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MY GOD the nomad is so cool. 🤩 I need to power mine on and make sure it still works.

with retroid discontinuing the pocket classic, I'm hoping that something like a pocket Nomad replaces it (horizontal pocket sized handheld with 1:1 screen and six face buttons 🤤)

I rented Zool as a kid a few times and liked it just fine ☺️✌️

@Glassneedles

"No such thing as too picky when it comes to me."

I see I'm in good company 🤗

I'm very happy overall with the 8bitdo, and it is "close enough" with the face buttons basically, but I still wonder why they didnt just copy 1:1 when they are so close!

I do notice it with games where c left and c down basically form a "cluster" with A and B that my thumb sits in the middle of. theres just a bit too much space between.

It does seem like people including those designing these new controllers think of the A+B as being "somewhere down and to the left" of the c buttons, which doesn't really describe it when you are looking at the real thing.

anyway! having remapped the right trigger to "R" I'm very pleased with the 8bitdo64 controller! 👍 so comfortable to use, looks great, and psychologically pleasing to use a controller that lacks a right stick, for the games that dont need one.

I wish theyd make a dreamcast controller with this same design, no shoulder buttons, analog triggers, and six face buttons! 🤞

@Razieluigi

"I just don't understand the allure of products like this when the handheld space is overflowing with excellent options that can do so much more."

I'm not exactly rushing to get one either, but how many other handhelds out there can play SNES carts? Or use OG snes pads?

@Damo

I'm sure it is fine, as you say.

I'm more just curious why these companies make the decisions they do!

I will say that when I'm playing Smash, the extra distance between the A button and C down (what I use for jump) is extremely... "appreciated" on my 8bitdo controller vs the OG 😂 but it feels great for Ocarina which we are currently working through ☺️✌️

@Glassneedles

I'm probably being a bit picky but this is the third controller of this kind in the last few years to "do the n64 layout" but not actually put the buttons in quite the right places.

OG brawler 64 was the worst offender ive seen so I'll use that as an example:

@Damo

I guess its a matter of preference, then, but who wants to play goldeneye or ocarina with a squishy Z button? Or, Fzero X with an analogue Z trigger on the left and a digital R shoulder button on the right? 😕 It shows a lack of faith in the purpose of the product, in my opinion, and again like they aren't expecting people to play actual N64 games with this thing.

The face button layout is just slightly wrong every time. Specifically, the A+B buttons and their relationship to each other and the C buttons. Even the 8bitdo controller isn't quite right and I'm wondering why. It's a minor detail but it keeps happening! 😅✌️ probably just a "me thing" since no one else seems to be able to even tell.

@Zeldork

How would you propose doing this? I've thought about this a lot, and Ironically I usually just end up with what Nintendo did the first time, with the handles 😂 underrated controller!

Yet another N64 controller iteration that does not get the face button layout right. Why is this so hard? Why does no one ever mention it in the reviews? Isn't this a basic thing? It is literally the first thing I see.

The second thing I check for is if they mirror "Z" on the right, as though they put ZERO thought into actually playing N64 games with this controller. Of course they did, here.

After reviewing the 8bitdo 64 controller and covering it many times on this site, I really expected at least some direct comparison between the two, especially given the price difference.

PS what the hell are analogue triggers doing on this controller? 🙄

@tektite_captain

looks 1:1 to me. 🤔

@Broosh

Your comment made me smile 🤗 Frog and Toad is a happy place for me!

@Martin_H

If those arent neuroscience bonafides, then I don't know what are.

@GlamReaper

LOL okay I get it now 😂 gif deployment of the year right here, well played!

headline: "Scientific Research Concludes Playing Super Mario 64 Literally Expands Your Brain"

body: "Dr. Kuhn concluded that gaming did increase brain plasticity,"

those are two different conclusions. 👍

@GlamReaper

"From my own personal knowledge of neuroscience, not from reading about it online, I can tell you..."

I found this part interesting. what specifically are your neuroscience bonafides, if you don't mind the question? ✌️

Looks kinda like a Lynx/Nomad hybrid.

Begs for a Saturn style dpad.

Tiny square screen was an odd choice (looks about like the one in my RGCUBEXX but in a 3x sized case.)

All in all I like different and this is 👍

I've been dreaming of/talking about/drawing up this exact device for many years, I'm amazed it's actually here and even more amazed it took this long! I hope its good!

good lord can we just not have footage of people using things anymore?

I don't like this "sarcasm forward" style for this site, to be honest. It's a weird match, and beyond that the subject matter is so specific, yet it feels like the writer just assumes for some reason that everyone is as into the "scene" as they are.

I had to spend too much time decoding the sarcasm and the juice wasn't worth the squeeze by the end, frankly. Just my 2c. ✌️

For me, the word "PRO" is a turnoff at best, borderline embarrassing, and at worst an indicator of marketing covering for poor quality. I actively seek products that do not use such language in their marketing.

In the trades, the word pro is usually a giveaway that actual "professionals" would not use or do not use this product. In gaming, it's a meaningless term at least partially intended to stroke the ego of a certain kind of insecure buyer.

This thing is much less appealing to me than the OG brick for having 2 analog sticks and the word PRO added to it. My 2c.

(Personally I'm just not sure vertical handhelds were ever meant for analog sticks and shoulder buttons ✌️)

"it's probably asking too much to hope Sunsoft translate the game for this new compilation."

If they want English speaking people to pay money for this, it really isn't.

No 'Freeway...?'

EDIT - No 'Freeway' fans in here?

How about Wayne's World fans?

Beuller?

@Ekkobelli

That's a healthy attitude 👍 I'm more or less with you, I just miss the good'll days. 🤗

1998 was the best year for videogames.

The hype for this game was insane, I would have been stunned if it sold poorly.

"the LEGO PlayStation is considered an adult collectable and is thus rated '18+. Explicit'"

"Explicit?"

is this a joke? 🤔

There must be some kind of trickery here because when I hit that block, a flower always comes out...

@Shaw_Brothers

It only takes an afternoon and then you've done it! it is a satisfying feeling 😊

then, you can go for every level on SMB3, something I thought about for years until a good friend reminded me we'd done it 20 something years ago 😆

@Krambo42

"how many times can we buy new hardware that plays the exact same games? I think I’ll stick with my VS, EXP, Alpha and Super Pocket."

"Five... is right out!"

@Reechard

"Artists spent hundreds of hours making pixels that blurred together in highly specific ways on an interlaced signal to make them look the way they do. "

there's the relevant fact I was looking for. thanks!

"art-slap" lololol

I got Final Fantasy 7 for my 12th birthday, in late 1997. It was my first Final Fantasy game, but I had watched a friend play 4 and 6 ("2 and 3") during the SNES era and I had fallen into the hype for 7 in a big way (Virtua Fighter 3, FF7, and MGS were the actual blood-in-my-veins since diggity-six and now one of them was happening IN MY ROOM)

yadda yadda like 6 of my friends came over to watch me play the opening segment of FF7 very incompetently and kick their asses in Tekken 2 all to the tune of The Fat of The Land which I had also received as a birthday present. They were the best of times. I was a maniac. ❤️ Some of them are still my friends. 🥳

EDIT - I guess the point of the story is, I love Nabuo Uematsu now, but when I was 12 I really thought more of The Prodigy apparently 😅

@CookieByte

damn I can't even remember what we were talking about and now your comments have been moderated out of existence! ah well lol. ✌️

@Coalescence

"I don't expect them to ever do anything to my benefit except when they're desperately on the ropes as during the Wii U times."

I want Nintendo to be in this position at least some of the time. Or else they will lose me like all the other big entertainment corporations that put out mediocre crap and abuse their audience because they are continuously rewarded for it.

SNES is the only time I ever thought Nintendo was both "on top" and doing their absolute best work. 👍

EDIT - what am i saying? NES too, obviously.

@Zeebor15

"Did we ever try to guilt Atari into giving Tariff refunds? Were they even effected?"

a truism: People tend to care more about the stuff they care more about 😅👍

@Ruka

"respectfully, I doubt that."

I havent bought a nintendo product since TOTK launch.

In fairness, a new Fzero game might be tempting, but for what they are asking for the Switch 2 it isn't a given that I'd buy one just for that.

Thanks for being respectful 😊✌️

PS - I will happily "throw shade" at every company that chose to knowingly enrich themselves with Donald Trump's crooked agenda, at the cost of their loyal customers/fans. 👍

to paraphrase the great Lee Hazlewood of Mannford, Oklahoma,

"You just name a slimy corporation, Willie'll hate it for ya!" 🥳✌️

Good for them, and their customers! Really puts other bigger companies to shame.

I've been a Nintendo superfan since 1989, I was 3 or 4. I excitedly bought every Nintendo home console and most of the handhelds since, before Switch 2.

Nintendo has gotten the last of my money it'll ever get.

Instead of whining about the number of AI related articles in the comments, maybe spend that time observing how many more non ai related articles there are on the front page.

And then you won't feel like whining anymore and it's win-win-win 🥳👍

@Martin_H

"Surely it would be easier just to build the thing and take some photos of it?"

Well yeah, but then how do the photographers lose their jobs? Everyone else is doing it!

(in all seriousness, I had the same thought. you built it, don't you... have it? 🤔)

I'll just leave this here

https://youtu.be/oASbdSmCdM4?is=tlDA9gMDTEP3gsm0

RIP Tim!

@X68000

"I think we belong to possibly the last generation who gives a damn about what AI stands for and what we could lose as a result."

I think future generations might care quite acutely about the mistakes we made with AI, and the state of the world we leave behind.

I mean, the stupid ones will eat the slop and ignore history, same as it ever was. there are many other websites out there for those people.👍

@CookieByte

IDK let's ask the experts!

per google AI:

'Artificial intelligence significantly harms the environment through massive energy consumption, water depletion, and hardware manufacturing footprints at global data centers."

https://share.google/aimode/wl7xqGszKMXb6R0dw

@CookieByte

It's possible you are correct about that! The article makes it seem like these features are unique to the NES release but if so lets pretend I never brought it up 😂

I personally like the NES sound better, but there is some nostalgia talking there. I generally think console ports sound better than arcade originals so take that as you will.

They do play markedly differently though, and I have more fun with the NES version! it's "floatier" and somewhat more forgiving in some situations like trying to dig yourself out of holes etc.

@CookieByte

"A little pointless when you can get the arcade version from hamster I think for the same price"

I prefer the NES version to the arcade version!

also, per the article:

"emulation-style bonuses thrown in like customisable buttons, save states, and CRT filters."

of course this is a non issue for me as I own a copy of Bubble Bobble on NES and also emulate it whenever I want 🚬😎

PS - Might've = might + have 👍

@Przemyslaw

"Have a little fate in the human artists , its very hard to make something new that doesnt looks like someone others work !!!"

in this case, how hard do you imagine they tried to do that? Honestly. ✌️

@Krambo42

yeah! that's what i thought when i first played it years ago.

I've been meaning to play it again, and appreciate it on its own terms ✌️ it is a great looking game.

My favorite version of one of my all time favorite games! 👍

Definitely a "must play" if you haven't!

@Krambo42

I want to love BB2 but no co-op is a drag. ☹️

"But hey—I’ve never been one to play it safe anyway."

Yeah! Obviously f_ck the entire Earth.

DUH! 👍

Sounds like this was burglary, not robbery.

EDIT - my work here is done✌️

You can't argue that these games have "strictly limited" appeal.

@Martin_H

I thought about it some more, and if they are going to introduce some 16:9 games to the evercade platform, then a 16:10 screen is/would be a nice middle ground between 4:3 and 16:9. So that is my best "steel man" for Evercade's perspective 👍