Thomystic

Google: Let's make a console that's only a controller.
These people: Let's make a controller that's only a console.
In neither case does it work.

At any rate, this is published by Nintendo Force which is Lucas Thomas' very well-produced effort to revive Nintendo Power for those who want that. Even if you're not in the US, you can get their issues via PDF. They have great content and quality takes.

I think we're all on the same page regarding AI and on this awesome guide. A journalist is free to choose the angle of an article (not the same as an agenda) from the content of it or from the context. When the context is a contrast to the thing being described, it will look to some readers to be unrelated.

His point is of course that the manual care that went into this guide is in the opposite direction of the rest of the world right now. Even physical guides like Piggyback typically use screenshots, direct art assets from the devs, and maps created using digital tools. In an era when publishers are trying to nip and tuck on the skilled inputs without people noticing, this guy is heroically doing the opposite. It seems to me that that went over people's heads, but I'm also not an artist and don't see things from that perspective.

My stepmom was Christmas shopping for my brother and me and asked the game store for something "nonviolent." So I got Chessmaster 2000 since my dad was trying to get me into chess, and my brother got Prince of Persia. We laughed at how violent it actually ended up being. The salesman probably was making assumptions or just needed to get it sold. I was used to the movement of Mario and didn't even like Simon Belmont's clunky movement, so I definitely wasn't ready for a game like this at the time.

Also, shout out to the most lop-sided Box Art Brawl in history (probably).

They bought the studio, and then eventually most of the staff left, leaving them only with the IP. Yet they don't use the IP. 🤦‍♂️ If only Platonic had been developed much earlier as a second party studio or internal Nintendo team.

@JackGYarwood There's a typo on Ted Woolsey's name.

Nintendo raised the bar on itself in the "surprise" column by selling us a replica Virtual Boy stand and bringing (even more than) the entire VB lineup to NSO. Perhaps their curveball towards the end of the Switch 2 generation will be some crazy (probably Labo) apparatus for reproducing their electromechanical era. They should at least make some replicas for their Kyoto museum.

I'm sorry--Saturday Night Slam Masters is called WHAT in Europe?!

@Damo When you said that it "detached" your game, did you mean that it "detected" it?

Maybe I missed it due to skimming, but I fail to see how this is better, other than an HDMI, much less putting the original to shame. My PSOne is modded and so plays burned discs, a functionality that I didn't see mentioned here yea or nay. It's relatively huge (for an emulator) and yet doesn't take physical media? What is it even doing?

If that keychain GameCube were truly portable, it'd have a handle.

Reading the article: It would be neat if someone made a UFO 50 type faux retro anthology game but in the Game and Watch style.
Watching the video: Maybe not.

But did the puppets have feet inside those boots? 🙃

Seconds per frame instead of frames per second.. This is still really cool tho.

I can't believe Capcom remembered about Breath of Fire. They also have Dino Crisis 1 and 2 on Steam now.

"What advantage does this have over my current immoral option which doesn't at all support the fragile industry that I'd like to see continue?" 😑

@AtomB At first I thought the only 4 face buttons comment was ridiculous, but having tried to play GoldenEye with a Pro Controller and StarFox 64 on 3DS, any console wanting to replicate the N64 feel really cannot with a second analog stick instead.

@Damo
It says "Borders" instead of "Boarders." I know that topic is on a lot of people's minds right now, but this and NL have mixed this up in a couple of different spots in the discussion of this release.

First there was his murder on Steam two years ago which was random. Now this. The next thing you know, they'll make the Sonic 4 movie a silent slapstick black & white comedy.

Spinal de Pon

Game design can be analyzed by "what skill is this section testing?" When the answer is memorization, I tend to get less interested.

We need a SwitchMo. Or a mouse controlled ClickMo.

Namco really has been the most consistent third party over the decades aside from Capcom.

This article makes me wonder how many compositions would be loved by the world but are just sitting in his computer's recycle bin.

I don't get the primary / secondary bit. Y and B were chosen, presumably by Miyamoto, as run and jump for SMW. Y's shape (concave) and placement make it a perfect action button. B's being convex more easily allowed it to be pressed by the crook of one's same thumb that is holding Y to run.

Y is left of X to match B being to the left of A. Why B to the left of A? I've read that it's because A is closer to one's thumb. But if A is primary and is jump rather than attack, perhaps the console was designed expecting the future of games to be like Donkey Kong where jumping is primary. Maybe A is primary for Mario because he's Jumpman, even though you're holding B the whole game.

But why are they A and B and not Japanese characters on the Famicom?

@Flitzpiepe It sounds like MS had a history of copying Sega. You're supporting @The_Nintendo_Pedant's point.

Brandish Renewal? More like Brandish Removal.

@The_Nintend_Pedant
It's not like there are convenient labels for gamers on each side of every issue, like "passwordists" versus "batterians". Maybe "non-purists" would be accurate enough, but then some self-proclaimed purist would express offense or be contrarian. So he'd have to preempt them by saying "some purists" or "some non-purists" and violate the punctilios of antagonists by ending up in the same spot: "Which purists?"

I think your concern is what are called "weasel words" as they're phrased the same but are for very different contexts. When something is a hypothetical opinion some might have, and when this is stated by people who know that audience, especially about an entertainment product, it's not some form of motte-and-bailey fallacy used to hedge propaganda.

Their early days would be great for the Digital Eclipse museum treatment.

I think use of the term "software" as opposed to games is slightly anachronistic. That became the corporate term after the release of non-games like Wii Fit. It still sounds weird to me, but I suppose computer gaming and console gaming are somewhat merging, and I'm just a stuck-in-my-ways millennial.

@Mario500 Virtual console

For whatever reason, I think a lot about what the third most important fighting game series in the 16-bit era was. Or was it really a Coke vs. Pepsi type of race? Samurai Shodown introduced weapons, Virtua Fighter clunky 3D, and KI combos. All were foreshadows of future trends, but I feel like the nod goes to KI. Neo Geo had some contenders, but they just didn't innovate quite as much.

Also, since the N64 wasn't known for having fighting games (made up for by the best ever wrestling games), KI Gold is underrated for what it demonstrated: the N64 controller's viability for fighting games due to its 6-button layout. But since 2D was becoming anathema, it was treated as a stepchild even early on. Revisionism should correct that.

1:00 They really took the Streets of Rage "laugh" sound effect?

@Sketcz I suppose that had to do with marketing their consoles as toys (and thus including R.O.B. with the NES) to avoid the stigma from the North American video game crash.

This seems like the least copyright infringing thing on Etsy. 😂

It sounds like Argonaut could have been Rare before Rare was for Nintendo.

I usually click on mod videos and see that they're more than 4 minutes and then close. But this one had me for THE WHOLE TIME. He's skilled and funny.

So was it because of the batteries and circuits or because of the copyright infringement? Or was the one used as an excuse to enforce the other? This is confusing.

In related news, my local Walmart checkout line sells $10 Game Boy looking devices with 100 ROMs of games I recognize.

That'd be funny if Castlevania had a competitor that moved under the same roof when Konami bought Hudson.

Is this also beneficial for the NSO N64 controller? Is that one built the same, or are they using better designs/materials? I'm not an expert enough to tell, but it feels the same.

12/20. I was born in the wrong 'vania I guess. (Pennsylvania)

It just dawned on me a couple of days ago that Fox McCloud is probably a Fox because of the FX chip. I immediately started to be skeptical of the Miyamoto Shinto shrine origin story.

But related to Croc, that's good that a leak had such a positive result.

This was humbling. Maybe I should move the tassel in my pic back to the other side.

1-6 has a couple places where it looks like you can get soft locked. But overall this is really impressive! It's even got a Yoshi's Island type mechanic.

Is the clue in the original a reference to Michael Jordan?

If we still had VC this could have been staved off for a year or so. 😆

Protecting the brand by leaving it seemingly less active and ubiquitous than it really is? It's almost the opposite of Nintendo hiding who their developers are.

This is the rare article whose headline undersells it. Bravo on such a meaty deep dive! No one should be irritated by your getting into too much detail since on the 8th day God created skimming.

The regional trope that sticks with me is always the SMB Lost Levels whereby Western gamers were assumed to be softer than Japanese ones. As frustrating as this Konami situation is, it at least salvages Western gaming cred. Haha

@Spider-Kev Not if there's no fixed number. If I don't pre-order, there will be one fewer in circulation. It's not zero sum. I said in my post that I dislike bad arguments; please stop producing them.

I haven't had any issues with their stickers coming off without leaving residue, thankfully. Even still it looks on this one like it's on a small Post-It note just in case.

Minish Cap, Maxish Price

Is this also the first use of the term "electronic sports"?

I have a RetroFreak which extracts save files but doesn't reupload them to the game. I haven't yet looked into how to change out batteries in cartridges since none of mine have died yet, but would a device like this allow a save file to be restored even while switching out cartridge batteries?