Jay 37,353 Posted October 6, 2021 Author Share Posted October 6, 2021 Speaking of GB / GBC / GBA carts, I recently heard about this thing on a podcast and it sounds pretty dope: https://www.epilogue.co/product/gb-operator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 7 minutes ago, Jay said: Speaking of GB / GBC / GBA carts, I recently heard about this thing on a podcast and it sounds pretty dope: https://www.epilogue.co/product/gb-operator I read elsewhere it can backup roms as well, so I think I might get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 6, 2021 Author Share Posted October 6, 2021 Yea I'm tempted too, pretty cool tech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Jay, did you have the GBA SP that had the second model backlit screen? That one was VERY close quality wise to DS lite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 7, 2021 Author Share Posted October 7, 2021 Nope. I have a GB Pocket, OG GBA, DS Lite, 3DS XL, N64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Switch. When I was in college my brother traded in our OG NES and SNES However, I still have all the boxes for our SNES stuff - the console and a ton of game boxes, the oversized Mario Paint box included. The Super Scope box is gone somehow though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 RIP There were two models of GBA SP. The first was a backlight, which was fine, but when they came out with the revision of it, which wasn't shaped any differently, it had screens that were a lot more like the DS lite. I know a ton of people didn't know there were two versions of backlight so I wasn't sure if you were comparing to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 IIRC, the first version was frontlit, the second backlit. No headphone jack though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 That was the one flaw of the SP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 Anyone else spend almost $500 today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 I won't be buying a Switch OLED but will buy the Switch's successor, or a "Switch Pro" if they do one, right away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 I think knowing OLED was coming made me start playing handheld more and how much I liked it, so it suddenly became a necessary upgrade for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 I used to only play on the TV but lately I've been playing more handheld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 I play almost 100% on the TV. Generally if I'm handheld it's just for Picross. (so no I'm not at all tempted by the OLED) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 There it is. Bellosh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 I haven't been able to start it yet, but I'm glad to see that Dread apparently only takes like 10 hours to beat. In my opinion, the best Metroidvanias err on the side of the brevity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,418 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 On 08/10/2021 at 12:33 PM, SilverTrumpet said: There it is. okay this is cool. i wouldn't mind revisiting Vice City on handheld mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 I'm having a lot of fun playing Dread, although I'm currently stuck at a boss (died 4 times now trying to defeat it). It reminds me of A Link Between Worlds in one important respect: as soon as I started playing it just felt so good to control the main character. Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 I thought ALBW was an amazing return to form for Zelda. Dread feels like the Link Between Worlds of Metroid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 10, 2021 Author Share Posted October 10, 2021 A Link Between Worlds is one of my favorite Zelda games! Such a great followup to Link To The Past and Link's Awakening, I just loved it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 My Switch arrived at the store… I'll probably pick it up on Wednesday, before leaving for Berlin early on Thursday (I have to pick it up by the end of the week). I don't even have games for it yet, nor time to buy any this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 I've started playing "The Forgotten City" via cloud gaming on my Switch. It's an original mystery/adventure game based on a Skyrim mod that the developer released to critical acclaim some years back, but now set in Ancient Rome instead of Tamriel. I have to say it's pretty fantastic. Basically your character has been transported to an ancient and forgotten Roman city inside a mountain, where no-one can (seemingly) get in or out, and you have to unravel the mysteries of the citizens, uncover conspiracies and try to prevent cataclysm while being trapped in an endless time loop. I've been replaying a lot of classic adventure games lately and this is really scratching my itch. There's very little action and there's not a huge amount of puzzles (so far); the strategy comes from the enormous amount of choices (and combinations therein) you can make in each loop that uncover more clues and how you use those clues to gain more evidence and further choices in the next loop. It was developed by a tiny team over a number of years and they received funding from state and federal governments here in Australia. The visuals are lovely (character models are a bit stilted, but stylistically it works), and the voice acting is very good. I'm only a few hours in but I recommend it to anyone who likes this kind of thing (think Myst or even a LusasArts adventure game). Also, this is my first cloud game (thanks @Jay for responding to my last post), and it's running really smoothly, even on the sucky NBN we have here in Aus. It sucks I cant put it down and pick it up without re-starting the game and reconnecting to the cloud every time, but that's a small price to pay to be able to play a great game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share Posted October 11, 2021 Yay, I'm glad to hear you had a positive cloud-gaming experience too! Yea, the long time between wanting to play and finally playing again is a bit of a bummer, but outweighed by the niceness of playing a modern gen game on the Switch I suppose Docteur Qui 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 First bad Metroid Dread news: Second bad Metroid Dread news: MercurySteam employees discuss studio working conditions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 I already bought the N64 controller for Switch. I'm weak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 ANCH Direct: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 15, 2021 Author Share Posted October 15, 2021 Wow charging an extra $30/year for N64, Genesis, and some Animal Crossing thingy, damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Everyone of course has their own sense of the value of the offerings, but to me it takes something that was a steal and makes it reasonably priced. This is mostly because I actually play the classic game apps very often, so on the new plan I'm essentially paying $4 and change a month to have access to the classic game libraries, which is still worth it to me. For someone who's not as into retro gaming as me, I don't see this being worth it at all though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 I feel like a big part of the price being so high is licensing. I'm sure the Genesis part is a big reason. I feel like freaking nobody cares about the Genesis stuff. They're all here for the N64 part of it. I'd be much happier if the service was every Nintendo first party game guaranteed as opposed to the slow trickle of a few random games every once in awhile. It's not like they have all the first party games up on any of the services so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Blues 65 Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 After seeing the new direct, I finally have a reason to play animal crossing again. On 16/10/2021 at 2:35 AM, Jay said: Wow charging an extra $30/year for N64, Genesis, and some Animal Crossing thingy, damn Nintendo fans will instantly forget every bad thing the company has done to the community after like one random update gets released for a game or something. Their mental gymnastics is strange sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 Then there are those of us who don't think it's some awful crime in the first place... SilverTrumpet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Advance Wars remakes delayed to next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Started OOT on NSO+EP, finished the first dungeon killing Gohma in like a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 27, 2021 Author Share Posted October 27, 2021 hmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I almost never play my Switch in handheld mode, but the other night I tried to play some Mario Odyssey in bed and the joycon drift was so bad I found it nearly unplayable. Mario kept walking off platforms on his own! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 Yea the drift is horrendous on mine. Luckily, ever since I got my Fixture S1 , I can just easily use the Pro Controller when handheld, and it is GLORIOUS Positivatee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,418 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 16 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: I almost never play my Switch in handheld mode, but the other night I tried to play some Mario Odyssey in bed and the joycon drift was so bad I found it nearly unplayable. Mario kept walking off platforms on his own! it's weird, i finally have the drift issue on my original 2017 joycons. but the issue is not present in the game i'm playing right now, which is interesting. right now when i'm on the switch's main menu it just scrolls to the right on everything. so it's kinda of a non issue at the moment. i have not tested it on other games like Odyssey, might do that soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 Speaking of Nintendo and their issues, two of my Nintendo podcasts this week spent extensive time talking about the issues with the new N64 emulation as part of the Online Expansion Pass. Basically they said it's very spotty, working great on some titles like Mario 64, but having issues with other titles like Ocarina of Time, where it doesn't render the fog effects properly so things that are supposed to be obscured are just kinda shown. And they mentioned input lag being a problem, especially on the Genesis emulation. It's such a bummer this wasn't handled better, especially since they decided to upcharge for it instead of it being another freebie for their existing service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Apparently the OoT thing was an issue in the Wii U version as well. Its still better than MM GC on the LoZ: CE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 That's actually the only way I played MM outside of the 3DS version, believe it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 28 minutes ago, SilverTrumpet said: That's actually the only way I played MM outside of the 3DS version, believe it or not. Same (not counting when I first got into emulators right before I joined here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,347 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Mario 3D All-Stars updated to use Switch N64 controller. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/11/nintendo-adds-n64-controller-support-to-3d-all-stars-version-of-super-mario-64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Anyone here check out Pikmin Bloom? I hadn't been paying any attention to it, but apparently it's not even a game, it's just a fancy pedometer app with stuff in it to encourage you to get out and walk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positivatee 327 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 12 minutes ago, Jay said: Anyone here check out Pikmin Bloom? I hadn't been paying any attention to it, but apparently it's not even a game, it's just a fancy pedometer app with stuff in it to encourage you to get out and walk People who collect movies and music are cinephiles, audiophiles, and musicphiles. There should be a term for people who collect pedometers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I've never downloaded a Nintendo mobile app other than Mario Run and Kart Tour. Not my bag, baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 It's fun as a pedometer. I open it twice a at the most. That's what's good about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Here's the link directly to the PDF of Nintendo's quarterly investor briefing slides. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2021/211105e.pdf Luigi's Mansion 3, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, Ring Fit Adventure all passed 10 million in sales this fiscal year so far. Probably some more did too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,353 Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 The Switch has sold almost 93 million units now too, so it'll pass the Wii and PS1 to become the fifth best selling console of all time by the next report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverTrumpet 638 Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 That's what people thought after the last report, and then it slowed down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Well I…er…Santa did his part last month to raise that number. relevant: new Joycons are SEVENTY TO EIGHTY BUCKS??! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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