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Posted by KingMike
Not sure if there is a good place to say it, but reading a GameFAQs thread on SNES emulators (which is about as expected) someone called a certain emulator Hogan.
That name is awesome! :D

Posted by tomman

You can also setup the music tempo to your liking (slow/default/fast), something I've never seen in any other game I've played to date.

Posted by tomman

Emulator recaps:

- Kega Fusion: The undisputed king of 32X emulation, the only one to get a perfect 10 on the commercial ROM section (basically: if it was officially released, Fusion will run it just fine), and it only lost its crown of perfection because Surgical Strike took over two decades to get ripped. You simply can't get wrong with Fusion if you actually care about the 32X. However, the clock is running out for this legend: as a proprietary binary blob, it's unlikely you will be able to run it as-is on future distros (or even in some current ones!), and it seems Snake dropped off the radar for good. If you're at Windowsland, you will be fine... until MS decides it's time to drop x86-32 for good (which WILL happen someday, maybe sooner than you think!)

- PicoDrive: A relatively late newcomer to the 32X scene, yet it shows some strong compatiblity that far surpasses everything ever made... except for Fusion. Yes, it's still a bit rough around the edges, a few games still give it trouble, and there are at least two unplayable ROMs on it (one is a handegg game which we can forget, and the other is Motherbase/Parasquad), but on the CD-ROM and homebrew departments, it gets a clean pass, which is no small feat. Plus, it's the only one actively developed (or so it looks), so you should have it as a plan B in your arsenal. And it's the only one you can use on ARM toys, and as a bonus, it's also available as a libretro core so you can play it on the libretro-enabled frontend of your choice. Its default standalone UI is quite useable too. Unfortunately, during testing this emulator exhibited intermittent controller issues (6-button pads getting detected as 3-button pads, inputs not working at times with some games, ghost devices plugged to Player 2 socket), although it was not that hard to deal with those, it was still an annoyance (hence the quarter-point penalty on the final grade)

Posted by CaptainJistuce

Based on the arcade game Super Chase... I've played that one, it is pretty fantastic.
Important things lost in the home port: The arcade marquee has red and blue lights that start flashing when you engage your target.


(There's a few games in the Chase HQ series, and ALMOST NONE OF THEM convey this in the titles.)

Posted by CaptainJistuce
The flashing lights in the marquee are just impossible to port to the home version.
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They're also rather eye-catching. Turns out it is a REALLY good way to make people notice your game on the floor.

Posted by tomman


In my testing, PicoDrive ran Virtua Fighter just fine (I'm not good at fighting games overall, so I just endured like the first 3 fighters), with the only broken thing being the win animations you get after finishing with each fighter: you're supposed to get a fancy animation with "WINNER" on top, but instead all you get is a mostly static frame with a corrupted model of the winner.

As for the 32X Virtua Fighter being a decent arcade port, that's because Sega's AM2 did the port themselves, which makes sense. In the case of Virtua Racing, it seems the home console ports were done by a different team.

Fun fact: the Japanese version of Virtua Racing has SRAM backup save (for record times?). The export versions lost that feature (most likely as a cost cutting measure). But hey, at least they did changed the main menu colors (which were quite unreadable on the JP original), and the "VIIIIIIRTUA RACING!" chant (the JP one is lazy as hell).

Posted by wertigon
So. EU just brainfarted and voted for even more draconian laws (anyone surprised)?

Highlights from the adopted legislation:

* Link tax mandatory
* Screening of user content mandatory
* The copyright of any recording from any sporting event belong to the sporting event arranger.

The only comfort is that this will further erode public support for copyright completely...

Posted by sureanem

As for this specific referendum, you had to vote YES to oppose Article 13 and NO to back it. With buttons designed in accordance with the common UX principle of "as similar to each other and close together as possible," it's no wonder mistakes happen.

Posted by hunterk

Posted by Broseph
NCR 2019 Day 1:
CYG BST Daigo (Guile) vs MOUZ Problem-X

Good play by both of them. Daigo clearly got into his head there for a bit, just walking up and throwing him over and over... I'm kinda surprised we don't see more Dictators in tournaments.

Posted by CaptainJistuce

Ryu Hayabusa vs Ryu Punchkicker when?

If you're interested in watching a playthrough of the 2019 Resident Evil 2 game, than I strongly suggest you watch ProJared's playthrough on his Youtube channel (he does 2 complete playthroughs).

So... how do you know the product you've bought suck without testing it first?!

$ON¥ pls, get a clue!

Posted by hunterk
reicast-libretro seems to work pretty well. It had quite a few improvements vs standalone, though I believe they either recently were or soon will be merged into upstream master, as well. Were you using a stable release or building from latest git?

Posted by sureanem

Well, it doesn't get scaled down, just subsampled–it takes one pixel and uses it to fill a wider area, rather than taking an average which is what usually happens when you scale down. So even if you'd scale it down to native resolution in the end, it would still look "better" than naïve/fast subsampling.
(Better is subjective–in some games like F-Zero, "proper" scaling in my opinion looks like trash because the graphics were drawn so they'd look good with "bad" subsampling)