James BOOran

I like Nintendo's slow roll-out of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition releases, Nintendo Classic additions, and Nintendo Music additions.

We only had one "drop" of SEGA Mega Drive games in 2024 and 2025, and we've not had one yet in 2026. We've also not had any Super NES games in 2026, so I would expect that for November / December. Sorry, Nintendo GameCube optimists.

If you're part of the No Disc, No Buy movement and opt to instead pirate games via a PlayStation 5 jailbreak you're missed the objective. The goal should be to hurt PlayStation's financials exclusively, not that of game developers too.

Even just by doing the math, if PlayStation's cut is 30%, 70% of your action is harming something other than PlayStation. Are you actually okay with that? All while mourning the loss of Armature, BioWare, Bluepoint, Sanzaru....

I think it’d be cool to run a database site, maybe called something like howtoplay.today, that outlines how to legally play games on modern hardware. It’d be an absolute nightmare to curate though.

I like Nintendo's slow roll-out of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition releases, Nintendo Classic additions, and Nintendo Music additions.

Having said that, year to date Nintendo have added 37 games, whereas PlayStation have added 11. Info is specific to the UK, so I'm not counting Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit as this was a 2016 launch in the UK. I have also started a new spreadsheet... why is this info so damn unreliable online.

I like Nintendo's slow roll-out of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition releases, Nintendo Classic additions, and Nintendo Music additions.

There was a wave of folk talking about Star Fox Adventures recently, because it dropped on Nintendo GameCube - Nintendo Classics. That would have either been massively dispersed over time, or simply not happened.

I like Nintendo's slow roll-out of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition releases, Nintendo Classic additions, and Nintendo Music additions.

I have memories of playing Super Mario Bros. Deluxe with some folk from my university on Nintendo 3DS in February 2014, stuff like that wouldn't happen if it just dropped on console release day.

I like Nintendo's slow roll-out of Nintendo Switch 2 Edition releases, Nintendo Classic additions, and Nintendo Music additions.

First sign of the middle age has hit -- I've taken out a subscription to the New York Times Puzzle Section.

Trying to predict what's still to come for the KF Top 100 (Slots 20 - 01). All I can think of is Skyrim, Ocarina of Time, Mario Galaxy, Portal (any). I don't think we see TOTK. We might see Kingdom Hearts, Balatro, Smash Ultimate, Among Us?

I got new glasses from Boots Opticians two months ago and I’m honestly appalled at how shoddy the build quality is on the frame, and how poor the blue light coating is compared to the (cheaper!) coating on my old Specsavers pair. I doubt they will last six months. It’s true what they say…

I saw the date of birth on their screen, same date and month, but 12 years older than me. I said “I was born in 199X, not 198X?” they dead ass looked at me and said “199X? Are you sure?” ARE YOU SURE? (1) It’s my date of birth. (2) Damn, I look old.

I got new glasses from Boots Opticians two months ago and I’m honestly appalled at how shoddy the build quality is on the frame, and how poor the blue light coating is compared to the (cheaper!) coating on my old Specsavers pair. I doubt they will last six months. It’s true what they say…

And yes, basically everyone I’ve moaned about this too has hit me with the “Should’ve gone to Specsavers”

What if the reason we don't have Pokémon Colosseum on Nintendo Classics yet is because they're going to make it work with the Nintendo Switch ports of Ruby and Sapphire.

I better wake up in the Hoenn region

Call me a boot licker, I don’t care, but the way I see it: I’d written off any and all Pokémon re-releases a year ago, so to get FR/LG and some HOME compatibility that is on par with other Pre-Switch games. I’m happy; I’ll take it.

Tonight's entertainment: Watching the clips-and-highlights channel in the Sonic discord as the moderation team furiously delete every message that comes in and still can't keep up

This server is reporting an error on my iPhone, so I wonder if it's either overloaded or just getting shut down lol

I wonder if they’re going to add Zelda soundtracks to Nintendo Music alongside debuting the cards in Nintendo Today. Just started Majora’s Mask cards, and the soundtrack is coming on Friday.