Nintendo GameCube was released in Japan 20 years ago today.
Can’t believe metroid prime is 20 years old now. Damn.
Pretty crazy, yeah. I really liked the first one, but wasn’t into 2 or 3. Fusion and Zero Mission are still my faves.
Fuck. (And I remember Super Metroid.)
And all playable very nicely with the Dolphin emulator.
It is very nice. I found out that Twilight Princess has some crazy slow-downs due to a flaw in its design.
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This is the only older system still hooked up at my house. The Gameboy Player attachment added all gameboy games through the Advance to the system’s library. Thanks to snes ports, a Collector’s Edition disc, etc, you could play every Nintendo Zelda game ever released at the time on it, up to and including Twilight Princess.
up to and including Twilight Princess.
And I believe the GC version of that game was the intended one, right? I think I remember that they tacked on Wii support later on.
Yup. And the wii version is a mirrored playthrough, compared to the Gamecube version. Link is typically left-handed. To make him right-handed for wiimote-users, the quickest solution was to flip the whole darn world about its y axis.
To make him right-handed for wiimote-users, the quickest solution was to flip the whole darn world about its y axis.
Would have been cooler to just force them to play left-handed.
Sure, or at least leave the original layout as a lefty option. Switch it up to your off-hand on the second playthrough for Hero Mode.
I still haven’t found a fast racer that feels as good/fast as F Zero GX. Any modern recommendations?
How about Fast RMX by Shin’en Multimedia?
Looks cool but I don’t have a switch!
Mario Kart Wii
There’s Super Pilot, but it’s still in development.
This looks interesting, I’ll keep my eye on it. Thanks!
I own both of these and they are great fun. Thumper in particular gets my heart racing like no other game!
I remember having my game cube, a wavebird controller and a small 9 inch tv with handle.
It went everywhere with me. I would go to a friend’s house and plug it in in the corner of the room. With my wave bird controller there were no cords to worry about.
Those were good times! Nothing but gaming days on end.
Link seems to be broken?
Still give Metroid prime the odd thrash… have been meaning to play RE4 again. Super Monkey Ball! My fave console of the lot but the controller is not the most comfortable.
