Paprium: The Official Thread Mk 2

[NinMicroSega]

Let me clarify. I don't get this.
Sometimes i have the feeling that people give more importance to the package than the game itself.
I mean, if i burn the game in a CD is bad. But, if someone do the same and resell it as "official" is good?
The game is the same!
What's the difference? That you have the manual? Get a printer!

Yeah, what's the difference? May as well not buy any video game consoles and pirate everything on PC.

[matteus]

CRTs won't last forever but real Mega Drive hardware will last much longer than we will and practically forever. It's not a real solution to getting your Mega Drive to play on your TV by throwing it away and using an emulation box instead.

We've had upscalers that work as well as fake hardware for longer than fake hardware has been around. Classic game fans should be more supportive of upscaling solutions and devices like MiSTer which doesn't gouge end users and preserves vintage games.

Devices like Mega SG only damage authentic carts so that players can larp playing a collectible.

Can't rep you more unfortunately!

[majinga]

Yeah, what's the difference? May as well not buy any video game consoles and pirate everything on PC.

I don't want to start this discussion here. But we are talking about 20 years old, or more, games. The "pirate" thing is questionable here.

[NinMicroSega]

First of all, he's not limiting his potential market, because the only people he's catering to are people who would have original hardware to play it on in the first place.

Second of all, who here on this forum DOESN'T own the original hardware, or at least a variant of the original hardware (CDX, X'Eye, etc.)? If you don't, dafuq you doing on here complaining about it? Go on Facebook Marketplace and you can see countless listings for original hardware for sale for far less than these shitbox clone consoles.

[NeoVamp]

Paprium doesn't even work with my wireless Retro-Bit joypad, I think it registered like one button press at the beginning and from then on just pretended it wasn't there.

[NeoVamp]

I don't understand why people get so worked up about this.

Let us know how you feel in 2029 when you finally get the game.

[stika]

First of all, he's not limiting his potential market, because the only people he's catering to are people who would have original hardware to play it on in the first place.

Second of all, who here on this forum DOESN'T own the original hardware, or at least a variant of the original hardware (CDX, X'Eye, etc.)? If you don't, dafuq you doing on here complaining about it? Go on Facebook Marketplace and you can see countless listings for original hardware for sale for far less than these shitbox clone consoles.

Perhaps you should read this thread: https://twitter.com/Sega16/status/1342223904740409345

[nihilblack]

I guess some people here haven't heard of the Game Mode on new TV's. That means no input lag. Hook an Mega Sg to a 4K TV and enjoy your Mega Drive time like never before. You can even tailor it to sound exactly like you want. I don't care about purism.

Then there's the other thing on the table: I recall reading Matt Phillips twitter back in the day, when he was writing about his experiences with Tanglewood, testing and tuning it to death so it worked even on the crappiest Mega Drive clone. That's compromise and profesionalism. Fonzie can't event make Paprium work on official hardware. He's an elitist lazy moron, and you are too if you support him.

[paulojr_mam]

As shown by the twitter thread posted, tech breaks. And pieces for old consoles aren't even produced anymore. The game should work on newer MDs (the clones) too.

If it has problems even on original hardware models, the blame is probably with Datenmeister, a chip that judging from sound and graphics adds nothing much to the game.

[evilevoix]

I am loving this game and I think it is met and or exceeded my every expectation. I even got Tug Enthroned which did nothing as far as I can count. I got teh two new characters and can make it to the Sky Spa and beat that final boss which does nothign and won't even save. It just screams .....OH NO!!!!!!!!!>> and then the game resets so I am guessing I did something wrong?


What's up with that SAX guy/ Let him follow? I am still trying to find all the paths but I love this game, just love it.

[Gadispalembang]

I don't want to start this discussion here. But we are talking about 20 years old, or more, games. The "pirate" thing is questionable here.

Say, can you identify the rest of those chips on the copy of Paprium you liberated from its
black gunk? Does is still function, or am I remembering incorrectly and you cannot get it
to run on your system/s?

[SEGA-Jorge]

With all the talk of this game not running on so many models of the original hardware, I'm starting to worry that it's, low-key, potentially damaging any and all models merely as a result of its use. Can anyone confirm that we aren't inadvertently damaging our model 1's do to any overlooked components not being compatible with the hardware? I don't want to damage my consoles playing this game.

I'm aging the hell out of it, testing stuff, leaving it running while I'm posting stuff on here, etc. And it's gotten warm before. That was weird as hell.

Note: playing on an HDG Model 1 w/ TMSS. I'm on a VA6, I reckon. I can't remember which one I have hooked up, but it works. I'm only buying/collecting model 1's, and I have about 4 of them. I should see if it runs on all of them.

[avlon]

Pretty much any other response would have been better than that.

Even if he doesn't want to reach out to the Mega SD team to help them fix the issue, he could at least answer something along the lines of "I can guarantee we don't do anything special to prevent Paprium from working on the Mega SD, so it must be a problem on their side."

Names company after fruit.
Meticulous attention to the look & design of his product.
Is an insufferable asshole to everyone around him.
Blames consumers for his engineering flaws.

Gee, this sounds familiar. Where have I heard this story before?

[nieds16]

Anybody watching the paprium investors edition selling on eBay. 1 hour left and $488 usd bid, 401 euros. I can't believe it, but I guess everything PAL mega drive is more expensive than the US counterparts (or at least was 5 years ago when I was still purchasing games).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/PAPRIUM-Inv...594a%7Ciid%3A1

[avlon]

Anybody watching the paprium investors edition selling on eBay. 1 hour left and $488 usd bid, 401 euros. I can't believe it, but I guess everything PAL mega drive is more expensive than the US counterparts (or at least was 5 years ago when I was still purchasing games).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/PAPRIUM-Inv...594a%7Ciid%3A1

I've always wondered if these type of auctions are purposely engineered between a few people to go back-and-forth to artificially inflate prices.