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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

« on: May 23, 2007, 01:26:37 PM »

Well like quite a few in SRE, those three need event tickets from Nintendo. There are codes that allow you to get these items so right now that is the only way to get them, since the modifier codes need you to see a pokemon to hack it. (My brother tried these codes on his game so he has all of them.)

To me though it is pretty useless since you cannot use these in anything but  between your friends. And if they don't make it pretty accessible to get them. (Like including the items in a preorder bonus like they did with Jirachi.) From what I seen other than the fact that Nintendo hasn't offered them so they are hacked. They are otherwise legit because all you are hacking is the item to get to the areas to fight them. (The hotel, the pillar on mount corenet and the garden thingy (forgot its name, its through the blocked off enterence in Victory Road it comes to a garden like path that ends with a slab.

Oh did you get the Legendary from breeding Manaphy?


As for a utility pokemon I recomend Bibarel (Bidoof second form) it can lean all the HM moves except Fly, Defog and Waterfall.

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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Invests in Monolith Soft

« on: April 26, 2007, 08:28:10 PM »

More than likely. So Nintendo has a dedicated RPG maker that doesn't have ties with the Pokemon Company. I'm personally hoping for a new IP from this.

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TalkBack / RE: REVIEWS: Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl

« on: April 25, 2007, 11:57:10 AM »

Yes it is. But to get around that you can trade between the other region's GBA game to the region of the game you want to trade to. I have been doing that to get my English GBA pokemon to my Japanese version to put them into my English Pearl game so I can play through with other pokemon.

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TalkBack / RE:Analyst Predicts Wii Shortages to Continue

« on: April 25, 2007, 11:46:08 AM »

Well they do have the partners it just a question on when the factory floor space becomes available and it converted for Wii production. And if this analyist's prediction comes true the Wii will outsell all console except the exception to the Gameboy line. (Which one source has it at around 280 million units, but it took 10 years to acchieve that.)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Two DSs (DSes?) and one ID?

« on: April 24, 2007, 03:51:04 PM »

Well when making the first connection the game does warn you that it treats the Game and the DS as a combo. (It's one of the pet peves about the DS's online functionality.)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

« on: April 22, 2007, 03:09:06 PM »

Does anyone want Glaceon and Leafeon. I have twenty or so pair because I breed a few Eevees for an event at a con but only a few people showed because it was announced so late, because it took me a while to discover the method. So I have a few of them to get off my hands.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

« on: April 13, 2007, 01:23:54 PM »

You can't until you beat this game version of the elite four. Like in Ruby you wake up at home and head to the Professors house which is in the next town. While you are talking to him Professor Oak appears and gives you something called the Poketore (which is used to mark where hi level pokemon are in some patches of grass), then he leaves. You have to go to a place called Pal Park which is found by Surfing down the water route located in that town. When you get there you talk to Professor Oak again, who hands you an upgrade to your watch that shows which are the top three pokemon you found with the Poketore. Then leaves you talk to the person and you find that Pal Park had just opened. How it work every 24 hours you are able to move six pokemon for each GBA gamepak you own. (To do this in the loading screen there is a new opition that allows you to do this.) There are more down sides to this one you can just set the DS clock ahead the game will realize this and then make you wait 48 hours, two you cannot move Pokemon that have HM moves on them, so if you want to move Rayquelza you will need to unlearn Fly, Wailmer Wirlpool, etc. Here are another two issues I don't know about yet. In the Japanese version the game doesn't recognize US GBA carts, so if you have Japanese GBA games they might not register with the US version. Another is the multiple pack thing, you may have to go into the game and catch the six you transfered before you can put in another GBA pack and move another six. (It's not that hard the Pall Ball have a 100% catch rate but you have to catch all six to get them and you have to have a pokemon that surfs to get most water types.

As for the stage all I know about it is it is an expanded contest from the GBA games. (It hits me something like the ones from the anime Battle Frontier)

You also get four "escort" missions of sort that open up things. All battles are two on two, you get all the exp, your Pokemon are always healed after each battle so you can use them to level up. Three of them I don't know about, the first and the fourth is during the regular story mode. The second is in the cave of Doubt don't know what that opens up, the third is on steel island where you will need to have a spot open in you Pokemon rouster because he gives you an egg that eventually turns into Lucario which is a really good fighting/steel type Pokemon. (After a initial evolution.)  The fourth mission is just to help you fight the two Admins so you are healed up afterwards for a one two punch. The first is an impressivly leveled up (compared to his last fight) against the leader of Team Galaxy then with being able to make a temporary reteat a fight to get/kill Dialga/Pelika. (After you get that pokemon go back into the shrine there is a hold item that powers up that legendary's moves, you will see the item behind the Pokemon right before you fight them.)

As I mentioned in my last post there is a trading center that is like the classified but I think most of them are rip off artists.

There is VoIP for the games but since I cannot speak Japanese I haven't been able to test this out. (Since most gamers will be Japanese.)

The battle pyrmid of this game has an Wi-Fi to it so you will you fight in Tournament type battles. A few Fire Red Pokemon are availvable on Northern Island after you beat the game. (Ferrow, Ratticate, Spearow, Ratata, etc I have run into)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

« on: April 12, 2007, 10:50:21 PM »

Empolean (the 3rd form of the penguin) is really great. With the almost entire absence of any fire based affinity Pokemon in the normal part of the game. (Besides the starter and Ponyta, which if you don't get the Monkey it a must catch.)

Two Pokemon you will want to get when you are able to are the Lucario (you get it after the side quest at Steel Island before/after the seventh gym you gets its egg. It's a fighting steel type.

And the ground/dragon which is in a hidden cave under the bike road (its completely under it but you have to be able to use strength to get into the main part of the cave which is either the sixth or seventh gym also....) It has three forms and holds up well against this game's version of the elite four even in a lower level.

Oh and if you want any of the starter Pokemon for any of the games I have them, and Eeves. I will also trade/give (ie trade for a worthless one) the rares mentioned above they are caught so far into the game that if you want them in your party for the end of the game you will have to take the time to build them up. These are not hacked since I have the Japanese version of Ruby I'm using that to funnel my Pokemon I got from the Gamecube games, Emerald, Fire Red etc into my japanese Diamond. (Pal Park doesn't open up until you talk with Professor Oak, he visits the Professor from this one after you complete the main game.) And the Ditto trick with the Day Care center works wonders once they start producing eggs sometimes they produce them in quick sucession.

There is an Apdoption/Trading center in one of the Towns that uses the Wi-Fi but my experience with it is the people who offer their breed Pokemon are rip off artists. One person wants a lvl 100 Pokemon for the Grass Type starting Pokemon (lvl 1)...

Oh the game release date is the 20th..  

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: March 25, 2007, 06:15:14 PM »

Yeah its on Sunday so I think it's next Sunday they will be handing out the tickets.

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TalkBack / RE:PREVIEWS: Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl

« on: March 19, 2007, 07:24:02 PM »

Well here is some information I ran into while playing the game.

1) The watch you get early in the game is upgradable one of them is a "system link" function so you don't need to go to a Pokemon Center to start a battle just change the function to that and hit the DS icon and it scans for any games in the area.

2) As for the four moves there is a person, I haven't talked to him yet that you can relearn any of the moves that the Pokemon learn so it is moving towards the equip four moves because you can unlearn and learn old moves. It costs a heart scale but you can find them in the "underground" which is accessible when you get mining equipment.

3) Escort "missions" there are currently three times so far I had to "escort" someone it is not as bad as it sounds. You fight two on two battles for even the random encounters, but the person heals your pokemon between battles automatically, along with their moves so you can use them as leveling up periods. (When you couple this with the item that doubles the money you recieve it easy money.) (The only problem I found is if you get tap happy you can end up killing the person's pokemon for that fight. Tapping the screen is the same as pressing A/B repeatedly)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: NuGHTS is being revived on Wii

« on: March 16, 2007, 10:31:04 AM »

FDR was left partically lame by polio, he did a good job at hiding the fact that he was handicaped (except for the handicaps normal to all politicians). He wouldn't have a chance today if he ran though.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: 6 months= a wave of online titles

« on: March 15, 2007, 01:55:08 PM »

(Refering to SNK) That part of the piece was about the VC so it is only logically that they were talking about that. Which is logical since then Nintendo can limit the number of games that are internet capible so they can work and unseen bugs out of the system because getting a bunch of smaller games crawling through the network.

As for Pokemon I can't wait, though me growing my little pretties in the Japanese version is akin to a myopic squiril trying to collect nuts across a busy street.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Spectrobes: Any good?

« on: March 14, 2007, 05:39:31 PM »

I thought Metroid debunked that they were running 3d on both screens in the opening sequence.

Also on a side note they put 3D in the Diamond/Perl is a little disconcerting at first because it looks the same but when you go up and down levels the camers moves. And that has 3D on both screens. (The buttons and interface is in limited 3D. )

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Non-Gaming Publications Support the Wii

« on: March 13, 2007, 08:37:56 PM »

While PC Magazine had another article on the Wii (skiped a month this time), this time it was intitled Ode to the Wii. Were he basically said before the Wii he though he would never own a gaming console. Well the Wii changed that and he got one.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Spectrobes: Any good?

« on: March 13, 2007, 12:33:30 PM »

Hey I'm thinking of scanning and posting the code cards so to get them all, the only thing a person needs to do is dl and print the right size on poster board. I played it when I went to E3 it was pretty interesting fossil hunting/pokemon/dungeon clone.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Fils-Aime owns Harrison

« on: March 09, 2007, 06:55:59 AM »

Well Nintendo's performance at GDC was greatly hampered by what they could, and could not talk about because of that ill timed stock move. (But then again it's only the second month of the year in Japan and it a little hard to get anything done the first month with all the New Year's holidays going on.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Whoa! Ouch...A little harsh there Chris...

« on: March 09, 2007, 05:55:34 AM »

I can see where he is comming from, but the comments were worded poorly. Especially when almost everything makes it online when you dribble from the mouth.

We must remember he is progamming a simulation and their AI's are known to eat a lot of CPU power and memory. And spore was considered to be a very ambicious project when it was origanlly announced for the PC where the amount of RAM and the processing power can be set by the developers. In a console setting were the processing power and availbe RAM is decided by the manufactures it can be a major hurdle for developers to port to such machines it is especially disheartening when you have to cut features that may have been "your baby".

And the stuff about the "art" of video games is just pretensious. True there is an art component in any game but games don't sell because they are consider artistic. (ICO comes to mind it a beutiful game but the sales were bad and I found the game play lacking.) The fun aspect is what gets games bought (for the most part) not just because they are considered works or art. If I want art I can go any of many museams in Milwaukee or Chicago. If want want a compelling game experience I go up into my room ploop my but down and play a game.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Nintendo not allowing third-party online in 2007?

« on: March 05, 2007, 04:01:38 PM »

When they decide that making games for the Wii will make them money.

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TalkBack / RE: No Nintendo News at GDC

« on: March 02, 2007, 05:06:43 PM »

No it doesn't. Nintendo just can not talk because the stock sale may change who has a majority of the stocks outside of Nintendo. (This is unlikely but it is a precaution made just in case and is applied to all companies that have a mass sale because a change in the majority ownership can change the direction the company goes but Nintenod owns a good percentage of their stock so...) And this is only through the end of the sale. (So sometime mid-March they will be able to talk again.)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE:Games Nintendo Should/Need to bring Online for 2007/2008

« on: February 28, 2007, 07:30:41 AM »

Well accually they do use Gamespy for their online services (At least for their DS game, I don't think they will change it for the Wii.) The Wii shop channel is handled by a differend service Akamai.  

EDIT: I guess the quote didn't work... I was answering a question for page 2 that was address, at least I don't think it was.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Official Wii Sales Thread

« on: February 04, 2007, 01:21:30 PM »

Depends on what type of 3.0Ghz system it is. Now the clock speed doesn't mean much.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nintendo online argument

« on: February 02, 2007, 12:24:33 AM »

In the same vein you can say that Nintendo has been kicking around the idea since the NES and you can see it in their channel setup. (The NES uses were for things like looking up stock quotes etc.)

What Nintendo does is provides developers with a service, if they want to use they can. But that doesn't stop them from using their own networks. Unlike Live, Nintendo's service is "open" meaning if they have the stucture they can use their own service instead of Nintendo's. A good example is Disney they have their own servers which they are using for their upcoming Disney Game that has a lobby and multiplayer elements from the lobby and no mention of friend codes. The Maple Story may use a simular thing they will use their own servers to present their game by passing Nintendo's.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Nvidia says Nintendo is talking nonsense

« on: February 02, 2007, 12:16:30 AM »

I like his emotional apeel in the interview that is really stupid. (Watch 24 on a B&W TV)

Of course NVidia is going to say something like this they make a living off of selling graphic cards, and is Sony's partner. Simular to CPU power there is really a limit to how much power you can pack in a graphics card and they are going to hit a point where a new iteration of a card just means more or different RAM with a "better" utilization of the memory bandwidth and nothing supstancial in what it does.

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: Non-Gaming Publications Support the Wii

« on: January 31, 2007, 07:36:13 AM »

Ok the magazine came a while ago but once again the PC Magazine had another article on the Wii. They seem to really love the console because this is the third month in the row they have talked about it. (The article is some things that they want to see get impoved, most of them are on the way as they noted.)

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Nintendo Gaming / RE: SD card copying error?

« on: January 30, 2007, 07:26:24 PM »

Well first off it can only write to 2GB maximum cards, though it can read from cards bigger. (At least 4GB.) The other thing is that some SD card has to be initialized first before the Wii will even talk to it.