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| Feb 2, 2024, 12:04 AM | Petie | Platform: Nintendo Switch | I think we edited this at the same time and I overwrote your changes - sorry about that! Looks like you were able to get it back though. |
| Feb 2, 2024, 12:00 AM | MehDeletingLater | Platform: Nintendo Switch | This has all been added to the submission, thank you. |
| Feb 1, 2024, 6:46 PM | VinchVolt | Platform: Nintendo Switch | Might be worth rewording this for the sake of improving the flow of it. Something like this: "In 2020, hackers Gary Bowser and Max "MAXiMiLiEN" Louarn were arrested and extradited to the United States for money laundering and selling products meant to crack the Nintendo Switch's copy protection to run pirated copies of games. The two were members of Team Xecuter, a hacking group which specialized in similar measures for a large number of Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft consoles. In 2021, Bowser pled guilty on conspiracy and trafficking charges and was sentenced to 40 months in prison; Nintendo later filed a separate civil suit against him, which together with the prison sentence left him $14.5 million in debt. The company's legal department claimed during the court case that the unusually severe punishments were intended to send a chilling effect through the piracy world, intimidating would-be hackers by using Bowser's punishment as an example. Following the case, multiple news outlets noted the irony of Gary Bowser's last name, which is shared with Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser and Mario series antagonist Bowser." Some other sources to add onto this are as follows: United States Department of Justice article about the arrest: https://web.archive.org/web/20220502090355/https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/two-members-notorious-videogame-piracy-group-team-xecuter-custody Video Games Chronicle article about Nintendo's intentions: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-said-hacker-gary-bowsers-jail-sentence-was-a-unique-opportunity-to-send-a-message/ The Verge article about Bowser's sentence: https://web.archive.org/web/20220211013315/https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/10/22927827/gary-bowser-sentenced-nintendo-switch-hacks-team-xecuter Polygon article about Bowser's sentence: https://web.archive.org/web/20220210205338/https://www.polygon.com/22927851/bowser-nintendo-switch-hacker-sentenced-prison |
| Feb 1, 2024, 4:21 PM * | ProtoSnake | Platform: Nintendo Switch | Sorry, I don't know much about this than you do. I'm just merely submitting any new info I find that would attract more new viewers, hopefully. |
| Feb 1, 2024, 4:10 PM | Rocko & Heffer | Platform: Nintendo Switch | Didn't Bowser actually put malware in his pirated games or something? I'm sure I remember reading there was something bigger at play than just piracy. |
| Feb 1, 2024, 4:29 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Disney Heroes: Battle Mode | Something that is not the case in recent times since Richard Epcar does not also voice Baloo. In fact there's no telling who Baloo's current VA is supposed to be. |
| Jan 27, 2024, 12:35 PM | Baysha | Game: Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys | I misinterpreted that at first. |
| Jan 24, 2024, 2:11 AM | Tuli0hWut | Game: Sky Kid | Yeah, it actually does :0 |
| Jan 23, 2024, 11:08 PM | Rocko & Heffer | Game: Sky Kid | Does the US manual also show birds? Because I know that often time these sorts of marketing localisation changes end up failing to apply to manuals. (Since I posted a few facts about it lately, Alice's design in the manual and box for Balloon Kid are completely different) |
| Jan 23, 2024, 10:55 PM | Rocko & Heffer | Game: Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS | Given the stories I've heard about Iwata/Reggie-era NOA, he's probably better off for it. |
| Jan 23, 2024, 9:15 PM | Tuli0hWut | Game: Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS | That kid costed his dad a high paying dream job at Nintendo. |
| Jan 23, 2024, 2:03 PM | MehDeletingLater | Game: Balloon Kid | In the US manual, yes, but the Japanese manual calls Bubbles "it". https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Clu-Clu-Land-Game-Manual.pdf https://www.ebay.com/itm/295631999624 |
| Jan 23, 2024, 12:55 PM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Balloon Kid | Bubbles from Clu Clu Land is a she? |
| Jan 23, 2024, 11:13 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Star Fox | Miyamoto has a fox like face? Looks pretty human to me. |
| Jan 23, 2024, 7:04 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Pokémon Ruby Version | A similar situation to the start of the game where the Poochyena on Route 101 is replaced with a Zigzagoon. |
| Jan 22, 2024, 6:15 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Star Fox Zero | And this very scrapping of an Arwing Amiibo did not seem like a good move, considering the presence of an Arwing Amiibo Costume in Super Mario Maker that took basis from Star Fox Zero. |
| Jan 22, 2024, 6:13 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Star Fox Zero | I don't think delaying the game was able to get rid of what people dislike about Star Fox Zero, considering what people had been saying about it after it's eventual release. |
| Jan 22, 2024, 6:10 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Diddy Kong Racing | So the characters in Diddy Kong Racing that weren't promoting upcoming Rare games other then Diddy and Krunch are owned by Microsoft, despite being able to get featured in the remake. Clearly this is supposed to be part of the Donkey Kong series, thus making the game Nintendo property. |
| Jan 21, 2024, 7:47 AM | Venomspino | Game: Mortal Kombat X | Funny enough, Tanya is possibly Mortal Kombat first bisexual rep |
| Jan 20, 2024, 6:11 PM | MehDeletingLater | Game: Tekken | It is, I updated the submission with additional sources addressing this. |
| Jan 20, 2024, 3:44 PM | ProtoSnake | Game: Tekken | I thought Tiger Mask was an inspiration for King's design? |
| Jan 18, 2024, 10:10 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Star Fox Adventures | Even though Rare are like this about games they work on such as Star Fox Adventures, there actually have been Rare games over the years with voice actors who aren't Rare members such as Kameo and Viva Pinata, even as far as those games being dubbed in other languages. |
| Jan 18, 2024, 6:07 AM | Venomspino | Game: League of Legends | Here's the theme, it's really good https://youtu.be/TKGeHMT6Ko4?si=aWzYUjFXyHRQ71wm |
| Jan 16, 2024, 1:29 PM * | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Star Fox Adventures | All because Star Fox Adventures is the one game in the series where the characters speak English in all parts of the world for reasons explained in another submission. |
| Jan 12, 2024, 12:55 PM * | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash | In all fairness, something was said in 2020 about Skip Ltd supposedly having gone defunct, and this could explain it. I don't suppose any of these video game franchises have a similar situation to Chibi-Robo, though I don't think the developers of them ever admitted their dormancies, although it was a close call with Fire Emblem: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FranchiseKiller/VideoGames |
| Jan 12, 2024, 10:32 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Pokémon Legends: Arceus | Thanks for allowing the screenshot to be updated in. Had to go with something where I wouldn't get an error message. |
| Jan 11, 2024, 8:29 PM | chocolatejr9 | Franchise: Sonic The Hedgehog | I know you commented this awhile back, so you probably don't care anymore, but with the show wrapped up the trivia has been updated to provide further clarification. |
| Jan 10, 2024, 10:27 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Star Fox 64 | So the Japanese version of Star Fox 64 and it's 3DS Remake actually made use of profanity with what Falco said. |
| Jan 10, 2024, 10:25 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Disney Magic Kingdoms | Baffled he didn't get to voice Sarge one last time in Kingdom Hearts III, since the English voice recordings were completed by the time of his death. |
| Jan 9, 2024, 9:20 PM | MehDeletingLater | Game: Star Fox 64 | This has been corrected, thank you. |
| Jan 9, 2024, 6:26 PM | ZpaceJ0ck0 | Game: Star Fox 64 | The timestamps are all wrong. It should be like this: First one: https://youtu.be/63mDRvF_gc8?t=192 Second one: https://youtu.be/DwU5qqeyBRs?t=191 Third one: https://youtu.be/rYx4B_bp2ow?t=348 |
| Jan 8, 2024, 11:00 AM | Rocko & Heffer | Game: Star Fox 64 | I can't help but think that furry Einstein would be a Schnauzer |
| Jan 8, 2024, 8:58 AM | Rocko & Heffer | Game: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 | Well, if Vegeta ever has to deal with Dracula, he knows what to use. |
| Jan 7, 2024, 11:34 PM | NintendOtaku | Game: Tetris | Fair enough. Thank you for your insight. I appreciate it! |
| Jan 6, 2024, 7:16 AM | Petie | Game: Tetris | He seems to have a decent head on his shoulders. I really don’t think we need to draw any more attention to that “journalist” than she’s already received. |
| Jan 5, 2024, 9:40 PM | NintendOtaku | Game: Tetris | I hope Gibson doesn’t take it personally what Jayne Secker said about this accomplishment on Sky News. |
| Jan 3, 2024, 9:33 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Super Mario Bros. 3 | As much as personally I don't believe in the Super Mario Bros. 3 being a play thing being true, more information then a simple yes about the game's premise might be worth explaining one of these years on Mario's adventure that had him helping transformed Mushroom Kings. |
| Jan 2, 2024, 6:35 PM * | Rocko & Heffer | Game: Super Mario Bros. 3 | IMO with a franchise like Mario, continuity and character arcs are more a restriction than benefit. Look at Luigi's Mansion, part of the appeal of those games is that they're about Luigi overcoming his fears to protect his friends - if Luigi ever became brave because "well, he's been doing this for decades without fail, of course he wouldn't be scared anymore!", the games would lose a good chunk of their diegetic charm and Luigi as a character would revert back to simply being Green Mario. In that line, I don't get why people are so frustrated by this fact about the game - it would still be a fun fictional story where "nobody is in real danger" either way, it changes nothing beyond being a cute stylistic choice. |
| Jan 2, 2024, 5:09 PM * | MehDeletingLater | Game: Super Mario Bros. 3 | Except the Mario series has never had an official timeline because they don't really care about that. When you get down to it, Super Mario Bros. has no overarching story or character development, it's basically "knight rescues damsel in distress from evil dragon" every time and they've been doing the same song and dance without end for almost 40 years. If anything, Mario and Bowser are best comparable to episodic classic cartoon short rivalries like Popeye and Bluto, or Mickey Mouse and Pete. Despite changing the setting, moments when they decide to team up or truce, or even instances where the other rival seems to win, they'll keep fighting each other the same way and Mario will always win at the end of every game because that's how it was designed in the first place. They are essentially just playing their roles and Super Mario Bros. 3 was themed as a stage play for the sake of changing things up. |
| Jan 2, 2024, 9:14 AM | CuriousUserX90 | Game: Super Mario Bros. 3 | An official timeline of the Mario series would be able to show that Super Mario Bros. 3 is one of Mario's adventures that he had over the years, along with more information provided by the developers. He takes on bosses, he rescues Princess Peach, he takes on power ups, he faces the usual obstacles. Saying Super Mario Bros. 3 was all a play would be like saying other games which feature a curtain like Mario Party 2 and Paper Mario were also a play, and that Mario and Bowser being enemies is all an act. |