Astro City Mini announced

[QualityChimp]

People buying this, the original version, and the Egret are gonna have a mini arcade in their house.

What is this? An arcade for ANTS?!

These devices are cool but they're not really for me. I wish Namco would make a bar top scale Rave Racer, or Time Crisis. That would be more up my alley.

[monel]

I know most people are fans and collectors, but most sites and forums, looking back start to look like promotion for various items. Until they hate something, which can be the opposite.

[wakka]

What is this? An arcade for ANTS?!

[importaku]

Looks like the astro mini V is now available for preorder on amazon jp with a sept 30th release date, seems they have hiked the price up too, 5000 yen more than the previous one cost.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B09NRJCPW3/ref=pd_cart_crc_cko_cp_2_3/357-3472269-9512738?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B09NRJCPW3&pd_rd_r=3b460cbb-a579-4a97-b874-64c153d78cd5&pd_rd_w=o5tuH&pd_rd_wg=cp8zp&pf_rd_p=2042d261-865e-484d-b9c6-ffc1b27768d4&pf_rd_r=5BRYWXF0M7XRXP7S6HT6&psc=1&refRID=5BRYWXF0M7XRXP7S6HT6

[QualityChimp]

https://www.gematsu.com/2021/12/astro-city-mini-v-announced

Here's that game list for the V:
"Astro City Mini V is a mini reproduction of the Astro City arcade cabinet that appeared in Japanese arcades in 1993. Unlike the original Astro City Mini, Astro City Mini V uses a vertical screen and contains 22 mostly shoot ’em up games, including Out Zone, Battle Bakraid Unlimited Version, and Sorcer Striker.

The full list of titles is as follows:


Action Fighter
Aero Fighters (Sonic Wings)
Armed Police Batrider*
BATSUGUN
Battle Bakraid Unlimited Version*
Cosmo Police Galivan
Desert Breaker*
Dogyuun*
Fire Shark (Same! Same! Same!)
Grind Stormer (V・V)
Gunbird
Moon Cresta
Out Zone*
Raiden
Samurai Aces (Sengoku Ace)
Sorcer Striker (Mahou Daisakusen)
Strikers 1945
TATSUJIN
Terra Cresta
Truxton II (TATSUJIN OH)*
Wrestle War
ZAXXON
*First-time ports. Out Zone and Dogyuun are first-time ports for Japan.


Tokyo-based arcade Game Center Mikado cooperated on the development of Astro City V, providing hard-to-obtain circuit boards, selecting titles, and supervising the button layout.


Astro City V also has an HDMI connection to connect the hardware to an external display, and an “Easy Save” function that instantly saves your game with the push of a button."

[Yakumo]

https://www.gematsu.com/2021/12/astr...ni-v-announced

Here's that game list for the V:
"Astro City Mini V is a mini reproduction of the Astro City arcade cabinet that appeared in Japanese arcades in 1993. Unlike the original Astro City Mini, Astro City Mini V uses a vertical screen and contains 22 mostly shoot ’em up games, including Out Zone, Battle Bakraid Unlimited Version, and Sorcer Striker.

The full list of titles is as follows:


Action Fighter
Aero Fighters (Sonic Wings)
Armed Police Batrider*
BATSUGUN
Battle Bakraid Unlimited Version*
Cosmo Police Galivan
Desert Breaker*
Dogyuun*
Fire Shark (Same! Same! Same!)
Grind Stormer (V・V)
Gunbird
Moon Cresta
Out Zone*
Raiden
Samurai Aces (Sengoku Ace)
Sorcer Striker (Mahou Daisakusen)
Strikers 1945
TATSUJIN
Terra Cresta
Truxton II (TATSUJIN OH)*
Wrestle War
ZAXXON
*First-time ports. Out Zone and Dogyuun are first-time ports for Japan.


Tokyo-based arcade Game Center Mikado cooperated on the development of Astro City V, providing hard-to-obtain circuit boards, selecting titles, and supervising the button layout.


Astro City V also has an HDMI connection to connect the hardware to an external display, and an “Easy Save” function that instantly saves your game with the push of a button."

The news that they have been using real arcade boards to help with emulation is a good sign.

[fuse]

There was a big YouTube live thing for this today, release date now confirmed for the 28th of July.

[Yakumo]

Just put out a video unboxing and look at this system

[Colin]

Can't watch the video with volume at the moment (at work) this may be a daft question, can two of these be linked together for two player, or is it additional joypad shenanigans only?

[Yakumo]

Can't watch the video with volume at the moment (at work) this may be a daft question, can two of these be linked together for two player, or is it additional joypad shenanigans only?

Two joypad I'm afraid. No back to back link option.

[Yakumo]

There's been a lot of talk on the net about the lag being unacceptable on the Astro City Mini V. Is this just so called purists being petty or is it really an issue?
Yesterday when I played for the first time, I did so via a TV with VRR support. I don't think that would do anything to change lag on a device like this.
Anyway, today we play on the actual screen. What do you think about the lag?

[importaku]

I originally had one on preorder but i cancelled about a month before release, seems i dodged a bullet there (with added lag ) Did sega really think nobody would be picky on a system that's full of shmups? one genre where lag makes the game extremely hard to play.

[fuse]

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It... does not look good.

[speedlolita]

So there is some speculation surrounding this and apparently the Egret II mini too.

Basically they aren't supplied with a power adapter and people assume any amperage is enough to power them because they haven't read the manual or not taken note of the power requirements. With sufficient power the latency figures aren't nearly as bad, apparently.

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[Super Monkey Balls]

That's the case with the E2 Mini but I'd be very surprised if Mike didn't use a sufficient power supply for those readings.