Sega, meanwhile, switches to a post-Netflix digital library system (with a 3 dollar maximum entry fee)* and not only doesn’t shut down fan games but let’s them actually work on them
Nintendo keeps trying to make a VHS system that only plays Jurassic Park, Jerry Mcguire and every other tape you can get at the goodwill for 20 cents only this one has fake scarcity built in
the 90s console cold war is back
= though i’m not sure how well all the ports will shake out. for every M2 and Taxman, there’s probably way more of the same mediocre ports still passed around from the same PS2 genesis collection, not to mention how much of a shit show those Saturn ports will be but eh, it still feels like a better method to me
I liked that they reached peak low-poly aesthetic with the best-looking Super FX game, brought back the text-to-speech reader gibberish language, that they weirdly cut up the levels into bite-sized missions that trigger off of random events on a turn-based map and that you could transform the Arwing into a proto-Mario 64 walker.
it’s pretty novel that they’re finally releasing it in a official captivity, but it’s still kinda lame that its through this. S2 had arena maps and multiplayer that would be fun with a Switch if the time and effort were there
not trying or harp on FX Starfox aesthetic, that’s a good one.
obviously Nintendo is bad and is problematic on a lot of levels and yeah i’ve been a sucker for it now and before but i’m not sure why this one rubs me so wrong. maybe because it’s super super transparent?
also could still bitter that my Switch broke within the first 3 months and i had to send it in for repairs
if had a lot of money to burn, i would buy stuff from all of these scalpers and then leave them one star feedback that just says “fuck you”, and ebay wouldn’t do shit because buyers have all the power there.
gonna try hard not to be a pain when people worship Nintendo for getting to play mother 3 fifteen years after its release because it’s a wonderful beautiful game everyone should experience but people have such a mental block about what a corporation will sell them
i was trying to convince someone to play mother 3, but they were insistent on waiting for an “official release”.
and i was like “but the fan-translation was done by a professional translator and it’s real good and hell i’ll buy you a japanese mother 3 cart if you feel that bad about it”
“I’ll wait for an official release.”
but i think the magypsies are the real roadblock here
id rather pay some Etsy seller the money to put the official english rom on a gba cart that i can use and loan to anyone who hasn’t played it yet than to nintendo on a digital service that will be irrelevant later or on an expensive tiny box that will only ship 10 total copies to the same Ebay scammer
i’m pretty happy with my first choice in that regard
that is exactly what i did for my sister, who doesn’t play a lot of video games and is pretty thankfully tuned out of this stuff, and she played it with no qualms.
Anyone who is willing and comfortable to set up an emulator on a computer, let alone a Pi, is not the target audience for the SNES Mini. I think the confusion comes from the toy packaging which is admittedly attractive.
I hope SF2’s ROM gets extracted so it’s made playable on regular SNES hardware. The existing version of SF2 that you see on repros and such is based on an unfinished build.
There are a few ROMs on the net in various conditions," [Cuthbert] states. “But the ones I checked out are all old and they don’t have the randomizing Rogue-like stuff working or all the encounters in place, so you don’t really get the feel of the game we were making.”
Especially playing it with an emulator-overclocked Super FX chip (frame rates up to 20!)
I pre-ordered mine today. It comes with an extra controller this time, which makes it cheaper than the mini-nes plus buying a controller separately. I think it looks neato.
