Nintendo Switch

[Kevvy Metal]

11 minutes ago, Sarlaccfood said:

I’ve not played the GBA much yet as I’ve been really enjoying Mario Land 2. Is it better to have the filters off for GBA then?
 

I’m loving the combination of the GBC filter and the “reproduce classic feel”on the GB games: 
 

 

Completed it m8. 

[Sarlaccfood]

Just now, Kevvy Metal said:

 

Completed it m8. 

It’s great isn’t it? I’ve never played it before but shows how good Nintendo are even with such tight limits.

[JoeK]

Shit! Sacrilege it may very well be, but after someone on the forum (apologies for forgetting who) mentioned about fiddling with TV settings and using motion smoothing on the thing, I've got to say Breath of the Wild is shockingly smoother and without much in the way of increased lag. I'm not sure whether it degrades the visuals, but considering the thing's considerably under the native res of the TV I'm not entirely sure I mind too much. Had to do some more tinkering with sharpness, so I assume it does take a hit there somewhere, but...it's really quite impressive and first use I've ever had for the the option since having the TV.

 

I wish I could take some video of it, but obviously that wouldn't work  . 

[Popo]

11 hours ago, JoeK said:

Shit! Sacrilege it may very well be, but after someone on the forum (apologies for forgetting who) mentioned about fiddling with TV settings and using motion smoothing on the thing, I've got to say Breath of the Wild is shockingly smoother and without much in the way of increased lag. I'm not sure whether it degrades the visuals, but considering the thing's considerably under the native res of the TV I'm not entirely sure I mind too much. Had to do some more tinkering with sharpness, so I assume it does take a hit there somewhere, but...it's really quite impressive and first use I've ever had for the the option since having the TV.

 

I wish I could take some video of it, but obviously that wouldn't work  . 

 

This is an odd one, because motion smoothing is clearly blasphemy and a crime of the highest order when watching a movie, but I do confess to using it with Animal Crossing and thinking it made everything look a bit nicer. 

[Kevvy Metal]

14 hours ago, Sarlaccfood said:

It’s great isn’t it? I’ve never played it before but shows how good Nintendo are even with such tight limits.

 

Yes absolutely! Loved it! 

I'm quite familar with it from owning it on the Gameboy back in the day. 

It's quite easy, with it all ramping up at Wario's Castle, which is like a short endurance run, and loads of fun especially if you don't abuse save states and rewinds. 

[jonathanhoey]

15 hours ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Is it better to have the filters off for GBA then?

 

SUPPOSEDLY the ultra-dim screen of the mk1 GBA led to developers overcompensating and giving everything ultra-bright, retina-searing colours. When played on a real screen, some people think that's overkill and want a filter to dim it back down. 

 

Personally I think that's wack. BURN MY EYES

[womble9]

So, I've not touched my switch for what seems like an age and decided to dive back in and have a play on some of the new N64 / GBA games that I very much enjoyed back in the day. A friend of mine is also wanting to get in on the retro goodness and last night took out a regular Online Membership not realising that he needed the expansion.

 

I have a (not as yet redeemed)  Online Membership code but obviously I also need to take that a stage further and get the Expansion. 

 

What's the best (I guess that should read cheapest!) way for us to go about this. Do I perhaps redeemed my code and then get the Family membership, invite him to join it and we both go halves on the extra cost and perhaps sell the other spots (on here perhaps?) to recoup our costs and if so will he get some sort of refund for the Online Membership that he's taken out? Oh and what about the sellers selling family membership spots on Ebay? It seems cheap at £16 for 12 months of Expansion but is it safe (they want my mail address) and will I still get all the features of an individual membership?  

 

Sorry for the total noob like Qs but I'm way out of touch with Switch stuff, and whilst I did have a look at the guides on Nintendo Life and the options on the Nintendo site I wasn't 100% I was reading it right and didn't want to mess it up!!  

 

 

 

 

 

[Popo]

3 minutes ago, womble9 said:

So, I've not touched my switch for what seems like an age and decided to dive back in and have a play on some of the new N64 / GBA games that I very much enjoyed back in the day. A friend of mine is also wanting to get in on the retro goodness and last night took out a regular Online Membership not realising that he needed the expansion.

 

I have a (not as yet redeemed)  Online Membership code but obviously I also need to take that a stage further and get the Expansion. 

 

What's the best (I guess that should read cheapest!) way for us to go about this. Do I perhaps redeemed my code and then get the Family membership, invite him to join it and we both go halves on the extra cost and perhaps sell the other spots (on here perhaps?) to recoup our costs and if so will he get some sort of refund for the Online Membership that he's taken out? Oh and what about the sellers selling family membership spots on Ebay? It seems cheap at £16 for 12 months of Expansion but is it safe (they want my mail address) and will I still get all the features of an individual membership?  

 

Sorry for the total noob like Qs but I'm way out of touch with Switch stuff, and whilst I did have a look at the guides on Nintendo Life and the options on the Nintendo site I wasn't 100% I was reading it right and didn't want to mess it up!!  

 

 

 

 

 

One of you will need to convert your memberships to family plan - the other will lose whatever time they had left on their own when they join. 
 

The conversion will give a discount based on whatever time you have left on your solo membership - so ideally the person with the longest left should convert. 

[womble9]

Thanks . I've just spoken to him and it turns out he didn't go for it last night as it runs out / auto renews in April. 

 

So one option is that I redeem my code and then get a Family Expansion and invite him along which I'm guessing would then cancel his renewal and then we go halves? 

 

And any thoughts on me not renewing mine and us both just joining someone else's plan (seems v cheap) as to whether it's safe to do or not and if we do go that way do we still get all the features that we'd have it it were just us two in a family membership? 

[Jackson]

I got one off eBay for just over a tenner, worked a charm, just use a seller with lots of feedback. Just had to message them my email address after buying and it was done almost immediately.

[Popo]

57 minutes ago, womble9 said:

Thanks . I've just spoken to him and it turns out he didn't go for it last night as it runs out / auto renews in April. 

 

So one option is that I redeem my code and then get a Family Expansion and invite him along which I'm guessing would then cancel his renewal and then we go halves? 

 

And any thoughts on me not renewing mine and us both just joining someone else's plan (seems v cheap) as to whether it's safe to do or not and if we do go that way do we still get all the features that we'd have it it were just us two in a family membership? 

Just watch out for the auto-renewal, because it actually renews about a week before the stated date. My friend got caught out by this when we did the same!

[Stevo]

48 minutes ago, Jackson said:

I got one off eBay for just over a tenner, worked a charm, just use a seller with lots of feedback. Just had to message them my email address after buying and it was done almost immediately.

 

Mine is up in a couple of weeks. When is the best time to do this? I mean, if I do it now will it add on 12 months to what I have or will it overwrite my remaining time?

[Jackson]

8 minutes ago, Stevo said:

 

Mine is up in a couple of weeks. When is the best time to do this? I mean, if I do it now will it add on 12 months to what I have or will it overwrite my remaining time? 

Think it would overwrite it as you'd be joining a family group. Mine had elapsed. Just to clarify, I bought a slot in a family plan online+expansion. Was about 12 quids

[Popo]

52 minutes ago, Stevo said:

 

Mine is up in a couple of weeks. When is the best time to do this? I mean, if I do it now will it add on 12 months to what I have or will it overwrite my remaining time?

It’s a different membership, so think of it like starting again; whatever time you have remaining on your solo sub is converted into a discount on the family sub, at a rate of £x per day (sorry I can’t remember how much, it’s in the Ts & Cs).

[Alex W.]

11 hours ago, jonathanhoey said:

 

SUPPOSEDLY the ultra-dim screen of the mk1 GBA led to developers overcompensating and giving everything ultra-bright, retina-searing colours. When played on a real screen, some people think that's overkill and want a filter to dim it back down. 

 

Personally I think that's wack. BURN MY EYES

Interestingly, even with the “classic” filter turned off the Switch is toning down the colours on all games. It’s approximating a perfect version of the same screen, rather than using the raw colour values.

 

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/a-quick-look-at-the-switchs-new-game-boy-and-game-boy-advance-emulation/amp/

 

 

I like the classic look a bit on handheld but it’s just too many pixel borders on the big screen. I actually prefer classic for the GB and GBC though, the ghosting is actually lovely.

[Quest]

Some GBA games have colour saturation settings in the menu. I think Minish Cap has three options.

[Sarlaccfood]

17 hours ago, Kevvy Metal said:

 

Yes absolutely! Loved it! 

I'm quite familar with it from owning it on the Gameboy back in the day. 

It's quite easy, with it all ramping up at Wario's Castle, which is like a short endurance run, and loads of fun especially if you don't abuse save states and rewinds. 

 

Get in you absolute bastard!
 

Yeah jeez the game really ramps up the difficulty on that last level. Honestly one of the hardest bits of Mario I’ve done. 
 

Also had no idea that the end of Mario Odyssey was such a whopping homage to a section of this game.
 

Really recommend this to anyone that’s never played it before and likes Mario games. 

[Mallet]

O.K wtf?

 

I just realised that Chrono Trigger is not available on the Switch, I don't understand Square Enix because surely porting Chrono Trigger to Switch would sell millions? They are a perfect fit together.

[JoeK]

59 minutes ago, Mallet said:

O.K wtf?

 

I just realised that Chrono Trigger is not available on the Switch, I don't understand Square Enix because surely porting Chrono Trigger to Switch would sell millions? They are a perfect fit together.

 

It's because Square are the absolute masters of fucking up marketing and generally not understanding anything about modern day videogaming. I swear to god they live in another universe where it's still the mid-90s and everything they did was gravy.

 

You'd have thought that getting the damn FF Pixel remasters out on the Switch should have been an absolute priority, but clearly not and we have to wait fuck knows how long before they arrive. 

[Mallet]

It's absolutely baffling, especially when it is Jrpgs and the Switch owns Japan. 

 

Didn't Square Enix sell a load of studios and ips for a couple hundred of million then the people who bought them sold the Tomb Raider rights to Amazon for like 600 million for just the Tomb Raider rights? 

 

How the people at the top of the company survive that I don't know. 

[Alex W.]

12 hours ago, Quest said:

Some GBA games have colour saturation settings in the menu. I think Minish Cap has three options.

Yeah, and on FFTA there was original GBA, GBA SP and Game Boy Player IIRC.

[AK Bell]

Square Enix's current focus is trying to work out how to do NFTs, flogging assets to make it look more tempting to being bought out, along with opening and closing down GaaS games. Actually releasing stuff people will pay money for to play seems a low, low, low priority. 

[Quest]

1 hour ago, Mallet said:

Didn't Square Enix sell a load of studios and ips for a couple hundred of million then the people who bought them sold the Tomb Raider rights to Amazon for like 600 million for just the Tomb Raider rights? 

 

I think it turned out to be 600 million Swedish krona, which is about fifty million dollars or something.

[JoeK]

Probably a stupid question, but with the Gameboy, NES apps on the Switch can you actually play the games away from being online, or are they tied up to the service completely? I'd kind of like to play stuff like Tetris whilst on a lunchbreak!

[Rex Grossman]

10 minutes ago, JoeK said:

Probably a stupid question, but with the Gameboy, NES apps on the Switch can you actually play the games away from being online, or are they tied up to the service completely? I'd kind of like to play stuff like Tetris whilst on a lunchbreak!

 

They are all downloaded to your Switch when you get the app. They check in online periodically to make sure you still have the right to access them but it doesn't sound like that will affect you.

[JoeK]

Ah, cool

 

Thank you!

 

[Quest]

Had a nice evening getting trounced by Japanese players on that Power Pros eBaseball. Not played anything in the series since the N64 but still find it weirdly compelling despite having no interest in the sport whatsoever.

 

79p is a ridiculous bargain.

 

[Phantoon]

15 hours ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Yeah jeez the game really ramps up the difficulty on that last level. Honestly one of the hardest bits of Mario I’ve done. 

Yeah, it's the most brutal jump of difficulty for a required stage in any Mario game. The rest is so breezy, then that bastard...

[Popo]

10 hours ago, Mallet said:

O.K wtf?

 

I just realised that Chrono Trigger is not available on the Switch, I don't understand Square Enix because surely porting Chrono Trigger to Switch would sell millions? They are a perfect fit together.

There’s a Steam port, but apparently it is complete trash. Fingers crossed we don’t get that. 

[Mallet]

23 minutes ago, Popo said:

There’s a Steam port, but apparently it is complete trash. Fingers crossed we don’t get that. 

Thankfully I still have my DS copy.

 

I really regret selling my DS Dragon Quest games though.