Famicom Dojo

Try this on your existing cameras before paying for an official one. We test out two older cameras we had lying around, one official model, and one VERY unofficial, using the Switch 2's built-in USB camera testing tool.

While many third party cameras are compatible with Nintendo Switch 2, even with a USB-A style plug, some will not display video even if they're still functional and work with other, older devices.

Our next video drops this month about which cameras work best with Nintendo Switch 2, and how to test them if you aren't sure. Watch this short preview draft made for our Patreon producers to see more: https://www.patreon.com/posts/getting-back-to-152798964

We test it out on the replica stand, which arrived a day before Virtual Boy Nintendo Classics was released.

Even the VR mode of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is positioned specifically to compensate for how the Switch 2 is seated in the Virtual Boy goggles. But does it really work?

Jade takes on a job from Mr. De Castellac to bring back photographic proof of DomZ monters on Hillys. It's probably a trap.

Playing Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has us comparing to this game, the good and the bad.

Metroid: Other M picks up in the immediate aftermath of Super Metroid, which saw a baby hatchling Samus was attempting to rescue give its life for her to defeat Mother Brain. Barely recovered, Samus answers a "Baby's Cry" distress signal to find herself face-to-face with her former commander Adam Malkovich as they work together to find out what happened to a derelict space station.

Sean has tried to get into Other M on two separate occasions in the 16 years since its release, and hasn't been able to get very far yet. The hybrid side-scrolling and 3D gameplay has been interesting, but the dialogue is sometimes just so, so bad. Will this be the time he can break through?

It used to be true, and still is to some extent, that visiting a video game store in Japan is a rite of passage for foreign visitors to Japan, but if you pull out a camera to take a video you may find you are no longer welcome.

This week on the DojoCast, Vinnk discusses how vloggers have ruined retro game shopping for everyone else in Japan with their bad or just obnoxious behavior. In Future Retro and Pile of Shame we talk about Unlimited Saga, and Sean learns the right way to unlock a very old secret in Super Mario World.

With the Fallout series on Amazon Prime on a collision course with established game canon in season 2, we decided it was time to take a look at the most divisive title in the Bethesda catalog!

Even though it's considered a "side story" the Las Vegas setting is geographically close to vaults 31, 32, and 31 of the TV series -- certain much closer than the east coat Washington DC setting of Fallout 3. Elements like the New California Republic, which came from Fallout 2, and has likewise been referenced by the Amazon Prime series, were revived here and expanded upon.

A friend of the show passed away last November. She made games that shaped our childhoods, and graciously offered her time for an interview and cameo for one of our videos reviewing her work on Out of This World.

We thought we knew exactly how how this would go, but sometimes you discover an unexpected result: https://youtu.be/0dbsxWqCVqA

We knew of course that a GameCube Adapter would work on the Switch 2, because we'd tried it already on launch day, and livestreamed the results with Soul Calibur II on GameCube Nintendo Classics, but that was connected to the dock using "classic" USB-A. When we got to thinking about how we could have hooked this up to the Switch 2 directly, that's when we got creative.

It's a classic, but when was the last time anyone played it? How many kids today have never even seen it? Let's fix that now!

While the original Legend of Zelda was a technical marvel of its time, by modern standards it's graphics are simple, its in-game hints terse, and replay value limited. Game of the era often made up for digital limitations with expanded stories and gorgeous artwork in the instruction manual. Hint books reigned supreme, and personalized assistance could be found for a fee until the internet came along and ruined that business model.

We're trying things with the Switch 2 that we probably shouldn't do!

We'll also try things out on the original Switch that is equally inadvisable, but we must know the truth!

If you want to play your digital library like you could before* the firmware update, follow these steps!

We play the downloadable "game" that many think should have been a pack-in title, and judge it accordingly.

Lots of previous Nintendo consoles have included games or game demos — digital pack-ins such as Mario Kart World on Nintendo Switch 2 notwithstanding. Wii had Wii Sports which people played for years afterward, and Wii U had NintendoLand, which was a collection of entertaining mini games that admittedly weren't played much after launch. And, to be fair, Nintendo Switch didn't come with anything at all, but the Breath of the Wild: Special Edition almost made it feel as though it did.

Microsoft has made good on its 2013 promise to end physical media. Will this digital-only ethos spread to other consoles?

New Xbox Series X consoles don't have discs. New Xbox consoles aren't even Xboxes. Or Consoles.

We got close before, but now it's time to finish the fight.