Well I got a new laptop and the first thing I tried was Kingdom New Lands. I was expecting it to stutter and chop like always, but it runs quite nicely. Then I tried Wipeout Phantom Edition and it runs locked at 240fps, like I expected. This was the first time I've seen 240, so it was pretty exciting to see such perfect smoothness while playing my favorite racing game ever! Then I tried Tears of the Kingdom and it is dreamy. I've just been playing it at 60fps, but there's hardly any stutters, and I also played it at 1600p, and it's just a wonderful experience. I built this vehicle out of 3 long sticks (from a beachside lizalfos camp), 1 fan, and 1 steering stick. Then I put on the Mystic Headpiece and found that the thing can jump off rocks (this is The Second Quest mod, so I've got low gravity turned on). That was fun, but then I hit a really good jump and discovered this vehicle can fly, barely. I ended up flying 2/3 of the way across Hyrule, then adding elevator rails to it while changing the fan position. Now my crazy vehicle could make it to the sky. TOTK is such a blast! I've also been playing TOTK on Deck with Standalone Recollection, or whatever the mod is called (it has about 40 new weapons and 15 new armor sets), along with a companion mod that let's you collect poes when you are within 10 or so meters (no button press required, you just vacuum them up!). So I've been having fun flying around the depths collecting 2000 poes so I can buy a Yaksha mask and Ridley's body. It looks awesome. I've also been playing Tempest 4000 at 240fps which is eyeball meltingly good. And I love Haunted Castle Revisited on the new Castlevania collections, which I've been playing on Deck. Lastly, I'm hoping Waikuteru can get Nintendo into court, like he's saying he wants to do. It seems likely he could defeat them, which would be awesome since they're trying to destroy his YouTube channel. Nintendo can suck it!
Looks like a sweet device. I've bought a number of devices like this over the years and one of my main concerns has been charging, and keeping a charge. My older Anbernic 350 whatever does pretty good, but my newer Miyoo mini + doesn't hold it's charge (almost like it never turns off, just sleeps) and it seems difficult to charge (like a regular USB C cable gets it too hot, has to be a slow weak old USB C cable and brick). These little handheld are a blast though, and they'll hopefully become even better soon with more and more decompilations and recompilations coming out that have low power requirements (I'd love a tiny handheld that could run wipeout phantom edition, Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, and Mario 64 at 60 or 120fps!).
I saw this got a new trailer a day or so ago. I'm hyped to try it. Also excited they apparently had a steam deck logo in the trailer. More Advance Wars is always welcome!
Tears of the Kingdom: The Second Quest! I've put in about 130 hours on this megamod (combo of Cook or Die, Armor mods, etc etc) and was starting to think it's not THAT different from vanilla TOTK, then I got the Mystic Headgear and read that it reduces gravity. I thought, that's not correct! But I put it on and discovered I can now have low gravity anywhere, anytime! I've had so much fun blowing up boko camps in low G! It's super fun exploring the surface and depths with moon gravity. I also love how I can get bullet time anywhere with it. I also just today realized there two extra difficult species of Aerocuda in this mod. There's Aerowanas and Aeropaimas, which I was always running away from at first, but now I've got 21 hearts, attack up armor, etc. So I'm glad to get their wings and eyes. I've also had this "gale boomerang" and just realized that's also not in the vanilla game. Oh, and I've finally completed the election quest in Hateno for the first time, and there's all this armor Cece is selling that's new to me (and isn't in the vanilla game). And of course I'm getting tons of awesome Shema Stones and Yiga Schematics from excellent Hyrule Engineer folks. I also really like the weather changes both on the surface and underground. There's lots of improvements coming along, but it's already an absolutely awesome mod for a masterpiece of a game. One last favorite thing I've been having so much fun with is using the low gravity mystic headpiece with glide shirt and tights so I can maneuver around in such a fun way anywhere I want. Oh, and a Depths battle with a Frox was amazing cuz it would flip me up and I'd hit the ceiling of the Depths, then dive down and bomb it, I swear it was a ballet of awesome Zelda fighting, so fun! I've also been playing BOTW and TOTK on Switch. Had an awesome moment where it stopped raining and I saw Farosh with a rainbow above her. I started a new file in BOTW and had fun completing the Great Plateau then rushing to get Majora's Mask (it's right there below!) and the full Phantom Gannon set (totally doable with 4 hearts if you're sneaky and fast). Also been playing Advance Wars 1 + 2, NES Championship, and Mario Maker 2 on Switch. On Deck I've been very impressed with Tactical Breach Wizards, Thank Goodness You're Here!, and Terra Nil (all run at 90fps!). Worm Jazz is good too, but requires setting the screen to about 47fps to get a smooth experience. I've also been playing Rocket League on my laptop. I also saw a deer while at the beach! It was up on a cliff, so weird to see. The other cool thing recently is I've been having fun dealing with a peach tree that produced about 700 peaches this year! Had to cut branches, pick daily, give peaches away at work, cook with them, etc. It's been a fun adventure! Have fun everyone!
Almost all my gaming time is taken up by The Second Quest. I just got the froggy leggings, got the whole band together (stable trotters), completed the Spirit Temple, and got a couple awesome schema stones/yiga schematics including one I saw in a YouTube video about a year ago (it's a car that can go up any slope and other awesome features). I'm in that goldilocks place with the difficulty. I'm no longer getting one-shotted by low level enemies, but still have respect and give space to chu-chus, aerocudas, and keese (and their follow-up beese!). I've also played with the calamity armor set and it is awesome. I've also been playing some vanilla TOTK on my Switch, and that's great too as long as my TV does motion interpolation (sometimes it says the feature isn't available and I have to do a factory reset on it. I hate smart TVs!). I've also enjoyed the Bakeru demo (wish it was locked at 60fps, it looks and plays great when it is at 60). And I'm also still enjoying NES championships and Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble. I do wish Banana Rumble was on other systems so I could play it at a higher frame rate. And I'm also still enjoying Doom 1 and 2 with all the infinite new stuff they've added and opened up for us to enjoy it with. I got excited about getting Prince of Persia for Steam Deck, but then read about how it has Denuvo and requires an online connection to play. That kind of stuff makes me want to never buy another Ubisoft game! I hope they knock it off with all this garbage soon! Have fun everyone!
Mostly all the time playing The Second Quest. Feels like I could play it for years, but I'm also getting pretty excited about Dark Army Resurrection (especially since one can toggle off the hardest features). I'm also playing Rocket League on laptop. On OLED Deck I'm also playing TOTK, but not second quest. Also on Deck I'm loving the new Doom 1 + 2 rerelease. So many awesome features, and so beautiful at 90fps! Also on Deck I'm really impressed with Steamworld Heist 2. It has such perfect gameplay, such awesome music, and gorgeous graphics locked at 90fps, I love it! I was going to get World of Goo 2, but it's not on Steam and I don't feel like setting it up on desktop mode after getting it DRM-free off their website (I'm too lazy to support an awesome DRM-free release, sorry!). Also on deck I've been having a lot of fun with Gran Tourismo 2, NES remix, Gun-Nac, Peglin (awesome Peggle roguelike game), BOTW, and TxK. I broke my pirate ethics and got Monkey Ball banana rumble and NES Championships. So on Switch I've been enjoying those 2. Banana Rumble should be called Monkey Ball 3, it's great except for the dropped frames in single player and the unplayable choppy multi-player (I can't stand it, lol!). I've been enjoying NES remix 1 and 2 on my Steam Deck, which has warmed me up to play Nintendo World Champ NES edition. It has amazing presentation with great menus, perfect music, and lots of fun challenges. I would've liked if they dropped Ice Climbers and replaced it with Wrecking Crew, and added about 30 other NES games too! Ryukahr has a great review of it on youtube. Anyways, I hope they go wild with remix type levels and creativity for SNES next!
My big game win of the week was Scrabble. I made a lot of big fun plays. Otherwise I've been acquiring more armor/clothes for Link in The Second Quest. I'm still surprised at how I'm enjoying the extra challenge of things like not being able to eat raw food, having limited meal space, almost getting killed by baby froxes cuz their tops are armored like turtles or something, and just simply having to run away from lots of enemies because I can't handle them. I've also been playing the regular mode of TOTK but with stuff like infinite zonai wings (I love gliding around for as long as I want, and as long as I have altitude). I'm also playing Kingdom Two Crowns, Rocket League, and Wipeout Phantom Edition. I'm drinking Iceland Tea Garden Pu-erh (it's from China, of course), reading Heart Without Measure (Ravi Ravindra is one of my favorite authors), and listening to Cut Copy. Have fun everyone!
I'm visiting friends and family and the only games I'm playing are Azul and Bananagrams. Azul is a pretty good table top game with different colored chips and multi-round points build up. Also been enjoying Mary Oliver, a book about a famous Native American potter/artist, and Becoming Earth: how our planet came to life, which is an awesome page turner science book written with grace and great heart. I've loved learning about micro- and macro-organisms creating soil, caves, metal veins, and possibly affecting plate tectonics. About to jump into the chapter about water. I've also watched some Stranger Things, which is fun because I like comparing the depths to the upside down. I've also watched some YouTube videos wondering what schema stones (by which Youtubers) I'll find next once I'm able to dive back into the second quest. Have fun everyone, and take care out there!
Yeah, but it's mainly because Nintendo stole computers and millions of dollars from free open source emulation developers. So now I enjoy Switch games on Yuzu and Suyu and don't plan to give any more money to Nintendo. I hope they get their act together because I enjoyed being a Nintendo fan and buying their games. But I'll be fine being a Nintendo fan who never buys their games, so I guess it's whatever. I hope they at least stop attacking modders and Youtubers. That would be a step forward for gaming and show a little bit of ethics on Nintendo's part.
I've basically dropped all other games for Tears of the Kingdom. I've been dabbling with various mods and cheats (really like all the new designs for armor with the female Link mod, also love the infinite wings and balloons with long lasting zonai devices mod). But once I started The Second Quest a few days ago I knew I'd found the best mod I've ever played. It's basically the master mode that I didn't know I wanted for TOTK. I've been killed (1 shotted) by chu chus, keese, lowest level constructs, etc. I took the excellent recommendation of the Second Quest devs and started a new file with the mod. So the first construct I saw taught me that this is a different experience! It was somewhat difficult to dispatch! I've been getting as many shrines as possible and almost only getting hearts (I usually max out stamina while mostly ignoring hearts) cuz I need them for survival. Oh yeah, one awesome experience was being chased by horriblins out of a cave. I killed horriblins out in Hyrule field, which I think is impossible in vanilla TOTK. I've gotten armor that I've never gotten in 600 hours of vanilla TOTK (many armor locations are changed). I've discovered cool weapon and armor buffs that help my mediocre skills out. I've even been surprised at how much I get a kick out of reading loading screen info tips that educated me about new attack details about enemies. On top of all that this mod has schema stones for autobuild that are from many of my favorite TOTK Youtubers! I'm also excited about the new system with cursed armor that bargainer statues can uncurse and then allow a great fairie to upgrade (I think that's how it works, haven't done that yet). A major thing that is also enhancing this experience with this mod is that I'm playing on update 1.2 so I can't use the easy duplication glitch that I've used ever since my first 240 hour playthrough. So I'm running out of stuff, hunting animals to sell valuable meat dishes to Beedle, and happy for everything I get from chests. I'm so impressed, and having so much fun with this mod! I can't wait till they improve it further with extended features, enable more dying of hopefully all armor, adding new puzzle shrines in place of blessing shrines, etc etc.
Have fun gaming everyone, and take care!
Oh yeah, I also wanted to mention I'm playing with Ultracam, so I can have frame rates up to around 70 or 80fps, and can change the weather (I get tired of rain sometimes because it reduces the frame rate), and can simply detach the camera from Link and go flying around Hyrule (it's weird to see the low detail versions of places far away from Link).
I just got the Goeman Mystical Ninja N64 recompilation set up, which is awesome. I can't wait for the choppiest N64 games to get smoothed over via recompilation (Waverace 64 might be the most needed recomp!). Oh, thanks to Time Extension for alerting me to this new recomp.
I'm very much still into Tears of the Kingdom. Just got the froggy sleeve again, so I'm looking for wet walls and cliffs to test my gear on now. I've also been playing in first person mode, which I like a lot more than I thought I would. It's super immersive and I like seeing stuff up close, like seeing bokos faces while I'm battling them. I also completed the water sage quest line again recently. TOTK is just so awesome to play. I never get tired of going down to the Depths, catching a rock to the sky, gliding around, etc. Oh yeah, a recent awesome thing was using ascend in a cave and thereby entering another cave — the "discovery" text and the name of the cave appeared on screen. Such a fun version of Hyrule to explore and play around in!
Oh, I've also been playing Kingdom Two Crowns. I've found it runs smoothest at 50fps on deck. If I set it at 90fps the game says it's running at 90, but doesn't look as smooth as it does when I set the screen to 50hz. Games can be programmed is such strange ways. Regardless, it's super fun, and I guess they're releasing some free dlc for it soon.
I'm also playing Outrun 2006 since someone released a patch making it way easier to set up and get running smoothly and at whatever resolution you want. I still haven't figured out how to decouple frame rate from game physics/logic, but it's fun and pretty as it is.
Have fun gaming everyone!
@Mince I agree and disagree. The smallant video is pretty good, well edited and entertaining. The hyrule science video is for massive Tears of the Kingdom fans who can at least mildly enjoy such a granular breakdown of details about the world of the game. The player5 video is kind of amazing, but I watched part of another blindfolded TOTK run that was better because it has a commentary explaining all the mechanics and reasons for doing what they do. And yeah, I'm pretty obsessed with TOTK, whether it's watching it, playing it, messing with the graphics of it, or trying various mods of it.
I enjoyed this video, then watched the Hyrule science video about all the rocks in the game. Why are these videos entertaining?! Also watched player 5 beat totk blindfolded. Insane.
@jsty3105 I like your comment because it highlights how much our thoughts, opinions, and beliefs are things. If someone makes a point that seems to undercut our opinion, we can react badly. I mean, there's like thousands of years of wars and slaughters based on that kind of fear/reaction. Good stuff to look at/consider with care.
Edit: I meant to also mention how it really can feel like someone stole something from you if your opinion or belief is challenged by something they said. I've seen that over and over in myself. Very important to observe that kind of thing (at least I find that to be so for me).
@FirstEmperor I'm pretty funny, for sure. I like the profile pic, by the way. I'll never forget how humorous that guy is asking so many questions on the train ride to my first village experience/animal forest/crossing experience.
I'm mostly playing TOTK, but also enjoying the new update for Super Mario 64 coop dx (Daisy's double jump is the best!). I read Time Extension's article about Outrun 2 being updated and tried to update it, but screwed things up. So I deleted everything, reinstalled it, and got big improvements compared to what I had been playing, but it's still not all connected correctly. When I play at 90fps the gameplay is sped up. I'll figure it out eventually. Also been playing some Dimahoo and some Commodore 64 games on Miyoo Mini +
In Rocket League I had this nice experience where halfway through a match an opponent typed into chat "goalie God wtf" and I realized I'd saved every shot (my teammate hadn't done anything useful).
I've been playing the beginning of TOTK multiple times (on multiple devices), then saw a book called The Demon King while at work. So I bought and read the part about a greedy and magically powerful oppressor from Yunnan in Southwest China. Interesting stuff, even if it didn't influence the mythology of Zelda. Also reading The Once and Future Forest, which is loaded with fascinating stuff about redwood forests. Finally, a highlight for me recently was seeing a Pacific Ring Necked Snake, then about 45 seconds later seeing a California Mountain King Snake. So cool!
Happy gaming and hiking everyone!
@WiltonRoots You like to attack people, which is truly sad. I'll pray for you and send you loving energy so you can hopefully heal up. And please keep your metaphors and negative creativity to yourself from now on. Thank you.
@Joom I generally agree with you, but in my case I will never give money to Nintendo again. So I guess anti-piracy breeds piracy?! I can look back on my life and see how strongly I've supported stuff I've liked, which includes buying things (CDs, DVDs, concert tickets, games, etc) as well as copying things like MP3s, TV and movie files, and games. But no other company or band has attacked my interests and my enjoyment like Nintendo has. They've got to be the worst corporation I've ever heard of. Like most corporations want to "capture consumers", but Nintendo attacks the crap out of gamers, Youtubers, jailbreakers, romhackers, and any Nintendo fan who doesn't play their games exactly the way they tell you to. Just a total crap corporation.
I thought I'd read that they also sued the MIG Switch cartridge maker? I recently ordered the MIG Switch dumper so I'm just hoping I get it. Maybe Nintendo will send it to me after stealing all their stock? I wish I'd never given a dime to Nintendo.
@Yalloo Recently I've played Tetris Effect on oled deck. It's quite gorgeous at 90fps. I've played more hours of it on Switch though, where I think it also looks and plays great. And yeah, it's incredible at 144fps on my laptop. I love all the music and graphics in both Tetrises (the spacy atmosphere of Effect is just as great as the cute songs, game themes, etc in Tetris 99).
I like this guessing game you and Johnny have going. Like, who can read Johnny's mind first?
After reading this review I tried the demo on my Deck and liked it. Seems like everything is on sale right now so I got Frogun 1 as well as this new one. They're fun! They're also both locked at 90fps, which I'm always happy to see. If you don't care about frame rates the 30fps on Switch looks well frame paced in the YouTube gameplay videos I watched. Enjoy!
@Yalloo Yeah, I got lucky. I was switching from TOTK to Rocket League and checked here and saw that it had just been posted. I second Just Shapes and Beats, Odyssey, and Tetris 99! Although I prefer Tetris Effect to 99, 99 is still incredibly good.
I'm mostly playing Tears of the Kingdom. It's super fun playing from the beginning again, collecting the glide shirt, defeating Colgera, getting autobuild, getting the elevator rail, connecting the Stable Trotters, and everything else, but at a higher frame rate. I'm also playing BOTW, Rocket League, Wipeout HD, Choro Q 3, Super Mario 64 coop dx, and the PC Engine Parodius. I've also been having a lot of fun playing We Love Katamari, especially since it runs locked at 90fps on Deck.
I also loved the article on Time Extention about the creator of Worms. It feels like that article should be part of a Digital eclipse Gold Series game release with a bunch of early Worms versions and prototypes.
Also been watching graslu with all the great Perfect Dark, custom Goldeneye levels, and Perfect Dark Zero videos.
Tea of the week is iced Hojicha cuz it's hot! Song of the week is Ping Pong by Stereolab.
Have fun gaming and everything else!
I'm in trouble, lol! Just a couple hours ago, after days and days, after many hours of gameplay and glitches, I got Tears of the Kingdom running mostly locked at 60fps and with no glitches. I want to go hiking, go to work, go for bike rides, but with this available it's gonna be hard. TOTK really is my favorite game, and playing it at 60 is quite a dream come true.
A few days ago I got Demon's Souls running at 144fps and that is amazing too. Otherwise I've been playing Perfect Dark, wipeout phantom edition, Dusk 82, Fitness Boxing Fist of the north star, jump rope challenge, Jumping Flash 1 and 2 (discovered they run almost locked at 60fps on my laptop, super fun!), Choro Q 2 (also 60fps and so nostalgic for me), Parodius, BOTW (I play this at 72fps now, cuz that works very smoothly with my 144hz screen), New Super Mario Bros Wii, Wipeout 3 (can't wait for a way to play this smoothly!), The Big Catch (excellent demo, game should be awesome), Spriggan, and Super Star Soldier.
I've been enjoying Dammit Jeff and AlwaysBetOnDunc on youtube. Jeff seems like someone I know, or have seen on TV or something, super friendly. Dunc is funny, smart, and more political than any other gaming youtuber I watch.
Tea of the week is Yunnan Gold Tip from Teance. Delicious black tea! Song of the week is Ageless Beauty by Stars!
Happy gaming and love everyone!
Oh yeah, I also got that guy's(Henry Magnifico) 4k (except I use the lower res textures) remaster of Pikmin 2 set up, so I've been playing that beautiful piece of 60fps art too. Oh and also playing Gran Turismo 2 and Extreme Formula (awesome F-Zero type of racer that is quite promising).
@AlexanderDaniels Graslu's youtube video is great, showing all the things lacking. They also seem to know the game and how it performs on original hardware, old and new emulators, Xbox version, and the awesome decompilation (which is by far my favorite way to play this game). Playing the decompilation of this and the "1964" emulator with fixes version of Goldeneye is pretty awesome in my experience.
@PikaPhantom MVG's face in his youtube video when he mentioned that Lego corporation was one of the parties removing a 35 year old Nintendo ROM from Vimm's Lair-- that was such a golden, human, response to this recent insanity from Nintendo and gang. It does start to feel like AI generated activity!
It's funny to read the post before mine, then see what I posted, all while remembering I've posted stuff very similar to the angry one. Oh well, it's a process we'll all muddle through. We're all in relationship. All gamers, Nintendo and pirates like me (I've been a huge purchaser of games, but have also pirated them, same with music and movies, etc)(I'm convinced that the biggest pirates are the biggest fans, like I've bought every Stereolab CD and many records, and also downloaded their complete discography and rare unpurchasable tracks). Anyways, remember to be gentle with yourselves and others!
I've been posting some spicy opinions and want to add an important bit I probably should include everytime I post my opposition to Nintendo's approach to game preservation and accessibility. Even though it might not sound like it at times, I always try to hold my opinions lightly and to remember that my beliefs are just my opinions. This means that it's always more important to treat others respectfully than it is to "win" an argument or "protect" my hobby or "protect" a company or industry. I recently loved watching this pro-piracy video by "alwaysbetondunc", but spreading the ethic of community and comradery is more important than convincing people that this British guy on YouTube has the "correct" take on videogames and piracy. I do want to say that his video got me to buy all the games he recommended viewers buy, and to download Demon's Souls with a preconfigured emulator (Bluepoint is awesome, but I've to say that the PS3 Demon's Souls running at 144fps on my laptop is some incredible videogame art in motion!). I hope everyone has fun gaming and respecting everyone!
Right now I'm most excited about Castlevania ReVamped. Super fun metroidvania makeover for NES Castlevania with fast and fun controls. Also been playing Blue Revolver, Sky, mini Doom 2 (love this sidescrolling doom game!), Rocket League (as always), Majora's Mask, BOTW, Metroid (awesome SNES conversion by infidelity), Mario Kart Arcade DX GP, Blue Prince (great demo, can't wait to play more), Parodius, wipeout HD, GT1, GT2, GT5, Mario Kart 64 remade, and Simon's Quest Revamped.
Also just started playing Nightdive's remake of System Shock. It is awesome. It's cool to finally play one of the games I'd never touched from Hardcore Gaming 101's 200 best games book(also, I strongly object to that book not even mentioning wipEout!). Hopefully another volume comes out making up for mistakes like the wipeout omission while adding mostly new best games from the past 8 or 9 years. I'd definitely put wipeout HD, Omega Collection, Phantom Edition, BOTW, TOTK, Kingdom New Lands, and Rocket League in the new best games book.
Oh, I'm also still playing Mario 64 coop dx. It's always interesting to see what people have created for public games anyone can join. One day it was Little Big Planet music with Boykisser character. Yesterday it was the beautiful day and night cycle with a dice roll mapped to up on dpad that might give you moon jump, or a big bully, or some other random buff or nerf (plus there was a burp button and poop button that made the poo emoji and killed your character). I don't know how to create these wild variations, but it's fun to see what others make (and hear the often great music they've loaded in for the match).
Lastly, I'm drinking a new houjicha from a different tea supplier that has strange and good flavors. And a live Marco Polo by Wednesday Campanella is song of the week.
Happy gaming!
@tomwinsagain There's about 300 reasons these games are better to play on Deck (or any open type game system). Sad thing is Nintendo won't improve stuff, they'll just go torch the online libraries hoping to force people to use their garbage.
@Serpenterror Yeah, I hear you.
I guess I'm also just lamenting the fact that I probably won't feel like buying another thing from Ninty. I just played Infidelity's SNES soundtrack romhacks today. They've put a huge grin on my face, and I wish Nintendo saw them as fun instead of a threat to the billions they're making. Like, I can imagine Nintendo working with the gaming community and announcing a decompilation (and compilation for Switch or Super Switch) in a Direct. But instead they'll invest in turning themselves into worse-than-denuvo. I often go buy a game on steam just cuz I'm so grateful for how fun and amazing my Deck is. But I can't look at the eshop or dekudeals anymore (it's become beyond easy for me to leave my Switch in a storage box). I guess it's just different trails we're on. I'll go my way and Nintendo will go theirs.
We'd have an excellent relationship if Nintendo didn't steal computers and millions of dollars from open source free emulation developers. Modding, using cheats, and similar things are a huge part of the fun of gaming for me, so a Netflix style rental thing with online requirements (unless you have custom firmware, but that's a whole other story) is trash to me. Making the vanilla games available so the community can improve them, and players can choose which improvements they want to use, that's fun. But you gotta stop stealing and lying, that's the most important part.
@dew12333 Related to this topic I just watched MVG's video about Nintendo erasing their history. It's an excellent video from a Switch dev. I completely agree with him that "Nintendo can't be trusted"
@dew12333 Yeah, I guess I'd just say that gamers probably felt attacked by Nintendo, then responded. De-escalation is usually tricky. Hope it happens soon!
By far the best option is if they just sell the basic rom so that fans can mod it. Imagine a decompilation of Chrono Tigger. That would be incredible. Just talking about this is making me want to load up the game and apply Lossless Scaling's frame generation to see what Chrono Trigger would look like at 120fps.
@Rainz I've really disliked 30fps for decades. I always thought I just wanted 60fps, but since I've gotten a Deck I learned that I like 45fps and up. But, the higher the better!
I've also turned into a Nintendo fan/anti-fan. Love the games, the employees, but dislike the corporation (and don't give them any money anymore). Like, I'm regretful that I bought TOTK and helped fund their attacks on gaming and gamers.
Animal Collective is incredible. Saw them years ago and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to.
I also love Eschatos and Rolling Gunner. These days my favs are Nexzr, Gokuju Parodius (any Parodius really), Star Parodier, and Final Soldier (PC Engine classic). And Devil Blade Reboot!
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Re: Random: Game Dev Builds Baffling Contraptions To Solve Zelda: TOTK Addison Puzzles
I watched this a few days ago and it lead me to getting the awesome Ynglet. Such cool stuff!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (31st August)
Well I got a new laptop and the first thing I tried was Kingdom New Lands. I was expecting it to stutter and chop like always, but it runs quite nicely. Then I tried Wipeout Phantom Edition and it runs locked at 240fps, like I expected. This was the first time I've seen 240, so it was pretty exciting to see such perfect smoothness while playing my favorite racing game ever! Then I tried Tears of the Kingdom and it is dreamy. I've just been playing it at 60fps, but there's hardly any stutters, and I also played it at 1600p, and it's just a wonderful experience. I built this vehicle out of 3 long sticks (from a beachside lizalfos camp), 1 fan, and 1 steering stick. Then I put on the Mystic Headpiece and found that the thing can jump off rocks (this is The Second Quest mod, so I've got low gravity turned on). That was fun, but then I hit a really good jump and discovered this vehicle can fly, barely. I ended up flying 2/3 of the way across Hyrule, then adding elevator rails to it while changing the fan position. Now my crazy vehicle could make it to the sky. TOTK is such a blast!
I've also been playing TOTK on Deck with Standalone Recollection, or whatever the mod is called (it has about 40 new weapons and 15 new armor sets), along with a companion mod that let's you collect poes when you are within 10 or so meters (no button press required, you just vacuum them up!). So I've been having fun flying around the depths collecting 2000 poes so I can buy a Yaksha mask and Ridley's body. It looks awesome.
I've also been playing Tempest 4000 at 240fps which is eyeball meltingly good. And I love Haunted Castle Revisited on the new Castlevania collections, which I've been playing on Deck.
Lastly, I'm hoping Waikuteru can get Nintendo into court, like he's saying he wants to do. It seems likely he could defeat them, which would be awesome since they're trying to destroy his YouTube channel. Nintendo can suck it!
Re: Upcoming Emulation Handheld Rocks A Stunning Optional GameCube Theme
In reference to the first 2 comments I'm thinking of Russ at Retro Game Corps and how many views he gets. I'd say people are interested!
Re: Upcoming Emulation Handheld Rocks A Stunning Optional GameCube Theme
Looks like a sweet device. I've bought a number of devices like this over the years and one of my main concerns has been charging, and keeping a charge. My older Anbernic 350 whatever does pretty good, but my newer Miyoo mini + doesn't hold it's charge (almost like it never turns off, just sleeps) and it seems difficult to charge (like a regular USB C cable gets it too hot, has to be a slow weak old USB C cable and brick). These little handheld are a blast though, and they'll hopefully become even better soon with more and more decompilations and recompilations coming out that have low power requirements (I'd love a tiny handheld that could run wipeout phantom edition, Majora's Mask, Ocarina of Time, and Mario 64 at 60 or 120fps!).
Re: Upcoming Tactics Game 'Warside' Sure Looks Familiar
I saw this got a new trailer a day or so ago. I'm hyped to try it. Also excited they apparently had a steam deck logo in the trailer.
More Advance Wars is always welcome!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (24th August)
Tears of the Kingdom: The Second Quest! I've put in about 130 hours on this megamod (combo of Cook or Die, Armor mods, etc etc) and was starting to think it's not THAT different from vanilla TOTK, then I got the Mystic Headgear and read that it reduces gravity. I thought, that's not correct! But I put it on and discovered I can now have low gravity anywhere, anytime! I've had so much fun blowing up boko camps in low G! It's super fun exploring the surface and depths with moon gravity. I also love how I can get bullet time anywhere with it. I also just today realized there two extra difficult species of Aerocuda in this mod. There's Aerowanas and Aeropaimas, which I was always running away from at first, but now I've got 21 hearts, attack up armor, etc. So I'm glad to get their wings and eyes. I've also had this "gale boomerang" and just realized that's also not in the vanilla game. Oh, and I've finally completed the election quest in Hateno for the first time, and there's all this armor Cece is selling that's new to me (and isn't in the vanilla game). And of course I'm getting tons of awesome Shema Stones and Yiga Schematics from excellent Hyrule Engineer folks. I also really like the weather changes both on the surface and underground. There's lots of improvements coming along, but it's already an absolutely awesome mod for a masterpiece of a game. One last favorite thing I've been having so much fun with is using the low gravity mystic headpiece with glide shirt and tights so I can maneuver around in such a fun way anywhere I want. Oh, and a Depths battle with a Frox was amazing cuz it would flip me up and I'd hit the ceiling of the Depths, then dive down and bomb it, I swear it was a ballet of awesome Zelda fighting, so fun!
I've also been playing BOTW and TOTK on Switch. Had an awesome moment where it stopped raining and I saw Farosh with a rainbow above her. I started a new file in BOTW and had fun completing the Great Plateau then rushing to get Majora's Mask (it's right there below!) and the full Phantom Gannon set (totally doable with 4 hearts if you're sneaky and fast). Also been playing Advance Wars 1 + 2, NES Championship, and Mario Maker 2 on Switch.
On Deck I've been very impressed with Tactical Breach Wizards, Thank Goodness You're Here!, and Terra Nil (all run at 90fps!). Worm Jazz is good too, but requires setting the screen to about 47fps to get a smooth experience. I've also been playing Rocket League on my laptop.
I also saw a deer while at the beach! It was up on a cliff, so weird to see. The other cool thing recently is I've been having fun dealing with a peach tree that produced about 700 peaches this year! Had to cut branches, pick daily, give peaches away at work, cook with them, etc. It's been a fun adventure!
Have fun everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (17th August)
Almost all my gaming time is taken up by The Second Quest. I just got the froggy leggings, got the whole band together (stable trotters), completed the Spirit Temple, and got a couple awesome schema stones/yiga schematics including one I saw in a YouTube video about a year ago (it's a car that can go up any slope and other awesome features). I'm in that goldilocks place with the difficulty. I'm no longer getting one-shotted by low level enemies, but still have respect and give space to chu-chus, aerocudas, and keese (and their follow-up beese!). I've also played with the calamity armor set and it is awesome. I've also been playing some vanilla TOTK on my Switch, and that's great too as long as my TV does motion interpolation (sometimes it says the feature isn't available and I have to do a factory reset on it. I hate smart TVs!).
I've also enjoyed the Bakeru demo (wish it was locked at 60fps, it looks and plays great when it is at 60). And I'm also still enjoying NES championships and Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble. I do wish Banana Rumble was on other systems so I could play it at a higher frame rate.
And I'm also still enjoying Doom 1 and 2 with all the infinite new stuff they've added and opened up for us to enjoy it with.
I got excited about getting Prince of Persia for Steam Deck, but then read about how it has Denuvo and requires an online connection to play. That kind of stuff makes me want to never buy another Ubisoft game! I hope they knock it off with all this garbage soon!
Have fun everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (10th August)
Mostly all the time playing The Second Quest. Feels like I could play it for years, but I'm also getting pretty excited about Dark Army Resurrection (especially since one can toggle off the hardest features). I'm also playing Rocket League on laptop.
On OLED Deck I'm also playing TOTK, but not second quest. Also on Deck I'm loving the new Doom 1 + 2 rerelease. So many awesome features, and so beautiful at 90fps! Also on Deck I'm really impressed with Steamworld Heist 2. It has such perfect gameplay, such awesome music, and gorgeous graphics locked at 90fps, I love it! I was going to get World of Goo 2, but it's not on Steam and I don't feel like setting it up on desktop mode after getting it DRM-free off their website (I'm too lazy to support an awesome DRM-free release, sorry!). Also on deck I've been having a lot of fun with Gran Tourismo 2, NES remix, Gun-Nac, Peglin (awesome Peggle roguelike game), BOTW, and TxK.
I broke my pirate ethics and got Monkey Ball banana rumble and NES Championships. So on Switch I've been enjoying those 2. Banana Rumble should be called Monkey Ball 3, it's great except for the dropped frames in single player and the unplayable choppy multi-player (I can't stand it, lol!). I've been enjoying NES remix 1 and 2 on my Steam Deck, which has warmed me up to play Nintendo World Champ NES edition. It has amazing presentation with great menus, perfect music, and lots of fun challenges. I would've liked if they dropped Ice Climbers and replaced it with Wrecking Crew, and added about 30 other NES games too! Ryukahr has a great review of it on youtube. Anyways, I hope they go wild with remix type levels and creativity for SNES next!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (3rd August)
My big game win of the week was Scrabble. I made a lot of big fun plays. Otherwise I've been acquiring more armor/clothes for Link in The Second Quest. I'm still surprised at how I'm enjoying the extra challenge of things like not being able to eat raw food, having limited meal space, almost getting killed by baby froxes cuz their tops are armored like turtles or something, and just simply having to run away from lots of enemies because I can't handle them. I've also been playing the regular mode of TOTK but with stuff like infinite zonai wings (I love gliding around for as long as I want, and as long as I have altitude). I'm also playing Kingdom Two Crowns, Rocket League, and Wipeout Phantom Edition.
I'm drinking Iceland Tea Garden Pu-erh (it's from China, of course), reading Heart Without Measure (Ravi Ravindra is one of my favorite authors), and listening to Cut Copy.
Have fun everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (27th July)
I'm visiting friends and family and the only games I'm playing are Azul and Bananagrams. Azul is a pretty good table top game with different colored chips and multi-round points build up. Also been enjoying Mary Oliver, a book about a famous Native American potter/artist, and Becoming Earth: how our planet came to life, which is an awesome page turner science book written with grace and great heart. I've loved learning about micro- and macro-organisms creating soil, caves, metal veins, and possibly affecting plate tectonics. About to jump into the chapter about water.
I've also watched some Stranger Things, which is fun because I like comparing the depths to the upside down.
I've also watched some YouTube videos wondering what schema stones (by which Youtubers) I'll find next once I'm able to dive back into the second quest.
Have fun everyone, and take care out there!
Re: Poll: Are You Ready To Move On From The Switch?
@electrolite77 Have fun gaming my friend!
Re: Poll: Are You Ready To Move On From The Switch?
Yeah, but it's mainly because Nintendo stole computers and millions of dollars from free open source emulation developers. So now I enjoy Switch games on Yuzu and Suyu and don't plan to give any more money to Nintendo. I hope they get their act together because I enjoyed being a Nintendo fan and buying their games. But I'll be fine being a Nintendo fan who never buys their games, so I guess it's whatever. I hope they at least stop attacking modders and Youtubers. That would be a step forward for gaming and show a little bit of ethics on Nintendo's part.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th July)
I've basically dropped all other games for Tears of the Kingdom. I've been dabbling with various mods and cheats (really like all the new designs for armor with the female Link mod, also love the infinite wings and balloons with long lasting zonai devices mod). But once I started The Second Quest a few days ago I knew I'd found the best mod I've ever played. It's basically the master mode that I didn't know I wanted for TOTK. I've been killed (1 shotted) by chu chus, keese, lowest level constructs, etc. I took the excellent recommendation of the Second Quest devs and started a new file with the mod. So the first construct I saw taught me that this is a different experience! It was somewhat difficult to dispatch! I've been getting as many shrines as possible and almost only getting hearts (I usually max out stamina while mostly ignoring hearts) cuz I need them for survival. Oh yeah, one awesome experience was being chased by horriblins out of a cave. I killed horriblins out in Hyrule field, which I think is impossible in vanilla TOTK. I've gotten armor that I've never gotten in 600 hours of vanilla TOTK (many armor locations are changed). I've discovered cool weapon and armor buffs that help my mediocre skills out. I've even been surprised at how much I get a kick out of reading loading screen info tips that educated me about new attack details about enemies. On top of all that this mod has schema stones for autobuild that are from many of my favorite TOTK Youtubers! I'm also excited about the new system with cursed armor that bargainer statues can uncurse and then allow a great fairie to upgrade (I think that's how it works, haven't done that yet). A major thing that is also enhancing this experience with this mod is that I'm playing on update 1.2 so I can't use the easy duplication glitch that I've used ever since my first 240 hour playthrough. So I'm running out of stuff, hunting animals to sell valuable meat dishes to Beedle, and happy for everything I get from chests. I'm so impressed, and having so much fun with this mod! I can't wait till they improve it further with extended features, enable more dying of hopefully all armor, adding new puzzle shrines in place of blessing shrines, etc etc.
Have fun gaming everyone, and take care!
Oh yeah, I also wanted to mention I'm playing with Ultracam, so I can have frame rates up to around 70 or 80fps, and can change the weather (I get tired of rain sometimes because it reduces the frame rate), and can simply detach the camera from Link and go flying around Hyrule (it's weird to see the low detail versions of places far away from Link).
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (13th July)
I just got the Goeman Mystical Ninja N64 recompilation set up, which is awesome. I can't wait for the choppiest N64 games to get smoothed over via recompilation (Waverace 64 might be the most needed recomp!). Oh, thanks to Time Extension for alerting me to this new recomp.
I'm very much still into Tears of the Kingdom. Just got the froggy sleeve again, so I'm looking for wet walls and cliffs to test my gear on now. I've also been playing in first person mode, which I like a lot more than I thought I would. It's super immersive and I like seeing stuff up close, like seeing bokos faces while I'm battling them. I also completed the water sage quest line again recently. TOTK is just so awesome to play. I never get tired of going down to the Depths, catching a rock to the sky, gliding around, etc. Oh yeah, a recent awesome thing was using ascend in a cave and thereby entering another cave — the "discovery" text and the name of the cave appeared on screen. Such a fun version of Hyrule to explore and play around in!
Oh, I've also been playing Kingdom Two Crowns. I've found it runs smoothest at 50fps on deck. If I set it at 90fps the game says it's running at 90, but doesn't look as smooth as it does when I set the screen to 50hz. Games can be programmed is such strange ways. Regardless, it's super fun, and I guess they're releasing some free dlc for it soon.
I'm also playing Outrun 2006 since someone released a patch making it way easier to set up and get running smoothly and at whatever resolution you want. I still haven't figured out how to decouple frame rate from game physics/logic, but it's fun and pretty as it is.
Have fun gaming everyone!
Re: Random: After 100% Completing Zelda: TOTK, Streamer Sets Out To Collect Every Rock
@Mince I agree and disagree. The smallant video is pretty good, well edited and entertaining. The hyrule science video is for massive Tears of the Kingdom fans who can at least mildly enjoy such a granular breakdown of details about the world of the game. The player5 video is kind of amazing, but I watched part of another blindfolded TOTK run that was better because it has a commentary explaining all the mechanics and reasons for doing what they do.
And yeah, I'm pretty obsessed with TOTK, whether it's watching it, playing it, messing with the graphics of it, or trying various mods of it.
Re: Random: After 100% Completing Zelda: TOTK, Streamer Sets Out To Collect Every Rock
I enjoyed this video, then watched the Hyrule science video about all the rocks in the game. Why are these videos entertaining?! Also watched player 5 beat totk blindfolded. Insane.
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
@jsty3105 I like your comment because it highlights how much our thoughts, opinions, and beliefs are things. If someone makes a point that seems to undercut our opinion, we can react badly. I mean, there's like thousands of years of wars and slaughters based on that kind of fear/reaction. Good stuff to look at/consider with care.
Edit: I meant to also mention how it really can feel like someone stole something from you if your opinion or belief is challenged by something they said. I've seen that over and over in myself. Very important to observe that kind of thing (at least I find that to be so for me).
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
@FirstEmperor I'm pretty funny, for sure. I like the profile pic, by the way. I'll never forget how humorous that guy is asking so many questions on the train ride to my first village experience/animal forest/crossing experience.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (6th July)
I'm mostly playing TOTK, but also enjoying the new update for Super Mario 64 coop dx (Daisy's double jump is the best!). I read Time Extension's article about Outrun 2 being updated and tried to update it, but screwed things up. So I deleted everything, reinstalled it, and got big improvements compared to what I had been playing, but it's still not all connected correctly. When I play at 90fps the gameplay is sped up. I'll figure it out eventually. Also been playing some Dimahoo and some Commodore 64 games on Miyoo Mini +
In Rocket League I had this nice experience where halfway through a match an opponent typed into chat "goalie God wtf" and I realized I'd saved every shot (my teammate hadn't done anything useful).
I've been playing the beginning of TOTK multiple times (on multiple devices), then saw a book called The Demon King while at work. So I bought and read the part about a greedy and magically powerful oppressor from Yunnan in Southwest China. Interesting stuff, even if it didn't influence the mythology of Zelda. Also reading The Once and Future Forest, which is loaded with fascinating stuff about redwood forests. Finally, a highlight for me recently was seeing a Pacific Ring Necked Snake, then about 45 seconds later seeing a California Mountain King Snake. So cool!
Happy gaming and hiking everyone!
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
@WiltonRoots No problem, take care. And enjoy the fireworks!
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
@WiltonRoots You like to attack people, which is truly sad. I'll pray for you and send you loving energy so you can hopefully heal up. And please keep your metaphors and negative creativity to yourself from now on. Thank you.
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
@Duncanballs I love nothing more than modded dildos on Mario's head. I'll take my stand on that hill! Lol
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
@WiltonRoots I really like gaming, and especially Nintendo games. I'll keep playing them, just without supporting their immorality and lack of ethics.
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
@Joom I generally agree with you, but in my case I will never give money to Nintendo again. So I guess anti-piracy breeds piracy?! I can look back on my life and see how strongly I've supported stuff I've liked, which includes buying things (CDs, DVDs, concert tickets, games, etc) as well as copying things like MP3s, TV and movie files, and games. But no other company or band has attacked my interests and my enjoyment like Nintendo has. They've got to be the worst corporation I've ever heard of. Like most corporations want to "capture consumers", but Nintendo attacks the crap out of gamers, Youtubers, jailbreakers, romhackers, and any Nintendo fan who doesn't play their games exactly the way they tell you to. Just a total crap corporation.
Re: Nintendo Files Two New Lawsuits In Continued Clamp Down On Switch Piracy
I thought I'd read that they also sued the MIG Switch cartridge maker? I recently ordered the MIG Switch dumper so I'm just hoping I get it. Maybe Nintendo will send it to me after stealing all their stock? I wish I'd never given a dime to Nintendo.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th June)
@Yalloo Recently I've played Tetris Effect on oled deck. It's quite gorgeous at 90fps. I've played more hours of it on Switch though, where I think it also looks and plays great. And yeah, it's incredible at 144fps on my laptop. I love all the music and graphics in both Tetrises (the spacy atmosphere of Effect is just as great as the cute songs, game themes, etc in Tetris 99).
I like this guessing game you and Johnny have going. Like, who can read Johnny's mind first?
Re: Review: Frogun Encore (Switch) - A Sure-Footed 3D Platforming Throwback
After reading this review I tried the demo on my Deck and liked it. Seems like everything is on sale right now so I got Frogun 1 as well as this new one. They're fun! They're also both locked at 90fps, which I'm always happy to see. If you don't care about frame rates the 30fps on Switch looks well frame paced in the YouTube gameplay videos I watched. Enjoy!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th June)
@Yalloo Yeah, I got lucky. I was switching from TOTK to Rocket League and checked here and saw that it had just been posted.
I second Just Shapes and Beats, Odyssey, and Tetris 99! Although I prefer Tetris Effect to 99, 99 is still incredibly good.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th June)
I'm mostly playing Tears of the Kingdom. It's super fun playing from the beginning again, collecting the glide shirt, defeating Colgera, getting autobuild, getting the elevator rail, connecting the Stable Trotters, and everything else, but at a higher frame rate. I'm also playing BOTW, Rocket League, Wipeout HD, Choro Q 3, Super Mario 64 coop dx, and the PC Engine Parodius. I've also been having a lot of fun playing We Love Katamari, especially since it runs locked at 90fps on Deck.
I also loved the article on Time Extention about the creator of Worms. It feels like that article should be part of a Digital eclipse Gold Series game release with a bunch of early Worms versions and prototypes.
Also been watching graslu with all the great Perfect Dark, custom Goldeneye levels, and Perfect Dark Zero videos.
Tea of the week is iced Hojicha cuz it's hot! Song of the week is Ping Pong by Stereolab.
Have fun gaming and everything else!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (22nd June)
I'm in trouble, lol! Just a couple hours ago, after days and days, after many hours of gameplay and glitches, I got Tears of the Kingdom running mostly locked at 60fps and with no glitches. I want to go hiking, go to work, go for bike rides, but with this available it's gonna be hard. TOTK really is my favorite game, and playing it at 60 is quite a dream come true.
A few days ago I got Demon's Souls running at 144fps and that is amazing too. Otherwise I've been playing Perfect Dark, wipeout phantom edition, Dusk 82, Fitness Boxing Fist of the north star, jump rope challenge, Jumping Flash 1 and 2 (discovered they run almost locked at 60fps on my laptop, super fun!), Choro Q 2 (also 60fps and so nostalgic for me), Parodius, BOTW (I play this at 72fps now, cuz that works very smoothly with my 144hz screen), New Super Mario Bros Wii, Wipeout 3 (can't wait for a way to play this smoothly!), The Big Catch (excellent demo, game should be awesome), Spriggan, and Super Star Soldier.
I've been enjoying Dammit Jeff and AlwaysBetOnDunc on youtube. Jeff seems like someone I know, or have seen on TV or something, super friendly. Dunc is funny, smart, and more political than any other gaming youtuber I watch.
Tea of the week is Yunnan Gold Tip from Teance. Delicious black tea! Song of the week is Ageless Beauty by Stars!
Happy gaming and love everyone!
Oh yeah, I also got that guy's(Henry Magnifico) 4k (except I use the lower res textures) remaster of Pikmin 2 set up, so I've been playing that beautiful piece of 60fps art too. Oh and also playing Gran Turismo 2 and Extreme Formula (awesome F-Zero type of racer that is quite promising).
Re: Review: Perfect Dark (Nintendo 64) - Perhaps Not Perfect, But Still A Remarkable Achievement
@wiiware It's possible to play Perfect Dark at basically any resolution and frame rate. The decompilation is amazing, and has very low requirements.
Re: Review: Perfect Dark (Nintendo 64) - Perhaps Not Perfect, But Still A Remarkable Achievement
@AlexanderDaniels Graslu's youtube video is great, showing all the things lacking. They also seem to know the game and how it performs on original hardware, old and new emulators, Xbox version, and the awesome decompilation (which is by far my favorite way to play this game). Playing the decompilation of this and the "1964" emulator with fixes version of Goldeneye is pretty awesome in my experience.
Re: Switch Online's Latest N64 Release 'Perfect Dark' Appears To Have Some Emulation Issues
@Banjo- The game has been decompiled and ported to PC, so I have it running perfectly locked at 90fps on my Deck. It is amazing.
Re: Random: Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music
@PikaPhantom I don't know what's going on. Whenever I go to it it's the usual MVG video with him talking to the camera and I can see his face.
Re: Random: Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music
@PikaPhantom "Nintendo is erasing it's history" that's the exact title
Re: Random: Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music
@PikaPhantom Nintendo is erasing their history, that is the main title.
Re: Random: Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music
@Mince Some group recently attacked the parent company of Denuvo. I don't know how damaging it was, but it's a start!
Re: Random: Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music
@PikaPhantom MVG's face in his youtube video when he mentioned that Lego corporation was one of the parties removing a 35 year old Nintendo ROM from Vimm's Lair-- that was such a golden, human, response to this recent insanity from Nintendo and gang. It does start to feel like AI generated activity!
Re: Random: Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music
It's funny to read the post before mine, then see what I posted, all while remembering I've posted stuff very similar to the angry one. Oh well, it's a process we'll all muddle through. We're all in relationship. All gamers, Nintendo and pirates like me (I've been a huge purchaser of games, but have also pirated them, same with music and movies, etc)(I'm convinced that the biggest pirates are the biggest fans, like I've bought every Stereolab CD and many records, and also downloaded their complete discography and rare unpurchasable tracks). Anyways, remember to be gentle with yourselves and others!
Re: Random: Welp, Now Nintendo's Going After Sheet Music
I've been posting some spicy opinions and want to add an important bit I probably should include everytime I post my opposition to Nintendo's approach to game preservation and accessibility. Even though it might not sound like it at times, I always try to hold my opinions lightly and to remember that my beliefs are just my opinions. This means that it's always more important to treat others respectfully than it is to "win" an argument or "protect" my hobby or "protect" a company or industry. I recently loved watching this pro-piracy video by "alwaysbetondunc", but spreading the ethic of community and comradery is more important than convincing people that this British guy on YouTube has the "correct" take on videogames and piracy. I do want to say that his video got me to buy all the games he recommended viewers buy, and to download Demon's Souls with a preconfigured emulator (Bluepoint is awesome, but I've to say that the PS3 Demon's Souls running at 144fps on my laptop is some incredible videogame art in motion!). I hope everyone has fun gaming and respecting everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th June)
Right now I'm most excited about Castlevania ReVamped. Super fun metroidvania makeover for NES Castlevania with fast and fun controls. Also been playing Blue Revolver, Sky, mini Doom 2 (love this sidescrolling doom game!), Rocket League (as always), Majora's Mask, BOTW, Metroid (awesome SNES conversion by infidelity), Mario Kart Arcade DX GP, Blue Prince (great demo, can't wait to play more), Parodius, wipeout HD, GT1, GT2, GT5, Mario Kart 64 remade, and Simon's Quest Revamped.
Also just started playing Nightdive's remake of System Shock. It is awesome. It's cool to finally play one of the games I'd never touched from Hardcore Gaming 101's 200 best games book(also, I strongly object to that book not even mentioning wipEout!). Hopefully another volume comes out making up for mistakes like the wipeout omission while adding mostly new best games from the past 8 or 9 years. I'd definitely put wipeout HD, Omega Collection, Phantom Edition, BOTW, TOTK, Kingdom New Lands, and Rocket League in the new best games book.
Oh, I'm also still playing Mario 64 coop dx. It's always interesting to see what people have created for public games anyone can join. One day it was Little Big Planet music with Boykisser character. Yesterday it was the beautiful day and night cycle with a dice roll mapped to up on dpad that might give you moon jump, or a big bully, or some other random buff or nerf (plus there was a burp button and poop button that made the poo emoji and killed your character). I don't know how to create these wild variations, but it's fun to see what others make (and hear the often great music they've loaded in for the match).
Lastly, I'm drinking a new houjicha from a different tea supplier that has strange and good flavors. And a live Marco Polo by Wednesday Campanella is song of the week.
Happy gaming!
Re: Nintendo Is Seeking More Talent To Help Run Its Switch Online Service
@tomwinsagain There's about 300 reasons these games are better to play on Deck (or any open type game system). Sad thing is Nintendo won't improve stuff, they'll just go torch the online libraries hoping to force people to use their garbage.
Re: Nintendo Is Seeking More Talent To Help Run Its Switch Online Service
@Serpenterror Yeah, I hear you.
I guess I'm also just lamenting the fact that I probably won't feel like buying another thing from Ninty. I just played Infidelity's SNES soundtrack romhacks today. They've put a huge grin on my face, and I wish Nintendo saw them as fun instead of a threat to the billions they're making. Like, I can imagine Nintendo working with the gaming community and announcing a decompilation (and compilation for Switch or Super Switch) in a Direct. But instead they'll invest in turning themselves into worse-than-denuvo. I often go buy a game on steam just cuz I'm so grateful for how fun and amazing my Deck is. But I can't look at the eshop or dekudeals anymore (it's become beyond easy for me to leave my Switch in a storage box). I guess it's just different trails we're on. I'll go my way and Nintendo will go theirs.
Re: Nintendo Is Seeking More Talent To Help Run Its Switch Online Service
We'd have an excellent relationship if Nintendo didn't steal computers and millions of dollars from open source free emulation developers. Modding, using cheats, and similar things are a huge part of the fun of gaming for me, so a Netflix style rental thing with online requirements (unless you have custom firmware, but that's a whole other story) is trash to me. Making the vanilla games available so the community can improve them, and players can choose which improvements they want to use, that's fun. But you gotta stop stealing and lying, that's the most important part.
Re: Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana'
I love gamebanana. Nintendo is crap for destroying the fun of gaming for profit.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Want Quality And Performance Options For Nintendo's 'Switch 2' Games?
@dew12333 Related to this topic I just watched MVG's video about Nintendo erasing their history. It's an excellent video from a Switch dev. I completely agree with him that "Nintendo can't be trusted"
Re: Talking Point: Would You Want Quality And Performance Options For Nintendo's 'Switch 2' Games?
@dew12333 Yeah, I guess I'd just say that gamers probably felt attacked by Nintendo, then responded. De-escalation is usually tricky. Hope it happens soon!
Re: Talking Point: HD-2D Or 3D - How Should Square Enix Remake Chrono Trigger?
By far the best option is if they just sell the basic rom so that fans can mod it. Imagine a decompilation of Chrono Tigger. That would be incredible. Just talking about this is making me want to load up the game and apply Lossless Scaling's frame generation to see what Chrono Trigger would look like at 120fps.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (8th June)
@batmanbud2 That's a good way to think about it. Preserves the enjoyment of games!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (8th June)
@Rainz I've really disliked 30fps for decades. I always thought I just wanted 60fps, but since I've gotten a Deck I learned that I like 45fps and up. But, the higher the better!
I've also turned into a Nintendo fan/anti-fan. Love the games, the employees, but dislike the corporation (and don't give them any money anymore). Like, I'm regretful that I bought TOTK and helped fund their attacks on gaming and gamers.
Animal Collective is incredible. Saw them years ago and it was one of the best shows I've ever been to.
I also love Eschatos and Rolling Gunner. These days my favs are Nexzr, Gokuju Parodius (any Parodius really), Star Parodier, and Final Soldier (PC Engine classic). And Devil Blade Reboot!