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Yeah, this was a surprise to me too as I’ve never actually used the feature before and just assumed it was for remapping buttons only. It’s great and I’m glad the feature is there as I don’t think I could have gotten used to playing this game on a pro controller otherwise. I found a lot of the objectives and locations of things came back to me after about 20 minutes of playing although I did have to look up how to break the communication link in surface 2.

For anyone having difficulty with the controls, like I was, there a handy guide on Reddit for remapping the buttons. I’d already swapped the left and right analog sticks on the switch settings to play it but it also goes into changes which buttons do what:

Last year I backed the Kickstarter type program that Hasbro set up for a replica of the Proton pack from Ghostbusters. It arrived last night: I've never really been interested in props before, but a year or so ago I bought the neutrona-wand and then for whatever reason I felt like buying this for myself as well. It's really well made and really does look like its straight out of the films. It came in a huge box with a few other goodies:

A Muppet Christmas Carol is my favourite but Scrooged is a very close second for me

I've not had a chance to update my copy yet but someone listed details of the dipswitch changes:

That's awesome that they added so much to the game with an update and that they are still going to add some things in the future. I'm also glad they changed the menu icon box art. Digital Eclipse did a live stream going into the different things they added:

4 games announced and released for the Genesis/Megadrive a few hours ago:

The Switch Xmas sale seems to have started on the eshop: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Nintendo-eShop/Nintendo-eShop-Sale/Nintendo-eShop-Sale-1460557.html

A new maximum cup announced, this time for a new Kirby theme:

I still come back and replay random levels of this game because of how much fun it is. It’s actually spoiled me for when I went back to play older TMNT games in Cowabunga collection as the little QoL touches this game has make the older games less enjoyable to me now. I am still hoping they add some new content to this game at some point.

A clip of the movie was shown at the Game awards last night:

Wave 3 should be available now:

The Golf update should be up now

That's my favourite one too, i noticed in the background:

lol damn. Well I happened to save them myself, they're back in my post now

A bunch of promotional images and stuff leaked if anyone wants to see them:

A very nice cover of Stickerbrush symphony

Nintendo just announced the date for the Golf update. 28th of this month https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1594858249123143682?s=20&t=N_6HwT5SrDCwJk20w4WXag

It’s crazy how time flies. I remember a few of us in a thread on here one late night waiting for the first Wii U commercial to air in the UK, which for some reason aired on one of channel 4’s spin-off cable channels, at midnight or something. And then never seeing that commercial again in all the time leading up to release and wondering why there seems to be zero promotion this new console. On a personal level I was not interested in buying a Wii U at lunch, which was the first time I’d felt like that for a Nintendo console. I didn’t think it looked bad but it didn’t seem to be offering much more then what I already had with my Xbox 360 and my PC and basically it seemed like yet another Nintendo console I’d buy for Nintendo games and nothing else. The first party support seemed consist of games that had already been released on other platforms a year before, such as Batman Arkham City. So I’d figured I’d wait until a 3D Mario game was released before buying a Wii U for myself. One year later Mario 3D World comes out and by then the Wii U had had massive reductions in its price. So I got mine for £200 with Mario 3D World that Christmas and from that time onwards the Wii U become my favourite console. Pretty much every first party game that Nintendo released for it I enjoyed. Especially Splatoon which I think I put over 500 hours of playtime into by the end and in feel like Super Mario maker genuinely is one of the greatest things Nintendo have ever made. But as much as I like that machine, I can’t get over what a mess they made of it too. Nintendo didn’t set the public straight with what it was from the start, so they had a situation where a large number of people didn’t even know they had a new console out and from those that did, a steady percentage of them thought it was a peripheral for the Wii. I felt all of this was a shame because that console was nowhere near as bad as it was made out to be, the software from Nintendo was solid and some of their best ever but as what was typical from Nintendo consoles back then was it had limited third party support over time. And this meant owning a box purely for their titles which didn’t come out often. The console itself had some issues too, such as the UI feeling very slow for the first few months before a firmware update. Even navigating it was odd: you chose your games on the gamepad and had the TV screen taken up by the Mii plaza Miiverse was a great idea but it was a slow thing to start up and use. I felt it was its best when it was integrated directly into the games themselves, like the graffiti in splatoon and the word bubbles in Mario maker. As for the gamepad itself, I liked it and it showed it’s worth for games like Mario maker but the failed to really use it much beyond that and Nintendoland. Before we knew it, even Nintendo themselves had relegated the second screen to just showing the same footage you could see on your television. It felt like they’d banked their console around an idea that even they had given up on half way through the consoles life. All this said, I’ll always look back fondly on the WiiU because of games like Splattoon, Mario Maker, Mario 3D world and Breath of the Wild and that I was still using machine well into 2018.

Mario Party 1 and 2 are now up:

Pilotwings 64 is up now

There is a newfirmware update out for the Switch. Ver.15.0.0. There does not seem to be any major changes though: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22525