missingno

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamecube doesn't have enough RAM to preload everything at startup like that, you have to go through the menus and pick a game mode and map to load.

  Surely if it needed that startup load anyway, then Sakurai wouldn't be saying he turned the license down in order to get players in the game faster. I'm going to trust Sakurai's word here!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bear in mind that Kirby Air Ride came out in 2003, on a console that's only meant to be hooked up to CRTs. How many users back then do you think would've had access to this feature in the first place? Or would still be playing this game if/when they upgrade later?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What answer would have satisfied you? You started off aggressive and combative in the OP, then acted surprised when you were met in kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miyoo teases their GBA SP inspired retro handheld⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked up a Miyoo Mini Plus earlier this year as an impulse buy, and ended up liking it enough that I regret not buying a higher end model with analog sticks. Still, don't know if it's worth trying to upgrade now - I'm waiting for the day we can get a full SteamOS device in this form factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube has a captive audience that isn't going anywhere. The platform is too big to die, and too expensive for any challenger to seriously threaten it. And the only users they stand to lose with this move are the users who are costing them money, they don't care if adblock users leave as long as they keep everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch 2 NEEDS to be backward compatible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest thing I want out of the Switch 2 is the ability to run Switch 1 games at a higher clock speed. Most of the games the Switch 2 should run have already been ported to Switch 1, poorly, and aren't likely to get re-ported. Instead I expect new Switch 2 ports will again be games the hardware can't handle, so I'd just like to forego those and catch up, hoping last-gen titles can hit stable framerates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch 2 NEEDS to be backward compatible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They would sooner go all-digital than eat the manufacturing costs of cartridges. The reason they're trying to wean us off of physical media is because digital is more profitable, they're not gonna give up even more of their margins.