Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah, somehow I can't see my local one on Grafton street opening up any time soon either!

A shame, the Henry St. one was always full of dodgy looking folk. :pac:

Is there any info if it's going to be any different to the one before? I wonder are they banking on the browsing experience keeping them open. Was nice to pick up the odd DVD in the Grafton St. one years ago, downstairs used to have some game bargains too but online is where it's at these days.

Mr.Saturn

Grand, they're keeping the games, seemingly. Hilco jettisoned'em when they did a similar restructure/save of HMV Canada, so had a bit of fear in me.

Nerdkiller1991

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

PS3, I believe.

Some of the auto-running levels in Origins are some of the most challenging I've played in recent times. Frustrating but addictive in equal measure.

Just remember the fact that this song will be in your head for days, afterwards.

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Yeah I always liked buying games in HMV. Henry street, Dundrum, Liffey valley and the crescent in Limerick are all re-opening which is good. It'll be interesting to see if they can survive and if there's anything new/different.

*parades around like a little child knowing that the Cresent is the only place outside Dublin that's reopening a HMV*

Now all we need is the one in Cruses St. and I'm set for life.

DinoRex

A Nintendo 2DS? They kept this pretty secret...



Good idea. I probably haven't turned on 3D in over a year on my one.

johnny_ultimate

I'd miss the flip screen It looks like a Tomy knock-off of a WiiU controller.

It's both the most sensible and the most bizarre move I've seen Nintendo make in a while.

Retr0gamer

It eats batteries as well. I don't see a point in 3D mode.

o1s1n

Congrats Nintendo, you just topped my Wii Mini 'WTF NINTENDO???' moment.

AND STILL NO SECOND CIRCLE PAD BUILT IN. ARGH!!!!!!

Sparks43

WTF

Plays your 3d games in 2d:eek:

Marketing department of Nintendo need to be put on a special show of Endurance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOz7gaFfmU

DinoRex

They're not just saving money by pulling out a whole dimension, they're also saving money on hinges.

HeartOfTheCity

This mega drive rgb scart cable needs to arrive soon.

Andrew76

I thought that 2DS was some sort of hoax for a minute. What a pointless device. Why wouldn't you just buy a 3DS XL for a few quid extra and get much bigger screens, better screen protection and eh, 3D (if you want it).

Myrddin

Bit of a bizarre sales pitch, "Here, buy our 3D console in a 2D model". The whole sales pitch of the 3DS is 3D, whether it's used not. I'd actually forgive this 2DS if they have the foresight to include the 2nd analogue stick, but all that space & it's still missing?

richymcdermott

Im looking at the 2ds and thinking out loudly and going wut da fuq O_o

Andrew76

EnterNow wrote: »

Bit of a bizarre sales pitch, "Here, buy our 3D console in a 2D model". The whole sales pitch of the 3DS is 3D, whether it's used not. I'd actually forgive this 2DS if they have the foresight to include the 2nd analogue stick, but all that space & it's still missing?

I wonder will they bring out a double stick version of the 3DS (and XL) sometime? Are there many games that really need the second stick?

Regarding the 2DS, young whipper-snappers like Johnny_U and o1s1n are gonna have to buy new trousers with giant pockets to carry that yoke on the bus/train. :P

HeartOfTheCity

Are they hoping this tricks people into accidentally buying the WiiU?

Myrddin

Andrew76 wrote: »

I wonder will they bring out a double stick version of the 3DS (and XL) sometime? Are there many games that really need the second stick?

Regarding the 2DS, young whipper-snappers like Johnny_U and o1s1n are gonna have to buy new trousers with giant pockets to carry that yoke on the bus/train. :P

No essential need for the 2nd stick, but jeez, incentivize the purchase Ninty!

Atavan-Halen

I don't really see the need/appeal for it. You can just turn off the 3d if you want and it doesn't look portable at all!

Perhaps they're targeting the under 7's as the 3D isn't recommended for that age group? It does look quite kiddy too.

Nerdkiller1991

Once again, Nintendo surprise me by how they manage to keep this sort of thing out of wraps.

Also, I'd hardly call the thing portable, seeing the lack of a clamshell form factor.

CiDeRmAn

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

I think it's already been leased anyway

Yeah, O1s1n is renting it as his new pantry, the gold wallpaper is being delivered on the backs of trained badgers tomorrow....

CiDeRmAn

Andrew76 wrote: »

I thought that 2DS was some sort of hoax for a minute. What a pointless device. Why wouldn't you just buy a 3DS XL for a few quid extra and get much bigger screens, better screen protection and eh, 3D (if you want it).

All true but, dammit, I'm going to buy it anyway!!!
I wonder what the circle pad pro for it is going to look like?

Andrew76

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

All true but, dammit, I'm going to buy it anyway!!!

I was thinking the exact same thing when I posted - 'I bet Cidey will snap it up regardless'. Your dedication to all things Nintendo knows no bounds.

P.S. I don't think it has an SD slot.

Atavan-Halen

No it does, coming with a 4GB sd card apparantly.

Kenjataimu

Seen this on reddit.



edit : Actually just reading up on this, seems it'll only work if it breaks a certain way.

Nerdkiller1991

Proco Jr. wrote: »

Seen this on reddit.



edit : Actually just reading up on this, seems it'll only work if it breaks a certain way.

Heh? Can you lay down more info?

Andrew76

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

No it does, coming with a 4GB sd card apparantly.

You're correct, defo no reason for Cidey to pass on it now!

megaten

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Perhaps they're targeting the under 7's as the 3D isn't recommended for that age group? It does look quite kiddy too.

Apparently that's exactly the case. Especially with pokemon coming down the line.

Atavan-Halen

megaten wrote: »

Apparently that's exactly the case. Especially with pokemon coming down the line.

Hey, pokemon is for all ages! Not just the under 7's :P

o1s1n

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Heh? Can you lay down more info?

Broken top screen, using the bottom as a GBA!

Sparks43

Designer of the 2ds has been revealed

Nerdkiller1991

o1s1n wrote: »

Broken top screen, using the bottom as a GBA!

Ahhh. Nevermind. I thought someone found a way to play the old DS after the top half broke.

Mr.Saturn

Does it not look uncomfortable for those who prefer to play with the d-pad? Swear you'd have to hold it at at an angle to get settled with it.

CiDeRmAn

Andrew76 wrote: »

You're correct, defo no reason for Cidey to pass on it now!

Hooray!
Come on now, isn't there a My little pony gif of bottom lip biting anticipation?
It'd be perfect but I can't do it due to my lousy phone!

johnny_ultimate

On a very different note, just in case anyone has missed it elsewhere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFMrBldVk0s

Probably in the top three things I've ever seen on the Internet.

richymcdermott

Just started dragons crown and just completed the tutorial.

Ive dropped the controller and looked and the beautiful art vanillaware has created , so rich and the landscape warms the special place in my heart.

The music is also enchanting , why cant all games use such vibrant colours instead of muddy browns and greys

Ah well back to playing the game :pac:

Nerdkiller1991

I wonder. Is there anywhere in Limerick, or even Ennis that sells audio receivers? I've been meaning to get one.

o1s1n

Who needs a GBA AGS 101 when you have a GBA DS

Apparently the battery lasts forever due to there being just one screen. It's like a big micro!




Mod worked perfectly, apart from one major **** up on my part.

When you open up the bottom, the power slider connects to a tiny little piece of plastic - it snapped off :(

Had to then leave the power switch out (as flicking it up wouldn't do anything due to the plastic bit being gone)

So to power it on you've to flick the tiny remainder of the plastic bit up with something.

Edit - just to note, I didn't have to solder anything. When I was trying to get the top screen out to check out the ribbon cable, my screwdriver went right through the cable :eek:

I thought it would have buggered it, but thankfully the bottom screen continued to boot (top screen was now a garbled mess)

Continued to open the bottom section and disconnected the ribbon cable straight from the DS board - bottom screen still boots.

So as long as you switch the GBA games to auto boot on the bottom screen, you don't seem to need to worry about the ribbon cable/soldering points etc. Well I didn't anyway.

Mr.Saturn

I always found the DS d-pad horrific when dealing with GBA games, renders any platformer immediately unplayable for me.

o1s1n

Yeah it's not the best alright.

Still, I'll be using it to try and finish off Mother 3, so there shouldn't be too many tricky platforming sections

Atavan-Halen

Did you just do that now o1s1n? :P

o1s1n

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Did you just do that now o1s1n? :P

Yeah. I saw the link, looked at my DS with a broken hinge and had nothing else to do

Want to figure out a way of removing the existing hinge and also plug that hole on the right side.

Atavan-Halen

You could plug it with electrical tape or something for the time being?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

Still, I'll be using it to try and finish off Mother 3

Mother 3, it's fantastic, would like to hear what you thought of it when you finish

o1s1n

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

You could plug it with electrical tape or something for the time being?

That was the plan! Turns out I don't have any around the house

I wonder would black sugru do the job?

Sera wrote: »

Mother 3, it's fantastic, would like to hear what you thought of it when you finish

Yeah I played a few hours into it, really enjoyed it, but put it down for some reason. (I think Phantasy Star IV distracted me!)

If it's anywhere near as good as Mother 2 then I was an eejit for putting it down.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah I played a few hours into it, really enjoyed it, but put it down for some reason. (I think Phantasy Star IV distracted me!)

If it's anywhere near as good as Mother 2 then I was an eejit for putting it down.

that happened to me too but I can't remember why, I do that sometimes though. I loved Mother 3 but felt I related more to Earthbound

OwaynOTT

$130, might pick up one when I'm over in Canada and use it to play US imports. Never use the 3d, apart from the animated parts of Fire Emblem, and I'm always afraid I'll break the hinge.

Mr.Saturn

Sera wrote: »

that happened to me too but I can't remember why, I do that sometimes though. I loved Mother 3 but felt I related more to Earthbound

Gonna hit on a spoiler that annoys me about Mother 3, for the first couple of chapters.

Never understood why they go ahead with Hinawa's funeral while Flint's still in prison, nevermind the fact that Claus is still missing, and they're content to have Lucas endure the process alone. Also, given the frequency of zombie-sightings in Tazmily later on, isn't there a chance you've got to off the reanimated corpse of your mother in a random encounter? Think it's a given, really, considering they spawn near her grave constantly.

Still, Hinawa's death?! Boom! 1-hit KO to the feels-factory.

If I said it affected my enjoyment of the game, I would be lying.

Retr0gamer

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

Gonna hit on a spoiler that annoys me about Mother 3, for the first couple of chapters.

Never understood why they go ahead with Hinawa's funeral while Flint's still in prison, nevermind the fact that Claus is still missing, and they're content to have Lucas endure the process alone. Also, given the frequency of zombie-sightings in Tazmily later on, isn't there a chance you've got to off the reanimated corpse of your mother in a random encounter? Think it's a given, really, considering they spawn near her grave constantly.

Still, Hinawa's death?! Boom! 1-hit KO to the feels-factory.

If I said it affected my enjoyment of the game, I would be lying.

They were all brainwashed and didn't know how to deal with any kind of violence.

Retr0gamer

Gray Matter got greenlit on steam. Can't wait to play another Jane Jensen adventure game.

Danonino.

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

I don't really see the need/appeal for it. You can just turn off the 3d if you want and it doesn't look portable at all!

Perhaps they're targeting the under 7's as the 3D isn't recommended for that age group? It does look quite kiddy too.

Thats the first thing I thought Actually thats a lie. It went more like:

Oh awesome a 2DS is an awesome idea if its cheap enough.
It is cheap deadly... wait... is it one solid piece?... ah balls. Kids will love that.

Worked in Smyths for 4+ years and this will sell very well. Its pretty much a checklist fixing what mammys think is wrong with the 3ds for their kids. A major thing with giving a handheld to kids under a certain age is how easy they break the things. Loads of broken hinges on kids DS and screens from things left inside then crushed shut, PSPs UMD slots getting torn off. UMDs being "opened" to get the disks.
Best guess is Nintendo got sick of returns covered in push-pop goo and hello kitty stickers and said feck it and designed one taking lessons learned by fisher price and vtech and all that stuff.


Good call with the price cut on the WiiU too... I'll actually buy one now

Andrew76

Danonino. wrote: »

Thats the first thing I thought Actually thats a lie. It went more like:

Oh awesome a 2DS is an awesome idea if its cheap enough.
It is cheap deadly... wait... is it one solid piece?... ah balls. Kids will love that.

Worked in Smyths for 4+ years and this will sell very well. Its pretty much a checklist fixing what mammys think is wrong with the 3ds for their kids. A major thing with giving a handheld to kids under a certain age is how easy they break the things. Loads of broken hinges on kids DS and screens from things left inside then crushed shut, PSPs UMD slots getting torn off. UMDs being "opened" to get the disks.
Best guess is Nintendo got sick of returns covered in push-pop goo and hello kitty stickers and said feck it and designed one taking lessons learned by fisher price and vtech and all that stuff.


Good call with the price cut on the WiiU too... I'll actually buy one now

I would guess the number of 3DS's returned with broken hinges will be matched by 2DS's with cracked or smashed screens (even if they were bought with the case).

Yeah the price cut made sense, now they just need to get the games out for it to make it worthwhile. Mid-next year I'll have a look to see if there's enough games to warrant a purchase.