Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:24 pm 0

Given the filename contains the word 'contest' I'd suggest it's staged...

Roobarb · Post by **Roobarb** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:39 pm 0

Anyone know how the Wii / DS WiFi stuff works?

Can you set it up so the DS communicates with the Wii, and the Wii communicates with your PC+NintendoDongle / wireless router? This would handily get around the DS' lack of WPA support.

If not, how do set up a DS and Wii to talk to a NintendoDongle (does the dongle work in adhoc mode, or access point mode)?

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 1:40 pm 0

Atty wrote:Oooerr, this doesn't sound good - PAL Wii's may be receiving crummy old PAL VC games. Apparently Sonic the Hedgehog runs noticably slower and has those shitty old borders.

http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/06-12-2006-4221.html

At the moment the guy only mentions Sonic the Hedgehog as the basis for this, so hopefully it's just SEGA being wallies and everything else will run in proper full speed non-bordered mode, like it does in the states and japan. If we are stuck with shitty old PAL bodges of VC games, however, then that absolutely sucks bum.

Yeah a few people are reporting that. More worryingly though it also suggests we wont be getting anything that wasn't released here originally even if there's already a translated version available in the US. (I appreciate they might need other languages for Europe but at least give us the option).

Which is all a bit weird as you'd assume games that weren't available here originally they would be amongst the biggest sellers.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:22 pm 0

Sadly it might be all VC games. Someone over at NTSC-UK has got a PAL Wii hooked up and bought F-Zero in all its bordered, 50Hz glory.

Mele · Post by **Mele** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:27 pm 0

That is blast from the past the dreaded pal borders

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:32 pm 0

Friends of mine that never before showed any interest in consoles are suddenly very interested in the Wii. When I ask them about the PS3, they feel that one PC is enough

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:45 pm 0

I see Catz and the new Castlevania DS game are floating round the web for anyone with a flash card - Castlevania not getting the best reviews, anyone here playing it ?

Me gonna wait for the European/USA Rom and then buy when comes out here (Castlevania not Catz)

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:29 pm 0

Any ideas how much Wii games are going to be in the supermarkets? 35? 30?

Heres hoping NoE are doing their distribution better than with the GC.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:48 pm 0

benedictw wrote:Any ideas how much Wii games are going to be in the supermarkets? 35? 30?

Heres hoping NoE are doing their distribution better than with the GC.

Â£39.99 in our local Asda for Monkeyball or CoD3 (at least I think it was CoD3 they had there).

Cheers

Bubba

biggestjim · Post by **biggestjim** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:58 pm 0

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:01 pm 0

biggestjim wrote:

That was an IGN mock-up. I don't think it's coming out though, the classic controller must be the evolution of it. And you can't really use it instead of nunchuck+wiimote combo since they would probably need to move independently IMO.

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:06 pm 0

Aye that mock-up was from about a year ago. Nice idea though.

Anyone know what the funny catch mechanism on the back of the Classic controller is for? Obviously so something can click on and off but I've no idea what.

swith · Post by **swith** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:06 pm 0

PAL 50Hz black border shite? Right, fuck that. Completely fuck that. No way I'll be getting any VC games now until that's fixed. What a fucking disgrace!

Peet · Post by **Peet** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:31 pm 0

swith wrote:PAL 50Hz black border shite? Right, fuck that. Completely fuck that. No way I'll be getting any VC games now until that's fixed. What a fucking disgrace!

Yep, severly disappointed also. And I wasn't even planning on getting a Wii anytime too soon.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:32 pm 0

Deckard wrote:I see Catz and the new Castlevania DS game are floating round the web for anyone with a flash card - Castlevania not getting the best reviews, anyone here playing it ?

Me gonna wait for the European/USA Rom and then buy when comes out here (Castlevania not Catz)

I've played the new Japanese Castlevania a lot (and have ordered the US version from VG+) and I really enjoy it. It's more of the same, but with a hub system where you visit different lands (think Super Mario 64) and a nice 'control two players at once' device.