Sure the tiny screen and controls are silly, but if you aren't into them you can just ignore them and it's simply another of these retro console things. VF2 has a super-good port already on PS3. Despite owning the DC version back in the day, I don't know much about VF3--why do you say nobody would be happy with it? As far as I'm aware, the DC port is the only one and was considered a bad port, so I'd think there'd be at least *some* interest in a good one. (I wouldn't because it's got a stage with flashing lights, but that's just me and my dumb eyes.) I'd be surprised if they go for anything higher horsepower than the (30 fps in the arcade) Virtua Fighter 1, though.

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Posted by Paleface on July 11, 2020 at 23:14:52 EST in reply to Gaming has apparently left me behind because this looks totally stupid to me. I do like a lot of these games, I have logged hundreds of hours on Astro City cabs, and arcade gaming from that time is very special to me but...it’s a tiny cab you play on a TV with USB sticks? WTF, why? Does it have a pencil sharpener built into it too? Is there a clip on the back so I can wear it on my belt? At least the price is good...and so far most of the games on the list aren’t super lag sensitive. If it’s one of the surprise games VF2 would be very hard to get right and nobody would be happy with VF3. from SignOfZeta.

Sure the tiny screen and controls are silly, but if you aren't into them you can just ignore them and it's simply another of these retro console things. VF2 has a super-good port already on PS3. Despite owning the DC version back in the day, I don't know much about VF3--why do you say nobody would be happy with it? As far as I'm aware, the DC port is the only one and was considered a bad port, so I'd think there'd be at least *some* interest in a good one. (I wouldn't because it's got a stage with flashing lights, but that's just me and my dumb eyes.) I'd be surprised if they go for anything higher horsepower than the (30 fps in the arcade) Virtua Fighter 1, though.

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I’m not %100 convinced that there is a way to overcome the lag issue that every modern thing has. That’s fine for Devil May Cry or Bomberman but for VF3...we’ll see I guess.

(SignOfZeta)

(12:32:22 07/13/20 EST)

Well, there are lag-free fighting game ports on PS3 and PC, at least. I don't know of any particular reason why there couldn't be on PS4, either--but I do know Capcom and SNK have farmed out recent ports to others, who perhaps weren't quite up to it. I would still be surprised if this Mini had anything as high horsepower as VF3 though.

(Paleface)

(18:38:11 07/13/20 EST)

If a game was analog SD, or slightly more than SD in the case of VF3, the game is tuned as a package. The PCB, the display, the controllers. Anything new has to go through HDMI land. If it’s a new game it’s tuned in HDMI, the console and the arcade are no different. I don’t think it’s possible to port VF3 to anything without at least a frame of lag and on most people’s setups it will be more like 4. For the casual fan that’s fine but for hardcore Akira players it’s quite likely a deal breaker. This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Even with MVS the difference between analog CRT and literally any other display is noticeable. My least laggy HDMI display still lags. My laggiest is just unbearable.

(SignOfZeta)

(19:14:38 07/14/20 EST)

I have a pretty cheap, by now rather old HDMI monitor and its latency is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3 ms--that's 3 milliseconds, not 3 frames. It has some silly mode that does add about a frame but I turned it off. Nowadays 3ms is a dinosaur, companies are marketing 1ms displays all over the place.

(Paleface)