My Mum gave away Pokemon Cards worth quite a bit to a charity shop about 10 years ago. They were worth a few thousand even then but my brother didn’t even want to sell them and they were his.

They have added the Zelda 80’s to cartoon to Prime Video it did work in terms of getting me interested in the series as a kid but it is pretty terrible. (I don’t remember it being as bad as it is).

The new Golden Axe cartoon is better than I expected.

Is this a horror film ?

@Erigen It is not as bad as Nintendo putting that Mercedes adware into MK8.

This is nowhere near as good as Racing Transformed. (Any 60fps version so either the 360 version boosted on Series X or PC.)

There was not a single moment in this equivalent to playing the Race of Ages the first time in Transformed. I am never bored playing that and never was but there is not much point between I have played 5 times longer than this and without decent Online anywhere there is not really much to do.

Well for pixel art for me I like the amount of frames stuff like Metal Slug uses. Unfortunately for whatever reason nobody bothers anymore. If the amount of effort required to come up with the same result then great. (There has been plenty of time where it could have happened with real artists but it never has.) I suspect it will still need touching up but I think at least there is a possibility that the end result might actually happen.

It should have a gold cartridge.

It is annoying not being able to have the map always visible for certain types of games. (Metroidvania and Zelda type especially).

Off Tv without any graphical downgrade or messing around with licenses would be good as well if it worked on a Switch 2 lite. (With a dpad).

Nintendo Land was the only asynchronous game I really enjoyed.

@StorminNorman A bit of both. If someone did the same thing for their summaries I would expect hundreds of articles of complaint.

So what is the difference between AI scraping content and this ?
(FI guess this technically links back to the source but instead of giving a nice full url it is deliberately made as small as possible the link back). If you compare how difficult it is deliberately made with making the whole content a link in other cases. (To the point where you need an extension to easily get a title name into something like dekudeals.

I don’t really have a problem with AI summarising stuff but if I did I definitely wouldn’t use the same methods for my own content.

I think Infernax is a must play if you haven’t already.

Are there any must plays Switch 2 exclusive indie games. (Not bothered for porfs.)

I am glad Hades 2 finally hit Xbox (I didn’t want to make the same mistake I did with the original where I didn’t even think I liked it. Until I played the Netflix version and it was much smoother.)

It seems like ports are being prioritised over exclusives. (At least I won’t have to pay more later but I wish there was something like Steamworld Dig 2 was where Switch 2 is the lead platform.

@JohnnyMind But it is one game split into 3 parts not 3 games.

@LikelySatan I love Infernax not tried any of the others but I like that one despite not really liking most other metroidvanias.

(I do like curse of the moon and I replay the linear bloodstained dlc on Xbox a fair bit)

I think the new method Microsoft is rolling out is much better than game key cards. (Maybe there are more Nintendo users who would try keeping devices offline etc but they already have a system that switch online uses for stopping the classics if you don’t connect periodically.)

@JohnnyMind I think if it had longer like another 3 months it could have been much better. If this is what they want to do they need to get VRR implemented at the OS level and get nvidia to allow it to work docked as well.

They did say they knew it had problems but none of them were insurmountable.

It’s a bad game. “A delayed game can eventually be good a bad game stays bad or something to that effect”.

The difference between the old situation with something like Ocarina is it was about as good as it could be.

If they had used dlss not the ancient and thing they used they could have dropped the internal resolution when it got chaotic and it would still have looked better plus the tensor cores would free up some cuda cores. When stuff is chaotic it being smooth is far more important than stuff you can’t even take much notice of.

I am enjoying Tears of the Kingdom at the moment but I think it is far more enjoyable to play it with the upgrade pack than it was.

It might be a somewhat new idea but they missed out a lot of optimisations.

The thing is it shouldn’t be necessary in 2026 to compromise on frame rate.

Are Ubisoft as bad on Nintendo as on Xbox ? (That Rogue Prince of Persia has a forced play or whatever it’s now called Login. (I don’t mind it asking once but when I was using Steam I specifically avoided 3rd party drm. I supported stuff like Rayman Origins that was drm free to all intents and purposes.)

On console it didn’t used to be allowed to force a Ubisoft account. It’s crazy the amount of spam they send if you do.

Wouldn’t surprise me if Ubisoft used the unique id to make it so that it can only be registered to one uplay account. I think they want something like that but that is not really how Microsoft wants it to work that is why they opted out.

@OrtadragoonX There is a little bits of effects that are only on the Saturn and the backgrounds I prefer the way it looks on Saturn.

I prefer the separation between the foreground and background. I notice stuff like that much more than transparency.

@JohnnyMind Both of these are compromised on Switch 2 particularly bananza. I would rather them fix bananza with the the nvidia upscaling tech and something to stay it dropping to 30fps. It used to be a given that 1st party Nintendo games had a locked 60fps. (Other than Zelda). There are things that could definitely be done to fix DK

@Artonide I prefer Final Vendetta to the highly rated recent beat em ups for similar reasons to yours. For me the whole thing that I like is when you can get overwhelmed very easily if you don’t concentrate. (The modern game design beat em ups I find really boring.)

I have played one and two at the time.

X4 I played but I was always aware I was not playing the superior Saturn version. (Surely good 2D effects are possible with so much CPU on modern systems.)

I won’t get it unless they have found a method to make the Murphy bits more interesting. I don’t see why they couldn’t allow all the Wii U ports to work with a switch 1 or lite as a gamepad. (Everything exists to do it as you can see by the feature for player 2 for bananza). At least for the ones where the gameplay is significantly better or it uses a map. I would probably get a ps portable type device with pro controller 2 ergonomics but I don’t want to compromise in the way that playing handheld requires.

Rayman Legends / Captain Toad and the Zelda Games would be much more enjoyable with a second screen.

(Off tv with decent battery life and no compromises in graphics I would probably get some use out of as well).

@UmbreonsPapa I read this https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/08/the-witcher-3s-phenomenal-dlc-is-now-completely-free-on-xbox-ahead-of-remaster (Where Switch is not mentioned at all but the other platforms are.) Maybe deliberately. I try and avoid too much slop. (I don’t even understand why just cross posting one article is not the best thing to do. Sometimes that happens but it’s quite rare.)

(Just out of curiosity I asked Gemini for the details in a really indirect way and it got all the facts correct.)

So why should I care about humans doing this ? Obviously it’s not in the training data but a program beats a supposed professional journalist.

@Kang81 But it will work better from the internal Switch 2 storage because it has 4 times the transfer speed. (And likely better latency as well.) It is not worth the hassle optimising it.

@Kiz3000 How would I know from reading the article ?

So it is a free update for all other platforms (And it also adds the existing DLC if you didn’t buy it already) ?

Other than Switch 2 where you have to buy the whole thing again ?

Is that right ?

I don’t think characters is what it needs. More tracks are always good but I think it would be better to segment the top 4 and bottom 5 legend classes or something similar. I think there are enough players. Or introduce Super Sonic Speed. I don’t agree with paying £24.99 a year extra per season pass I don’t think there. Is even close to a fair amount of content in them. For that price it should be at least 1/3 of a games worth of content.

Be interesting to see how well this does $8.3 million was used for the first part of Broken Age.

I think Day of the tentacle is still my favourite.

Did he not get fired for poor financial management at Lucasarts or something similar.

@timp29 I think they are using DMCA violations but that is an American law. So the obvious answer is to host it somewhere where that doesn’t apply. It’s very hard to prove but I think if it went to court their protection measures could be considered useless like the DVD copy protection. (Everything can just be dumped in its entirety so that is a useless copy protection.) If the keys can be extracted and it can be decrypted and run without anything else it’s there fault for it being so poor.

Bleem was ultimately considered legal.

@saanaito Do you really think there are no patents on direct x ? You ever use stuff the visual c++ runtimes. If you read the license on them it’s only licensed to run on Windows. There is an absolute boatload of Microsoft patents. Some of the fat ones have only just expired. Microsoft would be completely within their rights to do like Oracle is doing with Java. (The monopoly thing that happened might be why they are not so aggressive.)1

There is a situation where somebody made a mainframe emulator running entirely IBM software and it was declared lawful.

It doesn’t really directly affect me I am nearly all digital and I buy my games but I don’t really care for bullying by massive corporations. Japanese law doesn’t apply worldwide. (Nintendo did have a big loss against Europe about price fixing which makes digital stupidly more expensive. At least Microsoft is fair about it you can buy from anywhere in Europe without vpn’s or tricks. I dunno why that doesn’t apply to Nintendo because they didn’t used to they were forced to.

EA started by hacking Sega s MD system.

It is noticeable that this repository is still here. https://github.com/unlockswitch (PCB files for a Mig switch type device.) For whatever reason that hasn’t been targeted. That might be a way around this sort of thing. If you connect to a pc somehow and run real carts. The only way that wouldn’t be okay is if it needs a key from a real switch also.

I don’t think they have done enough if a simple cart dumper can work. Putting them in the same category as DVD. (Blu Ray actually has a proper mechanism but it doesn’t look like Switch carts have that because as far as I can see it doesn’t need anything from an actual Switch. Blu Ray you need something from a player as well in order to do a rip. 4k is even harder luckily the same drive that can backup 4k disks can back up obscure console stuff now. (I have the drive flashed with the console firmware but I haven’t actually tested it yet.) I found out about it from a time extension article so I presume hookshot is okay with discussion about this.

I don’t really see the ethical problem with the mig switch cart dumper. If it is going to be used with an emulator I don’t see the big issue with it. Some of my legit DS games don’t work anymore. It’s almost false advertising. People think carts last forever. There are better lasting technologies as well. (Probably game key cards will last longer.) I don’t think Nintendo would go after someone selling cart dumpers and nothing else because of the risk of actually having that seen as okay. (Might be interesting if an AI company does that and destroys the originals and does whatever they want with the extracted assets. It’s already been determined that is fine for books. I don’t think they would do that though because it would be properly litigated. They should want to clarify things as much as possible but they take advantage of fud and go after people who can’t afford a proper defence.)

@ShadLink Giving some system access doesn’t necessarily lead to piracy. (Some inconveniences isn’t really a problem but the choices available are not well optimized enough.)

The stuff that is based on Unreal or Unity might as well not exist on Nintendo platforms. I am quite happy to get stuff where it was made for Nintendo to begin with. There is no good support unless the project supports stuff directly (If you look at what has come out of GB Studio it’s incredibly given the limitations). It is a change of focus they don’t give priority to indie exclusives either something that already exists (Steam or mobile) is prioritised over something brand new just for Nintendo. They were also a lot stricter in the past leading to them losing my trust.

I don’t think breaking DRM should be illegal. Or reverse engineering the low level API. (I don’t think either Unity or Unreal are doing a good enough job.)

I don’t get why what Steam OS is doing is considered good (They are doing to Windows what these emulator devs are doing to Nintendo.)

I do buy my games but I am not puritanical about it. Directx that is the really hard thing that everyone else just copies. Even vulkan just copies straight from Direct X it doesn’t really come up with. Metal is different it’s fair enough doing that.

That 9th Jedi anime was better than I was expecting. Some issues with Disney’s Webos app at 4k (Just thought I should have used the Xbox app) no reason for a 120hz panel to have issues with 24p but it did. (First time it has). Pretty sure 24p is specifically enabled in the settings of the Xbox. I think it is getting too old a tv to expect the apps to work well for much longer.

@AussieMcBucket If you pay for Apple Music and Apple TV (And use a Mac or iPad anyway) it’s basically free and Apple Arcade has a the DLC. I value Apple Music because of the human created content and the way that it is generally pretty well encoded for the lossy versions. Doesn’t have missing tracks like Spotify. (Or the slop). Apple TV most content is good. (I have found that stuff that I wasn’t expecting to like is better than Netflix content that appears to be right up my street but probably won’t be as good as I expect get finished. It’s quite well curated for Anime but I am thinking as to whether to bother keeping it. (Netflix games was ace on my iPad much better then Apple Arcade in terms of quality/Only having really great indies on it. I never touched the stuff based on their programming.) I bought most of them but the Netflix versions of games were almost always much better than the Switch ports so I ended up getting quite a few again on Xbox There was a very high bar to getting included in Netflix and stuff could disappear at any time. (Those massive Nintendolife lists of games given 9/10 I have found far less useful. If it’s a genre I have always loved they feel dumbed down. But if it’s in a genre I don’t usually play then I don’t find often anything that changes my mind. I loved Horace but hated both Hollow Knight games. (The opposite of what I expected.) It became bad when IGN bought Humble Bundle. Maybe that is why I have found this site going downhill. IGN. The named Humble Bundles did a great job of showcasing unknown indie games that were really good. There is nowhere that I have found that is a good replacement. There is probably more than ever that is great but I have trouble finding it. Those Humble Android bundles did a good job of showcasing Mobile games that were actually good.

It’s crazy how much they change for ports of Apple Arcade originals. (Or mobile first games that are also on Apple Arcade also).

I am not happy with the hori real arcade pro on Switch (Or Switch 2). It’s not the Arcade parts the problem are somewhere else. Thunderbolt seems like it could solve many issues. Apple decided it was worth it (Despite it being Intel technology.)

I think FireWire would have been a perfect choice for controllers. It could just put the information exactly where it needs to be instantly It is such a shame USB because standard.

It’s ridiculous how few actual new games there are for Switch 2 (I.e not ports or remasters).

I don’t get how the original PC version was super smooth when it first came out on a HDD I don’t understand how it managed to get so broken.

I think this really needs the GameCube controller. (I guess the wired ones from smash or the new ones are both fine.)

I wish there was a controller with the same guides on the Analog stick for Xbox because I think it would be good for Super Meat Boy 3D.

You could have a decent playtest of most of those games without them being remotely close to finished.

I really wish there was a DS FF6. I enjoyed those versions of IV and the After Years on Apple Arcade. I didn’t buy all of the After Years on Wii. (I bought some of it). It’s a bit of a shame the pixel remaster didn’t have the After Years. (I never played the PSP bit in between.) I consider the After Years part of IV. I have VI pixel remaster in a few places.

I might get around to playing my Series X copy when the physical to digital thing starts. I don’t think I am bothered about the DLC though I have seen the conditions to even start it. Unless there is some DLC I don’t know about that is designed to teach the mechanics a bit. I wish game key cards worked the same way as the new Xbox system is at least at the moment going to work like. Having to keep the card in is quite a disadvantage. (When it’s not even being used. I don’t object to it being necessary for offline play). Still don’t like the fact that the nvme is so much more performant than any other option..

I still don’t understand why usb is used at all for controllers other than maybe charging. Parallel ports / direct gpio / FireWire / ps2 / pci-e there must be a better way. (I don’t know what effect it has on other 2.4ghz devices either.)

I will probably get OOT but I hope it’s been done well not like DKCR HD or any of the other grezzo ones.

@Pillowpants Definitely not that you notice it immediately. It feels like those games used to on a crt on Xbox but definitely doesn’t on Nintendo.

@Pillowpants Surprisingly Xbox is the only platform where stuff like the latest Megaman actually feels responsive enough to be playable. (It’s responsive 4k/120 in the settings and vrr enabled). Most indie games don’t have the resources to optimise properly for Nintendo. Hamster manages good work on Nintendo but pretty much every other retro collection is just a waste of money on Nintendo or PlayStation.

They are taking the monetisation strategy too far with this. They should be fixing the balance of the gadgets most importantly to make it more interesting. Followed by the characters that already exist. I won’t be buying or playing any more I didn’t hate it (And liked it quite a bit more than Mario Kart World.) 50 hours was enough for the. (Transformed PC is my highest play time of any game at 250hrs at least that I can track on a single system/version)

Have they said whether it is being done internally or farmed out to someone else ?