Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:21 am 0

Everybody's Curling?

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:26 am 0

Anyone know when the browsers due for release? When it hits, this might be handy for a quick homebrew game.

http://www.wiicade.com/Home.aspx

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:27 am 0

xav wrote:
Darkflame wrote:
Apparently SD card saves are not transferable so I'll lose my saves
really O_o
Is each save-game coded to the console ID then?
I understand for VC stuff, but for saves that seems a little excessive.
If you think of it as a straight game save, then yes it seems a little draconian. However I can think of two reasons why they might want to lock them to the machine:

1) SD cards are easy to copy, so perhaps they're trying to head off the flow of ebay auctions for saved games which unlock all the extras (much like the many ebay auctions for 15 gazillion bells on Animal Crossing for the DS)

2) Hacking save files as a means to run exploit code or soft mods is quite a common approach on existing consoles. Locking the save file to the machine ID might make this harder to do.

But yeah, it sucks badly if your machine ever needs replacing.

So let me get this straight then - you can only download as many VC games as wil fit in the internal memory, and you can't save a game of anything at all and take it to a friend's house or use it on another Wii in your own house or other house, or if yours dies everything you've ever done in a game dies with it, which defeats the object of removable storage in the first place?

What about gamecube cards? I think I'm going to have to hold off buying a Wii until they get hacked to solve these issues.

arbster · Post by **arbster** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:34 pm 0

Anybody know how many simultaneous multi-player games Rayman Rabbids has? Also, will they need a nunchuck? Looking forward to plenty of multi-player fun over Christmas.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:36 pm 0

goatboy wrote:So let me get this straight then - you can only download as many VC games as wil fit in the internal memory

I thought you could save VC games onto the sd card too.

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:38 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
goatboy wrote:So let me get this straight then - you can only download as many VC games as wil fit in the internal memory
I thought you could save VC games onto the sd card too.

Correct.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:39 pm 0

arbster wrote:Anybody know how many simultaneous multi-player games Rayman Rabbids has? Also, will they need a nunchuck? Looking forward to plenty of multi-player fun over Christmas.

Don't know how many games it has, but I'm sure I saw a video of it starting up yesterday that had a screen telling you you needed a nunchuck.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:40 pm 0

HGFB wrote:
goatboy wrote:So let me get this straight then - you can only download as many VC games as wil fit in the internal memory
I thought you could save VC games onto the sd card too.

You can copy them onto the SD card, not sure if you can download them directly onto the card itself, but I expect you can. If you delete them you can download the ones you have purchased again for free (as it should be).

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:41 pm 0

Yak wrote:
arbster wrote:Anybody know how many simultaneous multi-player games Rayman Rabbids has? Also, will they need a nunchuck? Looking forward to plenty of multi-player fun over Christmas.
Don't know how many games it has, but I'm sure I saw a video of it starting up yesterday that had a screen telling you you needed a nunchuck.

It has 70 minigames, Super Monkey Ball has 50.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:42 pm 0

Roll on December 8th. Or Super Mario 64 in 480P day as I like to call it

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:44 pm 0

I fully expect that I will indeed be rolling on Dec 8th

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grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:45 pm 0

It really looks like the most anticipated launch around here.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:47 pm 0

The Wii should be great for parties with Wii Sports, Wii Play, SMB and Rabbids, with Wario Ware and Mario Party to look forward to.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:48 pm 0

Well, to be fair, ps3 is a ways off for us Euros, if it were around the same time there might be a bit more of a division. But due to timing Ninty's getting all the lovin'

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benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:52 pm 0

Alarm wrote:
Yak wrote:
arbster wrote:Anybody know how many simultaneous multi-player games Rayman Rabbids has? Also, will they need a nunchuck? Looking forward to plenty of multi-player fun over Christmas.
Don't know how many games it has, but I'm sure I saw a video of it starting up yesterday that had a screen telling you you needed a nunchuck.
It has 70 minigames, Super Monkey Ball has 50.

Some of the games are turn based rather than simultaneous.