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Congo Bongo remake please!

My little girls were starting to get into video games by the age of 4 and 3. My oldest in particular. She was starting to really love Mario and understand it, and I created her some simple courses in Mario Maker to learn skills on.

Then my wife took them away to another country, and they learnt a different language and I haven't been with them in two years.

They're six and five now and haven't played a video game (apart from the silly Facebook games) since they left.

Still really annoyed about the Nlife review that persuaded me to buy this garbage

Am I the only person who saw the article title, and did a double take, clicked on it and then checked the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st?

@Fizza If you watch the episode, it is made clear which one.

@Ade117 I have a UK account but I live in Dubai

I have the same problem. I have the expansion pass but can't play the tracks . I closed the game, and opened it again - no pop up box and no option to check if I can play the DLC.

I can see the tracks in the cups but can't play them.

Shambles.

@hbkay No-one's mentioning it but it's dreadful. I can run the game through emulation on my gaming PC setup for the purpose and it's seamless running in full HD.

On NSO? it's unplayable.

No mention of the DREADFUL framerate issues?

So what’s this all about a season pass then? You have to buy the game AND a pass?

Sony to buy Square Enix, and maybe Capcom. Microsoft to buy EA/

@Abighoul but when you start up the games you get a big white bar saying how to remap buttons (it said pause the games, go somewhere in options and press “X” to remap buttons). I’m not imagining it, someone else saw it too. Are they lying?

@Mana_Knight yes it does on a white bar at the bottom of the screen.

Why do people keep saying there’s no button mapping?

Much of the reaction to the NSO N64 emulation has felt way too vitriolic, and I'm certainly not looking to stoke negativity around a service which, on the whole, I feel does a pretty decent job of delivering 64-bit games on Switch

Yet you write and publish yet another article with a negative headline and a negative attitude.

sigh.

Is anyone else unable to reorganise the games on the N64 and mega drive apps?

You can do it on the NES and SNES and the option is written on the options for MD and N64 but you can’t actually reorganise.

This is why I hate this new site layout and always have done. Completely missed this until now

OK, I'm currently going through this process from an original launch day switch to an OLED switch and unfortunately the process bears very little resemblance to this guide and is a complete nightmare

Primarily because you HAVE to create a user on the new switch as part of the setup and once you have done, you can't do the transfer process.

There's a thread on the forum about this and I'll post how I did it once I figure it out.

But I haven't yet

@DamienMcferren can the site update us when a new one is released?

Can play all these for free in higher resolution on my PC already. What would I pay extra? Nintendo haven’t got a Scoobie.

I’ve just started playing Grimoire of Souls, that came out this morning and it’s REALLY good so far.

Will add these to my existing castlevania collection on Switch.

What time is it out? Still on preorder in the UK

Yet there’s a whole website devoted to Mario fan games that has many many games on it….

And the browser version of Mario 64 hasn’t been taken down…….

Is this a Dead or Alive sequel?

what about those who already own it?

Why are people hating on this? trust me - GPD know what they’re doing. Yes, their stuff is expensive - but that’s because they’re a small company relying on kickstarter campaigns.

I have an original GPD console and a win max. They are both superb and the Win Max is excellent - even able to emulate the switch with no problems. I’ve just been on an eight hour flight and used the max all the way. I played :

Mario kart DS (DS)
NSMB (DS)
R Type final on PS2
Motor storm on PS3
F Zero GX (GameCube)
NES remix 1 (Wii U).

All on my handheld, six hours of great gaming.

I say again - GPD know what they’re doing.

BTW he died of natural causes, but the family wanted to keep in quiet and only announced it publically 2 days ago.

Crass, insensitive article

RIP Walker Boone

Well, I already have something similar to this in the GPD Win Max and perhaps what people AREN’T saying here - but I will - is that you could probably install a certain program on this machine and play your switch games at greater resolutions than you can on the actual switch.

The same goes for all other Nintendo systems too - without the need for an online subscription.

Now - of course whether you’re happy to do this is up to you. I personally prefer to buy the originals on switch. However at the moment due to personal circumstances I don’t have my switch dock with me. So for skyward sword I bought it on my switch but am currently playing it in 4K on my PC rather than in 720P on the small screen.

Just pointing out that if you were so inclined then the steam machine would still allow you to play your switch games and in better quality.

Well, I’m 51 and need varifocals.

My switch gets loads of use in tabletop mode. I fly a lot so use it then. I’m a teacher and often use it during wet play or after school to challenge my children with four joycons at mario kart tournaments. Also when I’m staying with my wife at her parents, I’d rather use the pro controller with the switch on the table than actual handheld.

The majority of play is docked for sure, but plenty of times it’s table top.

So just because YOU don’t use a console a certain way doesn’t mean it’s not a real world usage situation for others.

Will I upgrade? Difficult one. My eldest daughter is getting close to the point where she will be able to play simple games so I can see a scenario in the next year when I’ll pass my launch day switch to her and upgrade but not immediately.

I agree with FH5 to be fair……..

However, I didn’t think ANY presentation was particularly good this year, and that includes Nintendo.

Sorry.

Did anyone notice they used the word “launching soon”, not “announcing soon”?

When is the actual direct CEST?

All these people bleating that Nintendo should sell these games, why should they? Let’s use an analogy. Disney.

Disney have a load of original movie content. They adapted a vault policy where they sold them for a little while then withdrew them again.

Now we have Disney+. If everyone out there owned the Blu Rays and the physical media, because the market was flooded with them, and they were dead cheap, would there be any need to pay a Disney+ sub?

If you could go our and buy select SNES and NES games would you subscribed to Switch online?

Nintendo’s bank balance is slightly bigger than mine so I’m assuming they know what they’re doing.

And I’m not entitled enough to bleat on a website that I want them to do something so they should do it.

(Disclaimer, I have pretty much every Nintendo ROM ever available - and many many many others. But I also will always buy the original version when available and subscribe to switch online. I’m not defending a moral position - just making a point)

@damienmcferren since when did Evercade make NES, SNES and mega drive cartridges?

I actually genuinely had no idea memory was finite and will eventually fail! So here’s a question? What about modern emulated games with save states, where you often go a little in the stage, die and reload to try again? You’re saving / loading much quicker and much more often. Does that mean the memory here will last even less time?

I did enjoy the bit where Sweeny was asked what phone he personally used and he said iPhone. When asked why he said “because of the security and privacy”. Exactly what he’s trying to tear down!

@kate however good this article is, I read it weeks ago. Why is it now showing up as a new article?

For further clarification :

Kate is excellent, yes.

@ThomasBW84 being back is excellent too. He’s been much missed.

BUT - the site is still crap after the redesign with content easily being missed.

The site still works rubbish on iPads and other mobile devices.

We still have to read endless rubbish on the same topic - Mario being retired?????? Really?

There is still this condescending tone towards the readers which makes visiting here sometimes uncomfortable “all those ‘it was better when Tom was here’ comments”......

Gavin is going to have more control as features editor. So two good bits of news balanced out with a lot of bad,

Sorry, but Kate aside I don’t see ANYTHING positive in this news

Honestly, this is getting pathetic now. We get it Nintendo Life. Just when I thought the standard of journalism here was getting better with some of the really interesting articles recently, but we just get this same article reprinted over and over again.

Is this exclusive to the switch? I put credit on my Xbox account ready for it!

@OorWullie that song wasn’t in the original. @mauhlin12. I see what you did there

@OorWullie - You’ve just sold it to me. I have the original, and love it, but what you’ve just said has sold me a copy of the collection.

@ms7000 nothing supposedly about it. I’m playing it now.

@isaix @jamesthemagi. It wouldn’t be that difficult at all. I play 3DS games through citra on my handheld GPD Win Max and also through my emulation laptop through my TV.

I scale them up to 2x or 3x resolution and have the option of how, to arrange the screens in any configuration I want. I choose the main screen to take up most of the display with the touch screen on the right, but as I said if needed I can change this.

The games look fine, and much better than the original display in fact, there’s no reason Nintendo couldn’t implement a similar solution.

I’m sorry; no mention of stability. No way I’m downloading it then!

This video is restricted - please check the google workspace administrator.

It’ll be interesting to see if this guy has some connections on the NL staff........

@HotGoomba___Rebrand you mean like Nintendo with f-zero?

Well, I suppose it’s business and I’m too old to get riled up over this stuff but.....

After Epic’s disgraceful actions with Apple I really don’t like them being supported by any company. What happens when they start refusing to adhere by Nintendo’s rules. Will they kick them out the store and withdraw this bundle?