General Nintendo thread

At least for once, that's good to know.

I'll be kinda blunt, I'm all for emulation for archival and history keeping purposes, as well as the fact it lets people play games they otherwise would be impossible to get otherwise, plus thumbing your nose at big corporations is always fun. But Nintendo have made it clear for over a decade that screwing around with emulation is the quickest way to get to the top of their shitlist, so going out and advertising you'll be putting an emulator on the biggest digital game market in the business is just a huge 'What the fuck did you think was gonna happen' move. It feels like some idealistic internet-anarchists forgot How You Would Like The World To Be does not line up with How The World Is.

I might be wrong on this, but I wouldn't be shocked if the reason a decent amount of people emulate Nintendo consoles are ones that will buy the games legally if they were re-released.

Come on Nintendo, just re-release Wario Land: Shake It already.

Edited by omega2900 on May 28th 2023 at 6:02:54 AM

Correct, there have been studies about this, and the people who pirate music are far more likely to pay money to purchase that music than people who don't pirate music. The same holds true for movies and games.

Nintendo either throws games into the Disney Vault to rot or re-releases the same 13 games 30 times.

Hey now; they've only ported, rereleased, and remade Mario Bros.....

...I think 44 times if I counted right just now? I was gonna crack a joke since my gut said it was probably the game that's been ported the most, but huh.

...my only thought is "you can literally download Dolphin without the need for Steam right now". Feels like outrage drama. Or maybe because I'm too old for these things.

Edited by Ookamikun on May 31st 2023 at 12:50:21 AM

Speaking of which, what is the most ported Nintendo game? Donkey Kong?

Based on online dialogue, a lot of people seem to think that Steam is the operating system's utility for buying and playing games.

I would assume Super Mario Bros., but wouldn’t be surprised if it was Donkey Kong, and it would be my guess for second place anyway.

I assume the Common Key is something Dolphin inherently uses, so if the N hates unauthorized emulation so much, why don't they just go after the emulator directly since they have a solid reason this time?

Edited by badtothebaritone on May 30th 2023 at 3:39:38 AM

Donkey Kong has a bunch of pre-NES ports, which might push that one over the edge.

Indirectly, the 1983 Mario Bros might be up there too, given how frequently its popped up as a subgame in other titles.

I did bring up Mario Bros. on this thread before the question was asked, even.For the sake of comedy I was counting things like Virtual Console re-releases of the Super Mario Advance series in that total, but even then it had a ton of Atari and PC ports back in the day. Combine that with its repeated appearances as a side mode in other games, and the fact that even then it still got standalone rereleases (either through Virtual Console, NSO, or recently the Arcade Archives series) and it gets to a high total and I'd imagine one above the other contenders like Super Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong.

Vanpool, the devs behind Dillion's Rolling Western, the Tingle series of games, and co-developer of the Kirby series, is dissolving as of May 31st (today).

Well, shit.

Maybe Hal Labs, seeing how well they did with recent Kriby games, can swoop in and hire a lot of Vanpool staff to work at their main office.

Just as a heads up: the 83rd Annual General Meeting of Stockholders is being held on June 23rd. Don't expect anything major there in terms of hardware or software, but there might be shakeups executive wise.

Also, the next earnings release for the first three months of this fiscal year is on August 3rd.

Edited by tclittle on Jun 1st 2023 at 6:36:41 AM

While there is no E3, I wonder if Nintendo will have a Direct during the typical E3 timeframe.

Crossing fingers for that, though the precedents invite us to think otherwise (there was no E3 in 2020 or '22, nor was there a general ND, only a Partner Showcase in one case).

EDIT: Well, also a Sakurai video about Min-Min, but that's too minor to count.

Edited by MyFinalEdits on Jun 1st 2023 at 4:18:18 AM

I believe in a June Direct if only because Pikmin 4 is the only non-DLC thing that's currently dated on a first-party front... then again, if they don't have another retail release until Oct/Nov, maybe they could just wait until September and have Twitter drops in the meantime. Hmm.

Found this really-nifty Star Fox 64-style remix of the "Space Battleground" theme from Star Fox Assault.

Hiring ad for work on next-gen console development for a game company in Kyoto.

Machine translation says working on post launch defects.

Anyone else smell smoke?

It's also a three month job with the ability to be hired back in three month chunks.

Edited by tclittle on Jun 7th 2023 at 10:49:09 AM

Man, being able to use Bluetooth earbuds with the 3DS would make playing Tri Force Heroes on my bus way more convenient…

I don't think the 3DS is even capable of Bluetooth.

Universal Pictures is closing a deal to acquire the licensing rights to Zelda with it being Illumination's next big film.