Twine (The World is Not Enough) was always a childhood favourite of mine. My parents wouldn't let me get Perfect Dark at launch because of the rating so my brother and I used it as our substitute until we wore them down in 2001. Not sure if my nostalgia for it would be as high if I had played Perfect Dark first though. But very solid FPS in the style of Goldeneye and definitely worth checking out.
Indiana Jones could be awful in retrospect, I haven't played it in 25+ years but I remember really enjoying it. It could very well be just because it had the same C button item assignment as Zelda and I was starved for new Zelda games.
Also agree with you on Rogue Leader being better than Squadron but it was on far superior hardware and I can still respect the original, also say what you want about the quality of The Phantom Menace but releasing a game in 98 and then successfully hiding the Naboo Starfighter until the release of Episode 1 was genius. I am waiting for someone to remaster and port the whole trilogy along with the spinoffs like Battle for Naboo.
Lovely talking to you about N64 greats On your list I've never tried Rush 2, Shadowgate or the Bomberman games so adding those to your list and always nice to see people evangelising about Snowboard Kids!
We never had Mario Kart 64 so Diddy Kong Racing was always the go to for cart antics. I played a bunch of MK64 at friends houses so knew what we were missing out on and have subsequently owned it but still prefer DKR. I think it's the adventure mode which while fairly barebones is still miles ahead of the single player content in MK64. That plus the hovercraft and planes.
I agree with you on Dr Mario (NES) and Tetris Attack being pretty much the same and those are by far my most played games on the Switch Classics app (well Panel De Pon for Tetris Attack) but changing versions can be a nice novelty and both Dr Mario 64 and Pokemon Puzzle League have story modes which I always find delightfully bizaare in puzzle games.
@FR4M3 original trilogy were all GBA games that were only released in Japan. They later ported them to DS and released worldwide. The 5th case in the first game was made exclusive;y for the DS version hence all the extra stuff in that and how long it is compared to all other cases (so Japanese players would gets their moneys worth), just a shame they didn’t do an extra case for 2 or 3.
Also the trilogy originally being Japan exclusive is why the America in the localisation is so weird. When they made the first one they kept it deliberately ambiguous in case it was localised for the US but when that didn’t happen they added a lot more Japanese elements in 2. When it came time to localise the people doing it just looked at the first game, saw it was easily transferable to set it in LA then proceeded and only realised their mistake when it came to localise the 2nd game and the de,age was done by then.
@-wc- nice list but you are missing a few of my personal favourites:
The World is not enough (replaying through this right now and it holds up as much as Goldeneye does single player wise) Diddy Kong Racing (this is a diddy kong racing household damnit) Dr Mario 64 (I am a Dr Mario addict) Pokémon Puzzle League (see above but for panel de pon) Harvest Moon Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Rocket Robot on Wheels Rogue Squadron (yes this is on PC but I don’t like that version)
I tried not to include games with versions on other systems like you said otherwise Rayman 2 and Episode 1 racer would have been on here too.
Also I’m trying to get into rom hacks at the moment too and there’s a site called Retrododo that has top rom hacks per systems lists which has been very helpful for me.
@BulkSlash Have you tried the 4-6 collection as I’ve read there is some form of “hybrid” control system where you can make fine adjustments and then switch back to the modern one for the less tricky sections.
It was a family computer and I was under 10 so that wouldn’t have flown! I did eventually get a keyboard that had a disable windows toggle but it was like a decade ago and I just got mad at myself for not realising they existed when I was a kid.
@BulkSlash I did mean the tank controls already in there. Sorry to hear about that, I was never a big enough Tomb Raider fan to complete the games (being a stupid kid definitely didn’t help with all the puzzles) so I never fully got to grips with the controls.
It probably didn’t help I was playing with the default PC controls which made use of ctrl and alt but if you hit the windows key nestled between them then it would try to return to the windows desktop and inevitably crash.
Sucks to hear about the controls issue. I thought the tank controls would be alright considering they brought in a bunch of fans from openlara to work on it.
I think the main problem with doing a Morrowind remaster is the dialogue. There is no way you’d be able to just 1:1 record it all and have it voice acted like Oblivion or Skyrim and I think if they don’t touch it and leave the dialogue as is it would be a step too far to release as a big budget rerelease like Oblivon was.
Other issues are obviously the lack of consistency between animations and attacks and how unguided it is (which isn’t an issue for me but they would absolutely need some form of waypoint system in a rerelease, hopefully optional) but they are no where near the mountain that is the amount of dialogue in Morrowind for every character.
This really sucks :-/ I was lucky enough to order mine in January so got a 12GB sitting next to me right now but I’ve seen people start to scalp this for waaaay more than it’s worth and at prices where you can get an Odin 3 for.
At least they were up front about all this unlike Anbernic when they stealth downgraded the RG34XX SP to 1GB of RAM instead of 2GB.
@Razieluigi first time I completed FF7 was through that PC version. At the time I had a projector my dad had “borrowed” from work and I went through the whole thing projected 100+ inches on my wall slightly askew as I had the projector at an angle and it only had vertical keystone correction.
Good times! Also got up to the final dungeon on FF8 with the same set up before my save got corrupted and I couldn’t be bothered to restart.
Maybe it's getting the built in cheats that the console versions have? Square Enix are really weird about parity for different versions and infamously some that have cheats on PC don't have on console (I think 10/10-2 is missing them on PS4 at least) and vica versa.
Hopefully it turns out to be a complete remake of the game during all the assets from Ever Crisis and using the old battle system but I think there is more chance of accidentally having a million quid transferred to my bank account than that.
@Guru_Larry @jtotal Imgur pulled out of the UK about a month ago and now block all traffic from here… Was about age verifying accounts on setup and a fine or something. Think it predated the whole verify your age with an ID thing the current idiots in charge have implemented but was obviously tied to it in some way.
Just means I randomly need to enable my VPN a lot more when randomly browsing. Thanks for uploading the image to another source, saved me a few clicks.
Well just given this a go and of my small sample size the only one that didn't boot was Die Hard Trilogy. Everything else got in game, I'm not that familiar with how stuff runs on original hardware but at least there weren't any major issues that jumped out at me.
It is definitely more user friend;y than SSF and Medafan. I was up and running within 2 minutes or so. Just had to remember where I had stored the Saturn BIOS and set up keybindings for my 8bitdo M30.
@BHPM It's $170/£164 so slight overkill if you are just going to use it for Amiibo stuff. I have one though and that is my main use of it so those in glass houses.
If you haven't seen them before you can normally get amiibo cards from china on a variety of websites which have the functionality of certain ones built in. I bought one of all the Zelda ones a few years ago for under a tenner so that might be of more interest.
@LikelySatan I’ve got one of mine connected to my switch but I’ve been playing that less and less since I upgraded my PC, now mainly use it for exclusives and those really work better with dual analogue sticks.
On my PC it’s connected by the D input option where C and Z are the bumpers and the shoulder buttons act like triggers as I said in my previous message. I’ve found this works super well for RPGs like Chained Echo and Jack Move so it’s my primary controller I use for 2D games on there.
I’ve got one of their ultimate controllers that I use for anything 3D. That’s replaced an Xbox Elite 2 controller which started to have issues with the bumpers after a few months. The build quality on them is shockingly bad especially for the price.
The M30 does have L2 and R2 buttons. Because it has 6 face buttons C and Z are mapped as the bumpers or L1/R1 in PlayStation terms. The shoulder buttons are then mapped as the triggers.
It has 4 different pairing modes where the buttons are slightly different, if you go on the bit do site there is a manual explaining it all.
It is my favourite controller they sell, I have 3 of them. I bought one for my pc and one for my switch but after they released a white one with colour buttons I had to get that as well.
@SpaceyCiel back in 1999 my brother asked for Super Smash Bros. He ended up getting Smash Bros and an N64 (I had an N64 I had gotten for a previous birthday and shared it with him). My mum said that she hadn’t been planning on buying him his own console but it was only an extra £30 or so to get a console as well.
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Re: Hands On: 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller – Now With Extra N64 Energy
@-wc-
Twine (The World is Not Enough) was always a childhood favourite of mine. My parents wouldn't let me get Perfect Dark at launch because of the rating so my brother and I used it as our substitute until we wore them down in 2001. Not sure if my nostalgia for it would be as high if I had played Perfect Dark first though. But very solid FPS in the style of Goldeneye and definitely worth checking out.
Indiana Jones could be awful in retrospect, I haven't played it in 25+ years but I remember really enjoying it. It could very well be just because it had the same C button item assignment as Zelda and I was starved for new Zelda games.
Also agree with you on Rogue Leader being better than Squadron but it was on far superior hardware and I can still respect the original, also say what you want about the quality of The Phantom Menace but releasing a game in 98 and then successfully hiding the Naboo Starfighter until the release of Episode 1 was genius. I am waiting for someone to remaster and port the whole trilogy along with the spinoffs like Battle for Naboo.
Lovely talking to you about N64 greats On your list I've never tried Rush 2, Shadowgate or the Bomberman games so adding those to your list and always nice to see people evangelising about Snowboard Kids!
We never had Mario Kart 64 so Diddy Kong Racing was always the go to for cart antics. I played a bunch of MK64 at friends houses so knew what we were missing out on and have subsequently owned it but still prefer DKR. I think it's the adventure mode which while fairly barebones is still miles ahead of the single player content in MK64. That plus the hovercraft and planes.
I agree with you on Dr Mario (NES) and Tetris Attack being pretty much the same and those are by far my most played games on the Switch Classics app (well Panel De Pon for Tetris Attack) but changing versions can be a nice novelty and both Dr Mario 64 and Pokemon Puzzle League have story modes which I always find delightfully bizaare in puzzle games.
Re: "This Is A Full Circle Moment For Me" - Retro Gamer Veteran Returns To The Mag Full Time, More Than 20 Years After Launching It
On that Banjo cover it’s Worldy Bloke! Him and the coloured circles (also from N64 magazine) hit me right in the nostalgia.
Re: Phoenix Wright Has Been Demade For The Game Boy
@FR4M3 original trilogy were all GBA games that were only released in Japan. They later ported them to DS and released worldwide. The 5th case in the first game was made exclusive;y for the DS version hence all the extra stuff in that and how long it is compared to all other cases (so Japanese players would gets their moneys worth), just a shame they didn’t do an extra case for 2 or 3.
Also the trilogy originally being Japan exclusive is why the America in the localisation is so weird. When they made the first one they kept it deliberately ambiguous in case it was localised for the US but when that didn’t happen they added a lot more Japanese elements in 2. When it came time to localise the people doing it just looked at the first game, saw it was easily transferable to set it in LA then proceeded and only realised their mistake when it came to localise the 2nd game and the de,age was done by then.
Re: Hands On: 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth Controller – Now With Extra N64 Energy
@-wc- nice list but you are missing a few of my personal favourites:
The World is not enough (replaying through this right now and it holds up as much as Goldeneye does single player wise)
Diddy Kong Racing (this is a diddy kong racing household damnit)
Dr Mario 64 (I am a Dr Mario addict)
Pokémon Puzzle League (see above but for panel de pon)
Harvest Moon
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
Rocket Robot on Wheels
Rogue Squadron (yes this is on PC but I don’t like that version)
I tried not to include games with versions on other systems like you said otherwise Rayman 2 and Episode 1 racer would have been on here too.
Also I’m trying to get into rom hacks at the moment too and there’s a site called Retrododo that has top rom hacks per systems lists which has been very helpful for me.
Re: "Crystal Dynamics Should Issue A Partial Refund For Forcing This On Us" - Tomb Raider Remastered's New Outfits Aren't Going Down Well
@BulkSlash Have you tried the 4-6 collection as I’ve read there is some form of “hybrid” control system where you can make fine adjustments and then switch back to the modern one for the less tricky sections.
It was a family computer and I was under 10 so that wouldn’t have flown! I did eventually get a keyboard that had a disable windows toggle but it was like a decade ago and I just got mad at myself for not realising they existed when I was a kid.
Re: "Crystal Dynamics Should Issue A Partial Refund For Forcing This On Us" - Tomb Raider Remastered's New Outfits Aren't Going Down Well
@BulkSlash I did mean the tank controls already in there. Sorry to hear about that, I was never a big enough Tomb Raider fan to complete the games (being a stupid kid definitely didn’t help with all the puzzles) so I never fully got to grips with the controls.
It probably didn’t help I was playing with the default PC controls which made use of ctrl and alt but if you hit the windows key nestled between them then it would try to return to the windows desktop and inevitably crash.
Sucks to hear about the controls issue. I thought the tank controls would be alright considering they brought in a bunch of fans from openlara to work on it.
Re: "Crystal Dynamics Should Issue A Partial Refund For Forcing This On Us" - Tomb Raider Remastered's New Outfits Aren't Going Down Well
@BulkSlash there’s an option in the remastered version to use the original controls.
Re: Interview: "I'm The Luckiest Son Of A B**ch In The Industry" - Skyrim's Bruce Nesmith On TSR, Elder Scrolls & Daggerfall's "Miserable" Crunch
I think the main problem with doing a Morrowind remaster is the dialogue. There is no way you’d be able to just 1:1 record it all and have it voice acted like Oblivion or Skyrim and I think if they don’t touch it and leave the dialogue as is it would be a step too far to release as a big budget rerelease like Oblivon was.
Other issues are obviously the lack of consistency between animations and attacks and how unguided it is (which isn’t an issue for me but they would absolutely need some form of waypoint system in a rerelease, hopefully optional) but they are no where near the mountain that is the amount of dialogue in Morrowind for every character.
Re: The RAMpocalypse Strikes Again, As Retroid Reveals Changes To Pocket 6 Pricing, And The Discontinuation Of Its 12GB Model
This really sucks :-/ I was lucky enough to order mine in January so got a 12GB sitting next to me right now but I’ve seen people start to scalp this for waaaay more than it’s worth and at prices where you can get an Odin 3 for.
At least they were up front about all this unlike Anbernic when they stealth downgraded the RG34XX SP to 1GB of RAM instead of 2GB.
Re: Final Fantasy VII Is Getting A New Steam Version "To Provide An Improved Gameplay Experience"
@Razieluigi first time I completed FF7 was through that PC version. At the time I had a projector my dad had “borrowed” from work and I went through the whole thing projected 100+ inches on my wall slightly askew as I had the projector at an angle and it only had vertical keystone correction.
Good times! Also got up to the final dungeon on FF8 with the same set up before my save got corrupted and I couldn’t be bothered to restart.
Re: Final Fantasy VII Is Getting A New Steam Version "To Provide An Improved Gameplay Experience"
Maybe it's getting the built in cheats that the console versions have? Square Enix are really weird about parity for different versions and infamously some that have cheats on PC don't have on console (I think 10/10-2 is missing them on PS4 at least) and vica versa.
Hopefully it turns out to be a complete remake of the game during all the assets from Ever Crisis and using the old battle system but I think there is more chance of accidentally having a million quid transferred to my bank account than that.
Re: Reports Suggest Arcade1Up Is Shutting Down
@Guru_Larry @jtotal Imgur pulled out of the UK about a month ago and now block all traffic from here… Was about age verifying accounts on setup and a fine or something. Think it predated the whole verify your age with an ID thing the current idiots in charge have implemented but was obviously tied to it in some way.
Just means I randomly need to enable my VPN a lot more when randomly browsing. Thanks for uploading the image to another source, saved me a few clicks.
Re: New Emulator Ymir Now Boasts Over 90% Compatibility With The Sega Saturn's Library
Well just given this a go and of my small sample size the only one that didn't boot was Die Hard Trilogy. Everything else got in game, I'm not that familiar with how stuff runs on original hardware but at least there weren't any major issues that jumped out at me.
It is definitely more user friend;y than SSF and Medafan. I was up and running within 2 minutes or so. Just had to remember where I had stored the Saturn BIOS and set up keybindings for my 8bitdo M30.
Re: Review: ZX Spectrum Next - This FPGA Powerhouse Does Sir Clive Sinclair's Legacy Proud
@Damo I like how the on label on the power switch looks like it’s saying NO after your issues with it.
Re: Review: Flipper Zero - This Viral Hacker's Toolkit Doubles As A Handy Amiibo Storage Device
@BHPM It's $170/£164 so slight overkill if you are just going to use it for Amiibo stuff. I have one though and that is my main use of it so those in glass houses.
If you haven't seen them before you can normally get amiibo cards from china on a variety of websites which have the functionality of certain ones built in. I bought one of all the Zelda ones a few years ago for under a tenner so that might be of more interest.
Re: Guide: All 8BitDo Controllers & Accessories - Which Should I Buy?
@LikelySatan I’ve got one of mine connected to my switch but I’ve been playing that less and less since I upgraded my PC, now mainly use it for exclusives and those really work better with dual analogue sticks.
On my PC it’s connected by the D input option where C and Z are the bumpers and the shoulder buttons act like triggers as I said in my previous message. I’ve found this works super well for RPGs like Chained Echo and Jack Move so it’s my primary controller I use for 2D games on there.
I’ve got one of their ultimate controllers that I use for anything 3D. That’s replaced an Xbox Elite 2 controller which started to have issues with the bumpers after a few months. The build quality on them is shockingly bad especially for the price.
Re: Guide: All 8BitDo Controllers & Accessories - Which Should I Buy?
@John_Deacon
The M30 does have L2 and R2 buttons. Because it has 6 face buttons C and Z are mapped as the bumpers or L1/R1 in PlayStation terms. The shoulder buttons are then mapped as the triggers.
It has 4 different pairing modes where the buttons are slightly different, if you go on the bit do site there is a manual explaining it all.
It is my favourite controller they sell, I have 3 of them. I bought one for my pc and one for my switch but after they released a white one with colour buttons I had to get that as well.
Re: Upset By Zelda Being $70? We've Arguably Never Had It So Good
@SpaceyCiel back in 1999 my brother asked for Super Smash Bros. He ended up getting Smash Bros and an N64 (I had an N64 I had gotten for a previous birthday and shared it with him). My mum said that she hadn’t been planning on buying him his own console but it was only an extra £30 or so to get a console as well.
Re: 10 Years Ago, Tech Giant Panasonic Almost Took On The Nintendo 3DS
That is ridiculously ugly and stupid. I would of 100% bought this.