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@Serpenterror Capcom clearly owns the legal rights to the translation. Considering that they have re-released the game when they wanted, but also that the GBA version copypasted the translation without credit to Square is a good sign they legally own it to do what they want.

@Abrammchi 3DS would've been the perfect time to rerelease those. But Nintendo deemed them not worth the emulator R&D time.
(also that of the small library of games for the system, only about half of them would've had a realistic chance of being rereleased anyways)

@Olliemar28 "SP" games shouldn't count since they're just games with a predefined savestate but why not Japanese exclusives? Or do you mean games only available on the Japanese NSO app, not Japanese games available on western NSO apps?

@Hanabi99 I bought Lunar DS shortly after release when I find it in a discount bin rather because of how even when it came out it got a highly negative reception as a poor representative of the series.
Still in the endless backlog to sometime find out if that game was bad as they say. I just remember hearing "lose HP for dashing on the overworld" as one major complaint.

I will at some point experience the game, through playing the PCE-CD original. If because it was the easiest version to obtain. I can remember getting for only a dollar on ebay. When it was the best time to be buying import games. Not now.

Paul should've said they're playing SWITCH 2GETHER.
Nintendo, I thought of that in about three seconds. Please pay me for improving your ad copy!

I see the headline image and wonder when Tom Petty is going to return to this world.

A significant jump from the $12.99 apiece paid for my collection that has decorated my shelf for years.

@Old-Red I remember when Beanie Babies were the hot thing in the late '90s, there was an attempt at anti-scalping laws for things like that and concert tickets but it was deemed too difficult to enforce for how low of a priority it probably is to lawmakers.
About all they could do for the latter was trespass those trying to scalp tickets within some distance from the venue.

@Overzeal It's highly suspect that a number of "used" copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy and Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii that GameStop had available in late 2013 were an open-box reprint.
With GameStop being oh so kind as to only charge half as much of a markup as the average online reseller.

@Sebos Well, I've seen plenty of parents happy to let their small children play with their phones that probably cost twice as much.
(then again, they might have some kind of warranty plan which of course Nintendo isn't going to offer)

@RiasGremory Square-Enix might still own the first game at least.
I do recall Xenogears got a Greatest Hits reprint just after Xenosaga Episode 1 came out.
Indeed, SE was selling the game on PSN at least as of 2011. I know the OST is being sold digitally among other SE music, but I'm not certain if it's SE themselves or the artists selling it themselves under license (I can only imagine that's why Nobou's gotta charge so much for FF7! )

@Jam777 I remember hearing a time when ebay decided maximum shipping fees and told sellers that if it cost more, raise the item price to cover it.
I see that was not enforced, when I recall once seeing a N64 console listed with a 3 grand shipping fee (yes, dollars) as the silliest I've seen on ebay. Now it could well be that seller just made a typo, but if ebay really did have some kind of fee limit per category, they'd want to systematically enforce it.

Just don't buy them from scalpers. They'll stop scalping when people stop supporting them.

However, what would be great if Nintendo gave options to use both its gimmick controls and traditional controls. Sometimes the gimmicks work, sometimes they don't. But then Nintendo almost never supports button remapping in its own games either.

@sixrings Taking out the gimmicks greatly discourages the devs who would make good use out of them. They don't want to support hardware that they can assume only a proportion of the console owners have.
Take those out, and it's like, why am I even buying this console in the first place?

How in the world did it take them this long to add Streets of Rage 1 to the library?
Super Thunder Blade was the only other game you could get at launch besides Altered Beast I thought. And I hear even then it wasn't a very good port?

@Yoshi3 Yeah, I can remember seeing one scalper showing off their stockpile of NES Classic Minis (probably hacked to put more games on the game, which I hear can jeopardize the stability of the console at some point).
All you can do is think like "those could've gone to people who would intend to actually play and enjoy them" but oh well, they can sit there unless the seller asks more reasonable prices (like, closer to what they actually paid for it, and no hacking it doesn't count as an extra labor effort, especially from what I've heard).

Waste of time. Don't expect ebay to actually care. This is the same auction site that welcomes bootleg instruction manuals enough to have a classification for them. "Reproduction". I reported that to an ebay rep in the support chat and that rep just clicked out of that conversation immediately.

@BrazillianCara When I was a kid, there was times when infomercials would be shown on TV. The TV listings would list them as "Paid Programming".
Small child me was afraid that watching them was going to run up my parents' TV bill.

@Darkthany Ouch, I remember getting my King's Knight cart for free from GameStop when they did regular B2G1 sales when they still sold NES games in stores until the mid 2000s. Still bleh.

I do remember in the GameCube era, hearing reports of some retailers selling consoles below Nintendo's suggested retail price and hearing rumors Nintendo tried to bully those stores by reminding them essentially that while they're free to charge what they want for their products, Nintendo is free to cut product distribution to them.

Using a univeral game engine. Prepare to hear all the "Switch 2 is underpowered junk" complaints when the game releases. Yep, blame the hardware and not the software choices.

@Spider-Kev Wow that's a highly taxed area. Mine is like 8%.

We lived through a world where higher-end SNES games cost $80 at launch. We can live through $80 Mario Kart (which is still half the cost, considering inflation).
Once again, game companies can charge what they want. It's up to the consumers buying them.

@Oracles_fanboi Maybe some people enjoy playing their games and don't really care as long as they feel satisfied with their purchase.
I don't see why what they spend on their games needs to matter to random strangers on their Internet.
Playing games sounds more fun than having a negative attitude and going online and telling others they're "suckers" being "screwed over". But I guess some people on the Internet have decided THAT is how they want to spend THEIR time.

Chrono Trigger sold for the equivalent of $166 today when it launched at $79.99 in 1995.

Backwards compatibility is a funny thing.
I can remember the 360 days. "Why is Barbie's Horse Adventure working but (some other higher demand game) isn't?"

@Uncle_Franklin Crazy Taxi is famous for licensed music? I believe it was enough that Games Done Quick apparently banned that game for many years until they could arrange a live performance to avoid copyright issues.
I imagine that is something that could be more common as this era of games approaches retro gaming service.

@whmchrish Luigi's Mansion 1 got a remaster on the 3DS but I guess since it was so late in its lifespan, people might've missed it or forgotten.

@HammerGalladeBro I can only imagine any such feature would be disabled for those games, just as they were for the mainline GB games on 3DS VC.
I don't know if TPC has any plans for online interaction/trading (I know that is probably asking a lot out of Nintendo for NSO) but I can imagine they still would be against abusable. Did the N64 Stadiums allow it?

@JustMonika Actually originally released on PC-Engine CD. It even had a couple minigames.
It was on the Japanese mini console, but one of a couple games cut from the TurboGrafx Mini. I hear the Gradius-themed (I think) minigame within it did survive as a secret game on the western console.

There will never be a Zelda movie just like Twilight Princess will only be playable on the Wii in GameCube mode.

@Zverik Probably so they can't permanently walk off with your game.
Better than when you lend a physical game to a friend, and then the friend breaks up and won't return your game. So you need to buy another copy (yes, you could try legal action but the former is typically the more effective solution).

@StewdaMegaManNerd That posted suggestion is exactly what the piracy scenes have done as long as consoles have existed.

@Member_the_game I remember when one Xbox console (One?) announced they were going to make transferring physical games a bureaucratic process.
Sony then made a video mocking them by showing one guy just handing the game case to another.
Microsoft had to back-peddle on that very quick.

@PloverNutter Was playing the same game on multiple consoles at once the only benefit of digital? I don't think so.

@Fighting_Game_Loser And yet some players have gotten good enough at it that I heard the famous Japanese arcade Mikado raised the difficulty on their machine to the highest setting and charge 300 yen per credit.

@axelhander I guess it's only when they use it maliciously. First is when they are patents made just as a backup lawsuit reason. Second is the nonsense of being able to amend a patent after they get in a lawsuit over it.

If it's something useful, maybe they'll use it.

It it's something benign, it's a reason to sue someone later when they can't sue for meaningful similarities. (like patenting "throwing balls at monsters")

Something about the American box.
Just Nobunaga. Right to the point.

Though that "CLASSIC VERSION FOR SUPER NES" bubble. Why?

I heard that story before, except when I heard it the game they had to work on was a baseball murder mystery adventure game.

@Zach I mean, it is a very early game. Just getting anything "Mode 7" out was a technical challenge. Maybe the first (of MANY) soccer games on the console, so that has to count for something. (OMG I remember this Japanese video series with a clip of every SFC game in chronological order. Once it hit July 1994, there were way too many soccer games being pushed out!)

They can't all be HAL's Hole-in-One Golf (another early game that's probably not great but I had to buy a copy for cheap just to check out the scaling and rotation was almost definitely Iwata flexing).

@Fallingshadow It was already top of the price range of SNES games in the USA, so many like me ending up only experiencing it when it was new through rental, if at all.
Though being a kid who could only ask the parents who of course would rather buy a cheaper game as gifts for birthday, etc.

@larryisaman Unfortunately playing in old emulators means that many have experienced it with incorrectly emulated sound. I would surprise me if the PS1 port WASN'T utilizing code from such emulators (most likely SNES9x) as it contains some of the same distinct flaws.
I was fortunate to have grown up playing (renting) the game on original hardware, so those wimpy emulated enemy cries really bugged me. Not until bsnes around 2008 could they be emulated in their full ferocity.
I was glad that the DS sound was much more faithful, to my memory.

@Pastellioli The only theory going around is Spike Chunsoft (owner of the Human Entertainment catalog) being part of a chain of ownership involving Sony, a company known to sometimes to get a little petty in the gaming business.

@Zach Claymates was one of the games I had as a child, and it was pretty decent. A solid B-tier platformer.

@seankwondo I've seen enough chat here to know what to expect. If there was a lineup of games not suited to much of chat, this would be it.

I've seen this on other channels and thought: "the worst update for people who will play these games for five seconds, if at all, then complain for more!"

The era when Koei made the most inscrutable games. I don't know if Inindo has already been added, but that's one RPG I hadn't played, knowing there's a finite time limit for that. Something I only otherwise saw in Wizardry (not exactly, but the thing about characters getting old and dying.)

Saturn getting shafted as the PlayStation gets credited as the "original" console for the Complete remakes.
Was that even in Japan? (I can see the west forgetting them as the Saturn was too dead in the US by that point for Working Designs to care about porting those versions.)

@Tinsel After playing Gen 7 and being underwhelmed, I have to ask if Nintendo has "protected their IP" by... I don't know, maybe spend more time and money on the development of their product to make it good, than worrying about filing lawsuits?
It was pretty bland. No wonder they wanted to stomp out ROM hacks that showed more thought than what they could afford for a franchise that had become such a moneymaker it needed to indebit itself to corporate shareholders more than fans.

Have the newer generations done better? Did they make core gameplay improvements or are its major headline features still like Mega Evolutions but Different? Because I did not care to use Mega Evos in Gen 6, and I gave up after I caught the CPU redhanded cheating to cram its Z-Crystal crap upon the player. Needing a move clearly too broken to be allowed by traditional game mechanics to win? That's supposed to be innovation, Nintendo?