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« Last post by akkera102 on May 17, 2025, 10:54:26 pm »
Hello. It's a trivial matter, so there's no need to create a new topic, but I'd like to announce that I've made Viper V16 RISE for GBA. I'm a little sorry that the compatible version is only the Japanese version, not the international version. As always, I'd like to express my deepest gratitude to Notequalsoft and JG. This port was made possible thanks to the SGS analysis information. https://github.com/akkera102/gbadev-ja-test/tree/main/130_viper_v16_rise_gba 
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« Last post by JG on April 23, 2025, 07:50:19 pm »
I am considering the email issue to be firmly resolved now.
The proxy service I set up worked for the most part, but would not successfully automatically resync its authorization token with Google Gmail API until I published the proxy token as production instead of development, requiring a manual resync every fourteen days. I did the production deployment in late January and the proxy has been running without manual interaction for three months and emails are going through without issue.
If any new registrants are reading this and still didn't get their validation email, contact me at sognadigitalmuseum@gmail.com - It could still break occasionally, but it should work 99+% of the time.
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« Last post by JG on April 07, 2025, 06:50:16 pm »
Well it took me many years to finally collect all the cards from that extended set. The ones from the music CDs are hard to come across.
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Hey guys just a heads up. If you install LM Studio, along with the model Qwen2 5.7B uncensored, this will allow you to translate text, and modify it completely uncensored with 0 pushback.
It also runs locally.
As an example, here is part of a text extract I took from the forum on Viper F40.
Example one (rando copy paste)
NM: ANM\EV00B
【ライカ】部長にはあいさつしとくか・・・。ひょっとしたら・・・もう会えなくなるかもしれないし・・・。
ANM: ANM\FAUZEN
【ライカ】あれ・・・部長がいない・・・。
【ライカ】どこ行ったんだろ・・・
ANM: ANM\F416B
【ライカ】部長知らない？
【 警官 】さっき帰ったよ・・・顔色悪かったからな。
【ライカ】そっか・・・そうだよな・・・。
【ライカ】部長の家に行ってみるか・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4H1
\n ピンポーン
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【ファウゼン】はい・・・。
【ライカ】夜分すいません、部長・・・ライカです。
【ファウゼン】ライカか・・・あがってくれ。
ANM: ANM\F4H2
【ライカ】すいません、こんな時に・・・。
【ファウゼン】いや・・・気にしないでいい・・・誰かがいる方が多少は気が紛れるかもしれん・・・。
【ライカ】・・・・・・・。
【ファウゼン】思えば・・・お前にも悪いことをしたな・・・。
【ライカ】そんなこと・・・無いですよ。
【ファウゼン】私のわがままでお前の所に娘を置いてもらって・・・結果的に辛い思いをさせてしまった・・・。
【ライカ】いえ・・・そんなことは・・・。
【ファウゼン】・・・・・・・・・。
【ライカ】すいません・・・あたしより部長の方が何倍も辛いの・・・わかってるのに・・・何も気の効いたこと言えなくて・・・。
【ファウゼン】ライカ・・・。
【ライカ】はい・・・。
【ファウゼン】私は・・・もう警察をやめようかと思ってる・・・。
【ライカ】部長？・・・。
English Translation with simple "Japanese to English" which can be modified
NM: ANM\EV00B
Lika: Should I say hello to the boss? ... Maybe... I won't see him anymore...
ANM: ANM\FAUZEN
Lika: Oh, the boss isn't here.
Where could he have gone...
ANM: ANM\F416B
Lika: Does the boss know?
[Off-screen]: He just left. His face was pale.
Lika: I see... that makes sense...
Lika: Let's go to the boss' home...
ANM: ANM\F4H1
Lika: Ding Dong
Fauzen: Hello?
Lika: Late at night, sorry. It's Lika.
Fauzen: Lika? Come in.
ANM: ANM\F4H2
Lika: I'm so sorry to bother you now.
Fauzen: No worries... Having someone here might distract me slightly...
Lika: ...
Fauzen: Thinking about it, I've done some bad things to you too...
Lika: That's not true.
Fauzen: Because of my selfishness, I let your daughter stay at your place. This resulted in her suffering...
Lika: No... that wasn't the case.
Fauzen: ...
Lika: Sorry... The boss is having a much harder time than me... even knowing this, I can't come up with anything comforting to say...
Fauzen: Lika?
Lika: Yes?
Fauzen: I've been thinking of quitting the police force
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Here is a graphic scene
Translate only the Japanese parts of this in linear fashion of narrative.
ANM: ANM\F490
【マーク】大丈夫か？リリア・・・
【リリア】うーん・・・・
【マーク】どうしたんだ一体？こんなになるまで飲んで・・・・。リリアらしくないな・・。部屋のカギは？
【リリア】バッグの中・・・。
ANM: ANM\F492
【マーク】大丈夫？
【リリア】うん・・。
ANM: ANM\F493
【リリア】マーク・・・。
【マーク】ん？・・・。
【リリア】今夜は・・・ずっと一緒にいて・・・。
【マーク】リリア・・・。
ANM: ANM\F494
【リリア】あたし、シャワー浴びて来るね・・・。
ANM: ANM\F495
ANM: ANM\F496
ANM: ANM\F497
ANM: ANM\F498
ANM: ANM\F499
ANM: ANM\F4A0
ANM: ANM\F4A1
ANM: ANM\F4A2
ANM: ANM\F4A3
ANM: ANM\F4A4
【リリア】マーク？・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4A5
【リリア】！？
ANM: ANM\F4A6
【 サキ 】おとなしくした方がいいわよ。
ANM: ANM\F4A7
【リリア】マーク！！
【マーク】リ・・リリア・・・。
【 サキ 】彼氏の命が大事なら・・・おとなしくしておいた方がいいわね。
【リリア】誰なの？あなた達・・・・・・・
ANM: ANM\F4A8
【 サキ 】あんたに直接恨みは無いんだけどさ・・・頼まれちゃってさ。あたしらを恨まないでね。
【リリア】頼まれた？・・・誰に？
【 サキ 】さあ？・・・そんなこと言うバカがいると思う？
【リリア】！！・・・・いやっ！・・や・・・やめて・・。
ANM: ANM\F4A9
【 サキ 】おとなしくしなさい・・・彼氏の命が大事じゃないのかしら？
【リリア】う・・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4B0
ANM: ANM\F4B1
【リリア】い・・いや・・・やめて・・・お願い・・・。
【 サキ 】ほら、あんたの裸見て彼氏興奮してるみたいよ。
【マーク】や・・やめろ・・やめてくれ・・・。
【 サキ 】彼女にしてもらいなさい。
ANM: ANM\F4B2
【リリア】きゃっ！
ANM: ANM\F4B3_BG
ANM: ANM\F4B3C
ANM: ANM\F4B3A
【 サキ 】ほら、口でしてあげなさい。
【リリア】ん・・・
ANM: ANM\F4B3B
んっ・・・・ん・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4B4
【マーク】や・・やめてくれ・・リリア・・・。
【 サキ 】だめだめそんなんじゃ。もっと激しくしてあげないと気持ちよくならないわよ。
^
ANM: ANM\F4B5
【リリア】んっ・・・んぐ・・・ん・・んっ・・・。
【 サキ 】そうそう、ちゃんと舌も使ってね。
【リリア】んっ・・・ん・・・んく・・・・ん・・・。
【 サキ 】彼氏もよろこんでるわよ。もっと一生懸命してあげなさい。
【リリア】ん・・・んっ・・・・ん・・・。
【マーク】リ・・・リリア・・・うっ・・・。\n
【リリア】ん・・・んぐっ・・・・
ごほっ・・・ごほっ・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4B6
【 サキ 】あーら、よかったわね。たくさん飲ませてもらって。
【 サキ 】やっちゃいなさい。
【 男Ａ 】へへ・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4B7
【リリア】や・・・いやぁ・・・やめて・・・お願い。
いっ！・・・痛ぁい！\n
【リリア】あぁっ・・・あ・・・あぁ・・・・あ・・・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4B8
【 サキ 】あら・・・まだ手ぇつけてなかったの？・・・もったいないわねぇ。
【 サキ 】ほら、見てあげなさい。彼女が女になったところを。
ANM: ANM\F4B9
【リリア】あっ・・あ・・いやぁ・・・マーク・・見ないで・・・。
【リリア】あっ・・・う・・・いやぁ・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4C0
【リリア】あっ・・あ・・・あぁ・・・あっ・・・あぁっ・・・あ・・・あぁ・・・・あ・・・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4C1
【 サキ 】ほら・・・あんたの彼女・・・もう感じてきてるわよ・・・。初めてのくせに・・いやらしい女ね・・。見てるだけでこっちも濡れてきちゃう・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4C2
【リリア】う・・・あっ・・・あぁ・・あ・・・あっ・・・。\n
【 男Ａ 】あぁ・・・いくぞ・・中に出すからな。
【リリア】あっ・・いや・・・お願い・・・中は・・・。\n
【 男Ａ 】うっ・・・。\n
【リリア】あぁっ・・・いやぁ・・・。
はぁ・・・はぁ・・・・はぁ・・・・。
【 男Ａ 】ふぅ・・・次どうぞ。
ANM: ANM\F4C3
【リリア】あっ・・・あ・・・はぁ・・・・あ・・・はぁ・・・あ・・・・あっ・・・あ・・・あ・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4C4
【 男Ｂ 】いくぞ・・・口開けな。\n
【リリア】あぁっ・・・いやぁ・・・。
【 男Ｂ 】うっ・・・。\n
【リリア】あぁっ・・・あ・・・はぁ・・・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4C5
【 サキ 】ほら、あなたが犯されてるのを見て彼氏のがまた勃ってきちゃった。
ANM: ANM\F4C6
【リリア】・・・・・・・。
ANM: ANM\F4C7
【 サキ 】んっ・・・はぁ・・・堅ぁい・・・。
【 サキ 】あなたの彼氏の・・・すごくいいわよ・・・。
【 サキ 】ほーら見てごらんなさい。あなたの彼氏はあなたが犯されるのを見ながら他の女でイッちゃいそうよ。
【 サキ 】見ててあげなさい・・・
ANM: ANM\F4C8
【 サキ 】彼氏がイクところを・・・。\n
【リリア】・・・・・・・・。
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Mark: "Are you okay? Rilia..."
Rilia: "Um..."
Mark: "What's going on, man? You're acting so... drunk. Usually you don't drink this much. Is the key to the room?"
Rilia: "In my bag."
Mark: "You alright?"
Rilia: "Yeah..."
Rilia: "Mark..."
Mark: "...?"
Rilia: "Stay with me tonight..."
Mark: "Rilia..."
Rilia: "I'll take a shower and come back..."
[Scene changes to Rilia being undressed by Sakie.]
Sakie: "Be quiet, you should be nice."
Rilia: "Mark!!"
Mark: "L-Lilia..."
Sakie: "If your boyfriend's life is important, it's better for you to stay quiet."
Rilia: "Who are you? You..."
Sakie: "I'm not angry at you personally. But I was asked to do this, so don't be mad at me."
Rilia: "Asked by who?"
Sakie: "What kind of person would say such a thing?"
[Mark tries to stop Sakie]
Rilia: "No... please..."
Sakie: "Look at your naked body and see how excited your boyfriend is."
Mark: "P-Please stop... L-Lilia..."
Sakie: "You need to do it more intensely. It won't feel good otherwise."
[Scene changes to Rilia performing oral sex]
Rilia: "Ahh!"
Sakie: "Look, she's doing a great job."
Mark: "P-Please stop... R-Lilia..."
Sakie: "She's doing so well that your boyfriend is happy too. You should be more enthusiastic."
Mark: "L-Lilia... uh..."
Rilia: "Ahh... ah... ahhh..."
Sakie: "Look, she's using her tongue as well."
Rilia: "Ah... ah... ahk..."
Sakie: "Your boyfriend is so happy. Do it better."
[Scene changes to Sakie and Rilia being penetrated]
Rilia: "Ahh... ah... ahhh... ahh... ah..."
Sakie: "Look, she's feeling good now. It was her first time too. She's such a naughty girl that even me am getting wet just by watching."
Mark: "L-Lilia... oh..."
Rilia: "Ahh... ah... ahk..."
Sakia: "Look at your boyfriend's reaction..."
Male A: "Ah, I'm going to cum inside her."
Rilia: "No... please don't use my insides..."
Male B: "Uh..."
Rilia: "Ah... no... ahhh..."
[Scene changes several times to Rilia being penetrated]
Sakie: "Look at how your boyfriend is getting hard seeing you like this."
Mark: "L-Lilia..."
Rilia: "No... please..."
Male A: "I'm going to cum in her mouth."
Male B: "Uh..."
Rilia: "No... please... not my insides..."
[Scene ends with Rilia gas
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Even if doesn't end perfect can manually modify it or have the AI do it.
Can even ask it explicit question no problem
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Sakie appears to be the main antagonist in this scene. She's manipulating both Rilia and Mark, coercing them into sexual activities. Her actions are predatory; she forces Rilia into a situation where she has to perform oral sex on Mark.
It's unclear if Sakie is also sexually assaulting Mark or forcing him to cum inside her directly based only on the information provided. However, there are several scenes where it seems like Sakie is taking advantage of Mark by making him watch Rilia being penetrated and ejaculating. This suggests she might be using Mark as a means to both humiliate Rilia and possibly exploit him sexually.
In summary:
Sakie is controlling the situation
She's forcing Rilia into performing oral sex on Mark
It seems like Sakie may also be coercing Mark into watching/being involved in penetrative acts with Rilia
The overall scenario strongly implies non-consensual, predatory behavior by Sakie. But without explicit details about Sakie directly assaulting
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« Last post by Saika on April 07, 2025, 05:03:17 am »
Some new stuff I've gotten over the last couple of months.
* A couple of original artwork pieces (both the pencil drawings and color guides.) I'm not a big fan of The Devil Came artwork, except when its got Ratty causing funny expressions in the others.
* A collection of four M.I.N era single-sided half-sized posters for Reserve and Guyna-rock. The newer Sogna posters aren't uncommon but these must be really rare as M.I.N wasn't very large or popular at the time. I've never seen other posters from the M.I.N era. These were probably store displays, which typically get destroyed when the store closes o replaces with others.
* A bust figurine of Raika. I've seen these crop up over the years but only recently managed to win the auction for one.
* I acquired an extra copy of the GTS Drama and Sogna Music Collection II CDs that included the cards, completing the 42 card extended trading card set.
* An artbook by Atsuko Ishida, who designed the opponent characters for Animahjong X. I was hoping for more AMX art, but its only two pages in a 150 page book.
I WANT THE CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Last post by JG on April 02, 2025, 09:26:00 pm »
Well Metroid Prime looked better in Switch 2. Still well under-advertised given how much money was apparently spent on its development and trying to position Metroid as a seventh key franchise per the Nintendo music logo, but if its set up to lose money and doesn't carry a Metroid Prime 2+3 with it then there's not much sense expecting it to ever join the ranks of the elite Nintendo franchises. Needed to be launch title with a strong focus on this being the marquee game through the summer (or at least, until Mario comes along), but they gave that role to Donkey Kong instead. So we're not seeing Metroid Prime 4 until August 14 or 21, being sandwiched between DK in mid-July and the presumed 3D Mario in September or early October. There just doesn't seem to be any way Metroid Prime series is going to succeed. They didn't even list Metroid Prime 2 on the GameCube NSO game selection which could have salvaged the situation a bit.
But holy crap did Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong look awful at bits. Donkey Kong is probably solvable by getting out some higher quality videos hat don't have nearly as much motion blur and start promoting them heavily so people see them and forget about the Switch 2 video (though first impressions are hard to overcome.) Mario Kart World has a lot bigger problem. Graphics pop-in is not an artifact of Youtube video compression. That's just bad performance.
I was generally unimpressed by the Direct. The game they should have highlighted for graphical performance was Metroid Prime 4. Its at 4K and 60fps on TV, and 1080p 60fps or 720p 120fps for handheld, which are great, but they spent way too little time pointing this out. This should have been a hallmark statement and once again, Nintendo seems that they just don't care how impressive Metroid Prime 4 is because they want to sell you upgrade packs instead. Mario Kart World has a neat idea of the cross-country travel rather than laps but the graphics pop-in really disturbed me. I'm not a fan of Donkey Kong and the motion blur on just about the whole bottom of screen when he spins around (which was often) was very annoying. Not providing the Welcome Tour game for free (like Sony does with the similar Astro's Playroom) is mistake: expecting people to actually pay for it is remarkably short-sighted. Pro Controller doesn't have any way to do a mouse mode, let alone touch screen so DS and 3DS gameplay on NSO appear ot be significant problems that are likely only solved by the dumb second screen add-on, and the only reason they went with GameCube now instead of DS is because they don't want ot scare off people with another $200-$300 accessory. DS/3DS doesn't have to be that expensive, but Nintendo appears to be money-grabbing to make it so.
I'm happy to see my Bravely Default arrive, but its wrong for Square Enix to call it a Remaster as the graphics look almost identical to 3DS version if merely upscaled to 1080p: the characters still only have stubs for hands or minimal claw like hands, the faces and arms have little curvature, showing some sharp angles, and the hair is flat: Bravely Default II from 4 years ago has vastly superior character models. And so far it seems like it might be Switch 2 exclusive, which is the completely wrong approach because if they're ever eyeing a Bravely Default 3, they've got to get BD1 over to PC and especially Playstation, which still doesn't even have BD2. At the very least it should have been Switch 1 and sell to ten times as many potential buyers. This looks like another in a long line of Square Enix titles that disappoints sales-wise, but dammit, they did it to themselves this time. It looks like they spent all the time and money making new mouse minigames instead of actually doing the remastering bit.
Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment is something I'll certainly buy, but... its doesn't feel as interesting as Age of Calamity, and naming both games Age of ... (especially with Age of Empires series out there) seemed an odd choice to me. I'm not sure how they work it with just Zelda, Rauru, Sonia, Ganondorf, and the four dragonstone wielders. Either they've got to dip back into the time-travel pool AGAIN to bring other characters (like Link) into the fold or that's a remarkably small cast for a Warriors game, half of which we only barely know. A Xenoblade Warriors would have been a good change of pace as it has a large enough cast now and doesn't need to rehash ideas we've already seen.
Hats off to Koei Tecmo Omega Force showing up with three games: Wild Hearts, Nobunaga's Ambition, and Age of Imprisonment. And they didn't even show off their biggest title of the year in Dynasty Warriors Origins (which was a presumed launch title and now maybe bumps to next year), after already providing Warriors Abyss to all platforms. (On a personal bad news angle, this much output eliminates Omega Force as being involved with any Dragon Quest Builders 3 in 2025 or 2026, so now we're looking at Square Enix internal development teams only, or Square Enix misses the boat.)
Which begs the question why Microsoft was totally absent. I'm not only astonished they weren't there, but after signing a deal with Nintendo a short while back, I thought for sure they'd negotiate prime coverage during any Switch 2 reveal. It looks like the Microsoft team behind that contract were more interested in buying Nintendo's blessing on the Activision-Blizzard merger than trying to eak out a bit more to promote the games from the studio they were buying.
Not terribly surprised Capcom settled on Street Fighter 6 as a launch title. Very surprised they didn't even mention Monster Hunter Wilds, which was another near-lock as launch title. Had Switch 2 launched in 2024 as planned, you can be sure Monster Hunter Wilds would have been on Switch 2 when it launched on other consoles in February.
The NSO expansion pack is disappointing. Besides being GameCube rather than DS (showing a hardware design philosophy that focused on money rather than gameplay.) People want Wind Waker HD, especially fast travel and fixing the Tingle Tuner bits, but they get GameCube with neither. They want F-Zero GX Remaster/Remake, but only get original. Not clear why Luigi's Mansion is left off as supplying it now completes the set. Seems like Super Mario Sunshine and or Luigi's Mansion are being saved to release on NSO closer to new 3D Mario and Luigi's Mansion 4; whenever they get announced, the GameCube game probably gets same day shadowdrop to NSO. Pokemon Colleseum seems a very odd choice with the similar Pokemon Champions game coming.
So many games we saw as Switch 2 that don't look like they need to be. Deltarune 1+2+3+4 clearly would look fine on Switch 1. Most of the titles we saw in the March 27 show got a repeat in this show and didn't really need it (Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, RAIDOU Remastered, No Sleep for Kaname Date, Witchbrook, Tamagotchi Plaza, etc.) And Silksong was promised a Switch 1 version years ago (and some people played a beta as far back as 2020), and not only did we not see it in the Switch 1 show last week, it only got a 10 second sizzle reel announcement today. Nintendo and Team Cherry are clearly not aware how much this game needed a full trailer as there's a lot of people that have been waiting on it.
Kirby Air Riders may be really fun, but seeing this was Masahiro Sakurai's game was a huge downer. Alot of people wanted Smash Bros, perhaps a reboot that shed the weight of all the third-party licensed characters, or a Kid Icarus Uprising sequel, especially since we never got Kid Icarus Uprising ported to Switch. (And with no Star Fox game either, the Switch 1 will now be the first Nintendo system to not have a first-party rail shooter since the NES, which really didn't have the technical power to make it work anyway.)
I'm not really sure we need to see a Mario Kart World Direct on April 17 if game doesn't launch until June, especially with Treehouse showing it Thursday and Friday this week. Too early. This seems like something they could have done more effectively in May. Especially since they have no game or Direct in May!
We never saw 3D Mario. Hopefully saving that as the closer to the summer Direct, and then hit it up again with a Super Mario Direct around September for what I expect to be an early October launch. After eight years, I don't want Donkey Kong to be the only game out of EPD 8 in 2025. Mario helps sells systems, and they're going to want Mario on that wall, need Mario on that wall, once the calendar flips to 2026.
If we get two Donkey Kongs in 2025 and no new 3D Mario, then Nintendo has lost the plot. In fact two Donkey Kongs in 2025 cements the theory that Nintendo really messed up by not swapping January's Donkey Kong Country Returns HD and November's Mario & Luigi Brothership. Brothership marched out to die in the face of a Dragon Quest III HD-2D army, when if placed in January it would have had the month to itself for better initial sales for an RPG, would have led off Mario's 40th Anniversary year with a game featuring Mario, and would have put Donkey Kong in position to appear just before his theme park opened in Japan, instead of after. Maybe Donkey Kong wasn't ready by November, in which case toss out low hanging fruit like Wind Waker HD in November before throwing it in the garbage by providing a GameCube edition. (So that's possibly three games they misplayed.) Then Mario & Luigi in January and Donkey Kong in February. It's still a better result than what they actually ended up doing.
We never saw either game from EPD 4: Splatoon 4 or the next Animal Crossing. With Tomodachi Life next year its now almost certain Splatoon 4 is up first, probably with a 2026 release, and it'll be 2027 or 2028 before Animal Crossing returns.
Still no Metroid Prime 2+3. Nintendo's had six years to know these games was needed before Metroid Prime 4 launched, if a MP1 was offered, and by all indications appears to have overlooked the obvious. Could still shadow-drop, but they've now burnt two Directs without taking the opportunity.
Assuming no surprise announcements, Switch 1 owners are starving for several months. The next time Nintendo will publish a Switch 1 game now appears to be either June 26 (though Drag x Drive probably goes here) or mid-August. That's likely a five-month gap between games. So much for the Nintendo promises of showing support for Switch 1 in 2025.
And since we now know the release date, the release schedule through end of year is pretty well settled so there's little room for future surprises.
RELEASE WINDOWS AT 3 WEEK INTERVALS:
June 5, June 26, July 17, August 7, August 28, September 18, October 9, October 30, November 20, December 11
PROBABLE GAME DATES:
June 5: launch games (confirmed)
June 26: Drag x Drive or Metroid Prime 4 (I'd wager Drag x Drive since it shows off the mouse mode more effectively than other games, and a bit surprised it wasn't a launch game)
July 17: Donkey Kong Bananza (confirmed)
August 14/21: whichever of Drag x Drive and Metroid Prime 4 wasn't in June (moves back a week or two to give DK more time)
September 4/18: ?
October 2/9: Mario 3D
October 30: Nothing? (Nintendo will likely yield this window to Call of Duty to help steal CoD players from other platforms, which also gives more time for Mario 3D and to produce cartridges ahead of Pokemon rlease and holiday rush period)
November 13/20: Pokemon Legends Z-A (probably 13th to give allow December 4 date to move up; given its been labeled both "Fall 2025" and "Late 2025" November is virtually confirmed)
December 4: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (one week earlier into holiday season; UK website apparently leaked Winter 2025 so nearly confirmed)
So just one release slot to fill. Maybe this is where Kirby Planet Robobot fits so its out before the figurine returns in Q4. Perhaps Kirby takes the same day as Call of Duty since its a remake but I think they prefer the idea of a really long exclusivity period for Mario 3D, and also gives them a bit of breather to prepare before Pokemon and holiday hit.
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« Last post by Moge on April 02, 2025, 12:00:33 am »
You can watch the trailer in its full uncompressed quality here -- assets.nintendo.com/video/upload/Nintendo%20Direct/2025/voPNXhhQvrtL/fkCXRmtUQPbQ/spotlight-02.mp4
I know i'm not alone thinking it looks almost too good. Some believe the footage is from a Switch 2 version, but i think that would be very underhanded for Nintendo to do.
I get the feeling Retro is more of a technical support studio first and a game studio second. How else to explain their sporadic game releases? That's why they'll always be around even if game development in Texas is prohibitively expensive. Their knowledge is simply invaluable to a company like Nintendo who aren't known for pushing the graphics envelope.
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« Last post by JG on March 30, 2025, 08:49:21 pm »
I though the Chozo forest temple we saw in the Metroid prime trailer looked washed out, like watercolors. It didn't look sharp to me. I really thought the battle scene we saw in the first trailer looked better.
This Direct failed to do the thing it needed to do the most - set the stage for the next 3-4 months. I'm frankly getting very worried about the April 2 Direct because its been over half a year since Nintendo's media relations did it right. They messed up September by not doing anything (despite Sony running roughshod over them), messed up October by rolling out all the announcements in Twitter instead of a more consolidated program, messed up January by sidelining DKCR HD with the Switch 2 trailer that failed to hit the marks it needed to hit, messed up February by doing nothing (an again, Sony was there to step up), and now messed up March by not properly setting up a transition period, and just casting Switch 1 fans off into the unknown for the next several months. I fear 3D Mario may be the only thing they deliver to rest of year that I want, and it'll probably be a fall game too. I don't care about Mario Kart and hope they have something better to offer at launch (a cross-gen Metroid Prime 4 would have done it, but that's seeming less likely now.) I don't really care to see Breath of the Wild DX. I don't want to see Fire Emblem remake or Kirby: Planet Robobot be Switch 2 if they don't need to be. And I sure don't want to see Camelot show up with another Mario Tennis game for Switch 2. I don't want to dig out my Wii to replay Metroid Prime 2+3.
Also sad to see this being the potentially end of the line for the Metroid Prime series. Six years of development, with the staff size of Retro in Austin, Texas (one of the most expensive software development markets in the world) its incredibly likely Metroid Prime 4 is Nintendo's most expensive game ever at around $200 million (unless they're also dropping a Switch 2 title in the next 12 months.) The way its being set up, its rolling out to Dread-like numbers of 3 million tops, perhaps 2.5M million given the scale down of Switch 1 advertising. Unless Nintendo has some secret ad campaign, or an at-launch cross-gen upgrade, its going to take a $50-$80 million bath and be Nintendo's largest money loser ever. I don't think they ever do an MP5 if they lose $50+ million on MP4. It needed to get done in 2022, or it needed to look forward toward Switch 2 so it would have the legs to run out to 4 or 5 million unit sales over the course of a few years. If its a Switch 1-only title in a post-Switch 2 world, there's little hope for it.
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« Last post by Moge on March 30, 2025, 05:52:43 pm »
The final Switch direct was delightful. My expectations were low to begin with, but i was pleasantly surprised.
Metroid Prime 4 graphics stole the show for me. If the final product looks as good as the trailer, then hands down it'll be cemented as the most technically impressive game on the platform. On the gameplay side, it looks like more Metroid Prime, which is fine given it's been almost two decades since the last entry. Sometimes you don't need to reinvent the wheel if there's enough time between sequels.
The other highlight of the show, Rhythm Heaven Groove. The WarioWare games are lowkey Nintendo's best games to just pick up and play. Since Rhythm Heaven is just an extension of that franchise, you know you're in for a good time.
The final highlight: Sony putting their exclusives on a Nintendo platform through Bandai Namco. Not much to say, but it's an interesting development that would make seismic waves if this were 10 years ago.
Not surprised if anyone was disappointed with this direct. It was quirky and not specifically catering to the most hardcore of Nintendo's base. For sure, Nintendo is saving the best for their next system.
One minor gripe, the Gradius Collection is clearly missing a lot of games, namely the superior console ports.
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« Last post by JG on March 27, 2025, 08:06:09 pm »
What If I told you Nintendo staged a Direct, and this was the outcome:
None of Nintendo's "Big 5" franchises is present.
None of the first-party games got a firm release date (something that's never happened before)
Not one, but two of the first-party games are into next year (odd to see even one in the spring Direct.)
One of the first-party games is this year, but well past the summer or fall Direct air dates.
One of the first-party games is missing its dance partner.
Three of the twenty-eight games are 1+2 collections.
Three of the twenty-eight games are rhythm genre.
The one rail shooter (a genre the Switch is woefully weak on) gets only five seconds of coverage.
The one third-party game that is a Switch timed-exclusive gets only five seconds of coverage.
One of the games is the third game from one franchise in 13 months; while other, more profitable franchises from same publisher haven't got anything in that span.
This Direct was apparently delayed five or six weeks and no apparent reason was ever shown to explain why it couldn't have aired in February.
Objectively, this is terrible all over. Even if you didn't know the titles, you should be able to tell this is a bad lineup with some bizarre outcomes.
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