Got past the first dungeon on Oracle of Ages last night and I think this is going to be a fine game, fearful of convoluted time travel BS with a puzzle starting and ending in different timelines, but I will get used to thinking in pre BOTW terms eventually I guess…
Also just really enjoying playing a GBC game that isn't Pokemon Pinball/TCG again. I'm getting some read errors on the cartridge sometimes so I'm going to risk it all with some Isopropyl and cotton wool at some point and clean the pins. Can't wait to get acetone by mistake and turn my games into a plastic frag grenade or something.
Speaking of GBC, I lost the bid for Link's Awakening DX (Won the one for Minish Cap though, woo) and I'm a bit gutted. Should I play the remake first or nah? I like how it looks and everything but the GBC has a charm to it. As for the game itself, do the weird Nintendo cameos make sense in context? :thinking:
They make a weird sort of sense in that nothing makes sense, on purpose. I love Link's Awakening, and the Gameboy version still holds up. The Switch version is identical, aside from the visuals, so go with whichever you fancy I'd say.
I'm playing through Oracle of Seasons at the minute, coincidentally. On my Miyoo Mini, not the cartridge. I'm having to rely on a walkthrough more than I thought I would, some of that 90s gaming logic and lack of handholding is brutal. Not hard to see why my bookshelf was full of guides as a kid.
Despite loving 2d Zeldas I never managed to finish either of the oracles games. I did play and finish Minish Cap on the GBA though and I remember it being fantastic.
Link's Awakening is one of my favourite ever videogames, but I only ever want to play the green version, so Alastor if you want my GBC cart I'm happy to post it to you.
Getting to grips with Eternal Threads' core loop now, I think – I spent a couple of hours last night just wandering around areas I'd already unlocked, gathering resources and hunting the bigger Epic Foes for their goodies.
I still think there are too many little mobs, which eat away at your resources (and patience); I know that they want to make sure you've got a steady supply of the basic materials, but I'd prefer if they behaved more like the Epic Foes with specific locations or habitats – and if they were a bit more varied in their behaviour than constantly throwing themselves on my blade.
But I'm finding the crafting makes more sense with the reforge/upgrade options rather than just constantly making new stuff, my camp is upgrading nicely, and I've made it to the third region – an abandoned(?) city, which is a very different vibe from the forests and marshes.
Wish it had a proper photo mode, though.
I'm playing through Oracle of Seasons at the minute, coincidentally.
Oh nice, wanted to play these for a while but I'm not sure why exactly, classic Zelda definitely still hits though, that feeling when getting a new weapon/item is something else.
Despite loving 2d Zeldas I never managed to finish either of the oracles games. I did play and finish Minish Cap on the GBA though and I remember it being fantastic.
Link's Awakening is one of my favourite ever videogames, but I only ever want to play the green version, so Alastor if you want my GBC cart I'm happy to post it to you.
Also, this is incredibly generous of you but I'll hang on for a bit because I don't want you to send it to me and have it sit on my shelf doing nothing for months while i play other games. Thinking about what order to play these things in actually.
Well do give me a shout if you want it. I'm fairly sure that I got it free from another Socialite when they were having a clear out so it's only fair that I pass it on if someone wants to play it.
If you don't mind me asking why do you prefer the original anyway? Just the memories?
Yeah, It was the first videogame I really lost myself in. I completed it many times, I could tell you where all 25 secret seashells are, all of it. After all that time playing it the colour version never felt right.
Interesting! I think I understand that, playing Castlavnia: Belmont's Revenge, which is a GB game on the Miyoo in the green tint definitely feels better than I expected it to, especially after the GBA ones and their hyper detail by comparison. Am I going crazy of did the GBC automatically colourize some old GB carts? Or was it the reverse and the old GB could remove the colour of GBC games?
I think it was a bit random how pre-GBC carts looked on a GBC, but some certainly got some colour they didn't have before. There was a while where carts were released which were playable in both, green on the GB and in colour on the GBC.
That's cool as hell IMO, I wonder how they worked that one out? I must confess I have really overlooked GBC in favour of GBA lately so I'm glad I'm finally sorting that out.
Onion OS has a setting buried in retroarch to emulate the 'GB on GBC' colour tint
Quick menu > Core options > GB colorization.
Set it to Auto for the best result.
And in the same menu, make sure to set Colour correction mode to Accurate. Gets rid of the super saturated modern display looks, and makes the colours look like they did originally.
I'd have to check, but I'm pretty sure you have similar settings in the NSO Game Boy app on Switch as well.
I know Onion OS seems to have like a hundred different colour palettes too as I discovered by accident trying to save hotkey, I think it's the shoulder buttons anyway
After far too long I have managed to get all my other game tasks out of the way and get back to Baldur's Gate 3, fuck I've missed this game. The Druid is VERY fun, Owlbear off the top rope all day every day.
