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    Super Audio Cart: The definitive chiptune instrument, available now from ISW & OCR!

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    7 hours ago, Torzelan said:

    Owww... Super stoked about this one (looks awesome guys!) and would have been a done deal up to $100, but at $149 (plus cursed VAT)... Angst, my friends. Angst.

    Don't know if hopes of an introductory price (mailing list?) are realistic..?

    Regardless, congrats on releasing another awesome library!

    $100 is what Chipsounds costs. And this has WAY more to offer than Chipsounds. (I am a long-time Chipsounds user). 

    Games you almost passed

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    Most current one is Pikmin 3. Pikmin 2 was incredible, but I find Pikmin 3's controls clunky and frustrating, plus the lack of the bus-whistle command to make them line up behind you. I think I'm even at the last boss, but it's quite a frustrating endeavor since I've managed to get through the entire rest of the game without ever feeling truly comfortable with the controls, and then I run out of daylight and have to try and skip through another several minutes of boring unnecessary cutscenes, that I think I just ragequit the game and don't really have any interest in picking it back up.

    Again, very disappointing considering how much I liked Pikmin 2.

    There's a few more for me, but I'll just leave it at that one for now.

    Nintendo Wii U

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    Question, it says on the Club Nintendo site that a Wii U is worth 160 points, but I don't seem to recall seeing how I could register it. I did register MK8 so I could get the free game, but yeah. No idea how that works.

    Nintendo Wii U

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    I have mixed feelings about the gamepad. It was comfortable enough for Wind Waker HD (and the quick inventory access is nice), but it's not great for Tropical Freeze or Mario Kart 8. The pro controller is really good, though.

    I would use the pro controller for Mario Bros U, but for some reason the spin jump is restricted to L and R instead of L, R, ZL, and ZR like on the gamepad. It's like constantly resting your finger on the Z button on a Gamecube controller. No thanks.

    I sorta disagree about the Pro Controller as well. Similar to some of my beef with the Gamepad, I don't like that the buttons are below the thumbstick. They're trying to reinvent the wheel. Over a decade of training in using controllers the other way really make their decision to innovate something that people don't want/need innovated bother me a lot.

    Instead, I snagged one of these guys. Less than half the price, and has the thumbstick where it should be. :P

    http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Commander-Wii-U-Nintendo/dp/B00ANHBJBY

    Beth, my Nintendo ID should be obvious without me posting it ;)

    And yeah, you'll probably destroy me at MK8. It does not skid as well as Double Dash, and so I'm still pretty bad at it haha

    So that SGC thing in Dallas...

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    Ah heck, if I'd known people could make it we coulda submitted a panel...

    We went to the VERY first SGC and it was a blast and we met Bladiator and had breakfast and Sixto failed to appear, further confirming conspiracy theories that he's GrayLightning.

    Nowadays we can't go to as many cons due to $$ and time restrictions and RL and what not, but this one woulda been fun... :(

    Well I live here, so ya know :)

    Nintendo Wii U

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    So I finally snagged one, the MK8 deal was too good to pass up. I grabbed Pikmin 3 as my free game.

    So far, it's a decent system. Though, I still maintain that Nintendo is still generally poop when it comes to a good solid controller design. The Gamepad is aight, but aside from the inverted ABXY buttons (using the far right A button as the most primary button), my beef is that it just doesn't fit a natural hand layout.

    In Pikmin, there's times where I'd have to alternate between hitting A and "-" and RZ to skip quickly through scenes and it just felt clunky.

    Anyway, I've only really played 3 games on it, so time will tell how much I really enjoy it. But it's decent so far, I don't regret buying it.

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