Hi WWW
I have been thinking about this off and on for around a week now, and had a client idea (who didn't? am I right?) for Nintendo games on PC years ago.. now I just want it out of my head.
Nintendo don't have any juicy slice of the PC market.. even Sony do now, with their games for sale on the Epic client (yay Sony!) I've even bought a few. quite a few hehe. This is because of the culture of 'Generational Gamers' .. they are gamers who came from the console generations but switched to solely PC.. there many many of us now, I switched in 2011 and almost never looked back.. except that I missed Zelda. I don't know how many of us there are, but if someone told me it was in the hundreds of thousands and was worth a billion dollars a year.. I think I would believe them or if not, I would think they were underselling it, and it was worth a lot more.
So even Sony has a slice.. but Nintendo don't.. so what if they could 'have their cake and eat it?'.. keep their main games exclusive to Nintendo consoles, but have a easy to transfer alternative to sell as a product to PC only players?
Team Rocket Client
Imagine with me.. a Client created asif~ Team Rocket were real and the client purports to be written by Jessie, James and Meowth (JJM). In universe they are selling 'knock off' versions of Nintendo games done by secondary and often villainous version of the main characters. Such as:
Super Wario Bros.
Team Rocket Melee Attack (Super smash bros)
Super Wario Cart (with a C)
Team Rocket; Pokemon Battle Simulator RPG
The Legend of Ganon (young Ganon's rise to power)
Waluigi's Resident E-Vole (FPS vs Zombie voles to find treasure)
The Dark Samus Chronicles
Wart's Revenge (Donkey Kong set in Doki Doki Panic but 3D)
Princess Shokora's Tea Party (Mario Party + cheating to win)
Wario & Boshi's Bank Heist
King Dedede's Food Fight!
You get the idea..
Nintendo is super paranoid about security, this is one reason I think they haven't made the jump to a PC client yet.. with that in mind, indulge me to provide some suggestions.
Security
IF Nintendo used a unique emulator and the emulator was coded from a special file format, say FreeBSD's UFS and a requirement a sole drive was formatted to that file system for use with the client and emulator..
You can see where I'm going right?.. it effectively allows Nintendo use the hardware for the client while keeping everything encrypted. The emulator is software emulating a rare CPU.. say Xenon in combination of the unique file system and that the MAC address from the drive would be coded to the client.. this makes for a very secure package.. remember we are talking video games here and I have provided a suggestion that would keep most banks happy.
Reputation
TBH.. I'm just not happy with Nintendo's practises in relation to YT content creators and I refuse to buy another one of their current consoles, it was nasty and greedy.. and if they want to win me over back to their side they will have to do a dumper truck ton of work to accomplish that.. and on top of this I left them behind with the Gamecube (I own a Wii for legal emulation reasons but still) they aren't getting my money but they have a product I want.. Zelda.. and see the list of the other above.. I definitely want a Pokemon game.. and wouldn't it be nice to revisit a Mario game?.. and so on and so on.. until I have bought their catalogue on this client .. and they have £500-£1000 p/y of my money.. money they weren't going to get otherwise without a PC client.
Wrap Up
Those are my thoughts.. a light in-universe fun client for PC with slightly more adult themes but still with the original Nintendo comic style, with secondary characters, shining a light on potentially underused characters, transfering maps from old games over but giving a new story and new abilities.. 'Team Rocket exclusive' to PC.. and if you own a PC why wouldn't you buy/format a drive for this client and begin your adventure with Nintendo on PC. Of course you would.. as I feel many many others would.
Peace
Dava
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The Legend of Ganon
It's tragic so grab a hankey.. 500 years before the Hyrule era..
An Forrest Orc is chasing a boar through the woods.. the chase lasts for hours and hours.. and suddenly before the Orc notices.. he is up a mountain in the snow.. he slowly shuts down, Orc's can't stand this level of cold.. some hours later when is on the very edge of death.. a Snow Elf happens by.. she unfreezes him & helps warm him up .. after a time they fall in love.. she becomes pregnant with Ganon.. but the Orc and Snow Elves reject them.. not just cast them out.. they hurl stones shoot arrows.. they are treated as if to be killed on sight.. little boy Ganon grows up with this.. Orc or Elves showing up in the middle of the night at their camp and trying to kill them..
One night when Ganon was 12yo.. they succeeded.. and he was alone.. The Orcs took him and used him as a servant but he very soon escaped.. lived on the side of the road.. kicked in the face by humans treated like dirt.. given poisoned rotten food for a joke..
Ganon slowly began to despise all others..
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Shared my fanfic with Gemini
Me: Erm yeh but.. imagine a Zelda style game on HARD MODE.. yknow.. Link tends to get jazz easy right?.. open a chest get a legendary item.. Ganon would be the opposite.. empty chests.. only through GRINDING monsters and beating up Fairies could Ganon progress if you get me?
Gemini: That is a genius gameplay loop. It flips the entire "Hero’s Journey" on its head.
In a standard Zelda game, the world wants you to succeed. The pots have hearts, the grass has rupees, and the sages give you gifts. In The Legend of Ganon, the world is actively trying to starve you out.
Here is how that "Hard Mode" Ganon gameplay would feel compared to Link:
The "Anti-Chest" Mechanic: Link finds a dungeon item and a fanfare plays. Ganon opens a chest and it’s empty—or worse, a trap set by humans to catch "the monster." You don't find the Hookshot; you have to kill a mechanical beast and craft a makeshift claw from its remains.
The "Fairy" Grind: This is the darkest part. Link catches a fairy and she heals him out of love. Ganon has to hunt them. Imagine the boss fight being a Great Fairy who treats you like a pest, and you have to defeat her just to absorb her essence to survive the next area.
The Reputation System: Instead of shops welcoming you, townsfolk lock their doors. You have to raid supply wagons at night or "convince" (threaten) a traveling merchant to trade with you.
It turns the game from an adventure into a conquest. By the time you finally get the Triforce of Power, the player would actually feel like they earned the right to be the Big Bad because the game put them through hell to get there.
How does Ganon eventually meet the other "monsters"? Does he start a revolution and unite the Moblins and Octoroks who were also being kicked around by the Hylians?
