Blathers

@citizen_zane
SRPG is more or less the Japanese name for TRPGs
So... TJRPG = JTRPG = SRPG lol

@cfgk24
I am using the official dock. I don't need to know anything, I already did the hours of research finding the information I needed to match its power requirements.

@TrueWiiMaster The official Nintendo dock refuses to power on using any charger or power bank that doesn't violate the standards in the same way the official dock does, which narrows it down to like two chargers, and one power bank. The Switch itself is more or less fine with a lot of different power sources but the dock is an absurd case of requiring a super exact spec.

@cfgk24 "Look at all the false marketing around 3rd party docks. Did you fall for that? The switch Dock is part of the Switch package."

I am using the official dock. Just shows you're just reading my comments looking for a way to blame me for attempting to use a universal port in a way it's designed to be used.

@cfgk24 Nintendo cut costs by taking an industry standard port (instead of developing their own proprietary like they've done with every console up until this point) and instead of getting it certified, they just pretend like it's not the industry standard port despite the fact that it looks (and functions... mostly...) like one. I have to match the certification-violating Nintendo dock with an equally certification-violating Chinese product in order to get it to perform the function I need (since Nintendo has failed to release any sort of dock alternative)

@Eddyson It's not outright "illegal" I don't believe, but it likely would not stand up in court if someone decided to take it that far.

@Wolfgabe "It's not Nintendo's fault third party manufacturers never bothered to actually test their products with switch first"

The point of USB-C is that you don't have to test your device with every single other device that has ever or will ever use USB-C. Many devices that use USB-C were made before the Nintendo Switch was even heard about, and do you know how many work with the Nintendo Switch dock? None. Absolutely none.

Maybe Nintendo manufactorers should have tested that their Switch with third party products first.

@electrolite77

They did not claim to, (they have a disclaimer against it) but by using a industry standard port, it is implied, for the exact reason no toaster comes with a fork-shaped hole.

I wonder if the modding community will get save file backups before Nintemdo does. That'll be the clincher for me. Also for goodness sake make video recording compatible with more software. Cannot count the amount of times something incredible has happened in game for me to slam that screenshot button only for it to respond with a disappointing message.

@Yorumi yeah, but that means it's a common factor and can be removed from the equation (unless you're calculating the level of hypocrisy)

@cfgk24
China has nothing to do with it. If I make a cable, and I allow other companies to use my cable for their devices provided they follow the specifications I set out, so that everyone's usage of that cable can communicate using the same language and create mass compatability with minimal error, and Nintendo comes along, decides to integrates my cable into their device but violates the specifications I set, using whatever specs they feel like using, and then blames everyone else using my cable design for being "cheap chinese crap" when it interferes with their device, who do you think is gonna have the book thrown harder at them?

@FX102A Not a sound decision if you're abusing specifications of a standard, simply because you couldn't be bothered making a propietary port.

@citizen_zane They're not.

@Cypronia
This game seems to share some of the core focus/themes of Minecraft (exploration, challenge, resource gathering, survival) but I didn't see a great deal of variety or combat in it so I'm guessing the extra effort went into the particle effects looking fantastic.

Infiniminer on the other hand, was built around the themes of cooperation, competition, sabotage, and the good old Zachtronics inventiveness. Minecraft has since had these sort of features implemented with different multiplayer modes and many of the mechanical systems, but they are not at the absolute core of the experience. i.e. the idea for the engine and visuals was the same but the purpose of the game is different.

Taking this conversation to the forum

@BravelyDavid From what I heard, bricks were caused by third party docks having no safeguards for when turning on/off the dock at the wall, since that can cause minor spikes in power. As long as your Switch isn't in the dock when you hit the switch, and you avoid busting the USB connector, third party should be okay.

@frogopus yeah I gave up on the OJO when I checked its specs and noticed it was lying about the lumens being 1200. I've got a really good quality portable speaker already so all I need is to grab a powerbank (QB820 is confirmed compatable with Switch dock) and a projector.

With all this I might as well be carrying it in a bag, so the projector can be a brick for all I care, brightness is important though. I'll keep an eye out for delay too. Do all those run on battery? I find it impossible to tell because they never include battery specs or show AC cables

@cfgk24 Thanks for the projector recommendation. Unfortunately the power bank you're using does not supply in my country's (Australia) AC type, and I'd rather keep the components for this setup to a minimum. I did discover I need USB-PD compliance to run a third party cable into the dock and currently am looking into XMI Xiaomi power stations

@Octane I've been looking around and I'm not sure "portable projector" refers to projectors on battery power: just designs for ease of set up. I think battery-powered projectors seem to be called "pocket" and "pico" (the latter being very small)

@Octane How do I power the dock without an adapter? Or do I need another third party portable dock that outputs HDMI?

And then doesn't that mean I'm at the mercy of whatever speaker the projector comes with? Are there cheap battery-powered projectors with good speakers?

@frogopus What would it cost for a portable projector with equivalant specs to this + a portable dock that can output HDMI + a power bank to keep the switch charged + a portable 5W speaker?

At the very least can you name some projectors of better value?

Getting one of these as soon as the reviews come out
Holy cow.
I love carrying my Switch around but setting up the dock with a person's TV takes fiddling. I love showing people things on my phone too and I have a portable speaker but lugging it all around along with the cables can be tedious.
Having all these problems solved by one device that doesn't need to be plugged into anything sounds flipping amazing.

Switch + OJO, plonk it on a table, face it to a wall, hand out controllers. No more cables.

@Cosats You mean http://reddit.com ?
Or 4chan? Those are the only two sites I can think of that have an inline reply system

As long as we can avoid games like Operation Cobra (shudders)

PG: Mild Cake Violence

I really hate his sliding animation when he dashes forwards or backwards. And his dodges seem so dramatic for how listtle they actually move him

@DTFaux @Grandpa_Pixel @Bunkerneath
China copyright apathy says "hello"

@roadrunner343 So you don't rest the console in your lap or rest your arms on your legs or on a table, or your elbows against a wall (when standing up) or anything? That seems really tedious.

Zachtronics, Nintendo be on your turf
Hurry up and come to Switch

@Jeronan Hmm true, but the drawback of that device is it's not a self-contained unit.

How many people play portable consoles for long durations of time while supporting the console's weight with nothing more than arm strength?

@OorWullie That is what I was implying

@blockfight @Jeronan Good luck getting that setup to work in tabletop mode

This is amazing! My client's speech therapist is coming for an assessment in May and this looks like the perfect tool for making AAC engaging and fun.

@pinta_vodki Well the update is very likely releasing alongside a SoC revision too, so... I'd say that's pretty big. Anyway, developers can do whatever the hell they want with version numbers. If they want us to know about features, they'll advertise them, not throw obscure numbers at us. Expecting to guess features from version numbers is like telling what games are releasing next using tea leaves.

@Retroike7 @foobarbaz @daveh30 @redd214 A few interconnectivity features added this update that can cause compatability issues with older version, hence a full X.0.0 is added to the firmware number. Note that when developers ship devices that may not always all be on the same firmware, and those devices have networking capabilities, they need to program in exceptions and handling for when one device attempts to use a feature another may not.

Update numbers aren't supposed to indicate the level of enjoyment the end-user receives from it.

I was wondering when Nintendo was going to employ the spawn system that Starcraft, HMM3, Geometry Wars DS, and Pop Island have been using for years.

@countzero This is why these games are called roguelikes (in every definition, as opposed to most other games which have "roguelike elements")

Any game with the words "Mystery Dungeon" in the title are also roguelikes.

Do want

That cover art looks like a Paul Robertson creation at first glance.

@mjc0961
I didn't realize that sketch was supposed to be an ad for Yo-Kai Watch until you said so in this article, that's how large a waste of time that was

So I guess you missed the massive splash screen reading "Yokai Watch" with a picture of the game box.

Never played a Final Fantasy game (Theatrhythm doesn't count) but after seeing so many similarities between this game and one of my favorite RPGs of all time, Dragon Quest IX, I'm definitely sold.

By removing the ability to change the breast size, NoA is unintentionally implying that all females must be a certain size "to protect the children", but the fact of the matter is they're forcing their "ideal" female proportions onto us. I feel that that's more sexualization than the sliders themselves.

@Monado_III

I'm not on a pre 9.2 system, but it wouldn't surprise me if it were possible to install the latest version of eShop via a CIA.

What I was referring to was HANS's firmware spoofing that allowed access to the eShop by ignoring the firmware version checks.

@retro_player_22
I grew up playing Lylat Wars as a kid, and wondering why the title screen said "Star Fox 64"

@rushiosan
"I have seen it for $70-150 on eBay in the past month

Just because you see something listed for $5000 on ebay doesn't mean you have to buy it at that price nor that's how much it's worth. It's commonly known that it's sold mostly around the 60-70 dollar mark and people won't buy it if it goes higher, unless availability takes a sharp decline.

"You can't access eShop without updating. "

You could, but this update (and obviously a server-side fix as well) has (at least temporarily) removed the ability to do this.

@rushiosan
Where'd you pull that number from? Cubic Ninja is only selling around the 60-70 dollar mark.

Anyway, anyone who is into homebrew should have the intuition not to install these optional updates. (inb4 Nintendo makes it so you can't start up your system without updating)

@rushiosan
There's no patch for Cubic Ninja and Ocarina of Time yet though. Which is suprising seeing as OoT is first party.

http://yls8.mtheall.com/ninupdates/titlelist.php?date=11-09-15_07-05-28&sys=ktr&reg=P

It appears that Nintendo has updated the eShop application's netcode, so that an update is actually required to use the eShop now, instead of it being spoofable.

Yahtzee would be proud.

@Kirk

It's like you've missed the whole point of the entire franchise,

The point of a franchise is to move copies by developing content that might lure people in. The content lured someone in, the franchise served its purpose. You're not the starry-eyed developer of an indie title desperately hoping that someone interprets the game in a way you intended it to be, so why are you so taken back by the reason he wants the game?

And who cares if it's not a very good fighting game? Different styles of game will appeal to different people, and genre mashing as well as spinoffs tend to not conform to particular genre rules. Judging a game before it comes out, much?

you'll probably blame it on the fact it's Pokemon of all things if it disappoints you.

If he's never bought a Pokemon game until now, then why would this be a problem? If he hates it and doesn't buy future Pokemon games, then that's barely any different if this game never came out and he never got it in the first place. If it turns out to be good and gets him into the genre, then that's a win-win situation for everyone, right? Just because you can't see past your tunnel-vision idea of what makes a franchise, what makes a game good, and what marketing techniques a company is permitted to use, doesn't mean that everything outside of that scope is not worth anyone's time

What a sad way to view the gaming ecosystem

The 3DS is so stable it never moves, the universe moves around it.

@Kirk
How dare people only want to play one spin-off title from a franchise because they don't enjoy the genre the franchise usually runs. A person who plays video games but chooses not to play a popular RPG? What a sad existence they must be.

If someone wants to play a game from a franchise, they must play the main series, and shun all spin-off games that aren't similar because those are terrible games that ruin the premise of the series.