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TalkBack / Re: Penny Arcade Adventures Can't Come to WiiWare

« on: May 15, 2008, 02:52:50 AM »

Can Wii have a hard drive now, please?

But then why would developers ever bother to optimize their titles? We'd end up with the same bloatware that modern games, even the episodic ones, have become.

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TalkBack / Re: Rock Band Wii DLC to be Distributed on Discs

« on: May 06, 2008, 01:11:32 AM »

Also very user-corruptible.

Since SD cards can be made read-only with the switches on the side, I would assume that they could simply be constructed to always be read-only.

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TalkBack / Re: Telltale Games’ Mystery Episodic Series Revealed

« on: April 12, 2008, 01:09:52 PM »

Remember the Road Runner? The voices were done by an employee for kicks, when the union found that out they forced WB to only use unionized VAs for any future recordings (which didn't end up meaning anything as they had enough material that they wouldn't need more samples). If Matt and Missy aren't unionized (Mike would have to be too if any Powered By The Cheat sequences are in there) I could very well see the union try to kick them out of the project.

WB also probably had an agreement with the union to only use unionized actors (much like they have with the Writers' Guild and SAG). Telltale, on the other hand, probably doesn't.

[TVman]

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TalkBack / RE:Play Music on Your Wii Through MP3tunes

« on: December 29, 2007, 06:55:28 AM »

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Originally posted by: TVman
If you want MP3 on your photo channel, then simply downgrade it.

That works if your Wii shipped with Photo Channel 1.0. But for those with newer Wiis, shipping with 1.1, that doesn't appear to be an option.

[king of snake]

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TalkBack / RE:U.S. VC Lost Levels Release Not Limited ... For Now

« on: October 02, 2007, 03:56:23 PM »

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Originally posted by: king of snake
Is the VC Lost Levels any different from what I have on my All-Stars SNES cartridge?

Gameplay-wise, no, but the graphics are the original SMB-style ones, and not the SMAS revamp.

[TVman]

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TalkBack / RE:Radio Allergy for GameCube Cancelled

« on: June 01, 2007, 07:09:12 PM »

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Originally posted by: TVman

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Originally posted by: nintendogamecube86
Radio Allergy was never gonna be the last GameCube game.  There are gonna be GameCube versions of Ratatouille and Madden NFL 08.

Ok, why?

Ratatouille because it's a children's movie tie-in and the Wii isn't sufficiently entrenched in terms of the sales base for it to have supplanted the GameCube. Same reason they're doing a PS2 version.

Can't speak for Madden, though; that makes no sense to me.

[nintendogamecube86]

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TalkBack / RE:Virtual Console Mondays: February 26, 2007

« on: February 27, 2007, 06:37:06 AM »

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Originally posted by: nintendogamecube86
Are you surprised? Nintendo said months ago that Virtual Console games would not have rumble or online play.

Yes, they said that online play wouldn't be added. But I don't remember them ever saying that rumble would be removed. Care to provide a source?

[NewsBot]

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TalkBack / RE:REVIEWS: Nextronics Sensor Bar

« on: February 17, 2007, 12:14:15 PM »

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Originally posted by: NewsBot
The longer distance test backs up that result.  At fifteen feet from the TV, the Nintendo bar and the Nextronics bar (battery power) both start to blink out and have trouble maintaining a signal with the Remote.  But with wall power, the Nextronics bar only reaches seven feet before blinking out completely.  (Note: IGN's review of this product notes a range of up to 30 feet with battery power, but I could not reproduce those results.)

They also get a range of up to 30 feet from the Nintendo bar, though. It seems to me that the difference is probably something to do with your respective rooms/setups.

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TalkBack / RE: James Bond Leaves EA for Activision

« on: May 03, 2006, 05:51:38 PM »

Well, depending on who they give the job to, this could be good. I certainly enjoyed the Trek FPSs Activision put out, by Raven & Ritual respectively, as well as some of their other stuff.

As long as someone at EON cares as much as Harry Lang at Paramount did, all will be fine.

[Shecky]

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TalkBack / RE:EA Confirms Accelerometer Rumors

« on: April 28, 2006, 07:34:17 PM »

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Originally posted by: Shecky
The big question would be how hard Nintendo makes getting the darn cables again.

Seeing as how they've been using the same AV cables for three systems, I suspect that it'll use the same digital out as the GameCube had. So, for you, getting the cables will be quite easy.

[PGC NewsBot]

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TalkBack / RE:More DS Lite Details and Comparisons

« on: February 28, 2006, 11:45:15 AM »

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Originally posted by: PGC NewsBot

The battery power has increased from 850 mAh to 1000 mAh, hence the longer battery life at low brightness.

Are the batteries the same size, meaning that I can plug a 1000 mAh battery into my old DS?

[KDR_11k]

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TalkBack / RE:MechAssault Announced for DS

« on: February 16, 2006, 10:39:49 AM »

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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
So, um, which year does that play in? 32nd century sounds like the clans are already involved. I wouldn't mind another pre-clan game like MW2 Mercenaries...

It's going to be post-Clans; the one screenshot mentions the Lyran Alliance, which didn't break away from the Federated Commonwealth until shortly after Clan Smoke Jaguar was annihilated.

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And wait. Crimson Skies is BattleTech related? Wasn't that about dogfighting in biplanes between airships or am I confusing that with another Microsoft game?

No, it was about biplanes. And they aren't related. My guess is that the confusion stems from both universes originally being creations of the same game company, FASA.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Announces 2005 Line-Up

« on: November 12, 2004, 06:15:57 AM »

I'm stoked about the confirmation of the FE games coming here. Which FE is the GBA "FE2" going to be, though, FE6 (the first GBA one we didn't get, that could act as a sequel to the one we got), or the new one that's unrelated?

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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo DS: Under the Hood

« on: August 20, 2004, 09:42:24 AM »

Unless they release a wireless Cube adaptor....

[Lord_die_seis]

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TalkBack / RE:GoldenEye Soundtrack by Paul Oakenfold

« on: August 13, 2004, 01:53:06 PM »

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Originally posted by: Lord_die_seis
Umm techno music and James Bond music and atmosphere dont mix BAD EA BAD!!!!!

Have you ever listened to the scores for the last three Bond movies? (Or, to a lesser degree, Everything or Nothing as well.)

[Shift Key]

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TalkBack / RE:GoldenEye Soundtrack by Paul Oakenfold

« on: August 13, 2004, 01:51:40 PM »

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Originally posted by: Shift Key
As long as he doesn't mutilate the classic Bond theme, go for it.

I don't expect this to be a problem; he did a remix of the Bond theme on the Die Another Day soundtrack, which, past the first fifteen seconds, wasn't mutilated at all. (Even the beginning would've been okay, except the guitars are mixed a bit too loud.)

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TalkBack / RE: GoldenEye Soundtrack by Paul Oakenfold

« on: August 12, 2004, 11:57:00 AM »

Have any of the prior Bond games (for Cube or 64), TimeSplitters 2, or Perfect Dark gotten soundtrack releases?

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TalkBack / RE:Ubisoft & LucasArts Announce GBA Game

« on: July 13, 2004, 01:10:45 PM »

Maybe they're trying to get the game to be a bit more... realistic this time around?

[marsbarrow]

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TalkBack / RE:Advance Game Port Now Available

« on: July 03, 2004, 03:40:43 AM »

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Originally posted by: marsbarrow
Why is this in the news?   I've seen this thing at GameStop since before the end of last year...  whatever.

I believe that the older model didn't include the cheating capabilities....

[DrZoidberg]

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TalkBack / RE:New Kirby Game Launches in Europe

« on: July 03, 2004, 03:37:53 AM »

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Originally posted by: DrZoidberg
but they had to translate it from NTSC to PAL am i rite/

Nope, you're very, very wrong. Unlike GameCubes, there's no difference in Game Boy Advance hardware between regions; the screens operate at the same frequency and resolution everywhere in the world. That's why there's no region lockout in the hardware.

[couchmonkey]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Super Mario All Stars Release?

« on: June 27, 2004, 08:35:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
I think this would actually potentially lose Nintendo money instead of making it.  Aside from the lost levels and the possibility of more "authentic" experiences, it would offer nothing different from the Super Mario Advance versions already out there,

Well, it'd also offer SMB1--but that's also available as both the Classic Series SMB, and SMB DX for GBC, which had the Lost Levels as well.

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TalkBack / RE:Blizzard Shows Off StarCraft: Ghost at E3

« on: May 12, 2004, 08:05:22 PM »

Umm... just what game details were "revealed"? The only new information was that the PS2 and 'Cube versions were on display at E3....

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TalkBack / RE:Shrek 2 OST Released

« on: May 04, 2004, 06:53:07 PM »

Hmm. I'll have to go to Kevin's site and see if he has any samples--I certainly liked the work he did on UT2003/UT2004, and might very well enjoy this without playing the game.

(Does anyone know of a Beyond Good and Evil soundtrack CD?)

[ruby_onix]

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TalkBack / RE:Homebrew e-Reader Games hit the Scene

« on: April 20, 2004, 04:48:38 AM »

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Originally posted by: ruby_onix
I like gimmicks. I wanna see a controller extension cable hooked up to a Wavebird.

Oh, come on, at least make the gimmick useful! For example, they should've made the wireless adaptor compatible with the Wavebird reciever....

Meh. Anyways, I've seen several reports of failure (and suffered it myself); has anyone actaulyl gotten this to succeed?

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TalkBack / RE:Fire Emblem for GameCube Revealed!

« on: April 01, 2004, 06:53:29 PM »

If as the linked page with scans suggests, this is a sequel to the first GBA FE game, and if FE GC ends up coming to the US, I really hope that we get a port of the first GBA FE game....