821 – GoldenEye Decompiled, Mega Man X Regenesis, and Mario Kart World Cruising

Hello everybody and welcome to Infendo Radio.

Apologies for the cat noises.

~ there's a kitten back there.

~ it is episode eight twenty one though.

~ Justin Brandon, how many kittens y'all have in your vicinity?

none.

None at this time.

cats are

my cats are all upstairs because we've got a big dog downstairs who wants to either play with them or eat them.

We're not sure which.

I wow.

Every I'm pretty clear on my dog's intention with cats, but

it's going to hurt regardless.

I guess stay tuned to find out.

Shit.

let's ~ talk about video games, I think.

~

hopefully, anyways.

The news was better than most weeks, but most of the news is very sparse.

~ thank you for actually pulling out like something newsworthy, Brandon.

I appreciate that.

We're gonna start with some like I guess moddy things.

~ X-Men ma wait, X-Men.

Mega Man X Regenesis it has been released.

It's basically a a fan mod ~ of that game of of like i if Sigma One.

or or Super NES is what their target is, but

I think that

they're going for an SNES vibe.

If I'm

from the YouTube video I watched, I think what is happening is if Sigma won, and then it's basically I don't know if you guys know the Mega Man lore, but ~ it is it it

Man had lore.

I I I'm aware of some of it.

I'm aware of some of it and and then there's a point where I just stop listening.

~

it's

Well it it takes that ~

as Kingdom Hearts lore?

No.

Not nothing is, nothing is.

Yeah, no, that's

the most convoluted lore.

Speaking of okay, wait, hold

on.

Let let's take a let's take a pause here and I need you to talk me off the ledge.

Should I or should I not pay?

I think it's like $30 or $40 for the entire Kingdom Hearts collection on Steam, or should I just play the emulated versions that I already have for wait, not free.

I paid for them at some point, but you know what I mean.

What talk?

I mien I

you're talking about your own copies that you can

exactly.

I have my

own copy of all the Kingdom Hearts games.

Every single one.

the Kingdom Hearts collection collection on Steam.

I haven't booted them up.

I don't even know if I've installed them on anything, but it was a good deal, and I figured if I ever wanted to play them, it you know, it was worth it.

So take that for what it's worth.

Yeah.

it's like I I played that a lot and like everything I hear is going back to Kingdom Hearts One not great

the money, I made sure

that there are like mods and cheats and stuff so that if I do decide to play the game, I can just steamroll through it.

Tell me if there's a truncated

story ~ mod that you find.

And maybe I'd be interested, but no.

I'm never going back to that well.

It's it's poison.

Yeah, well ~ for

four is coming out and that almost looks good.

If I wasn't suspicious.

~

because it took like forty years to get Kingdom Hearts three.

I

know.

It's like we really we're

getting four?

Everyone was like, Yeah, right.

Yeah, it's it's real apparently.

~ but yeah, Mega Man X Regenesis.

If

you want to go play an old Mega Man game, I I downloaded it.

I haven't played it yet myself, but yeah, it looks looks cool.

Looks cool as hell.

a little bit more somber news, I guess.

Netflix shut down Oxenfree.

You guys ever play any Oxen Free games?

~

is oxy free the game oxy free or I are we 'cause it

I'm sorry, the Oxen Free Developer.

Yeah, my my bad.

Did you guys ever play that game?

The who's the developer?

Night School Studios.

yeah, I played the first one.

It's okay.

It was like I feel like a lot of people were like really huge on it and I I found it interesting.

Some of the Mc It basically used radios

to communicate with the dead and get the story.

All I know is that I thought it was

I thought it was a total missed opportunity that nobody thought to bundle Ollie Ollie and Oxen Free together.

Well that's a good joke, Justin.

I I think I've ~ I I I don't know what to say.

You stunlocked me.

~

yeah, no, it's sad.

It sucks to see game studios get shut down.

I although like if a game studio is being run by Netflix, like w I don't know, what do you expect?

Like who's

There's just not a whole lot of gaming going on on Netflix.

Is there?

Like are people gaming on their Netflix TV subscriptions?

I don't know if anybody uses it.

Yeah.

I get the feeling I get the feeling

Netflix games are kind of like mobile phone games and ~ what's the Yeah, we just

we're just gonna pump out some some cheap stuff.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

ballsy after Bandersnatch.

~

real.

~ okay, well moving right along it seems as if

It it seems as if my ~ my Nintendo 3D All Stars

purchase is losing its value every day because Super Mario Sunshine is coming out on or actually it's out on the NSO.

Is that what we're calling it these days?

NSO?

I still I s I still

I still miss I still want to call it the virtual console in my heart.

But anyways, it's out.

You can play Super Mario Sunshine, complete with, it seems, like GameCube controller functionality.

So you can like bust out your GameCube controller that's you know, collecting dust.

like more playable than I don't know how how they dealt with analog in the ~ three D release, so

in if you have a GameCube

controller, you can use that in ~ three D All Stars and have

the full analog trigger control.

Yeah.

tell you what they did without it, ~ because I used to not have a GameCube controller and I played this yeah.

It just uses the two buttons.

Yeah, exactly what Justin was saying, yeah.

So

like I think the trigger is is spray and then the bumpers are the stand in place.

Yeah.

So they they found a way around it.

Honestly, I honestly I find that

Mm.

I find that analog triggers as cool of a concept as they are, I find that I don't

use the analog like effect of it ever.

Like yeah, ~ it's I'm ~

it's either like full

full on or full off.

I don't really feather the guests in in most games.

I do miss

Forza's it's very, very good to have.

~

the PlayStation 2's analog face buttons because those were great for like driving games because it I don't know, it was more intuitive to adjust the pressure on your thumb w from

your thumb on the button than the trigger pressures, so but they

never did that again.

The the one use case for analog triggers that I feel like is still the best because I played a shit ton of it is smash bros and melee because like you barely feather it and

then your bubble's big but it can like you know it's it's a weaker bubble.

But if you hold it then your bubble is like smaller, but it's like a stronger bubble, you know, like when you're shielding.

So

that

they did that with the with melee where and then if you click it all the way you get like a solid I had forgotten about that.

Yeah.

So that that's still my best use case.

But actually probably sunshine if I'm being real.

Like that was like the use case for it.

Like, you know, you can like barely

p push it in and then just like squirt out a little bit of water versus like holding it in, yeah.

But anyways, ~ we've probably talked more about Super Mario

Sunshine than anybody has in the last

lot about analog triggers.

I don't know if we talked about those right.

There's

not much news to talk about.

so th the

next thing was cool.

~ yeah, I don't

think ~ everybody caught on, but ~ that mu that Donkey Kong ~ the Donkey Kong event, if you complete all of the challenges, Nintendo's going to give you a card set of all the

challenges.

A physical card set.

I know, me neither.

It even knowing this I wasn't I

I'm too busy with other games.

So

like the

it end anyways?

it ends at the end of this month, if I'm not mistaken.

So I don't think there's is it I don't know, let me o open it up the story shockingly and ~ look.

Yeah, 'cause I I'm gonna try and do it.

I'm not gonna like be mad if I don't, but that would be really cool to have that, you know?

That'll be a collector's item.

my September first.

And like the thing is, you don't get it unless you have Donkey Kong Bonanza.

So

I need to get back into Donkey Kong sixty-four.

I started it, but I never really got anywhere in it.

Is sixty four part of the challenge?

Nah.

Me?

Yeah.

Forever ago.

I yeah.

remember.

yeah, 'cause I spoiled part of it for you.

My bad about that, by the way.

holding our breath for when he finished it.

~

it.

I think the internet spoiled it.

But ~ yeah.

yeah, king king ruling.

back.

Yeah.

cool.

Well I'm gonna definitely try and do that.

That sounds like you know, like cool as fuck, but we'll see.

I'm not gonna

They it would have been nice if they said that from the start, but no, they kind of realized maybe people weren't getting into it, so they were like, throw a physical reward

at it But I ge

yeah.

I guess the way it works is if you complete it by the end of September you'll get an email telling you how to claim the ~ the card set, so

Sure.

The ~ I'm wondering if it's gonna be ~ like one of those things where they 'cause they used to have them like almost like serial numbered.

I wonder if it's gonna be like that unique where they're gonna like have something like that.

So ~ anyways, I'm going to switch gears and I'm going to break some hearts and shed some tears.

Cause I forgot to turn on the in person guest on Riverside, so I don't have Nintendo to do and I don't have a cool little

doodad like Justin that does it outside of Riverside.

So womp womp

the Goldeneye news?

There's golden eye news?

Did you put it in yeah, did you p yeah.

talk about it?

to put it on the on the show notes, but yeah GoldenEye for the N sixty

four has been completely decompiled, which means native ports

are now

possible.

So I'm sure we're gonna get a PC port.

~ Brandon, I know you're hoping

for a quest port.

Yeah.

There's a there's a team that does this stuff, Team Beef, so I wonder if they'll get their hands on that, but they also are v team beef.

They made the Doom mod, the ~ the Star Wars ~ Jedi Survivor mod, the

The Doom 3, they made it all VR and in the headset.

~ what what fascinates me about this is ~ now they should be able to get to some of the like removed features and and maybe re like like complete some of them.

Like imagine a port of Goldeneye where you actually can take a boat to the island on the dam or, you know, play as ~ Sean Connery, you know, like

I'm just waiting for the for the ports

and the ROM hacks to start coming out.

My first question honestly was is this gonna lead to an easier, faster, perfect dark?

Because that's where I wanna

see the recompilations come, you know, like I

cool as GoldenEyes always is, I always yeah, prefer perfect art.

Same.

So

runs amazingly on both the NSO and the Xbox.

So ~

yeah.

So I mean if you're looking to play Perfect Dark without the stuttery frame rate, ~ definitely play it on the NSO.

It it it's super smooth.

~

Yeah, I I'm ready for it.

That seems really cool.

I I forgot about that, Justin.

So thanks for bringing that into the to the news.

I'm ~ I I'm honestly hoping that they do something cool with ~ I and that this will kind of I guess lead into ~ change the system.

But not yet, because I figured out that I can hack the Nintendo.

So I'm actually gonna try and do that first.

But ~ I'm hoping that it'll lead to like an Android port.

So like on the Thor, maybe like

you can have

Goldeneye on the top and then like a map on the bottom or like your watch screen on the bottom or something cool like that, you know, like the i i it can do some ha you can do

some cool stuff probably.

I I would like to s

I know, it's when they the people say decompile, I become like well you could do you could add and remove things.

on my Thor, but it's the D S game.

yeah, sure,

sure, sure.

~ okay, well, ~ let's try and do this Nintendo Tunes thing.

it's not gonna be ~ the same in my heart as I wish it would be because I can't like split the audio, but fuck it.

We're gonna we're just gonna do it anyways.

~ if you've

never been here before, ~ welcome.

~ what we do for Nintendo is these two guys are gonna try and guess the games ~ the from

I don't know, I don't even think I have a theme here.

But I've got music from these games and they're just gonna try and guess the games from the songs that I'm gonna play for them.

~

Yeah, th I guess that's the that's the overarching theme is that has to have ~ appeared on a Nintendo system at some point.

So yeah, there's that.

Let me just make sure that this is a good one.

Yeah, I think this will work.

~ I don't know.

I I tried to pull a theme.

The theme that I that I kinda got to was like fall, so I don't know, cause fall's kinda coming, or at least I hope

it is.

Fuck.

still summer.

It is midsummer.

We are not I love fall too, but I don't want to rush

away the what little good weather we get in upstate New York.

It was 101 today, so I'm just wishing that Yeah, I

I'm just hoping that it's coming, Justin.

okay, well, you guys ready to play this thing?

Sure.

I hope you I hope you are.

I hope you are.

~ I don't know if either of you guys have played this game before, but let's pipe it to B1 and hopefully you guys can hear it.

~ yes.

Hey good.

~ well.

Minute cap?

It's not Minish Cap.

I have been playing that.

I I didn't choose that because I feel like that's too easy.

Let's scrub ahead a little bit.

Is it an RPG-ish?

g it's got a little of that for sure, Justin.

Yeah.

I I wouldn't call it like a traditional RPG though.

It's kinda like its own genre.

It's not Castlevania.

Okay.

I hear organs I'm gonna go there just for a second.

Scrub ahead a bit.

~ all right, so I'm gonna start giving some hints here.

~

your your first hint is that this was published by Natsume.

The developer is Victor Entertainment software.

I don't know if that helps.

Is it a tails game?

Not a tales game, no.

Okay, then I s it's Story of Seasons, right?

Or

No, ~ and

it's not like traditional RPG.

I maybe I shouldn't have said RPG.

It's it it's got

like some of those elements in it, but yeah, not I I I d

of those ~ tactical, historical, like real time strategy things that they did or turn based, whatever it was?

No, I I guess I'm gonna give

simulator of some

sort, but ~

on the right track with that, Brandon.

I missed it.

What?

s farm simulator of some sort.

Is it ~

harvest moon.

Ooh, it is Harvest Moon.

It is Harvest Moon sixty-four

in fact.

Never played it.

Yeah.

I

could have said Harvest Moon, but I didn't, so that's on me.

I was just thinking it couldn't possibly

you to

I did say story of seasons, but it didn't count 'cause that's just a sub

listen, you know the rules.

I can't read your goddamn mind, okay?

Justin said it and you did it.

~ moving along into another game that I don't know, folly sort of, I guess.

gosh, I never played this game and I always wanted to, but Lucas talked about it a fucking lot.

So ~ that's why I wanted to play it.

what Lucas talks about.

Justin knows what Lucas talks about.

~ yeah.

before you were on it.

yeah, might be.

I saw the s live streams.

Yeah, that's true.

I did see you in the lives.

That's that's really fucking true.

~ okay, I'm just trying to scrub to something that's not like I don't know why this stuff seems anime.

I don't like that.

I just don't like it.

Okay, this

one I like.

This one's a bop.

Here we go.

Well whatever this

is is not what I expected to hear.

This is very

~ very s 16 bit ish.

Yeah.

Your first hint is I know pretty much nothing about this game.

But I do know what it's telling me here in Wikipedia and that it was published by Ex Seed, ~ developed

by Neverland.

We're gonna scrub a bit.

Axeed, I should know those games.

This isn't this isn't little King's ch tale, is it?

Not Little King story.

I turned it down a little bit.

Is that too low?

it's no, it's fine.

Okay.

Here's another

trick.

Jesus.

XC did a lot of games, so I'm like

I've never even heard of X seed.

You say Xeed and all I can think of was the DDR knockoff.

~ it turns out that this is probably so the original game came out on the 3DS.

I think this might be like a remaked version of that soundtrack, just so you know.

Okay.

Alright, so it's for three D S.

~ scrubbing a bit.

Is it fantasy life?

It's not fantasy life.

~

I'm a I'm trying to find some hints here in the Wikipedia article here.

~

one.

I ~ mm.

It says this game has two protagonists that you can choose from, a male and female.

I don't know if that helps at all.

~ there's an eShop only version of this game.

Yeah, I I think you guys might be stumped here.

~ You guys want me to tell you the name here the game here?

Sure.

It is Rune Factory 4.

That's what I was gonna guess on the last one.

That was the I couldn't think of the name of it.

God Though I would have never guessed it

was Rune Factory because I've never played the games.

I just know about them and like I might want to play that

jump.

Yeah, I never would have gotten that one.

~ well Lucas gets that point, I guess.

~

This game, I think both of you have played.

I hope both of you have played.

I love this game.

I I r fire it up every time around.

Not this time, this like a little bit later.

You know, you'll see you'll get why ~ once we get the game.

But let me find something that's good.

Yeah, this one's probably fine.

So it's probably fine.

We're gonna go with this, Justin and Brandon.

Get your buzzers ready.

Here we go.

up it a little bit.

Not zombies ain't my neighbors.

Is it Esther's Quest?

There's definitely something Halloween-y about this.

It is definitely Halloween y.

his costume quest didn't come out for anything, right?

This is Costume Quest Yeah, keep out on the Switch.

s it Chaos and Quest is on Nintendo Switch.

Yeah, yeah, Costume Quest is on Switch.

I'm like ninety percent sure that's where I played it.

So yeah.

I have that on Steam though.

~

I think I first played it, ~ I think it was like maybe on

in costumes and the costumes are your weapon.

It's good.

It and

I I I think I first played it like w on a like an Xbox Game Pass type situation.

So yeah.

~ at least ~ yeah, go try it out if you if you're you're into that.

It's a fun game.

Schaefer sorta th joint, so

That mean I lost

No, right?

I lost track of the

score here.

That wasn't a million points once, right?

you got

the first one and Brandon got the this one and nobody got the middle one.

So technically y'all are tied.

~ and actually ~ I lose some points because now I'm looking it up and it looks like Costume Quest is not on the Switch.

So sorry

about that.

~ but

was like, sit there, but it's not a Nintendo system, but it sounds like Costume Quest.

But it's such a good game that included

it.

Fuck it anyways.

~ okay, well, do you guys want to do one more?

I do have one more.

Why not?

Let's see if I can break this tie.

~ this one is very brand encoded.

~ I'm not even gonna lie to you.

He though he always says that that

it's like what is this?

~

no, I'm I'm like pretty sure that this is you'll see.

~ gosh, where is a track that is not gonna be so super easy for everybody involved?

Not this one, of course.

This one's called Hollet No, this is not

Monster Hunter.

That would be that'd be a cruel and unusual punishment.

we're gonna go with this one.

Here we go.

Mm da

Ta ta da Stell's root.

Anyway.

It is not Delzerun.

Okay, it's Undertale then.

Fine.

Yeah.

It is undertail.

I I'm sorry, Justin.

This one was yeah, he I don't think he had a chance.

chance.

I've never played either of those games.

Dude, Toby Vox's music is good even if you haven't played that shit.

It's true.

Yeah, you

put it in your soundtrack.

Okay, well

Actually no.

Okay.

All right.

Well, we pulled out a Nintendo out of nowhere.

Thank goodness.

~ Brandon, Justin, I I've been playing a lot of fucking games.

So I don't know ~ about y'all.

I hope

first.

Go first.

I that's kind of what I was leading in.

So thanks, Brandon.

Appreciate you taking the bait.

~

yeah, I've been playing way too much shit.

especially since we didn't have a podcast last week because Justin

was out

~ so we kind of took a week off.

I've been playing a lot of a lot of games.

I don't remember if I said this already, but ~ I finished ~ Mina.

Mina the Hollower is done.

It's off my plate, it's finally gone.

~ I

have been but I also have been playing Mina the Hollower.

and

~ that's it's kind of a problem.

~ the I I put this save where I'm I just said

Fuck it, I don't care about achievements or whatever on this save because I've already beat it.

And you can turn on all the modifiers where I can just like walk on spikes and like not take damage.

It's like basically the heck having God mode, and that's fun.

Like just like just fucking with the game's mechanics.

Like, I don't know.

I enjoy that.

So I I'm not doing a lot of that, but like it's kind of like a palette cleanser, you know?

It's like, I just just, you know, wanna want something familiar, and I'm going and doing that.

But have

been playing Dention Attack, making slow progress in that game.

Finally beat World Three.

~ so how many world?

one three or ~ Ariot.

th I I finished I finished like w all the ones, finished all the twos, finished all the threes, I'm on four Yeah.

So

there's eight

different levels, so ~

I was gonna ask like how many there are.

I I c I'm c been calling them worlds, like Super Mario World.

Like I'm on world

world th four stage one or whatever.

that's a hell of a you got into it for a period of time, so it's

I played the hell out of it.

Not this weekend.

I think the last weekend actually is when I put the some significant time into it.

But it's fucking hella good.

It's hella good.

it told you ~ man.

you have to focus on it though.

Like you have to

You

like that's the only thing you're doing, you know.

get in the you gotta get in the zone.

It's ~

I've I found that headphones really helps too because there's a lot of like ~ audio cues for things.

So yeah.

ding before a turn and and an an obstacle,

yep.

It's

It's so good.

It hit it

hits all your senses just right.

And you're you're so right.

It is a video game ass video game.

It is just it is absolutely that.

So yeah, really super enjoying that.

Yeah,

that that's the thing.

Like you you it there's a skill level that you have to meet to play that game.

It like expects

a lot of you.

I can I would tell you my only tip for you is don't worry too much about your scores because you just want to progress so that you can get to there's a a train called the

Queen's train, something like that.

once you get that it's much easier to get the score medals and ~ go back through that.

So yeah, I know it it

And also, yeah, that's what I've been doing.

I've been like replaying the hell out of every level.

I'm up to I think roughly where you are, getting only golds.

~ and I'm just going I it's

No, 'cause like I'll be spent I'll spend like an hour like playing one level just to get like

every single little thing that's in there.

~ so

that's what's neat about this game.

There's like you can go back because I did.

I went back to like just like even the first world and like I didn't know you could do this, and then you can do that in the first world and like do like find secrets, you know?

So yeah, it's cool.

I I I'm loving this game.

~ I've been playing a lot of games.

This is this is next part of it is gonna be the humble bundle portion of the podcast.

Whoa.

I bought

a lot of games on Humble because they're cheap, you know?

So ~ I've been playing The End is Null.

it's I think it's just an indie game.

I think it was part of ~ like Venezuela Humba bundle to like help with Venezuela.

And ~ just a shit ton of indie games in that one.

This is the one that caught my eye for whatever reason.

It is less game than it is story.

So it's a lot of reading.

It's not for everybody, but it's funny.

And the pixel art is amazing.

I I really enjoy it.

So ~ yeah, I'm gonna finish that one.

But just know, not for everybody for sure.

Like if you're not up I've been playing it a lot on my Thor because that's where I feel like, you know, games like that live, like where I'm like reading things or whatever, you

know.

So I can like

close the clamshell and like pick it up later.

But anyways, yeah, that one's fun.

~ Dead Cells, also from Humble Bundle.

listen, fellas, I still got it.

On my fifth run, I made it to the end and nearly beat the boss.

so I love

I felt right off that that was on my list of roguelikes that I was told I'd like it.

And I grabbed it and mmm it's

I don't know why, but that one hit me right in the feels.

I loved Dead Cells.

Justin might remember, but I talk about that game way too much on this show already.

It's it's still good.

I ha you know what?

I never played a s

I've never played a single bit of the DLC, so I'm excited to get into that.

There's like a Castlevania DLC, there's some like other shit that I haven't touched, so yeah, I'm I'm gonna be playing that.

there's actually two.

Turtles games.

I can't remember what the other one is, but there's ~ Shredder's Revenge is the one in the Humble Bundle that I ~ bought.

and then and then I can't remember the other Turtles game.

I'll have to look it up.

But I've been No,

it's it's one of the ~ it's one I'll I'll look it up here in a in a minute.

But ~ yeah, no, it's I've been playing those two Turtles, like just beat-em-up games.

They're like basically like old school beat-em-ups, but made in the current

days if that makes sense.

~

I love those games.

I wish that I had ~ somebody to play those with.

~ I think it has like online and cross play.

So if you guys ever get ~ I would be down

I'm sorry to say.

~

well, I'm I'm a liar then.

~ but yeah, loving that.

The Splintered Fate is the other one that I've been playing.

because I I I don't know if that one came from ~ a humble bundle, but I think it was like on a sale.

So ~ yeah, been playing those both on Steam.

~ also been playing Overlord.

I think you played that not too long ago, Brandon.

It's like it's like a Pikmin like

Yeah,

it's it's evil Pikmin.

~

~ I I I again I I picked it up because it was on sale on Steam.

I picked up it was like all of the Overlord games though.

There's like this, there's Overlord 2.

I I can't rem there's like two others that I've never touched.

~ but

for a second and then like.

it did, yeah.

So I'm I'm excited to go through this and like Justin, mod the fuck out of it so I can just like God mode and just like, you know, go through if I want to.

Like I I I I since you've been talking about like doing stuff like that, Justin, it just like is sounds more appealing to me and I'm like, Yeah, why not?

I paid b paid

us old folks have to play, because we just don't have time for anything else.

True.

It's nice to be able to breeze

through something.

~

Yeah.

But the real game that I've been putting my most the most of my amount amount of time into is Minish Cap, but not in the traditional way.

There's

a ~ like an Android ~ mod that you can download that is dual screen specifically for the Thor.

~ and

it's fucking cool guys.

It's got it's widescreen, so like it fills the entire ~ Thor top screen perfectly.

Then the bottom screen is like map and

inventory.

You'd better send me that file so I can play it on mine.

~ I'll does does it have a

does it have like rewind or save states?

~ I don't know about that.

I'll have to get back to you.

I don't think so, but ~ I don't know actually.

good good question.

But ~ yeah, it's it's cool.

Minish cap is great.

I love Minish Cap and

got the map down there.

~ that's nice.

I know.

This is

why when he said ~ you know, maybe they'll do that with Goldeneye, I'm like, ~ don't make me don't make me dream of things that I can never have.

~ yeah.

~

is a pretty big thing now, so it it's very

possible that's that somebody will do that.

Yeah, the

the cool thing is it's got it's it it feels like what the Wii U and like the 3DS like Zelda games did, you know, like where you have like your map on the bottom or your

inventory

or your like settings and your items and stuff like that.

So it's cool.

It it's it it it feels right.

It feels like Nintendo should have done this in like the DS or three DS era and ~ somebody done fucking did it, you know?

know what Nintendo needs to do, especially since they own a mobile software development company, or own half of it anyway.

~

they need to do kind of like a second screen app.

I know Microsoft tried that and it failed, but you know, Nintendo

something like that for the for Breath of the Wild?

There's like a second screen thing.

yeah.

It's not

that.

With the through Nintendo Today or something like that, or through the Nintendo one of the Nintendo apps.

The yeah, that's it.

Through the Switch app.

certain pr games but it was only like ended up being like four games.

Wasn't it like a minimap?

Isn't that what it was?

~ I can't remember.

~ but Justin, yeah, d bring back smart glass like Microsoft used to do.

I I use did use the hell out of that with Titanfall.

I thought it was cool as hell.

I know Titanfall had been.

can do it, it's Nintendo.

Yeah, exactly.

~ but I think that's my list.

wait, one other thing, not game related, but I want to talk about it anyways.

~

guys, you ever heard of Linux?

I inherited a laptop and I was like, I don't know what the fuck to do with this thing.

So I I just slapped Linux on it, and it turns out I Linux is pretty fucking cool.

I put ~ Ubuntu or wait, Kubuntu.

It's like ~ a different distro, and it is like

to do this to my parents' laptop soon.

It's

It well it it it su well here's

the thing.

Like this was a kind of an older like, you know, device.

So it was like it didn't really run Windows eleven on it properly.

So I couldn't like do that with it, but I was like, well, let me slap Linux on there.

And it really it runs really good.

And ~ it's older hardware.

It honestly runs better than my Windows machine that I'm using right now.

I'm really thinking about putting it on may

making it my daily driver and just like fucking saying, go to hell Windows.

The only thing I would be missing is, you know, some compatibility, obviously.

Like I there's not a really good way to use my like Steam Decks or Stream Decks or whatever the fuck they're called.

There's like an open source project that it it doesn't work quite as well.

So I that's one

thing I would be missing out on.

And like, you know, like the Logitech Hub, like, you know, things like that.

Like just don't have like Linux versions, but it

At the same time, there's a lot of like

community driven things.

Like so it's like, I don't know.

I I think I'm gonna do it.

always a way to do it, just you might have to do more fiddling to make it happen.

~

it's it's it's one of those things where it's like that's the only obstacle for me, is I've just been so coddled by the Windows operating system that it's like,

man, there's so many things I have set up to work on this system that's like I'd have to do it all from scratch.

~

But but honestly, it it's it's so fast and snappy.

It that's what makes me want to switch.

Like I I like downloaded GIMP for whatever reason to just like have it on there.

And it ha I think they're called app images.

It's basically like a portable, like it's all in one thing.

You don't have to have like any dependencies.

~ and it it opens up so fucking fast.

When I open up GIMP on my computer, I can like set my clock to it.

It's like 15 seconds.

before I'm seeing GIMP open up on Windows sometimes.

So ~ and

it looks nice.

Put ~ Brandon, if you're inter if you really want to try it, just put

it on like a little boots USB and you can try it out for yourself.

If all you needed it for is like browsing the web, like for like your what your parents, like you said, it's

perfect for that.

It is perfect for that.

So ~

ideal use case for it is if you just want a machine to browse the web, that's the best way to go.

If you do a bunch of silly crap like I do, he

Yeah,

no yeah, exactly.

Like it I th I think I still need Windows for like some things.

also some games you can't run.

There's no Linux version of it.

It's ge that's

getting smaller, but there's a lot still.

My what I'm really thinking that I'm gonna do is like dual boot and j

but but I wanna I only have a terabyte ~ hard drive ~ M2 thing.

So

I'm been looking at like two terabytes and those things are like a thousand dollar.

~ so I don't know, it's just like it's

the obstacle

right now is a hundred percent I would like a whole other drive to do that, and I can't afford

a whole other drive right now.

~

So that's kinda where I'm at.

But ~ it runs great on this other laptop.

I'm I'm ~ maybe just gonna switch that other laptop as my daily driver, even though it's older.

But it just runs so well.

It's so snappy, it runs really good.

Love it.

Kabood too.

Highly,

highly recommend.

And for ~ for la this is my last thing before I pass the baton.

~

it it works

Like you would expect it to in that it has what what's called like a market.

So like I can just like search for Chrome on the market and then download a snap version of Chrome and then it's just like installed on my computer.

I don't have to

like fiddle with like which distro am I using or anything like that.

It has

like a marketplace, like a Play Store almost or an app store, you know?

So yeah, it's good.

Like it.

I mean like I I tell Justin, hey, if you got old Macintosh lying around, guess what?

It'd be an incredible Linux machine.

~

I'm

using an old I'm using an old Mac laptop right now, so

Exactly.

it's in it's great.

I'm I'm loving it a lot.

I don't know why I haven't done it before.

and Windows installed on it.

I think if I tried to install Linux on it, it might catch fire.

Sure.

once again, that's a shop

goodwill problem.

you can solve that easily.

Get yourself a random Intel one, yeah.

hack the world, apparently Windows is tracking everything, apparently, with like the U

UID that it sets on your shit.

So ~ Linux doesn't do that.

So that's cool too.

~ okay, well ~ who wants to talk about video games again, I guess, instead of operating systems.

~

stop this week.

~

Go ahead.

I'll take I'll I'll take anchor.

A right, alright.

Well I haven't got too much on there.

I once again Dench Attack.

Already kinda talked about it, but ~ getting gold star gold medals on everything there has been like a lot of my week.

to the point where I was just do

what is a gold medal entail again, by the way?

I I guess I never really looked into that.

you have to get a time that's gold medal, and you have to get a score that's at a certain level.

~ so you ~ basically just do the jet and you can do each of those things individually in each run.

So there could be seven dares and you could just go for one of them, or you could try and go for two of them.

So it's so

it's not Yoshi's Island style where you absolutely have to accomplish all goals

at once?

Nope.

You can ~ you can basically get that gold for everything else and then the no crash is just gonna be you playing through the level very, very carefully.

~

it has exposed me to some of the flaws in the game, which there's a f ~ there is some.

It's not a perfect game.

~ it there's a couple

There's a number of like especially boss battles.

Boss battles seem to primarily have this issue because it's it involves a lot of like moving terrain and things that needs to that like the whole level shifts for some sort of

event that's occurred.

And there's a couple of those things that that's actually a little broken.

~ there's like one where there's a bunch of billboards you gotta wall wall ride onto where

If you do anything wrong, you can just bounce off it and fall down.

~ when when those things move

fucked up.

and it's like that's clearly not intentional.

You can ~ there was one part where I just sat there like getting super pissed just because of that one spot.

But no, I I it's still great and ~ it was definitely I played it to exhaustion, so I decided to play some other games.

~ I went on to the sale f

sale page for for switch and I saw what what remains of Edith Finch for like $3.99 I think.

it's

a walking simulator.

It definitely has the vibe of yeah this might be more interesting in a VR setting but it's just a nice little three hour game that ~ is very

Very death centered, but at the same time it's sort of a weird spooky story of a cursed family.

it's it's very good how it's done and I like how quick it is.

It's just you you pop it in and it's done, but then it was just like I'm I'm done.

I did everything in this game.

Base I I I played through it I

played through it like on a Saturday.

I just I sat down for a Saturday and I played through pretty much the entire game in like one sitting with like a couple breaks for peeing and stuff.

I think like at most it was four hours, but it was just an interesting story.

It does enough variation and unique, interesting storytelling that I could say, yeah, it's a it's an interesting game if you want to pick it up.

kinda wish I picked it up of Steam and played it in VR, but ~ at least it was it was a fun day.

And the other thing was like I just said, okay, what's on ~ Game Pass that I've been looking at and ~ South of Midnight came up.

I don't know if anybody's heard of that one.

~

is I haven't played it much, but that game is cool.

It's got a good cool vibe.

It's it's the most woke thing I'm playing right now.

~ it's ~ it's starting it's yeah,

it's a lot of commentary on southern society.

Very Louisiana

mythology focused.

~

What's ~ what's the name of this game again?

South of Midnight.

~ it's just basically a a platformer.

I typed in South and that was literally the first thing Google gave me.

It's it's it feels like a Game Pass game is the only thing I'd trade off to you.

It's th there's some parts where it's like, ooh, that wasn't supposed to play like that.

~ that's gotta that was a bug.

~ but and the combat's okay, but the story's kinda pulling me in now.

~ it I it the flow's very good.

that.

The flow's very good for that game, just because it's like, okay, you got a button you can hit anytime that tells you where to go.

and it's you've got it's basically all just like doing jumps and ~ and wall rides and using your traversal means.

~ the this I I put it in easy mode though, 'cause the i

hard mode, because the combat's kind of a little 'cause it doesn't really say, okay, ~ I'm focused on this thing.

a and the other things are kind of like you

well, right?

it basically it's it's more the fact that like they throw a lot of enemies at you but they ~ but they don't do a pr good prioritization thing where you know you're focused on one

enemy, it's easy to know what the other enemies are doing to stay out of their way.

~ it's easy for like things to get behind you and stuff to happen and the way they move is a little unpredictable, so I I don't know.

That is a big part of what I'd say.

The combats definitely just put it easy.

It so you can just breeze through it and keep going on the story.

~ but it's i it

easy modes.

the the biggest problem I had is

They've got these songs that kick in when you're at key points of the story.

And it's I don't know, I was reading a lot of people say how good the music was, but it seemed like the lyrics were a little too literal to exactly what's going on.

Like it's you met this guy.

Let's I'm it's you learned his story.

Now for a song where we just repeat everything you learned about this guy and

it's not even it's not even a Japanese developer.

It's it's

Louisiana is just like it's also like and you climb in the tree and climbing the tree this rhubabk is dead and I killed him and

this to my wish list 'cause it is Steam Deck v ~ verified.

It's it definitely should be.

The animation style's a little jarring.

I'm it's kind of weird because you move ~ the the I would

I'd say like ten out of ten like world design cause it's very pretty.

~ it's very interesting sort of Louisiana swamp setting going on there.

and it's a very rural feel.

There's a lot of animals that randomly pop up as you're going through it.

And I kinda like that detail.

~ but like yeah, I was ~ the the th th anyway, going back to the music, I was really getting bugged about like chapter six of how literal the songs were that they would sing

about what was going on.

To the fact it's like there's no nuance, you're just saying what's going on and barely singing about it.

And and and that

Chronicles

X is exactly the same.

Like every time

you get into battle, there's this rap song that basically tells you the plot of the game.

I love

that song.

Hey going back, it did I was went online searching like South of Midnight, why is the music so bad?

And and like and they were like, hey, they knew that.

That's why if you go into the options, there's an option to turn off the lead vocals entirely.

should always be an option, honestly.

When whenever

be so much better now that I don't have stupid songs going on.

~

like Red Dead Redemption where the song is actually like

kind of like incorporated into the story part of it, like wanting to keep the lyrics,

but if it's gonna be playing in a loop while you're playing the game, I wanna be able to turn that off.

Yeah.

in the game

and or learned.

That's that's a little I how come some no one had notes on that is 100%

my my question on that.

~ so I was doing that.

but my apple tree fell down, so I was spending a little time fixing that as far as other things I've been up to.

~ that apple tree is fixed.

That apple tree.

Trees up and standing again.

see here.

What was

was how did it did it like blow over in the wind or something?

What happened to it?

i I mean like it's loaded.

This thing's loaded with apples.

so it's been top heavy from the start.

And it's only a five year old tree, so it's I I think it was a lot of that.

I also was trying to straighten it out because it's been like going in a direction for a while and I never did the thing where you plant a tree 'cause I'm stupid and do the straps

to keep it growing straight up.

So I did that and basically what happened is it rained for like an entire day and got stormy and that was enough that w one of

the straps pulled up and the whole tree just went down.

~ I don't know if the tree's gonna survive, honestly.

It broke a little bit in the trunk, but I'm very proud of myself for putting together the the support.

I basically did four stakes with drilled wood across each it side.

managed to get it up in there and and drill it shut and one more strap just for a slight additional pull towards where it broke.

And it's standing

straight, standing strong.

I lost a lot of apples though.

Only the biggest ones of course.

~ and but it's easily still got forty apples

on that thing, so ~

At least hopefully you saved the tree.

Hopefully.

I'm hoping.

~ but that's yeah, that's all I've been up to.

This is a very non game centric ~ episode.

games.

I'm

talking about three games.

Ha ha ha.

Linux has got games on it.

Justin, what have you been playing?

Yeah.

Well, I was on vacation for the past week, so I didn't get much gameplay time, but I did bring my ~ my Ray Neo glasses with me, got a lot

of use out of those this week.

So ~ here's my more or less final review of those.

~ they're great if you are watching something or laying down

you know, just yeah, laying down staring straight.

But if you're sit I tried sitting up and playing Mario Kart as if I was playing on a TV and the problem I found is I'm too used to sitting in front of a big TV and if I want to

see something in my periphery, turning my head.

That doesn't work when the screen

moves with you.

So on several occasions I found myself

Like with my head pointed down because I had just kind of gradually been looking at something on the bottom of the screen over and over again and my head just kept on

sinking.

So ~ it's so unlike

of what you look at, your head moves a little bit and eventually your head just goes down.

it's not like VR where there's

like a motion sensor and it holds the screen in place.

The screen is attached to your face.

So if you turn your

head, the screen turns with you.

So if you like like I said, I'll I will instinctively go to look at something Yeah, I'll go to look at something in my peripheral vision.

Yeah, so you I had

moving your that's so weird.

have to train yourself to look with your eyes because you've basically got a hundred inch TV set about ten feet in front of you, but you cannot move your head to look at it.

~ so that's a disadvantage.

those things so much that you're gonna start turning around like an MPC and just like go like this when somebody

your head

between your legs and not understand what happened.

It's

But it did come in it did come in very useful 'cause ~

you know, I can't the can't exactly monopolize the living room TV when, you know, I'm within

the entire family.

~ I played ~ I played a bit of Mario Kart.

Again, it was a little hard to do in the way that I was doing it.

~ I'll come back to Mario Kart.

does it have an adjustment to like make the TV screen sm it's just like always big?

literally just like two

like probably thumbnail sized TV screens, one one above each lens, and they hit a mirror and reflect like Pepper's Ghost style.

So

mm-hmm.

So yeah, there's absolutely no adj you can adjust the the like the brightness, the the HDR, the the

Color, temperature, stuff like that, but you can't do anything

to the size or resolution or anything like that.

So they are convenient except in certain situations.

that being said,

~ I, you know, use them quite a bit.

~ I got a lot of use out of my Steam Deck with it because all you have to do is just plug the USB for the glasses into the USB at the top of the system and it outputs.

You don't need a special adapter like you do with the switch too.

And ~ so I played ~ a bit of Red Dead Redemption two.

I think I've got it running well enough that I can actually play it on that.

Played some Grand Theft Auto four.

change your settings?

Like is it like a different resolution from the Steam Deck screen to the like output of the ~ glasses?

Yes, but the video output on the Steam Deck is a USB C and it remembers your your output.

Like it will it will communicate with with the with the with the monitor and and and and know

so if I hook it up ~ through the dock to my TV set, it knows I have a four K TV that does a hundred and twenty hertz.

~

If I plug them into my ~ glasses it knows it's a maximum ten eighty p with

VR.

You know, and I can just make adjustments to the you know, to the i i to the in-game settings from there.

~ most games I have running at about nine hundred P, ~ which is a perfectly reasonable ~

resolution it upscales nicely it looks good on the on the Steam Deck screen and the little monitors and it keeps the games running smoothly.

I one of the games that

I really wanted to play on these glasses was Ace Combat 7.

~ so I I

yeah, that sounds like the type of game.

started the game I didn't

Like, I just wanted to get right into the game, so I'm gonna have to restart it and actually watch the story part.

I just skipped right through all the story and went into the first level, and I'm like, okay, this is

pretty awesome.

~ I've never played an ace combat game, and so I was kind of afraid that it would be too complicated for me.

But ~ yeah, it's pretty fun.

They're

they're they're fun games.

My Fred had the a like back on the Xbox three sixty had the version of Ace Combat where you can like get the flight stick and I think it had like a secondary like throttle and

stuff.

played it.

~ I've got a flight stick that I I

whip out.

Yeah, I've got a flight stick for my Xbox and I actually play ~ a flight simulator with it.

Yeah, it's Y you

can probably plug that into your computer too.

Into your switch too.

You bet, that's where I got mine.

All my controllers come from there.

Shop Goodwill, theme of the show.

~ the ~

the other the only other thing that I really wanted to mention ~ is I started a Discord server today specifically

for people who like playing Mario Kart World the way that I like to play Mario Kart World, which is go into an online game and always pick a a level that is a drive to race.

And w and a there there have

to be it's the right way

to play this game.

Like Mario Kart World was not everybody's

like, it wasn't as good as Mario Kart 8.

That's because it wasn't trying to be Mario Kart 8.

It's trying to be something different, and it's good at what it does if you're not looking for it to do something else.

and I think it's really fun.

Like every time I play online

I end up like encountering these people and it's fun because you're driving like side by side through these through these places and it just feels much more social than any other

racing game I've ever played.

~ and I want to turn that into a community.

So ~ Eugene, I'm gonna send you the Discord link and you can put that in the show notes.

~ go ahead and join

if you want to play Mario Kart World online and do a lot of

just driving two location races.

~ you know, we can exchange friend codes and get a community going 'cause that's really my favorite pastime lately.

I've put so many hours into Mario Kart World just just sitting there and driving from place to place.

Yeah.

really should

just boot that back up again.

My wife liked playing that with me, so like, you know, it's I I I just I just fell off of it for whatever reason, so

Yeah, it like i i i

the game has a weird niche.

Like the fact that I I appreciate that they called it Mario Kart World and not Mario Kart Nine.

I feel like they maybe should have like may altered the title a little bit because I think people went into it expecting it to be another super Mario Kart style game.

And it is, but it's not.

Like it's definitely more of

~ Brandon, you've been playing Forsa.

Does that have a lot of does that have like races where you go from one place to another rather than doing laps around a track?

No?

Okay.

area.

But you

do have to drive there, ~ which I just do the autopilot on and let my I jeez, the autopilot in that game is fucking nuts and how it drives.

It's like a maniac.

It's like, my god, it's going so fast.

And

check the show notes, ~ that

check my Discord and and hit me up on Discord and let's try and get a community going 'cause I think ~ I think Mario Kart World needs more love

than it's been getting.

What that on Reddit I think.

It might get some might get some bites.

Well, I mean there's

a re I'm sure there's a Reddit R Mario Kart World.

~

and I'm sure there's probably a sub Reddit of people who who like to play it like I do.

Reddit is a is a wild place.

~ but

I mean, Mario Kart

World is still it's sold a shit ton, so people are playing it, you know, so

Yeah, I just ever

everybody I talk to every like personally is like, I didn't like it.

Yeah, I I went back to Mario Kart eight.

I'm like, really?

Because once I got used to Mario Kart World, I I tried playing Mario Kart eight the other night or last night and it takes a huge adjustment.

Like even the physics are are are a little like slippery.

not to grind on things and

No, that's another thing.

Like I've gotten I've been

practicing ~ grinding and and wall

riding in Mario Kart World and I was doing ~ the sweet Sunday whatever it is the the the the track and ~ I noticed on the last curve about five carts were wall riding the side of

the track and I'm like I didn't even know you could do that

Is that an advantage?

So I went back to free roam and started practicing that.

And that's the great thing.

Again, you go if there's a part of a track that you are struggling with, you go into free roam, you go to the track, you try it, you hit down on the D-pad, it rewinds it, you try

it again.

Like it it's such a

found most of my fun in free roam.

Free roam is fun.

It's just like cool.

Like it

if free it's not Breath of the Wild, but for what it

for for being an open world Mario Kart with exploration, it I think it does it pretty well.

~ and

I know I've been raving about this game for for months now, but like I I I've reached a point where

of it.

I need to find more people who like this game.

~

Sure.

but

Really wants to play more.

it for my change the system this week.

Cool.

~ I heard that the best way to train ~ with the ~ the rails or whatever on Mario Kart is to play dench attack.

So you should go look into that.

a lot of grinding and dench attack.

I will I will get denched attack eventually.

~ we are the biggest denge attack supporters here and I've had a

ha ha.

for a you know, like twenty percent or more sale.

Especially since I just paid full price

for the Marvel Maximum Collection or whatever because I wanted to

because I wanted to play those sixteen bit Spider-Man games that I never actually played when when they were new and hot.

You know, the maximum carnage and separation anxiety.

I I wanna try that Marvel fighting game that came out, Tolkien or Token or whatever the fuck it's called.

~ that seems ~

heard of that one, but yeah it's

Huh I have never heard of this.

anyways.

I it like just came out.

Yeah.

it sounds pretty cool.

~

I'm gonna have to go check it out, I think.

I I don't know if there's like a free-to-play way to try it, but if not, I might have to spend a few bucks.

~ but that's about it.

I think it's time to go.

we've all talked about the games we've been playing and we've ~ made it to the end of the show.

So let's say fuck eyes.

Fuck Trump,

~ for sure.

~ yeah, please, Justin, give us the

guys.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I say that one more time actually.

I'm gonna clip it.

good grief.

Hang on.

Okay.

Fuck ice.

That was a little too close to the mic there.

Fuck ice!

not bad.

yeah.

~ yeah.

Say ~ yeah, so good.

I'm gonna clip

that.

I'm gonna use that on my soundboard ~ next week.

You watch.

~

okay, well, we did it.

so we'll see you guys next week for another episode.

Adios and bye.

Trust the fungus.

Peace out and make sure you get out and vote.

Jesus Christ.

Play Mario Kart with me.

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