndrome to younger folks, but it is more nuanced than that.
There was a universal understanding that no matter what there were limitations. This was an across the board thing with video games, from color palettes to sound processing, everything had trade-offs. It wasn't as simple as if there was a single sprite on the screen and that caused slowdown we would clap our hands and say "wow, look at that pushing the hardware!" we were not that stupid. It was that we had a good sense of what was and was not possible. When a game had large sized and large amounts of sprites on the screen, you knew some serious shit was going on. It was a balance of putting the absolute maximum on the screen while not bringing it all down. Slowdown was the sign that they are riding right on the very edge of the limitations of the hardware. We didn't need to be told if it was poorly optimized or not, it was blindingly obvious if what we were seeing was pushing harder than anything else we had seen, and so long as it didn't all come crashing down it had a real exciting element to it, not to mention those slowdown areas were most likely the most complex so having a little more thinking time was very welcome.
PC gamers like to pretend they are above all this because you can solve all limitations with infinite money and resources, but this is flat untrue. All you have to do is look at the bravado around a game like Crysis, and how close to 60 can you get, to see how appealing people find pushing right up to the edge of limitations. There is a version of this that could exist with your dual-SLI Titan X mega-bucks computer where a developer pushes the absolute limits of what money can buy right now, and people would salivate about how amazing it looks "and can you believe it is pushing this stuff so hard it can barely push 40 frames?? it looks incredible!!", but this is a financially terrible idea. This is what made arcades so goddamned exciting, they were financially irresponsible for regular-ass people like you and me. It felt like peering into the future, the absolute limitations of what all humanity was capable of at that moment, and was fucking rad.
Muchi Muchi Pink
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Slowdown is a very important part of some STGs. They are somwetimes not even hardware related, but just hardcoded.
Waku Waku 7? But it's more like a tank with a police dog.