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Capcom Home Arcade announced! Releases October 25th 2019, 16 classic Capcom arcade games
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Great list of games, great joystick/buttons but dumb hardware design.
If they redesign as a standard home joystick with a single player option for like $100 then I may buy.
If they redesign as a standard home joystick with a single player option for like $100 then I may buy.
It's pretty clear the Pandora's Boxes are piracy boxes though.
Yeah, that's a pretty big mistake on Capcom's part if it's accurate, but I'ma wait and see if it was just 1 FBA dev who wasn't in the loop or if Capcom really just somehow....forgot to get permission LOL.
you don't really even have to talk about piracy...for $250 this is getting into the kind of territory where you are better off just getting a supergun
FFS. Ever since last gen I've been hoping to be able to play the outstanding AvP arcade game. I've been dreaming of playing, but now by the look of it the only chance I'll have is to fork out £200 for this.
Fuck. I love AvP but don't love it enough to lay down £200. Hoping Capcom release it on current consoles soon.
Fuck. I love AvP but don't love it enough to lay down £200. Hoping Capcom release it on current consoles soon.
The hideous design of this thing makes me thing companies should reveal such thing to the public to gauge sentiment before committing to manufacturing... When something like this backfires and you have no recourse, that gonna sting.
And with that price tag... Hell naw
And with that price tag... Hell naw
Seem like it would be interesting if it's hackable to add more capcom games to it. Depending on if the architecture is legit.
Edit: I'm curious if making their own hardware is somewhat of a loophole in order to get around licensing (maybe not as strict as porting some of these titles that we haven't seen yet).
Edit: I'm curious if making their own hardware is somewhat of a loophole in order to get around licensing (maybe not as strict as porting some of these titles that we haven't seen yet).
I'd love this for the novelty factor, but 230 is way over my budget even though the parts might justify it.
Pretty hilarious that capcom tries to compete in a market filled with piracy using a device with pirated code lol.
Hmmmm.... On one hand avp. On the other, that's an odd looking design with the logo. If the price is right, maybe.
I guess we know why hyper fighting isn't on the Arcade 1Up cabs.
I guess we know why hyper fighting isn't on the Arcade 1Up cabs.
The design is really goofy but I kind of love it if I'm being completely honest. Price point feels like it's way too high to do well but that's what you get with arcade sticks unfortunately. If the homebrew opportunities are there though this could be really interesting.
Would it have costed more to... Not have two sticks combined as one? Seems like it'd be a huge pain in the ass to use, not to mention the fact that it's ugly as fuck.
Hell, now that I looks at it they could have just separated the Cap and the Com. That would have actually been kind of cool in a dumb goofy way, but that plus the two in one design makes it a no for me.
Hell, now that I looks at it they could have just separated the Cap and the Com. That would have actually been kind of cool in a dumb goofy way, but that plus the two in one design makes it a no for me.
I think the idea behind the shape being so distinct is that with so many unofficial products with classic art from capcom on them existing (most seem to bear sfvlogos) that if they were to compete in the market they needed to stand out and be instantly distinguishable from the knockoffs. Thus a custom capcom logo shaped device.
Technically it could; buy the board, set it up to run it on your PC and you'll be blasitng that on your audio system~
I'd pay good money to have this on a disc or as a download but I don't have room for something like that for 16 arcade games. I kind of learned my lesson with the NES and SNES mini too. Plug and play boxes are impractical and I'd rather buy the downloads on 3DS/Switch/Wii U.
lmao at that design. Amazing.
This is way out of my league in terms of price compared to what it offers, but it's a cool product. Hopefully they'll release that set of games as a collection on traditional platforms as well down the line.
This is way out of my league in terms of price compared to what it offers, but it's a cool product. Hopefully they'll release that set of games as a collection on traditional platforms as well down the line.
Awesome concept, but the list of games generated a giant MEH from me. That's without talking about the price point. They have literally priced themselves out of a general, mass market audience, and priced themselves into niche status, which is something Capcom would have to have known with such a price point. Hard pass.
I was excited getting this for PS4 for 30€ ...
Then I saw the video and thought "Okay, that's nicer than your usual Mini-Console, might actually get this for 80€".
Then I saw the price ...
I mean sure, at "Sanwa parts" I should have known that this will be expensive as fuck, but come on ...
Then I saw the video and thought "Okay, that's nicer than your usual Mini-Console, might actually get this for 80€".
Then I saw the price ...
I mean sure, at "Sanwa parts" I should have known that this will be expensive as fuck, but come on ...
With that much case real estate I give it an hour after launch and someone will have gutted it and just setup a pi3b board on it. Anything that has a stick gets that done to it these days. Many things that don't too. Hell theres even an altoids console now they shoved a pi zero into it.
Considering its proprietary hardware is running fire burn alpha it likely wouldnt take much to have it reading an sd card these days.
Honestly this is pretty good. I think the expensive parts are the controller itself which I love in its own goofy way. But for an official way to play some of those games that doesn't involve tracking down an old arcade board, like Aliens vs Predator, it's pretty good.
Wish it was a cheaper collection on consoles...
Also I want Chronicles of Mystara, do something about that Capcom.
Wish it was a cheaper collection on consoles...
Also I want Chronicles of Mystara, do something about that Capcom.
Yeah, first thing I would do is get rid of that Capcom shell lol.
No Willow Arcade makes me sad 😞 I'm sure the rights are a nightmare though but that was my favorite Capcom arcade back then.
Quoting myself from the other thread that just got locked.
The game selection is fantastic (except why DS1? Must emulate better or something) but having so few games on this hulking box is awful.
The game selection is fantastic (except why DS1? Must emulate better or something) but having so few games on this hulking box is awful.
What hurts is this is the first official product for many of these titles. Progear & AvP were big names that were always tied up in red tape.
I mean... I guess it's a crazy collector item then.. because it's not as convenient as all these Mini System nor as cheap as them... I'm still sad that Alien vs. Predator will continue to be a game mostly inaccessible. Hopefully Capcom still have plans for a collection for all the consoles down the road.
The emulator that they're using has been capable of playing these games for nearly 20 years now. There's no difference in how they're emulated.
Okay so maybe Capcom is in the clear.
FB Alpha's license may not be valid after all, but then MAME changed the license at one point so it's all about the timing and whether they used more MAME code from after the change...
FB Alpha's license may not be valid after all, but then MAME changed the license at one point so it's all about the timing and whether they used more MAME code from after the change...
Since alien stuff is licensed by Sega on other platforms I assume this is the only real way they could get the game ported. Not that I get why there's such a rush for a licensed game to begin with since well, it's a licensed game (they're often boring), but I'm on board with this. 1944, Mega Man and Puzzle Fighter make this a must own if it's $250 or under over here. People don't seem to realize that high quality stuff like the Hayabusa costs $150-180 for the stick alone...
The price is not the issue. The issue, is that it's got high end joystick parts which is what you want, but for some reason they've made it look as tacky as possible. Should have just gone with a sleek simple case or something based off the Impress.
Lol at the $100 or no buy posts. You have no real interest in this anyway why bother?
Lol at the $100 or no buy posts. You have no real interest in this anyway why bother?
I am almost in awe at the silliness of the design. That got all the way through the design process with nobody saying "wait what are we even doing?" - it's so ugly it's almost great.
I don't understand the rest of it though. If it's meant to be used as part of a standing cabinet that you build yourself, it's fine, but then it's an utterly niche product. If it's meant to be used on a TV then are they expecting people to run a HDMI cable across their room and sit on a couch uncomfortably close to someone else? If you play single-player are you meant to balance that enormous stick precariously on your lap while somehow using only the left half of it? Or are you meant to construct a special stand just for this device?
I don't understand the rest of it though. If it's meant to be used as part of a standing cabinet that you build yourself, it's fine, but then it's an utterly niche product. If it's meant to be used on a TV then are they expecting people to run a HDMI cable across their room and sit on a couch uncomfortably close to someone else? If you play single-player are you meant to balance that enormous stick precariously on your lap while somehow using only the left half of it? Or are you meant to construct a special stand just for this device?
In fairness anyone who needs to look down to visually check what buttons are where probably isn't the target audience for a €230 machine packed with fast-paced arcade games. If you're playing Street Fighter and trying to locate buttons by eye before pressing them, you're kind of fucked.
Ok so Capcom didn't completely fuck this up thankfully, just on the design front.
Why wouldn't they at least put all the Street Fighter games on it? It just seems like a missed opportunity to at least make the value look a bit better.
And megalolz at the fact a team of people looked at that and went "Yes, this looks like a thing people will pay to put in their house. Let's go with this design. Immediately."
And megalolz at the fact a team of people looked at that and went "Yes, this looks like a thing people will pay to put in their house. Let's go with this design. Immediately."