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I like how some people get Labo for their cat, share it online, and then people want a cat for Labo. ;D

@Heavyarms55 Agreed. And I recall shinies originally came out of a programming trick in Gold & Silver that swapped palette data with a different Pokémon in the data. The colors weren’t hand picked, hence why the coolness-factor varies a lot between shinies.

@impurekind Here's an old one, but this one shows at least a somewhat more interesting and artsy look including Miyamoto's 90's desk: https://youtu.be/V52Fto40syM

These Nintendo Minute video's were clearly taken more restricted.

At least you can send in a defective Joy-Con without sending the Switch unit they came with.

But I agree that Nintendo does have a fair point if, say, one of those flimsy unlicensed Kickstarted docks caused damage to your Switch and you want them to repair it. If Nintendo does repair it, consider that a gesture of loyal customer support.

After all, companies tend to repair some things outside of warranty as they rather have a lifelong happy customer that keeps buying their products, than one's negative experience that may spread to other potential customers.

While not at home, I'm using the official Nintendo cable that came with the Charging Dock, on different phone/tablet chargers. It charges slow but works fine.

I watched these using their own 'Pokemon TV' app. Although the available episodes tend to rotate there with newer ones added weekly.

The icon change is the best update. Whew, the game's good but that white-edged pop-eyed icon had got to be the ugliest Switch icon ever.

I already loved Snake Pass as it was, but I'll give Arcade Mode a go!

Ah, the return of Toilet Mario and Barfing Bowser? Sign me up, lol.

Looks like it’s released on iBooks now (or at least in my region).

I can’t seem to find it in the iBooks store, maybe it isn’t out yet in my region?

First I was excited, then came the fact it didn't work with wireless.

I'll just stick with the regular non-DPad for now, until Nintendo comes with one at least.

I don’t want the physical, but would’ve bought the extra content as DLC, only to read that it’ll be free. Thumbs up SEGA!

It's not much but better than nothing, still by far not as good as Club Nintendo was but can't really complain about gifts.

This looks amazing, I love custom controllers! And haha, Nintendo should totally release a "Controller Kit" for Labo at some point. Makes that thing worthwhile for at least something.

@Ryu_Niiyama I know right! Switch sure is becoming Bullet Heaven by now.

CAVE games are probably considered the highest standard in the subgenre, with highscore scenes still going after years of their initial releases. Degica has been releasing a few of their games on Steam in recent years but the height of CAVE's library is still missing, probably because their Steam ports are based on ready Xbox 360 ports. A port of a port, basically.

Basically it's like this:

In Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald it's a dice roll that happens when catching Wurmple.

In Pokémon GO it's a dice roll that happens when evolving Wurmple.

This article seems good and very informative for those wondering about Stardust.

Please note that Star Pieces are currently not available in the in-game shop, but they do appear relatively often during events that already increase Stardust gains.

I have captured the Sunny form during the dark hours at least once, but I suppose they at least tried to restrict their spawn times to daylight.

Information in this article is false.

The Super Incubator is not available at the moment, not even in the special limited time boxes.

The Super Incubator has been in boxes a few times, but was only sold as stand-alone item briefly on one occasion.

T5 bosses are schedule-based so not available at all times, mostly just 1 or 2 at a time.

Mewtwo is technically an EX Raid boss only visible and available by invite.

So the article is slightly misleading in that regard.

This is known to work one time per name, next time the same name is used it's random!

I finished Super Mario Bros. 2 'The Lost Levels' several times, on All-Stars, the GBC Deluxe version, and on 3DS VC. It's just muscle-memory and concentration that can get you through, but yes it's too hard for mainstream players who loved the original SMB.

That said, I didn't bother finishing world 9 and extra's due to the 1-life limit.

There’s been so much rediculousness in the American higscore scene going on. Todd Rogers ‘Dragster’ WR was also formally busted some weeks ago.

Why can’t they just be fair and square and accept loss, or attempt a new record? This happens in the Japanese scene all the time.

@DanteSolablood Haha nice! A friend got a pass earlier today (I think), so they’re definitely throwing out more waves of passes!

Let’s first get some good Rayquaza’s tomorrow, lol!

@DanteSolablood Having mythical as ultra rare spawns (like Unown) would sure be more true to their name, as well as more exciting.

And I mostly raid after 5 during workdays but never in the weekend. Yeah, it sucks that most raid spawns are done by 5 so I have to be lucky. It’d be nice if raids happened longer during the evening, and not have half of them spawn at 8 in the morning, lol.

@NEStalgia True that. I always believed the lack of any connectivity between Go and Sun/Moon was a missed opportunity from the rather conservative Pokémon Company. It would’ve been nice to create one Trainer character and neatly switch between virtual Alola on 3DS and the real world on your phone. That would’ve convinced at least more ‘trendhoppers’ from the Go hype into the series.

At some point they were definitely considering this, as early PoGo avatars were modeled after the Omega Ruby/Sapphire models, which were the latest games back then. And Sun/Moon had ‘Pokémon GO’ programmed in as possible location data for obtained Pokémon.

They may (or may not) do this right with that Harry Potter thing, where there’s a traditional game ‘Hogwarts Mysteries’ that lets people create a character and get into the HP world, adventuring and learning spells, etc. Then you’d take that character to Niantic’s ‘Wizards Unite’ and put your wizarding skills in practice in the real world.

@DanteSolablood I have yet to receive an Ex Raid Pass. I’m playing very local and last Ex Raid in town was on christmas day anyway. Maybe I got a chance now that gold gym badges and personal raid activity actually does count.

And I suppose they’ll introduce Mythical raids next? I recall reading that raid boss data for Mew, Celebi, and Jirachi is in the game code now.

@NEStalgia That's still somewhat of a problem. Aside from some rare spawns, cities have most activity by far. Still, the game is very much alive to the point that it's rare to have even a smaller town where there's no active group of players to be found.

Maybe the question should be whether articles like these are newsworthy for a Nintendo site. Well, technically Nintendo has a share in PoGo which is still a significant amount of income for them.

Ah screw it haha, Pokémon Go is good for Nintendo and so are news articles on it's updates to Nintendo fans!

@rjejr The normal green version will be in Go.

@Timsworld To most people still playing Pokémon Go including myself, the raid system is actually the most exciting feature in the game. I've met people in my neighborhood that I wouldn't have met otherwise. It basically brought people together that were playing mostly solo during the game's 'hype' in summer 2016. Rare spawns and some shinies are already there basically. Non-event wild Unown spawns are the rarest at the moment.

@Charlosa Haha that’s crazy. I have yet to receive a pass but if it happens I sure hope it’s a little closer by.

Unreal Engine 4 was designed with high adaptability in mind, so no doubt can they optimize a version of Fortnite for Switch, even with the more limited memory the Switch has.

While they're at it, they might as well port the regular co-op Fortnite, as Battle Royale is not really my thing.

I'm still playing daily since launchday.

Some story and character would suit this game for sure. After all, I barely even know how Professor Willow looks anymore! And your team's leader guy is only ever seen to appraise the IV's of your Pokémon.

They also need to move on with these Ex Raids. There seems to be a pretty consistent pattern to triggering them now, but yesterday a very confusing wave of Ex Raid Passes were handed out in my area, mostly to people who never did a raid on the gym in question!

@KittyTHL Ah, that’d be nice and always a good thing if the engine you’re using supports building to MacOS or XCode project. I do have a decent (desktop) PC but considering my work stuff is on a MacBook, about 90% of the week I’m on MacOS.

@KittyTHL Alright, the game sure looks more interesting from the gameplay videos posted on Steam. I'm currently on my MacBook so can't try the Alpha, but will prefer the PC version over a Switch version atm as I don't have an Arcade controller compatible with the Switch.

I 'love' the amount of shooters currently, and coming to, the Switch.

For this one I'd have to see and hear more about the final product. Since this is clearly bullet-hell stuff, it's success will depend on the creativity of bullet and enemy patterns, as well as having a good scoring system that makes players want to return to the game.

As for the visuals. I'm not really sure what style they're aiming for, but aside from minor inconsistencies it looks alright for now.

Also, just coincidence but for a slight moment I thought the same game was displayed on the front-page twice, lol:

I still have it downloaded, but will only start it up again after the icon has been reverted or otherwise fixed.

Still have to tackle the time trials that previous update brought, if it wasn't for that hideous icon that came with it!

@quinnbad And his brother, Luigi Mario.

Don't confuse shovelware with indie games. Turbo Pug falls into the category of a small dev trying to bring something out on Switch and Nintendo helping them with that. Although that doesn't make it an original or good game.

Shovelware is when a company like Ubisoft orders their Chinese department to make the 1000th Pets game for some easy low-risk money.

Both funny and clever!

@Euler No. These games are totally unrelated to the generation 1 games, and play in an entirely different region (so no Viridian or Cinnabar).

And even if the devs had decided to add Kanto in like some speculated, the glitches wouldn't be there. Though it would've been nice if a little nod was placed in the form of a hidden item on Missingno's place. Same as FireRed/LeafGreen put an item on the infamous 'Mew Truck' location.

They had to build in ways for established players to do less grinding, and I'm happy they did.

After all, grinding XP in RPG's is not something today's audience really likes to do. Back in the NES days developers encouraged grinding to let the game last longer and make the players feel they're getting worth their money. Right now technology certainly allows for more intuitive ways to build characters (Pokémon) in RPG's.

@gordjscott Yeah, I know the stat boosts from Hyper Training are artificial, hence why things like breeding and Hidden Power remain unaffected. But it sure would be nice if all those hard earned Hyper Trainings weren’t going to be meaningless in Ultra SM, so good to know they got it covered!

Do Pokémon that have ‘Hyper Trained’ IV’s in SM bring over their ‘Hyper Trained’ status in Ultra SM?

I played the **** out of Pokémon Moon and can't wait for more! Got Ultra Sun preordered this time around.

As we all expected, this game sucks.

Go get Mania for true amazement!

@Indielink Haha oops, I forgot. That's probably because I rarely ever joined raids other than legendaries and solo Magikarp.

First time I've seen this cover, honestly.

First thing I thought about is an old man on the town outskirts, stargazing all night while playing his banjo and having a good time. Then he's so into his music that he totally misses a crazy spaceship passing his back. And life goes on.

Just Ultra Sun for me, then.

I feel like I've got enough games on the Switch right now to last for months, at the very least.

@Darkwario1 Wario World's site also had a little point & click thingy going on. Not as cool, but I remember it well.

Back then, Flash was the go-to way of having some interactivity on a website that you know will look the same on any browser that supports Flash. Right now it's completely surpassed by HTML5 and related stuff such as Javascript. Those technologies are open-source and way faster than Flash, and above all else they work efficient on mobile while Flash doesn't.

Golem, Scyther, and Lapras are OK additions. Sableye is OK too for it's increased shiny chance.

But Metapod? I'd rather have Magikarp to use a spare raid pass on for it's shiny chance.