Nice to see the Super Bomberman R fixes move from Proton Experimental into a numbered release! Seeing as that game was broken between 2018 and 2023, I strongly suspect that these changes are more relevant to the upcoming sequel [External Link] due out in mid-September, which makes me very happy indeed, as it's my most-anticipated game in years. :grin:

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I briefly misread "A.I. management sim" as "A.I. marriage sim" at first - thankfully the real game sounds more interesting and less strange than that! :tongue:

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Quoting: BTREI'll forever be bemused by the special hatred Nintendo seems to attract from corners of the internet; they simply act like any other corporation; corporations are not your friend and are businesses first—including Valve who notified Nintendo about Dolphin on Steam and set the ball rolling.

Emulation is also legally shakier than most people realize and I'd recommend anyone curious as to the why and how of this whole fracas watch this video [External Link] from an actual lawyer. There's good historical context there that gets omitted or distorted in most discussions about emulation.

Quoting: BTREYes, Nintendo's attempts to stop fan sequels, remakes and the like is fundamentally different because ... reasons, I guess. Well worth singling them out. Capcom has shut down RE remakes of all sorts year before their own products came out (2, 4 come to mind). Look it up. Don't even get me started with Sega (I would recommend a video from the channel I recommended on Sega and IP [External Link], incidentally). You won't convince me that this isn't just hypocritical apologetics without evidence.

I just wanted to say how utterly fantastic these videos you've posted about are. :grin: I will surely be digging into this channel further - many thanks for that, as it's exactly the sort of thing that I enjoy learning about.

My gripe with Nintendo is merely as a consumer (they've gone off in a direction I don't enjoy and I'm not happy with their products anymore, so I simply took my entertainment dollar elsewhere - nothing for me to be worked up about, since we have competition in the market precisely for this reason :smile:) and even as one of their customers I was always well aware that what they do with regard to fan-works/events/etc. is well within the letter of the law and I never had a problem with that, so I was already aware of a lot of the stuff in the excellent Dolphin video. Nonetheless, there were still new things I learned here, and it was also fun to get a dose of nostalgia about the days of Connectix and bleem!, which were what sparked my own interest in emulation, and also gaming legal issues, in the first place. The "big red button" analogy is the best I've ever seen it put! Everybody should watch it. Fantastic stuff, and Moony has a real talent for translating legalese into everyman terms. Also all of the Ace Attorney references made me grin - everybody should play those games and watch the TV-show, too. :grin:

The Sega video was amazing, as well. Some stuff I already knew (Sega doesn't have [External Link] as fluffy a reputation [External Link] as is commonly believed, after all), but also loads to learn about, which was very eye-opening! I've long gotten the feeling that, at least in some cases, there is misplaced guilt out there from some who regret not buying into consoles that didn't suit the market at the time and thus feeling that they caused the original Sega to go out of business, and I do wonder if this plays into why that company is seen differently even though their behaviour is little different to Nintendo's or anyone else's. It was interesting to see that the video did not cover the fact that Sega let the Sonic The Hedgehog trademark die in 1993, though - presumably that would've lost them certain protections and this is why they market that series as "Sonic the Hedgehog" now; I would've liked to see more on that since I wonder how it impacted on Sega-Sammy's handling of the IP, as was covered in the video.

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Quoting: BelaptirMaybe there's still hope for a surprise launch during the Stealth Fest?

I would love that. It's been on my wishlist for so long now - ever since it was covered here on GOL last year, funnily enough. :grin:

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Are there any particular titles you're hoping to try out or buy?

I was kind of hoping that Covert Critter [External Link] might've been out by now, since this would be the perfect event for it! :tongue:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI suppose there comes a point in game quality where the cost of the time you put into it alone, which you can never get back, is too much investment before you even get to giving them actual money.

Honestly, after they gave out a promotional Nintendo 3DS game ("Mighty Gunvolt", it was called) only for US backers and basically told the rest of us we weren't getting anything and to just forget it, I just forgot about it! :tongue:

I think that Mighty No. 9's funding and development situation had already erupted into nonsense even by then, though, from what I remember. I only caught up on the rest of what went wrong after stumbling across this video [External Link] by chance last year - and goodness me there was A LOT!

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They'll be crying like an anime fan on prom night [External Link]! :tongue:

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Quoting: PenglingI only threw in about a fiver, though, so I never ended up having to play it.

Well…

No way, nuh-uh. I'm not touching Mighty No. 9, hahaha! :tongue: Gravity Circuit looks like exactly my jam, though. :grin:

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI only paid like $10 USD for Mighty No. 9 on Wii U new sealed at Toys "R" Us during their selloff sale. It was good enough for that price. lol

I was one of the idiots who backed it! :tongue: I only threw in about a fiver, though, so I never ended up having to play it.

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Even though I love the idea, I didn't get on with the demo for this one, as it felt like there wasn't enough audiovisual feedback for taking and doling out hits, which sometimes made it difficult to track what was going on, and I didn't like the controls either. I should give it another look to see if that was changed. :smile:

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Quoting: BelaptirTo me the break point was a horrible experience with the customer service and a pair of joycons (it took them 6 months to correctly repair them, veeeeery long story). After that, I decided that Nintendo was too much crap for me to accept.

Joy-Cons were one factor for me, as well. The innards are, unsurprisingly considering their fundamentally-broken design, designed to be easy to repair. But I got to a point where, along with the other factors that caused me to leave them behind, I found myself questioning why a consumer should have to constantly repair lightly-used gear that fails early into its warranty; Since Nintendo already had excellent and durable controls on previous portables, including one with analogue inputs, their excuses about this particular hardware needing to be improved over time simply don't wash. Repairs in the UK weren't free (I believe that's changed since then), so that was the best option before deciding that the company just wasn't worth bothering with anymore. :tongue:

Though they've always been a harsh company for sure, they did at one point have a more pro-consumer streak to them (primarily driven by the late Satoru Iwata during his tenure, it seems, as the man famously genuinely loved his job and what the company had to offer), and it's been a shame to see that end.

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