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Hate this not owning anything lark.

All these companies just want their iOS App Store-style walled gardens where nothing is truly owned and can be taken away. When licensing or maintenance cost is slightly above an acceptable level defined in a spreadsheet then pop goes the weasel.

Has permeated from movies to music to e-books to games and is now scarily enough trickling into car ownership. All for the sake of “convenience “.

Abandoning custom for any companies who don’t believe in ownership is really all one can do.

@batmanbud2 Arcade style racing games were 10-a-plenty on all the consoles around then until Gran Turismo pushed the trend towards realism

@Keman Kt Its not like there was a choice for us. I grew up in BallyGoBackwards back then, no computer(never mind the internet), 2 tv channels and just magazines from newsagents for info. I guarantee you I would be have been the exact same if I had this modern level of access to media.

I love the ps1 and ps2 but Sony have disappeared up their own arse these days. I don’t have room for them and my own head too, especially with all the shark jumping they keep doing. It’ll tear the lining.

@Lone_Beagle A more important reason for WiiU emulation is that every one of them has a time bomb inside them due to the sh1te memory chip that was used. So your choice is lose all your games(and console) or export them to Cemu and actually preserve them.

To paraphrase Jim Carrey in Liar Liar:
“Stop breaking the law using mainstream video streaming platforms ya bunghole!”

@sanderev We’ll all be reading NintendoDeath before we know it

Nintendo are slowly boiling the emulation scene but they might not like what springs out of the pot in the future.

Counter culture is inevitable and they are only radicalising, for lack of a better word, the community even further. We’ve seen this story play out time after time when it comes to digital products.

The only people Nintendo will notably discourage are those who wish to document or monetise the emulation work on mainstream social media.

There’s nothing stopping anyone from operating their emulation infrastructure within a country using hosts that are far from the lawyer squad and spreading the word on defederated platforms.

Defending himself in court?! Did somebody watch Good Will Hunting and became a self-proclaimed genius.

@Pillowpants It seems many people only played NES Metroid and Zelda in emulators and virtual console or maybe even by just renting them.

I say that because those games made the instruction booklet required reading. Parts of the map were illustrated in them as waypoint tips.

People can’t be trusted with new disruptive tech as we have found out over the last 15-20 years.

All of these “It’s the future brah” ML applications are all cut from the same cloth.

Name a commercial one that responsibly & fully cites and shows the sources of its inspiration or credits the original creator be it a programmer on GitHub/stack-overflow or a traditional artist/painter/music creator after generating output. In its current form, the sourcing and re-use of trained data is selfish and irresponsible.

Can’t support that and those that do are letting unethical commercial companies grow unfairly (cough cough OpenAI) before proper moderation can catch up.

I write a code library for something and it’s ok for a someone to write a script to consume it for model training purposes and then not credit it when spitting it out in a commercial application without it my permission? See the problem here.

Nintendo being a better parent than those kids’ actual parents is funny.

I’m picturing a time not so far in the future where Nintendo offer a e-nanny service. Sure how many Switches these days are already doing the heavy lifting…

@IceClimbersMain Sony has published the (Forbidden) Siren series. Immediately comes to mind. But it’s long forgotten sadly. Shame, was very unique.

@babyThorman It’s easy to realise why. I write a ***** Unreal engine POC and nobody gives a *****. I slap Zelda and its mechanics on to it and it gets featured on all major game sites. Good for the ol’ CV

@nocdaes
Spot on. Epitome of having your cake and eating it.

The biggest issue here is the breaking of a journalistic tenet - Always protect your source.

Bloomberg maybe should have more tact

Predictions:

Mini N64, Super Mario Galaxy 7, Wind Waker HD VR, Lower priced platinum/greatest hits series again, Dark Souls 2, Symphony of the Night, A new GBA that only works with NSO(awful idea) and Silksong

Some say you can hear the clinking of Nintendo lawyers’ grappling hooks from southern latitudes as they scale the awning of C4VideoGames‘ soon to be repossessed house.

They got what they deserved if we’re to be brutally honest. Love both software and FPGA emulation but it can’t be done as a profit making venture while the console in question is still on sale. It’s just taking the piss.

Hopefully Viva Pinata 1 & 2 are ported. They’re up there with Rare’s best and extremely Nintendo-like.

Still playing Mario Kart Wii on Wiimmfii. The servers are actually better quality compared to the now abandoned official servers and even have a way to ban cheaters. This Pretendo initiative sounds realty impressive too.

Nintendo really do ***** the bed with online infrastructure which is news to nobody, but it should always be repeated.

@Nua
The download comes with the source code. The dev knew what they were doing

Love it. They even supply the source code so anyone can do their own changes, eg set the scale to the original size. It’s a very easy to build Visual Studio project. Gonna love pouring over the engine code for this. It’s great nostalgia.

Love the little visual flourishes and animations. Some nice subtle drop shadowing and lighting effects too. The dungeons even have a faux 3d effect similar to A Link Between Worlds.

I would say the default scale is too high up. You should not be able to see adjacent areas. I suppose the dev wanted that incredible widescreen reveal after you leave Marins house for the first time.

There are some bugs but since the source code is bundled with it so there’s no stopping the signal on this one Nintendo.

Does this Analogue CEO gombeen know that FPGA emulation/simulation/whatever of N64 is almost complete on MiSTer FPGA? Its looking like Robert Peip will release a timing accurate N64 core before Analogue.

@mattysaurus True. The advantage of FPGA is low level recreation of chip functions, all running asynchronously with accurate timing & very low power usage.

Clear outrage baiting. Ignore and move on

Cat, meet mouse

This is the first time that MGS2 won’t run at 60fps. Ps2 version even managed it. That’s gonna feel weird to replay

Online boycott cries are practically viral marketing these days & not everyone always wants old stuff remastered, just re-released & preserved at a reasonable price. Should be no more than 25 quid. Skip and move on. They are only video games

The ends never justify the means.

Something to remember if you are a working adult.

Assuming internal strife was real and his public statements reflect his internal messages then the lack of any contrition is a one-way ticket to brain drain

@nocdaes

Suppose that's kinda true on the Ganon bit. Links awakening original DMG version is still my favourite Zelda

I keep trying to get into Majora's Mask but something just won't click for me. Sometimes, with certain games, someone shares view about it that makes it click for me. What am I missing? I might wait for either the PC decomp version or the upcoming MisterFPGA N64 core and try again.

Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass are great IMO, but strangely maligned. Suppose I had fond memories playing them on long distance flights*.

*Well bar the microphone bits with the pan pipes since the ambient noise on the plane made those bits a genuine pain in the arse.

The game is great and all of that but I was immediately put off by it having the exact same movement mechanics for Link.

I would have preferred if they freshened the jumping & running feel at least slightly since that's a good chunk of the game.

I assume they didn't do that to make the QA easier.

Impressive. One step closer to a full-on FPGA Gameboy implementation that can run Link's Awakening inside TOTK 😁

BOTW felt like an actual world where a significant historical event recently happened. The remnants of the upheaval didn't feel as significant even though there are floating islands in the sky!

BOTW tugged better at the explorer instincts. TOTK feels like a video game toybox with an un-natural "game-ified" world topography & constant distractions to chase after. I prefer the former like yourself.

The building is also too invasive. I've seen that Ultrahand red screen filter & heard its' rune activation noise so often that I avoid building if I can. It kind of feels like the game is almost punishing you by doing so however.

Anyway, to each their own.

Plug numbers in, graph goes up. "Put that in your funnel and smoke it" says their CMO.

Just standard marketing affair to pretend their job actually matters.

If they open up the data-collection techniques to public scrutiny then people may actually inhale the jazz.

@WaffleRaptor01 Too many people internalise companies as they would a friend/relative IMO. 'Fandom' is weird'. The manner in which some speak about a corp. is borderline altruistic.

Hopefully said user was not naive enough to give Discord any identifying information. Stay anonymous folks. IP laws are not stacked fairly. Should probably not publish copyrighted data without understanding the consequences first too.

There should be punishment for the leaked material but unfortunately it will probably be heavy handed as usual. Never seems to deter the next person does it?

What's the 3ds model is that in the article photo? Looks pretty slick

Your use of capitalisation in the article title made me think Nintendo were lining up releases for Windows akin to Sony

Thank fook these idiotic parents weren't around when I has Super Mario Kart on the SNES.

To all parents involved - ye are useless *****

disclaimer: Im a parent.

Drip feeding 'old' experiences & ignoring demands equals:

• Emulators
• FPGA hardware emulators
• Clean-room reverse-engineering projects (See Zelda64 dev & Metaforce)
• Whack-a-mole piracy sites
• A portable rival in Steam Deck with a convenience emulator that plays Nintendo's games better than NSO

Keep burying your heads in the sand there Nintendo. Or solve the distribution problem & make some $$

Also these 'new' experiences sure are similar to the old Miyamoto

@Ralizah That's also a WiiU game. It would be like having a slightly inferior port of SM64 on the SNES launched at the same time that also revolutionised 3d gaming