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@Dragonslacker1 Same

@DjinnFighter I’m wondering about that - we still don’t know how short though - it says there’ll be several islands so it could maybe be a quite a few hours. Perhaps I’m clutching at straws

@mesome713 just out of interest, assuming you already have a Sony memory card, what’s bad about the Vita? I have the OLED version & I think it’s a beautifully made console.

Still play it every day.

@Grot Absolutely right, And re freemelee: People who diss Nintendo for not allowing emulators in competitions don’t understand the nature of the business. Their IPs are the essence of the company - if they allow them to be used in non official ways like this even once, then things will spiral out of control & the IP will eventually be compromised. Peer Schneider put it brilliantly on one of the NVC podcasts.

There’s something about using the original hardware, original cart on a CRT that just adds weight to the experience. Just to know it’s running on the original silicone with the controller it was designed for on the display where it looks best with no input lag. Just using the old cartridge gives it a sense of occasion that I’ve never found in any other way of playing. I’ve had collections of hundreds of old roms on emulators back in the day and somehow the experience loses its charm for me, even though you’ve got instant access to all the games at the touch of a button. I just love picking out a game from my piles of original carts & playing them on a CRT as they were meant to be played..

Absolutely phenomenal game

I think they’ve fixed it for the upcoming switch pro and will sweep the problem under the table re the old switches.

Nice, the GC controller is my favourite. Nothing can match the sheer precision and sensitivity of the analogue stick. The combination of that stick and the original super monkey ball is gameplay perfection in its purest form.

@beazlen1 nice profile pic. Do you still play 1080 snowboarding now & again?

Gosh they are taking this game very seriously, great to see

Oh my god, the mad monster mansion remix is absolutely epic!

@Willsy @WaveWitch CRTs only have input lag if they’re the more recent HD (1080i) models. The older 50/60Hz models have a lag in the microseconds, basically zero. For SD consoles, you should use one of these types. My LG CX or any modern TV has no hope of matching this, even running at 120fps.

@Wavey84 Nice - we have almost exactly the same journey - Sony CRT to Panasonic plasma (still have mine), CX OLED. You’re so right about motion - & the OLED is great for movies and 60hz or 120hz games but has problems with 30fps games in terms of stutter because of the panel’s response time and sample-and-hold nature nature and of course the lower res in motion. I’d be happy to have a mild motion interpolation to counter the 30fps stuttering if it could be incorporated into game mode with no added lag - impossible I know. I just wish Sony & MS would just commit to a universal 60hz+ option for games but I don’t think it’ll happen. I’d be happy to sacrifice resolution for frame rate in every case & the C9/CX upscales very well. I don’t like BFI because of the dimming, as you say. I have a few decent CRTs - NEC XV29+ (for 480p), a low use 25” and 2 X brand new 21” Sony 4:3 late 90’s consumer trinitrons, a Loewe E3001 chassis shadow mask, new 14” later Sony and a BVM 20E1E pro monitor. hopefully at least some will outlast me with inevitable cap replacements and care. Getting them new took a lot of searching over a few years but it’s my hobby and the image of an unused set is much sharper and more vibrant than a used one. The BNIB 21” and up sets have pretty much run out now, although they do pop up very occasionally.

@Wavey84 it’s crazy how certain aspects took a step backwards after CRTs and have never caught up. I love & collect them myself for the 240/480p stuff. I love the instantaneous nature of cartridges - just switch on, Immediately straight into the game - punchy image, zero lag, perfect motion etc.

@NEStalgia true.

MiniLED on switch will be very nice. It’s similar to FALD but with more zones. It’s really a stopgap to OLED, QD-OLED and eventually MicroLED, but is a realistic solution for now & will likely look gorgeous. No need for huge viewing angles on a handheld anyway.

@Snatcher Yes indeed! Love your games list in your profile

I was in tears watching this. This game is everything to me..

@Zidentia interesting - care to elaborate?

@Zidentia don’t talk that way about my Alex. He’s perfect and always has been.

@TG16_IS_BAE You’re missing something re ocarina. It’s not your fault - it just doesn’t gel with you and that’s fine. There’s something that makes the game much much more than a sum of its parts - there’s a reason this is still held in extremely high regard - and you can’t fathom why. Be at peace with it. There’s lots of games I don’t relate to that I know are amazing, but just don’t suit me - that’s the beauty of life, follow what you love.

@ALinkttPresent exactly! That and the fact that it’s comparatively empty is now seen as a criticism. Yo me that’s not true at all, The field is still as enchanting and engaging as it ever was. It’s lucky to have been able to experience it all at the time- new gamers will never understand

@JimmySpades it really is an odd phenomenon isn’t it?

It looks rough in front of a 4K tv but beautiful on the switch screen

@Sayari I love that!

@Sayari nice, that’s getting retro now - do you play it perpetually or on your first run through?

Conker’s bad fur day and Mario tennis, both on N64 - nothing like having a decent retro setup & going back to original hardware on CRT whenever you feel like it.

Then Pikmin 3, Mario Galaxy & Last of us 2.

It’s 720p30 docked!!! I was sure this would be 1080p! Bit gutted.

Co-op story mode with my daughter! Woohoo!

@sanderev You absolutely hit the nail on the head - if the team actively made it impossible to play pirated games on the mod, it would be fine in my eyes. How many people would buy it then? Not many as most people buy it to pirate.

@Toy_Link apologies, just sarcasm aimed at entitled Nintendo fans. Mario Kart, Galaxy, Smash bros - all almost beyond AAA.

@Papichulo Absolutely agreed - there’s zero AAA titles in that list.

@mariomaster96 Are you sure? It’s top of that list and was the second best game sold on Amazon Of 2020 only a week after being announced. Seems to be just about scraping by..

Amazing - although looks to require a fairly large room.

@Rhaoulos I know, it's really odd. Do Nintendo fans not support Nintendo?

Yessss, love it. 2 million should be enough to discourage others

Pikmin 3 is really one of the top wiiu games. As Jose otero says, it could be no.1 in the library - it’s often oddly overlooked.

They may as well have gone all in on the name as well - maybe Breadth of the wild?

@Snakesglowcaps You’re absolutely right, so much adolescent-style entitlement here. Don’t let their haranguing put you off - yours is a genuinely decent counter argument.

@Snakesglowcaps Love it, sensible thinking 👍

There’s no such thing as a PAL version, it’s the European version. PAL was a standard that is now moot, which distinguished the old 50hz, 525 line SD standard that existed in Europe and other places from the 60hz, 480 line standard that existed in the US and Japan (and others). Now there is no such distinction, thankfully.

@Doktor-Mandrake Yes I love that shader - it does look beautiful, I concur.

It’s possible the ultimate and most accurate way to play these games may in the long term actually end up being original consoles + CRT. No inaccuracies, latency, control issues or frame pacing problems there. And with original hardware, viewing on CRTs is much nicer to look at than the HDMI mods if you do it right.

Not for everyone, but if you’re a purist and want the gameplay preserved exactly as it was originally intended with decent image quality then this still seems to be the only way to go.

@BoyfriendOfDeath

@BoyfriendOfDeath I don’t see how bowser can be considered fully gay as he’s obsessed with peach. Instead, I prefer to think of him as bisexual & imagine his ultimate fantasy as being in the middle of a Mario and Peach ‘sandwich’.

@Clyde_Radcliffe Yes, but that means controlling the cursor with an analogue stick - even worse! But very good point of yours; no analogue triggers. Hopefully Nintendo will somehow have found a way to around these problems that makes them less of an issue.

I’m really looking forward to this & think the price is fine for the games. I don’t mind that the look of the games hasn’t been changed - I think the original feel of them would be altered too much with graphical overhalls.

My only worries are:
A: Mario 64 should have been in 16:9
B: The pointer on the joycons is not absolute, but relative due to it being gyro based as opposed to the Wii’s IR sensor bar. This means that when playing Galaxy on a TV/monitor, you’ll have to keep recentering or adjusting the cursor a la Skyward sword. If this is the case (and I can’t see how it could be any other way), this will actually have an inferior and less intuitive control scheme to the Wii version. It’s great to have cleaner graphics, but not at the sacrifice of gameplay.

I’m surprised no one seems to be talking about this actually.

(Edit: someone mentioned you can also control the cursor with the controller when using the pro controller - this is an even worse situation! Controlling the cursor with an analogue stick is much less fluid and more cumbersome than with a pointer/cursor. It may turn out that for playing on a TV/monitor, Wii might actually remain the definitive way to play the Galaxy games on official hardware)

Nintendo: Please give us wiimote support for the upcoming galaxy games

@Aurumonado big statement there - can you link to that please?