Mario Kart DS is a gamble unless its at peak hours, but Mario kart Wii nearly always has a couple hundred people online

This was actually a major gripe I had when playing Jersey Devil on my PS1, once I found out about emulators I created a custom controller config for it that made it much more playable though.

Metroid Prime Hunters and Moon are both great examples of what the DS is capable of, but they both struggle to be fun as videogames because of the stylish camera controls, what I mean by under-utilized is that a significant portion of the DS library Is 2d pixel art graphics, in games that would have benefited a lot from 3d, even within the same franchise. like super princess peach having essentially GBA graphics when New Super Mario Bros had fancy rendering and 3d assets for many aspects of the game.

you would assume it wouldn’t have taken the industry so long to learn from consoles like this, but they repeated it again with the ps3, and probably other consoles im not aware of.

As far as hardware gimmicks go, I agree that the WiiU’s gamepad could’ve done so much more, I can think of so many different unique ways a game could’ve made use of it, like having two different perspectives or mini games like in GTA Chinatown wars.

Minecraft really is a must-play for everyone, but only if you get the java edition. the bedrock edition is inferior and doesn’t have mods. get it on PC if you can

I’ve tried minecraft new 3ds edition, and it’s only playable if you turn up the emulated cpu clock speed on citra, the actual console isn’t powerful enough to run it playably.

Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii both have random matchmaking, but for Mario Kart DS the only reliable way to find a lobby is to ping the Mario Kart DS discord server, although at peak hours there may be between 3 and 7 people playing Mario Kart DS even without pinging the chat. I actually played a match yesterday like that.

yep, and it only takes about 15 minutes to mod one. all you do is follow a quick tutorial on the 3ds.hacks.guide site

glad to help!, I thought I should mention real quick that if you decide to play around with mods that run on both the client and server side, Prism Launcher is by far the best way to manage modded instances of Minecraft. allowing you to easily download modpacks or create and export your own. I wouldn’t use the default launcher if you decide to use mods on the client.

So basically there is different modified versions of Minecraft for different purposes. Paper is specifically for hosting non-modded servers on lower end machines, but it changes some systems of Minecraft in undesirable ways, and only supports simple “plugins”. Fabric and Forge are the popular “mod loaders”, they are made to allow you to install mods to Minecraft, which includes mods like Lithium and Sodium that massively increase Minecraft’s performance.

with the right combination of performance enhancing mods you can increase Minecraft’s fps tenfold, without sacrificing any features or changing the gameplay. I run a massive custom modpack with tons of content and graphics mods, and it actually runs better than vanilla Minecraft because of the performance mods.

The performance mods I use for fabric are: Lithium, Sodium, Enhanced Block Entities, More culling, Ferrite Core, Immediately Fast, Modern Fix, Memory Leak Fix, Concurrent Chunk Management System, Noisium, Bad Optimizations, and Let Me Despawn.

There is plenty more performance mods out there that optimized more niche parts of the game, but these are the important ones (that I use). Lastly I don’t think a VPS is necessary because Minecraft servers can usually be run on even low end hardware, like a raspberry pi.

just gonna recommend for running a server that you use fabric with performance mods (lithium is the most important) instead of paper or similar server versions.

even if they add vibrant visuals to java I’ll most likely stick to using photon and complementary shaders. But the new graphics honestly look so appealing stylistically to me, that it’s a close match. If the new graphics are more compatible with different fancy modded effects that would definitely get me to use them in heavily modded scenarios.