Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:32 am 0

The fact that Wii Opera starts up so much quicker really does help - the beta startup times were a complete joke

But even so I think I've only used the internet channel 3 or 4 times since installing it, web browsing on a TV especially at such a low resolution is just a painful experience. I'd imagine at 720p / 1080p it's quite a bit easier...

Cheers

Bubba

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:35 am 0

I'm just looking at all my Nintendo games on the shelf here - does anyone know what the colour coding on the corner of the spine refers to? Most of mine are green, but there are a couple of yellow, blue or pink ones in there too and I can't think of any link between games of the same colour.

xav · Post by **xav** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:30 am 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:I'm just looking at all my Nintendo games on the shelf here - does anyone know what the colour coding on the corner of the spine refers to? Most of mine are green, but there are a couple of yellow, blue or pink ones in there too and I can't think of any link between games of the same colour.

Blue ones are meant for boys, pink ones for girls. Green ones are made by leprechauns and the yellow ones are just a rare printing error that will make them worth a fortune in years to come.

I might be making some of that up.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:22 pm 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:I'm just looking at all my Nintendo games on the shelf here - does anyone know what the colour coding on the corner of the spine refers to? Most of mine are green, but there are a couple of yellow, blue or pink ones in there too and I can't think of any link between games of the same colour.

It's to indicate which countries in Europe that particular version of the game was destined to be sold in. All games have English, but it's the particular combination of other languages that determines the colour flash.

Although I collect for the US Cube, I do have a few PAL titles that weren't released in the States. Pink flash means Germany and maybe Spain as well, green means France and Italy. I think heh... usually you don't get multilanguage manuals anyhow, just refers to the in-game language choices.

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:28 pm 0

Ahhhhhhhh... Cheers: You do learn something new every day.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:31 pm 0

Though I've not seen anything but green or pink on the shelves here... what other colours are there?

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:34 pm 0

Mayhem wrote:Though I've not seen anything but green or pink on the shelves here... what other colours are there?

I think I have a brown and a yellow. I'll check tonight.

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Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:41 pm 0

I've just had a quick check: I've got UK versions of WarioWare Touched, Phoenix Wright and Polarium that are all blue, none of which have any language selectioon except Phoenix Wright, which has English and French. It is quite a greeny-blue though, so I don't know if it's a print thing, although it would be slightly odd to have three games the exact same shade if it was in error.

I also have Project Rub which is yellow and has Japanese, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish language options.

All my Cube games are pink or green.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:53 pm 0

Bubba wrote:The fact that Wii Opera starts up so much quicker really does help - the beta startup times were a complete joke But even so I think I've only used the internet channel 3 or 4 times since installing it, web browsing on a TV especially at such a low resolution is just a painful experience. I'd imagine at 720p / 1080p it's quite a bit easier...

Well, if your planning to read anything off it thats just silly. (and it would only be marginaly better at HD, seeing as your still going to be much furthor from the screen then a pc).

However, I find it works great for tv-links and other such sites.

I did. First game of each minigame I thought it was fantastic (except the baseball). Second was a bit... is this it? Third I got bored in.

If you only enjoyed one game of each, thats just not likeing the game period.

And I've never known so many people so happy to sell a console they've had for three or four months.

well, I know about 6 people wanting to buy one....

phattslagg · Post by **phattslagg** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:11 pm 0

Dio wrote:
First game of each minigame I thought it was fantastic (except the baseball). Second was a bit... is this it?

The thing is - that isn't it. Both Tennis and Bowling allow for considerable development in skill - I don't doubt the same is true of the others, but I tend to play those two the most.

Excite Truck is still a blast as a one-player, and I fully intend to put more time into SSX Blur when I get the chance, which seems to have plenty of depth.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:17 pm 0

Bubba wrote:The fact that Wii Opera starts up so much quicker really does help - the beta startup times were a complete joke But even so I think I've only used the internet channel 3 or 4 times since installing it, web browsing on a TV especially at such a low resolution is just a painful experience. I'd imagine at 720p / 1080p it's quite a bit easier...

You obviously haven't compared it to the PS3's browser then. The Wii's implementation blows it out of the water imo.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 4:36 pm 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:All my Cube games are pink or green.

Yeah I was just talking about Cube games there... I've seen other colours for DS games.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:04 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:You obviously haven't compared it to the PS3's browser then. The Wii's implementation blows it out of the water imo.

Nope, we never tried the PS3 browser. Not terribly suprised though - isn't it a variant of the PSP's browser? Wii Browser at 720p or 1080p would be nice but I still think for what I use web browsing for (mostly reading text) it'd be lousy.

Hadn't thought of TVLinks though...

Cheers

Bubba

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:23 pm 0

Bubba wrote:
GeeZa wrote:You obviously haven't compared it to the PS3's browser then. The Wii's implementation blows it out of the water imo.
Nope, we never tried the PS3 browser. Not terribly suprised though - isn't it a variant of the PSP's browser? Wii Browser at 720p or 1080p would be nice but I still think for what I use web browsing for (mostly reading text) it'd be lousy.

Hadn't thought of TVLinks though...

I think it is similar to the PSP browser yup. But my point really is that if you're sat well away from the TV/monitor, the extra resolution doesn't seem to help. You have a choice of either scaled-down blurry text (SD) or pin-sharp tiny text (HD), both effectively impossible to read. It's the same running Firefox through Yellow Dog, basically useless at distance.

So it's really the nice interface to Wii Opera that actually makes it usable, B-dragging, quick zooms and pans. Despite the lower resolution I personally find it much more usable, in fact the lower resolution probably helps. At least that's what I've found. Zooming in and then trying to move around with the d-pad or stick sucks. Seems to me browsers kinda blow without a mouse-like interface.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:32 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:
Bubba wrote:The fact that Wii Opera starts up so much quicker really does help - the beta startup times were a complete joke But even so I think I've only used the internet channel 3 or 4 times since installing it, web browsing on a TV especially at such a low resolution is just a painful experience. I'd imagine at 720p / 1080p it's quite a bit easier...
You obviously haven't compared it to the PS3's browser then. The Wii's implementation blows it out of the water imo.

You finished Resistance yet?