Henchdog

I'm busy moving pokemon from Gameboy to my gameboy advance and so on and so forth to 3ds for Switch. Figures I start this project to see this come up. Welp, I guess I better double time it.

This was weirdly advertised as late July in Australia but now they have signs for both late australia and late August. (Really don't think that late July is still gonna fly)
They've told me the shirts have been in the back of the store for a while so guess I'm waiting for that late August.

Kinda wish we could get some of the other dragon quest / pokemon stuff. When I was in Japan they had a ton of those, and I got a DQ shirt I love but shrunk a snippet.

We went last month and holy heck they were intense with security.

So many repeated checks to confirm our identities. Thought they'd give me more grief going back to my locked for my 3ds for a bit, but fortunately they were chill about it.

(Also if you can, take your 3ds in)

Admittedly enough I didn't watch the full video in this time, and I only scrolled it. That being said, wasn't there some 2D version or something in the big ol pokemon leak ages ago?

@PrincessMama I honestly would love a streamlined FF13 collection that also adds those modern accessibility features from FF7 Remake and the other rereleases.

When the Switch hit its early years I kept imagining we'd get FF13 compilation, Mass Effect Trilogy, and just a plethora of other PS3/360 era games that would be great portably.

I'm still holding out a bit of minor hope that companies will release those for some easy bucks while the Switch 1 still has a large audience.

@AussieMcBucket Now I'm just imagining the physical edition being a download code and a 512GB SD card with it going: Good luck, we don't even think this will be enough space.

Edit: It'll be that big because it'll have all the 1440P textures for 60fps mode and 1080p textures for 120fps mode. Also for some reason 4K uncompressed cutscene videos.

@Ogbert Well guess we can always wait and see if Aliexpress can provide

I just bought Warioware Twisted in Japan for my analog pocket and for a second when I saw "Wario" in the list I went: Of course they'd add that right after I buy it.

Neat to get Doctor Mario. I did wanna buy that cart too, but I already had the NES versions on GBA and it felt like a bit of a hat on a hat.

@DennisReynolds You like taking pokemon out onto the water... Because of the implication.

@electrolite77 I kept thinking it was gonna be the Call Of Duty mobile version ported to Switch 1.

Then a few years later Call of duty from Gamecube and Wii ported over.
Guess it's still not too late for "Finest Hour" to end up on the Gamecube NSO app.

@MyUsernameWasTaken I believe the removal of the cloud version means we'll get an exclusive Nintendo DS HD DLSS upscaled version for Switch 2 with a pre-order bonus song for Kingdom Hearts 4 Switch 2!... Cloud edition.

@Wewewi There's a few music references to the names:
Rock man (Mega man)
Roll
Blues (Proto man)
Bass

As for the blue bomber, I guess I've never thought about where that came from. Although whenever I hear it, I always think of those Brentalfloss lyrics:

"I am also known as the blue bomber, I could shoot the legs off Jeffrey Dahmer"

@hippoeater Every time one of the tech analysis videos from anyone comes up there will be posters like that. In fact whenever I see a digital foundry post go up, I know the first post is someone complaining.

I always find these videos fascinating to see all the stuff they do to get a game running on different platforms. Sadly people who only own one platform feel the need to defend it to the death.

"Ol console war stuff. Switch 2 version isn't the best? These people hate switch 2 >:[ "

I remember staying up late on work nights playing this in bed on the PSP. Don't remember a single thing about the game though.

@Manah Yeah I snagged the S1 version yesterday and then claimed the S2 version for 100% off. I'm mostly guessing there will be cross progression and whatnot like the other game. Heavens knows I'll end up also buying the Steam version and getting it on Android when/if that comes to be.

@LinktotheFuture Awesome! Thanks for letting me know! I wanted to be able to take a Switch 1 out while the Switch 2 is docked at home and jam it.

Huh curious, I thought there might be a Switch 1 version and a free upgrade for Switch 2 based on the pricing. Although as far as I can tell, there's no upgrade anyways?
Is there any difference between them?

This game ranges between 10-30 dollarydoos in Australia and you get the free Switch 2 upgrade for the code-in-box.

@Quarth It stands for "Coalition for the Liberation of Itinerant Tree-Dwellers".
I did have a double take with "gyseuxh".

I'm starting to think I'm not getting my PSVita copies of Mighty No 9 and Bloodstained either.

@Realness It's been 10 years and I finally have the courage to respond to you: How dare you say that in front of my Nintendo 2DS!?

I'd rather just do another subspace mode for a new smash bros than a whole movie.

Mind I'm one of those crazy people holding out for Super Smash Bros Ultimate + where they add in the missing modes / stages from other games into Smash Ultimate.

My biggest issue of the physical auto catcher is when it ends gym battles, or causes weird issues in team rocket battles. It kinda causes a lot of strange results at times.
If you told me I could pay the same as a physical one, once off in game, I'd say "fair enough" and get it done and dusted.

@Joeynator3000 Or dare we say: This is just like Dragon Quest Builders

How... How wasn't this a whole video or in a direct or something?

"Plus, there’s now a mechanic where opening a door or reaching for an item will trigger a brief sequence where you can often get jump-scared by an unexpected ghost." But... That was in the Wii version already? It's not a new thing?

Mario clash is lower than Tennis?
Huh weird.

Also, is it just me, or is it impossible to get the whole Virtual boy screen in focus at once? I can never get my head at a point where I see everything. I can always move it around a bit to see more up/down.

I might've missed it in the article, but what do you get from the final season? And what do you do to complete it?

I assume it's special spawns in the overworld, but what's the pokemon? From the serbei link I assume it's... the bike pokemon?

Man, I can never follow any of the pokemon seasonal rewards for any game.

Video games taught me a ton of English, and pokemon in general is amazing for learning a language.

I remember loading a German copy of Pokemon Yellow on my 3DS so I could get a better sense of the language.

@Zuljaras me outside Gabe Newell's house with a battering ram reading the last bit of the message
OH! Not the deck. Jeez, I'm embarrassed now.
(Recently with retroachievements on my 34XXSP and Steamdeck I rather play on those instead of my OG cartridges on my Analogue Pocket anyways.)

@Yosher Jeez, He-man and Thundercats are pretty nostalgic for me. I even had some hand-me-down PJs of both.
But yeah, that 4 non blondes song is also tightly wrapped for me in He-man, as well as CKY/Gnarkill 's Skeletor vs. Beastman.

Now I'm gonna have that Maximum Carnage song stuck in my head for the rest of the day:

https://youtu.be/8XJG8ywk7eQ?si=azm3jMpOW8a-ZpAD&t=37

If memory serves, didn't the Xbox 360 version of Peace Walker also include the Sony Walkman?
This isn't exactly new territory for em.
Apple though I imagine will be the most difficult about using the likeness again.
Kinda a missed opportunity to include MGS Touch in this collection as well.
I mean, it's not... Great, but it would've been novel. The Switch could've at least used the touchscreen.

Man, everyone got notifications for shipping of it already in Aus as far as I can tell, but mine is still being packed. Guess it's cause I added other stuff as well.

I'm keen to experiment with it with BOTW and so on.
I plugged my PSVR into the Switch 2, and wow is it a big step up at 60fps instead of 30.

Kinda surprised this is collection 2.

I suspected collection 2 would be all the handheld entries:

PSP portable ops + plus
PSP ACID 1 + 2
Ghost babel
Maybe the graphic novel on PSP?
And potentailly something silly like the mobile game, ios game, or hell, maybe special ops.

Then I'd see collection 3 being:

MGS4
Rising

With Collection 4 finally being:

MGS 5 + Ground zeroes... Maybe even survive for the hell of it.

Somewhere inbetween em they could pepper in Metal Gear arcade too.

I see it's in the Australian store too. Also see they added little calendars (modern and retro).

I gave this a go with the Switch 2 version. WAY better with 60fps. Although still not thrilled about the static position of the PSVR1.
I wonder if the Virtual Boy will help some of this.

@NintendoWife It is?

@AussieMcBucket Sounds like the three of us can solve a problem with each other... Now who wants to fly to Australia to play Mario Party with me!?

The Switch 2 version of this went for 9-20 AUD recently and I was legit considering it. If I spot it again for that price, is it worth picking up?

I liked the story mode of the previous game, but never finished it. I think I just got to one boss (a squid or something?) and I legit couldn't figure out how to get past em. I wanted to try it again, but then I got Mario Golf which... I'm kinda neglecting too...

@Nick2054 Kinda reminds me how easy it was to get a Switch 2 at launch in Australia. I heard from a few different people here that part of the reason was because Nintendo got skiddish of the pricing situation in the states, and reallocated a lot of units to Australia for initial sales.
Naturally this was only initially because of the tariffs and whatnot, but now of course AI has to make our lives heck.

It's one reason I suspect the Switch 1 and PS4 will continue to have more releases. They're still fairly capable, you can get em secondhand for pretty cheap, and their games can be played on newer systems.

The first time years ago I saw Star Stories I thought to myself I should get it.
When I moved overseas I again went: "I should get it." But then it sold out.
When it popped up last year again on a local gaming store, I ordered it. It took several months thanks to all the chaos of getting things from the states, but now I finally have it.
(To be fair, my hollow knight and hazbin hotel vinyls also took ages from the states)
10/10 would recommend.
Currently eyeballing a wii music fan made vinyl on etsy, but the shipping costs are nearly the price of the vinyl :/

@Scarmucci This has been on my mind as well. All the previous VR stuff would benefit greatly from a higher resolution screen and framerate. I see Odyssey still has the VR option listed on the menu on Switch 2, so it'll be one of my first things I give a go.

I went to World Square this weekend (where I picked up my Switch 2 at midnight launch) and found it didn't exist anymore.

It's not entirely surprising though. JB Hi-Fi, Target, and K-mart often have games for cheaper than EB games. It's especially frustrating when their games in the secondhand bin cost more than the same game sold new.

@Dee123 I mean, NoA is a huge reason Nintendo is as big as it is these days. They were very instrumental in setting up locations and making decisions that were huge gambles but got NES systems into stores. In fact there's a pretty interesting history in how one guy lying about being a big store franchise in Europe managed to snag the rights to Nintendo products too, and ended up making it a success.

@DTfearTheBEARD Where you can have it on another platform that'll require a download before playing.

@Spider-Kev Kinda unrelated, but I kept thinking Nintendo would release a SwitchTV revision. Basically a Nintendo Switch box that plugs only into a TV like a PSVita. It's silly I know, but it's kinda like your thing.

@Exerion76 I'm still playing the first octopath traveler since it came out... Starting to think I'm never actually finishing it. Mind that's probably because of my cravings to pedantically level everyone the same.

I gave it a go in person a month or so back. It's not a terrible experience, mind I've also played Fromsoft games going back to the PS1 era, so seeing framedrops feels kinda the norm by now with em. I'd say the only time it really bothered me for a bit is when I'd run outside from a place and feel a sharper decline. Truth be told if I got this on Switch 2, I'd probably 100% it again.