Steven Pendleton Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 42 minutes ago, roots.genoa said: Uh... It's a Taito game. ? But made by Americans in America. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 3 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said: But made by Americans in America. OK, I didn't know that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, roots.genoa said: OK, I didn't know that. Yeah, Taito was just the publisher. I doubt that there will ever be any games both developed and published by a not-Japanese publisher/dev on Arcade Archives at this rate, but it's possible. I wonder how many more games Hamster has or will get licensing for. I know Toaplan isn't going to happen since M2 is doing that (extremely slowly), but Hamster doesn't seem like they are going to stop releasing things yet. About 1/3 of the Neo Geo titles are still missing, but I doubt the rest will show up. PixelHeart owns the Visco games now, so as much as I'd like to see Andro Dunos show up, PixelHeart seems content with just rereleasing it on AES and Dreamcast... hopefully the Dreamcast port is good. I have heard that their other Dreamcast ports have some problems. I think I read somewhere that their Neo Geo -> Dreamcast ports aren't actually ports but emulated instead, but I'm not sure how true it is. Edited March 10, 2022 by Steven Pendleton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 6 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said: I have heard that their other Dreamcast ports have some problems. I think I read somewhere that their Neo Geo -> Dreamcast ports aren't actually ports but emulated instead, but I'm not sure how true it is. Pixelheart's boss actually explained it to me. The problem is the source code is lost, so they have no other way than emulating them. He claims they admitted it really clearly on DC fan sites, but they still get criticism for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 5 hours ago, roots.genoa said: Pixelheart's boss actually explained it to me. The problem is the source code is lost, so they have no other way than emulating them. He claims they admitted it really clearly on DC fan sites, but they still get criticism for it. That sucks. Nothing you can do about lost source code, but it does explain the emulation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegamezmaster Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Is there ever sales on their games? Never seen on yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Pendleton Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Yeah, sure. They happen occasionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boog Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 They usually put a random group of 4-8 arcade archives games at half-price for one week a month. Never more than 50% off. Never offered any discounted bundles. Sometimes they repeat a few of the games that were in previous sales but most have only been discounted once. If you see a sale price on an arcade archives title you want, don't wait for the next time it's on sale... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
systemUser Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 5 hours ago, thegamezmaster said: Is there ever sales on their games? Never seen on yet. 56 minutes ago, boog said: They usually put a random group of 4-8 arcade archives games at half-price for one week a month. Never more than 50% off. Never offered any discounted bundles. Sometimes they repeat a few of the games that were in previous sales but most have only been discounted once. If you see a sale price on an arcade archives title you want, don't wait for the next time it's on sale... That’s a really accurate description. Hamster does the same thing with the Neo Geo ACA games as they do with the Arcade Archives. I add them to my favorites list and wait. I bought Puzzle Bobble 2 last year and Neo Turf Masters this year. Hamster is quite stingy with the sales. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I saw it once or twice but I check every week and even though I've a lot of ACA games in my wish list (maybe half of it actually), I haven't seen any sale for months, even years. 😩 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daj Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Nichibutsu's games like Ninja Kid and Crazy Climber go on sale more often than most. You can check sales histories on dekudeals. There are a few on sale right now. I have practically the whole line on my dekudeals wishlist... any time any one of them goes on sale, I at least think about it. But if you really want a particular game yeah just pay the eight bucks. Otherwise, even for the ones that go on sale semi-regularly you might be waiting a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boog Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 (edited) Dekudeals is a great site for tracking Switch discounts. As Daj mentioned, there are a few arcade archives games from Taito on sale this week... Front Line, Ninja Warriors, Pirate Pete, Time Tunnel, and Typhoon Gal. Time Tunnel and Front Line were discounted once before. The other three are on sale for the first time. Edited October 7, 2022 by boog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 I've seen the ACA come up, tend to get looped with some other deal of related games but not directly as an ACA sale. You won't get a notice, it just gets drawn in, so you see a snitch site like boog said (dekudeals) so you know when it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 3 hours ago, boog said: Dekudeals is a great site for tracking Switch discounts. As Daj mentioned, there are a few arcade archives games from Taito on sale this week... Front Line, Ninja Warriors, Pirate Pete, Time Tunnel, and Typhoon Gal. Thanks, I recently wrote about Typhoon Gal and was considering getting it since it looks silly in a good way. I have the feeling the oldest games are more often on sale, while most of the games on my wish list are "recent". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daj Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 5 hours ago, boog said: Dekudeals is a great site for tracking Switch discounts. As Daj mentioned, there are a few arcade archives games from Taito on sale this week... Front Line, Ninja Warriors, Pirate Pete, Time Tunnel, and Typhoon Gal. Time Tunnel and Front Line were discounted once before. The other three are on sale for the first time. Also: Puzzle Bobble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astro Rabby Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I've got a few of them. I mostly play Kangaroo though. I had the #8 score for a while! Decayed to like 18th place or so but I'm back on the grind d: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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