yeah you want it to be bright if you have sun glare

Shin megami tensei IV and Apocalypse would like word with you

Yep, they most likely did in on purpose for being portable. Dark areas are BAD on handhelds, especially when it's sunny. Just last week I've tried playing new Pokemon Snap outside. The day levels were fine, but the nightlevels absolutely unplayable, even tough I wasn't directly in the sun. Therefore I can totally understand that decison. It might be more atmospheric and a little bit nicer when the game is rather dark, but a Handheld Port that isn't playable outside kinda defeats the purpose.

They could make the game as dark as they wanted, a simple gamma control option would compensate for the handheld screen without sacrificing art style.

@@ShadowMan64572 yeah its not hard to change the lighting or texturing like that

Makes the Romani Milk a great item to take to the bay with you!

@@josephharb4607 yeah I always get that before the moon 😂

Aswell, as the fishing and bosses

The changes to Zora and Deku Link are the only real problems with the remake. Sure, the bosses are worse but they're still (mostly) fine.

@@noodlebakeellie8243 it was ok for like a easy mode for newcomers but why didn't they just add like a master quest mode. Would loved the challenge.

There used to be speed runners who would try to beat all of Majora's Mask in a single 3 day cycle using the 1/3 speed inverted song of time. This kinda broke those challenge runs.

​@@MonsucoYeah trying to do as many side quests to do in a single circle for the timeline to be the best for everyone (except for one old lady)

Is there any way to get the patch onto a 3DS system since my game is already installed on to the system memory?

Do you still not recommend Citra for MM newcomers?

@@RamblingGreek I wouldn't recommend it as a first time player, but that's just me. Even if you have a really creative set up with touch screen shortcuts and all that, I think the dual screen stuff on a PC takes you out of it a bit. Your results may vary

What's so bad about the GC version? I played it long ago and it ran fine for me.

Most notably, the GCN version has a tendency to crash when you enter Great Bay in particular, but the emulation is unstable enough it can crash basically anywhere. The aiming is also really bad due to not being adjusted for the GCN's analog stick.

Did you pull that from schafrillas' majora's mask video? Lol.

Thank you man, glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks brah. Softmodding a 3DS is very easy now, just follow this guide: 3ds.hacks.guide/

Agree. While MM3D did some questionable changes, I cannot go back to the N64 version, because of just how much smoother the 3DS remake is in its gameplay. It feels so much less clunky, the framerate is higher, models and textures are much better, etc

WwwWario “Questionable changes.” If by questionable, you mean downright stupid, then yes. Who cares if the textures and models are better? The remake is a piece of shit.

@@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333 I personally didn't find them stupid. My biggest disappointment is the Zora swim change, but it's nothing I cannot live with. And personally I take that any day to have a much smoother and better engine

the touchpad on my DS4 controller serves as a touchscreen so i don't have too much trouble on citra

@@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333 Look. You like the game for different reasons. Some people like a streamlined and less clunky experience that is actually good to look at

@Some Guy I've played it countless times, what about you?

@Some Guy though I do agree the N64 version is the overall best I have to disagree about the 3DS version being "unplayable". I would say it's still a good game in it's own right. Like I said before, the Odolwa fight is the biggest blemish on the 3DS version imo and the changes to Twinrova are questionable but I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as what they did to Odolwa and I think Goht and Gyorg are just fine with how they changed them so they can't be cheesed easily like in the N64 version. (Especially Goht, you can just side hop back and forth into line of sight and shoot arrows at him on N64 OR get the right angle on him while Goron rolling and just kill him in one cycle like how you can do the same with Gyorg with Zora magic swimming)

honestly i don’t agree with the zora swimming. i get making chateau romani more useful, but compromising the zora swimming isn’t the way to do it. there should’ve been a better way to make chateau romani more useful, but this isn’t the way to do it, not when it compromises the zora gameplay by having to veer out of the way to hit magic pots, and the fact that they added no magic to the bay after moving shiro to the fortress, meaning if you get to the fortress after draining your magic, you’re not seeing him

The guy he mentioned in the video, Nerrel, is actually working on an HD texture pack for the game on PC (and it's almost done!). Might be worth checking out, if you're interested.

@@arekusu. ​ Nerrel's texture pack is gonna be great. I don't want to speak for him but he's said a few times that he expects it to be done for the game's anniversary on Halloween 2020. My favourite KZfaqr for sure.

@@arekusu. a texture pack for the N64 version? I'll take a look, thanks for the tip!

Honestly, the recompilation project (Zelda 64 recompiled) is excellent and adds d-pad support for masks and instruments. It also incorporates gyro aiming through steam input

20Fps isn't hard to look at, you're clearly older than me so i find it funny you'd have this opinion

@@treeman73272 graphic hogs lmao

@@innocentzbat He prefers 30fps version so why can't he

The static recompilation project works excellently well. It adds gyroscopic aiming through steam input and allows for d-pad input for instruments and masks

3d or n64 ?

@@dlinkdj n64 :)

be proud of urself man. i would be

@@shridharmohanch i do that game is incredible and my country languaje is spanish and i've complete it on english

@@mr_link_ sigues jugando? Pillé una 3ds y quería algún código de amigo ;)

Its the definitive Version now

It definitely seems like an upgrade, but idk if "Playable again" is the right term lol

I played the 3ds version first and fell in love with the game so it obiously aint all bad

@@Ultra_Baby_Bros it's not bad at all. It's just not the best you can get. Of course it's way easier to legitimately play on the 3DS rather than the original N64 (which can be a pain in the ass with controls and lag sometimes) or the emulated versions.

This is why as a young player, I'm scared of the n64 version. 20 fps will stutter on my TV. And that is a real shame.

Today is your lucky day: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJ6RoJWo3N7elpc.html

Can it be used as a .Cia file ON the nn3ds?

The n64 version will always be my favorite and with nerrels or texture pack it almost looks just as good as the 3ds version (n64 has a lower polygon count and there is AFAIK nothing you can do about that) Also i prefer the dark lighting like 100x more than the shit the remake has

Also, Dolphin's solution to this was to create a massive shader library to draw from on game start, which is super GPU intensive, and takes years of work to finish PER CONSOLE, assuming the console, aside from shader emulation, is almost 100% accurate. So Dolphin no longer suffers from this problem because their devs are some of the best in the homebrew scene, and they're 100% butt-fuck insane.

After reading a lot of the comments it seems like it really is just on my end. My knowledge of emulation isn't the best, but it's a topic I'm always interested in. Your explanation was really thorough and interesting, so thanks for writing it all up. I'll have a go of the window trick soon, glad to hear it fixed your issues.

Hey there thanks for this comment it was very helpful. Can you describe what you mean by citra in fullscreen with the window active? Is that different than true fullscreen (F11)? Thanks!

@@Max-vg8wm I think what he means is to make sure Citra is the selected application when you play. (highlighted in the taskbar, though you wouldn't need the taskbar to be visible, as it wouldn't be when in true fullscreen anyway)

You need to get four from the pirate fortress and three from the eels lair. You get to the eels lair by speaking to the fisherman by the ocean in his hut. Things should become clear from there.

@@MCsonic537 I’ve reached the eels layer and bought back two eggs but it won’t let me put them in the tank

Just stand on top of the tank and open the bottles. That should work

​​@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506you you have to be in the middle of the tank Also if you've already reunited the seahorses you'll have to find your way back through the maze of signs yourself but it's not too hard if you look up how to get through it

Wish they made a third game after Majora's mask and made it a trilogy.

First I just wanna say thanks for watching the whole video and managing to put up with me for that long. I really appreciate people taking the time to watch long videos from someone relatively new like myself. But funnily enough I don't think I really have much nostalgia for Majora's Mask, though I get what you mean. I grew up playing OOT and MM on the Gamecube, but as a kid I was far too stupid to make it past Woodfall. I first beat it on the 3DS when that version came out, then went back and beat the N64 version about two years ago. I didn't feel much nostalgia for it all, but I did feel like it was a more rewarding, challenging and moody experience than what I had beat on the 3DS after high school. I feel great nostalgia for the N64 version of OOT, but not enough to blind me that the 3DS version will be the far more enjoyable experience for most people, old and new. I don't think the same is true for adults who're curious about MM. I think the aesthetics of the experience are a huge part of why people loved Majora's Mask. They're perfect, and that's why it's such a shame that Grezzo fumbled the audio and wrecked the ambiance of so many environments to make the game more visually clear for portable play. The Anju/Kafei scene is one of the most especially egregious changes. In the original, the dim light coming through the window of the inn really made it feel like Link, Anju and Kafei were standing on the edge of time at the end of the world - "We shall greet the morning together." In the remake, it's completely flat and lifeless. If that was just one moment out of a whole game (see Ganon in OOT3D), I wouldn't care too much. But they ballsed up the mood of so many huge scenes that I find it hard to just take it as a trade-off. I generally don't like remakes outside of a few obvious choices like REmake and Halo 2 Anniversary. I think almost everyone could agree that they're more bad than good. People who are barely into video games may struggle with older graphics, but I think people who feel passionate about vidya need to get over it a bit. Outside of cases where the old game is borderline unplayable or its just a resolution bump/QoL changes, I usually recommend people play the original instead to expand their horizons and appreciate gaming history a bit. I don't think there's a hard rule about it, but people should do their homework in these situations, that's why I made this video. This is totally anecdotal, but in my experience, the people who ALWAYS go for the remakes are the same people who find black and white movies "unwatchable" because they've never challenged themselves to enjoy something beyond their time. I really regret that I didn't know about the N64 Majora's Mask REDUX mod before I made this video too. It adds masks on the Dpad, arrow switching and a few other good QoL changes similar to Restoration. The 3DS's 30fps is objectively superior to 20fps for sure, but after two minutes of playing the Wii VC version, I rarely ever thought about it myself. The unsteady 20-15fps on the N64 hardware is absolutely shithouse though, you're right. But at a rock solid locked 20fps on emulators, it never personally bothered me. Sorry for the wall of text, but I figured this comment might be useful for other viewers who have the same thoughts as you. I probably should have addressed that in the video, but I wanted to keep things concise. Thanks again for watching and giving your thoughts, have a good one.

From an objective standpoint, the 3ds version with the fix is technically superior and carries across lots of the missed quality-of-life things Nintendo missed; but he still prefers the original because the mood of the core game - through music, visual style and challenge - weren't as accurately portrayed. Whether that important to you comes down to preference. I doubt we'll ever get a fix that replaces all of the textures and tweaks all the lighting to better match the original because it would take an enormous amount of work

@@stankostankochunt5837 there's a youtuber named Nerrel who's doing a texture project also uses modern shaders that is more closely adjusted to the original colors and tones of the n64 version, he's doing both the n64 and 3ds versions. i think that might be to the liking of people who like the original's atmosphere better. the music is another story, it's not so easy to replace that for fan modders

Completely

my first zelda game was MM3D but i prefer the N64, Nostalgia doesn't have a big factor in this, it's just wanting to play the better version which is the original

For stone temple here’s what I definitely recommend doing if your gonna try to beat the boss twinmole and get the great fairy sword: Whenever you get light arrows deposit your rupees and all that and go back to the first day via the song of time and then when you come back shoot the red gem and basically it makes it to where you can finish the temple by the dawn of the second day if combined with the song of inverted time

Just use reshade if you care enough

@@bojaidin How would I use reshade on a goddamn 3DS? And if I'm emulating on PC I'd playing N64 version anyway because it's adapted for one screen and is easier to set up

@@lemonov3031 Citra is objectively the definitive way to play. You don't need to use a second screen to play with the restoration mod. Citra and the restoration mod are plug and play, don't really get how that's harder to setup than RetroArch.

@@bojaidin Oh yeah, so plug and play that you have to bother with reshades which there countless verisons of and set up everything while also having a good gaming rig to run the thing with possible visual bugs. Plug and play my ass

@@lemonov3031 uh Reshade is optional. It's easy to setup anyways lol Just drag and drop a preset you like and you're done

See, randomizers are fun and all, but with Majora’s Mask that “fat” is half the reason to play the game. The dialogue and characters are so great that I wouldn’t really call a randomizer the “most fun” way to play Majora’s Mask.

lol its on citra emulator

@@omargt738 Nop!

@@omargt738 and on 3ds too...

3D All Stars is neither a port nor a remake. It's pure emulation for the first two titles and a hybrid of port/emulation for Galaxy.

You really dropped the ball by not recommending the patch and texture pack for N64. But well Now you hace a new video material! And if you dont know it, look it up, its by Nerrel and it elevates the n64 game by a lot