Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Fil · Post by **Fil** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:11 pm 0

I think I saw her in a nightclub once.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:54 am 0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kihXP9WYhLc

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:03 am 0

Baggypants wrote:
Ghostbiscuit wrote:
Portland wrote:
Ghostbiscuit wrote:Yay: I just hit 8000 star points. Now all I need is something to spend them on. Get your finger out with them stars -> Wii points, Nintendo!
Any word on date and conversion yet? I have a couple of thousand points that need to be spent. Good for ninty, cos I'll buy a classic controller then.
Nothing that I've heard yet.
is there any way you can automate login onto the ninty vip page with a cron job or something?

I just set it to homepage. Visit points accrue every day the lappy is turned on (ie every day I'm in the country.)

Set up Wii yesterday and haven't even bothered with Zelda yet - sports is so much fun. It gave me that feeling of booting up Combat, but with 30 years added tech and motion sensing rather than a one button eight directional stick.

The one that really got me was the bowling. Since my back's fucked, I can't really bowl any more, and it was a vey pleasant flashback rolling a few frames with Mel and a couple of beers. You're willing that ten pin to drop in the same way.

CharlieF · Post by **CharlieF** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:20 pm 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:
Portland wrote:
Ghostbiscuit wrote:Yay: I just hit 8000 star points. Now all I need is something to spend them on. Get your finger out with them stars -> Wii points, Nintendo!
Any word on date and conversion yet? I have a couple of thousand points that need to be spent. Good for ninty, cos I'll buy a classic controller then.
Nothing that I've heard yet.

I'm beginning to think this will never happen. I mean, whats in it for them? They're selling VC titles hand over fist; giving them away dosen't make much business sense.

Aside from the fact that they promised it would happen

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:04 pm 0

They did accidently do it once..

They promised it "soon" on Jun 15th in the newsletter, so it hasnt been that long really, it just seems it.
Still, I sent an email off. No harm in nagging them a bit.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:31 pm 0

Three hours in and I'm really liking Trauma Center so far!

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:18 pm 0

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=169994

Hopefully they wont breed....

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:21 pm 0

I suggested 'wii points for stars points - yes or no?' as an "Everybody Votes" question. Not seen it come up yet...

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:34 am 0

The latest Metroid clip:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23492.html

Spiderball gameplay

Also, in the other vid, Mother Brain confirmed!

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:27 am 0

Wii update that fixes the connection problems

http://kotaku.com/gaming/nip-%26-tuck/t ... 289134.php

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:07 am 0

grue wrote:Wii update that fixes the connection problems
http://kotaku.com/gaming/nip-%26-tuck/t ... 289134.php

Yes, it does and thank goat for that. I hurried up and bought Kirby (Nes) and Paper Mario, before Nintendo shoots me down again.

KidQuaalude · Post by **KidQuaalude** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:23 am 0

unsurprisingly, the freeloader is still broken

kudos to nintendo for releasing a patch so quickly tho.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:35 am 0

KidQuaalude wrote:unsurprisingly, the freeloader is still broken kudos to nintendo for releasing a patch so quickly tho.

I only ever bought Frreloader so I could play Animal Crossing.
Maybe going forward there is a USB dongle / SD flash card solution...

Ghostbiscuit · Post by **Ghostbiscuit** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:37 am 0

Yeah, it warns you before you start the update that any "unauthorised technical upgrades" (or something like that) will cease to work after the update and gives you a chance to opt out.

EDIT: Close shave: I didn't realise our landlord was round with an electrician - who tripped the main circuit mere seconds after the update was complete.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:26 pm 0

Ghostbiscuit wrote:Yeah, it warns you before you start the update that any "unauthorised technical upgrades" (or something like that) will cease to work after the update and gives you a chance to opt out.

Luckily they (and by they I mean modchips) still do, and no it didn't give you the chance to opt out before the update (3.0) where it broke Freeloader / Mod Chip Setup Discs.

Cheers

Bubba