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Its cult status seems to rest entirely on the quality of its music - it's an awful game

@Kalmaro They're only sharing the patch file, you'll still need to bring your own ROM, which you can dump yourself legally

Welp, I'll be removing that one from my watch list...

@ncb1397 https://ec.nintendo.com/AU/en/titles/70010000010447

$100 AUD... just putting that out there

I was going to get Gear.Club Unlimited 2, but turns out it's $100 AUD

@waluigifan1 I agree with 1-2-Switch, but the rest (barring a few minor gripes with Tennis Aces) are perfectly great, competent games...

I read that as "working on a cloud-based failure".
And let's be honest, that's what it's gonna be

Definitely the original Monkey Ball!
I NEEEEEEEEEED that!

@Damo Ah, I skimmed over the bit where it stated that it was being funded by Sony.

I have a preemptive bias against Konami as a whole, as its terrible handling of the fantastic IPs they own is extremely disappointing to me.

Don't get me wrong though, I am still happy for the PS4 owners that get to experience the game, and I hope for their sake that Konami doesn't shoehorn overpriced DLC, microtransactions and other similar anti-consumer practices like that into the experience.

It's Konami, so it's not exactly surprising that they'd do something against consumer's wishes...

I just want the SNES game Plok, since it's brilliant and has never seen a proper VC release...

@Cobalt There always has to be someone like you, doesn't there...

@ReaderRagfish Indeed... lookin' at you, "Baobabs Mausoleum Ep.1: Ovnifagos Don't Eat Flamingos"!

Here's the full story:

@TheSunCat Hey I did too

As a hacker/modder, in my honest opinion (and this is coming from someone who hates microtransactions), I would never ever support a mod like this under any circumstances, this is piracy.

My mods follow these rules:

It must be a single player game.

If a game has online features (leaderboards etc.), remove all the URLs so it cannot contact the server(s).

NEVER EVER give out premium upgrades for free.

Oh, and the game's home screen icon:
https://img-eshop.cdn.nintendo.net/i/4836f0cab2eb74edeb0a07e73063ba02abddb44cb32f44998f4a8339868ca4c6.jpg

If anyone needs extra proof:
https://img-eshop.cdn.nintendo.net/i/b5e857e47721716950acfebebffe13697bfd8e98269807612175503d82d1e994.jpg
So, even though it's still kinda a rumour, why would they have the image of a game that they weren't planning to release on their servers?

What is going on at Nintendo headquarters?
The Switch now has an unpatchable exploit that allows you to run the Dolphin emulator (among many others), yet they won't provide a legitimate method?
It's just utterly stupid. They are basically asking people who want portable Gamecube and Wii games to hack their Switch.

@Banjos_Backpack I'm a dataminer, but I have the respect and decency to hide it behind spoiler tags!
I provided the files, I never expected the findings to be shared publicly, so I apologise to you and anyone else offended on his behalf.

@cfgk24 You jumped straight from hacker to piracy, what gives?

Ooh! It has ambient occlusion in portable mode!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's a first for a Switch game.

The two main things I'm interested in are emulators, and extracting game title keys, so I can decrypt games, and datamine them for getting their soundtrack, and finding unused content to add to The Cutting Room Floor!

And to cut to the chase: I don't want free games, I personally believe you should pay the asking price for work people put loads of effort into.

So the common belief that hacking is only used for piracy is not only accusatory, but factually incorrect.

I'm from Australia; 10/10 - Outstanding, absolute must buy.
It should be literally illegal to own a Switch without buying a Labo kit!

This was on my "wait-for-review-then-decide" list!
Since it got an 8/10 - I'm gonna get it!

@Multi Huh? I have no idea what you mean by that!

Yay, more Konami, that's definitely what people want!
Sarcasm aside, I respectfully request for Konami to shove this 2010-looking mobile game, and its extremely egregious microtransactions into the same place they pulled it out from!

I'm playing Drone Fight on Switch.
It's by far the worst game I have ever played in my life, and if this somehow gets higher than a 1/10 Abysmal, I would be shocked.

It's like Vroom In The Night Sky, but much, much worse.
At least Vroom had decent controls, this is near-unplayable.

It's Superman 64 3, the trilogy nobody asked for.

@HappyMaskedGuy I'm sorry, but being able to make your own games and applications without needing to buy an expensive dev kit is not equal to piracy.
The exploits were only ever searched for with homebrew, save backups, game backups and game modding in mind.
If someone uses it for piracy, it's their problem, they did the wrong thing, but the developers do not intend for it to be used as a piracy tool.
Although you're probably gonna pull the "enabling piracy" BS on me.
Which, I have a counter-argument for that too.
iTunes allowing DRM-free downloads enables music piracy, CD drives for computers enable music piracy.
There's a whole bunch of stuff that "enables" piracy, but it doesn't mean it needs to necessarily be used for that purpose.

@HappyMaskedGuy That's literally my point.
Once you buy something, you legally own it.
You don't hold the copyright for the item, but you have a legal right to do whatever you want with it for personal use.
As long as you don't distribute it, it's 100% legal to backup, hack, etc.

@HappyMaskedGuy How can you compare archiving a legally purchased copy of a product to stealing the only original copy of art?

@Faruko That's nothing!
I play it at 16K 240Hz in 3D VR with 10.2 surround sound!
4K 60fps? Bah! Peasant!

@DrScottnik The music files in the Wii U version only took up around 400MB of space, as they were stored in Nintendo's custom ADPCM-based audio format.

So it wouldn't make any sense for them to compress it any further...

This sounds like something Kanye West would do, surprised it was spewed out, er, said by Will.I.Am!

I personally do things a bit weirdly!

For music, I buy CDs, as I want versatile, lossless audio without all the hassle of streaming services and DRM etc.

For games, I almost exclusively buy them digitally, because there will be no difference in the files (except for the on-cart updates of course) between the cartridge and digital versions.

Also, CDs can be played on loads of devices, including your PC, while Switch cartridges can only be played on, well, the Switch!

The title pretty much sums up the game!
"Hollow" indeed...

@Shiryu Literally nothing.
I bought Vroom in the Night Sky day one!
A good name for that phenomenon would be the "AVGN-factor".
Essentially, if a game's bad, but entertainingly so, i'm gonna buy it!

Now for the obligatory:
What was Nintendo on when they approved this?
Have they even learnt anything from the meme run fiasco?

Edit: Forgot the obligatory "I'm sorry you had to review this!"

I get Nintendo love to support independent developers, but this should have been left indie rubbish!

@JHDK - It appears so... even "Vroom in the Night Sky" and "Tennis" got a higher score!

If Sonic Mania 2 gets announced, I will (Rule 1) involuntarily empty the contents of my bowel directly into my undergarments!

My prediction:

It will be a new modern 3D Sonic game called "Sonic Legions" or something; they will add useless gimmicky crap and scrap all the good concepts from the previous games! 4/10 - Poor.

Wow, a fully-featured online FPS on the Switch!
Shut up and take none of my money! (Cause it's free-to-play, har har!)

It looks fantastic, but if they DARE to keep the microtransactions in and charge money, they can shove the game up as far as it will fit!

We certainly don't need another MUJO...

It certainly looks unique...

Yeah, that art style really isn't for me!

@DanteSolablood Nah, Super Monkey Ball!

@AlexOlney But the Jaguar had classics like Cybermorph!

You know, the one with horrendously unresponsive controls, excremental draw distance and the annoying green alien thing mocking you after crashing into things that just appear right in front of you with the lovely sentiment "Where did YOU learn to fly?".

I'd give the game a solid 7/10!

It's got a super cute art style, fun platforming mechanics, lots of cool stuff to collect and it's overall just a really fun experience!

The camera is a bit of a downside, the ability to move it up, down, left and right instead of a zoom would be nice, and in some cases, although pretty rare, the framerate drops below the 60fps target.

Also, I don't know what people are talking about! It may have been inspired by 3D Land, but the layout of the first level in Woodle Tree is very different to World 1-1 in Super Mario 3D Land!

Knowing Konami, if they were to officially announce it, they would screw something up, like adding microtransactions to it or even just scrapping it at the last minute... cough P.T. cough