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I have a 3DS/DS - general discussion.

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    #2582
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    TL:DR no more standard New 3DS XL's.

    No more old XLs (non new)?


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    #2583
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Pac1Man wrote: »
    No more old XLs (non new)?

    They haven’t made those since the ‘New’ ones came out.


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    #2584
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    The New 2DS XL has been selling.

    How do you feel about the little control nub on the New 2/3DSes?


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    #2585
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Pokemon Crystal is available on the e-shop tomorrow! Not sure I'll go for it myself, might wait for the inevitable switch release.


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    #2586
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    Pokemon Crystal is available on the e-shop tomorrow! Not sure I'll go for it myself, might wait for the inevitable switch release.
    Had to buy it, my favourite Pokemon. My friends cousin has my original cart, think I got another one but 3DS is much easier. Should get a back-lit GBA maybe, SP where the cart is it really annoyed me.


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    #2587
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Finally got myself the SNES 3DS XL over the weekend and it's a lovely bit of kit. Had the standard size New 3DS so the screen size is a bit of an upgrade on it and I was able to do the system transfer easily so all my digital games and saves moved over.

    Now I have a white New 3DS sitting around and rather than sell it I was thinking of putting on custom Firmware to tinker about with emultation and homebrew. Has anyone done it and how easy is it?


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    #2588
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I've been playing quite a bit of 3DS recently and I just can't... whats the word. Get it into now? I'm used to the Switch now, and I find the 3DS quite uncomfortable to hold these days, referring specifically to the XL models of the 3DS/2DS. Shame it seems like a reasonable amount of games will be exclusive on there for the foreseeable future till Nintendo gets its VC act together.


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    #2589
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    It felt a bit weird going back to the 3DS after several hours of constantly playing the Switch. Although I don't have much problems using the 3DS now.


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    #2590
    Pac1Man
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    I don't think I could ever get tired of the 3DS. Too many great games played and to be played.

    It offers a different type of portable experience to the Switch.


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    #2591
    Digital Solitude
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    super_furry wrote: »
    Now I have a white New 3DS sitting around and rather than sell it I was thinking of putting on custom Firmware to tinker about with emultation and homebrew. Has anyone done it and how easy is it?

    It's fairly easy on the old 3DS, think the new ones take a bit more tinkering.

    3ds.guide is your friend


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    #2592
    CastorTroy
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    Just back playing the 3ds myself. Samus Returns. Getting used to it again quick enough


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    #2593
    CastorTroy
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    Well my left thumb's feeling the long session of playing and finishing Samus Returns last night/this morning.


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    #2594
    Pac1Man
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    CastorTroy wrote: »
    Well my left thumb's feeling the long session of playing and finishing Samus Returns last night/this morning.

    My right one is feeling it. Want to co-op?

    As good as the 3DS is, those quick reaction games don't really suit it over a long play session. It's a monstrous RPG machine though.


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    #2595
    BelovedAunt
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    Lads I'm finally going to pick one of these up, mainly to play Ocarina of Time and A Link Between Worlds. I drive to work so will only be playing in the evenings. I'm just wondering whether I should go for the 2ds or 3ds for those games? Thanks.


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    #2596
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    ALBW's likely my favourite 2D Zelda. I'm not as big a fan of OoT though, despite being a great game.


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    #2597
    CiDeRmAn
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    wheresmahbombs wrote: »
    ALBW's likely my favourite 2D Zelda. I'm not as big a fan of OoT though, despite being a great game.

    Link to the Past is the best 2D LoZ game, what the deck are you smoking to disagree wheresmahbombs???


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    #2598
    wheresmahbombs
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    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Link to the Past is the best 2D LoZ game, what the deck are you smoking to disagree wheresmahbombs???

    It's just a matter of opinions :D. I never stated the objective best.


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    #2599
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Taking off the nostalgia goggles, ALBW is better than ALTTP in almost every way.


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    #2600
    CiDeRmAn
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    I don't know who you people are anymore....

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    #2601
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    As someone who played ALTTP years after it came out, it's been surpassed by nearly every other Zelda game since then.

    Sure it was amazing for it's time but you line it up against subsequent games in the series and give them to someone who's never played any of, them, it's going to be pretty low down the list.


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    #2602
    Andrew76
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    super_furry wrote: »
    As someone who played ALTTP years after it came out, it's been surpassed by nearly every other Zelda game since then.

    Sure it was amazing for it's time but you line it up against subsequent games in the series and give them to someone who's never played any of, them, it's going to be pretty low down the list.

    Ooh I dare you to post that over in A&R! :P :P

    Ciderman & Inviere, I can picture you now...

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    #2603
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    LTTP gave us the Zelda formula we've been accustomed to, until Breath of the Wild came. We can say it was quite influential.


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    #2604
    CiDeRmAn
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    wheresmahbombs wrote: »
    LTTP gave us the Zelda formula we've been accustomed to, until Breath of the Wild came. We can say it was quite influential.

    No, you can say it was quite influential, we can say it was the game of the gods!


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    #2605
    manual_man
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    ALTTP is a masterpiece. I couldn't get into ALBW mind you


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    #2606
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    No, you can say it was quite influential, we can say it was the game of the gods!

    Game of the gods... Triforce of the Gods (the JP title). Was that an intentional reference?

    I don't really have any nostalgia with the game. It's still a really good game, unarguably.


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    #2607
    wheresmahbombs
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    manual_man wrote: »
    ALTTP is a masterpiece. I couldn't get into ALBW mind you

    To each their own. I do prefer the atmosphere and colour palette of LTTP, however.


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    #2608
    CiDeRmAn
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    A confession...

    I have yet to finish A Link to the Past.....


    But it's still amazing.

    Prefer Super Metroid tbh.

    Which is a sequel to Metroid.

    Which is based on LoZ II!


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    #2609
    manual_man
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    wheresmahbombs wrote: »
    To each their own. I do prefer the atmosphere and colour palette of LTTP, however.

    ALTTP just gripped me from the get go. The mood. The music. The sense of foreboding evil. The sense of adventure. It was just insanely good. It had a kind of intensity and urgency that just dragged you along with it. To be fair there are very few games that can evoke those types of feelings, which is why ALTTP is still so revered to this day. Majoras Mask is the only other Zelda game that gripped me in a similar way being caught up in the storyline and mood. BOTW I enjoyed but for VERY different reasons.


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    #2610
    wheresmahbombs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,036 ✭✭✭wheresmahbombs


    MM's story is easily one of, if not the best in the series.


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    #2611
    Xenji
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    Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology is out tomorrow, it is a enhanced remake of one of my favorite DS games, the original never got a EU release either.


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