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Much like Dungeons and Dragons capcom arcade game was ported to wii u, I think this should be ported to Switch. Think about it: switch owners can meet in the street and using the joycons have 4 people play co-op. Since the battery life of the switch isn't very long this could be the perfect train ride game you play daily on the public transport or while you wait for your appointment at the doctor.
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Time sega got off their butt and actually tap into old retro franchises they let die off.

It is such a shame these companies want to focus so much on 8-bit retro but not 16-32 bit retro stuff. Nothing against Wonderboy, just want to see the beat em ups get some ports.
Never got chance to play Arabian Fight or Revenge of Death Adder back in the day because the arcade didn't have the games.

another arcade beat em up that was never at my arcade (up to 3 players at once) :(
With the joy cons acting as two controllers these arcade games are perfect game to play with a buddy on the couch or on the street. (kickstand mode)
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Splatoon’s Australia and New Zealand Cup could win you a trip to E3

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Nintendo has detailed the Splatoon Australia and New Zealand Cup (brought to you by the Australian eSports League), a competition that could net tickets to E3 in Los Angeles for you and three friends.

Teams of four will take part in one of two online heats, with the winners of each squaring off in a live event for total glory. Each heat winner will net a trip to E3 in Los Angeles for the World Cup finals alongside a Nintendo Switch console. Not a bad day’s work, eh?

The competition takes place this April. You can register here (http://www.nintendo.com.au/the-aunz-201 ... -for-grabs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) — registration closes at 11pm AEDT on 29 March. Entrants must be 17 years of age or older.

Splatoon is currently available on Wii U. Splatoon 2 heads to Nintendo Switch this year; a Global Testfire demo event is scheduled for this weekend.
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Looks like pc version of botw is coming along nicely.

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Combat works fine, exploration and the world's physics systems appear to function correctly, you can enter and solve Shrine puzzle dungeons, you can use the game's rune powers correctly... the list goes on.
Where the CEMU team previously estimated Zelda would take months to finish, it now appears like the game is ahead of schedule.
Looking forward to spending this winter playing the superior PC version of the most overrated game ever! :up:

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Have fun waiting for your glitchy mess of a game with audio problems, animation errors, controller problems, broken textures, etc. By the time it's up and running at 12fps, I would have already moved on from BotW to the likes of Splatoon 2, ARMS & Super Mario Odyssey! :lol:

For the rest of y'all, if you're playing Zelda...you MUST read this!!! :up:

IGN have put together a comprehensive list of 100 tidbits about BotW that you may not know about (and boy, there's a lot that seriously have blown my mind and I look forward to experiencing and trying it out in the game). :shock:
100 LITTLE THINGS IN ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a triumphant achievement in world design and free-form, physics-based gameplay. In a radical departure from Nintendo's tightly scripted roots, this sandbox world simply sets up the rules, and confidently lets creative players bend those rules to their own will.

Combining that complete player freedom with Nintendo's legendary level of polish, attention to detail, and plenty of "I can't believe they thought of that" magic moments result in a game unlike anything else we've ever played.

Below are 100 mind-blowing "tiny things" that make this vision of Hyrule such a compelling, amazing world to lose ourselves in.

1) If you throw a rusty weapon at some Octoroks, they will suck it up and spit back out a cleaned, new weapon.

2) You can survive in cold environments without elixirs or warm clothes just by equipping a Fire Rod or a torch.

Image

3) The temperature in the desert is lower in the shade than it is in the sun.

4) Killing animals in very hot or very cold climates will give you meat that’s already cooked or chilled instead of raw meat.

5) If you use boulders, Cryonis, or other tricks to lift or dislodge an old rusted guardian you’ll find more ancient materials underneath it.

6) If you befriend dogs at stables they’ll sometimes lead you to buried treasure chests.

7) If you feed your horse an Endura Carrot it will have more dash charges when you mount it.

8 ) You can ride a bear. And a moose. And a deer. And… (See a full list of Breath of the Wild mounts here.)

Image

9) You can (very briefly) mount and ride a Lynel. They don’t like it very much.

10) You can ride an enemy’s skeletal undead horse.

11) If you try to take said horse to a stable to board it, the employees will freak out and not allow you to.

12) Link has a custom flexing idle animation if he doesn’t have a shirt equipped.

Image

13) If you throw a boomerang at a Lizalfos, their weapon of choice, they’ll just catch it and use it against you.

14) If you drop raw meat on the ground on Death Mountain, it’ll instantly turn into steak.

15) You can break the ice blocks bosses thrown at you with Cryonis — no need to spend all your arrows.

16) If you disarm a tough enemy and drop a leaf or other weak weapon in front of them, they’ll pick it up and use it.

17) If you shoot a Hinox’s single eye two times he’ll start shielding it with his hand, making the fight more challenging.

18) If you crawl onto a sleeping Hinox’s hand he’ll eventually lift you onto his belly to scratch himself. Then if you’re careful you can loot their necklace without fighting them.

19) You can burn off a Hinox’s leg armor to do more damage to it with your weapons.

20) Bokoblins and other monsters can be distracted by apples or other food you drop and will rush over to eat it.

21) A certain rare NPC sells monster masks that you can equip to infiltrate enemy camps without aggroing them. It is unsettling.

Image

22) Shooting a metal box in an enemy camp with an electric arrow creates a huge damaging electric field.

23) You can drop and detonate bombs while parasailing over enemy camps.

Image

24) Bomb arrows don’t work in the rain — they just fizzle out.

25) You can farm bomb arrows this way. Find a camp where the sentries wield bomb arrows, and go there in the rain. You can pick up all their unexploded shots.

26) On the other hand, bomb arrows taken out in extremely hot environments will instantly detonate.

27) If you cut down a tree with a flameblade it makes a campfire instead of a stack of wood.

28) Cooking during a blood moon creates “critical success” super-strong foods.

29) Looking for a shrine? Look up — shrines usually have a group of birds circling above them.

30) The “Game Over” text can be icy, electrified, or have other special effects based off how you died.

31) If you roll a small snowball down a hill it’ll pick up more and more snow, turning into a giant snowball.

32) Birds can be startled into flying into thorns or other dangers, killing them.

33) Posters in stables and villages give you recipes for special custom foods to cook.

Image

34) There’s custom dialogue for almost everything. Characters sometimes react differently to specific outfits (or if Link is wearing nothing, sometimes to quite incredible effect in the case of Impa’s granddaughter), as well as dialogue for different times of day. Characters also remember if you’ve met before, or if you initiate dialogue with them over and over.

35) Many merchants have custom dialogue of you talk to them while standing on their table. Purah’s is particularly cute.

36) Most characters also have custom dialogue based on the weather, especially rain.

37) Characters also break from their normal routines during the rain, and will stop working or playing outside to take shelter.

38) Traveling merchants sell better stuff on rainy days.

39) If rain is making it impossible for you to climb, drop some wood and use flint or a fire weapon to start a your own campfire. You can sit at it to skip time, same as the campfires in town.

40) You can shoot an electric arrow into a body of water to kill all the fish swimming in the area. They’ll float to the surface.

Image

41) You can one-shot the annoying fire and ice Wizzrobes by hitting them with their elemental weakness.

42) If a shrine has a treasure chest icon next to it in the map, you found all that shrine’s hidden treasure. If there’s no icon, you missed a treasure inside. Time to revisit them!

43) If you run out of stamina and you’re about to fall to your death, you can fast-travel to safety from a mid-air fall. You can fast-travel anywhere at any time.

44) The Rito Village music theme can change and evolve based on what side quests you’ve completed and which musicians are back in town.

45) You can also “fish” with bombs, or by lifting a fish out of water with Cryonis.

46) Steam rises off of equipped fire weapons when it’s raining.

47) You can’t force your horse to swim into the water, but if a horse does end up in water, it can swim back out by itself and onto dry land.

48) Cutting tall grass will spawn and reveal insects, lizards, and even fairies you can capture.

49) You can use Stasis on pressure plates to keep them stuck down for a while, letting you skip puzzles or solve them in unconventional ways.

50) You can use Stasis on most enemies and surprise them by disappearing from their field of view (or attacking them).

51) Plain Chu jellies can be turned into red or white jellies by dropping them in snow or fire or attacking with an elemental weapon. If you display a lot of ingenuity you can electrify plain jelly, too.

52) If you hold a cucco and trick an enemy into whacking it a few times, the other cuccos will go crazy and attack them for you.

53) The Hylian runes visible in shrines and in various Sheikah Slate menus can actually be translated into English, and contain hidden messages and clues.

54) Koroks react with special dialogue and sound if you “accidentally” drop a rock on their head.

Image

55) Characters exclaim and react in various ways when you pull out a weapon when they don’t expect it.

56) Your unsupervised horse will steal apples from offerings, making it harder to complete a Korok challenge.

57) A Hinox will pick up trees around them to attack you with — you can cut them down while they sleep to put a stop to it.

58) Fire Keese set the grass on fire when they fly low.

59) You can use Stasis on an object and then stand on the object to be catapulted through the air, resulting in all kinds of puzzle skips and sequence breaks.

60) You can set grass on fire with fire arrows while flying to create an updraft and ascend further.

61) Fire an ice arrow at an enemy on Death Mountain and it will evaporate.

62) Drop a bomb in the back of a mine cart to propel it forward.

63) There are remnants and ruins of previous Zelda games found in the landscape, including a depressing Lon Lon Ranch.

Image

64) If Brigo sees Link stand on the side of a bridge, he will come and talk him down from trying to commit suicide.

65) Lightning can strike Link or enemies carrying metal weapons.

66) If you scare cuccos by attacking near them, it can make them plop out eggs.

67) Some electric circuit puzzles are supposed to be solved by dragging metal boxes around, but they have alternate solutions by dropping metal weapons on the ground.

68) Drop things into a camp fire to “bake” them instantly, like apples or acorns.

69) Link can do extra selfie poses by using the left joystick when holding down ZL.

70) Attach Octo balloons to objects, like explosives, and have them fall on your enemies.

Image

71) If you bake crappy enough food, it’s censored out.

72) You can freeze food by taking it into cold temperatures. Frozen food gives you a minute of heat resistance.

73) You can bake a cake! Use apple or wild berry, fruit, wheat, cane sugar.

74) Lynels sometimes won’t attack you on sight. Instead they stare you down.

75) If you draw your weapon near a Lynel, they’ll draw theirs, and usually begin attacking.

76) Other times the Lynel just keeps standing, staring you down, weapon drawn. Spooky!

Image

83) Kass, the wandering Rito minstrel, will sing riddles about shrines to the tune of the main theme of Breath of the Wild. Each riddle is a different part of the song.

84) There are extremely rare and valuable materials that — if cooked into a dish — will drastically increase the length of the meal’s special effect.

85) Link can become a homeowner, and decorate the walls with weapons and shields you find.

Image

86) Chuchu’s and their jelly can be shot from a distance to cause them to explode with elemental damage, damaging enemies nearby.

87) Certain insects, monsters, and animals only come out a night.

88) Many locations in the game are named after iconic Zelda characters and areas from previous games.

89) You can cut the legs off a Guardian Stalker to stun them, and eventually immobilize them completely.

90) You can also blow up the propellers of a Guardian Skywatcher to send them crashing to the ground.

91) With the right timing, you can perfectly parry a Guardian’s laser back at him just using a Pot Lid or any other lowly shield.

92) Most motion control shrine puzzles can be “cheesed” by flipping your controller completely upside-down or to another odd angle — the game recognizes the input and will flip the environment complete upside-down too.

93) Pikango the Painter’s paintings are actually pretty terrible, if you swing the camera around to look at them.

94) If you run in a tight circle and attack you can do a spin attack without charging it up.

95) Bokoblins and Moblins can’t swim. Pushing them into water kills them.

96) Moblins near water do have a custom idle animation, however. They’ll wash themselves and sometimes take a drink.

97) You don’t need a Korok leaf to power a raft. Just hop on, and use Magnesis to push a big metal weapon against it — the raft will move like a motor boat. Who needs the laws of physics?

Image

98) Pay attention to the positioning of the shrine monks — they have custom, sometimes quite unique, poses.

99) Link has custom climbing animations based off how steep or strenuous the climb is, and how much stamina the climb is using.

100) Enemy Moblins won’t just pick up stray weapons — they’ll sometimes pick up and toss a poor Bokoblin and hurl the little guy right at Link.
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Re: SWITCH IS SELLING "PHENOMENALLY" & "COULD ECLIPSE THE WI

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Jasper wrote:
100 LITTLE THINGS IN ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a triumphant achievement in world design and free-form, physics-based gameplay. In a radical departure from Nintendo's tightly scripted roots, this sandbox world simply sets up the rules, and confidently lets creative players bend those rules to their own will.

Combining that complete player freedom with Nintendo's legendary level of polish, attention to detail, and plenty of "I can't believe they thought of that" magic moments result in a game unlike anything else we've ever played.

Below are 100 mind-blowing "tiny things" that make this vision of Hyrule such a compelling, amazing world to lose ourselves in.

1) If you throw a rusty weapon at some Octoroks, they will suck it up and spit back out a cleaned, new weapon.

2) You can survive in cold environments without elixirs or warm clothes just by equipping a Fire Rod or a torch.

Image

3) The temperature in the desert is lower in the shade than it is in the sun.

4) Killing animals in very hot or very cold climates will give you meat that’s already cooked or chilled instead of raw meat.

5) If you use boulders, Cryonis, or other tricks to lift or dislodge an old rusted guardian you’ll find more ancient materials underneath it.

6) If you befriend dogs at stables they’ll sometimes lead you to buried treasure chests.

7) If you feed your horse an Endura Carrot it will have more dash charges when you mount it.

8 ) You can ride a bear. And a moose. And a deer. And… (See a full list of Breath of the Wild mounts here.)

Image

9) You can (very briefly) mount and ride a Lynel. They don’t like it very much.

10) You can ride an enemy’s skeletal undead horse.

11) If you try to take said horse to a stable to board it, the employees will freak out and not allow you to.

12) Link has a custom flexing idle animation if he doesn’t have a shirt equipped.

Image

13) If you throw a boomerang at a Lizalfos, their weapon of choice, they’ll just catch it and use it against you.

14) If you drop raw meat on the ground on Death Mountain, it’ll instantly turn into steak.

15) You can break the ice blocks bosses thrown at you with Cryonis — no need to spend all your arrows.

16) If you disarm a tough enemy and drop a leaf or other weak weapon in front of them, they’ll pick it up and use it.

17) If you shoot a Hinox’s single eye two times he’ll start shielding it with his hand, making the fight more challenging.

18) If you crawl onto a sleeping Hinox’s hand he’ll eventually lift you onto his belly to scratch himself. Then if you’re careful you can loot their necklace without fighting them.

19) You can burn off a Hinox’s leg armor to do more damage to it with your weapons.

20) Bokoblins and other monsters can be distracted by apples or other food you drop and will rush over to eat it.

21) A certain rare NPC sells monster masks that you can equip to infiltrate enemy camps without aggroing them. It is unsettling.

Image

22) Shooting a metal box in an enemy camp with an electric arrow creates a huge damaging electric field.

23) You can drop and detonate bombs while parasailing over enemy camps.

Image

24) Bomb arrows don’t work in the rain — they just fizzle out.

25) You can farm bomb arrows this way. Find a camp where the sentries wield bomb arrows, and go there in the rain. You can pick up all their unexploded shots.

26) On the other hand, bomb arrows taken out in extremely hot environments will instantly detonate.

27) If you cut down a tree with a flameblade it makes a campfire instead of a stack of wood.

28) Cooking during a blood moon creates “critical success” super-strong foods.

29) Looking for a shrine? Look up — shrines usually have a group of birds circling above them.

30) The “Game Over” text can be icy, electrified, or have other special effects based off how you died.

31) If you roll a small snowball down a hill it’ll pick up more and more snow, turning into a giant snowball.

32) Birds can be startled into flying into thorns or other dangers, killing them.

33) Posters in stables and villages give you recipes for special custom foods to cook.

Image

34) There’s custom dialogue for almost everything. Characters sometimes react differently to specific outfits (or if Link is wearing nothing, sometimes to quite incredible effect in the case of Impa’s granddaughter), as well as dialogue for different times of day. Characters also remember if you’ve met before, or if you initiate dialogue with them over and over.

35) Many merchants have custom dialogue of you talk to them while standing on their table. Purah’s is particularly cute.

36) Most characters also have custom dialogue based on the weather, especially rain.

37) Characters also break from their normal routines during the rain, and will stop working or playing outside to take shelter.

38) Traveling merchants sell better stuff on rainy days.

39) If rain is making it impossible for you to climb, drop some wood and use flint or a fire weapon to start a your own campfire. You can sit at it to skip time, same as the campfires in town.

40) You can shoot an electric arrow into a body of water to kill all the fish swimming in the area. They’ll float to the surface.

Image

41) You can one-shot the annoying fire and ice Wizzrobes by hitting them with their elemental weakness.

42) If a shrine has a treasure chest icon next to it in the map, you found all that shrine’s hidden treasure. If there’s no icon, you missed a treasure inside. Time to revisit them!

43) If you run out of stamina and you’re about to fall to your death, you can fast-travel to safety from a mid-air fall. You can fast-travel anywhere at any time.

44) The Rito Village music theme can change and evolve based on what side quests you’ve completed and which musicians are back in town.

45) You can also “fish” with bombs, or by lifting a fish out of water with Cryonis.

46) Steam rises off of equipped fire weapons when it’s raining.

47) You can’t force your horse to swim into the water, but if a horse does end up in water, it can swim back out by itself and onto dry land.

48) Cutting tall grass will spawn and reveal insects, lizards, and even fairies you can capture.

49) You can use Stasis on pressure plates to keep them stuck down for a while, letting you skip puzzles or solve them in unconventional ways.

50) You can use Stasis on most enemies and surprise them by disappearing from their field of view (or attacking them).

51) Plain Chu jellies can be turned into red or white jellies by dropping them in snow or fire or attacking with an elemental weapon. If you display a lot of ingenuity you can electrify plain jelly, too.

52) If you hold a cucco and trick an enemy into whacking it a few times, the other cuccos will go crazy and attack them for you.

53) The Hylian runes visible in shrines and in various Sheikah Slate menus can actually be translated into English, and contain hidden messages and clues.

54) Koroks react with special dialogue and sound if you “accidentally” drop a rock on their head.

Image

55) Characters exclaim and react in various ways when you pull out a weapon when they don’t expect it.

56) Your unsupervised horse will steal apples from offerings, making it harder to complete a Korok challenge.

57) A Hinox will pick up trees around them to attack you with — you can cut them down while they sleep to put a stop to it.

58) Fire Keese set the grass on fire when they fly low.

59) You can use Stasis on an object and then stand on the object to be catapulted through the air, resulting in all kinds of puzzle skips and sequence breaks.

60) You can set grass on fire with fire arrows while flying to create an updraft and ascend further.

61) Fire an ice arrow at an enemy on Death Mountain and it will evaporate.

62) Drop a bomb in the back of a mine cart to propel it forward.

63) There are remnants and ruins of previous Zelda games found in the landscape, including a depressing Lon Lon Ranch.

Image

64) If Brigo sees Link stand on the side of a bridge, he will come and talk him down from trying to commit suicide.

65) Lightning can strike Link or enemies carrying metal weapons.

66) If you scare cuccos by attacking near them, it can make them plop out eggs.

67) Some electric circuit puzzles are supposed to be solved by dragging metal boxes around, but they have alternate solutions by dropping metal weapons on the ground.

68) Drop things into a camp fire to “bake” them instantly, like apples or acorns.

69) Link can do extra selfie poses by using the left joystick when holding down ZL.

70) Attach Octo balloons to objects, like explosives, and have them fall on your enemies.

Image

71) If you bake crappy enough food, it’s censored out.

72) You can freeze food by taking it into cold temperatures. Frozen food gives you a minute of heat resistance.

73) You can bake a cake! Use apple or wild berry, fruit, wheat, cane sugar.

74) Lynels sometimes won’t attack you on sight. Instead they stare you down.

75) If you draw your weapon near a Lynel, they’ll draw theirs, and usually begin attacking.

76) Other times the Lynel just keeps standing, staring you down, weapon drawn. Spooky!

Image

83) Kass, the wandering Rito minstrel, will sing riddles about shrines to the tune of the main theme of Breath of the Wild. Each riddle is a different part of the song.

84) There are extremely rare and valuable materials that — if cooked into a dish — will drastically increase the length of the meal’s special effect.

85) Link can become a homeowner, and decorate the walls with weapons and shields you find.

Image

86) Chuchu’s and their jelly can be shot from a distance to cause them to explode with elemental damage, damaging enemies nearby.

87) Certain insects, monsters, and animals only come out a night.

88) Many locations in the game are named after iconic Zelda characters and areas from previous games.

89) You can cut the legs off a Guardian Stalker to stun them, and eventually immobilize them completely.

90) You can also blow up the propellers of a Guardian Skywatcher to send them crashing to the ground.

91) With the right timing, you can perfectly parry a Guardian’s laser back at him just using a Pot Lid or any other lowly shield.

92) Most motion control shrine puzzles can be “cheesed” by flipping your controller completely upside-down or to another odd angle — the game recognizes the input and will flip the environment complete upside-down too.

93) Pikango the Painter’s paintings are actually pretty terrible, if you swing the camera around to look at them.

94) If you run in a tight circle and attack you can do a spin attack without charging it up.

95) Bokoblins and Moblins can’t swim. Pushing them into water kills them.

96) Moblins near water do have a custom idle animation, however. They’ll wash themselves and sometimes take a drink.

97) You don’t need a Korok leaf to power a raft. Just hop on, and use Magnesis to push a big metal weapon against it — the raft will move like a motor boat. Who needs the laws of physics?

Image

98) Pay attention to the positioning of the shrine monks — they have custom, sometimes quite unique, poses.

99) Link has custom climbing animations based off how steep or strenuous the climb is, and how much stamina the climb is using.

100) Enemy Moblins won’t just pick up stray weapons — they’ll sometimes pick up and toss a poor Bokoblin and hurl the little guy right at Link.
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none of that was mind blowing at all. none of it.
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Cletus wrote:
Jasper wrote:
100 LITTLE THINGS IN ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a triumphant achievement in world design and free-form, physics-based gameplay. In a radical departure from Nintendo's tightly scripted roots, this sandbox world simply sets up the rules, and confidently lets creative players bend those rules to their own will.

Combining that complete player freedom with Nintendo's legendary level of polish, attention to detail, and plenty of "I can't believe they thought of that" magic moments result in a game unlike anything else we've ever played.

Below are 100 mind-blowing "tiny things" that make this vision of Hyrule such a compelling, amazing world to lose ourselves in.

1) If you throw a rusty weapon at some Octoroks, they will suck it up and spit back out a cleaned, new weapon.

2) You can survive in cold environments without elixirs or warm clothes just by equipping a Fire Rod or a torch.

Image

3) The temperature in the desert is lower in the shade than it is in the sun.

4) Killing animals in very hot or very cold climates will give you meat that’s already cooked or chilled instead of raw meat.

5) If you use boulders, Cryonis, or other tricks to lift or dislodge an old rusted guardian you’ll find more ancient materials underneath it.

6) If you befriend dogs at stables they’ll sometimes lead you to buried treasure chests.

7) If you feed your horse an Endura Carrot it will have more dash charges when you mount it.

8 ) You can ride a bear. And a moose. And a deer. And… (See a full list of Breath of the Wild mounts here.)

Image

9) You can (very briefly) mount and ride a Lynel. They don’t like it very much.

10) You can ride an enemy’s skeletal undead horse.

11) If you try to take said horse to a stable to board it, the employees will freak out and not allow you to.

12) Link has a custom flexing idle animation if he doesn’t have a shirt equipped.

Image

13) If you throw a boomerang at a Lizalfos, their weapon of choice, they’ll just catch it and use it against you.

14) If you drop raw meat on the ground on Death Mountain, it’ll instantly turn into steak.

15) You can break the ice blocks bosses thrown at you with Cryonis — no need to spend all your arrows.

16) If you disarm a tough enemy and drop a leaf or other weak weapon in front of them, they’ll pick it up and use it.

17) If you shoot a Hinox’s single eye two times he’ll start shielding it with his hand, making the fight more challenging.

18) If you crawl onto a sleeping Hinox’s hand he’ll eventually lift you onto his belly to scratch himself. Then if you’re careful you can loot their necklace without fighting them.

19) You can burn off a Hinox’s leg armor to do more damage to it with your weapons.

20) Bokoblins and other monsters can be distracted by apples or other food you drop and will rush over to eat it.

21) A certain rare NPC sells monster masks that you can equip to infiltrate enemy camps without aggroing them. It is unsettling.

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22) Shooting a metal box in an enemy camp with an electric arrow creates a huge damaging electric field.

23) You can drop and detonate bombs while parasailing over enemy camps.

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24) Bomb arrows don’t work in the rain — they just fizzle out.

25) You can farm bomb arrows this way. Find a camp where the sentries wield bomb arrows, and go there in the rain. You can pick up all their unexploded shots.

26) On the other hand, bomb arrows taken out in extremely hot environments will instantly detonate.

27) If you cut down a tree with a flameblade it makes a campfire instead of a stack of wood.

28) Cooking during a blood moon creates “critical success” super-strong foods.

29) Looking for a shrine? Look up — shrines usually have a group of birds circling above them.

30) The “Game Over” text can be icy, electrified, or have other special effects based off how you died.

31) If you roll a small snowball down a hill it’ll pick up more and more snow, turning into a giant snowball.

32) Birds can be startled into flying into thorns or other dangers, killing them.

33) Posters in stables and villages give you recipes for special custom foods to cook.

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34) There’s custom dialogue for almost everything. Characters sometimes react differently to specific outfits (or if Link is wearing nothing, sometimes to quite incredible effect in the case of Impa’s granddaughter), as well as dialogue for different times of day. Characters also remember if you’ve met before, or if you initiate dialogue with them over and over.

35) Many merchants have custom dialogue of you talk to them while standing on their table. Purah’s is particularly cute.

36) Most characters also have custom dialogue based on the weather, especially rain.

37) Characters also break from their normal routines during the rain, and will stop working or playing outside to take shelter.

38) Traveling merchants sell better stuff on rainy days.

39) If rain is making it impossible for you to climb, drop some wood and use flint or a fire weapon to start a your own campfire. You can sit at it to skip time, same as the campfires in town.

40) You can shoot an electric arrow into a body of water to kill all the fish swimming in the area. They’ll float to the surface.

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41) You can one-shot the annoying fire and ice Wizzrobes by hitting them with their elemental weakness.

42) If a shrine has a treasure chest icon next to it in the map, you found all that shrine’s hidden treasure. If there’s no icon, you missed a treasure inside. Time to revisit them!

43) If you run out of stamina and you’re about to fall to your death, you can fast-travel to safety from a mid-air fall. You can fast-travel anywhere at any time.

44) The Rito Village music theme can change and evolve based on what side quests you’ve completed and which musicians are back in town.

45) You can also “fish” with bombs, or by lifting a fish out of water with Cryonis.

46) Steam rises off of equipped fire weapons when it’s raining.

47) You can’t force your horse to swim into the water, but if a horse does end up in water, it can swim back out by itself and onto dry land.

48) Cutting tall grass will spawn and reveal insects, lizards, and even fairies you can capture.

49) You can use Stasis on pressure plates to keep them stuck down for a while, letting you skip puzzles or solve them in unconventional ways.

50) You can use Stasis on most enemies and surprise them by disappearing from their field of view (or attacking them).

51) Plain Chu jellies can be turned into red or white jellies by dropping them in snow or fire or attacking with an elemental weapon. If you display a lot of ingenuity you can electrify plain jelly, too.

52) If you hold a cucco and trick an enemy into whacking it a few times, the other cuccos will go crazy and attack them for you.

53) The Hylian runes visible in shrines and in various Sheikah Slate menus can actually be translated into English, and contain hidden messages and clues.

54) Koroks react with special dialogue and sound if you “accidentally” drop a rock on their head.

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55) Characters exclaim and react in various ways when you pull out a weapon when they don’t expect it.

56) Your unsupervised horse will steal apples from offerings, making it harder to complete a Korok challenge.

57) A Hinox will pick up trees around them to attack you with — you can cut them down while they sleep to put a stop to it.

58) Fire Keese set the grass on fire when they fly low.

59) You can use Stasis on an object and then stand on the object to be catapulted through the air, resulting in all kinds of puzzle skips and sequence breaks.

60) You can set grass on fire with fire arrows while flying to create an updraft and ascend further.

61) Fire an ice arrow at an enemy on Death Mountain and it will evaporate.

62) Drop a bomb in the back of a mine cart to propel it forward.

63) There are remnants and ruins of previous Zelda games found in the landscape, including a depressing Lon Lon Ranch.

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64) If Brigo sees Link stand on the side of a bridge, he will come and talk him down from trying to commit suicide.

65) Lightning can strike Link or enemies carrying metal weapons.

66) If you scare cuccos by attacking near them, it can make them plop out eggs.

67) Some electric circuit puzzles are supposed to be solved by dragging metal boxes around, but they have alternate solutions by dropping metal weapons on the ground.

68) Drop things into a camp fire to “bake” them instantly, like apples or acorns.

69) Link can do extra selfie poses by using the left joystick when holding down ZL.

70) Attach Octo balloons to objects, like explosives, and have them fall on your enemies.

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71) If you bake crappy enough food, it’s censored out.

72) You can freeze food by taking it into cold temperatures. Frozen food gives you a minute of heat resistance.

73) You can bake a cake! Use apple or wild berry, fruit, wheat, cane sugar.

74) Lynels sometimes won’t attack you on sight. Instead they stare you down.

75) If you draw your weapon near a Lynel, they’ll draw theirs, and usually begin attacking.

76) Other times the Lynel just keeps standing, staring you down, weapon drawn. Spooky!

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83) Kass, the wandering Rito minstrel, will sing riddles about shrines to the tune of the main theme of Breath of the Wild. Each riddle is a different part of the song.

84) There are extremely rare and valuable materials that — if cooked into a dish — will drastically increase the length of the meal’s special effect.

85) Link can become a homeowner, and decorate the walls with weapons and shields you find.

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86) Chuchu’s and their jelly can be shot from a distance to cause them to explode with elemental damage, damaging enemies nearby.

87) Certain insects, monsters, and animals only come out a night.

88) Many locations in the game are named after iconic Zelda characters and areas from previous games.

89) You can cut the legs off a Guardian Stalker to stun them, and eventually immobilize them completely.

90) You can also blow up the propellers of a Guardian Skywatcher to send them crashing to the ground.

91) With the right timing, you can perfectly parry a Guardian’s laser back at him just using a Pot Lid or any other lowly shield.

92) Most motion control shrine puzzles can be “cheesed” by flipping your controller completely upside-down or to another odd angle — the game recognizes the input and will flip the environment complete upside-down too.

93) Pikango the Painter’s paintings are actually pretty terrible, if you swing the camera around to look at them.

94) If you run in a tight circle and attack you can do a spin attack without charging it up.

95) Bokoblins and Moblins can’t swim. Pushing them into water kills them.

96) Moblins near water do have a custom idle animation, however. They’ll wash themselves and sometimes take a drink.

97) You don’t need a Korok leaf to power a raft. Just hop on, and use Magnesis to push a big metal weapon against it — the raft will move like a motor boat. Who needs the laws of physics?

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98) Pay attention to the positioning of the shrine monks — they have custom, sometimes quite unique, poses.

99) Link has custom climbing animations based off how steep or strenuous the climb is, and how much stamina the climb is using.

100) Enemy Moblins won’t just pick up stray weapons — they’ll sometimes pick up and toss a poor Bokoblin and hurl the little guy right at Link.
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none of that was mind blowing at all. none of it.
Not entirely true, the length of the list without anything mind blowing was in fact mind blowing.
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Jasper wrote:Have fun waiting for your glitchy mess of a game with audio problems, animation errors, controller problems, broken textures, etc. By the time it's up and running at 12fps, I would have already moved on from BotW to the likes of Splatoon 2, ARMS & Super Mario Odyssey! :lol:

For the rest of y'all, if you're playing Zelda...you MUST read this!!! :up:

IGN have put together a comprehensive list of 100 tidbits about BotW that you may not know about (and boy, there's a lot that seriously have blown my mind and I look forward to experiencing and trying it out in the game). :shock:
100 LITTLE THINGS IN ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a triumphant achievement in world design and free-form, physics-based gameplay. In a radical departure from Nintendo's tightly scripted roots, this sandbox world simply sets up the rules, and confidently lets creative players bend those rules to their own will.

Combining that complete player freedom with Nintendo's legendary level of polish, attention to detail, and plenty of "I can't believe they thought of that" magic moments result in a game unlike anything else we've ever played.

Below are 100 mind-blowing "tiny things" that make this vision of Hyrule such a compelling, amazing world to lose ourselves in.

1) If you throw a rusty weapon at some Octoroks, they will suck it up and spit back out a cleaned, new weapon.

2) You can survive in cold environments without elixirs or warm clothes just by equipping a Fire Rod or a torch.

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3) The temperature in the desert is lower in the shade than it is in the sun.

4) Killing animals in very hot or very cold climates will give you meat that’s already cooked or chilled instead of raw meat.

5) If you use boulders, Cryonis, or other tricks to lift or dislodge an old rusted guardian you’ll find more ancient materials underneath it.

6) If you befriend dogs at stables they’ll sometimes lead you to buried treasure chests.

7) If you feed your horse an Endura Carrot it will have more dash charges when you mount it.

8 ) You can ride a bear. And a moose. And a deer. And… (See a full list of Breath of the Wild mounts here.)

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9) You can (very briefly) mount and ride a Lynel. They don’t like it very much.

10) You can ride an enemy’s skeletal undead horse.

11) If you try to take said horse to a stable to board it, the employees will freak out and not allow you to.

12) Link has a custom flexing idle animation if he doesn’t have a shirt equipped.

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13) If you throw a boomerang at a Lizalfos, their weapon of choice, they’ll just catch it and use it against you.

14) If you drop raw meat on the ground on Death Mountain, it’ll instantly turn into steak.

15) You can break the ice blocks bosses thrown at you with Cryonis — no need to spend all your arrows.

16) If you disarm a tough enemy and drop a leaf or other weak weapon in front of them, they’ll pick it up and use it.

17) If you shoot a Hinox’s single eye two times he’ll start shielding it with his hand, making the fight more challenging.

18) If you crawl onto a sleeping Hinox’s hand he’ll eventually lift you onto his belly to scratch himself. Then if you’re careful you can loot their necklace without fighting them.

19) You can burn off a Hinox’s leg armor to do more damage to it with your weapons.

20) Bokoblins and other monsters can be distracted by apples or other food you drop and will rush over to eat it.

21) A certain rare NPC sells monster masks that you can equip to infiltrate enemy camps without aggroing them. It is unsettling.

Image

22) Shooting a metal box in an enemy camp with an electric arrow creates a huge damaging electric field.

23) You can drop and detonate bombs while parasailing over enemy camps.

Image

24) Bomb arrows don’t work in the rain — they just fizzle out.

25) You can farm bomb arrows this way. Find a camp where the sentries wield bomb arrows, and go there in the rain. You can pick up all their unexploded shots.

26) On the other hand, bomb arrows taken out in extremely hot environments will instantly detonate.

27) If you cut down a tree with a flameblade it makes a campfire instead of a stack of wood.

28) Cooking during a blood moon creates “critical success” super-strong foods.

29) Looking for a shrine? Look up — shrines usually have a group of birds circling above them.

30) The “Game Over” text can be icy, electrified, or have other special effects based off how you died.

31) If you roll a small snowball down a hill it’ll pick up more and more snow, turning into a giant snowball.

32) Birds can be startled into flying into thorns or other dangers, killing them.

33) Posters in stables and villages give you recipes for special custom foods to cook.

Image

34) There’s custom dialogue for almost everything. Characters sometimes react differently to specific outfits (or if Link is wearing nothing, sometimes to quite incredible effect in the case of Impa’s granddaughter), as well as dialogue for different times of day. Characters also remember if you’ve met before, or if you initiate dialogue with them over and over.

35) Many merchants have custom dialogue of you talk to them while standing on their table. Purah’s is particularly cute.

36) Most characters also have custom dialogue based on the weather, especially rain.

37) Characters also break from their normal routines during the rain, and will stop working or playing outside to take shelter.

38) Traveling merchants sell better stuff on rainy days.

39) If rain is making it impossible for you to climb, drop some wood and use flint or a fire weapon to start a your own campfire. You can sit at it to skip time, same as the campfires in town.

40) You can shoot an electric arrow into a body of water to kill all the fish swimming in the area. They’ll float to the surface.

Image

41) You can one-shot the annoying fire and ice Wizzrobes by hitting them with their elemental weakness.

42) If a shrine has a treasure chest icon next to it in the map, you found all that shrine’s hidden treasure. If there’s no icon, you missed a treasure inside. Time to revisit them!

43) If you run out of stamina and you’re about to fall to your death, you can fast-travel to safety from a mid-air fall. You can fast-travel anywhere at any time.

44) The Rito Village music theme can change and evolve based on what side quests you’ve completed and which musicians are back in town.

45) You can also “fish” with bombs, or by lifting a fish out of water with Cryonis.

46) Steam rises off of equipped fire weapons when it’s raining.

47) You can’t force your horse to swim into the water, but if a horse does end up in water, it can swim back out by itself and onto dry land.

48) Cutting tall grass will spawn and reveal insects, lizards, and even fairies you can capture.

49) You can use Stasis on pressure plates to keep them stuck down for a while, letting you skip puzzles or solve them in unconventional ways.

50) You can use Stasis on most enemies and surprise them by disappearing from their field of view (or attacking them).

51) Plain Chu jellies can be turned into red or white jellies by dropping them in snow or fire or attacking with an elemental weapon. If you display a lot of ingenuity you can electrify plain jelly, too.

52) If you hold a cucco and trick an enemy into whacking it a few times, the other cuccos will go crazy and attack them for you.

53) The Hylian runes visible in shrines and in various Sheikah Slate menus can actually be translated into English, and contain hidden messages and clues.

54) Koroks react with special dialogue and sound if you “accidentally” drop a rock on their head.

Image

55) Characters exclaim and react in various ways when you pull out a weapon when they don’t expect it.

56) Your unsupervised horse will steal apples from offerings, making it harder to complete a Korok challenge.

57) A Hinox will pick up trees around them to attack you with — you can cut them down while they sleep to put a stop to it.

58) Fire Keese set the grass on fire when they fly low.

59) You can use Stasis on an object and then stand on the object to be catapulted through the air, resulting in all kinds of puzzle skips and sequence breaks.

60) You can set grass on fire with fire arrows while flying to create an updraft and ascend further.

61) Fire an ice arrow at an enemy on Death Mountain and it will evaporate.

62) Drop a bomb in the back of a mine cart to propel it forward.

63) There are remnants and ruins of previous Zelda games found in the landscape, including a depressing Lon Lon Ranch.

Image

64) If Brigo sees Link stand on the side of a bridge, he will come and talk him down from trying to commit suicide.

65) Lightning can strike Link or enemies carrying metal weapons.

66) If you scare cuccos by attacking near them, it can make them plop out eggs.

67) Some electric circuit puzzles are supposed to be solved by dragging metal boxes around, but they have alternate solutions by dropping metal weapons on the ground.

68) Drop things into a camp fire to “bake” them instantly, like apples or acorns.

69) Link can do extra selfie poses by using the left joystick when holding down ZL.

70) Attach Octo balloons to objects, like explosives, and have them fall on your enemies.

Image

71) If you bake crappy enough food, it’s censored out.

72) You can freeze food by taking it into cold temperatures. Frozen food gives you a minute of heat resistance.

73) You can bake a cake! Use apple or wild berry, fruit, wheat, cane sugar.

74) Lynels sometimes won’t attack you on sight. Instead they stare you down.

75) If you draw your weapon near a Lynel, they’ll draw theirs, and usually begin attacking.

76) Other times the Lynel just keeps standing, staring you down, weapon drawn. Spooky!

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83) Kass, the wandering Rito minstrel, will sing riddles about shrines to the tune of the main theme of Breath of the Wild. Each riddle is a different part of the song.

84) There are extremely rare and valuable materials that — if cooked into a dish — will drastically increase the length of the meal’s special effect.

85) Link can become a homeowner, and decorate the walls with weapons and shields you find.

Image

86) Chuchu’s and their jelly can be shot from a distance to cause them to explode with elemental damage, damaging enemies nearby.

87) Certain insects, monsters, and animals only come out a night.

88) Many locations in the game are named after iconic Zelda characters and areas from previous games.

89) You can cut the legs off a Guardian Stalker to stun them, and eventually immobilize them completely.

90) You can also blow up the propellers of a Guardian Skywatcher to send them crashing to the ground.

91) With the right timing, you can perfectly parry a Guardian’s laser back at him just using a Pot Lid or any other lowly shield.

92) Most motion control shrine puzzles can be “cheesed” by flipping your controller completely upside-down or to another odd angle — the game recognizes the input and will flip the environment complete upside-down too.

93) Pikango the Painter’s paintings are actually pretty terrible, if you swing the camera around to look at them.

94) If you run in a tight circle and attack you can do a spin attack without charging it up.

95) Bokoblins and Moblins can’t swim. Pushing them into water kills them.

96) Moblins near water do have a custom idle animation, however. They’ll wash themselves and sometimes take a drink.

97) You don’t need a Korok leaf to power a raft. Just hop on, and use Magnesis to push a big metal weapon against it — the raft will move like a motor boat. Who needs the laws of physics?

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98) Pay attention to the positioning of the shrine monks — they have custom, sometimes quite unique, poses.

99) Link has custom climbing animations based off how steep or strenuous the climb is, and how much stamina the climb is using.

100) Enemy Moblins won’t just pick up stray weapons — they’ll sometimes pick up and toss a poor Bokoblin and hurl the little guy right at Link.
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Not sure if you watched the video, but it's already running at the same framerate as the Switch version :lol: :fight: :lol:
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Babes, we've had this conversation before. :redface:

CEMU screenshots and/or a couple minutes of CEMU footage mean NOTHING and absolutely DOES NOT represent how the entire game will actually run. (and that's what actually matters...a silky smooth gaming experience from start to finish, and NOT plagued with CEMU common problems like an unplayable frame-rate, glitches, audio problems, controller problems, broken textures, animation glitches). :?

As I have already said before, you even made a previous post bragging about Mario Kart 8 running on CEMU (and you posted a video of it), and the video showed CEMU spazzing out with a fucking massive glitch right in the middle of a race. :lol:
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Nintendo have released a statement regarding the desync issue that a small number of people are experiencing with the left joy-con.

The problem has been rectified going forward for all future stock, and those who are having the issue can send their left joy-con to Nintendo for repair.

You can see below the before and after of the internal of the left joy-con - with and without a small piece of conductive foam (the missing conductive foam in some left joy-cons appears to be the problem).

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fuck sending it away and waiting.
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The Splatoon 2 MULTIPLAYER global testfire demo starts TOMORROW!!!... :up:

These are the AEDT times...

Saturday March 25th:
06:00am – 06:59am
14:00pm – 14:59pm
22:00pm – 22:59pm

Sunday March 26th:
06:00am – 06:59am
14:00pm – 14:59pm
22:00pm – 22:59pm
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10 minutes left until the second round (first round was at 6am...too early) of the Splatoon 2 global multiplayer testfire. :up:

My :unbiased: of the demo coming soon! :keke:
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Does anyone care? Really?
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unbiased? get fucked
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Well, I caught the end of this morning and played for an hour then, and I'll tell you exactly what I think right now.

It's Splatoon and its fucking sublime. New maps - woop woop. I like both in the demo, but prefer The Reef over the Muscle Fitness one.
I like the new Dualies weapon - very cool and very fun.
I had some decent success with both the sniper rifle and the machine gun.
Nerfing the paint roller though? What the fuck? BOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Twiztid Elf wrote:It's Splatoon and its fucking sublime
You know what they say....once you splat, you never go back! :wink:

Here is my :unbiased: :keke:

I tried playing with both motion controls on and off...and the game plays beautifully with both control methods. Likewise I played docked and undocked, and the game looks stunning and runs blazing fast in either mode....it was a very smooth online experience. :)

I also really liked the Dualies weapon...but am loving the roller!

Playing Splatoon 2 online multiplayer on long commutes in the back of my limo is going to be so fucking addictive!!! :up:
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Jasper wrote:
Twiztid Elf wrote:It's Splatoon and its fucking sublime
You know what they say....once you splat, you never go back! :wink:

Here is my :unbiased: :keke:

I tried playing with both motion controls on and off...and the game plays beautifully with both control methods. Likewise I played docked and undocked, and the game looks stunning and runs blazing fast in either mode....it was a very smooth online experience. :)

I also really liked the Dualies weapon...but am loving the roller!
This reads like typical PR spun bullshit playing it safe.
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First gameplay footage of Sonic Forces (a new 3D Sonic the Hedgehog in development by Sonic Team - late 2017 release)... :P
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Looks like Mario Odyssey. Are they ripping Sonic off???
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This is getting ridiculous! :lol:

People are 3D printing all sorts of crazy Nintendo Switch docks. The latest of which is a mini NEO GEO arcade cabinet (note that you can purchase NEO GEO games from the Nintendo Switch eShop)....

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Agreed, it is fucking ridiculous.
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Re: SWITCH IS SELLING "PHENOMENALLY" & "COULD ECLIPSE THE WI

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Seems odd to me that the Switch is selling so well, but then the PS4 did the same and had fuck-all games of note at the time so who knows? I can't see Nintendo "winning" overall by any stretch of the imagination, but it's good to see them off to a healthy start.

I might pick up a Switch down the line, it all hinges on Mario Odyssey... which at the moment has some ways to go before I'd consider buying a console for it, despite being a huge Mario fan. Seems like a return to Super Mario 64/Sunshine, both of which are right down at the bottom of the list of main series Mario games I'd willingly revisit.
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Re: SWITCH IS SELLING "PHENOMENALLY" & "COULD ECLIPSE THE WI

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Yeah, Maori 64 was great in 1996 but aged now. I tried playing it again a few years ago on the WiiU and pretty much switched it off 10mins later.
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