@treefroggy What are some of the 3DS games that make the most / best use of 3D?
Mighty Switch Force 2! One of the best looking 2D side scrollers on 3DS. I loved the use of particle effects in the foreground layer. Really "pops out" and enhances the graphics without being distracting. The controls are kind of stiff, but it's more of a slower paced puzzle platformer anyway, so I don't mind so much.
@treefroggy What are some of the 3DS games that make the most / best use of 3D?
Those 3D Classics games were pretty cool. Both the Nintendo and the Sega ones.
@hellomrkearns 3D Classics manages to be the best version of Kirby's Adventure, with widescreen and all the slowdown removed.
@treefroggy VVVVVV!!
Hmm I guess I’ll have to find the obscure ones on my own… if there even is any!
I wonder if the mandatory Powa Pro Kun game(s) for 3ds are any good!!
@treefroggy There is no Pawapuro or Pawapuro-kun Pocket (Pawapoke) game on the 3DS. Their sports games on the 3DS were brutish ports of PSP games (e.g. ProSpi 2011 and Winning Eleven 2012〜2014), typically resulting in worst performance on 3DS than PSP(!), and they quickly gave up on the hardware for baseball games, opting for the PS4 and Vita combo instead (but more importantly their mobile games), until the Nintendo Switch finally clarified things for confused Japanese publishers.
Pawapoke’s last game was released on December 2011 for the Nintendo DS, until the 1+2 remake Pawapoke R on the Nintendo Switch.
@treefroggy Not games but Pixel Maker Studio is a nice pixel paint program that allows for manipulation of a few layers’ 3Dness, and Voxel Maker is a simple but effective voxel drawing program. The 3D in that is worth just a peek at least.
Welp. I’m back to using my OG 3DS again because my new 3ds has not only distorted audio from the speakers, but highly distorted from the headphone Jack also. It sounds terrible and ruins the experience. If there’s a fix I’ll do it, if there’s not I may return this ish. I could use the two hundred dollars anyway. Since it’s affecting the headphone output that means the internal amplifier or something is fucked.
That sucks you all have had such a hard time with your new n3DSes.
In conclusion:
Find a 3DS that you like. Cherish it forever.
OG3DS for me.
@treefroggy I guess I’ll have to find the obscure ones on my own…
there’s a lot in this thread: https://forums.insertcredit.com/d/1239-3ds-eshop-recommendations
i‘ve been picking up my 3DS a lot more recently, though mainly to play some DS games. it’s got a really nice form factor! i always used to get the XL versions of the DS variations but when I got a new 3DS i chose to get the normal size and i think i prefer it.
It took me a while, but I finally rolled credits on DQVIII this morning. I had a ball and will certainly give XI a go at some point. I loved the attention to detail. They did a fantastic job of making the world feel truly lived in. The whole experience comes across as very high-quality.
It’s been nice to put a little more time into the 3DS after neglecting it in a drawer for so long.
Thanks for the recommendation pals! And thanks again @meunierd for your help getting the orchestral mod running.
Never had a ds nor 3ds. Wanted to buy a used one. The 3ds plays all ds games right? Do you recommend paying more for a 3ds rather than the original ds?
3DS plays all DS games natively but unfortunately it scales them weirdly due to the difference in screen resolution. On the other hand, there’s no DS model that has both a backlit screen and a good D-Pad, whereas every 3DS model has both those things. So if you don’t mind your pixel art looking a little blurry, the 3DS might be the best way to play DS games anyway. Plus it’s got a few good games of its own. Attack of the Friday Monsters, dude…
Oh sick no way!! Just tried this and not only does it work, the resulting image on an XL, even with the black borders, is still bigger than the original DS screen. Good to know!
Literally why does Nintendo make this stuff a secret. It works on virtual console games too, and you can switch the border around and stuff
