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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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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo and Konami Announce DDR with Mario

« on: January 07, 2005, 05:22:48 PM »

>Let's look at how many games Mario has appeared in, in this generation...

Now, let's compare that list to the SNES generation (generally considered Nintendo's prime)...  SMW, SMW2, Yoshi's Sarfari, Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario Kart, Mario Paint, Dr. Mario/Tetris, Super Mario RPG, Mario's Time Machine, Mario is Missing, the three Mario's Early Years' titles.. Anything else I'm missing?


Anywhoo, anyone who is excited about this needs to be thanking Mad Catz...  Perhaps their unexpected move into the game-market gave Konami a bit of a scare....  I wonder if their dance mat will work with this version of DDR...  Might give me an excuse to pick up the Mad Catz game, since I'll need a second mat...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: F-Zero AX

« on: January 02, 2005, 11:00:36 AM »

So where is the FZero AX arcade game?

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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 / RE: Games with kickin' Surround Sound?

« on: December 27, 2004, 07:32:23 PM »

Hey!  Thanks for the lists and advice guys!
I haven't had much chance to play with my new setup gaming-wise (between movies - still gotta watch T2 - and Simpsons Season 5 - there's just so little time).  Soul Caliber II sounds *awesome* in surround sound.  I need one of those new fangled TVs with that glowing ambient light stuff (heh, yeah, right...) - SCII would really be quite cool then...

Anywhoo, Strangly enough, my Super Monkey Ball box totes a "Dolby Surround" logo on the back... Although, as you said, the SMB2 box does not.  Weird...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: NEW Super Mario Bros, Another - RELEASE DATES REVEALED

« on: December 27, 2004, 06:45:46 AM »

I still want a Zero Mission-type remake of Zelda 1...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: a lil something i found out about the wireless link from nintendo

« on: December 26, 2004, 07:37:03 AM »

I *wish* something like this would happen, if only for Pac-Man vs. (one of the best multi-player games ever)...

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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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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Next batch??

« on: December 17, 2004, 10:05:19 AM »

The only problem I have with the "gap" is that it is the holiday season.  If I were younger, I'd be upset if I had this brand new system and there wern't really any games to tell everyone I wanted for Christmas.

Of course, now I buy my own games, so... 'eh...

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Plans Official GBA Media Reader

« on: December 15, 2004, 01:03:23 PM »

>The standard Game Boy Advance is not compatible with the product.

I think he's reffering to that it doesn't work with the non-SP version of the GBA...

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Plans Official GBA Media Reader

« on: December 15, 2004, 11:58:53 AM »

The question is... (and I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet...)

What are the odds of the DS using an SD card for saving data for online games...  (like a hard drive)...?

Just a thought...

[Silks]

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TalkBack / RE:EA Buys Five Years of Exclusive NFL Rights

« on: December 14, 2004, 06:41:00 PM »

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Originally posted by: Silks
No.  The difference is that Sony never WAS making Zelda games, and has and never WILL be able to make Zelda games, so nothing is being revoked.  The customer isn't getting shortchanged because there wasn't competition in the first place.  In the case of the EA/NFL, any real possibility of fair competition is being removed.

Well, we could use the same example but throw in Disney lisences and any of the various companies who made Disney games over the years... or *may* other lisenced titles.

[Silks]

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TalkBack / RE:EA Buys Five Years of Exclusive NFL Rights

« on: December 14, 2004, 02:11:20 AM »

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Originally posted by: Silks
So I guess the question would be, does Electronic Arts have a legitimate business justification for securing this license?

Yes.  That's like saying because Nintendo gave Capcom exclusive rights to make Zelda games, they're giving Capcom a monopoly and Sony should be allowed to make Zelda games as well.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: EBGAMES & OTHER STUPID STORES

« on: December 13, 2004, 01:41:56 AM »

I seem to remember this post with a different title.

Anywhoo, yeah, the crew at the local GameCrazy are great!  Highly reccomended!

[Aussie Ben PGC]

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Are you a blindly-loyal vicious nutcase?

« on: December 10, 2004, 04:59:32 PM »

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Originally posted by: Aussie Ben PGC

See, I'm absolutely baffled as to why Nintendo released Mario 64 as their DS Flagship title as opposed to Wario Ware Touched!.

I kinda feel that Mario 64 was the launch title for two reasons:

First, when the previous system lauched with a *great* title that wasn't a "Mario" title, everyone threw fits (Luigi's Mansion)...

Second, Mario 64 is a very indepth game - rich and full in game play.
Wario Ware, while one of my favorite games (I've got both the GBA and GCN versions, and I'm highly anticipating the two upcoming titles) is pretty... I don't know.  But it's not really a Mario 64 type-game...  I'm not sure how to phrase this...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: GC Game Boy Advance Player

« on: December 10, 2004, 04:53:36 PM »

Anyone with a GameBoy Player, the Hori Digital Controller is a *must* with it...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo controllers – it’s time to demand better quality

« on: December 10, 2004, 04:51:47 PM »

You know, my NES, SNES, N64, GameCube and Virtual Boy controllers all work just fine and dandy...  And I've bought plenty of used controllers with no problems...

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Promises More DS Units

« on: December 10, 2004, 05:26:20 AM »

It could be worse...

http://www.chrismukkah.com

Or that cell phone commerical... "Chrismahanukwanzakah"... I'm not even religous, but I'm slightly offended by that one.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Link should LVLup in LOZ

« on: December 10, 2004, 05:19:38 AM »

I completely disagree with the idea of stats in a Zelda game.

However, if I was to play a game that had stats implemented, I would enjoy one something akin to another game that came out whose name I cannot think of right now...  Your stats increased as you played, but the monsters you battled had stats that changed based along your own individual stats - meaning that it doesn't matter how freakin' powerful you were at the final boss - he was still more powerful than you.

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TalkBack / RE: Ping Pals Released for Nintendo DS

« on: December 07, 2004, 05:35:10 PM »

Maybe it'd be cool if you were mad at them and not talking to them?

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "DS Option Pack Detected"

« on: December 04, 2004, 05:40:15 PM »

I kinda imangined that there would be different kinds of "Option Pak" add-on devices - one of which might be a rumble pak...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "DS Option Pack Detected"

« on: December 04, 2004, 08:18:56 AM »

Oh, btw, the message is actually "DS Options Pak Detected" - so it's defenatly something Nintendo is planning, since they've always used the "Pak" description

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: "DS Option Pack Detected"

« on: December 04, 2004, 08:09:02 AM »

I personally can confirm the "DS Options Pack Detected" - athough not with a Flash Card (bad!).  Putting in the GBA Game Shark without a Game Pak in it shows this message (on my DS at least).

As far as the "Rumble" message, http://www.dual-scene.com reports that [With certain flash carts, when setting the alarm, the Nintendo DS will ask you "Would you like the Rumble Feature to accompany the alarm?"]

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TalkBack / RE: First GameCube Mod Chip Available

« on: December 04, 2004, 08:00:29 AM »

They sell mini-DVD-Rs for camcorders...

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Are you a blindly-loyal vicious nutcase?

« on: December 04, 2004, 07:58:17 AM »

If IGN continues to do a poor job at reporting the news (which, over all, is simply what is going on here), there are two ways this can go.

Either people will stop going to IGN and they'll slowly wither and die *or* people will continue to go to IGN to "stir the pot" which makes more people want to go there to check out all the action - all of which increases their readership - and their advertising revenue - making them continue to report "news" that pisses people off so more people will come to "stir the pot".

I stopped going to IGN *years* ago.  I would reccomend that everyone else do the same.