missingno

Good showcase, but feels a bit strange not to use an actual handheld game for the LCD comparisons.

I've been trying to inject any life at all into !fgc@lemmy.world and !mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social

Porter Robinson - Unfold

I used reddit for two things: news, and niche subcommunities around small hobbies and fandoms.

We've got the former here, but I don’t know if we'd ever have enough of a critical mass to sustain the latter. And that sucks for me, because I no longer have a good space for that stuff, but I still don't ever want to go back to reddit now.

Yeah, I stopped buying from the VC when the Wii U asked me to pay to "upgrade" my games.

This is an excellent article that covers how and why the VC died.

People say they want it back, but most titles never sold all that well back then.

Strongly recommend playing Earthbound before Mother 3. Mother 1 is entirely skippable, I've tried to play it multiple times and never could get through it.

• Celeste
• Most Kirby games. Skip Amazing Mirror I guess, and for Super Star you can play every mode except Great Cave Offensive.
• Metroid Fusion (I do feel somewhat bad putting it on this list though)
• OneShot
• Persona series
• Punch-Out!! series
• Rhythm Doctor
• Rhythm Heaven series
• The World Ends With You
• Any stage-based arcade(-style) game. I'll name Puyo Puyo (Tsu, 20th, Chronicle specifically), Panel de Pon, Puzzle Bobble 3, Twinkle Star Sprites just for a few.
• Any visual novel

Percentage-based damage doesn't make you struggle more with more health, it just means a few attacks take the same number of hits to kill. You're never any worse for it, and you're still better against every other attack in the game.

Also, I said evasion anyway, not health.

You lost me at the first panel.

I'm not seeing a link. Missingno.'s sprite is just the graphics decompression routine attempting to parse data from elsewhere in the ROM due to a wrong pointer, this obviously can't be concept art for that sprite. The idea that they might've considered making it canon in later generations is far too unlikely as well, we know they hated that this glitch got found and never ever ever would've wanted to acknowledge it.

The article's conjecture is just "it's blocky and it has writing on it, and if you squint really hard, you could pretend writing is like glitchy pixels." Too much of a stretch.

I've been holding onto a pet conspiracy theory that BW2 was a last-minute change from Gray, loose ends and plot holes felt too rushed. Curious if the leaked source code will corroborate this.