How about Metal Slug 2 for Exa-Arcadia?

[MidnightWolf]

Seeing how SNK is now a partner of Exa Arcadia, and the Metal Slug 2 Turbo hack was created by Trap15, what are the chances of an officially licenced lag-free version of Metal Slug 2?

Metal Slug X is very good and all, but SNK actually releasing a fixed Metal Slug 2 in arcades would be nice. They fixed the lag on the Metal Slug Anthology for Nintendo Wii and other consoles.

[NeoStrayCat]

Last I checked, there is an option for MS2 on the (delisted) Neo-Geo Station version to fix the slowdown/lag. Can't remember anything about the slowdown/lag in the MSA compilation for MS2, assuming as you said, its fixed.

As for it being on Exa, no, I really don't see a point considering Exa versions usually add 1 or 2 new things exclusive to their platform. It benefiting from Exa isn't gonna make much difference (hypothetically) if it did come out on there (besides MSX being the better version of MS2), other than possibly being more expensive than its original MVS/AES cartridge price. I mean, the only other example is the benefit that SamSho 5 Perfect being on Exa (despite it already being on the "Neo-Geo Collection") is that it never got a legit arcade release/version.

[spmbx]

So instead of just downloading mame and a rom, you would prefer spending $1500 excluding the hardware to play the exact same thing you can play today?

[XtraSmiley]

So instead of just downloading mame and a rom, you would prefer spending $1500 excluding the hardware to play the exact same thing you can play today?

Don't that add new things like stages or characters though? Maybe that is what the OP really means. It's time for a new MS arcade game!!!!

MS2+ if you will.

[Zeether]

How about no?

[MidnightWolf]

So instead of just downloading mame and a rom, you would prefer spending $1500 excluding the hardware to play the exact same thing you can play today?

Yes,

I own an original Metal Slug 2 MVS cartridge that i have never played, because i never actually owned the hardware. So i have ZERO problem dropping £1500 on an Exa-Arcadia cabinet, if it means owning a fixed and official arcade cart.

As a collector, £1500 is nothing to me. Just pocket change.

[SuperPang]

So instead of just downloading mame and a rom, you would prefer spending $1500 excluding the hardware to play the exact same thing you can play today?

Welcome to arcade games. You must be new here.

[drauch]

As a collector, £1500 is nothing to me. Just pocket change.

Elon Jr. over here!

[BareKnuckleRoo]

As a collector, £1500 is nothing to me. Just pocket change.

Lots of us would like to expand our collections and realize it's a pricy hobby to get into, but with the massive rise in the price of housing, food, gas, childcare, and so on, you have to recognize that investing in this sort of thing is damn expensive to the average person who also has their family to care for. Bragging about how spending nearly $2000 USD on your hobby is "pocket change" for you in this day and age... it's not endearing.

Full disclosure in the interest of not looking like a hypocrite: personally I've spent about $2300 USD for two cabs + shipping, and $2500 USD in PCBs (two fairly pricy CAVE games for about 800 USD each plus several much more affordable ones costing about 150 to 200 USD each). I don't make a huge amount of money at my job but I don't really have any other expensive hobbies and I'm lucky to not currently have any major debts such as education or medical expenses. I'm very lucky to be able to have saved up enough to amass a modest collection over the course of nearly a decade, and I fully recognize $5000 USD is a huge amount of cash to spend on a hobby. I've definitely had to carefully save up to be able to afford them. Spending hundreds or thousands on individual arcade games simply isn't going to be doable for everyone. That's why it's nice to see these games get more affordable quality releases through stuff like Hamster or M2's ports.

[Rastan78]

Samurai Showdown location test in Japan

https://twitter.com/exaarcadiaceo/statu ... -faqiexkBw

Great!
Let's all fly half-way around the planet to play the next entry in a 30 year-old fighting game franchise, with mobile phone graphics on an overpriced Intel I3-9100.

The reason arcades were so special in the 1980's and 1990's, is because they had games you couldn't play at home, and the arcade machines outperformed current consoles graphically. Now, Exa-Arcadia is the exact opposite.... Crap looking games, on severely underpowered hardware with performance that can't match a modern mobile phone. The only gimmick of Exa-Arcadia games being the odd new character or colour palette swap as an "exclusive" feature.

Yeah, i'm really not impressed at all tbh.

So this is a little confusing. You want to spend lots of money on hardware you hate? Is this even the same person posting?

[PC Engine Fan X!]

So instead of just downloading mame and a rom, you would prefer spending $1500 excluding the hardware to play the exact same thing you can play today?

Yes,

I own an original Metal Slug 2 MVS cartridge that i have never played, because i never actually owned the hardware. So i have ZERO problem dropping £1500 on an Exa-Arcadia cabinet, if it means owning a fixed and official arcade cart.

As a collector, £1500 is nothing to me. Just pocket change.

SNK did officially release a dedicated single layered MVS + Metal Slug 5 combo jamma pcb setup that is cool to play/own that gave arcade operators/owners the chance to host MS5 inside an arcade cabinet setup (besides the usual MVS cart of MS5 with a separate dedicated MVS motherboard setup). It's cool having access to the real MVS carts of said game title along with the proper MVS jamma motherboard to play it on. I recall seeing/playing the legendary MVS stg title of Blazing Star for the very first time at my local arcade joint, Nickel Play, back in February of 1998 priced at a mere four nickels per credit (it was distributed in the USA during that particular month during it's initial JPN/USA/Europe MVS debut/rollout indeed).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~