Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:46 pm 0

I see the torrented SMG is working with all Wii keys now....

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:24 am 0

Yay: with my GAME points, my SMG pre-order has just set me back a princely Â£15.

Roll on the 16th!

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:12 am 0

Its magical

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:16 pm 0

Possibly a daft question, but will the PAL version of Super Mario Galaxy definitely support 480p mode/resolution?

Nixie · Post by **Nixie** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:53 pm 0

all Big Ninty games have done up until now, so I'd be surprised if it didnt.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 8:08 pm 0

Ta, hope so otherwise I'll have to unplug the Wii from my 17" VGA monitor and suffer with the display on my 14" TV.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:18 am 0

Mario Galaxy gets 10/10 in Eurogamer. I think we can get some kind of yay for that.

chub · Post by **chub** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:23 am 0

GeeZa wrote:Mario Galaxy gets 10/10 in Eurogamer. I think we can get some kind of yay for that.

Yay!

When's it out, the 16th is it? That looks like a busy gaming weekend then, as Assassin's Creed is out then too.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:37 am 0

GeeZa wrote:Mario Galaxy gets 10/10 in Eurogamer. I think we can get some kind of yay for that.

Didn't like it much did they:

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=86873

Careful if anyone is trying to avoid spoilers as the review naturally contains some screenshots (and fookin' gorgeous they look too).

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:57 pm 0

IronGiant wrote:Ta, hope so otherwise I'll have to unplug the Wii from my 17" VGA monitor and suffer with the display on my 14" TV.

How do you have your Wii connected up to your monitor? I wondered about this setup a while ago.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:11 am 0

Just bought one of these:

http://www.thegametrain.com/xcm-1080p-v ... p-297.html

More technie details here:

http://www.xcm.cc/xcm_1080p_vga_box.htm

I bought mine from thegametrain.com as Simon (owner???) was extremely helpful via email and also agreed to refund the cost (minus postage) if I wasn't happy with it within the first few days.

Please bear in mind that, particularly in the UK, such a unit has limitations when used with a Wii and a VGA monitor, the main ones being:

a) You can't run UK Virtual Console games (except for PC Engine/Turbo Grafx games). If you have a US Wii all VC games should though run via the unit on a VGA monitor
b) Some (maybe all?) UK Gamecube games won't run on a UK Wii with this unit
c) Some Wii games won't run on this either - the key thing is whether the game supports 480p (EDTV/HDTV) resolution. Most 1st and 2nd party games do, so for example all Nintendo games should.

Overall though I'm most happy with the picture quality on my 17" Iiyama monitor, although I needed to add a capacitor to each of the colour lines in my VGA cable, as without them the colours were a bit washed out (this won't be necessary on all monitors).

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:48 am 0

Should be here before Galaxy:

http://www.destructoid.com/super-mario- ... 2642.phtml

...and frankly, that's the best value game on the market today.

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:15 pm 0

Just thought i'd post to keep this thread on the front page

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:31 pm 0

Thought you'd still be playing SMG.

MegaZoid. · Post by **MegaZoid.** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:20 am 0

on 41 stars at the moment

Its been a while since a game has held my attention this long