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Checks if Nintendo bothered to add remapping options for the N64 application - Nope.

Still not really interested in N64 games until I can choose what buttons to map on the controller. It something that has been a trivial feature for just about any modern console except the Switch.

@daveMcFlave I have perfectly working copies of Final Fantasy 6 on SNES, SNES Classic, PS1 and I believe they have been sold on multiple other consoles for the past 20+ years for full price. Usually they tack on something to be “extra” to justify the price like FMV or a monster encyclopedia.

FF6 done in the style of FF4 DS might be worth the asking price but not a glorified mobile port with font issues.

@Stuffgamer1 Square-Enix always has overinflated prices on their old games, but that is mostly because we are stupid enough to always pay them. The NES games might be worth $5 and the SNES are maybe worth $10.

Minecraft soundly defeated everything at 785 hours over 224 days. With Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Crunchyroll bringing up a distant second and third. Granted some of that Minecraft playtime was idle farming, but it still makes me wonder if I might have a problem.

This made me smile, and I probably will be investing in this when it releases. If anything, just to support the people who made Kung Fury.

I am torn, I want Final Fantasy 4-6 as they are some of my favorites. However, I really do not want to pay $15-20 for them again. But the idea of doing a 4 Job Fiesta with FF5 is just so tempting.

You left out buggy port of the mobile game from your choices.

Xenoblade Chonicles X was my favorite so far and the ending just kills me knowing that X2 is not coming anytime soon. However, I played the majority of the game on the gamepad so single screen play isn’t impossible. I cannot do that now because my eyes are too old, but my first trip through Mira was done mostly on the gamepad while the family watched something.

The story was interesting but you had to do side quests to really understand it. But nothing beat sneaking into forbidden territories early to place markets. I still remember swimming the continent looking for sneaky ways past overpowered monsters just to place markers.

Over the past few weeks, I have been watching the story of Sega particularly the death of the Master System and Dreamcast. Much like Nintendo and the Wii U they had little third party support, but unlike Nintendo they actually threw a lot at the two doomed consoles. I love my Wii U but it did feel like halfway through it's life, Nintendo gave up on it almost completely.

Like others, I enjoyed going back and replaying Wii games I missed on the cheap, but that wasn't a path forward for it.

The Wii U is still chugging in the house here, with over 150 games on it. Mass Effect could have been the winner had EA not been EA. Had they just included the trilogy edition released on other consoles. NintendoLand and Batman: Arkham City got the most hours of the launch titles for me.

I bought this on GameCube but only ever played the train portion. I think RE4 was the closest I ever got to beating a Resident Evil game, but the GameCube was stolen and I never could bring myself to replay it.

Give us SNES Remix, or Satellaview Games, or Virtual Boy stuff that hasn’t seen the light of day in years.

@Tandy255 everything is a parody or twist on the core idea. However there are some fun ones, and I played the Missle Command clone quite a bit along with a few others.

Eventually I will pick this up as I like the game and I want to support the developer.

Honestly the expansion pack is not really worth it. For me the N64 games are nearly unplayable due to the inability to remap the controls, and it isn't worth fighting to purchase a special controller to play them. The library adds are mostly things that do not appeal nor are they at a rate worth the cost. The DLC is nice if you are purchasing every Nintendo release, but Animal Crossing is the only one I have been able to use (and it really wasn't that great).

@Ensemen I participate, but it is still rent seeking. The only ones that seem to be even more evil with this model is book publishers and how they treat libraries.

I try to see it mostly as a value add to other services I am purchasing, but I am done repurchasing Super Mario Bros for the umpteenth time. This is the one thing that Microsoft seems to be getting right, in that once you purchase it they want it to be available to play on every console you own after that (if you care to install it).

@Ensemen welcome to software as a service where you don’t own anything. Your access only exists as long as they offer the service and pay the fees. It’s a okay deal (becoming less so as everyone jacks up fees) for the most part unless you are a collector or believe in things like ownership and first sale doctrine.

I doubt they will offer unplugged access. Hackers may break the check, but Nintendo will expect you to continue the sub on the next console.

I say start at the beginning, but for most I would say OoT as it sets the majority story threads in motion and establishes most of the framework for future titles.

Nothing grabbed me but there were only a few things I wanted to see. Retro Game Challenge Collection would have been awesome, but that most likely is not going to appear. I am a bit disappointed they didn’t announce Urban Champion x Ring Fit Adventure. Would have paid good money to see them announce Metroid: Federation Force HD just to watch the wails online. But it was a giant commercial in the end, and didn’t even tell me that knowing was half the battle at the end.

I am still working my way through Arcade Paradise and enjoying the ride, so no purchases this week for me.

I would be excited, but the inability to remap controller buttons makes the service mostly a non-starter. The N64 Era really doesn't hold a lot of nostalgia for me to begin with, but poor controls makes a lot of games painful to play.

I wish they would bring back Player's Choice, as it incorporated discounts on not just first-party but all games that sold a certain volume and was on the market for a while (I think it was a year). I am pretty sure third parties pulled away from the program and Nintendo realized that the public would happily continue to pay $60 for Mario Kart and Super Mario Bros. into eternity.

@StuTwo I think I even mentally blacked that game out. But yes why not, Switch Music: Labo Edition.

I have the real deal here, the September Direct will feature:

1. Super Ultra Urban Champion Plus Alpha
2. Devil's Third: Definitive Edition
3. Animal Crossing: Amiibo Island Adventure
4. F-Zero: Silver Neelsen's Repair Shop Simulator
5. Metroid: Federation Force HD
6. Star Fox Adventures HD

I think that gives everyone exactly what they wish for: a new F-Zero, a new Metroid, and a new Star Fox. Plus who doesn't want more Urban Champion, the Nintendo's best fighting game of all time.

I used to be interested in these type of controllers for their ability to also connect with iOS/Apple. However, since I started running iOS 16 beta, the Pro Controller works with iOS (and I assume tvOS once it releases).

I might actually get some use out of the Arcade portion of Apple+ once this happens.

So, just to summarize:
1. Nintendo asked Square to release a game to Virtual Console for sale for $8.
2. Square instead chose to re-release the game for $50.
3. Gamers should be happy and ask for more to be released for inflated pricing?

I started with the original, but didn’t start enjoying the series until Prime Pinball and Prime. I’ve since gone back and played most of the series although I still need to finish Prime and Prime 2

The side quests very much remind me of Xenoblade Chronicles X and the joy I found in the stories there. While they are not necessary to the main story, they do bring life into the world and it’s people.

As for the combat, it is overwhelming at times but the tutorials did a fairly good job if you go into the menus and use them. It feels like a mix of Xenoblade Chronicle’s X and 2 with all the customization. There are still three roles (attacker, defender, support) but the classes being a lot of variety to how you accomplish it. I struggled at first because I treated the classes of the roles identically. Each has a style of play to them. However there is one that you can get in Chapter 5 that is just insanely fun and has sent me searching through the land to make it better.

Overall they have done a great job with everything. It is a slow start for the story to make sense, but I have enjoyed it.

@Mr_Fox This yet another time that I am eternally grateful for my ability to ignore music. I vaguely remember the music from Xenoblade Chronicles X, but the only thing that ever stood out to me was the girl vocalizing that sounded like nails on a chalkboard after the second time through the loop.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3. While I am enjoying it, I am not as sold on the combat system this time around.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was the first game I pre-ordered in a long time so I am ready to go first thing Friday. I almost wish that I had taken a day off to play it as I will have to wait until after work to really get started.

Did anyone stop to consider that it was added completely as a joke or a commentary on something not related to Western views. Japanese animation frequently employs similar techniques when dealing with “adult” scenes, and this may simply be a play on that and nothing more.

Start with the three free ones and when I eventually pick up the game play the other ones according to how interesting the scenario sounds.

I dunno, maybe just ask the creator how to pronounce it.

I may need to go rewatch this. It’s been a long time since I last owned the VHS tape.

@Fizza those games were part of a series in Japan.

I am curious who owns the Data East/Jaleco rights at this point. There doesn’t seem to be an option put on the table they won’t license to. It appears only the bottom of the barrel third parties will license for the service at this point.

I do love this game. I originally played through as a fighter and Assassin, but discovered Mystic Knight and Mystic Archers and never looked back. The story, as others have said, is a bit of a mess that seems to be half missing. However lore, especially Bitterblack Isle is amazing.

Definitely recommend. In fact let me go start it up.

Piko Interactive has made a bit of a business purchasing old IP and ROM files and reselling them. I am pretty sure this has been on sale on Steam for a while now. In fact, they will probably be amused that the Genesis and 8-Bit versions are finally being released.

The issue is that the standard controls are so horribly designed (and unable to be adjusted) that you almost are required to have one of these to functionally play anything from the N64 service.

I tired the 360 version when it released and hated it, but was talked into getting the switch Bedrock version. I was surprised how much it hooked me as I played through the “story” with a friend to defeat the End Dragon and the Wither. Initially the adventure of exploring was what initially hooked me as I packed my gear, got into a boat and just wandered the world. Then it was building things (mostly like Lego sets from others designs) and then riffing off them. Now it is trying to automate resource generation (again by imitating to learn). The challenge being doing these things in survival and snagging all the achievements legit.

The nice thing is that I set the agenda or the goals and I take however long I feel like to do it. For a $30 investment I feel like I’ve gotten my money out of it.

I was mildly interested until I saw Epic Games was involved. Tencent, Epic Games and EA are just things I have decided to do without as I am not thrilled with what they represent for the industry as a whole. There are too many other gaming options out there and I am sure I will find something else.

I have a realms server with a map wall in spawn town that documents our 3x5 level 4 map search for a nether fortress and the many outposts with names like Jaren’s Outpost, Shadow Island, And Spawn Base.

Then there are the places like the side of a cliff where a stopping point became a temporary home after dying in the middle of no where (with no compass or map). It led to a treasure map and my first buried treasure.

I am glad someone finally talked me into playing, as it is always easy to find something to do or create.

I noticed the freezing issue but it wasn’t horrible for me. Seems to have gone away, and I am back to prepping for the 1.19 update.

A book I recently read make an interesting analogy between modern corporations and the gods of old. That while man doesn't worship gods, we do tend to worship corporations and their CEO leaders as saviors of humanity. Someone already has thrown out the big ones: Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google. Then there are the lesser ones like Sony, Nintendo, Nike, and others.

It made me stop and wonder, why is it that we so willingly put blind faith in corporations to protect and provide for us when it is extremely easy to demonstrate how they harm individuals and society?

I don't want to see another "titan" fall or cheer a bunch of rich people getting richer while reducing choice. Hopefully Ubisoft can stay independent-ish, as too many good companies have already vanished (and their IPs gone idle) because of this stuff.

"I'm the Hero of Hyrule."

"By what name are you known?"

"There are some who call me.... 'Paul'"

It's always interesting to look back like this, but there is aspects of it that is just lost if you didn't live during that time. By today's standards the story was minimal (if at all), but we came from the two games before where the story was in the manual and a short intro text. Even the RPGs on consoles at that time were simplistic with text and even some of the ones on PC included a manual where you were told to go look up entry ## to read the information you were just told.

To quote someone from Reddit, try to explain this is somewhat akin to you today trying to explain to someone from the 1920's that you have all the information of the world in your pocket on your mobile phone and you use it to watch cat videos and argue with strangers over trivial matters.

@riggah I believe the GBC was a fallback once the VB failed. However the SNES had the Super Game Boy which was pretty awesome for the time.

@LinkSword copyright and trademark are two different things. Escalator was an example I learned in school of losing a trademark. Kleenex (facial tissue) and Coke (or pop as it was where I grew up) definitely battle hard to keep theirs alive.

I don’t blame Nintendo for fighting back, but PlayStation and XBox have also been used in a similar way over time. Gameboy would probably be another one that was abused when I was a kid.

Not sure if which is worse, Epic or Facebook trying to indoctrinate young children to their brand. Shame on Lego too, as I am sure this deal came down to a bunch of dollars being thrown at them.

There will probably be a direct, just not sure when. They have to start the hype train up for whatever they will be selling Oct-Dec this year.