The Nintendo Switch

Just realised that the ghosts in Mario are a lot like most cows, they only come towards you when you turn your back on them.

Glancing at the Zelda thread, peering at the glimpses of the retro-2D Square RPG, and skimming a stupid clickbait Gamespot article about the system's exclusives has me bizarrely tempted to buy a new console and games for it for the first time since um... begging my parents for a Genesis. (Not counting picking up a PS in 2000 or abusing my roommate's XBox 360 or whatever.) I mean: Arms is an arena fighting game where up to two players play duke it out as combatants with extendable arms. Shut up and take my money!

I want one of these so bad it's exacerbating my anxiety

same

it really sells itself, it's a wonderfully slick piece of hardware. seeing it in person was just a !!!! moment where i went from 'will probably get this' to 'need one immediately hellp'. it didn't fully register that this zelda game is on a HANDHELD until i saw it.

I'm going to be cynical AF and continue to spend my beer money as labeled until there's a day 60 patch and there's a Terraria port with non-local multiplayer. I think. I can't believe I'm saying any of that.

Terraria port is already confirmed for this year (dont know about co-op though). Minecraft too which should really expand the reach to a lot of people given Vitas are so hard to find.

Been playing local co-op bouts of King Of Fighters 98 and Metal Slug 3 in the office this week with the joycons - so much quick pick up and play fun. great little machine.

im still holding out for another good title before i go in on this. feeling burned by wiiu tbh and want to see further evidence that this isn't that

i would be all in on switch versions of xenoblade, splatoon, mario maker, the newest DK and Smash bros... presuming those are on the way plus nu-zelda/nu-mario is probably gonna sell me this system once it is available/money woes are properly put in order/hardware and software are in v2.1

splatoon 2 and xenoblade 2 are already announced for this year

and nu-mario is supposed to be the big holiday release obv

splatoon 2 and xenoblade 2 are already announced for this year

― ciderpress

xenoblade 2 is projected for 2017 just in japan, right? and that's not a firm release date and could very easily be delayed. if/when xenoblade 2 hits in r1 we will be getting a switch... not sure if the mario alone will be enough to push us over the edge.

i'm just ready to play the first one tbh

by "the first one" do you mean x? the first one was on the wii and ported to the "new 3ds". x was the wii u one.

right, right: xenoblade 1 was wii (which was impossible to get even when i had a wii attached to my television) right?
i'm finally a generation behind.

yeah, the original xenoblade chronicles was massively underprinted in r1, and was only released in the first place as a result of "operation rainfall"; the apparent belief was that nobody was interested in jrpgs in the west. if you didn't pre-order it, you probably didn't get to buy it.

u kno what game was awesome? xenogears.

for real

plot summary takes 1,285 words on wikipedia

we need a xenogears thread
to torture ZS with (Dragon Quest VIII)

the pain

but yes, xenogears is so good

xenogears was approximately as good as xenosaga wasn't

"xenogears did what xentendidn't"

I had the same issue with Xenogears! I couldn't get past a boss, but given where I was saved I also couldn't backtrack to level up.

oh hey I found the thread I made ELEVEN YEARS AGO

Xenogears, bitches

i have flagged the thread for rude title

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CanleCreations

Home of the Original Microfiber Dock Sock!

cute i admit

It's good know that Etsy is there when Japan doesn't seem to care

you never forget your first dock sock

Square will be putting all the Seiken Densetsus on Switch (in Japan)

http://www.polygon.com/2017/3/21/15010382/square-enix-secret-of-mana-collection-nintendo-switch-seiken-densetsu-final-fantasy-adventure

switch isn't region locked right? so you could play them in japanese if localization doesn't happen

With all their remakes how have they never gotten off their guff to do the SD series in English

been thinking about it and if they do bring over SD3 to the US in English, i'll buy a Switch for that

https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/22/wii-u-emulator-team-has-huge-parts-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-working-on-pc/

uhh wld it be worth it to run windows on a 3 year old macbook

best option is a rpi emulating nintendo ds emulating a bootcamp mac emulating the work-in-progress pc version, or an iphone video in portrait mode showing the results of that, even better

hmm what abt just watching ppl the game on youtube

srs quesh cld i run all the wii/wii u mario games on my rig

Played snipperclips last night with my niece

Cute game

i can run the mario galaxy games on my pc which has a fairly midrange video card (gtx 960)

damn this is exciting news the mac emus for gamecube basically dont work lol

yeah like you do need an actual video card i think, i couldn't get them to run on my previous laptop

how do i make a video card on my lappy

expensively apparently

i tried 1.7.3d of this emulator. the game ran at 9fps and everything in the world was like 3 feet under the ground.

they are making quick progress and also making $20k+ of donations, which i am kind of iffy about. this being a brand new game and all and them getting paid to make it free. its a crowdsourced piracy.

5,737
patrons
$24,402
per month

https://www.patreon.com/cemu

that probably should get shut down tbh

should we have a separate thread to discuss crime, I feel like it deserves its own thread

yeah emulating current games is not in my range of emulation interest

i love crimes

this is not released in korea, but definitely going to pick one up when i'm in japan in may

i really don't understand who would choose to play zelda on their pc instead of buying one of these (if you have a pc than can emulate it, i assume you can afford to)