If they really wanted to impress me they would include the N64DD content that never got released outside Japan.
are they not? I vaguely heard it had the DD stuff
also online play? was this just wishful thinking I overheard?
Nada. The F-Zero X N64DD release included 12 new tracks, a vehicle editor and the ability to create your own race tracks. We get none of that sadly.
I wonder if the game was intended to hook into the original F-Zero X or if it was its own stand-alone thing. I feel like Nintendo might do this but only if the effort is low enough. Like, they added in a way to get Celebei in the VC release of Pokemon Crystal, they added in those extra Mario 3 Advance e-Reader levels, etc. But if they have to do something more than unlock content already there, maybe not. They aren't gonna go through the effort if it isn't fairly easy to do (which is to say, assuming it hooked onto the original F-Zero X, it probably depends on whether their emulator can also emulate the 64DD and they can just trick the game into thinking that content is hooked in... but my money is on it does not emulate 64DD... I mean, it couldn't even emulate the water in OoT properly :P ).
A TMNT collection got announced at the Sony event. I really hope this is multiplatform or a timed exclusivity, because I want this on the Switch.
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Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
Nintendo VC releases have been bare bones except when they're surprisingly not. Example: Shantae has a part with special content for those players who had inserted the GBC cart into a GBA. The VC release didn't bother to hit the accessible = Yep flag. Donkey Kong '94 for Game Boy had a special color palette prepared for the Super Game Boy... you can't use the in color version on the VC version. They didn't bother to do a translation for Super Picross on the Switch SNES app, despite that translation literally requiring one word answers for what the puzzle was (example: Tree) and congratulatory messages for beating each section of puzzles (stuff like, "Good job beating these, here are more puzzles!"). So I'm 0% shocked that they didn't add value to their wildly overpriced N64 add on, with content that would actually pull some enthusiasts to the service.
Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
That is a damn fine collection.
All three versions of Tourament Fighters, hopefully with online play. That alone is pretty nuts.
And I think due to stranglehold Nintendo had on Gameboy and NES games, those couldn't be re-released with Nintendo's okay. So it will likely come to Switch.
Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
That is a damn fine collection.
All three versions of Tourament Fighters, hopefully with online play. That alone is pretty nuts.
And I think due to stranglehold Nintendo had on Gameboy and NES games, those couldn't be re-released with Nintendo's okay. So it will likely come to Switch.
What stranglehold.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
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Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
That is a damn fine collection.
All three versions of Tourament Fighters, hopefully with online play. That alone is pretty nuts.
And I think due to stranglehold Nintendo had on Gameboy and NES games, those couldn't be re-released with Nintendo's okay. So it will likely come to Switch.
What stranglehold.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
Then I'm wrong, that's fine. My understanding was that Nintendo had a lot of companies sign extremely draconian deals in order to develop for the NES which got in the way of straight up re-releases later on.
And the Cowabunga Collection is showing up on some reporting sites as confirmed for Switch at $40.
Oh that looks so my jam. What's up with SquareEnix's awful names lately though? Like, have they just given up on naming shit, because I feel like a gradeschooler could come up with better names.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
I could be wrong about this, and certainly this is something that doesn't apply to any of these games, but I believe after a certain point, emulators also need the device's BIOS to operate properly, which does require permission from the parent company.
You can port the game wholesale to get around that, but for example if someone were to emulate a PlayStation 1 game on Switch, they would need to include a BIOS created and owned by Sony.
I think the GBA was Nintendo's first platform to do this.
Oh that looks so my jam. What's up with SquareEnix's awful names lately though? Like, have they just given up on naming shit, because I feel like a gradeschooler could come up with better names.
You thought it was a game with a creative name, but it was me...DioField!
Oh that looks so my jam. What's up with SquareEnix's awful names lately though? Like, have they just given up on naming shit, because I feel like a gradeschooler could come up with better names.
Ask me about the new Valkyrie Profile also announced today: Valkyrie Elysium.
Valkyrie Profile being a Norse-based game, and Elysium being the GREEK word for what is Valhalla in Norse.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
I could be wrong about this, and certainly this is something that doesn't apply to any of these games, but I believe after a certain point, emulators also need the device's BIOS to operate properly, which does require permission from the parent company.
You can port the game wholesale to get around that, but for example if someone were to emulate a PlayStation 1 game on Switch, they would need to include a BIOS created and owned by Sony.
I think the GBA was Nintendo's first platform to do this.
In theory, yes. In practice, there’s no technical or legal reason you can’t build an emulator that either doesn’t need a BIOS or runs on your own clean room reverse engineered BIOS.
Another game announced on Sony's stream coming to Switch, the remaster of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle.
With gameplay improvements, new characters, and even new voice lines from the current anime voice cast.
Definitely looking to give this one a go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df7KpVHcmlY
Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
That is a damn fine collection.
All three versions of Tourament Fighters, hopefully with online play. That alone is pretty nuts.
And I think due to stranglehold Nintendo had on Gameboy and NES games, those couldn't be re-released with Nintendo's okay. So it will likely come to Switch.
What stranglehold.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
Then I'm wrong, that's fine. My understanding was that Nintendo had a lot of companies sign extremely draconian deals in order to develop for the NES which got in the way of straight up re-releases later on.
Nintendo didn't have anything about re-releases on newer systems, because that wasn't really a thing back then. But otherwise they were draconian as shit. This collection reminded me of that. Check out this box:
Who the hell is Ultra Games? Well, for much of the NES' lifespan third-party companies were restricted to releasing five games per year in the United States. The supposed reason was to avoid flooding the market, which caused the crash of the Atari 2600. Konami got around this by releasing a bunch of games under the Ultra Games banner. The original release of Metal Gear was an Ultra Games thing too.
I was just going to get a single TB card and didn't know if I should get the branded Nintendo one or if I can just get the basic Amazon Gigastone brand?
I was just going to get a single TB card and didn't know if I should get the branded Nintendo one or if I can just get the basic Amazon Gigastone brand?
The branded Nintendo ones tend to be expensive. I haven't heard of the Amazon brand but it should be fine - it won't be a crappy Chinese knockoff, at least.
SanDisk is what I have had good luck with so I tend to stick with them. The Nintendo ones I believe are just branded SanDisk cards but they cost about $10 more for some reason
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Brainiac 8Don't call me Shirley...Registered Userregular
I have the TMNT Trilogy for the NES and with this release I think I'll end up selling them now. I've been forcing myself to get out of the collecting mentality and have been selling off stuff that I won't play over the last few years and simplifying my collection.
Since I'll have them all on the Switch, no reason to hold onto the NES carts any longer.
Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
That is a damn fine collection.
All three versions of Tourament Fighters, hopefully with online play. That alone is pretty nuts.
And I think due to stranglehold Nintendo had on Gameboy and NES games, those couldn't be re-released with Nintendo's okay. So it will likely come to Switch.
What stranglehold.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
Then I'm wrong, that's fine. My understanding was that Nintendo had a lot of companies sign extremely draconian deals in order to develop for the NES which got in the way of straight up re-releases later on.
Nintendo didn't have anything about re-releases on newer systems, because that wasn't really a thing back then. But otherwise they were draconian as shit. This collection reminded me of that. Check out this box:
Who the hell is Ultra Games? Well, for much of the NES' lifespan third-party companies were restricted to releasing five games per year in the United States. The supposed reason was to avoid flooding the market, which caused the crash of the Atari 2600. Konami got around this by releasing a bunch of games under the Ultra Games banner. The original release of Metal Gear was an Ultra Games thing too.
The more impressive thing about this to me is the true-to-the-comic all four wearing red bandannas. Must've been some early mix-up, I'm sure this was only a thing due to the cartoon show but proper marketing art packages weren't being distributed yet, so they ended up with original comic art?
Yep, there is no way that it will be exclusive to the PS. I cannot wait for it. It has pretty much all of the games from Konami pre-PS2.
I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
That is a damn fine collection.
All three versions of Tourament Fighters, hopefully with online play. That alone is pretty nuts.
And I think due to stranglehold Nintendo had on Gameboy and NES games, those couldn't be re-released with Nintendo's okay. So it will likely come to Switch.
What stranglehold.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
Then I'm wrong, that's fine. My understanding was that Nintendo had a lot of companies sign extremely draconian deals in order to develop for the NES which got in the way of straight up re-releases later on.
Nintendo didn't have anything about re-releases on newer systems, because that wasn't really a thing back then. But otherwise they were draconian as shit. This collection reminded me of that. Check out this box:
Who the hell is Ultra Games? Well, for much of the NES' lifespan third-party companies were restricted to releasing five games per year in the United States. The supposed reason was to avoid flooding the market, which caused the crash of the Atari 2600. Konami got around this by releasing a bunch of games under the Ultra Games banner. The original release of Metal Gear was an Ultra Games thing too.
The more impressive thing about this to me is the true-to-the-comic all four wearing red bandannas. Must've been some early mix-up, I'm sure this was only a thing due to the cartoon show but proper marketing art packages weren't being distributed yet, so they ended up with original comic art?
It’s just the cover of one of the comics, it was probably way cheaper at the time than dealing with the tv people for new art. I’d almost call it lazy. I mean, they’re blue, purple, red, and orange in the game itself, aren’t they?
I was just going to get a single TB card and didn't know if I should get the branded Nintendo one or if I can just get the basic Amazon Gigastone brand?
The branded Nintendo ones tend to be expensive. I haven't heard of the Amazon brand but it should be fine - it won't be a crappy Chinese knockoff, at least.
There is ZERO guarantee of this. Amazon stores similar products in big piles and pulls from those for every product where fulfillment is handled by amazon, no matter the seller. Amazon's sd card supply chain was hosed with counterfeits for years. If you can, buy them from any other storefront, brick and mortar or online, just don't buy sd cards on amazon.
I was just going to get a single TB card and didn't know if I should get the branded Nintendo one or if I can just get the basic Amazon Gigastone brand?
The branded Nintendo ones tend to be expensive. I haven't heard of the Amazon brand but it should be fine - it won't be a crappy Chinese knockoff, at least.
There is ZERO guarantee of this. Amazon stores similar products in big piles and pulls from those for every product where fulfillment is handled by amazon, no matter the seller. Amazon's sd card supply chain was hosed with counterfeits for years. If you can, buy them from any other storefront, brick and mortar or online, just don't buy sd cards on amazon.
Hey thank you. I'll grab them from Costco
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It is definitely coming to switch and physically as well!
Ok, I was about to complain about them picking and choosing which versions of games to include (because the same games on different platforms tend to be really different in TMNT games for some reason), but then they stopped showing only TMNT Arcade, Turtles in Time and Manhatten Project and actually showed other stuff. I saw TMNT 1 NES on there and some other things from NES/SNES/etc, and looking at this list holy shit it has literally everything. I.. I think I need to get this. It's honestly very rare for these collections to go the extra mile and include multiple versions of the same game. I absolutely love that they absurdly have three different versions of Tournament Fighters on here. There is no reason to do that but they did. That's fantastic. They even have the Game Boy games which they could have totally left off and no one would have complained but they're there too.
Might be talking about Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, I see those are $10.
For $10 that is a lot of content in one package, it's BG1 + Siege of Dragonspear (modern connective game) + BG2 + Black Pits (modern arena challenge) + Black Pits 2 (ditto).
The Good: they play fine and run fine. The direct joystick movement instead of click-where-you-want-to-go works well. The games are faithfully ported with all the content, and as good as they ever were. I found it engaging and fun. You can turn up the font size to make things more readable if necessary. And like I said it's a low price for 100+ hours of classic RPG character building and questing.
The Bad: There are bugs and Beamdog basically dumped the games on the Switch to die with no patch in sight. They are already bad about this on PC and other platforms, just too small of a company to keep up properly? But I assume especially on the Switch where it costs money to issue a patch, it will never happen.
The bugs are much worse in the other half of the IE games (Icewind Dale + Planescape Torment) because I think IWD was hacked into running on the Baldur's Gate engine against its will. I got through IWD but there were a lot of critical bugs there that definitely affected the game, for example you couldn't cast any spells along the lines of Minor Sequencer/Contingency where you're meant to set up a series of automated spells that are triggered by the one casting. The game would just freeze if you tried using them.
I never got up to the level to earn these spells in the BG games so I don't know if they're also broken in that release. I would hope things are better in BG since that was the lead engine. Bugs I experienced in BG were more minor, such as a few rare areas with an echoey audio issue. The direct joystick movement wasn't perfectly tested, if you start casting a spell and then move the joystick, your character stops what they're doing to walk and you lose the spell you're casting. So I played all the combat in cursor mode (which was really not that big a deal). I got all the way through BG1 and more or less 100%'d it without any unrecoverable problems. I got partway through Siege of Dragonspear and never quite made it to BG2, so I don't know if bugs start to compound and make it unfinishable or anything like that.
Judging by the lack of any conversation online I may be the only person who put a significant amount of time into the Switch releases of these games. >_>
I can't believe by the end of the summer the Switch will have the arcade TMNT games to go with Final Fight, Captain Commando, Streets of Rage, River City Girls, Scott Pilgrim and Castle Crashers. Old school beat em ups are pretty much my favorite games, and it's amazing to have them all handheld.
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I wonder if the game was intended to hook into the original F-Zero X or if it was its own stand-alone thing. I feel like Nintendo might do this but only if the effort is low enough. Like, they added in a way to get Celebei in the VC release of Pokemon Crystal, they added in those extra Mario 3 Advance e-Reader levels, etc. But if they have to do something more than unlock content already there, maybe not. They aren't gonna go through the effort if it isn't fairly easy to do (which is to say, assuming it hooked onto the original F-Zero X, it probably depends on whether their emulator can also emulate the 64DD and they can just trick the game into thinking that content is hooked in... but my money is on it does not emulate 64DD... I mean, it couldn't even emulate the water in OoT properly :P ).
A TMNT collection got announced at the Sony event. I really hope this is multiplatform or a timed exclusivity, because I want this on the Switch.
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I was reading over the PS Blog about it, and unless I miss it, it's never once referred to as exclusive to the PS4/PS5. If they locked it down, I'm sure they would be touting that pretty loudly.
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From what I understand it should be for all modern consoles and PC.
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That is a damn fine collection.
All three versions of Tourament Fighters, hopefully with online play. That alone is pretty nuts.
And I think due to stranglehold Nintendo had on Gameboy and NES games, those couldn't be re-released with Nintendo's okay. So it will likely come to Switch.
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What stranglehold.
I have no doubt this is coming to Switch, but Nintendo has zero say on companies bundling emulators with their own roms.
Here we are!
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It is definitely coming to switch and physically as well!
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Then I'm wrong, that's fine. My understanding was that Nintendo had a lot of companies sign extremely draconian deals in order to develop for the NES which got in the way of straight up re-releases later on.
And the Cowabunga Collection is showing up on some reporting sites as confirmed for Switch at $40.
https://nintendoeverything.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-cowabunga-collection-announced-confirmed-for-switch/
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Oh that looks so my jam. What's up with SquareEnix's awful names lately though? Like, have they just given up on naming shit, because I feel like a gradeschooler could come up with better names.
I could be wrong about this, and certainly this is something that doesn't apply to any of these games, but I believe after a certain point, emulators also need the device's BIOS to operate properly, which does require permission from the parent company.
You can port the game wholesale to get around that, but for example if someone were to emulate a PlayStation 1 game on Switch, they would need to include a BIOS created and owned by Sony.
I think the GBA was Nintendo's first platform to do this.
You thought it was a game with a creative name, but it was me...DioField!
Ask me about the new Valkyrie Profile also announced today: Valkyrie Elysium.
Valkyrie Profile being a Norse-based game, and Elysium being the GREEK word for what is Valhalla in Norse.
In theory, yes. In practice, there’s no technical or legal reason you can’t build an emulator that either doesn’t need a BIOS or runs on your own clean room reverse engineered BIOS.
With gameplay improvements, new characters, and even new voice lines from the current anime voice cast.
Definitely looking to give this one a go.
Nintendo didn't have anything about re-releases on newer systems, because that wasn't really a thing back then. But otherwise they were draconian as shit. This collection reminded me of that. Check out this box:
Who the hell is Ultra Games? Well, for much of the NES' lifespan third-party companies were restricted to releasing five games per year in the United States. The supposed reason was to avoid flooding the market, which caused the crash of the Atari 2600. Konami got around this by releasing a bunch of games under the Ultra Games banner. The original release of Metal Gear was an Ultra Games thing too.
I was just going to get a single TB card and didn't know if I should get the branded Nintendo one or if I can just get the basic Amazon Gigastone brand?
The branded Nintendo ones tend to be expensive. I haven't heard of the Amazon brand but it should be fine - it won't be a crappy Chinese knockoff, at least.
Since I'll have them all on the Switch, no reason to hold onto the NES carts any longer.
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The more impressive thing about this to me is the true-to-the-comic all four wearing red bandannas. Must've been some early mix-up, I'm sure this was only a thing due to the cartoon show but proper marketing art packages weren't being distributed yet, so they ended up with original comic art?
Cannot say how many times I played and died at the dam level as a kid. Never did make it past that section.
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It’s just the cover of one of the comics, it was probably way cheaper at the time than dealing with the tv people for new art. I’d almost call it lazy. I mean, they’re blue, purple, red, and orange in the game itself, aren’t they?
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I made it past the dam and the goddamn underwater bomb level but I never understood what to do in the next over world level and kept dying.
Yeah they are.
I played that game a lot as a kid, and I think I managed to beat it exactly once, purely by accident.
There is ZERO guarantee of this. Amazon stores similar products in big piles and pulls from those for every product where fulfillment is handled by amazon, no matter the seller. Amazon's sd card supply chain was hosed with counterfeits for years. If you can, buy them from any other storefront, brick and mortar or online, just don't buy sd cards on amazon.
Stages 5 and 6 are just misery. Stage 3/4 are also painful, but less so once you have memorized the map.
Hey thank you. I'll grab them from Costco
Ok, I was about to complain about them picking and choosing which versions of games to include (because the same games on different platforms tend to be really different in TMNT games for some reason), but then they stopped showing only TMNT Arcade, Turtles in Time and Manhatten Project and actually showed other stuff. I saw TMNT 1 NES on there and some other things from NES/SNES/etc, and looking at this list holy shit it has literally everything. I.. I think I need to get this. It's honestly very rare for these collections to go the extra mile and include multiple versions of the same game. I absolutely love that they absurdly have three different versions of Tournament Fighters on here. There is no reason to do that but they did. That's fantastic. They even have the Game Boy games which they could have totally left off and no one would have complained but they're there too.
I'll quote my post from the last thread.