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  1. Algus
    The financials are a bit of a hurdle to get around. Who is this committee? Are they compensated? Where does the funding for approved games come from? The problem with doing something like this is the amount of money needed to make it work is not insubstantial. More, I think, than even crowd funding could handle. IMO the most realistic approach to making "modern" hardware would be to include an SD port and a cartridge slot based on a pre-existing system (NES let us say) but I don't think a SoC clone with an SD port is what most are asking for. Another possibility might be if competing groups posed as publishers and were responsible for vetting and fronting their own members releases. It'd work more like Atari Age and some of the NES home brew sellers than a traditional publisher though. This would be fine if the system caught on but the original manufacturer would still need some launch titles to attract attention.
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    Well of my Ataris, my 7800 is my daily driver. It's been modded for composite. It runs 7800 Asteroids if no cart is inserted and I have modded controllers for it. In short, I loves it. Later 8-bit era (NES, SMS, 7800) is also more my thing than 2600, which was kind of on its dying breath when I was old enough to game. I really like my Jr. for when I go to someone's house though. It is light, compact, and if it gets lost/stolen/broken I won't be to concerned (so far its held up though!) it is a neat little system and I liked Atari's black/silver/rainbow design. It just screams late 80s to me. I've got a light sixer as well but it is mostly a display piece now.
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    I love mine but it is definitely in a weird place. It was almost like they said, "Well we can do it" but then didn't figure out why they would want to do it. Sony would have been better off to make it more competitive with devices like Fire TV, Chromecast, etc. I'm just glad they gave it to us in the US. When it first came out, it sounded like Japan only. I've got mine loaded with almost all of the Persona games. Great device for replaying the series.
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    For those who are interested, Mike Matei (the Angry Video Game Nerd's main henchman) did a Livestream of himself playing Mega Man 2 on Difficult. It's a pretty good run of the game. He's a lot better at controlling his jumps in Bubble Man's stage than I am. http://cinemassacre.com/2015/08/29/mega-man-2-on-hard-live-stream-with-mike/ I don't recall ever getting so much utility out of Metal Man's power but I'm more of an X guy (because its an easier series, lolamirite?!) so I'm used to using the regular shot for EVERYTHING. I might have to replay this one again next weekend. Not as many memories of it as MM3 (thats the one we owned whereas MM2 was just a rental) but its still a fine game.
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    Already mentioned Castlevania II and Zelda II but also Faxanadu The NES was home to one of my favorite obscure genres the 2D RPG Adventure game of which all three are a part. You can level up, collect items, explore the world (though Faxanadu is more gated). These games and this genre were awesome! For the life of me I don't know why it got abandoned. We got some decently similar stuff in 16-bit era and Castlevania still does it with ~most~ of their games but nothing beats these NES originals
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    In MM2 I always thought Wood Man and Flash Man were the easiest bosses. It is a great game though.
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    Nein for me. I think the only way an outfit like this could turn my head is if they got a legit company backing them up with the promise of a game or two. So it uses carts, so what? Sure, I'm nostalgic for carts but they were abandoned for a reason. I'm nostalgic for casettes and VHS too but I don't really want to go back to those. Good luck to them I guess, I hope it takes off. These microconsoles have not had very good track records though. I'm not particularly interested in a piece of hardware that isn't going to be supported two years after it launches.
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    Haha, I still remember my buddy calling me after he got home from the store to come check it out. It holds up fairly well today I think. It had one of the most realized Final Fantasy universes but the real achievement of the game was its score. The music is simply beautiful. This game really caught peoples imaginations. I remember I did the role-playing chatrooms on AOL and after FF7 came out, EVERYONE wanted to be a freaking FF7 character.
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    yeah it is pretty boring. Good I guess if you are new to the series and just want to learn the gameplay. Fortunately it is just an optional mode. The regular difficulty is quite high though not as bad as MM1 or MM9 IMO.
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    10 has a "beginner mode" that blocks off all spike traps and reduces the damage you take. I dont think it is as rough as MM9 but both of them are absolutely unforgiving when it comes to instant death traps. They both play more like MM1. No charge shot, etc. which made the later games a bit easier.
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    I am pretty terribad at Mega Man 9 but the shop system makes it easy enough to farm stuff to get through the bosses. Granted that doesn't really help with some of the stages. They really went crazy with spike traps in those games. But I'm awful at 9 for about the same reason I am awful at 1. Rush is a huge crutch for me LOL
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    Do you mean Spark Man? He has a lot of bullshit with spikes (though worse when you revisit his stage to fight the dupes from MM2). I have an easier time with those then I do with the blocks in Magnet Man's stage. I simply cannot get the timing down (though granted I haven't put in much effort in the last fifteen years or so since I usually just get the Jet before dealing with those stages). Flash Man is a boss in MM2 who has a super easy stage and is only marginally harder than Wood Man There's a boss in the first Mega Man that has those damn disappearing platforms too. The snow guy, Snow Man? Ice Man? I suck at that level too.
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    See people say 3 is hard but I don't see it. Not in the game that has the freaking Rush Jet. My one issue is Magnet Man. He's the easiest boss but his level is total bullshit. I save him till I have the jet. Seriously fuck those disappearing platforms. Top Man and Hard Man are ~super easy~ with the Mega Buster and hell, even though Shadow Man is a fast little bastard, I'd still rather take him on with the mega buster than try to use Top Spin on him. Once those three are down the rest of them drop like flies. There's some shit in Spark Man's revisited stage once you're working on the clones of the MM2 bosses but nothing to tough. Wiley's Fortress isn't that bad either.
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    KB was glorious for NES games in the mid 90s. I think Metroid was the last new in box NES game I picked up, also at KB. I was actually pretty disappointed with it at the time because I'd already had Super Metroid for a couple years and it was SO MUCH BETTER. This topic got me fooling around a bit with Mega Man 6, which is one I have not played very heavily. Holy crap Yamato Man is a laugher. He might have my vote for easiest stage in the original series.
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    The disc is goofy but the outer black ring functions just like a D-Pad and barely takes any adjustment to get used to. Same level of precision. That joystick mod is interesting, I might have to try getting one some time.
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    Do not know, have seen a few answers floated around the Internet over the years, stuff like "well that was its code name in Japan" and that sort of thing but I don't know how accurate any of that is. But even the magazines and stuff were calling it PSX. This was back before that mini unit that was known as the PS One came out and long before the PlayStation 2 was a thing.
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    I really liked the Game Boy games. They did a couple for the X Series too called Mega Man Xtreme. Remixing the bosses was a lot of fun. For Game Boy I only have Mega Man V and the first Xtreme.
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    Playstation 1 was shortened as PSX during its lifetime. It was only later when Sony released PS2 and a separate machine known as PSX that people started referring to the original PlayStation as PS1
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    I haven't played a lot of 5 or 6 to be honest. When I was a kid I was on X already and another little favorite that came out: Mega Man V on Game Boy. You got a cat in that one that turned into a buzzsaw! He was awesome.
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    Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers was one of the only platformers I could beat as a kid. It isn't a very hard game (and not real interesting either TBH) but I still love it. Lots of fond memories playing co-op on it.
  21. Algus
    With some of your exploits that you've posted about mbd, I'm actually pretty surprised you're just now buying the NES! GL; HV Keep making topics when you're working on a game. I really enjoyed your Ninja Gaiden one.
  22. Algus
    Isn't she cold?
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    Ehh it is a real close tossup between NES and SNES for me. I am actually not a very good gamer so as RPGs developed and really SNES brought all the tech we needed to have really good ones, I finally had a genre of games I was good at! If NES had more adventure games like Legend of Zelda, it would probably be my preference. SNES has more games that I like but the NES games I prefer, I've played much much more. Before NES prices simply exploded it was certainly my favorite system to collect for.
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    1 is a bit of a bitch but even 2 and 3 which are the best balanced of the original series have some PitA parts where you're basically going to die the first time you see something. The series didn't get really accessible until Mega Man X came along. It's somewhat challenging but not very unfair and a good intro to the series. Though it will spoil you for a bit since you get a lot of extra powers and abilities that don't exist in the main series. When 10 came out it had this hilarious "easy mode" where bridges spawned above every single spike pit.
  25. Algus
    Man those AOL mailers were great back in the day! I never had to buy floppy discs thanks to these guys.
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