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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Star Fox (Switch 2)

« Last post by M.K.Ultra on June 29, 2026, 05:17:31 PM »

My physical copy from the Nintendo store did arrive on release day. The game was packed in a rather large cardboard box, but in better shape than some of the games that come shipped in bubble mailers. Still need to finish Yoshi before starting it up but should be flying around in July.

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TalkBack / Re: Rapidly Analyzing The United States’s 200 Best Selling N64 Games

« Last post by Stratos on June 29, 2026, 04:17:19 PM »

I have one. Grabbed it off eBay for pretty cheap in that time before rampant reprogrammed fakes and inflated retro prices. Also got Harvest Moon 64 at the same time. Like $20 for each of them. Also have a unopened copy of Rayman 2 I bough for like $5 on Amazon and forgot about. I should sell that one. Don't need to open it to play and it's probably worth a pretty penny.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What's Next For The N64 Expansion Pack?

« Last post by Khushrenada on June 29, 2026, 04:07:20 AM »

LOL! Let's get Rare to also finish development on Donkey Kong Racing and add that to the Switch Online GC library. They can finally fulfill that long-time promise still showing on the back of my GameCube's box. It's not like Rare's got anything else to do with Everwild cancelled. Since Microsoft can't really seem to manufacture much stock for consoles with rising RAM prices, might as well just get their studios to work on making software for the other systems with higher install bases.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What's Next For The N64 Expansion Pack?

« Last post by Stratos on June 29, 2026, 02:56:38 AM »

I think the Gamecube Dinosaur Planet is more likely to drop, what with Rare games trickling onto the system and the new interst in Starfox in general.

It would be cool to see ome of these old games like OG Dinosaur Planet get a second like in some fashion since they were fairly different from the final product.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What's Next For The N64 Expansion Pack?

« Last post by Mop it up on June 28, 2026, 11:22:56 AM »

You know what would be really cool is if they actually released Dinosaur Planet onto this thang! Although, I s'pose this may not be possible as-is, because I don't think it ever got to a completed state like Star Fox 2 did. Maybe Rare would be willing to play ball and hand the rights back over to Playtonic Games so they can finally finish it up as intended.

Yeah yeah yeah I know it ain't gonna happen but let me dream here!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What's Next For The N64 Expansion Pack?

« Last post by broodwars on June 28, 2026, 10:32:38 AM »

Since we got Turok 1 and 2, I would think 3 is also on the table at some point. There's actually good reason to put it on here, as the remaster totally axed the multiplayer mode. It would also be nice to see Turok Rage Wars, which will likely not see a remaster.

Why no remaster of Rage Wars likely?

Consider how many people in the world likely care about the Turok games. Now consider the subset of THAT that care about a mostly MP-only spin-off. And you're going to have to build online into the game and host servers for that remaster to have any value whatsoever, since local shooter MP seems to be something only the Halo community cares about these days. The numbers just don't add up to the project being worthwhile.

Frankly, it's something of a miracle that we even got pretty good remasters of the original 3.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What's Next For The N64 Expansion Pack?

« Last post by Stratos on June 28, 2026, 02:53:31 AM »

Since we got Turok 1 and 2, I would think 3 is also on the table at some point. There's actually good reason to put it on here, as the remaster totally axed the multiplayer mode. It would also be nice to see Turok Rage Wars, which will likely not see a remaster.

I was so disappointed the remake/remaster/up-port of T2 did not have local multiplayer. It killed a lot fo my interest in the games being redone.

Why no remaster of Rage Wars likely?

ALSO YES PLEASE to all the other ones you listed. I have a soft spot for a lot of the more "niche" titles from N64.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Star Fox (Switch 2)

« Last post by Stratos on June 28, 2026, 02:42:48 AM »

Are we switch friends? I'm pumped to play some.

Hey if any of you see me online, I will drop everything if you shoot over an invite to Star Fox Battle Mode. I used to dream about playing Star Fox online with this community and now we have a worthwhile online mode to play. Command just wasn’t it. Also if anyone discovers any strategy to stay out of the line of fire please tell me. I feel like a sitting duck half the time.

I actually got a bit of decision paralysis with route options for my first run. Ended up deciding to go for the "Miyamoto route" but couldn't bear to fail Bill. It didn't matter because I messed up sector X so now I'm on Macbeth.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What's Next For The N64 Expansion Pack?

« Last post by broodwars on June 26, 2026, 07:09:17 PM »

On that note, who currently owns Midway's properties? We need the Rush games to return! Though this one would be complicated if they didn't emulate the Controller Pak.

I would imagine the first stop for those rights would be Warner Bros., since WB bought Midway back in their Mortal Kombat days. Who knows where the rights are now, though. Atari's been scooping up the rights to all sorts of obscure games these days. I wonder if WB still owns the publishing rights to stuff like the Shadow Hearts series that Midway owned back in the day.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: What's Next For The N64 Expansion Pack?

« Last post by Mop it up on June 26, 2026, 12:06:46 PM »

Since we got Turok 1 and 2, I would think 3 is also on the table at some point. There's actually good reason to put it on here, as the remaster totally axed the multiplayer mode. It would also be nice to see Turok Rage Wars, which will likely not see a remaster.

Nintendo published Tetrisphere, and they've been willing to re-licence the Tetris name on Game Boy. Get this one too!

Bomberman 64 and Bomberman Hero were on the Virtual Console, hopefully Konami would be willing to play ball and allow them on here as well. It'd be nice to also see Bomberman 64 2 join them.

Unfortunately, one barrier for third-party games is that Nintendo still refuse to emulate the Controller Pak. This could pose a problem for any game that would require loading a save for any reason, or for games that allowed each player to load their own save off their Pak. Even Bomberman 64 loses access to the Custom Bomberman feature without it.

What's the deal with the rights to the Cruis'n series? Cruis'n USA was on the Virtual Console, yeah they're not great but it'd still be neat to see the dumb fun of all three games on here.

On that note, who currently owns Midway's properties? We need the Rush games to return! Though this one would be complicated if they didn't emulate the Controller Pak.