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Bit of advice to anyone looking to buy a SupaBoy SFC. The first batch of SupaBoy SFC unit seemed to have a issues with QC. I had two units from Amazon.com both of which had different faults. Amazon then stopped selling their stock because of it.

I then orderd with ShopTo as soon as they opened up pre-orders. Received that one a couple of weeks back and it works fine. Infact I had my unit in use at the weekend at a local Nintendo Players event running my Sufami Turbo.

@Gs69 yes the Everdrive and other ROM carts work on the SupaBoy S and SFC.

This is the info about the 3DS that will be in the Direct.
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Oh yeah we forgot about them. Oh well never mind no one plays them anymore and if you were gonna just buy a Switch."

I imported one of these from Amazon US at the SFC models launch.

That had a bent pin in the middle of of the cartridge slot. So "Pin perfect technology" my arse. So they sent me a placements. This one didn't work providing only blue screen even with a fully charged battery.

Amazon then refused to send me another unit sighting that the back they had was bad and removed their selling from the site for a week but still allowed other sellers to have their ones on there.

With the UK release date set for the 9th of March I have now ordered one from a UK supplier that I trust.

@Anti-Matter @thesilverbrick the console is region free for all NTSC and PAL games. There is a switch on top to change the clock speed to match the games you are playing.

It does work with Super GameBoy 1&2 and the Sufami Turbo, SNES cheat devices and flash carts (For playing SNES games).

You can not use the GBA or MegaDrive/Genesis adapters in portable mode as they need to have a screen to connect to bypassing the Super Nintendo's own video out port. There is no way to get these video outputs into the SupaBoy.

ShopTo opened their pre-orders at the end of last week (Didn't see you guys announce that). But it is worth pointing out that there is a £10/15 Nintendo cart tax when compared to the PS4 or Xbox One Editions with both retailers.

I think Nintendo need to run with this. Allow people to have a separate SD card that can be a Linux system. You just need to swap the SD card when switching between Linux and Switch OS.

They could then market the Switch as a Dock-able tablet to replace a low end PC. The same way that Sony originally allowed Linux on the PS3.

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I was on set Sunday for the Detective Pikachu filming.

You just had to point out the Xbox One sales.

But this is how M$ will spin it.

Xbox One (all models) sells 637 units in Japan
Xbox One sales up

But tbh we all know M$ will never do well in Japan when it comes to console gaming so why keep beating the dead horse by needing to point it out?

Massive fan Platinum Games and the Bayonetta series. The house will have 2 copies of the Japanese LE edition just so that me and the misses don't fight over the games.

As for if I'm double dipping. Bayonetta 2 yeah (As long as you count both Switch copies as one). But for Bayonetta 1 these will the 6th time I get a version of if.

@JHDK who cares about a dying franchise that Disney are committed to run into the ground with massive errors in all it's science. #BeacuseScience

Also even in the StarWars universe a Parsec is know as a measure of distance apart from Han's incorrect post.

However I have seen people explain his claim as true as hyperspace causes a fold in reality meaning that it stronger the hyperspace drive the closer it pulls the start and finish with time being the static value. Then all hyperspace jumps having a fixed time it's just the distance covered in that time is the variable and measurable value.

@JHDK a parsec is a measurement of distance not time.

Also something that I couldn't see in the article (apart from video) 13th Feb is only for the US version. 20th April is the current PAL date.

@Moroboshi876 I appreciate it when a publisher supplies extra stuff for free, and yes I agree a good manual is always nice, something with some well done art work and is more than and single sheet of folded A4.

I am also a "physical only" gamers. I've steer away from most digital only mostly because of not trusting that the game will be re-downloadable in the future.

Examples being Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, Turtles In Time Re-Shelled, and to a lesser extend the P.T. Demo.

I've got a large number of these games that have been given physical release after the digital copy from people like Nicalis, Limited Run and Play-Asia's EastSoft company just to list a couple. Including both Monster Boy on PS4 and Switch.

As for why I didn't wait for Nicalis to release MonsterBoy? When I ordered there was still no release date for the game in the West Arc get it out much earlier. Will I buy another couple of copies to get extras?? Resisting for now.

@Moroboshi876 yep just the case and the game. Do you really need anything else these days and it is the same for most larger publishers doing the same (you might also get a health and safety warning sheet).

TBH it's only the little "indie" publishers who are giving out extras as part of the standard package and Nicalis is the king of it. Best of all they seem to have stopped only giving those extras out with the "Day One" copies like they did with the US version of The Binding Of Isaac.

The physical version has been available at Play-Asia from Arc SystemsWorks since last year.

@deKay OK a cheap Android phone. Again using the iPhone as a hotspot so still only one phone contract.

Or wasn't there a case for iPhone which had an Android device built into it. Eye Smartcase or something? That would mean you still have one device.

I see large increase in the sale of cheap Android tablets. Get one set it up and then use your phone as a hot spot. Then you can keep playing Pokemon Go.

Will be the 5th time I buy Bayonetta 1.

2nd time for Bayonetta 2.

But I am getting the Japanese collectors edition so that I can get physical copies of both 1 and 2.

@PanurgeJr I've already got to 4 just on the first game. PS3, Xbox 360, PC & Wii U.

So I'll be 5,2,1

@readyletsgo "Amazon are the only company who just send another one."
That is something people know about Amazon and then try to take advantage of it earlier this year a couple was charged with stealing $1.2 million in electronics from Amazon buy doing similar things each time (Claiming stolen or damaged packages).

But they were clever enough to not go to the press to try and either create fake validity or force pressure on Amazon for action.

## EXHIBIT A ##
"I was originally going to leave it in the box"
Why would you not check? Always open everything just to make sure that the suppliers didn't make a mistake (Which they can do)

## EXHIBIT B ##
"But something told me I should have a look and inside"
If you already stupidly decided not to check then what would give you reason to change your mind.

I still say scam.

@gcunit my first thought. Doesn't it show a lack of trust in the humanwaste that you have to instantly go to that.

But lets be honest they've proven us right enough in the past.

I'm a fan of the Senran Kagura series. So I picked this up (It's cheap). It's good for a laugh.

This needs to come out as part of a physical collection.

@RadioShadow only available in Japan on their own. But you can import.

It took a while to update 4 sets of Joycons at once. But next week will have another set to update.

I picked up all 3 versions to add to my collection. Yeah I can use Hakchi and put tons of games on them. But I could also use a Pi and Retro Pi or RetroArch

Lost any interest in this after trying it on the PS4, did not like it at all. Made me miss things like 1080, SSX and PilotWings.

@justin233 I have. But more because I'm a fan of the series than expecting it to be the best game ever.

Was playing it last night for a couple of hours. While the game does come short in the current day gaming arena.

But it does have the charm of being what it is, a doujin game that was originally released in 2010, which if you're really into those style of games you will forgive the short comings.

A game only for massive fans of the series or the doujin games in general. But good to see these sorts of games coming to current consoles.

I've already got my PAL SNES Mini,

Well ended up getting 9 to help out poeple on a Facebook group, selling them on for the price I paid.

I've already brought and am just waiting for my US and Japanese versions to make their way over here.

@memoryman3 keeping in line with the old school Resident Evil and limited ammo. Each amiibo will be a single bullet for your gun. You can only check them once a day.

@In_Ex_Fan "If man realizes technology is within reach, he achieves it. Like it's damn near instinctive."

I would be interested if I didn't already have a working UK SNES and Super Famicom Jr.

Or my RetroN 5 and Retro Freak.

But if you want a relative cheap way to start playing SNES games from everywhere with the benefits of HD upscalling on a HDMI or use of Scopes and Justifiers on a CRT it looks like it's not a bad way to go.

@Anti-Matter yes it will be region free so should be able to play almost anything. There might be the odd one of two games that can't be played. Also anything using light guns will need a CRT TV using the compsite video.

But how am I going to make enough cash to buy imported units now, If I can't sell PAL units to people at £150/200 a pop?

@EmmatheBest Nope but we will get Unfriendly Ryu and Slightly Aggressive Ken instead. Also a special add-on character of Foot Akuma but no normal Akuma.

Sorry needed to get the foot joke in there.

@speedracer216 you can make your own by sacrificing other carts. People on places like eBay and Etsy sell "reproduction" carts of tons of games including StarFox 2, English translation of Mother and Mother 3 etc.

Or there is a small company that sell programmable game boards for different systems which you dump a ROM onto and then put a shell around.

@edhe LOL. Nice to know I can be trusted after the evidence has been corroborated by others. ;p

Go on buy a copy, never open it and it could be Schrödinger's StreetFighter it's in the box and you don't know if it's red or glow in the dark.

Or even better it will be both

@edhe Well as soon as it was announced I had a look and at no point did they have any in the UK store.

you can get one from the US site. It comes to $125 including the shipping to UK. But as all photos, even on UK site, show they are US SNES carts.

@jswhitfield8 yep. Which would explain them not selling it on their UK site, even if you treat it as display piece there is a risk of someone putting it into a console, thus the small risk of fire. But as the Electrical equipment manufacturers: regulations and responsibilities page on the gov.uk site says "All electrical equipment must be safe - there should be minimum risk that the electrical equipment will cause death or personal injury to any person or domestic animal, or damage to property"

If I recall US laws are a little bit softer and a warning can be good enough depending how good everyone's lawyers are.

@edhe there was no UK stock. Their site always said out of stock. SO they put the page up but didn't assign any stock to it. But like I said could be due to the whole health and safety legal issue in UK/Europe.

@BulkSlash @maruse @PLATINUM7 like @Bunkerneath said this is gonna be to cover themselves due to the power difference.

But I like to think of it as a ploy to stop people from putting the game in their console. As they will be just grabbing cheap naff $1 carts of eBay to then put into the cases they have.

But if there is a risk of damage including fire it would be fun to see where they sit on the legal side as even though they has a disclaimer there is still a legal setting for persons safety. Thus selling something which is designed to be used in a specific way (Even if not recommended) could leave them in trouble. Which could also explain why the one on their UK store is out of stock, EU Health and Safety things etc

The Switch version has now been bumped to October 6th in the UK

@RadioShadow all retailer will tell how much VAT you are paying on an item it's on your receipt or invoice. Just because under UK trading standards any product sold at public retail needs to include VAT prices to remove any "hidden costs". I was not bringing the tax side into it as digital items are also taxed by VAT in the UK. Thus removing this as being a point of difference.

But look at a number of UK retailers and you will that their price will vary on the same item. But they all (apart from maybe Game or a catalogue shops) will be selling the game as less than the price that it will be if purchased from the eShop, PSN or Xbox Store.

But you are incorrect, Gamecollection.net is not making £22 profit on that copy of Rayman Legends. Be more around the £5 profit mark (could even be less) unless they have a great distributor.

As for cost of manufacture this is a interesting thing. While yes producing a card with larger capacity will cost more to produce but again the cost difference if marginal to the fact that publishers need to buy the carts from Nintendo. They always have had to. All the way from the NES this is one of the reasons for the "Nintendo Tax" something that wasn't as much an issue when Nintendo moved over to optical media which can be widely produced.

@RadioShadow true. the typical UK game is cheaper as a physical edition compared to digital. This is due to rrp. The retailers can charge whatever they want for the game and will make it competitive.

There has been talks about cost of digital ever since it became a big thing with Sony claiming that they needed to charge full price to ensure that they don't out price the retailers.

Japan has has been getting a physical version of this ever since the game was first announced for Switch. There is even a collector's edition that comes with the OVA.

Oh Nintendo learnt from the NES Mini. They again learned that doing this not only keeps them in the news with a high demand system that everyone wants even if they are not gamers. They'rent bothered if you buy from them or pay some guy 4 times the price. End of the day they make money and all their stock is sold.

Already got both the standard and Pikachu Yellow versions of the Wii U pad still sealed.

But I used a mates one and can confirm that with a USB A female to USB C male adapter you can use the controller on the Switch without the dock.

You just need something to life it off the flat like the Hori stand.