astounding how quickly the Super Mario 3D All Stars announcement went from âoh, Nintendoâs actually doing something cool for once, niceâ to âoh fuck you nintendoâ at mach 7 speeds
ebay exclusive game release
I should probably says something about how this is an insanely unprecedented scumbag tactic on their part that creates artificial scarcity towards a product people were already complaining was scarce in the first place and that you should pirate media constantly and always to prevent big corporations from doing shady shit like this to you all the time but instead Iâm gonna say more like nintendo bitch lol
Yo ho ho, me bottle of rum.
If you wish (because you should!) pirate these games:
Hereâs where to download Dolphin, a better GameCube and Wii emulator than what Nintendoâs offering, that can output to higher resolutions and widescreen. Super Mario 64 PC was a project that completely reverse-engineered Super Mario 64 and allows you to play it perfectly at any resolution you would like. Plus, people are making mods for it every day (youâll have to hunt a download yourself though)
If you wish to support good ports of old games out there, ports that actually add new features and that are worried about preserving games and putting them out there for new audiences:
SEGA 3D Classics was a line of extremely high quality SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis and Arcade ports that not only allowed you to play these games with the 3D feature of the 3DS, but that routinely added completely new modes and features to these games, most of which focused on making these old games more accessible, on top of just being able to play these old games as they were, perfectly. SEGA AGES is a sort of continuation of the SEGA 3D Classics line, but for the Switch and not the 3DS, so no 3D. Same deal though - extremely high quality ports of SEGA classics with new features. Including online play in some games! It features worldâs first perfect port of Virtua Racing, using the original arcade code, with online play and 1080p resolution! The Megaman Zero/ZX Collection features all 4 Megaman Zero games, plus the 2 ZX games, with a new optional checkpoint system that makes these games a lot easier and less punishing to get through, and a new racing mode where you can compete with a friend or a CPU who can get through a level faster. Plus a huge extensive gallery of all the art and concept art of these games. Collection of Mana is a collection of all three classic Mana/Seiken Densetsu games, including the never-before translated Seiken Densetsu 3! A legendary Action RPG that since the 90s, western fans lamented it never being released outside of Japan. Well, now it has! With the translated title Trials of Mana! Speaking of titles that were never before released outside of Japan or translated, Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is an incredibly interesting and forward-thinking Playstation 1 âanti-RPGâ made by some of the people who have worked on all-time classics like Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG, about befriending people rather than killing monsters. It is one of the main inspirations for Undertale. It is a hidden gem even in Japan, so it being ported and translated was completely a labor of love situation, so please support it if this game interests you! The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has like. Nearly every single pre-Street Fighter IV Street Fighter game in it. Itâs an incredibly MASSIVE collection of a lot of the best fighting games of all-time in it. Plus with all sorts of extras like sprite viewers if you wanna watch the amazing art and animation of these games in detail! The SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is a preservationistâs preservationist collection. Itâs a collection of very old, very early SNK games, pre-Neo Geo era. Games that havenât been ported anywhere else or are often forgotten. Itâs filled to the brim with games and concept art. Thereâs also the Contra Collection and two Castlevania collections, one thatâs more focused on their more classic titles and another thatâs just the two most held-up Castlevania games, Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night, in one package. Rondo of Blood in particular, wasnât brought over to the west at all originally. Itâs only release outside of Japan was on a PSP remake of it, so this is, outside of emulation, pretty much the only way to play one of the best Castlevania games out there.
As you can see, thereâs a TON of really amazing preservationist releases out there, so maybe instead of playing Mario, you could both say ânoâ to this incredibly sleazy tactic of Nintendo, AND expand your interest and find new favorite games you wouldnât have ever played before with all these great re-releases out there!
this isnt a new thing by the way they did this shit in 2010 aswell for the 25th anniversary, they then re-released it afterwards without all the extras and i dunno if that makes it better or worseâŚ
