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Nintendo OFFICIALLY Confirms SNES Games For New Nintendo 3DS!
- Thread starter HUELEN10
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"accurate" emulation requires much more power than the N3DS is capable of.
Spieler Eins
Member
Introducing an account system, just to add new services to their archaic anti-consumer systems within the same Direct.
And both the 3DS and New 3DS will likely be outdated hardware by years end. This is some blatant last gasp shit before the cycle repeats, much like the NN3DS itself.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I literally wouldn't have bought these on Wii U if I knew they would eventually be portable and didn't come with a discount
Fuck you, Nintendo
Fuck you, Nintendo
MikeE21286
Member
entremet
Member
They people who hack their 3DSes are a very small minority.
Worldshaker
Member
I'll buy a few games and be done with it. I hate Nintendos account system.
nogoodnamesleft
Banned
Do people know the difference between 1:1 emulation and emulation with frameskipping/reducing audio kHz/other hacks to make games playable?
From the ones announced for Europe for now I'm getting EarthBound (never played it), the DKC trilogy (only played the crappy GBA ports and still loved them) and Super Metroid (only played it once in Wii, and it's a perfect game to play on the go), this is going to be expensive lol. So fucking pumped, I don't have a Wii U but no cross buy is embarrassing at this point.
Movalpolos
Banned
Emulation is compatible with more devices than just New 3DS. Lots of people use PSP for example.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Not buying anything until I know for sure the games carry over to the NX.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
So what Nintendo is telling me is that it's finally time to get around to that homebrew.
It is completely obvious. How could "anyone else" give up something they do not have?
Don't give in man. You're supporting this crap by giving in.
Pokemaniac
Member
The Old 3DS can't even manage the decent approximation that VC does.
I went ahead and purchased SMW. I love SMW and I also wanted to see how it performs.
So far it performs well. It has the same basic UI as the other 3DS VC games. That is it has the restore points and all. The only change seems to be the "pixel perfect" option that Trinnen mentioned. Without it, the image is stretched and blurry. In pixel perfect mode, it looks pretty much perfect.
Gameplay is tight. I don't notice any appreciable input delay. It plays as well as all the other VC games on 3DS, which is to say a lot better than NES/SNES VC games play on Wii U.
Frames also seem fluid, without any hitches.
The lack of discounts or cross-buy is disappointing, but technically the SNES VC on 3DS seems good.
So far it performs well. It has the same basic UI as the other 3DS VC games. That is it has the restore points and all. The only change seems to be the "pixel perfect" option that Trinnen mentioned. Without it, the image is stretched and blurry. In pixel perfect mode, it looks pretty much perfect.
Gameplay is tight. I don't notice any appreciable input delay. It plays as well as all the other VC games on 3DS, which is to say a lot better than NES/SNES VC games play on Wii U.
Frames also seem fluid, without any hitches.
The lack of discounts or cross-buy is disappointing, but technically the SNES VC on 3DS seems good.
SNES emulation on PSP isn't good at all.
I really can't believe that in this day and age there is still no cross-buy system for these games that are 20+ years old. I understand that it takes some non-trivial amount of work but that is just the cost of doing business for them, it should count as the same application, playable on multiple systems.
There have to be so many people that would spend a fortune on these VC games if they only were tied to your account instead of having to buy the games over and over, and over again. I'll once again ignore the VC until they get it right. 2020s here we come.
Movalpolos
Banned
Basically.
Even when they do cross buy it's embarrassing. I think it was a Mario and the Minis type game that had it and how it worked was, if you had it on Wii U, you would have a download code on the Nintendo site to give it to you on 3DS or vice versa. No way to just have it be automatically assigned to your account as an entitlement behind the scenes.
ladyluthien
Member
Just download SMW. I'm so excited. Don't have a Wii anymore and don't own a Wii U, so this is the only way I have playing right now.
Will they be adding more then just the nine listed so far? I really hope to get Secret of Mana the most.
Will they be adding more then just the nine listed so far? I really hope to get Secret of Mana the most.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Awesome!
There will definitely be more games but I wouldn't get your hopes up for Square Enix stuff. They haven't really been supporting the VC outside of Japan this generation.
I agree. Nintendo, given its long history and given how relatively easy it is to emulate these old systems, is in a perfect position to offer a "digital library" or "digital museum" sort of thing with its old games. That sort of stuff should easily carry over between systems.
The fact that it doesn't is terrible.
NA lineup is downright pathetic compared to this, unsurprisingly. Fully expecting a dripfeed of maybe one or two games every other week (they're already doing that with the dripfed launch here) while Japan gets games every week. Not that I planned on really buying many of these anyway, especially without crossbuy.
Earthbound might break me though, we'll see.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Controversial opinion: I'm fine with it and I understand the exclusivity to a console that can process that sort of emulation adequately.
Boom.
Boom.
So let me get this straight:
You have to own a N3DS - okay, not the worst thing.
You need to pay again, if you own the games on the Wii U - pretty bad.
You get the US versions - great, but I bet they won't re-release the US versions of DKC2 on Wii U, right?
I don't own a N3DS, but I'd hoped that Nintendo would point in the right direction with this, regarding their new account system and the NX coming.
Is it at least done by M2?
You have to own a N3DS - okay, not the worst thing.
You need to pay again, if you own the games on the Wii U - pretty bad.
You get the US versions - great, but I bet they won't re-release the US versions of DKC2 on Wii U, right?
I don't own a N3DS, but I'd hoped that Nintendo would point in the right direction with this, regarding their new account system and the NX coming.
Is it at least done by M2?
EVA UNIT 01
Member
Whens super metroid?
Ive seen april 24th but also an image saying march 10th
Ive seen april 24th but also an image saying march 10th
maniac-kun
Member
Why is Nintendo so backwards when it comes to a unified Nintendo account? Why do they expect us to just rebuy everything for every console they release? Count me out since it even is N3DS only.
Really? I didn't buy any VC titles on Wii U because I was waiting for this. So, that's a point for these releasing. Probably a bunch more like me as well. Wii U is pretty much a corpse you know.
Sucks that there is no cross buy, yes. But there is quite the "point" to this.
Audioboxer
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Sutton Dagger
Member
I wouldn't buy a separate Vita/PS4 version for example. It's absolutely disgraceful that those that bought the WiiU version don't get these for free, how can people defend that practice?
There really should be some loyalty system here.
As these are assumably the same games previously releases on other consoles.
entremet
Member
If it was, they would've said.
SuicidalSteve
Member
EU store still not been updated yet... Still waiting
Pokemaniac
Member
Emulation has nothing to do with years.
The PS1 emulation was hardware assisted.
Your definition of "no problem" is pretty lenient.
There's actually a decent chance that Old 3DS is slightly weaker than the PSP CPU-wise.
Lord Ghirahim
Member
No cross-buy? For real?
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Hooray! Level-headed thinking.
Personally I'll be grabbing at least Super Mario World tonight. Never get tired of that one.
moltonasty
Member
This right here. It's 100% unacceptable at this point that you have to buy these games AGAIN if you want to play them.