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Reason why is because the data transfer rate is ridiculously slow (you’re talking about 15.6KB per second). The Stadium games only use the Transfer Pak for accessing and copying save data from the cartridges; the actual Game Boy ROM data resides on the Pokémon Stadium cartridge itself. So those lengthy loading times you see are just for accessing save data alone; just imagine how slow it’d be at loading the actual ROM! That being said? You’ve given me a nice segue to talk about a neat little piece of development hardware that was available to devs and media outlets at around this time in 1999, that just so happens to provide the functionality you’re looking for… Presenting.. the Wideboy 64! Ultra Gameboy! This little doohickey was basically the N64 equivalent of the Super Gameboy and was made by Intelligent Systems for use by game developers/publishers and by media outlets for video, screenshot and demo purposes. If you ever saw a trailer for a GBC game, or a screenshot in a mag? Chances are that it came from one of these devices. A revised version was later released called the Wideboy AGB which, surprise surprise, was the GBA equivalent of the original Wideboy 64. It too ran on the N64 and worked in much the same way (and since it was a GBA, could also play GB/GBC games). Up until all the way to 2003? These pieces of rare development hardware were the only way you could play GBC or GBA games on your telly.

I have another broken controller + working Wavebird Receiver on the way (Mainly wanted the Receiver, as one of mine got broken last week). Will be swapping out the sticks once the controller arrives.

So I found a Platinum Wavebird going on eBay for a song (about £15), which is well below the average market price. Sweet! Have always wanted one of these, and they're not easy to come by (I believe that they never got released in Europe, being US/JPN only), seeing as they're the only official colour variant of the Wavebird available (outside of the super rare JPN Club Nintendo exclusive models that I have never seen on eBay or IRL in any form. Only problem is... ... this shit don't work! Controller is knackered. Will not power on, no matter how many batteries you throw at it. Oh noes! What do I doez?!? Well... Profit Thankfully an easy fix. Had a spare busted up Wavebird lying around, so all I had to do was harvest a few parts from it (mainly the motherboard) and voila! Platinum Wavebird resurrected from the dead!

That actually looks really neat. If I had a PS5, I'd totally buy one of those. Fits the world of Astro Bot perfectly as well, given that it's a big celebration of Sony's hardware and Playstation accessory history

The art style for the horses looks strikingly similar to Pocket Card Jockey… I wonder PCJ was inspired by this game?

While I do agree with the premise somewhat that Nintendo is overrepresented by gaming historians; moreso than anything else, gaming historians are overly anglocentric. As far as the English speaking internet is concerned, there is America and Thar Be Dragons everywhere else. Take The Great Video Game Crash for example. It’s basically taken as universal worldwide gospel at this point, but it was actually an isolated US-only phenomenon, that didn’t even affect the arcade industry in the US at the time; but if you are to take the internet spiel as fact, you’d think that the entire video game industry just ground to a halt the moment that Atari’s ET and Pac-Man came out. Never mind the booming arcade industry’s golden and silver age, or the booming British and mainland European microcomputer revolution. Likewise, you’d think that Nintendo was the only game in town after the end of the Atari 2600, and the Master System was a tremendous failure, but SEGA actually wiped the floor with the NES here in the UK and throughout most of Europe in the late 80s/early 90s. You almost never hear that acknowledged by the internet history consensus, outside of a basic footnote. And countries outside of the US, Japan or (to a much lesser extent) Europe? They may as well not exist at all. And even Japanese video game history is often glossed over… if you were to only go by western accounts of gaming history, you might not even know that Virtua Fighter exists; despite it being one of the most important and influential games in all of gaming history (indeed, without VF, there would’ve been no PlayStation; never mind it being the first ever example of 3D motion captured human animation in a video game). An absolute travesty of historical documentation. That’s the biggest crime as far as video game historical documentation goes.

Great to see him get off that sinking ship. Wonder if he’s planning on joining Nintendo? It’s interesting how he primarily highlights his time working with Nintendo and then says he can’t say where he’s going… Would be pretty awesome to see Nintendo set up their own internal Milan-based studio!

Interesting, never heard of this one. Has some neat history to it too! Cheers for the neat story behind this one!

Good news, the Democrats would’ve been completely screwed if they stuck with Biden; he’s just too old at this point. That being said? I think it’s probably the wrong time to take a risk with a female presidential candidate. It didn’t exactly go well the last time they went up against Trump with one, and with America leaning more and more right wing? I feel that they’re taking this risk at the wrong time here… hopefully I’m wrong on this one.

@BowserBasher The Carrington Institute Agent par time is utterly insane, it’s only just barely possible using normal strats! (Though speed runners seem to make it look easy somehow )

We'll see. There's still time for things to change, but for a supposedly huge marketing push, it doesn't feel like it so far. Could well be that it's all gonna be concentrated in this last month, but considering that I had to google "Star Wars Outlaws release date" to find out when it's coming out? I'm not impressed thus far

Can't say that it shows so far. Have hardly seen or heard anything about the game myself, as someone who hasn't been following it.

Wrong Capcom/SNK crossover! I still think this one is neat at least. It’s so bizarre, everyone is so off model and out of character that it’s kind of endearing? How… honourable? But yeah, everyone wants Capcom VS SNK instead.

Something neat and something funny. Nintendo did an interview with a couple of the previous NWC winners on the Switch’s News channel thingy; which is neat! The funny part? It’s ok Nintendo. You don’t need to censor the word “Atari”, we’re all grown-ups now; we can handle it

Having a great time playing through PD on Secret Agent again! Have also been unlocking some of the Speedrun Challenge Cheats along the way too. Here’s a few I’m particularly proud of… Such an incredible game! One of Rare’s absolute finest!

Honestly? I hardly do myself anymore. There’s usually just no need to do so when almost everyone accepts card now, even most corner shops do these days. I’d never put my card details on my phone though, I draw the line there as that’s just lunacy. Your phone gets nicked or borrowed nefariously? Oh well, you just had your bank account details stolen then!

Oh no!! Some poor guy who was interviewed on the BBC couldn’t get his doner kebab because the computers didn’t work. He was left disappointed, DISAPPOINTED even! Oh the tragedy of it all!

I think it’s most likely a matter of them seeing NWC coming out and thinking “Oh shit! We never did fix our cackhanded solution for charging those stupid NES Joycons… quick! Hack something together ASAP!” This thing is blatantly just a Switch charging grip with a bit of plastic glued onto the back to make it stand up. Look how ugly that thing is with the wire sticking out the top of it, utterly laughable.

You aren’t kidding! It’s literally Chibi Robo with the serial numbers filed off, right down to the musical beats as you walk. The story synopsis is brilliant though. I love how on the nose it is

The OG Xbox and the 360 were nice machines, with a bit of their own identity, but the Xbone and onwards are basically just low-end PCs in a box. You aren’t really missing all that much, especially since Sony and Microsoft consoles from 2013 onwards are basically identical machines that mostly play the same games and offer the same gameplay experience. Going back to the OG Xbox today? It has some pretty nice exclusive SEGA titles, as well as the best versions of Outrun 2/SP (which are worth the price of the console by itself), as well as some great support from Tecmo (especially Ninja Gaiden Black) and a couple of noteworthy exclusive western titles like Crimson Skies, but otherwise? Unless you’re into Halo (which I’m not), it’s mostly a better version of the PS2 with some (at the time) console exclusive PC ports which are largely redundant today. I’d still say it’s worth checking out, but don’t pay too much for one; hell, you can even get modded ones with expanded hard drives for pretty cheap these days (I nabbed one for around £50 on eBay a couple years back or so). The hardware itself is quite nice and generally well built, much nicer to use than the kinda janky PS2, so it’s a good way to experience a decent selection of the biggest multiplatform games of the 6th gen; and a console that also offers some noteworthy exclusives. As for the 360? It was really something you had to experience at the time, as it really did offer something compelling with its robust online network, groundbreaking initiatives like Netflix (the first non-PC device to offer support for the service!), downloadable movies etc and the rather excellent XBLA; as well as things like custom soundtracks and the best versions of most multiplatform games of the day. It was a pioneer of many of the online services we take for granted today. But going back to it now? Almost all of its exclusive titles have now either been ported to PC/modern consoles, or are backwards compatible on modern Xbox consoles, while almost all of its unique identity has been stripped away with subsequent system updates and ports away to other platforms; so there isn’t much value in getting one today.

Ok, I know this is more of an N-America thing than an N-Europe thing, but this is still pretty cool… The actually got back some of the original NOA Game Counsellors from 1980s era Nintendo to do this ad

Alright dudes? Who’s up for a bit of Four Swords after the ol’ Mazza Kart tonight? @S.C.G? @BowserBasher? Or is everybody dead dave?

Have you even played a video game before?

I guess the Souls games are the biggest hole in my gaming repertoire. I've tried Dark Souls before, but I just didn't enjoy it all that much; not because of the difficulty, but because of the Dn'D style trappings with all of its stats and inventory management. I'm just not much of a Dn'D fan and I don't find generic Tolkien esc fantasy all that interesting (Outside of LOTR itself... which Dn'D is basically pure copyright infringement of). Ultimately I just found the game kind of boring outside of its basic combat mechanics. That being said though, I do like it when games mix in actual dice roll mechanics into their gameplay, like with Crimson Shroud or Disco Elysium; so I can gel with games that attempt to simulate the tabletop RPG format in an abstract manner. But I have never enjoyed western RPGs and I don't like Dn'D (and lets face it, all western RPGs are just reskinned Dn'D to some extent). Actually, maybe Dn'D is the biggest aspect of gaming that has just passed me by?

Also yes. This is indeed going to be the first ever internally developed 18-rated Nintendo game (probably co-developed by Mages, like the previous remakes were, but still!). A genuine piece of Nintendo history in the making! (And very fitting for a sequel to a series so tightly tied to Nintendo’s original R&D lineage; this is as true-blue Nintendo as it gets! ). Oh this is so cool! Sakamoto has been talking about how he’s wanted to do a new FDC for almost 2 decades at this point, and even Miyamoto has expressed how he and many other Nintendo staff want to do a new Adventure game, but that market/budgeting realities have been holding them back for years… So awesome to finally see the bean counters at Nintendo finally loosen up and let them make these passion projects!