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@Zufolobelisk Sorry, the rental stores I went to as a kid always asked me to rewind but I could never figure out how to rewind the SNES carts before returning them.

@MamaSymphonia Because Sony came up with the brilliant idea of making console owners register their disc drive before it can be used.
Because users sharing the physical drive with others hurts Sony how...?

@RupeeClock The most basic "rewind" feature of 20+ year old ZSNES versions was implemented by making frequent auto savestates. Something like every 10 frames for the last 10 seconds. Then pushing the button repeatedly just loads them in order of most recent.
It just takes a whole lot of memory to keep a history.

Remapping controls shouldn't be a new feature. That's something Nintendo should've been doing in everything since the Wii Virtual Console.
Even in 2006, it was already a standard in all but the most primitive of those fan emulators Nintendo keeps berating.

Thanks, Nintendo for in 2025 adding a feature out of 1997!

@awp69 Back then Kemco was making platformers and often swapping licenses between regions.
Then in 1989, they made a little game called Roger Rabbit for the Famicom Disk System and turned it into a little game called Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle for the west and then they made a ton of them. It's almost a rabbithole (that was not an intentional pun) how many licenses got attached to that franchise like a katamari.

@Samalik It was in late 2003 that Nintendo updated the "Seal of Quality" text to state that. I recall that from comparing my Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and "Fire Emblem" GBA manuals.

@Olliemar28 "we can definitely see the fruits of Nintendo's labour" Would that fruit happen to be long and yellow?

@Metazoxan At least twelfth, since there were two arcade games developed with Namco.

@sanderev The two arcade games are also excluded from the official numbering.
At least part being that it was a joint production with Namco (who added Pac-Man and one of the ghosts as playable characters).

@BirdoDidNothingWrong I remember booting up that 3DS port and I knew it was modeled around the FDS version as soon as I booted it up and heard the title theme in the very distinct "farty" sound of the FDS' FM synth.

@SirLink The Famicom Disk Writer. It was how you bought games "digitally" on the Famicom Disk System. It was a kiosk set up in game stores in Japan in the late '80s and early '90s. You bring a blank disk, or an old game you don't want, and you can pay to load the disk with a ROM of a different game.
It was cheaper than buying a packaged game.

Nintendo set up a similar thing with official flashcarts for the Game Boy and Super Famicom with devices of a lifespan a decade later than the Disk Writer.

Glad to see them working together, 30 years after Nintendo sued Samsung over manufacturing ROM chips used in counterfeit Donkey Kong Country cartridges (though Samsung chips were also in legitimate copies, such as I think my Super Donkey Kong had one when I checked).
Historical trivia.
Samsung's defense was that they can't be liable for the legality of the data ordered by the customer, and compared it to a floppy disk maker being used over the contents it is used for.

Only NES, and not the FDS version (which I believe the 3DS "3D Classic" version was based on)?
Didn't they include both in the Legend of Zelda update?

@Uncle_Franklin Maybe if the game actually did something with its characters, it would make more sense to cover over half the image with them.
Are they even relegated to at least the instruction manual like the original game? (I don't know as my copy came with only the box and cart from the local Blockbuster after it retired them from circulation.)

@MoldyPasta Last time I went to GameStop, they didn't have many more games than that either.

@PJOReilly Don't worry, they'll pull and then next week a game called "Agent 7" will appear on the store.

@Zeebor15 Well, they did also make Zipang. Which I only know for getting two game adaptations: the NES game localized as Kabuki Quantam Fighter, and the TG16 port of Solomon's Key.
"(c) TBS/EXE/DAIO PAPER CORPORATION". I don't know who or what the latter is but I like seeing that in game copyrights.

@Rainz I'd imagine that's happened since the GBC. That had a faster CPU mode (though devs were advised to use it sparingly since it had more battery draw, which was a problem in the days when portables ran on disposable batteries) and more RAM, but backwards-compatible games likely would avoid those features for compatibility (writing code exclusive to the upgraded hardware would be more work since even though it would likely be used more they still need to test functionality in all supported formats).
As in, Switch 2 devs would have to check games still work with and without GameChat if they wanted it "optionally enhanced".

I see, Switch 2 has GLUH and GURR buttons.
Those are remappable to any other button?

@sanderev There are countless games that would be forgotten from existence with nobody sharing.
Game companies go bankrupt. Some like Data East got their assets sold off piecemeal to several different publishers. Some stuff doesn't get published because they don't know who owns what and don't think it would sell enough to warrant lawyers' time to figure it out. At least one of those significant IPs was in trademark limbo because the developer (who is still in business, last I knew) didn't know if they owned the IP or DE did.
All of this prevents players from enjoying these games if they are not accessible for players to even remember they exist.

I doubt even Konami themselves would remember the bajillion less popular arcade games they made over the years, compared to the smaller number of well-remembered games they produced, if MAME wasn't there documenting and emulating them.

@sanderev It is just a little different between streaming a current game and a canceled game from an abandoned console from a couple generations ago. I can't imagine nobody has ever streamed, say, the Gigaleaked GBC Pokemon Picross.

@BirdoDidNothingWrong But that was one of those times when PlayStation execs were at their funniest (most embarrassing). I remember one guy was like "I'll pay you $1,200 if you can find a PS3 on the store shelf for more than five minutes." and one blog said they drove around for half an hour to take a few photos and said that exec owed them about $13,000.

Did the updated versions of Link's Awakening fix the mistake of calling Wart by his Japanese name, Mamu?
I guess that reference was probably lost on the translator.

@MrCarlos46 NOE is headquartered in Germany. Probably why the EU boxart on display is German.

Is it really that hardware innovation was needed to improve game quality, or was the hardware innovation needed to sustain the bloat of running everything on a one-size-fits all game engine because licensing code is cheaper than writing new code to fit the game?

@Tempestryke If Eversion is the game I'm thinking of (a Super Mario Bros. style game), the "messing up" might have been an intentional part of the game. Depending on what exactly was "messing up" about the game.

That headline is a little misleading, I think.
It sounds like it is only stopping people from unauthorized access to the online functionality of Switch, the "Nintendo Account" (not just NSO but like the eShop and what that still connects to Nintendo's online services).
Nintendo can't stop people from what they do with their Switch offline but they can stop them from accessing Nintendo's online servers.

Also @Liam_Doolan SNK will soon be releasing "ACA NEOGEO Selection Vol. 5 and ACA NEGO Selection Vol. 2", you say?

I assume the latter is already out?

@SillyG LOL at the "collection of 17KB of ROM". This is a NeoGeo collection, not 2600!

I tell you some people just don't know the power of the 330 Mega Pro Gear Spec!

Why does it need to compete?

Last I was aware, Mario Kart and GTA were completely different games.

@Kyloctopus Didn't Xbox One also want to copyright police your movie watching? "Too many people in the wrong, that's a 'public performance', you can't watch the film!"

@Jhena Behave or he'll get a Mega Mushroom and stomp your whole house down!

@Bigmanfan Yeah, some game companies need to get used to the idea of me not buying their games.

@Pak-Man I do remember reading of someone who said they pushed the paws button on one of the console ports of Lemmings and thought they crashed the game. They didn't catch on for days it was a PAUSE button.

@StewdaMegaManNerd I thought they did?
Maybe it was just Battle Network.

@Zufolobelisk I actually liked the original when I rented it as a kid. It wasn't the greatest game I played but definitely wasn't the worst. I rented Bubsy II and it just felt less fun despite being more technically intricate.
The game magazine ratings when it came out were actually pretty high, though I don't know if it quite lives up to it.

I wonder if very many people on this hate bandwagon are giving their own opinions or just repeating what others say.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Jaguar Bubsy is the most surprising. Though if Rich Whitehouse (I believe his name was, the BigPEmu guy) isn't involved, then I can't imagine it being... the best portrayal of Jaguar Bubsy we can get.

I debate that claim on the Japanese box that 1080 was the extreme sports game "that started it all". Pretty sure the PlayStation competing game, Cool Boarders was already out, if not already into sequels territory. Even Sega's Saturn snowboarding game came out around the same time.

I do recall some time ago seeing a Target commercial from 1982 that was asking like $26.99 for the infamous 2600 Pac-Man.
That's about $88 after inflation.

Hopefully Mario Kart World is just a little bit better game for nearly the same money.

Should we trust a link to an Aliexpress listing as an official confirmation?

Genki ga genki janai desu.

Did they really do much worse than what Nintendo did to themselves when they VERY casually announced the 3DS a week before the US launch of the DSi XL or whichever variant it was?
(at least a couple months before the proper reveal at E3)

There is the Fire Emblem NES port, but I guess NintendoLife wouldn't want to mention that one at the least because it was an example of Nintendo at their worst: purposely making it only available to buy for six months. Yet they made a collector's edition that includes a whole lot of goodies but NOT a copy of the game (at least not physical? Did they at least include a code in a box? Whether it would even be valid at this point.)

@Oldstalk The tariffs have certainly thrown off some of the equations, but there's some logistical factors such as geography and population: shipping product is much cheaper by sea, but shipping product from southeast Asia to Europe is more likely to get heisted my modern day sea pirates. So it can be sold in countries with lower population (and thus lower sales projection).

I have not heard of Fandom but I immediately know this company can go straight to h***.
I logged into GameFAQs and was prompted with a request to sell my information with the "no" options disabled.

@michellelynn0976 But with PCs, you can buy the parts and assemble it yourself.
With pre-built PCs, they can only charge so much before the convenience factor is lost.

Interesting that they first game they chose was a famously Mother-inspired game.
(to the point that I think it started out development as an EarthBound ROM hack before turning into its own game)

Telling people about the lending loophone ensures Nintendo will patch it out.
I'm certain it was put in with some forgiveness for like if someone has a bad Internet connection.

But of course some are using it deliberately for piracy. Playing the game on two consoles at once when the game has only been paid for once is pretty indisputable, if that isn't something that was specifically encouraged by the game. You can't put a single physical cartridge in two consoles at once, so why would digital be different?

@Jalex_64 Nintendo surely considers the possibility of hardware being damaged by the wrong console being put in the wrong dock when designing their hardware and will design it to not fit to prevent any accidents.

@MamaSymphonia Not the emulator's fault for how it's used. I have softmodded my Wii to make legal backups of my collection of GC and Wii discs.
The disc-based hardware has more fail points than even old cartridge hardware and at some point emulation will be the only way to play all the games.
It is nice of Nintendo to offer to make some games playable on the Switch 2 but it will certainly be only the first-party games and whichever third parties want to support the service. A large part of the library will still be left out.