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@BulbasaurusRex Have you played it? The controls are nothing like the Adventure formula. Sonic handles like a tank, especially if you gain the slightest speed. The spindash is stiff and leaves you with no speed gain, rail grinding is automated as heck and is only there to remind you that at one point in SA2/Heroes grinding was risk-vs-reward fun, the homing attack has none of the satisfaction of crashing into the enemy and instead requires you to wait for the reticle to beep, or wait even more to do combos.

I don't mean to sound arrogant but I've seen other people compare LW to the better 3D Sonic games and I just... don't see it.

After watching the video I can see why this wasn't in the GC/Wii/WiiU releases, it's pointless no one in their right mind would spot this difference unless they were carefully analyzing the game and comparing with a real n64.

The sound crackling in OOT whenever you open the pause menu stands out way more than this.

Adding a per-game hack to fix this scene is not any different than Wii/WiiU/3DS VC using a different emulator each game.

At the end of the day it's the same emulator with the needed changes patched in.

So all that "Nintendo hired one guy for one emulator for each n64 Wii VC game" that spread thanks to people like MVG was all massive bs.

Nintendo just got lazy, and it seems they noticed.

@Specter_of-the_OLED Unrelated to you perhaps, anyone could use messaging to get their friends to play online with.

The browser allowed easy access to any game's secrets or walkthroughs directly from the console, that's an incredible feature to have! It even enabled instant chatting with anyone.

Netflix during the Wii's run had several titles based on games, any diehard Mario fan would have appreciated having access to the Mario cartoon that was on there. For me it was Sonic (all three of them were there.)

I don't deny the Switch has content but it's definitely lacking in many areas that previous consoles weren't. I also very clearly said "buy" and you can't buy SMW or ALTTP on Switch... or Chrono Trigger for that matter.

Yet somehow even though the Switch has more titles, the GC and Wii library already had plenty of Dreamcast and PSone titles, many not on Switch, SA1/SA2/PSO/Crazy Taxi/MDK2/Skies of Arcadia all come to mind.

It's still great that Switch has some popular titles you can buy that weren't on Wii or Wii U, such as the FFs after VI. But I still see the selection being worse on Switch, especially because 99% of the SNES/N64 titles can only be "rented."

Wii had more online features though.

• Free online multiplayer
• Larger selection of retro games to buy
• Friend messaging and photo sending
• Voice chat via Wii Speak peripheral
• Netflix
• Did I mention Brawl was free to play online?
  Brawl was free to play online.

Xenoblade is the only title worthy here, let's be honest.

Also, I'm used to NL hating on Sonic but praising LW? Easily the worst 3D Sonic game for any fan, it's super lackluster and lazily made.

My Wii has outlived the Wii U gen, all the current gen and will likely go on for more gens.

It can't read discs anymore but I'm always up for some SMW or ALTTP.

Once Nintendo shuts down NSO it's byebye to "your" retro games.

The Mr. Mime scene didn't make me uncomfortable, the ditto scene did. Not a fan of the movie.

Dual Destinies, honestly the most lackluster entry. They seemed to have dialed the references and modern lingo up the wazoo, the side characters ignore all logic to be their dumb little exaggerated character, counted more than 20 typos so far, and Blackquill suuuuucks.

Having a great time tho, Apollo x Junie really cute.

Pointless trivia: Crunchyroll on Wii came out in 2015, and lasted about 4 or 5 months before it stopped working and was eventually taken down by Nintendo when they shutdown all streaming sites.

I've always found it strange that Nintendo was like "Sure, you can make your thing, oh but in a year we'll shut it down." but CR still did it, only for CR to pull the plug first.

Crunchyroll shot first.

I wasn't expecting any more than this.

But I'll take this chance to also complain about the original compilation not having the DS games, they're totally worthy of playing, but the very least they could've done is include the best bits of the game as gameplay, like the final bosses or the worlds that are only available in 358/2 Days, etc.

Well, got it, that was a waste of time, it says my total play time is only 4 hours, I guess it doesn't do cart times 'cause Smash should've covered about 20 hours at least.

EDIT: it does do cart times, weird.

Struggling to use the site they made.

I put in the Nintendo Network ID and it didn't work, it doesn't help that autofill used the old Club Nintendo info. Now I'm realizing there's another account type I have to use.

I won't get Paramount+ knowing Sonic Prime will be on Netflix.

I think highly of all the GameCube Sonic games, such fun times.

I remember pulling an all-nighter with this game, I don't know why, but I remember it fondly. I imagine it's because with previous games I was too young and would give up easily after 1 or 2 levels, but with SA2B I already had the experience from every other Sonic game on the system even Shadow, so I ended up blasting through the story.

I recently got SADX and SA2B on Steam due to an excellent deal, I still have the Wii hooked up so I haven't bothered setting up the game on PC. These are best played with the gba link cable!

Nintendo has done two real-time translations for Switch so Mother 3 is entirely possible.

These were an English translation of Mario 64 Shindo and Fire Emblem 1.

The question is, will it be a limited release like these aforementioned titles? Or wait for Wii U 3 to launch, so they can secure a hit.

I absolutely love it, if the voices match the characters then that's all I need.

Which is why I can't stand the voice change in the Sonic series >2009, everyone except Eggman sounds like a bland/generic or try-hard voice, simply bad casting.

Arc Rise Fantasia is another case where the English dub is hated, but I think the casting is perfect, the direction and/or writing is what failed.

@Illusion Meanwhile Gary and Alison were paid aliens, and they definitely do exist.

Seems like yesterday Nintendo made the strategy guide available for the Wii U release.

From what I've heard over the years the Wii version is the superior version. Which is odd to say the least but I wonder if it shares a similar reasoning as Sonic Unleashed, the PS2/Wii port being so cutdown on content it actually removes all the nonsense long werehog levels from the 'HD' versions. IMO I've never seen this as a win, less content means less game for the same price.

Not a fan of the Mii replacements, that much is clear.

And there it is; the other lyric of the 4Kids theme song.

I had Four Swords, Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, SA1, SA2, SA3, Sonic Battle, Pokemon Ruby, Fire Emblem 8 and the only game I managed to link with someone was SA3, in a desperate attempt to find out if Eggman was playable in the extra zone!

Note that this was in late 2004 before I had easy internet access.

Do the tracks actually loop or what?

Tracks like the Wii Shop Channel theme have an "intro" that only plays once, while the rest loops continuously. I'm asking since the tracks from the GitHub page have a fade effect applied at the end.

I don't like this. I had an open mind when Secret Rings came out, and SEGA's response? Every game since has been boost/ignore surroundings. just. go... and it sucks.

But... but... Kaori Mizuhashi's wonderful voice! Always make the best out of a bad situation!

I don't play yugioh online after I dueled someone who had a "stalling" deck that plays Final Countdown, so the entire duel was just me trying to do just one thing and failing over and over, that's no fun.

I prefer the games with a story, I've been playing Nightmare Troubadour, it's quite fun and the cards are easy to understand since it's the same ones you see from the anime.
Duel Transer is also quite good, dueling is a bit slow, but you get used to it and has a great amount of cards from (arguably) the best eras of yugioh. You can still play online, with a friend at least, using the wiimmfi server.

OOT complaints throughout the years...

GC: has loading times
Wii: isn't 240p
WiiU: dark n blurry
3DS: fps too smooth to be oot/motion cont.
NSO: has actual emulation problems

"It's nice to see Nintendo taking this seriously."

Suffice it to say I don't think any N64 game is worthy of a 10/10.

I've never been able to get into it, I guess I'm a grumpy-guts like Gruntilda. Played for like an hour and didn't feel like I was doing anything, but if I were a kid I think I would've loved the visuals.

I had Spyro and Croc growing up, those were my 3D platformers, obviously jumping to GC was platforming paradise with Mario Sunshine and Sonic Adventure games, I think the genre peaked on GC.

However I eventually grew to enjoy Majora's Mask so maybe I can do the same with DK64 and Banjo.

I read Grey Griffin, and I immediately thought "wait, there's only one voice actress with the name Grey" turns out this was that Grey, I wonder how it must feel to change names when your best roles are under the previous one, I'm sure most people that watched cartoons during the 00s would easily recognize the name Grey DeLisle.

@PC2 yeah, but the action is terrible, and the humor is out of place for Sonic.

@AstroTheGamosian Same, I'd wake up super early to make sure I didn't miss Sonic X, I would stick around for yugioh and sometimes pokemon. I always regret not watching Kirby. Since a little after the show stopped airing I got hooked on The Amazing Mirror.

What I like so much about X is that because it's anime, it can go from being a comedy to an action show, to a serious drama. Unlike how 1 dimensional Boom is.

@tseliot is OK I fill you in, bro!

In 2003 the Sonic X anime got picked up by 4Kids, they replaced the Japanese intro with a new song that goes something like: "Go-go-go gotta go fast!" In Europe this theme wasn't used for some reason.

The following year, 4Kids picked up One Piece and created a ridiculous rap for the theme song that explains what the show is about.

Years after Sonic X nobody gave a f about the theme song, except sometime in 2010 "Gotta go fast" started to become a meme, and eventually got used officially on the sonic twitter, even more recent it was in the movie. Suddenly, people think this is Sonic's slogan, that it's been around forever and Nintendolife tries to use it practically in every sonic article, it's annoying.

I've been a fan of the series before the slogan was a thing, it doesn't need one. Much less a Pokemon sounding one (also done by 4Kids) but it's really the fact that it comes from a meme aimed at mocking the series that makes it feel obnoxious.

This sounds troubling, because you can't count on them putting all this effort into the theoretical game you want. They're making something different, Forces supposedly had a long development cycle, yet it's riddled with problems all over, simple gameplay, simple cutscenes, sloppy/inconsistent story, cut content (why show Chaos in the trailer? He's barely in the game...)

I want to get excited for a Sonic game again, but they make it really difficult. The least they could do is bring back games from the console-only era (Shadow/06/Unleashed) I miss playing challenging Sonic games that take more than a few hours to beat.

I didn't know these shows had DVD releases.

It's kind of funny that when demonstrating TP gameplay they recorded the footage with the Wii set to 16:9 but kept the video 4:3 so everything looks thin as heck. Kind of odd to ruin the visuals of Nintendo's (and I quote) most beautiful game ever made.

Gotta build fast

Do One Piece articles reference the 4Kids rap every single time? Let's move past "gotta go fast" already.

It wasn't even in the European airings!

9/12 really the only one that confused me was AC, the image had a non-3DS aspect ratio, even though the visuals were clearly not as good as City Folk.

The other three are games I've never played so there was simply no way.

I let GameStop totally disrespect me by letting them sell me a new copy of Ghost Trick without the box/manual, just a crappy CD sleeve and the cart.

It eats me up every now and then but I've learned from this mistake.

On the bright side I'm usually into games that don't fetch a high price, usually. Just last year I got the original print of GC Sonic Riders for just ~10 somethings, and Sonic & the BK for less.

Gems Collection though? Too expensive for what it is. If I got that one I'd have the complete set of GC Sonic games. I'd be missing about 6 spinoffs on Wii (and Colors which I have no intention of getting.)

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if SEGA's official canon is Sonic 1, 2, CD, 3, Colors, Lost World, Mania & Forces.

They lacked the charm Gary & Alison had, and the show itself felt often bland and boring. NW had the advantage of better actors and an actual set that looked cool.

And the best thing of all is that secretly they were aliens all along!

I miss Nintendo Week, wish these weren't constrained to the Nintendo Channel's 384x288 resolution or the fact that they're not really hosted anywhere without blurry 2005 youtube quality.

They're glorified commercials of games that don't exist in Nintendo's eyes so it's not like they'll pop up magically on their YT channel one day in better quality.

CrusinUSA was the "exclusive" Wii Virtual Console title, the one Japan didn't get.

It was also censored. For violence? No, for fake boobies.

And thus the worst Sonic game in existence was born: Sonic Free Riders

You would have to pay me to get me to play a c64 game. That's just how it is, worst VC platform, no wonder it got delisted early on.

As a matter of fact, yes, I'm getting Project X Zone... wait.

Oh the pink-haired girl from chaos;head is in this, anime sucked but the ito kanako songs are great (f.d.d, fake me)

The best Knuckles is probably from Sonic X, character is introduced as a friend of Sonic, they fight in the early episodes due to a misunderstanding but the situation is much more believable here vs. in SA1/Advance2 as Knuckles has no way to return to Angel Island. He's locked out, with no other choice but to find a reason to vent his frustrations.

After the fight Knuckles travels to China and saves Sammo Hung, who rewards him with a chaos emerald. The rest is just him acting like a protector with a high sense of justice.

Also, he's voiced by Dan Green here, you can't go wrong with that.

Spiderman 3 on Wii always felt like such a ripoff, it's just the PS2 port with motion controls slapped in — it's lazy and it underperforms. While SP2 for GameCube ran great, looked great and overall felt more fun.

The N64 version of TASM is surprisingly an accurate port, but I feel this game is largely well regarded because of nostalgia.
Just hearing Scorpion go "Your time is running out, hahaha" and "Where ya hiding?" is iconic, but the gameplay is stiff and punishing at times.

So yeah, SP2 and Ultimate Spiderman are without a doubt the best games, GameCube is king.

That was good, definitely will watch. Not a fan of Knuckles' voice yet.