Richard Bannister wrote:
I'm still here.
My focus for this last while has been on my Retro Game Collection – currently standing at 27 titles. I've got three more in development which I plan to be the end of the line, though in fairness I said the same thing at both ten and twenty, so who knows? :)
The current focus is on making the iOS ports better, and I'm making decent headway with that. Roughly half of the games now support wireless controllers, so if you've got a DualShock 4 (or Xbox Elite Series 2) kicking around you can turn your iPad into a perfectly respectable procrastination device.
Based on the current sales numbers I'm on course to break even in 2022, though I'd love to bring that forward, so any support from people reading this would be very much appreciated.
Good to know the sales are going well... it's a really good set of games and they've all been developed very faithfully to the retro classic vibe. Brings me back to an era where I pretty much exclusively played games on my mum's Mac Plus and a Sega Master System.
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I'm still around. This is one of a few forums that I still frequent. There's something about forums that you can't get on Reddit/Facebook (slower pace, less 'I HAVE TO REACT TO THIS ONE!!' style communication).
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Current gaming interests?
In terms of retro gaming, my most recent interest has been Sega consoles (
see https://imgur.com/a/3oCWsco for my Game Gear drawer... I've also introduced my son to the GG, so we've been slowly working our way through our library).
You may notice there's also a Wonderswan and a GBC in there (the SMS carts are for my GG as there's an adaptor). They're supposed to be in my other (smaller) drawer that contains Wonderswan, Neo Geo Pocket and Gameboy gear. Of those (i.e. excluding my GG), the NGPC is probably my favourite handheld for gaming as it's got Metal Slug, Cotton and a bunch of really cool fighters.
On my Mac (a 2018 Mac Mini with a Vega 64 in an eGPU case), I mostly use Mednafen (compiled with only its Saturn core), Redream (a decent Dreamcast emu) and CrossOver (mostly for running retro PC games). However, this week a ~10kg box arrived from Japan containing a Saturn, a Dreamcast and a heap of games/accessories (all kindly held by a friend over there as I've collected them over a ~18 month period through various auction sites). Restoring/modding them will be my next project. Still a big fan of emulation, but these two in particular have some quirks that haven't quite been emulated (e.g. the DC has its VMUs, which you can't hook-up via USB for gaming... also for both, rhythm game timing seems to be off by just enough that it's really annoying).
20 years... no, I haven't grown up one bit :D