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Steam games run on whatever physical platforms you have available if the developers enabled compatibility at no extra charge. (PC, Mac, and Steambox). Phone games run on both your iPad and your iPhone, or your Android and Android tablet respectably, free of charge. And they run on all future platforms you ever buy, no matter how different the phone, tablet or computer are. Buying VC games for eternity, even for a small upgrade fee, is scroogy. I don't believe you're paying for the time to code emulation, 4 generations into Nintendo's effort to port old games to newer platforms (starting with the Gamecube), you are paying for their staunch position that their brand is always worth money and they aren't going to waive any fee they could possibly charge you for. Spellman fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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FirstAidKite posted:That mode seemed more like classic mario party than the "everybody in a car" main mode. It was, but it was also a poor facsimile of one. Like a tiny board with the same layout as Monopoly. It was legitimately lamer than the car mode.
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Jan 5, 2017 15:35
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Spellman posted:Phone games run on both your iPad and your iPhone, or your Android and Android tablet respectably, free of charge. And they run on all future platforms you ever buy, no matter how different the phone, tablet or computer are. Nope. There are phone games that don't run on newer versions of the os' if the devs don't update. The world ends with you on ios was straight up removed from the app store awhile ago, I don't know if they've released a fixed version for more recent ios released or if squeenix doesn't give a gently caress.
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Jan 5, 2017 15:58
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Party Meiser posted:Nope. There are phone games that don't run on newer versions of the os' if the devs don't update. The world ends with you on ios was straight up removed from the app store awhile ago, I don't know if they've released a fixed version for more recent ios released or if squeenix doesn't give a gently caress. It's true that if a developer chooses not to update a certain app for a modern platform, it won't run, but they won't charge you again to upgrade. You own the software by virtue of having purchased it on the App Store
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Jan 5, 2017 16:01
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Continually rewriting emulators from scratch for every new console you do is far more difficult and expensive than making sure your Unity game runs OK on Linux. Still blows my mind that they managed SNES emulation on Nu3DS.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:02
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Party Meiser posted:Nope. There are phone games that don't run on newer versions of the os' if the devs don't update. The world ends with you on ios was straight up removed from the app store awhile ago, I don't know if they've released a fixed version for more recent ios released or if squeenix doesn't give a gently caress. Yeah this is very true too. There have been a few "expensive" phone games that this happened to a few of them were fixed eventually but a lot of them were just straight up removed with no hope of fixing them. Its kinda bullshit but then again I have no idea how much actual work it is to update these drat things.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:03
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MarcusSA posted:Yeah this is very true too. There have been a few "expensive" phone games that this happened to a few of them were fixed eventually but a lot of them were just straight up removed with no hope of fixing them. Probably the same kind of work that goes into getting old PC games working in modern OS's; The hardware is (fundamentally) the same, but the way system calls are made or how values are used can change wildly between OS versions simply because the new one may be geometrically more efficient. Old game's stuck expecting those specific old calls to work and thus breaks.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:14
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Spellman posted:It's true that if a developer chooses not to update a certain app for a modern platform, it won't run, but they won't charge you again to upgrade. You own the software by virtue of having purchased it on the App Store You own a license. Not the software itself.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:17
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Party Meiser posted:Nope. There are phone games that don't run on newer versions of the os' if the devs don't update. The world ends with you on ios was straight up removed from the app store awhile ago, I don't know if they've released a fixed version for more recent ios released or if squeenix doesn't give a gently caress. It was back up within a few months.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:17
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How does compensation for the developers work? If I buy Earthbound several times who gets the money?
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Jan 5, 2017 16:33
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jivjov posted:You own a license. Not the software itself. Aren't licenses mainly concerned with your legal right to change or copy the thing you bought? Depening on your definition of "ownership", you probably own both and neither.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:34
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hadji murad posted:How does compensation for the developers work? The money gets evenly divided between Ness/Paula/Jeff/Poo
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Jan 5, 2017 16:36
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Help Im Alive posted:The money gets evenly divided between Ness/Paula/Jeff/Poo No the money goes to his dad and you have to get it out of the ATM.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:37
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VideoGames can you close the thread again. Or someone post the PR.
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Jan 5, 2017 16:56
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This thread will never be closed again as ordered by the imperial senate.
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:This thread will never be closed again as ordered by the imperial senate. Jar-Jar Binks strikes again
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Jan 5, 2017 17:10
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Here's this week's NA release: quote:Wii U Download
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Jan 5, 2017 17:17
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Dr Cheeto posted:Still blows my mind that they managed SNES emulation on Nu3DS. Really? They had it for Ambassador Program members on the OG 3DS and even the original DS could pull it off with the SuperCard DS2's little co-processor.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:19
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Really? They had it for Ambassador Program members on the OG 3DS and even the original DS could pull it off with the SuperCard DS2's little co-processor. The Ambassador games were GBA titles, and they never worked as well as other Virtual Console releases
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Jan 5, 2017 17:21
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irlZaphod posted:VideoGames can you close the thread again. Wii U: Pokémon Snap A Bunch of poo poo 3DS: A Bunch of poo poo Sales: They're bad
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Jan 5, 2017 17:26
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deadwing posted:Wii U:
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Jan 5, 2017 17:31
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jivjov posted:The Ambassador games were GBA titles, and they never worked as well as other Virtual Console releases I could have sworn there was a SNES title or two in there too, but I ended up selling my ambassador 3DS between jobs to pay some bills so I could be wrong. Point still stands about the DS with the SuperCard, I sincerely doubt the normal 3DS is less powerful than that.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:33
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deadwing posted:Sales: Excuse me, I think you'll find that B3 Game Expo For Bees is on sale
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I could have sworn there was a SNES title or two in there too, but I ended up selling my ambassador 3DS between jobs to pay some bills so I could be wrong. Point still stands about the DS with the SuperCard, I sincerely doubt the normal 3DS is less powerful than that. It was 10 GBA titles, and some people cobbled together some homebrew SNES emulation on the OG3DS and it wasn't great. It was functional, in the old school "well sprites are flickering and I'm getting weird slowdown and this emulator just doesn't work with a halfdozen games" way.
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Jan 5, 2017 17:39
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jivjov posted:It was 10 GBA titles, and some people cobbled together some homebrew SNES emulation on the OG3DS and it wasn't great. It was functional, in the old school "well sprites are flickering and I'm getting weird slowdown and this emulator just doesn't work with a halfdozen games" way. I never really had much trouble with the SuperCard emulation. I obviously didn't try every single SNES game on it, but I only had the occasional bit of slowdown during stuff like heavy use of mode 7. I assume anything using a SuperFX chip would be bad, but that wouldn't really be exclusive to the SuperCard's emulator.
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One of the GBA games was the GBA port of Yoshi's Island on SNES, maybe that's how you got confused.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Nope, the closest is a few cosmetic skins in Mario Kart and Yoshi's Woolly World. Nothing major gameplay-wise that absolutely requires you to bring in a matching amiibo. I mean...theoretically that poster could be looking to get into Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival... Sorry, I couldn't say that with a straight face. Mario Party 10 also has some more significant Amiibo content, but you shouldn't get Mario Party 10.
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Jan 5, 2017 18:18
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Spellman posted:Phone games run on both your iPad and your iPhone, or your Android and Android tablet respectably, free of charge. And they run on all future platforms you ever buy, no matter how different the phone, tablet or computer are. A lot of apps are limited to downloads on three devices ever before you have to repurchase them, though.
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codenameFANGIO posted:Is someone going to tell me what games are on sale or what here??? I'm done updating this thread. Ask Jivjov nicely and he might make a new one.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I'm done updating this thread. Ask Jivjov nicely and he might make a new one. That is a huge bummer, dude.
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end of an era
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I'm done updating this thread. Ask Jivjov nicely and he might make a new one. Please make one in the imp zone and I'll keep it troll free
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Please people. Report the trolls in Nintendo threads. I don't like seeing good thread ideas go down the pan.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I'm done updating this thread. Ask Jivjov nicely and he might make a new one. Sad to see you go  this was always my go-to for the eshop release news.
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How feasible is it to play Tokyo Mirage Sessions on the gamepad alone? Does it do any weird dual-screen stuff that I'd be missing out on?
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I don't think it's possible at all, there's no off tv option from what I can remember. It doesn't even have game audio coming out of the gamepad which bugged me e: it's a great game though! Help Im Alive fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jan 6, 2017 |
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Sarchasm posted:How feasible is it to play Tokyo Mirage Sessions on the gamepad alone? Does it do any weird dual-screen stuff that I'd be missing out on? You literally can't. It's still totally worth playing, but you must have a TV for it.
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Maaaaaaaaaaan that's dumb. Thanks for the responses.
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anatomi posted:Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but are there any Wii U games that have substantial Amiibo-locked content? Looking into buying a used console, want to know if I should be hunting for those stupid figurines as well. If you complete the bonus dungeon added to TPHD you can save the amount of hearts you had remaining to the Wolf Link amiibo, scan it into BotW and Wolf Link will accompany you with the same amount of hearts. (you can still do this with a blank Wolf Link amiibo but he'll only have 3 hearts)
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I hope we get an updated version of Tokyo Mirage Sessions for the Switch. It was an amazing game that was held back by dumb design/technical issues. I'm not sure what it was that broke me. The noticeable delay whenever you opened the menu (which you needed to do a lot), having to run down a long rear end corridor every time you wanted to switch/create weapons for your mirage, or having to look at the same stupid animation every time you forged a new weapon. That game loved to waste your time.
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