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@valcoholic You can still redownload purchases.

@rushiosan All of them that you already paid for. You are complaining that you can’t buy more which is something very different.

@Kingy The old cartridges used a different technology. (GBA was last to use that). They are likely to outlast DS/3DS/Switch/Switch 2 carts over many years.

@topsekret They are just adding the cost of the cart to the price more or less. Can see why the other publishers don’t want to do it when they may end up taking a loss (And definitely will make less especially on something that isn’t limited edition enough to sell at Nintendo prices. The 3rd party stuff doesn’t hold its value.)

I am going to get both III HD2D and I&II HD2D on series X but only when I actually am going to start playing them unless there is a 75% or more sale I suppose. They could have their reasons (I.e the Switch 2 version might have better assets so the Switch cart would be just acting as a game key card anyway but I have mine I have yet to notice a problem that particularly bugs me with any of the 3d party / indie games that I have bought on Xbox other than when it has been a 360 or original Xbox.

It was briefly available for just over £40 (£42/£43 can’t remember) yesterday so it it comes up again I guess I will get it. (Totally sell 3D All Stars though as it will no longer have any value to me).

I first completed it without warps on 3DS Virtual Console (Using continues which starts you at the beginning of the world). I first finished it with warps on All Stars SNES.

Only bought 3d All Stars for Galaxy I guess I will get rid of it.

I don’t remember the music in md tazmania being that bad. Thought it was a pretty good game. If it was that bad I would have thought I would remember it.

@Jujuman More recently than that they had Nintendo Selects. (Wii/Wii U/3DS still had them.) the discounts just got quite a bit worse 25% vs 33%. (At least UK & EU). Still trying to decide whether or not to get Mario Maker 2 digitally on sale or not (I have the cartridge but thought I would play it more as a download). Choosing a finance guy as CEO is working somewhat as expected but the quality is dropping and the price is going up. (As if some parts of the calculations are either deemed unimportant.) Might take a few years but there are knock on effects of poor quality and overcharging. I have gone from probably £1000 on digital first party games. (+ All indies on Nintendo which they were getting a cut from.) to basically maybe 5 first party games a year nearly all cartridges. (Where there is the cartridge cost + distribution + retailer cut). Makes a difference if people think that they have been ripped off in the future. (Like when many people bought a Wii for Wii Sports and that was it they are not immune from a similar situation happening again. Most people having 3 games at the end of the generation vs most people having 30 games obviously makes a big difference.) There is also the issue that digital buyers are subsidising physical purchases and everyone else is subsidising Japan (Cheap consoles and games) and US (tariffs).

@N00BiSH Never played it (Supposedly a pretty good port from the Wii U) but I wouldn’t want to have missed so many of the funny animations by covering the screen with my finger. I am probably one of the 0.5% of people who would buy a Switch 2 version of something similar to the ps portal if about 5 of the best Wii U ports were fixed and it worked with the Switch 2 running as if in docked mode.

(Vita version does seem to be an example of get as much out of the hardware as you can like used to happen rather than lowest common denominator).

@ibookboyuk The problem is that the Murphy bits (Where you cut through ropes and move platforms) which originally used the Wii U touchscreen on the gamepad are just really boring pressing a button.

Maybe it’s not as much of an issue handheld but the bits where you use gyro to twist stuff would suffer a similar problem handheld.

They just didn’t put enough effort in to any of the ports after the initial Wii U version.

I have not enjoyed any of the Murphy bits since the Wii U Original. (I don’t know how they have the cheek to call any of them definitive). I wish they could be disabled entirely. (Or the Switch version restructured into two games one to play on the tv and one handheld). It’s annoying.

@KingMike Think I misread your original comment sorry.

@Miseryguts1969 Some games just get boring if they are too long. Nintendo did used to have two classes of game with different price points (Handheld/Home Console). Even excluding (Selects / Players Choice etc). Thinking every game is worth a pretty high amount is a relatively new thing (Accountant CEO / The fact that the only high street games stores don’t tend to sell new). If you look at what Wii U / 3ds / Wii had at lower price points you will find quite a lot by Nintendo). HAL still made Kirby s Dream Buffet. It’s nickel and diming for everything these days. Much rather have some smaller Nintendo games to play. (Switch was advertised as best of both worlds but it turned out to be charge console prices even for what would have been handheld experiences in the past. (Sometimes even a port of a handheld game. We were sold a lie. (No reason we couldn’t have had a £20 Mario vs Donkey Kong game made by a small team sold for a budget price that would have been able to be sold cheaper (Less risk/ costs). When the hardware is weaker and there are hardly any Nintendo First/Exclusives/(Even lead platform timed exclusives there is nothing of value they are helping with this strategy.

@KingMike I thought the PAL super Metroid was 50hz optimized by dropping a frame every so often to keep the speed the same. Was that done with the same rom ? (I am curious how they did it if so).

I hope Retro Endurance 8bit comes to switch (Made by one of the zines authors I also bought that on steam but it’s unplayed (And it’s dirt cheap like £4). I got so much use playing IPs translated rpgs that never hit the uk with zsnes (I bought ff3 and Chrono Trigger (And that junk Lord of the rings game)). But at the time zsnes was the only one fast enough to run on my pc so I support the original author wholeheartedly. (I suspect this game is similar to ufo 50 but I doubt an old school assembler programmer uses gamemaker)

Just bought it again (Already had it unplayed on Steam) hope it’s worth the £40 in total I have given them.

@MontyCircus I am not saying you are not right but I do think the site has been getting worse. When it was just reviewing Wiiware it was the best it’s been. Then when Thomas Whitehead was editor it was well written the reviewers were good (And you got the Nintendo Download updates for at least both Europe and the USA (Which was fine). Now all the real content seems to have gone the number of posts seems to put gossip sites to shame. One decent post could replace 10 useless ones. I only still use the site at all due to habit. (And I am a great fan of time extension which shows that they do know how to make a decent site). Hookshot seems to hate AI but if I could have an AI generated version of this site distilled into a format similar to time extension with Switch Content I would take it. Take a look https://web.archive.org/web/20140228124058/https://www.nintendolife.com/ this was a much better site in the past and had much less pointless slop.

Is there a reason for so much NA content on a British site ? It’s not like there is really an import scene these days. (Except people buying jap eshop titles that I expect will not end well)

Does the Switch 2 version run at 60fps ?

I have a hori real arcade pro (Switch 1 - wired) but seen as I play just in an arm chair just in front of my tv its too heavy to be comfortable putting it on my lap. Is there anything with the same quality of buttons / sticks that is light enough to put on your lap or fit across an armchair.

I would go for a 3rd party dock if it managed to output 4k/120hz with hardware based VRR. (No idea if that is possible but the Xbox system wide VRR seems much better than Sony’s). I don’t mind if the Maximum frame rate stays at 60fps but the whole thing just seems to work much better on Xbox with that output. Someone who knows more about this than me can probably explain whether it’s possible.

If VRR can be implemented by Mister I don’t see why a 3rd party dock couldn’t.

@JayJ I don’t necessarily mind them concentrating on later games but I don’t think something like NebulasRay is better than e.g Viper Phase 1. (Happily pay £13.49 for something like Raiden DX) but if they price everything at £13.49 just based on Age I will be buying much less of them. (Or maybe start meticulously trying them out first with Mame or final burn neo).

I have already bought it on Steam (At full price) because I liked the concept but I think I will have to actually bother trying it before buying it again. (Which I probably will do if I am going to play it). Rather use switch SNES Controller for this. Be easier if I could use Linux or Mac as I have better (Desktop) machines. I thought it might not come to consoles at all. Hopefully it works on an 8th gen intel thinkpad. (Only Windows device I have).

How does it compare with Hamster’s Salamander (Which includes both US and JP Life Force).

I have found M2 to be much more hit and miss than other people seem to.

(And I tried Gradius 3 on real hardware recently and it was far too difficult for me. I can’t imagine it has been improved over the proper arcade board with a crt).

With the Famicom did they not have the option to do their own thing. (A choice taken by Konami whose Famicom versions were generally superior then NEE games ?)

How similar is it to the first one ? I have found the later ones although good looking a poor detail in terms of length.

The zWii wheel actually made me enjoy Mario Kart Wii much more than I would have I am pretty casual with that game. Sadly with the original mk8 I couldn’t get to grips with the control method at all.

@Lady_rosalina There are other better things about the Wii U (They have the tech to allow using a switch lite as a controller that they use for Gameshare). But at least Rayman Legends/Captain Toad are much more fun with the gamepad controls. Be also nice for off to play in another room without having to move the docked switch. (And the specs are higher docked). I can see why this would not be added specifically but when everything needed exists for other reasons I think they should. (No 2nd screen map for Zelda Games is also a major downgrade if you ask me.

Ever since they basically stole the money support to be for Duke Nukem Forever I haven’t bothered with anything gearbox. (That was one game if it should have been done at all it should have been done right. Rather it been still a dream than the junk they put out). Not surprised with their attitude here. (Cross play on a worse device for something like this is a waste of time)

@PikaPhantom Does 40hz not need to run at 120hz (So not working with a 4k output or none 120hz tv’s).

They should have followed Microsoft s example from the get go of how to do VRR.

If it doesn’t come to Xbox I will give it a miss. I wish Nintendo had something like Microsoft did with XNA for their platform. (Never seem to be happy with ported Unreal or Unity games). I think it would be worth it for Nintendo because then games using it would likely all work great. (Still don’t understand why the Wii U Unity games were fine). Maybe they are scared what they have will be reimplemented but if it is it won’t be very quickly.

I wish we could get the Midway stuff as DLC for this. I have the 360 collection but it is nowhere near as well done.

Love Marble Madness / Gauntlet / Toobin

I have the remake with the superior x68000 version but barely play it however I play this quite a lot.

Game Collection is cheaper than any of the UK ones listed. I think hookshot is starting to become actively dishonest with articles like this.

I can imagine they are far less bothered if they are not dumped and leaked Online. (And playable).

@carlos82 I am probably more tolerant with 3d games because I don’t usually bother 100%’ing them but a level like 3d world Champions Road I wouldn’t find playable. I accepted it before Saturn/DC but for the most part the original Arcade versions were much better during earlier times. (The Mirror Mode or two player is unplayable on DKCR that is a total joke for the cost of the game. Whereas Mario Galaxy on 3d All Stars is mostly ok). The old slowdown was also more consistent I think. FWIW

@GrailUK in the 80’s/90’s with crt’s it mattered far far less.

@carlos82 But with VRR on the series X it doesn’t matter. (I hear Sony a version is far less robust).

@RasandeRose The whole reason the US managed to get started in the first place was by people stealing machine designs from the UK to begin with. There are untold situations where the US still tries to get the rest of the world to behave in one way whilst doing the exact same thing themselves. There is little reason to behave morally for poor disadvantaged Americans when the corporations and government behave as they do. Microsoft seem to have got Xbox piracy basically at zero by pricing stuff right worldwide. Look at which country has the happiest people and do what they do that is the obvious way to behave.

@KoopaTheGamer I think the proportion of people with an iPad trying to play proper games without a controller is probably lower than you think. (Series X/Xbox One S/Pro Controller/Joycons/PS4/PS5/MiFi/luna controller are all supported.) Most people wanting to play a proper game are likely to have something suitable.

I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t. (Stuff like Netflix removing all the decent games is bad.)

But the Netflix version version of Hades played much better than the Switch one.

Prince of Persia the lost crown is much more pleasant to play on iPad (And only £7.99)

The best one though is Symphony of the Night which is only £2.99 and a great port. (Far better than the significantly more expensive 360 version on a Series X).

What is DKCR HD like ? (I didn’t bother with mirror mode because of the slowdown). Still think they should have done it properly using the tropical freeze engine which is basically perfect.

@RasandeRose Copyright Infringement is different to stealing. The problem is the difference in the way people are treated vs corporations. (A good example is Facebook torrenting an astronomical amount of ebooks to train its AI). Nintendo doesn’t treat poorer people remotely well. (Microsoft and I think Sony do. Japan does get special treatment from Nintendo however).

The same way OpenAI/Microsoft/Amazon/Google have screwed up free software. (Venture Capitalists ignore licensing laws pretty much everywhere in my experience also.)

Shoplifting is a minor issue when compared to corruption, tax scams or corporate reality bad misconduct (Think Horizon/Infected Blood/Police Misconduct etc etc).

It is stupid in this day and age to have any kind of loyalty to any government or corporation.

(I do pay for everything but it’s easy for me to do so.)

It sucks that the Wii U pro controller can’t be used on Switch. The dpad is in a better place and works better. (No real hassle for Nintendo it being Bluetooth).

It seems like we have nowhere near as many of the smaller games these days. I don’t know why we couldn’t have gotten more of them instead of just ports. The one we did get was a bit of a let down (Nintendo World Championship when compared to the two nes remix games). For a cheaper game I care less about graphical fidelity maybe that’s the issue.

I have too many physical Switch games I regret getting physically (As I have barely played them. Mainly shmups and belt scrollers I just fancy a very short blast on.)

Think I will go for much more digital like I did on 3DS/Wii U. This time.

How does the Switch 2 behave when using 2 ap’s on the same ssid (Not Meshed Wired Uplink)

Only thing that half tempted me was a used like new 8bitdo pro 2 Hall effect from Amazon Resale. (I think it was about £25) but I decided seen as I didn’t really use the sticks on that controller it would be a waste of money. (The Atari game is massively overpriced compared to what I paid just a few weeks ago- unless you specifically collect stealbooks). I do get my games from Amazon but I have started getting my misc tech junk from Aliexpress which still does seem to have good sales.