827 – Mario Kart Tour Fades, Retro Pokémon Home, & Rejected Zelda Ganondorf Game

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Infendo Radio.

It is episode 827.

~ we got dogs, we got Marios, we got ambiance.

~ so yeah, it's we got a show.

~ that we got all three things that are necessary for a podcast, apparently.

~

Been a few weeks, ~ 'cause I was not here last week.

So I figure we're gonna have lot of stuff to talk about.

So let's just start talking about stuff.

~ did you guys wanna do the news first?

Or did you guys wanna t to take a detour and talk about the fun stuff that you've got like building up behind you guys?

Like I said, I'll I'll let you guys take the the take the the pick, dealer's choice.

Retro GameCon twenty twenty six?

May as well.

that's news.

That's news.

It was fun.

Yeah, I was

saying Brandon, you

you may as well go first since you were there for the whole weekend.

I yeah, I i they had a pretty good ~ pretty decent showing this time.

lot of good decisions where they have the arcade, ~ little things along the way.

Pretty good.

~ it was a great, great showing.

I mean they had I c I don't even want to go over the whole list of people, but we had James Rolfe, A V G N, ~ we had ~ my god.

Did I put this up in a tab in case?

Yes I did.

we had ~ Grand Hurt though, Kirk Hope, which ~ unfortunately Justin missed out on.

Uh-oh.

~ We had and I saw a good panel with the ~ with the retro with the rare people.

Or three

rare people there this year.

~ they did a panel where they d discussed a lot of ~ interesting stuff, things such as they really thought the Donkey Kong design was ugly.

And Nintendo just sorta rolled with ~ you did it again, Juss.

~

What did you do?

We I thought we troubleshot this d beforehand.

in This is very awkward.

I hear myself in an echo.

me too.

We did this at the start last time and then he couldn't hear me to know that he he's I'm not sure

if he's hearing us now.

~ what now?

What now?

~ Justin?

Yeah,

now we don't hear each other he hear ourselves.

Doug, you are

Justin, say something.

~

Mm mm.

What'd you do the last time?

Do that again.

Might have to d end the call for yourself, Justin, and ~ come back like, you know, refresh the page or something.

hands.

Can Justin hear us?

Thumbs up if he can hear us.

Okay.

Justin can hear us.

go on.

But yeah, no, they had some things like they Nintendo really just liked it 'cause they thought it looked futuristic and the spit curl hair and everything just kept going.

hold on a second.

They they didn't like the design of ~ Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong?

~ they they were originally.

interesting.

Hmm.

put it in they th they he did it as quick as he could and he handed it over and their only thing was, Can you add a tie?

And apparently

that was it and like that was the Donkey Kong design for Stuck for like two decades and he was always weirded out.

They talked a lot about the how how a lot of them were honored by seeing their characters show up again in ~ Donkey Kong Bonanza.

~

They th there's a lot of stuff that wa the discussion how they came up with the music and it's just like, You feel like that all took a long time.

No, they were like banging it out as fast as they could, so

Sure.

The ~ that surprises me 'cause that like you said, that design is just so iconic, but I guess it's iconic because that's what they gave us, you know?

So like that's just kind of what stuck.

It's ~ there was a lot of people ~ over there.

~ pa pa pa.

MJ's Rolf.

~ but

I got my ~ well I lost it.

Hang on I was gonna show off there we go I got my Banjo Kazooie cartridge signed by Grant Kirkhope

Nice.

I also got a ~ Chris Sutherland signature on this.

I forgot to bring my Donkey Kong Country cartridge with me, which makes me sad, but

They do as a bomber.

Got that's

~ do signing stuff or did you have to pay to ~ get in line to like

was a pay signature thing and

~ everybody always has

some sort of fee for

only time I saw it without any ~ payment was in the first one or two years.

~

James

Rolf was just signing anyone that would anything anybody gr gave to him.

~ and pretty much all the other people too.

~ yeah, as far as things signed, I got ~ dog dog.

~ I

Yeah, no, she's she's laying nearly on my burrito.

~ I got Justin gave me this and I got signed by Grant Her Grant God damn it, this is why I brought it up.

~ Grant

Kirkhobe and Kevin Bayless.

~

who is Kevin Bailey?

See here.

See.

~ Kevin Bayless, he's the guy who designed Donkey Kong.

Okay.

And Diddy Kong.

~ As well as he was basically the ~ the design guy.

~ so he made the character art and all that stuff.

~ I also got ~ I also sorry I'm cheating.

I also got Jennifer Hale to sign my ~ Bayonetta 3.

She was the voice of Bayonetta.

That's cool.

in three, not the other two games.

the I got ~ Ellie Hillis, the voice of Palatena, to sign my ~ Kinniker's Uprising.

~

yeah.

She was very ha she was like s I guess not enough people show up about this.

most people are like her mass effect work, but ~

~ yeah, that would make sense 'cause that's the more popular but yeah.

it was it w she really liked that recording again.

She was so nice, so nice.

She was very sweet.

to say about Jennifer Hale, wasn't she a voice in Halo at one point?

I thought she was like Cortana or somebody.

I don't think so.

Yeah, she was Femme

Chep.

She was Fem Shep.

That's why she was there.

~ I

met Mark Meir outside, who's the voice of the male chef.

So I guess I met them both.

The other one I didn't have to pay for.

~ he was just outside

having a smoke.

~

David Bateson,

the hit the Hitman guy.

~ see here.

I don't

the cool people.

I got I got ~ I got the James Rolfe angry video game nerd to sign my board James Blu-ray.

the the two two or three guys from rare.

Other than that I didn't I didn't go out of my way.

disappointed I go to the after party every year 'cause on the off chance that there's gonna be some really notable people hanging out there.

Ever since the Voice of Solid Snake showed up drunk and ~

there's a bunch of stuff going on there.

~ we had ~ see here, but that was the not the best after party, but I did get ~ a good drink a draw of the Toxic Avenger ripping off ~ a Nazis arms.

~ and

And I got a signature from both of the headliners that night.

~ Schaefer the Dark Lord and MC Lars.

So

they both approved.

as far as other stuff I got, it was ~ I got a new Gundam.

I got the I've a I've kinda looked for this one.

This is a fun one from G Gundam.

the Master Gundam.

It doesn't have his horse.

That's okay.

It's nothing not to love about a giant robot that has a giant robot horse.

~ I I ~

I didn't really buy anything this weekend except for except for this little 3D printed mini Mario.

And I dropped him.

Nope.

Okay, good.

Unlike all of my Ghostbusters equipment, which broke over the course of the day, I think I'm pretty much done ~ cosplaying as a Ghostbuster because it's just so cumbersome.

There's so much crap.

~ so

probably have more

fun.

It's it it is a lot to be a cosplayer at the same time.

I've noticed that.

I have contracted a friend of mine to help me make a ~ Mario ninety three movie costume for the next convention, so

Ooh, that would be way more fun.

So you're gonna have the jump boots and the ~

I don't I don't know how I don't know how I'll do the boots but ~ the the red and the red and blue suit, the red suit with the blue collar and patches and all that, that's that's

what I'm gonna do.

And of course

The only other stuff I got is Nintendo Power.

~ the 2008 I got

for?

between twenty and ~ This one was supposed to be how much?

~ $15.

I got them down to 10.

~ basically I just did

the near the end I grabbed these three stunt race FX.

Yeah.

and oop and hybrid heaven.

~ the hybrid heaven one.

Okay.

So Yeah, this

is ninety-nine.

~ this one's

in a box somewhere that I hope still exists and didn't get st donated to goodwill or something.

bunch in a box somewhere in my mother's house, but I no longer have them.

what I'm

that's what I'm hoping didn't happen to mine.

I need

eBay and replace one or two of my more cherished ~ issues, like the three hundred page issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly with with Doom on the cover.

Mm, mm, mm.

Nice.

much all of my other stuff is gone.

for SNES.

~ got that for twenty bucks.

~ so not not much of a shopping year.

did you spend the entire ~ con?

Dare I ask?

I probably spent if if you add up all of the things that I had signed and the mini Mario, I probably spent about a hundred bucks.

Which is yeah,

it's not bad for me.

Right, yeah.

let's see here I probably I mean that for a hint, by the time I was done with all the signatures my my card locked because they thought fraud was going on and I had to call

them up.

time I tried to buy something.

It's so annoying.

He was like, what the fuck?

What's I g I don't know.

Yeah, no, I spent a lot

on my re on my I cause Angry Video Game Nerd, I also got a t-shirt for Monster Madness.

~

and say along with the

along with the Blu-ray, along with the along with the signature, along with the ~ meet greet picture.

So that was my biggest one.

That was my biggest one by far.

That one's a gift for a guy at work.

So ~

because I've got like three four things signed because he didn't charge for signing back then.

He just whatever he would sign it.

~

did he charge this time?

yeah, he charges, ~ But I mean he was the most reasonable he was the most reasonable of

anything for him to sign, but I remember meeting him at ~ the second or third retro game con and yeah, I just walked right up, got a picture with him and that was it.

There was no Yeah.

Yeah.

It was like basically

n he liked it when he bought something from his swag and just did

it.

he's still a good guy.

we chatted about 'cause I was wearing a ~ a mo a Joe Bob Briggs last drive-in shirt.

We had a big long chat about ~ the upcoming last ~ season and the last episode before the the whole sh series is closed.

~ and

Bunch of other stuff.

I told him, hey, I remember you when you were first coming over here.

He's Yep.

I was like, I liked your movie.

I liked it.

And he actually liked that.

He actually liked that.

I was like sitting there.

I don't care that it's not perfect.

I care that you did it.

Yeah.

Yeah, th they had a a

showing of of the angry video game nerd movie at what, the second retro game con?

Yeah.

think it was yeah, the second one ~ was basically we all got to sit and watch the whole thing and then he ha answered questions afterwards.

So yeah.

It's been a long time.

It's

crazy to think that was like ten years ago.

Ten years later,

James

Ralph is back.

~

And I'm still doing

this podcast.

~ for our we have like ~ a little small Comic Con, but we there's like nobody near as big as that.

Although

this upcoming one, ~ unless he dies first, apparently ~ Anthony Daniels is gonna be there.

So I'm gonna try and go and get a signature.

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

~

I was gonna say I don't know if I've met anybody from Star Wars, but that's not true.

I met Warwick Davis and ~ and Peter Mayhew.

that's sick.

Warwick Yeah.

tw that

was about twenty years ago.

Yeah,

cool.

~

But anyway.

Yeah, that was pretty much my

retro game card.

It was a lot of stuff.

I didn't win anything in the raffles, nothing fun, crazy.

I didn't do any competitions.

They didn't ha they haven't done the star the star ~ I think because there's one kid who was like way too intense on it.

The ~ the Star Fox ~ championship cart.

They used to do that every year, but either A, the people who used to run

it ~ don't run it anymore or disbanded and or th the last time there really was this one kid who was like hyper focused on beating everybody.

I only got second.

was not that hyper focused.

I I was just having a good time.

~ but no it's

It sucks because my prize that year was a copy of the Star Fox championship card.

So I was planning on trying to win the next year and then they stopped doing it altogether.

It's like, damn it.

Man, if you'd won that you might

actually have a a game rarer than mine.

Nah, I don't think that that was the case.

I forget what the first prize was exactly.

~ no, they had a repro cart of Star Fox 2.

~ that that they were go giving out for that.

So I just wanted first place for once after doing it for seven years.

The the ~ I would always go in thinking that I'm gonna beat everybody and then just some like like some kid or some old dude always gonna walk up and like just school everybody on

like killer instinct or whatever they have as the competition.

So yeah.

I know how that goes.

Usually it's some fighting game when it's when they have something like that at the Albuquerque Comic Con.

I don't bother with any of the Smash tournaments.

I consider the

Mario Kart tournaments, but God help me, I can never get it's always like right at the start when doors open, and I typically can't get there till like eleven or twelve.

So it's

it I never get to do the Mario Kart tournaments.

~ but

I would get smoked in that too.

never taken part in any of the tournaments.

I don't think I'm good enough at any game to want to put myself in front of an audience and

I d it was the the fighting

games are particularly where I'm like, absolutely not, no way in hell.

no.

I

I I used to think I was good at fighting games, then I actually played against people who play fighting games and I realized I'm terrible.

No, I've

not I've never done frame counting in my life.

~

Yeah.

If they can pull out like competitive boom blocks, I'm in.

But otherwise,

yeah.

There we go.

That's that's what they need to bring next year.

Anyway, that's pretty much all I got.

that needs a switch remaster.

Hundred percent.

They can do it with the the with the w sports game.

They can do it with boom block.

Steven Spielberg take note.

~

before you he dies too.

How old is he?

~ don't look that up.

okay, well speaking of things dying, ~ Mario Kartur is going offline.

~ so

that fucking sucks.

~ not that I played it, but it's still it still sucks that.

I'm sorry.

Yeah,

I I played it a l a little bit, not nearly as much as I've played Super Mario Run.

~ I'll still boot that up occasionally.

But ~ yeah, it is kind of a shame to s yeah.

too.

Nope, that's still that's still running.

You can still play it, you can still compete with your friends on it and everything.

Wow.

Yeah, I don't know why I don't know how that's still going and everything else is shut down.

You'd think that, you know, if anything, Mario Kart would still go.

is still going strong and it's because it there's ~ I think it's probably

because it's not free to play.

It's you actually have to pay to play the actual game, so they actually make direct money.

But yeah, Mark, I I hope that they do something, you know, like release the tour exclusive tracks on something.

Like I know a bunch of them are on Well, no, I I know a bunch

of them are on Mario Kart eight, but not all of them.

There aren't there still tracks that are exclusive to tour?

I don't know enough about Tor to tell ya.

~ I'm sure you're right.

~ some

archivists will figure it out.

As I've done with everything else.

Whoop.

~ UG.

Sorry, muted.

~ they moved some to eight, right?

Like

you said, but not all.

Maybe they'll

I feel like that's ~ you're probably an eight, you're playing all of the best ones they put out.

So

I I at least one of them's still in ~ still in world, so that ice cream land is from tour, so I wish they did I w yeah.

That's that

I thought it was ~ s similar to the one from Tour but not the same.

I think all the ones there are from Tour are similar to Tour but that's but

Anyway.

~ excuse me.

I hate I hate seeing these Nintendo mobile games shut down 'cause

news that you can

see your stat ratings up until twenty twenty seven.

That's it.

Yeah.

Well, ~ okay, well, we're gonna move on to other news.

~ it's Pokemon though.

So we're gonna be talking about Pokemon Home.

~ this is ~ I don't know the whole backstory here, but like I know that Nintendo

shut down some Pokemon thing.

I think it was Pokemon Bank, if I remember right, pr recently.

~ and then

one.

I was

yeah, ho Pokemon Bank is like what Pokemon Home replaced, I think.

Yeah, but

what that did was it stopped the ability for some of the older games to be able to transfer into, you know, because they I think Fire Red and Leaf Green could only go into

bank for some reason.

I need Steve.

~ he's my pocuspedia.

But anyways

you the breakdown.

It's cause it is really complicated.

So originally you could tr

Originally you could transfer the Game Boy games into the Game Boy Advanced games via Leg cable, because it was the same Leg cable between GBA and and the original.

~ and then from there wait, no, that wasn't it either.

They used the infrared that was built into the Game Boy colors.

my god.

could transfer

yeah, you could transfer into Game Boy Advance and then from there they ~ you were able to

with

all their fucking weird technology.

then when you moved up to the DS generation.

Good thing it had a Game Boy Advance slot on the bottom, because that's how you did it there.

And then you would move up to the 3DS through a wireless transfer.

~ and then from there, you would have to do a million steps to get a Pokemon from Yeah.

It 3DS

they introduced Pokemon Bank and that allowed you to put it in a single place.

~

And give them to your newer games.

in the nineties when all you had to do was just plug a game genie onto onto your cartridge and you could have any Pokemon from any game.

but now those would be considered non-legit, Justin.

They would they have little numbers.

I I've already given you, so I'm pretty sure if you have a Mew, you have a very illegal Mew in Pokemon.

And a Mew too.

They're both illegal.

~ And ~

think you gave me a j a Jirachi and a Celebi too.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was a month where I discovered Pokemon ROM hacking and ~

Yeah.

I everyone was just asking me for very specific Pokemon and I would make them for them.

~ that was But any but

moving on, this allows them to go straight from fire red leaf green without any jumps, hops or otherwise, straight up to whatever the next Pokemon game

is coming up.

So something cool for

version of Fire Red and Leaf Green.

You still can't get kick you still can't get them off of your cartridge.

Yeah, that probably should have been from the start.

At this point you still have to do all the shenanigans to get all the way up to that.

And even then, I'm not sure if Pokemon Home would work on the 3DS copies of the game.

So ~ I think yeah,

I don't know.

I don't know, because basically most of the modern ones you had to use the Pokemon Bank to get into the newer games.

Now it's Pokemon Home.

I don't think 3D SKs would support that.

So it goes into a Yeah,

this is this is a lot.

And I I'm worried that if we had Steve, it would only get more convoluted from there.

So it it it's this is my

the best of my understanding from friends who really like Pokemon.

~ so ~

this is so funny because the ~ I don't I I don't know what it's called.

I think it's called like open home or something like that.

But like after Nintendo shut everything down, there was like or maybe even before, but there was like an alternative that like popped up like, Yeah, here's like a way to do this

that the community came up with.

So I wonder if that it was a reaction to that, but ~ yeah.

there's been a lot of different services that have been popping up to do this job.

Which is surprising, especially

since they're free and fan run.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

so that's yeah.

Yeah, that's I guess that's great news for people who bought Pokemon Fire Red and League Green and gotten some Pokemon that they always wanted, and now they can actually move

those into other games, which they could not do previously.

Mm-hmm.

very mad.

Yeah.

But Nintendo, come on.

Why we'd why we make it things so complicated.

~ that's what Ubisoft said too, apparently, because Nintendo said they could not make a game starring Ganondorf.

Wha What do we make of this?

hey this was happening but guess what?

Nothing's coming of it.

~

Yeah, there's ~ apparently Ubisoft was making with the ~ Mario and Rabbits dev a game based in ~ Legend of Zelda

universe.

Yeah, they were trying to.

~ and then but Nintendo insisted that they

~ make the main character Ganondorf.

Which sounds like an interesting game, but my I guess in twenty twenty four they showed the prototype of what the game would be to Nintendo and they kinda said nah.

And said nah.

And they passed on that.

~ but yeah.

I wanna see video of that in twenty years when that pops up somewhere.

Do you think they filmed it?

I don't know.

But Ubisoft not doing too good right now.

~ they feel like the next they feel like the

next one is shutter, honestly.

In twenty years Ubisoft won't exist and some ex employee's gonna ~ dump something from their hard drive, you know what I mean?

So yeah.

~ okay, well that

for somebody to leak the ~ the Conqueror sixty four ROM before it got switched over to Bad Fur Day.

We got Dinosaur Planet recently.

it well the the the it's funny they talked about that in the panel.

~ and what they were saying was the Conquer's b the original Conquerors version is what turned into Banjo Kazooie.

~ they were doing a conquer

Banjo

Kazooie was already out like before Conquer

they had been working on Conquer for a while for Game Boy g games and stuff like that.

So they were planning on him being the next 3D mascot.

And basically what happened is that turned into Banjo Kazooie.

They also had a lot of fun stuff up They did also

verify that video going around of Project Dream is real.

That is their working prototype.

~

ever play that Conquer Game Boy game?

That's what I was expecting ~ Bad Fur Day to be, and then it was so different.

Yeah,

I played a

little bit of it and just couldn't get into it.

Just basic, yeah, is yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

like ~ they their comment on Conker's Pad Fur Day because somebody has a what was going on there?

It's like that was by a different team that they ~ w the heads poked their heads on, they watched what they saw, they laughed their ass on and said just keep going.

And they did until they made that game.

And Nintendo Desperate for Anything on N64 just took it.

So Then I guess we'd need more mature stuff, Tarok did fine.

~ Yeah, no

it's always a shame, but yep, that's pretty much it.

That's our news.

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

Well, I do have a Nintendo prepared, but I'm gonna pocket it for next time 'cause we're already kind of going long.

Plus, I feel like since we have ~ a couple of weeks worth banked, I feel we're gonna have a lot to talk about games wise.

At least I have more to talk about than usual, I would say.

~ believe it or not.

But yeah, Justin, Brandon, ~ which one of y'all wants to go first?

Or maybe you all want to let me go first.

What do you say?

I don't know.

You feeling generous today?

Yeah, go ahead.

first.

Alright, cool.

Well, I'm gonna talk about the boring stuff first.

~ I've been I was on vacation last week, so I took my like ~ my Thor and I played a lot of Mina the Hollower because I don't know, I that just feels like a game that I like play on

that system and so I I I beat Mina the Hollower again, but it was on like the second quest where I like turned off

everything I can walk over pits I don't take any damage like I'm pretty much a god that was fun to play that game that way actually ~ just ~ with no stakes just seeing the almost

just seeing the story even but yeah that

game is it's still fun me and the Hollower is cool ass game ~ I recommend it highly

I also played a lot of typing of the dead because ~ it worked on my laptop.

I was like, I wonder if I can fire this up.

And it worked.

~ it just just fucking worked.

and yeah, that game is really cool.

And it ~ was kind of almost better on my laptop because it was like the screen was right there and the keyboard was right here.

So

the dead setup over at Retro GameCon, just so you know.

And I thought of you.

~

I it's a really fucking good game.

I don't know why I like like it.

It's ~ I I I type a lot for my job and now I'm turning that into a game.

So I don't

know, I guess maybe I don't know, it's just for me.

those games are fun.

~ no, I'm not good at touch typing.

I hate typing on like my Android phone or like an iPhone or whatever, if that's what you're talking about.

No, bad at that.

typing means you can tell what the keys are without looking at your hands.

And you can type

i isn't that what isn't that what typing is?

That's that's what I mean.

That's that's that's how you type.

Do most do people have to go like this?

My old boss at my old job did ~ type

am weirdly fast

at l not at all following how you're supposed to use a keyboard.

Funny in that ~ we were always taught to look at the screen, not your hands, but I always look at my hands and not the screen, and yet I can always tell when I make a mistake.

So

In sixth grade, we were taught ~ we were required to take a keyboarding class.

And it was keyboarding with ~ these old typewriters.

~ but it was not a typewriter, it was a word processor.

You guys remember word processors?

~ it was like just a fucking for if if you're not a hundred years old like us, it it's a basically a go.

with the screen.

Yeah, a typewriter will, but not a typewriter because you type all your things and then you push go and then it just prints it out.

It's not like a traditional typewriter where you type A and then the A happens and then you're like, fuck, I meant to type S and you're fucked and you gotta get a new piece of

paper.

~ anyways

Yeah, I don't exactly know what that is.

How big was the screen?

Like one or two lines or

~ yeah, it was like ~ probably like three lines that you can see on the screen and you can like scroll up and down or whatever.

Yeah.

But ~ yeah, you were we you know, we had to no, actually if actually I'm wrong.

The ones that we use were vertical now that I think about it.

They were like portrait.

So it was you could actually see quite a bit of a lot.

But anyways, that's not the point.

is.

That I kinda wanna see what that looks like.

But anyway

I'm gonna have to I'm gonna

have to go look ~ look up the one that I was using in middle school and sixth grade if I can find it.

But that's not the point.

The point is that they the the teacher put tape on all the keys.

So we didn't know what the fucking keys were.

We had to like learn because like there was tape on the fucking keys.

So that's how we learned how to type, you know, like

to us, Justin.

Yeah, we were forced.

So that yeah, that's how I learned how to type.

Anyways, I don't know where I was going with that.

Typing of the dead.

~ yeah,

it's good.

thank you, sixth grade ~ keyboarding instructor, for making me good at typing.

You're definitely dead by now, though.

You were about a hundred years old when I gradu when I was in sixth grade.

So may you rest in peace.

~ okay,

what else have I been playing?

I've been playing a new game.

It's called Well Dweller.

~

I've heard about this one.

~

it's been getting a lot of ~ praise.

And it was like i on Steam, like it had one of those early if you buy it in the first like two weeks, you can get it for like twenty five percent off or whatever.

And I was like, well, cool, I'm gonna get it for fifteen bucks instead of ~ twenty.

It's like a really cheap game, but it's really good.

It's like ~ it's I don't even know how to describe it.

It's kind of a lot of people are ~ are describing it as like ~ a ~

What's that fucking game with ~ Hollow Knight?

Hollow Knight Light.

But I it's not I never really got into Hollow Knight, because it was too hard.

It's just like brutal.

This game is not as hard.

It's pretty forgiving.

The premise is and it's perfect for Halloween because it's spooky.

You start the game inside of a skull, and ~

you are a ~

Bird.

~ you're a baby and you have all your baby bird brothers.

The premise of the game is like it starts out with like the little story crawl or whatever.

~ I don't remember it's like a queen or some somebody killed all the birds.

The princess killed all the birds.

There's literally no birds left in the entire planet.

You are you and your b little brothers are the last birds alive and your mother, and you're on a

quest to, you know, go do shit.

~ and ~ to go do shit you have like ~ a matchstick.

So ~ it's pretty cool because your your health is dictated by how ~ much light you have on your matchstick.

Like there's also like a health bar, but like it's you know visually indicated on the character.

So I like stuff like that.

Like I think Dead Space did that with like, you know, the health on the like the back of the person's thing.

It's you know, so I I appreciate stuff like that.

But anyways, yeah, it's really fun.

It's ~

It's like a side scrolling, ~ Castlevania-like almost.

~ yeah, I guess I would it's it's definitely a Metrovania because I've had to go back to new areas after I've gotten certain abilities.

So it's definitely that.

~ highly recommend it.

~ really fun.

It's funny.

It's it like actually makes me laugh.

So ~ yeah.

Well dweller.

~ I think there's a demo on Steam even.

So if you wanted to go check that out, go check it out.

But yeah, it's really fun.

A great art style.

~ all right.

~ I want to toss the baton to whoever wants to take it next.

~ Brandon Justin Br Justin had his mouth open and was about

to take it, so I think we might as well.

I may as well just get mine out of the way because I've pretty much mostly, almost exclusively been playing Grand Theft Auto for ~ smattering of little things here and

there, but nothing really new.

So I'm still trying to get my custom soundtracks to work.

~ I installed

a bunch of songs and when I go to play them I get this electronic screeching noise.

So I've been trying to trouble troubleshooting.

format, damn it.

I I've tried changing the format, I've tried changing all sorts of things.

So ~ yeah, again

again, ask ask me why I hate PC gaming, but the the game the the game looks great and plays great, so yeah.

qu do this at all on consoles, so well I guess ~ actu

much like other than the other games that I typically pick up and play, that's the only game that I've been putting a whole lot of time into.

I'm still doing the chronological three-story playthrough.

~ just started ~ the ballad of gay Tony last night.

So now I have all three characters ~ juggling, and it's just a matter of

Alright, going to chat GPT.

Alright, I just finished this mission.

Who sh which which game should I be playing next?

And I'll go through

Ballad of Gay Tony DLC for four, if I remember right?

Is that how that worked?

and the lo and the something damned it Well it is lost a damned.

That's a motorcycle game one.

I started playing the the vanilla GTA four, and then when I got to a certain point in the story, ~ I have to s I have to switch over to the Lost and Damned to introduce Johnny

because

there's a mission early in the game where Johnny and Nico, you know, join forces, so I have to play that from both sides.

And then I just did the bank robbery, which ~ happens while Luis from The Ballad of Gay Tony is in the bank.

So I did the bank robbery as Nico and now I just started playing Luis.

It's a whole big complicated mess, thank God for AI.

But ~ but it's fun.

It it it's

it's

It definitely makes the game feel a little more like GTA five when you when you do it that way.

I g yeah, true, 'cause you're s that's maybe the inspiration.

Mm-hmm.

Story beats that require use

of one character or the other.

Why what was the reasoning for playing it ~ on PC?

Are you doing mods?

Yeah.

yeah,

it was ~ both the mods and the save editor.

~ basically I just wanted to make the game as quick and easy as possible.

So, you know, I enable god mode

and max ammo and stuff like that so that I can play through the missions and not have to replay the missions over and over again if I fail them.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

also ~ the the PC version runs better on you know like like on the Steam Deck or on a computer or whatever because it's a you know like twenty year old game and I'm running it

on modern technology so it looks really good.

Like I can get a pretty decent ~ resolution and frame rate out of it, whereas if I play it on the Xbox three sixty, it's still only rendering in like

I don't know, 540p, maybe 720p.

Yeah.

And everything was blurry and and everything.

Yeah, so it definitely looks a lot better

on PC.

And I'm able to, you know, install

mods.

So I've got the weapon and radio wheel from GTA 5 ~ in it.

And there was one other mod that I that I added that

yeah, you mentioned that like the radio wheel and it's th I guess little quality of life things make it nicer, so

that I that I added.

I can't remember what it was though.

And eventually once I get the ~ once I get the the mods running on my Steam Deck, I'm eventually going to play ~ Ghostbusters the video game again, 'cause it's been a few

ge been a few years since I've played that and I I love it.

gonna run awesome on the frickin' s Steam Deck.

I've already I've already played it.

~ I've I downloaded ~ visually enhanced ~ cutscenes so that, you know, it looks clear

and and

Bas basically what I need to do is figure out how to max out my ~

the money at the beginning of the game so I can buy all the upgrades from the get go.

Cause, you know, otherwise you have to kinda

grind through it, but

Sure.

that's what I just like doing I yeah,

no, that's just a fun playthrough.

~ I r yeah.

Yeah, ~

yeah, maybe ten.

Yeah, it's a w what are you talking about?

Wait, what are you talking about?

Are we I thought we were still talking about Ballad of the Gate Toad ~ sorry.

I thought we were still

talking about the the DLCs.

It's my bad.

I zoned out apparently.

Yeah, Ghost I I plan on replaying Ghostbusters the video game at some point b in the next few weeks.

It's just a matter of getting the mods and stuff to to work on it, right?

an easy mode.

It's ~ it is nice to have all

the upgrades though.

I still will like the Ghostbusters, the Wii Ghostbusters.

That one was always fun because, I don't know, I just always liked Wii versions of games where they did something cool and they kinda did some cool pointer stuff

with the Wii game, so

See here.

I played eleven hours.

funny, I haven't

I've played a little bit of the Wii game.

~ I I want to

play the PS two version 'cause the PS two version is basically the Wii game without the waggle controls.

Yeah.

~ I should I should really ~ emulate that

'cause Yeah.

Yeah.

system for that probably.

They then it has more of the cartoon aesthetic.

~ and cell shading more.

Which I don't

know.

I don't know.

~ I'm not sure which is the better of the two 'cause I played both and I feel like the Wii one didn't really leave an impression on me, but Ghostbusters by then I had a system more

powerful than a three sixty.

definitely the the three sixty PS three PC remastered, you know, whatever, that that was definitely the the definitive version.

361 was definitely the better one.

And I played the hell out of that for the achievements too back in the day.

So yeah.

Yeah.

Cool.

Before Justin, you're done, right?

Before I steal it and tyke it to Brandon.

Before I toss it to Brandon, I'd wanna

No.

I just disgusted.

mention that the game that I was talking about, Well Dweller, I forgot to mention, it's a Game Pass game, too.

So if you have Game Pass, get check it out.

Noted.

Noted.

I have been looking for a new ~ Game Pass game to play because ~ I ~ just finished Alan Alan Wake.

I I I finished that game.

I

and I got to the d the ending of it and I was like, Is there something else I need to do?

That is

and and like, nope, that's the ending as it turns out.

I had to look it up.

It was like, No, there's only one ending.

But if you spent all the time reading the manuscript, it might mean something different.

And I'm like

don't remember the ending at all, but for some reason I remember it just being like a big white area or something like that.

Is that right?

Or am I absolutely off base?

i I I I don't wanna spoil anything, but ~ I it seems it seems

like you won and then it didn't.

So the end.

and I was like, Maybe I got the maybe

I got the bad ending and like, nope, nope that's just the ending.

it's

they gave ya.

But honestly it's like yeah, I also have not been playing many video games.

I guess I was gonna throw in that ~ got more street passes at Retro Game Con than I got ~ the entirety of ~ Yeah, I I

got I I think I got a good thirty, forty ~ street passes there, so that was good.

That

got moved me a couple more notches on the ~ on the puzzles that I have left.

Manage to finally complete the Kirby Planet Robobot one.

~ and there's like I guess a Metroid Prime Federation Force and some other thing that I can't even identify.

~ maybe it's a Fire Emblem thing, but ~ Yeah, no, I did that.

work now?

Do you they do they just give you the puzzle pieces that you're missing when you get a street pass or

you always had the you can walk and spend your coins on random ones, but you're way more li when you with all the puzzle when you got a lot of puzzles, it's way more likely to get

a piece that you already got than a piece that you're missing.

So

Right.

it was it's a hell of a gamble.

but I mean like it just works out it always did.

If the other player has puzzle pieces.

It shows you what panels they have

and I'm sure there's a way to hack in all of them.

There's even one that we didn't even get in America that I think that it's covered a while back, but it was an advertisement

of some sort.

~

I miss I miss goofy little shit like that.

~ when I went to E3,

everybody had their three DSs out and every the you could not you there was too many street passes.

You couldn't clear them out fast enough at one point, ~ So

because I never did the upgrade that increases the queue.

And ~ my friend

friend who came along Jesse, he does.

And I watched him get like twenty and I was like, God damn it, I forgot about that.

I keep having to clear him out at ten.

That

was one of the final ~ DLCs for Street Pass.

If you got you

got all the final ones you ~ you were able to get.

Ten total I think it's li I forget what the max number is, but it's much l higher than ten, which is what I get.

I think it's twenty

or it might be as high as forty, I forget.

But

There's gotta be a way to hack your three DS to increase that.

what I was thinking.

I need to go through the through through the eighth shop and see if there's something to download and install because they do have DLCs.

~

but other than that, like it was just yeah, I got I got a lot of Street Passes and that was fun.

~ as as far as other games, I really haven't been playing very many.

I played a little bit of ~ the Marvel ~

the X Men the Arcade game over at Retro Game Con at the thing with a full set of four people.

~ but

~ the

the X-Men or whatever ca the the X-Men arcade is is on one of those ~ collections.

If you get it, we can play it together online.

True.

Or we could pirate.

~ but mostly

I've been mostly I've been watching horror movies, to be honest.

~ I've been sort of popping on a movie every so often just to stay in the Halloween y spirit.

And that's

that's what I've been up to.

So yeah, it's it's been a time.

It's ~

and Halloween's coming quick even though it's only the sixth, so you gotta get all

your spooky movies in.

I had all the planning for Retro GameCon, so it didn't leave weirdly enough time for gaming.

You run out

of time for Halloween movies pretty fast.

Yep.

I got I get

my wife still wants me to go take her to see practical magic too, so maybe we'll have to do that this weekend.

~ it's not supposed to be good, but that's okay.

~ all right.

Well, what the fuck else?

Is it fuck ice time or what?

Guess it's what I say.

As sounds good to me.

Alright folks, well we are gonna

get out of here.

~ d definitely fuck ice.

D definitely fuck did you guys see his Nebraska bullshit from yesterday or the day before or whatever?

Like this guy's a lunatic.

not let's not give attention.

is that the one where he said that it would be okay if like Los Angeles got nuked by Iran or something?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, the one where he's in

an American city, it's okay if they get destroyed.

Yeah.

Yeah, a fucking idiot.

~ lunatic.

~ wow.

~ but you know what?

Nobody's gonna disavow him because he's kink.

~ but fuck that man.

I can't wait.

I'm gonna celebrate so hard that day.

hard.

I I'm I'm gonna go play some Grand Theft Auto Four

~ and and ~ and just pretend that I'm back in the early two thousands when Bush was the scariest thing.

Well, make sure to get

to your early voting, Justin.

It's starting soon.

say,

be before you do that, yeah, go early vote.

That actually starts for us this weekend.

So we're gonna go do that.

you can like look up ~ and what's on your ballot ahead of time, print it out.

That's what we do.

So like, you know, just just get g go look up so who to vote for, make sure it's not they're not an asshole.

~ but then go play Grand Thadado or Well Dweller or potentially Alan Wake 2 for Brandon.

~ and we will catch you guys next

time.

Bye bye.

Fuck ice.

Dress the fungus

Peace out, protest

vote.

vote.

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