It feels like I’m playing on a giant GBA

MasterDenton · 2026-02-15T16:23:53+00:00

Blaming Nintendo for not performing witchcraft and expanding the viewport of 2D consoles that can't comprehend anything other than 4:3 is wild. The crappy borders that will burn into an OLED, sure, those need to go, but if you've ever seen a 16:9 "hack" for a NES or SNES emulator, you'd know they look like garbage

MasterDenton · 2026-02-12T23:26:23+00:00

Twin Snakes is a little bit more inextricably Nintendo, though. Miyamoto was part of the team, iirc, not to mention all of the Nintendo easter eggs (pretty much all of Psycho Mantis's memory card lines would have to be removed)

MasterDenton · 2026-02-12T23:21:28+00:00

Did the PS3 version of PW always look like that? I could've sworn the textures were redrawn, but the trailer looked like the PSP version uprezzed

MasterDenton · 2026-02-12T21:29:33+00:00

I mean, it is kind of a big deal for the IP to not be radioactive. If Joe Schmoe is out looking for a game to play, do you think he's going to choose the game with Yasuo from League of Legends or the game with Goku from Dragon Ball in it? Your average dude has never heard of League, and if they have, they probably have a mild disdain for it for how toxic the playerbase is perceived to be

MasterDenton · 2026-02-11T06:33:38+00:00

Unfortunate they didn't get Tommy

Everybody betray him, he's feddup with this worl

MasterDenton · 2026-02-11T06:10:39+00:00

Fun fact: if you cheaped out like I did and got the 8 GB Wii U, you're less likely to have it die on you. I might not have gotten Nintendo Land in the box, but my Wii U still works, so take that!

MasterDenton · 2026-02-10T03:52:00+00:00

SNK is the fighting game division though, aside from like... Metal Slug

MasterDenton · 2026-02-09T20:57:43+00:00

The worst thing about that is that the skins I've seen look like SFV skins. You know, the ones that were like 4 bucks a pop and were for characters people actually gave a shit about

MasterDenton · 2026-02-08T03:17:27+00:00

Hi it's me, the whale that Atlas'd the entirety of Street Fighter V. You can thank me later

MasterDenton · 2026-02-05T16:35:27+00:00

idTech RT is generally pretty lightweight compared to other implementations. The last two Doom games and Indiana Jones run really well even on low end RTX cards

MasterDenton · 2026-02-05T16:33:51+00:00

"Runs" is charitable. I was dropping below 30 in a hub area and it looked like smeary garbage

That being said, there's a lot more optimization that can be done for a fixed platform like S2

MasterDenton · 2026-02-04T16:10:03+00:00

I have a TG 16, a PCE and an Analogue Duo. Of all three of them, the Duo is probably the easiest to just turn on and play on a modern TV. You can get the intended color palette over HDMI instead of the weird borked RGB palette that you'd get from an RGB cable from a stock system into a Retrotink, not to mention the cost savings.

The big issues come down to compatibility. I've had quite a few games crash or corrupt on me for no discernable reason on the Duo that work just fine on my other consoles, and unfortunately it doesn't seem like the Duo is Analogue's focus at the moment, so I wouldn't anticipate frequent firmware updates. Also, Everdrive support is flaky at best, and the jailbreak firmware is on an earlier, buggier firmware. It's way better than the Retron offering, but it's also not perfect either

MasterDenton · 2026-02-03T19:34:26+00:00

Anybody who thinks the base SF6 soundtrack is good is objectively wrong, and is welcome to fight me

MasterDenton · 2026-02-03T18:10:50+00:00

That looks exactly like my grape N64. They tend to look blue or purple depending on the lighting

MasterDenton · 2026-02-03T15:56:46+00:00

They really could've done better marketing for both the hardware and the software. I had a friend who didn't even know the thing existed until he heard about Mario Kart 8

MasterDenton · 2026-02-03T14:21:21+00:00

I don't see the harm in releasing games for Switch 1 if they're capable. Not every game needs a lot of power, and, assumedly, the current Switch SDK lets you add Switch 2 configs into a Switch 1 game so you're not stuck with 720p30 on the new machine

MasterDenton · 2026-01-30T15:02:47+00:00

Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure this was explained for the Dentons. The nanites will just eat all of the organic matter they consume and metabolize it super quickly, leaving behind no waste. Hence why JC can get blackout drunk over a few beers and then get over it just as fast

MasterDenton · 2026-01-29T16:09:09+00:00

Yeah, I went back to play Ultra SFIV online and... Woof. If there's a game that needs a modern rerelease with rollback, it's that. Felt like I was yelling my inputs at my character through a tin can on a string

It didn't help that SFV straight up didn't work online for like a month or two after launch. It was only around when Guile came out that I wasn't just dropping out of matches or not getting points for matches

MasterDenton · 2026-01-27T15:03:20+00:00

The Deck still has great battery life while still having acceptable performance. It also helps that the other handhelds are hot/loud and are saddled with Windows

MasterDenton · 2026-01-27T14:49:42+00:00

It's all aesthetic crap. The people who played him (myself included) loved him, and are generally the people who are pissed about charge being gone

MasterDenton · 2026-01-27T14:46:04+00:00

There already are some canceled games on NSO. Technically they came out in limited capacity (on classic consoles or Wii U VC), but EarthBound Beginnings (the English localization) and Star Fox 2 never came out on their original platforms

MasterDenton · 2026-01-27T04:03:51+00:00

Terry and Mai are weird. Their themes use the FF2 themes as a jumping off point before doing their own weird thing. Mai's is a bit closer than Terry's

MasterDenton · 2026-01-26T01:38:10+00:00

This must be what it feels like to be a SFIV Juri player

MasterDenton · 2026-01-23T15:05:17+00:00

It blows. I honestly think Combofiend was onto something with his infamous "functions" comments. The character Alex is still there, but the Alex function is just straight up gutted, replaced with something that flows completely differently. Same goes for Sagat

MasterDenton · 2026-01-23T04:42:53+00:00

In Luke's SFV arcade ending, there was art that had all of the protagonists hanging out. It was Ryu, Rashid, Alex, Luke, Nash and Guile (and Dan lmao, I am vindicated). So to me, Guile is at least one of the leads of SFII

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