I liked the original Gameboy Advance. Too bad it was ergonomically awful.
I can't go back to hiding under my covers with a worm light to see the screen
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I can't go back to hiding under my covers with a worm light to see the screen
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Man, that was such a boneheaded thing, yet the most Nintendo thing ever. I remember folks modding third party front-lighting kits (and nuking a few consoles in the process). It was that crazy.
I liked GBA SP.
I put an ungodly amount of hours on mine. Thanks, Advance Wars.
PC+PS4+X1+Wii U combo here. I never have to miss a game!!!
I spent a lot of hours on the Castlevania Double pack of Aria of Sorrow and Harmony of Dissonance and Riviera The Promised Lands. Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones probably on third spot.
:,(
I've always wanted to try soldering. I just think it's expensive to do
It's not...
Or you could try this for simple stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TnkmatWAiM
I liked GBA SP.
Yep, still have that, loved that system.
Fire Emblem and Mario Golf were probably 2 of my fave games on that system.
It's already confirmed by Digital Foundry to be weaker than PS4!!!=O
Best one
And probably not stronger than X1 looking the little specs so far. Still for an hybrid should be interesting
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
I've always wanted to try soldering. I just think it's expensive to do
I had electronics as an elective in high school.
It's cheap and useful for little repairs like fixing headphones.
Exactly, it's a hybrid.
and the Tegra is no slouch.
It's the smartest thing Nintendo could do, since they own the handheld market.
They'd get that demographic and the console demographic.
They're going to do well.
Yes handhelds are on decline due to mobile, but it's still doing very well.
Exactly, it's a hybrid.
and the Tegra is no slouch.
It's the smartest thing Nintendo could do, since they own the handheld market.
They'd get that demographic and the console demographic.
They're going to do well.
Yes handhelds are on decline due to mobile, but it's still doing very well.
Considering the 3DS still did way better than Wii U I think Nintendo is still cool with Handheld stuff. It will be interesting to see the full development and how people work with those tools.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I missed this post.
Right now I'm doing some electronics tinkering due to building my arcade cabinet and some other crazy stuff. It's not really *expensive*; they key is not to purchase crap.
You can start with a simple but high quality JBC soldering iron for 30 or so. The wire itself is as inexpensive as it comes. Then you can graduate towards something hobbyist grade like a Hakko FX-888D, which costs around 120 but offers more control for delicate work.
Just make sure not to purchase garbage like 40 Chinese soldering stations that may crap out on the spot or even zap you.
I've always wanted to try soldering. I just think it's expensive to do
Right now I'm doing some electronics tinkering due to building my arcade cabinet and some other crazy stuff. It's not really *expensive*; they key is not to purchase crap.
You can start with a simple but high quality JBC soldering iron for 30 or so. The wire itself is as inexpensive as it comes. Then you can graduate towards something hobbyist grade like a Hakko FX-888D, which costs around 120 but offers more control for delicate work.
Just make sure not to purchase garbage like 40 Chinese soldering stations that may crap out on the spot or even zap you.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
liliththepale
Banned
Exactly, it's a hybrid.
and the Tegra is no slouch.
okay so let's clear something up because people always herald the Tegra line but it never delivers. This is like the OUYA and a half dozen other disasters all over again (speaking as someone who tried to develop on two of those disasters before giving up completely). I mean, I understand why you want to be hyped about it, but that doesn't mean you should
everything on that bullet point list is basically just fancy names for its instruction set. It doesn't tell you anything important about stuff like how it handles vertex deformation, its cache speed, nor polys and fill rate. For example, just because it knows how to do tessellation doesn't mean that it's going to do tessellation well. The PS4 and XB1 both know how to do tessellation but you rarely see this significantly implemented because it's so expensive to do, and the Tegra currently in dev kits is less than half as powerful as an XB1.
animation of characters is done with something called vertex deformation. Basically, using matrices and 3D math to move all the vertices around based on the positions of the bones in the animation. A lot of times this is done on the CPU instead of the GPU because the GPU isn't generalized enough. With a big beefy CPU this is no problem, but it brings mobile CPUs to their knees weeping. So either simple characters or very few animated characters.
texture fill rate is another big hurdle. Even if you can draw a billion polys per second, if your memory cache speed isn't fast enough then looking up texels for every point gets super expensive. This is often a flaw in cheap and mobile GPUs. What it means in practice is that you want to eliminate as much overdraw as you can, which is very hard to do without making simplistic and sparse worlds.
I really want to be wrong about this but there's nothing exciting me so far
Yep, 3DS did awesome numbers.
As long as their pricing is good, they'll have very good sales.
Also want to see how it looks.
It's gotta have a nice aesthetic to have mass appeal.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
It won't be an OUYA, since it'll have good software support. (1st Party)
Has that going for it, we'll know more in Sept anyways, all this is just rumours.
Though being a hybrid is something that has to happen.
Yes!!!=3
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Like this?
Not bad. Not bad at all.
I just hope is not cheap water based lube.
liliththepale
Banned
there's not even a small chance of that happening again haha
yes, it ought to have better first party support than the Wii U if this means they cease 3DS dev, but that's not certain and that still wouldn't be enough for most people.
if you're the kind of person who automatically wants everything Nintendo, then none of this matters. But that's not most people, at least not anymore.
why does it have to be a hybrid? The mobile audience isn't asking for the home console experience, otherwise Vita would have been a bigger success. Say what you will about the current dearth of Vita titles, but its original lineup was quite impressive.
plus the fact that games are coming on cartridges can't be cheap at all.
I'm going to keep repeating this: I hope I'm wrong, but I haven't seen enough to suggest otherwise.
Ah.=p
Well, I do have a thing for redheads(natural ones mostly), but it's fine as blue hair is still cool!!! Plus not common either.
liliththepale
Banned
I don't mean to be rude but I color my hair blue because I like it. I'm not seeking external validation. Thanks though haha
Biological interface that jacks into the base of your skull actually, saw it first hand.
Oh yeah, that reminds me, thinking about blue hair makes me think of Coraline which I still need to see before the summer ends! I forgot about it, lol.
Blue hair just reminds me of that blooper from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World where Brie Larson couldn't stop staring Mary Elizabeth Winstead's hair and ends up laughing halfway through her line with
"Oh, I was just there. Played the Chaos Thea-ffffuckin' blue hair...."
So they make it portable enough to let you go places with it yet allow you to use it at home like any other console for convenience. Makes sense.
Virtual Boy was both portable and home and failed at both, but this will do a lot better obviously, though it'll be interesting on how this is done.
Ha, ha, yes. Also, love that movie.=p
The cast in that movie was impressive
how much longer must we wait for the nintendo brand fleshlight?
Can be a home console experience on the handheld,
but it can also be a handheld experience on the home console.
Pokemon for the NX will probably sell even more now.
You Know Nothing
Member
Telltale Batman Ep 1 comes out August 2nd?
I had no idea it was coming that soon.
I had no idea it was coming that soon.
I can't wait to totally ignore this and be vindicated when it's bad.
the only thing that matters on August 2nd is ABZU
I so wish I had time for this
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Tales from the Borderlands was their best game yet, so I have high hopes
Is their A team working on it? If they go more wolf among us than anything else it has a pretty decent chance
It's a fucking Telltales game, it has to be good!!!
liliththepale
Banned
A couple times a week usually
Neither of those seem like good things.
I'm probably super biased by my personal dismissal of mobile games and my despising working on Tegra hardware, but I'm also having a hard time thinking of a single person I know IRL who would want this.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Yeah, those first two are likely gonna have ports from the WiiU version.
I feel like that's the primary motivation for most people to buy Nintendo consoles. As long as there are games.
liliththepale
Banned
I thought Sakurai didn't want to make another Smash? I don't like Splatoon nor Mario Kart
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