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Yeah I think for me that is its only downfall. It is great to have something in that genre that is easier for folk who do not like the usual hard game-play but I love it so much I wish it was harder to suit me better (I am selfish). I have not played that one. I looked it up and at a glance it looked like just some cutesy game that was a little 'meh' but I watched a quick game-play video and it looks really fun. I will definitely add it to my list of things to play. Oh yeah of course, pretty much everything is worth what people are willing to pay. My gripe is not so much the price but people saying it is rare when it is not, that really annoys me. If your copy has been in your possession for that long I cannot image getting rid of it.

Good choice. It has to have some of the most beautiful, creative and epic bosses out of any game I have played or seen. That one that is a giant head on the screen is absolutely jaw-dropping.

That website does in fact use paypal. I know what you are saying though. I will be glad to sign your petition. There you go brother. You can thank me later by buying me one when they come out as a result of my awesome work there. Haha, If I did not know what the Mattel Hyperscan's controllers look like I would guess they were for that.

Okay, I have not seen that one before. I will have to give it a go. Well, if you ever find yourself visiting Australia, look me up. We can play a game of Granada together and then afterwards be two grown arse men comfortable enough with their heterosexuality to hold each and cry uncontrollably like two fat women on an Oprah weight loss episode. Then we can eat comfort food like chocolate ice-cream and reminisce about the good 'ol days. Also, @Jason Carr regardless of how busy you are stop just posting on beta testing threads like a big boss man and step down in the trenches with us commons to tells us what your favorite shmup might be.

Twinkle Star Sprites was also on the Dreamcast. Yeah I am not sure what one you are talking about but when you find it and say it I will think 'ahhh, that is it!' Man, there is no shame in crying like a baby to nostalgia. I am a sucker for it. Sometimes I smell a certain plastic smell and it takes me back to the smell of opening a He-Man action figure in the 80s and it hits me like a ton of bricks. I have to be careful because if I get into an 80s YouTube binge of old commercials and stuff I will sit there sobbing like my mother has just died. The soundtrack to Granada really is a thing of beauty and does conjure emotions in me also, you seriously are not the only one my friend.

Haha! I am currently composing my top 50 lists for quite a few systems, but with the Mega Drive I could easily do my top 100 for it. I just like stuff, and making lists about that stuff. My life is pretty exciting and action packed.

Hmm, that is not Twinkle Star Sprites is it? I am not that au fait with the Dreamcast's library so that is the only cutesy one that comes to mind.

Also, I have a little rant pertaining to this game. Though it is not about the game per-se, but about idiots who sell physical copies of it. MUSHA is an unfortunate example of a game that is not truly rare but goes for rare prices. A rare game at any one given point would not have multiple copies listed on eBay, but MUSHA does! I think it is just one of those games that has snowballed a slow hype train over time and prices have been driven up like media circumstance elevated The Beatles to a status far higher than they actually were at. There are always copies of the games for sale somewhere so it is not rare, but everyone puts the word 'rare' in the listing title. That is just something that annoys me. Haha, yeah they sure were designed to drink those quarters down like a camel in the desert. After my house renovations are done I want to sit down and focus on DoDonPachi like a madman to see if I can beat the game in one credit. It will be a good challenge to focus on. That is seriously the best description of that game. It was like it should not have looked like that but did, and it was one of the contributing factors in why it was so good. Granada is my 17th favorite Mega Drive game of all time. Take a look at number 17 here. I think next to Capcom Cave might have to be my favorite game publishers, they really did make some amazing stuff! You have good tastes.

I have games that I play religiously. There are about 27k games on my LB/BB setup but I probably play on average the same 10 or so. I think that is good though because then there is so much more to discover later. It is not like I am miserable playing the same ones because of some weird OCD that won't let me move on, I just love playing those handful of games. When I finish renovating my living-room I plan on picking games I have not played before and giving them a good going. I will pick one at a time and focus just on it like I have spent all my pocket money on renting it from the video store back in the 80s/90s. As for the 194X series I do love them. I much prefer the more 'sophisticated' ones like DoDonPachi but I could play 1942 all day and be a happy-chappy. Have you ever finished the game without pumping an exorbitant amount of free credits into it via MAME?

Despite the SEGA Mega Drive being my favorite system of all time I have to this day never played MUSHA. I used to collect for the system but never purchased a physical copy doe to the asking price. It is of course on my setup now but I just have not gotten around to it. I definitely will one day. As for you young man, for shame. Don't be such a lazy bum. Scroll down a bit further and you will find a whole new world of shooty goodness waiting for you.

Just wanted to hear people's thoughts on shmups they dig, on any platform. I am partial to the Arcade and in particular love the bullet-hell/manic-shooter/maniac-shooter variety. So I naturally love Touhou Project but have never been able to properly get them running on my setup, but anyway. Here are my favorite all time shooters (which all happen to be Arcade) in order from most favorite: DoDonPachi Guwange Mushihime-Sama Cyvern Espgaluda II Ray Storm Deathsmiles Vasara & Vasara 2 ESP Ra.De. Sengoku Blade (Tengai) Dragon Blaze Gunbird 2 Progear Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams Truxton II Shienryu DoDonPachi is incredible, it rocks my knob off! Though, the creativity and imaginative nature of Guwange's mythological world captivates me and tickles my pickle like no other.

You probably already saw this then. It is the only one I can find. The cord needs mending however. Would you be confident in doing so yourself or taking it to someone you know? The seller calls it rare, which everyone does on eBay in order to try and sell things but in this case I would say that controller does seem pretty rare. If the cord was not buggered I would have been all over that like a fly on a turd. It is the only controller I have seen with a 6 button layout on the face accompanied with analogue sticks, it might be the holy-grail of sexy-time-controllers despite any potential flaws it may have. EDIT: Hold on! I found some pre-owned for $55 with international wide shipping (I went through the checkout to see and it looks like you can get shipping to where I am for about $9: here. They say We hand-pick all of our pre-owned products in order to ensure their condition is in the best possible state and knowing Japanese kids or people in general pre-owned should mean perfect condition. It looks like they have one black one left in stock. Which one of us is going to pull the trigger on it? It is like a wild-west stand off. Probably not, but I like to dramatize things.

I’d like to think it’s not that obvious and he’ll surprise us by saying something like China or Hati.

What country do you live in?

I am guessing it might be as I had never heard of it before and although I didn’t try searching too hard couldn’t really find one for sale. i wish people would stop posting in this thread. The Ryu Dual Link Controller by retro-bit is gorgeous. I want to buy everything!

I’d be interested in seeing what the one with analogue sticks looks like. Someone posted a pic at segaage of the 8Bitdo M30 and it looks very stylish and comfortable. Though for a controller to ‘do it all’ I’d want the 4 shoulder buttons and home button, but then it wouldn’t be a Mega Drive controller anymore. I find the Hori Fighting Commaner perfect for retro games. I think the 8Bitdo M30 looks perfect but one might venture down the path of then getting too many controllers and potentially complicating their setup. At least that’s what I have to keep stopping myself from doing. There’s probably not a completely perfect controller ideal for absolutely everything but with compromising the analogue feature the FC? Does the trick nicely. I feel the M30 might only be good for the Mega Drive enthusiast and whilst it’s my favourite system of all time the controller falls short for me PC-wise.

I thought so, but just wanted to make sure. Spank you very much kind sir.

Hey, just a quick question regarding caching images in BB. If I do it but then never alter anything as in add games etc is it something I need to do again? As in, is it something that benefits from doing every once in a while or only when a bunch of new games and stuff has been added to the setup?

@Mr. RetroLust I have not used any of the controllers you mentioned above. The Hyperkin Duke just looks really awkward to me. Just looking at it the button layout looks icky, though for all I know it could be awesome. As for the Hori ones I like the look of the Hori Onyx out of the two you mentioned. I have the official PS4 controllers so if you want that design because of the analogue, they are great to me. I image the Hori Onyx would be a magnificent substitute going by looks alone. The only controller I know of with a six button layout on the face for fighting games with the analogue option is the Hori Pad EX Turbo 2: Very Tempting! Even though it looks a little cumbersome.

Looking through eBay the Hori FC4 is a heck of a lot more expensive than the Hori FC5. You would think the FC5 being the newest model would be more expensive. Is it then safe to assume that the FC4 is the more popular and therefore likely better out of the two?

My last five are: Tetris (SEGA Mega Drive) Street Fighter Aplha: Warriors' Dreams (Arcade) Muchi Muchi Pork (Arcade) Mushihime-Sama (Arcade) Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting (Arcade) I love me some shmups and Street Fighter, and I am addicted to Tetris on the Mega Drive (I like it better than the NES version).

I have only just discovered this thread and program. I need to explore this forum in much more detail as there are some awesome stuff to be found. I downloaded Stellar and gave it a whirl and it worked great. It is so much easier than doing it via RA itself. Thank you so much for making this great program available to us all.

Well, as a moderator you are partially responsible for this by default so for compensation for my loss during this stressful time you will be required to hand feed me strawberries and cream whilst I watch my computer go up in flames. It will be slightly homo-erotic and awkward but this is what you signed up for, soldier.

I went to update the box art for my Nintendo Virtual Boy and LB downloaded 20GB of beastiality on my computer. The database certainly has expanded.