Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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moocow said:
"Yeah but I wanna play it on my TV with my Nintendo controller!" Neat. So go plug in your NES and get playing. Quit paying REPEATEDLY for the same fucking ROM dump and a (likely stolen from open-source) emulator they've barely tuned well enough to run on the new vending machine, er, sorry, console.
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Except for maybe the PC, there's no one-size fits all console. Nintendo has always been like that. You can't play Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! on your SNES, you can't play Donkey Kong Country 2 on your N64, and you can't play Pokémon Snap on the GameCube. For my handhelds, I have a Nintendo 3DS to play Nintendo DS, 3DS, and emulated titles, and my GBA for GBA games and GB/GBC titles...and if I got a Steam Deck or similar, those would have their own dedicated stuff on there as well.

Frankly, I thought that with the exception of the N64 games (and even then, they weren't all there or were gimped) the Wii Virtual Console games offered an inferior product, either through bad filters, altered ROMs, or just poor selection.
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Good lord. I look at any of my wishlists(Steam, GOG) and I don’t think either of them total $1000.
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Ok so it's like two dozen items and $1,800, though half of the cheaper games are ones I can get on Steam or I have on my Wii U and 2DS.
Theres probably half games I'll basically never buy unless I get a massive windfall in monry
 
Betonhaus said:

Ok so it's like two dozen items and $1,800, though half of the cheaper games are ones I can get on Steam or I have on my Wii U and 2DS.
Theres probably half games I'll basically never buy unless I get a massive windfall in monry
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Jee, Canada's funny money hasn't improved one bit, hasn't it?

Edit: I noticed you have Mario Wonder and Mario Patry Jamboree and thier bundles in the same list, so that's extra money you're wasting for little benefit.
 
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Computer Guardian said:
Jee, Canada's funny money hasn't improved one bit, hasn't it?

Edit: I noticed you have Mario Wonder and Mario Patry Jamboree and thier bundles in the same list, so that's extra money you're wasting for little benefit.
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Those were added to my wishlist back when I had a Switch 1, and I didn't remove them when I added the Switch 2 versions
 
Computer Guardian said:
Jee, Canada's funny money hasn't improved one bit, hasn't it?
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CAD is a petro dollar. It generally rises and falls with the price of oil. However, even if it spikes up, they generally don't adjust the price of games and books and stuff. Even when the Canadian dollar was on par with USD 15 or so years ago, games were still $10 more in Canada. There's just a Canada tax built in by default no matter what the dollar is.
 
Never Scored said:
CAD is a petro dollar. It generally rises and falls with the price of oil. However, even if it spikes up, they generally don't adjust the price of games and books and stuff. Even when the Canadian dollar was on par with USD 15 or so years ago, games were still $10 more in Canada. There's just a Canada tax built in by default no matter what the dollar is.
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Officially it's a petrodollar but the federal government makes it difficult to actually export oil in any reasonable quantity. Plus with the rampant money printing that dollar is slowly collapsing.
 
Happy Birthday Lucina and Happy 20th to Mother 3
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whatever I feel like said:
Zelda is still an okay playthrough but you absolutely need a guide for finding the dungeons.
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This is why kids need to be exposed to Tower of Druaga, even if through the NES port... it will recalibrate one's scale of what "needing a guide" looks like. Certain versions of ToD (e.g. the Arcade Archives one) provide an in-game guide that tells the player exactly what to do on every single floor. It's the only way to go imo, even alt-tabbing over to gamefaqs is for lunatics.

whatever I feel like said:
So Mendel Palace was the random crappy game then? I thought it was an arcade port? Looking it up its primarily notable for being Game Freak's first game. So that's neat. I kind of thought that it was Yoshi....
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It's a nice enough little puzzle action game where you smash babies against brick walls by flipping tiles and a pretty good example of what an "average" NES game really looks like: decent enough, pretty easy to jump into, and not ruthlessly cryptic or impossibly hard or borderline unplayable or any of the other things all NES games are supposed to be. You could do better, but you could do a lot worse.

moocow said:
Yeah, I really don't feel sympathy anymore for people who keep buying and re-buying every emulator rehash/refresh for each subsequent console
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Oh well. Personally, I feel bad for the people buying new games.
 
moocow said:
Yeah, I really don't feel sympathy anymore for people who keep buying and re-buying every emulator rehash/refresh for each subsequent console instead of just downloading the fucking ROMs and emulating them on whatever hardware they've got handy. Ironically anything besides a console can run all that shit. Phones, tablets, PCs, even fuckin' Macs can do it.

"Yeah but I wanna play it on my TV with my Nintendo controller!" Neat. So go plug in your NES and get playing. Quit paying REPEATEDLY for the same fucking ROM dump and a (likely stolen from open-source) emulator they've barely tuned well enough to run on the new vending machine, er, sorry, console.
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Some people are convinced that it's somehow less special or magical if you play Nintendo games on a PC or Steam Deck or retro emulation console, or that somehow, emulation is somehow simultaneously becoming more illegal and more punished and more broken. Some of them may try to explain that they prefer the way that Nintendo controllers feel, but also refuse to accept that adapters exist.
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"Ugh, don't you get it, you peeseethes?"
 
Djinni Djohn said:
Some of them may try to explain that they prefer the way that Nintendo controllers feel,
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What do they have, baby hands?

The last time I felt fine playing a controller made by Nintendo was the N64... the fucking fork-looking thing that people kept trying to convince me that holding it from the bottom-middle was the "correct" way to hold it (they're wrong). Otherwise every other controller, including their handhelds, have been cramp-inducing horrors with really shitty analog drift and tiny-as-fuck D-Pads you can't do diddly-dick with.

The first time I played Mario Kart 8 with the switch controller was my last time because my hands felt they were going to explode from all the carpel-tunnel I was getting. As soon as I got a Switch Lite I IMMEDIATELY got a grip for it that makes holding it 10x more enjoyable, and when you need to add accessories to help you play better like it's the NES/GB era all over again, you've done fucked up.
 
Djinni Djohn said:
Some people are convinced that it's somehow less special or magical if you play Nintendo games on a PC or Steam Deck or retro emulation console, or that somehow, emulation is somehow simultaneously becoming more illegal and more punished and more broken. Some of them may try to explain that they prefer the way that Nintendo controllers feel, but also refuse to accept that adapters exist.
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"Ugh, don't you get it, you peeseethes?"
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Some people are also just desperate to spend shekels in a pathetic debt-based economy... I however do not have that disability. If it wasn't for emulation I never would have played Chrono Trigger, and that game was definitely worth playing. Hell I played it on my shitty ass laptop using the directional keys, / for A and Shift for B. Enjoyed every minute of it.
 
Remember when it was revealed that the Kirby Air Rider Amiibos could swap parts and it instantly made a bunch of people think of Skylanders Swap Force?

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Granted, this is just a sample but there were probably more people thinking this. Hell, I remember a bunch of people making posts about it on r/Skylanders.
 
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Djinni Djohn said:
Some of them may try to explain that they prefer the way that Nintendo controllers feel,
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To be fair, 15-20 years ago it was really hard to get a pc controller with a cross style d-pad that didn't register a lot of false diagonals. However, a lot of the stuff from companies like 8-bit do and Hyperkin has come a long way and that's not much of an issue anymore.

Keep in mind, I think subscribing to Nintendo online for the retro games is retarded and I'm not defending that buy any means as the joycons don't have a great d-pad either. I'm more saying the Wiimote was better for playing NES games than most PC controllers back then.
 
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