![]() ![]() Naturally Snatcher has been high on the wishlist for many years. I suspect I will die trying to complete the collection. There are many of them, they’re almost all excellent, and some are extremely expensive. As well as being a Snatcher fan, I’m also very fond of the MSX and have, over the past two decades, been slowly but surely building a personal collection of every game Konami ever released for the system. I still own that copy to this day and absolutely treasure it, but I’ve always been curious about the other versions, especially the MSX release, which is more primitive and even a full act shorter than the CD version. It was all the money I would have for a month but I knew not to care. ![]() I seem to recall buying Snatcher for about £40 (£67 in today’s money) while my colleagues laughed at the expense. ![]() Not because they were totally unavailable but because of terrible jerks like me, snaffling them up at the point of sale. This, incidentally, was a common occurrence in most games shops of the time and the reason you’d sadly never see the coolest, rarest games on display. I was working a part-time sales job in GameStation (RIP) in the summer of 2001 when someone traded Mega CD Snatcher in. Personally, I fall into the latter category. Chances are if you’ve ever taken an interest in Hideo Kojima’s other works, having fallen in love with the Metal Gear series, you’ve found your way to this 1994 western-only release, either through emulation or via the real deal. Konami bizarrely chose to put the untranslated PC Engine CD version on every model of the PC Engine Mini, regardless of its release territory, which is both extremely cool and frustrating.īut anyway… The Mega CD version. Curiously it’s not the only version to be released outside Japan. ![]() Actually, if you’re a westerner with no foreign language skills, then chances are you’ve only ever played the Mega CD version of Hideo Kojima’s cyberpunk adventure, because, in 33 long years of existence, it remains the only version ever to be released in English. cue file, either or is OK.Which brings us to Snatcher. bin extension is referenced in capitals for example, but the actual file has a lower case extension. cue, the filename must be absolutely spot on, extension and all. Only exception to this is if the ROM just has a single. bin you will lose CD audio in a load of games (PSX is a common one, think Mega CD too). cue file calls all other bin files at the right time and for the correct duration. cue file is more useful when there are separate audio tracks in addition to the game. cue file (open the cue with notepad or whatever, it's readable) - you'll see what it does? It just calls the. Launch off my cue files with no issue whatsoever in all emulators. ![]()
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