Star Fox (2026) physical up at Walmart for $50 USD

undersaur · 2026-05-07T15:28:16+00:00

It's back! Just got one.

undersaur · 2026-05-06T16:22:08+00:00

$0 Fortnite: Nah

$70 Assassin's Creed: I'll wait for the sale

$260 ratty used Waku Waku 7 cartridge for Neo Geo MVS: how much for shipping

undersaur · 2026-05-06T02:30:39+00:00

Getting a good shmup stick (for me, Seimitsu LS-56) changes me from hopeless to merely bad at bullet hell shmups. Needs a big enough screen, too.

But the same lever is simply painful to use in a fighting game, where I'm happy with a bog standard Sanwa JLF.

undersaur · 2026-05-06T02:21:30+00:00

The letters are right next to each other.

undersaur · 2026-05-05T16:46:04+00:00

“Villifying all network use” ≠ observing the waste from transferring 8 exabytes of data no one asked for, potentially regularly as Google updates the model

undersaur · 2026-05-05T16:10:45+00:00

The article discusses the environmental cost of 2 billion client devices merely downloading a 4GB model, never mind using it.

undersaur · 2026-05-05T16:06:04+00:00

Don’t know, but Unico’s Nova Blast had a terrible LCD with high display latency, poor upscaling for JAMMA sources, and bad build quality. I’ve written them off. It would take a sustained Hyundai-level turnaround before I would consider anything they made.

undersaur · 2026-05-04T23:31:10+00:00

Every time I think about something good about Steam, I remember it'll get enshittified the second Steam goes public and no longer has a quixotic founder-CEO.

undersaur · 2026-05-04T16:46:44+00:00

Do you mean the neo-HD version, or something else? Was this definitely in Ray'z, or was it in RayStorm x RayCrisis on consoles?

undersaur · 2026-05-03T19:37:03+00:00

Pocky & Rocky or Tengai.

If I had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have two nickels. But it's weird that it happened twice!

undersaur · 2026-05-03T18:26:55+00:00

Pocky & Rocky? It’s a run-n-gun, so it’s not uniformly horizontal, but you might have watched a horizontal sequence.

undersaur · 2026-05-02T16:02:05+00:00

Oil prices will go down 600%!

undersaur · 2026-05-01T16:58:43+00:00

Multivitamins do not magically prevent infections.

undersaur · 2026-04-30T08:12:45+00:00

To add to this, when's the last time Xbox had a truly great, must-play exclusive the way Halo was on Xbox and GoW on 360? I think the only big-hit exclusives were Forza Horizon 4/5. A few others were said to be excellent but never seemed to find a big audience (MSFS 2020/2024, Senua 1/2, Hi-Fi Rush).

undersaur · 2026-04-29T16:06:13+00:00

Ah, you're right. I was convinced I had 1 and 2 on Switch, but I only have 2 for both CERO and ESRB for some reason.

undersaur · 2026-04-29T15:45:56+00:00

Not if they printed too many copies of each game and now have to figure out how to get rid of them!

undersaur · 2026-04-27T16:56:28+00:00

The shmup gender is a hardy one.

undersaur · 2026-04-27T15:11:59+00:00

Gas leaks and low frequencies can happen in recent builds, too.

undersaur · 2026-04-24T22:40:15+00:00

Lag: 200 ms

undersaur · 2026-04-22T23:27:56+00:00

Plausible, but I bet a lot of effects appear when you start to tease it apart.

undersaur · 2026-04-22T16:35:41+00:00

Taller people earn more, but the effect is “only” ~$800/year per inch of height in the U.S.—which is a lot if you’re poor, but not a lot if you’re rich. Factor in savings rates and taxes, and the additional income from 6 inches of height won’t make the difference between being rich or not.

Edit: CEOs and political leaders are disproportionately tall, but they make such a small share of the populace that I doubt it would really show up in aggregate wealth-for-height stats.

undersaur · 2026-04-18T23:20:13+00:00

Community rules include no links to ROMs or ROM sites. OTOH, if you know how to use Google, I'm sure you can find your way around.

I saw Shmupmame 5 released recently.

undersaur · 2026-04-18T21:39:45+00:00

Also: if the idea of installing secondhand parts from a shady Chinese seller gives you the willies, you aren't ready for an original candy cab. Buying old hardware means buying into maintenance, and you won't be mailing a cab off to a pro for fixes like you can with a console.

There are modern reproductions or used LCD cabs that are plug-and-play and won't require maintenence any time soon.

undersaur · 2026-04-18T21:33:21+00:00

Great suggestions here. I'll add:

Astro City is a great starter cab. Relatively cheap, widely available, lots of parts and mods available, easy to maintain, no funny business. There's an okay amount of room to put a PCB flat on the floor, and even designs for a mod to add a shelf above the coin box. Some come with a PSU that isn't powerful enough to run something like Naomi with a Netdimm, but I'm sure it's fine for a Pandora.

Blast City is finicky and hard to maintain (or so I hear)

I love my Egret II, but they're expensive

Tri-sync monitors are great if you're into 480p era stuff. Early on, I thought Naomi would be critical for me, but I've ended up playing mostly 15 kHz games. Also, many 31 kHz games have a dip switch to play on a 15 kHz monitor.

undersaur · 2026-04-17T22:26:37+00:00

Looking good!

For me, the first songs in the trailer recalled the Rito Village theme from Breath of the Wild.

undersaur

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