Filled mostly with gaming content and thoughts.
Got these two games through Gold Points a while ago since they were about to expire.
Both are ok overall. Space Ribbon has interesting ideas for a racer but the execution is really simple and generic. SKYPEACE, on the other hand, is a very simple mobile-style game but has a lot of polish in its art side, both graphics and audio.
Here’s the mobile calendar wallpaper for May from Nintendo LINE account.
Yup, interesting art-style for Kinopio-kun.
And yeah, I haven’t really been posting much here recently. Been busy overall during the last month. There’s stuff I want to share, though. Also, have N Masters and Makendou Central updates to do. Both are under construction, btw, and the plan that I mentioned before still remains.
The update for April 2019 brings things back to how they started. Both NES and Famicom get the same number of games. Still, though, there’s an important difference in Kid Icarus.
Below is the list of games added to the NES app:
And here’s the list of games added on the Family Computer – Nintendo Switch Online app.
As expected, Kid Icarus in Japan is based on the Famicom Disk version. Besides the difference in sounds, though, there’s a huge difference in gameplay as well. The final level in the Japanese version is not an auto-scrolling one, but one where you can actually move the screen at your own pace. Also, you need to press the A button if you want to keep flying.
For April’s calendar, Nintendo has shared a really nice mobile wallpaper that features pixel art from all Nintendo consoles (except for NES and Famicom, for some reason, XD).
March update brings the biggest difference between the two apps. For the first time, the NES app gets something that the Famicom app wont, StarTropics. The reason for this is the fact that StarTropics never got released in Japan. So instead, Japanese users get a game that was never released outside of their region, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light. And then there’s also the usual extra game that Japan has been getting recently.
Below is the list of games added to the NES app:
And here’s the list of games added on the Family Computer – Nintendo Switch Online app.
Yie Ar Kung-Fu was never released outside of Japan and is simply ignored in this month’s NES app update.
These are two small scripts I made a while ago to help me see or download images with a sequential filename (001, 002, 003… etc).
The first one is done in JavaScript and it lets you view them on your browser. You can find the code here:
https://gitlab.com/linknm/remote-image-loader
Or you can use the web app here:
https://linknm.gitlab.io/remote-image-loader/
The second one is a small Python script I did afterwards. While my idea was still focusing on image files, it can pretty much download any kind of file too as long is it has an extension in its file name. You can check the code and download it here:
https://gitlab.com/linknm/sequential-file-downloader
Only for mobile devices, here’s the calendar wallpaper for March 2019 that was recently shared by Nintendo through LINE.
Video settings have gotten more complicated in the recent years. To be more precise, since HD TVs started to appear, there’s been more settings to configure.
The easiest part to configure is the resolution, as that’s pretty much done automatically and in the right way. The real confusion comes with another setting in the video, the RGB Range. Setting this part correctly is as important as the resolution, specially if you are going to take screenshots, record video, or stream. It’s even more important if you’re going to do any kind of graphic comparison.
A new mobile wallpaper shared recently by Kinopio-kun (the Toad who manages the Nintendo LINE account) for this year’s Valentine’s Day.
Welp, Nintendo has done it again. The NES app only gets two new games while the Japanese version gets three. It’s also interesting to note that this is also the first time there’s a second Special version for a game that already had one before (Metroid). Below is the list of games added on the NES version.
And here’s the list of games added on the Family Computer – Nintendo Switch Online app.
The sumo game from Tecmo was never released outside of the region. So, once again, instead of replacing the game for a different one, Nintendo simply decided to skip it.
