Well, no Splatoon Raiders was a surprise, was sure that’d be featured. I called Mario sports, Fire Emblem, and Yoshi.

A full hour, wow. I expect we’ll get closer looks at Metroid Prime 4 and Splatoon Raiders, as those are the two biggest upcoming titles. Kirby Air Riders just got a mini Direct, so it probably won’t be a focus.

Scratching my head trying to think of what unannounced IPs to expect. No Mario platformers since we just had Bananza and Wonder, but maybe a sports title or some other spinoff, also maybe Kart DLC. The next Zelda won’t be for a while, maybe they’ll tease it but if so it won’t be more than a tease. Maybe a mainline Kirby, but maybe they’re too focused on Air Riders. Fire Emblem seems likely, we’re right about due. Animal Crossing is certainly possible. Maybe Yoshi?

I want to say Rhythm Heaven as my wildcard pick, but that already did get confirmed so I don’t even know what else I want. F-Zero and Panel de Pon would be my dream games but I know they’re absolutely not happening.

11:00 in the video

Allow me to remove any and all sarcasm from the script here, because this is better than most NES emulators I found on the internet. By a lot. Yes, this is better than FCEUX. This is better than Nestopia. This is tied with Nintendulator! Of all the NES emulators I found online, including the one I created, only four of them scored better than this.

TCRF has the exact implementation documented. One thing that’s commonly missed in the urban legends that get passed around about the game is that the two hardware checks prevent the game from running at all. It’s only the ROM checksums to see if those routines were tampered with that will then trigger hard mode. The point of that is to trick anyone trying to crack the ROM who might think they succeeded if they got their modified ROM to boot on a cartridge copier.

But this does mean that unless you modify the ROM, no emulator will ever trigger hard mode, an unmodified ROM will either run or it won’t.

Those checks were designed to beat cartridge copiers, not emulators. Even the most inaccurate emulators from back in the day didn’t set off those checks.

There was no special chip on the cartridge either, not sure where you heard that from. What it did was check that the console is the correct region, that SRAM is the correct size (8kb, copiers would have more but emulators would get it right), and then checksum parts of the ROM to confirm it wasn’t tampered with.

Yes, he mentions that NSO gets the same exact test results as NES Classic, so it’s assumed to be the same codebase.

Earlier ones were, but he finds that the NES Classic and Switch Online emulators are actually more accurate than some of the most popular third-party emulators.

• Dr. Mario 64
• Kirby Air Ride (w/ Hack Pack mod)
• Land Maker
• Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (and Wii)
• Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary
• Panel de Pon (Gamecube and GBC)
• Rhythm Heaven series
• Twinkle Star Sprites
• any JRPG, just pick something you haven’t played yet

I’ve been playing Riichi Mahjong for years, online and offline. Was at the Riichi Nomi Open in NYC earlier this year. It’s a very complicated game with a steep learning curve, but deeply rewarding once you get into it.

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Tried out the demo for Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter. Not sure how I feel about the two combat systems, feels like I really don’t want to go into turn-based mode because I’ll take a lot of damage, but it also feels like the game really wants me to go into turn-based mode in order to deal damage. There’s definitely a lot going on with its mechanics that I haven’t scratched the surface of, but if I buy the game I don’t know if I’ll even make time for another long JRPG…

Also let myself get hooked on Dr. Mario 64 again. Bit rusty, but I managed to 1cc Hard. S-Hard is next.

The market is so saturated that lots of good games have a hard time even getting noticed. Just making a good game doesn’t automatically mean success.

There are definitely a lot of consumers who will gladly pay $20 for Silksong because of the hype and pedigree surrounding it, but would never take a chance spending that much on a game that hasn’t had that kind of hype train surrounding it. Which does make sense, without the hype train you don’t know if a more obscure indie may or may not be worth the $20. But then that tells us that it’s the hype train that matters here, not just whether or not the game is good.

I wish decentralized platforms could be the future, but realistically, corporations hold the power and the momentum, and they will do everything they can to keep it that way. Even when one platform does enshittify too hard and die, users will go to the next corporate platform with the biggest advertising budget.

Still, I’ll do what I can to help build this corner up for those who want to try.

That’s fine, the exact number isn’t really important. I kind of went for an intentional highball to pitch this as a closer compromise to how long copyright currently lasts.

I’m all in favor of shortening copyright length, but it shouldn’t be tied to a creator’s lifespan. It’s too variable, and it doesn’t make sense for anything that more than one person worked on.

I think a reasonable compromise would be 20 years default, after which point you could apply for a 5 year extension twice. Extensions will only be granted if the work is still being made accessible, either new physical copies are being printed or digital distribution is available.

But I would also include a clause that if a work is no longer accessible, such as being pulled from streaming services, an online game being shut down, software not updated to be compatible with modern platforms, etc, copyright is considered to be in a weaker state where end users are permitted to pirate it for noncommercial purposes.

City Trial is entirely different from a traditional racing game. And the main racing mode may as well be a secondary minigame to that, City Trial is what fans are here for.

It’s not a massive open world, but it’s definitely much bigger than the original.

I’m very intrigued by the Stadium overhaul, since I always felt it was kind of anticlimactic to just end on a single round of Target Flight. My wish was for a best-of-N set, but this is an interesting approach. You get some agency to pick something fun and avoid duds, and the mindgame sounds very cool. It’s a good way to handle going up to 16 players now, just split them up and allow four winners.

Though my immediate thought is that it would be even more interesting if the four winners from each Stadium then advance to one more grand finals. Make it a bracket!

There’s an argument to be made that ICANN shouldn’t have made .zip a valid TLD due to potential confusion. But that’s ICANN’s problem, and it’s a bit too late to undo that mistake now. You don’t need to worry that there’s something wrong with a Fediverse instance using it. As long as you can tell the difference between a community and a zip file, nothing bad is going to happen.

If you haven’t played the original, the reason it’s so beloved is because City Trial is vastly unlike any traditional racing game. It’s doing something entirely different from Mario Kart, they’re not really competing directly. They’re significantly more different from each other than the Kirby and Mario platformers are.

I feel like Bananza is the only 2025 release worth talking about so far.