I have to say that I will be pretty surprised if we finish out Pokemon's 25th anniversary without getting the GB/GBC games on the Switch. Seems like such an obvious way to celebrate the anniversary.
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Pinball never got on NSO? How have the just not added that one in? Same with Urban Champion.
The Superscope games would be amazing to see but I don't think they've EVER been rereleased, and I'm not sure if the Joy-Con would work as well as the Wiimote when it comes to light gun games.
Mainline Pokémon won't come to the service because they can sell it solo with Bank access. I'd love to see Pinball, Puzzle Challenge, and TCG though!
That'd be the dream! That and the GBC color modes.
The Superscope games would be amazing to see but I don't think they've EVER been rereleased, and I'm not sure if the Joy-Con would work as well as the Wiimote when it comes to light gun games.
Mainline Pokémon won't come to the service because they can sell it solo with Bank access. I'd love to see Pinball, Puzzle Challenge, and TCG though!
That'd be the dream! That and the GBC color modes.
I've been hearing about a Mother trilogy since the Wii and I still don't think it's ever happening TBH.
Give us all of the Pokemon games. ALL OF THEM.
Nintendo wants to kill ROM sites. They seem to fail to understand that if they released masses of games like Pokemon titles etc on Switch, there would likely be vastly less ROM pirating. It's just like how Blizzard killed gold selling in WoW - they started selling t themselves in the form of tokens.
The amount of effort Nintendo go to with legal action etc to try and shut down ROM sites etc is silly when they could just whack their own emulator onto the Switch and let people pay them money to play these beloved titles.
Nintendo wants to kill ROM sites. They seem to fail to understand that if they released masses of games like Pokemon titles etc on Switch, there would likely be vastly less ROM pirating. It's just like how Blizzard killed gold selling in WoW - they started selling t themselves in the form of tokens.
The amount of effort Nintendo go to with legal action etc to try and shut down ROM sites etc is silly when they could just whack their own emulator onto the Switch and let people pay them money to play these beloved titles.
I mentioned it in another thread, but with a little critical thinking, why would RBY (or even FrLg) be added when Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee continues to be sold at full price and already has Pokemon Home connectivity integrated?
Hell if anything that should point to more reasons why GSC won't show up when Game Freak can just pump out Let's Go Marill/Togepi in late 2022/early 2023
Hell if anything that should point to more reasons why GSC won't show up when Game Freak can just pump out Let's Go Marill/Togepi in late 2022/early 2023
Would this be a decent begining to the service?
-SML 1
-SML 2
-WL 1
-DK94
-KDL 1
-Metroid 2
-Kid Icarus 2
-Mole Mania
-Gradius GB 1
-Gargoyles Quest
-SMBDeluxe
-Oracle of Ages
-Oracle of Seasons
-Pokemon Pinball
-Pokemon TCG
-MMXtreme
-MGS Ghost Babel
-Robopon (either ver)
-Revilations The Demon Slayer
-Xtreme Sports (Is this coming to eShop? I forget)
-SML 1
-SML 2
-WL 1
-DK94
-KDL 1
-Metroid 2
-Kid Icarus 2
-Mole Mania
-Gradius GB 1
-Gargoyles Quest
-SMBDeluxe
-Oracle of Ages
-Oracle of Seasons
-Pokemon Pinball
-Pokemon TCG
-MMXtreme
-MGS Ghost Babel
-Robopon (either ver)
-Revilations The Demon Slayer
-Xtreme Sports (Is this coming to eShop? I forget)
RBY are slow and archaic compared to Let's Go, they're very different games. I don't think having them available would really deter someone from getting Let's Go if they were considering it.
If anything, putting twenty minutes into RBY might convince someone they actually want the updated version instead of suffering through the originals.
It's the GBA and DS games I am doubtful will ever get digital releases in the future because they still hold up very well.
That the mainline GBA and DS pokemon games didn't get released on the Wii U eshop but the side games did speaks volumes.
I hope it's true and I hope the systems are fully featured like you would find on a typical gameboy emulator. I want to play the SGB enhanced version of DK' 94 on my Switch!
If you want to play more than a handful of classic games on a device with a Switch style form factor might as well preorder a Steam Deck.
Heck you could play Blue/Red on the same system they were selling Leaf Green/Fire Red.
That never stopped them before.
I don't see much of a point of including Pokemon games in the NSO sub when the market is probably better for everyone involved to sell them apiece.
Is there Metal Gear NES on NSO?
Then you have your answer.
Yes but Metal Gear NES is bad and no one wants that...
But yeah... I see your point
Then Metal Gear 2 : Snake's revenge?
wait we have emojis now?
like 🐍 ?
I can't see the Pokemon games showing up in a subscription model, I would assume the Pokemon Company wants to sell them separately for $10 a pop. I'd like to be wrong, of course.
I wish there were an option to just outright purchase a classic game on Switch. I don't care much for the a-la-carte UI and I don't play online. If I could just have ALttP and Super Metroid as icons on my Switch home screen that I can own for $5-10 each then I'd prefer it. I guess I'm basically asking for the Virtual Console to be back in some fashion but coexist with the online model lol. And yeah I'd be miffed that my 3DS purchase of TLoZ can't be transferred over but whatever ~
I wish there were an option to just outright purchase a classic game on Switch. I don't care much for the a-la-carte UI and I don't play online. If I could just have ALttP and Super Metroid as icons on my Switch home screen that I can own for $5-10 each then I'd prefer it. I guess I'm basically asking for the Virtual Console to be back in some fashion but coexist with the online model lol. And yeah I'd be miffed that my 3DS purchase of TLoZ can't be transferred over but whatever ~
Those are completely different games.
Also it's highly unlikely Let's Go will ever get a sequel.
They did got rereleased on 3DS, but they disabled basic features on the VC emulator, as I mentioned; Because they wanted to avoid players of cheating; -So if they got these games on Switch through NSO, I'd expect the same (scenario B);
but even then, they delayed the inclusion of those games for a long time;
The GCN emulator developed for 3D All-Stars is called Hagi, which kinda blows this up.
Agreed - I don't expect GCN to be on the current Switch in any capacity, let alone in a scenario that requires tight communication timing like that (even Dolphin is still figuring this out with mGBA). I think Sunshine is as far as Hagi goes with the hardware we have now.
I'm not sure where the expectation came from either, but I think skipping last year hurt a lot. People were expecting to have GBA or N64 by this time, not finally getting GB/GBC.
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Count still exists, of course. It's just a question as to which platform. I imagine GBA and N64 are both planned eventually, it's just a matter of which is first (god forbid Nintendo gives us both at once 🙄).
I don't recall hearing about Count when 3D All-Stars released and the emulators were being discussed - in fact, I don't think the 64's emulator name was found at all. Do with that what you will.
As I said before, unless there's some pretty strong evidence otherwise, it's very likely that "Count" is just a C++ idiom for getting the number of items in an enum.
Man, I've met Nintendo whales in my life, ain't shit ever changing with Nintendo 🤣
I don't think that's something that would slip by OatmealDome, but I'll entertain the idea I suppose. It is strange that we have four Japanese words for the emulators and Count, I'll give you that.
Good lord are they ever incompetent with their Online retro offering. Just spend some money to get a team working hard on releasing retro games from all old consoles. What is this slow trickle non-sense for only a small set of hardware...man it's pissing me off.
Please be true. I feel like we have been hearing about GB games coming to the service since 2019.
Not sure how obvious it would be from a reverse engineering perspective. It and C++ aren't really my area of expertise, but I do know that adding a "count" to the end of enums in that language is definitely a thing that's done.
That's actually like, the one Game Boy Pokémon spin-off that hasn't been rereleased ever. I don't think there's any particular reason to think it's unlikely though, especially now that emulating rumble shouldn't be an issue.
Of course I agree with you but I dont see Nintendo making AM2R or Samus Returns available on the Switch anytime soon so I'll make do with OG Metroid 2 which I've never played.
And thats the story with Nintendo and being able to play their legacy games, isnt it? Us having to compromise and settle with the crumbs we're given. /sigh
Isn't that sad? That the best Nintendo console to play their best old games with the widest selection to choose from is also their worst selling failure of all time (this side of the VB)?
I get they cant give us all these games for "free" on a $20 a year subscription but at least let us buy them individually to play on Switch. The only way to combat piracy is to make the legal way more convenient and Nintendo doesnt seem to understand that.
You will get early ass first generation Game Boy games with zero options to colorize them like on the Super GB and you'll like it! You'll get Super Mario Land 1, Baseball, Tennis, and Alleyway and you better be grateful! I'm holding for Metroid 2 only because of Dread hype but thats as far as my ambitions go.
Tetris, I hear you say? Yeah right!
It's because of the way it's done. Gameboy and Gameboy color games coming to NSO? Awesome!
Most of the games people would want (Pokemon) probably won't be on it? Terrible.
For whatever reason GBA games aren't included due to potential remakes on some titles? Terrible.
That's not why. GB/GBC are just one system and it's obvious Nintendo is only going to do about a system at a time.
You can rip GBA carts. I've got the necessary hardware sitting on my desk in front of me.
Nintendo used to just sell you the necessary hardware to dump your GBA roms 😏
GameBoy and GameBoy Color were actually two different systems, with GameBoy Color being the successor to the original GameBoy. It also had exclusive games that didn't ever come to the original GameBoy. It was effectively a new gen.
That's actually a big reason why I don't believe this is happening. There is absolutely no way Nintendo is launching two different platforms at the same time on NSO, this just isn't gonna happen, Imo. I personally think they're sticking with NES and SNES for the forseeable future, and if we're lucky, we'll get OG GameBoy games on Switch 2, a few years into it's lifecycle, and that's a big IF. For whatever reason, they don't value their classic library like they used to, the Switch has made that abundantly clear to me.
Nintendo considers the GameBoy Color as the same generation as the GameBoy. They always combine the sales numbers, game sales are combined, etc. It's essentially the same as the DSi and New 3DS.
If that's the case, why did they make games exclusively for the GameBoy Color? Got a link for Nintendo considering them the same gen? It's the first I've ever heard of it.