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Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - playing on Analogue Pocket.. near the end, and it can't come soon enough. Castlevania - Switch - Finished the game using the spear guy, fully using save states and rewind to cheese my way through. Pacman 99 - Switch

I'd like to play Robotron. Is it ok if I use MiSTer? Or do I have to use MAME.

Interesting! 'Course though in 1988 no one here knew that, especially me. 😜 I just knew I liked Ninja Gaiden and was pretty excited to see it was coming to the NES. I would squint at the preview maps in Nintendo Power and would be dubious with all the extra stuff, but hopeful it would have at least a proximity of the arcade gameplay. It didn't.. but ended up being its own awesome game (which I eventually mastered). It's funny though that by the time the Lynx port came out, I had pretty much moved on from my obsession with the arcade game and never bothered getting it until decades later.

It's funny because I was fully familiar with Punchout and Super Punchout in the arcades, but I don't recall thinking at all that NES Punchout differed from the originals I think probably because the music, animation, etc. etc. were so BEYOND what we were used to at the time with home video games (if not for you, at least for me) that all we ended up seeing was its awesomeness. That said.. it wasn't a long time later that I started really seeing the differences between the arcade games I wanted and the NES versions.. in particular with Ninja Gaiden (as I posted earlier), and then later Strider. Although I guess Donkey Kong should have been a huge hint a few years before. 😛

Yeah I'm torn too. Sort of want.. but it would most likely just be as a collectible, just like the original Genesis Mini (which I have yet to take out of the box). Especially when so many of us already have better options like Flashcarts, MiSTers, and Mega SGs each allowing us to play the entire Genesis & Sega CD library already, and better than software emulated versions. But man, this thing is FIRST PARTY What to do..

I think any First Party remake will never be cartridge taking as that would just open a can of worms for them. They'll stick to pure emulation. If a working cart slot is what you want, just get a Super NT while they're still available and call it a day. Anyway, majority of folks just pop in a sd2snes/fxpak pro in their cart slots and it never leaves. 😜

Really? That's interesting.. What games for example? I guess I'm kind of similar in that whenever I fire up my MiSTer, the majority of my time playing is 5200.

Nice man.. we have a Steam Deck too, however it remains in box to give to the kid at Christmas However, I'm definitely looking forward to checking out the emulation on it especially for newer games beyond the 8 &16 bit stuff, like N64, PSP, PSX, etc.

Yeah what he said above. You can just run it on your SD card to update everything directly, or even just on a folder on your PC to copy over later. I shied away from it for a while but now I totally use it. Makes it easy. If you're running windows There's a Windows GUI version or a command line version. Or if you just want to do it manually, a good list of existing cores (sortable by date) can be found here: https://joshcampbell191.github.io/openfpga-cores-inventory/analogue-pocket.html

It's funny but I was never a big fan of Axelay's scrolling effect, and I bought the cartridge at launch. I don't know but I just felt the effect didn't really deliver and looked more like graphic warping through a haze rather than giving the intended effect of a curved scroll. Or maybe that's just me 'Course it never affected the gameplay. Although I got pretty far in the game I don't think I ever actually finished it since it was relatively difficult, at least for me.

The Pocket is becoming quite a beast. With FPGA GB/GBC/GBA, GG, SMS, SG-1000, NES, Genesis, TG16, SNES, Neo-Geo, and various arcade cores (Galaga, Pooyan, Q-Bert, Asteroids, Xevious, etc.) and that's just to-date all in a gameboy-style handheld. That's pretty hard to beat if you're into that form factor, which I am.

You need to update that with PCE/TG16 as of a few hours ago.

I always kind of dug this from Super Turrican 4cM63KI.mp4

I caved and bought it as a christmas gift for the wife to give me and to replace my old broken A1up 12-1. At that price I figured do it already. I figure even if I regret it, it's Walmart, I can return it.

I mean, it's not a console game but the first game that came to my mind with Indians is Nintendo's Fire Attack G&W 😛 Else.. off the top of my head when it comes to consoles, there's NES Gunsmoke with the enemies in some stages, and in Sunset Riders on the Genesis there are also Native American enemy characters (that were removed from the SNES version)

I don't know but I use save states and the rewind function (if available) CONSTANTLY especially when playing through NES & SNES games on the Switch! If Fast Forward is available, I'll use that too especially to speed through battles in Dragon Warrior 1, etc. It makes it way more fun and is the only way I'd play through that game again. Way I see it, it's no fun for me to constantly die, get lost, fall through a false floor, or restart a level in Blaster Master, Ninja Gaiden, etc, or whatever. But rewind/save states just let me sit back and enjoy and have fun playing the game. Anyway, anyone who'd want to criticize me for doing it is welcome to my history of beating any of those games (Ninja Gaiden, Blaster Master, SMB, Ys, Phantasy Star, and countless others) multiple times on a regular NES/SMS in the late 80s'. I even beat Castlevania 2 not knowing anything about it and with zero guides (literally spending days walking around). But today, there's no way I'd play it regularly. Not that it'd matter anyway.

For what it's worth, the 3D in Link Between Worlds is super well done. It really gives a sense of height in places like Death Mountain. Even if you don't like 3D it's worth turning on for those moments (which is the advantage of being able to quickly toggle back and forth of course). So yeah I say 3DS.

I mentioned Star Voyager earlier in this thread but what I've come to realize is a lot of people who try it out only end up using the torpedos and don't even know there are laser weapons you can switch to (easier to kill enemies but use more power). 'Course that whole dynamic adds a bit more strategy that maybe they missed out on and maybe that's why it tends to lower their opinion about it. For me, I still love it.

As an aside, some of the staff who made Strider went on to make what's basically a sequel, or at least a spiritual successor: Osman. Worth checking out in Mame at least

For sure man.. I loved the game in the arcade back in the day then later I remember seeing a preview in a japanese gaming mag (Famitsu?), opening it up and being blown away that Strider was coming to the Genesis. Back then the game seemed just way too 'complex' to make it intact to a home console at least to me. Anyway playing it now, in retrospect you can see the rough edges here and there when comparing it to the arcade game, but all in all I still do think they did a great job. I still like playing it now and then but it does get real tough in the later stages

I don’t really know how to do 2nd players controls on mister.. like in the 5200 core how do you get player 2 for games like Joust? I kind of gave up hope on mapping the 2nd joystick for games like Robotron or Space Dungeon like you can in software emulators

Dangit.. now I have to get one. I had already convinced myself with the Genesis+flashcarts/MiSTer/MegaSG, that this thing is just more redundancy to add to my clutter. But with that news........

Not any way comparable to what you're going through, but a while ago I reached out to them to inquire about BUYING a replacement monitor/check availability etc. from them to replace the dead one in my 12-1. (Yes I know there are alternates but that's not the point of this story). Only to get a response back realizing they treated it like a support case and gave me canned response about unplugging/plugging it back in to troubleshoot...something I had obviously done multiple times and beyond. Point is, they obviously didn't even read the question about ordering one.

'Course when Starfox was released you played it on a CRT and the you wouldn't see as much of the overscan area anyway. The border is there, but really not noticeable as much. Anyway it's almost 30 years later after the fact.

I don't know.. everything worked off the bat for me, and most everyone else who's tried it. That said, yeah if you already have the everdrives, those are still arguably the better way to go for the moment, especially with the Pocket's display filters for GB available. You should try to figure out what it is you're doing wrong though. The Neo Geo core is pretty fun to mess with, various issues aside