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Sir Tonk posted:They're not going to allow those purchases to transfer to the switch, are they Mind you, Wii is not Wii U, but I think the big problem with the Wii is that Nintendo completely hosed the dog on how digital purchases on the Wii are handled. If I'm not mistaken, the only device which has the records of what's owned is the Wii hardware itself, with no meaningful record existing on Nintendo's end (I don't think they had one other than for their rewards program). Not only is this a recognized problem for situations like if the Wii fails/is stolen and those purchases effectively being "lost" forever, but it also means that Nintendo doesn't really have a good way of differentiating a Wii full of legitimate purchases from a Wii that's been hacked; I think even with the Wii U people easily managed to get the discount on the Wii U versions with imports from a hacked Wii. My hunch wrt Nintendo's approach for the Switch is that you'll be able to import stuff you have on Wii U (purchased with your Nintendo account) but probably not from the OG Wii. MAYBE with some luck there'll be some allowances if they still have the old Nintendo Rewards records.
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The Kins posted:Speaking of which, Nintendo has announced a shut-down schedule for the Wii Shop Channel. Hey on that note: Xbox 360 purchases of titles on the Indie Games channel shuts down sometime around October 1st to October 14th. These are your last few days to pick up XBLIG titles you don't already have, without messing with piracy. Redownload should be available indefinitely but you won't be able to buy soon.
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univbee posted:My hunch wrt Nintendo's approach for the Switch is that you'll be able to import stuff you have on Wii U (purchased with your Nintendo account) but probably not from the OG Wii. MAYBE with some luck there'll be some allowances if they still have the old Nintendo Rewards records. I would not be surprised if whatever mechanism used to divine pre-existing Wii Shop Channel purchases in the WiiU eShop is hacky as poo poo.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I would not be surprised if whatever mechanism used to divine pre-existing Wii Shop Channel purchases in the WiiU eShop is hacky as poo poo. It very much is, which I think is why people have had success importing hacked ones into their Wii. I think the way it more or less works is that the Wii hardware itself contains the "ticket" information which effectively does the handshake with Nintendo to validate what games it owns (and is thus allowed to re-download) without any real oversight or cross-check with a purchase record. So the end user had physical and, once softmodded, total access to the Wii's ticket system so welp. The Wii U's system involved a super-hacky "import" process where you had to swap SD cards around between the two systems, and while it was supposed to remove the games from the OG Wii it turns out if you had them copied to another SD card and popped that into your Wii afterwards they would still work (but IIRC visiting the Wii Shop Channel would erase them all, although that may have required them being transferred to internal storage).
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evobatman posted:A used Wii I bought had like $15 in Wii shop credit on it. Guess I'll have to find something to spend it on. To expand on this I recommend a VX4000 (i think that's right) a beovision 3 or if you have the room an Avant, MAKE SURE THEY COME WITH A CONTROL.
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So I haven't been following the SNES mini story. Is the Nintendo line that they'll actually be attainable and in stock eventually, or should I just resign myself to pay a lot for this thing? Pretty much looking to ditch my SNES+flashcart at some point in favour of a RetroPi or Euro/JP SNES Mini at some point in the future.
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Martytoof posted:So I haven't been following the SNES mini story. Is the Nintendo line that they'll actually be attainable and in stock eventually, or should I just resign myself to pay a lot for this thing? What happened to your obscenely-tall avatar? 
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Martytoof posted:So I haven't been following the SNES mini story. Is the Nintendo line that they'll actually be attainable and in stock eventually, or should I just resign myself to pay a lot for this thing? It's nowhere near as bad as the NES Classic was. Still took effort but not to an unreasonable degree, and stores are meant to be getting more fairly consistently this time.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What happened to your obscenely-tall avatar? It'll make a triumphant return once it's sufficiently retro. univbee posted:It's nowhere near as bad as the NES Classic was. Still took effort but not to an unreasonable degree, and stores are meant to be getting more fairly consistently this time. OK so I guess I'll try to hawk stock levels this time around. Thanks! e: Oh I forgot I need to hawk JP/EU stores because I want the euro/SFC look :| some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Zamujasa posted:The sd2snes is real cool and it's now really easy to make your menu real cool too. The tragedy is that none of the linked examples have XML or whatever to download! 
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quote:Why Spend $80 on an SNES Classic When You Can Install Emulators on a Raspberry Pi and Never Shut the gently caress Up About It? http://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/spend-80-snes-classic-can-install-emulators-raspberry-pi-never-shut-gently caress/
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if only both sides of this debate could ever shut the gently caress up sure, it's annoying to listen to some know-it-all berate someone else for wanting to get the SNES whatever it's also annoying as gently caress to listen to everyone whining that they aren't getting their SNES whatever day one when they drove to three Best Buys to get in midnight lines to get them people have no chill for Nintendo and I'm not gonna say that's the ultimate cause of the scalpers, but drat if they don't know how to take advantage of that
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I'm waiting for the snes mini to get hacked so I can install a bunch of games on it and sell my snes and games
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With the Wii Shop closing I'm at least confident enough that pirates have got poo poo archived and things won't be lost to the void, but I'm wondering if Wii homebrew every got to the point where you can run Wiiware directly from SD/USB or do you still need to install it to the limited internal memory and constantly swap what's installed if you have that full?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I'm waiting for the snes mini to get hacked so I can install a bunch of games on it and sell my snes and games IIRC it's already hacked with the same method as the NES was.
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Dr. Dos posted:With the Wii Shop closing I'm at least confident enough that pirates have got poo poo archived and things won't be lost to the void, but I'm wondering if Wii homebrew every got to the point where you can run Wiiware directly from SD/USB or do you still need to install it to the limited internal memory and constantly swap what's installed if you have that full? The last time I messed with it (which was probably a good 2 years ago) this was no longer an issue, you just had to do the initial install to the internal memory; once it was there and working you could use the Wii UI to move it to the SD card and it'd work launched from the SD card submenu.
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Martytoof posted:IIRC it's already hacked with the same method as the NES was. They even left a have fun message in the NAND.
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Luigi Thirty posted:They even left a have fun message in the NAND. Go on?
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My overseas order from FNAC is apparently out for delivery today, I figured I was going to have to wait a few weeks to get it... not have it apparently arrive on day of release. My backup Walmart order won't even get to me until next week...falz posted:Go on? It basically just said to enjoy your SNES classic edition edit: Ya, thats it VVVVVVVVVVV FireMrshlBill fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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It was this: https://twitter.com/Cluster_M/status/913041366275575809
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There was a similar message in the NES Classic. https://twitter.com/bakueikozo/status/817293451813220352 Hanafuda, along with being a reference to Nintendo's origins, seems to be the general umbrella project codename for all their Virtual Console/Emulation stuff. The internal DS emulator on the Wii U (apparently called Hachihachi internally) also has references to Hanafuda in its development text. The Kins fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Welp, new thread title.
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With the Wii's store going down in the next few months, are there any games worth buying that are hard to get physical or other VC copies of? Like, I have Dracula X Chronicles, should I jump on Rondo of Blood anyway? Other than Zelda games, I am not a die hard enough fan of anything for needing the perfect original game if a remake or newer one is close enough (story line, gameplay, etc.). Any other scenarios like that?
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Whatever you do, don't expect any purchases there to mean anything other than installation on that Wii (unless you have a Wii U to later import to, or are doing this through a vWii). The store's actually in all honesty a pain in the rear end because it's still a relic using points which you can't obtain "round" numbers of; SNES games are 800 points and buying points is in units of 1000, generally, so you'd have to buy exactly 5 SNES games (not 4 or 6) to cleanly "0" your points balance with a purchase of 2x2000 points.
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Luckily, backing up your Wii purchases is entirely possible if you have a 2 GB SD card and a copy of Smash Bros Brawl.
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univbee posted:Whatever you do, don't expect any purchases there to mean anything other than installation on that Wii (unless you have a Wii U to later import to, or are doing this through a vWii). The store's actually in all honesty a pain in the rear end because it's still a relic using points which you can't obtain "round" numbers of; SNES games are 800 points and buying points is in units of 1000, generally, so you'd have to buy exactly 5 SNES games (not 4 or 6) to cleanly "0" your points balance with a purchase of 2x2000 points. Ya, thats the only reason I haven't bought some games since I was waiting to put a list together to 0 points out if I could (also waiting to see what gets put on later consoles, but who knows what will happen with the Switch after the WiiU not getting the same library as the Wii did). I think I even have 200 points balance on the Wii portion of my WiiU after I transferred over from my Wii (now just a GC for my LCD tv). Instant Sunrise posted:Luckily, backing up your Wii purchases is entirely possible if you have a 2 GB SD card and a copy of Smash Bros Brawl. I don't hang on to SSB games since I rarely play them with any regularity. Just N64 version and whatever is the newest. Though, my WiiVC library isn't that big anyway so it wouldn't be devastating if I lost it.
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FireMrshlBill posted:With the Wii's store going down in the next few months, are there any games worth buying that are hard to get physical or other VC copies of? Grab Castlevania Rebirth before it goes, is my recommendation
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Playing the latest Danganronpa put me in a very weird nostalgia for something that has almost nothing to do with the series (maybe the original PSP versions)? Which is that I kind of like when a console reads a disc and you can hear (and even slightly feel) it working. I don't know why but I'm more tolerant of load times if there's that accompanying "yes I'm really really working hard to get this data for you" vibe. Probably from playing old adventure games as a kid off 5.25" floppies on an 8086 and having screen transitions be loud and powerful-feeling enough to scare a Dreamcast. I get that same vibe from PS1, Dreamcast and PSP UMD games (probably would from some other systems like the PS2 as well, but those systems are the ones I played most), as well as Laserdiscs which always felt like some mad scientist experiment whose centrifugal force was this close to catastrophically failing and killing everyone watching the movie. Reminds me a bit of a "How Did This Get Made?" podcast live show where one of the hosts spent a few minutes nostalgic for the 80's phone experience (the weight of the receiver, the thick spiral cord, the "ka-chunk" when you hung it up or picked it up).
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sinepost posted:Grab Castlevania Rebirth before it goes, is my recommendation Definitely. All 3 of the Rebirth games are must-plays. M2 mini-masterpieces with amazing soundtracks. I imagine the process was "what if these were actual Konami arcade games from the late 80's/early 90's? what would they sound like?". Thus they engineered their driver to sound like a FM synth + PCM setup, with orchestra hits aplenty. I only just learned about that word recently, for a long time I called it the "Konami sound". When I first played this in 2010 or whenever, I thought "why does this sound like a Genesis game?" but after I started learning about arcade stuff, it made a lot more sense. As far as I know, the Rebirth games are Wii-exclusive.
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Ofecks posted:Definitely. All 3 of the Rebirth games are must-plays. M2 mini-masterpieces with amazing soundtracks. Yeah, even the music they didn't end up using is incredible: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WkxpLVYoz1Q
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Rirse posted:It has a button for degausing, but it doesn't seem to do anything, even after moving the speakers away. It seem to started the last few days, as it was very faint but now is very obvious in-game. I don't know why this works (the magnetic fields of the Earth or some poo poo?) but I had this problem on my 2530 for a long time until I moved it to another part of the room and oriented it differently, and now it's just perfect for some reason.
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TheRedEye posted:I don't know why this works (the magnetic fields of the Earth or some poo poo?) but I had this problem on my 2530 for a long time until I moved it to another part of the room and oriented it differently, and now it's just perfect for some reason. When I was a training to be a Dell phone support tech in the very early 2000s, my class was told a story (to illustrate the idea of considering all factors, even non-obvious ones, while troubleshooting). Anyhow, being the early 2000s, CRT monitors were the norm. And this one customer was having a problem with the image on every monitor he received from Dell being all distorted and messed up. Lots of swaps and all that, no change, and then I guess a tech finally asked him if this problem occurred with any other screens in his house. Sure enough, his TV (also a CRT, of course, since 2000s) exhibited the same issue. Apparently, the ground beneath his house was magnetic as all hell, able to create a field large enough to passively affect any magnetic sensitive equipment. I guess the resolution was that the guy had to buy an LCD monitor, which back then was a big deal. Anyhow, could be true, could be apocryphal...but it might be an actual thing.
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Speaking of Wii Shop closing, I forgot that my 3DS told me that Nintendo's shutting down the Miiverse too. I guess they're done trying to support all these hodge podged online services?
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Turbinosamente posted:Speaking of Wii Shop closing, I forgot that my 3DS told me that Nintendo's shutting down the Miiverse too. I guess they're done trying to support all these hodge podged online services? The reason for getting rid of Miiverse and not having an equivalent on the Switch is because the cost of moderating/censoring all of the posts was very expensive as they had to pay people to do it instead of creating algorithms.
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FanaticalMilk posted:The reason for getting rid of Miiverse and not having an equivalent on the Switch is because the cost of moderating/censoring all of the posts was very expensive as they had to pay people to do it instead of creating algorithms. In other words "Nintendo was lazy and cheap, but wants to maintain the fiction they're For The Kids instead of being 95% for adults at this point".
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Nintendo's not shutting down Miiverse because they're cheap, they're shutting it down because they want their customers to post about their games on public-facing social media and not walled communities where everyone is already sold on the product.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Nintendo's not shutting down Miiverse because they're cheap, they're shutting it down because they want their customers to post about their games on public-facing social media and not walled communities where everyone is already sold on the product. also because they don't have to pay people to moderate twitter and facebook posts, though don't underestimate how expensive it is to censor dick drawings on the internet. companies have gone under due to that poo poo
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/theres-a-directional-120-hdmi-cable-that-actually-improves-your-picture-quality/ You guys hear about these $120 hdmi cables that perform some form of Anti Aliasing? I'd consider it at like 50 bux for a couple consoles. Right now it's the worst deal in cables since the GCN Component
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Tree Dude posted:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/theres-a-directional-120-hdmi-cable-that-actually-improves-your-picture-quality/ I literally couldn't see any difference in the pictures until I zoomed in like 300%. 
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Nintendo's not shutting down Miiverse because they're cheap, they're shutting it down because they want their customers to post about their games on public-facing social media and not walled communities where everyone is already sold on the product. I don't think breaking the Wii U further is particularly useful to advertising Wii U games, which are discontinued. They're just being cheap and shutting down a cost related to their failed console. Also explain why Splatoon 2 brings in "the Miiverse in game but not the Miiverse for anything else" on the Switch under this logic?
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