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I think the best I've done on F-ZERO GX is unlocking a couple of AX machines (about 2 or 3) and I believe one of the AX tracks, but that's about it. My skills for F-ZERO in general are beyond the skillset they demand you and have been since 2010.

If and when I get four people I'm definitely trying these on the NSO version.

I myself haven't, but I've bought a couple of items and games that were brought from overseas by someone else. Most of my N64 games are Japanese, on the DS I have Jump Super and Ultimate Stars, the two Ouendan games, Itadaki Street DS and Tingle's Balloon Fight DS while on the Switch I have a European copy of Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch, which wasn't released in America and it still had the official Switch Stylus.

When it comes to imported stuff that I bought at a retail, my Donkey Kong amiibo comes to mind. It had a Japanese packaging and at the time, I've read reports of other people finding other Japanese amiibo in retailers around Mexico. I've also bought Japanese amiibo of Shulk and Zero Suit Samus from other people.

Then again, since Nintendo doesn't officially sell their items directly in Mexico and instead has to resort to a distributor, I guess my entire collection is nothing but imported items.

Funny thing is the Arcade Archives version of Chack"n Pop is on sale right now.

Kind of want a remake of the game with characters speaking the same way they do in Banjo-Kazooie.

@Zeebor15 what happened to that Aero collection that Limited Run Games announced a while ago? Is this collection related to that one?

As someone who bought all the Aero the Acro-Bat games plus Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel individually on Switch, all I can say is that Rascal Rival Revenge (the GBA port of Aero 1) is the most playable of the four, as some part that would be deemed as cheap deaths (OHKO spikes and fire rings) actually only cause damage instead.

Then the second most playable is Zero. You have to dominate the art of diving in the air in some sections, though.

Aero 1 and 2 are not all that enjoyable, let alone playable.

With that said, the savestates and rewind are a must for all these games.

If they keep the original Ratalaika/Shinyuden UI, expect some random crashes in Aero 1. While in Aero 2, RRR and Zero, the music player is messed up: getting wrong pitches when changing tracks, if you turn on the repeat song the shuffle song turns on instead and vice-versa, and RRR doesn't even have a music player.
Not to mention, in the gallery they remove all mentions of Nintendo, their systems and controllers on the box arts and manuals, creating some rather weird empty spaces, they couldn't even add generic controllers to replace the SNES/GBA illustrations for the controls in the manuals.

RRR also originally had issues with the sound emulation, making the music sound slightly lower pitched than the original, but I believe that has been corrected and now it sounds almost like the original. Still there are some audio glitches here and there, though.

Might finally give Shiren the Wanderer 2 on the N64 a go after reading this article. It's been sitting unplayed in my collection for about 5 years now....5 years? How? How did that much time has already passed?

Would've loved to see Ralph and Baloo beating the **** out of Ernesto De La Cruz and Lotso.

"Kibe, ya *****!"

That unscripted line from the Super Mario Land challenge of Game Center CX lives rent-free in my head.

I mean, Arino has already played games such as Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, WarioWare, inc.: Mega Party Game$! and more recently Rhythm Tengoku, all of them games that came out after or around the time the show started.

So anything up to 2006 is fair game for me. Whether Arino has the skills to finish Wii/PS3 games in 10 hours or 2 episodes at most is another matter. Though I believe he can finish a game such as New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Kirby's Epic Yarn or Punch-Out!! on such deadline, maybe even the Mario Galaxy games.

@Guru_Larry It was probably a marketing effort so Tommy Tallarico's mom was proud of him.

I think that says more about you as a person if you see a PINGAS where there is none. And that's coming from someone that was the definition of immature back when the game came out in America.

Good ol' Boo! Haunted House
Bookmarking for future reading.

Nothing to do with the Chupa-Chups spokesperson, right?

(Bokmark comment for later reading)

It's a Nontendo 2DS.

Never watched the movie, is it any good?

Man, how long are we gonna deal with this a******?

Let me guess, 53 Stations of the Tokaido still won't have the karaoke lyrics, as sung on Game Center CX.

About Cameltry, the only reason I know of it is thanks to AVGN.

@Guru_Larry maybe by the time they make Sonic the movie 5 featuring the Chaotix.

They had at least 2 clear chances in the past in Sonic Gems Collection and base Sonic Origins. What's keeping them from re-releasing it? Did they lose the source code or something?

Funny that. I'm currently playing Shadow the Hedgehog for the first time and one line the GUN Soldiers would occasionally utter is "Mr. Yuji Naka is alright.".

That line didn't age well, if it was ever meant to age well.

Is this the game where if you lose the ball you're screwed?

Shhh! Don't tell the London Police.

The "Play It Loud" slogan on the Xbox one should be your clear indication that this is fake.

Wasn't that a slogan Nintendo used in the west during the 90s?

@Skipph Do you know how much they get paid? I hope wherever they move to, I hope it can be fully owned by them.

I wonder if Nuts n Bolts would've fared better if it wasnt a Banjo-Kazooie game. I kind of feel the concept could've worked as a spiritual successor to Diddy Kong Racing, only without Diddy and maybe Conker since he was an alcoholic by that point.

I can buy the argument of the Stampers being frustated at Nintendo, but at the same time I believe Microsoft must've frustated them even more.

I'll just keep getting the occasional ACA NEOGEO game on my Switch. That's good enough for me. Apart from The King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, the Capcom Vs. SNK/SNK Vs. Capcom series as well as Terry in Smash Bros. if that counts, I'm not such a huge SNK fan.

At least my money has to go to Hamster before it goes somewhere else.

If I'm not mistaken, aren't Xenosaga and Namco Chronicle the first Namco games on the G-Mode Archives lineup?

Are we on Christmas already? Because whenever the SuperSega guy shows up, you know it will be a rollercoaster.

Good to know he still cannot be arsed to proofread his bs, though.

The screens on my DSi XL are a little bit yellowed around the edges, but I'm not sure if it's the screens themselves or the screen protectors.

I suppose Rockyhead and Mongol Khan would've been parodies of Rocky Balboa and Genghis Khan (in turn giving a Mongolian boxer to the cast).

"This Is Going To Be The Slowest Sonic Game Ever"

Doesn't Sonic Labyrinth still hold up that title? If not, it was probably taken by Sonic Chronicles.

@Guru_Larry Holy hey. This and "we have higher priorities than sending out lost items" from @Right_Said_Brett story sound worse than EA's "Deal with it!".

Makes me glad I haven't given them any of my money, as much as I would've liked to have physicals of Omega 6, Tetris Effect: Connected and Tetris Forever.

@Guru_Larry

...charging me for other people's orders...

Wait, what?

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

retro (adjective)
relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past : fashionably nostalgic or old-fashioned

The highlighted parts are what retro means to me, but only when these conditions are true.

1. 15 years have passed since it came out.

2. Doesn't get active first-party support.

3. All (or almost all) online services, if any, are officially defunct.

4. Getting second-hand games gets increasingly hard on a local basis.

Either the social media manager is a Nintendo fan or the White House has run out of PR.

Is it better than Mega Man Soccer? Honest question.

I don't know. That sounds a bit more like Tomodachi Life than Animal Crossing to me, at least from that snippet. Granted the only things at stake there are the Miis emotions, though.

Is this the one I said in Nintendo Life that made me think Samus and Snake had a girl and decided to follow her father's line of work? I completely forgot about it.

Surprisingly there was a CeX in my city, a city in the middle of nowhere in notheastern Mexico, one of the least likely places to have a CeX.
Sadly, it closed during the pandemic. It had a decent selection compared to what you can find locally.
Unfortunately, it was so far away I had to go with about 1-2 hours of extra time just to get there and be back not too late. I used to work from 4-7pm on Fridays, which was the day I went there.

I'll forever regret not getting Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes at 600 MXN (about $30 back in 2018) and Mario & Sonic Rio 2016 Wii U for the same price when I could.

@Spider-Kev The fact that said magazine refers to the game as Paneru Gopon (not sure where/how they got the Go part) throughout the article makes me believe it was indeed made up.

I cannot see Nintendo thinking back then that changing the overall tone of the game from the Panel de Pon fairies to the somewhat gory fighters of Killer Instinct would have sold the game in the west, I feel it would have made players wish they were playing Killer Instinct instead.
Silver lining would have been that maybe a KI Panel de Pon would have had more chances for re-releases than Tetris Attack.

With that said, if a ROM hack happens, it better have the KI announcer shouting "Ultraaa Combooooooo!" after x6 chains.

@X68000 I'm surprised it's being ported to the Dreamcast first since it was envisioned as a Saturn sequel to the Mega Drive/Genesis games.

The day that DLC was announced was the day AiAi's banana matured.

For me it's the Gamecube game, such a wonderful game, I miss the early Acres system, made easier not getting lost, something that happened a lot in Wild World and in my little time with City Folk. I will forever miss my GC town known as "house".

Eventually I got an N64 cart of Doubutsu no Mori.

@sportymariosonicmixx the accident my Gamecube suffered wasn't even my fault. My sister was playing Mario Kart: Double Dash!! with her ex boyfriend, back then the system was on a shelf placed higher than the TV. He got too excited and pulled the controller so hard its cord pulled the entire Gamecube and it fell to the floor.

He never apologized for what he did. If I remember correctly, this happened circa September 2006. So I was without playing Gamecube for a few months until I got a Wii.

Back then I didn't know what had actually happened until I opened it in 2021 and saw the crack on the board over the P1 Controller port, every other controller port worked fine. Thankfully that part is modular, which means I could simply swap it with a working one from a busted Gamecube I had laying around.
If I remember where I put this cracked board, I'll post a photo of it later.

Other than that crack and the lens disajustment, everything else still worked fine before 2021.

@sportymariosonicmixx did you try to get the laser fixed? My Gamecube also stopped working back in 2006. I've always assumed it was an aftermath from an accident caused by my sister's ex boyfriend, which cracked the board for the controller ports, rendering the P1 port unusable.

I ignored the system for many years until 2021 when I finally got the Gamebit screw I needed to open it and have a look myself. I had seen that adjusting a screw on the lens could fix the problem. I tried it myself and sure enough, my GC strated to work as great as it did back in 2001-2005 again.

@Martin_H in that instance, I see no problem in wanting games, which I assume are already expensive, in the best conditions as possible.

I mean, I'm already paying exaggerated prices for Gamecube games and most of the time they cannot be arsed to come with the manual, let alone come in the original box or have the cover art.

@Sketcz Thanks for the video, will watch later for sure.

@no_donatello Come to think of it, do you know how Another Code: Recollection did that particular puzzle?

@EarthboundBenjy the eShop closure was announced on late March 2022 and took place almost exactly a year later.

I remember because the week prior to the announcement I had gotten Metroid: Zero Mission, Drill Dozer and Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures without knowing those would be the first of my last purchases.

Sorry, but my New 3DS XL is still not going anywhere. Not until I get play Kirby: Planet Robobot, WarioWare: Gold, the two Mario & Luigi original games (the remakes are ok to skip) and Metroid Prime: Federation Force (yes, really).