Funny, I ran into this issue just this week, as I was putting the finishing touches on a port of my NES emulator to the browser. I worked around it by adding a click event to the body of the whole page. Since the user needs to click on the the page once to play anyway (otherwise they get no button input), I can simply…

Honestly, they are testing the waters with the NES games on a subscription, and that’s probably what they should run with. Having written two old school emulators now (NES and Gameboy), I can appreciate that the technical side of virtual console is complicated and takes a ton of work to get right. If they’re not…

The good news, if you do decide to return, is that the task breaks itself up quite nicely. Other than the hint art, most of the moons are quite easy to come by, even the newer “moon rock” ones. I found that I could return to the game after the credits, pick a world, and just grab as much as I could, stopping when the…

If they would simply update the Switch’s eShop to use the background music from the Wii shop, and make no other changes whatsoever, I would be perfectly happy and content.

The harsh reality here is that children of privileged parents tend to do better on academic scores than children from the poorer communities, often due to drastically different stress levels and support from their parents. I believe that most kids, given actually equal opportunity to perform in the same activities,…

It’s a typo. is -> into

I mean, they all know what that means. If someone went out, they’re gone. There’s no surviving that.

“I know the trays are usually rectangular, but I wanted to use the lathe tool”

Can we talk about how perfect that lead shot’s arcade is? I don’t know how Taco Time is played, but I *need* to find a roll of quarters and find out.

What’s happening in that Bowling minigame is far more tame. The developers aren’t really intentionally rendering anything in the void. Instead, they’re rendering the scoreboard first, copying the resulting texture somewhere, and then not bothering to clear the framebuffer. There’s no need, as the bowling lane geometry…

How wonderful for Geguri that she was able to make it into the Leagues! I think she is beautiful just the way that she is, and hope she can overcome her anxiety to be in the spotlight and show us all what a real gamer can do. :) There is more to beauty than looks, and she’s got it where it really counts.

Weirdly, that’s not actually his goal, established way back in the first series. Gary Oak is trying to increase his capture count, while Ash is perfectly content to simply *scan* everything he encounters. I remember Prof. Oak complimenting both of them on their differing approaches to the tasks, as Ash ended up with a…

Now you’re playing with POWDER!

Per canon, the babies were delivered by Stork in Yoshi’s Island, and Luigi actually arrived first, so I’m not sure how they’re establishing Luigi as the younger one with that sort of birth mechanic in play. Maybe Mario’s “age” began when the stork dropped him? I think it’s best to just roll with whatever Nintendo…

Agreed, I think Riot has one of the better systems out there. Their loot boxes feel like a nice little bonus thrown my way every level or so, and gives me neat stuff to shoot for with the missions. (Boxes are often a mission reward.) Beyond that, if I’m going to plunk down real money, the loot boxes aren’t a cheaper…

I really wish Earthbound’s unique approach to this had caught on. After your party grows to a certain average level, enemies in the area will actively avoid you. You can still run up to them and fight if you want.

So I was curious as well, and did some research. Assuming it uses the same touch screen controls as the Android version, this shows the battle system in action:

Wait, it was? The controls were mirrored exactly, you used the ABXY buttons to control the top screen, so you could hold the stylus in your left hand and still do everything.

And how do we combat this as regular internet users? For my part, I’ll be using a VPN 100% of the time now. I never trusted my ISP much anyway, and their data throttling rules won’t work when all they see is encrypted VPN traffic. If they decided to throttle VPN traffic on principal, we’ll have a real problem.

I really thought Odyssey was one of the games that handled this quite tastefully. There are so many different control modes in the game that even as an experienced player of many Mario games, I found myself forgetting what a given enemy capture could do. Having my available actions there onscreen, out of my visual…