The Nintendo Switch

lol I was going to ask about the dock and getting hdmi to your projector. do you have a small headphone amp? can you add it between the switch and your bluetooth transmitter?

You mean like a DAC? No, nothing portable/practical. And for the AV jack (it just says "AV" on it), you mean a male-to-male 3.5-to-3.5 TRRS to TRS cable? They don't seem as prevalent/easy to find as male-to-female.

not a DAC. the output of the headphone jack is already analog. it seems like there's signal loss between your headphone jack and the bluetooth transmitter and amplifying the headphone output before the transmitter would help. TRRS is pretty uncommon, in general. just wanted to make sure you knew a TRS wouldn't work with it.

For the sake of your neighbours if you're playing mariokart outside you probably should be sticking to volume levels that are low enough that they can't drown out passing traffic, no?

Not drown out, simply hear above from just a couple of feet away from the speaker. Trust me, the cars, trains, and bugs are clearly winning. There is no competition here, let alone winning, just adapting the best we can.

so i guess i should buy Fire Emblem and bury my hopes and dreams in it?

My Switch + BOTW arrived this weekend, haven't gotten around to playing it yet, though.

if your experience is anything like mine, say goodbye to your evenings. BoTW was all-consuming for a month or so there

dude it's so good. best game ever

I watched a guy beat the final boss using only tree branches on YouTube the other day and it was thrilling!

Just imagine what could be behind that hidden text link!

is this where I confess that I still haven’t put more than like 30 minutes into it since we got the switch, because I’ve been saving it

I’m worse than Josh

saving it for anything in particular? there's a sequel on the way so you're not gonna run out of zelda

save it for retirement! by then you can line up like 10-20 top tier zeldas, prime material for end-of-life binging

Re: Diablo 3 maybe so but I prefer games like ADOM, I like immediate challenge, you die, you start again, and only occasionally does a character achieve liftoff. The boring "walking tank" section only occurs toward the endgame :)

I've already said goodbye to my evenings with Two Point Hospital! I don't need another such game!

saving it for anything in particular? there's a sequel on the way so you're not gonna run out of zelda

Yeah, totally on its way, sometime between now and never. It and Metroid 4. Regardless, with BotW you'll never run out of Zelda, full stop, because afaict you can practically just keep playing that game forever.

Just saw they announced a new Switch upgrade for 2021, as well as a super-slate of big games, like ... well, like, um ... I'm sure they'll be big. Maybe something with cardboard.

4K Nintendo games is a good idea.

But having to pay for MarioKart Deluxe again will make me super-annoyed when I do it.

nintendo has not announced anything yet

i understand skepticism about BotW 2 release, but i'm optimistic because:

1) nintendo will want some marquee titles to hype when the ps5 and series x are released and gaining traction
2) if they're taking longer to release it, it's probably because they're making sure it's up to previous zelda quality. that's a good thing!

xposts to yesterday, i think

jazzed up mario 64 seems a fait accompli

They're so inscrutable, tbh. It's just so weird that other systems hype things for months, and ... it seems to work out? And Nintendo doesn't, and ... it seems to work out? Except they really have much less to hype, honestly.

pre covid there were rumors about botw2 being this year's big holiday release but it seems whatever it was has probably been pushed back if there was no announcement by now. mario rereleases seem more likely

It would be kind of nice if Nintendo had a bit more to offer than more re-releases.

Hoping for a Mario 3D World reissue tbh. Super Mario Bros U has that shit “you can only save at very rare moments” thing and is too hard for kid to boot.

maybe nintendo are announcing a bunch of new games, but you can't successfully hookup a speaker to hear it?

If Nintendo releases a new game and I can't hook up a speaker to hear it, does it make a sound?

Answer: yes, just very quietly.

the speaker represents the voice inside you that wants you to accept nintendo for what it is and love it. it's a beautiful voice. a voice that wants you to be happy.

you need to call the geek squad and have them setup your speaker so that it is loudest.

the geek squad is drugs btw

lol

“a limited production of Super Mario 3D All-Stars launches exclusively for the Nintendo Switch family of systems on Sept. 18 and will be available until approximately March 31, 2021.”

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no Galaxy 2 my fav Mario 3D game booooooooooooooooo

yeah weird snub there

i still havent played 3d world or more than the first few hours of galaxy so i'll still get this stuff i guess

Also:

The 4-in-1 #SuperNES compilation Super Mario All-Stars is now available for #NintendoSwitchOnline members! #SuperMario35 pic.twitter.com/W5Bz1JhZ7N

— Nintendo UK (@NintendoUK) September 3, 2020

3D World in Feb is big news in this house

This looks amazing and imagine my kids would absolutely love it but 100 bucks is a bit steep

Get ready to experience the fun of Mario Kart in the real world! Use your #NintendoSwitch to control a physical Kart & race through custom courses set up in your home! Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is available in a Mario or Luigi set, and launches on 10/16. 🏁 pic.twitter.com/dydiND46ad

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 3, 2020

woah

presumably you can use that with a VR headset too; seems like a game changer.
They were charging nearly $100 for a box of boxes not too long ago; price seems reasonable to me!

wonder if it developed from a series of "mario kart maker" meetings

unfortunately I'm at that stage in my life when I have too many carpets and too many cats

no Galaxy 2 my fav Mario 3D game booooooooooooooooo

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, September 3, 2020 9:24 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

only one i havent played damnit lol

Is sunshine good? I bought mario 64 for ds lite and never played it.

sunshine is prob the worst of the a1 3d titles, mario moves a lil slow feels kinda gooey, its still good tho

still waiting for another one w the speed and violence of 64

you might be interested in bubsy 3d then