New Super Mario Bros. (latest pics)

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Sweet.

[Samus]

Some Famitsu scans :

Beautiful :)

Some of the new gameplay ideas look excellent, that shell hijacksurf-thing looks especially nice! Shame that I've lost the place where I saw it on video...

[namor7]

Looks brilliant if you ask me...

And about the GBA versions, I don't see how you can rip on Nintendo for that. If I was a ten year old kid who discovered the games because of the re-releases, I know I'd be thankful they were made

Related news...go into any Tesco, Lotte Mart, or department store here in Korea and check out the videogames section. You'll see a new, official, shiny Xbox 360 sample station, a PS2 station next to it, a couple sample PSPs, and then tucked away in the aisle with a kiddie stool in front of it is a pirated Chinese NES emulator box thingy on an ancient 19" tv. Know what gets the most attention by a longshot? The tattered NES box. And what is, out of 2000 games, being played 90% of the time? Super Mario Bros 3. By kids who weren't even born when it came out and even their folks. I say it's high time for a new one

[Samus]

Some new(ish) pics for those interested, can't wait for the game myself :)

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0604/game060405c.shtml

[Governmentyard]

If this is good enough, the entire next generation can go and fuck itself. What more do you need, really?

[IronGiant]

Looks lovely to me and just gives me even more of an incentive to buy a DS Lite (as if I needed one ........ )

[Zoot]

So it's another Mario game. And we take the piss out of EA for rebadging Fifa every year. Super Mario Land was good, it consumed a month of the lives of people I work with, and we had good fun completing it, but I doubt we'd want to sit through another version.

Mind you, Tetris DS could be fun, but that's simply because it's one of the simplest games on the planet, and so long as you keep the original gameplay in there it can't go wrong (so I fully expect the gameplay to be "different" and strange and not as good as the original).

Super Mario World is the most compelling game I have ever played in my life.

It's the best game in the world, innit?

[toxibunny]

So it's another Mario game. And we take the piss out of EA for rebadging Fifa every year. Super Mario Land was good, it consumed a month of the lives of people I work with, and we had good fun completing it, but I doubt we'd want to sit through another version.

Mind you, Tetris DS could be fun, but that's simply because it's one of the simplest games on the planet, and so long as you keep the original gameplay in there it can't go wrong (so I fully expect the gameplay to be "different" and strange and not as good as the original).

Super Mario World is the most compelling game I have ever played in my life.

It's the best game in the world, innit?

best launch title in the world, but then yoshi's island came along... it's way better

plus SMB3 is better than SMW, also...

[Istar]

Looks like a Great Giana sisters rip off.

Looks like a Monkey Kong rip-off.

[Samus]

And the review is up at IGN, also many vids in GameSpot and IGN.

Excellent stuff

http://ds.ign.com/articles/705/705537p1.html

[IronGiant]

Wow - if that's not a must-buy DS game then I don't know what is.

[GeeZa]

Better than Yoshi's Island? Now we're fucking talkin'.

[PVB]

Bit of a mini-thread-jack (apologies for that) but with the new DS screen being so much brighter than the old one, is there any word on how much that will affect battery life?

The DS Lite will come with four adjustable levels of screen
brightness, with the maximum setting being five times as
luminous as the original DS's. Battery life has also been
improved. The original DS ran 6 to 10 hours on a full recharge,
and the DS Lite runs for about the same number of hours on its
maximum brightness. The new model can run 15 to 19 hours on
its lowest brightness, 10 to 15 hours on its second level of
brightness, 7 to 11 hours on its third level, and 5 to 8 hours on the
maximum level. What's more, the DS Lite's battery recharges in
three hours, which is an hour less than the original DS.

I doubt those figures for the Lite take into account using games over WiFi.

I'm playing Animal Crossing at the moment, and with a couple of hours of connecting it to WiFi I'm guessing the total play time per battery charge is less than 5 hours, with brightness set at half.

[Spoongod]

YOu know, the more I wait the less I'm bothered. I'm still interested in New Mario Bros, but I'm just not looking forward too it as much.

I think this is because I need Animal Crossing. Also, I've not yet seen a copy of Electroplankton for sale. Argh.. I NEED THAT BLOOMIN' GAME!!!!

[Spoongod]

I've some video from my dad's digital camera which is in .asf format but I'd really like to convert it to Mpeg so it can be watched on his DVD player. Anybody know of any coverters, prefferably sharware or, even better, freeware. Thank you in advance, everyone.