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@Koxen
The c stick has always been analog. Where did you get this idea that it isn't?

Do any first party manufacturers use hall effect sticks yet?

If it's a Not-C-button it probably opens Twitter/x

@batmanbud2
Trump wants a 20% tariff on all imports including Japan. Plus Japan has a serious labor shortage and could never produce things as cheap nor could the US. The whole tariff idea would be disastrous and not just for the game industry.

@Bobb I wouldn't say RCR is too forgotten. It has had multiple sequels/spinoffs in recent years, with one just around the corner. Seems like it was very much an under-the-radar game when it came out but it picked up a big cult following (myself included) that spread the word over the years.

She said "Any other lies, such as 4,000 for 5 sessions are total fabrications."

Of course its a lie because she confirmed it was 15k and she literally just said they offered $4000 "to say some lines." Is she just trying to confuse everyone? She is the one who previously confirmed that these games are recorded in just a few sessions.

@IsAmeAMario
She herself said the previous games were done in 4 sessions at 4 hours each. Other VAs have said that is common as well.

Even if Schreier's reporting isn't true (it probably is, based on the other info we have), the 4000 she mentioned before is perfectly in line with union standard pay. She isn't a big name in voice acting and shouldn't be demanding a lot, especially since it seems she hasn't been active.

Then she tried to screw over a struggling developer by calling for a boycott and then she attacked her replacement, who did nothing wrong, while claiming ownership of the character. She was wrong from the very beginning.

I won't boycott because I actually bothered to look into how much work this involved and how much VAs get paid. It sounds like she was offered the standard, union rate of 1000 per 4-hour-or-less session. Honestly, the author of this article is treating VA's like hollywood celebrities, who get paid high because they bring in audiences, but its rare for that to work with video games. Also, it seems like she hasn't been working in recent years which is a bit of a red flag. Lastly, its hard to appreciate her throwing Jennifer Hale under the bus. They made her an offer to return that matches is probably much more than what someone who hasn't been working can expect and she turned it down on her own accord. So...why should we boycotting again?

There's an image going around of a tweet where Kamiya said they first offered her 15k and supposedly deleted the tweet but it might be fake. If it's true and he came back and said "Okay, 4000 then" when she complained, it makes both of them look bad.

Definitely want a new WarioWare, especially if its in the vein of Smooth Moves.

Also, does $50 mean it would be $40 at Walmart? Hmmm

My launch-day Switch died almost a year ago. Not sure if was natural causes or if its from some of the power problems I had in my house that weekend.

This was a couple months after getting Animal Crossing and both my brother and I lost our island because it was before the cloud backup was added to the game. On top of that, all of the repair depots were shut down and getting a new switch or a new mainboard for one was near impossible.

I actually decided that I would get into making my own repairs and invested in soldering equipment. Found out what chip needed replaced, replaced it and...nearly got it working. Won't go into details but for weeks I tried to save our island but had to give up and was able to score a new switch using brickseek.

@SuperRetro64 The main guts of the upgraded hardware (coprocessors, ram, etc) were planned to be in a cartridge plugged into the top of the SNES. Good for CD upgrades in the future but not so much for carts. Some old EGM scans with specs are here. Fascinating stuff imo. https://www.resetera.com/threads/snes-cd-rom-thread-nintendo-sony-philips-16-bit-32-bit-versions.49597/

@Axelay71 The Phillips version of the SNES CD add-on was planned to have a 32-bit processor (around 21 MHz) and extra RAM, which would have been nice, but obviously would have only benefited CD games. It's weird to think about what that would have been like.

@m8e3point1415 ah, but you see...a circle is not actually a line, at least not in geometry.

I would say its not as much impressive that Nintendo uses compression but more disappointing that other developers, especially on other platforms do not. I played Shadow of War recently on PC and it was 100 GB and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what could be using up all that space other than simply uncompressed assets.

Amazing how SNES games were mostly 1 to 4 megabytes while even NES styled retro games today use 50-500 or more, though thats less about compression and more about how those old consoles handled music and sprites.

@NEStalgia
I think the enclosure was provided by wata? (they verify authenticity of games and grade value, etc etc).

Somehow Golf Story is missing

Nintendo should just offer to buy Konami's old franchises and then make this happen because the current Konami probably won't.

Just offer to let them use those properties for their pachinko/casino/mobile games for 10 more years and those guys will be like "That's all we wanted anyways! What a deal!"

I've had this concern for a while because of how investors aggressively insist that Nintendo focus on mobile gaming and games-as-a-service. Chinese companies like Tencent are the biggest threat because they've exploded recently.

I actually used this site a few times whenever I saw legit retailers offering bootleg products (recently including woot.com). I'm fine with users getting their own emulators and roms, but selling a $40 device with 500 copyright-infringing games is something no retailer should be doing. Did it make a difference? Probably not but some retailers don't know the difference and a nice legal letter to educate them.

The newer versions of SNES9x include an option to remove slowdown in games. You can even load it onto the SNES/NES classic edition via Retroarch as an alternative to the built-in emulator.

It causes problems with certain titles but I tried it with Castlevania IV and the difference is...jarring. Fighting the twin headed dragon was suddenly difficult.

Mesh back chairs are the best office chairs, even if they don't look great.

Get a nice looking leather chair then sit in it for a few hours straight. Your back is going to be covered in sweat.

@the8thark I'm pretty sure Nintendo of America has neither the power nor obligation to release these things in other regions. Their purpose is to serve North America. Nintendo of Japan does things for other regions because they're the head branch with all the real power.