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Nintendo Gaming / How do I setup Wii sports for multiplayer scores?

« on: January 07, 2007, 08:00:00 AM »

Example, if I have two people playing with Miis that wer created (not guests) how do I make it keep track of the score aftre matches?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Wii Strap Break Test

« on: January 02, 2007, 08:18:58 AM »

It was my understanding it wasn't just about breaking, but the slightly thicker strap was less likely to loosen and slide off during a gaming sessions.
I thought this whole letting go of the controller was nonsense- until I was playing a particularly intense bought of wiisports tennis and my perspiring hand lost the grip during a forehand smash. The remote went crashing into the wall, bounced off, striking a dresser and then sliding across a barewood floor. I thought for sure it would be busted (and wiimotes are out of stock everywhere) or at least the battery cover and batteries would have come off. But it was unscathed, not even a scratch.
And I'd won the point.

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TalkBack / RE:Virtual Console Mondays: January 1

« on: January 02, 2007, 08:10:38 AM »

I would have liked lower prices or online play-or at least high score tables. Even dud games like these (and baseball has some decent nostalgia value for me) would be worth it for a $1 and competing against other folks.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:HDTV component cables and game issues.

« on: December 28, 2006, 04:07:12 AM »

list the make and model number of your tv
Does this happen with all content run from a component cable?
Such as from a dvd player, or ps2 games? Or does the tv sometimes correctly display content delivered via a component cable?

It could be the tv, it could be the cable, it could be the connection jack or it could be the systems.

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TalkBack / RE:Virtual Console Mondays

« on: December 12, 2006, 08:07:36 AM »

nice, but online play and leaderboards would make these so much sweeter.

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Nintendo Gaming / VC titles going forward

« on: December 04, 2006, 07:32:46 AM »

Is Nintendo planning to put as many older games as they can on the virtual console- provided the sales support their effort? My question boils down to: a couple years from now, will gamers be able to download almost all first party games and many 3rd party games that were ever released for nes, snes and the 64?
Will I have all the great 16bit rpgs at my 800 point beck and call? And how is Nintendo determining the VC order to ocus on?  

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Nintendo Gaming / Tomb Raider Legend

« on: November 20, 2006, 03:46:03 AM »

Did anyone get this? I'm tempted and I can't imagine it has been printed in large supply.

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TalkBack / RE:The Twenty Wii Launch Games

« on: November 16, 2006, 06:26:36 AM »

Is there an official announcement for VC titles available at launch and by the end of the year?
Maybe I missed it competely.

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TalkBack / RE:Wii Startup Disc Required for Initial System Boot

« on: November 06, 2006, 09:47:22 AM »

you wonder if modders are drooling at the potential mayhem a startup disk might allow

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TalkBack / RE:Tomb Raider: Legend Coming to GC, GBA, and DS

« on: April 03, 2006, 10:02:39 AM »

These replies are all serious, where are the touch sensitive jokes!?

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TalkBack / RE:Editorial: Hotties for Rent

« on: April 11, 2005, 06:28:20 PM »

women paid to "man" a booth is not a unique attribute of video games expos, but rather follows in the footsteps of many other male-oriented conventions, be them for boating, guns or cars.  The primary caution should be that the women involved do not feel mistreated, which most accounts seem to say they are more exhausted from smiling and standing so much.  And from each company's perspective, must be working or they would be done away with as an unneeded expense.
(I would imagine that companies have at least briefly debated going so far as to exchange sexual favors for sales)  Instead, booth babes occupy the same strata as hooter's waitresses or beauty pagents- an argument can be made that they degrade women.
The worry might also be that at a socially awkward/impressionable age, objectifying women creates a future pattern of degradation.  But so many other facets of day to day life advance the same things it is difficult to point out cause and effect.


Personally, I think companies would be more successful if they hired females to sit down and game with people.  They don't have to dress up, in fact, it would almost be better if they were not dressed up in any way and casually would approach guys and ask if they want to play a game. That could do wonders for a fellow's self confidence.

But does gaming prostitution cross a moral line?  

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TalkBack / RE: Electronic Arts Finalizes Ubisoft Deal

« on: February 03, 2005, 10:06:06 AM »

what they should do is get ubi to fix up this warrior within mess...

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TalkBack / RE: DS Hardware Selling Well; Software Sales Slow

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:56:19 AM »

where's the historical perspective?
where's the software sold when the backwards-compatible gba was initially released?
what's the buying pattern of the typical handheld owner and on what did nintendo initially base their 15 million estimate that they would be so far off the mark?

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TalkBack / RE: Bonnie Ruberg EDITORIAL: Role-Models or Ubisoft Dolls?

« on: January 21, 2005, 11:21:19 AM »

I admit it: someone moved the rock.  I was unaware of fragdoll.com, or at least not aware on any active level (perhaps the back of my mind had registered the fact weeks ago and simply filtered out its relative import).

As the nfl conference championships approach, i may be introducing bias, but the article does read with great similarity to professional athletes.  Granted the gamer as professional athlete is not a wide reaching or well developed concept, but it does feel kind of apt.  Is this group shilling for ubisoft any different than the patriots relationship with say, visa?  Or tiger woods endorsing nike (or being coached to casually product place during routine conversations).  I am sure there are may gamers who would happily accept not just money, but all kinds of crazy videogame related stuff from a company in return to being a any kind of spokesperson.  Again, i return to professional athletes as role-models and also as walking commercials.  I do not particularly mind, nor do i find it sneaky on ubisoft's part- some of the fluff that passes for news in mags like Newsweek has more entranched commercialism imo.
As far as the attractiveness of the gamers- it's hard to say because so much marketing is selected solely on how people look- it is drilled into people's minds on every level of society (and no that does not justify it in any way, or let ubi off the hook, they are just another fish swimming downstream with all the rest).

anyways, solid editorial and if i had to boo ubi it would be on the dismal lack of testing they churned out in PoP: warrior within

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TalkBack / RE:Washington Post Says GameCube is

« on: December 02, 2004, 11:11:42 AM »

To a certain extent, it is joe and jill newsweek who decide which console will be the most successful each round because perception can speak volumes.  Nintendo's gameboy line has clearly enjoyed such mainstream support for many years.  The point of the article is the article itself, that those people outside the world of gaming really do consider the gamecube to be a nonfactor REGARDLESS of whether it is or not.  Microsoft has been able to go from nothing to a solid system and as much as it might pain people, you have to give some credit there, both because some deep purses have created some poorly realized systems and also because on some levels, like the excellent Live system, the xbox is doing things right.
At the end of the day, no one's opinion, not wapo, the 6 o'clock news or an internet site can determine how much you get out of a system unless you let them.  But Nintendo has allowed the Cube to slip off the radar for a lot of people and while this might not be some harbinger of doom, it certainly is not a positive by any means.

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TalkBack / RE: Chainsaw Controller Revealed

« on: November 12, 2004, 04:57:35 AM »

"Designed with an actual Chainsaw lying in the middle of the R&D lab during brainstorming sessions, this massive sculpted controller comes with a built-in sound chip, imitating the roar of the powerful weapon. The attention to detail goes as far as having gory blood marks on the blade. When not chopping Zombies into pieces, the Resident Evil 4 Controller can rest on its stylish stand, on top on your TV, well at sight for the bill collectors knocking at your door. Very impressive in size, it will bring you fear and respect at the same time, yet light and ergonomic, it stays comfortable and does not affect gameplay at all. Holding it in your hands for sure makes you feel like a man; now who said the Cube was for kids?"

now that's a write-up!  too bad there's no force feedback/blade-moving action

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Launches Nintendo DS Ad feat. Wildboyz

« on: October 28, 2004, 09:12:49 AM »

its good to see something-anything
my personal preference for a commercial would be in an office space type setting, that stylus is perfect for misleading idiot bosses into thinking you are doing work/taking notes during a meeting when you would really be laying a coworker- those could be some funny commercials

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Announces Mario Kart Bundle

« on: October 27, 2004, 11:35:06 AM »

tho ubi has only been involved in one pop 2, right?

and yes, it is extreme, which is exactly what the cube needs for a big holiday season.  My reasoning was I could make an educated guess that Ubi is quite worried that pop2 will not see the sales it deserves because so many impact titles are hitting in the next month.  They can play around with the release date all they want, but I would think they could benefit from a deal to bundle with the cube.

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TalkBack / RE: Editorial: PlayStation or Xbox?

« on: October 27, 2004, 11:16:34 AM »

The american gamer has evolved past what the nes and snes offered.  Not that this is better or worse, but the choice is sports games, it is racing games, it is the open-ended violence sims like gta.  Nintendo has not catered to them with the gamecube and did not do well in the n64 years either.  And so gamers flocked to sony and xbox, because the perception had become that nintendo no longer offered what was desired.  Metroid Prime, fantastic game, but it is not the fps that gamers seem to love.  Mario Sunshine, another great game, but too difficult for how gamers played.  Wind Waker, fantastic visuals, but not what people watching mtv or reading maxim thought they wanted anymore.  Sports games on nintendo?  Either played worse, the controller handled poorer or were just not available?  Online?  Can the cube even go online should not even be something any developer would question.  Things that shouldn't by default matter to gaming, like the design of the console, now do.

Marketing is really the only way to fix nintendo's image, and it needs to be fixed because it is slipping towards irrelevance.  Sometimes you have to make sacrifices, and if that means catering to the tastes of the audience so that some other damn good games can be made, so be it.  I would rather see that than Nintendo fade into Atari.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo DS Japanese Shipment Numbers

« on: October 27, 2004, 11:09:03 AM »

Any historical context to put this in perspective? say the shipments of gba/sp?

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TalkBack / RE:Nintendo Announces Mario Kart Bundle

« on: October 25, 2004, 12:55:17 PM »

free is always good, but i dont know if it is aggressive enough.

I would have liked to have seen nintendo partner with ubi and offer pop 2 free: ubi seems very worried about this game getting the sales it deserves and nintendo would get a 3rd party boost (even if its multiplatform) that it has lacked

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TalkBack / RE:Metroid Pre-Order Bonus

« on: October 09, 2004, 09:51:36 PM »

i have always been strictly in the free tshirt  is one step above useless camp.  The tshirt seems nice and all, but i would much rather have a copy of super metroid for pre-ordering.  I prefer retro gaming before personal attire.  I would also settle for an artbook as those are all the rage these days and i like pretty pictures.  Seriously, i like how more companies are moving towards preorder bonuses, but clothing seems far more hit or miss than other items. (like shot glasses!)

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TalkBack / RE: EA Announces FIFA Street

« on: October 08, 2004, 11:20:47 AM »

And to go with EA Soccer Slam,
mlb street (also known as stickball)
kick the can street
and maybe some Bond street

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TalkBack / RE:Rare Witch Project Unlock Bottles' Revenge

« on: October 01, 2004, 11:04:01 AM »

i would like to see this feature in some of today's games-- either as online components or thru sneaky wireless controllers where you can play a joke on your friend when he suddenly doesnt understand why the enemy ai is remarkably good...

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TalkBack / RE:Chrono Trigger Resurrection Update

« on: September 06, 2004, 04:28:19 PM »

Sure, Squarenix has every right to put a stop to any unauthorized project using their work/characters/etc.
But I would have thought SE could profit better by taking this project in with open arms, perhaps deciding to give it away as a packin/demo disk.  It is a wonderful gift that has simply fallen into their lap and they instead decide to react like the jealous 5 year old who refuses to share his toy (not to stereotype any five year old out there on this board, but come on, your age group is not known for either its generosity or sound thinking).

SE had better be motivated by their own desire to revisit ChronoTrigger, but again, they certainly could have absorbed this work already being done in way everyone could have profited from.

I would be thrilled if a game I created/designed was leading to this much work over a decade later (which in video game years is a lifetime) and I really can think of no reason that could possibly justify this move.

Then again, the entirety of the story has not come out and perhaps- a very weak perhaps, but a perhaps nonetheless, SE did offer some royalty fee/co-development agreement that the Resurrection Team turned down.

I just guess we will have to wait a couple more lifetimes until the copyrights expire on these works and we can finally get some independent remakes.