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Let me have Elfilin plus Adeleine and Ribbon as separate characters, please.

Other than characters, we have pending
-Top Ride
-Whatever that teased character at the end of the last Direct entails.

I wasn't planning to get it, but I've change my mind after seeing concept art that, to my recollection, is brand new, such as the Zero Suit one, with the added bonus of a brand new artwork for Metroid: Zero Mission and what is essentially the original image used for the Samus silouette in the Japanese boxart, although edited foe the concept art.

Hopefully it is not hard to get here in Mexico.

@JJtheTexan
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That's how you do it, just remove the spaces inside the brackets. I added them because the site would otherwise think I'm trying to actually add a hyperlink.

About this update, I too was expecting them to add Samus Returns at the same time as Metroid II. However, I cannot complain for having more Metroid in Nintendo Music.

To the surprise of some, there were official SEGA games on the Famicom via other companies such as Sunsoft or Tokuma Shoten as well as some dubious (as in not official) ports by Tengen on the NES.

Officially there's After Burner, Altered Beast, Space Harrier, Alien Syndrome, Fantasy Zone I and II and Puyo Puyo (before it became a SEGA IP). Nowaday with SEGA Sammy, VICE: Project Doom is now considered a SEGA game on the NES, at least going by the NSO publisher.

At this point in time, I'll stick with NSO for the most part.
But of course, if I'm given a chance to get the 3 Tetris games available on NSO, Kirby Tilt n Tumble, the Rare games (Rare Replay or not), Mario Paint, Mario & Wario and the Pokémon Stadiums, I'd gladly pay for those.

I'd welcome it if that's how we get the classic Pokémon versions, but I've reached a point where I don't really care about the series anymore (and no, the games and their performance have nothing to do with it, I simply stopped playing them due to lack of hardware that by the time I got the systems, I wasn't gonna play catch-up with what I missed)

Let's have the Year of Chip.

And no, I'm not worshipping Unleashed.

Maybe I'll bite and get the physical NS2 Edition or wait for a complete release that has the DLC.

With that said, I swear, if I see another post about the wall textures, Mega Starmie or Emma's sas (that's all I get in regards to Pokémon posts in social media).
I'm starting to get tired of those.

17/21, not bad.

Some of these mangled boxarts is how I imagine AI would reproduce them.

LMAO I don't know why I find this funny. Imagine if you get Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo via lootbox, microtransactions or whatever. Only to find out that it's to manage their teams and not actually playing as them.

I know Football Manager has fans of its own, but I can see some FIFA fans thinking this is the actual new FIFA after EA stopped calling their games FIFA.

So, how many Dragon Ball games have been released since the Switch came out?

If only they could do a re-release of Dragon Ball Origins 1+2.

I do play NES games, but since it's the only Nintendo system I've never owned, I play them through other means: Ports, Collections, Virtual Console, NES mini, NSO, etc.

No, the NES mini doesn't count as owning an actual NES.

@Markiemania95 Also, what are the 3 Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Battle Revolution then?
Given the kind of game it will be, I'm also expecting Pokémon Champions to have an announcer/battle narrator.

With that said, whose call it is to have voices in Pokémon games?

@Mariotag You think that's bad? How about the Mega Blaziken stone being a launch distribution for XY? Yes, the debut game for Mega Evolutions didn't have all the Mega Stones available during normal gameplay, as far as I know, I haven't played them.

Thankfully in ORAS, it can be obtained during normal gameplay.

Hopefully it doesn't become Mario Kart featuring the Great Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day after the races.

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@Late beyond those 3 series plus Kid Icarus: Uprising, I think Sakurai once mentioned that prior to Meteos he did some supervising and consulting work in some games but opted to not have his name in the credits as people might erroneously think they were his games the same ways as Smash.

@Ooyah I mean, it is an Xbox, which nowadays cannot be arsed to be called anything else other than the letters X and S.

I'm sure this product will be a solid competition for the Switch 2 and Steam Deck, but I honestly hesitate to call it an Xbox handheld as many seem to be doing.

The price means I'm out of this race immediately.

Sorry for derailing the main topic, for anyone who didn't see the removed comment, it was something along the lines of "no tears shed from me" (not with those words, though) and pretty much the reply to me.

And yes, I'm expecting this comment itself to be removed at some point.

Is anyone from the Nintendo-era still at Rare?

@Bunkerneath I swear I didn't think of the pun when I wrote my comment. Good catch.

I'm not really interested Assassin's Creed Shadows, and even if I were, one of these two games will inevitably go down in price faster than it probably should that I could wait a bit to get it.

The announcement will be about another delay. Now to coincide with the 2026 World Cup, for whatever reason.

Derailing a bit the topic of the Switch 2 and Rog Ally X, how does "the world's biggest rollercoaster" constitutes an invention?

So, what's the split in sales between the different GTAV versions?

I'm gonna go with Japan for showing Duck King.

However, the western cover has a few "cheeks" to its favor* as well as Not-Master Roshi.

*And yes, that probably sounds wrong. I apologize.

EDIT: Looking closely at the Japanese cover, it's hard to not laugh at Kim's goofy smile.

@Suketoudara @KingMike
Thanks for the tips. I found out that gliding is the Y button while midair. Since every face button is Jump, might as well remap Y to A or B since those are the buttons I use the most to jump.

Anything else we Bubsy newcomers should know? Other than "Don't play it".

@Riff-the-Don Best luck finding the mouse that suits your and your son's needs the best.

This weekend I'm free from general occupations, so my time will be spent on some casual matches in Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics.

For something more serious, I'm also playing Itadaki Street DS. I thought my time in Fortune Street would have helped me get the gist of the game, but apparently I still suck, so I'm gonna let the CPUs play some boards while I simply observe. Thankfully for human players there is an auto-play option, but it doesn't guarantee that you'll get results as good as CPUs.

I hope that doing that at least helps me understand what I'm doing wrong, other than the dice being against me.

@Riff-the-Don The lack of drivers for USB mice on the Switch is indeed mentioned in Q Remastered. So the advice is correct, look for a plug and play one.

That game also states that wireless mice with a USB receiver can be used, but for whatever reason mine doesn't work with the Switch.
As a matter of fact, I also have a generic wireless keyboard with a trackpad that can also serve as a wireless mouse; the keyboard part works on the Switch (and the Wii U, actually), but not the mouse one.

Both of my USB mice and the wireless keyboard are indeed plug and play, I actually bought them not knowing if they were PnP or not.

The wired mouse costed me about 35-40 Mexican Pesos, which should be $2 at most, the wireless one I believe was 100 Pesos (around $5).
That wireless keyboard was 250 Mexican Pesos (about $12.50), but I'm sure it can be found much cheaper than that.

It's a shame the trackpad of the wireless keyboard doesn't work, that would be the closest to a literal "mouse controller" for mouse-only games.

@Riff-the-Don I haven't seen any articles about "Best Mice* for Nintendo Switch" here in NL, I have a cheap Mexican store-brand one that I use exclusively for the Switch and it does the job pretty well. I originally got it for Q Remastered, but now I only use it for Mario Paint and now Mario & Wario.
I also have a wireless one via a receiver, but unfortunately that one doesn't work with the Switch.

*Is that the plural for "computer mouse"?

Watched the first first movie via streaming with my family, I think that was the best way I could've watched it.
For me it was just the usual Jack Black st, not really my kind of entertainment.

With that said, it was good quality time with the family when I watched it (not for the movie itself, at least not for me), so if the second movie can do the same, I'm all for it.

Too little, too late for me to care. Maybe if it were Chrono Trigger + Chrono Cross.

@Beanbon To a certain extent and depending on what content is there (more specifically how much content), I can maybe see a streaming service being part of NSO. If not, they could make them a permanent part of Nintendo Today!.

6 out of 10 new releases in the top 10 is a nice change of pace compared to what we usually see.

I believe this is also the first time in a while in which the OG Switch is sandwiched between the different PSs and Xboxes. It's usually between 2 PSs.

@Suketoudara Thanks a lot for the tip. I'll try it later today when I boot up the Switch. But first, I need to figure out how to glide, haha (I refuse to say lol).

Hopefully that helps make my time with Bubsy slightly less miserable than with just savestates and rewind.

Cannot say I'm disappointed since I actually stated it could be entirely non-gaming related in the original story.

Good Job! Nintendo Pictures. Here's hoping we see more Short Movies (be it Pikmin or otherwise) like this one.

EDIT: Come to think of it, do we know who made the recent Mario shorts?

@Munchlax It's obviously the god of...whatever religion is the prevalent one in the Mario world, not just the Mushroom Kingdom.

Isn't this just a reupload of Anime Life Sim? Though from this one image alone, AVO is closer to Animal Crossing that ALS.

Ok, so I played about 5 minutes of the first Bubsy level. What could possibly go wrong? Well, 3 things already.

1. The momentum during a running jump will always push Bubsy forward, you can reduce it by holding the D-Pad in the opposite direction but not completely cancel it. If you only press the D-Pad, Bubsy will simply fling himself facing the opposite direction. That will make jumping a little bit difficult.

2. One hit deaths. Granted I havent' progressed beyond the huge cliff after the second checkpoint to see if there's health. I want to believe there is.

3. Fall Damage. Really? There's fall damage in a 2D platformer? And one that counts as a hit, in other words, fall damage can also kill you with one hit.

Guess I'll play Mario & Wario in between the Marvel Vs. Capcom collection and Itadaki Street DS. Not a bad addition by any means.

Just like Fatal Fury 2, I can try the SNES version of Fatal Fury Special before I get the ACA NEOGEO version.

Including Bubsy when the collection is available is certainly a choice. Whether it's a good one or not...I'm not one to judge Atari.

Heads-up: Japan is also getting these three games. Yes, even Bubsy.

EDIT:
@Sunsy Also the rewind function should make our time with Bubsy a not so miserable one.

If it leads to Pikmin Babies, as in a Pikmin version of the 80s Muppets Babies, I'm all for it.

Are the worlds expanded from the get-go or do you still have to expand them after you entered them and maybe collected a few items?
If it's the former, I'll more than willing to give Yooka-Laylee a chance again.
If it's the latter, might as well go back to the original and try to defeat Capital B. once and for all.

It depends on how we are measuring it. Every game I buy is technically new to me with a few exceptions such as a re-release or games (such as Luigi's Mansion) that I previously owned but had to let go some time ago.

If we specify, my stats for 2025 so far, per my backloggery:

Brand new/Sealed (regardless of price)? Probably not many, maybe 2-3 per year. 5 at most.
So far, I've bought sealed copies of Mario & Sonic Rio 2016 3DS, Pac-Man World Re-PAC, Capcom Fighting Collection 2 and Marvel Vs. Capcom Fighting Collection. My last purchase in this category for 2025 will be Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

Second-hand? Quite a lot since I tend to find them rather cheap, these can easily be 7-10 per year.
So far, Metroid: Samus Returns, Jump Super Stars, Tingle's Balloon FIght DS, Luigi's Mansion, Star Fox: Assault, Baten Kaitos 1, Tales of Symphonia, Fight Night Round 2, Itadaki Street DS. Jump Ultimate Stars doesn't count because that one was a gift from a friend that went to Japan.

Cheap, digital-only games (no more than 200 Mexican Pesos)? Yeah, these are also a lot and can easily be 15-20 or more per year.
So far: Picross S Namco Legendary Edition, Amanda the Adventurer, Omega 6: The Triangle Stars, JALECOlle Famicom Ver.: Pizza Pop!, Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle (when it was on sale and the closure was nowhere to be seen), SNK Gals' Fighters, King of Fighters R-2, Q with VTubers, Shockman 1, Classic Racing Pack: Moto Roader MC + Rider's Spirits and the ACA releases of Rally-X, The Legend of Valkyrie, Art of Fighting, Kiki Kaikai, Mappy, Puzzle Bobble, Bubble Bobble and Rainbow Islands.

Some food for thought about the possibility of the baby being Baby Rosalina.

One thing I'll give credit to the Mario movie is that Baby Mario, Baby Luigi and to a certain extent Baby Peach look like their game counterparts.

This baby, however, doesn't look a lot like Baby Rosalina (other than the hair) or movie Baby Peach. I can give it the benefit of it being younger than the usual baby versions, though.

Spoiler for anyone who hasn't played Super Mario Galaxy 1.
Also, per her storybook in-game, isn't Rosalina's mom supposed to be more or less another Rosalina without her hair covering her right eye?

Why would they pull a live-action Inspector Gadget's Dr. Claw and show her face?
I imagine that for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie they will have a flashback of Rosalina as a girl teasing us about her mom in the same way as in Galaxy 1.

With all that said, the lack of an age rating from ESRB on this video (it is a NoA upload) might indeed mean it's something non-gaming related.

@Lizuka Thanks for the heads-up.

@RupeeClock Trust me, I've shown Picross to family, friends and even some students who are neither into math nor very visual learners, and their expressions to the most basic Picross I showed them was similar to Mario's.

I suppose that's what they're trying to convey? Maybe?

What's in the Mario Party 3 icons lineup? More specifically, does it have classic Daisy?

As for the Mario's Super Picross icons, I've always loved the art of the Mario-themed Picross games.

If it is for Pikmin, I'm gonna say Pikmin has gone invisible Chibi-Robo!

Regardless, nothing like a bit of innocent cuteness to start the day (It's 7:30am over here)

@ShieldHero Just a little clarification. Yes, AlphaDream did some work in Mario & Sonic Tokyo 2020 but they weren't the main developers of the series, those would be Racjin, with help from others (apart from Nintendo itself) such as Marvelous AQL for Sochi 2014, Yuke's, Success and AlphaDream for Tokyo 2020.

You're probably thinking of the Mario & Luigi series.

Edit to the comment above me: No problem. However, you raise a good point. Would SEGA bring Acquire to have them do the same job AlphaDream did in Tokyo 2020?

@Megas75 Back in 2019 in the lead up to Mario & Sonic Tokyo 2020, I actually joked about how Pac-Man and Doraemon should've been in the game due to their appearance in the RIo 2016 closing ceremony.

You're telling that it actually could've been a thing? I somehow missed that.

@MrCarlos46 somehow I can imagine the Galactic Federation having some sort of internal sports competition, similar to Blast Ball.

What a coincidence. A few hours ago I was saying on the forums how Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games DS is material for one of the best DS games.

Anyway, when are the next olympics? Be it summer or winter. Ok, I know there should be winter olympics in 2026 (they always occur in the same year there's a World Cup), I just don't know where they will be.
EDIT: They will be at Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy.

(The following comment is AI generated*)

As far as my job goes, no, I haven't used AI myself, my boss has used ChatGTP to redact letters, requests and permissions to local departments outside the school I work such as the transit, the commerce department or Civil Defense. He gives me the ChatGTP generated text and it is on me to do the human input to the results and give it format. Now, if a machine replaced me and did everything I do at said school (and I mean EVERYTHING), I will of course fight back.

I'm not advocating for the use of AI as replacement of the human resource, however, I'm gonna say that the best outcome for AI would be:
1. Train the AI with your own material.
2. Let it generate.
3. MANDATORY: Have an actual humans look at what was generated and have them do the corrections and touch-ups.

But let's be real, it won't happen because point 1 is immediately not respected and point 3 will either be abused by companies and cheap/lazy individuals or not have human input in the results.

*No, it isn't.+
+And yes, I'm gonna make that a running joke every time I comment on an AI article.