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General Gaming / 360 Launch Date announced...
« on: September 15, 2005, 04:16:11 AM »

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General Gaming / NES Collector's Noteworthy eBay Auction...
« on: September 14, 2005, 10:30:40 AM »
Occasionaly an eBay auction pops up that is relativly note-worth among NES and Nintendo collectors... I think this is one of them, as this cart isn't too common and doesn't show up very often.

The Nintendo World ChampionshipCartridge.

It's the more common "Grey" version, but still... an interesting item...

(Please note, this isn't my auction - if I had this item, I would *never* be willing to part with it!  I'd sell my Liver first. )

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General Chat / Legend of Zelda .wav files?
« on: September 04, 2005, 04:25:48 PM »
Hello all!

I'm looking for music files from the Legend of Zelda series in the .wav format. I've found plenty of MP3's and MIDI files, but my cell phone only takes .wav files for its ringtones.

In particular, I'd like to have the "Ballad of the WindFish" (Found in MIDI form here: http://www.mcloz.net/midis/z4midi23.mid) as a .wav file. Any help would be great! Thanks! -UB

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Nintendo Gaming / Zelda GCN Bundle?
« on: September 03, 2005, 09:35:19 AM »
Well, a lot of us assume that there is going to be some kind of GameCube bundle when the new Zelda game comes out...  Even though most of us already have a GameCube, is there anything Nintendo could do to enrourage you to purchase a Zelda Bundle?

While it's a long shot, if they released the new Zelda game with a specially decorated GCN (and whatever pre-order bonus you're supposed to get with the game) for $100, I'd probably splurge and pick up the second GCN I've been wanting.

Second, I'd love to see a Deluxe Zelda Bundle, including a special GCN, Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures, The Zelda Collection Disc, (perhaps a GCN-GBA cable) and, of course, Twilight Princess all for around $200.  I think this might encourage some of those who passed on a GCN and Wind Waker before into playing (and enjoying) Wind Waker and FSA when they get their GCN for Twilight Princess (and we all know they're going to get a GCN and TP...)  $200 seems to be a decent price for the bundle - Right now you can get the GCN with a $30 game for $100.  $70 GCN + $30 FSA + $20 WW + $50 TP + $20 Collection Disc + $10 Link Cable = $200!  Sweet!

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NWR Feedback / eBay advertising...
« on: August 23, 2005, 12:53:03 PM »
Who likes the Google advertising?  Comeon!  We all know how great it is!

Or not.

The Google Adwords advertising is awful.  The majority of time, it's simply those "Get a Free GameCube" things that I'm sure 99.98% of us don't bother to read or click on.  Right now, I've got "Find a Great Job", "Password", "Lost Word Password", "Managers Needed" and "Discount Gamecube Zelda"... wha?

Well, lately, I've been noticing more sites moving toward eBay's advertising (a big example is CheapAssGamer.com) - and the neat thing is that you can limit the types of auctions that come up (Price point, catagory, etc...)

Heck, in fact I even actually clicked through one of the eBay ads on CheapAssGamer.com (for SNES DKC1-3... drool) and checked out the auction... Clicking through is something I can say I've not done with the Google Ads...

It's just a thought... I kinda like the eBay ads...

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NWR Feedback / Kiddy Kiddie M$
« on: August 12, 2005, 02:57:49 PM »
Just wondering, how long are these such words going to be "censored"?

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Nintendo Gaming / Next-Gen On-Line emulation takes a 360...
« on: July 19, 2005, 01:14:48 PM »
Well, we all know about the Revolution's emulated downloads of older Nintendo games... but this is the first I've heard about this...

From GamePRO #204, Page 24

Quote


A Real Arcade...
Coming Soon to a Living Room Near You
Of those of you who own an Xbox right now, how many use Live Arcade?  Anyone?  Bueller?  Yeah, I thought so.  You have to buy a hard-to-find disc to even access Live Arcade and then you have to play between $10 and $20 to play some rinky-dink game like Dig Dug.  Yawn.  That's all about to change, though: The Xbox 360 will have Live Arcade integrated right into the box, and it will pop up on the home page of the dashboard; hit a button, and you're in like Flynn.  You don't even need a Live account... or a credit card to browse, buy, and play freely.  But will there be anything worth playing?  We're breathless with anticipation.  We got the inside scoop from Greg Canessa, group manager of Xbox Casual Games, who says that while the lineup hasn't been offically set in stone yet, there will be a wide variety of titles and styles, from quirky independents to big names to spiffed-up retro classics from consoles of a bygone era.  The Atari 2600, Turbo Grafix, Sega Saturn... even the Dreamcast were mentioned.  Dare we dream?  Next-gen Live Arcade sounds like the real thing.



So we're left wondering, does this blow our chances for SEGA games out the window?  NiGHTs on the 360 anyone?

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Nintendo Gaming / My 4-Player Link Cable test...
« on: July 05, 2005, 04:28:32 PM »
Okay, here's how it is:

Let's say you have two original GameBoy game paks - oh, Tetris, for example.  And you have two Advance-Compatible GameBoy units, let's say a regular GBA and a GameBoy Player.  Now, in order to link these two units together to play some green Tetris, *offically* you are supposed to have a Universal Link cable.  Great, except that no one sells the offical Nintendo Universal Link Cable.  So what other options do you have?  Well, aside from third party cables, you can take two of the offical GameBoy Advance cables and use them to link the two units together.  How, you ask?  (Come on, ask it!)...  Well, take the purple ends of both cables and plug them into the extention ports in the middle of the cables.  Then, take the grey ends of the cables and plug them into the GBA units - blammo, you've got a two player game of Tetris, ready for your pleasure.

This has been farily common knowledge for awhile now... But what about that F-1 Racing urge we all have?

Well, I finally managed to get two additional copies of the classic GameBoy game F-1 Race for a really cheap price, and, along with my copy I already had, I'm up to three.  So I finally got a chance to try something out!  3 Player F-1 Race without using the offical Nintendo Four Player Adapter (You know, that little used gadget that came packed with F-1 Race that was never really used for much of anything else...)  So I took three GBA Cables and hooked a purple end from each into a middle extention port on each, making a triangle in the center.  Then I plugged a grey end into a regular GBA, a GBASP and my GameBoy Player.  Slipping in an F-1 Race cart into each of the units, I powered them up and attempted to start a three player game.

Sadly, it didn't work.

After getting out my old Four Player Adapter and one of my Brick GameBoys, along with two Universal Link Cables, I linked my GBA, GameBoy Player and original GameBoy together - just to make sure that the three player was working (and that it wasn't something with the units or something or another) and sure enough, it did work.

What does this mean?  If you want to play a GameBoy Classic 4-Player game, you *must* have at least *one* Brick GameBoy (Since the Four Player Adapter requires one of the larger expansion ports to plug into).

Yeah, it's not very exciting, but I was bored...

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General Gaming / Two GCN controllers into one controller port?
« on: June 26, 2005, 06:21:38 PM »
Would it be (in theory) possible to take those GCN controller extention cords (something like this: http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/224538.asp) and splice two of them together so that you could hook two controllers (or Bongos, Dance Pads, GBA/GCN Cables) into the same controller port?

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Nintendo Gaming / Great deal on GB/GBC game cases!
« on: June 20, 2005, 09:09:30 AM »
EDIT #7:  They're back at $.15!  Hurry, they go oos quickly...

EDIT #6:  They've sold out again... keep watchin' 'em... They'll probably be back..

EDIT #5:  They're back at $.15!  Hurry, they go oos quickly...

EDIT #4:  They've sold out again... keep watchin' 'em... They'll probably be back..

EDIT #3:  They're back at $.15!  Hurry, they go oos quickly...

EDIT #2:  Okay, first off, the packs are back at $1.02 (after "BIGSALE") and (currently) in stock.  Both the price and the instock status tend to change - a lot - so it's worth keeping an eye on these.

Second, they're not at all like what I described (or like the picture shows).  The cases are about the same quality/plastic that the original GB cases were made out of and they have the same *basic* design with one major exception - the cases are about a quarter of an inch bigger and designed so that they can hold two GBA games.  This means that there is a little wiggle room in the case for GB/GBC games, but they still fit well and I still reccomend them - especially at this price.

EDIT:  Hey, the cases are back at $.15!  If you're interested, hurry, they tend to go fast!  (Don't forget to use the code 'BIGSALE' when checking out to get the discount!)

Hey, I just wanted to pass along a great deal that I found over on CAG!

EBGames.com has an 8-Pack of GameBoy/GameBoy Color game cases for $3.41.  If these are the same ones I bought a few years ago at Wal-Mart (and I'm almost 100% certain they are), they're great quality and (aside from the colors and lack of a Nintendo logo on the back) they're exactly like the cases that we used to get with all GameBoy Games once upon a time.

Here's the kicker though.  When checking out, use the Coupon Code "BIGSALE" and you'll get 70% off!  8 Great cases for $1.02.

Now this isn't as good as the price that was on them over the weekend ($.49, or $.15 after "BIGSALE"), but this is still a great deal - and if you're like me, you've got tons of GB/GBC games that could use some cases.

Sorry if this sounds too much like SPAM - I promise I don't work for EBGames or anything...

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/191570.asp        

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General Gaming / I didn't know the Transfer Pack did all of this!
« on: June 19, 2005, 01:53:02 PM »
From: http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/224561.asp

>Now you can have the ability to import Game Boy games and files into your N64! The N64 Transfer Pak plugs right into the Memory Pak slot on your controller. You can transfer characters, import game data, emulate Game Boy games, and even import pictures via the Game Boy camera into certain N64 games.

Well, I knew it fit into the Memory Pak slot on the controller.

I knew it could transfer characters (Mario Golf), import game data (Pokémon) and emulate GameBoy Games (again, Pokémon)...

But which N64 games let you import GBCamera pics?!?

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General Chat / Nintendo World Store - Online?
« on: June 14, 2005, 11:28:17 AM »
Does anyone remember the great promise of the Nintendo World Store being online?  Bah!  Where is it?

www.NintendoWorldStore.com is nothing...

I want to buy crap I don't need, they need to hurry up and get this thing online.

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General Chat / My Nintendo Shrine
« on: June 12, 2005, 04:25:20 PM »
Well, I've been slowly amassing a bit of a shrine to Nintendo of late and thought I'd take a picture to show everyone...

My Nintendo Shrine

How many things do you recognize?

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http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-9g-70-m7s.html%26main%3dfly

This sounds... Interesting.  I wonder if stuff like this will come to the US...  (with a different name, however...)

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Nintendo Gaming / Revolution plays DVDs...?
« on: May 21, 2005, 08:18:15 PM »
Was it confirmed that the Revolution would play DVDs?

Because according to Nintendo, it does...

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Nintendo Gaming / Revolution plays DVDs...?
« on: May 21, 2005, 08:15:52 PM »
Was it confirmed that the Revolution would play DVDs?

Because according to Nintendo, it does...

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I know this is probably asking for too much, but wouldn't it be great if the classic NES/SNES/N64 games multiplayer modes could be played against/with others online?  Oh yeah...

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Nintendo Gaming / An interesting footnote about Wario Ware: Twisted!
« on: April 18, 2005, 12:18:53 PM »
While playing some WW:T!, I noticed something midly interesting... In 9-Volt's microgame "8-Bit Heros", during the third level, the Ice Climber's cutscene shows the unedited-supposedly-released-in-the-US-but-has-never-acutally-surfaced version with the seals.  I'm surprised that NoA didn't change that... ?  

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General Chat / Dear Mysterious Benefactor...
« on: April 11, 2005, 03:08:20 PM »
Hello...

Some of you know me as "UncleBob".  Many of you know me as the "JookySeaCaptain".

And someone knows where I live.

Today, I had the weirdest thing happen.  I left my apartment to go get my wife and I some sodas.  I live on the third floor of an apartment building - when I left, my wife just stayed in the living room which is right on the other side of our door.

Upon returning home (with soda in tow!), there's a box right outside the door.  It's a box for a giant champange glass (turned upside down) retaped with masking tape.  Written on it is (in large, bold letters with a black marker) "HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOOKYSEACAPTAIN".  (Note: My birthday isn't for three weeks...) After a little debate, my wife grabbed the box and opened it.  Inside was the GameBoy Advance e-Reader bundle.

Stranger yet, after calling Nintendo and having them trace the serial number, it turns out that the set was bought at a Wal-Mart on the 4th.  They couldn't tell me for certian which store it was bought at but was able to give me a few numbers, one of which (using my previous expierence working at Wal-Mart) I identified as a possible store number.  This store is located in Mississippi... about seven hours from me.  Now I don't know for certian that it was purchased at this store because I can't be certian the number they gave me was actually a store number...

My wife denies any involvement - and I believe her.  She says that she didn't hear anyone in the hallway while I was gone (and I wasn't gone more than 10 mins).  It's possible that I could have not seen the small box on my way out the door to get sodas.  And eariler in the day, while me and my wife were... errr... napping, I thought I heard a knock on the door - but when I went to go check, there was no one there (although I did just look through the peephole) and when I checked out the window, I didn't see anyone getting into a car/a car leaving.  And while many people I know IRL know my "UncleBob" nom de plume, very few people know me (IRL) as the "JookySeaCaptain".

So it's all very interesting/creepy.  Eh?

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NWR Feedback / Trading on these boards...
« on: January 30, 2005, 05:58:35 PM »
I'd like to know...

I know that pure SPAM ("Look at my auction" or "Buy my stuff") posts are not allowed here, but are any kind of "I'm looking for..." type posts allowed?

I ask because I know there are quite a few Aussies on these boards and I *really* would like to get ahold of the e-Reader cards in Pokémon Channel and I'd like to see if someone can help me out... But I don't want to cause mass panic by posting something that's not allowed...

And has there been given any thought to a Barter Board here?  Buy/Sell/Trade any video game related merchandise?

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Let me say, first off, I *love* the site and have for quite some time...  It's one of two places that I rely on for my Nintendo news (The other being GameFAQ's boards, and that can be... questionable at times)...

And I'm very thankful we get all the stuff on this site for free!  I understand the high costs of Internet Bandwidth and such - and thus I understand the need for ads to pay for all the great news and features we get here...

But...

http://rightmedia.net/51/5366/120x600_gamecube_blackflash.gif

I hate these kinds of ads...  Not the "Free stuff!" ads - while I'm no fan of those all over the place, I don't "hate" them.  It's the big, flashy, "Let's give everyone seizures" types of ads that I hate...

It is my opinion that any ad of this style, I will *not* click on, even if they do offer to give me a free Gamecube for doing absolutly nothing.   I hate these ads and I really wish they would just go away...  PlanetGameCube should aim a little higher in the ads it allows to be placed on its site.

Please?

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v180/TheUncleBob/Picture012.jpg

Just some fun I was having tonight with my brand new PSone I picked up for $50...

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Nintendo Gaming / Wario Ware Extreme Micro-game Madness
« on: January 09, 2005, 04:42:08 AM »
While this would be a very cost-prohibited game for many people, what would you think of a Wario Ware game that worked with:

The GCN Controller plugged into Port 1
A GBA plugged into Port 2
The MadCatz/DDR Dancemat pluged into Port 3
The Donkey Konga Bongos pluged into Port 4
The Mario Party 6 Mic plugged into the Second Memory Card Port

Maybe you could set the game to exclude whichever mini-games you don't have the equiptment to play...

Too fun or too much?

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Nintendo Gaming / GBAO11 Cases
« on: December 29, 2004, 03:51:56 PM »
I went in EBGames the other day and found some pretty spiffy cases for GBA games.

They're made by A.L.S. Industries - one of the few companies that bother to get their products lisenced by Nintendo.

The cases are great quality - their general design looks greatly based on the design of the old cases that game with original GameBoy games back in the day. A nice, hard plastic case that folds open on the left side (instead of the top) and has a tab that you push in to open the case (instead of something that snaps down (and off after a lot of use). Each case snugly holds three GBA games (or loosly holds up to six DS games - or a combination of the two) stacked vertically. Unfortunatly, the design of the case prevents you from holding older GameBoy/GameBoy Color games.

The pack I purchased had three cases in it - each featured a very, very light blue tint to them. The package was a simple blister pack and priced at $5 - a pretty good deal.

Anywhoo, just in case anyone is interested...

And on a side note, thanks to Nintendo and these neat cases, you can hold Zelda 1, Zelda II and Zelda III all in one tight little package.

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Nintendo Gaming / Games with kickin' Surround Sound?
« on: December 26, 2004, 07:35:20 AM »
Well, my Father-in-law (who is really cool) got us a Surround Sound system for Christmas.  It's nothing major, but it is nice.

Well, while looking through my GameCube games, I noticed that very few of them feature surround sound...  So - what games should I look for?  Anything in particular?

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