Speederino

BEFORE ANYONE SAYS IT yes, there's like one craftable piece of equipment you can use diamonds for. But if you already have/don't care about that...yeah.

Its not about the value of the item, its about having a guaranteed diamond drop to re-forge one of the Zora specific weapons.

Not that those weapons were anything all to special, but if you lost your ornamental Zora weapon, and wanted to get another you could always make another one by giving up a diamond in exchange.

Welp, should have posted that thing about two minutes earlier XD

i feel dumb now because i never did the math until now and kept trading stones for diamonds to make money

So a side question, did/does anyone actually use those special weapons? During my playthrough I just stuck them in my house and kept on using the ones I found in the world. Just didn't want to risk breaking and having to go through the trouble of getting them back.

Hell, I often hesitate to even pull out the guardian tech unless I felt the occasion absolutely needed them.

I used em till they all broke and now I gotta make them again

I'd use them when I got them but I never go through the trouble to re-forge them. The world is littered with weapons, there's nothing that special about the champion weapons.

I pretty much never used any weapon except the Master Sword once I got it. Kinda ruined the exploring part for me when it came to weapon drops tbh, except for bows and arrows and such.

Kinda tempted to reset the game from scratch as a result to play without the Master Sword as a result.

Yeah, I never bothered with them either. They aren't so incredible that they outclass regular weapons by any real margin, and it's an effort to reforge then them they'll break so quickly. Diamonds aren't so bad to come by (especially once you have Silver-level enemies dropping them left and right), but it's still a nuisance to go and find a basic weapon to use in the crafting process and then to return to the village. Offering up weapons as a reward progression is a strange design choice.

For what it's worth, I love the durability system in the game. I hope that the sequel brings it bsck, but also introduces a greater variety of weapons and nerfs some of the OP abilities. One-shotting fire/ice enemies is cheap, and freezing/electrocuting enemies is so cheeseable. BotW's big issue is that it lacks balance for experienced players.

I think I'd use the Champion weapons once in a while, break them, reforge them, and then just hang them up in Link's house. I usually enjoyed/preferred hunting for weapons.

Some of my fondest 3DS memories right there. Still gotta replay it and do hard mode

Honestly? Of the few Zelda games I've played, Link Between Worlds is one of the only ones where I can play it to the end and say "I get it, I see the appeal".

Every other Zelda game I've played (LttP, OOT, WW and BoTW) has something holding them back from being truly spectacular, but LBW fires on all cylinders and makes everything click. The perfect Zelda as far as I'm concerned.

Hey that's a honor. It only took ONE time for BOTW to become boring *dab*

I've still got mine from high school. The blue good one. Not the cool tattoo edition where the R button fell off. I got it signed by Ryan Drummond at Revolution recently

I still have mine but it died years ago. (Pretty much everything I used to bring with me in high school is in shit-tastic condition now lol) I bought another super cheap in meh condition, and soon after buying it I found out there was an updated version of the SP with a much better light and I’ve wanted one ever since. Now I just need to track down some games I missed out on.

I always thought eBay’s interface felt outdated as heck.

Right? It looks so basic and has no personality.

Exactly. Makes it feel really shady, which is why I never felt comfortable doing online shopping there.

It also doesn't work very well. I'm trying to link to my PayPal (which I KNOW I did at one point but k) and I just...can't. The "link accounts" button sends me to the "create account" page on Paypal and I can't do diddly-doo about it. I Googled it and this has apparently been a problem for years. What are they even doing?

Idk, but if that has been an issue for years, then that just shows that they really don’t care about their site anymore.

I use the phone app so I wouldn’t know

I guess I need to just create a separate Gmail for Youtube but I don't think there's a way to import all your subscriptions and shit, right?

I'm 99% sure you can make a Youtube account separated from your Gmail one.

From what I can tell I can create a separate channel but I can't find a way to straight-up unlink the two accounts. And if I go on Youtube and try to change anything, I'm taken to my main Google account.

I guess I'll just have to go with the first option. It'll be annoying re-subbing to everything but *shrug*

I know there's a chance I might get super lucky and find an eBay listing from someone who doesn't know how much it's worth; or maybe even find one at a yard sale or some shit but what the fuck even are those odds?

that feel. the struggle is always real a decade or so down the road whenever you decide to finally grab a popular console or game thats considered old and/or valuable now. 

I'm just now getting to that stage in my adult life where I have just enough disposable income to even begin tracking down game stuff from years ago that I was too broke to buy during my childhood/ teen years

My favorite part about getting the Wii is how my entire family caught a stomach virus immediately after getting it. I'm not *saying* the Wii was literally contaminated, but it was literally contaminated.

A game I played a while ago and still need to finish is Another Code R. I've been emulating it on Dolphin but I adore Cing's games so much I had to import a European copy to own.

While I really don't like the state the Wii put Nintendo in (it's the sole cause as to why they've consistently been a generation behind for the past decade, it's what led them down that emphasizing the casual market path, ect.), I won't lie and say that 2005-early 2008 weren't very exciting times for the company. The amount of hype content that came in that time is staggering.

Still gotta nab a used Wii on ebay before they skyrocket in price probably. Wanna beat the few Wii games I still own after selling my first Wii when money was tight that I originally got in 2010 for Colors.

Top game on my list to play first once I have a Wii again is Rodea

Rodea is the best third party game on the system and hard proof that Naka's still got it

Really rooting for Naka to make something again. I don't know what he's done since Rodea but whatever he does next my wallet's already spread wide open.

i know what that sounded like

yes it was on purpose

what're you gonna do tell my mom

I wouldn’t mind snagging a good condition DS Lite, myself. Mine’s been through a good few scraps and isn’t much fun to use.

Although I think I want a good GBA SP even more.

Still have a good-condition DSi but my Lite has seen better days. It really was the weakest Ninty handheld, had a nice Apple look but also had Apple fragility- OHHHHHHH

Pretty much. Broken hinge, blown-out speaker, unresponsive L button. But it was a damn snazzy little thing, once upon a time. And hey, could be worse. Isn't that right, DS Phat?

Isn't that Mickey Mouse

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WHAT THE FUCK

foreshadowing for when Disney buys Nintendo in 2027

They would've taken SO much of my money.

I might have gone bankrupt.

You can inject gba/gb/gbc/nes games and turn them into vc games by hacking.  (besides, gba emulation is awful on normal 3ds)

but its not the saaaaame mom *plays virtual console Pokemon Crystal that I can also play emulated on my phone*

HA

Mood...

Not only in your phone but also with FAST FORWARD a feature that Game Freak still don't know what it is that is in every rpg since 2009!

That would require Nintendo to be even somewhat competent at keeping their legacy content available.

Hey man do you see anyone else supplying NES Volleyball to the world??? Nintendo does important work, mang.

I just wanna ask ninty

what the FUCK WAS WRONG WITH THE VIRTUAL CONSOLE

Let me guess...

You too?

I assume by Nyko charging station, you mean these?

I have one. It was good for a while (I'd say the first two years of use) but the Nyko rechargable battery packs eventually stopped charging properly. Nowadays when I use my Wiimotes I just scrounge for standard batteries, lol.

I thought sometimes of maybe just getting rechargable standard batteries by Energizer and such and using the wall plug-in recharging docks for them, this stuff:

But I don't play Wii games as often as I do to motivate myself to get one. (They also cost more than standard batteries, albeit not as much as they used to in the past IIRC.)

Not quite but close enough. Do the batteries barely hold a charge and is the charge indicator light super unreliable?

@Speederino Nowadays, yes to both questions. But I'm talking about a charging station I got...like, about the late 2000s (2008-2009). I dunno if the charging stations' functionality / rechargable batteries' lifespan been improved since then; but I think a modern, brand-new charging station one shouldn't have the problems I'm talking about out the box. I'm bringing my experience up as mainly something to watch out for later down the line.

Sorry I was talking to Snoop, we must have posted at the exact same instant. My Nyko charger held 4 remotes (even though I only had 2) and lasted a good few years.

All the chargers I’ve tried since then have been ass; basically defective out of the box. The one I have now at least *works* but that’s the nicest thing I can say.

I had a great charging station once

Then I left it sitting on top of a space heater...

I've spent like half an hour trying to figure out what I had. Apparently it was NOT Nyko, it was Psyclone (who I think went out of business). It would have been like this one:

Except this one was a piece of shit. I can't find anything about the one I actually liked, lol. Maybe it wasn't a quad charger and I'm just mixing it up with this one.

EITHER WAY, it was awesome and I miss it. RIP in peace buddy I can barely remember.

It’s the only rooster teeth series I care about besides RWBY Chibi

That's what they want you to think. Grover is merely his client.

HAHAHAHAAHA

HAHAHA

HA.

you just had to keep poking and proding. you just couldn't leave it alone. you know far too much.

this isn't personal its just business, y'know~?

I said they MIGHT be the same person. This seems like a pretty extreme measure given the uncertainty...

Unless you're confirming it, of course.

d-dammit

I admit though, part of me wants to soldier on for a little while. The issues don’t make it totally unplayable but it’s hard to justify playing this when the Gamecube version exists; regardless of the added bells and whistles.

No

Fuck

Before anyone says it no I am NOT going for 100%, not on original mode anyways. So fuck off bye bye have a nice day

Play Tropical Freeze

I will. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I will.

Huh, thought Spider-Man PS4 would be right up your ally 😕

They had the BALLS to kill Uncle Ben so 1/10

Tropical Freeze had some brilliant ones from what I recall. That game's level themes are something else.

Yeah, I don't understand why there wasn't another model that has a regular D-pad.

Playing with OG model's D-pad detached is very awkward.

3DS Port is your best friend.

Spam the Crash Guard to the end.

I AM playing the 3DS port. And at the risk of coming off as a total nincompoop...what’s Crash Guard? 

@Speederino Exactly what it says: it guards you from a crash.

Yes thank you I gathered that, how do I use it?

Buy it from Cranky's Shop. Then before starting a level, select inventory and pick it. Can stack up to three times.

Cranky won't sell you anything, he'll just give you advice:

You should be honestly 

Neverminding I didn’t know about Crash Guard, they’re extremely unforgiving and the controls are poo so nope, no shame.

I just realized why I didn’t know about Crash Guard: I’m playing the original Wii mode so Cranky isn’t selling it. Welp.