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TalkBack / Re: Ocarina Of Time Remake To Launch November 5

« on: September 10, 2026, 06:39:01 AM »

Just Preordered at 59.88 on Amazon, buy now before the normies wake up. Now if I could just get my hands on that pro-controller.

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Version Of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Revealed

« on: September 10, 2026, 05:29:23 AM »

I hope Nintendo persuades other companies to start following suite for the games that don't have upgrade paths.

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TalkBack / Re: Metroid Ravenous Announced for 2027

« on: September 10, 2026, 05:16:00 AM »

I wish the new baddies had tiny faces on their hats to complete the Zeiram vibe.

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TalkBack / Re: Australian eShop Listing For Ocarina of Time Adds Pricing Ahead Of Direct

« on: September 08, 2026, 10:43:21 AM »

$60 got my hopes up for a re-imagining. The over-world map looks the same but I feel like the size of Link and the NPC is smaller so everything feels grander but it's still fairly close to the original. $50 would probably been more appropriate but Nintendo seems dead set on creating a $10 Zelda tax.

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TalkBack / Re: Other Announcements From The June 9 Nintendo Direct

« on: June 10, 2026, 06:34:37 AM »

I loved Muramasa on the Wii and seeing it again was my favorite announcement of the direct. Surprised Stellar Blade was announced at all since Sony published it. I might hold off on getting Stellar Blade 2 Blood Rain and wait for a Switch 2 port if the 1st port is good.

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TalkBack / Re: Onimusha, Dragon's Dogma, Devil May Cry 5 Coming To Switch This Year

« on: June 10, 2026, 06:25:05 AM »

Strange they skipped DMC4 for the Switch (2) and went to DMC5

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Serves Up October 22 Release

« on: June 10, 2026, 06:18:55 AM »

I got a good laugh solely from watching a random youtube video on the history and death of Wuhu Island last month only to see it come back right away.

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TalkBack / Re: Kingdom Hearts I-III Collection & Kingdom Hearts IV Coming to Nintendo Switch 2

« on: June 10, 2026, 06:07:00 AM »

Glad to see the expected cloud games turning native switch 2 games and the unexpected announcement of 4. Time to finally get into Kingdom Hearts and see what I've been missing.

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TalkBack / Re: Final Fantasy X And X-2 Receiving Native Switch 2 Version July 23

« on: June 10, 2026, 06:01:28 AM »

I was already going to be out of luck since I bought the Japanese cartridge anyway to have X-2 physically years ago.

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TalkBack / Re: Zelda 40th Anniversary Release Is Ocarina Of Time, Launching This Year

« on: June 10, 2026, 05:42:24 AM »

I really don't like the design of Link. He looks like Hobbit crossed with a Disney character that feels uncanny to look at... Well to be fair, I also didn't like the design in the 3DS remake but that went away very fast once I started playing it.

I hope they really pack meat on the good bones that is OoT and fill every area with new side quests, MM style character stories/arcs/events, things to discover every time you visit, Malon courting to marriage side story, a Light dungeon, and fill Hyrule field with life and action. Alternatively they might go FF VII route and completely change how the story unfolds which means this is OoT - Bad End timeline. If it's the latter, I want all new dungeons and mechanics so it can stand on it's own.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch Pricing In United States To Be Adjusted Starting Sunday As Canadian Increases St

« on: August 02, 2025, 05:07:43 AM »

With the prices of consoles everywhere else going up due to inflation, I guess it was a matter of time before they couldn't hold out in the US any longer. But it still leaves a bad taste for an old console to go up in price. The least they could do is raise the price $50 but then give back $50 in eshop credit.

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General Chat / Re: NWR Data Question

« on: June 01, 2025, 01:32:11 PM »

You mean 5269 guests don't have a burning interest on NWR's size?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2

« on: June 01, 2025, 06:40:18 AM »

There's new news about the Switch 2 hacking that has me very concerned. There was a story making the rounds a bit ago about a new EULA saying Nintendo has the right to brick systems if they are modified but most people seem to have written that off as ass covering over system updates breaking stuff after loading custom firmware. But it seems to have been actually literal. Putting a Mig cart into the system bricks the Switch 2. Not pops up an error message, not a forced shut down/reset, but an actual unrecoverable brick. Probing the flash memory chip will brick the console too. If anything causes the voltage to fluctuate slightly, the Switch 2 will assume hacking and brick itself. 

I've had carts on the switch 1 randomly give an error message for no reason that I had to eject and reinsert, will the switch 2 just self destruct? If the switch 2 gets wet or dirty or humid, will it self destruct? If a spider gets inside and bridges the memory lines, self destruct? Cosmic rays and radiation, self destruct. I wanted to get a 1st revision Switch 2 but now I'm delaying it indefinitely to see how horribly this blows up in Nintendo's face.

Edit: MVG says it's bunk. We'll see in a week.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will you be willing to buy Virtual Game Cards, or would go all digital instead?

« on: June 01, 2025, 06:06:09 AM »

I'm 97.56% physical with the switch 1 and have an SD with 750+GBs of mostly updates & downloads for the physical games. Key cards requiring downloading isn't that much of an issue for me other than the fact that SD express cards are going to run out of space fast unless Nintendo lets you archive games to a hard drive. But I'm worried about the warning about magnets for game-key cards if they won't decay in a few years time....

Having all my game digitally on the system is nice but I rather wait for someone to softmod the system and dump the physical games like I've already did with my Wii/3DS.

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TalkBack / Re: Donkey Kong Bananza Announced for Switch 2

« on: April 03, 2025, 08:21:23 PM »

The rock and gem motifs gives me a Goron game vibes more than DK.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Adding Switch 2 Exclusive GameCube Library

« on: April 03, 2025, 08:13:51 PM »

Hopefully this will breath new life into the Chibi-Robo IP

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches at $449.99 USD, £395.99, ¥49,980, and 469,99 €

« on: April 03, 2025, 06:01:34 AM »

I REALLY don't like the sounds of a "Japan Only" system. I know the Yen is very weak but this will cause problems in the future. I hope it's not a hardware lock and especially hope there aren't games released only for Japan Only systems. If Nintendo was smart, they will sell 20,000 Yen upgrades for Japan Only systems to unlock Multi-Language operation by flashing the operating system (and adjusts the pricing downwards as Yen improves in strength).

I don't like $80 price for games but $80 in 2025 is $59.52 in 2015 and $48.24 in 2005 so it's not unexpected. Inflation marches on....

Console pricing is way above inflation but who knows whether it's because they're being forced by outside factors or if they're trying to close the gap between what people will pay to get it day one and the sales price to cut out resellers.

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TalkBack / Re: Multiple Switch Games To Receive Switch 2 Updates

« on: April 03, 2025, 05:46:35 AM »

These are probably the canceled "Switch Pro" enhancements that aren't major enough to justified charging for. Like more stable frame rates and resolution (for the games the dynamically scale down) but not 4K 60fps. BotW and TotK probably had enhancements made as well but I doubt they will undermine the sales of the upgrade by releasing them.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Switch 2: Welcome Tour Launches Digitally Alongside Switch 2

« on: April 03, 2025, 05:41:32 AM »

Charging money for this is absolutely insane. Nintendo is making the same mistake as they did when they didn't include Nintendo Land + Game & Wario as free bundled in games for the Wii U. At the very least, it should be free for the first year or first two Christmas seasons. In fact, that would work even better as more people would download it from FOMO and then have it on their system to show off the Switch 2 with leading to free organic advertising.

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TalkBack / Re: Full List of Nintendo Switch Accessories Not Compatible with Switch 2 Revealed

« on: April 03, 2025, 05:31:48 AM »

Make sense since the new adapter is (rumored) to be 65W vs the 40W one that came with the Switch.

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TalkBack / Re: Switch 2 Only Supports Newer Micro SD Express Format for Expanded Storage

« on: April 03, 2025, 05:15:23 AM »

I was expecting SD cards to still work for Switch 1 games like HDDs still work for PS5/XBX but I guess this helps eliminate confusion of what to buy for the Switch 2 for nontechnical shoppers.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch 2

« on: January 17, 2025, 05:00:36 AM »

Odd that they are censoring the new "C" button on the joycon2. A lot of leakers are hinting that it's the Switch 2's biggest gimmick and no one has guessed it yet.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Reveals Switch 2

« on: January 16, 2025, 12:56:33 PM »

The trailer would have been cooler if it was released late last December before literally everything inside of it leaked out. Also doesn't bode well for Nintendo's relationship with 3rd parties as a ton of companies wanted to show off Switch 2 accessories at CES and Nintendo didn't even release this then to accommodate them.

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TalkBack / Re: Idea Factory Cancels Four Localizations Citing Contents

« on: December 13, 2024, 05:12:40 PM »

What the hell, Sony has been the ones that had the more censorship for PS4 releases, why reverse it? I was looking forward to Death End re;Quest Z too....

From what I hear, the Neptunia Rebirth ports are laughably broken. Odd that NOA is blocking them and not the original Japanese release.

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TalkBack / Re: It's Happening: Xenoblade Chronicles X To Be Remastered In March 2025

« on: October 31, 2024, 04:29:46 AM »

I tried to play XCX but gave up after just a few minutes from the text being too annoyingly small on my CRT or WiiU tablet. Backlogged it until the day I have a massive 100"+ TV to actually make out the text. Hopefully the switch version makes it more playable for people without scanning electron microscope eyes.

I was hoping this would be a switch 2 launch window remake. Actually kinda disappointed by this.

Rumor has it there will be a lot of these 1st/2nd/3rd party remasters and ports filling the gap between now and when Nintendo can start releasing its heavy hitting games for the switch 2 which might be a while beyond launch. I don't expect any of them to be switch 2 exclusive unless they're a port that had no chance of running on the switch but many of them should be switch 2 enhanced.