So, as a late teen, I didn’t have a gamecube. It’s the first Nintendo system I didn’t get to own. Then I owned a early manufacture era Wii. So it had backwards compatibility. So in that sense I owned a “gamecube”. But in my early 20s, I just concentrated on Wii games. I don’t know why waggle was so fun, but it was.
The end result being I only owned a handfull of gamecube games, and some that I bought (like starfox adventures, and luigis mansion) I never got a chance to play.
Well, now I’m in my early 40s, and I bought a Retroid Pocket Flip 2. It has a dolphin emulator. I started playing Wind Waker last night.
GUYS! THESE GAMECUBE GAMES MORE THAN HOLD UP TODAY!!! THEY LOOK BEAUTIFUL!!!
Now look, I’ve heard that there are HD texture packs that you can do. I’m sure they look amazing. Quite frankly, what I’m seeing, is they aren’t needed.
All I did was change the camera stick left to right and right to left. Then switched 2 settings in graphics to allow 16x9 ratio, and 3x scaling.
That’s it. Now to be fair, the Retroid Pocket 5/Flip 2 has an AMAZING amoled screen. So, it may be unfair to say beautiful screen makes games beautiful. But it holds up. The games look modern.
So far I played Wind Waker, and Super Mario Baseball.
You could tell me these games from 25 years ago are brand new, and modern. They look that good.
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Wind Waker had is own unique art style that’s going to hold up forever. It’s timeless.
There are some uglier (by modern graphics standards) games on the system, but even several of those are stupidly fun.
My favorites on the platform were Mario Kart: Double Dash (still my favorite in the entire Mario Kart series) and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Definitely check them out when you get a chance.
I recommend Chibi-Robo!
I thought this sounded firmiliar. I’m thinking of Custom Robo. Loved that game for a few months.
Stylized graphics usually age better, especially flat colors and painted looking textures. A realistic style makes the limitations stick out, I guess both because it needs more detail, and because we tend to have a pretty good reference for how real world is supposed to look.
I too have the pocket flip 2 and would like to get into some GameCube stuff as it is a console I didn’t play back in the day as I was too busy with the others.
Do you have any exclusive games you can recommend that aren’t Nintendo IPs? I can’t stand Mario / Zelda / Smash Bros etc
