Jayenkai

The videogame equivalent of publishing a spreadsheet of your bank robbery profits.

WarioWare and Rhythm [insert regional name here] would be most appreciated.

Forgot all about this, but .. Yeah, I think this might explain why I'm finding the new TV I purchased in September to be slightly more difficult to stare at than my previous tellies. It's an OLED screen...
Hmmm.

Probably should've remembered about this thread before buying that. Dangit.
Thanks @Sketcz!

Wonder if that NSO test thing had anything to do with them, behind the scenes, stress testing audio streaming around the world..?

Meanwhile, at NintyHQ...
"Our antipiracy measures are working perfectly! Mua-ha-haaaa"

Where's Worms Blast, already!?

Yeah, I kinda love the idea of this, but you really do have to wonder.. Why are 90% of these not already on the NSO service?!
And the answer is probably "because we can sell this.."
So. I dunno. I don't think it's worth complaining.
I do love me some Bombliss..

@-wc- Facebook? Honest suggestion. Old schoolfriends who still enjoy games like we do, and that one other person in the family who plays games. .. As a bonus, you get to confuse and frustrate all the other people who follow you just for the cat photos.

@-wc- Yeah, the 8-bit "Hi-Tech" games were really quite impressive for the time and systems they were on. Back in the day, care and attention was given to these characters. It's a real shame that this collection didn't end up being better than it is.

Isn't there a dongle thing for the Museum? Is this not just that?

I wonder how much the new PS5Pro's price is less about what tech's in it, and more about what kickbacks they're getting from Software Sales.

Nintendo's still making tons, weekly, from sales of Mario Kart 8...

Pokemon Pogs....!!!!!

Over at AGameAWeek I've been making silly little mediocre mini games for the better part of 2 decades, now, and in an alarmingly small amount of time, I've seen the AI grow from "It can just about do Pong, barely", to "It can make a game better than I can, within the space of a few seconds.", to "It can make up its own Doom, now, on the spot, in realtime."

For a short while, that was the most disheartening thing I'd ever seen, and really put a damper on what I do. I kinda lost faith in it all, and though I didn't specifically say "Alright, fair enough, game over", I certainly did feel it at points.
But I'm a hobbyist, and at the end of the day, I still have the ability to hobby away and make my fun little projects.
That's what my mindset is, now.
I'll carry on making my little games, because that's what keeps me occupied. My extremely limited audience will likely decrease to myself and My Mum!!! Meh, whatever. It's still fun for me to do this, even if nobody cares about the end result.

But I don't do what I do for the money. And I REALLY do worry about those who do. If your whole livelihood depends on being able to do something that an AI can do with ease, you're going to struggle. And sooner, rather than later.
But the genie's out of the bottle. And there's no going back.
I think we need a better solution than "Let's try to stop it from taking our jobs." because.. I think it'll likely do that, anyway.

Has anyone else remarked on the fact that an actual dreamcast at launch ($199) would've been cheaper than the $249 for this..?
I mean, I know "inflation" and all that, but .. ..
That model Dreamcast better be a functional little Micro Console, is all I'm saying.

.. World Record for plugging things in?!
I mean, ok.. sure.. why not..

....Anyone know what the world record for the most games developed by a single person is?

Funko Pops : Keep them in the box. They're much more valuable that way. ... .. Because you sure can't tell what they're supposed to be without the description on the box.

Hang on whilst I check my Surprised-o-meter.
.. Oh, it says 0..

You know how Lego Horizons was so "This really should be on a Nintendo Platform.."
Maybe Nintendo's feeling sorry for Sony..

Nice. I love in-depth content, and am an avid reader of all things retro. I wonder what the write-ups for each item will be like.
I hope it delves into things like "this promotional item was created to celebrate the x anniversary of y franchise, which happened on the nth of Monthary." and things like that. Maybe taking a peek into the designers, and maybe even proto-pics and things.

Cool... Now if only it wasn't so dark and gloomy looking.

DK Meets Shrek : DK discovers a curious swamp deep in the forest. Crazy name-based antics ensue.

@Reg There's a VR MicroMachines on Quest that came out recently.

Anyone else think the cars were moving alarmingly slow?

@Ooyah "Your blade is not sharp enough to defeat this boss. You need to upgrade to the Wilkinson Sword."

@dojmin I think mine was Burnout Paradise, the first time, when that came out on X360... That's quite a long time ago, and I've not particularly been avoiding them.

Hang on, lemmie check my bank balance..
..
Will they accept fruit?

I really hope there's something "Nintendo" about this. Right now it does indeed sound very much like they reused a ton of the "Murdered by Covid" Switch Pro features. Nintendo's gotta Nintendo, right!? Back-Compat is one thing, but bring us something new and amazing, too.

Called it..
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/02/random-nintendo-updates-the-domain-for-its-japanese-site#comment8020735

I really wish we could do more with these. Hopefully Switch 2 will do a nice menu-mashup between Switch and 3DS's menu systems, so we can earn/purchase beautiful menu themes, and then have these rewards instead of the pin badges that we got from that stupid bunny arcade thing that I hated so bloomin much.

Highlander 2..? .. But there can be.. [snip]

"Top 10 game publishers"

.. I'm struggling to think of more than 10 big publishers, nowadays, if I'm honest.

Giant Platdude FTW!

I expect we'll be getting a similar one in other places. They're probably just making it so they can market a singular "Nintendo.com" and have a redirect take folk to the appropriate "/country", easier, without any browser security panicking about a redirect to a different domain.

Blinx ftw! That was a bit of a failed concept, but it could've been great. Give it another go. Do it well. Do it for Nintendo!

@RupeeClock I agree with both of these viewpoints, to the point where I do find myself wondering why they didn't do both (and more from the series) games together into a mega-game.
It's pretty much all the same underlying physics, except for maybe the original first few levels (the Donkey Kong bit) from Super Donkey Kong.... I really don't see why they can't have built a decent editor, and set about recreating ALL the levels from ALL the games.
shrugs

"$10 off".. as if $10 wasn't roughly the complete amount that I'd be happy to spend on such a thing.

Aonuma pointing at the vast empty area behind Mario World, and going "That's not big enough...."

I got really tired of the "fight" scenes, really really quickly. Watching a ball bounce around the screen wasn't exactly the most engrossing thing I've seen. I got about halfway through the first season before getting insanely bored by it all. A definite downgrade from what Boom was.

I'm playing "Spending time with family and friends, catching up on another year passed".
It's a heartwarming game about joy and love, but occasionally has scary dramas, and tales of horror and misfortune.
Highly recommended. 9 out of 10. (Would be 10, but I really didn't enjoy the brain tumour on level 32. That wasn't pleasant.)

Track Editor?

This just reminds me that BOTW had a Labo-VR mode.. .. And that TOTK doesn't..?!

I enjoyed the Sonic pinball on GBA. (Not Spinball!!)

@NintendoDad Some day.. My Mum stole the Switch at the start of the moving chaos, so she should continue playing Puyo Puyo Tetris..
Need to set up the PS4 again, before I can get it back.

I'm playing "Moved house, unpacking boxes, and reorganising utility bills"
.. It's not a very fun game.

Can't wait to see people's thoughts after the 7 or 8th run-through..

"Hololive VTuber Collab Teased"

... Ok, Jay, let's try to figure this modern stuff out..
Collab, you know that word. That's when people use that google thing to make scripts that can be run by other people. Like the Stable Diffusion Training things. Yeah.. OK.. Next.

VTuber. That must be some sort of YouTube replacement without the adverts. Makes sense. Maybe Konami made that? Yeah, that makes sense, too. You're doing well here, Jay. You aren't too old for all of this. Keep going.

Hololive.. ..
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... Nope, I'm out.
Have fun, kids!

@HaileySheridon Humans can swim. I can't swim.
Hedgehogs can swim. Sonic can't swim.
I have no issue here.

Gotta say, those houses are pretty meh... I was expecting a huge house playset.

Yes, this will make everything better. The person at the top is definitely the reason things got as bad as they did. ... insert reference to the 78,000 prime ministers the UK's had in the past few years, here..

BOTW was removed from the cartridge slot to play Mario Odyssey, and then switched back out once I was done with it.
... oh my goodness.. that's way too much of a chore!!!
I've changed disks, tapes, CDs, DVDs and insane numbers of carts over the years. I'm done...!