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Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by post_break »

hannob wrote: post #121
city41 wrote: post #107

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If picking up a 3DS, I highly recommend a "New" model. They include cameras that track your eyes, making the 3D effect much better. It's true the 3D effect is just a gimmick, but it's a very neat one. Games like Metroid Samus Returns are much better in 3D IMO. The game feels like an actual mini diorama is in front of you.

Admittedly I only played one game for a while on a borrowed 3DS (Super Mario 3D Land), but I quickly thought the best thing about the 3D effect is that you can turn it off.

Just the way you worded this, leading me right up to the end of the comment, made me laugh pretty loud.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by takeda »

devindotcom wrote: post #159
gonehome wrote: post #155

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I was confused by this article because the 3DS has been unavailable for months now (except for random editions from Amazon sellers for above MSRP). The main change seems to be them removing the 3DS page from the Nintendo website? My impression was that they stopped making them long ago and were only making new versions of the 2DS (which kind of defeats the entire purpose of the device). They also don't make enough Sw…

I don't think the 2DS defeats the purpose of the device. The 3D aspect was by design only used in optional ways by nearly all developers and the 2DS as a great, cheaper, lighter alternative to the original. If anything it makes the handheld more focused and useful by stripping away something that was never really effective to begin with.

if 2DS was foldable I would buy it instead of 3DS. Didn't really care about the 3D.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by gbear605 »

redisman wrote: post #128
gbear605 wrote: post #116

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The problem is not just the 3D effect, but more crucially the two screens.

There have been DS emulators for over a decade now.

The context here was for the Switch, where emulation is not a problem but a very wide screen is.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by anon9001 »

Macha wrote: post #110
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #22

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There are some that remained in print , however, and so I held off on taking the plunge because I didn't feel like dropping $40 for Fire Emblem Echoes (for example), knowing it would probably be a year before I played it. But knowing that the console and likely all first-party games will soon be OOP certainly lights a fire under me, as I'd much rather pay $40 for a new, sealed copy of the game than $70 for a cart-onl…

You can dump your own carts or eshop titles to ROM files with custom firmware, which you can then install on another system. Technically piracy, but it's not something I personally have moral qualms about, especially when the clock is ticking on the store's own existence.

If you were to go a step further, the eShop actually trusts the client and you can download the entire 3ds library direct from Nintendo with the right hack. Google "freeshop" and read their FAQ if you're curious. I won't link it here in case it offends anyone.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by EddieRingle »

takeda wrote: post #172
devindotcom wrote: post #159

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I don't think the 2DS defeats the purpose of the device. The 3D aspect was by design only used in optional ways by nearly all developers and the 2DS as a great, cheaper, lighter alternative to the original. If anything it makes the handheld more focused and useful by stripping away something that was never really effective to begin with.

if 2DS was foldable I would buy it instead of 3DS. Didn't really care about the 3D.

The New 2DS is the foldable version.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by superdisk »

derefr wrote: post #37
Multicomp wrote: post #26

Nintendo insisted that the 3DS was not being replaced by the switch, in the same way that they told me that the game boy line would keep going after the DS began. Something tells me this is Nintendo hedging bets

Nintendo has never really wanted to discontinue a platform. Their vision was always that developers could support old and new platforms together through funky cross-compact measures. • Did you know that the SNES’s CPU starts up in a “NES 6502 compatibility” mode, sort of like x86-64 processors starting up in 16-bit real mode? It’s fully possible to design and build a game entirely for the NES as a 6502-assembler code…

> many games in the early 90s were “dual-released” this way.

No commercial SNES games used the 6502 compatibility mode afaik.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by Guybrush_T »

r00fus wrote: post #74

Doing some Marie-Kondo style cleaning, found a 12 year old Nintendo DS with Advance Wars 2 cartridge. Hadn't been plugged in for years (I don't have a charger). Turned on and played a game. Amazing.

It's a shame how many people didn't get to experience the Advance Wars series since they were only released on the GBA/DS. I think a Switch version would do really well.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by matwood »

jldugger wrote: post #140
komali2 wrote: post #126

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Edit: You're right, that was rude of me lmao. This is an UNORDERED LIST: 1. Super Mario Bros 3 2. The Legend of Zelda (1986) 3. Super Metroid (1994) 4. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 5. Super Castlevania 6. Pokemon: Silver/Gold 7. Advance Wars: Dual Strike 8. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (tecccchnically an n64 game though) (Majora's Mask would make this list if the DS version wasn't a butchered shadow of…

So many questions. Like, do you really need pokemon to live? And why specifically Super Castlevania, which is regarded as kind of a garbage castlevania (the player sprite is bigger so you get less of a heads up on whats ahead, and it's not part of the "metrovania" pantheon). Why Fusion and Super Metroid? Does the original LoZ hold up as well as say Link's Awakening? Why are there only 3 companies represented on this…

It could be nostalgia or me remembering incorrectly, but Super Metroid felt like a shift to more story telling and environmental setting. When I first played it as a kid, in a dark room it was a bit scary. I felt as the character more than any other game I had played prior.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by jbay808 »

generj wrote: post #71
gugagore wrote: post #43

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It's not the same, but ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’ (you can find it easily online) is a documentary about the last day that the New York Times used linotypes and hot metal typesetting before they switched to electronic/optical typesetting. I think it's a wonderful, heartfelt, and technologically fascinating documentary. I recommend it when you have a half hour to spare.

Thank you for this recommendation, I heartily enjoyed it. There’s something beautiful about the pride the printers had in their work. Even if the output is somewhat ephemeral - a daily newspaper.

Ephemeral perhaps, but for almost every issue, there was likely someone -- somewhere -- that would frame and keep it, because someone in their family got a mention, an interview, or an article published in the New York Times.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by elsonrodriguez »

gowld wrote: post #160
DCKing wrote: post #58

The 3DS, in particular the "New" models, I think are really recommended to pick up cheap. They are well built devices that are supremely hackable with access to lots of fun games. The 3DS library is good despite somewhat lacking in diversity. But the 3DS also has native compatibility with the entire excellent DS library, and after hacking it can also run the entire great GBA library without emulation (like Matroshka…

What's a good website for this scene?

https://gbatemp.net/categories/nintendo-3ds-discussions.198/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/ for discussion. The best resource for jailbreaking your 3DS would be here: https://3ds.hacks.guide
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