Today Taito has announced an event set for 5 September to celebrate the first 6 months of Egret Mini II launch.
Egret Mini II is a console resembling the miniaturized arcade cabinet based on the original one used by Taito for their arcade games; similar to SEGA’s Astro City Mini, features 50 playable games and a rotatable screen to allow vertical shoot’em up been played.
During the event all the new features which will be introduced by the new update will be showed, here is an anticipation :
- All games have been fixed, Arkanoid and Arkanoid Revenge of Doh have been adjusted included their controls
- Aspect ratio of all games switched to 4:3 similar to the original board resolution
- Some titles will have a wallpaper with lowered resolution
- Fixed an issue with the clear bonus for “Quix“
- Fixed the color loss of the character “Rodomie” in “Fairyland Story“
- Fixed a bug that the comet was not redrawn for “Halley’s Comet“
- Fixed a bug where the bomber image on the 2P side of “Twin Cobra” was distorted
- Fixed the background color of the score ranking screen for “Tatsujin“
- Fixed a bug where the image of the audience in the bonus stage of “Violence Fight” was broken
- Fixed the shadows of buildings in Area 4 in “Rayforce“
- Adjusted the BGM when clearing a stage in “Cameltry“
- game titles are displayed on the top menu when the paddle & trackball controller is connected
The update will be availble on Egret Mini II site and will require a SD card formatted in FAT32 file system (or a micro SD card with adapter), from 2GB to 32GB capacity with at least 512MB free and after the update it will not be possible to return to the original version.
Source : PR Times