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n-europe Presents VC Weekly #389 R-Type Bonk's Adventure New Adventure Island Street Fighter Alpha 2 Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers Return of the TG-16... ...with reviews from myself & Dean. Plus Street Fighter II (again) but on the smaller screen. Check inside for the verdicts. Enjoy! : peace:

The only one I'm really warming to is the Pro Controller at the moment, because it has a proper D-Pad and looks like a "best of" pad made up of the Wii U Pro controller, Xbox one layout and sticks with triggers which remind me of the PS4's DS4. Overall though yeah, the Pro Controller lacks that traditional Nintendo style but then perhaps that's what they're aiming for with it? Just giving gamers what they want with the more traditional controller, then doing their own thing with the unit as a portable. All I'm saying though it that it would be good to have the option of a Joy-Con with a D-pad instead of the awkward compromise which is those buttons, aside from that I'm happy enough with it conceptually although once you detach the Joy-Cons they do look tiny... I imagine that's what it would be like if you could detach the controls say from a New 3DS though and have the machine just set on a desk in front of you. Hopefully we'll see more details and updated controller options in the future. : peace:

Nice 3D render here... https://sketchfab.com/models/c2d8eef2b22841abacb0209465bfee0f/embed Shows the Switch from all angles.

Well it seems @Glen\-i, @Ugh first aid and I really tore up some monsters last night... ...and got torn up by one or two as well. :p That monster though, the big floaty one with the lightning storms and proectiles of death... yeah that one, what an encounter! I can't wait to try that again, though perhaps with four players as was remarked afterwards. (sorry if it appeared that I bailed early last night, that wasn't the case, I was going to say... "Thanks for some... truly excellent hunts!" before bidding you both good night but I got DC'd so sorry about that, the router tends to switch off around just before 1am on its timer switch which is why I'll tend to play online until around 12:30am...ish but we were doing so well so I stayed longer. But that Hyper Zinogre at the end, got well and truly butchered! I think it was partly that I was concious of the time but damn if that hunt didn't come together rather perfectly. It was a fun evening, hopefully we can all play again soon. : peace:

... For this reason and many more, I'm glad I stopped supporting GAME a long time ago. They won't convince many potential buyers by charging for a demo surely?

That's pretty sad news regardless of how much time has passed, I mean you studied together and had that shared life experience. Never good to hear such news, it reminded me when I found out that one of my tutors from when I went to college many years ago took his own life... It was years after I'd left but it still has an effect on you; in my case I discovered it in the local newspaper. I suppose there's not really much else to say other than that I hope you're doing alright though.

This happened the first time I got the dlc, I think I just had to go along with it... try to get the dlc again then it reverts back to downloaded state, you go back to the game/title screen and it should then say "new cups unlocked" or something like that; sorry I can't remember exactly how it happened, it's a bit shoddy initially that it does that but once it's working it will work fine from that point.

Well that was certainly an eventful evening! Glen-i and I, seemed to flit between Arena quests and Operation Astalos Decimation and General Assault in pursuit of two electrogems so that I could finally fully upgrade my armour to maximum. First quest, got one! Second... nope! Third... kidding right? Forth(?) didn't think so... then the last quest came and Glen asked, Any Luck? to which I replied, I didn't get one as my hunter fell to the ground in a rather weary state... ...before getting up and proclaiming, I got TWO! on the very last quest of the evening! Really chuffed, we really ripped through Astalos with great efficiency again as well, not bad for an evenings work. : peace:

Yeah but this is on the Xbox One where it's the opening weekend for it so I'm guessing the keys apply in this instance? It's a silly situation due to this exclusivity deal going on, I know I guess I could just download it on my PS4 now but, I kind of want to keep the COD games on the Xbox One as it seems to be my default console for shooters for some reason. So if anyone wants a key to play the Xbox One version, just ask... out of curiosity I checked online and people are actually selling them for a couple of pounds per code which seems a bit daft, I'm happy to just give them away anyway.

So... I got beta codes for the Xbox One version, they gave me five codes to share with friends as well (now four as I've already given one away) but if anyone wants a code then just give me a shout. The beta starts today in a few hours I think, I'm not too fussed but I may pop on over the weekend, oh and it's 19.33GB to download. :p

Yo, you know it fo sho... Glen-Ayyyye! We be reckin' 'dem monstas good, word! I was thinkin' round 8 if that be good for you, brotha? Fo shizzle, fa rizzle... peace out! :awesome: I'm clearly so "down" with the street speak... but yeah, see you online at 8... G-dawg.

I've been thinking in terms of the rumoured specifications and what they could mean for the Virtual Console... With those kinds of specs, surely a portable Gamecube VC could now be a reality? I've given up hope on ever seeing it happen on the Wii U now (reluctantly I deleted the empty GC folder on my home screen, replacing it with a TG-16 one) but for the Switch, especially with those triggers it has to happen. You can already get Android gaming devices which run everything up to Dreamcast (presumably they run well? I have no idea) and the Switch seems significantly more powerful than those so I'm definitely going to hold out hope for more powerful games being released on the Virtual Console. Obviously there's the whole space issue but if you can get 512GB SD cards now then... that would at least store a fair amount but speaking of patches and whatnot, perhaps Games like Skyrim won't even get a release until Nintendo are sure that the game is at a stable enough point that it won't be getting any more significant patches for a while, so perhaps you just get what's on the (probably already sizable) game card... or there will be intense compression technology used for such files, I have no idea but it will surely be interesting to find out. There's so much we don't know yet but at least now we've had a glimpse of the future and at first glance, I rather like it. : peace:

Apparently these are the rumoured specs, though I don't know how accurate they are... I don't confess to knowing much regarding specs but they don't sound out of the realms of possibility after what we've seen.

I thought as much! :p Now that I've seen that artwork though, I kind of want a 2D Mario Pikachu platformer, or at the very least a series of officially made levels by Nintendo within Super Mario Maker.

Perhaps it would be good to add (Merchandise) to the title... As interesting as this is (more Hanafuda cards are always good!) I read the title "Mario & Pokémon Crossover" and well... what's the first thing that comes into your head? I thought we had a new Wii U/3DS/Switch game just announced for a moment, anyway it's still cool though. : peace:

The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD - £17.09 on Tesco http://www.tesco.com/direct/wii-u-the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker-hd/390-6678.prd?skuId=390-6678 For reference, this is the original release as the Selects version is also for sale at £14 but if you wanted the game and also wanted to avoid the less than desirable Selects artwork then £3 seems a small price to pay plus you probably won't see the original version of the game around for much longer so worth grabbing an extra copy for collector purposes as well possibly? @Hero\-of\-Time ?

@Glen\-i and I, made a pretty formidable team this evening, although I didn't quite get up to HR lvl 64.5... I did get to HR 44 by the end of the evening, so there's that! A few standout moments but the best had to be the moment a Zinogre was about to finish off poor Glen as he was at low health and dazed, I noticed it was near death so I combo'd the beast and killed it just as it was a mere half-second away from a one-hit K-O! Plenty of other decent hunts, rounded off with a traditional assault on Astalos which was butchered pretty efficiently! Part of me can't wait to see what kind of Monster Hunter game we end getting on the Nintendo Switch but there's plenty of time until then.

Sure, I'll be on soon. Level 64.5 or bust...

Watching it with the Easy Allies now as well. 1 min! https://www.twitch.tv/easyallies

Here... https://www.nintendo.co.uk/index.html Just refresh the page at 3PM as far as I know. : peace:

There's still time... *realises that it's in three hours* There's no time, there's no time! Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. Soon it will be time for the real speculation to begin! :bouncy:Hype!:bouncy:Hype!:bouncy:Hype!

Are you thinking in terms of starting with Litten, then when it fully evolves switching over to Rowlet? I think it's easier to get starter Pokémon these days, especially with the Breeding Centre presumably being available and there being online trading, I'm sure people on here would be more than willing to help you out with the trade as well... in fact, at what point in the game will you be needing a Rowlet? It's 100% likely that I'll be starting with Rowlet so depending on how early in the game the Breeding Centre is, I could breed it and trade you one? Though I'm guessing I'll also need a Ditto as well. We'll see anyway but I'll help if I can.

Happy Birthday Daft! Here's a picture of Aqua Man... ...amidoingitright? :p

Oh yeah, that... I was more referring to the act of buying games and then not playing them but I think we can let you off in this instance seeing as you no doubt would have played it on the Wii if you could have done.