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TalkBack / Re: Amazon, Nintendo Team Up For Digital Code Store

« on: September 01, 2015, 10:07:51 PM »

I use my reward points for eShop cards and Gamestop codes. I don't think there is a restriction on what you can use them for. Amazon will even exchange them for cash if you want them to.

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TalkBack / Re: Amazon, Nintendo Team Up For Digital Code Store

« on: September 01, 2015, 04:21:52 PM »

I like the idea of this, but the selection sucks. Why can't I buy a Shovel Knight on there? It would be the perfect gift for my brother, though he doesn't know it yet. If I buy him an eShop card he's going to buy something stupid with it instead of the game I want him to have.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DS Lite battery life during GBA sleep mode

« on: August 27, 2015, 05:29:49 PM »

Now that's good battery life!

FYI, I'm giving away free copies of Imagine Pet Doctor and Personal Trainer Math to anyone who is interested.

So, is this still a thing? If so, can I scoop Pet Doctor?

For serious?

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TalkBack / Re: Shovel Knight Digging Into Super Smash Bros Wii U/3DS

« on: August 27, 2015, 05:21:41 PM »

Holy crap. I might actually buy one of these Amiibo thingies.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DS Lite battery life during GBA sleep mode

« on: August 24, 2015, 03:35:21 PM »

The thing gave up the ghost last night, sometime between 12:30 and 6:45 AM. I'm impressed. Almost 10 days!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DS Lite battery life during GBA sleep mode

« on: August 22, 2015, 03:13:02 PM »

The DS Lite is still showing a green light, after 9 days. It has been closed and in GBA sleep mode for 9 days now.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Where's my Silver Wii U Limited Edition Bundle...

« on: August 22, 2015, 03:10:27 PM »

I have seen two versions... well, maybe not colored like these. One type plugs into the Wii Remote, and another is a Gamecube controller that requires a USB adapter to work on the Wii U.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Where's my Silver Wii U Limited Edition Bundle...

« on: August 18, 2015, 06:31:30 PM »

How many of you saw that new brown DK Gamecube controller and immediately thought, "That looks like poop"?

Because, I did.

It's probably the worst color I've seen for any Nintendo accessory.

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TalkBack / Re: Summer of Amiibo Week 7/8 (Plus Bonus!)

« on: August 18, 2015, 06:24:28 PM »

Image 1.   For heavens sake, it's a caption for image 1.  Obviously I'm not winning a gold in anything at this point.  Keeping my fingers crossed that the font size doesn't get randomly modified AGAIN.

Nice try, but I doubt your sympathy card will work on these cold-hearted judges. 

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DS Lite battery life during GBA sleep mode

« on: August 14, 2015, 11:56:33 AM »

It's surely not even worth $79 in this day and age, is it?

For some, maybe not. For me, it's a nostalgia trip to unbox a new, sealed product so many years after it has gone off the shelves. I was originally looking for something to play GBA games on, but the GBA SP's are simply too cramped for my big hands. Gamestop sells DSL's "refurbished" (Gamestop language) for $60, so when I saw a brand spanking new one for $80, I couldn't resist. Strangely enough, it came in a boxed retail bundle with Personal Trainer Math and Imagine Pet Doctor. Apparently the bundle was specific to a certain Canadian chain store. You have to be careful with these "new" claims though, because there are some **** Chinese knock offs out there. Genuine unopened Nintendo-made DS Lites are becoming very rare. For example, Amazon has this silver model listed for $198, but no other models are new and in stock unless you go with other dealers.

FYI, I'm giving away free copies of Imagine Pet Doctor and Personal Trainer Math to anyone who is interested.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DS Lite battery life during GBA sleep mode

« on: August 14, 2015, 10:55:43 AM »

I've decided to test this out. I just charged my DS Lite, and while on the charger I have loaded up Metroid: Zero Mission and put it in "Easy Sleep". Now I will unplug it and check periodically to see how long the battery lasts.

From what I know about GBA sleep mode, it only turns off the screen and speaker, while the cartridge and system circuitry remained powered.

Nintendo states that the DS Lite battery will last from 5-19 hours, depending on gaming conditions and which level of brightness settings are used, but sleep mode is not mentioned. So, maybe after this I'll check NDS game sleep mode so I can compare it with GBA. Mario 64 DS should give a good baseline.

The DS Lite is brand new. Some Canadian big store retailer sold it on Ebay for $79, not knowing how much it was really worth. I have probably only played about 5 hours on it thus far. I will post the results when finished.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Where's my Silver Wii U Limited Edition Bundle...

« on: August 14, 2015, 08:29:47 AM »

I say they should bring back the old N64 rainbow parade of colors. People don't realize how influential simple aesthetics can be. I have seen friends and family splurge on new consoles simply because of a color, even if they already own the console. I even had an ex-girlfriend who spent $130 on a Nintendo 64 bundle simply because IT'S ORANGE OMFG THAT'S MY FAVORITE COLOR!!! She played it once in the five years after that, then it went into the attic.


It only makes sense if you are a company that profits on hardware sales.

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TalkBack / Re: The Legend of Legacy Launch Edition, Release Date Announced

« on: August 14, 2015, 08:08:43 AM »

This game's title is painful.

Lol

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: August 14, 2015, 08:01:20 AM »

Finally playing through Mega Man X (Wii U Virtual Console).  I've played little bits of the game multiple times previously, but never really sat down and gave a concerted effort. Now that I have started, surprised at how easy the game is... difficulty just feels really low compared to the 8-bit Mega Man titles I'm used to.


Still fun enough, but I think I prefer the non-X series.  Do later entries get better, or keep the same feel?

Stick with it and it will get harder toward the end. The Sigma's Fortress bosses can be kind of tough, and Sigma himself is difficult the first few times (obviously not using hadouken on everything will help). But you are definitely right about the low difficulty when compared to the MM games. Yet, I have heard plenty of people tell me how MMX is brutally difficult. One of my brothers even says it's one of the hardest games he's ever played. I told him to go play MM1 and get back to me on that.

I dabbled in MMX 2 and 3, when I played the Gamecube collection at a friend's house years ago. They seemed much more challenging from the beginning, and the bosses are quite varied in how you have to fight them. But the difficulty may have stemmed partially from the Gamecube's crappy controller configuration. According to Johnny Metts and James Jones on the RFN podcast, the games are only good through about MMX4, then the series goes to ****.

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TalkBack / Re: Summer of Amiibo Week 7/8 (Plus Bonus!)

« on: August 13, 2015, 11:50:26 PM »

LON LON MILK MY ASS! You don't go to a ranch to get milk and then stay out until 1 o'clock in the morning! Does that farmer even know you are fucking his little red headed slut? You know what, I don't even care anymore. This gives me an excuse to finally say yes to Ingo. Get your **** and get out, and take that stupid pony with you. Oh, and one more thing, I saw your pretty little cowgirl teaching a kokiri boy "how to ride" the other day, so have fun dealing with THAT tomorrow, jackass!

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Nintendo Gaming / DS Lite battery life during GBA sleep mode

« on: August 13, 2015, 05:43:17 PM »

I just bought a brand new DS Lite and I'm playing Metroid Zero Mission on it for the first time. I don't want my game to die if I put it in sleep mode, but I don't want to have to start over from the title every time I want to pick up and play. Does anyone know what the DS Lite battery life is like while playing GBA games in sleep mode?

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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« on: August 13, 2015, 04:20:41 PM »

To me, Legend of Dragoon felt a little... manufactured, as if Sony were ticking boxes to clone a successful JRPG based on what was hot at the time. Maybe I judged it too soon. I only put a couple of hours into it.

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General Gaming / Re: What is your most recent gaming purchase?

« on: August 13, 2015, 04:07:44 PM »

The Pinball Arcade, plus the Season One bundle of tables, on Playstation TV.
I love old pinball tables, and put a ton of time into the Wii release of Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection. This successor to that game is fantastic and adds a lot of tables that I've never been able to play in real life. Loving it.

I'm curious to know what you, as a Pinball aficionado, think of Kirby's Pinball Land for Gameboy and Mario Pinball Land for GBA. And have you played Rollers of the Realm for Vita, or Odama for Gamecube? It's strange, but I'm kind of getting interested in pinball games lately, since getting Kirby's Pinball Land from Club Nintendo. It's fun, but I hate how all of my progress can be lost so quickly with a run of bad luck.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 439: Grapple Dem Tears

« on: August 13, 2015, 03:55:35 PM »

Are those MP3s posted here?

Yes: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/26153/rfn-special-jonnys-e3-2001-audio-diaries

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 439: Grapple Dem Tears

« on: August 13, 2015, 10:09:11 AM »

I forgot to say this in my earlier post. Dr. Metts, those mp3 recordings of you talking about Gamecube and GBA from 15 years ago are such a treasure to me. So much of that kind of history has been lost, but you somehow managed to hang onto a piece of it. Personally that era of gaming was one of the most intense and exciting times for me. I was just as amazed as you were with the mind blowing visuals of the launch model GBA, and the Gamecube's better-than-PS2 graphics and load times. As a Nintendo fan boy, I was never more proud of the company and their incredible games and hardware. You brought all those feelings rushing back. They way you paint a picture with your words, and how you convey your emotional impressions of gaming experiences is just so great for passionate gamers like me. I know exactly how you feel about Milon's Secret Castle, because I felt the same way about Battle Toads for Gameboy. There have been so many times when you described a game or a personal gaming moment and I knew exactly what you meant because I had been there too, even if some of the details were different. So, even though we don't know each other, your work has made a deep impression on me. It sparked a passion in me that had been dead for a while. Thank you for that. I can't wait to read your book. Consider narrating an Audible version of it. It would mean a lot to hear your story in your own voice, and maybe for some of the sections where you get other people involved, you can feature their voices as well. I wish you the best, and if this podcast is any indication of your abilities, I have confidence that you will be successful in whatever you turn your focus to.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 439: Grapple Dem Tears

« on: August 12, 2015, 12:11:37 PM »

Johnny Metts helped me fall in love with gaming all over again, along with the rest of RFN. I will miss him for sure. I'm really glad Greg is coming back though. There's just one question I have. With Johnny gone, who's going to tell James Jones, "Ok, well lets move on now." 

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TalkBack / Re: Temper Your Expectations For N64 Virtual Console

« on: August 12, 2015, 11:52:10 AM »

I want Mario Party 3 so bad.

So do I. With net code. Oh the possibilities.

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TalkBack / Re: Baseless Speculation: Wii U's Last Stand

« on: August 12, 2015, 11:42:30 AM »

Wii U exclusive: Firefly Season 2: The Game, directed by Joss Whedon, starring original cast members, with special launch edition that includes Jayne's hat and a Serenity ship keychain. (Seasons 3 and 4 will launch on both the Wii U and NX exclusively)

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TalkBack / Re: Temper Your Expectations For N64 Virtual Console

« on: August 11, 2015, 11:10:31 PM »

All of the good N64 games that had PC emulator issues are now legally playable via Wii, Wii U, or Xbox One (thank you, Rare!). This makes the lack of a decent N64 analog stick more bearable. On a separate note: how come nobody ever talks about Command and Conquer 64? That was the best looking version of the game, and it was fun to play too!

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TalkBack / Re: Baseless Speculation: Wii U's Last Stand

« on: August 10, 2015, 07:17:17 PM »

I'm not sure why you're all assuming the NX is the Wii U's successor-- they've given no indication whatsoever of what it is.

Nintendo actually have given some indication of what NX is, and they indicate that it's going to be something that spans across different types of hardware, rather than being focused on one specific gaming box or handheld. It could be a new OS or environment that is compatible with home console, handheld, and mobile device - something like Playstation Mobile, or maybe something more like iOS or Windows 10. The hardware updates for the "New" 3DS suggest to me that it was meant to support some newer operating system and software gaming platform. Why would Nintendo update the hardware so much for only a couple of games? The NX as a software/network infrastructure might possibly run on Wii U, New 3DS, mobile, and some newer, unannounced hardware. Think of the Playstation Store spread across PSP, PS Vita, PS3, and PS4. And now that those devices are all supported by Unity (except PSP), cross platform development and sales have become much easier. Windows 10 is getting there too. Soon it will run on phones, Xbox One, tablets, and PC's, all linked to one app market, with Xbox Live integration. Still, this type of NX future seems almost impossible, when you envision it coming from a company that can't even figure out cross game chat, while Microsoft has had the feature for 12 years now.