what’s the extra processor for in a ds flashcart?
Basically it can run code the DS can’t
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My Xbox One S exists as a Rare Replay box (and my 4K Bluray player), so…maybe just a Rare Replay box?
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as someone who bought Rare Replay to suffer Jet Force Gemini again, I cannot recommend keeping around a box just to play Rare Replay unless you really like the N64 or Speccy
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Which Power Ranger series is it that has that weird blue dog as one of the Power Rangers?
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We just hit Midnight Temple for Indian food as well as the new Offworld Arcade location in Eastern Market last night.
Old Offworld had more variety. This one is all pinball plus some astro city cabs running third strike that seem to mainly be the domain of the fighting game club that lives there. Baywatch pinball is one quarter and is good. D&D pinball is four quarters and isn’t very good.
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It seeeeems like we’re gonna do a lot of driving to go do stuff. Offworld might happen when we go to eastern market tho. I think that’s Sunday….
Our hotel is The Siren downtown by the opera house. I think it’s pretty walkable there.
Are there other neighborhoods to check out? Cork town I hear a lot? There’s a Korean spot in Clawson that got an NYT nod - and afaik clawson is like a suburb? And and… Detroit institute of the arts?
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The opera house is sort of slightly northeast of the center of downtown. Eastern Market is technically walkable from there (along Gratiot to the bridge over I-75) but it’s not too scenic of a route. You’re really close to Greektown which is just sort of the east edge of downtown, but aside from a couple venerable Greek restaurants it’s pretty much dominated by the casino over there now.
Corktown is just west of downtown along Michigan Avenue. It’s known for bar venues like the Lager House and the UFO Factory as well as some well regarded restaurants (Slow’s BBQ sort of made it a food spot years back and is run by a jerk but the Mac and cheese rules). A little further down Michigan and there’s a nice independent book store with a whole gaming area.
Southwest Detroit/Mexican town is filled with great restaurants and food trucks. That’s sort of sandwiched between corktown and the river as well as spilling out west.
Hamtramck is a weird combo of an old Polish enclave and a big recent Middle Eastern population and also has some great restaurants with often really weird hours. And then of course there’s Dearborn too.
Clawson is a good ways north, centered around 14 Mile, and on the east side of Woodward (which is the road that splits Detroit and is the reference point for all east/west side talk. There’s was a good Japanese grocery store/sushi spot there but I haven’t gone since they moved. They used to have a rad video store (that closed), a nice record store (that moved to Berkley), and a nice hobby shop (that’s run by a maga dude so I stopped going).
Ferndale and Royal Oak are suburbs just north of Detroit and centered around Woodward and both are very walkable and have fun stores and restaurants. After dark the club folks can get kind of douchey there though. If I’m doing a northern suburbs outing, I’ll generally pop by my friend’s record store in Ferndale, get food somewhere in Royal Oak then head through Clawson and then out to the mall area just beyond in Troy to go to the music store or microcenter or something.
There’s some nice restaurants and bars in the center of downtown too. It’s generally pricier stuff than I mess with regularly but probably perfect if you’re making a night on the town as a tourist.
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Mass transit sucks by the way. The People Mover will get you around the downtown rings and you can take the Q Line up Woodward to midtown (where the museums are) but otherwise it’s just DDOT buses for in the city and SMART buses for the suburbs and they don’t have great schedules outside of commuting hours.
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If you wanted to get a little fancy you could QLine up to the New Center Amtrak station and take that up to Royal Oak or even out to Dearborn (around the corner from Greenfield Village but away from most else), or out to Ann Arbor.
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I’ve been playing Nintendoland Yoshi Fruit Cart and Yoshi’s Wooly World with the kiddo. Is there anyone that is not infuriated by the Yoshi’s Story song?
I didn’t like the song in 199X and now that it is the Yoshi Theme is just terrible.
There’s significantly worse Yoshi music.
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*Norman Rockwell freedom-of-speech guy* No Yoshi games have ever had good music
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i like the yoshi’s story song, they are singing it badly but that’s cute cause they are silly dinosaurs
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the entire soundtrack to yoshi’s story on the N64 is fucking great, tight theme+variation concept and many of the variations are genuinely delightful
not surprising given it was composed entirely by Kazumi Totaka, one of the greatest videogame musicians ever
the main song the yoshis sing on the title screen is perfected twee. you don’t have to like it, but this is what peak twee sounds like
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That song on the end credits legit makes me cry
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glad I didn’t have to make these posts , but I would have if y’all hadn’t
literally same
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