For posterity, I made a YouTube comment for this video, and I want to copy it here. You can watch the video here… if you want: I hate this video. Not because it tries to debunk the whole “it was not cheaper in the past” argument because I’m really glad we’re on the same page and I think this argument was never really good to begin with. I just hate how this video is…
Oh boy. I have a lot to say regarding the Switch 2, how Nintendo is handling it, and how people are handling it. When it comes to the Switch 2 system as I see it, I am actually fairly content of what it is. You can criticize certain aspects like the HOME Menu, the games actually speak deeply to me in general, it would definitely be a system that I would very happy with as far as I’m…
I asked if I should write a post with my dreams about the Switch 2, because really, if I wrote about predictions, I’ll be honest, it’d be some of the unexciting things you’d read probably everywhere so I will actually avoid them. We’re here for cool things, not 200% predictable stuff. And unlike a lot of people: When I say predictions, it’s not me putting a dream…
As of this writing, we’re a few days after the March 2025 Nintendo Direct, and a few days before the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct of April 2025, and in the last Direct, Nintendo announced a new optional feature that will apply to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 systems starting late April 2025. This feature is the Virtual Game Cards. Many people got confused about it, and to be honest, so was I initially.…
I know I shouldn’t be bothered for this, but seeing reactions from press and people just somewhat made me angry. There are definitely things to say in how Nintendo may not have revealed enough for sure, like, don’t get me wrong about it, I think that’s the part that could be debated the most, but I think it’s not really worth debating about that too much. I don’t…
Probably not the final post in relation to the N64 emulator on Switch, but we did get a bunch of new information thanks to a new leak of iQue emails not too long ago. Somehow the gigaleak continued, it seems. There’s a ton of emails in relation to game localization of first party Switch games, but I won’t talk about those, there’s also tons of stuff in relation to Wii U VC and…
Today, as of the writing of this post, saw the addition of F-Zero GP Legend & F-Zero Climax on GBA NSO, two great games, and one of them finally officially available worldwide, even if untranslated. Putting aside the annoyance that F-Zero Climax is untranslated, on which I still think Nintendo should seriously consider translating some of their retro titles, I want to talk about a real…
F-Zero 99 is the best thing that happened to Nintendo Switch Online. I’m not gonna say it any other way, it’s been a bit more than a year, and I have 153 hours. This game is top 2 of my most played games (just under Splatoon 3 which has 253 hours). I was one of the people who was down for this idea since the moment Pyoro teased it and when Nintendo announced it in the September 2023…
I figured this stuff should be part of a post because I think it’s an interesting thing to talk about. As of the last few updates, I started to notice some changes to the NES and SNES emulators specifically, particularly related to emulation of accessories. NES Four Score If you don’t know what the NES Four Score is, it’s an accessory that allows you to play the NES up to 4…
I finished Emio. It’s definitely a Famicom Detective Club game, through and through, for the good and the bad. If anything the 18+ is almost a red herring on what you might think the game is like if you never played those remakes. The 18+ rating is definitely warranted, but it’s almost unfair how it might make you think the game is very mature when it’s still very light hearted…
I have been very critical of Nintendo 64 - Nintendo Switch Online since the beginning, not only the very noticeably broken graphics emulation was certainly a case that everyone understood, but it did certainly make me completely avoid the Expansion Pack subscription entirely for a year because that was genuinely shit in 2021. Now how is it in 2024? Well, it’s not that much better. They did…
So a bunch of patents from Nintendo recently got published and got my attention: They are related to the retro Nintendo Switch Online service and how it works and it brings a bit of an interesting view of it, with features that are DEFINITELY not inside the apps as of now. As I went through them, I decided to also go back a little bit to earlier ones. Just in case, for every reader: At no point…
This is by no means a decision that I took on a whim. I am genuinely sad that it came to be this way, I’ve been involved in this stuff for a genuinely long time, I’ve seen many things, met many great people, also the bad and stupid dramas, which shouldn’t really be discounted either, even though this was not the kind of thing that affected my decision. I have no regrets on how I…
In sort of a response to the Ubisoft director of subscriptions where he said that we need to get more confortable not owning games… Well, reading that interview from GamesIndustry.biz , turns out he never really said that. It’s more of an observation of the gaming subscription services, and comparing different views. It’s actually a pretty interesting read. But the negative…
This is essentially going to be not much of a post but I guess I could talk about a few things about its future since with all the updates that we got since last time. We’ll talk about UI code, Pokémon, NES, Fire Emblem and N64. UI code upgrade Literally the next day since my last post about it, on March 16th, Nintendo added new NES, SNES and GB titles. Under the hood, they did do a massive…
As a reminder, Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator, had announced a release of a Steam version using features from Steam like cloud save, Steam Deck native support and all. A couple of days ago, Dolphin’s Steam page was pulled down, then Dolphin’s official blog mentioned a DMCA takedown, and PC Gamer reported on it, quoting the DMCA. Then we all went a bit crazy over this, then…
So I spoke recently of a datamine I made from the GBA NSO 1.1.0 update that added Metroid Fusion, and due to my lack of communication skills, I did not really put all of the information that should be known, so let’s talk about it a bit better, and while I’m at it, talk about Link Cable support in general in those apps. Link cable is already working! First of all, Link cable support is…
I’ve talked about a lot of things about this service, on Twitter, on Tumblr, but also a lot on Discord, but I have been thinking about a post where I could put all the accumulated information that I’ve gotten over the years through datamining and leaks. Here’s a post about all the little things that you may not know about the retro service of Nintendo Switch Online. Identifiers…
I wanna talk a little bit about the rerelease of GoldenEye 007, the little context and also something I noticed during my research. GoldenEye 007 has finally got rereleased on January 27th 2023 on both the Nintendo Switch Online service, Xbox Game Pass and as a digital Rare Replay update. See more after the break. Emulation quality Both the Switch and Xbox versions are confirmed emulated and not…
The Launch Details of the 64DD This was originally published on 64dd.org on October 15th, 2021. There’s a lot of confusion about the release and price of the 64DD and what was the Randnet service about, so it’s time to talk about that, because it is more interesting than you think. More info after the break. Original Plans Nintendo had announced the 64DD in 1995, the Nintendo 64 hadn’t even come…