The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXII

[Synobun]

The Gen I remakes are Game Boy Advance games, so those can't be found on the eShop.

Sorry, I assumed the Advance was included in the options available in that store, since you said:

The Game Boy and Game Boy Colour Pokémon games can be bought and downloaded on the Nintendo eShop as Virtual Console games, basically Nintendo's own emulator.

I guess there's something fundamentally different between Game Boy/Game Boy Colour and the Game Boy Advance? Seems weird they wouldn't support it, but hey, it's not up to me.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Sorry, I assumed the Advance was included in the options available in that store, since you said:



I guess there's something fundamentally different between Game Boy/Game Boy Colour and the Game Boy Advance? Seems weird they wouldn't support it, but hey, it's not up to me.

I've mentioned that when comparing the handhelds to the home consoles, the Game Boy and Game Boy Colour are like the NES while the Game Boy Advance is like the SNES. Game Boy Advance games aren't on the 3DS eShop, but many are on the Wii U eShop, but not the Generation III Pokémon games.

 

[civvver]

Here, read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pokémon_video_games

Then read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Nintendo_3DS_(North_America)

Game boy color is a newer version of the gameboy that had, you guessed it! a color screen. It still plays regular gameboy games, is the same operating system etc.

Game boy advanced was a new system altogether. For some reason they just don't have GBA titles on the eshop. I don't think it's a technical reason, just a sales one.

DS and then the 3ds line are all new systems.

And damn that is some expensive chicken! Maybe you could eat more eggs? 6 grams per egg, eggs are like a $1-2 a dozen usually.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Game boy advanced was a new system altogether. For some reason they just don't have GBA titles on the eshop. I don't think it's a technical reason, just a sales one.

I think it might be because of the Ambassador Program. Anyone who bought a 3DS in the first year before the price drop were given 10 NES games and 10 GBA games for free.

 

[civvver]

I think it might be because of the Ambassador Program. Anyone who bought a 3DS in the first year before the price drop were given 10 NES games and 10 GBA games for free.

Yes but there are a lot of titles outside of those and that was almost 7 years ago. Surely those ambassador members would be over it by now? Plus they got 10 GBA games, at like $7 a piece that's almost what the price drop was.

For anyone wondering, what happened was nintendo released the 3ds at $249 in march 2011. Sales were horrible, probably because it cost as much as a xbox 360 at the time, while gameboys have historically been cheaper than tv consoles, so they did a big price cut to $169 in june. Of course that completely pissed off anyone who had already bought it so they released a bunch of digital games for them to make it up to them as exclusives.

 

[Arakhor]

First one I think, but it doesn't exactly come up very often so wait for a second opinion.

I'd agree with you.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I caught part of that one time. I'll have to make a point of listening for its theme music. Was Victoria also called "Gloriana"? Or do the theme lyrics put her in connection with the earlier great female monarch? How is it Gloriana is getting mentioned in the music for a show on Victoria?

I'm honestly not sure. Both of them had long reigns (the current Queen has outdone them). I'm not up on the highlights of Queen Victoria's reign (evidently there are a lot of historical liberties taken with this series) so I don't know if she merits being "Gloriana 2.0".

I'm just watching it because it's entertaining, and because it's a relief to find that Jenna Coleman isn't awful in everything, just Doctor Who.

 

[Takhisis]

Hey, you Brits on the site, do you pronounce Queen Elizabeth I's nickname (nickname? sobriquet?) Glori-ahn-a or Glori-ann-a?

I do hope you realise there's more than the one British accent?

 

[Gori the Grey]

I do. And if it impacts pronunciation of this particular word, I expect I'll be told as much.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I do hope you realise there's more than the one British accent?

Of course there are lots, but since nobody who is actually from the UK seems to be chiming in here to definitively answer the question, all I have to go by are historical dramas.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is "Walking on Sunshine" or "Don't Worry, Be Happy" the cheerier song?

The crappy, pop love song comes across as cheerier, but is cheeriness doesn't last. It fades as quickly as the song. Now, the subtler, DWBH is more satisfying and interesting. It will add more contentment to your life long after the song ends.

 

[Arakhor]

Of course there are lots, but since nobody who is actually from the UK seems to be chiming in here to definitively answer the question, all I have to go by are historical dramas.

Well, I've only ever heard "Glori-AHna", but it's hardly a common word to use, even in historical circles.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

It's a word I've heard, and heard in the "ahna" version, but to be honest I wouldn't have known it was the Queen's nickname (or whatever it is).

 

[Borachio]

Doesn't it just apply to Elizabeth I?

 

[Arakhor]

It refers to Edmund Spencer's poem, The Faerie Queene, which was supposedly about Elizabeth I.

 

[Mouthwash]

Does the Pope theoretically still have the right to bestow the office of Roman Emperor?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Wouldn't that be a bit pointless, considering the Western Empire ended in 476 and Constantinople fell in 1453?

 

[Traitorfish]

Wouldn't that be a bit pointless, considering the Western Empire ended in 476 and Constantinople fell in 1453?

The last titular Roman Emperor reigned until 1806, though, and given that his abdication was forced by the bayonets of the Grand Armée rather than by any Papal writ, there's a reasonable case that the office is vacant, rather than non-existent.

 

[sophie]

@Kyriakos or @Takhisis

Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni has a Greek phrase in it (written in Latin script) - any chance either of you could transliterate/translate it for me?

in the original text it is: ton Phragkon philon echis, gitona ouk echis. The English translation has it as "The Frank is a good friend but a bad neighbor", although echis is a conjugation of ἔχω (I have)? So my guess would be something along the lines of "You have/(maybe consider?) (in) the Franks a friend, (but) you do not have a neighbor" so transliterated it would be "Φραγκον φιλὀν ἔχεις, γείτονα οὐκ ἔχεις" or whatever the equivalent transliteration would be in Koine/Byzantine Greek. Am I on the right track?

 

[Arakhor]

Technically, Franz II dissolved the entirety of the HRE rather than abdicating the throne, so the Pope would have to entirely reconstitute the Holy Roman Empire and there aren't exactly that many Catholic monarchs left. As I recall, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Monaco and San Marino are still Catholic, as are of course Andorra and the Vatican City, but they wouldn't qualify anyway.