Nintendo Switch Catch-All 2.0

Considering DuckTales: Remastered just got/is getting removed from digital platforms, you can't get Castle of Illusion on digital platforms, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World The Game is no longer available on digital platforms, Alan Wake is/was? removed from digital stores...

I'll be glad to go all-digital once it stops being a Hellscape of licenses and publisher whims and the industry gets its preservation act together.

ccesarano wrote:

Considering DuckTales: Remastered just got/is getting removed from digital platforms, you can't get Castle of Illusion on digital platforms, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World The Game is no longer available on digital platforms, Alan Wake is/was? removed from digital stores...

I'll be glad to go all-digital once it stops being a Hellscape of licenses and publisher whims and the industry gets its preservation act together.

For most of these, you can still download if you purchased. If I set up my old 360, I can still redownload Scott Pilgrim.

I saw Alan Wake free on the Epic store just this week. I agree with your general intent though.

The two games for 99€ vouchers are available again.

ccesarano wrote:

Considering DuckTales: Remastered just got/is getting removed from digital platforms, you can't get Castle of Illusion on digital platforms, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World The Game is no longer available on digital platforms, Alan Wake is/was? removed from digital stores...

I'll be glad to go all-digital once it stops being a Hellscape of licenses and publisher whims and the industry gets its preservation act together.

Yeah but in most of those situations you can still play and download titles that have been removed. Even physical copies can stop being made and sold so digital stop being sold is sorta similar.

I don’t think for a minute physical games on consoles will disappear next gen but I have hopes that Microsoft will try their digital first strategy again.

Suvanto wrote:

The two games for 99€ vouchers are available again.

Doesn’t seem to be back in the US.

lunchbox12682 wrote:

For most of these, you can still download if you purchased. If I set up my old 360, I can still redownload Scott Pilgrim.

TheGameguru wrote:

Yeah but in most of those situations you can still play and download titles that have been removed. Even physical copies can stop being made and sold so digital stop being sold is sorta similar.

I forgot PT of all things, too.

The thing is, yes, if you bought it, you can redownload it on a system that can play it, for as long as that hardware lasts. But if you missed out, that game is now gone for good.

To your point about physical, GameGuru, it might cost me $100 or more, but if I want to purchase, say, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for Nintendo Gamecube, there are still people selling that physical copy of the game, even if no more are in print. The physical copy exists, still. There are people that can lend their copy out. The physical copy needs to actually be destroyed for it to no longer exist.

If I was a person that never played Scott Pilgrim vs. The World The Game but suddenly discovered it via some YouTube video, or a late discovery of the film and comics, then I'd be screwed. There are no collectors selling their physical copy for a boosted price. Hell, a perfect example is even the GameBoy Advance versions of Final Fantasy V and VI. Better translations but retaining the old graphics. All I need is to buy physical copies, which may be over-priced but are still in circulation.

All-digital completely puts you at the whims of whether something will or won't come back due to some licensing agreement, which means consumers have very little power in their ability to obtain the game. Even if a game sells enough to be profitable, if the corporate suits can't come to an agreement on the license due to some music issue, or profit-sharing, or whatever, then it's gone forever.

Granted, even if companies wanted to make their games available forever on digital platforms, the best method they'd have of doing that would be cloud gaming due to the costs of emulation and ports. I'm not a fan of that future, either.

I guess in the end I'm glad to have the option for physical for specific items I know I'll want to hang onto for a while, even though the push to the all-digital (and probably all-cloud) future is inevitable.

The loss of digital goods is the reason why I'm glad some smart people are still super into coding emulators. As long as we have emulation, we'll have gaming history preserved. Yes, your purchases might disappear, but I'm certain you agreed to that when you signed up, assuming you read the fine print.

I don’t want physical games to disappear, as sometimes and in some places the internet just doesn’t exist or is terrible. Case in point that Microsoft shot themselves in the foot about was that whereas original Xbox and Xbox 360 have been massively popular for deployed members of the military, a downloads-only Xbox One would have been almost useless in that setting.

What I do want is for the price of an eshop game—literally just the game itself—to not cost more than new physical copies of the game—game plus smart card plus packaging. Those should economically cost more than downloading.

Great points about the used game market and store permanence. As someone who recently finally chased down a boxed copy with manual for Dragon Quest VI on NDS, it pains me to think of what happens if in 20-30 years someone can’t get some great Switch 2 game because its store was shut down and there never were physical copies. We all seem to be able to have some confidence of this not happening only because Steam has been so good about not crashing. As a counter-example, I was very sad to have left this game demo downloaded on my 360 but never gotten around to buying the full game. Now it’s impossible, as even the devs no longer have the source code. If only Microsoft by fiat decided to make the still-downloadable-if-purchased game still purchasable. Will this public loss become common in the future?

Thankfully the world doesn't revolve around all these edge case scenarios or we'd probably still be huddled around our transistor radio listening to Amos and Andy.

Half done mint mod

Take a look please.

Ooh I like the mint. I have a white Switch but with black buttons (mostly, except for XYBA which are all different colors) but that mint looks nice.

You did that? Props. Looks good.

I did. It was a pain but I did it. Thank you.

I bought one of the switch branded SanDisk memory cards from Best Buy the other day. I can’t get it to stay in the memory card slot. I can hold it in and the switch recognizes it, but it won’t click into place. Any suggestions? The only thing I found was that I would have to send my switch back to Nintendo

Do other memory cards work ok?

I don’t know, this is the first micro sad card I have ever used. I will need to borrow one to see

Ego Man wrote:

I don’t know, this is the first micro sad card I have ever used. I will need to borrow one to see

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Tanglebones wrote:
Ego Man wrote:

I don’t know, this is the first micro sad card I have ever used. I will need to borrow one to see

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That's fairly macro-sad, one feels.

JohnKillo wrote:

Half done mint mod

Take a look please.

That looks really nice! If I hadn't just had to send a controller off to Nintendo to get it fixed (drift issues, Nintendo support was great though) I'd do this to mine. I just dread the idea of it starting to drift again and I have to reassemble the old case to send it to Nintendo.

Just bought this controller.

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It just looks neat and apparently it is good. I will tell folks how it works after I have used it a bit but here is the review that got me to buy it.

I got one of those last weekend. I got the one with the red buttons, and now that I know the one with the purple has the convex/concave buttons, I wish I'd gotten that one.

It feels real good. The dpad is excellent, and I love having it in the primary position for dpad games. It's also awesome to have those big, fat start/select buttons instead of having to hunt around for small and basically-flat +/- ones. There's a little squeak on one of the dpad directions, I think, but it was already working itself out after the time I spent with it.

My only complaint is that it can't be used to wake the Switch up from sleep mode, so you have to hit the power button on the tablet, then connect the controller. It's a minor complaint, but it's annoying. Otherwise, it seems like a really good, and cheaper, alternative to the pro controller. Or, in my case, good addition to.

Great. A bit disappointing about the power feature but not horrible. I am excited to get it and see.

Chaz wrote:

I got one of those last weekend. I got the one with the red buttons, and now that I know the one with the purple has the convex/concave buttons, I wish I'd gotten that one.

It feels real good. The dpad is excellent, and I love having it in the primary position for dpad games. It's also awesome to have those big, fat start/select buttons instead of having to hunt around for small and basically-flat +/- ones. There's a little squeak on one of the dpad directions, I think, but it was already working itself out after the time I spent with it.

My only complaint is that it can't be used to wake the Switch up from sleep mode, so you have to hit the power button on the tablet, then connect the controller. It's a minor complaint, but it's annoying. Otherwise, it seems like a really good, and cheaper, alternative to the pro controller. Or, in my case, good addition to.

The power thing is a Nintendo thing so it isn't 8Bit's fault.

The controller feels solid and I've connected it to both Android and Switch.

Can any 3rd party controllers wake the Switch?

polypusher wrote:

Can any 3rd party controllers wake the Switch?

In the Amazon q&a for the controller someone says the powerA brand of controllers can somehow.

The only thing keeping me from getting a couple of those is waiting for SNES Online to start up and that they'll work there.

Yeah, after a bunch of googling around, I pretty much decided it was a lost cause, and don't blame 8bitdo. First parties are weird about stuff. Like how MS was huffy about anyone else use their wireless protocol, so the vast majority of 360 third party controllers were wired for a long time.

My all-black 8bido just arrived today. I think between the three of us, we have the entire set.

Curious for opinions from this group regarding Wii titles since there oddly isn’t a Wii Catch-All.

I bought a Wii at launch (2006) and played my fill of Zelda Twilight Princess and whatever else was good way back then. Before the system matured much though I gave my system to a relative and meant to get a replacement but I didn’t do that until a few weeks ago. So what should my collection look like? I already have:

* Kirby’s Epic Yarn
* Mercury Meltdown Revolution
* Star Wars Complete Saga
* Super Paper Mario
* Wii Play (which I bought mistakenly instead of Wii Sports)

I’m looking to pick up:

* Godfather Blackhand Edition
* Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword (I have two Motion-Plus Wiimotes)
* Little King’s Story
* Metroid Prime Trilogy
* No More Heroes
* Resident Evil 4 (web says this is the best version)
* Super Mario Galaxy
* Super Mario Galaxy 2
* Tiger Woods PGA ‘11
* Trauma Team
* WarioWare Smooth Moves
* Xenoblade Chronicles

I still have a ton of GameCube games since I never parted with those.

Two questions:

- Have any of these games not aged well at all?
- Am I overlooking anything I ought to get?

Note also that all the WiiWare, Virtual Console, and Wii Shop systems are already shut down, or classics like Paper Mario would be my first grabs.