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@Mgalens Isn't most of the games that won't run 30 FPS either the developer is too lazy to code it properly or they try to push too high end graphics that the frame rate is what suffers?

A 30 FPS game could be coded on Gamecube.

@DdG1408 Yeah, but aren't those the kind of videos where if you did an infinite refresh, you could generate thousands of phony views in a single day with a single computer?

View is NOT unique people watching.

@DdG1408 But how do we know a Nintendo Direct got 5.1 million views?

Nintendo would have to report that number.

How do we know it did not get 51,000 views and Nintendo just lied?

Or, more likely, 5.0 of the 5.1 million views were from Japan, where Nintendo is way bigger and the US views were 100,000.

For E3, an independent person releases those numbers.

@tseliot With your logic, sporting events would have 0 fans because you could just watch it on television cheaper, but even the worst sports teams still draw 10,000 fans a night.

By the way, the virus was never real. It was just a phony topic designed to extort billions of dollars for the big pharmaceutical companies who already do no work in the first place.

Sorry you fell for it.

@Nua If you have 300 games on your Wii U/3DS screen, will the Wii U/3DS play any of those games without major lag?

If there is lag, what is the percentage limit of internal space you can use before lag becomes noticeable?

@Mgalens lol seriously?

What exactly do you want in a Switch game that cannot be done because of "hardware limitations"

Are you one of those people who gives Mario games a 6 because you cannot see water running off Mario as he gets out of a water level?

@fortius54 Because the types of people who would be tricked by controlling your own narrative won't watch the Directs.

The types of people who watch the Directs know Nintendo can selectively edit footage to not show chuggy framerates, a bad camera, horrendous graphics, etc.

So who exactly are they reaching?

@Pigeon Are you kidding? That thing was never even real in the first place.

It was just a phony topic designed to extort billions of dollars for the big pharmaceutical companies who already do no work in the first place.

Sorry you fell for it.

@DdG1408 Except the viewer numbers for E3 conferences were probably in the millions and I would be suprised if a Nintendo Direct gets 10,000 views.

@CircuitWrangler3 Another thing is the big 3 do NOT compete for attention at E3.

Their main conferences are all during their own time.

@nocdaes Why do people think Switch cannot emulate DS/3DS games?

I play DS games on my Wii U Gamepad screen exclusively and the Gamepad handles 2 screens on 1 screen just fine.

Nintendo could totally do it on Switch.

They just want to bully you into buying their mediocre Switch Lineup by not offering it.

@JJtheTexan "They don't have to pay the enormous expense of going to E3 when everyone just watches the Direct anyway."

If by everyone, you mean all the video game outlets, then sure.

If by everyone, you mean the entire population, no chance.

I remember around every E3, I would have to avoid Facebook for a week if I did not want to be spoiled by all the statuses from my marginal gamer friends posting about it.

I never saw a single status about a single Nintendo direct ever.

Nintendo will continue bleeding sales to its B/C list franchise games and casual games if they continue avoiding E3.

Nobody cares about their propaganda home movies videos.

@Dev9417 Part of the problem is gamers are suckers.

With the forced "renting" of old games, I plan to boycott the Switch successor in anger, but everyone else just makes excuses for Nintendo.

It should be EXPECTED they show up at E3.

A taped Youtube video is not even worthy of a news article.

If all the video game articles refused to cover taped Youtube videos we could make on our own, Nintendo would have to go to E3.

But gamers are suckers, so Nintendo gets away with it again.

@Lizuka That is not remotely true.

No one outside the super hardcore watches "Directs"

I consider myself pretty hardcore, but I will not watch a prefilmed video to tell me why a game is cool. Obviously, if the game fails, chugs, or is boring in spots, they are just going to edit that out.

E3 got press in all the mainstream news shows/newspapers.

Basically, if Nintendo wonders why the Wii U failed, it was because of constantly doing filler E3 presentations.

@ActionPanther No, I have been ENRAGED about Nintendo ever since they announced Wii U Virtual Console is closing.

I always thought Switch Online Subscription was a farce, but as long as Wii U Virtual Console was available, i just avoided it.

To make Switch Online Subscription the ONLY option AND not provide ANY way to actually buy the games is unforgivable!

@All: The way we all got our friends/family to buy into the Wii concept, we should all trash Nintendo's next succesor to make the sales so pathetic that Nintendo will have no choice, but to reinstate the Wii U Virtual Console.

If we all boycott the Switch successor and casuals don't buy it, who buys it then?

@GameAndLuke I would love all the small developers to boycott Nintendo going forward and refuse to release anything on Switch.

They should all join forces with those no name companies that have some classic games on them and release a real competitor to Nintendo and take enough market share that Nintendo would not dare do anything scammy like this outrage ever again.

@GameAndLuke Those things all outrage me too.

I wish governments would pass a law that if you stop producing something, you have to give up the copyright so other people can make items for those things if they want.

VHS >>>>>>> DVD's.

The second a DVD gets a single scratch, the entire disc refuses to play.

When VHS tapes got a tear in the film, you only lost those 5-10 seconds of content.

Of course, we all know tech wants its stuff to break, so you buy more stuff, but I digress.

@sevex I am glad I am not the only one who thought this guy's quote was total baloney.

I remember getting into a pretty heated argument with another user here that claimed "Nintendo simply wants to lower its running costs."

Like what a bunch of nonsense. They own the platform.

They probably make $9.90 of profit off a $10 game.

Heaven forbid, they invest 10 cents for the fans.

And this scam makes me less likely to buy Switch games and I will not ever buy the Switch successor.

But hey, they saved 10 cents a game, so somehow, they will pretend that is a good strategy.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I play all my Wii U Virtual Console games exclusively on the Gamepad and the Gamepad manages to display 2 DS screens on just 1 screen.

Why couldn't the Switch do it then? The Switch screen is LARGER than the Wii U Gamepad!

@Don Unless they let you buy individual games, it won't matter.

I won't be held hostage to whatever Nintendo wants to charge for online under threat they just delete your data.

@steely_pete: I will definitely boycott the Switch successor if there is no ability to just buy individual Virtual Console games.

I put 500-1,000 hours into most classic games.

I am not paying $50 a year in perpetuity for 6-10 games and then have Nintendo permanently delete all my save data if I stop paying.

Had they pulled this crap move before the Switch came out, I would have boycotted this system too, but they had not even announced the fraud subscription service for Switch when I got mine.

The successor to Reggie is ruining the company.

Everything shady Nintendo has done lately has started around when Reggie left.

This question is off topic, but I have no idea where to put it.

How do you post a guide or feature to the site?

I cannot find a button anywhere that says "Create Guide" or "Create Feature"

@BinaryMessiah Why won't people spend dozens of hours writing a guide on a single level?

The official player's guides have hundreds of people writing a single book. They could just pick 1 person for every level to get the book out faster.

Anyone who posts here could easily figure out the basic strategy on their own.

What would be worth paying for is knowing if 1,300 or 1,333 is the perfect score for a level so you do not spend hours trying to go higher than 1,300 is 1,300 is the best score. (Sort of like the S ranks in the Sonic games.)

Doing a video walkthrough would be super tough because the person would have to get a perfect score on all 50 puzzles in 1 try.

I would spend 4+ hours trying to get a perfect score by trying to just perfect each 1/4 of a level through the checkpoint system and bringing 50 lives into the level.

(The Kirby game works off a combo system where you get higher multipliers if you do each puzzle faster, but the top multipliers are REALLY hard and it is REALLY hard to master that many puzzles in a row without a mistake.)

@NoodlesAndBeans: It probably depends on WHY you like Paper Mario.

I enjoyed the personality expansion for all the Mario characters beyond WOOHOO!

But I never really play RPG games, so without the Mario characters (or another franchise I already love) there would be nothing for me there.

On the other hand, if you loved the RPG mechanics of Paper Mario, then you probably would be more open to other applications of those same mechanics in other RPG games and probably just tolerated the Mario environment.

@Daggot: If you like to 100% games, the online information is not nearly complete enough though.

For example, there is a Wii U game called Kirby & The Rainbow Curse where you collect these beads in level and if you get to a certain threshold, you get certain medals.

However, the medal thresholds are a joke. The highest medal rank is only slightly higher than 50% of the total beads available.

If I just played the game to get all the medals, I would be done with the whole game in 10-20 hours.

To give the game greater challenge because the levels/music combo are so AMAZING, I tried to collect every single bead in each level, but irritatingly, the game does not tell you what a perfect score is.

I tried looking online for info and there is ABSOLUTELY nothing out there. The online guides do not mention it.

The Youtube players just saunter through the level and get nowhere near 100%.

I spent 40-50 hours of gameplay on a single level and kept 20-40 pages of notes on the 50 different puzzles in that level to try to calculate what the perfect score might be and that would all be unnecessary if there was an official book out there.

I do enjoy the challenge to get a perfect score on each level, but having to take so many notes kills the pace of playing and forces me to try to memorize every single puzzle, which is close to impossible.

If I just knew what the perfect scores were, I would know when to keep pushing for more beads and when to move on.

When you are talking about 50 hours of gameplay per level, it is hard to move on and feel like you did not fully beat the level, but I do not want this to turn into a Wii Tennis situation where someone spent 500 hours to get a single extra skill point to go from 2,399 to 2,400.

I do not expect every released game to have a guide to perfect every level, but you would think a core franchise series like a Kirby game would get perfect game level treatment?

Why is this feature restricted to Switch?

Wouldn't it make sense for a system not currently in production because enough time would have passed to make it a backlog game and not a current game?

The Wii U / 3DS would be perfect.

Is there an option play as the Cleveland Indians instead of the phony new name they made?

I would pay twice retail for the game if it just had that.

Having the SP versions of games feels like the equivalent of a TV Show I used to watch with these 2 dumb kids who somehow found themselves on a high intelligenc, low ratings game show called "High School Quiz," in the middle of the episode, the developers of the game show thought they could boost ratings by having dumb people win, and then those dumb kids running around telling everyone how smart they are.

I am sure Nintendo will make it so all a player needs to do is walk into the final boss, so all non gamers can pretend they 100% Super Mario World.

@KeeperBvK: Yes with the way Nintendo Power covered "multiplayer" on Game Boy, it seemed like all it was trading not playing whole games together.

Sort of like how if you pass people with DS', you exchange stuff, but do not play games together.

That is what I meant by it being similar to Streetpass.

@Chariblaze: Is it possible to make 2 accounts in 1 household and just use each account for the separate 3DS?

And is the 3DS compatible with external hard drives?

I saw another commenter mention that for the Wii U, but he did not mention the 3DS.

I heard Disney World in Florida was supposed to get a Super Nintendo World in 2025.

Is that still on?

If there is really only 2 rides in the Japan Theme Park, then that park is WAY overrated!!!

Is it possible to get good at this game if you practice it a lot?

I am thinking of trying to promote this game to help make Switch fail as a protest against Nintendo's shutdown of the Wii U / 3DS E-Shop, but I still need the game to be competent.

@Chariblaze: No, I mean if all the games do not fit on 1 DS, could I just buy a 2nd DS and download the 2nd half of games onto that DS or will Nintendo block me from using a 2nd DS at all with the same account?

@KeeperBvK: I am SHOCKED to learn the Game Boy had multiplayer in 1989 too!!!

The way Nintendo Power covered Game Boy Games, I thought Game Boy Games were 1 player only besides Pokemon Trading.

But I would not call that multiplayer. I think of that more as DS Streetpass features.

Oh how nice of Nintendo to go out of their way to fix glitches with their games.

Honestly, the barrier for success for them is so pathetically low these days.

Who said this game would have sold 0 copies? I do hate horror games, so I would not have bought it, unless I decided to go forward with buying every single E-Shop game, but I am not sure if I can make the finances work yet.

But I play my Wii U and 3DS WAY more than my Switch.

In fact, I will boycott every future Nintendo platform that only lets people rent Nintendo Virtual Console Games.

When I bought the Switch, they did not have that nonsense or i would have boycotted that too.

I would rather go buy a Game Boy Color online than support that nonsense going forward.

@Mr-X9000: Thanks so much for letting me know.

I saw a commenter say they lost 6-0, 6-0, so I got excited, but they sounded like a horrible player if they got shut out by the easiest computer opponent, so I was unsure if that person's memory was spot on or not.

Did you play the game recently?

@rolLTheDice: Oh, why does it not let you ask a question where we were having an exchange?

And are you saying you do not remember what types of Nintendo games you used to play?

@ghostsoundjosh: I walked every inch of the desert level looking for an actual level to play, but never found one.

I think I even walked every inch twice to make sure I did not miss anything, but never found anything when I turned it off.

And I play almost every game if it even has Mario in it. So disappointing.

The only Mario games released since I started playing video games that I did not buy was the Dance Dance Revolution game because I had no idea it came out at the time and it is super expensive online to get both the game and the mat and Super Mario Party because it cannot be played in portable mode.

@Mr-X9000: Thanks so much for all of that great information!

The only question you missed was the first one:

1) How many games are included in a set?

In later Mario Tennis games, you could pick between 2, 4, or 6.

A 3 set match with 6 games each would actually be quite lengthy!

@Munchlax: I spent a solid 5 hours with it and the camera was so horrendous that I broke down and agreed to open the online instructional manual (I typically boycott these, as it irritates me there is no options for a physical version anymore.) to see what I was doing wrong, but yet still could not figure it out.

After hours of experimentation, I figured out that if you kept the camera as loose as possible, for some reason, that made it better, even though the default option was way too loose to start with.

I still never found a level to play though.

I feel like Super Mario Odyssey is Super Mario in The Legend of Zelda franchise and that warp alone should doom the game to a 5/10 or worse.

If I wanted a Zelda type game, I would buy them. It should at least be clear in the title if they are going to do that. For example, "Super Mario's Open World Odyssey Adventure."

@4D2: Thanks so much for your information!

I was actually considering forking over $1,000+ online to buy an extra 3DS to help with the save issues from the lack of information I was finding and it could not even save 1 game!

I do have a few follow-up questions.:

1) How many blocks of usable savable memory does a 2 GB SD Card have for Virtual Console games and for E-Shop Games?

2) How many blocks of usable savable memory does a typical Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, DS, 3DS, Wii, Wii U, and Turbo Graphx-16 game take up?

I just ask all that to try to figure out what size cards to buy and how to potentially stuff a larger size card with a lot of big size games to actually use all the extra space on those cards, but keep the number of total games on that card under the 300 cap.

3) I notice 1 TB seems to the maximum size for an SD card.

Do those work with the FAT32 conversion process?

4) Why are there such large price discrepancies on some of the cards?

For example, Amazon has a "SanDisk 1TB Ultra MicroSDXC UHS-I Memory Card" for $129.51 and then Best Buy has a "SanDisk - Extreme PLUS 1TB microSDXC UHS-I Memory Card" for $269.99!

Same company and same memory size, but one is twice as expensive as the other! Why? And which is better?

5) What is the process on the computer to convert a larger card to a FAT32 format?

I am not too computer savvy.

6) Is there a super small amount of internal memory allocated to Virtual Console Downloads? How many blocks is that?

I know I never used an SD Card for 3DS, but I already downloaded Super Mario Land for Game Boy and it did not reject my download.

7) Do you know how many DSiWare games out of the full list are still available for download on a 3DS?

Another commenter told me elsewhere that most of the DSiWare games were lost in 2017, but I am unsure if that is true or not.

8) You said 300 icons is the cap for most games, but that DSiWare Games are stored elsewhere.

What is the cap on how many DSiWare Games can be downloaded?

9) If I wanted to get a backup handheld or backup console, would I be able to use the same Nintendo Account to download my games to or would I have to make a 2nd Account?

Thanks so much for reading and answering all my questions!

I REALLY appreciate it!!!

@rolLTheDice: Then, why don't you want to talk about what types of Nintendo games you used to play?

Glad to hear it because Super Mario Odyssey was one of the worst games I ever played.

I spent 5 hours wandering a desert for the 1st level and all I did was find an apparel hut, a place to save my non existent progress, a camera 100 times worse than Super Mario Sunshine, and an environment full of just walking among emptiness for minutes at a time.

If the game was Super X Odysey, it would have been reviewed a 2/10 instead of a 10/10. What a joke!