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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Ordered to Pay Royalities on 3DS to Tomita Technologies

« on: January 07, 2014, 09:52:27 PM »

I guess this means there will be no 3d in the next Nintendo handheld?


Too bad.  I always use 3d.

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TalkBack / Re: Luigi's Mansion Figurine Sold Out on Club Nintendo

« on: January 03, 2014, 03:08:35 AM »

Coins expire?


 

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Direct Coming Tomorrow

« on: December 17, 2013, 06:38:03 PM »

Cranky Kong revealed as a playable character in Super Smash Bros.


Let the year of Cranky Kong begin.

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TalkBack / Re: RUMOR: Wii U Sells Approximately 230,000 in November

« on: December 12, 2013, 10:55:28 PM »

It's a pity that Mario 3D World sold so poorly. It's a genuinely good game that does more with the Mario franchise than Nintendo's done in a decade.  Unfortunately, it's shackled to the Wii U, so I can't say I'm surprised that it more or less failed, comparatively speaking.

You like it more than the Galaxy games?

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TalkBack / Re: RUMOR: Wii U Sells Approximately 230,000 in November

« on: December 12, 2013, 10:53:37 PM »

Nintendo moving to only one revenue stream with handhelds and being rid of consoles is incredibly risky. What happens when the handheld line starts to peter out? Then what?

They could always make games for Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Android, Google, Valve, and Oculus platforms.

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TalkBack / Re: RUMOR: Wii U Sells Approximately 230,000 in November

« on: December 12, 2013, 07:55:31 PM »

I wouldn't mind if Nintendo went handheld only...


...But I've been a handheld-only gamer for the past decade. 

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS System Update 7.0 Released

« on: December 10, 2013, 10:50:00 AM »

I entered my password wrong three times before I figured out that it was because the Miiverse login screen uses a completely different keyboard than the normal system keyboard that's used everywhere else. The vertical rows of letters are not aligned like they normally are (look on a computer keyboard, A is not directly below Q... it is down and slightly to the right). This was causing me to type where a letter should be, rather than where it actually was. Also, the shift key behaves like a caps lock key, which might cause you problems if you have a password with capitals in it. On the normal keyboard, there are two separate keys for shift and caps lock, but not on this one.


Awful, bizarre UI design decision to use a different keyboard. Can't imagine why they did that.


Anyway, just pay very close attention to what's happening on screen when typing your password.



Now it accepts my password, but I'm getting error 011-3051 whenever I try to get to eShop. Miiverse works.

Yeah, I figured it out right before I went to sleep.

The keyboard to set up your password is different than the keyboard used to enter your password.  The shift key on the one used to enter your password only capitalizes the very next letter you enter and the shift key used to enter your password toggles it into caps lock until you toggle it back off.

It's weird they would use 2 different keyboards and I should have been paying more attention.

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS System Update 7.0 Released

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:15:44 AM »

Hm... doesn't really help.


I did click launch the Miiverse and create a new Nintendo Network ID.  I filled out all the fields sucessfully... or I think I did.  I entered all the information including a Nintendo Network ID name and password.  Immediately after setting that up, I tried launching it again, and entered my brand new password.  It didn't like it.  So I reset my password (which successfully sent the reset password info to my email address that the account is linked to) and it still didn't work.


I sent an email to Nintendo.  I don't expect a reply until tomorrow.

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TalkBack / Re: 3DS System Update 7.0 Released

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:12:37 AM »

Is anyone else having problems with this on their 3DS?


I don't own a Wii U so I had to set up a new Nintendo Network ID.  I followed all the simple steps and it was just like registering any other product.  But when I go to launch the Miiverse from the Home menu, the first thing it asks you to do it log into your Nintendo Network ID.  I type in my password and it says it's invalid.  I tried a couple variations (even though I'm pretty sure it's correct since you have to type it in twice when you set it up), and still invalid.  I do the whole "Forgot Password?" thing to set up a temporary password.  I use that temp password and create a new password yet again.  That seemed to work fine.  I then go back into the Miiverse and type in my new password and it says it's invalid.


The same thing now happens when I try to use the 3DS eShop.  The first thing it now asks you to do is to log into your Nintendo Network ID name/pass.  I attempt to do that and it says that the password is invalid.  So now I'm locked out of the 3DS eShop.


Anyone else?

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 361: Slap Happy

« on: December 09, 2013, 05:31:35 AM »

About to beat A Link Between Worlds in Hero Mode.


Love the game, but yes, it's very, very easy.  I didn't die once in normal mode and died at least 7 times in Hero Mode, mostly in the beginning when you die to 1-2 hits from anything.  It's a little weird because I have the same complaints as James does about the game and yet I still love the game.


For reference, my favorite 2D Zelda is A Link to the Past and my favorite 3D Zelda is Wind Waker.  I absolutely hate and despise Majora's Mask.  I don't remember if I liked Link's Awakening.  I attempted to play through it on 3 separate occasions and the game just isn't for me.  I'm also pro-touch controls for Phantom Hourglass.


Also, Adventures of Link is my 3rd favorite Zelda game.  I'm waiting for the day when they return to that style for a game.

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TalkBack / Re: Mario & Luigi 3DS XL Bundle in Stores Now

« on: December 04, 2013, 05:45:49 AM »

I really like the design.  Probably more than the zelda one, just because of the color.


But I'll have to stick with my Pikachu design for now (even though the only Pokemon game I've ever played was the original Pokemon Red).

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 360: Holiday Fantasia

« on: December 01, 2013, 02:01:49 AM »

Oops.  Twitch has only been around since 2011.  But there were other streaming services like UStream and Livestream.  Twitch is just now the most popular.

On Zelda, I've beaten the game and there are a couple things:
-Agree with Jonny about most of what he said.  I was afraid the painting mechanic was going to be too gimmicky, but it turns out that it's the thing that makes the game work.  It's the reason they can copy A Link to the Past's world so thoroughly and still make it seem fresh, just because you are looking at it from a different perspective.
-I also agree with James in that the dungeons kind of lose something when you know you have everything you need to progress through every room of every floor of every dungeon from the start. 
-On the other hand, I like the item rental system.  I like how basically all of the overworld stuff is dependent on you renting the right items.
-It should also be said that I never died once during my first play through of the game so buying back my rented items from the game never mattered.  Hero Mode should definitely have been unlocked from the beginning.  I also wish you could never buy items.  The rental price should just go up after upgrades or something.
-One problem (?) was that I went through the entire game with 2 items equip except when I had to switch out for a few seconds to solve a puzzle.  Upgraded Fire Wand and Tornado Wand are just too good at killing everything and I got them very early in the game.  Fire Wand in particular just kills everything including half the bosses.  Tornado Wand helps if you're ever surrounded or if you need to kill a flying monster.
-I think they did a really good job in designing the dungeons, focusing on a vertical design, emphasizing the 3D.  I'm one of the people who plays with 3D for every game I play.
-The most interesting dungeon for me was the Ice Dungeon, but all of them were really good except for the Turtle Rock one.  I'm not sure what happened there.  It felt kind of lazy.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 360: Holiday Fantasia

« on: December 01, 2013, 12:18:53 AM »

I thought about posting this before during your Child's Play marathon and you brought up Twitch again on this podcast, but you could easily get 2000+ concurrent viewers for the marathon if you did it as a stream on Twitch.

I've been watching Twitch streams since Starcraft 2 was released in the 2nd half of 2010.  I still watch a lot less SC2 these days, but I got kind of hooked into other things like people playing more casual games or big game releases or speedruns.  Lots of other people do podcast type shows and all they add are basic webcams and just run the stream like that.  Aside from big eSports tournaments, one of the things that can draw a lot of viewers are charity marathons specifically for Child's Play.  (Big eSports tournaments can get anywhere from 50,000 - 200,000+ concurrent viewers.)

I've never done it myself, but as far as I know, you only really need 1 person who knows what they're doing with a program to broadcast with like XSplit.  Every other person on the stream just needs any old webcam and mic.

You also talk about the whole Twitch streaming thing being a fad, fading in 3 years or so, but I've already been watching for 3 years and it just seems to get more and more popular.

One problem with have 2000+ viewers is that you would never be able to do things like the Who Wants to be a Millionaire thing or Radio Trivia because someone would be in there spoiling it.  And I don't know if you even want/need a larger audience since you met your fund raising goal very easily.

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TalkBack / Re: Super Mario 3D World Review

« on: November 29, 2013, 06:08:46 PM »

From watching Twitch streams, I think a negative worth noting that isn't mentioned in this review is that unlike Mario 3D Land, this game lacks actual 3D to help you judge jumps.  Simply hitting a question mark floating in the air (not next to a wall) or stomping on a goomba seemed like a chore or led to some deaths.  It shouldn't really take 2-3 attempts to hit a block, but from the forced perspective for a platformer in a 3D space, it just happened all the time.

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TalkBack / Re: Bravely Default Review

« on: November 25, 2013, 07:40:32 AM »

February?

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TalkBack / Re: Mario Party: Island Tour Review

« on: November 25, 2013, 02:10:25 AM »

Was interested until I read this:


"Unfortunately, Island Tour doesn’t support any type of online multiplayer use."
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[/size]It basically has zero value for me as a game if there is no online multiplayer.[/color]

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TalkBack / Re: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Review

« on: November 22, 2013, 12:03:53 AM »

Currently downloading A Link Between Worlds as I type this!

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TalkBack / Re: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Review

« on: November 21, 2013, 09:19:40 PM »

Does anyone know if this will available to download at 12:00 PST or 9:00 PST?  (Do they go by EST or is it midnight everywhere?)

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TalkBack / Re: 4th Annual NWR Live Podcast Telethon for Child's Play

« on: November 17, 2013, 05:56:59 PM »

You know... I've been visiting this site since the Project Dolphin days and I've missed this telethon 3 years in a row because I always forget that it's on a Saturday.  My brain is trained to remember NWR content on Sundays because of the podcast.

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TalkBack / Re: The Delightful Opening Hours of Super Mario 3D World and Link Between Worlds

« on: November 09, 2013, 05:05:57 AM »

Has anyone played "Enough Plumbers"?


(kongregate link here: [size=78%]http://www.kongregate.com/games/Radx/enough-plumbers[/size])


It's a Mario parody type game and it sounds like the Double Cherry power up kind of takes that same idea.  (Except Enough Plumbers is as much a puzzle game as it is a platformer.)

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TalkBack / Re: Multicolored 3DS XL Charge Cradles Sold Out Within an Hour

« on: October 31, 2013, 09:27:25 PM »

Hm... I still don't really get it.


Much happier with my USB cable.


This product just isn't aimed at me.

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TalkBack / Re: Multicolored 3DS XL Charging Cradles Coming to Club Nintendo Next Week

« on: October 25, 2013, 04:50:46 AM »

Hm... I could actually afford this with my reward points but do I really need it?


I just charge my 3DS via USB cable connected to my laptop.


I'll probably pass.

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TalkBack / Re: NWR's Top 10 Zelda Games: A Link Between Games

« on: September 28, 2013, 12:43:33 PM »

1) Wind Waker
2) A Link to the Past
3) Ocarina of Time
4) Adventures of Link
5) Link's Awakening

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TalkBack / Re: NWR's Top 10 Zelda Games: A Link Between Games

« on: September 28, 2013, 05:08:42 AM »

I would have switched #2 and #3 for my top three.


Wind Waker is amazing.

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TalkBack / Re: Sonic Lost World Video Demonstration

« on: September 23, 2013, 03:24:56 PM »

Fool me once, shame on me.  Fool me a dozen subsequent times, shame on you...?