Fire Emblem is on Switch. FFIII is part of the Pixel Remaster series, which is on Switch, PS4, and PC.
Dragon Quest IV is on DS, along with V and VI. Of the three, it's probably the easiest to find. I wish they would port these games to Switch. The first three games are there. DQV is one of the best games in the series.
Part of the problem with Sonic is that the concept is built around speed, but the actual game design contradicts this. Too many levels penalize you for going fast, and Sonic simply doesn't have the precision of Mario when it comes to platforming.
Switch allows save states for all of the NSO games.
One company I recently did business with is eStarland. They sell games, but they also provide repair services. One of those services is replacement of save batteries in NES, SNES, and N64 games, and it's pretty cheap.
They have a small store in Lawton OK called Game King. Mostly I shop at Vintage Stock and Game X Change.
I remember Mansion of Hidden Souls being described as Sega's version of The 7th Guest, which is one of the two games (along with Myst) that launched CD-ROMs as a viable storage media. My parents were playing The 7th Guest when these games came out.
Warsong was a US version of Langrisser. I have the Langrisser I & II compilation released by NISA on Switch. It has an option to switch between thw original Genesis artwork and a more modern style.
I remember the Night Trap controversy. I never played the game. I also remember that it starred Dana Plato, the actress from Diff'rent Strokes. I think it's on modern consoles now.
As far as games on a Genesis Mini 3, which hopefully wouldn't look like the cheap Genesis 3 units made by Majesco,I think all the really good Genesis games are on consoles now. The only games I am really interested in are Lunar 1 and 2, Vay, and Popful Mail. All of these were Working Designs localizations, which apparently means that the rights to these games are pretty messy. That's a pity, too. Lunar 1 and 2 were awesome. Not only were they the best Sega had to offer in RPGs, but they were as good as Square's SNES games. Popful Mail was made by Falcom. Other than that, I guess I wouldn't mind seeing the Genesis versions of the Mortal Kombat games. They weren't great, and the second and third games were better on SNES (the first game was a complete disaster on SNES beyond the censorship), but the first game actually had a catchu soundtrack that took advantage of the Yamaha FM Synthesizer the Genesis has on board.
SMB 3 is one of the best Mario games ever. I played it at McDonald's for a promo/competition Nintendo held in 1989 before its actual commercial release. I'm pretty sure it was a tie-in with The Wizard. McDonald's was also giving away those Mario Happy Meal toys with the suction cup-spring Mario and Luigi riding a little cloud car. I have the Mario one. I also saw SMB 3 in one of those PlayChoice-10 arcade machines Nintendo used to make, also the year before the official release.
It's on Switch as a downloadable title, as Sega Ages: Herzog Zwei.
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs started a campaign in 2018 to persuade English-speaking media to refer to the city as Kyiv, the traditional Ukrainian pronunciation, as a opposed to Kiev, as the latter was a Russian-language pronunciation held over from the USSR. The US government fully committed to using the name Kyiv in 2019.
Turkey officially changed its name in the UN to Türkiye. For the time being, they accept the spelling of Turkey from foreign media, but I foresee a time not too far in the future where Türkiye will be adopted by Western media and politicians. It's still listed under its traditional English spelling in Wikipedia.
The reason why PlayStation dropped backwards compatibility for PS4 was because they moved from the Cell architecture to a completely different architecture. The Cell is tough to emulate even to this day and would have been expensive to implement, and ultimately was found not to be worth it. The PS3 didn't exactly light the world on fire with sales records, and most of its best games are now available on PS4 and PS5, and PS5 is fully backwards compatible with PS4. Sony made a decision to get a fresh start in order to be able to price the PS4 competitively against the Xbox One.
Likewise, the PS3 originally included PS2 compatibility, but that was dropped because it was too expensive and Sony needed to cut costs. The PS3's original models included both the PS2 Emotion Engine CPU and the Graphics Synthesizer. So it basically had a complete PS2 in the PS3 casing. I had one of the original CECHA models. That was the only way to do backwards compatibility for PS2 on PS3, because the PS3 simply didn't have the power to brute-strength PS2 emulation. In the next round of revisions, they dropped the EE but kept the GS and maintained BC through partial software emulation. After that, they dropped the GS as well, because it was still too expensive. Sony had to kill the PS2 to move forward.
In re: Nintendo, of the Wii U's best games, and a lot of the Wii's best games, are on Switch now. In addition to new architecture, Nintendo also went from optical discs to cartridges. I can see them letting you play Switch carts on Switch 2, as long as the architecture itself is compatible. They were actually pretty good about backwards compatibility for a long time, especially with their handheld lines. They actually wanted the NES library to carry over to the SNES, but the realities of the market, which dictated hardware that compared to Genesis and TG-16 while not costing Nintendo an arm and a leg to manufacture and having to make customers pay an arm and a leg to cover, made that impossible.
The decisions to drop BC thus weren't arbitrarily made. They were the only reasonable decisions those companies could make at the time. Now that Sony has settled on an architecture for PlayStation going forward, it shouldn't be an issue, and as long as Nintendo sticks with tis architecture, it will likely have BC.
I agree on emulation. I'm not a fan of piracy, and emulation is a somewhat synthetic experience. When possible, I play games on original hardware (I own a Saturn and a Gamecube for their rare games). It simply isn't possible in all cases. I have considered building a JAMMA arcade cabinet.
