Retro VGS Game Console

[Lost Monkey]

Did anyone catch the cardboard printed prototype they posted a few days ago?  Gettin' excited!

[MrBroadway]

Did anyone catch the cardboard printed prototype they posted a few days ago?  Gettin' excited!

I laughed my ass off when I saw that. Oh, boy did they quickly take down the pictures, too! How amateurish can one team be?

[SignOfZeta]

Do we have any solid info on the NG:Dev thing? I ask because that would be a huge deal.

Obviously they can't reveal specifics yet, but on their facebook page...

"NG:DEV.TEAM contacted us about developing games for the RETRO VGS! Yes, that get's us EXCITED! And it should get YOU excited too!"

https://www.facebook.com/RETROVGS/posts/831382946930977

In addition, NG.Dev.Team liked the Retro VGS facebook page, as well as Marvelous (who owns the Data East catalog), and DotEMU, who made those R-Type ports for Android and iOS.

Hmm, that's not very impressive.

It's now official.

Gunlord coming to Retro VGS...Last Hope Pink Bullets will come out later too.

https://www.facebook.com/RETROVGS?fref=ts

Does this mean it can emulate Dreamcast or Neo Geo?

/joke

[Black Tiger]

If the retro fans who are excited for the Retro VGS love retro games so much and NGDEV's game appeal to them, shouldn't they already own the Dreamcast versions at least?

I won't be surprised if the VGS team never says a word on the subject and after the first NGDev title is released, someone figures out that the cart or console is running a homebrew Neo Geo emulator with permision from the author.

[Punch]

NG:Dev likes to cash in on collectards, so what. Yay another game available for actual retro consoles that I can buy literally right now and play to the end, before the Retro VGS hits the market.

Now if NGDEV starts developing NEW games to it, that's another story.

[glazball]

NG:Dev likes to cash in on AESholes, so what. Yay another game available for actual retro consoles that I can buy literally right now and play to the end, before the Retro VGS hits the market.

Now if NGDEV starts developing NEW games to it, that's another story.

Fixed that for you.  And who's to say the RVGS Gunlord won't be improved or expanded somehow?  And BT to answer your question: no.  I would like to play it but don't have it on DC.  Believe it or not, some of us can't buy every game we want when we want.

Guess we'll see if they put up or shut up this week when they launch their KS.

[MrBroadway]

NG:Dev likes to cash in on AESholes, so what. Yay another game available for actual retro consoles that I can buy literally right now and play to the end, before the Retro VGS hits the market.

Now if NGDEV starts developing NEW games to it, that's another story.

Fixed that for you.  And who's to say the RVGS Gunlord won't be improved or expanded somehow?  And BT to answer your question: no.  I would like to play it but don't have it on DC.  Believe it or not, some of us can't buy every game we want when we want.

Guess we'll see if they put up or shut up this week when they launch their KS.

But it's cheap to buy on the Dreamcast. In fact, it'd be cheaper to buy on the DC than on this crap system.

[SignOfZeta]

Sorry, Dreamcast is too retro. I need to spend $400 on something new.

It's a fair point. I'm sure NG:Dev would love for this thing to take off, then they could make games for consoles that haven't been out of production for 15-20 years which puts their business on more solid ground. I'm sure they're porting something they already have just to see how it goes, and I'm sure they'll change something while they're in there to improve it. (Maybe make the bullets pink?). If it takes off (requiring that a system be actually manufactured first) they could be the superstars of Retro VGS and basically be the closest thing to a first party.

And hey, if things go that fabulously well then I'm interested too because I'm interested in game machines that actually exist and all of their extant games. The Retro VGS team still has a long way to go, the majority of the trip, if it's going to make it to this plane of reality from whatever the hell they live.

[Necromancer]

When it comes to NG:Dev, the Dreamcast is a non-issue, as they've said flat out that they're done with Dreamcast due to poor sales vs. downloaded torrents.  I'm not at all surprised that they're going after a more secure delivery system, though targeting the xbone or ps4 makes more sense.

[SignOfZeta]

Maybe we'll luck out and NG:Dev will just take over the whole project.

[Necromancer]

Ha!  They'll rename it the NeoGeo X 2.0 and the price will balloon to $800 per system and $200 per game.

[MrBroadway]

When it comes to NG:Dev, the Dreamcast is a non-issue, as they've said flat out that they're done with Dreamcast due to poor sales vs. downloaded torrents.  I'm not at all surprised that they're going after a more secure delivery system, though targeting the xbone or ps4 makes more sense.

Well, they're porting old games, not making new ones. They also said they absolutely sucked at making Dreamcast games (i.e. they hated making patches for their buggy games), so there's no real promise that they'll move over 100% to this system either.

[SignOfZeta]

That just doesn't make any sense. The Neo Geo X was from Tommo, and I think NG:Dev has proven that they're more than willing to make games at prol pricing. What else do you call porting all your stuff to Dreamcast and selling the games for hundreds less than the Geo versions?

If the Retro VGS ever gets made, the games are all going to be on a single flash chip, just like everything made now from the 3DS to a new top of the line MacBook. Nobody is going to burn three dozen 24 pin ROMs for a game that runs on this thing.* In that scenario cost of game production should be well under $100. The machine itself, if it ends up costing $400, is already quad priced.

*not actually a thing, but a vague idea of a thing

[Jibbajaba]

I don't really understand why they are bringing Gunlord to the RetroVGS, unless they are somehow packaging the Neo-Geo ROM with Neo-Geo emulator and sticking a front-end on it so that it's not obvious.  They tried to crowd-fund a 3DS release of the game, but wanted a pretty large lump of cash (presumably to pay for development time) so it didn't get funded.  I don't see how it would be any less of a chore to port it to this console instead, unless they aren't porting it at all and are instead doing what I said.

I would much rather see the game released for PSN/XBLA.  It's a really cool game and it's a shame that it's not readily available on modern platforms.

[SignOfZeta]

Hey, the 3DS is kinda popular, but wait until you see this Retro VGS thing*!




*not yet an actual thing as of 9-14-15