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Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by hannob »

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.

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.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by mikepurvis »

Razengan wrote: post #62

I've been playing games all my life on many different platforms, but some of the best fun I've ever had has been on handhelds. Even when I also have the PC or console version, some games just feel more at home on a handheld, and more appealing when you don't have to commit to a whole session of playing them. On one hand, handhelds take less focus than sitting in one place staring in one direction, so you can play on…

There are a whole bunch of those OGA-derived handhelds (see https://obscurehandhelds.com/). I have an RGB10 on its way to me right now. Unfortunately, the library of native titles is very, very small, basically just Tux Kart and whatever open source engine recreations have been packaged for the particular distro you're running on it. So it's mostly about emulation, which means that what you're seeing is a pretty far cry from the "real" capabilities of what that processor could do on a 480x320 display. For my part, I'm hoping to get the toolchain set up enough to try compiling OpenJazz for it.

On the other side of things are deliberately wacky low-powered, lo-fi devices with novel distribution mechanisms, like Playdate: https://play.date/

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by JohnBooty »

SSLy wrote: post #80
JohnBooty wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sure makes a lot more sense than my experience. The 3DS' lenticular system is kind of flawed -- though I wonder if that's perhaps part of why it works for me, somehow. I've never heard anybody else say, "only the 3DS worked for me" I saw an IMAX 3D movie once but I forget how that system worked. Was it a shutter system, or was it like an updated version of the old red/blue system that relied on polarization some…

The IMAX system, at least in my Cinema City venue, uses polarization. I've also tried Real 3D cinemas but that didn't work. >May I ask what your eye condition is? I don't know if it's neurological but I just don't register depth w/o forcing it. I have astigmatism and short-sightedness.

Interesting. (And more importantly, sorry to hear that)

So, your brain gets a stereo signal, but because of the "fuzziness" of far-away objects, it doesn't "compute" the depth information?

That makes sense to me, but - corrective lenses don't improve the issue? That's fascinating. Is that common with astigmatism? I don't know too much about depth perception issues outside of my own experience. (One might say I'm short-sighted in that regard... har har har)

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by ewams »

komali2 wrote: post #75
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…

Yes! Don't forget you also get GameBoy Color and GameBoy games. IMO this massive library (N3DS, 3DS, DSi, DS, GBA, GBC, GB, SNES, NES) has at least 10 "must play before death" games in them (for people that care a lot about videogames, anyway). Of course all of this can also be achieved on a PC with a simple 10$ amazon controller and free emulators, if you're comfortable pirating games.

Oh come now! You can't say 10 games you must play before you die and leave us hanging!

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by brootstrap »

umvi wrote: post #76
perardi wrote: post #38

I wonder what the game plan is for offering these games in the future. The dual-screen setup obviously doesn’t map to the Switch, so it’s not just a simple eShop port like you’d have for an old SNES game. I am mostly thinking about Pokémon. They’ve got this rich new Pokémon Home system to transfer between generations, but that’s reliant on having functioning older hardware. Now, there’s a massive pool of functional 3…

I'm honestly surprised Pokemon is still around. The first one came out in like 1996, and it was initially addictive because there were a fixed number of pokemon to try to collect (150). But each iteration was basically a carbon copy of the previous gen with some map and monster changes. 7(?) gens later and now there are what 500? 600? More? I just don't understand the motivation to collect something now that you can…

this holds true for new pokemon games, i'd never buy that shit. however sometimes i want to have a good afternoon. no wife, no kids, smokin weed killin time playing and old school pokemon game. sounds delightful haha.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by komali2 »

komali2 wrote: post #75
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…

Yes! Don't forget you also get GameBoy Color and GameBoy games. IMO this massive library (N3DS, 3DS, DSi, DS, GBA, GBC, GB, SNES, NES) has at least 10 "must play before death" games in them (for people that care a lot about videogames, anyway). Of course all of this can also be achieved on a PC with a simple 10$ amazon controller and free emulators, if you're comfortable pirating games.

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 the original)

9. Metroid: Fusion

10. Like... ANY of the billion Final Fantasies available between NES and N3DS

edit: 11. Mario 64 baybbeeeeeeeee

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by komali2 »

echelon wrote: post #84
komali2 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! Don't forget you also get GameBoy Color and GameBoy games. IMO this massive library (N3DS, 3DS, DSi, DS, GBA, GBC, GB, SNES, NES) has at least 10 "must play before death" games in them (for people that care a lot about videogames, anyway). Of course all of this can also be achieved on a PC with a simple 10$ amazon controller and free emulators, if you're comfortable pirating games.

> has at least 10 "must play before death" games Could you make some recommendations? I'd be very interested in your list.

Sorry, you're right https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24508604

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by redisman »

gbear605 wrote: post #116
redisman wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were only a handful of games that really required it. Most people I knew only used the 3D effect as a novelty every now and then. I wonder maybe a VR 3DS emulator could emulate it the best?

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

There have been DS emulators for over a decade now.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by skyyler »

komali2 wrote: post #126
komali2 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes! Don't forget you also get GameBoy Color and GameBoy games. IMO this massive library (N3DS, 3DS, DSi, DS, GBA, GBC, GB, SNES, NES) has at least 10 "must play before death" games in them (for people that care a lot about videogames, anyway). Of course all of this can also be achieved on a PC with a simple 10$ amazon controller and free emulators, if you're comfortable pirating games.

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…

I'm very curious as to why you didn't like MM3D.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by rootsudo »

3DS is an excellent platform to learn Japanese games. I fully recommend it.

I think it's an amazing time, and the games will stand the test of time just like the original mario series because the content is rich and great vs having to fall back on pushing systems & I/O to the max.

Nothing recently has given me as much joy as to replay N64 classics on the 3DS with better graphics, added gameplay and 100% solely in Japanese after originally growing up with them as they were released in the USA/English.

The context and general idea helped alot to drive me to replay the games and relearn vocabulary in a different language. And how the games are targeted at a young audience makes full kana or furigana available, with settings to use just Kanji if you want is fantastic.

It's something that every other learning app doesn't have for Japanese - but then again when you learn more languages you don't really go for the cultural angle, you do it to communicate and use culture as a reference point.

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