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Kind of sad they cut this concept from Wonder, but I guess it wouldn't really fit what they were going for. They should really flesh this out as a full fledged game and make it available to purchase.

New SW Battlefront collection and Contra Galuga getting mixed reviews. Not too surprising. Funny enough last I checked the Switch version of Contra had slightly better reviews than the PS5 version. For Battlefront many of the complaints seem to center around online play of which I have little interest in. We'll see if they clean them up and I'll probably get both when on sale.

Anyone get either?

Started Mario RPG with my 6 yr old tonight. Was really happy to see he was enjoying it and asking questions. Trying to get him off Minecraft.

Haven't played since release, pretty fun but super simple.

MrBean wrote:

Is it because Minecraft is addictive or you just want him to try something else?

ErickRPG wrote:

The latter. He gets limited screen time (weekends) and he always wants to play Minecraft. Yet prior to discovering he was super into everything Sonic and Mario.

Super Mario Maker has been beaten. That level I posted about last week, well, it was the last unbeaten level for a reason. The creator of it finally came out and admitted he used a cheat tool when he had to beat the level in order to upload it. That level has sat on Nintendo's servers since 2017 unbeaten and finally the guy felt guilty and decided to admit it cannot be beaten legitimately.

Playing Pokémon Arceus at my kid's request. I've tried a few pokemon games before, but nothing seemed interesting enough to play more than a couple hours. After about 3 hours I'm actually enjoying Arceus so far. Stalking the animals adds a new element that I really enjoy, as with exploring the mostly open world.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:
Woooooow. Ugh. I wonder if that means that it's actually impossible to beat legitimately or just really REALLY difficult.

Why do pro controllers always die after being idle for just a few days? I have 4 and they're always dead unless they're always charged.

MrBean wrote:


I don't think mine die out in as quickly as a few days, but I don't think I've ever gone more than 2 weeks without using mine. I do notice that Pro Controller seems to recharge slower than any of my other controllers though.

I didn't want to make a new thread for this, but I saw this debate on Facebook so I figured I'd ask here. Where do you guys draw the line at what is considered "retro"? What was said was something like SNES was 15 years old and considered "retro" by 2006 when the Wii had released. But in 2024 the Wii turns 18 and not many consider it "retro" yet.

I don't get bent out of shape over the term. In the past I considered more than 2 generations "retro", so 360, PS3, Wii would now be retro. There is also an aspect of inflated worth among collectors that I don't consider too much. When a gen bottoms out, then start to rebound some people start to throw the retro out. Others are about age in influence/importance. 3+ gens in my non-influential opinion.

I've recently learned that what I thought was a complete collection of Nintendo Tetris games was missing two games: Super Bombliss (SFC) and Super Bombliss DX (GBC). While I have the U.S. version of Super Bombliss for Game Boy (Tetris Blast in the U.S.), I hadn't realized that there was a SFC and GBC version. I will soon rectify this oversight.

citizen_zane wrote:
If they don't have tetris in the title are they really tetris or just variants?

PizzaTheHutt wrote:

Any game someone enjoyed when it was new and now wants to share it with their kids

benstylus wrote:

They are just variants, but dangit, it has the word "Tetris" right there on the cart in small print!


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citizen_zane wrote:

If it's official it's official.

Corn Kidz 64 is coming to the eShop on April 19 for $7. They were going for a N64-inspired 3D platformer and I'd say they nailed it. It's already out on Steam where it currently has 749 "overwhelmingly positive" reviews.
https://youtu.be/2bPYnNuUMz8?si=nh8JEVfDaICME7wt

Pokemon Arceus... I see you can trade pokemon online or local. Is there a way to trade with my kid if he doesn't have an online profile with only one cart? My assumption is no.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:
Looks fun. Has that N64 vibe. Haven't heard of the game before. I kinda miss the N64. Makes me think of that controller. Although I didn't have issues with the 'designed for aliens controller' back in the day, it is a bit of a strange design. I wonder if there are devs from then who talk about what was behind the design.

KCPenguins wrote:

Get a cool person to act as a third party

nonamesleft wrote:


Yeah, back when the respective consoles were relevant I didn't have much problem at all adjusting to the Nintendo 64 controller, GameCube controller, or Wii Remote & Nunchuck. But now after having not played them for so long, I don't think I could go back to using them regularly again. If I want to play anything from those consoles, I'd prefer to do it on a modern console with a Pro Controller. That's one reason why I kinda like that the Xbox and PlayStation controllers have stayed largely the same over the years. It also helps make it easy to adjust to the back catalog of 20+ year old games those systems allow you to play.

benstylus wrote:


Played around with online trading. A dude gave me a shiny alpha level 100 umbreon for basically nothing, and the name on it was some ".net". My kids freaked out, and after initially begging to trade online and then watching me body multiple alphas they put in a rule no online trading. LOL

Edit: looks like this is a bot.. Not sure what it achieves.

nonamesleft wrote:


With only around 3 days to spare before the servers go offline, a player from France did manage to beat that level legit and he did it on live stream. There was a huge bounty on that level that he will be collecting.
https://clips.twitch.tv/HomelyBoldStorkCopyThis-lL...

Apparently not legit? Page taken down.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:
Took me here. Not working, but made me smile.

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That's weird, the clip still plays fine for me when I click the link.

PizzaTheHutt wrote:
Weird. Won't work for me. What browser are you using?

I tried it on several. Not working.

nonamesleft wrote:


FireFox

PizzaTheHutt wrote:
I tried it on Firefox. Not working.

Pokemon Arceus - what's the secret sauce for catching higher level pokemon? I tried forever to catch an alpha infernape. Got it down to almost no health and spammed great balls, heavy balls, lead balls, wing balls. Always broke out. Tried a dozen times, no luck. This is using my maxed out umbreon I got from a random online trade and the other highish level alphas I caught with it. I can bury the thing in no time, but I struggled to catch it.

I tried the stealth approach firing back shots with lead balls. Immediately broke free and attacked. I tried sticky balls, food, same thing. Then one time I came up on it stealth like, threw some food, shot a lead ball and there was no struggle and it was captured. I felt like this could have been done 2 stars ago. I battled the alpha snorlax and after a dozen great balls finally captured it. It doesn't seem like battling them down to low health is the way to go. Is there timing involved in back shots? Does it only apply when food is involved?

Any other tips on capturing alphas/stronger pokemon? I've read a bunch of posts online, but either I'm not following what they're saying or it's flat out wrong.

As mentioned before, this is the first pokemon game I've played more than an hour or two. I tried a few over the years including back in the day, but none quite got their hooks into me like Arceus has.

@KCPenguins Try baiting the Alpha with a berry. Try to throw the berry so that the Alpha will turn its back to you. Then when it's eating the berry, throw a heavyball at its back, or your best pokeball if you don't have. If the Alpha breaks out, throw another berry and try again.

Is it timing based, distance based, random, or something else when it comes to the back shot? I've also seen a red "X" appear above their head which I assume means you can't catch them, but I swear I've caught some with a red "X" above their head when I sent the pokeball in for capture.

Do any of you still get e-mails from Nintendo letting you know when games on your wishlist are on sale? I haven't gotten one in months, probably since the start of the year. It could be longer and I just didn't notice at first.

Edit: I've asked this on a couple of different Nintendo-centric Discord servers and it seems nobody else gets them anymore either. That seems pretty dumb that they would stop that and might explain why I've not spent a dime in the eShop so far this year after wasting so much money in there between 2017 and 2023.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1780219...

Nindies tomorrow morning.

KCPenguins wrote:

That Umbreon may not be legit. There are people hacking in Pokémon all over the place. Hopefully it won't mess up your game.

sailorneorune wrote:


I looked up the website. It's a bot that trades pokemon for whatever reason. I've played around 10 hours since getting it. Hasn't messed up anything so far.

Honestly I've quit using it as it's not necessary. It doesn't seem to help in catching pokemon outside of getting more opportunities to watch them break out of balls, and if I use it to fight I kill them too quickly.

KCPenguins wrote:


Summary of announcements:

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-indie-world-...

KCPenguins wrote:

Nothing that has peaked my interest

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