GravyThief

How does the Switch know if you’re using the accessory or not? In particular the cardboard box one?

FFS. Not watched the direct yet but open world? Seriously? Let me guess, it has crafting and side missions too? Open world is infecting everything. Glad I still have loads of retro games I’ve never played before.

I’m guessing the first two aren’t free to watch anymore?

@Slideaway1983 I assume this must include Code in a Box sales, as Shinobi on Switch didn’t get a proper physical release in the UK did it? Checking Amazon UK, I only see the code option for Switch. Also, as these are the UK charts, this won’t be the LRG release of Shinobi as LRG don’t release games in the UK. It looks like in the UK Sega released Shinobi.

Percentages without absolute numbers mean next to nothing. Hopefully it sold reasonable numbers, sounds like it did well enough to have made it worth their while.

@SpiderSquid doesn’t the remapping function allow you to map buttons to ZL and ZR then? If not then that’s rubbish!

I’ve just checked Amazon US and that particular listing is now showing as temporarily out of stock. So either loads of people bought it (and we’ll soon have an answer as to whether it’s genuine or not) or the listing was a mistake and Amazon have taken it down while it gets updated or whatever.

If this is true, and it releases in Europe, I’ll probably buy a copy.

@Daggot it would be yes. But from memory any time I’ve encountered a boss rush, it’s either as a cheap way to prolong the end of a game before you get to fight the real final boss, or the bosses don’t become available in a separate boss rush mode until you’ve defeated them once in the main game/story. By which point I have no desire to practice or fight them again.

Still, I’m guessing some people must enjoy them because they crop up in many games.

The total sales of DK Bananza look to be wrong. Unless they are exactly the same as Mario Kart World’s total sales.

Looking good, although I’ll probably end up just doing story mode. I’ve never really been that into playing levels over and over again unless there’s an incentive to 100% a level and (crucially) it’s enjoyable to do so. Also I’m not sure I’ll be into those other modes. I don’t think I’ve ever once thought “yes! I love a boss rush!”. I also hope the stealth sections aren’t too frequent. I’m really not into stealth, or as videogames translate it, crouching and crawling through games.

@Shadeon_Koopa I’m positive it was available when it was first announced. I suspect it’s already out of stock. I hear you normally get little extras when pre-ordering direct from Lego so maybe it’s proven more popular from there than other outlets.

Nintendo’s cartridge business model from the 80s and 90s was terribly one-sided. I’m pretty sure they even got fined for it afterwards for it being anti-competitive. But they were in a dominant position at the time and abused it as such.

It is also part of the reason why Sony was so successful with the PS1 and the N64 performed so badly in comparison to the NES and SNES. Sony purposefully made their format and business model much more attractive to third parties, helped by the use of CDs of course. And Nintendo paid the price.

Still, alls well that ends well.

@Atariboy why, does that game have jump on A and run (or whatever) on B and doesn’t allow you to change it?

It’s less useful for SNES. I’d even argue it’s not useful at all. The SNES buttons basically map 1:1 with modern controllers.

We really need it for NES, GB and GBA. Being able to map Y as B and B as A would make running and jumping in platform games feel much more natural and match how SNES and modern games do it.

@CJD87 I’m fairly certain that copies of MKW bundled with the Switch 2 console are included here, which would help explain why it’s doing so well.

It’s a shame you can barely see the inside cover art with the red case, even if it is translucent. It makes it hard to see, or is like looking at it inside a Virtual Boy headset.

This game just makes me worried that all future 2D/top-down Zelda games will follow this formula. I hated it.

Just like BotW and TotK make me worried that all future 3D Zelda games will follow that formula. Which they probably will.

God how depressing. Zelda has been my favourite gaming franchise since I first played A Link to the Past. I’m just going to go for a little cry.

They’re saving it for the Switch Trois

Why’s the guy complaining about them using Median instead Mean average? Mean would give a much more misleading number. Mean doesn’t work very well when you have a few very high data points. It would lead to the mean averaging being over a million probably, which nobody except a few people actually earn.

@Sambuc Fun Fact: I quickly played Double Dragon on the Master System yesterday to test a controller with unresponsive buttons that I’d cleaned. Fun fact 2: the cleaning fixed it.

@wiiware I asked the same thing in an article a month or so ago. Short answer is, they don’t. Long answer is, just Google it and you’ll find the rom. Works a treat on my GBA Everdrive 😀

@JohnnyMind it’s showing on Amazon UK right now so hopefully that means it’ll be readily available across much of Amazon’s European sites.

“ Think of it like a WaveBird, but with rumble intact and without the extra space required for the AA batteries; the best of both worlds, then.”

Personally I’d much prefer it if this controller (and all modern wireless controllers for that matter) took AA batteries thank you very much. At least I’d know the battery life would still be fine 10, 20 years down the line.

I loved Mario Sunshine at the time (and still do). I thought the graphics were amazing (still looks good, especially the heat haze on a CRT), and I loved the holiday/sunshine setting and playing around with the water gun. The only annoyance I recall were the blue coins. Not that there were 30 (I think?) per level, more that it didn’t track which ones you’d collected so if you were missing only a few and used a guide to get the rest you had to go through locations for all 30 of them until you found them. Mario Odyssey is the same with its purple coins.

I had this issue with my Game Boy Color. I just changed the batteries. Also, I didn’t have this issue with my Game Boy Color.

@Maxz thanks for that graph, I find it hilarious but the part of me that enjoys puzzles also wants to spend time working through it 🤣

@PLATINUM7 thanks for the explanation. That’s so very Nintendo, but also quite impressive at the same time. Whether by accident or design, you can transfer your Pokemon from as far back as the early 2000s to today.

Does it go back to the GB/GBC games? Could you transfer them to the GBA games on a GBA? Or would you use Fire Red / Leaf Green on GBA and Heart Gold / Soul Silver on the DS to get Pokemon from those games?

How do saves from GBA cartridges end up in a different Pokemon game on a different console 20+ years later?

@Zenszulu I seem to recall in the N64 mag (the one that evolved from Super Play), they had times from people who had the import version of the game, which were much faster than those with PAL copies of the game, so they had to have two separate leaderboards for it 🤣

@VVLV_Music yeah I read that. It only sounds like it will be a few pages of text at best, not enough for me to be interested in it anyway.

Shame there’s not much text (from what I can tell). I much prefer a book that has lots of lovely artwork AND lots of text to read, talking about the art, the artists, the development of the games or whatever.

There is a really good art book for Fighting Fantasy gamebooks called Magic Realms which gets the mix spot on in my opinion. There are loads of full page, full colour pieces of artwork, as well as multiple pages containing lots of smaller illustrations, but crucially it also has pages of text talking about the artists themselves, their background, how they got the commissions, them talking about specific artworks, the books themselves etc. It makes it a much more appealing book and it lasts longer too.

Other good examples are the Visual Compendiums or Box Art collection books from Bitmap Books. They have loads of lovely artwork, pixel art, scans of book art etc, but again there is a fair amount of text to read about it all as well.

Will be interesting to watch the video when I get chance. Everything I hear from people is positive, and the screenshots and clips I’ve seen so far look great, but most quotes and stats from the video mentioned in this article sound quite negative.

I haven’t watched the vid yet. Why shouldn’t we expect much from the console’s LCD panel with regards to HDR? Is the HDR not very good on it (so will affect all games), or is it just this game?

Seems quite the bombshell to drop without further explanation!

@LinktotheFuture thanks for confirming!

Does this plug into a Switch 1 and work? Reason I ask, I don’t have this game for the Switch (I played it on Wii U), and I was thinking of getting it, but at some point in the future I’ll get a Switch 2 and want to benefit from the Switch 2 upgrades.

I know I can upgrade the Switch 1 version of the game, but I like that this has the upgrade on the cart.

@OrtadragoonX thank you! I do like learning about tech.

@OrtadragoonX what is the APU/Nanometer? I’m interested to understand it

They should have just done a smaller screen and kept it at 720p. You don’t need 1080p on such a small screen, and the size of the Switch 1 OLED’s screen is just fine. It’s in Game Gear / Atari Lynx territory here!

@speed_loafer I use the joy-con grip a lot on Switch 1. I never understood the flak it received, I think it’s great. I use it instead of the pro controller when playing 2D platformers because of the d pad issues on the pro controller.

C’mon, test the d-pad properly Nintendo Life. It isn’t difficult. You don’t need to wait “weeks and months”. All you have to do is play a 2D platformer with it. Mario World. Do a couple of levels. You’ll be able to tell straight away.

From what you say, it sounds like it isn’t fixed, but before I spend £75 on a controller, I’d like a review to confirm this.

Unfortunately there isn’t an update to stop Echoes being lacklustre and, well, just shi….

Im annoyed the CRT filter is locked to the Switch 2. I can’t play N64 games on the Switch 1 via NSO as they just look too clean and clear. I know that sounds weird but they just don’t look right like that. It really benefits N64 games to me blurrier and from that little video the CRT filter looks quite good.

I might have to get this. I got the standard physical release on PS4. Despite it making my PS4 Pro sound like a jet engine (which thankfully I could mostly ignore as I played it with headphones as you’re supposed to), it was a great game. I’ve not played the Switch version but I like the idea of having it on Switch and playing through it again.

@SillyG did it already physically release on Switch? Or are you referring to this (possible) release?

Not sure I’ve ever used or noticed the news feed on the Switch. I can’t even think where it is. I best go have a look 🤣

I never understood all the fuss about the frame rates in these two games. I definitely noticed the hitches, and I definitely notice the difference between 30fps and 60fps, but was it really that bad?

I was more put off by the games themselves. Link’s Awakening was just lacklustre, and I thought Echoes was very dull and not a Zelda game at all. No improvements to frame rates will solve those issues.

As I suspected in the last article. Sega would have been the driving force behind the game-key card release for their game. While I’m not the biggest fan of LRG, I do buy the odd game from them so this is good to hear. The proof will be when they release a Switch 2 game though. I also suspect they’ll increase the price of their releases, if they’re having to pay more for the game cards.

It’s about time we had a standard set of lithium batteries. Then we can easily replace them iwhen they inevitably deteriorate, with high quality branded ones too. Instead, we’re given daft options like ‘don’t use the full capacity of the battery so it lasts longer because you won’t be able to replace it in future’. Yeah thanks.

Ok yeah, you’ve convinced. I’ll be buying this.

On Back to the Future, it already had a point and click style game on the Wii. It’s meant to be pretty good actually.