Jayenkai

Upcoming headline : "Nintendo Moderation Staff mass walkout after 1 hour of Mario Paint being online"

I expect in a lot of cases, a simple recompile would do the job. Maybe a few tweaks, like how they'd've optimised the rendering to account for the speed of the system, and would hopefully have defined those settings somewhere easily accessible.

But.. I have a feeling that Nintendo's methodology would make that a tougher job than most people would realise. They really do squeeze every ounce of power out of a system, and that means a ton of tweaks and nips and tucks all over the place, and undoing some of those might unravel a whole myriad of bugs. Game events being locked to "the framerate the Switch can manage", and rendering looking fine when at the slightly lower end, but showing all manner of issues when upscaled.
Things like that.

Good luck to all involved, I say!

Dev : Can we put cool stuff in, please? This menu's boring.
Exec : NO!!!
Dev : Sneaks in imperceptible blips.

I'm so looking forward to an era of having a zillion bland ports where the developers don't even bother working on console-standard controls because there's a mouse now. hurray

I still want to know where Alarmo REALLY came from, and what that tech was originally supposed to be. A bog-standard mouse feels like quite the downgrade.

@notohoho (SmileBoom) posted about his success in the pre-order lotto the other day, too. He'll be fixing up SmileBASIC4, which currently has "uses the IRSensor" issues.
https://x.com/notohoho/status/1915585236479668495

I keep forgetting it's there. Most of my news is via the browser. Even on the phone, I'll sway towards news sites, as opposed to news apps.

I am SO bad at Fast RMX. I bought it day one, and I ain't unlocked jack!!!!

Yeah, that sounds more legit. Not a "Doesn't work with Cloud Save" and more a "New version of the save doesn't work with older version of the game".

"Neeeaaa.. Neeeeeee.. Neeeeeeeaaa.. Scrrreeeeech. Kapooooooooooof Blam.. Pow. FWWWAAA"

EACH!?!

... Good grief.

Amazon : "Job lot nintendo cake toppers"
Buy those, attach ribbon, dangle on tree.
If you can't figure out how to attach ribbon, try adding..
Amazon : "Empty christmas baubles"

You're welcome.

EAExec : Do we still have Geoff's phone number?
EAReceptionist : Geoff? Old Geoff? He quit around 1996, didn't he?.. .. It should still be on the computer, but I bet it's an outdated number.
EAExec : Just give him a ring and see if he still has the MegaDrive source code, will you?

I miss the 3DS's themes so very very much.

Reminder : You CAN plug a mouse into your original Switch.
And some games even work with it.
Having a mouse "option" isn't the problem. For me, it's things like...

.. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S has a mouse mode, because EVERYONE needs a mouse mode for playing that, don't they...

And when I first thought "oh, it'll be ok, 'cos in Handheld mode the mouse controls would be replicated by having the touchscreen", because that made sense.. .. And then that bloomin' Wheelchair Basketball thing happened and I went "Oh, good grief" (but with swearier words)

Since 2012, I've found it hard to sit comfortably at a desk, so have done all my coding/arting/musicaling on my laptop, on the couch or sat in bed. I tried to use a mouse in those situations, but it's just not comfortable to do.
This whole thing smacks of "the developer is sitting at a desk", and reminds me of how we went through a period (and still happens) where the font on the screen is 8pt on a 1080p screen, because the developer is sat right in front of their monitor, and not the one end of the room playing from a sofa to the TV at the other side.

Also, just saying, but if you hold a Joycon between your finger and thumb like a pen... WAY more comfortable. Try it.
If the sensor was in the little diagonal cutout at the "tip" of the joycon... ... ...

And... this is pre-tax..? They're still adding tax on top?
Yikes!!!

I really wanted to like Arms more than I did.
... But then, I also wanted to like 1-2-Switch.
Some games you just have to say "that's alright, thanks, Ninty."

.... until the first update.
The latest update was about 35Gb, iirc.

Still not sold on the Mouse. There's a reason I don't use a mouse with my laptop when sat on the couch. It's the same reason I do use a mouse when sat at a desk.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but ... you'd have to turn on the switch 2, (maybe turn on your telly, depending on whether your telly does that) then turn on the switch 1, go back to the switch 2 to hit the C button, then settle down on the couch to play the game.
That doesn't "feel" very Nintendo, to me.

Rhythm "whatever" Megamix is one of my absolute favourite collections. Wonderfully presented, and it just keeps on going.
So much content.
So much gameplay.
...
.... This is going to be a letdown, by comparison, isn't it!?

C is for Cookie. That's good enough for me.

Req : Put a music player in the Switch 2, and let it play any music from any game that's installed.
Do that, Ninty.. Do that!!!

Lovely. Smooth.
But I'm watching it on a 60fps display and it looks smooth.
It's not the FPS, it's how smooth it's running behind the scenes.

Advent Calendar?!!? .. Go on.. Ooooh, Advent of Pokemon! Oooooh....

DKGameboy Woohooo!!!

Just imagine if modern remasters were like that, expanding on the original and becoming something more worthwhile, instead of just being "it is the sam, but it can has HD graffix"
All the time and effort these teams put into remaking games. At the very least, add an extra set of levels, or a new map, or extra challenges within the original levels, or something... Anything..
Bowser's Fury is one of the most interesting remakes we've had in recent years. More like that. Come on, Ninty, do cool things again!

Poing (1992) : https://youtu.be/lrNLwT714ec

It's ok to still be excited about the prospect of it wrapping around a Switch 1/2 to make it into a functional gameboy, right?

Exec : "why are there two Master Chiefs on this level?"
Dev : "That's not Master Chief. That's Doom guy!
Exec : "Oh.."
....
Exec : "Ship it!"

....wait, what..?
Bleem...?!

@N00BiSH Maybe he should relegate himself to being the Lakitu of Sega Racing. If you choose to play as Sonic, it's your job to keep rescuing all the drivers that veer off course.

Is it ok to still be frustrated about the reasons as to why he's stuck in a car?
I know we're on the (..?) 4th modern "Sonic inexplicably stuck in a car" game, but I'm still not over it yet.

Obligatory "Day of the Tentacle" reference.

Sonic remade using BlitzBasic!!! (RIP:Mark Sibly)

"Upload another AGameAWeek game to the SmileBasic server" button.

Sega Exec : No, no, it'll be JUST like Mario Kart. People buy DLCs for that all the time. It's just moving a vehicle from a to b. This is that. It's exactly the same. Put more DLCs in. People will love it just like Mario Kart 8. What could go wrong?

Have the people who've complained ever noticed that Link's looked a "little" bit different through the years?

I bought one of those ROGAlly doohickeys at the end of last year, and I have to say..
... Windows absolutely sucks for this kind of device.
If you're shopping for something, go with SteamDeck.

(* I'm aware it's becoming easier to put SteamOS onto the ROGally. I just need to find time to do that!)

Gotta love 'em, but modern Team17 holds as much a place in my heart as modern Codemasters did before they ultimately got EAd to death.
I shall always have fond memories of them, and the hundreds of thousands of hours of play that their games gave to me, but realistically ... that was decades ago.

.. and they never did bring back Arcade Pool.

Farewell, Team17. It's been a beautiful adventure.

Anyone else grabbed their joycon and tried it yet? It's not very comfortable, or at least for me it isn't.

@Andee A white hole...?

That bit where the music stops and the big 2 shows up on screen.. My head keeps going "Seeeegaaaa!"

Should a PDF be ABLE to run Doom...!?
I mean, I don't want to be Mr Cynical, but these are the sorts of "experiments" that took Flash down.

I'll probably stick with my "don't emulate things you can buy brand new in a shop" rule of thumb, I think. That's typically been the sensible methodology for emulation, right?

I've recently been trying to play things on an ROGAlly and constantly being bashed in the face by frustrating Windows issues, quirks, updates and other annoying things.

Bring on the Switch 2!

Build a big chunky Lego skin and slot the Switch2 into it?....?

@Tober .. until you notice that Wipeout's not on.
If any game "defined a culture", it's Wipeout.

No Manic Miner?! ...

.. or it's a little communication sensor so the Switch knows the JoyCon's connected closely enough, so can safely charge it.
And maybe a bit of data transfer, like what colour it is, etc..

Makes you "wonder" which team came up with the name wonder, first, and just how late in the day the name was tagged onto Super Mario Bros. Wonder.