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If you listen carefully after Luigi lands in the Dark Lands, the first few notes of the Luigi’s Mansion theme play. I seriously hope they do a movie on it, it’s my favorite Gamecube game (the sequels are great too!)
I do not care for the Mario games. I didn’t even think I would like or care for this movie because I don’t care for the games. But I am surprised to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and all the characters, and I didn’t even know a good chunk of them too. Your reaction was beautiful!
Absolutely go with PC. It’s otherwise going to cost an arm and a leg to get a hold of certain games and hardware through the secondhand marketplaces, and the money you save can easily be used to buy some very affordable adapters for any and every type of controller. A gamecube controller adapter costs like $20, for example.
Hook your computer up to a TV screen, and it feels identical enough that even speedrunners are generally comfortable with a PC emulation setup. There’s some excellent guides online, as well, so you don’t need any special knowhow to get stuff working– most you might have to do is fiddle with the controls a bit, or spend a while to get a specific game’s ROM. On rare occasion, you’ll get some texture glitches or lag, but not for *Mario* games, generally-speaking, as there’s a ton of work that’s gone into emulating them cleanly for the speedrunning communities. Plus, you can also consider modded roms to upscale games, or whatnot, as well.
If you can get the physical hardware and games for cheap, somehow, then that’s great! But emulation is kinda the only way to reasonably play most of these games with original controllers. Nintendo’s re-release of Mario 64/Sunshine/Galaxy was code they stole from the emulators, for example, except they fucked it up and added lag and such. So, emulation gets you closer to the original experience than ports and rereleases, as a general rule.
Give it a shot! It’s less of a hassle than you might think! Mario 64 is honestly most people’s recommendation for a “first 3d Mario,” and also it does SUPER well on Twitch and such to play these games for the first time, so you could make a whole thing of it– great way to recoup the costs if you do spring for the physical hardware, and it’s always a great time. (And yes, you can stream emulated stuff just fine, too– lots of memes about people playing on their “Microsoft Gamecubes” and such.)
If you listen carefully after Luigi lands in the Dark Lands, the first few notes of the Luigi’s Mansion theme play. I seriously hope they do a movie on it, it’s my favorite Gamecube game (the sequels are great too!)
I do not care for the Mario games. I didn’t even think I would like or care for this movie because I don’t care for the games. But I am surprised to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and all the characters, and I didn’t even know a good chunk of them too. Your reaction was beautiful!
Very very late but all of you 100% need to play galaxy! One of the greatest games of all time
Check out Kamen Rider ex-aid on tokuzilla.net it’s fully subbed and great season of Kamen Rider
incredibly late, but mario galaxy is the goat!!
Absolutely go with PC. It’s otherwise going to cost an arm and a leg to get a hold of certain games and hardware through the secondhand marketplaces, and the money you save can easily be used to buy some very affordable adapters for any and every type of controller. A gamecube controller adapter costs like $20, for example.
Hook your computer up to a TV screen, and it feels identical enough that even speedrunners are generally comfortable with a PC emulation setup. There’s some excellent guides online, as well, so you don’t need any special knowhow to get stuff working– most you might have to do is fiddle with the controls a bit, or spend a while to get a specific game’s ROM. On rare occasion, you’ll get some texture glitches or lag, but not for *Mario* games, generally-speaking, as there’s a ton of work that’s gone into emulating them cleanly for the speedrunning communities. Plus, you can also consider modded roms to upscale games, or whatnot, as well.
If you can get the physical hardware and games for cheap, somehow, then that’s great! But emulation is kinda the only way to reasonably play most of these games with original controllers. Nintendo’s re-release of Mario 64/Sunshine/Galaxy was code they stole from the emulators, for example, except they fucked it up and added lag and such. So, emulation gets you closer to the original experience than ports and rereleases, as a general rule.
Give it a shot! It’s less of a hassle than you might think! Mario 64 is honestly most people’s recommendation for a “first 3d Mario,” and also it does SUPER well on Twitch and such to play these games for the first time, so you could make a whole thing of it– great way to recoup the costs if you do spring for the physical hardware, and it’s always a great time. (And yes, you can stream emulated stuff just fine, too– lots of memes about people playing on their “Microsoft Gamecubes” and such.)