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The next wave of games just got announced for the Japanese MD Mini 2! List below… FUCKING LUNAR 1&2!!!!!! YYYYYYEEEEESSSS!!!

It's not done yet!

A plethora of fumbling foibles for your entertainment below! Edit: Aww... I thought that backwards red shell actually hit you at the end

Famiboards is ok I suppose. It’s obnoxious in how everything has to be positive though. Any hint of negativity about much of anything (doesn’t matter if you’re right or not), and you get dogpiled. Still, there’s a few peeps there who are worth talking to and it’s probably the best non European Nintendo fan forum out there (which really shows how low the bar is outside of N-Europe!). Ended up getting in touch with the guy who owns the Nintendo Iris prototype through that forum! So you do get the occasional gem there. But I don’t post there very much, I’m not into circle jerking Screw Discord though, it’s an unholy cacophony of messy, impossible to follow rabble. How anyone can follow a conversation on that thing is beyond me! Gimme a good forum (like N-Europe ) any day!

Dwarf did them. They’re the ones who do the animation for NHK’s mascot, Domo-Kun… This dude

No Popful Mail announced yet? Getting a bit concerned here...

Dynamo Pictures actually made the 3 Pikmin Shorts originally, so you may well not be far from the truth! Good to see Nintendo getting serious about diversifying their business at last.

There are the FF Pixel Remasters as well…

THERE IS NEWS!!!

Sonic CD is a game which has some interesting ideas, but fumbles the execution in most aspects of its level design. Like with the time travel aspect. Originally it was supposed to change the level layout dynamically in real-time as Sonic ran past the Past/Future posts, but that proved to be impossible to pull off with the Mega CD’s slow loading times. So instead we got this separation of level variants with a lengthy loading sequence inbetween, that makes the mechanic a drag that grinds the game’s pacing to a halt. Sonic CD is a game with big ambitions that ultimately couldn’t be lived up to with the actual game itself… Which is kind of Sonic Team’s career in a nutshell really.

Next week. In gaming magazines.

Trailer looks good! Looking forward to this one

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What you did there with Sonic 3 & Knuckles… I see it

The US My Nintendo Store has been getting intermittent restocks of the N64 controller over the past few weeks; and it seems like it’s our turn now, so you should get a few more chances over the next few days/weeks. Keep a tab open on your phone or whatever. You should be able to get one. And it’s worth the effort, it’s a brilliant replica!

The sooner that Ubisoft gets bought out by someone else? The better. Hopefully Nintendo find a way to poach Ubisoft Milan as well.

We got Pop n’ Twinbee on SNES NSO, but I think that’s it?

So I've been using my Steam Deck for a few days now and I wanted to give some initial thoughts... First off, I am enormously impressed with the native Steam OS experience. The UI is very slick, it honest to goodness feels like a console; it's fast, snappy, responsive and feels (mostly) really polished. It's not perfect though, I've had a few issues where sometimes the menu doesn't respond as expected (ignoring button presses, icons not being highlighted), but these are rare and usually fix themselves very quickly with a tap of the touch screen. The biggest issue though is in trying to buy games; I usually buy games on Steam using Paypal, but the Paypal pop-up page flat out does not work... meaning that I've had to buy games on the desktop and then download them onto Steam Deck after. Not ideal. The quick-settings tab is flat out amazing though, it's so dead simple and It Just Works. You can even store hardware performance profiles on a per-game basis! It's incredible! You can set TDP profiles per game and just completely forget about it! Brill! Setting brightness/volume settings works exactly as you'd expect, friends lists & text/voice chat work flawlessly, you could honestly fool me into thinking that this is a console and not a PC. The controls also work really well. I've had zero issues with controls with any of the games I've tested, all the X-input button icons show up as they should. The touchpad is also really nice, with a nice haptic sensor that gives a bit of feedback and with a trackball like feel to it. Games like Peggle play very very well with it! As far as compatibility goes, I've had no issues with stuttering, performance or full screen gameplay with games like Metal Gear Rising: Revengence (which is notorious for not playing nice with certain displays), and the framerate cap options work flawlessly with everything I've thrown at it. While I haven't tried every game I've owned yet (storage is a major issue, more on that later), I've been very impressed with the compatibility. I've only had one single game (Sonic CD) give me any compatibility issues thus far, and when you're playing? You honestly couldn't tell me that the games aren't running on Windows. Obviously, YMMV depending on your library, but thus far? Great stuff! I got my hands on a 3rd party dock yesterday and I've had the chance to try out Steam Deck on my TV as well. I'm very pleasantly surprised at how slick it all feels so far! Now, I know that there have been some teething issues with this, when the Steam Deck first came out there were all sorts of issues with the Docked experience; where a lot of them have now been addressed (such as now being able to force higher resolution settings to be available on external displays). Now, chucking the Steam Deck into a USB dock properly scales the Steam OS UI to the resolution of your display, and you can change the available resolution settings on a per-game basis within the Steam OS UI; so you can render games in 1080p/1440p/4k/whatever. Most importantly however, is the way that Steam OS handles bluetooth controllers. I've only tried out the Xbox One/Series controller so far, but it works nigh on flawlessly! You just turn it on and it automagically works. Best feature of all though? You can change the controller order within the Steam OS UI! This is a huge feature that makes it (almost) painless to swap between the Docked and Handheld experience, and greatly simplifies setting up multiplayer games! Of course, the Steam Deck can't turn off your controller for you when you're done using it, so you still have to turn off the controller itself; but that's a minor issue. Otherwise, the only other issue I have with the Docked experience is that games can't automatically switch resolutions like how Switch does... meaning that you have to set this manually within the game if you don't want to supersample down to 720p in Handheld mode. This is to be expected of course, but it's not a major issue. The games themselves look and run great. Have been able to run Devil May Cry 5 at max settings at 1080p on my TV with no issues so far. Very impressive stuff; but then again, I'm not running (or interested) in games like Cyberpunk that'll give this thing more of a workout. It's been able to run everything that I've thrown at it though with (almost) no issues thus far; and all my games happily run off of the SD card with no issues whatsoever The bigger issues with Steam Deck are those that are more fundamental and ones that you probably already knew going in... Storage. Damned storage. The long and short of it is that PC games are much larger than Switch games go on average. I only have a 256GB SD card in my Steam Deck currently (it's what I had lying around spare), but it really doesn't go very far. You will burn through SD card storage much more quickly than you will with Switch, and since the games are much larger too? Re-downloading games is that much more of a pain. One major issue that I wasn't expecting though is that Steam OS doesn't seem to recognise any USB external storage. The USB-C dock I got has a built-in SD card reader, so I tried that out? No dice. And USB harddrives/flash drives? Nothing. Steam OS just doesn't recognise it at all. This means that (as things stand), your only storage options with the native Steam OS experience is to use SD cards (via the handheld itself) or to upgrade the internal SSD; that's it. Now, I'm sure that external storage would work just fine with the desktop Linux experience? But I am not interested in using that for playing games at all, so that is no good for me (maybe I can use it for cold-storage? Dunno... will have to test that out, could be a better option than redownloading games maybe?). The other major issue lies in the desktop experience... it's Linux. I don't like Linux, have never liked Linux, and I still don't like Linux. Unfortunately, as things stand, there is currently no native support for dual booting Windows; you have to overwrite Steam OS with Windows and only have one OS booting at a time (there is currently a hacky workaround that autoboots into Windows and then gives you an option to boot into Steam OS from there, which is how the current "dual booting" works). Apparantly, Valve are currently working on a true dual-booting solution, but it's not available right now. So far? I'm very impressed with Steam Deck as a game playing device! It's almost like having a Switch PC! But if you're trying to get it to do more than just play Steam games? I think you'll be pretty disappointed. Everything involving the intended Steam OS experience is great so far though

Well naturally I wanted to put this thing through its paces, so the first game I decided to play on it had to make it sweat with only the most powerful, demanding and extreme gaming experience possible... No, seriously. How is this game not on Switch yet!?!?! I'm looking forward to trying out games that aren't on Switch, like Devil May Cry 4 & 5 (currently downloading), Apeture Desk Job, Soul Calibur 6, Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed and the like I'm also planning on dual booting this thing with Windows, so I can use it as a handy productivity device too (will particularily be great for video capture/streaming with my Elgato capture card!). But it'll mostly be used to play all those games that I can't play on Switch, the odd Playstation console exclusive (like FF7 Remake, Shenmue 3 and God of War)... and the few ones that have shit ports on the Switch (like Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night). Have ordered a USB Dock that should be arriving tomorrow, so I'll have a nice means of playing PC games on my TV at last too!

So... err... "Q3" went by pretty quickly... I'M HHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE!!!!!!!! But I'm also so smol... I am now the proud owner of a Steam Deck!

Well, this is one of those times that I am glad to be wrong! MORE Online Panel De Pon!

The only stage that I actually feel is cheap in SMB 2 is Switch Inferno. The rest are completely fair, even if they are incredibly hard. Even the likes of Arthropod, Skater and Triangle Holes have 100% consistent strategies that will always work. Banana Mania is complete shite; the physics are totally wrong. Don’t use that crappy remaster to judge the original game.

Nice games everyone. Here are the highlights…

https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/dicey-dungeons/devlog/401621/dicey-dungeons-reunion The (free!) DLC is finally out! 6 brand new episodes!!! I’m SO ready to die again!

Nope. It's all there, in all its 7,500 word glory. Maybe it's just too much for Tapatalk to handle?