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Whatever you gotta tell yourself.

I don't have to, I have no guilt. In fact, I've bought like three copies of Technos Vol 1. I got the Kunio-Kun collection on Switch and bought singles on PS4. They got paid, we're straight, I got a letter from the president of Technos who said "lol thanks bro, you can do whatever you want now", and you're just fudgein jealous. Certainly not going to enrich some fudgeo on eBay who thinks the $20 cart should go for $anything more than 20.

Tad wrote:

I was being super serious. Glad to see you're still repping the density of Neptune, bro, clearly I really got a letter from the President of Technos for him to get jealous of fudge's sake lol

Someone get this leech some subtime.

DCGX wrote:

This was arguably the best news for me, since I'm still stubbornly holding onto the EXP LE coupon. I'll be able to optimize it completely after seeing what July has to offer.

DarkFact wrote:

I was expecting a rant but I was not expecting this.

This is the best thing in a post I have read all year LOL

benstylus wrote:

No reason to rant, it ain't that deep

Yoshi wrote:

Yeah I completely forgot about the coupon when preordering the Atomic Edition! That really annoyed me since I get my Evercade games from Video Games Plus now and never buy from Funstock anymore. I emailed them asking if they would apply the coupon, even though it's paid for, but haven't gotten a response yet.

I do like Funstock but VGP are my Canadian homies

Someone pointed out the Duke Nukem art they solicited was AI generated. Evercade originally came out and insisted it wasn't, people were quick to point out it was very obviously AI generated and the guy they paid had basically nothing but AI generated images in their portfolio and they deleted their defense

However, the actual contents are very cool!

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Apparently they not only took down their defense but they apologized to fans and are commissioning new art.

From https://www.eurogamer.net/duke-nukem-evercade-publ...

"Over the last 24 hours, we have been humbled by the support and excitement over our newest cartridge announcements and our partnership with Gearbox to bring the Duke Nukem franchise to Evercade," Byatt said in a formal statement.

"As part of this, an artist was commissioned to produce a lead image for the new Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered game developed by Blaze Entertainment. It is abundantly clear from the response on social media that the work on this commission has fallen below the expectation and standards demanded by fans due to the artists’ use of AI in the process.

"We are immediately removing the art where possible to do so and will be announcing a replacement commission in due course that better meets the high standard expected," the statement continues. "We would like to apologise to you, all of the fans, who have felt passionately about this enough and please be assured are working to remedy this. We also would like to thank everyone who’s worked on the project to date for their input."

Blaze's transparency with this sort of stuff - and the speed at which they respond - is a breath of fresh air in this day and age. I'm still really impressed with how they handled the Evercade EXP theft, too.

A lot of major publishers would have handled that very differently.

According to Blaze, the Team 17 Collection 1 charted on the UK physical releases charts. I don't know if that says more about how much an Evercade cart sold, or more about how few sales in the UK are physical.

Could also be how beloved the Amiga is over there.

Or that there just weren't a lot of other releases that week

Blaze/Evercade's big announcement was this morning, and it's a Game Boy "Pocket" style and themed handheld that can play all Evercade carts. There's a Capcom themed unit in blue and yellow, and a Taito themed unit in green and black. Both come with a dozen built-in games for their respective manufactures and retail for $59.

Not bad for a smaller version of the Evercade with games, but I think this might the first Evercade product I pass on. If they go on sale for, like, half the price, then maybe. But I'm good with my VS. and EXP for now. This might be what less hardcore Evercade fans/those interested in the Evercade might go for though. Like the Switch Lite.

Interestingly it's not branded as evercade which is probably a smart move.

It does give hope for future taito/Capcom compilations on the evercade itself though

benstylus wrote:

Yeah I thought that was interesting too. Maybe it's a good move, we'll see.


I'd definitely be up for this.

I got the Taito one, the Capcom one's bad other than the colors imo.

The Taito one is cool but I have almost all those games on the Egret Mini.

Sadly I don’t have one of those :(

I also like the Taito branding on the handheld more than the Capcom branding. The EXP is loaded with all those and more I think anyways

Yeah if you have an EXP there is zero reason to get the Capcom one unless you just like the form factor better.

Sunsoft and Delphine collection preorders went up at vg plus today.

With the exchange rate, ends up being just under $40 with free shipping for the bundle

Did I dream a July event being announced during the last one to reveal the rest of the year's releases?

Yoshi wrote:

"We'll see you in July for the Evercade Showcase Volume 2, but until then, goodbye."

Yep it's at the end of the video

Just announced on their discord

Hey everyone!

We're back with another Evercade Showcase. Volume 2 will be an Indie games special and will look at the remaining carts to be announced for 2023!

Monday, July 31st - 6PM Europe, 5PM UK, 12PM EDT, 9AM PDT.
Join us on our YouTube channel to watch the show!

Just squeaking in.

Has anyone ordered games from Amazon? The pictures show PEGI packaging, as opposed to ESRB. Is that accurate?

If it is "ships from and sold by Amazon.com" it should be non PEGI. 3rd party, who knows?

Though if you need all your carts to match you probably should stick to the PEGI ones since there are 3 (i think) Europe-only carts.

Are there ESRB ones? All mine are either PEGI (because Blaze is in the UK) or no rating at all. I've gotten mine from Funstock, Best Buy, Amazon and Video Games Plus.

benstylus wrote:

Thank you. I didn't realize those three existed, but I have all PEGI carts to match the two LE bundles.

BTW, the Showcase today was the exact opposite of what I want from Evercade.

I could take or leave most of the indie stuff, but I'm glad it's there because some of it is genuinely cool.

While I am definitely more interested in them making carts with actual retro games than new games made for retro systems, there is room for both.

Yoshi wrote:

Glad I'm not the only person who felt this way. I'm happy that indie developers are finding a voice on the platform, but if I'm going to effectively pay $10 (or $20?!) for a single indie title, I may as well buy it on Steam and not have it locked down to an esoteric device.

They said at the beginning of the video that it would be indie focused. I guess next time that happens you guys know to tune out. I'm kinda glad they made the indie showcase its own thing.

I don't know how many times when I'm watching a Nintendo Direct some new farming sim rpg pops up and I'm just sitting there thinking ANOTHER ONE? That's why I like to watch them after they end so I can fast forward through all the crap I don't care about and get to the good stuff like Fashion Dreamer.

benstylus wrote:

I agree with all of this.


Renaissance2K wrote:

You nailed it. I wound up doing the same thing today I do during Nintendo indie Directs. I open Steam and add anything that looks interesting to my wishlist.

Evercade's value to me is the opportunity to support developers or publishers for games not currently available anywhere else. I actually started a spreadsheet recently that maps all of the Evercade releases to what is available on Steam, GOG, or Switch. The good news is that there is a lot not covered. The bad news is they seem to be trending away from that.

I want the December releases. I kinda like having weird games on the handheld

Yoshi wrote:

The way I see it, having those "exclusive" titles on Evercade isn't necessarily feasible. If someone is willing to license their game to be published on an esoteric console with a limited userbase, surely they would also be up for having it available on steam or other places with 1000x the userbase.

Still though, looking at their roadmap images that I pulled from the discord, their first year (2020) was almost exclusively retro console games. Only 2 of the 14 carts were newer indie games.

2021 didn't have as many carts released. Just 12 since they didn't have to frontload the system's launch. But they also started expanding into arcade games (likely due in part to people complaining about getting inferior console ports on things like the Namco Museum carts). Of those 12 we got 2 indies and 10 retro (6 console/4 arcade).

2022 only had 11 releases. But they diversified further into retro home computer releases beginning with c64. So we got 3 indie releases, and 8 retro releases (3 console/4 arcade/1 computer).

With 2023's roadmap pretty much complete, we can see the trend here. 14 releases announced to the year end. 5 indie releases and 9 retro releases (3 console/2 arcade/4 computer).

The addition of more indie releases has not really affected the number of retro releases. Outside of the first year (which was heavily frontloaded for the system's launch) there have been between 8 and 10 actual retro releases per year.

Now if you don't have any interest in a subset of that (maybe the retro computer games don't interest you at all, or maybe you just want more arcade games) I can see that being disappointing.

But for me, I just want more of the retro stuff that hasn't been re-released to death. Stuff I haven't experienced a hundred times before. I would much rather play something i've never seen before like the C64 Movie Monster Game as opposed to yet another port of Street Fighter 2.

Street Fighter 2 is probably much better of a game, but I've been playing it for 30 years already.

Yeah it was definitely billed as an indie showcase. I prefer the retro stuff too, but I like the indie releases. To argue the price and getting indies on Steam, it's not usually that much more for a multi-game cart, and you can always sell and/or trade them away. That can't be done on Steam. And the Evercade. The Evercade is also about physical media. Many of these indies probably won't ever get a physical release outside of Evercade.

Honestly, I wouldn't give these games a second look on Steam, but on a platform like Evercade, I definitely give them a try. Kind of like how I completely ignore games based on anime until I'm building out my collection on a more obscure handheld (I have like a dozen anime games on the Vita, and I don't watch any of those IPs shows/movies).

Home Computer Heroes 1 and Full Void are up for preorder on VGPlus.

They have the free shipping bundle for the two pack as long as you are getting the standard edition of full void.

No such bundle luck if you want the Full Void special edition. But hey it's only 7 CAD for shipping, and if you have a referral coupon that knocks 5 off so it's only a 2 dollar net shipping charge. (You could also order something else to get your total to their $80 CAD free shipping threshold)

1 CAD is about 0.75 USD right now so don't forget to mentally take off another 20 to 25% of their listed price if you are in the US.

($25 CAD = $19 USD)
($40 CAD = $30 USD)
($50 CAD = $38 USD)
($80 CAD = $60 USD)

Yeah it sucks the more expensive item doesn't have a bundle and then costs shipping. Though it's pretty easy to hit the free shipping threshold.