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[StereoVsn]

Thinking about taking my old Wii-U and games including both Mario Galaxy's into Gamestop this weekend to trade in.
But I don't know if I have all the parts. I stuffed it all into a box and it has not been touched in over a decade.
Wii-U, screen pad controller thingy, light bar that goes over the tv, power cords, I seem to remember a charging stand with it's own power cord too.
What else is required?

I would try eBay or another site vs GameStop. The latter will give you barely anything.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Some more comparisons:

Think I'll stick to the Wii version.

They absolutly murdered some of those textures. The metal textures on the bridge and the AI downscaled cobblestone are just ugly. No bueno.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Thinking about taking my old Wii-U and games including both Mario Galaxy's into Gamestop this weekend to trade in.
But I don't know if I have all the parts. I stuffed it all into a box and it has not been touched in over a decade.
Wii-U, screen pad controller thingy, light bar that goes over the tv, power cords, I seem to remember a charging stand with it's own power cord too.
What else is required?

- WiiU
- WiiU Powerbrick
- Gamepad
- Gamepad Powerbrick
- Gamepad stand
- Lightbar

 

[Magic Carpet]

- WiiU
- WiiU Powerbrick
- Gamepad
- Gamepad Powerbrick
- Gamepad stand
- Lightbar

Excellent, Thank you.
I also have 2 sets of wii remotes and nunchucks.
The wiimotes have really dirty rubber covers.
I think I have everything.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I just pre-ordered my copy from Amazon.

 

[Holammer]

They absolutly murdered some of those textures. The metal textures on the bridge and the AI downscaled cobblestone are just ugly. No bueno.

I bet the 4k texture packs for emulators are more true to the original.

Some more comparisons:

Think I'll stick to the Wii version.

That's horrible, all the texture is gone. Not literally... but actually!

I think this is the metal floor texture for the bowling bit, from a 4k HD texture pack (512x512).
Sadly I don't have a save file that far into the game for a comparison shot.

 

[Shadowstar39]

The pasterns exist.

Also:



Overall looks pretty "same".

Did they not even up-res the wii-u version? Or is that just the wii game playing on wii-u with the same resolution?

I have the 3d all stars version on switch. I am wondering if it is the same with that version of galaxy 1. I will check later on.
Either way will still get this for galaxy 2.

 

[kiphalfton]

This thread inspired me to finally start SMG1 on PC.

Game looks good enough as it is when bumped to 4K, but with the texture pack looks super clean.

 

[Holammer]

This thread inspired me to finally start SMG1 on PC.

Game looks good enough as it is when bumped to 4K, but with the texture pack looks super clean.

If you play with a dualshock4/Dualsense, or any controller with motion control you can collect the stars with motions instead of using the right stick like some Xbox user.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I'll take cleaner textures. You can keep film grain while you are at it.

 

[Durin]

I honestly wish they just used AI for these textures, because so many of the models out there can retain the art style of the original, but just give you a sharper result.

Some of these just straight up wipe out detail to make a simpler flatter look result, when the average HD texture pack for emulators wipes the floor with these.

 

[Zuo]

It blows my mind that there are people who legitimately can't see the difference. Many of the textures have completely lost their detail, and the differences aren't exactly subtle.

Yeah I didn't expect even such in-your-face textures to be missing, initially all I noticed was the faint checkerboarding/dithering effect. Though the latter actually bothers me more because it's such a unique visual quirk--nice contrast to all the glossiness and even gives a bit of a playful papercraft vibe

Even Smash Bros. made sure to retain it:

Of course it goes especially well with surfaces that are meant to look like fabric or cake stuff