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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: June 23, 2016, 02:08:05 PM »

Nintendo's unfortunately going to go the way of Sega if they keep playing around with these fancy new consoles instead of concentrating on what really matters.  That is to say, the games!  At this rate, I expect that five years down the road you'll see a Zelda game on the (speculative) new PS5 or XB2 developed by Nintendo for those systems because there may not be a Nintendo console.

I'm afraid you may be right. If the NX ends up in the same boat as the Wii U, it may be time for them to seriously consider getting out of the console business and just focus on software (games) and maybe handhelds. In comparison to the Wii U, the 3DS has done remarkably well, selling over 60 million units despite having a rocky first year on the market 5 years ago. The only problem is I think Nintendo would rather see pigs fly and hell freeze over before they publish and distribute one single Mario or Zelda game on a Playstation or XBOX system.

I am becoming less hopeful for more MK8 content, it seemed a little too good to be true....    but it's nice to see that they even stated no VR and games ARE coming. Here's to really hoping for Luigis Mansion 3. I'm no Zelda fan, but how did Breath of the Wild strike you?

Breath of the Wild may be the first Day 1 buy for me since MK8 on the Wii U. I'm impressed with what I've seen from E3 footage from Nintendo/GameXplain. Open world suits the Zelda series very well. Plus the music in this game is just...awesome! I'm in love with that alone. There's a million other things I could list that I like from what I've seen so far, but I don't want this post to get too much longer.

This is my favorite one that I've heard from the E3 demo.

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One hilariously weird thing I learned about the game
-Apparently Link can be played naked.  I'm assuming it's "underwear" naked and not true "bare butt" naked, but who knows it could be both. Link is out in the open wild after all.

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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: June 14, 2016, 01:57:41 AM »

Gosh sorry it came off that way, I was getting across the fact that some articles are titled " NX delay confirmed for favor in VR"  When we both know thats 99.9% wrong. IDK VR just seems kind of seperate from gaming like I prefer hands on gaming more than virtual gaming.


I'm not sure I don't find out until August when I get find out which classes I go into, all I can say is I most likely bombed my math one. 

Anyways tomorrow is Nintendo's one and only basically E3 day. Your thoughts? All I'm looking in for is some minor things not related to Zelda and hopefully MK8 DLC news.

No need to be sorry, I get what you were saying. I wouldn't get too worried about your math exam, it may turn out to be all in your head. I know there were tests/exams I thought I did poorly on and when I got the results I was surprised to see I passed.

As far as E3 for Nintendo, I'm curious to see Zelda (and finally get an official name) just because I'm wondering how much it's evolved since the first time we saw some obscure footage of the gameplay from nearly 2 years ago. Maybe we'll hear something about Paper Mario, it's like that game doesn't exist anymore because there hasn't been much about it in a few months. I also agree that I hope we'll get some MK8 DLC news. Other than that, my expectations are set very low for any surprises.

I figured I make this as another reply bur I never got the chance to ask what do you even think the NX is?

I'm leaning towards its either a smartphone line by nintendo, a handheld mobile/home console hybrid, or like it'd own cloud, where games and data are added and the console can change and keep alot of data and I mean ALOT and hold so much internally, hopefully you see where I'm going with this.

I'm more in favor of the latter two.

Ever since last year when I heard about the NX, my initial thoughts was that I always assumed it was just a console and a direct successor to the Wii U regardless of what the rumors said. At this point, I don't know what to think. I've said it before, but I'm just sick and tired of hearing rumors, I wanna hear some facts on what the heck the NX is.

What I hope the NX is...well a console. The hybrid concept is fine if they can get it to work right though, but I would rather keep the console and handheld platforms separate. There are some other things I hope the NX will be.....

-A uniformed account system. We already can link (one of) our Wii U accounts to the 3DS to share personal account info on both platforms and eShop monetary balances. You should be able to not only share the same games/cross buy on both platforms along with cloud storage for games (whether it turns out to be a hybrid system or not) but also transfer your Wii U and/or 3DS account(s) along with the downloaded games/save files onto the NX with ease. So the foundation is already there now, why not finish building the house? lol

-They should offer something similar to PS+ and Xbox Live where they offer a free first, second, and/or third party game, an indie game, and a virtual console game for free on a monthly basis. They may not do this because of My Nintendo though, but it would be a nice incentive if you're willing to pay for a subscription to access extra perks.

-Speaking of My Nintendo, they should bring back the Digital Deluxe Promotion, except it needs to be restructured and work in conjunction to My Nintendo. I don't think a $5 eShop credit is a fair trade off after earning thousands of points. It should be structured where you get $10, maybe even $20 eShop credit as an incentive also.

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Emulator Videos / toxictwister00's Legacy STAR Emulations

« on: June 06, 2016, 05:04:49 PM »

Since my other thread is nearly 2 years old, I decided to start a new one dedicated to legacy STAR emulations that I create. From the WeatherSTAR3000 (1980s) to the IntelliSTAR v1.5 (2005-2007)

To start off, here's an emulation of the WeatherSTAR XL v1 created in After Effects. I even took some time to re-create the Daytime Local Forecast Intro (1999-2001) as well. It's not completed, I still have to work on completing the isobar animations in the background.

Legacy STAR: XL version 1 (1999-2001)
Location: Tampa, FL
Weather Conditions: Tropical Storm Colin/Outer Rainbands/Rain Squalls

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Colin

« on: June 05, 2016, 09:13:41 PM »

We now have Tropical Storm Colin.



7:00 PM CDT Sun Jun 5
Location: 23.4°N 87.8°W
Moving: N at 9 mph
Min pressure: 1003 mb
Max sustained: 40 mph

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Hurricane Central / Tropical Storm Colin

« on: June 05, 2016, 11:02:23 AM »

Invest 93L has been upgraded. Tropical Storm Warnings will be posted for the FL west coast.

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Central 2016

« on: June 04, 2016, 05:58:39 PM »

An update on what could become Tropical Storm Colin soon...

ZCZC MIATWOAT ALL
TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
200 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 2016

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

1. Satellite imagery and surface observations indicate that a broad
low pressure area is forming over the northwestern Caribbean Sea,
accompanied by thunderstorm activity that is currently poorly
organized.  This low is expected to gradually develop further
tonight and Sunday as it moves near or over the Yucatan Peninsula of
Mexico and into the southern Gulf of Mexico.  Subsequently, the low
is likely to develop into a tropical cyclone as it moves
northeastward across the central and eastern Gulf of Mexico early
next week. Regardless of development, locally heavy rains and
flooding are possible over portions of the Yucatan Peninsula,
western Cuba, the Florida Keys, and the Florida Peninsula during the
next several days. Interests in these areas should monitor the
progress of this system.  An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter
aircraft is scheduled to investigate the system on Sunday, if
necessary.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent

Forecaster Beven

Source (National Hurricane Center): http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2

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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: June 04, 2016, 05:45:37 PM »

Yeah I'm with you too (rock rock mountain mk7 rainbow road please!!!!) Yeah like how about birdo or boo how come they were left out even hammer bro or wiggler or Diddy kong.

I can say with a straight face that all the virtual reality and other crap rumors are indeed crap. Miyamoto and other nintendo developers have given strong opinions against VR and those aspects even calling it stupid, the delay is they don't want a wii u repeat. AKA no games lineup at launch. Or better yet a games lineup at that. Don't worry you know nintendo, somehow in the end they dazzle and shock everyone.look at the wii u it was shocking hoe badly it performed, yet dazzled and shocked with MK8. if history can repeat Nintendo is doing a superb job at following that standard.

I have faith in them. I don't have anything against virtual reality whether it's something they want to do in the future or not. I'm always technologically curious about any new technical product. I just don't want that or anything else that could turn out to be gimmicky for them to be the main attraction. Just give me a nice console with great games, it doesn't take much to satisfy me.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to ask this before, but how did your final exams turn out?

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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: June 03, 2016, 11:10:29 PM »

It would be cool to see MK8 get more DLC, it's still one of my go to games to play eventhough it's been over a year since the last DLC pack. I'm mainly interested in retro tracks in DLC form, but it wouldn't hurt to get some new (retro) characters too.

Also I gotta say I'm getting pretty sick and tired of hearing NX rumors right about now. I'm gradually losing interest. (God I hope that rumor about the NX being delayed for VR isn't true)

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Hurricane Central / Hurricane Central 2016

« on: June 02, 2016, 12:08:53 PM »

This year's Atlantic Hurricane Season ramped into full gear officially yesterday, but you could argue it's been in full gear since the record and historic early start in January. That's the same month we had the first named storm (Alex) to eventually become the first hurricane of the season.

Of course we just had Tropical Storm Bonnie (which the NHC has re-activated updates on again as of 11am ET this morning) impact the Carolinas over the Memorial Day holiday weekend and this week.

Fortunately (and unfortunately depending on how you look at it), we may have "Colin" by this time next week impacting Florida (specifically north/central FL). The global models (GFS, Euro, Canadian) for several days have strongly hinted at this possibility.

00z European Model - Impacts FL, goes wide right/east out to sea



6z (12z not completed yet) American GFS Model - Hits Central FL, goes northeast out to sea


00z Canadian Model - Solid C. FL hit, brushes the GA/Carolinas coast afterwards)

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Emulator Videos / Re: Sky's Custom Emulations

« on: May 22, 2016, 05:36:53 PM »

Awesome job!

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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: May 18, 2016, 03:22:14 PM »

Yeah I read about the movie thing, however for it to be real, a mario one would have to have minimal speaking and largely subtitles, who knows maybe they can pull it off right with whole lines.

They could do a Mario movie and have most of the characters talk at a decent length and it would work imo. We have a good general idea what most of the characters (Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, etc.) would sound like anyway. I don't know if they'll consider doing TV shows also, but they have great IPs that would probably work well in that medium instead of as movies like Splatoon for example. I could easily see Splatoon being made as a cartoon series for Nickelodeon, likewise with Zelda, DK, F-Zero, and Animal Crossing.

Yeah I remember reading after the Japan park opens they plan to put one in Florida and possibly other parks at a later time. What do you think they'll call the place? They'd have to be pretty dull to miss out on the gold mine of a name nintendoland.

Yeah, that would make the most sense, I'm sure Nintendo will be in the name in some sort of way.

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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: May 15, 2016, 11:08:48 PM »

I heard about this rumor last year, but now it's been confirmed...

Nintendo is going to the big screen, the first (of possibly many) Nintendo movie(s) is expected within the next 2-3 years.

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http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/05/nintendo_is_getting_into_the_movie_business

I wonder if any of these movies will be adaptations of their most popular games or something completely brand new?

EDIT: Also Nintendo is currently in the beginning stages of working on a Nintendo Themed Amusement Park for Universal Studios, but I think the first one is being constructed in Japan(?) not completely sure, but I heard rumored that the Universal Studios in FL is also getting a Nintendo Theme Park as well.

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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: May 09, 2016, 03:52:05 PM »

I finally downloaded Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, I hope it's as good as it looks.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: May 01, 2016, 01:15:46 PM »

We had a lot of hail yesterday, I apologize for the quality not being that great. I was caught off guard on how bad this storm was going to be so as soon as I went out in front of one of the windows on my back porch I hit record. The hail and wind actually got a little worse after this, but my memory on my SD card ran out so I couldn't record it.

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General Discussion / Re: Playstation/Wii -Video Games

« on: April 30, 2016, 04:13:52 PM »

Yeah I'm not either it's just I have nothing to do and I get sucked in. haha but really that's how I felt alot of times. How is the New 3ds XL I have the original 2011 3ds and a 2ds but I've been hesitant on whether I should get one or not, the Animal crossing Happy Home designer edition is what I've got my sights set on. Yeah Mario Kart tracks are probably the best, I've never played MK DS or 64 I was going to say Super MK as well but I forgot Super Circuit has all the tracks from it in it. You basically listed my favorites I did like the original Yoshi circuit, and sherbert lands remix in 8 is amazing. I think it had the best soundtracks because it's the first Mario Kart to have orchestra composed soundtracks. Did you like the tracks in Mario Galaxy? Those I hum to as well. People ask me what song that is and I have to think what to say them.

I can't compare the New Nintendo 3DS XL to the original 3DS since this is my first time owning a 3DS. I got mine from Amazon back in October last year. So far after 6 months, I love it! My only regret is the fact of waiting so long to get a 3DS period.Before the 3DS, I still had a Gameboy Advance SP.  I would recommend downloading and playing MK64 and MKDS from the virtual console on the Wii U, they're both great MK games in the franchise. The musical tracks in Mario Galaxy are great as well, the music and the game itself is very cinematic imo. That's why I feel it's a sad shame the game wasn't in glorious HD. The sequel came out in 2010 so I always wonder if maybe the Wii U would have done a little better (in sales) if the sequel had of been held off a couple of years as a launch title for the console and made clear that it was a Wii U exclusive game. Nevertheless, they should consider doing a HD remaster of both Galaxy games for the Wii U or NX.