Nintendo Switch

[CraigM]

Despite having a Gamecube, I never played Sunshine. Which is weird, since I have played damn near every single other mainline Mario game ever made, going back to playing the original when I was about 5 at a friends house. I think the somewhat poor reception at the time kept me away.

[Ultrazen]

@CraigM

Do I really want to spend $60 to engage in nostalgia

Don’t destroy the beautiful Vaseline smeared lens of nostalgia, with the HD ugliness of reality.

[WhollySchmidt]

Alright, ordered a physical copy from Walmart for $52. Maybe I’ll just leave it sealed for a few months and eBay it if Galaxy gets released separately. Maybe I’ll just keep it and end up liking Mario Sunshine too, who knows!?

[Mellified]

@ArmandoPenblade

My GameCube and Wii are both in very poor shape.

If you have an original GameCube it’s very easy to get an HDMI adapter for it.

[ArmandoPenblade]

Doesn’t do anything about the very concerning noise it makes while spinning up the disc drive after years of being lugged around between half a dozen friends’ houses and dorms plus back and forth across the country, though!

[Mellified]

I got one of these.

GC Loader PnP – GC Loader: a DVD Drive Replacement for Nintendo GameCube

[ArmandoPenblade]

Damn, the internet has everything, don’t they?

[Rock8man]

I think today’s the last day you can buy Super Mario 3D All-Stars. (Or second last day?)

Mario 3D All-Stars sales soar as mascot's day of execution looms

[Andy_Bates]

It should be available through tomorrow, the 31st. I have no idea what exact time that means though, so don’t wait until midnight!

[Intuitionist]

Is anyone going to make a memorial thread for the death of Mario tomorrow?

[Rock8man]

@Andy_Bates

It should be available through tomorrow, the 31st. I have no idea what exact time that means though, so don’t wait until midnight!

Sigh.

I have to decide soon after I get home from work today I guess. My instinct says no. I already have two of them. Is it really worth it for Sunshine? Arrrgh. Surely not.

[ArmandoPenblade]

But Sunshine is SO good though

[Rock8man]

Arrrrgh. Damn you.

Ok, $65 spent. Now the code can sit in my email until I finally own a Switch Pro.

[Left_Empty]

A Switch what?

[Rock8man]

A hypothetical upgraded Switch with an OLED screen and 4K upscaling!

According to rumors.

[Left_Empty]

Oh, haha, PS Vita fetishists delusional dreams and incapcity to tell why Nintendo is successful (possibly:selling 30 bucks of plastic for 10x that price)

[LockerK]

The Split Pad Pro was discussed in the Monster Hunter thread (and maybe here as well). If you play a large amount/exclusively in handheld mode you’re doing yourself a disservice if you don’t own one. One downside is that they don’t have HD Rumble and a handful of other features you probably don’t care about (NFC, IR, gyro).

Amazon.com: Hori Nintendo Switch Split Pad Pro (Black) Ergonomic Controller for...

Such a huge improvement over the joycons for Mario 64. Haven’t got to the other games in the collection yet.

[CLWheeljack]

@LockerK

One downside is that they don’t have HD Rumble and a handful of other features you probably don’t care about (NFC, IR, gyro).

Haha, i totally forget that joycons have rumble. I disabled it the first time I played the switch on public transport, and haven’t turned it on since.

[Thraeg]

@LockerK

One downside is that they don’t have HD Rumble and a handful of other features you probably don’t care about (NFC, IR, gyro).

Also, one feature that I do care about: they don’t support the system-level button remapping. For a while I changed my pro controller to swap X<>Y and A<>B to match the Xbox button layout and be a bit easier on my muscle memory. But I had to put it back because I couldn’t do the same change on the Hori pad.

It’s a testament to how much more comfortable the Hori pad is that I’m still using it rather than going back to joy-cons in handheld mode so I could make the buttons work the same.

[abrandt]

They really do make a terrible sound when they rumble.