New Ninty Gets!

CiDeRmAn · 30-06-2014 3:51pm #1

Sorry to the most awesome mod in these parts for starting such a thread.
And I acknowledge the overlap between this forum and the retro game forum.
But I think Nintendo fans out there who love their WiiU and Wii, maybe love their new 3DSXL, should be aware of the Ninty fresh goodness out there and purchases of same.
Perhaps expanding knowledge and encouraging awesome spending on Nintendo gems they might never have come across.

Today I got three things of interest.

First was a lovely mint Gameboy Micro, dressed in black.
This console is a real peach, and hosts a tiny form factor and a small, crisp screen.
This is probably my 4th GB Micro over the years and a fabulous piece of kit.
No Nintendo owner who loves the company's output should be without one.
Like the GBA and GBA:SP it is compatible with the entire GBA back catalogue, but unlike those other machines the GB Micro won't run your Gameboy or Gameboy Color library.

I also picked up Boktai and Boktai 2, both made by Kojima, the gent behind Metal Gear Solid and Zone of Enders, very nice GBA rpgs they are too, using actual sunlight to power up your weapon.

So, a few very nice Nintendo gets there.
I can't recommend picking up Nintendo hardware enough, it is almost all worth having, aside perhaps for the badly made Wii Mini, piece of sh1te that it is.

Pac1Man · 30-06-2014 7:32pm

Technically not a recent purchase so this may not count, although it may as well be. I had a good root around my attic a couple of weeks back for no good reason and found this little collection:

It honestly must have been sitting up there for 20 years. It was extremely well wrapped so it is in mint condition with all relevant power leads. The boxes are a little worn but the manuals are still there! Everything works 100% (of course).

The sticker on the Tom & Jerry game reads £24.95 punts.

tony1980 · 30-06-2014 7:45pm

Ah Digger, I remember that game , used to love that as a kid :-)

FutureGuy · 01-07-2014 10:40am

I bought a NES with 12 games (10 boxed). Spent an evenuing opening her up and cleaning it but, apart from 1 game, it's working fine!

I have never owned and NES

Will post pics later.

CiDeRmAn · 01-07-2014 12:52pm

FutureGuy wrote: »

I bought a NES with 12 games (10 boxed). Spent an evenuing opening her up and cleaning it but, apart from 1 game, it's working fine!

I have never owned and NES

Will post pics later.

If I might suggest getting a Famicom to Nes adapter, then picking up some gems like Parodius, Gradius and Gradius 2.

machiavellianme · 02-07-2014 9:33am

Just bought a new N64 controller with the stick intact. Now to play dk64 again!

CiDeRmAn · 02-07-2014 1:14pm

machiavellianme wrote: »

Just bought a new N64 controller with the stick intact. Now to play dk64 again!

Nooooo!
Play 1080 Snowboarding instead!
Also Excitebike 64 makes great use of the controller.

machiavellianme · 02-07-2014 4:04pm

Absolutely love 1080 but I want to play the rare games that won't make the vc.

CrinkElite · 02-07-2014 4:09pm

Perfect Dark is an excellent N64 title.
It's better with 2 controllers but you can get away with using just 1.

Ol' Donie · 02-07-2014 7:39pm

Where'd the gba micro come from? I dearly regret not getting one of them when they were out.

Retr0gamer · 03-07-2014 9:22am

CrinkElite wrote: »

Perfect Dark is an excellent N64 title.
It's better with 2 controllers but you can get away with using just 1.

That game has aged extremely poorly. It's not very good at all.

Irish Halo · 03-07-2014 9:34am

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Where'd the gba micro come from? I dearly regret not getting one of them when they were out.

They appeared in 2005 and swiftly disappeared I picked one up when HMV were selling them off for €10 (or similar) not 100% where it is now but micro is the best name for it.

murphyebass · 03-07-2014 10:12am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Nooooo!
Play 1080 Snowboarding instead!
Also Excitebike 64 makes great use of the controller.

I bought a pal (I know dont shoot me, I didnt know any better at the time) N64 a couple of years ago to give me the nostalgic kick I was looking for.

1080 is one game that imo looks and plays as fantastically now as it did back in the day. Best snow boarding game to this day imo.

Another game that has aged really well and is as playable today as it was in the day is Lylat Wars. Tbh its pretty much the only reason I still have my N64 hooked up to the telly and not up in the attic.

I still play this every other week for a good hour or two. Its brilliant.

I have another 10games or so I'd say but realistically there not great. They aged very poorly graphically and unfortunately game play wise as well.

The likes of Goldeneye, a game I spent a stupid amount of time playing as a teenager is now god awful to control for example.

cloud493 · 03-07-2014 11:05am

I think the N64 controller is just awful these days. Thats why I don't have one, in fact. If I can pick one of them adaptors that lets you play the thing with a gamecube controller, we're in business.

CiDeRmAn · 03-07-2014 12:36pm

The Micro is a must have.
I've had... A few over the years and bought and sold them all.
No more I say!
This lovely black one is here to stay.
And, keeping an eye on Adverts, you should pick one up, with a charger, for less than €40, and very happy you'll be too.
They were designed with the mobile phone gaming market in mind, apparently. That was growing, particularly in Japan, at the time and the typical GBA was rather larger than a cell, as was the concurrently launched DS.
So, to tap in, they made the GB Micro the same size as a typical bar type mobile phone.
Sadly, the console was undersubscribed and the DS and DS Lite made it irrelevant to the majority out there.
However, there is probably no nicer way to play your GBA games, besides a GBA:SP 101, though it is easier to use in non gaming company as most folk don't know what it is!

machiavellianme · 03-07-2014 6:08pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

That game has aged extremely poorly. It's not very good at all.

Never played it so I've bought it, yoshis island and silicone spacesstation to check them out. I'll be up to 40 N64 games then?
How many were there?
Gotta catch em all.

CiDeRmAn · 03-07-2014 6:11pm

Blast Corps is one of the best on the N64 imho, and get Glover if you can too.
Actually, I've an ad on Adverts selling tons of N64 games cart only, if you really want to catch em all!

machiavellianme · 03-07-2014 6:18pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Blast Corps is one of the best on the N64 imho, and get Glover if you can too.
Actually, I've an ad on Adverts selling tons of N64 games cart only, if you really want to catch em all!

Cool, I'll check it out. 243 in total on pal. Eeek, I've a long way to go :pac:
If only I hadn't given away conker's bad fur day!

CiDeRmAn · 03-07-2014 6:35pm

machiavellianme wrote: »

Cool, I'll check it out. 243 in total on pal. Eeek, I've a long way to go :pac:
If only I hadn't given away conker's bad fur day!

I have that for sale too

machiavellianme · 03-07-2014 6:49pm

I dare not ask for how much. It and crystal shards are crazy money now.

Myrddin · 03-07-2014 7:29pm

Cidey, have you just robbed your own forum of traffic??

OwaynOTT · 03-07-2014 7:43pm

What I've gotten in the last couple months:

Xeboblade Chronicles LE x2 new
Last Story new
Pandora's Tower LE
Metroid Trilogy new
Mario Kart Wii with Wheel new
Mario Kart 8 LE with shell new
Pokemon a typing x2 new
Mario Power Tennis x2 new
Smash Bros LE wii used
Smash Bros Wii new
Animal Vrossing Wii new
Minster Hunter tri Wii new
Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword new
Pokepark 1and 2 new
Dragon Quest Sentinels Starry Sky new
Dragon Quest Joker 2 new
Mario vs Donkey Kong march of the minis New
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon explorers of the sky new
Super Mario 3Dland 3ds bundle x2 new
Ocarina of a Time 3ds new
PAC-man party 3ds new
Resident evil mercenaries 3ds new
Pokemon gates to infinity 3ds new
Paper Mario 3ds new
Metal gear solid 3ds new
Mario tennis 3ds new
Star fix 64 3ds new
Sonic generations 3ds new
Pilot wings resort 3ds new
Splinter cell 3ds new
Mario 3d land 3ds new
Pokemon rumble 3ds new
Ridge racer 3ds new
Bravely default 3ds used
Link between worlds used
Donkey kong country returns 3ds new
Solatrorobo ds new

And I would like to say thanks to argos, tesco, xtravision and cex for having some great prices lately.
And also the guys on here and retro forum for pointing out all the deals.
Now I wish I had €330 to spend on a WiiU, so I can play mario kart on my own system.

CiDeRmAn · 03-07-2014 7:54pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Cidey, have you just robbed your own forum of traffic??

Seems a shame to have a Nintendo forum but limit it to the current gen.
Nintendo goodness is goodness indeed, regardless of vintage!

cherryghost · 04-07-2014 3:43pm

I thought the Micro was too small. I used to have the GBA with attachable backlight and magnifying glass. Those were the days. Same for the Game Boy. Had the same set up. It was glorious playing Pokemon Silver in the middle of the night with a light and magnified pixels.

cloud493 · 04-07-2014 4:34pm

I could never get my backlight to work

the GBA SP remains my favourite console of all time, the nights I stayed up playing stuff with that lovely screen.

Andrew76 · 04-07-2014 6:08pm

cherryghost wrote: »

I thought the Micro was too small.

It is for any proper amount of play time. But still a nice device. A screen-modded GBA or AGS101 are the best GBA's to get - the improved screens are lightyears better than the standard versions.

Josey Wales · 05-07-2014 9:58am

The screen on the micro is really nice. So it's a good machine for a quick blast of Super Mario World. But anything more and the form factor works against it.

Still happy to have one.

Retr0gamer · 07-07-2014 8:51am

Andrew76 wrote: »

It is for any proper amount of play time. But still a nice device. A screen-modded GBA or AGS101 are the best GBA's to get - the improved screens are lightyears better than the standard versions.

I'd actually more so go for a DS lite as the best way to play GBA games. Got a new one there myself at the weekend mostly for that purpose. The console is getting hard to find in mint condition and the fact that the Chinese cloned the hardware perfectly is making finding the genuine article difficult.

CiDeRmAn · 07-07-2014 12:07pm

Sure, a great way to play lovely GBA goodness is on a banjaxed DS Lite.
A little rewire and broken hinged DS Lites can be adapted to play GBA on the wonderful lower screen, meaning you get GBA:SP AGS 101 results for about €5.

Here's the procedure

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uh1sODeeQA

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9gtrahW8AA

Part 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVN0A4VxMJM

Mr.Saturn · 07-07-2014 4:24pm

The DSLite d-pad can be a killer whenever you're playing something action heavy.

CiDeRmAn · 15-07-2014 12:49pm

Picked up No More Heroes 2 for the Wii today in Gamestop, only a tenner.
They have a decent range of Wii titles in the Blanch shop.
Might head back when the wife gives me some pocket money!

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