Nintendo Switch

TL;DR, this is a video discussing the potential of reintroducing old Nintendo franchises into the public eye on the Switch, letting them to sell more than they ever have before and allowing them to become more of a mainstay.

Also, a distracting cheeseburger in the thumbnail.

Must be BurgerTime.

Shit I’m waiting for them to do a bunch of ports.

Like porting No More Heroes 1 & 2 especially since 3 is coming out soon.

Edited by slimcoder on Jul 1st 2020 at 8:59:22 AM

- still waits in vain for a Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door rerelease -

Edited by JapaneseTeeth on Jul 1st 2020 at 11:29:36 AM

Golden Sun 1 + 2 compilation release that doesn't require you to input a billion-page password to transfer your save data pls

Given the number of PS 2 ports, and the fact that SMTV is only announced for the Switch, I'd love if some of the PS 2-era Shin Megami Tensei games came to the Switch. A rerelease of Nocturne, a 2-pack of Raidou Kuzunoha (for Christ's sake, Digimon Cyber Sleuth is basically cyberpunk Raidou), the Digital Devil Saga games... would be pretty astounding to be able to play them on the go.

They can't be that hard to port, plus it would drum up interest for SMTV.

The lack of SMT representation on the Switch is honestly surprising.

Edited by Larkmarn on Jul 1st 2020 at 12:46:28 PM

Yeah, I was really disappointed when I played it on the Wii U VC and saw that you couldn't use the link cable method of transferring a file. I don't think it would have been that hard for the game to import the save file you have for the first game, given that both ROMs are on the same device.

Edited by Serac on Jul 1st 2020 at 11:48:51 AM

Maybe some hope after all

For context, this guy apparently had leaked the March direct back in February.

I'm frankly sick of "rumors" and "leaks". I don't believe anything that isn't officially announced by Nintendo. For starters, they have never said anything about "35th anniversary" of Mario.

Agreed, I'd love a re-release of Golden Sun that just automatically transferred save data from the first game to the second if you wanted, there's no reason you should have to type in 300 characters for a password that is basically just the programming language of the game itself.

It'd be nice to see something similar for an Oracle of Ages/Seasons re-release too.

God I hope Nintendo dumps N64 games onto the Switch soon.

I bought an N64 recently for collection purposes but I cannot stand the old-ass controller. It definitely feels like the first attempt at 3D control with its awkward shape and shitty analog stick. It's probably fine for Mario Party but it makes playing Banjo-Kazooie more difficult than it needs to be.

Nintendo seems to be so avoidant of the N64 in general these days. They'll pimp the shit out of their NES and SNES library though.

Yeah the N64 controller really sucks. The button placements are awkward as fuck and the joystick grinds down eventually and gets super loose. There are third party controllers you can buy that are much better, but that's about it.

They still fare better than the Gamecube games. At least the N64 games got releases on the Wii's Virtual Console.

I find the N64 controller pretty comfortable. I recently got a copy of Banjo-Kazooie from a second-hand shop, having never played it but knowing the hype. I fired up my N64, and the controller just melted into my hands.

the controller melting sounds like a pretty bad issue, though :P

My only issue with the 64 controller was the stick. After Six months or so, its base weakened and the stick would no longer retain its erected (sorry, this is the actual technical term) position. There were games I was unable to complete 100% with controllers having this situation, such as Donkey Kong 64, Jet Force Gemini and Majora's Mask (regarding the former two, I gotta blame Rare's habit of designating the vehicle acceleration to tilting the stick up instead of just pressing A. I never understood that BS).

EDIT: It didn't help that Venezuela had very few professional places for controller repairs. There were none in my state, certainly.

Edited by MyFinalEdits on Jul 2nd 2020 at 4:40:19 AM

I grew up with a 64 and still hate the damn thing.

My first exposure to N64 games was on the Wii Virtual Console so I played them with the Game Cube controller.

The Game Cube controller is the best way to play N64 games.

Until you have to do actions with the C buttons, which are awkward a little bit on GC controllers.

The GameCube versions of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask at least had the courtesy to rebind the controls so they were just like Wind Waker's. And the C Stick still read C Button inputs for playing the Ocarina.

Edited by Karxrida on Jul 2nd 2020 at 3:13:39 AM

The N64 and GC controllers seemed to suffer from opposite problems. The former was great when using the D-Pad (like I often did with various wrestling games) with a control stick that wasn't ideal, while the latter had a very solid stick with a very poorly conceived D-Pad.

Honestly it took until I had the Classic controller for Wii that Nintendo finally got back to the quality of the SNES variation, and the Pro Editions for Wii U and Switch have thankfully been worth follow ups.

The GameCube controller's D-Pad was thankfully not used for much important, especially when compared to the N64 stick. RIP using that D-Pad for the GBA Player, though.

Edited by Karxrida on Jul 2nd 2020 at 3:26:15 AM