Looks good
Yeh it photographs terribly even, itâs quite nice irl imo
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I agree! Smaller and cuter than I expected, and the dpad and buttons are fine! $50 might seem steep for some, but if they wanted to make other ones w/ NES classics on them Iâd buy them all (I might be a sucker).
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Just opened mine, itâs identical in length and width to the original G&W unit, impressive. Absolutely beautiful and a nice, alternate way to get your SMB fix. Screen isnât perfect but still looks great, D-Pad and buttons feel very nice, I hope this does well and they make more because I would definitely get a G&W unit like this for Zeldaâs anniversary:
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The patch for Super Mario 3D All Stars went live this week, and I canât complain any more. Just go to âoptionsâ, then camera, then press Y to automatically set everything to âClassicâ mode. How it should have been at launch, and I love how theyâve called this preset âClassicâ.
As for the games, Iâm impressed with emulation of Mario Sunshine. The upscaled artwork looks great, generally, and the move to widescreen does wonders given the large levels and the need to zoom the camera out far to get a birdâs eye view. The only downside, perhaps, is how in HD you can now tell the water has several level-of-detail changes to it, never noticed that before. You only get detailed water waves close to Mario, so things look distractingly inconsistent if you look for it, whereas in SD the less detailed water just blended in with the lower resolution.
Water aside, the LOD in the game in general is extremely impressive, that it holds up so well even at 1080p speaks volumes for this. Itâs crazy how much is shown on screen at once, even when youâre at the highest point in a course!
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DOOM in the Mario Bros Game & Watch
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Wow. LOL. Looks like he should have tried Wolfenstein firstâŚ
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I was really happy to see the puny hardware specs relative to other devices, the spirit of Gunpei Yokoi does still live on.
128kB of flash storage suggests whatâs on there was programmed sparingly, very impressive indeed and harks back to the days where the entire DS firmware, including Pictochat, fit on 256kB of storage space.
I was hoping Game Gear Micro would be a similar feat of economical programming but itâs almost the opposite, 128MB of flash storage, many many times the RAM, along with long boot times and low battery life. The thing seems to run Linux too.
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Yeah thatâs really cool.
Very happy to not hack this device anyway!
Is there scroll shimmering on the game and watch? looked like there was in the initial trailer
Slight. Mostly noticeable on the castle levels. Really donât notice it anywhere else.
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Itâs interesting that the homebrew NES emulator isnât stretching the screen but rather going for 1:1 PAR.