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TalkBack / Re: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
« on: March 31, 2022, 12:30:38 AM »
OK good information, thank you!  So it's sort of tied to an account AND a system.  So if you pay into the expanded online you get it for all switches if they have your primary account, but other accounts on the SAME system would not (unless you get the expanded family plan).

So basically I can buy it for $25 for a single Nintendo switch.

No, each Nintendo Account has one console set as a primary console the first time they log into the eshop. Any other nintendo account on that primary console can access that Account's downloads/DLC/nintendo online.

Well perhaps downloads and DLC, but Nintendo online is definitely restricted to specific accounts on the switch.  Any other Nintendo account can NOT access Nintendo online even if the primary console account has an active subscription.  From what I can tell, Nintendo online access is tied specifically to an account with no regards to this primary console concept.

Oh you're right. I was thinking of downloading Famicom/Super Famicom games from another Japanese account and playing it with a NSO account.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What do you use your Switch USB Ports for?
« on: March 28, 2022, 12:06:04 PM »
I have a LAN adapter (and portable docks with built-in LAN adapters) but my switch is in handheld mode 99.9% of the time. I would love external drive support though as I passed 512GB used on my SD card recently.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
« on: March 25, 2022, 11:07:06 PM »
Question... If I have multiple accounts on my switch, and I purchase the DLC with the primary account... do ALL the other accounts get to access the extra tracks too?

Yeah but if they are primary accounts on other switches, it won't carry over to the other systems. Some people have been screwed by having their save data locked out by playing games with dlc (botw) on another switch (family's) and moving back to their own.

Happened to my sister. When she lived with us we shared a Switch and she played a ton of BotW. We got her a Switch and BotW + Animal Crossing for her Birthday and she moved out that same month and ended up unable to play until she talked to me and I showed her the issue and she had to buy the DLC

OK good information, thank you!  So it's sort of tied to an account AND a system.  So if you pay into the expanded online you get it for all switches if they have your primary account, but other accounts on the SAME system would not (unless you get the expanded family plan).

So basically I can buy it for $25 for a single Nintendo switch.

No, each Nintendo Account has one console set as a primary console the first time they log into the eshop. Any other nintendo account on that primary console can access that Account's downloads/DLC/nintendo online.

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Nintendo should remove the gotcha elements and port it to the switch.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U External USB Storage Devices
« on: March 24, 2022, 04:36:41 AM »
I know its not the thread for it, but does anyone have a wired connection on their Wii U with an Ethernet to USB cable converter?

Anything that uses the ASIX AX88772 chip-set works on the Wii and Wii U (and the Switch). Nintendo's official one is $32, my Pluggable's adapter is $16 but the cable is shorter by half.

What might be the cheapest and most cost-effective solution these days for some extra Wii U storage?

The cheapest option is definitely picking up any USB 3.x/2.0 to SATA adapter/enclosure for under $10/$20 and using any drive you have lying around from an old computer/laptop. Compatibility wise, I can't find anyone ever running into (non-powering) issues unlike the Wii where large SD cards are hit and miss.

I feel like I remember Pokepal mentioning they used a lower power-drawing SSD in an enclosure with a single USB cable, but could be mistaken.

I have gotten away with an old 2.5" 1TB internal HDD (rated for 5V 700mA) that's attached to my Wii with an USB adapter that comes with an optional power adapter that didn't even need to be used. If it can handle spinning up, you should be fine as that's the point it draws the most power. To be safe, I would go to settings menu -> data management -> hold d-pad down for a second and press + & - to disable auto drive sleep just in case it fails to spin up mid game if anyone wants to try it.

You could also go for a thumb drive or even an SD card in a USB hub, but back in the day people often said those aren't designed to constantly read/write data back and forth, so using them for gaming would kill them quite fast. Maybe by now those storage mediums have become more durable?

Name brand SD cards (C10/U1 and above) are fine as they are made for use in professional video/drone/peep/dash/security cameras that are being written and rewritten all the time.  Thumb drives on the other hand are made with the cheapest parts possible that die all the time. I've murder dozens of them just by testing the speed with a large file copy or CrystalDiskMark. Name brand ones manage to last a year or two but also die. Their design use case is infrequent transport of files or using it as a boot disk, not as daily drivers. There were and still are a ton of reports of people killing flash drives just by loading Wii games off them, and the Wii U is even worse.

So, something I've realized since early last year when diving into XCX was that I could definitely use an external HDD for my Wii U.
Keep in mind if you're using the XCX faster-loading data packs, they work more efficiently from the internal storage than an HDD.

I've heard the opposite. Comparison of the USB vs NAND loading often comes down to IOPs/latency where SSDs > NAND > 7200rpm HDDs > 5400rpm HDDs > BD drive. The data rate of everything on the Wii U is in the same ball park. The Wii U's hard drive is limited to USB2 speeds of 60MB/s (30-40MB/s after overhead), the onboard eMMC NAND is theoretically 52MB/s but the actual memory used is somewhere around 25-35MB/s mark. The SD card is capped at 25MB/s (same as the Wii) and even the Blu-ray disk drive is 22.5MB/s (way better than the Wii's 8MB/s).

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TalkBack / Re: Switch System Software 14.0 Now Available: Adds Folders
« on: March 21, 2022, 10:21:55 PM »
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and 200 icons per folder allowed

Damn, no backlog folder for me

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Good, NOW GIVE US A WAY TO AUTOMATICALLY CHECK FOR UPDATES. Once they fall off the start screen, they never update by themselves and I don't want to go one by one on all my 451+ icons to check for updates.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: I think I might have a problem
« on: March 20, 2022, 09:36:08 PM »
Pics or it didn't happen.

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I need more shelves, and a bigger house, and more self control...

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
« on: March 19, 2022, 12:16:22 AM »
Question... If I have multiple accounts on my switch, and I purchase the DLC with the primary account... do ALL the other accounts get to access the extra tracks too?

Yeah but if they are primary accounts on other switches, it won't carry over to the other systems. Some people have been screwed by having their save data locked out by playing games with dlc (botw) on another switch (family's) and moving back to their own.

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NWR Forums Discord / I think I might have a problem
« on: March 15, 2022, 03:09:51 AM »
I finally got around to doing an inventory of all my physical games and typing up what I have

System# of Games
Game Gear 1
Xbox 360 3
Sega CD 3+1 fangame
Dreamcast 4
PlayStation 1 7
Game Boy 13
Game Boy Color15
SNES 19
Wii U 23
Xbox 27
Genesis 33
Nintendo 64 34
NES 35
PlayStation 237
Gamecube46
Wii 47
Game Boy Advance   47+2 imports=49 (+3 missing/stolen games)
3DS 73
DS 65+32 imports=97
Switch 451
Total 1017

Granted I'm not on Uncle Bob's level yet and don't hoard hardware... I only have 6 Wii's.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 88: Hey Pikmin, Four..m A Mafia! Day 8.
« on: February 17, 2022, 09:11:56 PM »
Now, you may be wondering, isn't the Vigilante dead as well? Usually when a player hits the bomber then both are eliminated. That is usually the case but it isn't for this game and you'd think with all that I typed in the rules that I would have made this more clear. The rules for the bomber were focused on the effect they have by being voted out and eliminating all those who vote for the bomber as well as bomb rocks. However, in this game, the bomber was included with all the other non-Mafia roles when I assigned out pellet values and even damage effects. In fact, the bomber had a damage effect assigned to them. It makes no sense to do that if a Mafia member targeted the bomber for a hit. They have to hope that the circumnavigate the damage effect just to get blown up anyways and then still don't get the pellet value assigned to that player? The only role that mentioned being blown up with the Bomber was the Killer role. The Killer would go down with the Bomber making that role the Killer's Achilles Heel as it were. However, the Vigilante role did not have that restriction or warning if they hit the Bomber. So, just like the Mafia could successfully hit the bomber and survive, the townie Vigilante could also get that same privilege. Since the Bomber is not on the townie side, the Vigilante stays a Vigilante and is not changed to a Killer role. Hope that's clear and makes sense to you all.

This is grade A bull and I demand his head.

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 88: Hey Pikmin, Four...m A Mafia! Day 7.
« on: February 16, 2022, 01:57:22 AM »
On the off chance the investigator has turned and he's getting us to vote out the bomber, I'm No Vote

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 88: Hey Pikmin, Four..m A Mafia! Day 6.
« on: February 14, 2022, 11:23:32 AM »
Looks like nobody votes until I No Vote

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
« on: February 12, 2022, 03:23:32 AM »
Nice but would have been better if they included remastered battle stages and Canada Goose/Boolina as new characters or super-crown as a new item too

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 88: Hey Pikmin, Four..m A Mafia! Day 5.
« on: February 11, 2022, 11:45:11 AM »
Well, may as well make it official
No vote

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Mario Strikers is my favorite Mario Sports game. However, I didn’t see Daisy in the trailer. No Daisy, no buy. Sorry. Them’s the rules.

I guess the game is also for good boys and girls as well. She's in.



They look like they're about to play football rather than soccer

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I'm still mad at the cheating AI from the last game even 15 years later.

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TalkBack / Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Officially Announced
« on: February 09, 2022, 05:54:20 PM »
I was sold at catgirls

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Direct To Air February 9
« on: February 09, 2022, 01:09:23 PM »
I predict Boolina and Canada Goose becoming canon

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 88: Hey Pikmin, Four...m A Mafia! Day 4
« on: February 08, 2022, 08:12:20 PM »
No vote

Make the mafia work for their bandwagons

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 88: Hey Pikmin, Four..m A Mafia! Day 3.
« on: February 05, 2022, 08:41:02 PM »
No Vote

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General Gaming / Re: Buying Switch OLED from UK
« on: February 04, 2022, 08:45:06 PM »
but you'd have to get a U.S. power adapter.

The adapter is multi-voltage, so you just need a simple plug adapter

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NWR Mafia Games / Re: Mafia 88: Hey Pikmin, FOUR...m A Mafia! Day 1.
« on: February 01, 2022, 10:18:12 PM »
Fun fact, my sack is full of the ghosts of Pikmin to keep them as a snack. Now follow me Pikmin and I will lead you to the flaming waters.

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Consolidation is never a good thing. Every time it happens (banking, electronics, the web, media, etc) quality and innovation go down, prices increase, ever new ways to extract money are added, controls and limits enforced, and they always view their customers with disdain. There's still alternatives but the world would have been a better place if it never happened in the first place.

Hopefully, this is the end. I don't see Sony buying Japanese studios as Japanese studios hate Sony and are jumping on the Switch train like crazy.

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