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Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by jldugger »

matwood wrote: post #178
jldugger wrote: post #140

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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.

sorry, i wasn't clear: the emphasis was on _and_. pick one!

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Post by jldugger »

city41 wrote: post #182
jldugger wrote: post #140

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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…

Super Castlevania is quite highly regarded by the Castlevania community. It's not the best Castlevania (Rondo of Blood is), but it's up there.

Really? It didn't even make polygon's top 10. https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/26/18011828/best-ca...

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Post by echelon »

zapzupnz wrote: post #170
hannob wrote: post #121

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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.

If that was on an old 3DS, that was probably true. On the "New" 3DS, though, with the additional eye tracking to make sure the 3D effect is stable, it's superb.

Does the eye tracking work with older games, or is the 3D baked into the game engines?

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Post by hackmiester »

city41 wrote: post #107
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…

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.

For what it's worth, it isn't a gimmick to me. I have really terrible eyes, and it's actually the first time I've seen in 3D up close... ever. VR headsets don't work on me, and my eyes can only see 3D at a distance.

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Post by fomine3 »

ben7799 wrote: post #158
coding123 wrote: post #48

Sorry about this, as it's an old argument that everyone here knows, but I wish Nintendo would stop making systems and just focus on their games on competing platforms. They do it for the money. So if I want to have the next Zelda, Mario/MK, DK I have to pay the 300 cost for the system first, then the price of the game ($60 on release day?) I mean, I get it from their perspective. Every Nintendo I purchase the number…

Nintendo has a long history of taking hardware risks that are targeted at actually making interesting new types of gameplay possible. The richness of games available would not be possible if Nintendo was not in the picture as a hardware manufacturer and had to target all their games at MS/Sony hardware. Sony & MS have almost never tried any novel hardware and been able to tie it to unique gameplay that was actually s…

I want to defend Kinect. I suspect that it's made by tech driven rather than copying idea from Nintendo.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by city41 »

jldugger wrote: post #202
city41 wrote: post #182

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Super Castlevania is quite highly regarded by the Castlevania community. It's not the best Castlevania (Rondo of Blood is), but it's up there.

Really? It didn't even make polygon's top 10. https://www.polygon.com/features/2018/10/26/18011828/best-ca...

I do respect Jeremy Parish. But as a huge Castlevania fan myself I find that list pretty surprising. Obviously there is a lot of subjectivity in something like this. But I would argue Super Castlevania is better than many of the games he put above it.

And to be totally fair, it's true SC is clunky and dated in several regards (it was a very early SNES title and it shows...) So maybe Jeremy dings it on those aspects more than others do. But I would argue it makes up for a lot of that in atmosphere, style and uniqueness.

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Post by phendrenad2 »

jhatemyjob wrote: post #65
datalus wrote: post #9

Hopefully Nintendo releases the SDK? It's been a decently active platform for indie titles and homebrew games. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the 3DS is covered by the same NDA as the Switch in terms of toolchain/docs/etc. I believe you can find those after signing up for a developer account at https://developer.nintendo.com/

ctrulib was pretty good when i used it in 2017

Yes. Only thing it's missing is a high-level shader compiler, you have to write shader code in assembly (which honestly isn't too onerous for the graphical fidelity possible on the 3DS)

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Post by Geezus_42 »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #39
fullstop wrote: post #25

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There are cartridges which allow you to load games onto a micro SD card. They can be used to load homebrew games or roms obtained from less than legal means. I had one for the original DS and obtained ROMs for the cartridges that I owned. It was convenient to have them all in one place when traveling without having to bring a bunch of cartridges with me.

Even better, if you load custom firmware[1] on it, you don't need the special cartridge at all, and you can dump your game cartridges right to the system's SD card (this only works for GameBoy Advance and 3DS games, but not original DS games). If you buy digital games from the eShop, this also gives you an effective way to back them up, including save files. [1]: https://3ds.hacks.guide/

It works for DS games also. I had a few on mine.

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Post by snicky »

Guybrush_T wrote: post #177
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.

There's a PC game similar to Advance Wars called War Groove. I haven't played it yet, but I've heard it's decent.
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