Recapped Game Gear doesn't work properly with the OEM MK-2103 10V power adapter, and those NiMH AAs are only 7.2V - seems as though anything outside of 9.0~9.5V results in video corruption :/ Gonna see if I can find something cheaper than an MK-4122 for it.
Splurged on a copy of Popful Mail for SEGA CD because it's what Zelda II wishes it was, and is still somehow the best version despite a Switch re-release - plus it was local and absolutely not $500~$800... I could never, and especially not in the current economic climate .
Finally found a domestic copy of Waterworld for Virtual Boy for way less than $300~$400; and so I've finally collected all of the North American releases; first platform I've ever done that for? Also tracked-down one of those discontinued 8BitDo Lite controllers to use with NSO VB - the dual directional-pads feel way better than the Joy-cons' analog sticks. The two MAR10 Day releases are welcome, but Tennis' emulation is a little rough around the edges.
Speaking of NSO, I finished Comix Zone, Ristar, and Vectorman; started Dynamite Headdy.
Getting back to my relatively-cheap Amiga 500, I've ordered an RGB cable that works with my late-run Commodore 1902 monitor (the sticker says it doesn't support analog RGB, but it totally does), plus a USB mouse adapter. I also finally got around to disassembling and cleaning the keyboard, and about ten keys still aren't as responsive as the rest... Not sure what I want to do about that yet.
Picked-up:
- Bubsy 3D (PS) - Not good, but not as bad as you've heard.
- AeroWings (DC) - Underappreciated.
- Deep Fighter (DC) - Sub Culture 2!
- Flag to Flag (DC) - I'd never given it a second glance; it's good!
- Hydro Thunder (DC) - HOT! NEW! Non-"SEGA ALL STARS"!
- Ikaruga (DC) - About as close to the arcade as you can get?
- Street Fighter III: Double Impact (DC) - Playable bosses.
- Splashdown (XBOX) - Looks nice, wasn't expensive.
- Chili Con Carnage (PSP) - Name and game are both somehow better than Ninjabread Man :)
- Sonic and the Black Knight (Wii) - Been surprisingly difficult to find in the wild around here.
- Rayman 3D (3DS) - I still do not get the hype, but I might actually finish it on this platform.
- Collection of Mana (Switch) - Wanted Trials of Mana.
PocketDoom is great - kinda too bad about the OPL2, but even that's still really good! thinkelastic has been super-active and -responsive on the GitHub, and the progress made since the initial release less than two weeks ago is incredible.
Started messing around with Death's Door and it's not as frustrating as I'd feared.
Played through Killing Time: Resurrected, and it's great to see that hidden gem polished-up so nicely. Got me thinking again about what the 3DO could've been if it'd caught-on - tonnes of good stuff on there, even if a lot of it was just a cheaper way to play PC and arcade ports, or a very expensive way to play mildly-enhanced versions of previous-generation games you already owned. I can think of a bunch of titles that I'd still pick-up and play today - better versions of a lot of them hit the PlayStation and Saturn a year or so later, but still:
- Brain Dead 13
- D
- Escape from Monster Manor
- Gex
- Immercenary
- Killing Time
- Lucienne's Quest
- Need for Speed
- PaTaank
- PO'ed
- Return Fire
- Road Rash
- Samurai Shodown
- Slayer
- Space Hulk
- Star Control II
- Star Fighter
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo
- Super Wing Commander
- Wolfenstein 3D
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