21st February 2021, 6:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 21st February 2021, 6:35 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Both the OSSC Pro and a higher resolution output Retrotink should be relasing later this year. I will be interested in seeing how they end up for sure. The OSSC Pro by reports may be twice the price of the original OSSC, which costs more tahan a Retrotink 2X Pro, so it'll be expensive, but if it's fully featured and has built in composite and s-video support it could be great. I know I have two retrotinks already, but I could see also getting an OSSC Pro if it does things i can't currently; I don't have a TV VGA solution if I wanted to get that out of something, for instance.
If they still require a converter like the Koryuu despite the price hike, well that would be unfortunate.
Anyway, I have three packages on order, but they're all taking a while. And that brings me to the worst thing about Biden's presidency so far, that he hasn't gotten rid of USPS head DeJoy. I know he can't directly fire him, but he can appoint new people to the postal board of governrors who could replace DeJoy, and he badly needs to because the guy continues slowing down the mail to unacceptable degrees. I'm sure Biden will get to this eventually, but it is a bit annoying. Mail is slower now, within the US, than it was a year ago! Come on. Like, I'm not really annoyued that one of these packages is late now; whatever, things happen. It'll get here. But when you consider that DeJoy also tried to sabotage mailed ballots in November? Yeah, he's got to go, now.
Anyway, I do have one more package that did arrive to discuss, and that's a homebrew game from Europe for the NES. This is my first physical-cart NES homebrew.
NES
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Micro Mages - complete, $68 inlcuding shipping. This was expensive because you have to buy it from a web tore in France, and the Euro conversion and shipping combined add up. The game's pretty good though, so I'm satisfied! Micro Mages is something I first noticed when it had a kicksterter, and while I didn't backiit then it turned out well by all accounts, so I decided to finally get around to buying a copy. The developer's goal was to make a new NES game in only 40KB, the size of SUper Mario Bros., but using all the modern tricks. And they succeeded; they made a sizable, fun, very good controlling NES action-platformer with four player co-op multiplayer, in only 40KB! This game has tiny little sprites, as per the title, buit good animation, great controls, and good gameplay. This is a somewhat intense vertically-scrolling platformer. Levels autoscroll and if you touch the bottom of the screen you die, so you've got to keep moving, fight the enemies, and make your way up. This is a NES game, but the controls feel really good, much better than many games on the system. You've got a bunch of moves too, including a wall jump. So yeah, this game's very good as far as I've gotten, which is through the first two levels, and I certainly recommend it. Oh -- the game has three levels in each world, and it has limited lives and a password system. Passwords only start you from the beginning of the world though, so if you get game over at a boss you're going back to the first level of that world. It's a good system that works, for a classic feel but not the degree of "NES Hard" of a lot of games on the system; password save was rare in NES games like this, unfortunately. (Yes, a flash save chip setup would have bnen nice, but that'd cost a lot more so oh well, the passwords are short and easy enough to enter.)
Also I got a couple of games locally a few days ago.
PlayStation 4
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Dreams - new, $19 - I do not like the way Media Molecule games control at all, but I've wanted to try this despite that.
Dragon's Crown Pro - $14, used. This is the steelbook Battle Hardened Edition, but is missing the cards it originally came with. The case and voer are intact and nice though. I have this game on PS3 but decided to get this port anyway.
Atari 2600
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Brain Games - $2, cart only - an edutainment game thjat requires the Keyboard Controller (which is actually a keypad, but anyway.).
If they still require a converter like the Koryuu despite the price hike, well that would be unfortunate.
Anyway, I have three packages on order, but they're all taking a while. And that brings me to the worst thing about Biden's presidency so far, that he hasn't gotten rid of USPS head DeJoy. I know he can't directly fire him, but he can appoint new people to the postal board of governrors who could replace DeJoy, and he badly needs to because the guy continues slowing down the mail to unacceptable degrees. I'm sure Biden will get to this eventually, but it is a bit annoying. Mail is slower now, within the US, than it was a year ago! Come on. Like, I'm not really annoyued that one of these packages is late now; whatever, things happen. It'll get here. But when you consider that DeJoy also tried to sabotage mailed ballots in November? Yeah, he's got to go, now.
Anyway, I do have one more package that did arrive to discuss, and that's a homebrew game from Europe for the NES. This is my first physical-cart NES homebrew.
NES
--
Micro Mages - complete, $68 inlcuding shipping. This was expensive because you have to buy it from a web tore in France, and the Euro conversion and shipping combined add up. The game's pretty good though, so I'm satisfied! Micro Mages is something I first noticed when it had a kicksterter, and while I didn't backiit then it turned out well by all accounts, so I decided to finally get around to buying a copy. The developer's goal was to make a new NES game in only 40KB, the size of SUper Mario Bros., but using all the modern tricks. And they succeeded; they made a sizable, fun, very good controlling NES action-platformer with four player co-op multiplayer, in only 40KB! This game has tiny little sprites, as per the title, buit good animation, great controls, and good gameplay. This is a somewhat intense vertically-scrolling platformer. Levels autoscroll and if you touch the bottom of the screen you die, so you've got to keep moving, fight the enemies, and make your way up. This is a NES game, but the controls feel really good, much better than many games on the system. You've got a bunch of moves too, including a wall jump. So yeah, this game's very good as far as I've gotten, which is through the first two levels, and I certainly recommend it. Oh -- the game has three levels in each world, and it has limited lives and a password system. Passwords only start you from the beginning of the world though, so if you get game over at a boss you're going back to the first level of that world. It's a good system that works, for a classic feel but not the degree of "NES Hard" of a lot of games on the system; password save was rare in NES games like this, unfortunately. (Yes, a flash save chip setup would have bnen nice, but that'd cost a lot more so oh well, the passwords are short and easy enough to enter.)
Also I got a couple of games locally a few days ago.
PlayStation 4
--
Dreams - new, $19 - I do not like the way Media Molecule games control at all, but I've wanted to try this despite that.
Dragon's Crown Pro - $14, used. This is the steelbook Battle Hardened Edition, but is missing the cards it originally came with. The case and voer are intact and nice though. I have this game on PS3 but decided to get this port anyway.
Atari 2600
--
Brain Games - $2, cart only - an edutainment game thjat requires the Keyboard Controller (which is actually a keypad, but anyway.).