Hey Retro Sofa, thanks a lot for your honest review! To answer one of your question, the game is open source as well as the server, so assuming one day the official server should close (should not happen though), people could still use their own. Also, the game can be updated, so more characters, more arenas, adjusting the difficulty balance for the story mode, should happen at some point :)
Thanks for the comment and the cool game! It's got the problem that plagues all online multiplayer games eventually which that it only lasts as long as there is a growing community playing it and the only way that community grows is if someone can find an opponent pretty much when they want. Open source helps for sure but it doesn't solve this because you can't. It's just the nature of online games and it's why I say in this review that anyone interested should get into it right away to get the best out of it and I really hope people do! It's a really fun game! I noticed there was an option for updating the game and I could have talked about that separately. It's another advantage of being an online NES game and it's really cool. This is basically my first time opening it and playing it, more of a reaction than a full review, but that's definitely something I could have mentioned so I'm pinning your comment so everybody knows. I wanted to react to the game as it is today but I'm also excited to see what comes next!
I stand corrected. I assume the way I looked this up was to find a list of the last NES games released and check EU release dates but then the original list only counted US releases. Thanks. I'll note that in the description.
That would be sweet. I'm not clever enough to know if it's possible. Emulators can do it but they can synchronise game states and working memory more easily than I think would be doable on original hardware. I agree though, I hope someone does figure it out and it might be the feature that finally drives me to buy a flash cart.
Anything that supports ASCII theoretically won't fall over with UTF-8, as UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. (One of the original key design goals.) When something doesn't support the backward compatibility it's usually because it has reserved characters, or is explicitly trying to filter UTF-8 for whatever reason. I'm sure there are some exceptions to this, but it is widely true.
Yep! But it's still nice to see a NES just handling characters so far outside of its normal understanding like an ant contemplating the cosmos. Plus you hit the nail on the head in practical terms. I have separate hidden WiFi networks to support devices that don't like weird characters, for example the Wii. Also I'm having a bit of a headache with RGB-Pi at the moment because it supports neither UTF-8 nor hidden SSID's. More on that later hopefully.
this game looks like a sweet smash bros for nes style. best to play with a friend on the couch. but if they live a few miles away, you call them and play online.
The MMC3 or 5 for Super Mario Bros 3 was for diagonal scrolling and flying into the air! Great video thanks! Would be so cool to play Double Dragon 2 online with a cart like this!
Thanks! I didn't know exactly what the chips in Super Mario Bros. 3 were doing when I made this video. Definitely something I need to read more into! Also yes, there are so many awesome two player co-op games on the NES. Even more than on the SNES it feels like, though I haven't counted. There are loads it'd be great to play online with original hardware.
Imagine how I felt when I was setting up my profile on Nintendo World Championships NES Edition and one of the options is "Never Had an NES". Proper "can haz cheeseburger" vibes.
British English, do you speak it? If not you should ask yourself why you think it's a good idea for you to "correct" someone speaking a language you don't speak and if that doesn't make you look just a little bit silly. Besides, we should be getting along. We're both members of En Ay Tee Oh after all.
Hey Retro Sofa, thanks a lot for your honest review!
To answer one of your question, the game is open source as well as the server, so assuming one day the official server should close (should not happen though), people could still use their own.
Also, the game can be updated, so more characters, more arenas, adjusting the difficulty balance for the story mode, should happen at some point :)
Thanks for the comment and the cool game! It's got the problem that plagues all online multiplayer games eventually which that it only lasts as long as there is a growing community playing it and the only way that community grows is if someone can find an opponent pretty much when they want. Open source helps for sure but it doesn't solve this because you can't. It's just the nature of online games and it's why I say in this review that anyone interested should get into it right away to get the best out of it and I really hope people do! It's a really fun game!
I noticed there was an option for updating the game and I could have talked about that separately. It's another advantage of being an online NES game and it's really cool. This is basically my first time opening it and playing it, more of a reaction than a full review, but that's definitely something I could have mentioned so I'm pinning your comment so everybody knows. I wanted to react to the game as it is today but I'm also excited to see what comes next!
First time playing this and you get matched with the sweatiest try hard ever.
Great, now stick a WiFi chip in super mario kart
Mario Kart wasn't on nes
The last official NES game was The Lion King in mid-1995. Wario Woods came out six months earlier.
I stand corrected. I assume the way I looked this up was to find a list of the last NES games released and check EU release dates but then the original list only counted US releases. Thanks. I'll note that in the description.
This could be the next generation of Everdrives -- play any game online any system with anyone anywhere... awesome.
That would be sweet. I'm not clever enough to know if it's possible. Emulators can do it but they can synchronise game states and working memory more easily than I think would be doable on original hardware. I agree though, I hope someone does figure it out and it might be the feature that finally drives me to buy a flash cart.
Yes!!!! Thinking the exact same thing! Soooo many cool 2-player games on the NES, even 4-player (tennis….)….
We need a retro open world muliplayer.
Anything that supports ASCII theoretically won't fall over with UTF-8, as UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. (One of the original key design goals.) When something doesn't support the backward compatibility it's usually because it has reserved characters, or is explicitly trying to filter UTF-8 for whatever reason. I'm sure there are some exceptions to this, but it is widely true.
Yep! But it's still nice to see a NES just handling characters so far outside of its normal understanding like an ant contemplating the cosmos. Plus you hit the nail on the head in practical terms. I have separate hidden WiFi networks to support devices that don't like weird characters, for example the Wii. Also I'm having a bit of a headache with RGB-Pi at the moment because it supports neither UTF-8 nor hidden SSID's. More on that later hopefully.
Super interesting! Hoping for a Famicom cartridge version though😢
this game looks like a sweet smash bros for nes style. best to play with a friend on the couch. but if they live a few miles away, you call them and play online.
Subbed, fun stuff Bill.
Even on the NES the SBMM is tragic
Dope Nintendo tape.
am so glad that people are now seeing what this game haves to offer❤❤
It's so cool. I'm definitely gonna play some more of it.
The MMC3 or 5 for Super Mario Bros 3 was for diagonal scrolling and flying into the air! Great video thanks! Would be so cool to play Double Dragon 2 online with a cart like this!
Thanks! I didn't know exactly what the chips in Super Mario Bros. 3 were doing when I made this video. Definitely something I need to read more into! Also yes, there are so many awesome two player co-op games on the NES. Even more than on the SNES it feels like, though I haven't counted. There are loads it'd be great to play online with original hardware.
I'm really trying not to be bothered by UK people pronouncing the acronym NES and SNES as a word.
Imagine how I felt when I was setting up my profile on Nintendo World Championships NES Edition and one of the options is "Never Had an NES". Proper "can haz cheeseburger" vibes.
Dont know man just get s switch with Mario kart or slattoon always people lol
It really bugs me when people say Ness and Snesh.
Of all the things to call it, why that?
British English vs American English I think. I don't know how it happened but here we are.
It's wrapped in film, not foil!
N. E. S. Not Nesssssss
British English, do you speak it? If not you should ask yourself why you think it's a good idea for you to "correct" someone speaking a language you don't speak and if that doesn't make you look just a little bit silly.
Besides, we should be getting along. We're both members of En Ay Tee Oh after all.
😂@@TheRetroSofalmfao
Wrong
or Original Nintendo.
Wtf at Americans. NES even makes more sense if anything.