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To be fair to Nintendo, they're probably not scraping the bottom of the barrel for games they can license intentionally, it's just that most third party devs that think they can make money off of their back catalog aren't going to just hand that over to Nintendo nowadays, now that the wave of retro nostalgia is hitting they want to do their own rereleases or remasters and make the money themselves.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 12:40 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:43 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Booted up my Switch and found that they updated the NES app with a single game. It's Xevious. Xevious is one of the most important games of all time. If there's any Gen X Japanese developer you love that probably got started on video games playing xevious. Xevious along with Tower of Druags was one of THE killer apps that made Famicom a hit.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 12:49 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:The Wii loving had that! They released new Virtual Console games every Thursday! People loved that! Everyone loves to shop on it every Wednesday
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 13:22 |
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Unlucky7 posted:I know I should not cheese the Fog of War stages by moving up a unit, seeing if there are enemies, then immediately resetting the turn and acting accordingly. Great idea, I’m going to start doing this. FoW maps with limited forces suck!! Related, what does casual difficulty actually do?
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 13:41 |
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Xevious is one of the most important games of all time. If there's any Gen X Japanese developer you love that probably got started on video games playing xevious. Xevious along with Tower of Druags was one of THE killer apps that made Famicom a hit. That's what I was trying to get across. There's enough stone cold classics on the NES they could be pumping out a Xevious-caliber release every week if they cared to. Meanwhile, when they realise it's been four months since the last update, they put out black box Pinball.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:10 |
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They’re in a weird spot with their Nintendo Switch Online classic game consoles. Nintendo have put out pretty much all their well known first party classics across all the systems and have even gone the extra mile to get the N64 Rare titles up. Meanwhile, the best of the best third party retro games are mostly already available to purchase in various collections on the Switch and other consoles/PC. Which explains the drip feed of weirdo games popping up on NSO. I really don’t see a solution that makes everyone happy. Frankly, I’d rather Nintendo let you outright purchase the games like on ye olde Virtual Console rather than another loving subscription service.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:18 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:They’re in a weird spot with their Nintendo Switch Online classic game consoles. Nintendo have put out pretty much all their well known first party classics across all the systems and have even gone the extra mile to get the N64 Rare titles up. Meanwhile, the best of the best third party retro games are mostly already available to purchase in various collections on the Switch and other consoles/PC. Which explains the drip feed of weirdo games popping up on NSO. I really don’t see a solution that makes everyone happy. The solution is more wonderful Game Boy games which they released last month in that same dump with Xevious and Side Pocket. I thank Nintendo for these games and their continuing commitment to excellence.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:26 |
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My sister and I having been playing Side Pocket online on weekends for over a month now. It's a great way to chill out while we chat about family and whatnot on discord. We don't keep score.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:34 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:I really don’t see a solution that makes everyone happy. I suppose the online multiplayer feature is neat, but otherwise the NSO collections are very bare bones compared to most third-party compilations. Detective No. 27 posted:Frankly, I’d rather Nintendo let you outright purchase the games like on ye olde Virtual Console rather than another loving subscription service.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:57 |
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grieving for Gandalf posted:I think I'm gonna get the vouchers and use one on AW and one on Zelda (which is $70?) That’s what I did. TOTK preorder and AWR.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 14:58 |
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advance wars is more than twelve years old...
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:00 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:They’re in a weird spot with their Nintendo Switch Online classic game consoles. Nintendo have put out pretty much all their well known first party classics across all the systems and have even gone the extra mile to get the N64 Rare titles up. Meanwhile, the best of the best third party retro games are mostly already available to purchase in various collections on the Switch and other consoles/PC. Which explains the drip feed of weirdo games popping up on NSO. I really don’t see a solution that makes everyone happy. i definitely wouldn't be playing nearly as many of the switch vc titles if i had to buy them individually again
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:01 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:They’re in a weird spot with their Nintendo Switch Online classic game consoles. Nintendo have put out pretty much all their well known first party classics across all the systems and have even gone the extra mile to get the N64 Rare titles up. Meanwhile, the best of the best third party retro games are mostly already available to purchase in various collections on the Switch and other consoles/PC. Which explains the drip feed of weirdo games popping up on NSO. I really don’t see a solution that makes everyone happy. I can think of two notable exceptions to the above that I have been dying for them to put on the NSO: Banjo Tooie and mother loving Diddy Kong Racing! Give them both to me! There are probably others. Jet Force Gemini? Oh and it's not Rare but how about Mischief Makers?
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:14 |
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I wish NSO had achievements. I’m not into the whole dick-measuring thing about who has the most points, I just enjoy having these little side accomplishments I can complete and have on my profile. It’d be awesome if those were added to old NES games and poo poo.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:21 |
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Looper posted:advance wars is more than twelve years old... Advance Wars released in America on 9/11
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:21 |
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They could also have an easy slam dunk if they somehow put Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokemon games on NSO, preferably with Pokemon Home support. They're not above using Lua hackery to fix certain games (hell, that time-limited Famicom Fire Emblem rerelease they did translated the entire game on the fly) so it's something they absolutely could do but won't, because what's the point, right
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:29 |
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The point is that why add them for free to a subscription premise when they can make you buy them again separately? And if not going for that, it's also a good card to keep for when subs start to run out again, like adding GB and GBA
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:32 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:They could also have an easy slam dunk if they somehow put Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokemon games on NSO, preferably with Pokemon Home support. They're not above using Lua hackery to fix certain games (hell, that time-limited Famicom Fire Emblem rerelease they did translated the entire game on the fly) so it's something they absolutely could do but won't, because what's the point, right they will, that's one case where i think it's reasonably clear that they're holding it back to drip-feed for hype later
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:33 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:They could also have an easy slam dunk if they somehow put Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokemon games on NSO, preferably with Pokemon Home support. They're not above using Lua hackery to fix certain games (hell, that time-limited Famicom Fire Emblem rerelease they did translated the entire game on the fly) so it's something they absolutely could do but won't, because what's the point, right It's even more of a slam dunk with them putting Pokemon Stadium on the N64 one! Like... come on? Playing Stadium with only rentals is the polar opposite of a good time! It's especially infuriating because they did put the Gameboy Pokemon games as a download... on the 3DS, but with no way for those games to interact with Stadium. Now we have Stadium but no GBA games to connect it to and I hate it!
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:34 |
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Was playing some burger time deluxe on the GBA app last night and it was pretty excellent fun. Are there any newer versions out there? Or similar games?
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:35 |
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like i think the well has run relatively dry on remaining first-party NES games anyone actually gives a poo poo about but they are 100% going to do the poo poo on GBA/GBC where they hype up red/blue/yellow dropping this summer on social media or some poo poo
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:38 |
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XSEED put out a BurgerTime party game on the Switch a couple of years back but I haven't played it personally.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:38 |
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Put Mario Paint on NSO imho
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:44 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:like i think the well has run relatively dry on remaining first-party NES games anyone actually gives a poo poo about but they are 100% going to do the poo poo on GBA/GBC where they hype up red/blue/yellow dropping this summer on social media or some poo poo I actually checked the list of NES games published by Nintendo and the only "major" (as in, games that people still pay attention to these days) games that are missing and that don't have their own bespoke remakes/rereleases on the eShop are, like, RC Pro-Am, Faxanadu, and if you want to be generous, Rad Racer and Mach Rider. That being said, I wish they'd say "yo gently caress the remake, we're putting the original Dragon Quest game on NSO" because holy poo poo, those remakes are eye-wateringly bad.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:45 |
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Wtf fauxanadu was first party? Put that poo poo out
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:45 |
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One of my first gaming memories was renting Burger Time in the 80's when I was probably about five. I couldn't understand why the pepper only temporarily knocks out baddies and I was so mad. Well, see you later.
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Only in NA and Europe, but yeah. Hudson published it in Japan themselves.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:49 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:They're not above using Lua hackery to fix certain games (hell, that time-limited Famicom Fire Emblem rerelease they did translated the entire game on the fly) so it's something they absolutely could do but won't, because what's the point, right
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ExcessBLarg! posted:That was using the old Wii U VC NES emulator though not the NSO one. I don't know if there's any Lua hooks in that. Wait, really? Is there a writeup anywhere?
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:55 |
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yeah i should clarify what i mean is they're definitely going to release RBY for hype later, idk if they'd put in Home support. clearly "reading save data from a GBA ROM" is not an unsurmountable task but given that they release actual pokemon games without Home support at launch I don't think that's what they're waiting on
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 15:57 |
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Like official DX/colorizations of old Game Boy games would be pretty cool instead of leaving it to the community, again. For whatever reason, Nintendo seems very reluctant to touch their old titles like this (remakes like Link's Awakening non-withstanding) and their ethos seems to be, if it was good enough in 1991, it's good enough today. Was disappointed they didn't do anything interesting with the SM64 anniversary release for example.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Wait, really? Is there a writeup anywhere?
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 16:04 |
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its an emulation service they should be releasing the games "as is" imo.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 16:05 |
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Booted up my Switch and found that they updated the NES app with a single game. It's Xevious.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 16:09 |
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Electromax posted:For whatever reason, Nintendo seems very reluctant to touch their old titles like this (remakes like Link's Awakening non-withstanding) and their ethos seems to be, if it was good enough in 1991, it's good enough today. Electromax posted:Was disappointed they didn't do anything interesting with the SM64 anniversary release for example.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 16:11 |
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its an emulation service. the point is to put out the god dang unaltered ROMs as god intended. if they want to update something they would simply sell it separately as a remaster
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 16:16 |
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Feels Villeneuve posted:its an emulation service. the point is to put out the god dang unaltered ROMs as god intended.
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 16:21 |
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you can also pirate and emulate games, for the nintendo switch
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# ? Apr 25, 2023 16:21 |
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Is there any chance of more Mario and Luigi games on the Switch? Which ones are the ones people don't like again Edit: I know one game had the HP values inflated in the US version like the old Contras mycot fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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AlphaDream went bankrupt so unfortunately not likely and Nintendo's insistence on keeping everything related to the Mario IP strictly controlled would probably just make them not have the charm they used to The ones people liked are the first three
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