Meatball132

What the FUCK do you mean they replaced the search bar with Copilot?????? Those of you still clinging onto Windows 10, congratulations, you were right. Enjoy your extended planning time for migration to Linux.

I don't know where this started but I've heard a lot of people parrot some false claim that the Switch versions of Super Mario Galaxy are based on the Shield version.

They are totally unrelated versions with nearly zero similarities, created independently by two different teams.

From what I've tried, the gyro is still pretty bad with Joy-Con 2 in SMG.

IMO it mostly hinges on those controls. Whichever you hate more (gyro pointer, shaking), go for the other version.

Also, depending on where you live, if you look hard enough, you can probably get a Wii + peripherals + Wii version of the game for cheaper than just the Switch version of the game.

It's hard to say this early, given the uncertainties like this whole Banktoad thing. Switch has gyro pointer, which is objectively worse than Wii pointer since it decalibrates constantly, and that's a dealbreaker for me personally. But you are required to shake the controller on Wii to spin.

Bank toad seems to have been removed from the Switch version of SMG2. He just tells you about amiibo now: twitter.com/Odme_/status...

SMG1+2 technical info:

The new Switch port of Super Mario Galaxy is based on the 3D All Stars version (although naturally, there are a significant number of changes).

Like SMG1, SMG2 uses Hagi for graphics/audio emulation, and the code itself was compiled natively for Switch.

It's also the wrong colour, so Bouldergeist doesn't fit quite as well anymore.

This floor is the most noticeably-changed texture shown from SMG1+2 so far, and wow it looks like a cheap fanmade "HD" emulator texture pack...

Nice seams, by the way.

(Scope meaning: the same type of minor texture upgrades, amiibo support, etc...)

Mario Galaxy 1+2's HUD is... smaller. In like, an offputting sort of way that's hard to describe. Like, the proportions are wrong, or something.

Skyward Sword HD was the same way. And given it shares the exact same scope as SMG1+2, I'm inclined to believe Tantalus did this.

I WAS JOKING

what

i didn't have anything to do with newersmbw until years after it released, and i certainly wasn't a "leader that created" it

also, what

YouTube video by Nintendo of America Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Copy Abilities and Co-op - Nintendo Switch

I would like to once again point out that we do not have the good instrumental trailer version of the Kirby and the Forgotten Land main theme, only the boring flute "bonus" version, even after the soundtrack has been released two times now www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiPc...

OK, so this might've been a bit of a premature celebration; it "turns on" but doesn't really do anything. Not even a beep. Think the motherboard might've been cooked :(

WHAT. I was SURE this laptop was cooked. It wouldn't power on at all, and after taking it apart it became apparent the battery leaked all over not just its compartment, but part of the main board too. So this was a guaranteed goner. But I cleaned it up, and, it works?????????????

it corroded toxic nickel cadmium all over the place

"gee the battery in this vintage powerbook doesn't seem to be working, i sure hope it didn't corrode toxic nickel cadmium all over the place"

the battery compartment:

After 100%ing DK Bananza I've given it some time to simmer, thinking I might become jaded with the game like I did with Mario Odyssey... but, no. DK shows that EPD Tokyo has still got it. Odyssey was just a fluke. I hope Tears of the Kingdom was a fluke, too.

The Donkey Kong Bananza final boss gives you a glimpse at what the game's Switch 1 framerate would've been like.

In fact, it looks like they even reimplemented some of the PSP SDK in C#.

I looked into it a bit more and this was wrong, actually; it seems they really did rewrite the game in C#. Huh.

why do streamers put chat behind their facecam/vtuber avatar/whatever so the most recent messages, the relevant ones you want to read at that moment, are obscured, please stop this practise

Nintendo Switch Online: Playtest Program - Application Results: You've been selected.

I won't be posting more about this, to respect the Rules™, but I jumped on it and actually got in this time.

Patapon 1+2 (underneath the Unity wrapper) seems to just be a PSP emulator. And it does the typical emulated re-release thing of replacing textures and whatnot at runtime.

All expected, since that's what the PS4 versions were.

Patapon 1+2 released! (cheer) ...it's a unity wrapper (flops on floor in dismay)

A screenshot of the latest album release onto Nintendo Music. Its description is as follows: "Tracks from The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D game have been added. Why not give them a listen and compare to the Nintendo 64 version?" i dunno nintendo, why not, i wonder why i would not do that, of course that's what i wanted from this app of yours, yes thank you very much for this absolute treat

Nintendo are you SERIOUS right now

i think we need to invent a new word for this level of dripfeeding

@nvnprogram on Twitter: "By the way in Splatoon 3 10.0.0 Switch 1 version Nintendo (seemingly intentionally? possibly to try hide a certain thing they added) shuffled all functions in the code, which ends up causing more lag in CPU bound areas, like Salmon Run or some Online Maps(cause more cache misses)"

lol
twitter.com/nvnprogram/s...

Unlike MK, DKB actually deserved the Direct, lol. Made me go from "i dunno" to "yeah i'll buy it".

Cautiously optimistic, though (I don't wanna get hyped by the trailers and then hate the game a la TotK, and it's clearly the Odyssey team which isn't my favourite game...)

Playing online with people you don't know and can't even talk to isn't all that different from just playing by yourself... And playing online with friends is gonna be just as casual and infrequent as playing locally. It doesn't really help.

Nintendo's statements hyped up this game so much you'd think it really was going to turn Mario Kart into something bigger. But it didn't.

I would never have bought this at $80, and I'm glad I didn't - I only have it through the bundle, which I think was a much more fair price.