http://www.destructoid.com/emulators-ru ... 8056.phtmlA clever fox named NitrousXP used a five year old hack to run vintage games using a GameCube Action Replay disk. In this instructional video, he simply loads the software from SDLoad with pirated roms sitting in his flash card, then effortlessly illustrates how to play Super Nintendo games not yet available on the Wii VC (using SNES9X). Surely, more emulators also work with this hack for the uber impatient and loose of morals. That's so dirty!
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First Wii "hack"? Forget the VC and run your own Emulators and ROM's....
But they are all absolutely brilliant games and probably still fresh in the memory of the reviewers. Zelda might be the best game in the litter, but it's probably not that much better to put it in a class of it's own.Flabio wrote:I'd also argue that the new Zelda wasn't competing with FF12, DQ8 or Okami in Japan, as all three of those have been out there for a loooong time.
Or perhaps it is
And ten years from now TWW will most likely have aged much more gracefully than TP, because of it's cartoonish and "minimalistic" style.
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Got a magic call last night from GameStop. I had registered interest in the Wii way back before preorders started. I never heard a peep so I figured they either lost my name or just chucked the list in the bin. Well they called last night and said they got another shipment and asked if I'd like one? Yes please!
I felt dirty for buying it from GameStop (they tried to push a $30 protection plan for the system and $3 plan for Zelda), but at least I got a Wii. I've only played Wii Sports a short time. Looks to be grand fun.
I felt dirty for buying it from GameStop (they tried to push a $30 protection plan for the system and $3 plan for Zelda), but at least I got a Wii. I've only played Wii Sports a short time. Looks to be grand fun.
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4 Color Rebellion seems to think that the UK Wii Sports will come with a real DVD case. It's just us US scrubs that get a cardboard sleeve.
http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives ... ii-sports/
http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives ... ii-sports/
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Well, it feels like I had a good party last night and now I spread the gossip. Bottom line – the Wii is great, and above my expectations. I am not going to post spoilers for the games but just hint at the experience. First off let’s start with getting it out of the box.
Well it comes with the usual – the console, the power cord (very much like the NGC one with a small brick attached), one controller (remote and nunchuk), standard video out cables, and the sensor bar and its cradle. Connecting it all up was a doddle as you would expect. On to the startup…
Switch the Wii on and immediately the whole drive flashes a bright blue and the machine boots up. With it being the initial start up, you use the Wiimote to move around a small hand that represents your movement. The initial thing that hits you is how accurate it is. Despite you thinking otherwise it actually feels pretty good, with a small rumble initiated everytime the player goes over an interactive button. So you plod through the usual – date, time, name of console, screen configuration, and get these all configured.
Next up you are presented with what are meant to be the “channels†of the Wii. They are displayed as a series of television screens, and to access them you simply click on them. The first screen is the Wii/NGC disc channel. Putting in any game disc will change this channel to the game and then you can click on it to play. I tried RE4 for the NGC just to see how it worked; it’s all good. You put the disc in, and the Wii recognizes it and does the NGC bootup behind the Wii FE. You then click play and off you go. NGC controllers and memory cards go into the top of the Wii, both of which are concealed under two white flaps. I’ll come back to the Wii games in a min, onto the other channels.
Next up is the Mii channel. Here you can essentially build an avatar that you will use in future titles and can be attached to messages that you can send to other Wii friends. I quickly built mine and it is all pretty rudimentary – eyes, hair, skin colour, name etc. I didn’t really mess with this too much as there doesn’t seem to be much functionality related to this right now. However the potential is there and I look forward to seeing how this will work in future titles.
Next up I tried out the photo channel. This was all quite nice; my only gripe being you have to put your SD card into the actual unit. You can’t connect your camera via USB, which would be easier. It was made more of a pain by the fact that the SD card slot in the Wii doesn’t have an eject mechanic so you have to pull it out with your nails. Annoying. In fact I had to get some tweezers to get the card out! Strange oversight in my opinion. Viewing photos is flawless. I have a Canon digital camera and it recognized everything on there including the movies which it played back flawlessly. On top of this you can make a jigsaw out of any pictures you have and this is a small bit of fun. You unlock larger and larger numbers of pieces the more you play. Very nice. Other than this, there are some photo manipulation tools in there that are very basic – brightness, contrast stuff and some “wacky†things. The idea with this system is that you then can use these pics to save to the Wii internal memory (where save games are saved too BTW) and then send to friends with the messaging system.
Talking of the messaging system, it is very much like the DS. You need to exchange machine ID’s first before you recognize each others machines. I am yet to do this, but I will report back about this shortly as I have added some friends.
Anyway, next up was the shopping channel, something which I was really keen to look into. Despite some connection errors (I presume the server was being hammered last night) it all worked fine. You go into the shop and you can view all the retro games via console or name, and view them. Prices to me seem a little high ($5 for a NES game) so I hope these come down. Anyway to buy stuff it was very simple. I registered my machine and then used my VISA to buy some points. These you can then spend straight away. As a test I downloaded Donkey Kong (it has a cute progress bar – Mario collecting coins and hitting bricks with jumps to indicate progress) and had a whirl. Now once you have downloaded a game, it appears as another channel in the root menu. So you I went back to the main menu and there it was. Clicking on it tells you what controller you need. All the game from what I saw use either an NGC controller or the Wiimote on its side. From this, I guess you won’t need to buy a classic controller unless you want to. Anyway, you fire it up and the version seemed absolutely fine. Had a play for about 15 mins; all good. I think this aspect of the console has huge potential much like Xbox Live Marketplace.
Finally, the games – Zelda first up:
It feels like the N64 all over again. It is a typical Zelda, with all the usual trimmings. It plays well as always, but with the addition of the Wii controller it has some fun little elements. Fishing is fun with the controller as is the targeting system. You can either lock on or use the controller to aim. All very nice. I have only played for an hour so not much to report to be honest. Again, more to follow. Honestly though, the game does feel like an NGC game but this is no bad thing. As always, I think the real gems will be seen in the coming 6 months in terms of innovation. Still a top game though!
Wii Sports is a lot of fun – a hidden gem in fact. I didn’t like the boxing but everything else felt great. Golf was smart with the large swings with the controller, as was bowling. The only downside is my girlfriend beat me at everything. Haha…
Anyway, I don’t want to go into detail on the games as I want people to enjoy them.
Feel free to ask any questions and I will see what I can tell. If anybody wants any pics of screens or anything lemme know.
Well it comes with the usual – the console, the power cord (very much like the NGC one with a small brick attached), one controller (remote and nunchuk), standard video out cables, and the sensor bar and its cradle. Connecting it all up was a doddle as you would expect. On to the startup…
Switch the Wii on and immediately the whole drive flashes a bright blue and the machine boots up. With it being the initial start up, you use the Wiimote to move around a small hand that represents your movement. The initial thing that hits you is how accurate it is. Despite you thinking otherwise it actually feels pretty good, with a small rumble initiated everytime the player goes over an interactive button. So you plod through the usual – date, time, name of console, screen configuration, and get these all configured.
Next up you are presented with what are meant to be the “channels†of the Wii. They are displayed as a series of television screens, and to access them you simply click on them. The first screen is the Wii/NGC disc channel. Putting in any game disc will change this channel to the game and then you can click on it to play. I tried RE4 for the NGC just to see how it worked; it’s all good. You put the disc in, and the Wii recognizes it and does the NGC bootup behind the Wii FE. You then click play and off you go. NGC controllers and memory cards go into the top of the Wii, both of which are concealed under two white flaps. I’ll come back to the Wii games in a min, onto the other channels.
Next up is the Mii channel. Here you can essentially build an avatar that you will use in future titles and can be attached to messages that you can send to other Wii friends. I quickly built mine and it is all pretty rudimentary – eyes, hair, skin colour, name etc. I didn’t really mess with this too much as there doesn’t seem to be much functionality related to this right now. However the potential is there and I look forward to seeing how this will work in future titles.
Next up I tried out the photo channel. This was all quite nice; my only gripe being you have to put your SD card into the actual unit. You can’t connect your camera via USB, which would be easier. It was made more of a pain by the fact that the SD card slot in the Wii doesn’t have an eject mechanic so you have to pull it out with your nails. Annoying. In fact I had to get some tweezers to get the card out! Strange oversight in my opinion. Viewing photos is flawless. I have a Canon digital camera and it recognized everything on there including the movies which it played back flawlessly. On top of this you can make a jigsaw out of any pictures you have and this is a small bit of fun. You unlock larger and larger numbers of pieces the more you play. Very nice. Other than this, there are some photo manipulation tools in there that are very basic – brightness, contrast stuff and some “wacky†things. The idea with this system is that you then can use these pics to save to the Wii internal memory (where save games are saved too BTW) and then send to friends with the messaging system.
Talking of the messaging system, it is very much like the DS. You need to exchange machine ID’s first before you recognize each others machines. I am yet to do this, but I will report back about this shortly as I have added some friends.
Anyway, next up was the shopping channel, something which I was really keen to look into. Despite some connection errors (I presume the server was being hammered last night) it all worked fine. You go into the shop and you can view all the retro games via console or name, and view them. Prices to me seem a little high ($5 for a NES game) so I hope these come down. Anyway to buy stuff it was very simple. I registered my machine and then used my VISA to buy some points. These you can then spend straight away. As a test I downloaded Donkey Kong (it has a cute progress bar – Mario collecting coins and hitting bricks with jumps to indicate progress) and had a whirl. Now once you have downloaded a game, it appears as another channel in the root menu. So you I went back to the main menu and there it was. Clicking on it tells you what controller you need. All the game from what I saw use either an NGC controller or the Wiimote on its side. From this, I guess you won’t need to buy a classic controller unless you want to. Anyway, you fire it up and the version seemed absolutely fine. Had a play for about 15 mins; all good. I think this aspect of the console has huge potential much like Xbox Live Marketplace.
Finally, the games – Zelda first up:
It feels like the N64 all over again. It is a typical Zelda, with all the usual trimmings. It plays well as always, but with the addition of the Wii controller it has some fun little elements. Fishing is fun with the controller as is the targeting system. You can either lock on or use the controller to aim. All very nice. I have only played for an hour so not much to report to be honest. Again, more to follow. Honestly though, the game does feel like an NGC game but this is no bad thing. As always, I think the real gems will be seen in the coming 6 months in terms of innovation. Still a top game though!
Wii Sports is a lot of fun – a hidden gem in fact. I didn’t like the boxing but everything else felt great. Golf was smart with the large swings with the controller, as was bowling. The only downside is my girlfriend beat me at everything. Haha…
Anyway, I don’t want to go into detail on the games as I want people to enjoy them.
Feel free to ask any questions and I will see what I can tell. If anybody wants any pics of screens or anything lemme know.
Some tidbits from the IGN messageboard:
· In the Photo Channel, you can catch the evil cat that runs across the screen to get tips! It appears in the Fun option, and you can grab the cat with the A and B button.
· You can have a 194 piece puzzle by holding down the 1 button before selecting any piece amount.
· If you don’t have an SD card and still want to check out Photo Channel, you can e-mail a Jpg to your Wii Message Board. There is a size limit for any mail you send to it - possibly 1mb.
· In Bowling, you can throw your ball into other people’s lanes.
· If you put mp3s in your SD card along with your photos, you can change the background music during a slideshow to one of your mp3s.
· When the messageboard records your play time, if you don’t exit to the Wii Menu before you power off the machine, it records the play time as “otherâ€. If you properly exit to the menu and then shut off it will record it as the correct game.
· You can rearrange almost anything on the wii…like the channels and messages by just holding the A and B
· The plasma burin reduction kicks in the second the wiimote shuts down.
· when you get an e-mail, not only does the disc drive light up and pulsate blue, but your Wiimote sends out a little chirp
· when you’re in the Mii channel and you don’t use the Wiimote for a little bit and your Mii’s start walking around, if you then suddenly use the Wiimote, all the Mii stop and follow the ‘hand’ for about 3 seconds….
· when typing messages, and you need to go back and edit the message(while still typing) instead of deleting letters, just point to where you want to edit to move the type cursor.
· In Wii Sports Bowling, when you press up on the Directional Pad, it will zoom in on the lane. The zoom in sound is the exact same sound from Super Mario 64 anytime you moved the camera.
· Co Op Jugsaw puzzles in wii photos
· You can place the sensor bar upside down and it doesn’t reverse the directions of your movements…
· In wii sports bowling, you can release on the back swing and throw the ball backwards. It scares all the miis behind you.
· Classic controller has analog shoulder buttons. With the GC “click†at the bottom.
· In the Photo Channel, you can catch the evil cat that runs across the screen to get tips! It appears in the Fun option, and you can grab the cat with the A and B button.
· You can have a 194 piece puzzle by holding down the 1 button before selecting any piece amount.
· If you don’t have an SD card and still want to check out Photo Channel, you can e-mail a Jpg to your Wii Message Board. There is a size limit for any mail you send to it - possibly 1mb.
· In Bowling, you can throw your ball into other people’s lanes.
· If you put mp3s in your SD card along with your photos, you can change the background music during a slideshow to one of your mp3s.
· When the messageboard records your play time, if you don’t exit to the Wii Menu before you power off the machine, it records the play time as “otherâ€. If you properly exit to the menu and then shut off it will record it as the correct game.
· You can rearrange almost anything on the wii…like the channels and messages by just holding the A and B
· The plasma burin reduction kicks in the second the wiimote shuts down.
· when you get an e-mail, not only does the disc drive light up and pulsate blue, but your Wiimote sends out a little chirp
· when you’re in the Mii channel and you don’t use the Wiimote for a little bit and your Mii’s start walking around, if you then suddenly use the Wiimote, all the Mii stop and follow the ‘hand’ for about 3 seconds….
· when typing messages, and you need to go back and edit the message(while still typing) instead of deleting letters, just point to where you want to edit to move the type cursor.
· In Wii Sports Bowling, when you press up on the Directional Pad, it will zoom in on the lane. The zoom in sound is the exact same sound from Super Mario 64 anytime you moved the camera.
· Co Op Jugsaw puzzles in wii photos
· You can place the sensor bar upside down and it doesn’t reverse the directions of your movements…
· In wii sports bowling, you can release on the back swing and throw the ball backwards. It scares all the miis behind you.
· Classic controller has analog shoulder buttons. With the GC “click†at the bottom.
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" It took ultra-keen Nintendo hawks just seven minutes to completely exhaust Amazon UK's allotted Wii pre-orders yesterday, making it the fastest selling product in the site's history, Amazon has revealed.
"The response was phenomenal", James Schall, Amazon games manager, told gamesindustry.biz. "It's the fastest-selling pre-order item we have ever encountered - even eclipsing Harry Potter and Coldplay." If you managed to get your pre-order in on time give yourself a pat on the back.
Amazon UK chose to take pre-orders for Wii only after receiving allocation figures from Nintendo, to ensure being able to meet all orders placed.
Amazon did not disclose how many pre-orders were made available, but said that it expects more consoles around the December 8 launch."
" It took ultra-keen Nintendo hawks just seven minutes to completely exhaust Amazon UK's allotted Wii pre-orders yesterday, making it the fastest selling product in the site's history, Amazon has revealed.
"The response was phenomenal", James Schall, Amazon games manager, told gamesindustry.biz. "It's the fastest-selling pre-order item we have ever encountered - even eclipsing Harry Potter and Coldplay." If you managed to get your pre-order in on time give yourself a pat on the back.
Amazon UK chose to take pre-orders for Wii only after receiving allocation figures from Nintendo, to ensure being able to meet all orders placed.
Amazon did not disclose how many pre-orders were made available, but said that it expects more consoles around the December 8 launch."
Now with a new Mac Mini Pro so dont judge me !
Seems I've joined the Wii party earlier than expected, after snagging a console plus Zelda and ExciteTruck from eBay for only a little more than shop prices. Damn that shipping though. With luck should have it in less than a week 
(spare controllers onroute already too!)
(spare controllers onroute already too!)
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Does this mean that you can use the classic controller for GC games?Classic controller has analog shoulder buttons. With the GC “click†at the bottom.
I have Ikaruga for the GC and I never played it because of the horrific dpad on the GC controller and I never got around to getting a third-party controller, so it would be great if I could just use the classic controller.
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Pretty sure the Classic controller is only for VC titles and you must use a GC controller for GC games.Ennui wrote:Does this mean that you can use the classic controller for GC games?Classic controller has analog shoulder buttons. With the GC “click†at the bottom.
I have Ikaruga for the GC and I never played it because of the horrific dpad on the GC controller and I never got around to getting a third-party controller, so it would be great if I could just use the classic controller.