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I rolled up to the league about 1 minute to eight and I yelled to the crew, yo holmes system update! (be right there)

Is your body ready? (because mine sure isn't) Interesting to see Nintendo exploring more avenues with the Switch but I think Wii Fit U was enough for me.

I'm shocked, shocked... ...well not that shocked.

Well, at least we have a month to prepare... ...It's still not enough. Rajang Hype!

Sega Lord X with a video on Owning and Collecting for the Sega Saturn in 2019 which covers a wide range of games, hardware, availability, reliability of games and consoles and more. It even covers other ways of playing Saturn games such as the Polymega which I've been interested in for a while not just for Saturn games but for Turbografx and other machines. You can't beat owning the original hardware though if you've got a working console in good condition paired with a nice cable and some games that you enjoy playing.

Fair point, in that case it's just Snatcher (if I see it cheap) and Robo Aleste (if I see it for a good price, at the right time) as there isn't much else I need to own on the Mega-CD... probably. I missed this video yesterday, don't know how... it was 09/09/19 yesterday, so... Sega Lord X with a video on 09/09/99 which was the launch of the Sega Dreamcast in America... Where the hell did those twenty years go? I remember picking up my Dreamcast at the end of 2001 I think for £50 new from Dixons and then I got a load of my Dreamcast games when they were cheap. Then years later I went and bought a load of Dreamcast games that I always wanted to get, took me a while but I now have most of the DC games I'll ever want to play. Now I've just got to get to a state where I can easily set up my Dreamcast and play it.

Astral Chain Story Trailer Maybe don't watch if you don't want any spoilers. I watched it, I'm only a few hours in and it makes me want to get right back into playing it. It's just a shame that Astral Chain and Monster Hunter World: Iceborne had to release with weeks of each other, not to mention the other games coming soon... On the other hand, plenty to play from now until the end of the year and beyond but I must make time for Astral Chain as it's a really well made title with a lot of love put into it.

Nice, so you got your copies of Momodora and The Messenger as well I see then @Sméagol I got the alternative cover, I think I pre-ordered it with Special Reserve or nearly did and then went with the Limited Run Games variant as it was easier. Gris should be arriving soonish at some point, shouldn't it? From wherever it was that was selling it... I'm losing track at this point. I should start using Twitter or something to start taking pictures of some of my Switch games, the only thing is, I don't like the way that it doesn't show the image in the post. I was using Tiny Pic for hosting, but that's going soon, so I've got to find something to use for image hosting.

Nice video from The Geek Critique all about The Hidden Value in Classic Sonic which pretty much hits the nail on the head regarding what makes the games so good even today.

Road Avenger is amazing, I got it with my second-hand Sega Mega CD II which I was lucky enough to have one Christmas, the same one I'm using today. It came with a few games, Road Avenger was one of them plus Wolf Child I think... Sol Feace/Cobra Command and maybe a couple of others, from then I bought games sporadically. Over the years I got some good deals on Mega CD games, Sonic CD was the only one I actively sought out back in the day as I'd never played it. Aside from that, it's only in recent years that I started picking up such titles as Shining Force CD, Soul Star and only yesterday I finally bought Keio Flying Squadron. I have a feeling that might be my last Sega Mega CD game, particulaly because of the fact that you can play burned CD's on them which I've known about for a while... ...I've never actually played a backup on my system though but I have a feeling that if one game were to lead me into doing this, then it would be Snatcher. To think that I could have bought that game when it was less than £100, obviously back when I didn't have the money, now that I kind of do (sometimes) it's around £350... Really it's just Snatcher, Robo Aleste and Lords of Thunder that I'd probably want on the Mega CD and it's very tempting to just play them off a backup copy.

My Life in Gaming have just put out their own video on the Terra Onion Mega SD which goes into a little bit more detail and some rather extreme technical testing. It's a very cool device but I still maintain that so long as my Sega Mega CD II keeps working alongside my Mega SG that I'll keep using it until it doesn't.

Sega Lord X checks out the Terra Onion Mega SD which is a very cool device that let's you play Mega Drive, Mega CD, Master System and 32X games all from one cart. Pricey though and I prefer to play my original games but I'd consider this if my original Mega CD were to ever stop working. But it hasn't, so to celebrate this, I finally bought Keio Flying Squadron and Keio Flying Squadron 2 for the Sega Saturn while I was at it as I'd been wanting those games for ages. I only decided to do this as I'm about to sell a load of games which I really don't need and there's an eBay code PICKME10 valid until 10/09/2019 which gives you 10% off £100 or more.

in Who am I going to pick, I wonder, you'd need a detective to work it out...

Can't get enough of Banjo & Kazooie in Smash? Neither can we! And our very own @Kaepora_Gaebora is so overjoyed that you can "hear the smile on his face" in this exclusive video. Thanks to Jonathan for recording this reaction so promptly, @RedShell for the video editing and graphics plus everyone involved with the B-K Smash night. (Guh-huh!)

Hey there @Gadwin I thought you'd be pleased with the SNES games as well, I'm glad to hear that you got some play time in with them, som great games on there. I only just got around to playing Monster Hunter World: Iceborne late last night by the time it had finished installing, so I have started but I'm only one quest in. That download time sounds painful 27 hours... I hope it speeds up for you at some point but we'll be sure to play some games online once it's installed and you're ready. From what I played last night, the story is cool, you don't have to start it until you're ready either, it is like a proper expansion, you get a title update and all the items etc. Once you start Iceborne, any 9* quests are then marked as "complete" but you can still tackle them as it will add then as a duplicate "Optional" quest. This only applied to two quests for me, I'm HR 33, that's where I left it at... you get M Rank for Iceborne which seems seperate from your other rank and the HR cap is removed. Just from completing that first quest, I went from M1 to M2 if that's any indication, and while I won't spoil anything, the story is cool, the new location is amazing and it's all just really fantastic as the improvements really make a difference, it feels right carrying on from the base game and it has enough things in there to aid newcomers as well. I can't wait to play more of it.

N-Eaction: Too Many Games? This is one that we've had on the back-burner since July when Nintendo announced that there's over 2,000 games on the Switch. Well... it's probably even more relevant now being that there are even more games. In it we look at the amount of games, cost, curation, physical versus digital, ownership or convenience and system exclusives versus ports plus more. Thanks to @Glen-i @Vileplume2000 @Dcubed for their input and @RedShell for making the perfect graphic for the occasion. Enjoy and let us know what you think about the amount of games currently available on the Switch and the future of the platform.

I didn't get around to playing this yesterday, because of course I didn't! Banjo in Smash, SNES games on the Switch... there's no way I was going to miss out on any of that. Tonight though, I've unsealed the steelbook copy of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, the disc just took 20 minutes to install and now... ...there's another 8GB update which will take another quarter of an hour and that's on a good wired connection. But soon...

Up on the front page. It's a fantastic piece of artwork which reflects a really wonderful game, which I really need to make the time to play more of.

Future titles for Nintendo Switch Online NES & SNES are coming out... eventually. In Nintendo's words the games for both services “will be added after launch, but those releases will not adhere to a regular schedule”. So this means we might get another twelve titles in two weeks or another two titles in twelve weeks in theory? (depending on how you look at it) We should hope for the best but in the meantime... Here's a s-l-o-w sarcastic clap for Nintendo which will probably match the rate at which the games will trickle out... (they can have a full speed, non-sarcastic round of applause if it turns out that they instead decide to give us between five and ten games a month) For now though, I am just grateful that we have the service and it isn't as if there isn't a load of other games to play.

Nintendo Switch Online NES Version 4.0.0 is out now! Don't delay, install it and get red of that pesky tutorial bar at the bottom of the play area today! This calls for a celebratory sarcastic clap!

The Ultimate Partnership tournament goes live on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate from tonight. I'm considering entering but I'm not sure if I'm Guh-huh'd enough playing as Banjo-Kazooie yet or not.

Super Jumpy Ball is out now on the Nintendo eShop. It's like Super Meat Boy... but with balls. Distraint Deluxe Edition is coming to the Switch eShop on September 13th 2019 for around £5.99 Psychological Horror with elephant element to it, if the banner is anything to go by. Spirit Hunter: NG launches on the eShop on October 10th 2019 Looks interesting but I'll probably stick to hunting monsters. Celeste Chapter 9 launches on September 9th 2019 Finally! That means I'll get my physical copy and I'll get to play the game soon. Check the articles for details and/or trailers where applicable.

Nice artwork, not for me though because sleeves... but for people who want them, they are missing a trick if they aren't selling those sleeves seperately.

There we go, all the posts from the SNES related shenanigans of yesterday from the NES thread, no we're all up to date. I think that's deserving of a "sarcastic clap"