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It’s a pretty disappointing selection of games for me. There’s plenty of CPS-1 stuff not represented. I know there’s licensing issues but really they’re the only games left that I’d want to play. While it’s not as convenient as the Switch I can at least still play these games on my CPS-1 multi board.

I can't quite work out what they're trying to say with that NTR mode, that's kind of the opposite of what NTR means.

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I'd have a lot more if they let us have folders. I also lost loads of screenshots and videos when my Micro SD card died.

Just make Titanfall 3 already!

@JAGleics But you get a scarf from Game! 😂

I love Robocop, I hope this is as good as the trailer makes it look.

I'm totally fine with this. Hopefully this shows Square are getting the message that no-one wants laggy cloud streaming versions.

Looks good, although the lack of texture filtering means it looks more PS1 than N64. Still, I'll be happy to play something that homages that era.

Very nice, I've already got the white OLED model but I'd definitely be upgrading to this if I didn't.

It was a pretty fun little game back in the day. I'd imagine it would be considered "problematic" these days so I'm not sure how a remake/remaster would fare.

Wow, I didn't realise sales were being affected by shortages so badly. No wonder Nintendo have been spending a lot of money stockpiling raw materials.

The GTA Trilogy would have sold even better if it hadn't been a buggy, rushed mess. That's certainly why I've stayed away from it.

Ew, Viruos. I've not been impressed with any of their work, they totally changed the look of the Arkham games when they ported them to UE5 and they failed to put gyro aiming into their Switch Bioshock ports. Nier has gone from an insta-buy to a wait and see.

I don't know if Japan is seeing inflation like other parts of the world, but they could be buying stuff now before inflation makes it much more expensive. Whether it's for a Switch 2 or making more of the current models, they'll want to ensure they don't have to pass a price increase on to consumers.

@gaga64 I don't think it needs a permanent connection, basically I think it wants to connect to the internet to record your achievements (it seems to pop up whenever I unlock an achievement, which is usually after finishing a room).

Edit: Yeah I just turned on airplane mode and it carried on playing, so a connection isn't required.

I definitely prefer GoldenEye over Perfect Dark, but that’s mainly for the single player as I haven’t played the multi-player for years. I’m always re-playing GoldenEye’s single player mode, the uniqueness, variety and unpredictability of the missions means I never get tired of playing it.

Insta-buy... unless it's cloud streaming. In which case, no thank you.

I always liked the art style, at the time I saw it as what A Link to the Past would look like in 3D. The only problem Wind Waker had was it was clearly rushed and was missing at least 2 dungeons.

I prefer the Japanese cover, the European one is OK, but I never liked the shading they put on the GameBoy Color logo or the fake metal background. The US one isn’t bad, but Leon’s head looks a bit too narrow.

I wish they’d fix the animation glitches in Mario Kart 64 along with the unfiltered texture surfaces.

Basically this means Apple devices 8 years or older aren't supported. Everything else can be updated to a newer version of iOS and will still be able to run the app.

It's kind of crazy to see people saying Apple dump support for their stuff when the only Android phone I've ever had was a Nexus 5 and Google dumped support for their own phone after just two years.

I don’t think we needed the Reginator to tell us this, every Nintendo fan has been saying it for the past 10 years or so.

He likes playing GoldenEye and Mario Kart 64? The man has impeccable taste. 👍

“It's unclear at this early stage how exactly this version of the game will be delivered on the Switch.”

And there goes all my excitement for this game. It’s going to be cloud based isn’t it? (And not the sort of Cloud with a big sword) 😢

I’m replaying Odyssey again at the moment and annoyingly I’m past the point where I could have tried this for myself! Oh well, there’s always the next replay.

Capcom were really good at blending RPG elements into arcade games back then. Even things that wouldn’t initially seem like an RPG would have elements like levelling up your plane in Area 88 or Willow’s magic meter in Willow.

I’m pretty sure derivative works that require a lot of effort to create are an exception under copyright law. Of course you’ve got to spend a lot of money in court to prove that so the big corporations with expensive lawyers win by default.

Sounds great, but I'll be waiting for the patch that fixes things not fixed in the day one patch. The story mode with missions/objectives in particular sounds really fun.

Time for Sega to make some craaazy money 💰

I’ve never actually played any of the Persona games. I’d really like to try 5 (I think it’s that one everyone says is the best) but I’m not interested in playing a long JRPG type game on anything but the Switch. To me it’s the ideal platform for long-form games so it’s crazy Atlus won’t port it to the Switch.

Does this tell a complete story? I've only watched the first 8 or so episodes of the first season and I think the show is on its third season, so I'm wondering if this ends on some sort of cliffhanger or something.

I marginally prefer the Japanese cover. The US one is more interesting and colourful, but Mario just looks weird in that pose and everything has that early noughties CGI look. The sepia tones of the JP version might be less interesting but they do hide the CGI more.

No Area 88 or Willow. 😩 I know there are licence issues with them, but I’d be happy to pay extra for that.

Aside from Eco Warriors it’s a pretty underwhelming list for me, so I’ll probably be giving it a miss.

@nocdaes It'll probably be possible to play using ZR, but I suspect beating Facility under 2:05 and Archives under 1:20 will be a lot harder if you can't strafe run and open doors at the same time.

@Bustacap That's not going to cut it on GoldenEye if you want to be opening doors while strafing and changing weapons.

There’s a Final Fight 2 romhack for the SNES that ups the number of on-screen enemies to 5. I’m not sure if it’s using the SA-1 but that will be the number for this game to beat. I’m hoping the author of that romhack also works on a patch for SNES Final Fight 1.

@Bustacap How do you use the c-buttons then?

Great news if true, it's still an excellent game and puts a lot of modern shooters which just focus on mowing down mindless grunts to shame.

Unless Nintendo have implemented a special control scheme for it in the NSO app (I doubt that considering Kirby released with an obvious game breaking bug) it will really only be playable using the N64 controller. Using the right analogue stick for the c-buttons just doesn't work well, especially so for GoldenEye.

Once again Sega milks the Megadrive ROMs and ignores the Dreamcast and Saturn. ☹️

Are there words any more annoying than “code in box”? 😩

Looks awesome, although it sounds like it’s been in development hell if it was started in 2018 and isn’t out until 2023. Maybe it’s a small team given that they’re going for a retro look. I’ll definitely be watching this one.

@AmplifyMJ I bought the Switch version of RE4, it was a big disappointment that they didn't include gyro aiming so you were right to avoid it. The Wii version is still the best I think, the motion controls are still excellent.

@AmplifyMJ I might end up buying it physically again if they do an updated release with the new Booster tracks on the card. I think Resident Evil 4 is the game I've re-bought the most! 😅

How many copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has everyone else bought? I've personally bought it 7 times now

I’ve been buying all of the Japanese “big” box games for the N64, most of them come with something extra in the box, Mario Kart 64 has a two-tone controller, StarFox has the rumble pak and IIRC Perfect Dark, DK64 and Majora’s Mask all come with the RAM upgrade. They don’t get played either as I just use my EverDrive for the games. 😅

I think I finished the original KOTOR twice, but have started at least a dozen new games that I have never managed to finish on various platforms since. I’ll probably buy this and manage to not finish it too… 🤪

Sounds good to me, I prefer my Metroidvanias like Super Metroid with lots of health power-ups around. When I’m trying to explore and work out where I’m supposed to go next, I don’t want to lose all the areas of the map I’ve explored because I couldn’t find a save room before all my health got whittled away.

Still no Axelay or Actraiser. 🙄

Pretty much all of them, but in particular I’d love Final Fight and Strider to make comebacks.