Banjo-Tooie

Doom for the Evercade.

Also, Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie, the double pack, is coming out on the 30th of October.

I'll be receiving my copy November 2nd because I pre-ordered that.

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But Banjo-Kazooie is a game that we talked a great length about, so I won't go into too much detail here.

But it being tied with Banjo-Tooie, I think, is also really intuitive because they are so similar.

Intuitive.

Intuitive.

So we know your number five is Paper Mario.

Number four is Pokemon Snap.

Grant, we've got your number four, Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie tied.

We did get to talk about those.

The thing is, you

did pull out the Banjo-Tooie there.

Yeah, the Japanese version as well.

And then at the back they had the PAL version, which they wanted like 150 quid for.

The stop and swap idea was amazing.

And even though it was never fully implemented, I love that they carried some of it through to Banjo-Tooie.

9.5 out of 10 easy.

The missing half is that the notes don't save.

And, and it's like, you use this feature to unlock stuff and banjo too.

And you were supposed to like, yeah, do stuff, get these eggs and then like go into this special cave that opens up in treasure trove cove.

Pull out your cartridge of Banjo-Kazooie while the system's on and slam in Banjo-Tooie quickly.

And it's supposed to use the N64's temporary memory to bring something to Tooie, but it never worked.

So I would say it's... about as good of a review as i could get for it with that time and yes i i will say i saw the comment about it games on the evercade are emulated but at the same time they're made with the evercade in mind so it's like emulated but built for this platform.

And the interesting thing about that, in particular with the Nexus launch and the carts that are coming out end of this month, the Doom Collection and the Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie Collection, those are actually not emulated.

Those are built for the Evercade.

And it's not the first time they've done this.

And I know that some of these projects are like open source and the way that vibe coding has interfered with like work on certain things has been really detrimental.

I know that there are a lot of problems with the Banjo-Tooie recomp, which was like in progress and then finished by vibe coding, but apparently parts of it are fundamentally broken.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I don't know.

It's a range of stuff.

And it's been increasingly cool things happening, including the latest thing where they got Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie on a cartridge on their full native widescreen ports even.

But one of my complaints with the Evercade ecosystem for a long time has been, well, the cheapness of it.

Now, the low price, I think, is one of the key defining factors of it because the games are cheap.

I mean, it does look pretty cool.

Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie look cool, and Doom look cool.

I'm like, ah.

Hmm.