excited to have youtube recommend hundreds of three-hour-long rants from alt-right dipshits on yet another device, thx nintendo
― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 November 2018 11:23 (five years ago) link
xp the warp whistle, dude! Also, I would not be at all surprised to hear that a lot of people would leave the NES on/on pause and turn off the TV.
I for one am happy to be able to watch Contrapoints on my Switch now.
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Friday, 9 November 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
Haven't found the whistle! I just wanted to run through all the levels without warping. I played this when I was a kid, but I never had a NES, so I never had time to get past World 2 or so.
Just that some of the later levels are *so* frustrating, I can't imagine having the time/skills/patience/psychopathy to finish the game, let alone if you have to start every level from scratch - there don't seem to be checkpoints?
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 9 November 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
games back then would have been like an hour long if they weren't difficult enough to trip you up regularly, it was content through challenge rather than content through content
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 November 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
beating the game was the end goal of days/weeks of practice
yeah i don't know if i ever actually made it straight through SMB 3, i remember worlds 6-7 being a nightmare, as cool as they were (Kuribo's shoe!)
― Nhex, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
the world with the piranha plants is the nightmare for me, but i can usually push through it. when i was a kid i would usually only play long enough to get a couple warp whistles, then skip to the end. it was the perfect after-school game, in that way. as an adult, whenever i revisit i go for 100% completion, start to finish, and it's an incredibly fun 8-hour adventure.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
I've never played it before now; I'm just save-stating between every level and treating it like it's a contemporary die-n-retry platformer.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 9 November 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
stream it imo
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
hmm yeah maybe
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 9 November 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
theres still no way to stream from switch without a capture device is there?
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
oh, that's right. forgot which thread we were on. i've streamed smb3 before, but just from my laptop, emulating it.
i kind of find it baffling that the switch doesn't have streaming capabilities, built-in.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
the entire switch OS is like 200kb, nintendo likes to keep things lean at the expense of online features
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
xp eh, that would require more wasted horsepower imoyeah exactly
― Nhex, Friday, 9 November 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
I could buy a doohickey
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:38 (five years ago) link
they're expensive doohickeys i've looked into it
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 November 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
silby can you take pictures of the screen every once in a while and then upload them? we can call this a "photo stream"
― Karl Malone, Friday, 9 November 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
btw if anyone already bought smash i got the download code for piranha plant in my email the other day, wouldn't have noticed it among all the usual confirmation spam if someone hadnt mentioned it to me
― ciderpress, Saturday, 10 November 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
Hmmm. I preordered through amazon. Don't know if that qualifies.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 10 November 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
i mean for eshop purchases, if you got the physical you'll get it when you redeem your nintendo points from the cartridge
― ciderpress, Saturday, 10 November 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
Ah, I see. Thanks.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 10 November 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
note that you can redeem a couple bucks worth of nintendo points from any physical game that's less than a year old just by putting the cart into your switch and going to the software options (+ button on the home screen), i didnt know about this at first as it's not obvious and missed out on doing it with my zelda cart
― ciderpress, Saturday, 10 November 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
Yeah, i've missed that up to now.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 10 November 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
no more netflix on switch after January 19
"Unfortunately, Nintendo will suspend all video streaming services on Wii - including the Netflix Channel - after January 30, 2019"https://devices.netflix.com/en/game-consoles/wii/
that would mean no more youtube, either, i guess?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
you mean on wii?
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
er...yeah. man, i'm not exactly firing on all cylinders today!
honestly sometimes i forget that the wii still exists
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
Ubisoft hasn’t! The new Just Dance came out for it.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
i was really into the wii for about a year. then i tried to mod it so i could have every game of all time FOR FREE, and it worked! for about a month. then it stopped working, i tried to fix it and i bricked it. then wii died in my heart.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
switch doesnt even have netflix since theyre playing chicken with nintendo over who pays for making the app
― ciderpress, Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
Neither of them really has a reason to blink either. There’s no way the few dozen people complaining about it in enthusiast forums are enough of a PR hit to force Nintendo’s hands, and there’s no way the size of the opportunity is enough to force Netflix’s.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
how expensive can it be to make the app
― ||||||||, Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Maybe with YouTube arriving (presumably also without any incentive payments from Nintendo) that might put more pressure on Netflix.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Software development can be pretty much arbitrarily expensive, and at Netflix’s scale (ugh) it’s probably automatically millions of dollars to hit a new platform. Things like shitty smart TVs are definitely paying Netflix to be on their platform bc without Netflix they’re dramatically less attractive. Netflix isn’t gonna sell any incremental Switches and Nintendo would rather hoard cash than spend it on anything with unclear value to its bottom line.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 11 November 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
I do not desire switch netflix
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 November 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
we were at a dr office today that had a wii setup and I played Mario galaxy on it and now I want to play more but I don’t have a wii or a Wii U. I could borrow my moms wii (not U) or theoretically buy a U but I’d rather just wait until they’re rereleased on the switch is there any chance that happens and if not (or not any time soon) what’s the best way to play it?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
fully expect to get a SMG1 + 2 bundle on switch
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
I play old mario galaxy on Dolphin on my PC. You can crank up the resolution, AA etc and it looks glorious. The wii remotes connect via Bluetooth and I bought a USB wii bar so I didn't need an old wii around. You can use an xbox controller if you don't want the faff but with galaxy the remotes are u&k.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:43 (five years ago) link
I'm sure it'll happen in the next several years but who knows exactly when. there's a ton of backlog for them to bring over and they haven't tipped their hand on what they're gonna do with the GameCube & Wii gens yet, those games aren't in HD so it's not quite as direct a port as the Wii U stuff they've been bringing over
in the meantime there's dolphin if you have a decent pc
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
kinda hoping to get a black friday switch but also realize that anywhere with a black friday switch, i am gonna get beat to the punch because i do not wake up at 6am
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
you mean the one with free mario kart?
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
that'll probably be available online, possibly before BF
― Nhex, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
saw one here in canada at a drugstore where it's the regular price, but it comes with a $125 gift certificate. apparently sometimes they'll apply the gift certif right there but even if not i am there often enough to use it all up
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
the UI for the NES emulator is really nice... but the games... have not aged well. roll on the SNES selection though
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Mario 3 is still awesome
The rest, ehhh
I wish you could get rid of the “press plus press minus” sign on the emulator
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
mario 3 is better in the all stars / GBA versions, with the updated graphics. although the core gameplay is obviously still solid
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
balloon fight is a timeless masterpiece
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
does the Switch version of Gradius still have massive slowdown?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
xp hope you all enjoy YouTube on Switch. That's my day job (well, people too etc...).
― fajita seas, Thursday, 15 November 2018 00:02 (five years ago) link
ooh, did you have execs stonewalling for a Nintendo check? Do you know how that played out?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 15 November 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
the ol' yoob tube
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 November 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link