The Nintendo Switch

prepare a notebook

if that's true, forget it

notebook essential. i didn't use one, and very much wish i did

ain't nobody got time for that. then again i hated having to do that in the '90s too with some games

the only thing that annoys me about the notebook is that there's already one in the game that automatically populates as you figure out things, but the UI is completely fucked and it doesn't let you write in your own notes (i don't think), so you're forced to supplement it with irl notes

btw it's one of the greatest games :D

so as noted above i've had problems with corrupt data and such, and i think i need a new ssd card -- what's the best way to go about swapping it in? just archive everything and then re-download from the store?

yes i think so

saves are stored in system memory so you shouldn't lose those

Haven’t played Tetris99 since around release, when I was crushing nerds.

Seems like the normies left and only the hardcore players are still around. I’m getting utterly demolished.

I’m surprised Invictus mode fills up so slowly. I’m not getting near full games.

yeah it's kinda dispiriting when there are computer players in the top twenty. wish it would just let me play against 35-70 humans.

i am not surprised it fills up so slowly tho, what percentage of players of tetris 99 i. have won a game and ii. are still around?

I assumed all winners would just switch to Invictus, which would mean a gradual general migration over. Guess I was wrong.

winners probably switched to one of the like 50 good games that came out in September

Boy do the clips from Luigi's Mansion making the rounds look good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvlkCu64ur4

yeah, i will definitely be about that ghostbusting life. gonna get real tired of that Luigi "WAAAOW" jump noise tho'.

am torn between buying a switch lite, a snes mini or just running an emulator on my spare pi. the cost is inverse to the flexibility i guess - i'm mostly interested in just replaying the likes of yoshi's island. also kind of worried that i won't be able to use a handheld given my terrible bi-focal eyesight.

if you only care about snes then just emulate and get all the games instead of a limited selection

i'd suggest just downloading OpenEmu plus a few ROMs to start out with

xp

A vote over here for a hacked SNES mini

Although Switch SNES does have rewind which is... amazing.

> if you only care about snes then just emulate and get all the games instead of a limited selection

there's a legality question there, of course. but i'm happy downloading roms that i've bought previously (like YI, a bunch of megadrive things, PS2 things, N64 things, some williams arcade things) to play on a new platform. just need a cheap usb controller, i guess, i have everything else sitting around.

> if you only care about snes

but it might be nice to have some modern hardware. i guess i can start with the pi and see how it goes.

someone pointed out that soon tvs won't be made with analog tuners in them and all the old consoles / computers that only plugged into the tv via an aerial socket will be unusable. 8(

I'm honestly not sure how to connect my Wii to my current TV.

pi can do ps2 emulation?

https://gizmodo.com/this-nintendo-switch-emulator-for-the-pc-might-finally-1838779028

I played one next gen game on an emulator about a year ago - Super Mario 3D World. There was no way I would ever purchase wii-u..

As far as retro emulation goes there is rarely any victims if you play 3rd-tier mascots or anything that isn’t being released in collections/remakes or whatever. When I used a ps1 emulator for Crash Team Racing I had no idea that it would eventually get a remake. If anything, playing through it on an emulator made me more likely to ever purchase the remake as I realized how good the original game was.

> pi can do ps2 emulation?

You're right, it's not up to it. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-2/

CROSSNIQ+ out now, if you want a solid new puzzle game with “Y2K aesthetics”

Anyone get Overland? I've never played a turn-based game, but this looks pretty cool/scary.

Back up, never? Not Civilization, Heroes of Might and Magic, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem…

Not a single one, ever. Never even heard of one of those games.

this explains a lot about you, Josh

No kidding.

pokemon...

You asking? No, I've never played it, either. All I know about Pokemon are the characters on Smash Brothers (that it took me a while to figure out were from Pokemon).

you must've played ogre battle though

Never heard of it. I did play Hunt the Wumpus though. And Zork.

zork is turn based strategy

yeah, sorry; i was being a bit of a wiseass in that if you haven't played pokemon, you definitely haven't played ogre battle.

For my money, the essential turn-based battle game is Final Fantasy Tactics, which is available on iOS and PS:
After fourteen years of on-and-off play, I finally beat Final Fantasy Tactics last night

theres nothing strategic about zork

actually, I think Hunt the Wumpus might be turn based.

overland -- i bought it in alpha -- was a fun little puzzle, but the block-slideyness of it prevented it from having any narrative punch. much as i hate to agree with RPS so lukewarmly, that review of theirs that said 'you have few reasons to play this when you could play into the breach' was about right imo

You're right, it's not up to it. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-2/

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love my retropie but be warned that n64 emulation is a no go. ps1 is acceptable, but you might have to overclock the pi. the UI is a bit arcane but it will generally "just work" for about 95% of what you throw at it. for that other 5%, you'll have to deal with the even more arcane retroarch UI and some manual file editing over ssh.

well, i went back to Kensington Curry's (which had snes minis in the window, for the original price, last time i went past) only to find no sign of them (which i kinda expected). they had switch lites in window this time but they were nowhere to be seen in the pokey nintendo corner they had downstairs. turns out they were all in the bins by the checkout, and piled up behind the counter.

(i ended up buying a 3rd party ps4 controller from argos instead. am writing the retropie image as i type)

walking zidane around a quasi-3D church backdrop filled with pews, organs, and shit in FFIX should be a field sobriety test

lol; it is easy to get stuck in those environments, yes!

second post here is Jared Harris in a courtroom explaining some stuff to Cid Fabool https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/67461/realistic-airships

Played a bunch of Ori today. Still gorgeous and compelling, but I think I like Hollow Knight a little better. The latter seems to have taken a lot of lesson from the former, while putting its own spin on things.

ori's not really an action game like hollow knight, i feel like it's more at the metroid end of the metroidvania spectrum whereas hollow knight is all the way at the castlevania end except for that one platforming heavy area

There might be something to that. I'm still early in on Ori, but for example I haven't had to figure out any sort of fighting strategy yet. But the platforming, when it pops up, is moderately challenging.

Wow, just got past the rising waters tree challenge in Ori, and that's got to be one of the most thrilling gaming experiences I've ever had.

the escape sequences are Good