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Why not find out what the Switch Dock costs on its own, buy the Switch with the dock, then sell the dock on its own with the hdmi cable for slightly less than the set? That would give you the machine for around that price I'd imagine. Do you not think that the dock is something you'd use with the Switch though? I must admit that as nice as playing the games in portable mode is, when I go from undocked to docked and displaying on the big screen with Zelda, it's really nice to just take in all the extra details which really come to life on the TV at slightly higher resolution. I suppose if you wanted a cheaper option down the line, you could just buy a HDMI to USB C cable which I believe does the same thing, only without all that extra plastic, though I'm not sure about the charging though as the dock handles both of those things at the same time. Just a thought anyway. : peace:

So on the Nintendo Store currently... Nintendo Switch Power Adapter £24.99 If they sold it sperately... Nintendo Branded HDMI Cable £9.99 (because that Nintendo tax) Therefore without those two items... Nintendo Switch Dock (solus) £14.99 Which would mean that the rrp of the Nintendo Switch dock set should be £49.99 Though they could really do themselves a favour by selling them for around £30 which would still prove profitable for them and would be better for the consumer.

n-europe Presents VC Weekly #402 Bomberman '94 Gradius Some classic Bomberman... ...plus another good version of Gradius. Check inside for the verdicts. Enjoy! : peace:

I bet you did... Of course I checked all the pictures you linked to, it wasn't lost on me that they were all of Mai. Accidentally... of course I believe you. They are really nice screenshots though, I only wish that I'd taken them myself, you know... accidentally. :p In all seriousness though, it is a really hard game, tougher than I remember it being the first time I played it on the Wii Virtual Console but it's still just as rewarding, if not even more so. : peace:

I like the Joy-Cons... ...but I adore the Pro Controller. What I do love though is your enthusiasm for them @nekunando and the way that they seem to be fitting in well with your gaming life for you and your wife. It's nice because you can just play any way you want to, the Pro Controller just feels right to me for every game so far but I play Zelda in portable mode a fair bit as well, especially when scanning in amiibo figures, Joy-Cons are certainly easier for that. Of course when ARMS is released, I'll certainly be getting more mileage out of them, I might even end up using the second coloured pair I've had sitting on my desk, attached to the charging grip for the past couple of months, I even have the mini wheel shells for Mario Kart which I've yet to even take out of the box... I think I just need more time to get used to them, one thing I really like is that they feel so much better in portable mode than the sliders on the 3DS ever were, plus I don't have to worry so much about breaking them like the one on my old 3DS XL which I totally destroyed over time thanks largely to Monster Hunter.

n-europe Review ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters '94 : peace:

n-europe Presents VC Weekly #401 Castlevania: Dracula X Apologies for this poor imitation of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood being released again... ...even if it is portable. :wink: Just because you can take this game with you, doesn't mean you should. Hopefully TG-16 games on the Switch will be a reality so that people can play the best version of the game on the go. Check inside for the verdict. Enjoy! : peace:

I don't think it's the same as it was where you could upload directly to YouTube with the Wii U version, yet... it'll probably be updated when the online goes over to being subscription based. As for screenshots, are you using a Micro SD card? You can just put it in an adapter, read the files on your PC and just copy the screens you want and upload them from there... as for directly from the console, again not yet. Nintendo are missing a trick and I'm sure they know it, hopefully. I'm envisioning a cloud-based system being made available - using Lakitu as the character to promote it of course - where you can upload all your game saves, screenshots and videos with ease. Well, we can dream anyway. --------------------------- Has anyone beaten all of the Time Trial times set by the Nintendo staff yet? I'm working my way through them and I've got about halfway so far with all of my times uploaded. Oh and I tried out half the battle mode arenas last night as well, really fun, I can't wait to try them out online but I'm now thinking about getting that wired adapter... if only Nintendo would fix the Wi-Fi which apparently has been broken since the first update!

Looks like I'll be waiting for that potential physical release then.

Good... now just reprint Darksiders: Warmastered Edition for PS4/Xbox One between now and 2018, reprint Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition - if required - and this should put Darksiders III in a good position to sell well by the time it's released. As for me, I do actually own the first two games on the Xbox 360... they are still sealed as well - picked them up when they were cheap - I'll just keep them as potential collectable games for the future at this point. I've just ordered the re-releases for Xbox One, cost about £28 for the two from different places - first game ShopTo, second game Gameseek via eBay - so maybe I'll actually get around to playing them this time before the third game is released. To anyone else in the same situation, I'd get these titles now before they become rare or hard to find, I can see it happening. Because of what happened a few years ago(?) with the uncertain future of the franchise, I think that's why I perhaps didn't want to get invested but now I'm more than happy to. Now, if it was confirmed that we'd be getting all the games on the Switch, I would have considered waiting to get them all on there - Darksiders: Warmasted Edition is still coming out on Wii U afterall - but due to the uncertainty and me feeling that the game belongs more on an Xbox platform - to me - I'm now all in for all the games on Xbox One. I've got to get some multiformat titles for the console afterall, at this point my PS4 collection outnumbers my Xbox One collection at a ratio of 3:1 and even that's being kind by rounding down the number of Playstation titles. : peace:

Nope, I've been using a 200GB micro SD card since day one and while all of my game data installs etc are on the card, all of the saves are locked to the Switch console itself. I'm guessing, cloud storage and system transfer coming at a later date...

In case anyone doesn't know, if you've registered your Mii as the owner of any amiibo figure then you can use the data stored on it to copy your Mii to your Nintendo Switch console.

It seems that must be Nintendo using that HD Rumble, that's just the sound that the motor makes whenever you pick up a coin, at first I was thinking "What the heck is that?!?" but after a race or two I've found that I quite like the sound.

Thanks, I'm glad it's not just me that goes through the GP grind on all speeds. Apparently people are finding ways to farm the coins by setting up two racers and letting them control themselves with auto settings, I think I'll just stick to the grind though as it's fun to notice all the differences with each course. Besides, I use a different character for each GP and try out all the kart parts as they get unlocked so it keeps things interesting. : peace:

As in you'll get a gold trophy and three stars symbol underneath all the cups on all previous cc ratings? I didn't realise it stacked to that degree, it hasn't always surely? If it has then I feel a bit dumb for always grinding through all the difficulties for every game. Oh well, more coins for the unlocks I suppose. : peace:

A very fair point. Oh well, at least you can enjoy local multiplayer as well as online. Sometimes games like Bomberman are at their very best when you get a few people together, especially as all the action is on one playing field. Often my brothers and I have just played with two of us plus bots which is still fun but I think the game will shine even more as the extra dlc gets released.

I'm glad to hear that you're enjoying it and that you finally bought a Switch! Suddenly there's now Bomberman, Puyo Puyo Tetris and Mario Kart to play as multiplayer options all because of one epic weekend of releases! : peace: (well two games, but still) If you want to play multiplayer later or if anyone else would like to as well then please let me know, I was only able to play slightly laggy multiplayer last weekend - and that's WITH the good connection only setting - yet I still won a few matches but it would be nice to play with the N-E community and hopefully some more stable connections. Let me know either way as I'm sure that it would be... (•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■) ...a blast! YYEEAAHH!

Aw man, I'm gutted for you. What exactly was wrong with your Switch that you had to send it in? I'm thinking that if anything went really wrong with mine - so far just negative colours briefly after playing Mario Kart - it would have to be unplayable for me to consider sending it in knowing that they would delete everything. System transfers and cloud saves really need to be sorted out asap or even just a way to backup data locally.

So I had my first weird anomaly with the Switch last night, I left it on the title screen of Mario Kart 8 and I got the inverted colours issue, this extended to the UI as well but I think after quitting the game and just taking the console out of the dock it was fine, as in this only happened on the TV screen to my knowledge so I'm not too concerned but just thought it was worth mentioning at this point seeing as my Switch has been fine apart from this.

Well I just got my copy this morning and ended up playing it for a good hour and a half before having to head out to work, I started playing on the big screen then went undocked and back to the big screen again... aside from changing controllers easily in the home menu which is fine, absolutely seamless. I've been noticing plenty of little details which either weren't there before or I just didn't notice, it really makes this feel like the definitive version that it is being marketed as. Though I did notice when I took my game card out of the box, each one of the contacts was already scratched in a straight line - possibly due to testing, no idea - but it works fine so all is well and best of all from it now being on a cartridge based format, the load times feel like they've been more than halved, so that's three seconds to load the title screen plus about ten seconds or less to load each GP which I tested up to the Special Cup... these are all most welcome improvements.

Thanks for the games. Or should that be... thanks for DESTROYING me @Glen\-i it seemed that we were both doing pretty well at certain points in the matches but alas... to no avail, Dean still reigns supreme at Puyo Puyo Tetris it seems. I clearly need to, git gud and fast! :p

10:30 ish? But that's the time now... that's ludicrous! There's only one way to settle this, and that's to BATTLE!

Ready whenever you are, I'll be playing Single Player until then.

Yes, I can play anytime from whenever until... 11:30PM or so? I've just got to unseal my Switch copy of the game... ...the PS4 copy will probably stay sealed in the PS4 Tower until someone challenges me to multiplayer on that platform.

n-europe Review ACA NeoGeo Neo Turf Masters : peace: