The_Nintendo_Expat

"We Might Be About To Lose A Powerful Force In The World Of Video Game Preservation"

vs

"We Might Lose A Powerful Force In The World Of Video Game Preservation"

just my 2c ✌️

how tall do we imagine that sign is?
25'? (7.6m?)

@KingMike

I ❤️'d my OGDS literally to pieces too, but my SP which is years older and worn smooth like a stone from use and travel, still functions perfectly ✌️ I also very rarely saw loose, damaged or broken hinges on Nintendo handhelds in my years of buying and selling them as a pawnbroker, in a former life.

@lincruste

You caught me: I was being recklessly whimsical. 😅 I do apologize if I upset you. 🙂‍↕️

@lincruste

I certainly wouldn't go that far, but poor hinge design is not on my list of Nintendo B*tches.

And, I keep coming up with funky new Nintendo B*tches, like, every single day.

@Lowdefal

"GBA, DS, 3DS, all got very floppy very quickly."

This might say more about how you use your devices than Nintendo build quality ✌️

@KingMike

i knew there was a reason! is it "illegal" to replicate those "errors," or are they secret like a code?

thanks for the explanation! ✌️

random question:

we sometimes get physical carts for big rereleases and even new indie games on legacy consoles like genesis and NES.

why not psx discs? 🤔 or am I wrong?

"the hackers hacked a hack when they hacked this hack! oh no my hacks!"

GOGbox and I'll abandon Nintendo forever.

@N00BiSH

easy disagree but that's OK! 😂 imo Soma is a pale imitation: where Alucard is a fascinating and satisfying character, I forget I'm even playing as Soma and they just don't really move the needle for me. To each their own! ✌️ all the games are good, which is what's really important, but none of them grab me like SOTN did in its day, and still does when i return.

@N00BiSH

"I'm down to get it ported to modern systems, but does SotN really need a direct follow-up?"

need? no lol. but I long to return to the castle as Alucard!

Maybe it could start with the castle unlocked @ 200%, and go from there! idk! ✌️

None. Proper followup to SOTN, and SOTN on eshop.

Outrun with explosions? 😔
What audience could they POSSIBLY have in mind for this?

@Quick_Man

I'm really glad someone in here gets what I'm saying 1:1. cheers! ✌️

@MG4M3R

"This is a matter of semantics"

People always say that like it nullifies the argument.
I see the irony in what I'm saying, but given that semantics literally means "the meaning of words" yes, I am talking about semantics 👍

"A private company licensing and altering the content of a Japanese game to sell to a different audience in another country could be called cultural appropriation or some specific type of cultural vandalism."

to play devil's advocate for a sec (im not pro censorship) is it really appropriation or vandalism when the "private company" in question is essentially hired by the owners of the japanese game (to simplify things a bit) to localize and distribute it?

final point, and this is what ive been saying all along: two subtly distinct things or concepts can have the same word applied, and in culture and politics, subtext is hugely important. definitions of words get smeared, concepts get lumped together through misinformation and propaganda. my argument has been a lot more nuanced than "this is censorship, this isnt" but maybe that's already apparent. ✌️

From the article, I thought they remade Toy Story 2 (the movie) on PSX! Dang! 😆

For the record im down to watch "demakes" of classic CGI movies, if anyone is looking for cool ideas to make and then distribute back to me 😂

@Goj

im not saying it's not dumb, and i feel for your situation ✌️ if this is a game you were out would look forward to playing on your Xbox, that sucks! but i don't think a company saying "we don't like your terms" and skipping the platform is censorship, I don't think a platform setting its own standards is censorship, and I don't think silly standards are more censorshippy than common sense standards, just for being silly. 👍

@KidRisky

You are right, but it's a broad word (perhaps too broad) that gets misused and conflated a lot. 👍 especially by people who feign concern about the "gubmint" while encouraging policy both public and private that actually censors others and worse. for example they think certain people were being "censored" by pre-X twitter because they were banned or supressed after they violated the platform's hate speech laws, yet they have no problem with the government pulling books from libraries, and telling teachers what relevant factual truths they are allowed to convey to students (or even forcing them to lie to students.)

In other words, there's an important censorship battle happening in gaming and almost all forms of media and it has nothing to do with publishers and platforms selecting for content what games they publish. ✌️👍

I'm not sure it's considered "censorship" if the company privately decided not to publish the game at all. I think the game would have to exist to be censored.

Not to mention, "private censorship" (as opposed to "self censorship" or " gov't censorship) is really just the free market, right?

personally, I'm worried about government censorship. We are not threatened by multiplat games not coming to XBOX, and if it's the "wrong decision" they will feel it in either bad press, or financials, or both. but they won't.

copies the design even to the cramped upper button arrangement 👎 when your "Y" is that close to your "R," I've got problems.

@ruiner9

"This feels like a clone of the 8bitdo Ultimate controller"

it could be that they are both modern interpretations of the 360 controller design.

@bobby_steurer

I wear 40 dollar knockoffs and I'm beyond happy! My feet are different and better than they were. Also I work all day on my feet in these shoes, and they wear better than the "wolverine" type "work shoes" I used to wear (more like they were wearing me 😂✌️)

i just have to be more careful! I guess, step on a nail, save your hips, knees, ankles, and toes 😆

"dude! ...black... gold... vaguely polygonal..
..are those GOLDENEYE SHOES?!"

IMO King's Field is more "old" than "obscure." 👍

btw this is really unexpected and cool! thanks 😊✌️ have a good weekend everybody!

this is cool 👍

I'm someone who has followed this series not closely since the playstation days, and I have a question:

is there any meaning to the stylization "SaGa" or is it just that?

also should i play these games? 😆 ✌️

@Trundlebug

okay 👍 i told someone they should care more about people than videogames, because they literally said they "weren't aware" they were supposed to. You've been putting words in my mouth and trying to trap me into some kind of fallacious mind loop for 3 or 4 replies now, and I've been very patient.

"we're all hypocrites," sure✌️ you win. 🍪

@Trundlebug

I said people are more important than videogames. there is some serious projection going on here, you might want to examine that 👍

@Trundlebug

I try to live my life with balance. 👍

@Trundlebug

"Which people are you caring about and why? Which ones have you judged to be unworthy of caring about?"

please notice I didn't say "you should care about some people over videogames." ✌️ i wish you well.

@Trundlebug

would you do me a favor?

would you please quote the part of my prior comment that you think "talk(s) as if there's a clear line between good people and bad people?"

thank you. ✌️

@Green_Devil

"I wasn't aware I was supposed to care about anything else."

this is the saddest comment I've read in a long time. like, depressing.

FWIW, of course you should care about people over videogames. ✌️👍 I wish you well.

was dr mario the first game of type after tetris? 🤔

@emonegarand

"It would have been a stretch to say Fight for Life was a complete rip off of Virtua Fighter because 3D fighters were very common then to show off 32-bit consoles power."

do you have examples of this beyond these 2 games, from before these events? 🤔

"It will no longer cost $500 to play Path of Radiance!"

if you think paying an individual 500 dollars for an old used copy of a game is more "moral" than downloading it, i think you should examine that.

@KingMike

dont get me wrong, i dont like the duke particularly or xbox generally, but it bothers me when someone says something is "un ergonomic" or "anti ergonomic" when an attempt was clearly made, and it just doesnt fit their own hands, personally 👍 ergonomics being the most subjective thing i could possibly imagine, and myself being nearer the "large" end of the bell curve.

Totally agree that the controls for all nintendo handhelds starting with gba have been a little too small... excepting the og ds and sp which were obvious cousins design wise.

(in general, nintendo has been out to destroy the dpad almost since they invented it.)

peace ✌️

"Recade Wants To Be Netflix For Arcade Games, But It Needs Your Help"

they are welcome to try... without my help. 👍

Bleem is a hilarious idea:

to serve all those new Dreamcast owners who desperately want to play ps1 games, but dont already own a ps1. in 99/00. 💀

@amishpyrate

appreciate it! 👍 Whatever the reason, I like the bigger art and book-like dimensions.

I even wish switch had at least a GBA cart sized cart, for art and ergonomics reasons. (but my casual preferences are way off from what "is" lol.✌️)

the very fact that you call her "the Kingdom Hearts composer" tells me you're not ready.

@Razieluigi

"But this kind of logic revealed its flaws when it came to designing handheld products like the Lynx and the XBox "Duke" that were almost comically non-ergonomic."

I have big hands and the duke is more comfy for me than a 360 controller, which i find hopelessly cramped. likewise, a lynx (either model) is far more comfortable for me than a DS lite for example, which is far too thin and small. Or as you put it, "comically unergonomic." 😊✌️

@amishpyrate

"Also, there tends to be a feeling of inferiority if something is smaller (at least there used to be). It's part of the reason the GameCube game cases were the same size as the competition stateside even though the games could have been in smaller cases."

Except that the game is for the console, but the case is for your hands, and eyes. ✌️ no reason to shrink your artwork down smaller just because the disc is smaller, right?

(ps2 game cases are "oversized" too in the sense that they wouldve fit in a much smaller case. why not a cd case, or a cardboard sleeve?)

✌️

@NinChocolate

LOL. I lol'd. ☺️✌️

the facts of the story are pretty mundane compared to the headline (so, good job i guess! 😆)

but this seems like a good intro to a band id never heard of, thanks! seems like the DC game is more of a footnote for a pretty legitimate and successful music project.

Japan continues to not care about the games that i don't care about 👍✌️

well, except ghost of tsushima i guess lol

i really wish theyd have just released salamander III as a standalone game rather than saddle it with these tired old classics ive bought many times before.

or Gradius V.

I wish someone would make a handheld that looks exactly/very close to like Nomad but very thin.

once you switch to wide/flat shoes youll never even think about putting your foot in a shoe like this again. ✌️

@rob7979

good dad ✌️☺️

ps thanks for letting me know about the gamecube version! I think I'd rather play it on there to be honest, just barely. I love sega games on gamecube! 👍

@BaronRedWings

I'm realizing now for the first time in my life that i do indeed want the game for my sega dreamcast 😆 insane how you just can't get to everything, or even close, no matter how hard you try.

I'm getting my dreamcast going again, damnit! ✌️im so close, now