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Nintendo Gaming / RE: OK, OK - I got love for Wind Waker

« on: May 23, 2003, 07:25:36 AM »

Yeah, Medli's super cute! :-D  I was so pissed at her when I spent an afternoon collectingg 20 golden feathers for her....and she told me she didn't want them. Oh well. Oh, and even after I saved her butt in that dungeon, she still fell for Prince Komali. >:-(

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Nintendo Gaming / anyway to "MOD" a gamecube?

« on: May 01, 2003, 06:52:58 AM »

I'm sorry but the Gamecube does not have a hard drive onto which to install such things.  It plays games off the disc....because...you know...it's a GAME machine. You can run linux and stuff on your PC, I assume you bought a gamecube for GAMES.

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TalkBack / Mario Kart on GameCube Details

« on: April 23, 2003, 07:41:53 AM »

For the last time, LAN play MEANS online play. I play my XBox online through XBConnect (Much smoother than Gamespy Tunnel, IMO)  and such an application is sure to be designed for Gamecube.  It's better this way, because the online play is free.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Mario Kart LAN

« on: April 23, 2003, 07:36:32 AM »

Exactly, and playing online througgh gamespy is FREE.  I like that alot better than a Live type service.  

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Nintendo Gaming / Buyers Guide: GBA games in April.

« on: April 15, 2003, 07:29:12 AM »

I've been playing Golden Sun 2 for quite some time now.

[Untouchable_Dom]

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Nintendo Gaming / The future of gameboy and some other issues.

« on: April 14, 2003, 12:17:51 AM »

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Originally posted by: Untouchable_Dom
As you can see from the title, its all about the future of our beloved game boy. Yes we love this little devil and are always surprised by what nintendo comes out with next but....the GBA graphics are already rivaling the Snes, correct? There are some things, such as metroid fusion, which I couldn't even think of being on the snes. So where is the GB platform going next? 64 bits? its a big jump and it doesn't seem the technology is even available, I say it is.

Of course it is. With PocketPCs reaching 500Mhz, I see no reason why a handheld based on the N64 architecture would not be possible. Cost effective is another issue.

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If they can get tomb raider (the origional, early playstation graphics) to play on the nokia hand held n-gage then I am sure that nintendo could somehow turn up the heat a bit. But, I had a strange idea the other day, like lightning had struck my brain. Nintendo's console sales are down and they are in third in the wars (am I wrong?) so why don't they slowly move to the hand held market and concentrate all their effort there?

What, you mean why don't they give up everything they have fought so hard for? Nintendo has explicitly stated that the day they stop making consoles is the day they stop making games altogether.  You are not the first person to have this very, very bad idea.  If anything, they ought to be focusing on what needs focusing on alot more, their home console.  

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I am sure if they did they could set the hand held buissness on FIRE! I could see future game boy's with back lights, infared multiplayer linking, internal batteries, CD's instead of cartridges, plus the cd's could hold gigantic games, think FF7 on a handheld

One of the main reasons handhelds are so successful is that it is easy and cheap to develop a game for them. Why? Because the games are like 8 megs, and are not huge complicated console quality dealies, and should not be. What you are asking is: "Why don't GBA developers make games a million times as large and complex with way more content......while charging the exact same amount?" This means more work for the same money, and that makes no business sense.

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I can see that happening but not for a long time, unless nintendo puts the pedel to the metal. I first thought of this when I played Duke Nukem Advance, that was state of the art graphics years back and now we can play it on a gameboy and think nothing of it, intresting. What I am saying is if nintendo really put the buck behind the gameboy franchise, it could become BIG!

It's already a virtual monopoly. What more do you want?

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It could even snag not even nintendo faithfull gamers but even Xbox and PS2 gamers, because its a diffrent market then consoles, and havn't GBA's outsold all other consoles? think about it for a while....heh

Anyone who wants to play on a handheld already has a Gameboy of some sort, be it regular, colour, GBA or GBASP.  Simply adding alot of impractical, expensive features will not sway the minds of those who do not want one to begin with.  And, as I mentioned, many of those features are terrible ideas.

[bonestormer]

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Nintendo Gaming / Online Games

« on: April 04, 2003, 07:27:17 AM »

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Originally posted by: bonestormer
I too am VERY disapointed in Nintendo's lack of online games. Isn't Nintendo supposed to be the innovative one?

Since when is having online play considered innovative? We've had that since the DC and the PC. Hell, we had that for SNES and Genesis with X-Band, and for Saturn with Netlink.  Besides, true innovation lies in game design.

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Online is the new frontier, yet they ignore it?

No, online gaming is not the new frontier. It is the new bandwagon.  Like CD games were back in the 16 bit days. Yes, they were the future, but it was also way too early for their introduction.

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Disapointing, but whatever. No skin off my back. I'll just send my money to PS2 or XB playing their online games instead

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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And I wonder if Xbox would be outselling the GC like it has in recent months if not for Xbox Live (or GC being online). 500,000 Live subscritions. A good percetage of which soly got a Xbox because of Live. And it's not profitable?

No, it's not.

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(Oh yeah, DC's online play was in no way responsible for DC's early death.

Right. Sega's enthusiastic adoption of an unproven technology and business model was in no way responsible for their death, just like back when they enthusastically adopted CD-Rom technology, which was also way too soon. Online play is nifty, but also rather insignificant to the entertainment value of a game, there's a big hoo-hah right now about "Going online". It's a sort of holy grail, like CD, FMV, and 3D graphics once were.  When you attempt to force a new technology into fruition before its time, what you get is unpolished, impractical, unprofitable and not very fun.  Internet connectivity will come eventually, but it won't be a huge revolutionary deal. It'll just be another option at the bottom of the game menu, and certainly not something that will make or break any of the current consoles.