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Final Asia list released and it includes Shining Force II but not Dynamite Headdy!

 

This makes it a real tough choice for me between Dynamite Headdy/Shinobi III/Toejam & Earl Vs Alien Soldier/Revenge of Shinobi/Sword of Vermillion

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18 hours ago, Mr Do 71 said:

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@NEG

 

Showing this really tells me that they’ve missed a trick by NOT making a list of games that included stuff from the 32x and MCD.

The 32x version of Virtua Fighter for example would be a MASSIVE improvement over the MD version.

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I have to say only ever playing Sonic on a mates MD for about 10 minutes I always presumed it paled in comparison to the SNES. So when it came time to get my game on before the launch of the 3D consoles I plumped for the machine I thought was the clear winner graphically, the SNES. I was all caught up in the 3D fervour and had seen bits and bobs of Starfox.

 

25 years later, well more like a year or two back so 23 really, I went on a bit of a Youtube and ROM kick for the SNES an MD. Man, I was blown away by just how amazing some MD games looked. To the point I think I prefer it to the only one I ever owned, the SNES. Some of the tricks it can pull off still look fresh.

 

I think I'm going to get one of these. In fact I've been reading that the PS1 mini has matured and always loved the look of the NES and SNES minis. I'm going to get the four of them and set up a shrine at the end of my bed, plug them into my floaty monitor.

 

I take it these are all powered by USB and should be ok all plugged into a USB 3 splitter and port? They are HDMI only?, so no point going crazy and buying a dinky PVM or anything like that as they won't play nice out the box?

 

And does anyone have a little shrine to the already released mini machines of yesteryear?

 

Would love to see some pics to get me fired up.

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4 hours ago, MW_Jimmy said:

Final Asia list released and it includes Shining Force II but not Dynamite Headdy!

 

This makes it a real tough choice for me between Dynamite Headdy/Shinobi III/Toejam & Earl Vs Alien Soldier/Revenge of Shinobi/Sword of Vermillion

You will most likely be able to add any MD games you want soon enough, so...

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46 minutes ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

You will most likely be able to add any MD games you want soon enough, so...

 

Depends on how bespoke the emulation and emulator are. I can see both a possibility that M2 make tweaks to ensure better framerates and flicker on a game-by-game basis and the alternative of a rom+emulator wrapper with a focus on historical accuracy and additional extras such as art, manuals, music, challenges etc.

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1 hour ago, amc said:

I take it these are all powered by USB and should be ok all plugged into a USB 3 splitter and port? They are HDMI only?

All of these micro consoles are USB powered and HDMI only. A USB splitter should be fine so long as each port is getting enough power. I used a splitter from my TV's USB port and it couldn't power two devices at once, but it should be fine from the mains.

 

The PS1 Mini has 'matured' in the sense that it can be hacked to run games better, if that's something you want to do.

 

But if you're hacking stuff anyway, you could hack any one of them to run all the games of the others and save on wasteful plastic, but I can see the appeal of a mini-console army. :)

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Would love a 'Super Play' style re-issue magazine of Mean Machines or something that can review all these games and help with the JP/UK purchase conundrum.

 

Also CANNOT understand the 3-button joypad thing. If it's all about nostalgia why make the base console so small. Because it doesn't NEED to be to scale. Ergo controller doesn't NEED to have 3 buttons to be 'authentic'. Why do Sega always manage to stick a thumb in their eye every time?

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59 minutes ago, Popo said:

I assume I’m this the U.K. and Europe are getting the same as the USA?

 

Yes. I'm leaning towards Asia release - a lot of the titles that are on there haven't been included in collections before - the shumps MUSHA and Slap Fight HD are really curious to me, and just it just seems a little bit more varied.

 

It'll just cost a little more.

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I've been playing Beyond Oasis on that most recent collection, controls are a bit awkward - as someone who was a SNES kid and only played other people's Mega Drives, I have always found a lot MD games tend to control oddly due to the lack of buttons and that the buttons don't map 1:1 onto modern controllers which are all based on the SNES pad - but man that's a very good game. Take link to the past, streamline it and add a really awesome combat system for the era and you have that game. 

 

That's one advantage of this thing over the various collections, the pad having the proper button layout (although I can see why not having the six button pad annoys some). 

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4 hours ago, MW_Jimmy said:

Differences side by side on the collections:

 

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Definitely the Asian one for me.

 

Which makes sense when you consider the influences on the UK market in the late 80s/early 90s.

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19 minutes ago, deerokus said:

Take link to the past, streamline it and add a really awesome combat system for the era and you have that game. 

 

I agree, The Story of Thor/Beyond Oasis was one of my favourite MD games. So much so, that I found LTTP disappointing when I eventually played it on GBA and discovered how much of a debt Sega's game owed to it.

 

LTTP obviously has better in-dungeon puzzle design, but I found its overworld awkward to traverse, as it has loads of arbitrary blockages that force you to take the long way round the overworld to get anywhere, and its poke-focused combat means you need to be permanently cautious in any skirmish. Whereas Sega's game lets you pull out a broadsword and hit enemies with somersault flips combos, while your fire spirit pal Efreet ignites rat-people with his punches! Shallower combat maybe, but a lot more spectacular and fun!

 

Unfortunately, as I found out recently on Twitter, @deKay does not agree: :(

https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/2019/04/the-story-of-thor-switch-completed/

 

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11 hours ago, amc said:

I have to say only ever playing Sonic on a mates MD for about 10 minutes I always presumed it paled in comparison to the SNES. So when it came time to get my game on before the launch of the 3D consoles I plumped for the machine I thought was the clear winner graphically, the SNES. I was all caught up in the 3D fervour and had seen bits and bobs of Starfox.

 

25 years later, well more like a year or two back so 23 really, I went on a bit of a Youtube and ROM kick for the SNES an MD. Man, I was blown away by just how amazing some MD games looked. To the point I think I prefer it to the only one I ever owned, the SNES. Some of the tricks it can pull off still look fresh.

 

I think I'm going to get one of these. In fact I've been reading that the PS1 mini has matured and always loved the look of the NES and SNES minis. I'm going to get the four of them and set up a shrine at the end of my bed, plug them into my floaty monitor.

 

I take it these are all powered by USB and should be ok all plugged into a USB 3 splitter and port? They are HDMI only?, so no point going crazy and buying a dinky PVM or anything like that as they won't play nice out the box?

 

And does anyone have a little shrine to the already released mini machines of yesteryear?

 

Would love to see some pics to get me fired up.

 

The SNES definitely had more visually impressive games but feels more sanitised. While the MD could throw sprites around like nobody’s business so was prime for arcade gaming, shooters and gunstar heroes etc. I’d always opt for an MD over a SNES, it just had more about it, more niche gaming experiences etc. 

 

Never liked the PS1 (plus the mini is shite) but this is going to sit next to the NES and SNES minis with pride. 

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Where can I get an Asian version one for shipping to the UK, without it costing the earth? Or failing that, just the first part will do. I presume the Asian version has the same styling as the JP one? We had a JP import MD so not having one that looked how I remember would be weird. Mind you, we also had 3 button joypads but they were the crap part anyway. 

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3 minutes ago, stefcha said:

Where can I get an Asian version one for shipping to the UK, without it costing the earth? Or failing that, just the first part will do. I presume the Asian version has the same styling as the JP one? We had a JP import MD so not having one that looked how I remember would be weird. Mind you, we also had 3 button joypads but they were the crap part anyway. 

 

I have the same question! Play Asia has sold out of its allocation and I literally don't know of any trustworthy alternative!

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