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Happened more than a few times in the past few years I opened up the case and there was no manual.

@LaytonPuzzle27 You're equating monopolistic juggernauts that get away with criminal and socially destructive practices with people who are celebrating that governments are finally beginning to show responsibility and standing up against a morally incomprehensible and ethically indefensible form of greed.

If you're a religious person, as I am, I'm sorry to say that you're misguided. If I was behaving like EA, which is a multi-national conglomerate and not a person BTW, it would be a gift to have people berating me for doing something abhorrent, and I hope to God I would listen.

Sony? Oh yeah, they made some good VCRs in the past.

@NewAdvent Animal Crossing: The Coppola Restoration

@retro_player_22 Say that to this man's face, I dare you:

@Shiryu Speak of the devil, just saw your post.

Renegade was one of my favorite games for the ZX Spectrum. It played quite well.

@Anti-Matter Sorry, but you're going about it the wrong way. Component vs composite is night and day. We're talking six (and better quality) picture 'components' instead of only two.
Analog component: 6
Digital component: 6 in 8-bit
Analog RGB: 3
Digital RGB: 3 in 8-bit
Digital SRGB: 3 in 10-bit
YCC: 3
Composite (analog by default): 2, but basically 1.5 in practice

Nothing beats component video, it's what Blu-ray uses. And if you output composite you already lose almost 90% of the available definition and color accuracy, regardless of all the mumbo-jumbo inbetween.

@Anti-Matter How does that upgrade the video quality? I use component cables with the 1st gen Wii (as well as with the WiiU) and I don't see what a converter would do that's in any way positive. And if you have an HDTV that can bypass digital processing and send the analog signal straight to the panel (game mode usually does that, utilizing strictly the digitally-controlled but otherwise analog picture tuners) that's even better. Both Wii and the WiiU don't use digital post-processing when outputting via component, so that way it's straight analog beginning with the rendering process all the way to the screen.

Hayter is a bum. Oh and Kojima is completely nuts. (while we're at it) Both are narcissists of the highest order.

Gamecube mini is a bit problematic. A lot of the good games have been remade or enhanced, as well as released on multiple consoles. And there's not very many to begin with, nothing compared with the SNES. It also cannot be properly emulated without not being emulated at all. And then there's storage, as we're no longer talking cartridges here.

Sadly not even the theoretical N64 mini holds the same appeal for me as the wonderful SNES mini. Never liked the N64 graphics, and hated how they rendered the work of pixel artirts (who drew textures for poligonal models pixel by pixel for the first two 3D generations) worthless with muddy filtering, and the low texture RAM requiring them to struggle with programming logic instead of dealing with artistic choices that PS1 pixel artists were very free to do.

So I wonder if there's anything aside from the Mega Drive mini to look forward to, but then there's their dubious choice of partnership and their general low level of competence. The Saturn mini would be cool, but it's a nightmare of a design, and I doubt the guys left at Sega know anything better than how to spill coffee on the blueprints. (to think they used to have people who could make 1:1 PC ports in a very short span)

I knew this was a fudge back when it was announced. When all you got to show is promises, and want millions in return from fools failing to do research heavily pointing to the fact you're way past your prime... well just don't back those kind of projects.

Video game designers, programmers and other staff usually fade quick, and often develop psychosis. It's an exhausting job that sucks away your soul at a rapid rate.

By far the most neglected aspect is being stuck staring at the monitor, zoned out and unable to work out or even remember the task at hand; instead of taking a break, then taking out a piece of paper and working out the problem the normal way. Miyamoto never had a computer in his office. He wrote, sketched and drew; and was surrounded by his own papers (organized for quick referencing), research material (books), and magazines.

Simpsons references trump correct grammar.

drool

@Heavyarms55 Sad people then, I suppose.

Who cares, I use ethernet mainly.

@nesrocks That gif is absolutely hilarious. I like how the NoA added a bit more 'frosting' on the "FREEZE".

The sole/foot thing is very common in children's toys, picture books, animation and the like. So the European and Japanese covers, which haven't changed between the WiiU and Switch versions, are meant to appeal more to kids than the US cover.

And the buff Funky probably appeals more to older kids and teens. I guess they wanted more bases covered than the US branch chose to do. Perhaps also NoA were concerned the European and Japanese covers looked too kiddy and would put off potential buyers.

Or maybe NoA marketing had the opposite concern: the foot looked too aggressive since Donkey is swinging forward, like a kick coming at your face. Same then, though a lot less so with Funky's muscle.

@Shiryu I'm being honest here: that Pacific Rim theme is one of my all time movie favorites!
And yes, I have a nice HiFi with a hybrid valve/transistor amp, but right now I'm listening to the video you posted on these Audio-Technicas:

@Shiryu I just want to say thank you for improving the quality of screenshots posted in articles. Now pixel art looks like it should, nice and sharp!

@Therad You're right. Now that Nintendo has patented video games themselves, bye bye Sony, Microsoft and PC gaming.

Woah, that 's literary how every video game ever made already works the most amazing, most innovative thing ever invented.

Looks quite interesting! Not something I've played before, and I'm certain it's better than all the DS pony games combined.

@bimmy-lee Jesus man.

@NEStalgia That's X, IX is the DS game with local four-player multiplayer (1-4 players).

@Not_Soos said: ""...during the first nine months of release..."
Is it November already? "

Yeah fix that @Dom, lol.

@eaglebob345 "Makes me a little sad that Nintendo was so awful at keeping the U afloat."

Nintendo was excellent at keeping the WiiU both afloat and financially viable. People forget the times when the console was in danger of finishing below 8 million.

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

That is all.

@Koudai1979 Oh man, the Johansson movie has better effects than that.

Well now I hope the sequel, incidentally called 'Double Switch' makes it too!

Woz, if you're reading this: I hate you for no reason whatsoever.

@Tyranexx Jesus, from where is that?

Shame, the graphics style that looks like a throwback to long-abandoned digital rendering (or software rendering for a more familiar term) is interesting.

Watched the trailer, made me remember what a genius game Ghost Trick is.

P.S. 115 is certainly "over 90" (rooms), seems the Switch version is bigger?

@YummyHappyPills Dunno, I identify as a human being and I'm fairly inflexible about that.

Are you androgynous perhaps? That one I can understand.

@YummyHappyPills What does genderfluid mean, exactly?

@EasyDaRon "typical Japanese weird stuff for special tastes"

Yes, and I guess your taste isn't that special.

@YummyHappyPills "As a biological male who is non-binary"

May I ask what's that supposed to mean?

"This same new and improved technology..."

Freudian, so Freudian.

spoiler It's in braille.

@BigKing @Ubik I can give a few good reasons, and more that the obvious "it's the lawful thing to do".
1. he doesn't do drugs
2. he couldn't post the video otherwise
3. he makes money from the channel, and this video earns him views and subs

It's debatable whether he's unlucky or lucky though, due to the viral potential of the video. I'd say he's lucky.

The 3DS successor, duh.

@Xenoguner
That cherry-picking goes for both NintendoLife and the sister-site PushSquare.

If you use the search function and type "sales" (which, on both sites, gives you the results from both sites), you'll see that's true. I guess it's done that way to keep things positive for both and to curtail console wars.

Damn, now we know the albino hipster did it.

@Damo You can't use the Hitler card and expect to automatically win an argument. Worse than that, you attacked a good percentage of the community with that last paragraph, because a lot of people here think these kind of articles only support piracy. Not to mention, comparing mere console hacking to nazi atrocities is distasteful.

But I personally liked the article. It was interesting to hear about the strengths of using custom hardware (which I'm a big supporter of), the fortitude of the 3DS OS the Switch OS was built upon, the steps Nintendo is taking to prevent further hacking, and it was nice to see a hacker bash another hacker group whose goal is to profit from the sale of modchips.

Unfortunately, Sega doesn't have high standards regarding the performance of their products.

@Shiryu The link is for the Windows version, I just wrote that the Mac version is available on the app store for Mac.

@Shiryu
https://www.gog.com/game/wings_remastered
(for Mac on the Mac app store)

EDIT: gog link is for the Windows version

@Shiryu @cmk8 You guys know there's a recent remake of Wings that is quite faithful?

With thumbnails like this and Wolfenstein II on the main page, you'd think it's Halloween.

Screw those blurry screenshots ruining the beautiful pixel art.