Uhhh, no? How about I watch it on youtube as usual on the "Michael VGM music channel" or whatever?
If you clamp down harder I'll just go and pirate the music, fuck you
@coolboymew I wouldn't mind if they just simply sold MP3s on the eShop or on iTunes (is that still around?). Or just buy actual CD soundtracks as they actually have a collectible value. I'm not subscribing to a proprietary service just to listen to music from a single company.
Also, you are better off staying away from YouTube and going to an actual VGM site like KHinsider as Nintendo is less likely to search for them.
On a related note, am I the only one who hates the narrators of these Nintendo ads?
@coolboymew I noticed that most (if not all) Zelda soundtracks are Japan-only. The only Zelda soundtrack I know of that was released here was the 25th anniversary soundtrack that was bundled with Skyward Sword.
My younger brother really loved Link's Awakening for the Switch so I imported the soundtrack for him. It was really cool because it has soundtracks for both the Switch and GB games and has some really nice artwork.
@coolboymew @PurpCat Maybe it's more profitable to have their own app and collect data so they can advertise their own games to you directly. The app is linked to your Nintendo account.
"Oh you like games with this style of music? You should try this game."
It's just Nintendo being terribly hard headed about that stuff again and attempting to easily control something retarded instead of just doing what everyone else is finally starting to do and actually release the shit themselves so they can actually do gather money on it instead of letting Michael's VGM Channel do it instead
@PurpCat @coolboymew To be fair, every CD based console/add-on before the PS1 was a complete failure so I don't blame Nintendo for sticking with cartridges during the 5th gen. The only Nintendo console that can even read a common disc format (besides a hacked Wii) was the Panasonic Q and unsurprisingly, people found out they could burn GameCube ISOs to DVDs and play them that way.
Nintendo also experimented with online/network gaming even before the Dreamcast made it mainstream, but they ended up failing, but for the wrong reasons. The Famicom Modem failed because adults weren't going to buy a children's device just to do remote banking. The Satellaview failed because most people weren't willing to pay an expensive subscription just to play outdated, 16-bit games with live voice acting. RandNet failed because the 64DD failed. By the time of the GameCube Nintendo decided that they would just release two network adapters and let third-parties handle the infrastructure if they wanted online play.
@coolboymew @PurpCat I still want to try playing Mario Kart Double Dash over LAN, but I don't have enough friends that would be willing to play and the broadband adapter is expensive and only the broadband adapter can do LAN play, the modem adapter is only for dial-up online.
I'm surprised Nintendo didn't make more games LAN compatible. It would've been awesome to be able to play 007 Nightfire over LAN, but I guess the whole PSO exploit was enough for Nintendo to push that thing under the rug.
@coolboymew @PurpCat You know what I mean. Maybe Nintendo didn't even included support for it in the SDKs intended for third-parties.
I only played some Halo on LAN, because that shit was built in. But I did get to play the Dreamcast online on dial-up at the same friend's house as the xbox
The PS2 online mode was never as well integrated or advertised as it was on the Xbox (or at least never as well advertised) but the fun part is it was free for most games. Some games were paid (EverQuest, PSU, FFXI, a few others), but most of them were free to play. You didn't need to give your credit card info to the console to play online.
@PurpCat @coolboymew I still can't believe that FFXI was still receiving updates until 2016.
@coolboymew @PurpCat I think someone recently revived Xbox Live on the original Xbox. You can also play LAN games over the Internet using XLink Kai.
@PurpCat @coolboymew Nintendo didn't provide online infrastructure themselves for the GC because they felt like parents weren't willing to pay subscription fees on top of their Internet bills, so they left it to third-parties to provide their own infrastructure. Sega probably still had servers from the Dreamcast, so they were willing to provide their own infrastructure for PSO on the GameCube. I guess Nintendo just wasn't aware of GameSpy's existence during the GameCube era.
There was a whole list of games on the PS2 Online Consoles site (the list is out of date given the death of DNAS, many games being revived, etc.) and it showed which online infrastructure each game used, be it GameSpy, Demonware, or some publisher unique setup. Sony's online setup was only used for their games, third parties all had their own.
http://playstation2.onlineconsoles.com/phpBB2/content_gameslist.php
http://playstation2.onlineconsoles.com/phpBB2/content_gameslist_jp.php
http://playstation2.onlineconsoles.com/phpBB2/content_gameslist_na.php
@PurpCat @coolboymew Yeah but Nintendo didn't even offer online infrastructure for their first-party games. They were all either LAN only or no network multiplayer at all.
Retro Studios did try to make some vehicular combat game for the GameCube and it was planned to be online, but it was cancelled because the Japanese didn't understood vehicular combat.
Meanwhile the PS2 was similar (online was nearly all third party) but at some point Sony decided to both sell PS2 bundles with the online adapter, and then every Slim integrated it into the hardware. Really, online on the PS2 was like PC game online back in the day, each game had it's own publisher infrastructure (or outsourced to Demonware (now Activision lol) or GameSpy). The only real limitation was DNAS (an antipiracy measure), which has been cracked out of many PS2 games after that shutdown.