Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:37 am 0

I cannot imagine Nintendo wrecking the freeloader on purpose, they have never had such an attitude in the past, have they?

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:05 am 0

Marius wrote:I cannot imagine Nintendo wrecking the freeloader on purpose, they have never had such an attitude in the past, have they?

Oaf · Post by **Oaf** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:25 am 0

Are there any good multiplayer DS games out? By multiplayer I mean me and the mrs on separate DS's.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:43 am 0

Marius wrote:I cannot imagine Nintendo wrecking the freeloader on purpose, they have never had such an attitude in the past, have they?

They've never had the opportunity until now though have they? This is really the first gen with easy to apply firmware updates.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:08 am 0

After about 6 months, the Nintendo DS' firmware was updated (in new shipped units) to a version which ignored 'PassMe's.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:29 am 0

Marius wrote:I cannot imagine Nintendo wrecking the freeloader on purpose, they have never had such an attitude in the past, have they?

I would if I was them, deliberately and with severe malice although in this case I reckon they just dont care whether the freeloader works or not.

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:28 am 0

Oaf wrote:Are there any good multiplayer DS games out? By multiplayer I mean me and the mrs on separate DS's.

Short answer: yes, loads.

42 All-Time Classics and Mario Kart spring to mind, but there are literally dozens more.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:29 am 0

Insufficient Bomberman!

Oaf · Post by **Oaf** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:32 am 0

Alarm wrote:
Oaf wrote:Are there any good multiplayer DS games out? By multiplayer I mean me and the mrs on separate DS's.
Short answer: yes, loads.

42 All-Time Classics and Mario Kart spring to mind, but there are literally dozens more.

Ah I didn't know there were that many - I'll dig out the Best DS Games thread and see which ones wifey likes

Alarm · Post by **Alarm** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:37 am 0

Japanese software sales: July 30th - Aug 5th

01. [PS2] J-League Winning Eleven 2007: Club Championship (Konami) - 150,000 / NEW
02. [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) - 135,000 / 400,000
03. [PS3] Hot Shots Golf 5 (Sony) - 64,000 / 216,000
04. [NDS] It's a Wonderful World (Square-Enix) - 33,000 / 110,000
05. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo) - 29,000 / 697,000
06. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 28,000 / 1,971,000
07. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 27,000 / 1,579,000
08. [NDS] Face Training DS (Nintendo) - 22,000 / NEW
09. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 21,000 / 4,677,000
10. [NDS] Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Nintendo) - 21,000 / 476,000

11. [PS2] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 14 (Konami)
12. [WII] Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Square-Enix)
13. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo)
14. [PSP] Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Capcom)
15. [WII] Endless Ocean (Nintendo)
16. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
17. [NDS] Itadaki Street DS (Square-Enix)
18. [WII] Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 (Bandai-Namco)
19. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
20. [NDS] Brain Age (Nintendo)
21. [NDS] Naruto Shippuuden: Strongest Ninjas Unite 5: Decisive Battle at Dawn (Takara-Tomy)
22. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS (Bandai-Namco)
23. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo)
24. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Diamond (PokÃ©mon)
25. [WII] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Wii (Konami)
26. [NDS] English Training (Nintendo)
27. [NDS] Kanji Brain Test 2M (IE Institute)
28. [NDS] PokÃ©mon Pearl (PokÃ©mon)
29. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)
30. [NDS] Chibi Robo! Park Patrol (Nintendo)

NDS - 18
WII - 7
PS2 - 2
PSP - 2
PS3 - 1

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:54 am 0

Heh cool, as a result of last update.

Go to write email on Wii
Plug a keyboard into the Wii's USB port
Type away

Works with my Saitek Eclipse 2.

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:00 pm 0

disciple wrote:Heh cool, as a result of last update.

Go to write email on Wii

Plug a keyboard into the Wii's USB port

Type away
Works with my Saitek Eclipse 2.

Before this update what exactly did the USB's support?

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:07 pm 0

Nuthin'

fog · Post by **fog** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:36 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:Nuthin'

As I thought. Just checking they hadn't slipped in a previous update to support flash drives or something that I'd missed

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:32 pm 0

Flabio wrote:I doubt they've gone and said 'lets put in this bit of code that says "if its freeloader, don't boot" ' though. It's probably more likely they've closed whatever loophole that disc was using to boot without the digital signature. So it closes off anything that was using that to boot, not just the freeloader.

By the looks of it, they've banned a specific way of booting GC discs (Something to do with El Torito) as it was used for a lot of the modchip configuration discs. However, if you have a modded Wii you can still boot out of region games quite happily

I don't think GC stuff has any kind of digital signatures to block - I suspect they've just picked up that some discs were El Torito and official GC discs weren't, so have banned it.

If you have a modded Wii and need to use the mod configuration disc then simply launch it through GCOS (which can be downloaded from various different GC Homebrew places) and it will work fine.

And yes, Ninty have specifically broken the freeloader before - the last run of gamecubes wouldn't boot it...

Cheers

Bubba