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Well, I was going to test all kinds of games which use the D-Pad with this SNES controller... ...three hours later and I'm still playing The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past This is as much an endorsement to the enduring quality of the game as much as it is the quality of the controller though of course.

Yeah, when it comes to CEX they can be useful for getting rid of a load of titles worth £3 - £10 or so, I did that initially just to get some of the volume of games I had down, I had boxes of PS2 games etc before going down to CEX a few times but now that I've got to the other stuff in my main collection it's tougher because say a game is worth £30... traded in to CEX they'll maybe give you £12 and then they make that £18 back or sometimes more when they routinely put their prices up after checking eBay every month or so. If you put that £30 game on eBay, especially at a time when there's £1 maximum valuation fees, then you'd still make back £27 after ebay fees, paypal and your postage (which you often put down as an extra cost to the buyer anyway) I have a little bit of experience with eBay, mostly just from selling stuff from my collection and while I don't know a lot, I have learned a bit since having to use it a bit more following me leaving my job earlier in the year, it has certainly been a learning curve and it makes you really go over what you have and what you really want to keep or don't, it takes a lot of time but I feel it's worth doing. Anyway, I just thought I'd mention it in case you did end up with a load of titles you really didn't want as I'd gladly cover your postage costs and whatever envelope or box you might need to buy in order to post them. only if it was a help to you though, no pressure. I understand that it's hard to go through your collection as well, recently I took all of my DS and 3DS boxes out from where they were to make more room and to go through them, I saw games in there which I hadn't played in years but some of them I just thought I might as well keep as I never know if I might want to play them again one day, same for GBA and GBC/GB games, I've got all the carts in a display rack so that I can play them easily now if I want to but all of the boxes are in a large plastic box at the moment. It's hard to know what to do with a lot of games that you love but maybe haven't played in a while, I know that if I decided to then I could probably make back a reasonable amount by selling a lot of my collection, not a fortune or anything but enough to carry on living reasonably well and this is always in the back of my mind as I feel that if I really needed to sell games in an emergency then I could but until then if/when that happens, I'll just prioritise and enjoy the games I have while I have them.

It's a tricky one, I've been going for a mixture of selling some myself online, selling some of the things I probably wouldn't get around to sorting to someone who deals in games and collectables while getting a bit back for them but not as much as if I'd sold them myself and charity but only if the items are really not worth the time and/or are only worth less than a few pounds, although we do give other stuff to our local charity shops that might be worth a little bit but that just aren't worth us selling ourselves as a household. You say that Tetris on the 3DS doesn't go for much though, I just checked and you can still get £8 - £10 for a good condition boxed copy. If you ended up with a few 3DS games (or for any platform) which you feel aren't worth selling then I'd gladly take a few off your hands and give you the money for postage if that's something you'd feel comfortable with? There might be some titles that I'm missing from my collection and I'd never throw away any cases or anything, I make sure that they're all reused if they can be in the case of empty boxes and I can usually find a new home for them. Mind you, that's kind of how I ended up with too many games in the first place I'd pick them up here, there and everywhere and if anyone was offering games then I'd usually buy them off them if offered them, I don't mind taking on a few games here and there as I have the time to now and being that Im in the process of going through all my collection by format, systematically it's the best time while I'm in that frame of mind. Equally someone else on here might want some of the titles as well, you never know? And if you were looking for any games in particular on any platform then I might be able to help you out with some games I was thinking of parting with anyway as a trade. Let me know what you think but if we can help each other out then that can only be a good thing.

Just got the SNES controller out of the box and the most important thing from my point of view? It works wired in addition to wireless. So it is just like a Pro Controller and you won't need to update it out of the box. The ZL and ZR buttons seem to double up as the capture and home buttons when using the SNES software. Also, the sound effects are a neat little extra.

The controllers arrived today! So, I guess I'll get on writing some sort of article about them soon.

N-Eaction: DS Games on the Switch With the recent announcement of Brain Training being brought to the Switch, we thought it would be interesting to look at other potential DS games for the Switch. In it we look at games which would work, titles that only really fit being on the original DS and possibly unrealistic examples which we'd just love to see return. Thanks to @Glen-i & @Vileplume2000 for their input and @RedShell for making another excellent set of graphics. Enjoy and let us know which DS games you would like to see come out on the Switch in the future, if any at all.

Thanks, I appreciate you typing that out as it gives a clearer idea for the general vision of the video series and I do like the sound of it the more I read about it. I've posted a thread in the staff section so that should get the ball rolling and see if we can figure out who can devote time and various skills to this project on a regular basis. We'll be sure to keep you and the rest of forum updated but it really does sound promising from the outset, we'll see anyway.

The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature is heading to the Switch in 2020. River City Melee Mach!! launches today, check out the trailer.

Definitely, then I could post it in the staff section and it would be a good way to keep track of ideas etc and who's on board. It's sounding promising though.

Yep, it'd be excellent to have Glen involved, especially for Smash, I've learned a fair bit just from playing Smash each week even though I've still much to learn. Glad to hear that you don't really want cameras involved, I'm probably happier just providing voice if required, I don't mind real names so much but if you like we can just stick to forum names but I would have thought first names would be fine? Yep, seconding this... what I was going to say is that we could talk about it in the staff section and see about who can do what in addition to talking about it here. I think this could work very well as this sounds like a good fit for the site and our community.

That's good to hear as I'm not that brilliant at Smash either, I was just talking about improving my Smash skills a bit in the online thread only last night as well. Yes, it's good to have a safety net I think, in the past when we've made certain podcast style videos on N-E some of them have gone better than others. Would people taking part have to appear on camera or is it more that we'd have some Smash streaming/playing and it's more about just the audio side of things? This is something which I think could be put under the N-Europe banner, potentially but we'd have to discuss it more but as long as the staff are happy, I don't see why not. Obviously it's not my decision to make ultimately as besides, we'd need help putting all this together and we have been talking about trying to do make more video content.

This sounds like an interesting idea @LazyBoy and it has potential to work as well, so I'd tentatively be interested depending on how everything is set up. It sounds fine in principal from what you've described though and I can see that you've done your research on similar shows which are already available.

Thanks for the games everyone! And cheers for the advice @Glen-i I do feel like I'm playing Smash wrong at times as I do like using those special moves... a lot. But I could definitely learn to pratice a bit more on my basic attacks in single player, I think my trouble is I haven't played single player since late last year. I should get back on that.

Now I'm just confused... but I'm sorry that you felt singled out.

Well if that's the case then no worries @viceview51 as I also thought my performance was appalling as well. I just took the appalling to mean that myself and @martinist had done something which is frowned upon in battle mode. If it's the latter then I'll of course apologise but if it's just the case that I did badly in battle mode then I agree as it's par for the course for me. Except for Bob-Omb Battle, I don't seem to do too badly on that mode.

In what way exactly? If I've done anything which is considered genuinely out of order then please tell me and I'll apologise. But... it is Battle mode so I feel like I'm missing something here.

Oh yeah, that as well. Good shout on the Arlo video, will check that out later.

Switch Sales Surpass 10 Million on the front page. Now Nintendo about all that money you've made from the Switch so far... Maybe it's time to buy up some loyal developers who are in a spot of financial difficulty? It would be worthwhile in the long run as I'm sure Mario & Luigi on the Switch would sell tonnes.

Mistover is a Roguelike created buy Krafton available now on the Switch eShop for £24.99 Check the article for the details and a trailer.

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Same. Very enjoyable remix though @ArtMediocre great stuff.

Sega Lord X with a video on Streets of Rage Remake has anyone else played this one PC? I'm pretty sure I have at some point and I remember it being really good. Seeing it in this video just makes me wish that it would get an official port from Sega in an almost Sonic Mania style fashion. Well, at least we are getting Streets of Rage 4 which I also can't wait for but if this ever got an official port, I think it would sell loads.

Stop Skeletons From Fighting with a video all about Kenji Eno who I knew nothing about despite owning both D and Enemy Zero on the Saturn for many years now. I feel like I should play through them both properly soon in his memory as it seems like he was a real force in the industry at the time. Maybe I should see about picking up an NTSC copy of D2 on the Dreamcast at some point... I wish I'd picked it up years ago, it's kind of rare now.

Ordered it... I can't really afford it but then, it's £21.45 after discount, it seems like a reasonably priced, decent single player game from a new developer who I'd like to support. Plus it looks wonderful, it might just be the game to help get me out of this gaming rut I've been feeling like I've been stuck in for ages now. I really hope this does well.

Oh yeah, I meant to say earlier, my controllers shipped this afternoon. Once they arrive I'll see about doing a hands-on feature for the site.