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Xik posted:There are a couple of nice looking things in there, but yeah the options are pretty slim. Yeah there's been some really nice stuff on there but the primary problem is that they cost literally thousands of stars, and those stars expire. You'd need to buy every console and every first party game to earn enough stars for some of the high end stuff and hope they don't arbitrarily reset your stars. Why yes, I am bitter that they removed thousands of stars from my account, how did you know?
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There's also a promotion for Runner 2 on the Pal Wii U eshop, (-25%) And oh boy, Revenge of the Gator. I remember being with my grandma in a used games shop back in the day, hesitating between Gator and Link's Awakening. Tried them out both and went for...Link's Awakening duh.  I kind of want to get it now to make amends 
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Discount Viscount posted:Yeah, Gator is fun enough but very very basic, Pinball Land is the culmination of HAL's triple-tier pinball trilogy with some actual interesting goals to shoot for.
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Minidust posted:Are you limited to the orignal GameBoy buttons, or does the VC emulation allow you to map the flippers to the 3DS shoulder buttons? That would be neat. I think on the VC you can map the buttons to whatever you want on a game by game basis.
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Sega's VC stuff might, but Nintendo's definitely doesn't.
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Sega's VC stuff might, but Nintendo's definitely doesn't. Sega does what Nintendon't 
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:Sega's VC stuff might, but Nintendo's definitely doesn't. Except on the WiiU, where you can map anything to anything, multiple times if you want, or even autofire. The WiiU emulator is some serious poo poo. In fact it's so much better than the 3DS one I can't believe they're from the same house. I guess the 3DS doesn't have enough power to run a robust backend and accurate emulation at the same time (remember, Nintendo is very particular about their emulators. The Sega-made ones probably aren't as accurate. Baseless speculation though). Or more likely they just don't give a poo poo.
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Why yes, I am bitter that they removed thousands of stars from my account, how did you know? Nintendo email you every month with your Stars balance and how many are set to expire that month. But yes it was better when they didn't expire and when they used to do 5 Stars a day for visiting the NoE site.
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Sodium Chloride posted:Nintendo email you every month with your Stars balance and how many are set to expire that month. They were emailing a defunct email address and I so rarely logged in to my stars account because I never expected they might expire. All of them expired at once, it didn't seem to be a month by month thing. Either way, I just don't bother putting in the codes any more. If I want Mario desktop backgrounds I'll just use google images.
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Rirse posted:Wasn't it about this time when the new Club Nintendo rewards were suppose to go up? Probably because it's Labor Day. More likely than not, we'll see them tomorrow.
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The initial press release was missing a few things, so here it is again... PAL update (week of September 5): quote:WII U RETAIL DOWNLOADS Epic Mickey for Wii U/3DS are getting permanent price reductions on the eShop; you can still get both of 'em at retail for less, and you shouldn't ever buy the Wii U game, but it's still something.
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The Giana Sisters devs have confirmed that the game will be coming out in NA this week, for $14.99. They also mentioned that the PAL WU release is outselling the PSN version, which is kinda interesting.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:They also mentioned that the PAL WU release is outselling the PSN version, which is kinda interesting. Isn't there a similar thing occurring with the Wii U version of Rayman Legends outselling the other platforms in Europe or the UK or whatever?
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^^Kinda, yeah. In both cases I suspect it's because the game didn't sell terribly well on any platform... Anyway, Capcom confirmed that D&D: Cjronicles of Mystara will be out this Thursday in NA and next Thursday in PAL-land. About drat time.
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Dreamcast/Neo Geo homebrew dudes NG.DEV.TEAM just announced a crowdfunding campaign to bring their game Gunlord to 3DS and Wii U: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gunlord-for-3ds-and-wiiu Couldn't be any more like Turrican if it tried. EDIT: have a trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b1h41hVg_8 PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Sep 3, 2013 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:The Giana Sisters devs have confirmed that the game will be coming out in NA this week, for $14.99. Wait, its coming out on 3DS and Vita?! drat it I cant afford to buy this game two more times! But its so much fun! We're talking about Twisted Dreams right?
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Dreamcast/Neo Geo homebrew dudes NG.DEV.TEAM just announced a crowdfunding campaign to bring their game Gunlord to 3DS and Wii U: Needs a Chris Hülsbeck soundtrack. Hell, the devs are even German.
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As someone who remembers the Commodore 64 game getting pulled from shelves, I can't believe Giana Sisters is actually a living franchise in 2013. That's hilarious.
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Here are the new NA Club Nintendo digital rewards: Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (Wii VC [NES]) - 150 Coins Pilotwings (Wii VC [SNES]) - 150 Coins Art Academy: First Semester (DSiWare) - 150 Coins Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis March Again (DSiWare) - 150 Coins
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I can't buy dsiware because the icons are ugly.
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Kevyn posted:As someone who remembers the Commodore 64 game getting pulled from shelves, I can't believe Giana Sisters is actually a living franchise in 2013. That's hilarious.
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Does anyone remember Rage of the Gladiator, one of WiiWare's least terrible games? No? Well, it's coming to 3DS eShop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3NH0JKJAhY
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Does anyone remember Rage of the Gladiator, one of WiiWare's least terrible games? No? Well, it's coming to 3DS eShop: Punch-Out meets God of War? I can dig it. Looks kinda janky though.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Does anyone remember Rage of the Gladiator, one of WiiWare's least terrible games? No? Well, it's coming to 3DS eShop: Seen a friend of mine stream it and it was honestly looked fun, even if a bit janky.
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homeless snail posted:People keep saying its good, I should probably give it a shot, but every time I see it on Steam my first thought is the horrible copyright infringing SMB knockoff piece of poo poo from the Commodore. Talk about poor brand identity. Fun fact: the first return of Giana Sisters was on Nintendo DS with the explicit approval of Nintendo. The original Giana Sisters just copied most of the base gameplay and levels from SMB while it tried to have its own graphics and style, Giana Sisters DS was something completely different (so the Steam/WiiU version). The difference between GGS and SMB however were deep: there were no underwater levels and the "fire flower" became something like an energy ball that bounced without respecting gravity (something like Mr.Do!), but not so marked for a judge to see that the level structure was a direct plagiarism from SMB.
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Ironically the fact that Nintendo forced Rainbow Arts to withdraw The Giana Sisters from stores concreted it a legendary status. I know back in the day they talked about it as "The Game Nintendo Banned." Nowadays it's considered a classic on the C64-platform.
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limaCAT posted:Fun fact: the first return of Giana Sisters was on Nintendo DS with the explicit approval of Nintendo. Actually, the DS version wasn't THAT dissimilar from the C64 version. It definitely felt like "an even odder take on what was clearly similar to Mario", but you could still see the influence in it. Twisted Dreams however is a very different game.
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The new one looks like a classic DKC title.
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HD Shantae Kickstarter! Wii U, PC and a bunch more consoles. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1236620800/shantae-half-genie-hero?ref=live
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:HD Shantae Kickstarter! Wii U, PC and a bunch more consoles. I...I can't pour any more money into Kickstarted games... I just can't... But drat if another Shantae game isn't tempting...
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Yeah I put money down on the Shantae Kickstarter, Shantae owns. Surprised to see they list PS4 and the Bone as target release platforms.
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Evil Canadian posted:Yeah I put money down on the Shantae Kickstarter, Shantae owns. Steam is surprising though, considering they only just got through Greenlight for the Risky's Revenge port.
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The Kins posted:Wayforward does a lot of licensed contract work to pay the bills, so its not really all that surprising that they'd have their engine up and running on those platforms already to make the next generation of mediocre Nickelodeon adaptions. I love how they show some of those said licensed contract work in their about section. If I didn't know the quality WayFoward puts into their original games beforehand I'd put the lovely licensed games as my first impression.
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Wayforward actually does make some decent licensed games, including an Aliens game which is considered better than Colonial Marines.
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I'm pretty sure their Smurfs game is better than Colonial Marines.
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PAL update (week of September 5):quote:WII U RETAIL DOWNLOADS NA update (week of September 5): quote:WII U eSHOP Plenty of decent stuff for NA this week. Recca is god.
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Waffleman_ posted:Wayforward actually does make some decent licensed games, including an Aliens game which is considered better than Colonial Marines. Aliens Infestation is criminally underrated. It's dirt cheap now, everyone should check it out.
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Whoops, someone mentioned Aliens Infestation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi5hWNnsLm0
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