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Re: Switch Online N64 Controllers Are Back In Stock Now (UK)

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Freakin' hell, I just bought them. Randomly clicked on my bookmark to see and saw them. Bought and paid immediately.

Came here to see if there was an article and I'm surprised they've stayed in stock for the 20 or so mins between this article being posted and me placing my order.

The controllers are still greyed out on when you browse for them in Exclusives but click through and they are available to add to basket

Re: Random: Witness The Star Trek DS9 Intro In Glorious 64-Bit, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Style

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@CANOEberry I'm pretty sure fan work regarding star trek was allowed by the IP holder as long as it didn't make any money and there is tons of fan content, including full length series and films. Some of which even features the original actors.

I remember they wanted something taken down around the time of star trek '09 and there was huge backlash and they reversed course and allowed it. Not sure what the current status of fan work is in the IP holders eyes.

But yeah, Nintendo are pretty Draconian in similar matters!

Re: The Sega Genesis Is Getting A New 6-Button Controller, And It Will Work With Switch

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@OorWullie I know you shouldn't have to but if you still have the pad, try disassembling it completely, separating all the parts and reassembling it. I had the same issue with one of mine so Retro bit sent me a new D-Pad which I knew would make no difference. However it did work but I couldn't work out why as the part was exactly the same so I reinstalled the original d pad and that worked too. Maybe something got jammed in their manufacturing process or something

Edit: I may have rotated the D-Pad when I reinstalled it...

Re: How To Prepare Your 3DS And Wii U For Retirement - Hard Drive, Battery, Backup Tips

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@Eeros I should clarify that my only gripe with tropical freeze is that it's not as good as the first one, it's still a good game!

I'm already a big fan of Splinter Cell but passed on Blacklist because of the voice actor change. I regretted that decision as soon as I actually got around to play it because it is everything a modern Splinter Cell should be. I really hope they release a new one in that same style that carries on the story.

Sonic Lost World was a kind of combination of Mario Galaxy and Donkey Kong Country Returns which is probably why I enjoyed it at the time. It's not as good as either game but it was still a lot better than it could have been.

Sadly nothing extraordinary for Wii U gamepad support on Breath of the Wild. I booted it up, was presented with a black screen that said something along the lines of "Press – to switch to gamepad view" and promptly switched to playing with the Pro controller. The Gamepad is required for the motion controller shines, some of which had some ingenious out of the box solutions for them and while I didn't use it for aiming for most of the game, I had to switch to it and it's gyro for some of the horseback archery challenges! Brilliant game though, I spent a good few months playing it!

Re: How To Prepare Your 3DS And Wii U For Retirement - Hard Drive, Battery, Backup Tips

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@Eeros hopefully you find one for a decent price! I think £90 was more than I wanted to pay but the gamepad was in good condition and I managed to get rid of some stuff I was planning to sell anyway so it was more of an exchange.

I'm not sure how many games I really liked on Wii U. Breath of the Wild was probably my favourite Wii u game. Both HD Zelda remasters are a good shout. Sonic Lost World and Splinter Cell Blacklist were both way better than they had any right to be and are probably my favourite third party games on there. On the Nintendo side, I really enjoyed both Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard.

I didn't really like either the 2D or 3D Mario on there unfortunately, Tropical Freeze wasn't as good as DKCR (but I haven't really given it a proper go so it's in my backlog). Game&Wario and Nintendoland are OK but the former isn't really as good as any WarioWare game. It's all ok but none of that was really "amazing" in my opinion. Even MK8 isn't a patch on MKWii imo.

I sort of feel the same but slightly worse about the Switch too unfortunately, mostly it's just repacks of Wii U games that I already owned so I never bought them again. Mario Odyssey was good at least 😅. That Hyrule Warriors was really good too and worth buying because I didn't have the Wii U or 3DS version

I'm hoping Switch 2 will be a return to the glory of the Wii days!

Edit: sorry I don't know why I got so negative there! I do have a real soft spot for the Wii U. I should be thankful for a time when there weren't so many games sucking up my free time! 😅

Edit 2: possibly because I didn't want you to feel like you were missing out tooooo much 😅

Re: How To Prepare Your 3DS And Wii U For Retirement - Hard Drive, Battery, Backup Tips

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@Eeros oh yeah it's awesome on the big TV. Mario Kart DS on the Wii U VC looks amazing on a 55inch OLED (take that with a pinch of salt as I am probably looking through some rose tinted glasses at how pixelly it is 😅). Its amazing for simple games like MK but falls short in full customisation for DS games that had weird configurations like using buttons and touch screen, action on the bottom screen, book orientation etc. It's got options to play those games but they are just not perfect. You can't button map DS games on the VC and while there are a lot of screen options, I'd still just like to resize it myself and put whatever screen I want in whatever place I want it to be.

I bought my second Wii U when they announced the eshop closure for £90 in CEX (it's like a trade in/pawn store for technology in the UK). I traded in some amiibos that I was planning to sell for a similar price on eBay anyway. Unfortunately it's still gathering dust while I decide on the best homebrew method/find time to do the research.

I'm all for options in playing games and at affordable prices for average people like myself. I normally go in for the easiest option which is to buy something that allows me to get/do what I want but I'm not above going the other way if something is either unavailable or has prohibitively high costs associated with it. E.g. I wanted to play Uncharted Golden Abyss on the big screen. I own a PS Vita, a PSTV and the game. Somehow that combination of items didn't allow me to play the game on the TV so I ended up hacking the PSTV and putting the game on there. It was glorious on the big screen! I've also played MGS Portable Ops and Splinter Cell on the hacked PSTV as well because the cable that connects a PSP to the TV always seems to put a big border around 4 sides of the image and it was pretty distracting/too small to see. PSTV had no problems displaying the games properly

Re: How To Prepare Your 3DS And Wii U For Retirement - Hard Drive, Battery, Backup Tips

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@Eeros I actually do have a spare Wii U and a spare New 2DS XL which I bought with the specific intention of homebrewing. I am just too lazy to actually do the damn things! 😅 So I have an official, NNID linked set and and unofficial to-be homebrewed set.

I got a bit confused about the best way to do the Wii U one too. My basic desire is to be able to play DS games on the TV using the gamepad as a touch screen but also have more customisation options than the official VC emulator offered. I can't really work out what the best way to achieve that is.

I'm still buying all the DS games I want on my official Wii U just to be on the safe side but I'd really like to get it running on my unofficial Wii U so I have the flexibility for future.

Re: Random: Chrono Cross Director Rereleased Radical Dreamers To Stop Scalpers

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I'm not sure I would call reselling old goods scalping. I generally interpret scalping to mean buying new popular and scarce goods/services with the sole intention to resell them.

Scalping is pretty lame from a consumers point of view but just reselling old goods is ok because it's just one consumer selling to another. There is no arbitrary middle man inserting themselves to scalp the profit. The old goods are just traded based on their perceived value at the time, which as any antique dealer will tell you, can fluctuate wildly.

I could be wrong in my interpretation of it but it would literally mean that every person who sells their old junk on eBay is a scalper if they get a bit more back than what they paid.