Nintendo: General Discussion

CiDeRmAn

I got rid of EA Access, just wasn't worth it to me at all.
Truth is, my son plays the XB1 more than I, and when I've used it it's for my 360 collection.

MilesMorales1

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I got rid of EA Access, just wasn't worth it to me at all.
Truth is, my son plays the XB1 more than I, and when I've used it it's for my 360 collection.

It's pretty neat though, that all the first party games will be available 'free', day one? Don't wanna go too OT here.

Corholio

Nintendo are discontinuing Miitomo on May 9th. It seemed an interesting idea in theory but something they never fleshed out properly really.

https://miitomo.com/en/notifications/180125/

wheresmahbombs

I only used it once, in order to get My Nintendo points, but then my dad dropped his phone in the pool at his workplace on that night, and I had to give him the iPhone 4S I was using and stick to a crappy phone.

Corholio

Speedrunners have been playing Twilight Princess on the Nvidia Shield and having dug into the source code they have found, what they almost certainly believe, is that it is running on a GC emulator. Runs smooth and without known glitches as well, which first piqued their suspicion.

wheresmahbombs

Corholio wrote: »

Speedrunners have been playing Twilight Princess on the Nvidia Shield and having dug into the source code they have found, what they almost certainly believe, is that it is running on a GC emulator. Runs smooth and without known glitches as well, which first piqued their suspicion.

Wouldn't have expected such a game to pop up on a non-Nintendo console, let alone the Shield.

Nice to see that it's performing nicely on the Shield. Not that I'd ever get one.

Corholio

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

Wouldn't have expected such a game to pop up on a non-Nintendo console, let alone the Shield.

Nice to see that it's performing nicely on the Shield. Not that I'd ever get one.

It's only in China. Nvidia announced that deal a good few weeks ago. One of the most challenging to run on that system as well, so interesting that it runs so good apparently.

Corholio

Some details from the Investor Meeting/Q and A

- 'Mario Kart Tour' will be the next smartphone app. More details released later, expected to launch before March 2019.
- 75% of 'Animal Crossing Pocket Camp' users were female.
- Nintendo had 50 times the number of requests for the Labo demonstrations than there was available places.
- Mario animated movie planned jointly with Illumination entertainment, co-produced by Miyamoto.

wheresmahbombs

Corholio wrote: »

Some details from the Investor Meeting/Q and A

- 'Mario Kart Tour' will be the next smartphone app. More details released later, expected to launch before March 2019.
- Mario animated movie planned jointly with Illumination entertainment, co-produced by Miyamoto.

What do you think Mario Kart Tour will be?

Miyamoto's involvement might spark some hope, but I'll still be skeptical, knowing the reputation of movie adaptations of games.

MilesMorales1

sligeach

Skyward Sword should read, "What's wrong with you?!"

Irish Halo

I liked the Oracle games ...

CiDeRmAn

Irish Halo wrote: »

I liked the Oracle games ...

I have the original carts, barely played them though.
I think Links Awakening DX is a pretty great companion piece to Link to the Past though.
And, damn straight, the only weakness of BotW was the lack of proper LoZ dungeons, hopefully the eventual sequel in 2020 will bring them back.

wheresmahbombs

A few of these descriptions on the image are inaccurate.

CastorTroy

Why are you brave if you like Ocarina? It was my first Zelda

Corholio

CastorTroy wrote: »

Why are you brave if you like Ocarina? It was my first Zelda

I think it might be sarcastic because of Ocarina being commonly regarded as one of the best ever.

wheresmahbombs

BotW may probably be my favourite, but I still miss the old dungeons.

Grassey

https://www.her.ie/tech/nintendo-ruin-childhoods-confirm-huge-fact-387826

Nintendo 'ruin childhoods' as they confirm the truth about Toad's head

Bit of a strong headline that popped up in my news feed this morning....

Star Lord

Of course it's his head, they're mushroom people. Like the Goombas, only nice...

Why are people constantly overreacting about this kind of thing???

Tom Mann Centuria

Star Lord wrote: »

Of course it's his head, they're mushroom people. Like the Goombas, only nice...

Why are people constantly overreacting about this kind of thing???

How dare you say people are over reacting, that's a disgusting attitude to possibly THE worst news ever in the history of news. You're worse than Stalin.

Grassey

Star Lord wrote: »

Of course it's his head, they're mushroom people. Like the Goombas, only nice...

Does it mean we have an alternate Mario timeline/universe where the TV show took place then?

This has gone very LOZ very quickly!

Rhyme

Star Lord wrote: »

Of course it's his head, they're mushroom people. Like the Goombas, only nice...

Yup. Toad -> Toadstool -> Mushroom.

MilesMorales1

Grassey wrote: »

Does it mean we have an alternate Mario timeline/universe where the TV show took place then?

This has gone very LOZ very quickly!

The TV show was always canon dude, keep up.

Tom Mann Centuria

News that the toadstool is part of Toad's head means Mario Chase in Nintendoland is much darker than I thought. No wonder Mario is running away, when the people chasing him have dead toads on their heads.

Star Lord

Those ones are hats, others are heads.

#notallheads

Pac1Man

I think it's between the two.

sligeach

If you think about the various mushrooms in the Mario games, there's something sinister about them, are they Toads that got decapitated at the jaw and Mario eats them? That's what they look like. There's a lot of murders and buried heads in the Mushroom Kingdom. Or are they baby Toads? Even worse.

CiDeRmAn

Some look like dickheads tbh

CastorTroy

More importantly, are they all named Toad and Toadette?

Grassey

CastorTroy wrote: »

More importantly, are they all named Toad and Toadette?

Of course they are.

Though saying I toadly toaded Toadette sounds much filthier than I smurfing smurfed Smurfette.