Samsara
Also:
Shikhondo is being delisted on the 31st. Booji and I liked it both well enough so you might as well pick it up.
i also agree that shikhondo is good
Cave X Touhou November 22nd EXCLUSIVE to phone
M2 stream tomorrow
Air Duel, Mr. Heli, Cosmic Cop, Dragon Breed, Image Fight, In The Hunt, Mystic Riders, and R-Type Leo (along with other Irem arcade games, 18 total–including shmup-adjacent games Gunforce and Gun Force II, aka Geo Storm, by the team that would become Nazca and make Metal Slug; In the Hunt was also their work) are available in the Irem Arcade Hits collection.
The collection runs in a horrible DotEmu emulator job. However, the ROMs can be extracted from the trial version (http://games1.gamefools.com/downloads/installers/IremArcadeHitsInstaller.exe) or the retail version ($2.99 from GameFools, but automatically enlisted me in monthly $14.99 charges for their game service thing until I canceled, so I’m not going to link to it; I ended up doing my extraction from the trial version rather than the retail one–although I think they’re actually the same self-installing .exe, it’s just that when you get the retail one they insert your user name and unlock code into the filename ; D) per the directions here (for Windows, they require installing and running Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka WSL: Install WSL | Microsoft Learn): Irem Arcade Hits · farmerbb/RED-Project Wiki · GitHub
Note: when I tried following the guide for Windows, step 3, downloading the script, failed due to some kind of write permission for the Irem Arcade Hits game rom folder. So I copied it to a separate directory and continued from there.
I couldn’t get the extracted roms to run in current MAME, version 0.253. Most of them did run from the command line of MAME 0.119, from 2007 (the last non-64-bit MAME); I ran them with something like the following:
mame [rom name] -video gdi -waitvsync -volume -10
Air Duel ran once I changed the file name from airduelm72 to airduel, and Dragon Breed ran after I changed the file name from dbreedm72 to dbreed72.
Went as far back as MAME 0.56 (2001) with Image Fight without any luck (then I tried 1997’s MAME 0.29 but that doesn’t run in 64-bit Windows : P).
12 of the games scanned successfully in the latest release FinalBurn Neo: Blade Master, Cosmic Cop, Dragon Breed (named dbreedm72), Gun Force II, Gunforce, Hammerin’ Harry, In The Hunt, Mystic Riders, Ninja Spirit, R-Type Leo, Superior Soldiers, and Undercover Cops.
https://twitter.com/exaarcadia/status/1661568416904515584?s=20
Batsugun for EXA Arcadia…yay?
I think the port of the Saturn port of batsugun comes out…today?
Ugh, it’s getting a Limited Run release in the US, so good luck on it ever showing up digital on consoles. Up for sale on Steam though.
lol i sent this guy to @Rudie last week because he is just off on his own.
The part that gets me is his cat just constantly meowing in the background
#GOALS