But it is! Even comes with a free Yakuza game bundled. Just need to a tiny mod:
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Looks like some people finally went ahead and made True Fantasy Live Online
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When I was little I didn’t like True Fantasy Live Online because I assumed it was fake anime being made for the Western console because everyone had really long noses.
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Dang, he held down three jobs for 22 years
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you’re welcome to post here mr naka
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Egret II mini? Who saw this coming?
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They’ll be selling three different types of controllers for this when it releases, as well.
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The paddle and track ball controller on the far left comes with an SD card that adds 10 games that support it.
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Really could have used that tate mode flipper on the astro city mini’s two vertical shmups…
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I can’t see the term ‘tate mode’ without thinking about potatoes.
More games should have a Potato Mode
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Hacha Mecha Fighter (Sea otter shmup) just landed on Switch
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man that egret 2 stuff looks extremely cool
i am almost glad, now, that i have never invested in some kind of proper spinner / trackball solution, how perfect, how special
but also like gotta wait almost a whole year? that’s a long lead time to take on a toy taito, tell’ya that
Woah isn’t this famously buggy in Mame?
Confused that the Bic Camera preorder page has Metal Black as a special bonus and two of the other sites have Metal Black just listed.
The paddle and trackball is so good though. CAMELTRY AS INTENDED!
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This thing annoys me to no end. I do not want to buy a special fetish object bad computer to play games that could run on anything I already own.
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I’m a little warmer on it, because I think they’ve done a fair job of combining the price of the hardware and the software, the boom in boutique hardware design (if not usually of whole computers) is pretty cool, and I might be able to eventually use it to emulate a dreamcast fishing controller. I am more than a little annoyed that it takes an uber-precious elite indie Mac dev shop like Panic to actually ship something like this, I think the way they stomped all over what’s her name in LA and got commissions from Keita and Bennett is illustrative, and I expect UFO 50 to be the better collection. but I’m still looking forward to it.
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there’s definitely an element of “anyone can have simple, uncomplicated fun***”
*** fun is wrapped in several layers of sanctimony and our main outreach engineer is a dad who makes $200k and tweets about snacks
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honestly the biggest turnoff to me is that all discussion has been about drawing a social group around the people making it, drawing a social groups of the expected developers, identifying and valuing the expected purchasers, meta-discussion about these discussions. It’s the re-vomitation of self-guilt that surrounds tech products without any substance and it’s so, so tiring with little referrent to any actual work people are trying to put into the world
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