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Capcom Home Arcade announced! Releases October 25th 2019, 16 classic Capcom arcade games
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The more I think about it the more I realize that the problems really are the design and it being dual-stick driving up the price.
Keep everything else the same but put it in a nicer single-stick box and I could see it selling a lot better at 150€+.
Keep everything else the same but put it in a nicer single-stick box and I could see it selling a lot better at 150€+.
Three simple steps to save this thing
I'd buy 10.
- Make it a small chunk of plastic that looks like this
- Allow other sticks to be used with it over USB, include a cheap but unobjectionable usb version of this
- Double the amount of games (For starters, add Gem Fighters Mini Mix, Mercs, Magic Sword, Varth, Alpha 2, Forgotten Worlds, Commando, etc.)
I'd buy 10.
These kind of posts, everytime some novelty emulator gets announced, feel like copypasta at this point. Unless my sarcasm detector is off.
Kinda surprised they actually put ''emulation provided by FB Alpha'' on the site. I don't know but i kinda would've preferred a more official in house bespoke made Capcom solution of the emulation these titles instead of a PlayStation Classic approach of borrowing a community made emulator but that's just me.
L O L
Even if I wanted this, where the fuck would I put it? What a shitty design.
It's a nostalgia piece. If anything it's the sanwa parts that are out of place.
I get it, up in this case it is warranted. They are using an open source emulator. One that you can put on a $35 device. It gets tricky with Roms, but there is no way this capcom stick worth it. It's ugly.
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Sanwa means nothing with that shit selection of games.. where is power stone? Rival schools? Tech Romancer??? God....... sigh..
Bruh, you had one job!
Bruh, you had one job!
People who want to talk about raspberry Pis in topics like this should be required to explain in very clear detail how one can also dump their own rom, and show pictures of them doing that themselves, instead of being cute and calling getting roms "tricky"
Progear isnt even one of the best shmups.. it just has the art style going for it.. but still we both should be able to get what we want from something like this. But, you have fun with that.
Just sucks that the opportunity has passed for something great. Ah well..
That price is absurd and using the shape of the Capcom logo is the ultimate piss take.
Buy an Arcade1Up cabinet, install a Raspberry Pi into it and you're golden. You'll probably being saving some dough compared to this as well.
How would one go about legally putting all 16 of those games onto it?
It's just me or the idea of having a two player control scheme is really unconfortable? In the arcades you played standing up, and thus was doable... but having to sit that thing on two laps seems really odd, and it makes single player experience really awkward since you have the weight of the stick completely off balance.
Add to this the price, and you have a nice item collectorin a few years... 'cause I'd be surprised if it moves more than 5000 units
Add to this the price, and you have a nice item collectorin a few years... 'cause I'd be surprised if it moves more than 5000 units
How would one go about legally putting all 16 of those games onto it?
FWIW, I don't own a Raspberry Pi myself, haha.
I think it goes without saying that this isn't really meant for lap play. It's meant to place on a surface and play that way. Case in point for me it's going on the coffee table until I build a better solution for it.
Man, I'm trying to keep my head straight on this story...
- Capcom announces they're using FBA in their LOL $250 PnP stick.
- FBA dev says Capcom used FBA without permission
- Another FBA dev says Capcom got licenced to use FBA
- More FBA devs contridict that guy
- FBA licence might not even be valid; it might contradict terms in the MAME licence
This is exactly what I was thinking.
Hyper Fighting instead of Super SF2 Turbo? DarkStalkers 1 instead of Vampire Savior? And no SF Alpha/Zero or SFIII at all? Well, if the thing has Wi-Fi, that means they'll try to sell those to us separately as DLC, right...?
Only art style? The bullet cancelling gem scoring system and the way the spreads organically intersect much like ketsui is lovely - the rinse and repeat cycle of bullet herding large connecting patterns and cashing in is so much fun (don't let me started on gem streaming). I feel the only negative aspects are the soundtrack, the trial mode of the 2nd loop, and how the game rewards you for bomb hoarding and not dying (increasing the end stage multiplier - if you die it can be detrimental to your score.. but not necessarily the clear/loop requirements).
It was such a sweet spot for cave before they would move on to nonsensical scoring systems like having to switch your shot type every time you get your stage mulitplier up 500 points like in futari
There's a reason that it's been included in either the top 25 shmups of all time or at the least the honorable mentions.
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I guess, i wont argue that..
It means I'm frustrated at this product.
Which was just last year when it was part of Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle
But you can't compete with free. Okay, Capcom gives away all their CPS1 and 2 games, spending tons of money on relicensing everything. Pirates add CPS3. Capcom adds CPS3, pirates add all pre-CPS games. Capcom adds those, pirates add Sega games.
This is not a valid argument. Just because someone is literally stealing Capcom's work and selling it for dimes doesn't mean that the games are worth dimes in a legitimate release.
Ironically, the only realistic (legal) way you could do that in this case is by buying this thing and ripping the ROMs from it!
I refuse to believe that Capcom only purchased the lisence of AvP for this atrocity. no way.
They will release it on consoles and PC in one or the other way someday.
They will release it on consoles and PC in one or the other way someday.
