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20 minutes ago, Strafe said:

Any decent power banks in the amazon prime sale?

 

There were a couple of Anker banks listed yesterday - but use camelcamelcamel.com to check that the current price is actually a bargain.

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15 minutes ago, smac said:

 

There were a couple of Anker banks listed yesterday - but use camelcamelcamel.com to check that the current price is actually a bargain.

 

What sort of voltage does my console child need?

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4 hours ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Not a huge fan of the Pro controller. It’s OK, but the d-pad and second row of shoulder buttons aren’t good. If it’s not used for a week or so its battery gets depleted and needs to be recharged regularly, not great.

 

Pretty sure I've only charged mine about twice since launch.

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20 minutes ago, Strafe said:

 

What sort of voltage does my console child need?

 

Dunno, I haven't bought one for me yet - search the topic for 'anker' (no 'w'); I thought it might have been added to the FAQ on the first page, but no. Maybe @deKay could add it if we find it?

 

There was something about some powerbanks not charging the pro controller.

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Is anyone knocking out fake Switch Pro Controllers yet? That might explain the crap battery life.

 

I got sold a fake Pro Controller for the Wii U back in the day, and had to play hardball with the eBay seller to get a refund. Looked the part, but felt wrong - too light and the sticks were flimsy.

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It was second hand from a real human, rather than from a suspiciously cheap overseas seller - I’d always avoid them for exactly this reason. 

 

I think the seller had probably bought from The afforementioned dodgy overseas lot, realised it was a fake and was trying to flip it while feigning ignorance. Cheeky fucker tried to claim that the controller in the photos I sent wasn’t the one he sent me, and that I’d swapped it out. He backed down after I threatened to open a dispute and I sent it back for a full refund. He probably sold it to someone else after that, but what can you do.

 

I was amazed anyone was bothering to fake them, given the Wii U was a bit of a commercial bomb. 

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16 hours ago, Alexlotl said:

Is anyone knocking out fake Switch Pro Controllers yet? That might explain the crap battery life.

 

I think they might be. When I bought mine a year ago there were none, but I just checked Taobao and there are dozens of listings for suspiciously cheap ones now. They start at around a tenner, so....

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Unreal Engine 4.2 carries some nice stuff for future Switch titles:

 

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Builds/4_20

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New: Optimizations and Improvements for Shipping on Nintendo Switch

We have significantly improved Nintendo Switch development by releasing tons of performance and memory improvements built for Fortnite on Nintendo Switch to all Unreal Engine developers!

This includes the following:

  • Support for Dynamic Resolution and Temporal Upsampling
  • Low Latency Frame Syncing for Controller Input
  • Significant CPU Rendering Optimizations
  • Improvements to Threading
  • Better Texture Compression
  • Support for Memory Profiling
  • Backbuffer support for 1080p while in docked mode
  • And many other fixes!

 

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I'm in the process of hopefully getting a Nintendo Switch soon after waiting to see whether anyone had any plans to get it for my Birthday yesterday (one can wish - at least some Birthday cash will help towards it instead).

 

I couldn't see anywhere about this but does anyone know if I were to buy a pre-owned game and register it on the Switch to get Nintendo points would it still accept the points even if the previous owner aleady did this on theirs? I'm wondering whether each physical game has some sort of unique serial number attribute or something?

 

I was hoping to get the console from CEX but I'm a bit reluctant of it's condition as there's a few things I want to get rid of and it would be ideal getting some money off of it. For games though it doesn't bother me in the same way.

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