* Nintendo Switch *

chrismscotland · 23 Oct 2023 at 11:08

Plainsong said:
Interesting I didn’t even know this was a thing. Used to love these games way back when. Reviewing decently as well. Will add it to the list!

I see that it is only £19.99 I will grab that before my next holiday then. A lot of content there!

Yeah its a bargain! Even better when I logged into the eShop I realised I aready had £36 credit sitting there so it was FREE! Lol

Also picked up Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 for about £12 all in, always wanted to play them back in the day but never got around to it!

Dyson · 23 Oct 2023 at 19:54

chrismscotland said:
I know its a relatively old PC game but I picked up the new Switch version of Company of Heroes, works really well on the Switch!

Wasn't it a bit of a system killer when it first came out?

chrismscotland · 23 Oct 2023 at 21:11

Dyson said:
Wasn't it a bit of a system killer when it first came out?

I think it might have been, just realised the original is almost 20 years old!! Bloody hell!

Plainsong · 23 Oct 2023 at 21:19

Yeah it was pretty cutting edge at the time.

cyber69 · 23 Oct 2023 at 21:32

Just tried to use my Nintendo switch after it sitting idle for months and it refused to connect to wifi and couldn’t see any wifi SSID’s. I docked it and tried to use the two joypads wirelessly and these are dead also, just get some LED’s scanning on both controllers.

xaldub · 24 Oct 2023 at 08:58

cyber69 said:
Just tried to use my Nintendo switch after it sitting idle for months and it refused to connect to wifi and couldn’t see any wifi SSID’s. I docked it and tried to use the two joypads wirelessly and these are dead also, just get some LED’s scanning on both controllers.

Was it undocked ie. without power for several months ? Might neeed to recharge it for a while and hope that works ... not sure what the internal battery/mechanism is on the Switch for backup power. Also, you probably need a few firmware updates if you can get wifi to register.

cyber69 · 24 Oct 2023 at 17:59

xaldub said:
Was it undocked ie. without power for several months ? Might neeed to recharge it for a while and hope that works ... not sure what the internal battery/mechanism is on the Switch for backup power. Also, you probably need a few firmware updates if you can get wifi to register.

It was left docked and maybe powered on for some time before we realised. I connected a USB to Ethernet dongle today and managed to get it to update the software for the switch and controllers ok but it still won't see any wifi SSID or the joypads when they are disconnected.

BUDFORCE · 25 Oct 2023 at 08:37

Where do you guys normally get your switch games?

Thinking of getting FIFA for my little one but he's only 5 so last year's one or even year before that is fine he won't know, neither would I if I'm honest.

Looking on Amazon but still seems really expensive for the old ones.

Plainsong · 25 Oct 2023 at 08:54

BUDFORCE said:
Where do you guys normally get your switch games?

Thinking of getting FIFA for my little one but he's only 5 so last year's one or even year before that is fine he won't know, neither would I if I'm honest.

Looking on Amazon but still seems really expensive for the old ones.

Cex if you’re in the uk. FIFA 20 is £10. FIFA 23 £30.

kakarott · 29 Oct 2023 at 22:56

Anyone playing super mario bros wonder? Any good?

Noxia · 29 Oct 2023 at 23:11

kakarott said:
Anyone playing super mario bros wonder? Any good?

Probably in my top 5 Mario platformers tbh.

danoliver1 · 30 Oct 2023 at 00:29

kakarott said:
Anyone playing super mario bros wonder? Any good?

Yeah it's good, seems a bit easy though.

Noxia · 30 Oct 2023 at 01:56

danoliver1 said:
Yeah it's good, seems a bit easy though.

I cannot recall a challenging mario since lost levels.

Mobius 1 · 30 Oct 2023 at 05:37

Some of the levels are challenging. Wouldn’t say tough. That bullrush one gave me some troubles though..lol

malachi · 30 Oct 2023 at 07:09

Noxia said:
I cannot recall a challenging mario since lost levels.

Only because of the lack of checkpoints if you playing it on the original consoles back in the day

fez · 30 Oct 2023 at 13:27

Mario Wonder is great but as others have said, its super easy. Suffers from the same issue a lot of these 2d with overworld games do. Pointless gumpf filling time for the sake of it. Things like the houses you go into just to pick up an item. Dialogue you can't skip.

All the different ideas are really clever and its a great game overall.

The only level I got stuck on was a wall jump one. I spent about 75 lives on it because I assumed that the wall jump power up would be the one to use... it was not. As soon as I took that off I did it in about 5 goes and that was a 5 star difficulty level.

So far, Tropical Freeze is still the best platformer on the Switch IMO but this is great. Just a shame that we aren't going to see another proper 3D mario until next gen in a couple of years.

Noxia · 30 Oct 2023 at 21:38

One more thing to add, some people don't like the jump noise apparently. Don't ask.

MoRT489 · 31 Oct 2023 at 13:15

Hi guys and gals, I just made some changes to my family group so that I could join a different group (replaced the admin, then left group) - now when I click the link to join the new family group it says:

“You cannot join due to limits on family group changes.”

I can’t find anything helpful on Google to deal with this - has anyone else resolved this issue?

Mobius 1 · 31 Oct 2023 at 16:02

Noxia said:
One more thing to add, some people don't like the jump noise apparently. Don't ask.

What ? I can’t say I’ve even noticed anything with the jump noise ?

Noxia · 31 Oct 2023 at 16:04

Mobius 1 said:
What ? I can’t say I’ve even noticed anything with the jump noise ?

No clue lol. Someone posted in here saying they hated it. Sounds pretty much the same as every other Mario game I've played TBH.

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