Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter In regard to switching characters in Double Dash, if you’re playing co-op mode, each player controls 1 of the 2 characters. Swapping allows the driver to start using items, and the one that was on the back to begin driving. In addition, each vertical pair of characters on the character select screen has their own unique item that they are able to obtain from item boxes. If you’re coming up to a single item box and you’d like a Chain Chomp for example, you want either Baby Mario or Baby Luigi in the back, as they’re the only ones that can be granted that item (other than Petey Piranha & King Boo, who are both able to obtain every signature item).

@Tyranexx
Oh, I chose Science class when I was grade 12 student. Back on year 2000's era, there were 3 different class for grade 12 in Indonesia Senior High Schools: Science, Social Studies and Language. Each special class have different sets of subjects to study.
For example, Science class has Math, Physics, Biology, Chemistry for main subjects.
Social Studies has Economy, History, Geography, Law, Sociology, Econometry, Accounting, Anthropology as main subjects.
Language has English, Indonesian language, other languages depend on the school such as Germany or Japanese, Literature, Literature History, etc as main subject.
Every classes have mandatory subjects such as Religion, Civic (we call it PPKn = Pendidikan Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraan), Indonesian language that those three important subject must get minimum score in report to get promoted to next grade.
But Language class was really unpopular choice in Indonesia so only two classes are presented until today: Science and Social Studies.
I was great in Math during grade 12, was okay with Chemistry and Biology but really struggled with Physics.
I was great in drawing too and some peoples told me it was rare to see a people good in both Math and Art at the same time.
Social Studies were my least favorite subjects as I was weak in memorizing and understanding Social Studies subjects especially History, Sociology (only during grade 11). It was like my brain always got disconnected to digest the lesson of Sociology.

Believe it or not, I used to be composed my own stories or short stories when I was grade 11 until college age. The themes I like to compose was about detective / police department, RPG style adventure, natural disaster, etc and completely against the themes that usually teenager like to create for their stories (romance, teen rebel, teen dating). At that time, I was interested by some detective or police department TV series such as Martial Law (with Sammo Hung), Michael Hayes (by David Carusso), NYPD Blue and from there I created my own police department with 5 main characters (Edward Georges, Jennifer White, Dr. Marc Drummond, Charlie Vaughan, Clark Hugo).
Oh, yeah. I have ever watched CSI NY and Miami from AXN channel during 2000's era just to study the situation in police department during investigate the crimes (autopsy, finding the fingerprints, extracting the samples, interrogating the suspects, arresting the criminals, etc including the forbidden knowledge how to smuggle drugs by dissolve it into jacket ) but I didn't watch CSI anymore as I grew up.

Speaking about car wrecking, I did a lot from LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER. 🤭
Whenever I felt bored, I started to destroy a lot of vehicles I saw and made traffic jams then I collected the LEGO blocks while seeing the LEGO folks running around after their vehicles exploded. I used Astronaut job to destroy the vehicles in one hit shot after I got Red Brick to upgrade Astronaut gun. Sometimes I hijack the vehicles I found then I get out from it to make a long vehicles line to create a massive traffic jam. 😅
Both LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER and Go Vacation are type of games I enjoy in term of wandering around in a big world to explore.

@Markiemania95
Oh, I see.
I have never played Double Dash as Gamecube was not my teenhood games when i was teenager (PS2 was my teenhood machine).
Never knew if the characters combination in Double Dash have effect on items that I will get.
Is that mean I can collect two different items in Double Dash ?

@Anti-Matter let's please try to write all our consecutive replies in a single post.

@Eel
Oh, sorry. Sometimes I didn't realize if I got another replies while I was typing a long comment to other user. 😣

Edit: Done. I have edited the post.

@Anti-Matter thanks

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In other news. The iOS version of the Ace Attorney Trilogy received a new update.

They made the game look considerably worse. Don’t you love those updates?

Console repair place emailed me about my gamecube diagnostic. The console is fine!!! It's my ac adapter that failed. That's kinda good news. Guess I need to source a gamecube ac adapter, if anyone has any personal recommendations. Probably doesn't matter where I find one, though.

@Anti-Matter If you get Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled, and want any tips, feel free to ask me. I will say, do not get the game on xbox one. I've played it on my brother's xbox one, and reaching the front shoulder buttons is surprisingly awkward. I dare say terrible. Get the game for playstation or switch instead. That's my opinion.

@WoomyNNYes
Well, of course i will not get the XBOX ONE games as requiring online checking to play an offline game was killing my interest.
I will unable to play XBOX ONE games offline without internet connection.
That was very wrong idea for video game machine.

Oh, did you play Wave Race Blue Storm on Gamecube ?
If so, what do you think about the gameplay and the control ?

anyone heard from @ThanosReXXX?

@ogo79
Yeah, he was absent for several days.
Maybe he has a lot of work and have no time to chit chat here.

@dmcc0 Yeah I think the Dreamcast looks great in black. Most of Sega's previous consoles were black as well, so it fits. It still looks really cool in white, though.

@Anti-Matter Your apology is accepted. I hope you've learned from our little talk - just don't do that again. If you see us talking about Legend of Zelda or anything you have no interest in, you could just not post about it. Simply talking about those upcoming games from Play-Asia is fine in my book.

As for Mario Kart: Double Dash, what I like to do is I get the first item block, then before I get a second one, I switch characters. This way, I can be fully stocked during the race, and I'll use them when necessary. (Example: if I'm in first place and my rear character has a banana peel or a green shell, I can deploy them backwards if a red shell is about to hit me.) So yes, you can get two items in Double Dash, and every pair of characters has their own special item. Mario and Luigi can throw a row of five fireballs, Peach and Daisy can have two hearts that allow them to grab items from the ground, Yoshi and Birdo can throw a homing egg that can hatch items on impact, etc. MK:DD is one of my favorite games in the Mario Kart series, by the way - it's definitely the most unique one.

The last game I played was Blaster Master Zero 3. I liked the first two games (plus the NES original), and it's the last game in the series, so I may as well get it and play through it. I've been playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf as well, I started a new town in it. I've been getting into Advance Wars as well. I made some nice progress in the first game, and I've recently been playing Advance Wars: Dual Strike. I never got Advance Wars 2, I was thinking of either getting that on the Wii U Virtual Console, or waiting until Advance Wars 1 + 2 comes out for the Switch.

@Tyranexx I didn't play much of the GTA games, as I wasn't allowed to play it back then. I was too young at the time. I have a lot of fond memories playing the Jak and Daxter games - the first game in particular was what made me want the PS2! I got that alongside Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex - I've been familiar with Crash during the PS1 days, so that's pretty much why I got it. I played a lot of the Tony Hawk games as well, believe it or not. What me and my brother would do is make a bunch of custom skate parks and fool around in them, lol. Another game I remember playing was Naruto: Ultimate Ninja. That was when my brother was going through his Naruto phase and I thought it was a pretty decent fighting game.

I've been pretty good at math in most cases, I did make it up to calculus and linear algebra. It's just that physics was insanely tough for me. Hopefully I won't have to deal with that again, lol. I never took earth science, biology, or chemistry, as I was into computers and art during my time in college.

Edit: Well, I screwed up, Tyranexx. I totally overlooked your favorite console, lol. I love the 3DS as well! There's a ton of excellent games for it. I replayed A Link Between Worlds not too long ago, and it's still an excellent Zelda game. I've replayed other 3DS games like Super Mario 3D Land (a very solid handheld Mario game), and more recently, Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I keep forgetting to play it though, because, you know, real life matters. My villagers were wondering what the heck I've been doing with my life, lol. I want to get to playing more of Pokemon Omega Ruby, too.

Seems I missed a lot of fun over on the NS thread. For the better. Especially with the "OLED Switch" jibe.

@MarioLover92
Oh, i played ACNL too.
I have three copies of ACNL (2 copies of ACNL, 1 copy of Welcome Amiibo) with three different islands.
My first island from ACNL (named Neptune) was already well developed (have Gracie open her boutique at 3rd floor of T&T Emporium), have all fruits while the other two copies were still haven't got Gracie open her fashion boutique.
Did you play ACNL Online recently ?
I have ever playing ACNL Online during year 2015 - 2016 before the game got updated with Welcome Amiibo.
The Welcome Amiibo update keep asking players to not share any FC in Tortimer Island, but i knew players still did that.

About Double Dash, it seems the character swapping was the only unique feature in Mario Kart games. I watched from Youtube and the game only have four different cups, no Retro cups (featured on Mario Kart Wii for the first time) so i think the unlockable things from Double Dash just only 16 different tracks. Also, is the game running on 60 fps ?

@Anti-Matter I haven't played Wave Race on gamecube. I only bought a few games for that console.
Mario Sunshine
Luigi's Mansion
Simpsons Hit & Run
Zelda Wind Waker
Zelda Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime

@Anti-Matter I actually played with someone from the AC:NL friend code thread fairly recently. A couple months ago, I think. That was done with the Welcome Amiibo update.

Yeah, Double Dash is the only Mario Kart game where you can use two characters at once. It's the first one that lets you pick different karts, as well. There are indeed just 4 cups, 16 tracks - that was before retro cups became a thing. It runs in 60 FPS too - I remember being impressed that it ran at that framerate after Mario Kart 64.

Mario Kart DS was actually the first one to have retro cups, not Mario Kart Wii. If you wanna go further than that, Super Circuit had those unlockable extra cups that had all the tracks from Super Mario Kart. However it wasn't until MKDS where you could play the retro tracks from the get go.

life is too short for petty disagreements. as you can tell...the way this world is these days, theres a lot more to be disagreeing on rather than game preferences/tastes. we come here to unite in some form or another. lets not make this place feel like its not an escape route.
because it is.
everyone has their own reality.

i can agree to this statement to the fullest.

@ogo79 I too hope that Thanos is on a vacation or something like that! His sculpture is on hold until he returns

In the meantime today I finished my drawing of an island!

Oh, wow.
I have finished the storyline of Skylanders Swap Force PS3 already. 😀
The first Skylanders game i have finished by 1 week since i got the game on 10 August 2021.
It just only until chapter 17 to beat Kaos as Final Boss and after some search from wiki, there were two additional chapters as adventures packs (branched from chapter 1 mission).
Well, i will see what it looks like as i'm waiting the credit roll finished.

@ogo79 Well said.