Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Gokou-Dragonspirit · Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:20 pm 0

Everyone who already has a Wii, DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!

I'm so jealous right now it isn't even funny....

By the way that guy in the photo with Reggie, he deserves that 1st Wii.

The first buyer, Isaiah Triforce Johnson, had been waiting outside the store for more than a week. He wore a Nintendo Power Glove, a wearable controller that came out in 1989, while shaking hands with Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Johnson said he had legally changed his name to include a reference to Nintendo's "Zelda" series of games.

D.J.Fudge · Post by **D.J.Fudge** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:28 pm 0

Artist/designer David Stubbs and two partners are launching an ambitious site on November 19th, to coincide with the arrival of the Wii, called WiiCade.

The site features Flash games that you can play on the Wii through the Opera browser, and also access via your PC to upload new games or try your hand at designing your own. They should have 15 Flash games up at launch, including two exclusives that feature unique use the Wiimote. Games will auto-fit on all TV screens and are vector based, which should mean no jaggies.

This is one of the first homebrew efforts we've seen for the Wii, and we hope to see a lot more in the coming months. The Opera browser and the Wiimote will hopefully make this an attractive target for homebrewers, and hackers as well.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/17/for-y ... t-wiicade/

http://www.wiicade.com/Home.aspx

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:08 pm 0

Rock on December 7

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:30 pm 0

Does anyone know what the Gamecube compatibility is and whether I need to buy a Wavebird to play GC games? Gonna trawl around some stores today for el-cheapo used GC games, I really want Soul Caliber 2 and Ikaruga. Quite fancy playing RE4 again too....

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:32 pm 0

Gamecube compatibility is supposed to be 100% isn't it? You don't need a wavebird. A normal GC wired controller will work fine.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:40 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Gamecube compatibility is supposed to be 100% isn't it? You don't need a wavebird. A normal GC wired controller will work fine.

Cheers, the Wii manual doesn't mention compatibility (from my brief skip through) so I'm assuming everything works. This is cool as I also have a bunch of GC memory cards and an old controller. Be good to pick up some GC classics that I missed.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:42 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:Gonna trawl around some stores today for el-cheapo used GC games, I really want Soul Caliber 2 and Ikaruga.

You'll be lucky finding a copy of Ikaruga, it was only ever a limited run, iirc, and still gets a fair amount on ebay.

Get a Dreamcast instead

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:58 pm 0

LJ friends list: Strangely enough whereas only one person in Japan got a ps3 and hasn't really said much more about it except to say that he got it, now there are quite a few people on there who appear to have spent considerable chunks of yesterday in front of the telly.

It's not quite rivers of Wii yet, but it is interesting

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Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:02 pm 0

Aye I thought the Sony thread would be full to the brim with gloating by now

Good Zelda video review here -

http://uk.media.wii.ign.com/media/748/7 ... ids_1.html

Duck Turkin · Post by **Duck Turkin** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:27 pm 0

Deckard wrote:Aye I thought the Sony thread would be full to the brim with gloating by now

If we could get our hands on one, you might then be right

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Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:38 pm 0

Just to punch a man whens he down I note very unpositive reviews of most if not all the current Blu-Ray players floating around and theyre not cheap too - cant see the fuss meself

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:55 pm 0

Deckard wrote:Just to punch a man whens he down I note very unpositive reviews of most if not all the current Blu-Ray players floating around and theyre not cheap too - cant see the fuss meself

The consensus seems to be that the PS3 is the best Blu-ray player at the
moment, not really that surprising if you ask me.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=752721

BTW that forum is very good for HD info. There are people there who
have multiple players, both formats, 360 with HD-DVD and PS3 and
so on. Lots of money for toys.

I think it was on there that someone played a CEDIA demo disk with
some 40 Mb/s AVC video and said the PS3 played it flawlessly, God
knows what sort of monster PC you'd need for that.

At the end of the day though studios should stop shovelling out the MPEG2
they've sitting on the shelves and make use of VC1 and AVC for both
HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

It reminds me very much of when DVD launched, it was slated by LD
owners as a lot of the early players and encodes were quite poor, but
that didn't last too long. I'm pretty sure HD-DVD and Blu-ray will both
be performing much better in a year or two.

Post by **Snakey** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:13 pm 0

GeeZa wrote:Now *this* does look 60fps to me

Without even seeing it, I can say with 100% confidence - yes it is. Super Monkey Ball is a game that needs 60fps to feel right. Sounds like they've just used the extra power of the Wii GPU to add some nice effects. Good stuff. Sega know their shit

Roobarb wrote:...but unlike the launch of the PS3, the assembled queues are showered with love rather than bullets

Yeah, might have been different if people thought they could sell the Wii for $1000 on ebay, though.

Roobarb wrote:Eviscerated Wii

Argh. What the fuck would you want to do that for? Fucks sake...

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:22 pm 0

Well, they're not expensive, and there's plenty of them around

Post by **Snakey** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:24 pm 0

goatboy wrote:Well, they're not expensive, and there's plenty of them around

You try telling that to all the people who can't get one. There is most certainly not plenty of them around