For me, by far the most exciting new videogame related thing is the awesome new update to Lossless Scaling. It allows for going way beyond multiplying the base frame rate by 4. Now you can choose to multiply any game's frame rate by 5, 6, 7, etc up to 20!!! Nothing has me more excited for a high refresh rate screen than this new feature! I've been wanting a 480hz screen, and am excited about the newly announced 700hz screen, but I'll probably stick with my laptop's 240hz for awhile (it is awesome, after all). I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom at 60fps, then using Lossless Scaling for 4x to get 240fps. That's been awesome for months, but now I can just target the base game frame rate of 30fps and use the new 8x multiplier and it looks even better! It is simply amazing. I'm so glad that something like Lossless Scaling has come along for gamers and video watchers to enjoy! I just played Wipeout 64 using the same 8x frame generation and it is OK. I get snatches of time where it looks like 240fps (also playing at 1200p), but the emulation has some judder and frame drops. Oh, I also tried the 20x frame gen on TOTK and it produces an interesting visual effect that I like. It looks a lot like when you repeatedly drink alcohol in GTA 5. All these cool visual anomalies appear. On my 240hz screen there is also an interesting "smooth" judder. Oh, and that reminds me, when playing TOTK using 8x frame gen, if there is a stutter in the frame rate the frame gen feature makes it less annoying. I get more of an interesting visual anomaly instead of a harsh stutter. So that's cool too. Oh, and using the 20x frame gen makes the menus in TOTK look awesomely trippy! The icons for weapons, shields, items, etc. magically morph into each other in such a pleasing way! When I saw it I thought "this would be sick if devs used it in the menus of a vanilla game!" It really is slick and nice looking. I've never really used AMD or Nvidia frame gen, and I'm sure it's better with the motion vector info and everything, but I'm super happy with plain old Lossless Scaling! I looked today and Steam says I've used it for over 200 hours (it's a cheap app you can buy on Steam). The fact that it can fix basically any 30fps or 60fps game and make it look awesomely smooth makes me not want to play any games on any system that I can't run through my laptop's screen somehow. I highly, highly recommend Lossless Scaling!
I've also been enjoying Digseum. It's a "progression" game that has great music (sorta reminds me of the awesome Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen) and is just well polished and hard to put down. I also like that it is relatively brief.
Also still addicted to ufo 50. Party House has been my favorite for weeks. A few days ago I discovered a nice new song that plays when you expand your house a lot so you can have like 26 people in a party.
Also been playing of bunch of great shoot em ups: Mirage Feathers, Xelan Force, Ganablade (feels like it could've been on PC Engine, awesome game!), Zakesta-Z (also awesome!), Crystal Breaker (love it!), and Airanblade (really nice 1 person dev team stg game that only has like 8 reviews, deserves to sell more!)
Also been playing Pikmin, Mario 64, and Rocket League.
I got Beach House's newest album Once Twice Melody. Probably my number 1 standout track is "Through Me"
I finally got my Switch jailbroken, but haven't done anything with it yet except look at the stuff installed (tinfoil, fbi, and other apps and utilities, no games). I've been too busy completing TOTK for the third time, but with a mod I haven't played much before this. I feel like I shouldn't talk about what I play because it might paint a target on wonderful people's backs for the corporate law criminals at Nintendo. So, I'm having a lot of fun playing Tears of the Kingdom, Starfox 64, Dungeon Clawler, Kingdom Two Crowns, UFO 50, wipeout, and Mario 64.
Also been playing Wipeout Omega Collection, Rocket League, and Jumping Flash! on a relative's PS4. I guess it's not surprising that Jumping Flash looks better on my Deck than on PS4 (and it looks incredible on laptop with lossless scaling and emu options getting it up to 1440p and 240fps).
If I have time, I'm looking forward to seeing if I can get BOTW and TOTK running at 60fps on my newly improved Switch.
Happy gaming everyone!
@Toastmaster Yeah, I've got Mario Kart Arcade GP whatever it's called, which I believe is a technoparrot thing. It's pretty fun and looks great. Also, reguarding recompilation, I thought we might have more than Majora and Mystical Ninja (Japanaese version only) by now. Hopefully 2025 will see a variety of N64 games get recomps. Nerrel's video about recompilation is so good, so exciting.
@Toastmaster Oh yeah, the Legion Go would be awesome for decomps and PC ports with it's high res 144hz screen! I found a thread that lists pc ports, with links, and installed almost every single one on my OLED Deck. I swear these are the glory days of gaming! Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Blur, Perfect Dark, Starfox 64, the incredible Link's Awakening port, wipeout phantom edition, oh, and all the amazing unlimited frame rate Pokémon decomps! There's such a cornucopia of stuff available.
@Toastmaster Interesting stuff! I bought Bleem back in the day, but was disappointed that the improvements were minor. If it had bumped a game up to 60fps I would've been thrilled. Yeah, I remember the 3dfx cards, but never got one. I remember reading, I think in Next Generation magazine or something, about wipeout xl running at 60fps on PC on a 3dfx card. They said it was amazing looking. I'd still love to see that, like in a game museum or something! But with wipeout phantom edition I am finally living that dream! It's my favorite of all the modern decompilations/PC ports.
@Toastmaster That's amazing. I didn't know people were playing Mario 64 at 60fps back in 1999. It blew me away when I first got Mario 64 running on my Deck and saw it at 60. Since I got my new laptop I've been playing it at 240, which is incredible. So fun!
Reading the comments I just want to add that I've definitely noticed how great Beetle Advemture Racing looks via emulation. Basically locked at 60fps. I've also enjoyed some Diddy Kong Racing over the past months. It has a 60fps hack for emulation that works OK. It seems to crash a bit often. Can't wait to see what Harbormasters do next! I hope it is Wipeout 64, but won't hold my breath! Oh, it was also cool to read that a longtime Nintendo dev who helped make Starfox 64 said he was happy to see the PC port.
This is such an anticipated release! It is like another dream come true every time I can play an old classic that I've enjoyed, but now at 240 frames per second (or whatever higher frame rate a future monitor I buy can display, hopefully 480fps soon!). It really is incredible to play Starfox 64 at a high frame rate. So beautiful, so responsive, so fun! Thank you Harbormasters!
I'm completely into this mod of TOTK, playing through everything again. It is such a beautiful game, so fun to explore in. I wish Nintendo helped people making the game run smoother instead of attacking them and supporting deneuvo and other stuff like that. I'll probably never buy another game from an ESA supporting company! I've also been watching gameplay. One thing that's funny is the person putting out jogging videos of modded BOTW. People are supposed to use the video while running on their treadmill. Pretty good idea I'd say.
As minor side dishes I'm playing UFO 50, wipeout phantom edition, Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair (looks very nice at 90fps), Bullet Heaven 2, Micro Mages, Mario Kart DS CTGP Nitro, and Advance Wars Dual Strike.
Happy gaming everyone!
I'm just playing TOTK almost all the time. The mod I'm playing is way too difficult for me, but I love it anyways. I'm duping fairies, horns, turnips, etc. So I'm having another awesome playthrough, basically. It wasn't until 2024 that I played using mods, but now I'm completely sold on how awesome they are! I'm also trying out Ballionaire, but not sure if I think it's great. I'll have to keep playing. I mostly play Wipeout Phantom Edition on Deck, but whenever I play it on my laptop it just amazes me. It looks incredible at 240fps. I hope Valve releases a steam deck that can display 240fps, or some other company releases a handheld that cam run steam OS and has a 240hz OLED screen that can also have selectable refresh rate like regular Steam Decks can. That would such a dreamy game machine!!
Wish I understood this stuff better. I've been playing Majora's Mask at 90 or 240fps (depending on what device I'm using) for months now, yet the decomp just completed. Banjo Kazooie has completed decomp, but we have no idea if a port will be built by anyone. I know MM was using recompilation, but they say it benefitted from the near completeness of the decomp project. Can't wait for Starship, and whatever else is being cooked up by all the awesome devs in the fan community!
I finally beat a level in Party House. Couldn't beat it until I watched a speed run and learned the main strategy, but it doesn't matter, still fun to play repeat attempts. I'm loving the second level too. I'm also getting more and more enthralled with new modded content for TOTK. Love watching people playing it and also playing it myself. I haven't yet beaten the lynel that's in the intro, but have jumped around with different game saves and love the tyrant class. I've also been mesmerized by wipeout phantom edition, partly because I added new songs to it. A drum and bass track called Snowflakes goes amazingly well with the smooth hovercraft racing. Also been playing the kinda old game Kami, such a great puzzle game. Also discovered I have other Jeff Minter games in my Steam account, so I've been playing Minotaur Arcade, Gridrunner Revolution, Space Giraffe, and Polybius. I've been playing Schildmaid MX at 240fps on laptop, what an awesome shoot em up! Also been playing Rush Rally Origins, Glyph, and Kingdom Two Crowns at 240. So beautiful and smooth, all of those are! The Olympus DLC in Kingdom Two Crowns continues to amaze me. Also been enjoying the beginning of The Land Beneath Us (awesome Welsh chess like strategy game with great music), Patrick's Parabox (incredible puzzle game), Paper Trail (fun paper folding puzzle game), and Nine Sols (seems like a perfectly polished game so far, love it). I also really like Ninja Chowdown: Glaze of Glory, Arc Racer (pretty good wipeout or f-zero type game), Balatro (too addictive, jeez!), Boo! Greedy Kid, CyberBlocker (incredibly good Arkanoid shoot em up, Love this game!), Goliath Depot (super fun arcade style game, or old console style game), Gunlocked (got way more into this than I thought I would!), Murasaki Tsurugi (first class soundtrack, and seemingly great unique shoot em up gameplay), Super Woden (super smooth top down Gran Turismo style racing game with great music and tough gameplay), Zeno Death, and Zeno Hell (great stg games from a few years back). This week I found out another Youtuber I've enjoyed had been attacked by Nintendo. In her video about the whole experience she was talking about Nintendo fans (who I assume criticized her for playing Animal Crossing with modded strawberries and stuff added in) and at one point she said "y'all console gamers are God's strongest soldiers" and I couldn't stop laughing! So good! Tea of the weekend is Amber Wuyi, such a richly flavorful Oolong! And song is that Snowflakes song that is so immersive while racing wipEout! Have fun gaming everyone!
Recently I've been most excited about Rainchaser. Many aspects of the demo lead me to believe it could end up being among my favorite stgs when it releases. I'm also excited about Kingdom Two Crowns. I've gotten further into the new dlc and love the spider and lion/serpent/dragon mounts. There are so many awesome mounts, power ups, gameplay enhancements, graphics improvements, etc in this game/dlc/update! Also been getting addicted to Dome Keeper, along with Balatro. They're both easy to get lost in. Also enjoying BS F-zero deluxe. Amazing that modders rebuilt the lost games from a VHS recording. I'm also really into Party House, even though I can't beat any levels yet. And Porgy and Devilition and Bug Hunter are awesome too. Also been enjoying F-Zero 55, Daisy's Crazy Adventure, wipeout phantom edition, Need For Speed Underground 2 (looks pretty at 90fps), Battle Gear 2, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Golf Toadstool Tour, Grand Mountain Adventure, Tempest 4000, and Moose Life. I've also watched and played a bunch of the Jeff Minter Digital Eclipse documentary/game collection. It is amazingly good! Also been playing TOTK and Rocket League. And been enjoying Mr Sujano, Linus Tech Tips, Nerrel, and Dunkey videos. Have fun everyone!
Most exciting game of the week is Fzero 55. Absolutely love the music and gameplay (on lowest difficulty, can't get past basic jumps on hardest difficulty!)! Party House is one of my new obsessions, although I still love playing Bug Hunter. Oh, and I got Tetris Forever, which is amazing. It also got me back into all the older digital eclipse releases. So I "finished " the making of Karateka last night. Also been immersed in Minterland. These awesome releases also get me playing the roms they couldn't include. So I've been playing Prince of Persia, Nintendo's NES Tetris, TxK, The New Tetris, Tetris DS, Moose Life, etc. Can't wait to see what's next in the gold master series. I've been enjoying Centipede Recharged even though it has some shocking stutters and frame drops. Also having fun playing Grand Mountain Adventure, but I wish it had graphics options on PC. It can do 240fps, but can't eliminate the fade in and other stuff that looks the same as on Switch. Also been playing Akka Arrh, Hellfire, wipeout phantom edition, PokeMMO, Geometry Wars 3, TOTK, and Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack Saturn emulation on Steam Deck. And I've been enjoying graslu's 60fps Bond gameplay after I found out Nintendo attacked him this week. It puts a huge smile on my face seeing graslu playing Goldeneye so masterfully at 60fps on the highest difficulty level. Happy gaming!
I'm still mostly sticking with my 2024 old standards: TOTK, wipeout phantom edition, and UFO 50. I'm playing a different mod of TOTK that helps smoothen frame pacing, allowing a tighter lock on 240fps via Lossless Scaling, so that is fun. Plus, for the first time ever for me, I've added something to a mod to customize it with files from another mod. It feels great to have control over which patch I use, which game save I want to play on or store in a folder for later, and now be able to mod a mod! I really love this stuff, along with having control over resolution and frame rate! If Nintendo would stop committing crimes against the devs who make these awesome features possible, well that would be nice, wouldn't it?!
In UFO 50 I got my first gold disk, then my first cherry. Bug Hunter is amazingly fun. I've also started having fun with Vainger, Devilition, Campanella, and Planet Zoldath. I also love watching online videos of people playing these games.
Wipeout Phantom Edition is still my favorite racing game ever. After watching Digital Foundry's video about the 480hz monitor I can't wait to play it on a screen like that! I'm also excited for 960hz panels, if those ever get invented! 720p at 480fps sounds like gaming heaven for sure!
I'm also enjoying Metal Slug Tactics, Mario 64 render 96 (love playing this locked at 53fps on Deck!), Pokémon Infinite Fusion, Freedom Planet 2 (so awesome!), Kingdom Two Crowns (I keep repeating it, but the DLC and game engine revamp are incredible, seriously the clouds and lighting and music and gameplay in the Greek theme with Goddesses and Gods is so, so, amazing!), Void Gore, Z-Warp, Feeble Light (love all these similar STG games with great music), Planetiles, and Dream Tactics. And I've also been enjoying Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island at 240fps thanks to the glory of Lossless Scaling. I love Lossless Scaling! I've also started playing Wipeout Pulse and wipeout pure while using lossless scaling. They look very nice, and stay pretty much locked at 240fps. Wipeout at high frame rates is such a wonderful gaming experience!
For music I've been digging the soundtrack of Mario Artist from N64 DD. Many great tunes in there.
Have fun gaming everyone!
I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom, enjoying several different mods along with lossless scaling as usual.
Bug Hunter just keeps getting better and better. I've played about 5 hours of it and keep discovering new modules and techniques, which is amazing because it is such a seemingly simple strategy game!
I play Wipeout Phantom Edition almost everyday. Sometimes on laptop where I wish I had a 1000hz screen since it can run way above 1000 fps. Sometimes on Deck where I try playing at 40fps, 50fps, and eventually go up to 90 and just bliss out to the amazing electronic music I've added to the soundtrack. Incredible port.
Today I played the Super Mario Bros port to Commodore 64. It's really fun and very well done. It can't keep 60fps as well as the Famicom/NES, but is still super impressive.
Oh yeah, a few days ago I played Yoshi's Highland for the first time! What an amazingly crazy romhack! I really like it, but probably wouldn't have if I hadn't seen some online gameplay so I knew what to expect. It is difficult, frustrating, and exhilarating!
Other, much nicer, romhacks I'm enjoying are Yoshi's Lullaby, The Epic Quest of Birdo the Pink Dinosaur, Toad's Cherry Tracker, and Mario's Ruined Seclusion. So much amazing original music and great gameplay. Would be nice if Mario Maker had a quick easy way to only play such high quality levels/world.
I've also played some Pokemblem, but haven't gotten very far.
Also playing some Kill the Crows, Rocket League (really wish Epic would admit most matches are just all bots except 1 or maybe 2 humans, and let us play in offline mode against the very high level bots they've developed), and the absolutely gorgeous and super fun Kingdom Two Crowns!
Video of the week is some random British guy I've never heard of called Jonathan Pie or whatever.
Happy gaming, lol!
My game of the week is definitely Castlemania. Man I love it so much! I played through it on Deck, then later played it on laptop with lossless scaling so it looks like 240fps. It is just perfect with polished Mario controls, classic Castlevania music, and just right difficulty (I am using save states since I'm playing it on an emulator). Perfect Halloween game! Also playing TOTK where I've lit every root on laptop and gotten the frostbite trousers on Switch. So fun just to traverse the world! I've enjoyed Retro Game Corps' ally x video. It looks like a great system to have dual boot on, and I loved that Russ showed Parking Garage Rally. Also liked Nerrel's Silent Hill 2 review with the customary Halloween wishes at the end. I've been playing some of the original on Deck, but scary games aren't my jam. I'm also enjoying nodebuster (addictive game with awesome chill music), Bug Hunter (can't get enough of this strategy game), Gokujou Parodius Da! Collection, wipeout phantom edition (I feel like I'm playing the most perfect, coolest, most fun game ever when I'm playing this AMAZING port), Snakebird, Rush Rally 3 (love it with high frame rates), 1000xResist (seems great so far), Research and Destroy (fun modern strategy game), and Orbital Bullet. Also been having fun with Toad's Cherry Tracker, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, Super Mario Bros Mini (love this demake even though I can't get it running smoothly). Also been stunned by the beauty of regular old Metroid, Gun nac, and Blazing Lazers while using lossless scaling. And also amazed at how youtube videos of Wipeout Omega Collection look when using lossless scaling to bring it up to 240fps. I hope Shadps4 can run that game soon so I can play it at 240! Song of the weekend is kassil's Astral Observatory in Breath of the Wild style! Happy gaming!
I'm mostly playing Tears of the Kingdom and Bug Hunter. I think I've just got 1 lightroot left, about 15 shrines, and 2 pieces of armor. The thing I'm most grateful for recently is getting connected members of the gaming community who graciously helped me out. The gaming community is awesome! Then yeah, Bug Hunter is my other main thing. Love this strategy game. I've been playing UFO 50 with lossless scaling, so it basically moves as clearly as a CRT. I got to see a couple CRTs at a local retro arcade, which was nice. I haven't seen an old TV for like 6 years, so being able to compare it to my 240hz laptop is great. I'd say it's a similar motion smoothness.
Also been playing Thronefall, Rocket League, Mika and the Witch's Mountain (wonderful silky smooth visuals and flying), Afterplace, Majora's Mask (tremendously enjoying it at 240fps and with Nerrel's texture pack), Super Mario 3 (like always, I love using lossless scaling to play at 240fps, which sometimes makes a strange distortion on the right edge due to the way stuff flickers there as the game scrolls), wipeout phantom edition (I really can't express how much I love this racing game!), Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star, and Terranigma (incredible music and everything).
Video of the week is definitely Nerrel's breath of fresh air defense of Yuzu and emulation in general (his video is A Word about the Death of Switch Emulation). I'm glad the first announcement of Switch 2 came from him, lol. I've also enjoyed a great interview with gdkchan that's from 2021 on Boiling Steam.
Happy gaming!
Edit: and Killing Time Resurrected! Started playing it on Deck, then really really loved it once I later played more of it on laptop! Great 1990s stuff! Oh, and also playing lots of Mario 64 (various versions), Zelda Dungeons of Infinity, and Kingdom Two Crowns (again, amazing Greek DLC and game engine update!).
I also highly recommend Captain Toad to anyone considering it. I've played it on Wii U, loved the enhanced Switch version, and now I still dabble with it every once in a while on Deck. Great game!
@JohnnyMind My next goal in TOTK is getting all the shrines. I've never done that in BOTW or TOTK, even though they're my favorite 2 games. And heal up soon!
@Ooyah I'm posting every week about my awesome laptop and OLED Steam Deck. I hope people can just block me if they don't want to see my posts! So stay and share!
Tears of the Kingdom of course. I've collected almost every article of clothing available in the mod I'm playing. I also messed up and got too many armors(up to like 160), and think I've permanently lost the champion's leathers. Kinda sad, but I've got about 145 other things to wear while exploring and fighting in Hyrule. I'm still amazed at how much is packed into TOTK. I'm also playing it on Switch, about to start the Sage of Lightning questline. But lossless scaling is like 1,000 times better than the bad frame interpolation on my "smart" TV, so I'm mostly playing on laptop. I've also just set up Super Mario 64 coop deluxe on my laptop. It is super fun, and beautiful at 240fps. Actually, when I unlocked the frame rate it was saying 1,800 fps. That's definitely the highest number I've ever seen for a frame rate reading! I'm also playing Burnout 2, F Zero GX, Rally Championship (this old rally game I used to enjoy looks awesome on OLED Deck!), Zoom Action Puzzle Game (Mino No Soft Series on GBA), Motoracer Advance, Thronefall (this new tower defense game reminds me of the Kingdom games and Bad North, and it runs flawlessly at 240fps. It is incredible, great music, upgrades, just awesome), Neva (devs limit it to 120fps for some reason, but my beloved Lossless Scaling comes to the rescue with the 2x frame rate multiplier!), UFO 50 (I'm starting to doubt I'll ever stop playing this game. Incredible! I'm super into Pilot Quest, Bug Hunter, and Attactics these days)(I haven't even tried over 30 of the games yet!), Power of Ten (fun twin stick STG RPG), Dwarf Fortress (finally tried this), Vividlope (awesome game!), Kingdom Two Crowns (the new DLC is awesome! They improved the game on Switch too, but I'm not tempted by it's 30fps, of course), Citizen Sleeper 2 (I like the demo), and UFO Unidentified Falling Objects. Oh, I'm also playing Fist of the North Star Boxing and Jump Rope Challenge on Switch. Love the music in North Star. I've enjoyed Wulfden's video about Portmaster on tiny handhelds. Seeing UFO 50 on a small device is cool, and his great sense of humor in the section where he shows Mario 64 is funny! Oh, I also love that someone created an LX system to play UFO 50 on. The sound when connecting controllers is great. And they're going to release the 3D printing info for it soon. Tea of the weekend is 1991 wild arbor pu-erh, such a rich and interesting flavor! Music of the weekend is anything from Dordogne - love that game! Have fun and take care everyone!
I like this game, but quit playing it after one of the Nintendo attacks, like the indie dev who made Ryujinx, or the attack on Retro Game Corps and other Youtubers(which according to Kaze Emanuar were fake attacks done by rabbid Nintendo fans...). Anyways, I should rip my cartridge onto my laptop and steamdeck and just play it that way since it is a nice release.
Grand Mountain Adventure is incredible. I've only played it on Switch, and can say they did a masterful job programming this relaxing (and challenging, if you want it) skiing game. Gylt is also good, but I've only played it via Steam. I've been wanting to try Vividlope and this article got me to get it. It is an instant classic, love it! Also, it started off at low res and 60fps, but a quick dip into options got it up to 800p and 90fps, sweet! I've also been enjoying Flying Tank at 90fps for a few months. It is a super unique stg with great music and awesome graphics. I can also vouch for Cash Cow DX, satryn deluxe, and Peglin. Great article, thanks everyone!
I'm enjoying the hell out of Tears of the Kingdom, like usual. I've collected about 126 pieces of clothing/armor, and just keep exploring looking for more. It's so fun to romp around and climb and fly and dive and ride horses.
I just started Europa and think I'm going to love it. Journey seems like an obvious influence, which is great since that's one of my favorite games ever. I knew the devs are people after my heart when I saw it running at up to 777fps on the title screen, then like 374fps during early gameplay. Nice and smooth, the way I love it!
I am also trying to play the new Call of Olympus DLC for Kingdom Two Crowns! I bought it, but am still playing on old islands and just need to switch modes or whatever. I LOVE the Kingdom games and am super excited for this new DLC!
Like always I'm playing Wipeout Phantom Edition, so addictive. I've also been playing Phalanx on my Miyoo Mini plus. I played it decades ago, but forgot how nice it looks and how fun it is - great shmup/stg action!
Also playing Blur, Gunvein (awesome shmup I highly recommend), Demonizer (same!), Bugsnax (just got this again and am loving it so much!), UFO 50 (game of the century, pretty much), Tiny Glade (youtube videos of this have been blowing me away), Last Call BBS, Zachtronics Solitaire Collection (now I know I love playing solitaire at 240fps!), Gran Turismo 1 (this and other old PS1 games running at 1440p and 240fps always makes me smile), and Fist of the North Star boxing (and the free jump rope game from like 4 years ago).
Oh, and I've been using Lossless Scaling for like everything. Seeing Ryukahr playing Mario Maker 2 at 240fps is awesome. So I set up Super Mario Bros and scaled it, and yes, I now only want to play ancient classic games with this awesome 4x frame rate multiplier! It is just crystal clear sharpness as Mario shoots fireballs, moves past things, etc. And my laptop is OLED, so it looks stunning in that way too. My laptop also apparently has brightness adjustments that function at 960fps, which is what allows OLED to have VRR at 240fps. I hope TVs advance to 240fps soon. It really should grow into a new standard. I love watching YouTube videos with the frame rate quadrupled!
My YouTube video of the week is The Glucose Goddess interviewed by the British guy who does Diary of a CEO. It resonated with me and I've had more energy and less headaches since paying attention to how to avoid blood glucose spikes. Super good interview!
Have fun and take care everyone!
Edit: the Call of Olympus dlc for Kingdom Two Crowns is so awesome. Amazing music and visuals, plus I think they improved the engine since now I can increase the frame rate from 50 to 90 on Deck and it looks smooth at 90fps (beforehand it needed to be at 50fps to stay smooth).
It seems like Nintendo is kind of making the world into Hong Kong. Like sending people to indie dev's houses to threaten them into deleting their work, getting videos deleted, threatening people's jobs who Nintendo hates. And like gamers are just taking it. Like I read about people in Hong Kong just avoiding the news as security measures are put in place. Sept 2 2024 Nintendo introduced a whole bunch of their new security measures, saying that programming mods or showing a video of a modded game is illegal. I guess all this is one way of preparing the way for a new console. Why would gamers support all this crap? I don't know.
Edit: I'll leave it to the experts on whether Nintendo is guilty of coercion, conspiracy related to coercion, anti-competitive practices, etc.
Also, I've been playing TOTK, EoW, Victory Heat Rally(love this game, but really hope it gets an option to unlock the frame rate, I tried it with lossless scaling and it looks stunning at 240fps), UFO 50 (competing with wipeout phantom edition for my GOTY), Tiny Glade (Alex's Digital Foundry video got me into this awesome little gem made by 2 programmers/artists), The Legend of Santa (lovely game I found out about due to the Nintendolife article!), Minishoot Adventures (awesome twin stick RPG, sort of), Bzzzt (brilliant presentation, gameplay, everything), Beyond Galaxyland (incredibly beautiful rpg, I love it!), Tangledeep, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (amazing puzzling game that runs smoother than melted butter), Pampas and Selene (awesome Pixel art game), Forza Polpo (I can only play this awesome Jumping Flash! style game for about 1 minute before an incorrect "security handshake" between an old version of Unreal engine and windows causes the game to crash, but it seems super good), Jumping Flash! 1 and 2 (it blows my mind seeing these run at 240fps on my sweet laptop, huge thank you to the Duckstation gods! Well Duckstation gets them up to 60fps, then lossless scaling quads it up to 240fps), Parking Garage Rally Circuit (this cute racer just feels almost perfect), and Lunar Lancer (brand new free Gameboy game, it's a good shoot em up!). Among other things I've been enjoying Mr Sujano and Not Your Friend on youtube.
Have fun and take good care everyone!
@BringleWorkshop Of course! Thanks for releasing a cool little game. I loaded it up on my laptop and it runs at like 237fps. I tried wipeout phantom edition and it also runs at 227 to 239fps. I wonder why thus is so? Still looks super smooth, just seems like stuff that's lightweight should simply be locked at 240. I can occasionally see a slight judger or hiccup in smoothness. Makes me wonder if it's a windows thing. Wipeout Phantom Edition is totally locked at 90fps on my OLED Deck. Anyways, I probably enjoy the details of frame rates a little too much, lol!
After I saw this I went and got it and started playing it. It's a nice platformer, and I love how it runs locked at 90fps on Deck (too many games just stick to 60 these days). So I recommend this little platforming game!
I agree with people asking for a 30fps cap option. I would quadruple that with lossless scaling and play it at my eponymous rate : ) (For the sake of all gamers I hope lossless scaling comes to all consoles pronto!)
Echoes of Wisdom runs pretty well in my opinion, but the frame rate does bother me. I've read about a patch that helps, but haven't tried it yet. Would be awesome if I could get it locked at 240fps though.
AM64 looks very interesting. I've been watching the trailers (definitely prefer the second one with better music) and getting excited for the eventual release.
I'm still playing Tears of the Kingdom all the time. I've been having tons of fun finding clothing and armor (including 4 items I really like that aren't in vanilla totk), thoroughly exploring Thunderhead Isles, and just soaking in the beauty of the game. I've been playing TOTK on Switch and on laptop, but on laptop I just started using lossless scaling again. After some trouble I've got it humming along using the 4 times multiplier for frame rate, so it takes my emulated 60fps and makes it look like 240fps. I absolutely love it! There are flaws, and when I look closely, intentionally, at certain details I can see break up of the motion clarity, but I'm going to always use this from now on.
I also got my Mig Switch Dumper a couple days ago! I'm so happy to have this wonderful little device. Wish I had it years ago! I loaded up Kirby and the forgotten land and was quickly able to get it running at 60fps on laptop, then used lossless scaling to bring it up to 240. What a gorgeous game. I'm glad I waited to play it at a higher frame rate (I expected to use it on a Switch Pro or 2, but it's great on laptop). I highly recommend the Mig Switch Dumper.
I'm also excited about Warside. The Nintendolife article got me to try the Steam demo. Warside runs perfectly, looks beautiful, has awesome music, and I'm just really looking forward to January when it releases!
Also on laptop I've been playing Zelda 2 the adventure of Link PC enhanced edition. Some huge fan of the game improved it and added a second quest and even more after that. It's beautiful and seems popular with youtubers I've watched play it.
Speaking of youtube I really liked Dammit Jeff's video about Xbox 360 and PS3 emulation. He also mentioned Nintendo being "out for blood" so he didn't cover Switch emulation, which is too bad, since I love watching coverage like that.
I'm also still loving Zelda Dungeons of Infinity. I hope to get to the arcade in the village soon!
Finally, also on laptop I'm supremely enjoying Rocket League, Wipeout Phantom Edition, and Ufouria 2 (all locked at 240fps!).
On Steam deck I've been playing Fallen Aces (amazingly fun and polished kicking and throwing gangster stuff!), Leap Year (awesome puzzle platformer with amazing sound design), UFO 50 (might be my GOTY, love it!), and Mario Adventure 3 (thanks to Time Extension for alerting me to this gem!).
Have fun with your games everyone!
I've got to add that I'm also very impressed by Fron Reilly on YouTube. Amazing music! I was thinking I'd like to hear it in a Zelda game. I'm also wondering if his rotating instrument is used in the Kingdom games.
I'm enjoying my unrestricted ownership interest in all the games I own! By that I mean the cartridges I finally have access to via my awesome Mig Switch Dumper and all the ROMs I've gotten, which I've realized over the course of 2024 I feel much more of a sense of ownership and freedom over vs the worthless eshop purchases I've unfortunately made over past years. I'll be skipping the corporate lawyer crap from now on and stick to old fashioned owning my games!
People are talking about internal storage vs micro SD card, but based on many excellent online videos showing a jailbroken Switch playing with higher memory clock speed I think that memory clocks makes the difference. CPU and GPU clocks obviously have an effect too, but increasing those memory clock speeds seems critical. It's amazing to see an unlocked OLED Switch running TOTK basically locked at 60fps, even in towns and heavy areas. I wish my Switch was free! (Free to adjust settings and install games I want, like any open system).
It's a good video from DF that shows all the important tech details, the kind of stuff I'm often wondering about with new releases. I thought it was a well done video showing the tech, sampling the music, and complimenting the devs on the general gameplay and design. I just received my Mig Switch Dumper today, and am hoping the frame rate issues can be cleaned up when playing the game on a more powerful system. I haven't seen anything yet online showing Echoes of Wisdom running locked at 60, but I'd guess it's possible on a jailbroken Switch(which allows the awesome feature of increasing clock speed on CPU, GPU, and memory) or via emulation. We'll see!
I'm playing tons of hours of Tears of the Kingdom the second quest these days. I finally beat the game for the second time (the first time was a couple months after it released), but this time I had all the dragon's tears so I got the extra ending scene. What a lovely experience! TOTK is my favorite game and I cannot get tired of it. I also got the earthquake manual for the first time this week. I was having trouble getting it so I went online and saw people saying it's easy, you just have to beat 9 Yiga in 1 minute. Well, in the second quest they buffed it to 20 in 1 minute! I still completed it fairly quickly, but burned through a lot of resources and used the Mystic Headpiece to maintain almost constant bullet-time firing puffshrooms (also nerfed in 2nd quest!) and other powered up arrows constantly. I've still never found the climbing shirt or any zonai armor, so I'm looking forward to hunting down armor in the depths and caves. I'm so grateful to Nintendo, echocolat, masagrator, maxlastbreath, and all the modders and programmers who love the game as much as I do.
On Miyoo Mini I've been playing super fun Pico 8 games: Pico Tetris seems no frills at first, but I found it hard to stop playing and realized it is very well made, Hybris is a really fun shootem up that feels like it could've been on Atari 2600, Cyclo 8 is like Elasto Mania for 2600 and I love it! Also on Miyoo Mini + I've been enjoying Picross 2 (trans from Japanese gameboy game), Super Mario Land, and Dimahoo.
On OLED Deck I've been blown away by UFO 50 (totally agree with Damo's 10/10 over on Time Extension!) which I've only played 30 minutes of, but can imagine playing for at least 30 to 40 hours and not being even close to done with all the awesome games included in the package. Amazing music, gameplay, variety, etc! Also just started Parking Garage Rally Circuit and it has made me smile over and over! In the options it has "PC port" which kinda makes it look like a decompilation! It plays perfectly with awesome controls, lovely music, fun tracks, great online play (the opponents can be low frame rate while the track and everything stays locked at 90fps), and it simply nails the Saturn look and feel. I'm also very impressed with Cato, a physics platforming sort of puzzle game that feels ultra polished and fun. Night Reverie has also amazed me with it's music, atmosphere, and visuals! And I've been having fun with Shogun Showdown, Loddlenaut, Plants and Zombies, and Wipeout Phantom Edition (still can't get enough of this absolutely incredible version of wipeout!).
I'm also continuing to not buy anything from Nintendo, but now I also don't have hardly any interaction with them online. If they're going to threaten people's jobs and be jerks then I'll treat them as the obscene shady corporation they are (I love how people are posting videos with blurred Nintendo gameplay, like it's obscene footage!). I wish there wasn't backwards compatibility with the next system since I love what fans do and hate the way Nintendo acts.
Well, happy gaming everyone, and take care!
@JohnnyMind The dev has been encouraging seeding it via torrenting(as a protective measure against Nintendo). So it should be widely available for anyone with a VPN and access to torrent services. Should be safe, thankfully!
Dungeons of Infinity is awesome. It truly seems like a very high quality release and another gem from the fan community. I've only played a little while, but I've been loving the online gameplay videos. I love the villages and can't wait to try the arcade (if I can make it that far!)!
I've finally collected all the memories (tears, geoglyphs) in Tears of the Kingdom. And now I'm in the desert getting ready to beat the game for only the 2nd time. It's amazing that the game is 1.5 years old and there's still so much I haven't done in it!
I'm also pretty amazed at how good Zelda: Dungeons of Infinity is. An amazing fan/programmer from Manitoba created this awesome roguelike from Link to the Past art over the past 4 years. It is very much worth playing!
The other awesome new game for me is What the Car? It's super fun and creative like their previous What the Golf? I'm also playing Kingdom Eighties, Cobalt Core, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 6 (beautiful 60fps N64 game on Steam Deck), Taiji (awesome, smooth playing puzzle game like a 2D The Witness), Mario Kart 64 Remade (this is now my second favorite racing game after Wipeout Phantom Edition. It is so fun, fast, and smooth to control — better than Mario Kart Wii, which I also just played to compare), Wipeout Phantom Edition (absolutely love seeing it running at 240fps!), Rocket League (this is also awesome at 240fps, I don't really like the way it looks at 90fps on OLED Deck), Dr Mario Online DX, Gran Turismo 3, and Ship of Harkinian.
Tea of the weekend is Wuyi Yan Cha, so delicious! And a Youtuber came into my work, which lead me to watch his stuff, which lead me to restarting watercolors (he does nature journaling), so that's fun!
I've been happy to see Wulff Den supporting Retro Game Corps, and Waikuteru supporting other Youtubers attacked by Nintendo. I also learned about YouTube itself attacking Youtubers this week. Hopefully we can create a new video sharing format that is more along the lines of Linux, or Wikipedia, or something that supports the common good.
Take care and have fun!
Edit: after playing more Mario Kart 64 Remade I started having some trouble staying on the tracks. So wider beginner courses make it seem very smooth and easy and fast to control, I guess. Still, a great fan creation based on Mario Kart Wii building blocks.
I'm finding new memories, completing the froggy suit collection (felt sad to be at the final closed down stable), and surviving the elements on a pillar. It's amazing how much is packed into TOTK. It's continually fun to explore and experiment with. I've also been playing as the awesome full Zonai version of Link (with his great gray fur), hunting golden enemies (I got a cool gold horriblin horn), and collecting more builds from the Hyrule Engineering group.
On Deck I've been having fun playing Ball-it Hell (a really fun game where you play as a dot with a bat aiming at dots and triangles on the edge of sort of water droplet. It has very pleasing music, 90fps graphics, and great gameplay), Frontline Crisis (slightly shootem up and tower defense, and feels like a lost DS classic), Pilotwings 64, Mario 64 coop deluxe, Ynglet (awesome little game from Nifflas. It looks amazing at 90fps on Deck and at 240fps on my laptop), satryn deluxe (fun berserk/robotron style game!), and 2 romhacks by bluesheep Daisy's Crazy Adventure and Mario's Ruined Seclusion (both seem excellent so far with fun gameplay and awesome music, some original, some from many classic games).
Movie of the week is The Mourning Forest by Naomi Kawase. She always seems to always make incredible films about authentic connection that include wonderful characters who heal, or transform, or demonstrate vulnerability or non-judgement (or acceptance) in a fresh way.
Also, I guess Ball-it Hell is AKA Circle Hitter.
Also, it was fun reading the comments on this video where Nifflas talks about how long it took to create each support structure. In contrast, I was amazed at how a first time Zelda player used a single board for her first Addison support in a video I watched recently. It barely stood up, with a heavy lean, then had that lean after Addison secured it.
@SalvorHardin You might like the mod Shut Up and Take My Rupees! I haven't tried it yet but I've played enough hundreds of hours of TOTK that I think my body is ready for it!
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (11th January)
For me, by far the most exciting new videogame related thing is the awesome new update to Lossless Scaling. It allows for going way beyond multiplying the base frame rate by 4. Now you can choose to multiply any game's frame rate by 5, 6, 7, etc up to 20!!! Nothing has me more excited for a high refresh rate screen than this new feature! I've been wanting a 480hz screen, and am excited about the newly announced 700hz screen, but I'll probably stick with my laptop's 240hz for awhile (it is awesome, after all). I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom at 60fps, then using Lossless Scaling for 4x to get 240fps. That's been awesome for months, but now I can just target the base game frame rate of 30fps and use the new 8x multiplier and it looks even better! It is simply amazing. I'm so glad that something like Lossless Scaling has come along for gamers and video watchers to enjoy! I just played Wipeout 64 using the same 8x frame generation and it is OK. I get snatches of time where it looks like 240fps (also playing at 1200p), but the emulation has some judder and frame drops. Oh, I also tried the 20x frame gen on TOTK and it produces an interesting visual effect that I like. It looks a lot like when you repeatedly drink alcohol in GTA 5. All these cool visual anomalies appear. On my 240hz screen there is also an interesting "smooth" judder. Oh, and that reminds me, when playing TOTK using 8x frame gen, if there is a stutter in the frame rate the frame gen feature makes it less annoying. I get more of an interesting visual anomaly instead of a harsh stutter. So that's cool too. Oh, and using the 20x frame gen makes the menus in TOTK look awesomely trippy! The icons for weapons, shields, items, etc. magically morph into each other in such a pleasing way! When I saw it I thought "this would be sick if devs used it in the menus of a vanilla game!" It really is slick and nice looking. I've never really used AMD or Nvidia frame gen, and I'm sure it's better with the motion vector info and everything, but I'm super happy with plain old Lossless Scaling! I looked today and Steam says I've used it for over 200 hours (it's a cheap app you can buy on Steam). The fact that it can fix basically any 30fps or 60fps game and make it look awesomely smooth makes me not want to play any games on any system that I can't run through my laptop's screen somehow. I highly, highly recommend Lossless Scaling!
I've also been enjoying Digseum. It's a "progression" game that has great music (sorta reminds me of the awesome Swedish psychedelic rock band Dungen) and is just well polished and hard to put down. I also like that it is relatively brief.
Also still addicted to ufo 50. Party House has been my favorite for weeks. A few days ago I discovered a nice new song that plays when you expand your house a lot so you can have like 26 people in a party.
Also been playing of bunch of great shoot em ups: Mirage Feathers, Xelan Force, Ganablade (feels like it could've been on PC Engine, awesome game!), Zakesta-Z (also awesome!), Crystal Breaker (love it!), and Airanblade (really nice 1 person dev team stg game that only has like 8 reviews, deserves to sell more!)
Also been playing Pikmin, Mario 64, and Rocket League.
I got Beach House's newest album Once Twice Melody. Probably my number 1 standout track is "Through Me"
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th January)
I finally got my Switch jailbroken, but haven't done anything with it yet except look at the stuff installed (tinfoil, fbi, and other apps and utilities, no games). I've been too busy completing TOTK for the third time, but with a mod I haven't played much before this. I feel like I shouldn't talk about what I play because it might paint a target on wonderful people's backs for the corporate law criminals at Nintendo. So, I'm having a lot of fun playing Tears of the Kingdom, Starfox 64, Dungeon Clawler, Kingdom Two Crowns, UFO 50, wipeout, and Mario 64.
Also been playing Wipeout Omega Collection, Rocket League, and Jumping Flash! on a relative's PS4. I guess it's not surprising that Jumping Flash looks better on my Deck than on PS4 (and it looks incredible on laptop with lossless scaling and emu options getting it up to 1440p and 240fps).
If I have time, I'm looking forward to seeing if I can get BOTW and TOTK running at 60fps on my newly improved Switch.
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
@Toastmaster Yeah, I've got Mario Kart Arcade GP whatever it's called, which I believe is a technoparrot thing. It's pretty fun and looks great.
Also, reguarding recompilation, I thought we might have more than Majora and Mystical Ninja (Japanaese version only) by now. Hopefully 2025 will see a variety of N64 games get recomps. Nerrel's video about recompilation is so good, so exciting.
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
@Toastmaster Yeah, I love playing the model 2 and model 3 games on PC. Same with Outrun 2, gorgeous.
Yes, that Blur.
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
@Toastmaster Oh yeah, the Legion Go would be awesome for decomps and PC ports with it's high res 144hz screen! I found a thread that lists pc ports, with links, and installed almost every single one on my OLED Deck. I swear these are the glory days of gaming! Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Blur, Perfect Dark, Starfox 64, the incredible Link's Awakening port, wipeout phantom edition, oh, and all the amazing unlimited frame rate Pokémon decomps! There's such a cornucopia of stuff available.
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
@Toastmaster Interesting stuff! I bought Bleem back in the day, but was disappointed that the improvements were minor. If it had bumped a game up to 60fps I would've been thrilled.
Yeah, I remember the 3dfx cards, but never got one. I remember reading, I think in Next Generation magazine or something, about wipeout xl running at 60fps on PC on a 3dfx card. They said it was amazing looking. I'd still love to see that, like in a game museum or something! But with wipeout phantom edition I am finally living that dream! It's my favorite of all the modern decompilations/PC ports.
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
I think it should say "Starship", not "Starlight" in the article.
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
@Toastmaster That's amazing. I didn't know people were playing Mario 64 at 60fps back in 1999. It blew me away when I first got Mario 64 running on my Deck and saw it at 60. Since I got my new laptop I've been playing it at 240, which is incredible. So fun!
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
Reading the comments I just want to add that I've definitely noticed how great Beetle Advemture Racing looks via emulation. Basically locked at 60fps.
I've also enjoyed some Diddy Kong Racing over the past months. It has a 60fps hack for emulation that works OK. It seems to crash a bit often.
Can't wait to see what Harbormasters do next! I hope it is Wipeout 64, but won't hold my breath!
Oh, it was also cool to read that a longtime Nintendo dev who helped make Starfox 64 said he was happy to see the PC port.
Re: Star Fox 64 Finally Barrel Rolls Onto PC Thanks To An Unofficial Port
This is such an anticipated release! It is like another dream come true every time I can play an old classic that I've enjoyed, but now at 240 frames per second (or whatever higher frame rate a future monitor I buy can display, hopefully 480fps soon!). It really is incredible to play Starfox 64 at a high frame rate. So beautiful, so responsive, so fun! Thank you Harbormasters!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (Christmas 2024 Edition)
I'm completely into this mod of TOTK, playing through everything again. It is such a beautiful game, so fun to explore in. I wish Nintendo helped people making the game run smoother instead of attacking them and supporting deneuvo and other stuff like that. I'll probably never buy another game from an ESA supporting company! I've also been watching gameplay. One thing that's funny is the person putting out jogging videos of modded BOTW. People are supposed to use the video while running on their treadmill. Pretty good idea I'd say.
As minor side dishes I'm playing UFO 50, wipeout phantom edition, Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair (looks very nice at 90fps), Bullet Heaven 2, Micro Mages, Mario Kart DS CTGP Nitro, and Advance Wars Dual Strike.
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (14th December)
I'm just playing TOTK almost all the time. The mod I'm playing is way too difficult for me, but I love it anyways. I'm duping fairies, horns, turnips, etc. So I'm having another awesome playthrough, basically. It wasn't until 2024 that I played using mods, but now I'm completely sold on how awesome they are!
I'm also trying out Ballionaire, but not sure if I think it's great. I'll have to keep playing.
I mostly play Wipeout Phantom Edition on Deck, but whenever I play it on my laptop it just amazes me. It looks incredible at 240fps. I hope Valve releases a steam deck that can display 240fps, or some other company releases a handheld that cam run steam OS and has a 240hz OLED screen that can also have selectable refresh rate like regular Steam Decks can. That would such a dreamy game machine!!
Re: Zelda: Majora's Mask Decompilation Project Now At 100%
Wish I understood this stuff better. I've been playing Majora's Mask at 90 or 240fps (depending on what device I'm using) for months now, yet the decomp just completed. Banjo Kazooie has completed decomp, but we have no idea if a port will be built by anyone. I know MM was using recompilation, but they say it benefitted from the near completeness of the decomp project.
Can't wait for Starship, and whatever else is being cooked up by all the awesome devs in the fan community!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (7th December)
I finally beat a level in Party House. Couldn't beat it until I watched a speed run and learned the main strategy, but it doesn't matter, still fun to play repeat attempts. I'm loving the second level too. I'm also getting more and more enthralled with new modded content for TOTK. Love watching people playing it and also playing it myself. I haven't yet beaten the lynel that's in the intro, but have jumped around with different game saves and love the tyrant class. I've also been mesmerized by wipeout phantom edition, partly because I added new songs to it. A drum and bass track called Snowflakes goes amazingly well with the smooth hovercraft racing. Also been playing the kinda old game Kami, such a great puzzle game. Also discovered I have other Jeff Minter games in my Steam account, so I've been playing Minotaur Arcade, Gridrunner Revolution, Space Giraffe, and Polybius. I've been playing Schildmaid MX at 240fps on laptop, what an awesome shoot em up! Also been playing Rush Rally Origins, Glyph, and Kingdom Two Crowns at 240. So beautiful and smooth, all of those are! The Olympus DLC in Kingdom Two Crowns continues to amaze me.
Also been enjoying the beginning of The Land Beneath Us (awesome Welsh chess like strategy game with great music), Patrick's Parabox (incredible puzzle game), Paper Trail (fun paper folding puzzle game), and Nine Sols (seems like a perfectly polished game so far, love it). I also really like Ninja Chowdown: Glaze of Glory, Arc Racer (pretty good wipeout or f-zero type game), Balatro (too addictive, jeez!), Boo! Greedy Kid, CyberBlocker (incredibly good Arkanoid shoot em up, Love this game!), Goliath Depot (super fun arcade style game, or old console style game), Gunlocked (got way more into this than I thought I would!), Murasaki Tsurugi (first class soundtrack, and seemingly great unique shoot em up gameplay), Super Woden (super smooth top down Gran Turismo style racing game with great music and tough gameplay), Zeno Death, and Zeno Hell (great stg games from a few years back).
This week I found out another Youtuber I've enjoyed had been attacked by Nintendo. In her video about the whole experience she was talking about Nintendo fans (who I assume criticized her for playing Animal Crossing with modded strawberries and stuff added in) and at one point she said "y'all console gamers are God's strongest soldiers" and I couldn't stop laughing! So good!
Tea of the weekend is Amber Wuyi, such a richly flavorful Oolong! And song is that Snowflakes song that is so immersive while racing wipEout!
Have fun gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (30th November)
Recently I've been most excited about Rainchaser. Many aspects of the demo lead me to believe it could end up being among my favorite stgs when it releases.
I'm also excited about Kingdom Two Crowns. I've gotten further into the new dlc and love the spider and lion/serpent/dragon mounts. There are so many awesome mounts, power ups, gameplay enhancements, graphics improvements, etc in this game/dlc/update!
Also been getting addicted to Dome Keeper, along with Balatro. They're both easy to get lost in.
Also enjoying BS F-zero deluxe. Amazing that modders rebuilt the lost games from a VHS recording.
I'm also really into Party House, even though I can't beat any levels yet. And Porgy and Devilition and Bug Hunter are awesome too.
Also been enjoying F-Zero 55, Daisy's Crazy Adventure, wipeout phantom edition, Need For Speed Underground 2 (looks pretty at 90fps), Battle Gear 2, Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Golf Toadstool Tour, Grand Mountain Adventure, Tempest 4000, and Moose Life. I've also watched and played a bunch of the Jeff Minter Digital Eclipse documentary/game collection. It is amazingly good!
Also been playing TOTK and Rocket League. And been enjoying Mr Sujano, Linus Tech Tips, Nerrel, and Dunkey videos.
Have fun everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (23rd November)
Most exciting game of the week is Fzero 55. Absolutely love the music and gameplay (on lowest difficulty, can't get past basic jumps on hardest difficulty!)!
Party House is one of my new obsessions, although I still love playing Bug Hunter.
Oh, and I got Tetris Forever, which is amazing. It also got me back into all the older digital eclipse releases. So I "finished " the making of Karateka last night. Also been immersed in Minterland. These awesome releases also get me playing the roms they couldn't include. So I've been playing Prince of Persia, Nintendo's NES Tetris, TxK, The New Tetris, Tetris DS, Moose Life, etc. Can't wait to see what's next in the gold master series.
I've been enjoying Centipede Recharged even though it has some shocking stutters and frame drops.
Also having fun playing Grand Mountain Adventure, but I wish it had graphics options on PC. It can do 240fps, but can't eliminate the fade in and other stuff that looks the same as on Switch.
Also been playing Akka Arrh, Hellfire, wipeout phantom edition, PokeMMO, Geometry Wars 3, TOTK, and Gokujou Parodius Da! Deluxe Pack Saturn emulation on Steam Deck.
And I've been enjoying graslu's 60fps Bond gameplay after I found out Nintendo attacked him this week. It puts a huge smile on my face seeing graslu playing Goldeneye so masterfully at 60fps on the highest difficulty level.
Happy gaming!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (16th November)
I'm still mostly sticking with my 2024 old standards: TOTK, wipeout phantom edition, and UFO 50. I'm playing a different mod of TOTK that helps smoothen frame pacing, allowing a tighter lock on 240fps via Lossless Scaling, so that is fun. Plus, for the first time ever for me, I've added something to a mod to customize it with files from another mod. It feels great to have control over which patch I use, which game save I want to play on or store in a folder for later, and now be able to mod a mod! I really love this stuff, along with having control over resolution and frame rate! If Nintendo would stop committing crimes against the devs who make these awesome features possible, well that would be nice, wouldn't it?!
In UFO 50 I got my first gold disk, then my first cherry. Bug Hunter is amazingly fun. I've also started having fun with Vainger, Devilition, Campanella, and Planet Zoldath. I also love watching online videos of people playing these games.
Wipeout Phantom Edition is still my favorite racing game ever. After watching Digital Foundry's video about the 480hz monitor I can't wait to play it on a screen like that! I'm also excited for 960hz panels, if those ever get invented! 720p at 480fps sounds like gaming heaven for sure!
I'm also enjoying Metal Slug Tactics, Mario 64 render 96 (love playing this locked at 53fps on Deck!), Pokémon Infinite Fusion, Freedom Planet 2 (so awesome!), Kingdom Two Crowns (I keep repeating it, but the DLC and game engine revamp are incredible, seriously the clouds and lighting and music and gameplay in the Greek theme with Goddesses and Gods is so, so, amazing!), Void Gore, Z-Warp, Feeble Light (love all these similar STG games with great music), Planetiles, and Dream Tactics. And I've also been enjoying Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island at 240fps thanks to the glory of Lossless Scaling. I love Lossless Scaling! I've also started playing Wipeout Pulse and wipeout pure while using lossless scaling. They look very nice, and stay pretty much locked at 240fps. Wipeout at high frame rates is such a wonderful gaming experience!
For music I've been digging the soundtrack of Mario Artist from N64 DD. Many great tunes in there.
Have fun gaming everyone!
Re: Nintendo Suing Streamer For Allegedly Broadcasting "Pirated" Switch Games Ahead Of Official Release
@UsernameMayne I agree, they've made timeless games for generations.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (9th November)
I've been playing Tears of the Kingdom, enjoying several different mods along with lossless scaling as usual.
Bug Hunter just keeps getting better and better. I've played about 5 hours of it and keep discovering new modules and techniques, which is amazing because it is such a seemingly simple strategy game!
I play Wipeout Phantom Edition almost everyday. Sometimes on laptop where I wish I had a 1000hz screen since it can run way above 1000 fps. Sometimes on Deck where I try playing at 40fps, 50fps, and eventually go up to 90 and just bliss out to the amazing electronic music I've added to the soundtrack. Incredible port.
Today I played the Super Mario Bros port to Commodore 64. It's really fun and very well done. It can't keep 60fps as well as the Famicom/NES, but is still super impressive.
Oh yeah, a few days ago I played Yoshi's Highland for the first time! What an amazingly crazy romhack! I really like it, but probably wouldn't have if I hadn't seen some online gameplay so I knew what to expect. It is difficult, frustrating, and exhilarating!
Other, much nicer, romhacks I'm enjoying are Yoshi's Lullaby, The Epic Quest of Birdo the Pink Dinosaur, Toad's Cherry Tracker, and Mario's Ruined Seclusion. So much amazing original music and great gameplay. Would be nice if Mario Maker had a quick easy way to only play such high quality levels/world.
I've also played some Pokemblem, but haven't gotten very far.
Also playing some Kill the Crows, Rocket League (really wish Epic would admit most matches are just all bots except 1 or maybe 2 humans, and let us play in offline mode against the very high level bots they've developed), and the absolutely gorgeous and super fun Kingdom Two Crowns!
Video of the week is some random British guy I've never heard of called Jonathan Pie or whatever.
Happy gaming, lol!
Re: Nintendo Suing Streamer For Allegedly Broadcasting "Pirated" Switch Games Ahead Of Official Release
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (2nd November)
My game of the week is definitely Castlemania. Man I love it so much! I played through it on Deck, then later played it on laptop with lossless scaling so it looks like 240fps. It is just perfect with polished Mario controls, classic Castlevania music, and just right difficulty (I am using save states since I'm playing it on an emulator). Perfect Halloween game!
Also playing TOTK where I've lit every root on laptop and gotten the frostbite trousers on Switch. So fun just to traverse the world!
I've enjoyed Retro Game Corps' ally x video. It looks like a great system to have dual boot on, and I loved that Russ showed Parking Garage Rally. Also liked Nerrel's Silent Hill 2 review with the customary Halloween wishes at the end. I've been playing some of the original on Deck, but scary games aren't my jam.
I'm also enjoying nodebuster (addictive game with awesome chill music), Bug Hunter (can't get enough of this strategy game), Gokujou Parodius Da! Collection, wipeout phantom edition (I feel like I'm playing the most perfect, coolest, most fun game ever when I'm playing this AMAZING port), Snakebird, Rush Rally 3 (love it with high frame rates), 1000xResist (seems great so far), Research and Destroy (fun modern strategy game), and Orbital Bullet.
Also been having fun with Toad's Cherry Tracker, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, Super Mario Bros Mini (love this demake even though I can't get it running smoothly).
Also been stunned by the beauty of regular old Metroid, Gun nac, and Blazing Lazers while using lossless scaling. And also amazed at how youtube videos of Wipeout Omega Collection look when using lossless scaling to bring it up to 240fps. I hope Shadps4 can run that game soon so I can play it at 240!
Song of the weekend is kassil's Astral Observatory in Breath of the Wild style!
Happy gaming!
Re: Switch Emulator Ryujinx Might Not Be Dead, Despite Nintendo's Takedown
Good news for gamers! Guess we gotta protect devs better to protect against the criminals of Kyoto.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (26th October)
I'm mostly playing Tears of the Kingdom and Bug Hunter. I think I've just got 1 lightroot left, about 15 shrines, and 2 pieces of armor. The thing I'm most grateful for recently is getting connected members of the gaming community who graciously helped me out. The gaming community is awesome! Then yeah, Bug Hunter is my other main thing. Love this strategy game. I've been playing UFO 50 with lossless scaling, so it basically moves as clearly as a CRT. I got to see a couple CRTs at a local retro arcade, which was nice. I haven't seen an old TV for like 6 years, so being able to compare it to my 240hz laptop is great. I'd say it's a similar motion smoothness.
Also been playing Thronefall, Rocket League, Mika and the Witch's Mountain (wonderful silky smooth visuals and flying), Afterplace, Majora's Mask (tremendously enjoying it at 240fps and with Nerrel's texture pack), Super Mario 3 (like always, I love using lossless scaling to play at 240fps, which sometimes makes a strange distortion on the right edge due to the way stuff flickers there as the game scrolls), wipeout phantom edition (I really can't express how much I love this racing game!), Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star, and Terranigma (incredible music and everything).
Video of the week is definitely Nerrel's breath of fresh air defense of Yuzu and emulation in general (his video is A Word about the Death of Switch Emulation). I'm glad the first announcement of Switch 2 came from him, lol. I've also enjoyed a great interview with gdkchan that's from 2021 on Boiling Steam.
Happy gaming!
Edit: and Killing Time Resurrected! Started playing it on Deck, then really really loved it once I later played more of it on laptop! Great 1990s stuff! Oh, and also playing lots of Mario 64 (various versions), Zelda Dungeons of Infinity, and Kingdom Two Crowns (again, amazing Greek DLC and game engine update!).
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th October)
I also highly recommend Captain Toad to anyone considering it. I've played it on Wii U, loved the enhanced Switch version, and now I still dabble with it every once in a while on Deck. Great game!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th October)
@JohnnyMind My next goal in TOTK is getting all the shrines. I've never done that in BOTW or TOTK, even though they're my favorite 2 games.
And heal up soon!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th October)
@Ooyah I'm posting every week about my awesome laptop and OLED Steam Deck. I hope people can just block me if they don't want to see my posts! So stay and share!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (19th October)
Tears of the Kingdom of course. I've collected almost every article of clothing available in the mod I'm playing. I also messed up and got too many armors(up to like 160), and think I've permanently lost the champion's leathers. Kinda sad, but I've got about 145 other things to wear while exploring and fighting in Hyrule. I'm still amazed at how much is packed into TOTK. I'm also playing it on Switch, about to start the Sage of Lightning questline. But lossless scaling is like 1,000 times better than the bad frame interpolation on my "smart" TV, so I'm mostly playing on laptop.
I've also just set up Super Mario 64 coop deluxe on my laptop. It is super fun, and beautiful at 240fps. Actually, when I unlocked the frame rate it was saying 1,800 fps. That's definitely the highest number I've ever seen for a frame rate reading!
I'm also playing Burnout 2, F Zero GX, Rally Championship (this old rally game I used to enjoy looks awesome on OLED Deck!), Zoom Action Puzzle Game (Mino No Soft Series on GBA), Motoracer Advance, Thronefall (this new tower defense game reminds me of the Kingdom games and Bad North, and it runs flawlessly at 240fps. It is incredible, great music, upgrades, just awesome), Neva (devs limit it to 120fps for some reason, but my beloved Lossless Scaling comes to the rescue with the 2x frame rate multiplier!), UFO 50 (I'm starting to doubt I'll ever stop playing this game. Incredible! I'm super into Pilot Quest, Bug Hunter, and Attactics these days)(I haven't even tried over 30 of the games yet!), Power of Ten (fun twin stick STG RPG), Dwarf Fortress (finally tried this), Vividlope (awesome game!), Kingdom Two Crowns (the new DLC is awesome! They improved the game on Switch too, but I'm not tempted by it's 30fps, of course), Citizen Sleeper 2 (I like the demo), and UFO Unidentified Falling Objects. Oh, I'm also playing Fist of the North Star Boxing and Jump Rope Challenge on Switch. Love the music in North Star.
I've enjoyed Wulfden's video about Portmaster on tiny handhelds. Seeing UFO 50 on a small device is cool, and his great sense of humor in the section where he shows Mario 64 is funny! Oh, I also love that someone created an LX system to play UFO 50 on. The sound when connecting controllers is great. And they're going to release the 3D printing info for it soon.
Tea of the weekend is 1991 wild arbor pu-erh, such a rich and interesting flavor! Music of the weekend is anything from Dordogne - love that game!
Have fun and take care everyone!
Re: Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Updated (Version 1.1.1), Here's What's Included
I like this game, but quit playing it after one of the Nintendo attacks, like the indie dev who made Ryujinx, or the attack on Retro Game Corps and other Youtubers(which according to Kaze Emanuar were fake attacks done by rabbid Nintendo fans...). Anyways, I should rip my cartridge onto my laptop and steamdeck and just play it that way since it is a nice release.
Re: Community: 41 Switch Games We Missed, As Recommended By You
Grand Mountain Adventure is incredible. I've only played it on Switch, and can say they did a masterful job programming this relaxing (and challenging, if you want it) skiing game. Gylt is also good, but I've only played it via Steam.
I've been wanting to try Vividlope and this article got me to get it. It is an instant classic, love it! Also, it started off at low res and 60fps, but a quick dip into options got it up to 800p and 90fps, sweet!
I've also been enjoying Flying Tank at 90fps for a few months. It is a super unique stg with great music and awesome graphics.
I can also vouch for Cash Cow DX, satryn deluxe, and Peglin.
Great article, thanks everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (12th October)
I'm enjoying the hell out of Tears of the Kingdom, like usual. I've collected about 126 pieces of clothing/armor, and just keep exploring looking for more. It's so fun to romp around and climb and fly and dive and ride horses.
I just started Europa and think I'm going to love it. Journey seems like an obvious influence, which is great since that's one of my favorite games ever. I knew the devs are people after my heart when I saw it running at up to 777fps on the title screen, then like 374fps during early gameplay. Nice and smooth, the way I love it!
I am also trying to play the new Call of Olympus DLC for Kingdom Two Crowns! I bought it, but am still playing on old islands and just need to switch modes or whatever. I LOVE the Kingdom games and am super excited for this new DLC!
Like always I'm playing Wipeout Phantom Edition, so addictive. I've also been playing Phalanx on my Miyoo Mini plus. I played it decades ago, but forgot how nice it looks and how fun it is - great shmup/stg action!
Also playing Blur, Gunvein (awesome shmup I highly recommend), Demonizer (same!), Bugsnax (just got this again and am loving it so much!), UFO 50 (game of the century, pretty much), Tiny Glade (youtube videos of this have been blowing me away), Last Call BBS, Zachtronics Solitaire Collection (now I know I love playing solitaire at 240fps!), Gran Turismo 1 (this and other old PS1 games running at 1440p and 240fps always makes me smile), and Fist of the North Star boxing (and the free jump rope game from like 4 years ago).
Oh, and I've been using Lossless Scaling for like everything. Seeing Ryukahr playing Mario Maker 2 at 240fps is awesome. So I set up Super Mario Bros and scaled it, and yes, I now only want to play ancient classic games with this awesome 4x frame rate multiplier! It is just crystal clear sharpness as Mario shoots fireballs, moves past things, etc. And my laptop is OLED, so it looks stunning in that way too. My laptop also apparently has brightness adjustments that function at 960fps, which is what allows OLED to have VRR at 240fps. I hope TVs advance to 240fps soon. It really should grow into a new standard. I love watching YouTube videos with the frame rate quadrupled!
My YouTube video of the week is The Glucose Goddess interviewed by the British guy who does Diary of a CEO. It resonated with me and I've had more energy and less headaches since paying attention to how to avoid blood glucose spikes. Super good interview!
Have fun and take care everyone!
Edit: the Call of Olympus dlc for Kingdom Two Crowns is so awesome. Amazing music and visuals, plus I think they improved the engine since now I can increase the frame rate from 50 to 90 on Deck and it looks smooth at 90fps (beforehand it needed to be at 50fps to stay smooth).
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (5th October)
It seems like Nintendo is kind of making the world into Hong Kong. Like sending people to indie dev's houses to threaten them into deleting their work, getting videos deleted, threatening people's jobs who Nintendo hates. And like gamers are just taking it. Like I read about people in Hong Kong just avoiding the news as security measures are put in place. Sept 2 2024 Nintendo introduced a whole bunch of their new security measures, saying that programming mods or showing a video of a modded game is illegal. I guess all this is one way of preparing the way for a new console. Why would gamers support all this crap? I don't know.
Edit: I'll leave it to the experts on whether Nintendo is guilty of coercion, conspiracy related to coercion, anti-competitive practices, etc.
Also, I've been playing TOTK, EoW, Victory Heat Rally(love this game, but really hope it gets an option to unlock the frame rate, I tried it with lossless scaling and it looks stunning at 240fps), UFO 50 (competing with wipeout phantom edition for my GOTY), Tiny Glade (Alex's Digital Foundry video got me into this awesome little gem made by 2 programmers/artists), The Legend of Santa (lovely game I found out about due to the Nintendolife article!), Minishoot Adventures (awesome twin stick RPG, sort of), Bzzzt (brilliant presentation, gameplay, everything), Beyond Galaxyland (incredibly beautiful rpg, I love it!), Tangledeep, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (amazing puzzling game that runs smoother than melted butter), Pampas and Selene (awesome Pixel art game), Forza Polpo (I can only play this awesome Jumping Flash! style game for about 1 minute before an incorrect "security handshake" between an old version of Unreal engine and windows causes the game to crash, but it seems super good), Jumping Flash! 1 and 2 (it blows my mind seeing these run at 240fps on my sweet laptop, huge thank you to the Duckstation gods! Well Duckstation gets them up to 60fps, then lossless scaling quads it up to 240fps), Parking Garage Rally Circuit (this cute racer just feels almost perfect), and Lunar Lancer (brand new free Gameboy game, it's a good shoot em up!). Among other things I've been enjoying Mr Sujano and Not Your Friend on youtube.
Have fun and take good care everyone!
Re: Christmas Comes Early In This Blatant Super Mario Bros. 3 Clone
@BringleWorkshop Of course! Thanks for releasing a cool little game.
I loaded it up on my laptop and it runs at like 237fps. I tried wipeout phantom edition and it also runs at 227 to 239fps. I wonder why thus is so? Still looks super smooth, just seems like stuff that's lightweight should simply be locked at 240. I can occasionally see a slight judger or hiccup in smoothness. Makes me wonder if it's a windows thing. Wipeout Phantom Edition is totally locked at 90fps on my OLED Deck. Anyways, I probably enjoy the details of frame rates a little too much, lol!
Re: Christmas Comes Early In This Blatant Super Mario Bros. 3 Clone
After I saw this I went and got it and started playing it. It's a nice platformer, and I love how it runs locked at 90fps on Deck (too many games just stick to 60 these days). So I recommend this little platforming game!
Re: Poll: Are You Bothered By The Frame Rate In Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom?
I agree with people asking for a 30fps cap option. I would quadruple that with lossless scaling and play it at my eponymous rate : )
(For the sake of all gamers I hope lossless scaling comes to all consoles pronto!)
Re: Poll: Are You Bothered By The Frame Rate In Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom?
Echoes of Wisdom runs pretty well in my opinion, but the frame rate does bother me. I've read about a patch that helps, but haven't tried it yet. Would be awesome if I could get it locked at 240fps though.
Re: Metroid 64 Fan Game Blends Prime Mechanics With Other M
AM64 looks very interesting. I've been watching the trailers (definitely prefer the second one with better music) and getting excited for the eventual release.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (28th September)
I'm still playing Tears of the Kingdom all the time. I've been having tons of fun finding clothing and armor (including 4 items I really like that aren't in vanilla totk), thoroughly exploring Thunderhead Isles, and just soaking in the beauty of the game. I've been playing TOTK on Switch and on laptop, but on laptop I just started using lossless scaling again. After some trouble I've got it humming along using the 4 times multiplier for frame rate, so it takes my emulated 60fps and makes it look like 240fps. I absolutely love it! There are flaws, and when I look closely, intentionally, at certain details I can see break up of the motion clarity, but I'm going to always use this from now on.
I also got my Mig Switch Dumper a couple days ago! I'm so happy to have this wonderful little device. Wish I had it years ago! I loaded up Kirby and the forgotten land and was quickly able to get it running at 60fps on laptop, then used lossless scaling to bring it up to 240. What a gorgeous game. I'm glad I waited to play it at a higher frame rate (I expected to use it on a Switch Pro or 2, but it's great on laptop). I highly recommend the Mig Switch Dumper.
I'm also excited about Warside. The Nintendolife article got me to try the Steam demo. Warside runs perfectly, looks beautiful, has awesome music, and I'm just really looking forward to January when it releases!
Also on laptop I've been playing Zelda 2 the adventure of Link PC enhanced edition. Some huge fan of the game improved it and added a second quest and even more after that. It's beautiful and seems popular with youtubers I've watched play it.
Speaking of youtube I really liked Dammit Jeff's video about Xbox 360 and PS3 emulation. He also mentioned Nintendo being "out for blood" so he didn't cover Switch emulation, which is too bad, since I love watching coverage like that.
I'm also still loving Zelda Dungeons of Infinity. I hope to get to the arcade in the village soon!
Finally, also on laptop I'm supremely enjoying Rocket League, Wipeout Phantom Edition, and Ufouria 2 (all locked at 240fps!).
On Steam deck I've been playing Fallen Aces (amazingly fun and polished kicking and throwing gangster stuff!), Leap Year (awesome puzzle platformer with amazing sound design), UFO 50 (might be my GOTY, love it!), and Mario Adventure 3 (thanks to Time Extension for alerting me to this gem!).
Have fun with your games everyone!
I've got to add that I'm also very impressed by Fron Reilly on YouTube. Amazing music! I was thinking I'd like to hear it in a Zelda game. I'm also wondering if his rotating instrument is used in the Kingdom games.
Re: Californian Law Dictates Storefronts Be Honest About Digital Game Ownership
I'm enjoying my unrestricted ownership interest in all the games I own! By that I mean the cartridges I finally have access to via my awesome Mig Switch Dumper and all the ROMs I've gotten, which I've realized over the course of 2024 I feel much more of a sense of ownership and freedom over vs the worthless eshop purchases I've unfortunately made over past years. I'll be skipping the corporate lawyer crap from now on and stick to old fashioned owning my games!
Re: Advance Wars-Style Game 'Warside' Blasts Onto Switch Early Next Year
I'm going to try the steam demo right away. I'm pretty hyped for this release!
Re: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom's Frame Rate Is "Even Worse" Than Link's Awakening
People are talking about internal storage vs micro SD card, but based on many excellent online videos showing a jailbroken Switch playing with higher memory clock speed I think that memory clocks makes the difference. CPU and GPU clocks obviously have an effect too, but increasing those memory clock speeds seems critical. It's amazing to see an unlocked OLED Switch running TOTK basically locked at 60fps, even in towns and heavy areas. I wish my Switch was free! (Free to adjust settings and install games I want, like any open system).
Re: Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom's Frame Rate Is "Even Worse" Than Link's Awakening
It's a good video from DF that shows all the important tech details, the kind of stuff I'm often wondering about with new releases. I thought it was a well done video showing the tech, sampling the music, and complimenting the devs on the general gameplay and design. I just received my Mig Switch Dumper today, and am hoping the frame rate issues can be cleaned up when playing the game on a more powerful system. I haven't seen anything yet online showing Echoes of Wisdom running locked at 60, but I'd guess it's possible on a jailbroken Switch(which allows the awesome feature of increasing clock speed on CPU, GPU, and memory) or via emulation. We'll see!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (21st September)
I'm playing tons of hours of Tears of the Kingdom the second quest these days. I finally beat the game for the second time (the first time was a couple months after it released), but this time I had all the dragon's tears so I got the extra ending scene. What a lovely experience! TOTK is my favorite game and I cannot get tired of it. I also got the earthquake manual for the first time this week. I was having trouble getting it so I went online and saw people saying it's easy, you just have to beat 9 Yiga in 1 minute. Well, in the second quest they buffed it to 20 in 1 minute! I still completed it fairly quickly, but burned through a lot of resources and used the Mystic Headpiece to maintain almost constant bullet-time firing puffshrooms (also nerfed in 2nd quest!) and other powered up arrows constantly. I've still never found the climbing shirt or any zonai armor, so I'm looking forward to hunting down armor in the depths and caves. I'm so grateful to Nintendo, echocolat, masagrator, maxlastbreath, and all the modders and programmers who love the game as much as I do.
On Miyoo Mini I've been playing super fun Pico 8 games: Pico Tetris seems no frills at first, but I found it hard to stop playing and realized it is very well made, Hybris is a really fun shootem up that feels like it could've been on Atari 2600, Cyclo 8 is like Elasto Mania for 2600 and I love it! Also on Miyoo Mini + I've been enjoying Picross 2 (trans from Japanese gameboy game), Super Mario Land, and Dimahoo.
On OLED Deck I've been blown away by UFO 50 (totally agree with Damo's 10/10 over on Time Extension!) which I've only played 30 minutes of, but can imagine playing for at least 30 to 40 hours and not being even close to done with all the awesome games included in the package. Amazing music, gameplay, variety, etc! Also just started Parking Garage Rally Circuit and it has made me smile over and over! In the options it has "PC port" which kinda makes it look like a decompilation! It plays perfectly with awesome controls, lovely music, fun tracks, great online play (the opponents can be low frame rate while the track and everything stays locked at 90fps), and it simply nails the Saturn look and feel. I'm also very impressed with Cato, a physics platforming sort of puzzle game that feels ultra polished and fun. Night Reverie has also amazed me with it's music, atmosphere, and visuals! And I've been having fun with Shogun Showdown, Loddlenaut, Plants and Zombies, and Wipeout Phantom Edition (still can't get enough of this absolutely incredible version of wipeout!).
I'm also continuing to not buy anything from Nintendo, but now I also don't have hardly any interaction with them online. If they're going to threaten people's jobs and be jerks then I'll treat them as the obscene shady corporation they are (I love how people are posting videos with blurred Nintendo gameplay, like it's obscene footage!). I wish there wasn't backwards compatibility with the next system since I love what fans do and hate the way Nintendo acts.
Well, happy gaming everyone, and take care!
Re: Random: Zelda Fan Project Turns 'A Link To The Past' Into Roguelike Dungeon Crawler
@JohnnyMind The dev has been encouraging seeding it via torrenting(as a protective measure against Nintendo). So it should be widely available for anyone with a VPN and access to torrent services. Should be safe, thankfully!
Re: Random: Zelda Fan Project Turns 'A Link To The Past' Into Roguelike Dungeon Crawler
Dungeons of Infinity is awesome. It truly seems like a very high quality release and another gem from the fan community. I've only played a little while, but I've been loving the online gameplay videos. I love the villages and can't wait to try the arcade (if I can make it that far!)!
Re: Random: Zelda Fan Project Turns 'A Link To The Past' Into Roguelike Dungeon Crawler
@JohnnyMind I think it's complete. Dev said he spent 4 years full time making it. It is awesome.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (14th September)
I've finally collected all the memories (tears, geoglyphs) in Tears of the Kingdom. And now I'm in the desert getting ready to beat the game for only the 2nd time. It's amazing that the game is 1.5 years old and there's still so much I haven't done in it!
I'm also pretty amazed at how good Zelda: Dungeons of Infinity is. An amazing fan/programmer from Manitoba created this awesome roguelike from Link to the Past art over the past 4 years. It is very much worth playing!
The other awesome new game for me is What the Car? It's super fun and creative like their previous What the Golf? I'm also playing Kingdom Eighties, Cobalt Core, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 6 (beautiful 60fps N64 game on Steam Deck), Taiji (awesome, smooth playing puzzle game like a 2D The Witness), Mario Kart 64 Remade (this is now my second favorite racing game after Wipeout Phantom Edition. It is so fun, fast, and smooth to control — better than Mario Kart Wii, which I also just played to compare), Wipeout Phantom Edition (absolutely love seeing it running at 240fps!), Rocket League (this is also awesome at 240fps, I don't really like the way it looks at 90fps on OLED Deck), Dr Mario Online DX, Gran Turismo 3, and Ship of Harkinian.
Tea of the weekend is Wuyi Yan Cha, so delicious! And a Youtuber came into my work, which lead me to watch his stuff, which lead me to restarting watercolors (he does nature journaling), so that's fun!
I've been happy to see Wulff Den supporting Retro Game Corps, and Waikuteru supporting other Youtubers attacked by Nintendo. I also learned about YouTube itself attacking Youtubers this week. Hopefully we can create a new video sharing format that is more along the lines of Linux, or Wikipedia, or something that supports the common good.
Take care and have fun!
Edit: after playing more Mario Kart 64 Remade I started having some trouble staying on the tracks. So wider beginner courses make it seem very smooth and easy and fast to control, I guess. Still, a great fan creation based on Mario Kart Wii building blocks.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (7th September)
I'm finding new memories, completing the froggy suit collection (felt sad to be at the final closed down stable), and surviving the elements on a pillar. It's amazing how much is packed into TOTK. It's continually fun to explore and experiment with. I've also been playing as the awesome full Zonai version of Link (with his great gray fur), hunting golden enemies (I got a cool gold horriblin horn), and collecting more builds from the Hyrule Engineering group.
On Deck I've been having fun playing Ball-it Hell (a really fun game where you play as a dot with a bat aiming at dots and triangles on the edge of sort of water droplet. It has very pleasing music, 90fps graphics, and great gameplay), Frontline Crisis (slightly shootem up and tower defense, and feels like a lost DS classic), Pilotwings 64, Mario 64 coop deluxe, Ynglet (awesome little game from Nifflas. It looks amazing at 90fps on Deck and at 240fps on my laptop), satryn deluxe (fun berserk/robotron style game!), and 2 romhacks by bluesheep Daisy's Crazy Adventure and Mario's Ruined Seclusion (both seem excellent so far with fun gameplay and awesome music, some original, some from many classic games).
Movie of the week is The Mourning Forest by Naomi Kawase. She always seems to always make incredible films about authentic connection that include wonderful characters who heal, or transform, or demonstrate vulnerability or non-judgement (or acceptance) in a fresh way.
Also, I guess Ball-it Hell is AKA Circle Hitter.
Re: Random: Game Dev Builds Baffling Contraptions To Solve Zelda: TOTK Addison Puzzles
Also, it was fun reading the comments on this video where Nifflas talks about how long it took to create each support structure.
In contrast, I was amazed at how a first time Zelda player used a single board for her first Addison support in a video I watched recently. It barely stood up, with a heavy lean, then had that lean after Addison secured it.
Re: Random: Game Dev Builds Baffling Contraptions To Solve Zelda: TOTK Addison Puzzles
@SalvorHardin I guess the mod is actually called "streamlined repetitive events". It just has a picture of that take my rupees meme
Re: Random: Game Dev Builds Baffling Contraptions To Solve Zelda: TOTK Addison Puzzles
@SalvorHardin You might like the mod Shut Up and Take My Rupees! I haven't tried it yet but I've played enough hundreds of hours of TOTK that I think my body is ready for it!