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@BongoBongo and @MisterNintendo exactly! Ever since that letter leaked, I can’t see Phil’s gestures toward Nintendo as anything but disingenuousness masking a strategic move in his long game to try and acquire Nintendo. But the way things are going, I don’t think he’ll manage that any time soon, so I’ll take any XBox properties he sends over to Nintendo consoles anyway.

I used to be in the “hate Tingle” camp. But as I’ve gotten older and gotten more perspective...

Tingle is the happiest dude in all of Hyrule and Termina. He lives for his dreams, he is authentically himself, and he doesn’t care in the slightest what other people think of him. We could all stand to be a little more like Tingle

While I genuinely am happy that we are finally receiving the original Panel de Pon in the west, it would be nice to receive the Yoshi version as well at some point. If the issue is licensing the “Tetris Attack” name, then they should use the Japanese “Yoshi’s Panel de Pon” version

Oh.., and the two dev versions of the Wii U Gamepad were WUT-003 and WUT-004. The WiiU NR Discs (used by the CAT-DEV and CAT-R) were WUT-007

Notice that all the dev units had “T” replacing the last letter of what would have been the retail unit’s model category

The dev units had numbers too.

The GameCube dev box, aka the NPDP-GDEV, was GCT-0100.

GameCube NR Reader (the green GameCube that read Non-Retail discs) was DOT-001.

Don’t know the model number of the red GameCube NPDP reader but I’m sure it had one.

The Wii dev box was RVT-001.

The green Wii NR Reader, aka the RVT-R, was RVT-002. The NR discs themselves were RVT-004.

The red Wii dev unit with a built-in hard drive, aka the RVT-H, was RVT-005.

The Wii U dev box, aka the CAT-DEV (Cafe Tool for Development) was WUT-001 (I kid you not).

The green Wii U final debug unit, aka the CAT-R, was WUT-002.

Peeps... this is April Fools shenanigans. Consider—Galaxy can’t work easily without motion controls. Sure, you have some motion control on the Switch, but it’s not as precise without the sensor bar. And motion control for Galaxy in handheld mode? Forget it.

@BoilerBroJoe I feel you bro but, it’s not unheard of for April Fool’s jokes to rev up a couple days early. Back in the early 2000s, an Internet forum I went to had a WEEK long April Fool’s joke that began about 5 days before the day

Don’t get your hopes up folks, I smell an early April Fool’s joke... and a cruel one at that! If only it were true

Tyson Hesse... how far he has come. In 2002, he was just another Sonic sprite comic writer. The comic was called “Sonic Argh”. The writing was more charming than some of its peers. Over time, he replaced the ripped Sonic 3 sprites with his own beautiful sprites, which had more emotional expression than anything from the games. Then later still the comic became hand drawn. Even then, his talent for drawing—Sonic and otherwise—was already extremely developed. A couple decades later and now he’s a famous artist of official Sonic materials. He’s lived the “from just-another-fan to official contributor” dream as few have. His work in this movie is proof of his passion and the work he has put in. Certainly someone to admire

@mikegamer yep. The only bad thing about the SNES one is the six extra GBA-exclusive levels it doesn’t have. Apart from that, SNES is superior in every way

@mikegamer Fair point! My guess is that, corporately speaking, Nintendo decided during the Virtual Console era that it wasn’t worth allocating time and money to code the Super FX 1 emulator for the grand total of 4 games that required it, and the Super FX 2 for only 3. But for the SNES mini, which was supposed to be the definitive collection of the SNES’s best hits,
it would have been hard to justify excluding Star Fox and Yoshi’s Island, thus they had to finally give in and code the FX emulators. Knowing that they wanted to grab the market via the previously-unreleased Star Fox 2 probably further incentivized the emulators’ development. By the time of the Switch, they already had the mini’s FX emulators on-hand, and had only to expend a little effort porting them to the Switch, during which time they probably spotted the previous errors.

@Pod exactly. Given that Yoshi’s Island has a whole extra CPU that regular SNES games don’t have, and which has a weird tandem relationship with the base SNES hardware, the emulation for Yoshi’s Island (and Star Fox) has to be difficult to pull off.

@mikegamer Actually, the SNES doesn’t do it at all. Yoshi’s Island runs atop the Super FX 2 CPU built into the cart, which does all the dirty work. That CPU responsible for the dizzy effect and the occasional 3D graphic. Moreover, the entire game is based against that chip; the SNES itself in this case does little more than relay controller inputs to the FX and relay the FX’s images to the screen.

The GBA version does not have the FX chip, and so is forced to rely on what the base GBA hardware can provide. The GBA is in some ways more powerful than the base SNES but less powerful than the FX, thus some graphical effects like the dizzy effect become cheapened.

Doubtless the Super FX 1 & 2 chips are difficult to emulate especially given their odd tandem relationship with the base SNES. This is probably why Star Fox and Yoshi’s Island (SNES) never appeared on the Wii/WiiU/3DS virtual consoles. The SNES mini was probably their first stab at emulating these chips, which would explain odd glitches like the non-functional dizzy effect and Star Fox’s slightly hastened frame rate. By the time of the Switch, they’ve improved the emulation to a quality closer to the venerable NES and base SNES emulators they have been reusing since the Wii days