Nintendo Power Storytime

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(Thank you for these.)

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>>9202827
Reminder that the remake will likely never be released ever.

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>>9202792
>no Donkey Kong Racing or platformer
>but here's some spinoffs no one wanted
fuck you

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Issue #150

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>>9203025
ONE MORE THING

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>>9203187
oh yeah this was a thing

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More later.

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>>9203237
after NP, will you do the same with other magazines?

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>>9202797

This feature is boring and it needs to go away.

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>>9203218
"Finally, some good fucking food"

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>>9202804
>Talk about giving order to ground troops
>While using a screenshot of the player giving orders to it's wingmen
Also, it's really interesting looking back at articles like this one. It shows that the B-Wing has 20 Proton Torpedoes, while in the final game it only has 12. It also shows that the model for the Snowspeeder's Tow Cable is missing.

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>>9202810
>a Japanese publisher, simply named Software, and its RPG entitled Rune.

Wikipedia says
>Lost Kingdoms, known as Rune in Japan, is a fantasy video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Activision in North America and Europe.
Has Nintendo Power just introduced us to From without understanding what their company's name was? Or maybe I've misgoogled the game and it's actually something else.

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It's always so hilarious when they'll have a huge 3-page PR segment for a game where they lay out all the basic features and characters and everything... and then you get to the back of the same issue where the reviews are and the game sucks

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GameCube launch was an incredible time. The N64 -> Gamecube leap was incredible and made it hard to get excited for any other hardware jump in the future.

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>>9203086
>How do I deal with the fog of war?
since I love Advance Wars I'm going to take the opportunity to ramble on about it for a second
Advance Wars is great but Intelligent Systems kind of bit off more than they could chew when it came to Advance War's AI. The GBA is computationally a lot less powerful than the SNES so the AI is really fucking shit in AW1 as a result. It's a lot better in AW2, but in AW1 they took a lot of shortcuts to get it to work "properly"
The biggest of these shortcuts is how the enemy handles fog of war. The way the AI in AW1 handles fog of war, is it doesn't bother with fog of war mechanics. At all. It knows exactly where all your units are at any given time. The ONLY limitation placed on the AI in fog of war is that it cannot attack your units within forest or reef tiles without another unit already placed adjacent to that forest or reef tile. But it knows that your units are there, at all times, so it will place a unit right next to you to allow another unit to get the hit, but because the AI also is really averse to one-sided engagements so usually it won't move a unit into range of another without being able to get the first hit - so it's pretty safe.
Basically this means the only way to counter the enemy during fog of war is to basically play "the floor is lava" with forest tiles, and the game literally tells you this straight up in the campaign. It also makes one of the campaign missions where you face off against Eagle with limited units really annoying because he can immediately fly across the map with his bomber and ruin your day and there's basically nothing you can do besides reloading the map to know where the bomber is ahead of time.

Still - love this game, and AW2.

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>>9204104
Agreed
The only one that came close was GBA -> DS, that was great

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>>9202813
>Ham-Taro, a popular Nintendo character in Japan

The world revolves around Nintendo.

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>>9202817
>Mutsu: Water Looper

Cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrAeRXvpnzw
The game doesn't look promising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-92ZJaoQ7Jk

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>>9203249
I have never read any other gaming magazine than Nintendo Power.

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>>9204118
>The GBA is computationally a lot less powerful than the SNES
This is the most incorrect statement I have ever read on this board, congratulations.

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>>9204162
Also if the computational power was to blame for the AI then they wouldn't have been able to improve it for AW2

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>>9204169
Yeah I guess I should clarify
The AI is worse in AW than Super Famicom Wars
It's a little bit speculation but it looks like this can be attributed to the fact that the GBA has no dedicated sound and video processors, so everything has to make use of the same CPU cycles. The SNES has a much slower CPU but also had a dedicated PPU for video and a dedicated audio subsystem. This means that Super Famicom Wars AI computations don't have to compete for the same pool of resources as literally everything else the way that Advance Wars does. I assume Intelligent Systems just made extremely primitive AI because they were worried about a huge burst of slowdown at the top of the enemy turn.

Either way the AW2 AI is still really bad but it's a big step up from AW1, I'd imagine they got better at managing the CPU's resources.

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>>9204091
Nah, you didn’t misgoogle anything, NP just fucked up the name. However I’m going to halfassly defend them: at the time Fromsoft was only famous for King’s Field and Armored Core which were was pretty niche in America at the time and this was also their first game on a Nintendo system too so it makes sense that NP isn’t familiar with their, and let’s be frank here, kinda dumb name. Regardless it’s supremely embarrassing mistake and boy I really hope someone got filed for that blunder.

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>>9204154
you should

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>>9204219
I take that back, I've read issues of things here and there. Nothing every felt as soulful as NP though. They were sarcastic and funny, then Future bought them and it just turned into any other gaming mag.

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>>9204291
Gamepro and early EGM were more soulful, felt like some dudes playing vidya and writing about it

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>>9204291
The rot hit NP long before Future bought them out, around the time when the N64 first came out and they couldn't rely on hyping up SNES games anymore because there weren't any more.

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>>9202776

The fact that an issue of the fucking magazine is an option should tell you everything about the value of the other items.
Studio quality these headphones ain't.

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>>9204396
I keep checking ebay for a lot of these NP contest prizes and subscription bonuses, not because I would ever buy them in a million years but more because I'm just morbidly curious what they actually looked like and how much they go for now
but i keep coming up empty until I found these headphones just now

$29.99 plus shipping

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>>9204438
I always wondered, is there a Nintendo branded "Don't fuck up your hand while playing Mario Party on N64" Glove, or did they just send out random ass gloves.

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>>9204458
they were just plain old Harbinger fingerless gloves apparently

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>>9204191
That's certainly possible but it could also be they just weren't sure what the optimal tactics would be with the changes to the game system since Super Famicom Wars. The biggest change being that units now attack and then counterattack instead of both attacks going off simultaneously

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Yeah here’s a picture of one of the gloves someone got back in the day. It makes sense, it wasn’t exactly a planned promotion so they hardly had time to do anything special or even slap their logo on it

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>>9202996
>and look at the commercial... he's screaming in horror! Was this thing designed to be a torture device?

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Did OP do the September 2001 issue?

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>>9204517
if you’re looking to see what Nintendo Power had to say about the 9/11 attacks you’re going to have to wait a bit longer. IIRC these issues were written about 3-4 months ahead of time so it wouldn’t be until December or January before they’re able to reference anything about it

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>>9204542
what reason could nintendo power possibly have for referencing 9/11

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>>9204547
Why wouldn’t they reference 9/11?

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>>9204553
>Nintendo's All-stars aren't the only thing smashing this month!

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>>9202864

I like Code Cop.

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I had bought a PS2 about a week before these things launched, and was in a Wal Mart or something that had GCs running Rogue Squadron 2.

I played the Death Star mission and said "Fuck, I got the wrong one"

I hadn't, but holy shit RS2 is good

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>>9202901
>The popular submarine feature from Wave Race 64: Kawasaki Jet Ski

Wait is that what that game has always been called? Why didn't they call it that in previous issues then?

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>>9204104
Technological leaps used to mean so much more and was exciting as fuck to witness and speculate on how games would move forward. The last time that those kind of leaps were significant was 6th to 7th gen consoles.

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kino thread and kino era. 2001 was probably my favorite year of games

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>>9204860
I remember seeing that Death Star mission at a friend's house and being like "holy shit the future is now" because the last Star Wars game I played was Tie Fighter on PC.

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>>9204860
Rogue Leader still holds up immensely well too, not just in gameplay but also graphics.

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>>9207138
Yeah I've been playing it a bunch lately
It's crazy how much this trilogy (Squadron, Leader, and Rebel Strike) got right, the arcady mission structure is perfect for what it's trying to do, stuff like giving you the color coded targeting computer but incentivizing you to not use it, the plethora of unlockable ships - all good decisions
and just the polish of it, like the sound design when you switch the camera into first person cockpit mode alone is a stroke of genius and really makes the game feel timeless
it's just perfect

I think the devs are defunct now? Not sure but it would be such a slam dunk to rerelease all three as a single title, just three campaigns remastered, all with two player enabled..
They'd probably find a way to fuck it up though, plus I doubt Disney wants people to remember how good the early 00s were when it came to Star Wars media lol

Either way yeah Rogue Leader is still extremely fun, and I think Rebel Strike is pretty underrated. People shit on it and yeah the ground missions are faceroll easy and are just a waste of time but the traditional missions really hold up and the game has so much solid add in content, it's still an A-Tier gamecube game imo

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>Sia Later

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>>9202960
finally, a sequel to Toki

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>>9202774
Kinda sad seeing these threads in the era where I didn't own a Nintendo console. I did later get a Wii and play catch up but there isn't much nostalgia for me there.

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>>9208159
As a kid I would read Nintendo Power completely uncritically but its funny to see today how much it's obviously a propaganda rag. I know it was tied to NoA but they act like anythig other than Nintendo didn't exist, and if something was happening on Nintendo for the first time it was happening for the first time anywhere. See a few issues ago when they reported on Street Fighter Turbo Revival for the GBA as if SF Super Turbo never existed.

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>>9208326
>as if SF Super Turbo never existed
It might as well have never existed since it was arcade-only for a long time and even then such machines were rare sights.

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>>9202980
>Collecting crystals isn't necessary (if you find them all, the payoff is that you unlock the credits), while collecting all the Bonus Letters earns you unlimited use of weapons[...] but it's not something you desperately need, especially when the game is practically enemy-free.

Shovelware design decisions so blatant that they show through clearly in a Nintendo Power review. Haha they even say you need to be "self-motivated" in order to create fun in the game.

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>>9202993
>TIME FOR TIME FORCE
>ON YOUR FAVORITE GAME SYSTEMS!

Nintendo Power has allowed this advertiser to tell readers that the N64 is not one of their favorites.

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>>9203014
>as fewer games are released for the N64, the coverage for the console will naturally decrease.

They seem pretty comfortable saying that this time around. No "it'll never end!" promises or anything.

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>no gears

I'm sorry what? Who'd want a bike without at least a few gears?

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>>9209907
it was the style at the time, something to do with turning tricks at the corner

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>>9202774
Holy crap Lois! It’s one of the three good games on GameCube!

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>>9202782
>GameCube Zelda
>detailed villages
>huge complex dungeons

Oh my…. this poor bastard

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>>9211557
To be fair Windfall Island is probably only second to Clock Town as far as stuff to actually do in the entire franchise.

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>>9202792
I think one of these issues caused my brain to get stuck on Doshin the Giant. I always still think of it as some upcoming game stuck in development hell, and it takes me a second to remember it actually came out in Europe like 20 years ago.

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>>9211557
>Nintendo responds "the latest information from Space World indicates that it will sport a more cartoonish look than Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask."
I'd say Nintendo Power trying to let people down gently but oh lord if that's the best they can NDA do about it, no wonder shit hit the fan hard.

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>>9203078
>Dracula's crib
how do you do, fellow kids

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>>9203087
>If you find yourself calling game counselors a lot, you might want to explore other sources of game information.

Nintendo Power feels uncomfortable taking money from particularly stupid children.

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>>9203087

Forget the mask, they should have added that when doing it again you might get something far better from her.

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>rest of the response is complete off-topic shilling of what color Gamecube controllers will come in
Honestly it's just hilarious that someone saw a letter just praising Zelda as a whole and all they could respond with is "the next game is going to look different. Buy an orange gamecube controller!" They didn't even give a "you bet!" or "that's right, Zelda IS those things!" I'm not saying there's anything to read between the lines here, but still.

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>>9203163

Doom: Extremely Bright Edition, apparently. I never played this, but I assume we are still in the "struggling to get portable systems' screenshots right" phase?

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>>9203183

Pre-rendered 3D characters, once the dazzling height of technology, have become so normal in portable games that Nintendo Power has long since stopped mentioning them. Instead, this baseball game's "slow player animations can be distracting."

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>>9203213

They really pushed that "you're not too cool for Monkey Ball" idea. I hope anybody who actually thought that way listened to them, because Monkey Ball is awesome.

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>>9214568
Monkey Ball is an all time GOAT, but does anyone else remember the discourse at the time? The earliest GameCube games, Luigi's Mansion, Rogue Leader, Monkey Ball, Pikmin, all of them are very short games intended to be replayed for a higher score. Everyone I knew at the time was saying "all Gamecube games are short! Those tiny disks don't have room for a long game! Zelda is doomed!"