General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

same ,I detest them nearly as much as this grading bs , bought shredders revenge for switch not releasing it was getting a release into shops here as well o\\ ,que me still waiting for mine and while it sat on various shop shelfs here 😒

I've heard it's better if you remap the controls at the system level. Pita doing so for one game, blame Nintendo for mapping the N64 analog to the right stick, the c buttons to the left stick and Z only to ZL and not allowing in game remapping.

Why do you suggest it won't be patched?

Only reading now the Switch version is part of their (questionable) N64 emulation pack, whereas the Xbox is the remastered version....pretty lame.

Re the controls on Switch, I did see mention online about how to configure them, but in typical Nintendo fashion, simple things can often need to be done arseways.

Aye, strange how the Switch version got by QC, but maybe being Nintendo releasing legacy stuff, it probably shouldn't. At the very least, even a Pro controller shows up the control issues. Guess N64 controllers are plentiful at Nintendo.

Xbox version controls relatively fine, but is a real missed opportunity after, not just the job done on the likes of Perfect Dark in the past, but in comparison to the leaked XBLA version a couple years back. Not quite buying Code Mystics explanation of the graphical glitches always being present in the code that are now only revealing themselves. Granted the original displayed some texture seam issues in line with time etc, but the strange warping effect is only something that can be blamed at a poor emulation attempt (at the very least steps should have been taken), and while I've not had it on in a while, it certainly wasn't an issue with the original remaster.

That said, it's not long before that 'Goldeneye feel' shows itself on both versions TBH. Very few games FPS titles match that 'popping out a few silenced PPK shots' that the original got so right. Just a real shame that they've taken such an easy route.

I've a major soft spot for the snes version, always enjoy a play through of it. Love the music gameplay, and visuals...plus it's not overly long so you can finish it in a single sitting.

I also never really clicked with the megadrive version for some reason

Aladdin designer Shinji Mikami:

“If I didn’t actually make [the SNES game], I would probably buy the Genesis one,” Mikami told Polygon in an interview. “Animation-wise, I think the Genesis version’s better. The Genesis version had a sword, actually. I wanted to have a sword.”

I think the sword/no sword thing was more a Nintendo making the game more family friendly decision than anything else.

Visually, I always found that the Snes version was very much 'Capcom does Aladdin' whereas the Megadrive version was 'Disney does Aladdin'.

Snes version does play a lot better though, can't argue there!

Absolutely love The Magical Quest, that and Aladdin are two fantastic Snes games.

That's funny, nothing new with Hollywood movies repurposing cheap items as props though. The communicators in Phantom Menace were repainted Gillette lady razors.

Is the LG C2 that good? I keep seeing mention about the place.

RetroRGB had a video complaining about the C2 having major lag when put in 4:3 mode for use with some scalers output resolutions

They look amazing for modern games. HDMI 2.1, Variable Refresh Rate and auto game mode and all that good stuff.

I really want one for modern gaming. I have an older QLED Samsung in the living room but want to move everything away from destructive toddler hands.

The 55 inch CS was going for €900 in the January sales which is a bargin, it's essentially the C1(wbc screen and chassis) with the Alpha 9 Gen 5 processor from the C2 for €400 less than the C2. It's now gone up to the same price as the C2 which is idiotic.

The CS is the one to look at if on a budget as I would expect that to come back down below the €1000 mark in the next couple of months when the 2023 range of OLEDs start turning up.

https://youtu.be/-0WghRCrhU4

Still working on editing and format but threw this review together recently. It was my first time ever reviewing an arcade, edited it together from a recent visit to Arcains in the UK, a new-ish arcade that opened there a year or two ago. Decent spot but definitely a lot left to be desired too. Lots of both retro and new games there.

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Aye. As long as your outputting in a native non-4:3 everything should be grand. So the likes of MiSTer, other FPGA devices or scalers/RetroTinks etc should be fine as long as you stick to 720/1080p that doesn't require the image aspect ratio to be manually adjusted in the TV aspect ratio settings. The issue I guess comes about depending on the nature of the setup and what method they use to interpolate the signal from an old device into the modern connections, or much more of an issue is if someone wants to use the Retrotink5x 1440p output to take advantage of the best output possible. In this case there's no way around it and you have to drop to 1080p so as to not trigger the 4:3 change.

Such a stupid bug, but one that only introduced itself in the C2 range. There's already so much lag inbuilt into modern setups, whether that's via the panels themselves, scalers, AV receivers....even wireless controllers, relative to old proper setups that the last thing you need is a near trebling of such purely because you want to play in direct 4:3.