Nintendo Switch is getting a port of NGPC Samurai Shodown! 2 as a pre-order bonus for the Switch version of the new Sam Sho game (which is already out on other systems). And here I'd been wondering when we'd get a console NGPC collection. : p

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Posted by Paleface on August 28, 2019 at 16:37:15 EST.

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2019/aug/28/samurai-shodown-nintendo-switch-launching-december-japan-neogeo-collection-also-coming-winter/

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I was a little annoyed to find this out yesterday by reading the news instead of knowing like... way in advance.

(exodus)

(16:17:57 08/29/19 EST)

Great little extra! Almost reason enough to get the game just for that.

(Rockman Pocket)

(17:05:20 08/30/19 EST)

If something like this had come out a year or so ago with a MotM for PS4, I definitely would have bought whatever BS 3D game was required.

(But now Paleface knows his photosensitivity can't handle the flashing FX ; [)

(12:04:13 08/31/19 EST)

So how much does screen brightness have an affect on that? It’s easy to see why Samurai Showdown 2 in a dark arcade on a CRT could cause your brain to do things but how about an actual NGP? Modern TVs are CRAZY bright compared to the old stuff, and I think literally 10,000 times better contrast ratios. Can you somehow naturally reduce the difference between the two frames of the flash, attenuation by room lighting or screen selection. Obviously I know nothing about any of this.

(SignOfZeta)

(13:34:17 08/31/19 EST)

That's a good question. A lower contrast screen does kind of help, but not--at least in the brief experiment I tried in lowering my gaming screen brightness--as much as you might think; my guess is that this is because you have to look harder at the picture to see what's going on, so increasing focus on reduced contrast flicker kind of cancels out. Having good room lighting and adjusting the screen properly for the light in the room is big. I haven't yet found a game that's worth risking a migraine for, so if I do find irritating flicker in a game, I just put it on the do-not-play list and that's that. ... It's become a big list. Man, just today I played a video of an in-development indy fighting game that came up on a fighting game news site, and it featured neon hit sparks as big as the characters flashing on and off with every rapid-fire hit. What is wrong with these game developers? Sheez. : P (But this is a problem with nearly every game that wants to be a bit retro now, they're choosing to emulate the flashy FX of 90s gaming, cranked up to 11--plus newfangled horrors of screen shake and so forth.) Oh and now I'm reminded that the bright text box and dark background on this forum is also not a helpful combination, argh.

(Paleface)

(20:15:37 08/31/19 EST)

Okay I made the forms (though not in previous posts) lower contrast for my old lame eyes. ; )

(Paleface)

(21:00:40 08/31/19 EST)

(Fixed a couple old html bugs, making sure posting still works.)

(Paleface)

(21:55:37 08/31/19 EST)

Okay a tad brighter than that though. : P

(Paleface)

(22:05:35 08/31/19 EST)

And lowered the contrast of the form field label text to match. (Also fixed a few other old html bugs, sheez.)

(Paleface)

(11:33:27 09/02/19 EST)

This is looking a bit bizarre in the promo video, which shows the Switch screen seemingly taken up by an image of the front of a NGPC, with SS!2 playing on the NGPC's screen. Hopefully that's just a mock-up, or at least just an optional display mode. : P Orrr I guess maybe they thought this was a good way to approximate the actual NGPC's screen size. Different NGPC color schemes are shown.

(Paleface)

(17:49:16 11/05/19 EST)

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