I thought he announced his retirement last year? or was that one of those “one more project and then I’m done” kind of announcements

This is the one that got me when I was younger:

Turns out its a platform puzzle game with no attack button. Enemies can only be defeated by pushing blocks onto them.

Oddly enough, I ended up buying Shadow Dancer specifically because the cover was so bizarre.

An old man with a bat protects a young woman from a plate armored man attacking both of them with a longsword, as a scared dog flees into a burning city in the distance.

Two questions:

Are you connecting via USB or Bluetooth?

Do you have a toggle anywhere to put the device into XInput mode?

My #1 gaming desire is a PSP consolizer. My 3000 unit has a dead UMD, and my 2000 is failing. I just want a clean HDMI out to my TV without the tangled wires. I always manage to pull the power out while playing.

I thought it was trivial to circumvent but difficult to duplicate?

Last I recall (though I admit this was years ago) the wobble groove can’t be burned and has to be pressed into the disc… which is why despite it being nearly 30 years old now, you still have to modchip to play anything unofficial.

I wonder if they ever fixed having user passwords in plaintext. I honestly thought the days of seeing my password in a recovery email were long-gone.

Unfortunately I don’t have any recommendations I can give you as each enclosure could use a different chipset. It seems that the brand does not have a good reputation for compatibility but that list is fairly old at this point. All I can say is if you find an enclosure you like, plug the model number into the raspberry pi forum and see if anybody had to add it to the quirks list.

whoa whoa, I would not recommend a cheap AliExpress USB enclosure at all. As others have already pointed out there’s a whole ever-growing blacklist of partially incompatible enclosures that basically flake out whenever they feel like it. Worse yet, not every device is on the list so you frequently have to research and add devices yourself.

The last generic Inland m.2 enclosure I bought worked fine… for 1 hour. Then it disconnected and reconnected. I thought it was just random chance, until it happened again and again and again. Did the deep-dive research, found the chipset was partially incompatible and I had to return it.

DO NOT BUY CHEAP ENCLOSURES FOR EXTERNAL MEDIA ON RPI

I personally don’t think that would have worked. We’ve seen repeatedly from multiple companies that selling anything as an “addon” just results in failure because developers can’t assume that people will have it. You have to bake the function in the lowest SKU or it ends up a novelty.

Perhaps if they rolled out the canceled Neptune as the half-step between Mega Drive and a delayed Saturn. It would have been the an excellent base SKU developers could target, with cheaper CD media as a bonus… but I just don’t see an enhanced Sega CD/32X going up against the PS1 and coming out any better than the Saturn did. I guess they wouldn’t have hemorrhaged all that money on wasted hardware though.

Oh, Sega was limping along well before the Saturn’s failure let Sony finish them off. They completely fractured their market when they botched both the (expensive to manufacture) 32X and SegaCD, canceled the integrated (cheaper) Neptune, then failed to showcase the Saturn as their next generation while simultaneously making it too hard to develop for.

Even when Dreamcast finally became a clean-slate for Sega, it was far too late to serve as a 5th chance.

my brother’s controllers were wireless before it was cool

MisterFPGA has a real image problem. It just exudes “complicated”. Visit the homepage and witness exposed boards and adapters shooting everywhere, along with constant talk about loading cores and updates.

SuperNT/MegaSG and RetroUSB’s AVS are popular because they remove that barrier for entry. This one promises to do that, but obviously people are skeptical. The fact they want to launch without full Dreamcast capabilities and say it’ll be updated later means they already put up a barrier for entry.

something that important I’d put into the login banner as well.

Youtube Trailer says FPGA.

… though the article says that SegaCD support will be from external hookup to the official SegaCD device. So I guess it’s just MD/32X. I was really hoping it might have the full suite.

yeah, weird phrasing. I mean, they have horrifying shipping times, but I never thought of them as gatekeepers.

I really hope this wasn’t some guy’s pet project that accidentally got news coverage. I want to order one!

and now look. They’ve got unrelated people online recommending a person doesn’t buy from them because it’ll be a poor experience. Is being detached from reality a requirement for upper management?

Last I heard, Capcom was retroactively adding DRM to their games which could severely impact compatibility. I don’t get why Mega Man 2 would need to be protected with spyware, but that’s a big corp for you. So yeah, I’d say Capcom games might qualify.

Both Battle Network Legacy Collection and Mega Man X DiVE were released last year though?