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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: February 09, 2019, 09:10:21 PM »

lol. 13 million hits. So, I got my website

www.Rtoob.com

 but I haven't programmed it. 90s design is retro and refreshing.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 08, 2019, 07:13:53 PM »

I don't like either of the two designs. Why does the Vita looking one have a camera on it? The Switch doesn't have a camera.

We might see a smaller Switch at some point, but it wont be a major redesign.

I always thought it was odd the switch didn't have a camera. The wiiu and the ds line had cameras. One thing I was sort of burned by being an earlier adopter of the fat DS was that the DSi had a camera. Which, was awesome. One way to make something feel more like an upgrade is to leave something out...like a camera, HDD support, HD portably, a decent headset configuration, Netflix.

Maybe the hand grip is what you put it in to connect to the tv.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 07, 2019, 08:17:24 PM »

vita was a 5 inch display. Switch is a 6.2 inch display. 3ds XL was 4.2 inches. If it was a 5.75 inch display and the resolution was bumped up to 1080p the shrink in size would be a wash. Wii u was also 6.2 inches.

If it was a clam shell design you could possibly make the screen bigger.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Animal Crossing, what's soo good about the game?

« on: February 07, 2019, 01:55:57 PM »

Talking Cats. Muff said

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 07, 2019, 02:40:18 AM »

Maybe it'll look like this?

I probably should move the home and record buttons closer to the camera.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 06, 2019, 02:46:51 PM »

I like the subtitle SP. That way they're going to their archive of Plus names without the appearance of copying Sony.

Also, if it exists Nintendo of America hasn't found out about it yet.

I bet they would call it something redundant like Switch Portable though.


It is possible they jump to x2 chips, which would allow them to do dock mode on the go with low power consumption.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 06, 2019, 04:30:49 AM »

I imagine a switch mini as looking identical to a PSP, but more Nintendo-y. Maybe no Stand, just a dongle.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 05, 2019, 07:41:09 PM »

I always imagined a Gameboy phone. Why let Samsung and Apple have all the fun?



And I made that one a few years ago. One thing I don't like about phones is how fucking bitchass they are. The OG Gameboy was a rugged machine. I'd probably make it more rugged than this.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 05, 2019, 05:32:14 PM »

I'd be really interested in a Dual Screen Switch or DSS that plays Switch and 3ds/ds/gba/gameboy games. ULTIMATE BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY. Though the likelihood of that is low. A Virtual Console for that is more likely.

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General Chat / Re: The NBA Thread: Congrats to the Warriors on winning the 2018-19 NBA Finals

« on: February 05, 2019, 05:04:39 PM »

So, I haven't payed attention to NBA since 2006-2007. I'm a fair weather Suns fan. What teams are good now? I know the Golden State Warriors are good, the clippers were good, but who's worth paying attention to now?

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General Gaming / Re: Resident Evil... 2... Remake!

« on: February 04, 2019, 10:37:58 PM »

The games with Leon are usually good.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Switch port begging thread

« on: February 04, 2019, 07:10:44 PM »

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18210199/microsoft-xbox-live-ios-android-switch-cross-platform

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/04/what-does-xbox-live-on-switch-mobile-actually-mean

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General Chat / Re: So I built an arcade cabinet (cross pots from General Gaming, sue me)...

« on: February 03, 2019, 01:39:08 PM »

The color scheme is really good for it.

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General Chat / Re: So I built an arcade cabinet (cross pots from General Gaming, sue me)...

« on: February 03, 2019, 12:32:18 AM »

Are you putting a Polybius logo in?

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: I'm not making it up, it's in the NEWZ, DEWD.

« on: February 02, 2019, 04:07:14 PM »

What a way to unite the nation but to dig up the vicious zombie of race relations and unleash it. Right on schedule.

Mars is looking really good right now. No history of people there. I hope the Zombie is never shipped to Mars.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Switch Revision

« on: February 01, 2019, 07:23:57 PM »

As far as upgrades to the hardware. How big a leap is it really? You can play Doom on Switch but you can't play it 1080p. I wouldn't imagine upgrading the chip from x1 to x2 is as big of a leap from Gameboy to Gameboy Color, or GBA and GBA SP.

 It was speculated 2 years ago that Nintendo might have gone with x2 at the time, but the chip was too new and probably too expensive at the time, and there was maybe some production logistics difficulties, but 2 years have passed. Putting a newer chip in the system might be something nVidia wants. It might not even be cost prohibitive. That is probably the biggest factor. I also don't think that "hard generations" will continue to exist. One of the best thing Nintendo can do is maximize backwards and forward compatibility. If they have minor upgrades to the Switch line every 2 years then they can maintain the Switch line for years and years.

How often do iphones come out? The first iphone came out in 2007. There has been a new iphone to come out every 1.3 years. In the long run how can anyone compete with that? The only thing Nintendo offers over cellphones/tablets is superior games and controls and a decent price. I can't see that being a totally permanent thing though. Upgrading asap might be the only right strategic move. You hear youtube channels praising the switch now and lauding it for it's amazing sales, but I can imagine 2 years from now the same people talking about how terrible it always was and how it was a flop. Nintendo like many other tech companies has to deal with the Silicon Valley mentality of the industry. Even if that mentality is batshit stupid.

Though, one wonders about the reset of Metroid Prime 4. Maybe it was a game being designed for 2 compatibilities and then dropped. Maybe there really was a Switch+ that was quietly cancelled behind the scenes.

As I said earlier, we are due for a revision, but they may solely make a cheaper system. Nintendo is in this weird position where any sign of bad news causes their stock to plummet. "Oh so we sold 17 million this year instead of 20 million" **** like that freaks out investors when it shouldn't. If we don't hear about a revision I can imagine hearing about a big price drop soon. We also might hear about a price drop in the next month. If there is a revision they might hold off the announcement to an e3 timed Nintendo direct. Though, we might not even hear about anything like that even at e3. Nintendo has been lowing the leading time between announcement and release. Especially for revisions. 30-40 days at the most is their current operating procedure.

As for me. I've been holding off buying a Switch until the revision hits. I bought a GBA and when GBA SP came out I was sort of burned. Same with DS and DS Lite.  With handhelds I find it best not to be an early adopter.

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Nintendo Gaming / Nintendo Switch Lite and Future Revisions

« on: February 01, 2019, 06:10:03 AM »

I predict the Revision will come out on July 19, 2019 - July 21, 2019 if early

or more likely October 12 - 13, 2019

It hasn't been announced. Only rumored. However, we're due for a revision

Gameboy Generation


Gameboy-------- April 21, 1989 Friday
Gameboy PIL --- March 20, 1995 Monday
Gameboy Pocket  July 21, 1996 Sunday

2282/3 = 760



Second Half 90s Generation

Virtual Boy --- July 21, 1995 Friday
Gameboy light - April 4, 1998 Saturday
Gameboy Color - October 21, 1998 Wednesday

2070/3 = 690



GBA Generation

GBA ----------- March 21, 2001 Wednesday
GBA SP -------- February 14, 2003 Friday
GBA Micro ----- September 13, 2005 Tuesday

1341/3 = 447


DS Generation

DS ------------ November 21, 2004 Sunday
DS lite-------- March 2, 2006 Thursday
DSi ----------- November 1, 2008 Saturday
DSiXL --------- June 9, 2010 Wednesday

2288/3 = 762


3ds Generation

3ds ----------- February 26, 2011 Saturday
3dsxl---------- July 28, 2012 Saturday
2ds ----------- October 12, 2013 Saturday
1323/3 = 441



Mini New  generation
New 3ds ------- October 11, 2014 Saturday 
New 2ds xl ---- July 13, 2017 Thursday
874/2 = 437


Switch Generation

Nintendo Switch March 3, 2017 Friday   


Average = 589.5

I hear rumors of both an upgraded and a mini switch. It could be both. Either the upgraded switch will be mini, it will simply be smaller, or they'll split the system into 3 SKUs: Original, Cheap Mini, and $300 Upgrade.

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Movies & TV / Re: Hey! DC's got stuff too... (Official Thread for the DCU of Movies and TV)

« on: February 01, 2019, 12:45:16 AM »

The Batman is set for 2021 now...

Batman Vs Superman came out in 2016. When we originally were getting excited for the movie was like 5 or 6 years ago. These DC movies come out really slow.

Ben Affleck will not be Batman. Sad, because when it was announced that Ben Affleck would be Batman I was pretty jazzed because The Town was pretty good and he'd be directing his own movie.

Man of Steel came out in 2013 and it was started in 2009.

Since 2008 there have been 21 MCU films and 6 DCEU films. 7 if Green Lantern had counted. 9 if Justice League and BVS had been intelligently been broken into multiple movies. At least Wonder Women 2, Joker, Shazam, and Suicide Squad 2 sound good.

Birds of Prey looks like a photoshoot.

Also why was Steppenwolf done in CG? It makes no sense.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: January 30, 2019, 05:43:07 PM »

The Simpsons is still on.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: January 29, 2019, 07:05:54 PM »

They should have called it "That Marvel Show"

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General Chat / Re: et tu, Toys R Us? Retail getting hit pretty hard lately thread

« on: January 28, 2019, 10:33:47 PM »

I knew k-mart was sketchy when they closed the electronics section at a certain time of day and left the rest of the store open. Did they not want my money?

What is really strange is K-mart was clearly better than Wal-mart where I lived for a while. Then it just went downhill.

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Movies & TV / Re: IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE!! [OT] for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Movies & TV)

« on: January 28, 2019, 03:52:46 AM »

Seriously they need to not have fucking time limits for these award shows. That music **** kills the fucking show. The Superbowl doesn't get a time limit. I spend more time caring about movies than football.

Amazing that award shows haven't been updated. You got these amazing actors who do great work. Write for them. I think instead of having people go on stage to present awards they should produce segments that introduce the winner. The winner still goes on stage and accepts the award, but the presenters need to be breaking bad level entertaining.

Nintendo has really changed how I perceive presentations.  Nintendo directs are top of the line presentations. They've come a long way since sending VHS tapes to your house.

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TalkBack / Re: Metroid Prime 4 Development Rebooted: Now Retro Studios Project

« on: January 26, 2019, 06:26:50 PM »

As far as developing assets go. I don't see the point of starting over completely from scratch. There should be a giant asset base to use from the previous developments. The only thing Retro really should be doing is writing code, and creating new animations at this point.

Whenever I get a new computer I'll restart development of the game I was working on. I pretty much cloned the gameplay of Metroid prime, but I want the environments to be procedural generated like Minecraft. That's one thing I liked about 2d metroid was the greater ability to bomb rocks and find secrets. One thing I like about procedural generation is every-time you play the game it is different. You never know what world you're exploring. Animal crossing had an interesting procedural generation as well. I imagine you could program a game that has dungeons and items to get, but they're not always in the same location.

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TalkBack / Re: Metroid Prime 4 Development Rebooted: Now Retro Studios Project

« on: January 25, 2019, 09:40:39 PM »

There is no such thing as wasted development time. If you don't develop the games then you still develop the artists.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Name That Movie

« on: January 21, 2019, 05:07:31 PM »

The Joker argues with H.I. about some questionable sales in a remote location.