Of all the remakes and reboots classic games are getting this year...

Why can't we get a decent port or remake of Konami's Hot Chase??

https://youtu.be/VsiFk_lQ-cM?t=16s

This batshit insane, distant cousin of OutRun is my favorite 16-bit racer. :D

Don't want to bash other people favorite games but holy cow, that twitchy car handling is horrible. Did this arcade cabinet have proper analogue wheel controls at all?
I'm arcade Chase HQ fan btw, feel free to bash my game too :)

Yeah, this game used an analogue wheel methinks. Most rips of this game are done through an emulator.
Unfortunately it's very uncommon so the only way most people will play it, is through an emulator with horrible keyboard or joystick controls.

It would be nice to see a re-release but if Konami doesn't even care to re-release every Castlevania and Contra game, there isn't much hope for something much more obscure.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

It would be nice to see a re-release but if Konami doesn't even care to re-release every Castlevania and Contra game, there isn't much hope for something much more obscure.

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Exactly! Asking for much of anything from Konami at this point seems like wishful thinking.

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Originally Posted by Eep386

Yeah, this game used an analogue wheel methinks. Most rips of this game are done through an emulator.
Unfortunately it's very uncommon so the only way most people will play it, is through an emulator with horrible keyboard or joystick controls.

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The irony is that MAME has control smoothing just for this purpose (where pressing the key will change the value over time instead of instantaneously changing it) yet it seems nobody uses it.

https://i.imgur.com/LjXBbLml.png

EDIT: holy shit, I thought I had badly configured MAME and that's why I was getting lots of slow down (I had just reinstalled it) but watching the video it's actually from the game itself =/ (it slows down at exactly the same points)

I'd be happy if Konami release a "Rebirth" cart with all three games for the Switch.

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Originally Posted by Eep386

Yeah, this game used an analogue wheel methinks. Most rips of this game are done through an emulator.
Unfortunately it's very uncommon so the only way most people will play it, is through an emulator with horrible keyboard or joystick controls.

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You can get analogue controls with Dualshock 4 or XB1 pad.

The companies don't care anymore. There is more being done in terms of preservation and improvements (such as ROM hacks, among other things) in the retro gaming scene by fans than by the companies. It is a really tedious process, and it saves the actual companies time and money, but to put it simply, they don't care. Don't depend on them anymore. Capcom and Konami are on their last legs, their last few profitable franchises are withering away. Maybe if they gave more respect to the fans contributing to their dead franchises without any pay, they'd have something, but as it is, we're living in the 'last days' of the retro greats. Nintendo is one of the last strongholds in the living legacies of gaming. SEGA survives solely on compilations, Sonic, and poor clone systems. Indie gaming is the successor to retro-style games, and sadly I think some of the indies are so innovative these days that they're going to make the classics look dull to the newer generation who is not attatched to them based on nostalgia and doesn't remember them when they were fresh.

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Originally Posted by Jeckidy

The companies don't care anymore. There is more being done in terms of preservation and improvements (such as ROM hacks, among other things) in the retro gaming scene by fans than by the companies. It is a really tedious process, and it saves the actual companies time and money, but to put it simply, they don't care. Don't depend on them anymore. Capcom and Konami are on their last legs, their last few profitable franchises are withering away. Maybe if they gave more respect to the fans contributing to their dead franchises without any pay, they'd have something, but as it is, we're living in the 'last days' of the retro greats. Nintendo is one of the last strongholds in the living legacies of gaming. SEGA survives solely on compilations, Sonic, and poor clone systems. Indie gaming is the successor to retro-style games, and sadly I think some of the indies are so innovative these days that they're going to make the classics look dull to the newer generation who is not attatched to them based on nostalgia and doesn't remember them when they were fresh.

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Except Capcom is fine. Resident Evil 7 sold well, and Monster Hunter: World became one of Capcom's top-selling games. Sega approach to retro compilations is rather good compared to what other companies do (just check what Square did to FF6 and Chrono Trigger). And most indies are crap.

A bit disingenuous to call most indies games are crap. A good deal of good ones out there. Indie or bigger budget games bound to be some bad ones but still a lot of good.