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Last week's PR said they'd both be out this week, yeah. I figured it was a typo but I posted it as-is just in case.
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The gently caress NOA? I want DKC!
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Handsome Ralph posted:The gently caress NOA? I want DKC! I wouldn't expect them to put anything out in a timely manner after they flubbed SMB3's release and missed 2013. I'm expecting November or December.
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I live in Peru and registered my 3DS as such. So I cut off access to the eSHOP (since it's US only). I've been told that it's a hardware thing and I'm screwed unless I buy an American 3DS and use it in America, is this true? If I can't buy anything from the eSHOP, can I still use product codes that someone abroad gets for me?
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Oct 16, 2014 16:29
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DKC is the American version (60 hertz!).
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Oct 16, 2014 18:57
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I'm curious actually, Rare was a UK dev. Did they originally make the games in PAL and converted them to NTSC? Or did they like most devs make the NTSC version first? And in either case, was the opposite version a proper conversation?
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Oct 16, 2014 19:15
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Is Donkey Kong Land worth the cash? I'll probably get DKC anyway since I had the Wii VC release.
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Oct 16, 2014 21:58
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irlZaphod posted:Is Donkey Kong Land worth the cash? I'll probably get DKC anyway since I had the Wii VC release. Its uhh... Special. You know the prerendered detailed look of DKC? Well take that as is and translate it into a 4-color system. Probably would've been better if it was made for the Game Boy Color instead.
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Donkey Kong Land is pretty good. However I think without Super Gameboy sprites may be hard to distinguish from the background a little. SimplySimon did a good let's play of it, watch a random video from the middle and you'll get a pretty good idea.
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Admiral H. Curtiss posted:I'm curious actually, Rare was a UK dev. Did they originally make the games in PAL and converted them to NTSC? Or did they like most devs make the NTSC version first? And in either case, was the opposite version a proper conversation?
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I don't know why I was so hyped up to buy DKC today but I sure was. Oh well!
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Artix posted:Wait what I thought we were getting both Aria and Harmony this week?
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Oh well, I mean I wouldn't have time to play two metroidvanias at once anyway. Kinda annoyed that we're not getting the DK games though.
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Handsome Ralph posted:The gently caress NOA? I want DKC! I'll trade you them for the GBA Castlevanias.
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Don't Buy Donkey Kong Land  Don't Buy Donkey Kong Land
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Well yeah, its as I said, trying to emulate the look of a SNES DKC game on Gameboy without simplifying the graphics at all (or just outright redrawing them) will lead to barely comprehensible graphics and there you have it. They should've waited until the Gameboy Color to attempt that, or at least have released a DX version with colors added in like Link's Awakening or Wario Land 2 as soon as they could. Japan did that at least with Land 3. It still looks bad but at least you can tell what everything is.
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Hyrule Warriors acknowledges that I've purchased and installed the DLC, but I don't see a hint of the new characters/equipment anywhere, on any menu. Do I have to unlock this stuff through playing more or what? vvv Okay, found the clog. The game said it had prepared/installed a DLC update, but it needed to download and install another update too. vvv Space Fish fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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Space Fish posted:Hyrule Warriors acknowledges that I've purchased and installed the DLC, but I don't see a hint of the new characters/equipment anywhere, on any menu. Do I have to unlock this stuff through playing more or what? Did you restart the game from the menu to install it?
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Oct 17, 2014 00:22
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Goddamn those donkey kong games look like absolute poo poo!
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My problem with DKLand wasn't the bad graphics (though they aren't pretty), but how cheap the game is. Some enemies you just have to know where they are before the screen transitions otherwise you're dead.
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allfrogs247 posted:My problem with DKLand wasn't the bad graphics (though they aren't pretty), but how cheap the game is. Some enemies you just have to know where they are before the screen transitions otherwise you're dead. Yeah, the camera is constantly swinging around, it's nauseating.
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The controls are also really bad and unresponsive. It's a bad game.
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Akuma posted:Did you just refer to Castlevania games as metroidvanias? Did you really? I don't think it's such an unreasonable thing to say, considering not all Castlevania games are metroidvanias. The early ones are action platformers and Lords of Shadow is poo poo. Metroidvania is a genre to which some Castlevania games belong.
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Silver Falcon posted:I don't think it's such an unreasonable thing to say, considering not all Castlevania games are metroidvanias. The early ones are action platformers and Lords of Shadow is poo poo. Quite a few of them, yeah, and I believe the term was first coined in describing Symphony of the Night. The only inaccurate thing I see is that Harmony (if I remember correctly, but I played it more than eight years ago) was one of the few arcadey Castlevanias post-SotN. Heck, could well be that most of the Castlevanias by now are Metroidvanias. (or those loving garbage faux-Castlevania 3D titles)
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Nah, Harmony tries the hardest to be SotN.
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Meldonox posted:Quite a few of them, yeah, and I believe the term was first coined in describing Symphony of the Night. The only inaccurate thing I see is that Harmony (if I remember correctly, but I played it more than eight years ago) was one of the few arcadey Castlevanias post-SotN. Heck, could well be that most of the Castlevanias by now are Metroidvanias. I think Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth was the only recent old-school Castlevania style game in recent years. And that was made by M2 anyways.
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Harmony of Dissonance (the GBA game) is a metroidvania, Harmony of Despair (the XBLA/PSN game) more closely resembles a SOTN-style game than a classic CV game but it's neither of those.
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RMZXAnarchy posted:I wouldn't expect them to put anything out in a timely manner after they flubbed SMB3's release and missed 2013. I still for the life of me will never understand how they flubbed Super Mario Bros. 3's release so embarrassingly like that. Just made no sense to me. They promised us a date and then gave no explanation for why it was delayed for so long.
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Harmony of Dissonance is a lot easier than Circle of the Moon so far. Also completely garish. The last game was too dark and no one could see it! Better make this one visible from space!
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greatn posted:Harmony of Dissonance is a lot easier than Circle of the Moon so far. Also completely garish. The last game was too dark and no one could see it! Better make this one visible from space! Well, it looks good on the original unlit GBA... But yeeeah otherwise it's so drat bright that it like gives you afterimages when you close your eyes.
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I don't know, I like how it looks save for the doofy looking blue outline. Its basically Symphony of the Night 2 though. Lot of the same stuff going on, Juste looks like Alucard and such. Music's great considering it sounds like a Gameboy Color game, voice clips sound way better than they did in CotM. Its also way quicker to move around but that's probably because I can dash everywhere like in SotN.
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The Stealth Inc. 2 devs have been posting overview videos of the game, here's one on the gadgets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JwOSwZB_-M I like that they've made an effort to create unique upgrades rather than sticking to the cliche metroidvania stuff. The game was originally supposed to be out on the 23rd but it sounds like they moved it back a week.
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This week's European Eshop update says that Donkey Kong Country 2 is the PAL version (50hz).
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Aren't all the EU VC releases the PAL version if that's an option? gently caress knows why they're still doing it.
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Hakkesshu posted:Aren't all the EU VC releases the PAL version if that's an option? gently caress knows why they're still doing it.
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PAL update (week of October 23):quote:WII U RETAIL DOWNLOADS Bayo! DKC2 is listed as the PAL version, in case anyone was expecting otherwise. Namco Museum GBA contains Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Dig Dug and Pole Position, for those wondering.
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Hakkesshu posted:Aren't all the EU VC releases the PAL version if that's an option? gently caress knows why they're still doing it. Because of the language options, I assume.
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Having check the usual 3DS threads, I didn't see this get posted but Nintendo just posted ways to get the Pokemon ORAS US demo codes, along with a confirmation of two VC games coming next month. Seems fitting here:Nintendo.com posted:How to get a demo code:
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Legit upset about DKC2.
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Took em long enough to put out the Pokemon TCG game. Been waiting on that ever since Europe got it.
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Helllllllllllll yeah Pokemon TCG. Time to sell my cartridge and continue my all-digital trend.
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