Why, thank you for the birthday wishes, PSP Go! I can always count on you, unless UMDs are involved. I'd buy an M2 card, or even better, an M2 to SD card adapter, but I can't justify the expense when the last time I used my PSP Go was, uh... exactly this time last year. You can see the position I'm in here. This thing gets less love than my flippin' Vita. The 3DS spends more time in my hands.
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| If it's just an R4 with 208 ROMs on it, is it still a 208 in 1 multi- cartridge? The Channel 4 News Team investigates. |
Speaking of which! I found this interesting little trinket floating around in the wilds of Tucson earlier today. It advertises itself as a 208 in 1 3DS cartridge, but it's pretty clear from the SD card slot alone that it's really a clone of the R4, that Nintendo-enraging flash cart that everyone with a Nintendo DS knew about, but absolutely nobody actually owned. (Wink, wink.)
Sure enough, there are precisely 208 games on the included SD card, which can be played on a Nintendo DS, IF the R4 can slip through the handheld's security checks. This seems to happen with every other boot, and the inconsistent functionality lends a sense of cheapness to these products. Maybe I'd have more luck if I upgraded the dummy ROM... this one's currently running, or pretending to run, Deep Labyrinth by Atlus.
But when the cartridge does work, it's a fun trip back to 2010-era gaming. Well, New Super Mario Bros kind of bites, as ponderously slow as it is starved for fresh ideas. You know how Super Mario Wonder was made by junior Nintendo staffers, and full of all kinds of creative twists to the formula? New Super Mario Bros. is... kind of the exact opposite of that. If it tells you anything, Tose made a Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo DS, Super Princess Peach, and that has more character and identity than New Super Mario Bros. Actually, a lot more, which is surprising coming from the makers of Chubby Cherub. "Hey, Tose. Why don't YOU make the fun game for a change, and we'll make the aggressively formulaic, barely adequate one?"
Anyway. I can always nudge myself back into Solatorobo, since that's also on the cartridge. I didn't see the attraction before, but maybe it'll finally click.
