I'll wait till the game is complete, I don't mind. Got 100+ games to play anyway XD. I'm just not a fan of the episodic format.
And I won't mind paying for the full game when it comes out, I don't care that i missed out on freebies. He should take his time and make sure the complete game is perfect .
If it's anything modern day Capcom would consider "major", it's got to be something they know will sell millions. So Resident Evil, Monster Hunter or Street Fighter. Any of their other franchises would not be considered major by their modern standards.
We got RE4 not that long ago, so it wouldn't be another RE game, and SF6 released not that long ago either. With the MH anniversary coming... yeah it will be a MH game, guaranteed.
EDIT: Also bear in mind the article says nothing about the Switch, so don't get your hopes up for that.
@Serpenterror @Stuffgamer1 Indeed they didn't develop it but certainly published it at least in some parts of the world. They definitely did in Europe, I remember an old issue of the official Nintendo magazine had a guide in it for this game.
@ozwally Yeah I boycott such releases. If it means I won't be able to keep them ALL in physical format in the long run, I might as well get them all on PC then, where they will run and look better (plus the option for mods) and Steam ain't going anywhere any time soon at least.
As long as it runs fine on Switch with the way it looks, I don't think visuals will look too out of place on this platform. Maybe on others, they surely could have looked better but on Switch, you're more limited with how much further you can improve things over the PS360 generation. a bump to texture quality and reslution is usually about what you can get over PS360 (that and hitting a more consistent 30FPS)
@Reprise ah thanks. We'll see I suppose, the price of cartridges surely must have come down since L.A. Noire, so they could afford a larger one this time.
The Xbox One X enhanced edition on the Microsoft store is a 7.4GB download (that's without any extras or DLC), so surely they could afford a 16GB cart to ship the game on this time!
@EaglyPurahfan It doesn't have to be a port of the PS3 version, as it was also on XBox 360 and that console did not have as complicated an architecture (it looked and ran better on the latter too as Digital Foundry recently demonstrated)
No physical, no buy (especially at that price). And if L.A. Noire is anything to go by, I bet they'd gimp the cartridge size and force a download on you too, which is a big no no for me.
I'd rather emulate the 360 version on PC if they're not gonna give us the proper treatment we deserve on Switch.
Guess I'm not in the majority then having started with VI.
Though my very first RPG was Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest (so the original Seiken Densetsu if you like) so that may count or not depending on your point of view
@Bunkerneath I don't know if that helps but on my end, the mail of confirmation of order I got specifies in the lenghty section at the bottom that the mail does not mean they have accepted your order just yet, but that they've accepted your "offer" of order, and the order only really gets confirmed the moment they ship the item.
... whatever that all means, but the simple fact they can't handle orders like everyone else is apalling
The original English release was censored (a scene where a 8 pixel tall guy shoots his brains off had been removed) and it was missing the character portraits that show the expressions of the characters as they talk over the radio.
At least this version appears to have the character portraits AND an English translation at the same time which is nice. I'm not gonna sell my Japanese copy just yet though.
1080° Avalanche was cooler to me. Dunno, maybe because it had licensed music, maybe because it ran at 60FPS, it always felt like it controlled a lot better to me and just was more interesting to play overall.
Coloured fog seems missing on XBox or is it just me? Could be the capture too, idk.
Textures appear even muddier on XBox. I don't know if it is more accurate that way, but I prefer the look of textures on Switch personally, they "seem" to have more detail to them but again this may not be as true to the original, I can't quite remember after all these years.
I don't know how it works in the US but in Europe, if a customs officer damages your goods when opening them up for control, it's up to customs to pay for the damages. The Union Customs Code says that it's up to the person declaring the goods for importation or exportation to present the goods for control, that means opening up their stuff so that customs may note what the goods are and determine whether or not they're allowed and whether or not import fees may apply. If the owner is not present for the control, then customs officers are allowed to control the goods by themselves but if the goods are damaged in any way, customs will have to pay for damages.
Pretty sure in this case they must have been checking for whether or not they were counterfeits since Nintendo commissions customs around the world to stop counterfeit Nintendo products. But the customs officer here probably didn't realise counterfeit Game Boy games are not tracked by Nintendo anymore XD.
It's fun as always but... Game Freak making millions off these games and not investing more in making these games look and run as well as they could on the hardware running them is something that has to stop and lowering review scores for Pokémon games is, while not guaranteed to work, it's worth doing anyway just to send Game Freak and Nintendo a message that enough is enough.
@RobynAlecksys @Arawn93 Nintendo also owned Project Zero/Fatal Frame 4 & 5 and that didn't prevent them from letting these go multiplat in the end. Bayonetta itself is not owned by Nintendo, it's jointly owned by Sega and Platinum Games, Nintendo just happened to finance 2 & 3, just like they did with Project Zero 4 & 5
That's when you realise the hobby has now reached a stage where video games are old enough now that great legends of the medium will start to disappear progressively. We lost a lot to sickness and accidents already (Iwata, Gunpei Yokoi, Kenji Eno, etc), few to old age (Yamauchi comes to mind), but this trend will only increase as time goes on and more leave us. No one lives forever, enjoy life and games while you can!
I recommend ZombiU. It's the only game I got with the console when it launched (the ZombiU bundle had the best packaging of a console I've ever bought too and came with a Wii U pro controller in the box to boot, which was nice)
It's janky in a lot of ways, it's as buggy as you'd expect from a Ubisoft game, but you won't get a better immersive experience with the Wii U gamepad in my opinion.
The way it incorporates the unique controller in the gameplay itself is awesome, since you need to look away from the action to rummage through your survivor's backpack for items and need to strategise what you want to keep in the shortcut icons on the touch screen corners (your pockets) for quick access in the heat of a fight without having to look down. It's so simple yet so ingenious.
Ports to XBox One and PS4 lose that aspect entirely which made the original version so special. Oh yeah and I recommend playing with headphones. You can set the game's audio to come completely through the Gamepad itself and out through the headphone jack. This is the best way to play in my opinion.
That's what I've been waiting for. It's all I need to take the plunge, I played all the other games and want this one too, if they would only put it on a cartridge
8-4 also published the physical console versions of Undertale in Japan. That's the version I own cause it was cheaper than the alternative (and it has English on the cartridge anyway).
Yeah I'm happy for the guy, he said in interviews before that Maze of Galious had been a huge inspiration for La-Mulana, it only makes sense that he would get the job, and you can be sure he'll do it justice.
Not interested in playing this in an episodic format. I'drather wait till the full game is done so I can buy it as a complete release, hopefully on physical media too like I did for Undertale on Switch.
Guess they're not about to fix the nopon collectopedia card that's impossible to complete just yet. The Gogol Vagua item is impossible to get in the game so that card can't be completed.
I'm done with the game for now anyway, got all 191 quests done, max affinity on all colonies, all unique monsters defeated and soul hacked. I'll go back to it after they're done fixing everything and releasing all the DLC and expansions they have planned.
At the age of 4, my aunt who was 12 years older than me was dating this guy who had a NES and the game, and let me try it out. Didn't make it far as you can imagine but the atmosphere, the music, the non linear design, it stuck with me for the years that followed until I could play the subsequent games for myself. I would only go back to the first one much later since I was too young to have owned an NES (I started myself with the SNES) and thought the NES game had aged very poorly
Ha! Been replaying it on PS3 these past couple days. Had only played the 3DS version before. We need the HD collection on Switch, i dare not wish for Twin Snakes to be added to it due to Silicon Knights not existing anymore, but if we could get what PS360 and even the Vita got, I'd be happy!
Controller was just too expensive to be sold alone and with Wii U owners only ever likely to own one, it's like he said, it wouldn't have made sense anyway.
Plus the video encoding chip on the system (that encodes on the fly the feed streamed to the controller) is what it is, a brilliant piece of kit for its time to be able to do what it does with no meaningful lag, but it was only ever really meant to output 848x480p60, and no more than that. It probably could have done 2 848x480p30 streams, or maybe half resolution 60Hz refresh or something and even that seems tricky cause you're forcing the encoding to not rely on frame persistence or frame difference from the previous one to speed up encoding so it would have been a nightmare to implement anyway.
Technically feasible yes, but I can't imagine any multi gamepad experiences would have been anything more than having different 2D information displayed on different controllers, no high-end different 3D scenes displayed on 2 different gamepads at the same time and running well if you know what I mean.
Yeah don't sweat it, their most requested title is easily Radiant Silvergun, so it has to be it, not Sin & Punishment (although that would be cool too).
@Serpenterror Actually the Famicom had no region locking per se, it's just that cartridges from other regions just won't fit, but it did not have a "region lockout" built in by design, since it was initially designed to only be used and sold in Japan (at launch Nintendo didn't have any plans to release the console or the games anywhere else, since it was not a proven success yet).
The Famicom and its cartridges have no CIC lockout chips whatosever (which is also why piracy was so rampant on Famicom in the first place, anyone could make an unlicensed cartridge for it that would work without any workaround necessary)
@-wc- There are plenty, most of them known as "Penny Racers" in Europe and "Gadget Racers" in North America. There was one on N64 too for example and several on GBA.
Hurry up and release it already so we can finally get the physical edition we were promised almost 2 years ago, which they said would release at the same time as the DLC.
(I'm not really expecting them to honour their word, but at least when they announce that they won't make a physical release after all, I can come to terms with it and finally buy the digital game with no regrets)
@Late Well a full screen worth of pixels on GB, at 2-bit color depth for the 4 possible shades that each background pixel can be, takes 5.76 KB and the GB has 16KB of VRAM. (EDIT: my mistake, the original GB has 8KB, 16KB is for the GBC, but that's still enough to not need to re-use tiles)
So in the case of perfectly still images like these, you don't even have to worry about cleverly reusing tiles across the image. But it's true that making actual large scrolling levels worth of background graphical data + sprites for an actual game requires a lot more thinking and planning, which is why 8-bit games, even on Game Boy with its more economic 2-bit color depth, use meta-tiles and meta-meta-tiles galore.
The battery situation for Wii U Gamepads is a bit dire, as a lot of what is for sale on sites like Amazon is "new old stock", batteries that have been sitting unused for years in a warehouse somewhere and have already started losing some of their life.
I got one of those "large" ones that supposedly should last around 8 hours, but it didn't. At best, with no rumble and lowest backlight settings, it lasts anywhere between 5 and 6 hours, which is barely more than a brand new original capacity battery.
A lot of those third party ones on Amazon are also chinese ones that may not even be the capacity advertised, as this is often the case with any kind of battery from china. Mine even shipped from China despite the fact that the Amazon storefront didn't mention it at all.
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Re: Excellent Metroidvania 'Ender Lilies' Is Getting A Physical Release (Europe)
If it is only for the UK, then it is hardly a European release, is it?
I don't see it listed on any major European online retailer (those that do sell the overpriced imported Japanese print)
Re: Toby Fox Shares Deltarune Development Update: "No More Waiting For Chapter 5"
I'll wait till the game is complete, I don't mind. Got 100+ games to play anyway XD. I'm just not a fan of the episodic format.
And I won't mind paying for the full game when it comes out, I don't care that i missed out on freebies. He should take his time and make sure the complete game is perfect .
Re: SNES Racer Series Top Gear Is Being Revived As A Switch Collection In 2024
Top Gear 2 on SNES was a game that me and my dad bonded over. Many evenings spent playing 2-Player mode.
EDIT: Also... am I the only one to think the title screen music is still an absolute banger ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leeU3ULOWII
Re: Capcom Has A "Major" Unannounced Title Scheduled To Arrive Before March 2024
If it's anything modern day Capcom would consider "major", it's got to be something they know will sell millions. So Resident Evil, Monster Hunter or Street Fighter. Any of their other franchises would not be considered major by their modern standards.
We got RE4 not that long ago, so it wouldn't be another RE game, and SF6 released not that long ago either. With the MH anniversary coming... yeah it will be a MH game, guaranteed.
EDIT: Also bear in mind the article says nothing about the Switch, so don't get your hopes up for that.
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch Online's Game Boy Color, SNES & NES Library With Four More Games
@Serpenterror @Stuffgamer1 Indeed they didn't develop it but certainly published it at least in some parts of the world. They definitely did in Europe, I remember an old issue of the official Nintendo magazine had a guide in it for this game.
Re: Hands On: Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 Could Be So Much More, But Isn't
@ozwally Yeah I boycott such releases. If it means I won't be able to keep them ALL in physical format in the long run, I might as well get them all on PC then, where they will run and look better (plus the option for mods) and Steam ain't going anywhere any time soon at least.
Re: Hands On: Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 Could Be So Much More, But Isn't
No 60FPS on Switch = No buy from me. We deserve better.
Plus i haven't heard any peep about a physical release anyway so no buy indeed.
Re: Red Dead Redemption Fans Aren't Happy About Rockstar's "Lazy Port"
As long as it runs fine on Switch with the way it looks, I don't think visuals will look too out of place on this platform. Maybe on others, they surely could have looked better but on Switch, you're more limited with how much further you can improve things over the PS360 generation. a bump to texture quality and reslution is usually about what you can get over PS360 (that and hitting a more consistent 30FPS)
Re: Surprise! Red Dead Redemption Blasts Onto Switch Next Week
@Reprise ah thanks. We'll see I suppose, the price of cartridges surely must have come down since L.A. Noire, so they could afford a larger one this time.
The Xbox One X enhanced edition on the Microsoft store is a 7.4GB download (that's without any extras or DLC), so surely they could afford a 16GB cart to ship the game on this time!
Re: Surprise! Red Dead Redemption Blasts Onto Switch Next Week
@EaglyPurahfan It doesn't have to be a port of the PS3 version, as it was also on XBox 360 and that console did not have as complicated an architecture (it looked and ran better on the latter too as Digital Foundry recently demonstrated)
Re: Surprise! Red Dead Redemption Blasts Onto Switch Next Week
No physical, no buy (especially at that price). And if L.A. Noire is anything to go by, I bet they'd gimp the cartridge size and force a download on you too, which is a big no no for me.
I'd rather emulate the 360 version on PC if they're not gonna give us the proper treatment we deserve on Switch.
Re: Poll: Which Was Your First 'Final Fantasy'?
Guess I'm not in the majority then having started with VI.
Though my very first RPG was Final Fantasy Adventure/Mystic Quest (so the original Seiken Densetsu if you like) so that may count or not depending on your point of view
Re: Switch Online N64 Wireless Controller Back In Stock In Europe
@Bunkerneath @Yosti It's showing up now in my orders. Phew! That whole thing was stressful XD
Re: Switch Online N64 Wireless Controller Back In Stock In Europe
@Bunkerneath I don't know if that helps but on my end, the mail of confirmation of order I got specifies in the lenghty section at the bottom that the mail does not mean they have accepted your order just yet, but that they've accepted your "offer" of order, and the order only really gets confirmed the moment they ship the item.
... whatever that all means, but the simple fact they can't handle orders like everyone else is apalling
Re: Switch Online N64 Wireless Controller Back In Stock In Europe
Is it normal that they sent me an email saying my order is received, proceded to take my money and now my order is nowhere in my list of orders?
I contacted their live chat, they say they can't find the order in their systems. Am I the only one experiencing this?
Re: Feature: “There Is A Deep Respect For Japan's Proud Mecha Anime Culture Hidden In Every Conceivable Part”
The original English release was censored (a scene where a 8 pixel tall guy shoots his brains off had been removed) and it was missing the character portraits that show the expressions of the characters as they talk over the radio.
At least this version appears to have the character portraits AND an English translation at the same time which is nice. I'm not gonna sell my Japanese copy just yet though.
Re: Soapbox: 1080° Snowboarding Is The Coolest Nintendo Ever Got
1080° Avalanche was cooler to me. Dunno, maybe because it had licensed music, maybe because it ran at 60FPS, it always felt like it controlled a lot better to me and just was more interesting to play overall.
Re: Square Enix Survey Asks About Team Asano's Future Games
Remake the Gaia Trilogy of games! These games deserve to be experienced by more people!
Re: Video: GoldenEye 007 Side-By-Side Graphics Comparison (Switch & Xbox)
Coloured fog seems missing on XBox or is it just me? Could be the capture too, idk.
Textures appear even muddier on XBox. I don't know if it is more accurate that way, but I prefer the look of textures on Switch personally, they "seem" to have more detail to them but again this may not be as true to the original, I can't quite remember after all these years.
Re: Random: 'WATA Certified' Pokémon Yellow Apparently Mauled By US Customs
I don't know how it works in the US but in Europe, if a customs officer damages your goods when opening them up for control, it's up to customs to pay for the damages. The Union Customs Code says that it's up to the person declaring the goods for importation or exportation to present the goods for control, that means opening up their stuff so that customs may note what the goods are and determine whether or not they're allowed and whether or not import fees may apply. If the owner is not present for the control, then customs officers are allowed to control the goods by themselves but if the goods are damaged in any way, customs will have to pay for damages.
Pretty sure in this case they must have been checking for whether or not they were counterfeits since Nintendo commissions customs around the world to stop counterfeit Nintendo products. But the customs officer here probably didn't realise counterfeit Game Boy games are not tracked by Nintendo anymore XD.
Re: The Mario Movie Will Be Coming Out Early In Some Parts Of The World
Belgium gets something good for once. Will be there ^^ !
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Pokémon Scarlet And Violet?
It's fun as always but... Game Freak making millions off these games and not investing more in making these games look and run as well as they could on the hardware running them is something that has to stop and lowering review scores for Pokémon games is, while not guaranteed to work, it's worth doing anyway just to send Game Freak and Nintendo a message that enough is enough.
Re: Nintendo Expands Its Switch Online N64 Library With Two More Games
Oh nice that this has arrived already, thought this would be later in the month
Re: Hideki Kamiya Thanks Nintendo For Helping Make Bayonetta 3 A Reality
@RobynAlecksys @Arawn93 Nintendo also owned Project Zero/Fatal Frame 4 & 5 and that didn't prevent them from letting these go multiplat in the end. Bayonetta itself is not owned by Nintendo, it's jointly owned by Sega and Platinum Games, Nintendo just happened to finance 2 & 3, just like they did with Project Zero 4 & 5
Re: Hideki Kamiya Thanks Nintendo For Helping Make Bayonetta 3 A Reality
inb4 game goes multiplat...
Re: Sega Veteran And Industry Legend Rieko Kodama Has Passed Away
That's when you realise the hobby has now reached a stage where video games are old enough now that great legends of the medium will start to disappear progressively. We lost a lot to sickness and accidents already (Iwata, Gunpei Yokoi, Kenji Eno, etc), few to old age (Yamauchi comes to mind), but this trend will only increase as time goes on and more leave us. No one lives forever, enjoy life and games while you can!
Re: Soapbox: After 10 Years I'm Finally Getting A Wii U, But Where Should I Start?
I recommend ZombiU. It's the only game I got with the console when it launched (the ZombiU bundle had the best packaging of a console I've ever bought too and came with a Wii U pro controller in the box to boot, which was nice)
It's janky in a lot of ways, it's as buggy as you'd expect from a Ubisoft game, but you won't get a better immersive experience with the Wii U gamepad in my opinion.
The way it incorporates the unique controller in the gameplay itself is awesome, since you need to look away from the action to rummage through your survivor's backpack for items and need to strategise what you want to keep in the shortcut icons on the touch screen corners (your pockets) for quick access in the heat of a fight without having to look down. It's so simple yet so ingenious.
Ports to XBox One and PS4 lose that aspect entirely which made the original version so special. Oh yeah and I recommend playing with headphones. You can set the game's audio to come completely through the Gamepad itself and out through the headphone jack. This is the best way to play in my opinion.
Re: Milestone A-hoy! Return To Monkey Island Becomes Fastest Selling Game In The Series
"So, physical release when...?"
That's what I've been waiting for. It's all I need to take the plunge, I played all the other games and want this one too, if they would only put it on a cartridge
Re: Random: Great Scott! These Splatoon 3 Rewards Sure Look Familiar
These fashion items are soooo 2015...
Re: Random: You Can (Kind Of) Thank Toby Fox For Sakurai's English YouTube Channel
8-4 also published the physical console versions of Undertale in Japan. That's the version I own cause it was cheaper than the alternative (and it has English on the cartridge anyway).
Re: Cuphead Is Finally Getting A Physical Release On Switch
That's all I've been waiting for, for the last few years, to finally play it. And indeed, thank God it's not Limited Run handling this.
Re: Talking Point: What On Earth Is Going On With Square Enix?
I'd rather have a Square Enix like that than not. If only Konami was as prolific with their own IPs, like they used to be
Re: La-Mulana Director To Remake Obscure Konami MSX IP After Winning Contest
Yeah I'm happy for the guy, he said in interviews before that Maze of Galious had been a huge inspiration for La-Mulana, it only makes sense that he would get the job, and you can be sure he'll do it justice.
Re: Talking Point: What Do You Want To See At Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct Showcase?
I want to see mercy for my wallet. Can we have that please?
Re: The First Review For The New Action RPG Trinity Trigger Is Now In
Listening to the music in the trailer, I was instantly reminded of Seiken Densetsu 3/Trials of Mana. Especially this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVq0AINVCI and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXQa__SUVc
Of course, it's the same composer so it makes sense.
Re: Toby Fox Provides Deltarune Development Update, No "New Chapters" This Year
Not interested in playing this in an episodic format. I'drather wait till the full game is done so I can buy it as a complete release, hopefully on physical media too like I did for Undertale on Switch.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Update Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@RupeeClock My bad I guess I skipped that line as I was skimming through the note. Good to know they listened to feedback then.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Update Now Available, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Guess they're not about to fix the nopon collectopedia card that's impossible to complete just yet. The Gogol Vagua item is impossible to get in the game so that card can't be completed.
I'm done with the game for now anyway, got all 191 quests done, max affinity on all colonies, all unique monsters defeated and soul hacked. I'll go back to it after they're done fixing everything and releasing all the DLC and expansions they have planned.
Re: Talking Point: How Were You Introduced To Metroid?
At the age of 4, my aunt who was 12 years older than me was dating this guy who had a NES and the game, and let me try it out. Didn't make it far as you can imagine but the atmosphere, the music, the non linear design, it stuck with me for the years that followed until I could play the subsequent games for myself. I would only go back to the first one much later since I was too young to have owned an NES (I started myself with the SNES) and thought the NES game had aged very poorly
Re: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 3D May Return To The 3DS eShop Soon
Ha! Been replaying it on PS3 these past couple days. Had only played the 3DS version before. We need the HD collection on Switch, i dare not wish for Twin Snakes to be added to it due to Silicon Knights not existing anymore, but if we could get what PS360 and even the Vita got, I'd be happy!
Re: Reggie Explains Why The Nintendo Wii U Didn't Utilise Dual GamePad Support
Controller was just too expensive to be sold alone and with Wii U owners only ever likely to own one, it's like he said, it wouldn't have made sense anyway.
Plus the video encoding chip on the system (that encodes on the fly the feed streamed to the controller) is what it is, a brilliant piece of kit for its time to be able to do what it does with no meaningful lag, but it was only ever really meant to output 848x480p60, and no more than that. It probably could have done 2 848x480p30 streams, or maybe half resolution 60Hz refresh or something and even that seems tricky cause you're forcing the encoding to not rely on frame persistence or frame difference from the previous one to speed up encoding so it would have been a nightmare to implement anyway.
Technically feasible yes, but I can't imagine any multi gamepad experiences would have been anything more than having different 2D information displayed on different controllers, no high-end different 3D scenes displayed on 2 different gamepads at the same time and running well if you know what I mean.
Re: Treasure Is Apparently Working On A "Highly Requested" Title
Yeah don't sweat it, their most requested title is easily Radiant Silvergun, so it has to be it, not Sin & Punishment (although that would be cool too).
Re: Random: Nintendo Wasn't The First To Introduce Region Locking, After All
@Serpenterror Actually the Famicom had no region locking per se, it's just that cartridges from other regions just won't fit, but it did not have a "region lockout" built in by design, since it was initially designed to only be used and sold in Japan (at launch Nintendo didn't have any plans to release the console or the games anywhere else, since it was not a proven success yet).
The Famicom and its cartridges have no CIC lockout chips whatosever (which is also why piracy was so rampant on Famicom in the first place, anyone could make an unlicensed cartridge for it that would work without any workaround necessary)
Re: Here Are The Tracks You'll Be Racing Around In 'Victory Heat Rally'
@-wc- There are plenty, most of them known as "Penny Racers" in Europe and "Gadget Racers" in North America. There was one on N64 too for example and several on GBA.
Re: Here Are The Tracks You'll Be Racing Around In 'Victory Heat Rally'
The compact look of the cars reminds me a lot of Choro Q
Re: Summer Game Fest Showcase Airing "Exclusive New Look" At Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
Hurry up and release it already so we can finally get the physical edition we were promised almost 2 years ago, which they said would release at the same time as the DLC.
https://nintendosoup.com/cuphead-will-receive-a-physical-edition-on-switch-more-details-revealed/
(original source, a resetera forum post by one of the devs: https://www.resetera.com/threads/cuphead-coming-to-nintendo-switch-april-18-2019-xbox-live-integration-coming-later.106530/page-7#post-19039795 )
(I'm not really expecting them to honour their word, but at least when they announce that they won't make a physical release after all, I can come to terms with it and finally buy the digital game with no regrets)
Re: Gory, Grotesque, Chaotic FPS POST VOID Is Heading To Switch Very Soon
Maybe I'm becoming an old fart, but my brain hurts looking at that footage.
Re: 'Memory Limits' Showcases Amazing Art Created On The Game Boy
@Late Thanks for the clarification!
Re: 'Memory Limits' Showcases Amazing Art Created On The Game Boy
@Late Well a full screen worth of pixels on GB, at 2-bit color depth for the 4 possible shades that each background pixel can be, takes 5.76 KB and the GB has 16KB of VRAM. (EDIT: my mistake, the original GB has 8KB, 16KB is for the GBC, but that's still enough to not need to re-use tiles)
So in the case of perfectly still images like these, you don't even have to worry about cleverly reusing tiles across the image. But it's true that making actual large scrolling levels worth of background graphical data + sprites for an actual game requires a lot more thinking and planning, which is why 8-bit games, even on Game Boy with its more economic 2-bit color depth, use meta-tiles and meta-meta-tiles galore.
Re: How To Prepare Your 3DS And Wii U For Retirement - Hard Drive, Battery, Backup Tips
The battery situation for Wii U Gamepads is a bit dire, as a lot of what is for sale on sites like Amazon is "new old stock", batteries that have been sitting unused for years in a warehouse somewhere and have already started losing some of their life.
I got one of those "large" ones that supposedly should last around 8 hours, but it didn't. At best, with no rumble and lowest backlight settings, it lasts anywhere between 5 and 6 hours, which is barely more than a brand new original capacity battery.
A lot of those third party ones on Amazon are also chinese ones that may not even be the capacity advertised, as this is often the case with any kind of battery from china. Mine even shipped from China despite the fact that the Amazon storefront didn't mention it at all.