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Nintendo Switch

Started by Kelvin, January 11, 2017, 06:38:32 PM

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Kelvin

Quote from: Twed on September 25, 2018, 03:42:11 AM
If you've taken away that they ripped off an emulator from the .nes header thing then you may have misunderstood.

I thought they had been found to use pre-existing emulations as the basis for the system?

Twed

No. An emulator is a piece of software written to simulate a computer system. Nintendo wrote their own one. It loads ROMs that have .nes headers. Perfectly normal. One of the ROMs seemed to be sourced from a ROM site though, which is the only weird part.

Kelvin

Oh right. Apologies.

To you and to Shigsy.

Pdine

Quote from: Twed on September 25, 2018, 06:13:01 AM
No. An emulator is a piece of software written to simulate a computer system. Nintendo wrote their own one. It loads ROMs that have .nes headers. Perfectly normal. One of the ROMs seemed to be sourced from a ROM site though, which is the only weird part.

Not even that weird, really. It's like when Frank Zappa started releasing bootlegs of his concert on his own label because why the fuck shouldn't he?

Twed

Yeah. It's odd that they didn't have their own copy archived, but I don't judge them for taking the ROM (it's actually hilarious). The thing that spoiled it is them simultaneously going to war with emulation sites, as they are obviously aware of their value.

Pdine

Quote from: Twed on September 25, 2018, 03:52:01 PM
Yeah. It's odd that they didn't have their own copy archived, but I don't judge them for taking the ROM (it's actually hilarious). The thing that spoiled it is them simultaneously going to war with emulation sites, as they are obviously aware of their value.

Heheh it's not exactly a huge value to them is it? They're just avoiding making a new dump which may be new to the scene and will find its way onto sharing sites within 24 hours of the emulator being released.

Twed

I'm saying that with the assumption that they can't make their own dump due to not having a master copy (which would make ROM sites archiving content that wouldn't otherwise be archived obviously valuable). But then I remembered the game in question was Mario.

Fry

As it's the spookiest time of year, I'm curious as to whether there are any good scary games out, or coming out soon, on the switch?

Bhazor

Finally the Mario Lunchables Pizza tie in


Ferris


Kelvin

Nintendo's morbid streak continues* with their latest Mario Odyssey costume, for Halloween.





*After showing Luigi's spirit floating above his own dead-eyed corpse in the Smash Direct.

Pdine

Quote from: Twed on September 26, 2018, 03:17:39 PM
I'm saying that with the assumption that they can't make their own dump due to not having a master copy (which would make ROM sites archiving content that wouldn't otherwise be archived obviously valuable). But then I remembered the game in question was Mario.

Interesting bit of digging here that calls into question the idea that Nintendo used someone else's NES ROM rips.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomohiro-kawase-mightve-been-hired-by-nintendo-to-put-rom-headers-into-vc-updated-oct-12-2018.64755/#post-13593223

and

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tomohiro-kawase-mightve-been-hired-by-nintendo-to-put-rom-headers-into-vc-updated-oct-12-2018.64755/page-3#post-13620946

Beagle 2

Switch is gathering dust at an alarming rate. Every week I log on to see if there's something I want to buy, and there never is. I wish I gave a fuck about Smash Bros. Now's the time to buy a PS4 again, which is fair enough, I knew this day would come.

brat-sampson

Meanwhile I'm jamming along with Wandersong on the commute, playing The World Ends with You for the first time and still trying to settle on which rhythm game I want to pick up more.

Beagle 2

Yeah, that just about sums it up for me though really.

madhair60

I've been playing the fuck out of it. Getting the most out of its versatility. I just nabbed Isaac on sale, going to ruin my life playing that until Diablo 3 hits. Diablo fucking 3! On a handheld! Then Smash Bros at the end of the year! Jesus fucking christ!!

Beagle 2

I nearly bought Issac the other night, but I was playing that on my Vita three years ago after they gave me it for free, so I can't really get excited about it.

I played the fuck out of it until a couple of months ago. I think I'm just going through a crisis of not thinking computer games are very good and that somehow Spiderman will make it all better.

Timothy

Quote from: Beagle 2 on October 18, 2018, 11:06:34 AM
Yeah, that just about sums it up for me though really.

Same here. Ive played two of those games on another platform where they werent only cheaper bit also better versions of the games.

Switch for me is less and less interesting to choose as the platform to buy a game for due to the Switch tax. Im not interested in Smash either and in the upcoming months there isnt a game I want to buy that I havent played on another platform or that I can buy for less money on Steam or PS4.

Think Im gonna sell the Switch

Beagle 2

Switch tax indeed. I look at Doom and LA Noire, combined playtime about four hours, and see an actual hundred pounds staring back at me.

Twed

MY MOM gave me a Nintendo RIMJOB

Timothy

Quote from: Beagle 2 on October 18, 2018, 12:29:10 PM
Switch tax indeed. I look at Doom and LA Noire, combined playtime about four hours, and see an actual hundred pounds staring back at me.

I mean, I would love to buy those games or South Park or Banner Saga Trilogy or Dragon Quest Builders on Switch.... but 40 euros compared to 15 - 20 on PS4 or PC is a bit steep.

Thursday

Quote from: Twed on October 18, 2018, 01:10:21 PM
MY MOM gave me a Nintendo RIMJOB

Just jumped onto the end of this thread, and I think I'll just not bother reading the previous posts to see if I can understand the context for this post.

Black Bird is a brilliant Japanese indie shmup like little else I've played in the genre. Bonkers. Great game.

Valkyria Chronicles 1 just came out for fuck all which saves me buying 4 for fifty quid.

Starlink is actually meant to be really good, kind of cross between No Man's Sky and Starfox and Ubisoft open world stuff. Probably getting it.

Dragonball FighterZ is fuckin amazing.

Blade Strangers and BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle are great but online is dying due to the above.

FIFA 19 is lit.

Risk of Rain actually very good roguelike, can have some mad Isaac style runs which I've not got from any other.

Lumines Remastered is still God tier.

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate is the best ever MH game, a million hours worth of play.

I have been mostly playing the above.

Twed

Quote from: Thursday on October 18, 2018, 05:51:29 PM
Just jumped onto the end of this thread, and I think I'll just not bother reading the previous posts to see if I can understand the context for this post.
It's a bot-generated porn spam email subject line I received, and I just find it hilarious. There are so many ways of interpreting it, my favourite being that Nintendo has gone mad and released a console called the RIMJOB.

Mango Chimes

Quote from: Twed on October 18, 2018, 06:13:20 PMThere are so many ways of interpreting it, my favourite being that Nintendo has gone mad and released a console called the RIMJOB.

It's like the Wii. Sounds funny at first, but then everyone wants one and it's just the name of a console now.

Up at 4 playing Dark Souls because I've got an early start today. Runs great. Dark Souls on 3.

1, 2, 3DARKSOULS!!!

falafel

DARKS oh he's not here

falafel

Made a shiny new avatar on the bus to work and started watching the intro video. Somehow I feel like skipping it would be a betrayal.

So weird that you say that because I also watch it every single time and did the same again this morning at 4. I always get a lump in my throat at 'Seath the Scaleless betrayed his own' and the heartbreaking howl. Guy knows he fucked it because he wanted to know too much and sold out his entire species.

madhair60

Risk of Rain is "rain"mazing!